Through out all of history,
most men do not hear a clear presentation of the Gospel.
In all of history
most men miss Heaven.
You know it's true.
There are people in this room
who are going to perish.
You know it's true.
I'm saying this because,
look,
If God is not only showing you
all the kindnesses of creation.
but He's, in addition,
showing you the kindness
of hearing the Gospel,
and to hear the truth,
and know that Jesus Christ died
on that cross to save sinners,
just like you and me.
Just to save
even the chief of sinners.
I mean, why would Paul...
Why would God want us to know
that God had saved the chief of sinners?
Why would God want us to know
That He saved the thief on the cross?
Why would He want us to know specifically
that Mary Magdalene had seven demons?
Do you ever think about
why these things are
specifically told to us?
They are told to us
so that you might see
how bad the people are that God saves!
And if you've had this kindness,
that God has not only given you
all of this light of creation.
All the light of His kindness.
But in light of all that,
in addition to all that,
on top of it,
you've been allowed to hear the truth.
Come, flee to Him at once!
Listen, I remember my step-dad.
My step-dad came down to Texas.
And, I wanted him to hear the truth.
And he sat under Pat Horner
out of Community Baptist Church.
I was out there then.
He came and he heard me preach.
At a nursing home he heard me preach,
possibly at Floresville.
but he was able to sit under the preaching
several times.
I had evangelized my dad,
I had spoken with my dad several times.
But I think, that was the most truth
that he had ever gotten in his life.
I know that was the first time that he had ever sat under
a good and solid sermon
that had truth in it.
That was actually preached by
one of God's messengers.
He refused it,
even when I was speaking at the nursing home,
he was rebelling against it.
He was rejecting it.
When we went back to Michigan
he got cancer.
He had a massive heart attack.
It was amazing, he had a massive heart attack,
then he got a stroke, then he got cancer,
and then he died.
And brethren,
Folks,
When you hear the truth
there's a real Hell out there.
And Jesus, by way of His ambassadors,
Is telling you,
ESCAPE THAT PLACE AT ALL COSTS!
"What will you give in exchange for your soul?"
You'll give everything.
Why would you play?
Look, don't wait until
the flames overthrow you until you say
"okay, okay, now I'll give everything in exchange for it!"
Don't wait until then.
It's too late.
He speaks to you now while you have life.
Listen,
Do not leave this place tonight if you are lost,
and run back to your sin!
It is suicidal!
Don't do it! You've heard the truth!
Often times when people hear the truth
and they harden themselves
God will see to it that they get hardened.
And many times when you harden yourself against the truth
it's all over, you won't get to hear it again.
You'll be like my step-dad
The next thing you'll be in the grave.
I don't remember who it was,
but they told the story
about the two young men
that had girlfriends that went to church.
Their girlfriends' parents made them go to church.
Two guys showed up to get the girls.
and the preacher saw them come in.
They stood there in the back
to wait for the service to be over
and he made a bee-line to them
and went to the back
and began to talk to them
and they rejected and they refused.
And one of those young men died
right away after that.
We sought to proclaim truth
to a prostitute who came and lived with us
and she rejected it and died after that.
There was a man that joined our church.
He was a heroin addict and he
went back to his heroin
after he had heard the truth
and God took his life.
There was a young man,
he joined this church.
He was exposed to a lot of truth,
he went back to his coke,
God took his life.
There was a prostitute by the name of Zebedee.
She was exposed to the truth at this church in our early days.
God took her life.
There was a man from one of the local churches
that had us come preach
and he tried to pull a scam on us.
But we preached truth to him,
he rejected it and God took his life.
He was young.
Folks,
Do not go out the door tonight
and go back to your sin.
This could very well be from God,
that it's your last time.
It's it.
It's over.
It's done.
And what's been described
you may in unbelief go back to your sin,
but you will believe it one day.
And the sad thing is
that it's going to take you being plunged into it to realize
how valuable your soul was.
How bad your sin was.
How foolish you are to reject.
Do you realize that the place was made for the devil and his angels
and they don't get any chance?
They don't get the opportunity to repent!
Can you imagine those demons in Hell
screaming at you?
You had the truth set before you.
You had the opportunity that we never had.
You had the opportunity to be in Heaven.
And to have Christ,
and to walk with God,
and to live forever.
And you chose drugs, alcohol, sex, partying,
money, greed, sports, fame,
and just wanting to do life your own way.
"I don't want to feed any hungry people."
"I want to live for me."
Just do it your way.
What a fool if that's what you would do.
Listen
There are people in here that love their sin.
I'm telling you; do not go out the door
without crying out to the Lord,
confessing your sin.
Calling out to Him to save you from it.
DON'T GO!
There's a good possibility that you will never come back again,
Some of you.
Amen.
We're dismissed.