Judgment Day is Real - Tim Conway

If I were to open this door right now

and take you out there,

and I was to show you

what is described in the book of Revelation

where it talks about the wrath of God Almighty.

It talks about the smoke of their torment

going up forever and ever in the presence

of the Lamb.

If I could take you out there

and I could show you a picture of the lake of fire

as it's described in Revelation 20

on that day when the books are opened;

if I could show you the many multitudes

who are going to be frantically crying out,

"Lord! Lord!"

They already know something's wrong.

Most of them came out of a holding place

of the damned.

They have been kept in chains

for that day of judgment.

They already know something is wrong.

They are not in paradise.

They already know.

But it's like one last, frantic plea:

"Lord! Lord!"

They're trying to reason.

They're trying to find some way

to reason with the Lord

to not ultimately cast them into that lake of fire.

If I could take us all out there,

and we could look at it and we could see

what the judgment of the damned

really looks like.

If you could know it the way it really is.

What would your approach be towards the lost

Now?

Let me tell you something,

if I could take you out that door right now

and take you into Isaiah 6

into the temple the day that Isaiah went there

in the year that King Uzziah died,

when he saw the Lord high and lifted up

and His train filled the temple

and the place was full of smoke

and it was like
an earthquake in the place;

the doorposts trembled at the sound

coming from the seraphim
as they cried out,

"Holy, holy, holy."

And this man was seized with fear.

The prophet.

And he fell on his face,

and he cried out, "Woe is me."

If I could take you right now

and show you the vision of Christ

exalted in His glory like that,

and then come back here
and sit down

you would be in stunned silence.

Some of you would be weeping.

Some of you would be shouting

in absolute terror.

Some of you not even
seeing it anymore

would just be on your face,

and I don't think you would move
for a day or two.

If I could take you out
that door right now,

and I could show you the fullness

of what Paul meant when he said

an eternal weight of glory.

If I could take you out
that door right now

and show you

you, yourself...

from a camera's perspective;

a third person perspective;

if I could show you what it will look like

when it's your turn at the judgment bar.

That's reality.

The moment's going to come

when your name will be called.

If I could take you out
that door right now

and show you that moment

as it really will be in that day...

Brethren, C.S. Lewis in some small way,

he captured in one of his stories,

there is a cabbie from the 1800's or so,

he drove a cab that was drawn by a horse,

and he was pulled into Narnia in the

day of Creation.

And as he saw it,

he said this,

"If I'd have known such things,

I would have been a different man."

If I'd known such things were true,

were real, existed...

let me tell you,

the things I'm describing to you

about your judgment,

it's appointed unto every one of us

to appear before the
judgment seat of Christ.

That includes the Christian.

What I described to you
about the lake of fire,

about the wrath of God Almighty,

about the way Christ appeared in Isaiah 6,

this is truth.

Eternal weight of glory.

If I could show you right now

what Jesus Christ actually meant by

treasure in heaven;

when He said don't lay up for yourselves

treasures on this earth,

but lay up treasure in heaven.

If you could see what that actually was,

you would give everything away.

Everyone in this room would become that

poor widow who gave her last two mites.

If you saw what the treasure was,

you would give everything.

If you saw how short life is,

and how you live
will have mattered in that day,

Jesus Christ said in Luke 14,

when you have a meal,

don't invite your neighbor

and your wealthy relative and so on,

He said, invite the lame and the maimed

and the halt and the blind.

He said you will be rewarded
in the day of resurrection.

If you could see
what the rewards were like,

I am absolutely convinced,

if you could see what you will feel

when you look at Christ,

to know how much of your life you wasted,

how much of it you could
have had eternal reward for,

but you wasted it.

If I could show you
how things really are...

but brethren, here's the thing,

the Word of God does show us

how things really are.

The problem is not that
you have not been shown

how things really are,

but the problem is we're too much

like the disciples.

See, the disciples had it told to them

who Christ really was.

And yet, in the face of a storm,

they forget who He really was.

It wasn't until they saw by sight

the storm stifled that they fell down

and they worshipped Him.

But the fact is,
what was true about Him

was true whether they
saw the storm cease or not.

The point is this,

what is true about the treasure in heaven

is true whether I can
take you out that door

to look at it or not.

It's true.