Amen, all right. Well, we're in Luke chapter 16, and we're gonna get there, but we're gonna have you turn to Ecclesiastes 3
19
And we'll get back to Luke chapter 16. This is kind of a topical sermon in
Reality so we're not gonna so much just focus on one passage of the Bible
I have three points this morning, and hopefully I can get to that third point if I can't I guess it'll just be two but
Anyway the title of the sermon this morning is threats to Christianity
And this is part four in a series that I've been preaching and this is the final sermon
And it's called threats from below so the first summer we looked at threats from within the church
People that would rise up on the inside of the church and just try to destroy it
We also have our flesh that's inside of us and even though
Even though you're saved you can still have problems with your flesh if you're letting your flesh control your spirit instead of
Walking in the spirit and walking in the new man and the threat from without
was mainly talking about false prophets and
People from outside the church and the world itself the influences from without that will come in and try it
And we'll just you know cause threats to Christianity and our into our our walking right before the Lord
And the threats from above I addressed last week
And I talked about how if we're doing wrong
Then God will punish us on earth for the things that we do but obviously he would never send us to hell for any reason
But just like a good father
Chasing his children so the Lord will chase in his children in like manner, and I also talked about how the devil
he goes before the throne of God and accuses us day and night before the father and
Sometimes he's right about those accusations
And so that's when God would take action against us because you know if we sin in this present world
Then God will punish us he will judge the Bible says it's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God and
the Lord shall judge his people the Bible says his people so
and then
So this morning is the threat
from below threats from below and
The first point I have this morning is the threat from the unsaved the threat from the unsaved now
What do I mean by that? Well, it's gonna be a little bit different of a sermon in this series, but
What do I mean by that? Well, some people refuse to get saved because they don't see their pet in heaven
I have some some sub points in this first point. This is gonna be my first point
It's gonna be the longest point of the sermon
So if it gets to be like a half hour or 45 minutes where this is just one point
Well, I'll try to hurry through the other points, but or just skip the last point altogether, but I feel like this is a really important
Point the threat from the unsaved now some people refuse to get saved because they might not necessarily
See their pet in heaven and as you know in this world, it's become a very animal worshiping type of place
I mean we couldn't even go to a place for a couple hours yesterday without everybody bringing their dogs
to the corn maze, it's just like
It's just bizarre, okay, you can't leave your dog at home for two hours while you go do something
They have to be with you at all times
I mean people walk around in shopping carts with their little dog bundled up and you know
They they take their dogs that are not service dogs and you know, they pretend like they're service dogs
But unless it has that like service dog little thing on its back then it's not a service dog folks
That's just your pet that you just want to take everywhere you go and you know, it's it's gotten weird, but
you know and
This is gonna be
Something that people don't want to hear like if someone asks you at the door a lot of this is gonna be geared toward
soul winning and situations that we run into out soul winning and you know, let's just look at
chapter
3 verse 19 in Ecclesiastes it says for that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts
Even one thing befalleth them as the one dieth so dieth the other
Yea, they have all one breath so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast for all his vanity
And so it's not saying that
Animals are equal with human beings. It's saying that we all have
You know the breath of life in us
But
We all all animals die too. Just like all humans die. That's the point that's making it's not saying, you know
We're equal with the animals
This is what people think but it's not true and and there's a there's a way you can go too far to say
Animals are nothing stomp them out kick them abuse them
That's weird
And then it's also weird to be what I'm talking about where people just worship their own animals and they do do that
It's you know, they might not bow down to them
I mean they kind of stoop down when they clean up their poop in the park, don't they and you know
They're just feet
They're like they treat sometimes people treat animals better than they treat their own kids
Which is really sad and and that should tell you a little bit about how far
Society has slid in but anyway verse 20 says all go on to one place
All are of the dust and all turn to dust again
So, you know, this is usually like a famous verse at funerals to you know
We go back to the dust of the earth where God created us from so what's it saying that every every creature that dies
We go back to the earth, right? It says who know with the spirit of man that goeth upward. So when
When a human dies that spirit goes back to the father that gave it to him, right?
And it says and the spirit of the beast that go with the downward to the earth
So, you know if someone asks you
Is my dog going to heaven?
I mean, this is what people will point out and and it's true. They don't go to heaven folks now
That's not to say that animals won't be in heaven
I believe that they probably will be in heaven and definitely in the millennial reign all things are gonna change, you know
And and I'll get into that later
But it says wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works
For that is his portion for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him
So, I mean the point that he's making is that
You know, we're every animal dies human beings die
But it does say that the spirit of the animal goes down where I'm not saying, you know that that animals in hell
Because that's not what it says
Okay, but you know, you shouldn't be at a door with someone and someone asks you that question. You're like, hey
You know where your dog's gonna be, you know, we're dogs that it's in hell
I mean that shouldn't be something that we say to people at the door
We're there to try to convince people for salvation and as a matter of fact, I would probably avoid this question. Yeah, I mean
Avoid foolish questions, but sometimes people genuinely want to know and if you are put in a position where you have to answer this
You know, I mean that might be a threat to them being saved, but I'm not saying we shouldn't preach the truth
We should preach the truth
But what are we there to do?
We're there to preach the gospel not to convince them that we believe that dogs aren't in heaven
Your dog's not going to heaven or whatever and you know, some people will will say, you know
well, if my doggy isn't gonna be there then I don't want to be there either which is bizarre, but
For us we don't want to try to we don't have to be so right that we stop them from getting saved
This is my point. So but some people won't get saved because they know that their pet isn't going to be in heaven
So and and that goes for human beings too, but look at Isaiah chapter 11 verse 6
So if they ask a question about their whether their favorite pets gonna die, you know
It's not really needed to go to this scripture. Tell them your dog's in hell or anything weird like that
But we can say well right now we live in a world that's fallen and animals die humans die
But there's gonna there's a silver lining for the animals, you know, where our spirits grown
To for the redemption of the adoption of sons, but the creatures of the earth are also living in a cycle of death
They don't sin because you know, it's not really sin for them, but animals eat each other, you know
That's kind of the way things go
I mean we can that we have cute little runny bunny rabbits that kind of come into our yard and then we'll find parts of
Them, you know strewn about the yard sometimes because the neighborhood cat got a hold of them
It's just that you know, this world is fallen, but one day it's gonna be better
And it's gonna be better for the animals to look at
Isaiah 11 6 it says the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the kid
So the goat the baby goat and the calf, you know, which is a young
Cow or cattle and the young lion and the fatling together and a little child shall lead them
So there's gonna be a time coming and I believe this is talking about the millennial reign of Christ
Where a little child can lead about a young lion
Wolves and lambs don't usually hang out together, you know
So are there gonna be dogs that live in this perfect world for a while? Yeah, it says wolves, right?
Wolves will be with lambs leopards with kids
You know, it's and it's not talking about little kids
It's talking about like goats, right and it says in the cow and the bear shall feed their young ones
Shall lie down together and the and the lion shall eat straw like the ox
So there's coming a day where lions aren't gonna eat meat anymore
They have to live on meat now
But there's coming a time where God's gonna make it like it was in the beginning where everything was vegetarian
And so the lions didn't eat other other
Animals when God created the world because then it wouldn't everything wouldn't be good, right?
And it says in the suckling child shall play on the whole of the asp and the weaned child
Shall put his hand on the cockatrice den
So these are talking about poisonous snakes the little children will be able to play with and hang around there where they live
They shall not hurt or destroy in all my mountain my holy mountain
For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea
So don't just give them a reason to not get saved
Give them a reason to look forward to being saved where there's no more death
The Bible says there's coming a time when there won't be any death. There won't be any tears when we're in heaven
There's not going to be tears
There's not going to be weeping because the former things are passed away and God is gonna make all things new
And so he's gonna make the animal kingdom new too, so I would just say to steer him
Maybe in a direction where things are gonna get better later for animals
but to try to just be you know, I'm not saying anybody does this but because you know
sometimes people's animals are a threat to them being saved and you just think about people that have dogs that are
uncontrollable when you knock on the door and
They're just bad. I'm sorry. I can't I have the dog
And then they close the door right I mean this happens probably weekly
Probably every day you go so many this happens at least at one door. The Bible says beware of dogs
You know and it's that's where they got the sign from I'm sure
But dogs we're not talking about just the dogs that you know
The other dogs we're talking about like literal dogs will stop people from getting saved and it happens probably every single day
That anybody goes out sowing and so
You know pets are a detriment to people getting saved. It's a threat to Christianity because it takes
New people to be reached in a new generation for Christianity to move on now
The Bible says the gates of hell will not prevail against the church. Okay, so I believe there's always gonna be a righteous remnant
but the more people we get saved in the next generation the more they'll be in that next generation and then more people able to
Serve God because look not all churches go sowing not all people go sowing
Sometimes people just you know, they just stop going they just stop doing it or they never did do it
But you know, it's we're gonna have better numbers
so winning if we reach that next generation and then a whole nother generation rises up that does know the Lord as
Opposed to kind of what we see the trend being like right now
Here's another thing that they'll say they'll say well
I want to go to hell where all my friends are and we can all party together
Who's heard that before? Well, I don't want to go to heaven because if God is like this then you know
I don't want to go there. I'd rather party with my friends and
Because that's all they think about now is partying with their friends
But you know
There's a lot more to life than partying and getting drunk and puking in a toilet at the end of every night
There's more to life than just having fun all the time and it's like I have fun as a Christian, you know
I think Christianity is fun, but people look at it like oh this boring listen to preaching. It's boring, you know, you know, what's boring
Dying alone and and headed for a devil's hell at the end of your life. That's
boring
Sitting there with nobody that loves you anymore
I'm not saying this happens to every people all people that are unsaved but there are people that are so bitter and hateful towards God
In the end, they're just alone with their own demons that they have created in their life
And you know, they're just they're miserable people think that they'd be there. They're not they wouldn't be happy in church
But they're not happy right now
They're not happy unsaved. They just don't realize it
There's a song that Billy Joel sang. I think it's from the 80s or something, but it's a really blasphemous song
But here's one of the things he says in it in one of the verses it says and they say there's a heaven for those
Who will wait?
Some say it's better, but I say it ain't
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the Saints. The sinners are much more fun
You know and anybody that's ever heard that song before
You know that it's it's really it's talking about how he wants to get with some Catholic girl that's refusing him, basically
But that verse right there as that that song lyric has always upset me
If I ever hear that song it makes me mad and and the title of that song is called only the good die young
See, that's what the world wants us to believe only the good die young
It's boring to wait for heaven have you know church is boring being the Christians boring and he says I'd rather laugh at the sinners
And cry with the Saints. Yeah, but you're not gonna be laughing when God casts you into hell
You're not gonna be laughing with sinners down in hell having a good old time playing your little piano Billy Joel
You're gonna be dying for ever. It's eternal damnation
Look what the Bible says about let's turn to Psalm chapter 55 verse 23
What does the Bible say?
so Billy Joel says
He'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the Saints because sinners are much more fun and this you know
I just sometimes I wonder I'm sure that this mentality has been around for a long time
but
You know, I wonder sometimes if these types of songs make people think that because when we go to people's doors, they're programmed
with the same CAD answers
that other people have regurgitated throughout time and
We have to be aware of these things and and when we're so wanting kind of have some discernment on how we deal with these
types of issues
But Psalm chapter 55 verse 23 says but thou O God
Bring or shall bring them down into the pit of destruction
The pit of destruction is hell folks and it says bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days
But I will trust in thee
So what is what is David saying? Well those people that you think are so fun
God's gonna bring them to hell. He's gonna they're going to hell
So laugh it up while you have the chance now
But you're not gonna be laughing when God cast them in hell
And so if someone dies young, you know only the good die young know the bad die young the wicked die young
That's what the Bible actually teaches. It's not the good the good die young
You know it, you know, sometimes it does happen
But if you're good
It's only because God made you good because God made you righteous by the blood of Jesus Christ
It's not because you're some good person or something
So what does hell really like?
Because it's not hanging out with your friends
It's not having fun with the sinners and laughing with them and all this other stuff. Look at Mark chapter 9 verse 43
Mark chapter 9
verse 43
The Bible says
And if thy hand offend thee, this is Jesus Christ talking by the way who yes
He did preach about hell
It says if I hand offend thee cut it off
It is better for thee to enter into life maimed than having two hands to go into hell
Into the fire. What's hell the fire that shall that never shall be quenched
Is it ever gonna be quenched? It never shall be quenched. It's fire
it's lasting forever and it says where the worm their worm dieth not and
The fire is not quenched. I mean he's gonna be real redundant here, but I think he's trying to inform us on something
That's really important to know and if I foot off in thee cut it off. It is better for thee to enter into
Halt into life than having two feet to be cast into hell into the fire
That never shall be quenched. So
People are going to be cast into hell isn't that what the Bible saying here and
When they do it's into fire and it also shall never be quenched. Okay, you said it again now verse 46 where their worm
Dieth not and the fire is not quenched. They're saying it again. So that's three times
He said it right and if thine eye offend thee pluck it out for is better
For thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire
Fire what is hell? It's fire. It's torment. It's suffering
It's not any place that anybody wants to go and hang out with their friends
They're gonna re instantly regret that when they wake up after saying that stupid saying for their whole lives
And anytime anybody tries to talk to about Christianity, that's their stupid answer
I'd rather you know, I'd rather hang up my friends in hell. You don't get to hang out with them in hell
It's loneliness. It's fire. It's torment and the Bible calls it outer darkness
So, can you see people in darkness?
No, you can't you're by yourself and you're just being punished for the sins that you
Are being punished for because God is gonna judge us a court
He's gonna judge them according to their works and if their works are evil, then they're gonna be cast into hell
Our works are evil too as Christians, you know, but here's the thing
That God forgives us and he forgives us of all of our sin past present and future
And so Jesus Christ is the only reason why we're righteous because he had to come and die
You know
He had to live the perfect life die get buried resurrect from the dead from hell in three days three nights
And he is going to give us a glorified body one day where we won't sin, but our life on this earth is a struggle
It's a struggle to fight with the flesh it's a struggle because of sin
It's a struggle because of the things without and all these other things
But look at verse 48 says were there worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched. This is
probably the most descriptive part of
Passage in hell and Jesus just flat-out saying people are going there and people can get mad about that all they want
And they can blame God all they want but he warned them he's warning people today don't go to this place
Whatever's stopping you from getting saved
Get saved
Because you don't want to go to this place of fire and torment and destruction
Hell is not a party with your friends. It is being alone in
Agonizing pain on fire for all eternity
There's no water for you
And it's forever and ever and ever and ever and ever it doesn't end
It's just like eternal life never ends neither does hell
That's why it's important for us to get out there and preach the gospel
And
Sometimes people refuse to get saved because they realize that they're dead friends or family or loved ones are not saved
They kind of come to this realization. Oh
You know, I'm sure when we're given the gospel to people people understand this
They realize granny's in hell because she was a witch or whatever
You know because there's a lot of different there's some there was some odd ducks out yesterday. I wasn't there
Our world is getting stranger and even in appearance. It's getting stranger
And it just some of the outfits people were wearing yesterday. It's just bizarre, but
People will not get saved because they think my if my granny's in hell
Then I don't want to go to heaven if my best friend went to hell
Then I don't want to go to heaven and that's a stupid mentality for the unsaved to have
but
debt you know and then you know dead love loved ones that
They think are saved but when they realize the truth they will draw back and they will refuse to get saved
Because the stone-cold reality is if they didn't believe on Christ
They're not in heaven and where are they they're in hell
And so this is a threat to Christianity because it's a threat that someone won't get saved because of some dead
lost loved one that they thought was saved or they thought was a great person and
They're not so
What would your relative or friend that is in hell say to their loved ones that are rejecting Christ and rejecting the gospel?
If they could speak to them today, which they can't but if they could what would they say?
You know people pay good money for psychics and mediums to reach out to their dead loved ones that are departed
It's a big thing. You know every time I drive past one of these psychic shops. You know what I do
I pray that God destroys that place. I pray that God just destroys the people that are running in
Obviously if they can get saved because witches can't get saved these people can't get saved
You know doesn't I'm not saying they can't
but what they're doing is evil and wicked and they're causing other people to not get saved because
They're telling them through their demonic familiar spirits
That you know so-and-so is thinking about you and remember the ring that was under your toilet
You know the ring that you lost it's if you just unscrew the drain. It's right there or whatever
And it's like how would they know that well they're familiar spirits tell tell the mediums and psychics
This you think that the devil's aren't real they are real and they have their people that the devil uses in this earth
They're called sons of Belial. They're called the children of pride. They're just you know people that work for the devil
You know we we work for God
there's people that work for the devil and their job is to stop people from getting saved and
If they're gonna go and let these from you know Saul of Tarsus
are not Saul of Tarsus Saul King Saul went to a witch who was
someone that commune with familiar spirits and
Well, what does that mean familiar spirits?
Well, they're familiar with people because they walk the earth to and fro just like Satan does he has them in his
Prime locations that he wants them in and they have been around for thousands of years
Going to and fro through the earth, so do you think they know things about people?
Do you think they know things about the people that they you know kind of oppress and all these things of course they do
they know things that nobody could know and
You know and then when people hear these things and they hear some kind of truth and a lot of them are charlatans
but some of them aren't and
People just keep going and giving money so they can hear from their dead relative
Well, if they're dead relative could speak to them to the unsaved what would it what would it be? What would they say?
Well, you know, we don't have to wonder what they would do or what they would say
Let's turn to Luke 16 where we started our Bible reading this morning
And look at verse number 19
It says famous story
about the rich man and Lazarus
Verse
19 the Bible says there was a certain rich man
Which was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day and just take a mental note right here
It just says a certain rich man doesn't say what his name is does it?
Doesn't say what his name but this guy lived sumptuously
Had all the things he wanted in life and it says and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus
So notice that the beggar is named and the rich man is not
And you know why that is because it really doesn't matter what his name is because he's gonna end up in hell
It says which was laid at his gate full of sores this man Lazarus and
Desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table moreover
The dogs came and licked his sores and it came to pass
That the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom
The rich man also died and was buried now
Abraham's bosom is not hell folks. Abraham's bosom is a body part from a person named Abraham and Abraham
You know, he what what what is this telling you that that beggar died and he was comforted immediately
Come let me give you a hug
Welcome to heaven
And it says and he lived excuse me in the and then and then the rich man also died and
Was buried and in hell he lived up his eyes. So where did he wake up?
Lazarus woke up
Abraham hugged angels guiding him to heaven and then where did the rich man?
Dot he died. He was buried and he lived up his eyes being in torments. He's immediately in hell when he wakes up
Okay, when his eyes open he's in hell and seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom
so he sees Lazarus getting a hug and
Being comforted and he's in torment immediately
this happens right when he dies right and it says and he cried and said father Abraham have mercy on me and
Send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger and water and cool my tongue for I'm tormented in this flame
Do you think that he had some regrets?
Instantly, you know those videos that say so-and-so did this and instantly regretted it
Well, there's gonna be a lot of people that are in hell
they're gonna instantly regret every stupid thing that they said about God and the fact that they just said always the magic sky date sky
Daddy spaghetti monster and it's not real. I'm gonna worship pagan gods instead and all this other garbage or I believe in science
You know you go ahead and believe in science and you know, what's gonna happen you're gonna die and go to hell
Because a lot of the science that we get is false science. It's not really legit
I'm not saying I don't believe in science. I do believe in science
I believe in legitimate science though, not you know, it rained on the rocks for billions of years and then you know
Here we are. I don't believe that garbage
I'll get to that at the end of sermon
But anyway, so he says dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue for I'm tormented in this flame
He's instantly in torments. He's instantly in flames
What did Jesus say in Mark chapter 9? What were they were gonna go a fire that shall never be quenched
Right a torment. They're gonna be tormented. They're gonna be in hell. Hell is filled with flames
But Abraham said son remember thou and not in thy lifetime receive us thy good thy good things and likewise
Lazarus evil things but now he is comforted and thou art tormented and beside all this
Between us and you there is a great goal fixed so that they would that would come though
Excuse me, they would pass from hints to you cannot neither. Can they pass to us?
That would come from them. So basically he's saying once people die you're stuck in that spot. You're not getting out
You can't just go to heaven whenever you feel like it
The people from heaven can't go to hell the people from heaven that went to heaven
Aren't coming back on their own to go just do your
Soul winning that you should have done when you got saved or you know to go reach your family members
The Bible says it's a point on the man wants to die and after this the judgment we don't have
Second chances in a place called purgatory. That's not what the Bible teaches. What does the Bible teach? It teaches heaven in hell
You wake up in hell or you wake up in Abraham's bosom
But and and then he takes you to heaven, right?
So and and so it says in verse 27, then he said I pray thee therefore
Father that thou would have sent him to my father's house
If the dead could speak that are in hell right now
What would they say they say send somebody to my father's house send somebody to my dead to my relatives are still alive
Send somebody to tell them to avoid this place
But it says I have five brethren that he might testify
Unto them lest they also come into this place of torment
But if the dead could speak they would say
Get saved. They wouldn't say oh well, my family's in hell my family members in hell
So I'm gonna go to hell with them because I don't want to be you know saved by some God that would send people to hell
But the reality is folks that people are in hell and those people that are are in hell
They want their family members to not go there because it's a place of torment
It's a place where even a drop of water is just something like a would be a big deal to them. Just a drop
And it says I have five brethren that he may testify unto them lest they also come into this place of torment
Abraham saith unto him they have Moses and the prophets let them hear them and
That's that's saying that
It takes the Bible to be saved. It takes what God has put forth
To be saved. That's what's going to impact those people
Let them hear Moses and the prophets and he said nay father Abraham
But if one went unto them from the dead they will repent
But is this true? No, it's not
And he's and he said unto them unto him if they hear not Moses and the prophets neither will they be
Persuaded though one rose from the dead
So Jesus is telling the story he's saying what Abraham said and
Abraham is the father of the faithful
he's you know, he's the one that God gave the promises to that it would be by faith and that the heathen would be justified by
faith and that God would you know save people from all nations because of
Abraham's seed which is Jesus Christ
so
What did the rich man want?
He realized, you know, Abraham's kind of blocking him at every pass and then the last thing he realizes that
Even if someone rose from the dead, it's not going to convince them. Jesus Christ rose from the dead. Is everybody convinced?
No, not everybody's convinced
So what did he want not for his five brothers to end up in hell in a place of torment?
Where he was so this is something you could probably point out to someone say look
Even if you're fit, I'm not saying that they are I don't know them
I you know we because we really don't know now if they said this person was you know, some false prophet or whatever
That's a different story, but you still don't have to say that necessarily
Point them to the positive things the truthful things and look when people get saved. They're gonna realize those things themselves
When they start reading the Bible when they start hearing Bible preaching, they're gonna realize those things themselves
We don't have to convince them of these things at the door
Our job is to guide them to meet with God and be saved and be reconciled with God
That is our job as ambassadors of Christ to reach those people with the gospel not to say well
Yeah, your grandma's probably in hell. But anyway, you know, I mean that's
That's not necessary. It's not necessary to do that. And so
What I would say to them is that hey even if they are in hell
Like, you know, the rich man wanted his family members to get saved because it's such a bad place
It's it's like the worst place you could ever be and this should be a lesson to everyone that when an unsaved
person dies they wake up in hell and
You know
We should have that realization because sometimes we come across older people and it might be the last time anybody ever knocks that door
Those are the doors
Unless they're just so rude
I've had people top be talking and answering a question of mine and close the door at the same time
It just happened to me like last a couple weeks ago
You know, what can you do about that? Don't put your foot in the door, you know
They they you know, you went there you tried to reach them, you know
But I always say this don't just knock every door
Like it's just a chore knock every door with the with the thought that I want to you know
Impress upon them how important it is that they get saved
I want to impress upon them that I actually do care for them and that's why I'm here
You know if you're just like Eeyore when you walk to the door
You know believe in Jesus, you know just have some you know have it
You're not it's not a prison sentence to go soloing, okay
They're
In the prison sentence, so we're trying to let the captives out
We're trying to unlock the door and trying to stop them from being blinded by Satan so that they'll be saved
So and then when a saved person dies
We're immediately comforted by the angels and welcomed by Abraham
But that will be the end of our soul winning that is the end
That's the last chance you have and you're not gonna be able to go soloing anymore
So if you're not sewing right now, then you're not right with God
Because the Bible commands us to go out and preach the gospel and you know people like oh
I've heard this so many times all you guys talk about is sewing
That's not all I talk about but I do talk about it because it's really important
Yeah
And I'm trying to motivate people that have quit or maybe you're just not as passionate about it because we all lose our passion
From time to time we all get worn out and tired and don't feel like doing it
But you know if you real if you realize that the soul winning time that you missed that week
You could have affected somebody else's eternity, and they're not gonna wake up in hell
Screaming and torment asking for a drop of water on their tongue. You're like well. You're trying to guilt me into it
Yeah, I am because you should feel guilty about it because you should go soul winning. It's period right and
So that'll be the end of our soul winning
And you know I don't really care if me telling you that about that you're not right with God hurts your little feelers and
Hair lips you and upsets you look
That's my job is to exhort you to do good works my job as a pastor is to encourage you to do
What's right and to avoid doing what that which is wrong, so you're like pastor Thompson?
how are these things a threat to Christianity because
In
Order for Christianity to get to the next level to the next generation
Then we have to go out and we have to understand that there that the threat is legit the threat of people
Maybe having their pets not be saved the threat of people
You know when they they think that their family members aren't saved you know and and they they might think that that family member is
Down there waiting for them to party
But we show them things like this and that will probably change their mind and sober them up really quick and point out the fact
That Jesus is the one saying it
It's not just you know because some people unless it's Christ saying that they don't want to you know
They don't want to accept it. Well that was Paul saying that this is Christ saying that stuff
so
now
the devil and his minions also don't want you to be a soul winner and and
So
You know and why because he wants to continue deceiving the world
Because that's what he does go ahead and turn to 2nd Timothy chapter 2, and I'm going to read
Revelation chapter 12 9 revelation 12 9 says and the great dragon was cast out that old serpent called the devil and Satan
Which deceiveth the whole world who's he deceiving the whole world and unless you get saved
You're deceived with them
What you're like well, I don't believe this, but you believe something else that's wrong
And that's really what repentance unto salvation is is that you stop believing whatever was going to take you to hell
You know whether that's your good works save you or you have to be a good person the good has to outweigh the bad
You know you have to you know believe in Buddha or believe in Shiva or believe in whatever God
It is you you change your mind from that and you put your faith in Christ
That's what repentance is that is true repentance, but the devil doesn't want that to happen
He deceives the whole world and he doesn't like when his little pets get undecieved
Look at 2nd Timothy chapter 2 verse 24 says and the servant of the Lord must not strive
But be gentle unto all men apt to teach patience so when you're at the door soul winning
This is something you should think about we're not there to fight with people
We're not there to tell him their dogs in hell. We're not there to tell him their grandmas in hell
We're there to be gentle and to an apt to teach and patient
Don't just get frustrated and mad because they're not getting it
They're deceived the devil has deceived them and sometimes it takes God's Word to
Deprogram them enough to where they actually will get saved look what it says in verse 25 and meekness
Instructing those that oppose themselves see they oppose themselves, and they don't even realize that they're their own worst enemy
And I like to bring this up with that meme with the
Chinese kid and he has the boot on his neck and it looks like someone's just stepping on his throat
But then the next the next slide is that his arm is in his own boot, and he's like doing it himself
That's kind of what it's talking about here those that opposed themselves if God paired venture will give them repentance to the acknowledging
of the truth
What's the truth that the only way to get saved is by Jesus Christ and once he saves you it's everlasting life
That's the truth and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil
When you're trapped and you recover yourself, it's because you put faith in Jesus, and he takes you out of that snare
He takes you out of that blindness. He takes you out of that trap
It says who are taken captive by him at his will that's why the Bible calls the devil the god of this world
small G
because he has a huge influence over the
Larger percentage of the population
Some people are his children
The mass majority are people that are up for grabs, and then you have to save people
So we're trying to fight the devil for those people
That's who we want to get and we have a small number of people
but you know God has always been able to do great things with small amounts of people and
You know by
By much or by few or by little or by few whatever
God has always used a small number of people to do great works for us
so and you know what do we ultimately want to do we want to put the Spirit of God into them and
Not allow the devil to have that blindness over them anymore in 1st John 4 for it says you're of God little children and have
overcome them
Because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world
Satan is in the world the spirit of Devils are in the world
But God is greater than them much greater
And so when we have the Spirit of God the influence of the devil can still be in our lives, but it can never
We can never be possessed by Devils as a saved person. It just is impossible because God's not gonna let them
He's not gonna cohabitate with a devil
So we need to help people to get God inside them
And so that they're no longer blinded by the devil in his devices so
Point number two this morning. I was 45 minutes. I was right there point number two is that
There's a threat from hell. You're like well. You kind of already talked about that
But this is a little bit different so the threat from the unsaved
You know a lot of them are you know that the unsaved are ultimately gonna go to hell, but the threat of hell itself
Some people are so upset about the concept of hell itself that they won't get saved
Some people are so offended that God would create hell that they refuse to get saved
so you know, but the Bible says that
You know we there's some people that are gonna go to heaven some people are gonna go to hell
but if we convince them of the logic of this because
sometimes people
You know you're like well. It's heaven or hell. You know if you don't believe that then I can't help you
But we can help them we can try to help them right so look at Matthew chapter 25 verse 40 Matthew chapter 25 verse 40
So we have the threat of the unsaved
Because if they think that there are family members in hell
Then they might not get saved or their dog or whatever
But what were the people in hell say to those people they'd say get saved
Avoid this place avoid this torment
But the threat of hell is that God actually made hell and that he's sending people there and that highly offends people
You mean to tell me that God's gonna send people to hell forever and ever and ever and torment them
And he's like they're like what kind of loving God would do that well, maybe God isn't
You know what you think he is
Maybe the God of the Bible is different than what you've been raised at these clown churches to believe
That God is only love and that everything is puppy dogs and flowers and rainbows and unicorns
And they're nothing God wouldn't do anything to upset anybody
But I'll just submit this to you if God sent someone to hell. He stopped loving them that day didn't he?
He
Stopped loving them and it could have been that he stopped loving them well before that
Because God does have thresholds that he's not gonna put up with there's things in Scripture that say
After you do this
You cannot be saved once you put your mind here once you blasting the Holy Ghost once you add or remove from the scriptures
once you take the mark of the beast when you do those things you're done and
God will give you over to a reprobate mind so that you are someone that's just a dead man walking or dead woman walking
And you're twice dead the Bible says plucked up by the roots clouds without water
You know and it says that the everlasting destruction is what's waiting for them
So there is that threat and people don't like that
Really people are offended by hell. I have more people send back our invites. I just had some sent back last week
You know return to sender or whatever
I didn't send it to them so they obviously just I don't know how they generated that label
But you know I I guess I just don't know how to mail letters correctly
But I didn't know you could return to sender when nobody sent it to you
Like I didn't put a stamp on it and mail it in the mail or something
But there was a sticker. I think it's right over there by my seat, but it says return to sender
They just want to know they want me to know
That they're not gonna call me or come to the church and chew me out
Or send me an email
They're just gonna return the card and to show that they rejected what we had to say
And a lot of times when it's when they what they'll complain about is they'll say
Well, you shouldn't tell people they're going to hell
I'm not telling people they're going to hell. I'm saying that if you don't get saved. That's where you're gonna go
I'm not gonna send you there. God's gonna send you there
And they can't handle that so look at Matthew chapter 25 verse 40 says and the king shall answer and saying to them
Verily I say unto you and as much as you have done it unto
One of the least of these my brethren you have done it unto me talking about visiting Christ and you know
You know just visiting brothers and sisters
You know doing good works or whatever, but it says then shall he stand to them on the left hand apart from me cursed into
everlasting fire
Prepared for what to say there the devil and his angels did God make hell for humans
Now the Bible says from the mouth of Christ here that people are going to go to hell. They're cursed
That means they're there God's cursed them
They're not going to be able to go to heaven into everlasting fire that means a fire that never ends
Prepared for the devil and his angels God made hell for the devil and his angels
He didn't make it for us
And so this is something you could tell people to say you know and maybe this will convince them
And maybe it won't some of these things
I'm suggesting might be helps
But still people are gonna reject the message
Whether we are really good at convincing them of these things or not people will still reject it
So don't don't get upset about that either you tried you tried the best you could and you and you try to convince them
Because that's really ultimately what we're supposed to be doing
But it says prepared for the devil and his angels you know hell was not created for mankind and
You know this is a good explanation to help people with the doctrine of hell
Most of the people that are angry about hell are quick to throw us in it have you ever noticed that no
You're gonna go to hell
Because you preach against the homos or you you know you're telling people they're going to hell therefore
You're going to hell even though I don't believe in hell
It's like
Okay, whatever
but
You know they'll say this kind of stuff because of our stances on things
And I've been told I've been cursed to hell by many unsaved people and false prophets over the years
Many many people know you're the ones going to you go to hell all your people are going to hell
You guys are the cult, and you know just all this stuff, but think about this
You know and this is what I like to tell people is that God is a judge, and he's good
And he has to judge rightly he has to judge by the truth. He has to judge based upon
what's right and what's wrong and
You know he's not going to just just
Excuse people sin, and I like to bring up Adolf Hitler, and I say well Adolf Hitler escaped human punishment
Didn't he I mean to my knowledge. He never did a day in prison. He wasn't executed by any government
You know supposedly he killed himself
Even though when they tested the DNA of the skull in Russia. It was a woman's DNA, but anyway
I'm not going into that right now, but
Regardless of whether he did or not. He still never got punished
So do you think that'd be right?
For him to never get punished for anything
After all the things that he did or Stalin or Mao or just any wicked evil person in this world that escaped
human justice
God will judge them God will pay them back in
This life sometimes, but definitely in the life to come, but they won't have life
It'll be if the Bible calls it the second death when everybody that's unsaved gets judged for the last time
It's called the second death, and that is the death of the soul and the body in hell forever
You're like this is a pretty negative sermon pastor well
I'm not trying to be negative. I'm do you know this is
This is the Bible yeah, and this is the threats from below
There are legitimate threats from below even though we might not have any impact or or or be able to change anything
But what we can do is change how we approach people about this stuff
and if someone says well
Do you think the Adolf Hitler deserves to be punished most people will say yes, and then say well if there is no God
then he's not getting punished so God if God you know and you could just add whoever you want and
So if God is righteous
And he must judge sin then he must judge those people that have escaped human justice, and where's he gonna judge him?
He's not he doesn't have to let people in his house
He's not required to let Adolf Hitler in heaven. He's God. We're men. He's in heaven
We are on the earth let thy words be few
Who are you to reply against God God's the one that made this world? He's the one that made up the rules
He's the one that says what sin is and what it isn't and God is good, and he's incapable of doing evil
Not evil, but he's incapable evil means harm, but he's incapable of doing wrong. He's incapable of sin
He's incapable of lying
So that's one way that you can you know maybe help with this situation where someone just believes
That hell is just nobody deserves to go to hell, but some people will still stick to that gun. I'm just like
if someone came to your house and killed all your family members your children and
And just killed them, and then you know would you forgive that person and some stupid people would say yes?
but you know what I wouldn't forgive them and
I'm not going to forgive them. I'm not gonna show up at their court and go I forgive you
It's like they killed your family dude like why would you do that?
That's just doesn't make sense
And you know you can do that if you want, but it's just weird
But look at verse 46 it says and these shall go away into everlasting punishment
But the righteous into life eternal see he's making the contrast here. What is hell?
It's everlasting punishment. What is heaven well the righteous enter into life eternal
That means you live forever
There's only two choices folks there's only two types of people those that are saved and those that are unsaved
You can put all your little subcategories and racist stuff all in there if you want
But there's only two categories of people and it doesn't matter what color your skin is doesn't matter
What country you're from doesn't matter whether you're male or female?
You know what matters is whether you believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what matters
Turn to Psalm chapter 139
We can't flee these things and you know people can want to escape hell by some other reason
But all those that came before Jesus were thieves and robbers
There's no religion
It's not like all religions get us to heaven and we should all hold hands across the America
With the Hari Krishna's and the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Mormons that's not true. That's garbage folks. It's just not
Possible because Jesus said I'm the way the truth in the life no man cometh unto the Father, but by me
He's the only way he's the only truth. He's the only way to get everlasting life and
You know it says in Psalm 139 verse 7 it says shall I go?
From my spirit or whether shall I flee or whether shall I go from my spirit?
Whether shall I flee from my presence if I ascend up into heaven thou art there if I make my bed in hell
behold thou art there
So what this is saying is that it doesn't matter where you go to try to hide from God and his presence and his judgment
He's gonna be there
You can't hide from it's like Jonah's like I'm gonna take this boat and go someplace else
It's like like what are you thinking that you could actually escape from God's presence?
I mean you know did you forget he's the all-powerful all-knowing all-present God and
This is you know another thing people just say I just rather go to hell
I'm not gonna believe in a God that would send people to hell, but guess what?
Whether you believe that or not when you're in hell
He's gonna be there with you anyway
So the God that you actually hate the God that you actually want to avoid
the God whose presence that you want to just be away from these
Reprobates to die and go to hell and anybody that dies and goes to hell is a reprobate at that point by the way
The God that they didn't want to be around I'd rather go to hell than go to heaven
Guess what God's gonna be in hell too with you
His presence he stokes the fires of hell
so it's like you know it's kind of like that lady when Trump won you know the if you could call it a lady and
It had the short hair and like got on season one. Yeah
Like sometimes they have the rock music behind it it's pretty funny, but
But like that's this is what I picture happening when a
person that hates God so bad that they would rather go to hell than go to heaven and
They and they wake up in hell, and it's like God's presence is there and they're like
I
Mean it's it's true like why not get saved and enjoy the rest of eternal life
Instead of you know hating God and rejecting them and still having to be in his presence anyway
And on fire for all eternity like that's just
That's what I mean people oppose themselves and the God that they hate is gonna be with them anyway
But you know all these churches teach well hell is just separation from God. That's not true
That's not what the Bible teaches the Bible says you know that it's hell
And he will be there with you. He's stoking the flames
And so it's like when the flames get hotter. It's like
And
God's right there. They have to be in his presence
I don't know to what extent or how what that looks like you know maybe they just know maybe they just can feel that he's there
I don't know
Punishing them for what they've done now look at first or Isaiah chapter 5 verse 14. I'm almost done
Don't don't be alarmed. I only got a couple more places to go
All right Isaiah 5 14
Says therefore hell hath enlarged herself every time you know the population increases
More people go to hell and when the population you know it's up at what an 8 billion now
I'm not sure if it's 9 yet, but the last time I checked it was like 8 billion
And there's people dying every single day
On earth so when the population gets bigger more people die on a daily basis more people are going to hell
Bible says therefore hell hath enlarged herself and opened her mouth without measure and
their glory and their multitude and their pomp and he that rejoiceth shall descend into it
so what's it saying no matter what their glory was and what their status was on this earth and
You know their multitude however many people this is their pomp. That's like when people are just like
Celebrated you know they have people they have an entourage
They're very important people and he that rejoiceth
People are happy now, and they had a great life now like the rich man
It says shall descend into it shall descend into what hell
Doesn't matter who you are doesn't matter if you're President Trump or President Biden, or you know the Pope or whoever
It doesn't matter what your status is on this earth if you're not saved you're going to hell
And then where's all your stuff going to be then where's all your riches going to be then?
Where's all your smart and and great comebacks to God's stuff then?
It says in verse 15 and the mean man, which is basically like the common or unknown person
There's a lot of people that we've never even heard of that died in some distant land that we'll never know
Because it doesn't really matter what their name is anymore because they're dead in hell
Says the in the mean man shall be brought down and the mighty man shall be humbled and the eyes of the lofty
shall
be humbled
So it doesn't matter who you are whether you're common or uncommon
Popular or not popular rich or poor every person that's not saved is going to go to hell
The last point I have is going to be quick so turn to Jeremiah chapter 2 verse 27 I
Wish I did have more time to kind of expand on some of this stuff
But the other threat from below is the threats of the earth itself
And I'm talking about the climate change weirdos the animal worshipers again the tree huggers the dirt worshipers the heathen
religions that worship death and gods of the earth and gods of nature
This is a threat because it's a it's something that's growing larger. I'm who's who's knocked on a door, and they're like I'm pagan
see
Everybody's pretty much raising their hands. They've run into these people because they want anything
But God and so they'll resurrect these old gods that are just a myth. That's why it's called Norse mythology
You know Roman but these pantheons of gods that are you know it's interesting how all around the world you have
These pantheons of gods that all kind of match
It's like how did that happen well the devil has a big deception program?
And how many people are deceived it the whole world?
So this is just one way of deceiving people and that we have to get closer to nature
And you know we have to believe that the earth is what controls everything mother earth
Listen God made the earth God made it the way he made it don't give some inanimate object
You know the the glory for what happens in this place. It's not the earth that's doing it
It's God that made that earth and if God makes this earth, and he made us
Fearfully and wonderfully made then that's who you should be given the glory to not some a lump of dirt
Not some brook of water not some tree or ocean or beautiful place
God made that beautiful place
And it used to be a lot more beautiful before the flood
We're looking at a world that's fallen, and we're like wow this is really pretty, but you know it when when Christ comes back
He's gonna make the world as pretty as it was before that's what I believe so
There's a rise of paganism coming our way and obviously like I said
Christianity will never be destroyed
And why do I know that because God said it was not gonna happen Christ said it wasn't gonna happen
Now it doesn't mean that things can't get bleak doesn't mean things can't get ugly doesn't mean things can't be very small
But there's always gonna be a righteous remnant, but I noticed that there's even like in the native cultures of the world
You know they say the indigenous people look everybody was indigenous to nose arc
We all come from Turkey all right, that's the reality of it
We all set for you know the
Landed in the mountains of Ararat, and there was three sons that repopulated the whole earth. There's no such thing as indigenous people
Unless you want to we all can claim know you know the mountains of Ararat and Turkey Turkey's our homeland all right
So quit just making it about well. Who is there first you don't even know
You don't even know who was there first. You're like why no I know for sure
People came to the Americas much later than then they say oh, it's been 20,000 years the world is even 20,000 years old
So I saw this video was like these people footprints that were uncovered in New Mexico
It's like now they believe that it's 23,000 years ago. It's like you can believe all that you believe that all you want
But that's what I'm talking about science falsely so-called
You know they're gonna sit there and tell us that we came from chimpanzees, and you know ultimately from Iraq
Look at Jeremiah 20 or 227. It says saying to a stock thou art my father. What's a stock?
It's a lump of it's like a chop of wood that they used to make idols with right thou art my father
And to a stone thou hast brought me forth. This is what the ultimately what the evolutionist believes
That we came from a rock
Millions or billions and billions of years ago because that's what they teach
that nothing exploded and created all these things and
then
It rained on the rocks for billions of years
And then magically these toads came out or whatever these amoebas. You know people just always just saying stupid stuff
Whatever you think came out of the primordial soup
That one was male and one was female and then they made some everything else that you see here including bananas
trees
Rocks I mean you ultimately believe a rock is your creator you believe rain
Combined with rocks made everything on this earth. I mean who really believes the fairytale folks
You know you're taking away just
basic
Truth and knowledge if you look at this world and see the buildings that are built around
And there's some pretty cool buildings here go to England sometime and look at how people used to build things
Buildings that are a thousand years old. They're still look great today
and
Say, I think that just happened
it rained on England for
Thousands of years and then now you see all these cool buildings like that's just it's idiotic
You're like I believe in science. No you don't you'll even believe in two genders
You believe there's 53 genders. You don't believe in so that's not scientific
It real this says
For they have turned their backs unto me and not their face, but in the time of their trouble
They will say arise and save us
You know everybody of all the atheists and foxholes are believers when the bombs start coming aren't they?
This is but where are thy gods that thou hast made thee?
Let them arise if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble for according to the number of the cities are thy gods
Oh, Judah. He's saying all these gods that they believe in they're not going to help you because they're not real
Or they're devils and God's just not going to allow them to help you
Just like the prophets of Baal. They're cutting themselves and crying to Baal and all this stuff and God did not allow
Satan to
Allow them to burn up that sacrifice
But then Eliza's just like dumping you know kajillion gallons of water all over everything and then he calls on God
She just
Scorches it all and takes away all the moisture
You know I mean it takes a while for moisture like that to just get licked up by water
But it licked it all up, and here's the thing God is real and all this other stuff is pagan
Idiotic just you know these climate change people that think that look look. There's a huge agenda
This is a really big problem in our country today
That people are trying to impose on our way of life
Because they think that you know if you eat meat you're causing cows to fart and and destroy the world
It's what they believe they're trying to get us to eat bugs
They're trying to look I've seen Indiana Jones in the Temple of Doom, and I don't want to eat bugs like that
That like cured me of ever wanting to eat bugs
Those are real bugs by the way, I think when they I'm not trying to get you to watch that movie
I'm just saying that
I'm not eating bugs like every option on the airplane is basically you get one little slice of meat
Maybe one thing that has meat in it everything else is vegan or whatever
They're trying to make us do this because they're sold out
crazy people and the powers that be are
You know and just imposing their will with all these carbon taxes
You know why your your gas cost five dollars a gallon in Washington because of these carbon taxes that they're putting in
Because of all these weirdos that get into office and put all their weird policies in place
They're talking about trying to have no gas cars in California like I don't I don't know what the date is now
I think they keep pushing it up because they know it's just not possible
You can't even get a Tesla to drive like 300 miles without having to recharge it
You know we just go to the gas pump go done. I'm ready to go again
It's funny when these people try to you know do these experiments where they're you know trying to sell these electric cars and
They have to like have people go before them with generators and gas
to charge them up with the charger from the generator and
All these lithium batteries are coming from literal slaves in Africa
that are down their little children are down there mining this stuff and
You know you're like. Oh, this is just making the world so great
California has rolling blackouts all the time because they don't have the energy to do anything
What do you think it's gonna be like when they have all these electric cars? That's the only way you can get around
Look it's gotten insane folks, and it is a threat to our Christianity because what would how would that change our way of life?
You know I mean
This is but this is kind of that what they're selling us right now all this carbon tax
And you know just like as soon as Biden got in that's what he did
He just changed everything back to the way. It was already going got us back into it the treaty
About the carbon credits and all that stuff you think China's doing that China's just let roll in the coal
they're just blasting the coal and
Then we're afraid of nuclear energy which could just be the answer to it all
but anyway
There's a legitimate threat from these types of people in this mindset because they think that they're saving the world by recycling their plastic milk
jug
They they're they become the saviors, so how do you save people that have become their own saviors?
Because they put glass bottles in a different canister and send it out for the dumps for the
Let me just tell you something folks all that goes to the same place
I've met people that are garbage men, and they say it all just goes to the same place
you
Like that's not true
Okay, the garbage man's line, and you're right
All they do is put it on the curb and separate it and put you know important. They have to compost all their food
Chicken bones putty tups all that stuff they put it in a in a compost can and put it out
to the curb in the dead heat of summer
Portland stinks bad enough with all the other stuff
That's going on there
But it stinks even worse
When the compost because the compost place if you ever like have been through like a drought in the summertime going to Portland back and forth
When you first cross the bridge you smell that weird that gross smell you know what that is all that compost
You know just rotting in some nasty pile
It's disgusting
But this is what the climate change crazies are doing and you know look
There's a rise in in paganism we got to get these people saved
We got to get these people saved so last verse. I'm just gonna read it last verses Jude
122 says and if some have compassion making a difference and
Others save with fear pulling them out of the fire
Hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. Hey, we got to have some compassion
Folks we have to make a difference out there because you know what there's not a lot of people doing it and
It's falling on us
It's falling on us, and I wish that there was a lot more Baptist churches that were doing it
But they're just you know it's it's getting sparse out there
But others save with fear pulling them out of the fire what I've been talking about hell a lot today
We got to pull those people out of the fire and sometimes
I'm not saying that we have to force them to get saved
But we have to reach with our compassion and and just do whatever we can do what you can
Don't be a detriment to their salvation
Do what you can make a difference and you got to hate that garment sparrowed by the flesh and get them saved anyway
Don't worry about what they're into if God will save them
Then he'll he's gonna save them and we should be the ambassadors to make that happen
Sometimes we need to reason with them Paul reasoned with people from the scriptures
Sometimes we need to plead with them
And you know what sometimes we just need to get on our hands and knees and beg someone to get saved
Yeah, and you're like well, I don't know if I could do that well sometimes it might be necessary and maybe they will
But sometimes we just got to beg people to get saved and you know if someone's you know when people are so close to
Salvation and there's just like you just can't do anything else
Again, then some maybe that's the time to beg. I don't know but one thing I do know is that we got to get people saved
So
The first sermon that was the threat or I mean the first point was the threats from the unsaved the second
Threat was from hell and the third threat was from the earth and that is the end of the series
Let's pray or we thank you so much
For all these great scriptures Lord that help us to get people saved. I pray that Lord
We would have a fire in our heart and compassion in our hearts Lord to save those people that are nearest the flames Lord
And let's pray that you would help us to have compassion and
And not just necessarily always need to be right in our conversations in order to just win it win the debate Lord
We're not there to bait
Pray you'd help us to just be there to want people to be saved and and not for our own glory not for our own
Knowledge but for your glory and for the glory of the kingdom of heaven in Jesus name we pray. Amen