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I beg you to turn for scripture 
reading, please, to the Old 

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Testament book of Zechariah, 
Zechariah Chapter 1. 

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Zechariah One and reading a few 
verses from the opening verses, 

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in the eighth month, in the 
second year of Darius, came the 

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word of the Lord unto Zechariah 
the son of Barakaya the son of 

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IDO the Prophet, saying, The 
Lord has been sore displeased 

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with your father's. 
Therefore say thou unto them 

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Thus saith the Lord of hosts, 
Turn ye unto me, saith the Lord 

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of hosts. 
I will turn unto you, saith the 

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Lord of hosts. 
Be not as your father's, unto 

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whom the former prophets have 
cried, saying, Thus saith the 

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Lord of hosts, turn ye now from 
your evil ways, and from your 

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evil doings. 
But they did not hear nor 

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hearken unto me, saith the Lord 
your Father's. 

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Where are they? 
And the prophets? 

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Do they live forever? 
But my words and my statutes was

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I commanded my servants, the 
prophets, did they now take hold

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of your Father's? 
And they returned and said, like

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as the Lord of hosts thought to 
do unto us, according to our 

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ways, and according to our 
doings, so have they dealt with 

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us. 
Upon the 4th and 20th day of the

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11th month, which is the month 
Sabbath, in the second year of 

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Darius, came the word of the 
Lord unto Zechariah the son of 

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Berechiah, the son of Widow the 
prophet, saying, I saw by night,

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and behold a man riding upon a 
red horse, and he stood among 

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the Myrtle trees that were in 
the bottom, and behind him, 

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where their red horses speckled 
and white. 

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Then said I, Oh my Lord, what 
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The Angel that talked with me 
said unto me, I wish you thee 

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what these be. 
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Myrtle trees answered, and said,
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hath sent to walk to and fro 
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And they answered the Angel of 
the Lord that stood among the 

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Myrtle trees and said, We have 
walked to and fro through the 

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earth, and behold, all the earth
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Amen. 
We're ending there. 

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That 11th version of the Lord 
had his own blessing to the 

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reading of His word. 
Amen. 

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We're all familiar with the 
freers, like father, like son. 

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It implies that children have 
turned out like their parents 

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and there's no doubt but 
something of the parents 

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constitution or characteristics 
probably found in each one of 

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us. 
They may be proud of that, or 

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you may be disappointed, but 
it's something we have no 

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control over. 
If you discover something in 

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yourself that you would rather 
wasn't there, then you may have 

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to work to overcome and whatever
you see as as a shortcoming. 

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On the other hand, maybe you're 
honoured to think that somebody 

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sees something of your father or
mother in you. 

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I trust you love your parents. 
Never be ashamed of them. 

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But we can we ask parents, if 
your children turn out like you,

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will you be proud of them? 
Do they see you as a man or 

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woman of God? 
You're, you know, influence is 

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so important, especially in 
young people growing up. 

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Here's a passage of scripture 
for God warns Israel not to be 

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like their fathers. 
The early generations of Israel 

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had disobeyed the Lord, who 
brought to reap terrible 

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consequences. 
Bible's right when it says that 

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whatsoever a man soweth, that 
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They had Israel had leaders like
Moses, Abraham, Malaysia, godly 

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kings such as David. 
Yet in spite of all this, in 

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spite of all the benefits they 
enjoyed, they got away from the 

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Lord, fell into idolatry, 
despised the Lord. 

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The the seeds of disobedience 
always lead to a better harvest,

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and that's something Israel was 
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That harvest was God's 
judgement. 

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God warned the that particular 
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like their fathers. 
God gave them those whatever 

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instructions the Lord gave them 
earlier in in in life, those 

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instructions still stood. 
What he told them a century 

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earlier was still relevant. 
Indeed, it is still relevant 

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even to us today. 
You see, God's Word is forever 

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settled in heaven. 
His Word is unchanging. 

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God is unchanging. 
Some few years back somebody 

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gave us one of those. 
We tear off calendars were you 

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as we page for each day of the 
year and a little motto at the 

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bottom of each 11 occasion. 
The motto read the The world 

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changes so fast that you 
couldn't stay wrong all the 

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time. 
That suggests that things that 

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were wrong yesterday probably 
are OK today. 

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However, that's that's human 
philosophy. 

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God, however, is an unchanging 
God. 

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He doesn't give some command 
today and change his mind 

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tomorrow. 
His word is forever settled in 

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heaven. 
The 10 commandments will never 

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alter no matter what this world 
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And King Charles, not that many 
months ago, come out with a 

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statement that the 10 
commandments need to be 

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rewritten. 
Is that just to suit man's 

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modern thinking? 
He's off the rails there if 

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that's what he thinks God says 
in Malachi 316 For I am the 

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Lord, I change not. 
Therefore ye sons of Jacob are 

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not consumed. 
So if it wasn't right for a man 

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to commit murder or adultery or 
steal 6000 years ago, it's still

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not right today. 
This world is changing. 

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New ideas are forever coming to 
the fore, new methods are always

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being brought in, and things are
not done today the way they were

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even a generation or two ago. 
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learning to read and write. 
The wee children come home from 

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school and what they're going 
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You know what it is baffled me 
at times to see the way they 

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they do their arithmetic and the
way they pronounce letters and 

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all the rest is totally 
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This world is changing all the 
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changing for the better as far 
as sin from mankind is 

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concerned. 
Men are waxing worse and worse. 

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And that's just one piece of 
evidence that the end is near. 

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Jesus Christ is coming soon. 
One thing that never changes is 

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the word of God. 
And when it comes to the 

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preaching of the gospel here to 
you, people are looking for new 

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methods. 
It almost seems as if they're 

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hoping that somewhere that 
they'll discover, oh, there's a 

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new way of finding peace with 
God and that they'll be able to 

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find assurance of heaven without
having to worry about this 

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repentance and, and giving up 
their sin and being saved and 

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all that. 
If you love anybody who's 

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thinking or looking for that 
kind of solution, they're on a 

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wild goose chase. 
They're backing up the wrong 

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tree. 
No matter what methods may be 

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employed in presenting the 
message of the gospel, the old 

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truths will still stand. 
Sin is still sin. 

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Whether men like to talk about 
it or think about it or not, it 

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always has been. 
It always will be sin and the 

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wages of sin will always be 
death. 

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Why? 
Because God's Word says so. 

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Sin carries the death penalty 
and the only way to be cleansed 

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from sin is by the old. 
The age-old method of repentance

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and crying to God for His mercy 
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Blood atonement was the rule 
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That hasn't changed, it never 
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What can wash away my sin? 
Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 

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I mean, if people could get to 
heaven under their own steam, as

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many suppose, there was no need 
for Christ Jesus to die on a 

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cross. 
That's the whole thing. 

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There was no other way that man 
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putting to death the sinless 
Lamb of God and and the sooner 

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then come put his trust in his 
faith in what Christ 

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accomplished at Calvary. 
Away then with modern 

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philosophies. 
There is no new method, just old

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fashioned repentance and 
conversion. 

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As we look into these words and 
Zechariah, it's just a a couple 

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of things I want to pick up from
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Firstly, the truth they had to 
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The Jews after their return from
Babylon had been extremely 

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remiss in rebuilding their 
temple. 

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Remember the police had was 
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They've been gone 70 years. 
The prophet High guy came among 

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them preaching the word of God 
and he sought to stir up the 

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people to get to work and get 
the temple put back in order. 

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As the people of God, they had a
duty to do all in their power to

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see the work of God go forward, 
and as long as the temple lay in

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ruins, that was a very pure 
testimony. 

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Regrettably, High Guy's words 
weren't heeded as they should 

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have been for, and so God sent 
Zachariah to further stir them 

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into action. 
None to the same principle, but 

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a slightly different context. 
It's often it's often been the 

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case that when unsealed men and 
women listen to a certain 

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preacher, maybe for a number of 
years, they become accustomed to

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his exhortations to repent and 
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Many become so used to doing 
nothing about it they can sit 

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under the sound of anything he 
preaches, and they seem totally 

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unmoved and certainly not moved 
towards repentance at all. 

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But then a visiting speaker 
comes along preaching the same 

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message, and suddenly they 
respond and come to Christ. 

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I don't know, people maybe 
become complacent. 

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They say familiarity breeds 
contempt, and that's very true. 

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Some can be so used hearing the 
gospel message, they they could 

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preach it themselves, but yet 
they can sit on the side of it 

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and they never seem to be 
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This is where we have to urge 
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If you're on the sea of the sea,
whether you're used hearing the 

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message or not, or used 
rejecting it or not, accustomed 

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to neglecting your own soul's 
great need, do. 

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Beloved, do be advised. 
Procrastination could land you 

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in a lost eternity. 
We wouldn't wish that on anyone.

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But there may come a time when 
God will suddenly stop speaking 

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to your soul. 
And if that happens, you'll be 

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beyond rescue. 
And that will be disastrous. 

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God has said in Genesis 6 and 
three, my spirit shall not 

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always strive with man. 
And the Bible is clear on this 

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today. 
Today is the day of salvation, 

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not tomorrow. 
This book says boast not thyself

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of tomorrow. 
I know it's not what a day may 

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bring forth. 
That's why it's important to be 

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saved today. 
There is a time when a person 

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can't be saved, but there's also
a time when he can't. 

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It's not often enough. 
It's not enough to be to be told

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we need to be saved, need to be 
told why. 

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What is it to be saved? 
It is to recognise that you've 

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been born in sin. 
You know, people will argue that

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I'm not a Sinner, never do any 
harm. 

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A man's not a Sinner because of 
something he does wrong. 

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He does wrong because he's a 
Sinner. 

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The heart of the problems, the 
problem of the heart we're born 

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in. 
Sin can't help that. 

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But we all come into this world 
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Sin is taking lost souls to a 
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That's why, out of love for your
soul, Jesus Christ died on the 

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cross. 
He has taken your punishment for

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you, and today He offers you the
gift of everlasting life through

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faith in Himself. 
Then it's finished work. 

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It's the message our forefathers
received through. 

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It's the same message for today.
Thank God his His Word never 

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goes out of date and God's Word 
assures us it's not His will 

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that any should perish. 
But it does bring home to us, 

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your eternity is at stake. 
This generation of Jews that 

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Zechariah was addressing here 
were people whose fathers had 

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had the word of God, but 
despised it. 

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Children are apartment to follow
the example of parents, and to 

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just walk the same path their 
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But the prophet here issues this
word of caution lest they should

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go the same careless way their 
fathers and forefathers had gone

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and that they would miss heaven.
We've talked to numerous people 

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on the doorstep and often hear 
somebody say I attend such and 

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such a church. 
It was good enough from a 

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father, from a grandfather, it's
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Which just emphasises they're 
putting their dependence upon 

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church attendance. 
That's all they have to lean on 

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or or tradition. 
But listen, tradition has taken 

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multitudes to hell and it 
happens every year. 

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God says here, your Father's, 
where are they? 

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You walk through any cemetery 
and read the headstones and it's

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surprising. 
It's lovely to read when 

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somebody has engraved redeemed 
with the precious blood of 

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Christ at home with the Lord. 
I read 1 not so long ago in the 

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graveyard outside Hillsborough, 
gone fishing. 

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The deceased had obviously loved
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remembered for, and somebody 
imagined that now he's gone 

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fishing somewhere. 
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What will it say when your 
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Which is far better or without 
Christ because you rejected his 

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mercy, was serious your 
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Where are they? 
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even if your Father's received 
their salvation is of no avail 

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to you. 
I can well remember as a child 

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hearing God speaking voice 
challenging me about my need of 

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salvation and for a time I 
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When my mum and dad are sealed 
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not be too hard on me. 
He'll not let me go to hell. 

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But the Lord had to bring me to 
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just a Sinner. 
It doesn't matter about my 

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parents, their salvation are no 
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We read in John 112 and 13 but 
as many as received him to them 

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give he the power or the right 
to become the sons of God. 

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Even to them they believe in His
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blood. 
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salvation from parents, nor of 
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the will of man, but of God. 
In other words, with the best 

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intentions in the world, your 
friends and your loved ones, 

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even the praying people of God 
who want to see you saved, none 

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of these can save you. 
It's between you and God, and 

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you must come yourself, receive 
Christ into your heart and life 

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by faith. 
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Because there's no salvation 
anywhere else. 

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Your Father's, where are they? 
For many of us, our earthly 

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fathers are in eternity. 
They live their lives, They walk

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the same earth you and I walk. 
They heard the same gospel that 

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we hear. 
They give their response to the 

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gospel appeal and they either 
trusted Christ for salvation or 

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they died without the Saviour 
and were lost. 

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It's, it's hard to think about. 
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here to have to tell these 
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But Zechariah was a man who 
recognised he must one day stand

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before God and give account as 
to how he had breached the word,

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what he had done to win souls 
for Christ. 

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They are. 
I'm sure you're aware the Jews 

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are very family orientated 
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They hold their fathers in very 
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thicker than water where they're
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And they there were generations 
of Jews who paid heed to the 

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message of the gospel as to be 
seen from reading scripture, 

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that sometimes one generation 
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But then someone somewhere along
the line would would reject that

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message. 
Message that that person and 

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maybe succeeding generations 
after him would continue to 

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reject the Lord till God in his 
mercy would have to turn the 

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tide. 
And again, other generations 

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would would come and trust the 
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Today believing seemed to come 
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and flows. 
The point is, heed must be given

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to the Word irrespective of who 
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We read in Luke 16 of a Jew who 
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the Lord until he died, then it 
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He appealed in eternity. 
He appealed for somebody to send

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Abraham to warn the the members 
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earth. 
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Abraham said, listen, they have 
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them. 
Isn't it too easy to ignore the 

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preacher who has believed our 
report? 

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Isaiah asks. 
It's true that in many 

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instances, especially in this 
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many who give a certain mental 
assent to the gospel. 

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Some unsealed even comment they 
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truth. 
There was a fellow walked out of

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one of our churches one day and 
he said to the minister, I love 

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it when the word hurts. 
He's not saved. 

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In fact, he stopped coming to 
the church. 

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I love it when it smarts it's 
but he didn't take it to heart 

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when it comes to submitting to 
the word of God and quitting 

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with sin. 
People pulled back but God's 

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words very clear in this except 
you repent you shall all 

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likewise perish your Father's 
where are they are you here this

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evening or watching in and you 
remember a father who loved the 

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Lord but you thought that ass 
old fashioned. 

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That's not for me. 
It's somebody's Father in heaven

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and you're still on your way to 
a lost sinner's hell. 

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Did your forefathers pray for 
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Are you going to reject their 
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Would you not trust Christ and 
follow your Father home to 

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glory? 
No, the thought here is the turn

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around they must make. 
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opening verses in this chapter. 
In the eighth month, in the 

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second year of Darius, came the 
word of the Lord unto Zechariah 

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the son of Berechai, the son of 
Idol. 

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The prophet, saying, The Lord 
hath been sore displeased with 

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your father's, therefore say 
thou unto them. 

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Thus saith the Lord of hosts. 
Turn ye unto me, saith the Lord 

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of hosts, and I will turn unto 
you, saith the Lord of hosts. 

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Be not as your father's, unto 
whom the former prophets of 

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Christ saying, Thus saith the 
Lord of hosts, Turn ye now from 

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your evil ways and from your 
evil doings. 

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But they did not hear nor 
hearken unto me, saith the Lord.

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God. 
Thus saith the Lord of Hostess 

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is reiterated over and over. 
This is the voice of God 

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speaking. 
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Listen, your father's heard the 
gospel and you're rejecting it. 

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God in his mercy has sent his 
word to your father's of 

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generations of gold. 
And here people are careless 

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about the things of God. 
The failing to give heed to that

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word. 
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listen, don't you make the same 
mistake If your forefathers 

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rejected the word, Don't you 
make that mistake? 

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Notice in verse one that says 
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Here we are. 
As far as this our calendar is 

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concerned, the 8th month has 
just passed. 

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We're now into the 9th and you 
still not saved this eighth 

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month. 
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repent. 
He says. 

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I'm calling you to quit with sin
and be saved before you're 

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destroyed forever. 
Zechariah is trying to. 

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Get these people to understand 
that if if their fathers were 

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neglectful of the word of God, 
they they must not make the same

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mistake you. 
See this question. 

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In verse 5, your Father's where 
are they and the prophets? 

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Do they live forever? 
Those faithful men of God that 

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had preached to the generations 
now gone where themselves called

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home to higher service. 
Let's face it, the. 

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Preacher, like the listener, 
must one day leave the scene of 

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time. 
Why? 

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Because it's appointed on the 
man wants to die. 

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But after this, the judgement 
and beloved, every one of us 

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will be judged, and not only on 
what we have heard, but on our 

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response to what we've heard. 
We cannot treat this gospel 

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lightly. 
Shrug your shoulders and say, 

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well, that's for somebody else, 
not for me. 

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God has penned these words so 
that every one of us might give 

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attention. 
We fear for. 

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Those preachers who fail to warn
their congregations to flee from

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the wrath to come. 
How can any man stand before his

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congregation and not tell men 
and women of the Saviour who 

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died to save them? 
How can he not advise them that 

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their sin is going to take them 
to a lost eternity if they don't

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repent? 
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Some ministers with clerical 
collars on participated walking 

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the streets of Belfast in a 
so-called gay pride parade. 

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Shame on them. 
God's curse is upon those who 

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have wilfully chosen that wicked
lifestyle flies in the face of 

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God. 
Yet those men who purport to be 

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men of God had the audacity to 
show themselves among the 

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Sodomites and say that isn't 
this wonderful? 

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Those same ministers. 
Would need to repent and believe

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the gospel that they so 
pitifully misrepresent. 

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They're happy to leave. 
Their congregations along under 

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the false pretence. 
But these sodomites are no 

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different from the rest of us. 
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They're just sinners in. 
Need of the same. 

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Salvation. 
All have sinned. 

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And come short of the glory of 
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And the truth of the matter is, 
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not, if he's unsaved, his sin 
will take him to hell. 

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And that includes any ministers 
who are not saved. 

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WP Nicholson used to make the 
remark about clergymen waking up

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in hell with their congregations
round their feet. 

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They're waking up all right, but
it'll be too late. 

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But to get back to this. 
Generation of Israelites whom 

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Zagar I was addressing. 
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Privileged to be Jews, they 
belonged to that race of people,

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especially blessed by God. 
But whether they enjoyed special

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privilege or not, they still 
needed to be born again if they 

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were ever to be in heaven. 
And dated it has. 

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To be said the. 
Jew is probably more accountable

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because of his privilege. 
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Jesus came onto his own. 
But his own. 

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Received him not beloved people 
and Ulster have been specially 

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privileged. 
This land has been blessed with 

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gospel preaching. 
Some parts of the world have 

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never yet heard the Gospel 
message. 

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They're still heathen tribes 
living in jungles and certain 

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parts of this planet. 
They've never heard the name of 

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Jesus Christ. 
You can't say that. 

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Can you? 
This land of ours. 

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Is privileged. 
But what are you doing with your

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privilege? 
You're not aware that Christ is 

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your only hope of seeing heaven.
You need him. 

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More than anything else in this 
life, your father's, where are 

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they? 
They're an eternity. 

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Where will you be? 
We owe a lot to our forefathers.

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I mean a lot of engineering 
skills have been passed down to 

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us from what they discovered in 
their day life's. 

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Made a lot. 
Easier for you and me because of

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certain inventions brought about
by our fathers and our 

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forefathers. 
We owe it to so many. 

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Many maybe even sacrifice their 
lives to give us the the freedom

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we enjoy and in some cases 
sacrifice their lives to let us 

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have the word of God. 
Well, you know something? 

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Else the Bible says about 
fathers and children. 

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The second commandment. 
Forbids the use of images and 

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idols and worship. 
Exodus 20, verse four. 

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I shall not make unto thee any 
grieving image or any likeness 

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of anything that's in heaven 
above, or that's in the earth 

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beneath, or that's in the water 
under the earth. 

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I shall not bow down thyself to 
them or serve them for either. 

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Lord thy God am a jealous God. 
Notice the words visiting the 

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iniquity of the fathers onto 
upon the children onto the 3rd 

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and 4th generation of them that 
hate me. 

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What a word that is for any 
father. 

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If you don't. 
Repent of your sin. 

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God. 
Will not only judge you one day 

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for it. 
But we'll bring. 

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That judgement down upon the 
head. 

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Of your children. 
Your grandchildren On to the 

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third and 4th generation, it 
says. 

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Would you want that on your 
conscience? 

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Now thank. 
God, there's a remedy. 

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There's hope tonight if you 
recognise your sinful condition.

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Repent of it be. 
Prepared to leave your sin take 

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Christ at his word put your 
trust in his finished work for 

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full and free salvation. 
God says he will show mercy on 

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the thousands of them that love 
him. 

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That's included in the promise 
of that commandments. 

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There in Exodus 20, verse 6, 
you're a. 

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Father this. 
Evening. 

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Why would you? 
Not. 

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Lay hold on. 
Christ, why would you risk going

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out into a lost eternity taking 
your children with you? 

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Or don't influence your children
for hell, beloved. 

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Too many parents are. 
Doing that today, even in this 

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land. 
They're bringing up children. 

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And they? 
Just allow them to. 

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Do whatever turns them on, and 
there's no correcting. 

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There's no instruction in. 
The word of God, how many 

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children grow? 
I was speaking in a primary 

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school. 
Time we were. 

456
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:14,400
Up on Bushmills and I happened 
to make mention of Sunday school

457
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:16,400
and we. 
Laugh. 

458
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,000
I think it's. 
About 7 year old, he came to me 

459
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,440
afterwards and this is in a 
loyalist Bushmills area. 

460
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,640
He asked me said what's Sunday 
school? 

461
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:31,200
He hadn't a clue. 
This is a land. 

462
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:32,800
That's been blessed with the 
gospel. 

463
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:35,840
And he didn't know what Sunday 
school is and how many children 

464
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:39,320
are there right there tonight? 
They're having the foggiest idea

465
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,040
about the way of salvation or 
the need for salvation. 

466
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,240
How many fathers? 
Are going to have to stand 

467
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:53,880
before God one day and lament. 
I feel my children feel myself. 

468
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,960
Feel my children. 
Are children going to rise 

469
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:00,800
against their parents and a lost
eternity? 

470
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:04,240
Say you never told me. 
You can see the. 

471
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:05,800
Responsibility. 
That's here. 

472
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:08,560
Your father's where? 
Are they? 

473
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:15,560
Can we rephrase? 
That you fathers, where are you?

474
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:24,200
Father or son? 
Mother or daughter, the wise 

475
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:28,240
thing to do it's cast yourself 
upon the mercy of God. 

476
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:30,960
Finish with sin. 
Do it now. 

477
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:33,640
Be. 
Converted. 

478
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:39,960
Take Christ as your Saviour. 
Know your sins blotted out then.

479
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,360
You can put your. 
Head on the pillow tonight. 

480
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,920
And no. 
And if you don't open your eyes 

481
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,840
on this life again, you'll open 
them in glory. 

482
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:57,080
There's no hope. 
Anywhere else for the soul of 

483
00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:01,640
man but in Christ. 
I said it earlier, say it again.

484
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,400
If you and I could get to heaven
just doing our own thing, doing 

485
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:09,040
the best we can, and there was 
no need for Christ to die on a 

486
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,200
cross. 
But that's the whole thing. 

487
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:14,800
There's no other way to satisfy 
divine justice. 

488
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:19,080
Sin. 
Must be dealt with, but it was 

489
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,840
dealt with on your behalf at 
Calvary. 

490
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:27,320
Jesus paid it all. 
Will you meet your loved? 

491
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:31,320
Ones in heaven. 
Will you take their? 

492
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:35,920
Saviour to be your Saviour when?
You put your trust. 

493
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:39,440
In Christ and know the joy of 
sins forgiven. 

494
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,840
Start out for heaven and for 
home, and bring your children up

495
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,920
in the fear and admonition of 
the Lord. 

496
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,000
I. 
Trust the Lord will. 

497
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,720
Give you that needed grace to do
just that. 

498
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:56,880
Remember your little ones. 
Remember your grandchildren? 

499
00:33:58,040 --> 00:33:58,960
They. 
All need. 

500
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:06,040
The same Saviour the Lord give 
that needed grace and draw souls

501
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:08,120
onto himself.