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You're going out of the world someday.
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That day
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with your number on it,
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it's coming.
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You're going to die. Where are you going?
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To what are you going to
face on the other side?
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And God warns you.
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And He warns you by the flood.
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He warns you through Adam.
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He warns you through the Amorites.
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He warns you by Sodom and Gomorrah.
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He warns you through a
double destruction of Jerusalem.
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He told those people the same thing.
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If you don't obey My voice,
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I am going to wipe you
off the face of the earth.
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And they kept on and they
kept on and they kept on.
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Can you imagine those prophets?
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One prophet after another,
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decade after decade,
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another prophet comes and warns:
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Death is coming. Destruction is coming.
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God is going to wipe you out.
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"Yeah, yeah, yeah...
we've heard that before."
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"Kill that guy. Throw that guy in jail."
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"Where is it?"
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And they kept saying it. And it came.
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And the Babylonians came.
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And then it happened all over again.
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And even Jesus came and they killed Him.
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And then the Romans came.
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These things are warnings.
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He warns you in His Word.
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You must stand before Him
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and He is going to
judge you in righteousness.
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Can you imagine those folks in Noah's day?
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See them. Hear them.
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Listen to them!
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That day,
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"Hey, Noah's not working
on the ark anymore.
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The door's shut.
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Yeah, and the clouds are looking strange.
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It looks dark."
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And this was no ordinary rain.
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Something began to happen -
something threatening.
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I'll tell you what had happened.
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Time ran out.
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It was over.
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Mercy was exhausted.
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God's patience had come to an end.
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And when those first drops of rain
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began to fall down,
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that door was shut.
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Remember how it says it in the Gospel?
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"And the door was shut."
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And those servants, those five virgins
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that were on the outside,
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when the door is shut, the door is shut.
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Today is the day of salvation.
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If you foolishly laugh and mock
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and play on and eat and drink
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and plant and marry,
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and that door gets shut and takes you,
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you're a fool.
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You were warned.
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This is a warning you want to take
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with the utmost of your attention.
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Imagine that!
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That door shut. God sealed them in.
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The one place of refuge... gone.
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If you let death take you
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and you're outside of Christ,
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it's gone.
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All hope is gone.
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Who is laughing then?
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I don't know.
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Some of them probably said we've
got to get to high ground.
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Some probably banged and clawed
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on the side of that ark.
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It was all for naught.
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They were doomed.
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They had crossed the point of no return.
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There's no more safety.
There's no more hiding place.
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It's too late.
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There was a place of salvation.
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God did provide a way of escape.
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They laughed at it.
They ignored it. They ridiculed it.
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Christ is the ark.
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There is not another.
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When He comes, the door is shut.
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When you die, the door is shut.
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This excerpt was taken
from the full sermon
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"Dying You Shall Die"