Gospel—R. Thonney
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Our meeting tonight with #8 on our hymn sheets.
Shall we gather at His coming when the dead in Christ arise? Shall we hear the Savior call us to His home beyond the skies?
We who are believers can say yes, will gather at His coming, His glorious, His glorious coming. Gather with his Saints that is coming. If cleansed by the Savior's blood, maybe we can stand and sing #8.
Shall we?
Let's pray.
My desire tonight to speak on the Lord's coming.
But before we do, I'd like to go to 1St Corinthians chapter 15 because.
Before we speak of the Lord's Second Coming, which is still future.
It is important that we understand the purpose of His first coming. Christ. Jesus came into the world to save sinners. That's passed.
Jesus is coming again. That's future. We're in between.
And it's very important that we understand the purpose why he came the first time. Turned to 1St Corinthians chapter 15.
We're going to read these verses.
Last week.
I read them at a funeral in Miami of a young man.
Who was killed in a car accident? 20 years old. The day before I had been in their home. Embraced him. Had a good visit for about two hours. Picture of hell.
Next day, 5:00 in the morning one week ago.
Gone from this world, life is very uncertain. That's why it is so important that you and I have those issues clearly settled in our souls.
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And here the apostle Paul says, notice what he says, moreover.
Brethren, I declare unto you the gospel.
Isn't that wonderful?
He declared it to the brethren.
Why was that important? Because.
Because in this chapter there was a question as to one of the fundamental truths of the gospel that was in question, the truth of resurrection. So he went back to declare the basic matters of the gospel. And that's what I'm going to do this evening before we get into the question of His second coming. What is the Gospel then?
That Paul declared notice I'll read further which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand, by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless you have.
Ye have believed in vain.
For I delivered unto you first of all that.
Which also I received how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures.
And that he was buried.
And that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.
And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the 12 And that after that he was seen of above 500 brethren at once, of whom the greater part remaineth unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that he was seen of James, then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also as of one born out of due time. Well, I just want to call attention to those.
Three major points of the gospel. Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures.
To he was buried three. He rose again the third day, according to the scriptures.
God takes sin serious.
It cost him terribly to put away sin.
It cost him his own beloved Son, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Sometimes I put it this way, I have two boys of my own.
And if one day I'm looking out the front window of my house and I see somebody beating on one of my boys.
Do you think I'm going to just sit there in my easy chair and watch it happen?
No way you're going to run out there.
Say beat on me, but don't you beat on my boy.
When God was witnessing, when they mistreated the Lord Jesus like they did.
They put their fists in his face. They come up and spit square in his face. They crowned him with thorns. They took sticks to beat him over the head.
Did God come to defend him, to deliver him? No. Why not?
Didn't he love his son? Yes, he did love him. Why didn't he defend him then? You know why.
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish.
But have everlasting life. He loved you that much, friend. He loved you so much that he let his own son go into death for you.
Jesus died on that cross, but Scripture tells us here very clearly that Christ died for our sins. No sin is ever going to enter God's holy presence in heaven. It won't happen.
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If you want to get into heaven, you've got to resolve the question of your sins.
Jesus came into the world sent by the Father for that very purpose. And when Jesus was hung on that cross of Calvary, not only did he suffer those terrible insults from.
His creature man.
But the scripture tells us that after three hours of hanging on that cross, we can't even imagine the terrible physical suffering it was. But something happened. Everything got dark. From 12 noon to three in the afternoon, everything was dark. Nobody could see what was taking place.
But it was in those three hours that God was dealing about the question of sin.
The prophet Isaiah puts it the best He says he that's the Lord Jesus was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.
All we, like sheep, have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord God lay on him Jesus, the iniquity of us all. God doesn't treat sin lightly.
Every sin that has ever been committed on planet earth will receive from God's hands. It's just punishment, like it or not. Believe it or not, that is the case. The scripture tells us God takes sin serious, and you best take your sins seriously too. So when Jesus was hanging there on top of those terrible physical sufferings.
In those hours of darkness, God laid on Jesus all my sins, Every single one of them. And then God picked up his judgment rod and he punished Jesus for my sins.
He didn't want to send me to hell forever.
He preferred to send his son to take my place on the cross, and there the storm of God's judgment in all his fury broke on that man that was hanging on that center cross.
Complete silence for three whole hours as Jesus hung there.
In those awful, awful sufferings that will never be able to understand.
And then at the end of those three hours of darkness, he cries. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
God forsook us, Son on the cross. Why? Because He was the sin bearer. God made him who knew no sin to be made sin for us.
That we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
That's what took place after Jesus cried. It is finished.
The whole question of our soul salvation, the question of the punishment of sin, was resolved once and for all on the cross.
Jesus, a divine person.
Pronounced that the work was done.
All the judgment that was against me, and rightly so, that judgment that would have sunk me to hell forever, it's gone, it's finished. There is no more to be done for the believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, how important that is to understand.
Again, I repeat, every single sin that has ever been committed on planet earth will receive from the hand of God. It's just punishment, no sin accepted. If I could suggest that God some kinds of sin just kind of sweeps under the rug and and forgets about him, it would call in question his holy character. It can't happen, it won't happen.
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Now the question of your sins has to be resolved, and has to be resolved according to the standards of God's justice. Not your idea of what's acceptable, but what God's standard of justice is. And Jesus died. He gave up his life on that cross. After he died, a soldier came up, and with a spear he pierced his side, and out flowed blood in water.
The scripture says it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.
It also says the blood of Jesus Christ Godson cleanses us from all sin.
Nothing else can take away the guilt of your sins, friend, except the blood of Jesus, the Lamb of God. How do we know that God was satisfied with that work of redemption that Jesus paid with His precious blood?
It is in this statement that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.
Jesus is not dead. Jesus lives.
A real man of flesh and bones rose from the dead.
God is satisfied. And where is that man? God has placed him at the pinnacle of all power and glory, at his own right hand in heaven. Today there is a man. One of our race is sitting in the glory of God.
A real man of flesh and bones is sitting there in the glory of God. That's how I know.
That God accepted what he paid for my sins on the cross.
Oh, how important that is to understand. Oh, what comfort for that Cuban family down in Miami.
And we were able to say, because that boy that went to be with the Lord, because he was a real believer, there I was standing right beside his casket. What a handsome young man he was. Couldn't believe it. Just the day before I had embraced him, there he was dead.
Is that the end?
Death is not the end. Death, physical death, is only temporary. You say for Christians, I say for everybody.
It's only temporary.
Every single person that has ever been buried on planet Earth is going to vacate their graves. I've walked through graveyards in the Andes of South America where the town is completely abandoned. You walk through that graveyard, there's the bones laying out on the top of the ground. I don't know what happened. Animals got in there or what happened there are their bones.
Human bones laying out there. You know those human bones, they're going to come back to life one day.
If they are believers, if they were believers in the Lord Jesus, when the Lord comes again to rapture his people out of this world.
They're going to be collected at that time. People that have died at sea, where are their bodies now? The fish have eaten their bodies. Where are they? God knows where they are. They're all going to come out when he gives that shout of acclamation.
And the trumpet of the Lord shall sound, and then all the dead in Christ are going to be raised.
And we shall be changed, and together we will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air.
Oh, today that's going to be what a wonderful day. But my, I'm really concerned tonight. You know, Scripture says here there's another reason why we preach the gospel to the brethren. It's this Scripture says, unless you have believed in vain. What does that mean?
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Believing in vain. Is that possible?
Scripture says so.
What does it mean to believe in vain? Is there somebody here that's believed in vain?
You know of Jesus 12 disciples.
One was false.
If we'd apply that ratio here, I don't know how many people are here.
But that would mean that quite a few people, a few people here could be.
That are not real. I don't know where you are. You know, if you're just playing around with God. If you say for so your parents keep off your back. Yeah, I'm a Christian, I believe.
I don't know where you are.
But I want to speak to you.
This is far, far too serious to be messing around with.
There was a man in the book of the Acts that believed in vain.
He was a sorcerer before he made a profession of faith in Christ. You know what that is Something that deal with Satanism and the occult, but of greater power came to Samaria. It was the power of God and the Gospel.
And Simon the sorcerer kind of felt displaced. He kind of got put on the background, so he figured I'd better get on the bandwagon. And it says he believed and he was baptized.
Oh, have you heard the news? Simon the Sorcerer got saved. Isn't that wonderful?
Seemed wonderful, didn't it?
Peter and John came down from Jerusalem.
And Simon the sorcerer came up to him, to Peter, and says.
Here, here's some money. Give me the power to give the Holy Spirit.
And Peter discerned.
Your heart is not right before God. Repentance.
And if there's somebody here that knows they're not right before God, I ask you tonight, repent. You know what repent means? Means a change in your thinking. It means to think things God's way.
Not your own thoughts. Change your thinking to how God looks at you.
Give serious It's not a matter merely of the head of believing in the head. Scripture says very clearly, If thou shalt believe in thine heart, that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Oh, how important it is to be real with God. And I plead with you. I look around this room. I'm glad to see that there's.
Fairly good attention, but you know I can only look on the outside.
And the fact that you're giving me your attention is good, but I can't look at your heart. How do you stand before God?
One day, sooner or later, you are going to have to meet up with Jesus. There is no escape to it. You will meet Him either as your Savior if you accept Him in this day of opportunity. Today is the accepted time. Today is the day of salvation. Or if you say no to Jesus.
Then you will meet him when he sits on a great white throne of judgment.
And cast you into the lake of fire forever.
God loves you far too much to allow you to go to such an end. That's why God is roadblocked the road to hell with the cross of Christ saying don't go a step further, stop, turn around. There's a way of salvation through faith in Jesus and his shed blood.
But I want to talk tonight about the Lords second coming, because to me.
It is astounding what we're seeing in the world around us today.
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Things that are happening.
That clearly show that we are getting close to the Lord's coming, you know, for his coming to take his own people out of this world as we have in the Scriptures what we sometimes call the rapture, when Jesus is going to come to the clouds and give a shout and the the trumpet is going to sound and the dead in Christ are going to rise.
That can happen at any moment. There is no sign.
To show that that moment is close. That will happen at any moment now. Are you ready?
If you have understood the gospel message and have said no.
Or maybe you said, yeah, I understand, but later and the Lord comes.
The door of opportunity will be shut forever.
Oh, you say there's going to be a gospel of the Kingdom preached later. Maybe I'll get in under that. No, you won't. Scripture says God will send strong delusion, that you will believe a lie because you receive not the love of the truth. I plead with you to not fool around with God, to get serious with God. Now I'd like to go to Matthew chapter 24, what we have in this chapter.
Is not the Lord's coming for us, the believers in the Rapture?
It is the Lord's coming.
After, in what is called, there is a time of great tribulation.
And at the end of that time of great tribulation, we understand it to be seven years.
Then he's going to come.
And his feet are going to touchdown.
On planet Earth, again, from the very same spot where he went up the Mount of Olives, he's going to come back to that very same spot. But he's not coming to save, He's coming to judge in righteousness. God commands all men everywhere to repent because he has a point of the day.
In the which He will judge this world in righteousness, by that man whom he has ordained, whereof He has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.
It's going to happen because Jesus was raised from the dead.
You know, it's interesting. I find it very interesting that even.
Apart from the testimony of Holy Scripture.
Secular human history. One of the most well established historical facts is that Jesus Christ rose from the dead.
Friend, that is something you must face. It's something that scientists cannot explain.
But it is well established human history and also what is attested to in this book. Jesus is coming again. It is certain when I look around to see what is taking place in this world as we're on our way here to these conference meetings. We heard about an earthquake over in Indonesia, 3000, more souls.
Hurled into eternity at a moment's notice.
These things are spoken of in Scripture and these things are going to increase.
In their frequency, somebody has said coming events cast their shadows.
You know what really burdens me is that this world is almost totally asleep as to where we're going.
Even so-called Christians, the majority have no clue where we are standing, right on the edge of the worst judgment this world has ever seen or ever will see.
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Let's read about it here.
Very interesting what He has to say, and I think you'll see as we read chapter 24 of Matthew from verse three on some of the things that relate to what we are seeing in the world today. These are things that Jesus is Speaking of that is going to take place after the believers are gone, but they're starting to happen today.
Verse three. As he sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately saying, Tell us.
When shall these things be, and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? That word should be the end of the age.
End of this.
Particular civilization that we are part of, This civilization is coming to an end. It's not going to last a whole lot longer.
Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ, and shall deceive many.
I don't know if you've ever heard of anybody that says that.
In Bolivia there was a man that appeared that professed to be Christ.
His name was Julio. Starts with AJ.
And they mark their buildings with a great big circle, and in the middle of that circle is J. You think that stands for Jesus?
Doesn't stand for Jesus. It stands for Julio.
And he actually has taken worship hymns.
That are written for worshipping Jesus.
And he puts his own name in there, and he stands up and he lets people worship him.
I met a young man came into our bookstore in Montero, Bolivia.
University student.
Couldn't believe kid that was supposed to be using his head a little bit. I said hey man, aren't you getting letting yourself be deceived?
Scripture tells us that when the true Jesus comes, every eye shall see him.
I haven't laid eyes on this man you're talking about.
He listened to me for a little while and then he just shook his head.
Said, you know, just like when Jesus came the first time.
But the more you speak against him, the more I worship him. He turned and walked out.
It's a spirit of deception that is working in the world today.
Now if you may have heard that when some of you remember the incident of David Koresh down in down in Waco, TX.
Who said he was Christ as well?
Number one radio commentator in that area who was giving the news.
Said it wasn't so surprising to him that David Koresh would say he was Christ. What was so surprising to him?
Is how many phone calls they got from other parts of the country from people who say he can't be Christ because I'm Christ. I'm talking about the United States of America.
If you don't open and believe the message of this book, you're going to be deceived. It's strong deception that is working already in this world.
Verse 6 and you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars. Sound familiar?
See that ye be not troubled, for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. Nation shall rise against nation, and Kingdom against Kingdom, and there shall be famines.
And pestilences.
The bird flu that they're talking about has tremendous proportions for killing large portions of population around the world.
And earthquakes, that's what we were talking about in diverse places. All these are the beginnings of sorrows.
You know the great Tribulation period. We understand from scripture that it is a seven-year period. We're talking this afternoon about Daniel's prophecy of 70 weeks was divided into 3 sections, 7 weeks or 49 years because they were weeks of years and 62 weeks.
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And then one final week and that one final week has not taken place yet. And that's why we know that this tribulation period will be seven years. And that seven-year period, according to Daniel, is divided into two parts. And the first part is called, according to this verse 8, the beginning of sorrows.
The second part is what is called later on in the chapter Great Tribulation. Let's continue to read here. Verse 9. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted? He's talking to the Jewish people.
There, and they shall kill you, and you shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall be betray one another, and shall hate one another.
And many false prophets shall arise, and shall deceive many. That certainly is the case in our world today.
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And we're talking about the great tribulation period.
Verse 14 And this gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the income. Let me explain briefly what is the gospel of the Kingdom? It is the gospel that the Lord Jesus.
And John the Baptist began to preach at the beginning of the Lord's ministry. Down here was a simple message.
Repent, Straighten out your ways, because the King is coming.
And he's not going to allow you to fool around with him. The axe is going to be laid at the root of the trees.
He's going to burn the chaff of his threshing floor with unquenchable fire. When God begins his work of judgment. It's going to be awful. I mean awful.
Believe me, God takes sin seriously. He's waited 2000 years in His mercy for people to repent, but when he begins his judgment, it's going to be awful. So this gospel of the Kingdom is the message that will be preached during the Great Tribulation period. There are people in this world that have not heard the message of the gospel that you are hearing tonight, that there is salvation through faith in the Lord Jesus.
You have heard it.
If you have heard it and have not accepted Jesus as your Savior, there will be no more chance. You may hear this message being preached, but you will be deceived because you receive not the love of the truth that you might be saved.
Then it says verse 15. Now we come to the part where we are at the middle of this seven-year period.
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place. Whoso readeth, let him understand. Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains. Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take anything out of his house.
Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. Woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days. But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day. Notice verse 21 carefully. For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no.
Nor ever shall be, I say, friend, on the basis of what we just read in that verse.
That the worst judgment this world has ever seen or ever will see is close at hand. And you sit there and are not concerned about your soul. You sit there fooling around with the things of God. You don't get serious.
Think about it seriously, this is not a time to be fooling around with God.
Except those days be shortened, there should no flesh be saved, but for the elect's sake, that's the elect of Israel, those days shall be shortened. Then if any man shall say unto you, lo, here is Christ, or there believe it not, for there shall arise false Christs and false prophets.
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And shall show great signs and wonders in so much that if it were possible, they should deceive the very elect. Oh yes, they show signs and wonders.
But what is the purpose? That's why I don't have a whole lot of confidence in Signs and Wonders.
Because they're going to be used.
To deceive, if it were possible, even the very elect. Behold, I've told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert, Go not forth. Behold, he is in the secret chamber. Believe it not.
For as the lightning cometh out of the East, and shineth even into the West, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.
Whenever the Lord Jesus uses that title, the Son of Man, it's his coming in judgment. Yes, Jesus is coming again, and His purpose is to straighten out this mess we're living in.
I just marvel at the awfulness of the mess that we live in.
There seems to be nobody that can straighten it out. People enjoy killing.
Their fellow human beings.
And they have that mindset and it seems impossible to even tame it.
Friend.
Jesus is coming back and He is going to set it straight once and for all with awful, awful judgments. You need to be warned that if you have not accepted Jesus as your Savior, you are going to be here to face those awful judgments. Verse 28. Wheresoever the carcass is there, will the Eagles be gathered together?
The Lord Jesus sometimes use figures of speech. A carcass is a dead body.
What's the dead body he's talking about?
All the believing Jews of that day are going to escape to the mountains.
What's going to be left in Jerusalem is a carcass.
And all the Eagles are going to be gathered together. It's amazing how.
All the nations of the earth are interested in that little piece of real estate. Isn't there other parts of the world that are worth thinking about? No, it's that piece of real estate that they're interested in. The Eagles are going to be gathered together where the carcass is.
Verse 29. Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light.
And the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heaven shall be shaken.
And then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven, and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn.
And they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
The Lord Jesus is coming again, and his coming in judgment will mean that all the tribes of the earth shall mourn when they see him coming with power and great glory. Oh, what a day of glory it's going to be when Jesus comes again. But for this poor world, it's going to mean one thing only. Awful, awful judgment. I say again, friends, and this to me.
Astounded to think about even we are coming to the end of the of the civilization that we are part of now.
I really believe that the skyscrapers of the big cities are going to be left as monuments to a bygone civilization, just like we look at the pyramids of Egypt.
Everything's coming to an end. Jesus is coming again, and he's going to reign supreme in this world. Are you ready?
Verse 31 And he shall send his angels with a sound, great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. This is not talking about the rapture because of the rapture.
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The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout.
And here it's not the Lord who comes.
In to gather the elect from the four winds. It's the angels that are sent out who are the elect. Then This is the elect of the nation of Israel. Those tribes that have we call sometimes the lost tribes of Israel. He's going to bring them back again as well.
Verse 32. Now learn a parable of the fig tree, when his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves.
You know that summer is nigh, so like you as ye when you see all these things.
Know that it is near, even at the doors. The fig tree is a national symbol for the nation of Israel.
Became a nation.
This month they celebrated their independence. I think it's the 15th of this month. I'm not totally positive. In 1948, a nation that had not existed almost two Millennium.
Again reappeared with their national language. Again something unheard of in human history. But it is what the Lord has told us in His word. The fig tree has blossomed. Again it put, it's put forth its leaves.
Verse 34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass till all these things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away.
My friends, what we have here in this book is more solid, more enduring than that ground I step on every day. Heaven and earth are going to pass away. This book, God's precious, everlasting word, will never pass away. Every jot, every title, every letter of it is going to come to pass.
Jesus is coming again. Verse 36 of that day and hour N no man.
No, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
For as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.
For as in the days when that were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came and took them all away.
So shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.
Then shall two be in the field?
The one shall be taken on the other left.
Two women shall be grinding at the mill. The one shall be taken in, the other left.
Again, I say this is not the rapture.
This is.
The judgment by which the Lord Jesus is going to cleanse the earth.
When he establishes his Kingdom very clear in Old Testament scripture, the one that's taken is cut off from the earth, and the one that's left is left to go into the millennial Kingdom on this earth. We can show scriptures from the Old Testament and make that very clear. One that's taken is taken away in judgment. The one that's left is left to inherit.
The Kingdom in this world during the millennial day. We're not talking about the church now, we're talking about those who have believed the gospel of the Kingdom.
Verse 2042 Watch therefore, for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come, but know this, that if the good man of the house had known, and what watched the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
Therefore be also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of Man cometh.
He's coming as a thief.
Says in another scripture, the day of the Lord shall come as a thief in the night.
But ask some believer here, are you waiting for the Lord to come? I know they'd say yes, I am. Are you expecting him to come? Yes, I am.
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But if I ask you, would you like a thief to come to your house, you would say no. And are you waiting for a thief to come to your house? You say no.
Then who is he coming for as a thief? It's this world.
That is not waiting for him and that does not want him to come for them.
He will come as a thief at a moment you least expect there will be, and you'll have to face him. There will be no escape.
Again, I say God takes sin seriously. You might try to put it out of your mind.
That you need to think seriously about these questions of your soul's salvation.
Like to just say briefly from verse 45 where we left off reading through.
Through chapter 25 verse 30 is a parentheses, so I'm going to skip over to chapter 25 verse 31.
You notice chapter 2444 says.
Be also ready for in such an hour as you think not, the Son of Man cometh. Now jump over to chapter 25, verse 31.
When the Son of Man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory. So when Jesus comes first, he's going to Vanquish all the armies that come up against him, because when he comes out of heaven, he's coming out of heaven to do war.
Says his garments were dipped in blood.
He's going to tread the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God if you refuse to repent of your sins, if you refuse to come in saving faith to Jesus.
You're going to have to face Jesus in judgment in that day. There are no other options.
Think about it. Seriously.
And then after he's put those armies down, he's going to sit on the throne of his glory, according to verse 31.
All the holy angels are going to be with him, verse 32 and before him shall be gathered all nations.
And he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats.
And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
You know he can see if you're real with God.
And as those nations come before him, he divides.
The goats on the sheep on the right and the goats on the left.
This is not applicable to people that understand the gospel as we're explaining it tonight. You won't have a chance to be one of the sheep in that day. You may be one of the goats. The goats are those nations that did not accept the message.
Either the message of the gospel and the gospel of the grace of God, and if you didn't accept it there, you won't accept the gospel of the Kingdom either.
And you will be perhaps one of the goats.
Notice what he says to the sheep, verse 33. He shall set the sheep on his right hand and the goats on the left.
Then shall the King say unto them, on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
For I wasn't hungered and he gave me meat, et cetera.
Here were those who had had mercy on the messengers of the Kingdom during this tribulation period, and they go into the Millennial Kingdom on the earth.
But what about the goats? Notice verse 41.
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand.
Depart from me, ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.
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Jesus is calling tonight. Come unto me, all ye that labor in our heavy laden. What are you saying to him? Wait later on or no?
He's not going to always be calling. Come. The day will come when he will say, depart from me. I called you and I called you and I called you and you did not come. The day of his grace will be over. It's the day of his judgment, and he will say, depart from me. Ye cursed into everlasting fire.
Prepared for the devil and his angels. You know what's very interesting? Somebody mentioned to me recently God never prepared a place for people who would not accept Jesus as Savior.
He wants all to be saved.
If you reject the Lord Jesus as your Savior, you will be put in a place that was prepared not for men.
But for the devil and his angels, that rebellious creature, the devil and his servants, the angels of the devil.
You reject Jesus as your Savior, and I plead with you.
To think seriously about it. Don't go that way. I ask you with all my heart and those who are real believers here, join with me to say to you, there's anything we can do to clarify matters for you. Come to us tonight to talk some more about these matters.
It is way too important to leave till even later on tonight.
Daniel Torres down in Miami.
Didn't have a clue a week ago yesterday.
That he was going to be lying in a casket last week. Didn't have a clue. He would have probably laughed if I'd have said something to him about that, but it happened.
You don't know when your time may come. With all my heart I plead with you.
You cannot escape Jesus. You must face the question of your sins. If you accept Jesus as your Savior now you can have full and free salvation. You can have eternal life. You can have the forgiveness of your sins. You can have a home in heaven.
But if you reject him, you must meet with Jesus.
Either when He is on the throne of His glory, because this is called the judgment of the living.
Or if for some reason you're killed without accepting Jesus as your savior, you will be raised again. Yes.
Every single human being that is lived on planet Earth will be raised from the dead.
And if you haven't accepted Jesus, you will stand before the great white throne in that final day to be judged. And it says there, whosoever was not found written in the book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.
Friends, we must speak clearly about these things. I would be no friend if I stood here and Justice kind of talked in a way that everybody liked. Maybe you don't like to hear about judgment.
But it is the reality of the world we're living in. You know, what scares me is how young people.
They get presented either on programming and TV or the Internet with that which is.
False and right alongside that which is true. And kids are not learning to distinguish between what's true and what's false. So when you talk about the judgment of the world, I think you're telling a big joke.
This is real. This is not a big joke.
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You must face God. God's infallible, unchanging word is right here. You've heard it tonight. You've read it. I ask you with all my heart to don't wait one moment more.
Open your heart, accept the Lord Jesus as your Savior. By faith in Him, you will be saved and have a home in heaven forever.
Let's pray.