1 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:18,360 So today I want to talk to you about escape. 2 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:23,840 Are in the words of Dora of Finding Nemo, escape. 3 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:30,640 Amen. So we're going to escape because 4 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:37,360 there is a judgment, Amen. You understand that we we run in 5 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:40,680 circles when it comes to, you know, people that we tend to 6 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:44,800 listen to and gravitate towards where, you know, we all always 7 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,280 are talking about victory or faith in these particular 8 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:48,840 things. But sometimes we lose 9 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:53,080 perspective that there is a judgment, Amen. 10 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:57,280 And so I want to look at this here from Second Peter, chapter 11 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:01,520 3, verses one and two. And I've got quite a few things 12 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:03,800 we want to cover today, so we'll be very diligent. 13 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:09,040 But it says that Peter writing this particular letter says 14 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:11,320 this. This is now beloved, the second 15 00:01:11,320 --> 00:01:14,600 letter I'm writing to you in which I am stirring up your 16 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:18,200 sincere mind by way of reminder for many of you. 17 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:20,640 I'm going to remind some things for some in here. 18 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:23,000 It may be something you've never heard before. 19 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:27,600 He goes on to say that you should remember the word spoken 20 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:30,800 beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord 21 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:34,640 and Savior spoken by your apostles. 22 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:39,240 Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come 23 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:44,040 with their mocking, following after their own lusts and 24 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:49,440 saying, where is the promise of His coming forever since the 25 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:53,000 fathers fell asleep? All continues just as it was 26 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,000 from the beginning of creation. Let me stop right here for a 27 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,840 moment. Listen, I want you to know that 28 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:02,640 yes, there have been generations before us that have talked about 29 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:04,840 the coming. In fact, every generation has to 30 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:07,440 have a revelation of His coming again. 31 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:10,680 It is not something that we should think about. 32 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:12,600 Well, it happened. Put it on the shelf. 33 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:14,920 Have no thought. In fact, the Bible tells us to 34 00:02:14,920 --> 00:02:17,800 look up and see that our redemption draweth nigh. 35 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:21,280 You know, I've been pastoring and, and, and, and, and as an 36 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:25,480 apostle of this particular location for 21 years. 37 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:29,600 And of the 21 years, I've never been more impressed in my spirit 38 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,200 concerning the return of Jesus. And it's because there are 39 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:36,720 things happening within the planet right now that is letting 40 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:42,560 us know that it is extremely likely that he could come in our 41 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:46,280 generation. Now, you can discredit that and 42 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:48,320 say, well, I don't know. And you know what? 43 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:51,720 No one technically knows, only the Father. 44 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:56,160 But it would be in your best interest to have faith for in 45 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:59,720 your generation, then you to put it on a shelf and act like it's 46 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:03,720 not and only for it to happen and you miss out. 47 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:10,160 Are you hearing me? So with that being said, we need 48 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:14,640 to understand that the Lord is is coming and there are a lot in 49 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:17,520 these last days that are going to mock that are going to act 50 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:20,800 like it's not this way, that they are basically more 51 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:23,680 concerned about the things of this earth than the return of 52 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:28,360 the king. Verse 5 says, For when they 53 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:32,960 maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God 54 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:36,360 the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of 55 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:40,760 the water, and by water through which the world at that time was 56 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:43,560 destroyed, being flooded with water. 57 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:47,560 But by His word, the present heavens and earth are being 58 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:50,800 reserved for what? They're being reserved for what? 59 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:55,560 For fire kept for the day of judgment and destruction of 60 00:03:55,560 --> 00:04:03,240 ungodly men, there is a fire that is kept for a day of 61 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:07,760 judgement and destruction of ungodly men. 62 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:13,040 And in our planet where there are over 8 billion people, of 63 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:17,000 which only about 2 billion attest to be Christians. 64 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:21,200 And if you started to talk to the 2 billion, there may be some 65 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:24,440 challenges of whether they're actually born again or not. 66 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:30,280 Because not every church that is by the world standard considered 67 00:04:30,280 --> 00:04:33,360 a Christian Church actually believes that Jesus died. 68 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:36,120 Jesus Christ died on the cross and rose from the grave. 69 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:39,080 And he's the only way to the Father through his blood, 70 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,000 through the forgiveness of sin, through a confession of faith 71 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:47,720 that Jesus Christ is your Lord. So it could be even less, which 72 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:52,520 tells me that right now on our planet, at least 6 billion 73 00:04:52,520 --> 00:05:00,120 people are considered ungodly to the father of which destruction 74 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:04,920 is imminent in their lives. What does that do for you? 75 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:07,680 What should that do for us in the church? 76 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:10,000 Are we going to continue to be casual? 77 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:13,120 Are we going to continue to just sit back in our air conditions 78 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:17,080 facility and think only about how we prosper, how we are 79 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:22,720 victorious, how we're going to overcome while 6 billion are 80 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:27,840 marked for destruction? You are passing by people day in 81 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:35,720 and day out that have the smell of Hell's flames on their lives 82 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:40,240 and we're not even taking notice. 83 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:49,800 Say Amen. Anyway, so there is a fire that 84 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,880 is reserved and kept for a day of judgment. 85 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:55,280 Look what it says in Romans chapter 6 verse 23. 86 00:05:55,280 --> 00:05:58,360 You know this. It says for the wages of sin is 87 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:04,160 but the free gift of Jesus Christ or of God is eternal life 88 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:09,120 in Christ Jesus our Lord. It still is applicable today 89 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:21,200 that the wages of sin is death and there is ungodly people that 90 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:27,240 death is their future eternal punishment. 91 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:31,560 See, today there's a lot of things out there saying that 92 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:34,440 Hell's not even real. And honestly, I'm just going to 93 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:37,680 be extremely technical. The Bible calls it the lake of 94 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:41,040 fire. There is a lake of fire. 95 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:44,680 This is not hypothetical. This is not something that is 96 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:47,880 just of our imagination. This is not just something that 97 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:50,560 is mystical. This is a literal place that 98 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:55,840 exists because in the Kingdom of God there is a prison system, 99 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:00,040 and the prison system is the lake of fire where all 100 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:06,080 ungodliness will exist forever, being tormented because of their 101 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:11,000 ungodliness, their unrighteousness, solely because 102 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:22,280 they failed to confess Jesus Christ as Lord, because all have 103 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:24,360 sinned. You and I both were in this 104 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:28,160 position of sin. You and I both lived it, played 105 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,680 it, practiced it. Some of us would consider 106 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:38,680 ourselves professionals, and all the while we are marked for 107 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:41,200 destruction. But God? 108 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:45,960 But God? I said, But God. 109 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:51,560 Have we forgot but God? I mean, when we hear a song, 110 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:56,160 thank you for the cross, it should drive us to absolute to 111 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:58,320 our knees. It should put us in this place 112 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:03,120 where we are recognizing. But God, I was marked for 113 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,400 destruction. I was destined for the fire. 114 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:12,440 I should not be acquitted of my crime, but God being rich in his 115 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:20,960 mercy and he's still merciful for the 6 billion people on our 116 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:26,040 planet right now. But how can they be saved unless 117 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:34,720 somebody is saying something? Ephesians chapter 2 verses one 118 00:08:34,799 --> 00:08:38,960 through 3 says this. You were dead in your trespasses 119 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:44,080 and sin in which you formerly walked according to the course 120 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:47,280 of this world, according to the Prince of the power of the air, 121 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:50,120 of the Spirit that is now working in the sons of 122 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:54,840 disobedience, 6 billion people on the planet today. 123 00:08:55,040 --> 00:09:02,960 Their father is the devil, and they're disobedient. 124 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:05,360 Among who? Among them? 125 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:10,720 We too all formerly lived in the lust of our flesh, indulging the 126 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:17,440 desires of the flesh of the mod, and were by nature children of 127 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:23,880 wrath even as the rest, meaning that God was angry. 128 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:29,760 A lot of people are going around today saying God's not mad at 129 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:36,120 you. God is angry at sin and he is 130 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:42,800 storing wrath for the ungodly and the ungodly or ungodly 131 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:47,720 because they are sinners. Oh, you don't want to hear this? 132 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:50,680 How? Why is it that we're do? 133 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:53,800 Does God love everyone on the planet? 134 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:57,000 Yes, he does. Has he provided so that no one 135 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,040 has to be thrown into the lake of fire? 136 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:04,040 Yes, he has. But to say that he's not angry 137 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:10,640 is not scriptural. These are children of wrath. 138 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:16,360 When God sees them, He knows you don't have to be like that. 139 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:20,040 You don't have to act like that. You don't have to live that way. 140 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:23,440 I have paid the price for you. Didn't that person tell you 141 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:25,440 about me? Didn't that person tell you 142 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:27,440 about me? Didn't that person share about 143 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:29,440 me? Didn't that person say you have 144 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:34,040 no excuse to sit around acting like you acting when you can 145 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:37,560 confess me as Lord? And if you keep doing this, I am 146 00:10:37,560 --> 00:10:39,320 coming. I am coming. 147 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:49,360 I am coming. Because he can love and still be 148 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,120 angry. All you have to do is read a 149 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:54,960 little bit of the Gospels and see when Jesus went into his 150 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:59,280 house that was supposed to be a place of prayer, love walked in 151 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:06,640 the room and turned tables over. And I'm telling you, God has no 152 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:12,080 place for the ungodly. He has provided for them to have 153 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:20,160 an escape. And they are without excuse. 154 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:22,360 Romans even says they're without excuse. 155 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:29,400 Just creation alone identifies the attributes of our Creator. 156 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:31,120 Come on. Amen. 157 00:11:32,560 --> 00:11:36,680 And so we all live this way. We were children of wrath, but 158 00:11:36,680 --> 00:11:39,680 because of our confession of faith, we came out. 159 00:11:39,680 --> 00:11:43,640 But notice we were lived according to the lust of our 160 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:45,640 flesh. We indulge the desires of the 161 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:50,640 flesh and of the mind. We were by nature because all 162 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:52,800 have fallen short of the glory of God. 163 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:56,360 We were separated eternally, cut off from God. 164 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:59,120 How did this position tap take place in the earth? 165 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:02,520 Romans chapter 5 verse 12 says. Therefore, just as through one 166 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:06,760 man sin, one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, so 167 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:09,680 death spread to all men because all sinned. 168 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:12,440 How did? Who was this one man in Genesis 169 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:15,080 chapter 2? His name is Adam, for God told 170 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:17,760 Adam his son. He said, Adam, you can eat from 171 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:20,720 any tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of 172 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:22,200 good and evil, you shall not eat. 173 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:25,240 For the day you eat you will surely die. 174 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:27,400 He did not physically quit breathing. 175 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:31,200 He died spiritually. His spirit man was cut off. 176 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:36,080 And get this, this man who was made in the image of God, who 177 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:40,720 was given the ability to rule and reign the world, have 178 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:46,160 dominion, to take God's heavenly Kingdom and reproduce it on the 179 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:52,360 planet, sin simply by eating a fruit. 180 00:12:53,320 --> 00:13:00,000 He didn't murder anybody. And all the lists of things that 181 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:01,320 we're going to see here in a minute. 182 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:12,600 He simply disobeyed his father and through 11 action of 183 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:18,760 disobedience when Dad came in the garden in the cool of the 184 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:28,200 day, just one action of disobedience, just doing not 185 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:33,240 what Father said. He didn't even want to be in his 186 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:49,120 presence. He was afraid and all he did was 187 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:54,720 disobey once. How in the world could we come 188 00:13:54,720 --> 00:14:02,360 into His church and act like we could still toy with the world 189 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:09,520 and lift our hands and worship and think that He is OK? 190 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:16,000 Have we forgotten what we came out of? 191 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:19,000 And why would we ever want to go back? 192 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:27,880 Let me go on. So sin enters the earth because 193 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:31,840 Adam has fallen. We call it the fall. 194 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:35,040 Many people talk about the fall. Obviously there was a time 195 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:37,400 before the fall. There'll be a time after the 196 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:39,680 fall when everything is set right. 197 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:44,280 But we're in that moment right now, and there are actions, 198 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:48,160 behaviors. There is what is called sin that 199 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:56,840 God hates and it causes him to be angry and it causes him to 200 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:01,440 bring wrath. Now wrath isn't without mercy, 201 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:07,320 but it's wrath nonetheless. And we see this in the 202 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:11,120 documentation of our old covenant where God, when it when 203 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:15,520 his nation would disobey him repeatedly, eventually he had to 204 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:19,360 pull back and allow wrath to take place and they would cry 205 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:21,560 out. How long will you be angry with 206 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:23,520 us? And the reason he's angry is 207 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:27,920 because he has to let them know. You cannot live like this, like 208 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:30,920 the rest of the world, and expect my blessings. 209 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:36,280 You cannot live like the rest of the nations and have other gods 210 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:42,440 and expect me to be OK with it. No, I do what I say. 211 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:46,320 I said if you want to be blessed as a nation, you're going to do 212 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:48,680 these things. You will obey me, you will keep 213 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:50,560 my statute, you'll keep my commandment. 214 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:54,320 But if you do not, then all these things are going to take 215 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:57,800 place in your life. And he was merciful and he was 216 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:00,920 long-suffering. But there came a time that God 217 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:05,480 himself, who is the king, has to stay with his word. 218 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:09,760 And he says you are now my wrath is coming on the nation. 219 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:13,200 This nation will overtake you. You'll become a slave to it. 220 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:17,040 It will throw down your city. And all the while to remind 221 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:20,160 them, if you just stay with me, none of this would happen. 222 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:25,440 None of this would happen. And when they recognize you're 223 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:28,880 right, Lord, we're now in slavery because we went after 224 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:32,400 the gods of the other nation. We sacrificed our children. 225 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:35,800 We did this, we did that. Father, forgive us. 226 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:41,800 He was merciful, He forgave them, He gathered them back. 227 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:51,560 Boy is God rich in mercy. But we are not to live away so 228 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:55,400 that the mercy of God is constantly having to be in play. 229 00:16:57,280 --> 00:17:01,080 Isaiah 311 says yes. Woe to the wicked Center, for 230 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:03,880 they will get exactly what they deserve. 231 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:07,359 People say all the time, you know what? 232 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:11,280 If he's such a loving God, how could he send someone to hell or 233 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:13,000 the lake of fire? He doesn't. 234 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:17,160 They want to go, He does because he gives them what they want. 235 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:21,800 Life without him, which isn't life, is actually death and it 236 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:25,119 is a punishment. It is torment. 237 00:17:26,319 --> 00:17:29,320 It is a real location that exists. 238 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:32,200 Look what it says in Revelation 21, eight. 239 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:35,480 It says this. But As for the cowards, Oh, I 240 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:39,200 like this translation here. But As for the cowards, and the 241 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:43,600 ignoble, and the contemptible, and the cravingly lacking in 242 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:46,320 courage, and the cowardly submissive. 243 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:48,800 And As for the unbelieving and faithless? 244 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:52,080 And As for the depraved and defiled with abominations? 245 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:55,880 And As for the murderers and the lewd and the adulterous and the 246 00:17:55,960 --> 00:18:00,400 practices of magic, art and the idolaters, those who give 247 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:04,120 supreme devotion to anyone or anything other than God, and all 248 00:18:04,120 --> 00:18:09,000 liars, those who knowingly covet untruth by word or deed, all of 249 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:13,960 these shall have their part in the lake that blazes with fire 250 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:16,920 and brimstone. This is the second death. 251 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:24,640 You're passing people every day that's destined for this 252 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:30,720 location. Every day destined. 253 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:39,600 Destined because they are cut off every day. 254 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:44,880 Oh, it's quiet in this Presbyterian Church. 255 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:53,800 Have we become so firm in our own personal victories? 256 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:01,880 I mean, we have been sold a personal gospel for so long that 257 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:04,600 all you care about is being right with God by yourself, for 258 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:08,000 yourself, for your own self, for your own little kids, and have 259 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:11,080 no concept for the rest of the world or anyone that's within 260 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:13,600 the church body because we're disposable. 261 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:17,120 You get sideways with us. You'll go find another little 262 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:22,560 group. Yeah, acting like the rest of 263 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:29,600 the world happens all the time because we think it's personal. 264 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:33,400 Well, He will personally save you, but He saves you to be in a 265 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:36,840 body. Hallelujah. 266 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:41,640 This is not individual only. This is not independent. 267 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:45,400 You and God, you will not go to heaven and only have private 268 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:51,480 meetings with Jesus. Amen. 269 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:59,880 What's it say in Matthew 2541? Then he will also say to those 270 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:05,840 on his left, Depart from me, accursed ones, into the eternal 271 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:09,400 fire, which has been prepared for the devil and his angels. 272 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:14,200 This is what's really sad is that the Lake of Fire was not 273 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:22,960 for humanity originally. The Lake of Fire was designed 274 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:25,520 for the first rebellion against the Kingdom. 275 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:35,720 The original treason and when they rebelled, because they were 276 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:40,240 in already in an eternal state and when they rebelled, there 277 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,280 was no redemption for them, no way to save them. 278 00:20:43,360 --> 00:20:49,320 They chose to go against God. And you understand the enemy's 279 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:52,320 tactic has been the same. He's never changed. 280 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:55,000 It's one purpose and that is this thought. 281 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:59,680 His thought was I can do it better than the creator. 282 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:06,880 I want to rule over him. This is why he always has in 283 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:11,920 this world where you're skeptical of authority because 284 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:15,520 that's his his tactic. All you can't trust somebody 285 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:17,360 that's over you. You can't trust somebody you 286 00:21:17,360 --> 00:21:19,320 could do it better. All you know, they do it that 287 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:22,680 way. But if you were in charge, many 288 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:24,120 of you hear somebody say, yeah, you know what? 289 00:21:24,120 --> 00:21:26,720 I just don't like the way that pastor did that, or I don't like 290 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:28,480 the way that, you know, person did that. 291 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:31,280 And if I was, you know, boss of this thing, you know what, You 292 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:35,400 might as well say, get thee behind me, Satan, Because until 293 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,960 you're in that position, you don't need to have a comment. 294 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:42,400 You should just know I am submitted. 295 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:44,600 I and if they ask, I'll let them know. 296 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:46,280 But ultimately they're going to have the final say. 297 00:21:46,360 --> 00:21:50,560 And I love just being where I'm at until I'm promoted somewhere 298 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:52,320 else. I just know how to function 299 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:54,160 right here, man. You get around some people, you 300 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:56,560 get them in a room and you say, OK, I want you to do this. 301 00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:58,560 And they're immediately already trying to take charge. 302 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,440 If you're so mature as a believer, how come you can't 303 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:06,680 just stay submitted? And I'll have to Give your 304 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:11,320 opinion. No, because the devil's talking. 305 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:15,200 The devil's always talking like that. 306 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,440 And you know what that does? When you're like, I could do it 307 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:20,720 better. That's the first step towards 308 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:25,440 pride. That's how he arrived at pride, 309 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,800 because he thought his way was better. 310 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:33,040 But it's not. God's way is better. 311 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:38,600 Amen. So this place was originally 312 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:43,120 only for the devil and those who fell and rebelled with him. 313 00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:47,840 But he came into the earth and God had empowered his man to 314 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:51,760 rule this Kingdom on the planet just like he rules in heaven and 315 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:56,160 gave him authority and power and said, son, just don't eat the 316 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,400 fruit. And if he had only obeyed his 317 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:03,520 dad and looked at that serpent and says, you're saying 318 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:05,800 something different than my father. 319 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:12,640 I refuse to listen to that. And you've heard me say this 320 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,360 before. How come Adam didn't come and 321 00:23:15,360 --> 00:23:19,280 say, let's wait for Dad to show up and see what he says about 322 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:22,640 this? The minute he didn't want Dad to 323 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:26,080 show up gave him the opportunity to listen to somebody else's 324 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,320 voice. And believers are doing this and 325 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:31,160 the world is doing this all the time. 326 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:34,200 Hearing something about someone from someone without the other 327 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:38,160 person even being around, and you form opinions and actions 328 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:42,280 and behaviors towards them and the other person not even there 329 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:46,560 to verify it. It's a travesty. 330 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:49,200 And that's how the enemy brings division. 331 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,560 Can I get an Amen? Colossians 3 five through 8 says 332 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:56,960 this, the God's Word translation. 333 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,120 I'm going to read a few other translations with this one. 334 00:23:59,120 --> 00:24:05,760 It says therefore put to death whatever is worldly in you, your 335 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:09,560 sexual sin, perversion, passion, lust and greed, which is the 336 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:11,880 same thing as worshipping wealth. 337 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:16,760 It is because of these sins that God's anger comes on those who 338 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:20,320 refuse to obey Him. You used to live that kind of 339 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:25,040 sinful life. Also, get rid of your anger, hot 340 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:29,880 tempers, hatred, cursing, obscene language and all similar 341 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:31,680 sins. Have you heard believers say, 342 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:33,920 well, it's just a word, what's it matter if I cuss? 343 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,040 I listen to one particular newscaster says, you know, 344 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:43,800 talking about how all of our government people are just 345 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:47,280 openly cussing now and they're like, you know, when I'm here, I 346 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:49,880 don't do that. Now, I may do it when I'm and, 347 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:51,480 you know, this person supposed to be a believer. 348 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:53,400 And I'm like, why you doing it period? 349 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:55,080 You're not doing it on the camera. 350 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,160 Why you doing it off the camera? And this is the problem. 351 00:24:59,120 --> 00:25:04,000 I said this is the problem because there are 6 billion 352 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:13,000 people destined for destruction. Let me read another. 353 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:18,640 Well, turn over to Galatians chapter 5. 354 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,040 I heard the spear of the Lord say this to me yesterday when I 355 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:25,440 was cutting the grass. You know, he talks to me a lot 356 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,760 when I'm mowing. I don't know why that is. 357 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,840 I think it's just because the sound puts me in a position 358 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:35,640 where and I'm talking to him. And so, you know, there is no 359 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:40,000 other voice that I'm listening to, but I heard the Spirit of 360 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,280 the Lord say this. He says, you cannot say you have 361 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,440 a passion for the lost when you cannot crucify your flesh in 362 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:47,280 order to be an example before the lost. 363 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:52,480 I'm going to say that again. The Lord said to me yesterday, 364 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:57,160 you cannot say you have a passion for the lost when you 365 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,960 cannot crucify your flesh in order to be an example before 366 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,640 the lost. He said, remember Son, I said, 367 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:10,280 be holy as I'm holy. Then I heard the Spirit of the 368 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,720 Lord say this. He said when you preach 369 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,240 tomorrow, people are going to be thinking them, where's the voice 370 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,360 of victory? He said you tell them where is 371 00:26:18,360 --> 00:26:24,440 your, where's the despair in your soul that 6 billion people 372 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,320 would be destined for destruction all the while while 373 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,840 you would sit there and put 1 foot in the world and 1 foot in 374 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:34,400 the Kingdom when I told you to come out and be separate. 375 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:41,880 I'm sure this for somebody online. 376 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:47,480 Are you hearing me? Because what's interesting about 377 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:51,080 the things I'm I'm reading to you today is these are not 378 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:56,800 letters that Paul is saying from an evangelistic message to the 379 00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:03,800 lost. These are to the church. 380 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,640 He's saying church. You've been redeemed, you've 381 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:11,080 been set free, you've been blood bought, blood washed. 382 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,880 Son, don't even think about going back. 383 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,520 Don't even behave that way. Abhorred that kind of stuff. 384 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:22,400 Don't you know that God's wrath is destined on people's lives 385 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:30,640 for that kind of behavior? This is the type of lifestyle 386 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,200 that gets you thrown into the Lake of fire. 387 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:39,720 Yet we've had false teachers and false apostles and false 388 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:43,640 prophets water down the subject of grace to where really what 389 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,640 they're teaching is not grace but lasciviousness. 390 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,920 Because lasciviousness is that God saved me. 391 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,800 I couldn't do anything, so I can't do anything now, and I can 392 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,240 do whatever I want to do, and I'm saved by grace. 393 00:27:57,120 --> 00:28:00,000 Well, if you were saved by grace, then you wouldn't do that 394 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:05,960 because something in you would say I don't live that way 395 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:10,240 anymore. That way of living keeps you out 396 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:13,440 of the Kingdom. Say Amen. 397 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:17,640 Anyway, Galatians 519 to 21 says this. 398 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:22,000 Now, the effects of the of corrupt nature are obvious. 399 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:27,720 Illicit sex perversion, promiscuity, idolatry, drug use, 400 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:32,400 hatred, rivalry, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish 401 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:36,880 ambition, conflict, factions, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, 402 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,040 and similar things. I've told you in the past, I'm 403 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:42,240 telling you again that people who do these kinds of things 404 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:46,000 will not inherit the kingdom's Kingdom of God. 405 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,880 God's Kingdom. Now I understand that when 406 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,880 someone's born again, we know this as a church that people are 407 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,400 growing up that you can come in here and you'll be doing some 408 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,160 things that are of your old nature and God's renewing your 409 00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:58,760 mind. But if you're born again, then 410 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:02,760 you every step of the way that when God says change this, stop 411 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,600 that you and all he's doing is saying release who you are 412 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:07,480 because you're not subject to that. 413 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,640 You're not bound to that. You've been freed from the law 414 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,920 of sin and death. You don't have to live that way. 415 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:15,280 Inside you is more power and I've given you the greater 1 and 416 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,480 greater is he that's in you than he that's in the world. 417 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:19,720 And you, you actually have a different nature now and you 418 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,680 actually can live for God and you can be an example and you 419 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,280 can let the light shine. Because if you really care about 420 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,080 those who are destined for the lake of fire, then you need to 421 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,440 let your light shine and not let it be dim because you living 422 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:39,280 like the rest of the world. I understand that if you're 423 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:41,680 having some of these things and you were to die, that doesn't 424 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:43,280 mean you're not in the Kingdom of God. 425 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:47,040 But what he's saying is, is someone who knows God and begins 426 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:49,240 to move back into these types of behavior. 427 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:56,440 This is a very dangerous thing to be and you have no care for 428 00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:00,560 the lost. The remedy translation says it 429 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,640 this way. When the selfish nature is in 430 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:07,960 charge, it's obvious because the life reflects the destructive 431 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,640 behaviors of the self. Selfish nature which includes 432 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:16,360 lewdness, sexual perversion, immorality, all kind of self 433 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:22,440 promoting, self worship, Wicca, voodoo, mysticism, all forms of 434 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:28,160 idolatry, gossip, envy, jealousy, loss of control, all 435 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:34,200 types of acting out, rage, hatred, grudge holding, self 436 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:40,440 exaltation, racial and and caste discrimination, drunkenness, 437 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,600 getting high on drugs, orgies and the like. 438 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,200 With this should not even be named with us. 439 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,120 And if you're sitting here today and anything, any of this is a 440 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:59,120 part of your life that is destined for the lake of fire, 441 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:08,440 God is not saying it's OK. He's not saying that the 442 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,680 Father's posture nor Jesus Christ who stands at his right 443 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,960 hand is saying it's OK. He's not saying that. 444 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,840 He's saying you don't have to be like this. 445 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,760 You do not have to act this way. You do not have to behave. 446 00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:26,720 I set you free from that because this is punishable by death. 447 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:33,320 This is punishable by death, and you don't have to live that way 448 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:36,760 because the blood of my son has paid the price. 449 00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,880 He has redeemed you. My gosh, you want to get out of 450 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,120 that judgment. You want to be free from that 451 00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:45,960 judgment. You want to escape that, that 452 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:51,280 declaration by the King. Depart from me, for I never knew 453 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:55,960 you. And you can because of the 454 00:31:55,960 --> 00:32:00,160 precious blood of Jesus. Another translation says it this 455 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,000 way. The cravings of the self life 456 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,880 are obvious. Sexual immorality, lustful 457 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:08,880 thoughts, pornography, chasing after things instead of God, 458 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,040 manipulating others, hatred of those who get in your way, 459 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:15,880 senseless arguments, resentment when others are favored, temper 460 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:19,240 tantrums, angry quarrels. Only thinking of yourself, being 461 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:25,160 in love with your own opinions, being envious of the blessings 462 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:29,200 of other murder, uncontrolled addictions, wild parties and all 463 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,640 other similar behavior which you understand. 464 00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:35,320 This is not an exhaustive list. Haven't I already warned you 465 00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:43,000 that those who use their freedom for these things will not, will 466 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:47,640 not, will not inherit the Kingdom of God? 467 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:52,680 So you understand you need to quit trying to explain how 468 00:32:52,680 --> 00:33:00,760 someone is getting in doing this and begin to love your brother 469 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,400 and sister and saying why you gossiping right now? 470 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:05,960 Don't you know that stuff keeps you out of the Kingdom? 471 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,280 Oh, now I'm boring. If you're born again, you shut 472 00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:12,160 your mouth right now. That's what you would do. 473 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:16,040 You wouldn't slander right now. So I want to believe you're born 474 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,640 again. Let's have fruit that shows you 475 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:22,720 are because again, if we care about people that are in this 476 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:26,480 restaurant right now that do not know God, and you want to sit 477 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:30,560 here and talk to me about your boss, about your spouse, about 478 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:35,400 your pastor, about your apostle, about whatever and slander and 479 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:39,160 gossip and give me all the juicy Marshalls about their life and 480 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,080 this audience, how in the world are they going to see the light 481 00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:46,920 of the gospel? We just let them know. 482 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:53,840 You think people aren't overhearing you at work trying 483 00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,360 to invite people to church, yet you gossip like the rest, you 484 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,760 envy like the rest. You're mad because you didn't 485 00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:03,680 get promoted. You're complaining about the 486 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:08,440 worldly governments too. You're talking about your 487 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:17,679 spouse. Hallelujah. 488 00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:25,239 Thank you, Jesus. No, Paul is saying this stuff is 489 00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:28,440 not acceptable. It's not for the church. 490 00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,800 And if you have a compassion for the lost, then you will live 491 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:36,239 separate. You'll crucify your flesh, 492 00:34:37,159 --> 00:34:39,639 you'll put it down. You'll say, Lord, whatever you 493 00:34:39,639 --> 00:34:43,199 say I'll do because you are Lord of my life. 494 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,760 And you would imagine seeing the crown of thorns on his head 495 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,080 beaten so bad you couldn't tell he was a man. 496 00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:52,600 You'd see the holes in his hands and his feet. 497 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:56,440 You see the Pierce in his side. You would see that he took 498 00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,280 everything on. And you're going to justify 499 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,920 behavior that you know is marked for the lake of fire. 500 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:10,400 His grace has empowered you to be free from it all. 501 00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:16,040 And you know what? The Holy Ghost on the inside of 502 00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:19,560 you is not saying it's OK if you talk about this. 503 00:35:21,720 --> 00:35:23,440 You know it's OK if you don't forgive them. 504 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:28,720 That's pretty rough. No, the Holy Spirit's like, 505 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:34,320 really, really. Do you know what your Lord and 506 00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,880 Savior has done for you? Do you understand? 507 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:42,440 Your response right now is fixing to be a light so that 508 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:47,280 this person that is destined for destruction has hope. 509 00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:55,760 See, you have no testimony if you don't live the testimony. 510 00:36:03,030 --> 00:36:06,830 The reason Jesus was so successful with the crowds was 511 00:36:06,830 --> 00:36:14,310 because the Pharisees did not live what they preached, but 512 00:36:14,310 --> 00:36:21,560 Jesus did. You cannot tout I'm a Sinner 513 00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:23,600 saved by grace. I sin too. 514 00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:26,280 We all sin. We can't help it, you know, 515 00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:29,200 that's just what we do. The Bible doesn't say that. 516 00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,200 The Bible says that you were a Sinner. 517 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:33,160 You've been saved by grace through faith and now you're a 518 00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:36,080 believer and that you're a new creature in Christ. 519 00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:39,400 And now you have the mind of Christ, and you have the nature 520 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:42,280 of Christ, and you have the Holy Spirit who will teach you, and 521 00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:45,920 He will keep you from every temptation and cause you to 522 00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:49,680 overcome every situation, because now you are a child of 523 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:55,400 the King. And if you do happen to blow it, 524 00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:58,960 you will admit it. You will ask people to forgive 525 00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,200 you. You will acknowledge that you 526 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:05,640 did not live the standard. That is the nature you are now. 527 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:11,040 You won't make an excuse for it. You won't sugarcoat it. 528 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,920 You won't say, well, you know, it's OK If we, you know, I 529 00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:16,560 realized we wouldn't die. If, I mean, you wouldn't do 530 00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:21,920 that. You would have what Paul, I 531 00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:23,800 believe it was it says or it could have been Peter. 532 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:25,600 You would flee. I think it's Paul. 533 00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:29,920 Flee the appearance of evil. I don't even want it to look 534 00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,360 like it, because I'm going to tell you, in this world there's 535 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,080 going to be plenty of people that are going to put you in the 536 00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:38,440 category of evil. In fact, in the last days, all 537 00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,400 of us are going to be called evil because the world's going 538 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:45,280 to call what's good, evil and what's evil good. 539 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:50,040 And they're going to blast you and talk about your extremism 540 00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:54,680 and who how you are and how radical you are as a believer in 541 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:58,520 Christ and try to get you to compromise with the world. 542 00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:08,480 But if we care for the lost, this is so serious with God. 543 00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:10,960 Look at Mark Chapter 9 verses 43 to 50. 544 00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:18,280 It says if your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, for it 545 00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:22,960 is better for you to enter life crippled than having your two 546 00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:25,400 hands go into hell. Where? 547 00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:30,160 Into unquenchable fire where the worm does not die and the fire 548 00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:33,640 is not quenched. And that is not metaphorical. 549 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:44,960 All right, Verse 45, if your foot causes you to stumble, what 550 00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:47,200 do you need to do? Cut it off. 551 00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:55,440 Now is God advocating amputating or mutilation? 552 00:38:55,520 --> 00:39:00,800 No, but what he's saying is if it literally was a hindrance, it 553 00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:06,840 would be better that you completely remove it from your 554 00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:14,720 being from your being than to keep something that's going to 555 00:39:14,720 --> 00:39:17,560 kill you and keep you eternally separated from him. 556 00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:22,240 And you understand we're treating these things that Paul 557 00:39:22,240 --> 00:39:28,560 are writing the churches in this age as if it's OK like, well, I 558 00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:35,080 asked Jesus into my heart. So if you did, where how are you 559 00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:39,040 living? Is are you part of a local body 560 00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:41,960 church? Are you being discipled? 561 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:44,280 Are you submitted to the fivefold ministry? 562 00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:48,280 I mean, I could just run list upon list of what someone who's 563 00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:51,080 truly made Jesus Lord looks and lives like. 564 00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:56,680 Or are you deciding how far you go? 565 00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:01,640 Are you making that choice? Well, then he's not Lord. 566 00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:07,600 And maybe, even maybe I could ask the question, Has he ever 567 00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:14,480 been? John the Baptist says he have 568 00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:17,640 fruit in keeping with repentance. 569 00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:23,600 He goes on and says this. So if your foot calls you to 570 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:25,280 stumble, cut it off. It'd be better for you to enter 571 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:28,400 life. Lame than having 2 feet and be 572 00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:31,360 cast into hell where the worm does not die and the fair is 573 00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,640 fire is not quenched. If your eye causes you to 574 00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:38,160 stumble, throw it out, for it is better for you to enter the 575 00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:41,960 Kingdom of God with one eye than having two eyes to be cast into 576 00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:44,040 the hell. Can I go ahead and give you real 577 00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:47,720 quick an example of that? If your phone causes you to 578 00:40:47,720 --> 00:40:52,240 stumble, it's better for you to get rid of your phone and learn 579 00:40:52,240 --> 00:40:55,440 how to navigate in this world without a cell phone. 580 00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:08,360 Cut it off, go find you a cricket phone with big screen, 581 00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:13,840 little screen and big numbers. I don't even know if they have 582 00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:15,080 those anymore. Be honest with you. 583 00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:18,280 I'm just saying whatever you need to do. 584 00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:26,040 But what we make excuses for carnality and God is saying I'm 585 00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:30,480 not making excuses. The blood is not making excuses, 586 00:41:30,720 --> 00:41:35,640 The blood paid the price. The blood does not authorize you 587 00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:39,440 to sin. The blood paid the price for 588 00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:46,440 sin. So verse 8 where the worm does 589 00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:49,200 not die and fire is not quenched, verse 49 for everyone 590 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:52,720 who will be sought for everyone will be salted with fire. 591 00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:57,480 Salt is good, but if the salt becomes what? 592 00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:01,600 Unsalty with what? Will you make it salty again? 593 00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:05,560 Have salt in yourself and be at peace with one another. 594 00:42:05,720 --> 00:42:08,160 Look what it says in Hebrews chapter 2 verses one through 3 595 00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:11,200 says. For this reason we must pay much 596 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:16,200 closer attention to what we have heard so that we do not drift 597 00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:20,520 away from it. For if the Word spoken through 598 00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:24,840 angels proved unalterable, and every transgression and 599 00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:29,440 disobedience received a just penalty, how will we escape if 600 00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:34,360 we neglect so great a salvation? And again, you cannot neglect 601 00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:36,240 something unless you have something. 602 00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:43,120 After it was at the first spoken through the Lord, it was 603 00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:46,280 confirmed to us by those who heard. 604 00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:51,160 I want us as members of the Anchor Faith Church, Vision 605 00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:57,680 partners to As one visitor said one time, he said, Pastor, you 606 00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:05,720 give an invitation for holiness. You know what's crazy? 607 00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:10,760 All churches should give an invitation for holiness, not an 608 00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:14,000 invitation. Where are you going to go when 609 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,560 you die? Let's just get you out of hell. 610 00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:22,720 But how can you have actions that are marked for the lake of 611 00:43:22,720 --> 00:43:29,440 fire, have the blood, and still live with the actions that are 612 00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:34,400 marked for the lake of fire? How was that even possible? 613 00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:40,200 And how can we? How are we going to see the 614 00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:47,040 world coming to the Kingdom of God if we ourselves are not 615 00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:52,720 willing to be holy? Because we already are? 616 00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:57,280 He made us this way. He separated us from the things 617 00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:59,200 of the world. He gave us a new spirit. 618 00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:03,040 He took the spirit in you that was dead in his trespasses of 619 00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:06,440 sin, that was cut off from God, that was destined for the lake 620 00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:07,720 of fire, which is the second death. 621 00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:12,680 He removed it from your skin suit and put in you a new spirit 622 00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:17,000 that hears God's voice. The Holy Spirit bears witness 623 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:19,000 with your spirit, you are a child of God. 624 00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:22,760 And then the Holy Spirit says I'll change the way you think so 625 00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:27,000 that the nature that you now are, that it's behavior, it's 626 00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:31,880 actions can live among men and you will shine bright. 627 00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:37,920 Your lifestyle will shine so bright. 628 00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:40,480 People when they get in your presence will want to quit 629 00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:47,000 cussing. They want to put their drinks to 630 00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:48,880 the side. Now they're going to be some 631 00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:51,680 brazen enough because you understand the enemy. 632 00:44:51,720 --> 00:44:54,160 He knows he's dead. Some like I don't give a RIP 633 00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:58,200 about God and you can say I'm praying for you and hoping that 634 00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:00,120 there's still room for repentance. 635 00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:07,360 But today what some are doing is like, let me have a drink with 636 00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:12,960 you and tell you about Jesus. How does that even make sense? 637 00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:19,520 I understand this is not US popular preaching, but I'm not 638 00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:22,120 here to preach AUS gospel, I'm here to preach the Kingdom 639 00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:24,720 gospel. Amen. 640 00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:32,440 Second, Peter 220 to 22 says, For if they have escaped the 641 00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:36,880 defilements of the world, come on, have you escaped it? 642 00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:43,600 By the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are 643 00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:47,720 again entangled in them and are overcome. 644 00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:52,280 The last state has become worse than the first. 645 00:45:54,200 --> 00:46:01,040 This is serious business. This scripture alone eradicates 646 00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:07,880 once saved always saved. And everyone who says once 647 00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:10,840 saved, always saved says What can separate us from the love of 648 00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:12,720 God? Read the list. 649 00:46:16,240 --> 00:46:18,600 Can a famine come and cut you off from God? 650 00:46:18,720 --> 00:46:21,440 Obviously not. Can a trial and tribulation cut 651 00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:23,440 you off from the love of God? Obviously not. 652 00:46:23,720 --> 00:46:26,760 Can demons, principalities, and powers cut you off from the love 653 00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:27,920 of God? No. 654 00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:31,200 Can you cut yourself off? Yes. 655 00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:33,080 You can. You say? 656 00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:42,920 Prove it, Adam. Adam, you want a second witness. 657 00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:53,580 Eve, you want a third witness? The blasphemy of the Holy 658 00:46:53,580 --> 00:46:57,100 Spirit. And you can't do that unless 659 00:46:57,100 --> 00:47:00,420 you've been born again. And there's some other criterias 660 00:47:00,420 --> 00:47:04,340 associated with it. Yeah. 661 00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:09,640 So once again, well, I ask Jesus in my heart, I can never lose 662 00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:13,280 it. You can denounce it just like 663 00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:17,760 Adam did. And Adam lived a state that none 664 00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:27,440 of us have lived yet. For it would have been better 665 00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:31,640 for them to not have known the way of righteousness than having 666 00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:35,360 known it to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to 667 00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:37,640 them. It has happened to them. 668 00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:41,560 According to the true proverb, a dog returns to its own vomit, 669 00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:47,000 and a sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the 670 00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:53,040 mire. I'm just going to be quite 671 00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:57,160 honest as the apostle of the ministry, there are many 672 00:47:57,160 --> 00:48:00,400 funerals that people are going to and they're saying, well, 673 00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:03,240 they're in a better place and they are not in a better place 674 00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:10,720 because their lifestyle gave no evidence of lordship. 675 00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:16,720 I think many people are going to be surprised when they get up 676 00:48:16,720 --> 00:48:22,440 there and they're like, we're so and so I got up. 677 00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:24,080 They're not here. What do you mean they're not 678 00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:25,960 here? I was there when they asked 679 00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:28,520 Jesus into their heart. They said they may have asked 680 00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:30,280 him into their heart, but He didn't make him Lord. 681 00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:44,880 There's no fruit, no change. And you know, so and so they 682 00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:47,600 turned against me and went back. And, you know, they were living 683 00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:49,920 life worse than they were before they ever got saved. 684 00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:52,200 And you think I just let them in? 685 00:48:53,800 --> 00:49:02,910 No, they trampled on my blood. These are sobering words, but 686 00:49:02,910 --> 00:49:05,950 they're words of truth. Revelation chapter 20, verse 10 687 00:49:05,950 --> 00:49:09,960 through 15 says in The Devil who deceived them was thrown into 688 00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:12,680 the lake of fire of brimstone, where the beast and the false 689 00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:16,280 prophet are also, and they will be tormented day and night 690 00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:20,120 forever and ever. Then I saw a great white throne, 691 00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:25,200 and him who set upon it, from whose present earth and heaven 692 00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:29,480 fled away, and no place was found for them. 693 00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:34,080 And I saw the dead, the great, and the small, standing before 694 00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:37,040 the throne. And books were opened, and 695 00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:39,680 another book was open, which is the Book of Life. 696 00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,560 And the dead were judged from the things which were written in 697 00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:44,320 the books according to their deeds. 698 00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:46,800 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it. 699 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:51,160 And Death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them, and 700 00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:54,760 they were judged, every one of them, according to their deeds. 701 00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:57,920 Then Death and Hades were thrown into the Lake of Fire. 702 00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:00,120 This is the second death, the Lake of Fire. 703 00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:04,400 And if anyone's name was not found in the Book of Life, he 704 00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:08,400 was thrown into the lake of fire. 705 00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:14,920 And we have just read through scripture of all of the actions 706 00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:18,680 and behaviors that do not inherit the Kingdom of God. 707 00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:24,080 And there are 6 billion people, probably more, that are marked 708 00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:32,360 for this scene. And the greatest hope they have 709 00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:37,440 is you. Because the church is the hope 710 00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:41,320 of the world. We are the hope of the world. 711 00:50:41,720 --> 00:50:46,720 Because if we will actually come out from among them and where it 712 00:50:46,720 --> 00:50:52,280 just means we do not live like the world, we live like we are 713 00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:54,920 in Christ. We are born of God. 714 00:50:55,000 --> 00:51:00,200 We have his nature, we have his power, and we walk in a world we 715 00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:04,000 are not of. We're in a world we're not of, 716 00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:06,680 but the world knows we're not of them. 717 00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:09,840 They see it in our actions. They see it in our behavior. 718 00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:12,960 They see it in our lifestyle. They see it in how we carry 719 00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:15,000 ourselves. They see it in our forgiveness. 720 00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:19,120 They see it in the fruits of the Spirit that happened day in and 721 00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:22,400 day out of our lives. And if we truly care to 722 00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:26,640 evangelize to the world, then we must crucify our flesh and live 723 00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:32,880 a holy life and let the blood of God, my gosh, sanctify you 724 00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:38,840 entirely. Entirely. 725 00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:57,280 I close with these verses. Romans 59 says this much more 726 00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:00,040 than having been justified by his blood. 727 00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:03,880 We shall be saved from the wrath of God through him. 728 00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:07,160 If you're here today and you've never made Jesus the Lord of 729 00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:12,360 your life, I want you to know God is storing up anger towards 730 00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:16,120 you. It's not because He wants to. 731 00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:22,000 It's because you are having him do this because He's already 732 00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:25,120 paid the price for everything you're doing in the life you're 733 00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:27,600 living. And as much as you're trying to 734 00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:31,280 do good and you're trying to put your life on a scale and you're 735 00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:33,560 trying to say, well, I'm not as bad as such and such, and I 736 00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:36,040 haven't done as much as so and so. 737 00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:40,040 That means nothing with God. All that matters is the blood of 738 00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:45,760 Jesus because no one is good. No, not one. 739 00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:51,760 I always fell short of being right with God, no matter how 740 00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:57,360 much. And I was raised in church, but 741 00:52:57,360 --> 00:53:01,160 being raised in church only let me know that I was a Sinner. 742 00:53:01,240 --> 00:53:06,080 I was cut off, I needed saving, and Jesus was the only one. 743 00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:11,080 And his blood justified me and saved me from the wrath to come. 744 00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:16,080 First Thessalonians 110 says and the way and to wait for his Son 745 00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:18,280 from heaven, whom he raised from the dead. 746 00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:21,800 That is Jesus who rescues us from the wrath to come. 747 00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:25,560 Come on up, worship team God wants to save you. 748 00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:27,880 He wants you to escape this wrath. 749 00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:32,640 He does not want you anymore to be subject to it. 750 00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:38,080 And He sure doesn't want his children taking their hand off 751 00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:45,680 the plow and looking back. And there are so many people in 752 00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:50,880 this congregation right now that if we all would commit to a holy 753 00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:56,720 life, Saint Augustine cannot stand a chance because you are 754 00:53:56,720 --> 00:54:00,640 in too many places that the light of God does not shine. 755 00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:04,200 And the conviction in their lives put them in a place that 756 00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:11,720 they're like, I need your Jesus. No longer do we need to see a 757 00:54:11,720 --> 00:54:16,960 person go into the Lake of fire because of the hypocrisy of the 758 00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:22,200 believer. You have to settle that. 759 00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:25,320 I have been blood bought, blood washed. 760 00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:28,280 I have been. I am owned by the king. 761 00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:35,560 My life is not my own and no longer will I just go by someone 762 00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:39,920 without at least saying God, I pray for this person right now. 763 00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:42,600 Sin laborers. If I'm not the person to talk 764 00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:45,520 today, God, I don't know where that person is. 765 00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:48,960 I don't know who this person is that is serving me right now at 766 00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:51,240 McDonald's. Lord, I don't know if they're 767 00:54:51,240 --> 00:54:55,120 right with you or not, but God, I thank you today. 768 00:54:55,120 --> 00:55:00,880 At least I prayed for them. Maybe God's not authorizing you 769 00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:04,440 to speak to them and please do not go to them and say, do you 770 00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:05,920 know where you're going to go when you die today? 771 00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:10,000 Don't do that. That is not the gospel Jesus 772 00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:14,040 preached. Now, if you want to say, do you 773 00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:19,040 know Jesus, say that because this is about life. 774 00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:24,520 This is not when we exit. This is about life. 775 00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:28,080 Now, do you have peace in your life? 776 00:55:28,720 --> 00:55:31,600 Do you have perpetual peace? Ask them things that are 777 00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:36,440 applicable for now, not Do you know where you'd go if you were 778 00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:42,120 to die right now. How's that help them on the 779 00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:46,440 earth? Let's preach the gospel. 780 00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:50,560 Jesus, be sensitive enough to say, I see you're sniffling 781 00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:51,920 today. Can I pray for you? 782 00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:57,120 And maybe that's all you do, but you're being led by the Spirit. 783 00:55:57,120 --> 00:56:00,160 Why? Because this person, maybe not 784 00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:03,560 this person, but you understand that person that you're standing 785 00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:07,440 in front of may be marked for destruction. 786 00:56:10,080 --> 00:56:13,280 This is why. Do we want something to change 787 00:56:13,280 --> 00:56:16,120 with our schools? Do we want protection for our 788 00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:18,400 schools? Well, how is it that we would 789 00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:25,440 not want to go pray? And again, I can't be at every 790 00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:28,680 one of them. This is why we equip the Saints 791 00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:32,720 for the work of service so that you can participate and do 792 00:56:32,720 --> 00:56:39,760 something. You can show up, you can pray a 793 00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:44,080 hedge of protection. You can say this is what the 794 00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:51,560 church is supposed to do. I close with this verse right 795 00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:54,680 here. Colossians 1/3, 13 and 14. 796 00:56:55,080 --> 00:56:58,480 And he rescued us from the domain of darkness and 797 00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:01,920 transferred us to the Kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have 798 00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:04,640 redemption, the forgiveness of sin. 799 00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:07,280 It's time to escape and be transferred. 800 00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:10,080 It's time to escape and be transferred.