0:00:10.923,0:00:13.102 I mean, if there's not a love for Christ, 0:00:13.102,0:00:14.805 if He isn't your all in all, 0:00:14.805,0:00:16.683 if He isn't what drives your life, 0:00:16.683,0:00:19.674 if He isn't the center and the core 0:00:19.674,0:00:23.843 and the main movement of your whole life, 0:00:23.843,0:00:30.148 if your life isn't just [br]revolving around Him, 0:00:30.148,0:00:36.093 you're going to get [br]thrown away in the end. 0:00:36.093,0:00:37.556 Can I tell you something? 0:00:37.556,0:00:40.555 The wicked and the righteous - 0:00:40.555,0:00:41.994 they're here in this room. 0:00:41.994,0:00:43.255 We're here together. 0:00:43.255,0:00:46.495 We're in the same net right now. 0:00:46.495,0:00:48.703 We can't tell, 0:00:48.703,0:00:50.065 but the day's coming. 0:00:50.065,0:00:56.553 Right now, we're in close [br]proximity with each other. 0:00:56.553,0:01:00.433 So much so, sometimes even [br]the most discerning of us, 0:01:00.433,0:01:03.003 we can't tell. 0:01:03.003,0:01:05.043 But the day's coming 0:01:05.043,0:01:06.913 when a separation's going to be made 0:01:06.913,0:01:08.391 and it's going to be final. 0:01:08.391,0:01:09.982 We'll never be together 0:01:09.982,0:01:12.113 ever again. 0:01:12.113,0:01:15.235 Because you know what? [br]In that Kingdom of Heaven, 0:01:15.235,0:01:16.644 no liar is there. 0:01:16.644,0:01:19.904 No coward is there.[br]No adulterer is there. 0:01:19.904,0:01:22.234 All the dogs, 0:01:22.234,0:01:24.436 all the sorcerers, 0:01:24.436,0:01:27.024 all those cowards, they're on the outside 0:01:27.024,0:01:28.453 forevermore. 0:01:28.453,0:01:30.770 The separation is final. 0:01:30.770,0:01:34.295 The separation is absolutely right. 0:01:34.295,0:01:37.665 It is absolutely perfect. 0:01:37.665,0:01:39.564 In professing Christianity, 0:01:39.564,0:01:41.751 there is the true and the false, 0:01:41.751,0:01:44.270 but a day is coming when both 0:01:44.270,0:01:46.670 will be clearly distinguished 0:01:46.670,0:01:49.651 and separated forever. 0:01:49.651,0:01:52.921 Ladies and gentlemen, this is us. 0:01:52.921,0:01:55.151 I'm not talking about a fairy tale 0:01:55.151,0:01:56.720 or some Hollywood creation, 0:01:56.720,0:01:58.489 and I'm not talking about something 0:01:58.489,0:02:00.049 that happened a long time ago 0:02:00.049,0:02:01.448 or in a far away place. 0:02:01.448,0:02:03.540 I'm talking about us. 0:02:03.540,0:02:06.760 We have all been drug along 0:02:06.760,0:02:08.599 and are being pulled along 0:02:08.599,0:02:10.847 by the Gospel net. 0:02:10.847,0:02:13.390 I'm in here right now [br]because of the Gospel. 0:02:13.390,0:02:14.937 And for one reason or another, 0:02:14.937,0:02:16.489 I suspect you are too, 0:02:16.489,0:02:18.190 even if you're a child of somebody 0:02:18.190,0:02:19.428 that came for that reason, 0:02:19.428,0:02:20.989 and you didn't want to be here. 0:02:20.989,0:02:23.100 Or your friend dragged you in or whatever. 0:02:23.100,0:02:24.828 You've gotten pulled by this thing 0:02:24.828,0:02:27.720 one way or another. 0:02:27.720,0:02:31.061 This is us. 0:02:31.061,0:02:36.161 Those angels are going to separate us. 0:02:36.161,0:02:37.778 This is real. 0:02:37.778,0:02:40.220 This is true. 0:02:40.220,0:02:42.688 Jesus Christ came - 0:02:42.688,0:02:44.369 do you know what He told Pilate 0:02:44.369,0:02:46.671 about why He came into the world? 0:02:46.671,0:02:48.839 To bear witness to the truth. 0:02:48.839,0:02:50.570 And I'll guarantee you if He says 0:02:50.570,0:02:52.542 the Kingdom of Heaven is like this, 0:02:52.542,0:02:53.889 it's because it is. 0:02:53.889,0:02:55.399 And this day is coming 0:02:55.399,0:02:57.548 and this separation is going to happen. 0:02:57.548,0:02:59.488 Both are right now in the net: 0:02:59.488,0:03:00.889 wicked and righteous. 0:03:00.889,0:03:02.450 Though there's many kinds, 0:03:02.450,0:03:05.048 bottom line, there's only two. 0:03:05.048,0:03:07.961 He says there is the evil or the wicked, 0:03:07.961,0:03:10.959 and He says there is the righteous. 0:03:10.959,0:03:14.356 Look, there is not a third category. 0:03:14.356,0:03:15.468 There is not. 0:03:15.468,0:03:16.799 You have people today: 0:03:16.799,0:03:18.110 "I don't go to church." 0:03:18.110,0:03:20.206 "I don't bow to Christ." 0:03:20.206,0:03:21.510 "I don't pray to Christ." 0:03:21.510,0:03:24.150 "But... you know, I don't go 0:03:24.150,0:03:27.295 persecute His people either." 0:03:27.295,0:03:28.541 Listen, Jesus says, 0:03:28.541,0:03:32.008 "If you're not for Me, you're against Me." 0:03:32.008,0:03:33.651 Lay it down. 0:03:33.651,0:03:37.339 You're for Him or you're against Him. 0:03:37.339,0:03:39.150 I'm not talking about whether you 0:03:39.150,0:03:40.760 come to church or not. 0:03:40.760,0:03:42.666 This says there's many in the net 0:03:42.666,0:03:44.283 that are going to be tossed out. 0:03:44.283,0:03:45.988 It doesn't have to do with whether 0:03:45.988,0:03:47.810 you say, "Lord, Lord." 0:03:47.810,0:03:49.408 He says it's not everybody 0:03:49.408,0:03:50.607 that uses My name, 0:03:50.607,0:03:52.061 that says to Me, "Lord, Lord," 0:03:52.061,0:03:55.196 that's going to enter the [br]Kingdom of Heaven. 0:03:55.196,0:03:56.938 You know who it is? 0:03:56.938,0:03:59.931 It's those who have been [br]genuinely born again. 0:03:59.931,0:04:05.210 That's somebody - a new [br]creation in Christ, 0:04:05.210,0:04:09.590 who now, out of a transformed reality, 0:04:09.590,0:04:13.183 they do the will of the Father. 0:04:13.183,0:04:15.071 They practice righteousness. 0:04:15.071,0:04:16.621 Is that not the description? 0:04:16.621,0:04:18.433 My wife was hitting 1 John. 0:04:18.433,0:04:21.683 1 John 3:9-10 - you see [br]that kind of reality. 0:04:21.683,0:04:25.514 If you're born of God, [br]you practice righteousness. 0:04:25.514,0:04:28.492 (Incomplete thought) 0:04:28.492,0:04:29.978 You know the thing about this? 0:04:29.978,0:04:32.782 You know the fact about this 0:04:32.782,0:04:35.360 is that when we talk about the evil 0:04:35.360,0:04:37.981 and the righteous, 0:04:37.981,0:04:42.680 nobody ever thinks they're the evil. 0:04:42.680,0:04:44.941 We have them in this room, 0:04:44.941,0:04:46.997 but you don't think you are. 0:04:46.997,0:04:49.273 The thing is, it's not even just those 0:04:49.273,0:04:50.901 that are caught in the net. 0:04:50.901,0:04:52.960 It's those that are out in the sea still 0:04:52.960,0:04:54.650 that aren't in the net. 0:04:54.650,0:04:56.489 You go around to these homes out here, 0:04:56.489,0:04:58.961 people think they're pretty [br]good people, don't they? 0:04:58.961,0:05:02.664 I mean, you go out and ask, it's amazing. 0:05:02.664,0:05:04.792 You can go to a prison 0:05:04.792,0:05:06.831 where people are armed robbers, 0:05:06.831,0:05:08.420 murderers, and rapists, 0:05:08.420,0:05:09.970 and they're pretty good people. 0:05:09.970,0:05:12.030 They think they're pretty good. 0:05:12.030,0:05:14.560 You know, who is wicked? 0:05:14.560,0:05:16.192 Hitler. Right? 0:05:16.192,0:05:19.218 Everybody says Hitler. Hitler is wicked. 0:05:19.218,0:05:25.720 You know anybody else that's wicked? 0:05:25.720,0:05:28.431 You know what Scripture says? 0:05:28.431,0:05:31.071 In 2 Thessalonians 2:12, 0:05:31.071,0:05:33.811 when Jesus comes, 0:05:33.811,0:05:35.348 He is going to condemn - 0:05:35.348,0:05:36.789 now check this out - 0:05:36.789,0:05:38.640 He is going to condemn 0:05:38.640,0:05:46.670 all who had pleasure in unrighteousness. 0:05:46.670,0:05:51.681 You say, "I went to church." 0:05:51.681,0:05:53.462 A profession of faith 0:05:53.462,0:05:56.201 is no guarantee you're saved. 0:05:56.201,0:05:58.663 The fact that you sing the songs 0:05:58.663,0:06:01.320 and even feel good feelings over the songs 0:06:01.320,0:06:03.900 and say "Lord, Lord" in the songs, 0:06:03.900,0:06:05.687 and cast out demons, 0:06:05.687,0:06:08.101 and do many mighty works, 0:06:08.101,0:06:09.430 and all those things - 0:06:09.430,0:06:14.254 the Scripture says there [br]are no guarantees there. 0:06:14.254,0:06:17.583 No guarantees. 0:06:17.583,0:06:19.051 Think with me here. 0:06:19.051,0:06:21.461 They had pleasure in unrighteousness. 0:06:21.461,0:06:23.830 That's what you need to ask yourself. 0:06:23.830,0:06:26.640 Can you sit back and watch a filthy movie 0:06:26.640,0:06:28.378 and take good pleasure in that? 0:06:28.378,0:06:30.758 Can you hear a guy tell [br]a dirty joke at work 0:06:30.758,0:06:32.900 and you laugh at that? 0:06:32.900,0:06:35.290 I mean, you're just going through life, 0:06:35.290,0:06:36.938 and you're just taking pleasure 0:06:36.938,0:06:37.883 in unrighteousness. 0:06:37.883,0:06:41.109 You take pleasure in gaining money. 0:06:41.109,0:06:43.301 You take pleasure in the things 0:06:43.301,0:06:45.530 that the world takes pleasure in. 0:06:45.530,0:06:47.490 You take pleasure in sports 0:06:47.490,0:06:49.371 or in sewing or gardening 0:06:49.371,0:06:51.870 or whatever it is 0:06:51.870,0:06:53.879 over and above Christ. 0:06:53.879,0:06:56.472 Christ is not first.[br]Christ is not chief. 0:06:56.472,0:06:59.200 Christ is not loved. 0:06:59.200,0:07:01.401 (incomplete thought) 0:07:01.401,0:07:02.780 How about Romans 2? 0:07:02.780,0:07:04.528 "But for those who are self-seeking 0:07:04.528,0:07:05.880 and do not obey the truth, 0:07:05.880,0:07:07.090 but obey unrighteousness, 0:07:07.090,0:07:08.638 there will be wrath and fury." 0:07:08.638,0:07:11.670 All you have to do is be self-seeking. 0:07:11.670,0:07:14.510 Look, you don't have to go through life 0:07:14.510,0:07:17.832 living in the gutter; 0:07:17.832,0:07:20.361 living the life of a prostitute[br]or a drug addict 0:07:20.361,0:07:22.191 or living in all sorts of heinous sin. 0:07:22.191,0:07:24.487 You can just be a moral person. 0:07:24.487,0:07:27.150 You just want to do life your way. 0:07:27.150,0:07:30.180 You're self-seeking. 0:07:30.180,0:07:31.701 You know, you'll look pretty good, 0:07:31.701,0:07:33.231 pretty respectable. 0:07:33.231,0:07:35.531 You'll even go to church, 0:07:35.531,0:07:38.649 but God forbid Jesus Christ 0:07:38.649,0:07:42.460 command your life totally, 0:07:42.460,0:07:46.849 and you forsake all and bow at His cross. 0:07:46.849,0:07:48.388 Just self-seeking. 0:07:48.388,0:07:50.118 Taking pleasure in unrighteousness. 0:07:50.118,0:07:51.669 These are the people in the end 0:07:51.669,0:07:53.889 who are these bad fish. 0:07:53.889,0:07:56.311 And they're separated from the good. 0:07:56.311,0:07:57.389 They're separated. 0:07:57.389,0:07:59.264 They're tossed out. 0:07:59.264,0:08:03.160 The test is not whether [br]you make a profession. 0:08:03.160,0:08:05.449 It is the fruit of your life. 0:08:05.449,0:08:06.839 That's why in the end, 0:08:06.839,0:08:08.009 we're going to be judged 0:08:08.009,0:08:09.770 based on our works. 0:08:09.770,0:08:11.457 You say, aren't we saved by faith? 0:08:11.457,0:08:14.262 Well, yes. Then why are [br]we judged by works? 0:08:14.262,0:08:17.619 Because true faith always produces 0:08:17.619,0:08:19.579 love for Christ. 0:08:19.579,0:08:22.008 It always produces a love for His ways, 0:08:22.008,0:08:23.490 a love to be ruled by Him, 0:08:23.490,0:08:26.560 a love for His commandments. 0:08:26.560,0:08:28.039 That's always the case. 0:08:28.039,0:08:29.719 The love of Christ. 0:08:29.719,0:08:33.058 Brethren, you have the other parable. 0:08:33.058,0:08:34.831 The man's walking along [br]through the field 0:08:34.831,0:08:36.049 and finds the treasure. 0:08:36.049,0:08:37.730 He goes and sells all that he has 0:08:37.730,0:08:39.420 so that he can have the treasure. 0:08:39.420,0:08:41.470 I'll tell you what, that's forsaking all. 0:08:41.470,0:08:43.457 Why? Why will a man forsake everything? 0:08:43.457,0:08:44.852 Because he's found something 0:08:44.852,0:08:46.159 that's a greater treasure. 0:08:46.159,0:08:48.059 And when people's eyes are truly opened 0:08:48.059,0:08:50.920 to behold the glory of God [br]in the face of Jesus Christ, 0:08:50.920,0:08:53.051 they will abandon everything. 0:08:53.051,0:08:54.887 They will abandon. And you know what? 0:08:54.887,0:08:57.130 You don't have to be [br]around people too long. 0:08:57.130,0:09:02.190 you can tell people who [br]are religious church-goers 0:09:02.190,0:09:05.900 versus somebody who loves Christ. 0:09:05.900,0:09:08.620 I mean, you can tell.[br]You can tell the difference. 0:09:08.620,0:09:10.117 I was just reading about 0:09:10.117,0:09:13.650 one of those first Great Awakenings - 0:09:13.650,0:09:16.387 Daniel Rowland - he was a key 0:09:16.387,0:09:18.600 Great Awakening figure out of Wales. 0:09:18.600,0:09:22.879 And he said this: lost men love doctrine. 0:09:22.879,0:09:25.179 I'm not saying saved [br]men don't like it too, 0:09:25.179,0:09:28.679 but his very point was [br]lost men love doctrine. 0:09:28.679,0:09:32.242 Saved men love Christ. 0:09:32.242,0:09:33.929 Oh, you can get somebody 0:09:33.929,0:09:36.410 that wants to argue all the [br]five points of Calvinism 0:09:36.410,0:09:40.009 and they want to argue [br]the supralapsarianism 0:09:40.009,0:09:41.439 Sam was talking about before. 0:09:41.439,0:09:42.860 They want to argue election.[br] 0:09:42.860,0:09:45.198 They want to argue about all these things. 0:09:45.198,0:09:47.260 Bottom line, you can [br]tell the true Christian 0:09:47.260,0:09:49.580 despite what his theology might look like. 0:09:49.580,0:09:51.201 They can be Arminian to the core, 0:09:51.201,0:09:52.911 but you can tell people [br]when you're around them, 0:09:52.911,0:09:54.659 they are surrendered to Christ 0:09:54.659,0:09:56.691 and they love Him. 0:09:56.691,0:09:58.119 And they walk in the light 0:09:58.119,0:10:02.382 of the glory of Him. 0:10:02.382,0:10:03.642 Let me tell you this. 0:10:03.642,0:10:07.410 Men and women are thrown into hell. 0:10:07.410,0:10:09.039 They're not just put there. 0:10:09.039,0:10:11.250 They're thrown there. 0:10:11.250,0:10:14.320 It is like a repulsive thing. 0:10:14.320,0:10:16.301 It's these holy angels. 0:10:16.301,0:10:18.410 (incomplete thought) 0:10:18.410,0:10:23.999 It's like, even a man like Paul could say, 0:10:23.999,0:10:27.489 right there as he's [br]wrapping up 1 Corinthians 0:10:27.489,0:10:29.400 at the end of chapter 16, 0:10:29.400,0:10:32.411 he says let everybody be cursed 0:10:32.411,0:10:35.968 who does not love the Lord Jesus Christ. 0:10:35.968,0:10:37.691 It's that kind of thing. 0:10:37.691,0:10:39.453 They find these fish 0:10:39.453,0:10:41.100 who they were in the church, 0:10:41.100,0:10:42.761 they were among God's people. 0:10:42.761,0:10:44.576 They got pulled in. 0:10:44.576,0:10:46.258 They're like that one that's found 0:10:46.258,0:10:49.261 at the wedding without the garment on. 0:10:49.261,0:10:51.131 They're naked. They're filthy. 0:10:51.131,0:10:52.971 They're nasty. They're vile. 0:10:52.971,0:10:54.493 And these angels, 0:10:54.493,0:10:56.299 it's like they're so repulsive 0:10:56.299,0:10:57.960 they're just cast. 0:10:57.960,0:11:00.191 They're thrown. They're rejected. 0:11:00.191,0:11:03.461 Men are thrown into hell. 0:11:03.461,0:11:06.940 It is a fearful thing. 0:11:06.940,0:11:08.698 You know, one thing that's just true 0:11:08.698,0:11:10.861 of every one of us? 0:11:10.861,0:11:12.860 You know how the Scripture says 0:11:12.860,0:11:14.700 God is no respecter of men. 0:11:14.700,0:11:17.961 We are respecters of men. 0:11:17.961,0:11:21.730 The truth is everyone of us [br]in this room respects ourself. 0:11:21.730,0:11:24.410 I mean, there are things we [br]just would not want done. 0:11:24.410,0:11:26.988 Somebody throwing us into hell. 0:11:26.988,0:11:30.082 People will say, "My God's not like that." 0:11:30.082,0:11:31.670 But let me tell you something, 0:11:31.670,0:11:34.081 the God of the Scriptures is like that. 0:11:34.081,0:11:35.870 And the problem is 0:11:35.870,0:11:38.002 it doesn't have so much to do with 0:11:38.002,0:11:40.461 what God's like -[br]well, it does in a great way, 0:11:40.461,0:11:42.754 but it has a lot to do [br]with what you're like. 0:11:42.754,0:11:45.524 You see, people have a very [br]high view of themselves. 0:11:45.524,0:11:48.141 You know what it takes 0:11:48.141,0:11:51.040 for a holy God to cast sinners 0:11:51.040,0:11:52.509 into hell like that? 0:11:52.509,0:11:54.600 In such a detestable fashion? 0:11:54.600,0:11:56.221 It has to do with how filthy 0:11:56.221,0:11:58.340 and how ugly and how useless 0:11:58.340,0:12:00.061 and how wicked and how sinful 0:12:00.061,0:12:01.666 you truly are. 0:12:01.666,0:12:03.439 See, we're respecters of self, 0:12:03.439,0:12:05.079 so we generally have 0:12:05.079,0:12:07.348 much higher views of ourselves 0:12:07.348,0:12:08.990 than what we ought to have. 0:12:08.990,0:12:12.952 Even as Christians, that's true. 0:12:12.952,0:12:14.717 But God is no respecter. 0:12:14.717,0:12:17.730 And if He finds you in that net 0:12:17.730,0:12:21.219 in that day by way of His angels, 0:12:21.219,0:12:23.311 if you're found in that net, 0:12:23.311,0:12:27.011 and you're found there in that condition, 0:12:27.011,0:12:30.420 you are going to be thrown away. 0:12:30.420,0:12:32.490 It is going to be violent. 0:12:32.490,0:12:34.219 It is going to be on purpose. 0:12:34.219,0:12:37.329 And God is going to [br]be no respecter of you. 0:12:37.329,0:12:41.437 And in that time, the [br]age of the net is done. 0:12:41.437,0:12:45.043 Men typically look in this life 0:12:45.043,0:12:46.344 for a second chance. 0:12:46.344,0:12:47.468 You know, we get sick. 0:12:47.468,0:12:49.718 We have this idea we're [br]going to get well again. 0:12:49.718,0:12:51.220 You lose a job, you have an idea 0:12:51.220,0:12:52.958 that you're going to get [br]another job again. 0:12:52.958,0:12:54.749 And this life is full of second chances, 0:12:54.749,0:12:56.360 but I'll tell you in that day, 0:12:56.360,0:12:58.770 there will be no more casting of the net. 0:12:58.770,0:13:00.864 There will be no more offer of mercy. 0:13:00.864,0:13:02.838 There will be no more offer of grace. 0:13:02.838,0:13:07.656 No more offer of God's compassion. 0:13:07.656,0:13:09.809 You know what happens? 0:13:09.809,0:13:11.392 They're thrown out there 0:13:11.392,0:13:14.000 and there is weeping [br]and gnashing of teeth. 0:13:14.000,0:13:15.709 And I'll tell you one of the things 0:13:15.709,0:13:18.860 that will induce weeping in the damned 0:13:18.860,0:13:21.133 if they were in the net - 0:13:21.133,0:13:23.262 think with me here - 0:13:23.262,0:13:26.938 think with me if you're [br]like one of the demons. 0:13:26.938,0:13:31.026 The demons fell into sin. 0:13:31.026,0:13:32.819 The lake of fire has been created 0:13:32.819,0:13:37.790 for Satan and for his demons. 0:13:37.790,0:13:41.349 You sinned. You got what you deserved. 0:13:41.349,0:13:43.130 Justice came. 0:13:43.130,0:13:45.168 You're in the lake of fire. 0:13:45.168,0:13:46.789 It's horrible. 0:13:46.789,0:13:49.566 It's horrible beyond imagination 0:13:49.566,0:13:54.001 because the punishment is horrid. 0:13:54.001,0:13:56.354 But can you imagine 0:13:56.354,0:13:57.961 to be in the lake of fire 0:13:57.961,0:14:00.911 and to be a man or a woman? 0:14:00.911,0:14:02.952 To belong to a race 0:14:02.952,0:14:07.802 to whom a Savior was sent? 0:14:07.802,0:14:08.978 But you know what, 0:14:08.978,0:14:13.687 we support missions in Papua New Guinea. 0:14:13.687,0:14:17.390 What if you're one of those cannibals 0:14:17.390,0:14:21.031 and you died before [br]the missionary ever came? 0:14:21.031,0:14:22.420 That's miserable. 0:14:22.420,0:14:23.911 That's miserable being in hell 0:14:23.911,0:14:26.949 and to know you deserved it. 0:14:26.949,0:14:28.978 But how much will it intensify it to know 0:14:28.978,0:14:32.509 that a Savior was sent to your race, 0:14:32.509,0:14:34.618 but you never heard? 0:14:34.618,0:14:40.318 But in creation, there was light. 0:14:40.318,0:14:43.150 You realized there was a God 0:14:43.150,0:14:46.012 and you rejected it. 0:14:46.012,0:14:49.542 But I'll tell you this, 0:14:49.542,0:14:52.538 to not be like a devil, 0:14:52.538,0:14:55.169 to not be like the cannibal, 0:14:55.169,0:14:58.769 but to be like you - 0:14:58.769,0:15:01.430 to have sat in the church; 0:15:01.430,0:15:04.928 to have sat under the Gospel; 0:15:04.928,0:15:07.519 to have had Christ offered 0:15:07.519,0:15:08.672 right before you, 0:15:08.672,0:15:12.310 the cross set up in your sight, 0:15:12.310,0:15:16.740 Christ publicly portrayed as crucified. 0:15:16.740,0:15:19.092 If any one of you in this room 0:15:19.092,0:15:22.220 ends up cast away, thrown away, 0:15:22.220,0:15:26.039 your weeping will be the most intolerable. 0:15:26.039,0:15:30.140 To know that you had Christ set 0:15:30.140,0:15:32.449 right there before you; 0:15:32.449,0:15:36.380 right there. 0:15:36.380,0:15:38.420 And you chose your sin. 0:15:38.420,0:15:39.950 You would not bow your knee. 0:15:39.950,0:15:42.597 You would rather take [br]pleasure in unrighteousness. 0:15:42.597,0:15:44.151 There was some idol in your life 0:15:44.151,0:15:45.259 that you held on to. 0:15:45.259,0:15:46.849 You will weep. 0:15:46.849,0:15:52.319 It will be the most distressing thing 0:15:52.319,0:15:56.630 to suffer punishment rightfully, 0:15:56.630,0:15:59.842 justly like the demons. 0:15:59.842,0:16:01.180 It's horrible! 0:16:01.180,0:16:02.630 But to know, 0:16:02.630,0:16:05.098 I had eternal life - 0:16:05.098,0:16:06.601 not only did I have an escape 0:16:06.601,0:16:10.768 out of this place I find myself in, 0:16:10.768,0:16:15.140 but it wouldn't just to have [br]been brought to nothing, 0:16:15.140,0:16:16.921 or annihilated, 0:16:16.921,0:16:19.139 or just to have been [br]relieved from the pain. 0:16:19.139,0:16:20.480 There was a Heaven. 0:16:20.480,0:16:21.709 There was a glory. 0:16:21.709,0:16:24.188 There was a Paradise to be had 0:16:24.188,0:16:25.690 and I despised it. 0:16:25.690,0:16:29.051 It was eternal, and [br]I rather forsook Christ. 0:16:29.051,0:16:30.691 I turned my back on Him. 0:16:30.691,0:16:32.381 I didn't listen to the preacher. 0:16:32.381,0:16:34.291 I thought more about the football game. 0:16:34.291,0:16:35.820 I thought more about the work. 0:16:35.820,0:16:37.130 I thought more about money. 0:16:37.130,0:16:38.900 I thought more about sex 0:16:38.900,0:16:40.587 and all the gods of this world. 0:16:40.587,0:16:42.710 I thought more about drinking and drugs 0:16:42.710,0:16:45.239 and partying and pleasure and fun 0:16:45.239,0:16:46.670 and being with my friends, 0:16:46.670,0:16:48.901 and I chose that over Christ. 0:16:48.901,0:16:50.777 And I sat there in the church. 0:16:50.777,0:16:52.782 I heard Sam and others 0:16:52.782,0:16:54.071 stand in that pulpit, 0:16:54.071,0:16:56.134 and week after week, I heard it, 0:16:56.134,0:16:58.041 and I rejected it. 0:16:58.041,0:17:00.259 I went out and I shook myself 0:17:00.259,0:17:01.571 like Samson did, 0:17:01.571,0:17:03.688 and I just blew it off. 0:17:03.688,0:17:07.777 I wanted those demons to come like birds 0:17:07.777,0:17:09.167 and pick the seed away. 0:17:09.167,0:17:10.609 I wanted it. 0:17:10.609,0:17:12.384 I tried to douse my conscience. 0:17:12.384,0:17:14.800 I didn't want to feel it. 0:17:14.800,0:17:16.950 And it says not only do they weep, 0:17:16.950,0:17:20.619 it says they gnash with their teeth. 0:17:20.619,0:17:23.082 Christ is altogether lovely. 0:17:23.082,0:17:25.080 He is altogether glorious. 0:17:25.080,0:17:27.551 And there isn't a thing in this world 0:17:27.551,0:17:29.031 that is worth holding on to 0:17:29.031,0:17:30.221 because you know what? 0:17:30.221,0:17:32.141 There isn't a thing in this world 0:17:32.141,0:17:34.760 that you're going to [br]be able to hold on to. 0:17:34.760,0:17:37.649 It's all going to be taken away. 0:17:37.649,0:17:40.148 I mean, what a fool that person is 0:17:40.148,0:17:41.700 to hold on to something 0:17:41.700,0:17:43.662 and reject Christ, 0:17:43.662,0:17:46.420 that they're going to [br]lose in the end anyway. 0:17:46.420,0:17:48.552 Absolutely foolish. 0:17:48.552,0:17:51.686 Jesus Christ was nailed to that cross 0:17:51.686,0:17:55.491 and He bore the wrath of God Almighty. 0:17:55.491,0:17:57.769 He drank that cup. 0:17:57.769,0:18:00.260 Even in anticipation of it, 0:18:00.260,0:18:02.759 He said, "I sorrow unto death." 0:18:02.759,0:18:06.342 Even the contemplation by the Son of God, 0:18:06.342,0:18:09.651 the mighty Son of God even contemplating 0:18:09.651,0:18:14.616 what horrors lie in wait for the damned, 0:18:14.616,0:18:18.041 that He must drink on [br]behalf of His people. 0:18:18.041,0:18:21.891 The Son of God - it brought Him 0:18:21.891,0:18:23.570 to the point of death. 0:18:23.570,0:18:25.428 He sorrowed unto death. 0:18:25.428,0:18:27.840 He sweat great drops of blood. 0:18:27.840,0:18:29.670 And He went to that cross, 0:18:29.670,0:18:31.699 and the sun forbeared to shine 0:18:31.699,0:18:33.420 and the wrath of God Almighty 0:18:33.420,0:18:36.971 fell upon Him. 0:18:36.971,0:18:40.032 The weeping and gnashing of teeth is real. 0:18:40.032,0:18:41.841 He bore my weeping 0:18:41.841,0:18:43.811 and my gnashing of teeth. 0:18:43.811,0:18:44.958 He bore it. 0:18:44.958,0:18:47.469 Full, poured on His head. 0:18:47.469,0:18:50.558 I am free.