So today I want to talk to you about escape.
Are in the words of Dora of Finding Nemo, escape.
Amen. So we're going to escape because
there is a judgment, Amen. You understand that we we run in
circles when it comes to, you know, people that we tend to
listen to and gravitate towards where, you know, we all always
are talking about victory or faith in these particular
things. But sometimes we lose
perspective that there is a judgment, Amen.
And so I want to look at this here from Second Peter, chapter
3, verses one and two. And I've got quite a few things
we want to cover today, so we'll be very diligent.
But it says that Peter writing this particular letter says
this. This is now beloved, the second
letter I'm writing to you in which I am stirring up your
sincere mind by way of reminder for many of you.
I'm going to remind some things for some in here.
It may be something you've never heard before.
He goes on to say that you should remember the word spoken
beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord
and Savior spoken by your apostles.
Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come
with their mocking, following after their own lusts and
saying, where is the promise of His coming forever since the
fathers fell asleep? All continues just as it was
from the beginning of creation. Let me stop right here for a
moment. Listen, I want you to know that
yes, there have been generations before us that have talked about
the coming. In fact, every generation has to
have a revelation of His coming again.
It is not something that we should think about.
Well, it happened. Put it on the shelf.
Have no thought. In fact, the Bible tells us to
look up and see that our redemption draweth nigh.
You know, I've been pastoring and, and, and, and, and as an
apostle of this particular location for 21 years.
And of the 21 years, I've never been more impressed in my spirit
concerning the return of Jesus. And it's because there are
things happening within the planet right now that is letting
us know that it is extremely likely that he could come in our
generation. Now, you can discredit that and
say, well, I don't know. And you know what?
No one technically knows, only the Father.
But it would be in your best interest to have faith for in
your generation, then you to put it on a shelf and act like it's
not and only for it to happen and you miss out.
Are you hearing me? So with that being said, we need
to understand that the Lord is is coming and there are a lot in
these last days that are going to mock that are going to act
like it's not this way, that they are basically more
concerned about the things of this earth than the return of
the king. Verse 5 says, For when they
maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God
the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of
the water, and by water through which the world at that time was
destroyed, being flooded with water.
But by His word, the present heavens and earth are being
reserved for what? They're being reserved for what?
For fire kept for the day of judgment and destruction of
ungodly men, there is a fire that is kept for a day of
judgement and destruction of ungodly men.
And in our planet where there are over 8 billion people, of
which only about 2 billion attest to be Christians.
And if you started to talk to the 2 billion, there may be some
challenges of whether they're actually born again or not.
Because not every church that is by the world standard considered
a Christian Church actually believes that Jesus died.
Jesus Christ died on the cross and rose from the grave.
And he's the only way to the Father through his blood,
through the forgiveness of sin, through a confession of faith
that Jesus Christ is your Lord. So it could be even less, which
tells me that right now on our planet, at least 6 billion
people are considered ungodly to the father of which destruction
is imminent in their lives. What does that do for you?
What should that do for us in the church?
Are we going to continue to be casual?
Are we going to continue to just sit back in our air conditions
facility and think only about how we prosper, how we are
victorious, how we're going to overcome while 6 billion are
marked for destruction? You are passing by people day in
and day out that have the smell of Hell's flames on their lives
and we're not even taking notice.
Say Amen. Anyway, so there is a fire that
is reserved and kept for a day of judgment.
Look what it says in Romans chapter 6 verse 23.
You know this. It says for the wages of sin is
but the free gift of Jesus Christ or of God is eternal life
in Christ Jesus our Lord. It still is applicable today
that the wages of sin is death and there is ungodly people that
death is their future eternal punishment.
See, today there's a lot of things out there saying that
Hell's not even real. And honestly, I'm just going to
be extremely technical. The Bible calls it the lake of
fire. There is a lake of fire.
This is not hypothetical. This is not something that is
just of our imagination. This is not just something that
is mystical. This is a literal place that
exists because in the Kingdom of God there is a prison system,
and the prison system is the lake of fire where all
ungodliness will exist forever, being tormented because of their
ungodliness, their unrighteousness, solely because
they failed to confess Jesus Christ as Lord, because all have
sinned. You and I both were in this
position of sin. You and I both lived it, played
it, practiced it. Some of us would consider
ourselves professionals, and all the while we are marked for
destruction. But God?
I said, But God.
Have we forgot but God? I mean, when we hear a song,
thank you for the cross, it should drive us to absolute to
our knees. It should put us in this place
where we are recognizing. But God, I was marked for
destruction. I was destined for the fire.
I should not be acquitted of my crime, but God being rich in his
mercy and he's still merciful for the 6 billion people on our
planet right now. But how can they be saved unless
somebody is saying something? Ephesians chapter 2 verses one
through 3 says this. You were dead in your trespasses
and sin in which you formerly walked according to the course
of this world, according to the Prince of the power of the air,
of the Spirit that is now working in the sons of
disobedience, 6 billion people on the planet today.
Their father is the devil, and they're disobedient.
Among who? Among them?
We too all formerly lived in the lust of our flesh, indulging the
desires of the flesh of the mod, and were by nature children of
wrath even as the rest, meaning that God was angry.
A lot of people are going around today saying God's not mad at
you. God is angry at sin and he is
storing wrath for the ungodly and the ungodly or ungodly
because they are sinners. Oh, you don't want to hear this?
How? Why is it that we're do?
Does God love everyone on the planet?
Yes, he does. Has he provided so that no one
has to be thrown into the lake of fire?
Yes, he has. But to say that he's not angry
is not scriptural. These are children of wrath.
When God sees them, He knows you don't have to be like that.
You don't have to act like that. You don't have to live that way.
I have paid the price for you. Didn't that person tell you
about me? Didn't that person tell you
about me? Didn't that person share about
me? Didn't that person say you have
no excuse to sit around acting like you acting when you can
confess me as Lord? And if you keep doing this, I am
coming. I am coming.
Because he can love and still be
angry. All you have to do is read a
little bit of the Gospels and see when Jesus went into his
house that was supposed to be a place of prayer, love walked in
the room and turned tables over. And I'm telling you, God has no
place for the ungodly. He has provided for them to have
an escape. And they are without excuse.
Romans even says they're without excuse.
Just creation alone identifies the attributes of our Creator.
Come on. Amen.
And so we all live this way. We were children of wrath, but
because of our confession of faith, we came out.
But notice we were lived according to the lust of our
flesh. We indulge the desires of the
flesh and of the mind. We were by nature because all
have fallen short of the glory of God.
We were separated eternally, cut off from God.
How did this position tap take place in the earth?
Romans chapter 5 verse 12 says. Therefore, just as through one
man sin, one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, so
death spread to all men because all sinned.
How did? Who was this one man in Genesis
chapter 2? His name is Adam, for God told
Adam his son. He said, Adam, you can eat from
any tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil, you shall not eat.
For the day you eat you will surely die.
He did not physically quit breathing.
He died spiritually. His spirit man was cut off.
And get this, this man who was made in the image of God, who
was given the ability to rule and reign the world, have
dominion, to take God's heavenly Kingdom and reproduce it on the
planet, sin simply by eating a fruit.
He didn't murder anybody. And all the lists of things that
we're going to see here in a minute.
He simply disobeyed his father and through 11 action of
disobedience when Dad came in the garden in the cool of the
day, just one action of disobedience, just doing not
what Father said. He didn't even want to be in his
presence. He was afraid and all he did was
disobey once. How in the world could we come
into His church and act like we could still toy with the world
and lift our hands and worship and think that He is OK?
Have we forgotten what we came out of?
And why would we ever want to go back?
Let me go on. So sin enters the earth because
Adam has fallen. We call it the fall.
Many people talk about the fall. Obviously there was a time
before the fall. There'll be a time after the
fall when everything is set right.
But we're in that moment right now, and there are actions,
behaviors. There is what is called sin that
God hates and it causes him to be angry and it causes him to
bring wrath. Now wrath isn't without mercy,
but it's wrath nonetheless. And we see this in the
documentation of our old covenant where God, when it when
his nation would disobey him repeatedly, eventually he had to
pull back and allow wrath to take place and they would cry
out. How long will you be angry with
us? And the reason he's angry is
because he has to let them know. You cannot live like this, like
the rest of the world, and expect my blessings.
You cannot live like the rest of the nations and have other gods
and expect me to be OK with it. No, I do what I say.
I said if you want to be blessed as a nation, you're going to do
these things. You will obey me, you will keep
my statute, you'll keep my commandment.
But if you do not, then all these things are going to take
place in your life. And he was merciful and he was
long-suffering. But there came a time that God
himself, who is the king, has to stay with his word.
And he says you are now my wrath is coming on the nation.
This nation will overtake you. You'll become a slave to it.
It will throw down your city. And all the while to remind
them, if you just stay with me, none of this would happen.
None of this would happen. And when they recognize you're
right, Lord, we're now in slavery because we went after
the gods of the other nation. We sacrificed our children.
We did this, we did that. Father, forgive us.
He was merciful, He forgave them, He gathered them back.
Boy is God rich in mercy. But we are not to live away so
that the mercy of God is constantly having to be in play.
Isaiah 311 says yes. Woe to the wicked Center, for
they will get exactly what they deserve.
People say all the time, you know what?
If he's such a loving God, how could he send someone to hell or
the lake of fire? He doesn't.
They want to go, He does because he gives them what they want.
Life without him, which isn't life, is actually death and it
is a punishment. It is torment.
It is a real location that exists.
Look what it says in Revelation 21, eight.
It says this. But As for the cowards, Oh, I
like this translation here. But As for the cowards, and the
ignoble, and the contemptible, and the cravingly lacking in
courage, and the cowardly submissive.
And As for the unbelieving and faithless?
And As for the depraved and defiled with abominations?
And As for the murderers and the lewd and the adulterous and the
practices of magic, art and the idolaters, those who give
supreme devotion to anyone or anything other than God, and all
liars, those who knowingly covet untruth by word or deed, all of
these shall have their part in the lake that blazes with fire
and brimstone. This is the second death.
You're passing people every day that's destined for this
location. Every day destined.
Destined because they are cut off every day.
Oh, it's quiet in this Presbyterian Church.
Have we become so firm in our own personal victories?
I mean, we have been sold a personal gospel for so long that
all you care about is being right with God by yourself, for
yourself, for your own self, for your own little kids, and have
no concept for the rest of the world or anyone that's within
the church body because we're disposable.
You get sideways with us. You'll go find another little
group. Yeah, acting like the rest of
the world happens all the time because we think it's personal.
Well, He will personally save you, but He saves you to be in a
body. Hallelujah.
This is not individual only. This is not independent.
You and God, you will not go to heaven and only have private
meetings with Jesus. Amen.
What's it say in Matthew 2541? Then he will also say to those
on his left, Depart from me, accursed ones, into the eternal
fire, which has been prepared for the devil and his angels.
This is what's really sad is that the Lake of Fire was not
for humanity originally. The Lake of Fire was designed
for the first rebellion against the Kingdom.
The original treason and when they rebelled, because they were
in already in an eternal state and when they rebelled, there
was no redemption for them, no way to save them.
They chose to go against God. And you understand the enemy's
tactic has been the same. He's never changed.
It's one purpose and that is this thought.
His thought was I can do it better than the creator.
I want to rule over him. This is why he always has in
this world where you're skeptical of authority because
that's his his tactic. All you can't trust somebody
that's over you. You can't trust somebody you
could do it better. All you know, they do it that
way. But if you were in charge, many
of you hear somebody say, yeah, you know what?
I just don't like the way that pastor did that, or I don't like
the way that, you know, person did that.
And if I was, you know, boss of this thing, you know what, You
might as well say, get thee behind me, Satan, Because until
you're in that position, you don't need to have a comment.
You should just know I am submitted.
I and if they ask, I'll let them know.
But ultimately they're going to have the final say.
And I love just being where I'm at until I'm promoted somewhere
else. I just know how to function
right here, man. You get around some people, you
get them in a room and you say, OK, I want you to do this.
And they're immediately already trying to take charge.
If you're so mature as a believer, how come you can't
just stay submitted? And I'll have to Give your
opinion. No, because the devil's talking.
The devil's always talking like that.
And you know what that does? When you're like, I could do it
better. That's the first step towards
pride. That's how he arrived at pride,
because he thought his way was better.
But it's not. God's way is better.
Amen. So this place was originally
only for the devil and those who fell and rebelled with him.
But he came into the earth and God had empowered his man to
rule this Kingdom on the planet just like he rules in heaven and
gave him authority and power and said, son, just don't eat the
fruit. And if he had only obeyed his
dad and looked at that serpent and says, you're saying
something different than my father.
I refuse to listen to that. And you've heard me say this
before. How come Adam didn't come and
say, let's wait for Dad to show up and see what he says about
this? The minute he didn't want Dad to
show up gave him the opportunity to listen to somebody else's
voice. And believers are doing this and
the world is doing this all the time.
Hearing something about someone from someone without the other
person even being around, and you form opinions and actions
and behaviors towards them and the other person not even there
to verify it. It's a travesty.
And that's how the enemy brings division.
Can I get an Amen? Colossians 3 five through 8 says
this, the God's Word translation.
I'm going to read a few other translations with this one.
It says therefore put to death whatever is worldly in you, your
sexual sin, perversion, passion, lust and greed, which is the
same thing as worshipping wealth.
It is because of these sins that God's anger comes on those who
refuse to obey Him. You used to live that kind of
sinful life. Also, get rid of your anger, hot
tempers, hatred, cursing, obscene language and all similar
sins. Have you heard believers say,
well, it's just a word, what's it matter if I cuss?
I listen to one particular newscaster says, you know,
talking about how all of our government people are just
openly cussing now and they're like, you know, when I'm here, I
don't do that. Now, I may do it when I'm and,
you know, this person supposed to be a believer.
And I'm like, why you doing it period?
You're not doing it on the camera.
Why you doing it off the camera? And this is the problem.
I said this is the problem because there are 6 billion
people destined for destruction. Let me read another.
Well, turn over to Galatians chapter 5.
I heard the spear of the Lord say this to me yesterday when I
was cutting the grass. You know, he talks to me a lot
when I'm mowing. I don't know why that is.
I think it's just because the sound puts me in a position
where and I'm talking to him. And so, you know, there is no
other voice that I'm listening to, but I heard the Spirit of
the Lord say this. He says, you cannot say you have
a passion for the lost when you cannot crucify your flesh in
order to be an example before the lost.
I'm going to say that again. The Lord said to me yesterday,
you cannot say you have a passion for the lost when you
cannot crucify your flesh in order to be an example before
the lost. He said, remember Son, I said,
be holy as I'm holy. Then I heard the Spirit of the
Lord say this. He said when you preach
tomorrow, people are going to be thinking them, where's the voice
of victory? He said you tell them where is
your, where's the despair in your soul that 6 billion people
would be destined for destruction all the while while
you would sit there and put 1 foot in the world and 1 foot in
the Kingdom when I told you to come out and be separate.
I'm sure this for somebody online.
Are you hearing me? Because what's interesting about
the things I'm I'm reading to you today is these are not
letters that Paul is saying from an evangelistic message to the
lost. These are to the church.
He's saying church. You've been redeemed, you've
been set free, you've been blood bought, blood washed.
Son, don't even think about going back.
Don't even behave that way. Abhorred that kind of stuff.
Don't you know that God's wrath is destined on people's lives
for that kind of behavior? This is the type of lifestyle
that gets you thrown into the Lake of fire.
Yet we've had false teachers and false apostles and false
prophets water down the subject of grace to where really what
they're teaching is not grace but lasciviousness.
Because lasciviousness is that God saved me.
I couldn't do anything, so I can't do anything now, and I can
do whatever I want to do, and I'm saved by grace.
Well, if you were saved by grace, then you wouldn't do that
because something in you would say I don't live that way
anymore. That way of living keeps you out
of the Kingdom. Say Amen.
Anyway, Galatians 519 to 21 says this.
Now, the effects of the of corrupt nature are obvious.
Illicit sex perversion, promiscuity, idolatry, drug use,
hatred, rivalry, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish
ambition, conflict, factions, envy, drunkenness, wild parties,
and similar things. I've told you in the past, I'm
telling you again that people who do these kinds of things
will not inherit the kingdom's Kingdom of God.
God's Kingdom. Now I understand that when
someone's born again, we know this as a church that people are
growing up that you can come in here and you'll be doing some
things that are of your old nature and God's renewing your
mind. But if you're born again, then
you every step of the way that when God says change this, stop
that you and all he's doing is saying release who you are
because you're not subject to that.
You're not bound to that. You've been freed from the law
of sin and death. You don't have to live that way.
Inside you is more power and I've given you the greater 1 and
greater is he that's in you than he that's in the world.
And you, you actually have a different nature now and you
actually can live for God and you can be an example and you
can let the light shine. Because if you really care about
those who are destined for the lake of fire, then you need to
let your light shine and not let it be dim because you living
like the rest of the world. I understand that if you're
having some of these things and you were to die, that doesn't
mean you're not in the Kingdom of God.
But what he's saying is, is someone who knows God and begins
to move back into these types of behavior.
This is a very dangerous thing to be and you have no care for
the lost. The remedy translation says it
this way. When the selfish nature is in
charge, it's obvious because the life reflects the destructive
behaviors of the self. Selfish nature which includes
lewdness, sexual perversion, immorality, all kind of self
promoting, self worship, Wicca, voodoo, mysticism, all forms of
idolatry, gossip, envy, jealousy, loss of control, all
types of acting out, rage, hatred, grudge holding, self
exaltation, racial and and caste discrimination, drunkenness,
getting high on drugs, orgies and the like.
With this should not even be named with us.
And if you're sitting here today and anything, any of this is a
part of your life that is destined for the lake of fire,
God is not saying it's OK. He's not saying that the
Father's posture nor Jesus Christ who stands at his right
hand is saying it's OK. He's not saying that.
He's saying you don't have to be like this.
You do not have to act this way. You do not have to behave.
I set you free from that because this is punishable by death.
This is punishable by death, and you don't have to live that way
because the blood of my son has paid the price.
He has redeemed you. My gosh, you want to get out of
that judgment. You want to be free from that
judgment. You want to escape that, that
declaration by the King. Depart from me, for I never knew
you. And you can because of the
precious blood of Jesus. Another translation says it this
way. The cravings of the self life
are obvious. Sexual immorality, lustful
thoughts, pornography, chasing after things instead of God,
manipulating others, hatred of those who get in your way,
senseless arguments, resentment when others are favored, temper
tantrums, angry quarrels. Only thinking of yourself, being
in love with your own opinions, being envious of the blessings
of other murder, uncontrolled addictions, wild parties and all
other similar behavior which you understand.
This is not an exhaustive list. Haven't I already warned you
that those who use their freedom for these things will not, will
not, will not inherit the Kingdom of God?
So you understand you need to quit trying to explain how
someone is getting in doing this and begin to love your brother
and sister and saying why you gossiping right now?
Don't you know that stuff keeps you out of the Kingdom?
Oh, now I'm boring. If you're born again, you shut
your mouth right now. That's what you would do.
You wouldn't slander right now. So I want to believe you're born
again. Let's have fruit that shows you
are because again, if we care about people that are in this
restaurant right now that do not know God, and you want to sit
here and talk to me about your boss, about your spouse, about
your pastor, about your apostle, about whatever and slander and
gossip and give me all the juicy Marshalls about their life and
this audience, how in the world are they going to see the light
of the gospel? We just let them know.
You think people aren't overhearing you at work trying
to invite people to church, yet you gossip like the rest, you
envy like the rest. You're mad because you didn't
get promoted. You're complaining about the
worldly governments too. You're talking about your
spouse. Hallelujah.
Thank you, Jesus. No, Paul is saying this stuff is
not acceptable. It's not for the church.
And if you have a compassion for the lost, then you will live
separate. You'll crucify your flesh,
you'll put it down. You'll say, Lord, whatever you
say I'll do because you are Lord of my life.
And you would imagine seeing the crown of thorns on his head
beaten so bad you couldn't tell he was a man.
You'd see the holes in his hands and his feet.
You see the Pierce in his side. You would see that he took
everything on. And you're going to justify
behavior that you know is marked for the lake of fire.
His grace has empowered you to be free from it all.
And you know what? The Holy Ghost on the inside of
you is not saying it's OK if you talk about this.
You know it's OK if you don't forgive them.
That's pretty rough. No, the Holy Spirit's like,
really, really. Do you know what your Lord and
Savior has done for you? Do you understand?
Your response right now is fixing to be a light so that
this person that is destined for destruction has hope.
See, you have no testimony if you don't live the testimony.
The reason Jesus was so successful with the crowds was
because the Pharisees did not live what they preached, but
Jesus did. You cannot tout I'm a Sinner
saved by grace. I sin too.
We all sin. We can't help it, you know,
that's just what we do. The Bible doesn't say that.
The Bible says that you were a Sinner.
You've been saved by grace through faith and now you're a
believer and that you're a new creature in Christ.
And now you have the mind of Christ, and you have the nature
of Christ, and you have the Holy Spirit who will teach you, and
He will keep you from every temptation and cause you to
overcome every situation, because now you are a child of
the King. And if you do happen to blow it,
you will admit it. You will ask people to forgive
you. You will acknowledge that you
did not live the standard. That is the nature you are now.
You won't make an excuse for it. You won't sugarcoat it.
You won't say, well, you know, it's OK If we, you know, I
realized we wouldn't die. If, I mean, you wouldn't do
that. You would have what Paul, I
believe it was it says or it could have been Peter.
You would flee. I think it's Paul.
Flee the appearance of evil. I don't even want it to look
like it, because I'm going to tell you, in this world there's
going to be plenty of people that are going to put you in the
category of evil. In fact, in the last days, all
of us are going to be called evil because the world's going
to call what's good, evil and what's evil good.
And they're going to blast you and talk about your extremism
and who how you are and how radical you are as a believer in
Christ and try to get you to compromise with the world.
But if we care for the lost, this is so serious with God.
Look at Mark Chapter 9 verses 43 to 50.
It says if your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, for it
is better for you to enter life crippled than having your two
hands go into hell. Where?
Into unquenchable fire where the worm does not die and the fire
is not quenched. And that is not metaphorical.
All right, Verse 45, if your foot causes you to stumble, what
do you need to do? Cut it off.
Now is God advocating amputating or mutilation?
No, but what he's saying is if it literally was a hindrance, it
would be better that you completely remove it from your
being from your being than to keep something that's going to
kill you and keep you eternally separated from him.
And you understand we're treating these things that Paul
are writing the churches in this age as if it's OK like, well, I
asked Jesus into my heart. So if you did, where how are you
living? Is are you part of a local body
church? Are you being discipled?
Are you submitted to the fivefold ministry?
I mean, I could just run list upon list of what someone who's
truly made Jesus Lord looks and lives like.
Or are you deciding how far you go?
Are you making that choice? Well, then he's not Lord.
And maybe, even maybe I could ask the question, Has he ever
been? John the Baptist says he have
fruit in keeping with repentance.
He goes on and says this. So if your foot calls you to
stumble, cut it off. It'd be better for you to enter
life. Lame than having 2 feet and be
cast into hell where the worm does not die and the fair is
fire is not quenched. If your eye causes you to
stumble, throw it out, for it is better for you to enter the
Kingdom of God with one eye than having two eyes to be cast into
the hell. Can I go ahead and give you real
quick an example of that? If your phone causes you to
stumble, it's better for you to get rid of your phone and learn
how to navigate in this world without a cell phone.
Cut it off, go find you a cricket phone with big screen,
little screen and big numbers. I don't even know if they have
those anymore. Be honest with you.
I'm just saying whatever you need to do.
But what we make excuses for carnality and God is saying I'm
not making excuses. The blood is not making excuses,
The blood paid the price. The blood does not authorize you
to sin. The blood paid the price for
sin. So verse 8 where the worm does
not die and fire is not quenched, verse 49 for everyone
who will be sought for everyone will be salted with fire.
Salt is good, but if the salt becomes what?
Unsalty with what? Will you make it salty again?
Have salt in yourself and be at peace with one another.
Look what it says in Hebrews chapter 2 verses one through 3
says. For this reason we must pay much
closer attention to what we have heard so that we do not drift
away from it. For if the Word spoken through
angels proved unalterable, and every transgression and
disobedience received a just penalty, how will we escape if
we neglect so great a salvation? And again, you cannot neglect
something unless you have something.
After it was at the first spoken through the Lord, it was
confirmed to us by those who heard.
I want us as members of the Anchor Faith Church, Vision
partners to As one visitor said one time, he said, Pastor, you
give an invitation for holiness. You know what's crazy?
All churches should give an invitation for holiness, not an
invitation. Where are you going to go when
you die? Let's just get you out of hell.
But how can you have actions that are marked for the lake of
fire, have the blood, and still live with the actions that are
marked for the lake of fire? How was that even possible?
And how can we? How are we going to see the
world coming to the Kingdom of God if we ourselves are not
willing to be holy? Because we already are?
He made us this way. He separated us from the things
of the world. He gave us a new spirit.
He took the spirit in you that was dead in his trespasses of
sin, that was cut off from God, that was destined for the lake
of fire, which is the second death.
He removed it from your skin suit and put in you a new spirit
that hears God's voice. The Holy Spirit bears witness
with your spirit, you are a child of God.
And then the Holy Spirit says I'll change the way you think so
that the nature that you now are, that it's behavior, it's
actions can live among men and you will shine bright.
Your lifestyle will shine so bright.
People when they get in your presence will want to quit
cussing. They want to put their drinks to
the side. Now they're going to be some
brazen enough because you understand the enemy.
He knows he's dead. Some like I don't give a RIP
about God and you can say I'm praying for you and hoping that
there's still room for repentance.
But today what some are doing is like, let me have a drink with
you and tell you about Jesus. How does that even make sense?
I understand this is not US popular preaching, but I'm not
here to preach AUS gospel, I'm here to preach the Kingdom
gospel. Amen.
Second, Peter 220 to 22 says, For if they have escaped the
defilements of the world, come on, have you escaped it?
By the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are
again entangled in them and are overcome.
The last state has become worse than the first.
This is serious business. This scripture alone eradicates
once saved always saved. And everyone who says once
saved, always saved says What can separate us from the love of
God? Read the list.
Can a famine come and cut you off from God?
Obviously not. Can a trial and tribulation cut
you off from the love of God? Obviously not.
Can demons, principalities, and powers cut you off from the love
of God? No.
Can you cut yourself off? Yes.
You can. You say?
Prove it, Adam. Adam, you want a second witness.
Eve, you want a third witness? The blasphemy of the Holy
Spirit. And you can't do that unless
you've been born again. And there's some other criterias
associated with it. Yeah.
So once again, well, I ask Jesus in my heart, I can never lose
it. You can denounce it just like
Adam did. And Adam lived a state that none
of us have lived yet. For it would have been better
for them to not have known the way of righteousness than having
known it to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to
them. It has happened to them.
According to the true proverb, a dog returns to its own vomit,
and a sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the
mire. I'm just going to be quite
honest as the apostle of the ministry, there are many
funerals that people are going to and they're saying, well,
they're in a better place and they are not in a better place
because their lifestyle gave no evidence of lordship.
I think many people are going to be surprised when they get up
there and they're like, we're so and so I got up.
They're not here. What do you mean they're not
here? I was there when they asked
Jesus into their heart. They said they may have asked
him into their heart, but He didn't make him Lord.
There's no fruit, no change. And you know, so and so they
turned against me and went back. And, you know, they were living
life worse than they were before they ever got saved.
And you think I just let them in?
No, they trampled on my blood. These are sobering words, but
they're words of truth. Revelation chapter 20, verse 10
through 15 says in The Devil who deceived them was thrown into
the lake of fire of brimstone, where the beast and the false
prophet are also, and they will be tormented day and night
forever and ever. Then I saw a great white throne,
and him who set upon it, from whose present earth and heaven
fled away, and no place was found for them.
And I saw the dead, the great, and the small, standing before
the throne. And books were opened, and
another book was open, which is the Book of Life.
And the dead were judged from the things which were written in
the books according to their deeds.
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it.
And Death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them, and
they were judged, every one of them, according to their deeds.
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the Lake of Fire.
This is the second death, the Lake of Fire.
And if anyone's name was not found in the Book of Life, he
was thrown into the lake of fire.
And we have just read through scripture of all of the actions
and behaviors that do not inherit the Kingdom of God.
And there are 6 billion people, probably more, that are marked
for this scene. And the greatest hope they have
is you. Because the church is the hope
of the world. We are the hope of the world.
Because if we will actually come out from among them and where it
just means we do not live like the world, we live like we are
in Christ. We are born of God.
We have his nature, we have his power, and we walk in a world we
are not of. We're in a world we're not of,
but the world knows we're not of them.
They see it in our actions. They see it in our behavior.
They see it in our lifestyle. They see it in how we carry
ourselves. They see it in our forgiveness.
They see it in the fruits of the Spirit that happened day in and
day out of our lives. And if we truly care to
evangelize to the world, then we must crucify our flesh and live
a holy life and let the blood of God, my gosh, sanctify you
entirely. Entirely.
I close with these verses. Romans 59 says this much more
than having been justified by his blood.
We shall be saved from the wrath of God through him.
If you're here today and you've never made Jesus the Lord of
your life, I want you to know God is storing up anger towards
you. It's not because He wants to.
It's because you are having him do this because He's already
paid the price for everything you're doing in the life you're
living. And as much as you're trying to
do good and you're trying to put your life on a scale and you're
trying to say, well, I'm not as bad as such and such, and I
haven't done as much as so and so.
That means nothing with God. All that matters is the blood of
Jesus because no one is good. No, not one.
I always fell short of being right with God, no matter how
much. And I was raised in church, but
being raised in church only let me know that I was a Sinner.
I was cut off, I needed saving, and Jesus was the only one.
And his blood justified me and saved me from the wrath to come.
First Thessalonians 110 says and the way and to wait for his Son
from heaven, whom he raised from the dead.
That is Jesus who rescues us from the wrath to come.
Come on up, worship team God wants to save you.
He wants you to escape this wrath.
He does not want you anymore to be subject to it.
And He sure doesn't want his children taking their hand off
the plow and looking back. And there are so many people in
this congregation right now that if we all would commit to a holy
life, Saint Augustine cannot stand a chance because you are
in too many places that the light of God does not shine.
And the conviction in their lives put them in a place that
they're like, I need your Jesus. No longer do we need to see a
person go into the Lake of fire because of the hypocrisy of the
believer. You have to settle that.
I have been blood bought, blood washed.
I have been. I am owned by the king.
My life is not my own and no longer will I just go by someone
without at least saying God, I pray for this person right now.
Sin laborers. If I'm not the person to talk
today, God, I don't know where that person is.
I don't know who this person is that is serving me right now at
McDonald's. Lord, I don't know if they're
right with you or not, but God, I thank you today.
At least I prayed for them. Maybe God's not authorizing you
to speak to them and please do not go to them and say, do you
know where you're going to go when you die today?
Don't do that. That is not the gospel Jesus
preached. Now, if you want to say, do you
know Jesus, say that because this is about life.
This is not when we exit. This is about life.
Now, do you have peace in your life?
Do you have perpetual peace? Ask them things that are
applicable for now, not Do you know where you'd go if you were
to die right now. How's that help them on the
earth? Let's preach the gospel.
Jesus, be sensitive enough to say, I see you're sniffling
today. Can I pray for you?
And maybe that's all you do, but you're being led by the Spirit.
Why? Because this person, maybe not
this person, but you understand that person that you're standing
in front of may be marked for destruction.
This is why. Do we want something to change
with our schools? Do we want protection for our
schools? Well, how is it that we would
not want to go pray? And again, I can't be at every
one of them. This is why we equip the Saints
for the work of service so that you can participate and do
something. You can show up, you can pray a
hedge of protection. You can say this is what the
church is supposed to do. I close with this verse right
here. Colossians 1/3, 13 and 14.
And he rescued us from the domain of darkness and
transferred us to the Kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have
redemption, the forgiveness of sin.
It's time to escape and be transferred.