WEBVTT 00:00:00.917 --> 00:00:02.477 That great day 00:00:02.477 --> 00:00:05.981 every soul is going to be there. 00:00:05.981 --> 00:00:08.254 They are all going to be there. 00:00:08.254 --> 00:00:09.898 Every man, 00:00:09.898 --> 00:00:11.141 woman, 00:00:11.141 --> 00:00:12.468 boy and girl, 00:00:12.468 --> 00:00:15.763 old and young. 00:00:15.763 --> 00:00:20.328 All the wealthy and successful. 00:00:20.328 --> 00:00:26.049 As well as every penniless beggar. 00:00:26.049 --> 00:00:30.003 All the wise. 00:00:30.003 --> 00:00:32.558 The intelligent. 00:00:32.558 --> 00:00:33.598 The accredited. 00:00:33.598 --> 00:00:37.341 Those with their academic excellence. 00:00:37.341 --> 00:00:39.120 Every fool. 00:00:39.120 --> 00:00:40.478 The morons. 00:00:40.478 --> 00:00:42.916 The slow witted. 00:00:42.916 --> 00:00:44.602 The powerful! 00:00:44.602 --> 00:00:47.267 And the weak. 00:00:47.267 --> 00:00:50.207 The honest and the deceitful. 00:00:50.207 --> 00:00:52.894 The righteous martyr 00:00:52.894 --> 00:00:55.114 as well as the human butchers 00:00:55.114 --> 00:00:58.800 who murdered the saints. 00:00:58.800 --> 00:01:00.156 The drug runners, the pimps, 00:01:00.156 --> 00:01:02.033 and the prostitutes. 00:01:02.033 --> 00:01:05.074 The false professors and the hypocrites. 00:01:05.074 --> 00:01:06.236 The timid. 00:01:06.236 --> 00:01:07.271 The fearful. 00:01:07.271 --> 00:01:09.255 And the unbelieving. 00:01:09.255 --> 00:01:13.255 All who love worldly life more than God. 00:01:13.255 --> 00:01:15.247 All are going to be there. 00:01:15.247 --> 00:01:18.219 And everybody's going to be stripped... 00:01:18.219 --> 00:01:20.577 of everything 00:01:20.577 --> 00:01:28.009 that flesh and wit and world 00:01:28.009 --> 00:01:32.723 and wickedness has won for them. 00:01:32.723 --> 00:01:36.192 Everything that your own strength of your flesh, 00:01:36.192 --> 00:01:39.135 your own intelligence, 00:01:39.135 --> 00:01:40.997 your own wit, 00:01:40.997 --> 00:01:42.882 and your own wickedness and device, 00:01:42.882 --> 00:01:44.086 and your own hard work. 00:01:44.086 --> 00:01:45.415 All that you put together 00:01:45.415 --> 00:01:47.469 to protect yourself and care for yourself 00:01:47.469 --> 00:01:48.703 and insure yourself 00:01:48.703 --> 00:01:50.724 and comfort yourself. 00:01:50.724 --> 00:01:53.381 You won't have any of it. 00:01:53.381 --> 00:01:55.169 You'll be brought back to ground zero 00:01:55.169 --> 00:01:58.485 without money, without possessions, 00:01:58.485 --> 00:02:03.359 without power. 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:07.957 But more awful than anything else, 00:02:07.957 --> 00:02:13.305 as far as the unrighteous are concerned, 00:02:13.305 --> 00:02:15.430 without Advocate. 00:02:15.430 --> 00:02:19.850 There won't be one voice in the universe 00:02:19.850 --> 00:02:26.180 to say one word good for you. 00:02:26.180 --> 00:02:28.119 Not one. 00:02:28.119 --> 00:02:29.469 You stand alone. 00:02:29.469 --> 00:02:31.754 Everybody else is worried about himself. 00:02:31.754 --> 00:02:34.979 No voice, no voice. 00:02:34.979 --> 00:02:36.832 No voice to comfort. 00:02:36.832 --> 00:02:39.199 No voice to defend. 00:02:39.199 --> 00:02:44.653 None whatsoever. 00:02:44.653 --> 00:02:47.240 Even if I wasn't a Christian, 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:48.893 if I had a hard day in this world, 00:02:48.893 --> 00:02:52.036 and everybody gave me a beating and a kicking around and a cussing, 00:02:52.036 --> 00:02:54.928 when I got home, I would tell my wife and she would put her arm around me 00:02:54.928 --> 00:02:57.443 and hug me and say, "That is alright, honey. I love you. 00:02:57.443 --> 00:03:00.109 You're alright. Don't you pay any attention to that." 00:03:00.109 --> 00:03:03.214 There won't even be that. 00:03:03.214 --> 00:03:04.865 None at all. 00:03:04.865 --> 00:03:06.747 None. 00:03:06.747 --> 00:03:08.932 Credentials will be gone. 00:03:08.932 --> 00:03:11.744 All the honors and accolades that have been given to men, 00:03:11.744 --> 00:03:12.920 their worldly applause, 00:03:12.920 --> 00:03:18.362 the hands have stopped clapping. 00:03:18.362 --> 00:03:22.349 The fine robes with the medals 00:03:22.349 --> 00:03:23.767 and the honors and the crowns 00:03:23.767 --> 00:03:25.303 and the stations and the badges 00:03:25.303 --> 00:03:29.954 and the seals of authority and position! 00:03:29.954 --> 00:03:31.804 Gone! 00:03:31.804 --> 00:03:33.577 Naked. 00:03:33.577 --> 00:03:34.959 Nothing left. All gone. 00:03:34.959 --> 00:03:38.007 Everything that sets men apart 00:03:38.007 --> 00:03:39.771 and above other men. 00:03:39.771 --> 00:03:46.987 All that is gone. 00:03:46.987 --> 00:03:51.183 Nothing to plead your cause. 00:03:51.183 --> 00:03:54.284 Nothing to plead your case 00:03:54.284 --> 00:03:57.259 before Him. 00:03:57.259 --> 00:04:00.817 All things are open to clear with Him with whom we have to do. 00:04:00.817 --> 00:04:02.400 He is separating. 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:03.897 What we are; 00:04:03.897 --> 00:04:08.030 what we have done is crystal clear to Him. 00:04:08.030 --> 00:04:10.784 We are going to be stripped of all of our pretenses. 00:04:10.784 --> 00:04:12.424 Our lives will avail nothing. 00:04:12.424 --> 00:04:15.781 The hypocritical veil 00:04:15.781 --> 00:04:19.297 that all of us wear - 00:04:19.297 --> 00:04:23.039 going to be stripped away. 00:04:23.039 --> 00:04:26.293 Now don't tell me you don't have any. 00:04:26.293 --> 00:04:30.142 You do. 00:04:30.142 --> 00:04:32.132 Why else when you want to say something; 00:04:32.132 --> 00:04:33.902 when you want to be real honest, 00:04:33.902 --> 00:04:37.419 you say, "Honestly, I'm telling you honestly speaking." 00:04:37.419 --> 00:04:39.231 "I am going to be perfectly frank." 00:04:39.231 --> 00:04:40.875 Well, the reason you say that is 00:04:40.875 --> 00:04:42.699 you are not always perfectly honest. 00:04:42.699 --> 00:04:44.614 You are a little hypocritical. 00:04:44.614 --> 00:04:47.485 All that is going to be gone. 00:04:47.485 --> 00:04:50.463 Even those hypocrisies that you don't know about 00:04:50.463 --> 00:04:51.312 that you have; 00:04:51.312 --> 00:04:54.756 they are going to be gone. 00:04:54.756 --> 00:04:58.814 That is all going to be there. 00:04:58.814 --> 00:05:01.026 The exposure of every wicked deed 00:05:01.026 --> 00:05:04.652 and every impious thought. 00:05:04.652 --> 00:05:06.582 The Bible says every idle word 00:05:06.582 --> 00:05:08.623 that men shall speak in that day 00:05:08.623 --> 00:05:10.205 shall be brought to account. 00:05:10.205 --> 00:05:12.112 All those slanders. 00:05:12.112 --> 00:05:14.004 That murmuring and railing that you did 00:05:14.004 --> 00:05:16.537 behind someone's back. 00:05:16.537 --> 00:05:21.899 Every shameful thought. 00:05:21.899 --> 00:05:24.462 The most impious; the most lurid 00:05:24.462 --> 00:05:29.968 cogitations of your mind. 00:05:29.968 --> 00:05:34.012 Every dirty word you have ever said. 00:05:34.012 --> 00:05:39.692 Every bad deed weighed for its wickedness. 00:05:39.692 --> 00:05:44.528 And the full punishment pronounced 00:05:44.528 --> 00:05:51.574 for every one of them. 00:05:51.574 --> 00:05:54.130 All comprehended and weighed 00:05:54.130 --> 00:05:59.360 in this one awful, awful, awful final word. 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:03.057 "Depart from Me ye wicked." 00:06:03.057 --> 00:06:05.731 "Get out of My sight 00:06:05.731 --> 00:06:07.560 unto everlasting punishment." 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:10.217 Prepared not for mankind 00:06:10.217 --> 00:06:12.140 but for the devil and his angels. 00:06:12.140 --> 00:06:13.820 You like the devil. 00:06:13.820 --> 00:06:16.447 You preferred the company of demons 00:06:16.447 --> 00:06:18.236 than the sweet blessed communion 00:06:18.236 --> 00:06:19.288 of the Holy Ghost. 00:06:19.288 --> 00:06:21.021 You enjoyed them. 00:06:21.021 --> 00:06:22.238 They aided you. 00:06:22.238 --> 00:06:23.981 Now you can spend eternity with them 00:06:23.981 --> 00:06:25.941 and listen to their mocking and railing 00:06:25.941 --> 00:06:27.607 and accusations and share 00:06:27.607 --> 00:06:30.208 their eternal everlasting punishment. 00:06:30.208 --> 00:06:32.763 Don't get mad at me about this. 00:06:32.763 --> 00:06:35.558 You say, "I don't like that hellfire damnation preaching." 00:06:35.558 --> 00:06:37.324 There's too much of it in the Bible. 00:06:37.324 --> 00:06:40.388 We've been silent about it too long. 00:06:40.388 --> 00:06:42.557 "Depart from Me ye cursed!" 00:06:42.557 --> 00:06:44.744 God says that! 00:06:44.744 --> 00:06:46.560 The suffering Savior says that! 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:48.361 The compassionate Son of God; 00:06:48.361 --> 00:06:50.059 He who died for men - 00:06:50.059 --> 00:06:51.421 He says that. 00:06:51.421 --> 00:06:54.828 "Depart from Me ye cursed 00:06:54.828 --> 00:06:58.796 into everlasting fire." 00:06:58.796 --> 00:07:01.920 But there is another aspect to it. 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:05.496 Both the sheep as well as the goats are there. 00:07:05.496 --> 00:07:08.995 There will be the revelation of every righteous deed, 00:07:08.995 --> 00:07:11.449 even and especially those of which 00:07:11.449 --> 00:07:13.957 we're not aware. 00:07:13.957 --> 00:07:15.727 Who is going to bring those out? 00:07:15.727 --> 00:07:18.354 The Lord is... 00:07:18.354 --> 00:07:20.713 He is going to tell us what we've done 00:07:20.713 --> 00:07:22.807 that is right. 00:07:22.807 --> 00:07:23.972 Now here on this earth 00:07:23.972 --> 00:07:25.088 you have men lie to you 00:07:25.088 --> 00:07:27.346 and give you flattering lips and brag on you. 00:07:27.346 --> 00:07:29.019 You know they lie when they do it, 00:07:29.019 --> 00:07:30.363 but you like to hear it. 00:07:30.363 --> 00:07:32.317 But the fact that men have said it, 00:07:32.317 --> 00:07:34.810 and you know that men are deceitful and flattering, 00:07:34.810 --> 00:07:36.448 detracts from the enjoyment of it. 00:07:36.448 --> 00:07:40.370 When the Lord says it, 00:07:40.370 --> 00:07:43.148 you know it is so. 00:07:43.148 --> 00:07:47.800 They will be brought out and commended by the Lord. 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:49.375 Every one of them. 00:07:49.375 --> 00:07:52.543 Not one cup of water given 00:07:52.543 --> 00:07:54.032 in the name of the Lord 00:07:54.032 --> 00:07:55.942 shall lose its reward. 00:07:55.942 --> 00:07:59.214 Do you think about that? 00:07:59.214 --> 00:08:01.662 That it is utterly impossible for you 00:08:01.662 --> 00:08:03.950 to do one right virtuous deed 00:08:03.950 --> 00:08:05.143 on the face of this earth 00:08:05.143 --> 00:08:09.043 and that slip by without His notice? 00:08:09.043 --> 00:08:12.118 Very few people know how good you are. 00:08:12.118 --> 00:08:15.449 Not too many people know about your good deeds. 00:08:15.449 --> 00:08:18.490 But dear friend, God knows about them. 00:08:18.490 --> 00:08:20.501 Every one of them. 00:08:20.501 --> 00:08:23.695 Now you talk about a motivation. 00:08:23.695 --> 00:08:27.329 You want to lay up some treasure? 00:08:27.329 --> 00:08:34.997 You want to prepare for your retirement? 00:08:34.997 --> 00:08:37.261 And then that greatest; 00:08:37.261 --> 00:08:39.306 that most blessed; 00:08:39.306 --> 00:08:40.848 that ultimate in comfort; 00:08:40.848 --> 00:08:44.864 the sweetest sound that ears could ever hear, 00:08:44.864 --> 00:08:48.191 "Come ye blessed of My Father." 00:08:48.191 --> 00:08:49.943 That is what you are. 00:08:49.943 --> 00:08:53.381 You are the blessed of My Father. 00:08:53.381 --> 00:08:55.569 "Enter into the rest prepared..." 00:08:55.569 --> 00:08:58.449 Not for the angels, but for you. 00:08:58.449 --> 00:09:01.430 From the foundation of the world. 00:09:01.430 --> 00:09:03.988 Oh dear friend, just as sure as we're sitting here 00:09:03.988 --> 00:09:05.611 breathing God's air this morning, 00:09:05.611 --> 00:09:07.028 you and I are going to hear 00:09:07.028 --> 00:09:10.252 one or the other of those two words. 00:09:10.252 --> 00:09:13.991 "Come ye blessed." 00:09:13.991 --> 00:09:17.263 "Depart ye cursed." 00:09:17.263 --> 00:09:21.973 So would it be that you would be ready 00:09:21.973 --> 00:09:24.153 to meet Him? 00:09:24.153 --> 00:09:26.959 Prepared for that great day, 00:09:26.959 --> 00:09:29.793 whether it come while we are living 00:09:29.793 --> 00:09:31.176 or after we are dead. 00:09:31.176 --> 00:09:33.959 Not going to make a wit of a bit of difference. 00:09:33.959 --> 00:09:40.122 We are going to be gathered before Him.