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Well, I want to ask you guys a question.

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Now think with me here.

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If Jesus walked in here tonight,

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He did walk this earth.

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God became flesh.

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He walked this earth as a man.

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Many saw Him. Many talked with Him.

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Let's suppose the Lord Jesus

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came back to the earth bodily.

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Just as He was 2000 years ago,

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and He walked into this place tonight.

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And instead of me up here,

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He came up.

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And you had the opportunity to ask Him

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any questions you wanted to ask Him at all.

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What would you ask Him?

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Anybody have any idea

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what they might ask Him?

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I mean, if He came up here,

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and He was at your disposal

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to answer questions...

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Now, you have to think.

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This is the God-man.

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He has the right answer for any question

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that you might ask Him.

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What would you ask Him?

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I'll tell you, I would have some questions

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I'd want to ask Him.

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It was that way with His disciples

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when He walked this earth.

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There were times that they did ask Him;

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there were times that they wanted to ask Him,

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but they were afraid to ask Him.

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And He knew they were afraid,

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and He would ask them what they wanted to ask Him.

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But, anything come to your minds?

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Anything at all come to your mind

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that if Jesus Christ was here right now

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that you would want to ask Him.

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What would you ask Him?

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(from the room)

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Why is it so hard to get out of the flesh?

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So hard to go from flesh to the Spirit?

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Tim: Why is it so hard to go

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from the flesh to the Spirit?

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Why is it hard?

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(from the room)

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I mean, I know it's supposed to be hard,

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but some days it just seems really hard.

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Tim: Sin is entrenched deep.

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It's not only hard.

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It's impossible aside from the power of God.

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In fact, it takes a miracle of

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creational power to free man

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from the power of sin.

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It's so strong.

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Anybody have another question

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that they'd ask?

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How about this one?

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Lord, how many of the people here

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are truly saved?

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Lord, are there going to be many saved?

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Do you know what?

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We don't have to guess at the answer

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to that question.

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Do you know why?

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Because His disciples in Luke 13

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asked Him that exact question.

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Lord, are there many going to be saved?

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Now you remember this:

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This is God in the flesh.

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This is the One who knows

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all the right answers.

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This is the One that even knows

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the questions that ought to be asked.

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His disciples asked Him,

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"Lord, are there many going to be saved?"

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And do you know what He said?

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It was so common with our Lord

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to take a question and make it

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real personal to people.

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He didn't just say yes or no.

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He said guys, this question pertains to you.

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You've asked the question,

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"Will many be saved?"

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What in the world?

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What do you think the answer is to that question?

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I can tell you this.

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That from time to time,

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the church I was at before

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the one I'm at now,

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and then where I am right now,

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I've talked to a lot of people on the streets

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and I've talked to a lot of people at their front doors

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in some door-to-door evangelism.

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I've been in nursing homes

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and in prisons.

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And do you know what most people believe?

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Most people are on their way to heaven.

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Most people are going to glory.

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I can remember Matt

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(Matt preached last night)

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Matt and I went to a little housing complex

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right there by where we live

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and I remember one young lady,

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we asked her,

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are you going to heaven?

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And she said,

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Well, I'm on the church choir.

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In other words, what was her answer

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by saying that?

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Yes. I'm going there.

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And you know what?

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You go down through this complex

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and you go from door to door to door,

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and you spend years and decades even

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talking to people about their souls

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and guess what you find?

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Everybody's going to heaven.

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Everybody's got that taken care of.

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Do you know why they've got it taken care of?

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Because just like many of you here

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they said that little prayer.

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You know, that was me.

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Growing up I remember I'd find a little tract

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and it had this sinner's prayer on the back,

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and I'd say that sinner's prayer,

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and I thought, you know the Bible says

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something about believing in Jesus Christ

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and I believe that He was true

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so I must be on my way.

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And you know what the vast majority

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of people around us believe just that.

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You can look at the percentage of people

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that believe they're on their way to heaven.

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Here were the disciples, and they came to the

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Man, the God-man, who knows

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the answer to that question.

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They said, "Lord, are there many

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going to be saved?"

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And He threw it right in their lap.

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And He said, "You..."

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You. This pertains to you.

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He says I'm going to tell you

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you better strive to enter in.

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Because there are going to be many

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that are going to seek to get in there

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and they're not going to be able to.

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Many are not going to be able to get in.

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That's in Luke 13.

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Back in Matthwew 7,

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Jesus said it this way:

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"Few there be that find it."

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You know what?

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Twenty years ago when I first came to Christ,

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that was an astounding verse.

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Even though I was saved,

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that scared me, that shocked me.

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Jesus Christ in Matthew 7:14 says

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"Few there be that find it."

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Listen.

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Not only are few going to find it,

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but He says that many

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that want to get in,

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won't be able.

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Does that terrify anybody?

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It ought to.

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It ought to in a day and an age

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when everybody just believes

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getting to heaven is an easy thing.

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The fact is, Jesus said it's a hard thing.

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This may sound shocking to some of you.

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You may not have heard this before.

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You know why?

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Because it's very likely that

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many of you are exposed to the idea today

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that one, being saved is easy,

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two, God just hovers around out there

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right over your head wanting to do you good,

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wanting to make you rich,

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wanting to give you health,

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wanting to give you everything

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that your heart desires.

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Basically, that's the religion of today.

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You come to God and He's just going to

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make you happy.

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He's going to give you everything you want.

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He's going to make life prosperous for you.

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He's going to make sure you get a good job,

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beautiful spouse, that you're not going to be sick.

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That's basically what's taught today.

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Come to God and you'll be able to speak in tongues

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and rattle off and do all sorts of crazy things,

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and you'll be able to run around

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and it will just be one big

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exciting, fun thing.

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And you'll probably get rich in the midst of it

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if you've got enough faith.

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That's basically what's said today.

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And here's Jesus,

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the One who had the answers.

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And He says, "Few there be that find it."

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And if you've got a Bible,,

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I see a lot of you don't,

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if you've got a Bible, you can look there.

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Not only does He say in Matthew 7:13-14,

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He not only says that

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"Few there be that find it,"

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He says the way to get there is hard.

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That doesn't sound like what's

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being taught today, does it?

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I mean, come on,

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you guys be honest with me.

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Is this something you hear?

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What I'm telling you right now.

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That few there be that find it,

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and that getting there is hard,

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and many are going to seek to get in there

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and they're not going to be able.

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Is that new to any of you?

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Or is that just, oh yeah, we hear that all the time?

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What do you think?

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Well, let me throw this in your lap.

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If few there be that find it,

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and many that think they're going there

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and are trying to go there,

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don't in the end get in,

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and only few find it,

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and the way is hard,

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then is it not likely...

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By default, if few there be that find it,

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then what?

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What's the opposite?

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Many don't find it.

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And if you don't find life,

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what do you find?

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Death.

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It says destruction.

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So if many find destruction,

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and few find life,

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is it not likely that among this group

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that I talk to right now,

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is there not a great possibility

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that many of you are going to

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find destruction?

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And only few of you are going to find life?

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Is that not consistent with

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what Jesus is teaching there?

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Is that not concerning?

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Does the word "destruction" just

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go over your head and through your ears

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and off your back as just a light matter?

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Let me describe destruction for you.

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You know Jesus gave us the

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most vivid descriptions.

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He called it outer darkness,

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a place of torment,

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a place of weeping,

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gnashing of teeth,

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a place of fiery furnace,

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a place where there smoke of the torment

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of the people that are there

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go up forever and forever.

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It speaks about the fury and the wrath

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of God the Almighty.

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You know why there's weeping there?

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Do you know why some of you will weep there?

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Some of you that hear my voice,

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will indeed, I have no doubt,

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weep in that place,

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for a variety of reasons,

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but one of them is this:

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Listen: You know the devil fell.

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The devil was an angel.

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The devil and a third of the angels of heaven

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fell into sin.

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And do you realize this?

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When they fell, that was it.

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Their judgment was final.

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Do you realize you were not the first to sin?

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The devils, the demons, they sinned first.

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God never sent them a Savior.

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God never sent them a way of escape.

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God never sent them a remedy for their sin.

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God never offered them hope,

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never offered them heaven,

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never offered them good, grace, mercy.

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They were damned.

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In fact, we're told that the lake of fire

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was created exactly for them.

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Do you know one of the reasons that

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some of you will weep in destruction

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the way you will weep?

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Can you imagine if as a demon,

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you find yourself in the lake of fire?

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The fiery furnace where there is fire

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and brimstone and torment for your sin.

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Can you imagine if you were them

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and you find yourself there?

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There will be sorrow on their part.

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There will be torment, there will be pain.

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There will be anguish, there will be sighs,

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and groans and wails.

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But can you imagine if you find yourself there?

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After God sent His Son into this world

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to save sinners?

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Can you imagine if you find yourself

0:15:13.889,0:15:15.673
in the lake of fire when

0:15:15.673,0:15:18.582
there was a way offered you out?

0:15:18.582,0:15:21.470
When a Savior came into the world

0:15:21.470,0:15:22.814
who came specifically

0:15:22.814,0:15:25.041
to seek and save sinners?

0:15:25.041,0:15:27.028
When mankind was given a remedy

0:15:27.028,0:15:28.446
for his sin?

0:15:28.446,0:15:31.420
And not only that?

0:15:31.420,0:15:33.933
But you remember back to that time

0:15:33.933,0:15:37.211
in June of 2010 when people came

0:15:37.211,0:15:39.152
from this church on the east side of

0:15:39.152,0:15:41.210
San Antonio and they came

0:15:41.210,0:15:43.612
and they told you about Christ

0:15:43.612,0:15:46.034
and they showed you the way out,

0:15:46.034,0:15:47.947
and they told you the Gospel,

0:15:47.947,0:15:50.228
and they said that if you would flee to Christ

0:15:50.228,0:15:53.093
you could find salvation from your sin.

0:15:53.093,0:15:56.493
Can you imagine what weeping?

0:15:56.493,0:15:58.868
It says weeping and gnashing of teeth.

0:15:58.868,0:16:00.861
Do you know what gnashing of teeth is?

0:16:00.861,0:16:03.098
Can you imagine?

0:16:03.098,0:16:05.649
I had it.

0:16:05.649,0:16:11.362
I had it. It was set right there before me.

0:16:11.362,0:16:14.988
And I said, Nope. I want my sin.

0:16:14.988,0:16:17.265
I don't want Christ. I want my sin.

0:16:17.265,0:16:19.222
I'm still young. I want sex.

0:16:19.222,0:16:21.419
I want the fun. I want the party.

0:16:21.419,0:16:24.184
I want what this world has to offer.

0:16:24.184,0:16:25.759
And I don't want Christ.

0:16:25.759,0:16:28.148
I'm going to go drink deep of this world

0:16:28.148,0:16:31.862
and maybe sometime else, I'll take care of that.

0:16:31.862,0:16:33.765
And all the time, God was saying,

0:16:33.765,0:16:36.138
That was the day of salvation!

0:16:36.138,0:16:38.581
This day is the day of salvation,

0:16:38.581,0:16:40.699
and you passed it by.

0:16:40.699,0:16:42.159
And now you're damned,

0:16:42.159,0:16:44.105
and you're in that lake of fire,

0:16:44.105,0:16:45.270
and you had it.

0:16:45.270,0:16:47.641
It was right there!

0:16:47.641,0:16:50.480
It's like Christ said,

0:16:50.480,0:16:55.065
He offers you drink.

0:16:55.065,0:16:58.408
And He says, if you will,

0:16:58.408,0:17:00.113
He says, drink the water of life.

0:17:00.113,0:17:01.487
Drink freely.

0:17:01.487,0:17:02.925
Come take it.

0:17:02.925,0:17:06.019
If you will, whosoever will.

0:17:06.019,0:17:08.831
Come and drink.

0:17:08.831,0:17:12.370
And you will grind your teeth

0:17:12.370,0:17:14.748
at the thought,

0:17:14.748,0:17:18.988
"What a fool I was!"

0:17:18.988,0:17:20.992
And you will weep,

0:17:20.992,0:17:24.308
not only because you were a fool,

0:17:24.308,0:17:25.454
you will weep because

0:17:25.454,0:17:29.905
eternity will be placarded over everything.

0:17:29.905,0:17:32.736
Your torment isn't for a moment.

0:17:32.736,0:17:35.384
You know what it's like when we get sick.

0:17:35.384,0:17:37.634
You know what it's like when we get injured.

0:17:37.634,0:17:38.983
There's always this hope,

0:17:38.983,0:17:41.304
God created our bodies to heal.

0:17:41.304,0:17:43.005
Well, I won't be sick for long.

0:17:43.005,0:17:44.691
I won't have to suffer for long,

0:17:44.691,0:17:46.742
even if I'm experiencing this pain,

0:17:46.742,0:17:48.077
the pain goes away.

0:17:48.077,0:17:50.319
You get cut, you get the break, you get the scratch,

0:17:50.319,0:17:57.885
you get injured, the sprain, it heals.

0:17:57.885,0:18:03.380
But in hell, there is no healing.

0:18:03.380,0:18:06.582
It's forever and forever

0:18:06.582,0:18:13.458
and forever and forever...

0:18:13.458,0:18:18.717
Few there be that find it.

0:18:18.717,0:18:21.858
So here's what Jesus said,

0:18:21.858,0:18:27.099
He said ok here's what this is like,

0:18:27.099,0:18:29.325
it's like two gates.

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You can understand a gate.

0:18:32.751,0:18:36.033
There are gates in fences.

0:18:36.033,0:18:38.612
Sometimes you find gates in a wall.

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A gate.

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A gate is simply a sort of door, right?

0:18:43.315,0:18:46.246
And Jesus says this is how it is.

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You have a narrow gate,

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and you have a very wide gate.

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Two gates.

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And both of the gates are places that we enter.

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A gate is for entering, right?

0:19:05.460,0:19:07.067
People walk through gates.

0:19:07.067,0:19:08.845
That's what they're there for.

0:19:08.845,0:19:12.942
And Jesus says that on both sides of these gates,

0:19:12.942,0:19:15.447
there's a path.

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There's a way.

0:19:17.654,0:19:19.091
You have the narrow gate,

0:19:19.091,0:19:20.577
and beyond the narrow gate

0:19:20.577,0:19:22.706
is a narrow way.

0:19:22.706,0:19:24.727
And it's difficult.

0:19:24.727,0:19:29.762
Over here, you have a wide gate,

0:19:29.762,0:19:34.285
followed by a very broad path.

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And Jesus says it's easy.

0:19:39.029,0:19:41.321
And you know what He says?

0:19:41.321,0:19:46.855
Few go in the narrow one.

0:19:46.855,0:19:52.596
The vast multitudes go in over here.

0:19:52.596,0:19:57.453
You say, but I go to church.

0:19:57.453,0:20:03.452
You know, the people on the broad way,

0:20:03.452,0:20:06.790
we find just a few verses down

0:20:06.790,0:20:09.978
in Matthew 7

0:20:09.978,0:20:13.481
these people went to church.

0:20:13.481,0:20:17.294
In verse 21, there are people that say,

0:20:17.294,0:20:19.588
"Lord, Lord..."

0:20:19.588,0:20:21.213
They're people that use His name.

0:20:21.213,0:20:22.938
They're people that sang songs

0:20:22.938,0:20:25.877
just like were sung tonight.

0:20:25.877,0:20:27.825
They had the name Lord on their lips.

0:20:27.825,0:20:29.393
And if you look at verse 22,

0:20:29.393,0:20:31.644
they were doing things:

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prophesying and casting out demons,

0:20:34.343,0:20:37.302
doing many mighty works.

0:20:37.302,0:20:39.509
See, they were in the church crowd.

0:20:39.509,0:20:41.351
See, that's no protection.

0:20:41.351,0:20:44.341
Jesus doesn't say going to church

0:20:44.341,0:20:46.717
is the way.

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So you have the narrow;

0:20:48.667,0:20:50.277
you have the broad.

0:20:50.277,0:20:51.491
Guess what?

0:20:51.491,0:20:55.217
The crowds are going in over here.

0:20:55.217,0:20:58.168
Few there be that go in this way.

0:20:58.168,0:20:59.996
And you know what?

0:20:59.996,0:21:01.239
Not only is there a gate.

0:21:01.239,0:21:02.931
Not only is there a path beyond it.

0:21:02.931,0:21:04.877
But there's an end.

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There's a big gate, a large way,

0:21:07.851,0:21:10.386
at the end, destruction.

0:21:10.386,0:21:13.248
Narrow gate, followed by a narrow path,

0:21:13.248,0:21:18.272
at the end, eternal life.

0:21:18.272,0:21:22.334
Few there be that find it.

0:21:22.334,0:21:24.538
Does that concern anybody here

0:21:24.538,0:21:30.266
that you may be headed to destruction?

0:21:30.266,0:21:32.048
How can you know?

0:21:32.048,0:21:34.992
How can you know if you're on that narrow way?

0:21:35.001,0:21:36.068
Let me tell you this:

0:21:36.068,0:21:38.697
Few there be that find it.

0:21:38.697,0:21:40.284
You know what that means?

0:21:40.284,0:21:43.380
That means those on their way to heaven

0:21:43.380,0:21:45.656
are in the minority.

0:21:45.656,0:21:47.767
And you know what that means?

0:21:47.767,0:21:50.889
That's means one thing's for certain,

0:21:50.889,0:21:54.175
that those that are on their way to heaven,

0:21:54.175,0:21:58.927
they've left the crowd.

0:21:58.927,0:22:01.358
You see, I know some of you.

0:22:01.358,0:22:04.210
You go to church, you have parents that go to church.

0:22:04.210,0:22:07.715
you're here at the camp.

0:22:07.715,0:22:09.649
You say well that must mean something.

0:22:09.649,0:22:12.131
The vast multitudes of San Antonio

0:22:12.131,0:22:16.775
they're not in church tonight but I am.

0:22:16.775,0:22:18.922
But like I said,

0:22:18.922,0:22:21.509
Jesus shows us a little further,

0:22:21.509,0:22:23.398
many of the people on this broad way

0:22:23.398,0:22:24.989
over here, they're people that go to church.

0:22:24.989,0:22:26.836
They're people that say, "Lord, Lord."

0:22:26.836,0:22:31.701
They're people doing many mighty works.

0:22:31.701,0:22:34.854
I know some of you.

0:22:34.854,0:22:38.514
You've got a little bit of religion.

0:22:38.514,0:22:42.886
But you, aside from that little religion,

0:22:42.886,0:22:45.486
you are just like the world.

0:22:45.486,0:22:48.176
You are just like the multitudes.

0:22:48.176,0:22:50.977
You're just like the crowd.

0:22:50.977,0:22:58.058
Because the truth is,

0:22:58.058,0:23:01.196
you play the same video games

0:23:01.196,0:23:04.696
that the world plays.

0:23:04.696,0:23:06.089
And you go to the same movies

0:23:06.089,0:23:09.452
that the world goes to.

0:23:09.452,0:23:12.173
You laugh at the same things

0:23:12.173,0:23:15.350
that the world laughs at.

0:23:15.350,0:23:16.881
Watch the same t.v. shows

0:23:16.881,0:23:18.770
that the world watches.

0:23:18.770,0:23:23.268
You love the fashions of the world.

0:23:23.268,0:23:26.804
The idols of the world, the rock stars,

0:23:26.804,0:23:29.838
the movie stars, the sports stars.

0:23:29.838,0:23:32.714
They're your idols as well.

0:23:32.714,0:23:34.369
The cars the world loves,

0:23:34.369,0:23:36.184
the motorcycles the world loves,

0:23:36.184,0:23:39.256
the fashions they love, the magazines they love.

0:23:39.256,0:23:40.917
You love the same.

0:23:40.917,0:23:43.020
You may have some conservative

0:23:43.020,0:23:45.257
parents that don't let you stay up as late

0:23:45.257,0:23:46.433
or don't let you watch,

0:23:46.433,0:23:47.724
but you know in your heart

0:23:47.724,0:23:49.227
you desire those same things.

0:23:49.227,0:23:49.951
You want them.

0:23:49.951,0:23:53.615
The truth is, you're just like the crowd.

0:23:53.615,0:23:58.003
Folks, the crowd is on the way to destruction.

0:23:58.003,0:23:59.226
And it's easy.

0:23:59.226,0:24:01.548
You see, it's easy because

0:24:01.548,0:24:02.687
you can be religious.

0:24:02.687,0:24:03.786
You can play religion.

0:24:03.786,0:24:06.757
You can say, hey, I said the sinner's prayer.

0:24:06.757,0:24:09.190
I did the little deal.

0:24:09.190,0:24:11.335
And it's real easy.

0:24:11.335,0:24:13.440
Because you can just go along with the crowd,

0:24:13.440,0:24:14.695
you can go along with the world,

0:24:14.695,0:24:17.175
you can go along with the flow.

0:24:17.175,0:24:19.147
And Jesus says there's destruction

0:24:19.147,0:24:20.377
at the end of it.

0:24:20.377,0:24:22.715
You know what He says in Matthew 7:23?

0:24:22.715,0:24:27.332
He says, "Depart from Me,

0:24:27.332,0:24:31.104
you workers of lawlessness."

0:24:31.104,0:24:33.338
You see, the real issue is,

0:24:33.338,0:24:35.394
though you have a little bit of religion,

0:24:35.394,0:24:37.711
you're just as lawless as the world.

0:24:37.711,0:24:41.018
You love sin.

0:24:41.018,0:24:47.213
You love what Jesus came into the world

0:24:47.213,0:24:49.662
to save us from.

0:24:49.662,0:24:52.648
Few there be that find it.

0:24:52.648,0:24:58.213
That should startle you guys.

0:24:58.213,0:25:04.092
Look, our lives are...

0:25:04.092,0:25:08.450
the sands of time.

0:25:08.450,0:25:12.483
You guys have seen an hourglass.

0:25:12.483,0:25:16.110
And the sand falls.

0:25:16.110,0:25:18.690
And there's only so much sand in there, right?

0:25:18.690,0:25:22.954
You've seen an hourglass?

0:25:22.954,0:25:25.147
There's only so much sand.

0:25:25.147,0:25:27.640
That's your life.

0:25:27.640,0:25:30.105
Your life only has so much sand.

0:25:30.105,0:25:32.557
The time alotted to you

0:25:32.557,0:25:34.179
is falling right now.

0:25:34.179,0:25:36.420
It's very limited.

0:25:36.420,0:25:38.941
And when it runs out,

0:25:38.941,0:25:48.579
how many in this place are going to find destruction?

0:25:48.579,0:25:52.328
It's one thing if you lived your life the prostitute,

0:25:52.328,0:25:54.408
you lived your life the heroin addict,

0:25:54.408,0:25:55.995
you lived your life out there

0:25:55.995,0:25:59.152
and you knew you just totally botched it.

0:25:59.152,0:26:01.339
In the end, you expected to go to hell.

0:26:01.339,0:26:04.282
You know that you lived bad.

0:26:04.282,0:26:05.715
But can you imagine the shock

0:26:05.715,0:26:08.565
on judgment day?

0:26:08.565,0:26:12.062
Can you imagine the weeping?

0:26:12.062,0:26:14.732
The weeping.

0:26:14.732,0:26:17.248
To hear those words?

0:26:17.248,0:26:22.611
You're thinking,

0:26:22.611,0:26:26.827
"Lord, won't you receive me?

0:26:26.827,0:26:29.203
I did the church thing."

0:26:29.203,0:26:33.506
And He says, "I never knew you."

0:26:33.506,0:26:40.114
Why is the way to heaven so hard?

0:26:40.114,0:26:42.103
Have you guys ever been told

0:26:42.103,0:26:47.293
that the way to heaven is hard?

0:26:47.293,0:26:50.215
Why is it so hard?

0:26:50.215,0:26:56.596
Basically, it's hard for this reason.

0:26:56.596,0:27:00.231
Look, guys.

0:27:00.231,0:27:05.657
The whole world is willing to say a little prayer.

0:27:05.657,0:27:08.521
What does a sinner's prayer sound like?

0:27:08.521,0:27:09.929
How many of you have said

0:27:09.929,0:27:13.365
the sinner's prayer?

0:27:13.365,0:27:16.155
What does the sinner's prayer sound like?

0:27:16.155,0:27:20.654
What do you pray?

0:27:20.654,0:27:24.648
"Jesus, please come into my heart."

0:27:24.648,0:27:27.288
You know one of the dangerous things

0:27:27.288,0:27:30.255
about that prayer?

0:27:30.255,0:27:33.507
You don't find it anywhere in the Word of God.

0:27:33.507,0:27:37.379
Nowhere.

0:27:37.379,0:27:39.016
That's not how Jesus said

0:27:39.016,0:27:42.982
heaven is attained.

0:27:42.982,0:27:44.744
But you know what we've got?

0:27:44.744,0:27:47.030
We've got a world full of people

0:27:47.030,0:27:50.816
that are happy and ready to say,

0:27:50.816,0:27:53.169
"Jesus, I'm a sinner.

0:27:53.169,0:27:57.407
Please come into my heart."

0:27:57.407,0:28:00.286
And then you go enjoy all the idols,

0:28:00.286,0:28:04.382
all the sin,

0:28:04.382,0:28:06.738
love the same garbage on t.v.

0:28:06.738,0:28:09.277
that the rest of the world loves;

0:28:09.277,0:28:12.839
dress like them, look like them,

0:28:12.839,0:28:14.898
pursue all the things that the world wants.

0:28:14.898,0:28:16.871
Everybody wants to be able to

0:28:16.871,0:28:19.354
say the little prayer as fire insurance

0:28:19.354,0:28:20.706
to get out of hell

0:28:20.706,0:28:29.426
and then go live it up and have their sin.

0:28:29.426,0:28:31.260
Everybody loves to say

0:28:31.260,0:28:33.591
the little sinner's prayer

0:28:33.591,0:28:34.926
and then go sleep with

0:28:34.926,0:28:36.648
their girlfriend or their boyfriend.

0:28:36.648,0:28:37.916
And think well, I've got this taken care of.

0:28:37.916,0:28:39.728
I know this may not be exactly right,

0:28:39.728,0:28:41.608
and I know God may not approve of this,

0:28:41.608,0:28:44.847
but I said the prayer.

0:28:44.847,0:28:49.717
Listen, does that sound easy or hard?

0:28:49.717,0:28:52.312
Does it sound easy or hard

0:28:52.312,0:28:54.507
to go say a little prayer

0:28:54.507,0:28:55.521
and then just live it up

0:28:55.521,0:28:58.148
and enjoy all your sin?

0:28:58.148,0:29:00.319
That sounds real easy.

0:29:00.319,0:29:06.615
You know what, that sounds real similar

0:29:06.615,0:29:09.507
to a broad way that's easy,

0:29:09.507,0:29:14.768
but the end is destruction.

0:29:14.768,0:29:17.417
Destruction.

0:29:17.417,0:29:23.343
Versus, over here you've got life.

0:29:23.343,0:29:24.275
Life.

0:29:24.275,0:29:25.532
But the way is narrow.

0:29:25.532,0:29:27.188
You know what that means?

0:29:27.188,0:29:34.028
That means that if you're going that way,

0:29:34.028,0:29:35.897
most people are going to think

0:29:35.897,0:29:37.426
you're a fanatic.

0:29:37.426,0:29:39.641
I remember 20 years ago,

0:29:39.641,0:29:41.548
I came to the Lord.

0:29:41.548,0:29:42.975
You know what, when I was

0:29:42.975,0:29:44.948
growing up in high school,

0:29:44.948,0:29:50.270
most of my buddies were wild men.

0:29:50.270,0:29:52.391
We didn't think about church.

0:29:52.391,0:29:53.803
We didn't think about Christ.

0:29:53.803,0:29:55.883
We didn't even know what John 3:16 was.

0:29:55.883,0:29:57.411
We were watching football one time,

0:29:57.411,0:30:00.716
and there was this John 3:16 in the end zone.

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What is that?

0:30:02.604,0:30:05.938
One of the guys said something,

0:30:05.938,0:30:07.709
Oh I read that, it's from the Bible,

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and what does it say?

0:30:09.329,0:30:10.920
He said something - I don't think

0:30:10.920,0:30:12.897
it was anywhere close to being right.

0:30:12.897,0:30:14.560
But we were all mystified by it.

0:30:14.560,0:30:15.745
We didn't know.

0:30:15.745,0:30:19.807
We were just a bunch of wild pagan guys.

0:30:19.807,0:30:23.740
But in my class, there were a couple guys

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that were religious.

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Two of them.

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In all my class, I think there were only

0:30:28.633,0:30:29.881
two religious guys.

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One was Catholic, one was protestant.

0:30:34.594,0:30:36.661
Well, you know what?

0:30:36.661,0:30:39.733
When God saved me,

0:30:39.733,0:30:43.639
I joined a church softball league,

0:30:43.639,0:30:45.602
and we were going to go out into the outfield

0:30:45.602,0:30:47.402
and take batting practice out there

0:30:47.402,0:30:50.349
because the other team had the infield.

0:30:50.349,0:30:52.127
And on that team was this guy

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I went to high school with,

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and as I walked by him,

0:30:56.081,0:30:59.130
he said, "I have heard you have

0:30:59.130,0:31:02.826
become a 'Jesus freak.'"

0:31:02.826,0:31:04.720
And I turned around and I looked at him,

0:31:04.720,0:31:06.011
and I thought of all people

0:31:06.011,0:31:08.232
that I went to high school with

0:31:08.232,0:31:10.545
that I would have least expected that from

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it was this guy.

0:31:11.390,0:31:15.353
Because I thought you were religious!

0:31:15.353,0:31:17.477
And I said to him,

0:31:17.477,0:31:20.987
"Curt, how else can you be

0:31:20.987,0:31:23.547
when you find Christ?"

0:31:23.547,0:31:27.455
And what I realized for the first time,

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Curt was religious.

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But he was on the broad way.

0:31:34.408,0:31:36.451
He didn't know a thing.

0:31:36.451,0:31:37.723
You know what?

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When you're in the minority,

0:31:39.187,0:31:41.307
people think you're in a cult,

0:31:41.307,0:31:42.940
people think you're a radical,

0:31:42.940,0:31:44.847
they think you're a fanatic,

0:31:44.847,0:31:46.713
they think you've lost your mind.

0:31:46.713,0:31:50.930
Why? Because, if you're among the few,

0:31:50.930,0:31:52.968
if only a very few find it,

0:31:52.968,0:31:54.746
but the many are over here

0:31:54.746,0:31:55.726
guess what?

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You don't look like them!

0:31:57.957,0:31:59.669
You're different from them.

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Because you went through a different gate,

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you're on a different way,

0:32:03.778,0:32:06.061
and you're headed to a different end.

0:32:06.061,0:32:08.865
And it isn't the same.

0:32:08.865,0:32:10.515
You're on a hard way.

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And that way is not like their way.

0:32:13.926,0:32:15.956
So they're cruising through life easy,

0:32:15.956,0:32:17.239
and they see you over here,

0:32:17.239,0:32:18.504
you're on this hard way.

0:32:18.504,0:32:19.818
You're struggling.

0:32:19.818,0:32:21.774
You're struggling to fight sin.

0:32:21.774,0:32:23.140
You're struggling with the

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temptations of the world.

0:32:24.518,0:32:26.324
The onslaughts of the devil,

0:32:26.324,0:32:27.990
seeking to follow Christ.

0:32:27.990,0:32:31.124
And He takes you through some hard places.

0:32:31.124,0:32:32.238
And there you are,

0:32:32.238,0:32:33.465
and they're just cruising along,

0:32:33.465,0:32:35.348
and they look at you, and they think,

0:32:35.348,0:32:37.749
you are too rigid.

0:32:37.749,0:32:41.809
You're not right.

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I mean, just stop with that.

0:32:43.838,0:32:48.252
My step-dad came in in total frustration,

0:32:48.252,0:32:50.130
when God saved me,

0:32:50.130,0:32:53.731
he was trying to set me up to date

0:32:53.731,0:32:58.696
some young lady from Michigan State.

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And I wouldn't call her.

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He gave her my number.

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She was leaving messages on the

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answering machine

0:33:06.446,0:33:07.806
and I refused to call.

0:33:07.806,0:33:10.863
And he came in to my bedroom

0:33:10.863,0:33:12.787
in total frustration,

0:33:12.787,0:33:14.322
and he said,

0:33:14.322,0:33:19.431
"Religion is ok, but you've taken it too far."

0:33:19.431,0:33:21.698
But see that is what the people

0:33:21.698,0:33:24.239
on the broad way think.

0:33:24.239,0:33:26.614
You Christians are radicals.

0:33:26.614,0:33:27.773
And I'll tell you this,

0:33:27.773,0:33:30.982
you get on that narrow way,

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and the world's going to look at you that way.

0:33:33.220,0:33:34.926
They're going to say you're too tight,

0:33:34.926,0:33:36.731
you're too rigid, you're too narrow.

0:33:36.731,0:33:42.336
You're a freak.

0:33:42.336,0:33:44.079
I don't know how many times

0:33:44.079,0:33:46.971
people have called our church a cult.

0:33:46.971,0:33:48.240
Why?

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Because we're not like most churches.

0:33:51.321,0:33:52.123
Why?

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Because most churches are saying

0:33:54.149,0:33:55.924
say the sinner's prayer

0:33:55.924,0:33:59.599
and God's going to make you healthy and wealthy.

0:33:59.599,0:34:01.385
And then they run around the pulpit

0:34:01.385,0:34:04.216
speaking in tongues.

0:34:04.216,0:34:08.330
Let me tell you,

0:34:08.330,0:34:12.208
the Bible says through much tribulation

0:34:12.208,0:34:15.057
we will inherit the Kingdom of Heaven.

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That's why that path is difficult.

0:34:17.776,0:34:20.888
Listen, Jesus comes to you tonight,

0:34:20.888,0:34:23.682
and He says, I offer you heaven.

0:34:23.682,0:34:25.833
And I offer it to you freely.

0:34:25.833,0:34:27.501
and though that way be hard,

0:34:27.501,0:34:29.134
that doesn't mean that you have to

0:34:29.134,0:34:30.896
come pay Me a whole bunch.

0:34:30.896,0:34:34.116
He doesn't say that it's something

0:34:34.116,0:34:36.427
that you have to purchase at great

0:34:36.427,0:34:38.161
expense to you.

0:34:38.161,0:34:43.445
He purchased it at great expense to Him.

0:34:43.445,0:34:47.584
But lest you be deceived here tonight,

0:34:47.584,0:34:48.407
He says,

0:34:48.407,0:34:53.188
Come to Me and I will give you life freely.

0:34:53.188,0:34:56.538
But His call is always this:

0:34:56.538,0:34:58.628
Follow Me.

0:34:58.628,0:35:00.773
That path is very narrow

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because Jesus is leading the way on it.

0:35:03.632,0:35:05.976
And He takes us down a road

0:35:05.976,0:35:08.594
that you and I would typically not choose

0:35:08.594,0:35:11.075
if we had it in our power to choose.

0:35:11.075,0:35:12.299
But you know what?

0:35:12.299,0:35:14.690
He takes us down that path

0:35:14.690,0:35:19.248
in love, compassion...

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And He takes us down a path

0:35:22.295,0:35:25.669
where He comes in, and He will

0:35:25.669,0:35:30.931
cut your idols away from you.

0:35:30.931,0:35:37.212
And He will cut pride away from you.

0:35:37.212,0:35:40.388
You know what's difficult about that path?

0:35:40.388,0:35:44.757
It's a path of humility and humbling.

0:35:44.757,0:35:47.960
The people on this - they can have their pride.

0:35:47.960,0:35:49.622
You know what pride is?

0:35:49.622,0:35:52.285
It's self-love.

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You just love yourself.

0:35:53.695,0:35:55.049
You know why most people

0:35:55.049,0:35:57.039
don't get on the narrow way?

0:35:57.039,0:35:58.828
It really comes down to that.

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Self-idolatry.

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You see, people on the broad way,

0:36:02.448,0:36:03.960
they can have their self,

0:36:03.960,0:36:07.253
their selfish desires, their selfish ways.

0:36:07.253,0:36:11.021
They can have it "my way."

0:36:11.021,0:36:17.033
I can get to heaven and I can go my way.

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But all you have to do is look at the Scriptures.

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When Jesus came into this world,

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everybody He called,

0:36:23.784,0:36:25.657
He points to them and He says,

0:36:25.657,0:36:30.378
"Follow Me."

0:36:30.378,0:36:35.495
And if we follow Jesus,

0:36:35.495,0:36:36.876
as we're walking behind Him,

0:36:36.876,0:36:39.278
He says over His shoulder,

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"Learn of Me."

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"I am meek and lowly in spirit."

0:36:47.426,0:36:49.773
And He will break our pride.

0:36:49.773,0:36:52.405
He will break our self-trust.

0:36:52.405,0:36:57.850
He will purge us and cleanse us of idols.

0:36:57.850,0:36:59.828
You know what He says?

0:36:59.828,0:37:02.821
"Unless you forsake all that you have,

0:37:02.821,0:37:04.952
you cannot be My disciple."

0:37:04.952,0:37:08.052
That sound easy or hard?

0:37:08.052,0:37:11.856
Luke 14:33

0:37:11.856,0:37:15.705
"Unless you forsake all that you have,

0:37:15.705,0:37:18.091
you cannot be My disciple."

0:37:18.091,0:37:21.113
That does sound hard.

0:37:21.113,0:37:22.393
Jesus says,

0:37:22.393,0:37:27.360
I will save you, but I did not come to bargain.

0:37:27.360,0:37:29.172
I will be precious.

0:37:29.172,0:37:30.749
I will be all.

0:37:30.749,0:37:33.646
I will be the object of your affections.

0:37:33.646,0:37:35.623
I will be the object of your worship.

0:37:35.623,0:37:38.341
I will be the object of your devotion.

0:37:38.341,0:37:41.595
I will be Lord in your life.

0:37:41.595,0:37:44.572
I offer you salvation.

0:37:44.572,0:37:47.054
But He offers it to you on His terms.

0:37:47.054,0:37:49.409
You know what's easy about the broad way?

0:37:49.409,0:37:51.337
No terms! They're your terms.

0:37:51.337,0:37:53.623
You pretty much set the terms.

0:37:53.623,0:37:55.835
People on the broad way,

0:37:55.835,0:37:58.181
they pretty much say, hey, we're going to heaven,

0:37:58.181,0:38:01.305
we said the prayer, and the terms are,

0:38:01.305,0:38:02.684
Oh, God is just so loving,

0:38:02.684,0:38:05.460
He couldn't possibly throw me into hell anyways.

0:38:05.460,0:38:06.528
My terms.

0:38:06.528,0:38:08.137
I can have whatever sin...

0:38:08.137,0:38:09.209
And you know what?

0:38:09.209,0:38:10.543
People on the broad way,

0:38:10.543,0:38:13.672
you know how Jesus describes them in Matthew 7:23

0:38:13.672,0:38:14.890
and He says,

0:38:14.890,0:38:17.264
"Depart from Me..."

0:38:17.264,0:38:20.607
you workers of iniquity or you workers of lawlesness.

0:38:20.607,0:38:23.277
You know what people on the broad way do?

0:38:23.277,0:38:25.900
They commit all this lawlessness, all this iniquity,

0:38:25.900,0:38:27.865
they do all the things God hates.

0:38:27.865,0:38:29.669
But they imagine God in heaven

0:38:29.669,0:38:31.631
just smiling at them.

0:38:31.631,0:38:33.092
It's real easy.

0:38:33.092,0:38:34.905
They just recreate God.

0:38:34.905,0:38:36.234
Oh, God understands...

0:38:36.234,0:38:38.085
yeah, I'm sleeping with my girlfriend

0:38:38.085,0:38:41.240
but God understands - we love each other.

0:38:41.240,0:38:43.296
I know I went to that movie,

0:38:43.296,0:38:46.585
that R-rated filth that He probably doesn't approve of,

0:38:46.585,0:38:48.545
but come on, I mean He obviously

0:38:48.545,0:38:50.777
understands that we need to laugh sometimes.

0:38:50.777,0:38:54.249
So, it's easy. You just explain all your sin away.

0:38:54.249,0:38:57.030
You know, yeah, it's probably not the best thing,

0:38:57.030,0:39:02.349
but God is just pleased with me, He smiles on it.

0:39:02.349,0:39:08.031
In the end, you find out.

0:39:08.031,0:39:11.842
In the end, you come expecting heaven.

0:39:11.842,0:39:13.661
Can you imagine what it will be

0:39:13.661,0:39:20.420
to hear Jesus say to you, "Depart."

0:39:20.420,0:39:23.462
That'll be it.

0:39:23.462,0:39:26.979
There will be no plea.

0:39:26.979,0:39:29.766
There is no higher court.

0:39:29.766,0:39:32.469
You cannot appeal.

0:39:32.469,0:39:35.204
He is the authority.

0:39:35.204,0:39:39.279
He is the Judge.

0:39:39.279,0:39:43.478
When you stand before the judgment seat of Christ,

0:39:43.478,0:39:50.436
His verdict is full and final and complete.

0:39:50.436,0:39:51.873
Permanent.

0:39:51.873,0:39:53.644
And when He says, "Depart."

0:39:53.644,0:40:00.767
You will depart.

0:40:00.767,0:40:04.097
Listen.

0:40:04.097,0:40:13.563
Jesus Christ came into this world

0:40:13.563,0:40:18.077
to offer a way to life.

0:40:18.077,0:40:20.715
You see, I'm not up here tonight

0:40:20.715,0:40:23.414
telling you there's no way.

0:40:23.414,0:40:27.621
I'm just telling you the way is narrow.

0:40:27.621,0:40:29.344
That is a glorious reality.

0:40:29.344,0:40:32.434
That is one that ought to make you shout for joy.

0:40:32.434,0:40:33.423
There is a way!

0:40:33.423,0:40:35.529
You're not like the demons.

0:40:35.529,0:40:37.714
God has provided a way.

0:40:37.714,0:40:39.228
You know what?

0:40:39.228,0:40:42.515
Listen, if you want to go to heaven,

0:40:42.515,0:40:45.395
does it matter that the way is narrow or broad

0:40:45.395,0:40:46.871
that gets there?

0:40:46.871,0:40:48.905
The fact is, if there's a way there,

0:40:48.905,0:40:50.440
there's a way there.

0:40:50.440,0:40:52.630
And what I find in the Scriptures is

0:40:52.630,0:40:55.119
it's broad enough for you to fit on.

0:40:55.119,0:40:56.548
No, not with your sin,

0:40:56.548,0:40:59.471
your baggage, garbage, idolatry...

0:40:59.471,0:41:01.781
you've got to repent to get on that way,

0:41:01.781,0:41:03.916
and you've got to follow Christ that way.

0:41:03.916,0:41:06.193
And He's going to take you through hard ground.

0:41:06.193,0:41:07.084
But so be it!

0:41:07.084,0:41:08.427
There's a way!

0:41:08.427,0:41:10.611
And in the end, there's life!

0:41:10.611,0:41:12.960
And let me tell you about life.

0:41:12.960,0:41:15.737
Destruction may sound read bad and it is.

0:41:15.737,0:41:17.420
In fact, it's so bad, Jesus says

0:41:17.420,0:41:19.158
if you've got to cut off hands,

0:41:19.158,0:41:20.908
gouge out eyes, cut off feet

0:41:20.908,0:41:22.311
not to go there.

0:41:22.311,0:41:23.637
And He's talking about idols,

0:41:23.637,0:41:25.117
He's talking about sin.

0:41:25.117,0:41:27.407
If you've got to do radical amputation

0:41:27.407,0:41:29.937
to get to heaven, He says you better do it.

0:41:29.937,0:41:32.697
He says it is better to radically amputate

0:41:32.697,0:41:35.184
those things in your life that you want to

0:41:35.184,0:41:39.882
hold on to, cut them off and get to heaven.

0:41:39.882,0:41:42.844
Rather than to keep them and perish in hell.

0:41:42.844,0:41:45.353
Jesus said it is a fearful place.

0:41:45.353,0:41:47.202
It is a place you don't want to go.

0:41:47.202,0:41:52.530
It is a place, listen, if you go there, you go there.

0:41:52.530,0:41:54.713
And it's done and it's final.

0:41:54.713,0:41:57.343
But He comes and He says,

0:41:57.343,0:42:00.185
at the end of this is life.

0:42:00.185,0:42:01.831
And He says that He promises to give

0:42:01.831,0:42:03.506
men life more abundantly.

0:42:03.506,0:42:05.609
In fact, there's several places in the New Testament

0:42:05.609,0:42:07.660
where He calls it paradise.

0:42:07.660,0:42:10.429
And we see this picture in Matthew 13

0:42:10.429,0:42:12.398
of those that go there

0:42:12.398,0:42:15.028
shining like the sun in the kingdom

0:42:15.028,0:42:16.924
of their Father.

0:42:16.924,0:42:21.610
We find that there are pleasures

0:42:21.610,0:42:25.334
forevermore at His right hand.

0:42:25.334,0:42:30.282
We find there that Christ Himself

0:42:30.282,0:42:33.297
in all of His glory is the object of

0:42:33.297,0:42:35.706
the love and the affection of those

0:42:35.706,0:42:37.334
that are there.

0:42:37.334,0:42:41.853
Listen, I have to think that one of the reasons

0:42:41.853,0:42:55.021
that there is such weeping in hell,

0:42:55.021,0:42:59.233
it's not only for the hell they get,

0:42:59.233,0:43:05.691
but it's for what they could have had.

0:43:05.691,0:43:10.977
I imagine that Jesus Christ

0:43:10.977,0:43:15.117
will be the most fearful object imaginable

0:43:15.117,0:43:20.400
to those who are being cast away.

0:43:20.400,0:43:21.521
Think with me.

0:43:21.521,0:43:23.266
Can you imagine if it's you

0:43:23.266,0:43:25.714
that comes there on that day?

0:43:25.714,0:43:29.104
And Jesus says, "Depart."

0:43:29.104,0:43:31.093
But you see there were other people,

0:43:31.093,0:43:34.751
other people just like you with the same sins.

0:43:34.751,0:43:39.640
And Jesus is smiling at them.

0:43:39.640,0:43:45.670
And even as fearful and terrible as He is to you,

0:43:45.670,0:43:47.519
you'll recognize immediately

0:43:47.519,0:43:49.692
there is such glory,

0:43:49.692,0:43:54.366
there is such beauty,

0:43:54.366,0:44:01.286
you'll realize these people found the riches of all riches.

0:44:01.286,0:44:04.581
They found that which is bringing them

0:44:04.581,0:44:08.659
a joy; they have glory that is everlasting.

0:44:08.659,0:44:11.470
An eternal weight of glory.

0:44:11.470,0:44:14.208
You will see what you could have had.

0:44:14.208,0:44:17.015
It was offered to you.

0:44:17.015,0:44:19.675
And the thing is,

0:44:19.675,0:44:22.482
if you're told to depart,

0:44:22.482,0:44:23.935
you'll not be able to say,

0:44:23.935,0:44:27.142
mom, dad, it was your fault.

0:44:27.142,0:44:29.876
My friend that sat next to me,

0:44:29.876,0:44:34.490
distracted me, we walked out that night

0:44:34.490,0:44:36.969
and immediately...

0:44:36.969,0:44:39.126
you know what?

0:44:39.126,0:44:43.909
Every sinner that rejects Christ

0:44:43.909,0:44:50.403
and finds destruction in the end...

0:44:50.403,0:44:51.868
one of the reasons to weep is

0:44:51.868,0:44:56.380
because you will know it was all your fault.

0:44:56.380,0:45:01.047
You'll only have yourself to blame.

0:45:01.047,0:45:03.386
What misery.

0:45:03.386,0:45:11.245
You were the cause of your own spiritual suicide.

0:45:11.245,0:45:14.992
You did it to yourself.

0:45:14.992,0:45:22.024
When life was offered to you,

0:45:22.024,0:45:28.962
you willingly and freely chose to reject it.

0:45:28.962,0:45:34.236
What weeping, what bitter sorrow.

0:45:34.236,0:45:38.910
Jesus Christ went to that cross

0:45:38.910,0:45:41.509
and He suffered the very wrath.

0:45:41.509,0:45:44.779
He suffered that destruction

0:45:44.779,0:45:46.770
to open a way.

0:45:46.770,0:45:48.469
Yes, it's narrow.

0:45:48.469,0:45:50.678
But like I said before,

0:45:50.678,0:45:53.508
so what?

0:45:53.508,0:46:01.686
If it will get you to heaven, who cares?

0:46:01.686,0:46:05.101
He suffered the wrath of God,

0:46:05.101,0:46:08.203
that you might have life

0:46:08.203,0:46:11.455
and have it more abundantly.

0:46:11.455,0:46:14.173
Today is the day of salvation.

0:46:14.173,0:46:15.482
Don't put it off.

0:46:15.482,0:46:19.472
You don't know if you have tomorrow.

0:46:19.472,0:46:21.224
And I have seen it.

0:46:21.224,0:46:23.886
God is in the business of,

0:46:23.886,0:46:27.786
oftentimes, letting people hear the truth,

0:46:27.786,0:46:29.585
hear the message of life,

0:46:29.585,0:46:34.042
right before He cuts them off.

0:46:34.042,0:46:35.418
Lots of people...

0:46:35.418,0:46:40.852
That step-dad I told you about...

0:46:40.852,0:46:42.615
God brought him and sat him

0:46:42.615,0:46:46.139
under the Gospel,

0:46:46.139,0:46:49.964
he had a heart attack.

0:46:49.964,0:46:51.923
Then he had a stroke.

0:46:51.923,0:46:53.119
Then he had cancer.

0:46:53.119,0:46:54.753
Then he was dead.

0:46:54.753,0:47:01.172
And he rejected all the way to the end.

0:47:01.172,0:47:04.419
I have preached a number of times

0:47:04.419,0:47:07.303
to people -

0:47:07.303,0:47:14.652
within two weeks, a month, they were dead.

0:47:14.652,0:47:17.704
The Lord is very merciful to let you hear

0:47:17.704,0:47:21.004
a word of truth and a message of life.

0:47:21.004,0:47:25.410
Jesus Christ says to you right now,

0:47:25.410,0:47:32.479
"Follow Me."

0:47:32.479,0:47:34.409
You say how do I do that?

0:47:34.409,0:47:35.580
I can't see Him.

0:47:35.580,0:47:36.683
You call unto Him.

0:47:36.683,0:47:37.962
You cry out to Him.

0:47:37.962,0:47:39.941
You say that sounds like a sinner's prayer.

0:47:39.941,0:47:41.481
No, I'm not talking about

0:47:41.481,0:47:43.484
any little formula that you do.

0:47:43.484,0:47:46.251
I'm talking about if you're sitting there today

0:47:46.251,0:47:49.334
and you realize that you're not a good person.

0:47:49.334,0:47:51.222
He came to seek and save.

0:47:51.222,0:47:57.258
You know why this narrow way is hard?

0:47:57.258,0:47:59.846
Because people that go in there

0:47:59.846,0:48:02.822
realize they deserve hell,

0:48:02.822,0:48:04.953
they realize they're bad people,

0:48:04.953,0:48:07.424
and they realize they've got a ton of sin

0:48:07.424,0:48:09.286
that reaches up to heaven

0:48:09.286,0:48:10.829
and screams against them.

0:48:10.829,0:48:12.327
And they go in that way

0:48:12.327,0:48:14.138
no matter how hard it is

0:48:14.138,0:48:16.426
because that is the way where Christ is

0:48:16.426,0:48:17.677
and they need Him

0:48:17.677,0:48:20.105
and they see in Him a suitable Savior.

0:48:20.105,0:48:21.776
You know why that way is so easy?

0:48:21.776,0:48:23.732
Because the people that are on it,

0:48:23.732,0:48:24.705
if you ask them,

0:48:24.705,0:48:25.837
are you good people?

0:48:25.837,0:48:27.865
Yeah, we're all just a bunch of good old boys.

0:48:27.865,0:48:30.691
We're good people.

0:48:30.691,0:48:32.764
Of course, Christ is going to accept us

0:48:32.764,0:48:33.711
in the end.

0:48:33.711,0:48:34.989
They're good people.

0:48:34.989,0:48:36.417
But let me tell you this,

0:48:36.417,0:48:38.230
the Spirit of God came into this world

0:48:38.230,0:48:43.085
to convince and convict men of sin.

0:48:43.085,0:48:47.346
And convince you that your righteousness is rags.

0:48:47.346,0:48:49.522
It is filthy in God's sight.

0:48:49.522,0:48:51.240
You have nothing to offer Him,

0:48:51.240,0:48:52.771
no matter how good you've been,

0:48:52.771,0:48:57.799
it's been so plagued and so corrupted by sin

0:48:57.799,0:49:02.340
that God cannot look at it, cannot stand it,

0:49:02.340,0:49:04.518
God cannot accept it.

0:49:04.518,0:49:06.212
And you deserve hell.

0:49:06.212,0:49:07.541
You deserve it.

0:49:07.541,0:49:08.817
Listen.

0:49:08.817,0:49:10.665
One thing nobody's going to argue

0:49:10.665,0:49:13.385
that goes and ends up in destruction in the end.

0:49:13.385,0:49:14.748
Nobody is going to argue

0:49:14.748,0:49:16.543
the fact that they deserve to be there.

0:49:16.543,0:49:18.736
But I'll tell you before they get there,

0:49:18.736,0:49:20.232
before judgment day,

0:49:20.232,0:49:22.326
that way is so easy

0:49:22.326,0:49:26.656
because people think, "I don't deserve hell."

0:49:26.656,0:49:29.487
"I'm a pretty good person."

0:49:29.487,0:49:32.672
Think with me about the answer.

0:49:32.672,0:49:34.205
We asked this girl,

0:49:34.205,0:49:36.478
"are you going to heaven?"

0:49:36.478,0:49:41.483
"Well, I sing for the church choir."

0:49:41.483,0:49:44.857
That's not what we asked you.

0:49:44.857,0:49:48.783
But you see, people on that road...

0:49:48.783,0:49:52.410
Of course, if I sing in the church choir,

0:49:52.410,0:49:55.525
I'm a good person.

0:49:55.525,0:49:57.610
It's just easy.

0:49:57.610,0:50:00.598
It's just like a flowing river.

0:50:00.598,0:50:04.226
You just flop in there

0:50:04.226,0:50:07.259
and you go with the flow.

0:50:07.259,0:50:08.838
This way's hard

0:50:08.838,0:50:11.577
because you're going against the stream all the time.

0:50:11.577,0:50:13.481
You're going up river.

0:50:13.481,0:50:15.105
You're going against the world,

0:50:15.105,0:50:16.720
you're going against everybody around you,

0:50:16.720,0:50:17.897
people in your family,

0:50:17.897,0:50:20.614
people that were your friends...

0:50:20.614,0:50:22.996
they suddenly don't want to be your friends anymore.

0:50:22.996,0:50:24.089
Why?

0:50:24.089,0:50:26.054
Because you love what they hate,

0:50:26.054,0:50:28.175
you hate what they love.

0:50:28.175,0:50:30.092
And they don't want to run with you anymore.

0:50:30.092,0:50:31.531
That's what happened to me.

0:50:31.531,0:50:33.040
You ask most of these guys out here

0:50:33.040,0:50:34.333
that have been converted.

0:50:34.333,0:50:35.930
That happened to them.

0:50:35.930,0:50:38.258
You don't run with the same crowd anymore.

0:50:38.258,0:50:44.341
But if you're sitting here today

0:50:44.341,0:50:49.203
and you have a sense,

0:50:49.203,0:50:51.245
what this guy's saying is right.

0:50:51.245,0:50:52.130
I do deserve hell.

0:50:52.130,0:50:54.907
I know it.

0:50:54.907,0:50:57.411
I've done enough things in my life

0:50:57.411,0:51:02.501
to warrant hell a hundred times over.

0:51:02.501,0:51:06.662
You realize that unless you find a Savior,

0:51:06.662,0:51:09.544
that's exactly where you're headed.

0:51:09.544,0:51:11.489
You see, there is a picture

0:51:11.489,0:51:13.547
in the Scriptures of a man,

0:51:13.547,0:51:15.628
he wouldn't even look to heaven.

0:51:15.628,0:51:18.832
And he beat on his breast.

0:51:18.832,0:51:24.891
He said, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner."

0:51:24.891,0:51:28.067
Jesus said that man went home justified.

0:51:28.067,0:51:29.545
You know what that means?

0:51:29.545,0:51:30.827
It means that he went home

0:51:30.827,0:51:33.240
declared righteous.

0:51:33.240,0:51:35.498
He went home saved.

0:51:35.498,0:51:40.981
He went home on the narrow way.

0:51:40.981,0:51:42.724
But you get in there not by saying

0:51:42.724,0:51:45.334
I'm a pretty good person,

0:51:45.334,0:51:48.132
I say my little sinner's prayer.

0:51:48.132,0:51:49.407
Nope.

0:51:49.407,0:51:52.576
If that's all that's happened to you, you're on this way.

0:51:52.576,0:51:54.070
And I'll tell you, get off.

0:51:54.070,0:51:55.872
Because you're in the flow, you're in the current,

0:51:55.872,0:51:57.460
you're going to perish in the end.

0:51:57.460,0:51:59.061
You say, well, I've never heard that before.

0:51:59.061,0:52:01.365
It doesn't matter if you've heard that before.

0:52:01.365,0:52:02.666
This is what the Scripture says.

0:52:02.666,0:52:04.152
You need to search it for yourself.

0:52:04.152,0:52:05.987
You need to read Luke 13.

0:52:05.987,0:52:07.152
Read Luke 14.

0:52:07.152,0:52:08.840
Read Matthew 7.

0:52:08.840,0:52:12.193
This is what Christ is saying in the Word of God.

0:52:12.193,0:52:13.786
Read Luke 19.

0:52:13.786,0:52:16.773
This is what He's saying.

0:52:16.773,0:52:18.627
The Bible says you're going to have

0:52:18.627,0:52:20.336
all sorts of people that are going to

0:52:20.336,0:52:22.328
come and tickle your ears.

0:52:22.328,0:52:24.388
The world is full of ear ticklers

0:52:24.388,0:52:28.001
that are going to tell you the way to heaven is easy.

0:52:28.001,0:52:29.435
But if they tell you that,

0:52:29.435,0:52:30.989
then be certain,

0:52:30.989,0:52:32.445
what they're really doing is

0:52:32.445,0:52:35.160
they're trying to put you on the broad way.

0:52:35.160,0:52:38.253
They're just lying to you.

0:52:38.253,0:52:40.809
They're deceiving you.

0:52:40.809,0:52:43.116
And they're destroying you.

0:52:43.116,0:52:49.385
And it sounds good; it sounds easy.

0:52:49.385,0:52:54.071
But in the end, there will be hell to pay.

0:52:54.071,0:52:57.880
I bid you, come.

0:52:57.880,0:52:59.407
Come with me.

0:52:59.407,0:53:04.893
Twenty years ago, Jesus bid me come.

0:53:04.893,0:53:06.784
And I knew it.

0:53:06.784,0:53:09.530
I was going to be destroyed.

0:53:09.530,0:53:11.835
I deserved hell. I knew it.

0:53:11.835,0:53:16.970
My sin was so wicked and so vile.

0:53:16.970,0:53:19.360
I knew I wasn't good.

0:53:19.360,0:53:21.624
And I heard His voice.

0:53:21.624,0:53:23.272
It said, "Come."

0:53:23.272,0:53:25.919
And I'll tell you this,

0:53:25.919,0:53:28.726
has it proved hard?

0:53:28.726,0:53:30.444
Yep. Harder than I ever

0:53:30.444,0:53:32.908
could have imagined in the beginning.

0:53:32.908,0:53:35.210
But I'll tell you this,

0:53:35.210,0:53:36.568
though there's few on it,

0:53:36.568,0:53:37.851
there are few on it.

0:53:37.851,0:53:39.855
And so I've found others that are on it!

0:53:39.855,0:53:41.277
And they're like me.

0:53:41.277,0:53:43.680
And you say, well, what, the few of you

0:53:43.680,0:53:44.725
you get to go along

0:53:44.725,0:53:46.718
all miserable together on that hard road.

0:53:46.718,0:53:48.914
No, that's not how it is.

0:53:48.914,0:53:51.135
As hard as it is,

0:53:51.135,0:53:54.683
Jesus said, "Follow Me."

0:53:54.683,0:53:57.110
You see, we're following in His footsteps.

0:53:57.110,0:53:58.406
This is the path He took.

0:53:58.406,0:54:00.217
And He promised to be with us.

0:54:00.217,0:54:01.619
And He gives us joy.

0:54:01.619,0:54:03.318
And though life here is hard,

0:54:03.318,0:54:07.542
it's full of joy, it's full of hope,

0:54:07.542,0:54:14.803
it's full of many glorious realities.

0:54:14.803,0:54:17.895
And in the end,

0:54:17.895,0:54:20.542
we get Christ.

0:54:20.542,0:54:22.154
And we get to be like Him,

0:54:22.154,0:54:23.593
and we get paradise,

0:54:23.593,0:54:24.888
and we get joy,

0:54:24.888,0:54:26.045
and we get to shine

0:54:26.045,0:54:29.156
like the sun at noontime,

0:54:29.156,0:54:31.693
in the Kingdom of our Father.

0:54:31.693,0:54:35.665
We get such glories called in the Bible

0:54:35.665,0:54:38.301
an eternal weight of glory.

0:54:38.301,0:54:42.207
We get the riches of Christ.

0:54:42.207,0:54:45.108
We are heirs to the most glorious

0:54:45.108,0:54:47.215
fortune ever.

0:54:47.215,0:54:49.703
And I'm not talking in a worldly sense.

0:54:49.703,0:54:53.454
And I'm not the one calling this place paradise.

0:54:53.454,0:54:54.804
Jesus called it that.

0:54:54.804,0:54:57.827
And if anybody knows the right assessment of things,

0:54:57.827,0:54:59.065
like I said before,

0:54:59.065,0:55:00.871
if anybody can answer the questions,

0:55:00.871,0:55:04.525
He can.

0:55:04.525,0:55:06.916
Listen.

0:55:06.916,0:55:12.063
If you find that this resonates with you.

0:55:12.063,0:55:14.056
You're saying yes, this is what I need.

0:55:14.056,0:55:17.030
Don't go out of this place tonight

0:55:17.030,0:55:19.095
and go shake it off

0:55:19.095,0:55:21.002
and go be foolish with your friends.

0:55:21.002,0:55:22.976
I mean get serious with the Lord.

0:55:22.976,0:55:24.959
Do business with the Lord.

0:55:24.959,0:55:26.695
You go find someplace,

0:55:26.695,0:55:28.065
and you cry out to Him.

0:55:28.065,0:55:29.980
Do it right where you sit right now.

0:55:29.980,0:55:32.019
Plead with Him, "God save me!

0:55:32.019,0:55:34.016
I see myself to be like that.

0:55:34.016,0:55:35.735
I don't care how hard the way is.

0:55:35.735,0:55:38.355
I need to be saved."

0:55:38.355,0:55:39.405
And I'll tell you,

0:55:39.405,0:55:41.190
as hard as it is,

0:55:41.190,0:55:43.753
Jesus is tender.

0:55:43.753,0:55:45.930
And He's compassionate.

0:55:45.930,0:55:48.543
And it's only hard because as He

0:55:48.543,0:55:52.251
strips us of our sin, it hurts.

0:55:52.251,0:55:56.207
And as He smashes our pride, it's painful.

0:55:56.207,0:56:01.110
And as He molds us,

0:56:01.110,0:56:04.044
and causes us to take on more and more

0:56:04.044,0:56:06.927
of the image of His glory,

0:56:06.927,0:56:09.507
He has to shatter us,

0:56:09.507,0:56:11.281
and break us,

0:56:11.281,0:56:12.763
and crush us,

0:56:12.763,0:56:14.959
and it hurts.

0:56:14.959,0:56:16.951
It hurts.

0:56:16.951,0:56:18.382
But it's good.

0:56:18.382,0:56:21.083
He wounds us that He might heal us.

0:56:21.083,0:56:22.600
But it's good.

0:56:22.600,0:56:24.479
Because what He really wants to do

0:56:24.479,0:56:28.335
is work righteousness in us.

0:56:28.335,0:56:32.699
He wants to present us blameless

0:56:32.699,0:56:36.162
and spotless as a bride for Himself

0:56:36.162,0:56:38.509
in that day.

0:56:38.509,0:56:43.992
At the end of that narrow way is glory.

0:56:43.992,0:56:45.956
And you know what?

0:56:45.956,0:56:50.997
The hard way - it's only for a little while.

0:56:50.997,0:56:53.526
And then the glory beyond it is forever.

0:56:53.526,0:56:56.960
The easy way - that, too, is only for a little while.

0:56:56.960,0:57:00.985
It's only easy for a little while.

0:57:00.985,0:57:05.058
In the end, it gets real hard.

0:57:05.058,0:57:10.052
Destruction.

0:57:10.052,0:57:17.539
And I'll just leave you with this thought:

0:57:17.539,0:57:26.403
The Bible says that God is not partial.

0:57:26.403,0:57:31.543
That's an important word to leave you with.

0:57:31.543,0:57:33.041
You know why?

0:57:33.041,0:57:38.541
Because you are partial.

0:57:38.541,0:57:42.602
Let me explain.

0:57:42.602,0:57:44.877
You think much more highly of yourself

0:57:44.877,0:57:48.912
typically than you ought.

0:57:48.912,0:57:51.359
Most of us can easily find fault

0:57:51.359,0:57:52.961
with others,

0:57:52.961,0:57:54.807
but when the same fault's in ourselves,

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we don't see it near as well, right?

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You know why that is?

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We're partial.

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We're partial to ourselves.

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Let me tell you something,

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God is not partial.

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You would never throw you into hell.

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And by the way, that word "throw."

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It's in the Bible.

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God throws people into hell.

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You say, I would never throw me into hell.

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That's because you're partial.

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If you find yourself on judgment day

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outside of Christ,

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no matter how much you love you,

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God will throw you into that lake of fire.

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He is not partial.

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But you don't need to be there on that day

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without Christ.

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He bids you this very day,

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Come unto Me,

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you that labor and are heavy laden

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under your sin.

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Come unto Me.

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And I will give you rest.

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Is the way hard that leads to life?

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Yes.

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But it's a restful way.

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Those two may seem at odds with each other,

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but they're not.

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You can be in a hard place

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and be at rest.

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You know why?

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Because you can be fighting with sin,

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and fighting with the devil,

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and still feel the guilt of all my sin

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lifted off and laid on Christ.

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You can still battle

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and feel the freedom of my sin,

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not in part but the whole

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is nailed to that cross

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and I bear it no more.

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Praise the Lord,

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Praise the Lord.

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May God help you.