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Right, it's been a few weeks 
since I've been able to say 

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this, but let's open our Bibles 
of First Corinthians chapter 3, 

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shall we? 
All right, First Corinthians 

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chapter 3. 
I'm thankful for Brother Denwood

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being here the last couple 
Wednesday nights and for filling

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the pulpit. 
I'm thankful that he didn't 

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preach the same, you know, text 
that I've been preaching. 

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You know, he did that on Jude. 
I think once or twice he 

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preached from Jude while I was 
in the book of Jude. 

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But he we're in First 
Corinthians and excited about 

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that tonight. 
And you know, they say there's 

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two things that are certain in 
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You know what those are, right? 
Death and taxes, right? 

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And certainly that is the truth.
But I would say to you tonight 

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that maybe we could biblically 
change that just a little bit 

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because there's another 
certainty that the Bible tells 

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us about, and that's death and 
taxes. 

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And here's the third one, 
judgment that death is certain, 

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but also that the judgment to 
follow is also very real as 

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well. 
And you know, people are very 

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concerned about judgment today, 
aren't they? 

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You talk about judgment a lot. 
People get uptight immediately. 

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They'll say things like, well, 
don't judge me or nobody can 

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judge me, or only God can judge 
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And sometimes people say only 
God can judge me. 

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Like that would be the better 
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To me. 
That seems like that would be a 

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lot worse, wouldn't it, that 
someone else judging you. 

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Because God knows everything, 
doesn't He? 

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You know, or you can't judge me 
until you walk a mile in my 

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shoes or anything like that. 
Listen, we should not have a 

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judgmental spirit in the sense 
that we are constantly trying to

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judge others in an unrighteous 
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I'm certainly not saying that 
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But what I am saying is this, 
that you can be sure that after 

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this life there is a judgment to
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And this is a topic that comes 
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#3 And so I, I want us to look 
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there might be about the 
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And because every, every single 
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world will have to go through 
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But yet not all judgment is the 
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In fact, we find that there are 
two different judgments that the

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Bible talk about. 
And so I want us to look at both

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of these here tonight, hopefully
give us a little bit of help and

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a little bit of understanding 
about this issue of the 

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judgment. 
So First Corinthians chapter 3, 

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we'll begin in verse #11. 
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For other foundation can no man 
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Then that is laid which is Jesus
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Now if any man build upon this 
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precious stones, wood, hay, 
stubble, every man's work shall 

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be made manifest. 
For the day shall declare it, 

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because it shall be revealed by 
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every man's work of what sort it
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If any man's work abide which he
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receive a reward. 
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burned, he shall suffer loss, 
but he himself shall be saved 

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yet so as by fire. 
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what's going on in this text, 
but you got something 

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immediately from what we just 
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This is serious. 
What we're talking about here is

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no game. 
What we're talking about here is

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no joke. 
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you, because I know it's been a 
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First Corinthians chapter #3 and
really the book of First 

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Corinthians in general, that 
Paul is talking to a church that

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does not get along. 
They don't get along with each 

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other, and worst of all, they 
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because they're not following 
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given them in His word. 
And so Paul is writing to them 

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and he's trying to set some 
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And so as we started chapter #3 
he was telling them that they're

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carnal. 
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worldly. 
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name, but they weren't living 
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They were living like the world.
And so he was expounding on that

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for a while, and then he talked 
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some plant and some water, but 
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Remember, we talked about the 
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ministry, when it comes to 
helping others, we're all 

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involved. 
It's not just the pastor's job, 

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Amen, to be able to do the work 
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But really, in a sense, we're 
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Every single one of us are 
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gospel. 
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some illustrations to help them 
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And so he uses the example of a 
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But then he also uses the 
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that's really kind of where we 
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we are here in chapter #3 
because he says in verse #9 we 

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are laborers together with God. 
Ye are God's husbandry. 

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Ye are God's building and then 
he says according to the grace 

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of God, which is given unto me 
as a wise master builder, I've 

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laid the foundation and another 
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man take heed how he buildeth 
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And so he starts this 
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Here is he's using this 
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He says this, how you start the 
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how you finish is also 
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Now, that's not really deep, is 
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I mean, I think we all kind of 
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something, you want to start 
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right. 
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illustration and he says this, 
he says that there's, if you're 

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building, you want to make sure 
the foundation is right. 

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You want to make sure that it's 
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And that's why if you watch 
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they don't just pour concrete. 
But before they even pour the 

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concrete, what do they put? 
They put rebar, they put iron 

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there. 
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It strengthens the foundation. 
It makes sure that it's going to

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be strong for many, many years 
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And if you don't have a good 
foundation, it doesn't matter 

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how good the building's 
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thing's going to fall. 
But then he uses the 

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illustration or he says further,
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but it's what you build on top 
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If you have a good foundation, 
but you use bad materials, still

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going to have a bad house. 
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might have left is the 
foundation because everything 

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else is going to get swept away.
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if I could summarize it in this 
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it comes to the Christian life, 
Jesus Christ is your foundation.

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When it comes to the Christian 
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foundation other than Jesus 
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But then once you have that 
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do you get the foundation of 
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Well, you asked Jesus Christ to 
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You weren't just born a 
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You just didn't come out of the 
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were part of a Christian family.
That the Bible makes it clear 

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that every single one of us must
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us. 
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this. 
Then you got to live your life. 

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And so how do you do it? 
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foundation. 
You're saved. 

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But then you got to build right 
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That means you got to live your 
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and pleasing to the Lord. 
And that's where this topic of a

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judgement comes in. 
And that's what I want us to 

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look at tonight. 
But oddly enough, I really want 

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us to move away from First 
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minutes. 
And I'll explain why in a 

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moment. 
But why don't you go ahead and 

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turn to Revelation chapter #20? 
OK, put your ribbon there in 

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First Corinthians chapter 3 if 
you have one, because we're 

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definitely going back. 
But go to Revelation chapter 

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#20. 
Because I want to be able to 

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explain to you what First 
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saying. 
But before I do that, I kind of 

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have to tell you. 
What it's not saying. 

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Because there might be some 
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Well, what judgment are we going
to be learning about tonight in 

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First Corinthians chapter #3 
Well, I have to be able to 1st 

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show you what the other type of 
judgment is because everyone 

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will be judged. 
Neither one of two judgments. 

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There's two different judgments.
And I want us to be able to look

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at that. 
Say, Pastor, it doesn't sound 

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like it's a very big deal. 
Well, it's a very big deal 

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because each one is significant 
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So let's go ahead and look at 
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Again, not in first Corinthians 
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Right now we are in Revelation 
chapter #20 the first judgment 

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is the great white throne 
judgment #1 the great white 

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throne judgment. 
So look at Revelation chapter 20

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and verse #11 and it says this. 
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and him that sat on it, from 
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heaven fled away, and there was 
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I saw the dead, small and great,
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And the books were open, and 
another book was open, which is 

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the book of life. 
And the dead were judged out of 

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those things which were written 
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According to their works. 
And the sea gave up the dead 

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which were in it, and death and 
hell delivered up the dead which

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were in them, and they were 
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their works. 
And death and hell were cast 

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into the lake of fire. 
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You say, pastor, what we read in
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sounded serious. 
That sounds even more serious. 

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And the answer is you're 
absolutely right. 

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The great white throne judgment 
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And I want us to look at some of
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quickly. 
And the first is this, it is for

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unbelievers. 
The great White Throne judgment 

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is for unbelievers and there's 
very, there's many reasons that 

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it's clearly for unbelievers. 
You can even start with the 

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verse before that we just read. 
We've started verse #11 go up to

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verse #10 Look at this. 
And it says in the devil that 

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deceived them was cast in the 
lake of fire and brimstone, 

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where the beast and the false 
prophet are, and shall be 

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tormented day and night, forever
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So who was the first one who was
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Well, that would have been the 
devil, right? 

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Well, we already find out. 
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if the devil himself has been 
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I believe that this was for 
unbelievers, because there's 

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that white throne, and white 
stands for purity, and there's 

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Jesus Christ, the ultimate judge
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And the Bible says that when the
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when Jesus Christ there is 
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It says that the face of earth 
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Why? 
Because they could not stand 

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before Him. 
They had no standing before Him 

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because of their own 
unrighteousness and the ultimate

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reason. 
We understand that this is 

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unbelievers in verse #13 it says
the sea gave up the dead which 

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were in it, and death and hell 
delivered up the dead which were

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in them. 
Those who had died previously 

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without Christ have now come to 
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And this is that moment for 
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This is a moment, by the way, 
that no one will escape. 

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Did you notice that it said that
all stood in verse #12 both 

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small and great, meaning this, 
that this is the Princess and 

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the poppers, That this is 
royalty and those who were on 

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Skid Row. 
This are those who have power 

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and prestige and cachet. 
And this is also those who have 

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never had a dime or who have 
never had a friend or never had 

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any type of power or ever been 
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power. 
This is the small and the great.

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And listen, you can be on 
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have the most money, or you can 
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on this earth. 
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family and have royal blood 
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Listen, you will not escape this
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This is a judgment for all who 
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accepted Jesus Christ as their 
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Acts chapter 17, verse 31. 
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in the which he will judge the 
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man whom he hath ordained, where
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all men in that he has raised 
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will be judged and will be 
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Jesus Christ. 
Hebrews 927 You've heard me 

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There's so many times here it's 

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been appointed unto men once to 
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judgment, they're all certain. 
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sure, we think that that is part
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is to come for eternity ought to
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this life and how we live this 
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Jesus, you say? 
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about judgment. 
Pastor, the Jesus I know is one 

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who loved everybody. 
And my answer to you is this 

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Jesus loved everybody, and 
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save those who are lost. 
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at great length. 
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judged at this great white 
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hope for eternity in salvation 
through Him. 

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through 24. 
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but hath committed all judgment 
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should honor the Son, even as 
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He that honoreth not the Son, 
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has sent Him, Verily, verily, I 
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word, and believeth on him that 
has sent Me, hath everlasting 

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life, and shall not come unto 
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who do not believe Him and those
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find condemnation. 
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at this great White Throne 
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So the first characteristic is 
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also letter B, judgment of works
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So what's being judged here? 
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what's being judged here And 
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works to see whether they can be
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Nobody in the history. 
Of Earth has ever been able to 

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save themselves. 
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here in this great White Throne 
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Look at verse #12 it says, and I
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stand before God, and the books 
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open, which is the book of life.
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those things which were written 
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works. 
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before and so some of you have 
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me if you've heard this before 
and try to still lock into what 

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I'm saying here tonight. 
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that everyone to be saved needs 
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of life. 
I believe that everyone, when 

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they are born, is written in the
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when they expire from this earth
and their names are finally 

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blotted out meaning. 
This is that you have every 

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opportunity to accept Christ, 
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without Christ, their name is 
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So imagine with me for a moment,
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the great White Throne Judgment.
They're called before the 

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righteous judge, Jesus Christ. 
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listen, you could bribe a judge.
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that, but I'm just saying, you 
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You can get a crooked DA, you 
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that could have taken shortcuts 
and maybe kind of I'm explaining

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the Karen Reed trial anyway. 
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listen that that it's not always
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life, is there? 
You know, you can have Lady 

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Justice with the scales and the 
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can't see. 
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although certainly we're 
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States of America, there's no 
other country I'd rather live in

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this country. 
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men, and men at their heart are 
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every level of power as long as 
man is man. 

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But I'm not talking about an 
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talking about an unrighteous 
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What we have here is Jesus. 
Christ who sees all, who knows 

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all, and his very essence is 
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And that person is called, and 
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is in the Lamb's book of life. 
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Their name is not found. 
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books are open as well. 
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Well, the books are the deeds of
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are read 1 after another after 
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You know I don't know about you.
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one day of my life to be read. 
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I've committed, let alone the 
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being in the Lamb's book of 
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provide their own righteousness.
See, that's the judgment of 

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works for redemption. 
Show the works that you have 

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done to be redeemed. 
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Well, that's easy. 
I just got to help out the poor 

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Pastor. 
That's easy. 

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I just got to be part of 
charitable causes. 

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That's easy. 
I just got to be nice to my 

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neighbor. 
That's easy. 

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I just got to not yell at my 
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That's it's easy. 
No big deal. 

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life, there is no righteousness 
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What a sad thing that is. 
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chapter 3 tells us all have 
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glory of God. 
There is none righteous, no, not

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one. 
There can be no righteousness 

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found within judgement of works 
for redemption. 

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What happens there prove that 
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single person. 
Listen, billions and billions of

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people will be found wanting and
without ability to save 

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themselves. 
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there will be none for all of 
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So we see letter B, the judgment
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guilty. 
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Well, it says in verse #14 death
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of fire. 
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You know, oftentimes we say the 
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without Christ, they will go to 
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holding place, if you will, that
for eternity there will be a 

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lake of fire. 
You say, pastor, what will that 

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be like? 
It will be like anything that 

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you can imagine. 
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imagine because it's a place of 
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It's a place of flames. 
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of flames, the Bible says it's a
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And perhaps worst of all, worse 
than the darkness that never 

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ends, worse than the torment, 
worse than the flames would be 

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this, that the presence of God 
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No, people today, even the 
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don't even realize that God 
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every day. 
The fact that the sun rises 

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every day and falls every day, 
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6000 years without ever stopping
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The fact that they can draw that
next breath is a grace of God. 

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And we can go on and on about 
this tonight. 

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And that they will get, you say,
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them? 
Because that's what they wanted 

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in this life, to not have Jesus 
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And they will ultimately get 
their desire and they'll realize

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everlastingly too late that 
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I will say this tonight. 
If you're a believer, this ought

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to move us to tell more people 
about Jesus, this reality 

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tonight that praise be to God, 
we don't have to be a part of. 

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Remember, there are two 
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Remember First Corinthians 
chapter #3 we're going to be 

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part of that judgment and we'll 
look at that in a moment. 

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But I want to show again what 
this is not so that we have an 

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understanding when we get to the
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But thanks be to God that we 
don't have to worry about this. 

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Because the day you ask Jesus 
Christ to save you, the Bible 

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says you pass from death to 
life, that there was not this 

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progression in your life. 
Well, I'm going to make myself 

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better, and eventually I will be
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will someday. 
Listen, no. 

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The moment you got saved, the 
Bible says you were seated in 

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heavenly places the moment you 
got saved. 

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If you expire from this life at 
that very next moment, you'd 

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still be in heavy. 
Oh, Oh, really? 

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I mean, why would you say 
something like that? 

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I seem to remember a thief on a 
cross who didn't have time to be

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baptized, who didn't have time 
to take communion. 

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Who do you have time to do any 
good works? 

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Who do you have time to do? 
Anything other than say, when 

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you get to the Kingdom, will you
Remember Me exercising his faith

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that Jesus was who he was? 
And what did Jesus say Today 

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you'll be with me in paradise. 
Oh, we got to tell more people 

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about Jesus. 
Spurgeon put it this way about 

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the reality of hell, the reality
of the Lake of Fire, and the 

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reality of the Great White 
Throne Judgment. 

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Spurgeon said this If sinners be
damned, at least let them leap 

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to hell over our dead bodies, 
and if they perish, let them 

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perish with our arms wrapped 
around their knees, imploring 

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them to stay. 
If hell must be filled, let not 

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one go unwarned or unpraed. 
For. 

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That'll to move us. 
It's real. 

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And, and we won't go there if we
know Jesus Christ is our Savior,

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but there are people we know who
will, and we need to do 

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everything we can to reach him. 
Now, I know we took a little bit

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of a detour here for the first 
few minutes because like I said,

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it's not something a pastor 
usually does to say, hey, let's 

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preach on the text. 
Before I preach on that text, 

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let me tell you what the text 
isn't saying. 

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Let me take you somewhere else 
and tell you something 

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completely different, but really
I need you to understand what 

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these two judgments are and so 
that you're not confused in 

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First Corinthians chapter 3. 
About what we're. 

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Looking at because what we just 
read in First Corinthians 

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chapter 3, you can go ahead and 
turn back there. 

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In fact, why don't you do that 
here over the next few moments. 

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What we read in First 
Corinthians chapter 3 is not for

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the unbeliever. 
In fact, we're going to do a 

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little bit of compare and 
contrast. 

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So you see what's up there on 
the screen right now at home. 

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You can see that as well. 
You see what it says there. 

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We're going to actually compare 
with what it says here in First 

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Corinthians chapter #3 So what 
is this judgment? 

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And so #2 we see this is what we
call the judgment seat. 

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It's not the Great White Throne 
judgment, but it's the judgment 

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seat of Christ. 
And then as we compare, we see 

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letter A. 
It's for believers, whereas the 

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Great White Throne Judgment is 
for unbelievers. 

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The judgment seat is for 
believers. 

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Well, why is that? 
Well, look at verse #11 it says 

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for other foundation. 
Can no man lay than that which 

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is laid, which is Jesus Christ? 
So everything that's being 

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spoken of in these verses is 
about those who have Jesus 

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Christ, their foundation, those 
who have asked him to save him. 

452
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,520
And really the context of the 
whole book lets us understand 

453
00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:11,920
because who is he writing the 
book to? 

454
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,680
He's writing it to the believers
who are in the Church of 

455
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:16,520
Corinth. 
And So what he's doing is he's 

456
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,760
talking to believers right now 
and he wants them to know, 

457
00:24:20,120 --> 00:24:23,240
listen, just because you were 
saved and you're not going to 

458
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:25,280
the great White Throne 
judgement, there's still a 

459
00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:28,680
judgement for us as well. 
Now that judgement is not about 

460
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:31,000
whether we're going to go to 
heaven or not. 

461
00:24:31,120 --> 00:24:34,360
That's already been settled, but
there's something different at 

462
00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:38,360
play and we'll look at that in 
just a moment tonight. 

463
00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:43,440
If you're a believer again, play
pay close attention to this 

464
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:46,560
passage. 
You and I will stand at this 

465
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:49,240
judgement someday. 
Second Corinthians chapter 5, 

466
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:53,320
verse 10 says, for we must all 
appear before the judgement seat

467
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:57,400
of Christ. 
Now how many or all that would 

468
00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:02,440
be all right, We must all appear
again talking to believers 

469
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,720
before the judgment seat of 
Christ, Second Corinthians 5-10 

470
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,760
that everyone may receive the 
things done in his body 

471
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:12,760
according to that he has done, 
whether it be good or bad. 

472
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:16,800
And that last phrase is a key 
according to that which he has 

473
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:21,880
done, whether it be good or bad.
And so that brings us to the 

474
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:25,000
next contrasting point from our 
outline, and that's this. 

475
00:25:25,360 --> 00:25:27,800
This is judgments of works for 
reward. 

476
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:30,960
You see, the judgement seat of 
Christ isn't about whether we 

477
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,560
have redemption or whether we 
have salvation. 

478
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:37,640
This is about this, what will 
your rewards be for what you've 

479
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,760
done in this life after you've 
gotten saved? 

480
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:45,240
So look at it. 
We really can kind of pay more 

481
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,560
attention to this text now. 
Go back to verse #12 and see 

482
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:50,920
what I mean. 
It says now if any man build 

483
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,400
upon this foundation. 
Now what's this foundation? 

484
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:57,480
It's Jesus Christ, right? 
So if any man build upon this 

485
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:01,920
foundation, which is Jesus 
Christ, gold, silver, precious 

486
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:06,440
stones, wood, hay, stubble, 
every man's work shall be made 

487
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,560
manifest, for the day shall 
declare it, because it shall be 

488
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:13,080
revealed by fire, and the fire 
shall try every man's work of 

489
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:16,240
what sort it is. 
If any man's work abide which he

490
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:20,440
had built, thereupon he shall 
receive a reward. 

491
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:25,240
So this is a judgment about 
rewards, meaning this, that when

492
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:29,560
we are passed from this life and
we are preparing for we are 

493
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:32,840
about to go to heaven, there 
will be this time of judgment, 

494
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:34,880
this judgment seat of Christ for
believers. 

495
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:40,120
And we will be judged upon the 
fact of whether we built right 

496
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:45,280
after we got saved, and again, 
not whether we will be redeemed,

497
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:51,000
but whether we will be rewarded.
How did you build on that which 

498
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,560
you had? 
You know, when you were a kid, 

499
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,840
you probably heard the story of 
Three Little Pigs, didn't you? 

500
00:26:56,440 --> 00:27:00,080
You know what did what you had? 
One that built with straw. 

501
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,600
And he huffed and he puffed. 
He blew that house down. 

502
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,000
Then you had the second one 
built with sticks. 

503
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,600
And he huffed and he puffed and 
he blew the house down. 

504
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,560
And the third built with bricks.
And we know what happened with 

505
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,440
that. 
Well, what's the moral of the 

506
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:16,800
story? 
Well, you know, make sure you 

507
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:18,520
follow building code. 
I think that's the probably the 

508
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:22,600
moral of the story. 
But, but really the idea is this

509
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,560
is that you could have a good 
foundation, but you better build

510
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:30,120
on top of it, right? 
And there will be some who build

511
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:34,040
with proper building materials, 
and there will be others who 

512
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,800
will build with things that are 
not proper. 

513
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,800
They'll build with wood and hay 
and stubble. 

514
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,800
So what's going to happen that 
there will be fire, this 

515
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,840
judgment seat of Christ. 
It will be like we present our 

516
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:50,200
life to the Lord, we will 
present our works to Him and we 

517
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,280
will show Him what we did with 
the life of which He gave us, 

518
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,800
and all of that will be placed 
in the fire. 

519
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,040
How that works, I don't know. 
And it's, I'm not talking about 

520
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,840
Hellfire, but you understand it 
will be placed in some sort of 

521
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,320
fire. 
Fire is sometimes a picture of 

522
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,720
purification in the Bible. 
And so here you see this fire 

523
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,080
that comes. 
And Can you imagine if you had 

524
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:13,800
just present a bunch of sticks 
and stone, or rather just sticks

525
00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:15,880
and stubble? 
What are you going to have? 

526
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:19,560
Nothing. 
You're just going to have ashes.

527
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:24,000
What happens if you have gold 
and silver and precious stones? 

528
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,920
Well, as I've explained to you 
before that the fire only 

529
00:28:28,360 --> 00:28:33,160
purifies and makes better the 
gold and the silver and even the

530
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,440
precious stones. 
Gold and silver are refined 

531
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:37,840
through a heating process, 
aren't they? 

532
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:42,760
You need heat to be able to 
refine gold, to make it pure. 

533
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,240
Precious stones often times can 
be heated to be able to bring 

534
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,800
out their best properties, to 
change the colors in such way 

535
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,960
that they become even more 
beautiful than they were before.

536
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:58,880
So we take the life that we 
built after Jesus saved us, the 

537
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:02,360
works that we did, and we 
present them before the Lord, 

538
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,680
and we give it to him, and it's 
judged. 

539
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:07,240
Now what's interesting about 
this? 

540
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:09,800
It's not about the quantity. 
Of the work. 

541
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:11,960
But it's the quality of the 
work. 

542
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,240
Listen, quantity is important. 
If you're building a house, you 

543
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:16,360
probably ought to finish it, 
right? 

544
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,280
I mean, it's probably a good 
thing to do if you're going to 

545
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:21,640
build to finish. 
But I will also say this, if 

546
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:23,240
you're going to finish, you want
to finish. 

547
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,760
Right. 
There's a lot of people that 

548
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:29,080
just have a lot of activity. 
They want to do stuff, do stuff,

549
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:33,080
do stuff, do stuff. 
But listen, if the Lord's not in

550
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:37,280
it, what you're doing doesn't 
come to a whole lot. 

551
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:42,120
Our church calendar is not as 
busy as other church calendars 

552
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:43,720
are. 
I know some churches that you 

553
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:45,640
could be here four or five 
nights out of the week. 

554
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:48,640
Listen that that's between them 
and the Lord. 

555
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,200
It's not for me to be able to 
say what they should be doing or

556
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,240
or what we should be doing, but 
I would just say that the Lord 

557
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:55,840
has led me. 
I have been of the philosophy of

558
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,160
this is that we may not be here 
four or five. 

559
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,880
Nights of the week. 
But what we do, I want us to do 

560
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:05,520
well and I want us to do it for 
him and not just to get to the 

561
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,040
place well. 
I've got to go to church 

562
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:08,160
tonight. 
It's a Tuesday night. 

563
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:09,880
We got this activity and it's a 
Thursday night. 

564
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:11,360
We got to do this activity. 
It's a Saturday night. 

565
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,240
We got to do that activity. 
And you and you. 

566
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:14,720
Only reason you're going is 
because you don't want the 

567
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,320
pastor you know texting you the 
next day saying where are you 

568
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:22,080
because. 
You know, well anyway, you know,

569
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:23,680
yeah, we do that kind of thing, 
don't we? 

570
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:29,000
But no, the idea is not just 
quantity or quantity, but 

571
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:33,760
quality that you build, right? 
And so we want to make sure that

572
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,840
we build in a way that's 
honoring and pleasing to God. 

573
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:39,640
You say, well, how do we build 
it? 

574
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:43,160
It's about our works, man. 
It's about what we do in this 

575
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,920
life. 
It's about, am I going to honor 

576
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:51,200
God with my mouth? 
Yeah, you know the things that I

577
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:55,200
say. 
Am I going to live a life that 

578
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,760
will tear people down or build 
people up? 

579
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:00,640
Am I going to use the mouth that
God gave me to be able to 

580
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:03,640
glorify Him and praise Him to 
people? 

581
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,320
Am I going to use the mouth that
I have to be able to tell other 

582
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:10,720
people about the gospel message?
Am I going to use the mouth that

583
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:14,200
I have to sing praises to Him? 
Not just in church, but even 

584
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:18,160
during the week that just praise
spontaneously comes out of my 

585
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,120
mouth and sometimes a song even 
comes out of my mouth. 

586
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,920
And even if it's just in the 
shower, listen, God will hear 

587
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:25,080
it. 
Thankfully, maybe we don't have 

588
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:26,040
to hear it, but God will hear 
it. 

589
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:30,640
That's OK that we're going to 
build with our mouth that we 

590
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,480
build with our hands that the 
things that we put our hands on 

591
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,320
or good and the right that we 
build with our eyes. 

592
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,840
That the things that we look at 
that the things that we look at 

593
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,400
on our computers and the things 
we look at on our phones. 

594
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,560
And the things that we look at 
in the materials that we read. 

595
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:49,440
And the things that we look at 
when people walk by and that we 

596
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,000
make sure that we're looking 
appropriately and not 

597
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:56,480
inappropriately, that where our 
eyes are building and that our. 

598
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,560
Feet. 
Are building that we're going to

599
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,320
the right places and doing the 
right things listen that in 

600
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:07,720
every area of your life and in 
my life we're giving God glory 

601
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:14,520
see well I mean I'm pretty good 
most of the time do you ever do 

602
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:22,320
you ever feel like that OK here 
we go all right I I've even 

603
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,000
said. 
Stuff like this before, well, 

604
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:25,560
you know, look. 
I'm a Christian. 

605
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,680
I don't. 
I don't drink, I don't smoke, I 

606
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:29,440
don't chew. 
I don't run with those who do. 

607
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:32,480
OK, Kaylee thought that was 
funny. 

608
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:43,640
Good. 
But I fill in the blank, Why? 

609
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:45,320
Why would we say something like 
that? 

610
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,680
Well, I don't sin as much as 
other people, so I'm sure God's 

611
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:51,080
OK with this one. 
Sin. 

612
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,080
And listen, I've had this 
thought process before in my own

613
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,200
life. 
That's like saying this. 

614
00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:58,240
I'm going to. 
Build a house. 

615
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:02,000
And I'm going to use the best 
materials, but I'm going to make

616
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,360
sure at the end that I use no 
nails. 

617
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:09,160
No, everything else would be in 
there. 

618
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:10,120
I'm just not going to use any 
nail. 

619
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:11,840
I'm just personally against 
nails. 

620
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,680
That's my thing. 
You know, it probably would look

621
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:18,840
all right for a while. 
And I imagine a few storms, I 

622
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:22,080
imagine the process of time, all
of a sudden some things would be

623
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,240
exposed probably a lot more 
quickly than you thought. 

624
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,400
Isn't the idea. 
If you have blueprints for a 

625
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,880
house, you build it the way the 
architect says to build it. 

626
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:35,560
The general contractor doesn't 
just get to decide however they 

627
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:39,120
want to build it. 
And the problem I think that we 

628
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:43,400
think is in the general. 
Contractor of our own lives, God

629
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:46,960
has given us as the master 
builder, the architect. 

630
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:50,960
He has told us what he said. 
This is how you build your life.

631
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,960
Well, how did he tell me this? 
You're holding it in your lap. 

632
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:58,280
He gave you the word of God. 
Is this how you build your life?

633
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:02,880
Well, I know what it said, but I
don't like all of it. 

634
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:05,840
But I'll do most of it. 
I'll be better than most people.

635
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,159
I'll be better than most people 
in my church. 

636
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:12,000
Well, the people in your church 
aren't going to be the one 

637
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:13,520
judging you at the judgment seat
of Christ. 

638
00:34:15,199 --> 00:34:17,360
In fact, there are no rewards 
for being the best person in 

639
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:19,920
your church. 
There's no rewards for being the

640
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:21,679
best. 
Person in your town or the best 

641
00:34:21,679 --> 00:34:24,960
person in your county, you know 
what the rewards are all about. 

642
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,239
Did you build the way He told 
you to build? 

643
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:31,880
I think often times the problem 
we have is we feel like we're 

644
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,239
pretty good compared to what we 
used to be. 

645
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:38,000
And that may be true, but God 
didn't call us to be better than

646
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,520
we used to be. 
God called us to be like Christ.

647
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:44,400
And that's where we have the 
problem, isn't it? 

648
00:34:45,199 --> 00:34:47,040
That's what the judgement seat 
of Christ is about. 

649
00:34:47,639 --> 00:34:52,679
Did you build the way God told 
you to build with the materials 

650
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,760
that He gave you, with the tools
that He gave you? 

651
00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:01,120
Did you build His way the great 
White Throne judgment? 

652
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:04,760
There's only one outcome for the
unsaved, it's the lake of fire. 

653
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:08,000
But for us, there's more than 
one outcome. 

654
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:12,040
What is it? 
Well, everything's put in the 

655
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:15,440
fire. 
Verse 14 says if any man's work 

656
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:17,920
abide which he had built there 
on, he shall receive a reward. 

657
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:20,160
If any man's work shall be 
burned. 

658
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:24,680
He shall suffer loss, but he 
himself shall be saved yet so as

659
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:26,840
by fire. 
What that's saying is this is 

660
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:30,000
there will be some that 
literally will be saved and 

661
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:34,600
that's it. 
They'll have a hand of ashes at 

662
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:38,120
the judgment seat of Christ. 
You say pastor saved and that's 

663
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,960
it being. 
Saved is great, and it is. 

664
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:47,080
Great, but Can you imagine Jesus
Christ standing before you, 

665
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:51,800
having given you the life and 
the opportunity and the tools 

666
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,880
that he's given you and forever 
many years you lived after you 

667
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:56,400
got saved. 
He said this. 

668
00:35:56,720 --> 00:36:01,240
Go and build well for me. 
I'll give you the tools. 

669
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:04,640
I'll even give you the Holy 
Spirit to live inside of you. 

670
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:06,320
I'll give you everything that 
you need. 

671
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:10,840
Just build for me and build my 
way and bring me glory. 

672
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:15,240
And you had that one task and 
that one goal and you stood 

673
00:36:15,240 --> 00:36:18,480
before him and all you had was 
ash. 

674
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,840
Can you imagine how you would 
feel? 

675
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:26,440
You remember how you felt when 
you brought home the report 

676
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:27,720
card. 
You knew that your parents 

677
00:36:27,720 --> 00:36:34,400
didn't want you to weren't going
to be happy about someone said 

678
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:35,400
every year. 
All right, thank you. 

679
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:37,920
It's not the invitation yet, 
Dan. 

680
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:45,080
All right. 
It's, I had a bad habit as a 

681
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:49,560
younger person to we had to get 
all of our papers sent home and 

682
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,560
I would take out the bad ones 
and just leave the good ones for

683
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:54,960
my parents. 
By the way, that's sin just to 

684
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,920
make sure everyone's aware of 
that and that I'm aware of that.

685
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:01,600
And so all through the quarter, 
my parents thought I was doing 

686
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,400
really well. 
But then the rent came due and 

687
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:09,280
they'd say, how did you get 100 
on all your quizzes and you're 

688
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:14,120
pulling a 75 in the class? 
And well, it was because they 

689
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:18,120
hadn't seen everything. 
And listen, I just remember now,

690
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:21,160
listen, did my parents disown 
me? 

691
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:23,240
They were always going to be my 
parents. 

692
00:37:23,240 --> 00:37:29,240
But you know what? 
I remember feeling shame my mom 

693
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:34,520
worked to the bone just so that 
I could go to a Christian 

694
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:37,240
School. 
The public schools were such a 

695
00:37:37,240 --> 00:37:40,760
mess in Tampa, such that for 
five different years, I believe 

696
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:42,600
I would have gone to five 
different schools. 5th grade, 

697
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,720
6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade,
9th grade, all would have been 

698
00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:47,320
in different schools. 
My parents says you're getting 

699
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,760
out of this. 
And my mom worked in a job that 

700
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:54,600
she hated so that I can go to 
Christian School and she did all

701
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:59,920
that and I come home with those 
grades when I could have done 

702
00:37:59,920 --> 00:38:01,480
better. 
Listen, this was not an issue of

703
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:03,040
whether I had the aptitude to do
it. 

704
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,160
I didn't have the desire to do 
it. 

705
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:09,840
You know what I remember just 
feeling, and I can feel it even 

706
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:13,360
right now standing before you. 
Just embarrassment and shame 

707
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:17,200
that they'd given me so much and
I'd squandered it. 

708
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,400
How much more do you think we 
would feel that standing before 

709
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:24,240
Jesus Christ? 
He said. 

710
00:38:24,240 --> 00:38:25,960
I put you in the United States 
of America. 

711
00:38:27,240 --> 00:38:29,880
I put you in a country with more
resources than almost any other 

712
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:35,320
country in the world. 
I had you live in a time when 

713
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:40,000
knowledge was so readily 
available compared to any other 

714
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:45,720
time when the Bible was more. 
You can hold the Bible in your 

715
00:38:45,720 --> 00:38:51,400
hand anytime, anywhere where 
some of our forefathers would 

716
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,240
have struggled to have a Bible 
in their home. 

717
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:58,920
I've given you all of these 
things and this is how you 

718
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:02,880
built. 
I can't even imagine the shame. 

719
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:08,520
I can't even imagine. 
So what do we do that a build, 

720
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:11,280
right? 
We build for him. 

721
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,760
There's more than one outcome. 
Could be wood, hay and stubble. 

722
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:18,600
Could be gold, silver and 
precious stone. 

723
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:20,880
They could be a mix of the two. 
So well, at least. 

724
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:22,920
If there's a mix of the two, 
it's not so bad. 

725
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:25,360
Remember what what is the point 
of all this? 

726
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:28,800
What are we building? 
We're building a home, if you 

727
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,640
will. 
These are there was a foundation

728
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:35,080
and we're building on top of it.
If you built with a mix of 

729
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,920
building materials, both good 
quality and bad quality, is that

730
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:42,080
still a good building? 
No, listen, if you built a 

731
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:48,600
shanty with marble countertops, 
it's still not a great dwelling.

732
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:55,080
And I'm afraid what many of us 
have are a mixture of great and 

733
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:58,480
ornate and things that will 
burn. 

734
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:03,120
And at the time it will be 
everlastingly too late. 

735
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:07,920
You know, the people of Israel, 
by the time they got to the book

736
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,400
of Amos, they were all over the 
place. 

737
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:12,960
Amos is one of the minor 
prophets. 

738
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:15,560
They weren't listening to God. 
They hadn't listened to God for 

739
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:17,160
a couple 100 years, give or 
take. 

740
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:20,720
And there's an interesting 
verse, one that you're probably 

741
00:40:20,720 --> 00:40:22,240
familiar with whether you know 
it or not. 

742
00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:25,640
And Amos chapter 4, verse 12. 
Therefore, that's what I do unto

743
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:27,800
thee, O Israel. 
And because I will do this unto 

744
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:34,560
thee, prepare to meet thy God, O
Israel, prepare to meet thy God.

745
00:40:36,240 --> 00:40:40,520
If you take one thing from this 
message tonight, and everyone 

746
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:44,680
falls into one of these two 
camps, and that's this, whoever 

747
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:49,640
you are, this life is all about 
the preparation for the life to 

748
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:52,800
come. 
This life is all about the 

749
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:55,560
preparation of life to come. 
If you don't know Jesus Christ 

750
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:58,760
as your Savior, you need to ask 
Him to save you today. 

751
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:01,440
Why? 
Because there is something to 

752
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:04,840
come after the Great White 
Throne Judgment and Revelation. 

753
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:10,080
Chapter 20 calls it the second 
death, and it's real in the lake

754
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:12,880
of fire is real. 
If you don't know Jesus Christ 

755
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:16,200
your Savior, you do not want to 
stand at that throne. 

756
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:18,480
There is no one that can help 
you. 

757
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,360
There is no amount of money that
can get you off. 

758
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:25,920
There will be no crooked judge 
that can be bribed. 

759
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:31,760
It will be you standing barren 
in your trespasses and sins. 

760
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:33,600
And there's no excuse you can 
give. 

761
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:35,080
There's no one else you can 
point that. 

762
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:39,360
Listen, the righteous judge will
know you're guilty, and it 

763
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:41,640
doesn't matter how good you are 
compared to other people, if 

764
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:45,960
those books are open and there's
one sin, you'll be damned for 

765
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:47,320
all eternity in the Lake of 
fire. 

766
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:52,520
But for those of us that are 
saved, listen, we need to spend 

767
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:55,640
our life doing what? 
Preparing for the life to come. 

768
00:41:57,240 --> 00:41:59,080
You know what's so ironic about 
this? 

769
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:02,360
And I was thinking about this 
today, and I almost wished I had

770
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:04,360
more time to think about it. 
But I think in a way, I don't 

771
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:06,360
know that I could ever really 
wrap my head around it. 

772
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:11,560
Most things in life, we have a 
lot of time to prepare for and 

773
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:13,880
then the actual event happens 
and it happens quickly. 

774
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,560
Isn't that the way life is? 
I think of our wedding, I think 

775
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:21,520
of Bethany's wedding. 
I think of all the time that it 

776
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:24,280
took to prepare. 
And like at our wedding, I just 

777
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:27,720
think it was, it was all this 
time, all this effort. 

778
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:31,480
And then we got married and it 
was a 3035 minute ceremony 

779
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:33,960
maybe. 
And I remember walking out down 

780
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:37,040
the aisle, we're newly married 
and we looked at each other like

781
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:41,680
that's it. 
Like it was like a like a year 

782
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:44,440
of our life preparing this. 
It seems like should we go back 

783
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,000
in and do this again? 
Because I was like, we need to, 

784
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:47,240
we need to get our money's 
worth. 

785
00:42:47,240 --> 00:42:48,480
We can get our time's worth out 
of this. 

786
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,640
You know what I mean? 
It seems to me that there was a 

787
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:55,120
coach that used to be in this 
area who coached a fairly famous

788
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:59,680
football team that prepared for 
about 8 or 9 months for one 

789
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:03,280
game. 
In about two hours, all of a 

790
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:06,560
sudden, everything that have 
been built up came crashing 

791
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:10,520
down. 
There's a lot of things that 

792
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:13,640
happen in life that take a lot 
of effort, but then the actual 

793
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:17,080
amount of time is nothing. 
You know what the amazing thing 

794
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:20,240
about preparing for eternity is?
We're actually preparing for a 

795
00:43:20,240 --> 00:43:23,520
short time. 
For something that's very long 

796
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:27,520
time, it's the opposite. 
Well. 

797
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:30,440
Pastor, how do you? 
Expect me to live like this. 

798
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:32,960
Listen, it's just a little 
while. 

799
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:36,360
And by the way, living like this
isn't that bad. 

800
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:39,040
In fact, it's better than living
like the world says. 

801
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:44,320
It's so much better. 
It's not well, endure, you know,

802
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:46,840
just endure this life and live 
like a Christian and it's not 

803
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:48,560
going to be fun, but eventually 
you get to heaven. 

804
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:51,840
It'll be good. 
No, no, it's actually being a 

805
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:56,040
believer is pretty sweet in this
life, but it can't even compare 

806
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:59,800
to the sweetness of eternity. 
We have a very short time to 

807
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:03,120
prepare for the life to come. 
How many of you would say that? 

808
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:04,680
Don't raise your hand, but how 
many of you say this? 

809
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:08,400
Just say this again. 
Not in your heart, not with your

810
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:09,800
hand. 
How many you say? 

811
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:14,160
I can't believe how fast my life
is gone and how little time I 

812
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:19,560
might have. 
I feel like I was just a kid as 

813
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:23,840
some of you think I still am a 
kid, but I feel like I was just 

814
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:30,600
a 14 year old outside playing 
basketball and now I'm a 42 year

815
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:32,640
old who tried to play basketball
a couple days ago. 

816
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:35,840
Reminding myself I am not a 14 
year old playing basketball 

817
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:38,240
anymore because my elbow still 
hurts a couple days later. 

818
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:44,080
We don't have long judgments. 
Real. 

819
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:48,240
If you don't know Jesus Christ 
your Savior, get saved. 

820
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:53,200
We beg you, get saved. 
And if we are saved, what are 

821
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,680
you building? 
The fire will reveal it. 

822
00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:00,280
What are you building? 
Are you following your own plan?

823
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:03,280
Are you just happy that your 
building is better than someone 

824
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:06,000
else's building? 
Or are you actually following 

825
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:10,440
the building code, the specs and
the blueprints that come from 

826
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:15,400
God's word? 
Because that's the only one that

827
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:17,960
will qualify. 
When we get to that great, to 

828
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:20,800
that judgment seat of Christ, 
did you follow his way? 

829
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:22,680
We'll say, well, what's the big 
deal? 

830
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:25,200
I'm still going to go to heaven.
I'll leave you with this. 

831
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:33,200
I can only think not just of the
shame if I had nothing at the 

832
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:36,400
great, at the judgment seat of 
Christ, pardon me, but I also 

833
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:39,040
think of this, that if we do 
have gold and silver and 

834
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:41,520
precious stones, think about 
this. 

835
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:43,720
What would you do with them for 
eternity? 

836
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:47,680
You think you're going to adorn 
your mansion in heaven? 

837
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:50,880
I think that's going to be 
pretty well done, don't you, 

838
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,440
because you get to Revelation 
2122. 

839
00:45:53,720 --> 00:45:55,240
I don't think any of those 
things are going to need 

840
00:45:55,240 --> 00:45:58,440
additional adornment. 
I believe this honestly and 

841
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:02,280
truly that all of those things 
will be cast back at Jesus feet.

842
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:06,800
How do you say thank you to 
Jesus Christ for a life that 

843
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:10,480
he's given you? 
Well, probably the only real 

844
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:14,120
tangible way we will is not in 
this life, but in the next. 

845
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:16,960
When those gold, most silver and
those precious stones that you 

846
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,320
will hold more in your hand that
you ever had in this life. 

847
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:26,640
If you do well and say, you know
what, Jesus, you take it. 

848
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:32,520
I don't need this stuff because 
I have you for all eternity. 

849
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:36,360
That's what it's all about. 
Thank you for listening to the 

850
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,000
sermon from the pulpit of 
Liberty Baptist Church. 

851
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:42,600
If this message was a blessing 
to you, or if there's any way we

852
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:45,720
can serve you, please let us 
know by contacting us at 

853
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:50,640
info@mylibertybaptist.org. 
Or you can visit us this Sunday 

854
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:54,520
at 800 Washington St. in Easton,
MA. 

855
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:57,600
May the Lord bless you as you 
grow in His Word.