And I saw the dead, I want you to notice that word, dead, small and great, stand before
God.
Do you see that?
I saw the great, the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened,
and another book was opened, which is the book of life.
And look what it says, and the dead were judged out of those things.
The Bible says that the dead, look at verse 13, and the sea gave up the dead which were
in it, and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them, and they were judged
every man according to their words.
You gotta get this understanding out of your head, okay?
We consider death a physical death.
When someone dies physically, we call them dead.
That's not what the Bible calls the dead.
The Bible never refers to a believer as being dead.
Your body may no longer be inhabited and your body may be, you know, underground, but that
person if they were saved is not dead.
They are alive and well with the Lord Jesus Christ.
So what the Bible considers dead is someone who goes to hell.
Death is actually being in hell.
When you get to hell, that's when you're dead according to the Bible.
Let me tell you something.
This man right here will never die because I will never see the flames of hell.
I will never experience hell because I'm acceptable to the Lord Jesus Christ and my Savior.
And if you're saved, you will never die.
We might say you're dead, but we'll be incorrect because you'll be in heaven.
They that have done good unto the resurrection, look what it says, of life, and they that
have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation.
Do you see that?
See, you could be resurrected to life or you could be resurrected the resurrection of damnation.
See, the word resurrection doesn't mean be brought back to life.
The word resurrection means this, to be raised up, that every mouth may be stopped and all
the world may become guilty before God.
See, here's what's going to happen.
These people are going to get up to God through the great white door and say, God, I live
a pretty good life.
God, I live in the church.
God, I got Sunday school.
God, I was a good mother and a good father, and I provided for my family, and I paid all
my bills.
I did all these things.
I went to church, and I did all these things.
And God's going to take his word.
And when he compares their good life compared to this perfect word, you know what's going
to happen?
Every mouth is going to be stopped.
For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Will anybody be able to attain God's word?
Will anybody be able to say, no, I served good enough to get good.
See, here's the measuring rod.
These Catholics and these, you know, repetitive, you're saying, Baptists and these Lord's of
salvation, you know, people and all these other religions and the Jehovah's Witnesses
and the Mormons and everybody who wants to teach you that you're saved by word, they're
comparing themselves among themselves.
And look, if you want to compare your life to my life, yeah, you're pretty good.
But when you compare your life to God, you come short.
And that's the measuring rod.
It's not why I'm better than so and so is do I match up to God and no one will match
up to God.
And God will judge them by their words and they'll be found guilty.
They'll be found wanting.
They'll be found needing punishment for their sin.
Into the fire that never shall be quenched.
This is what Jesus called hell, a furnace of fire.
There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
They'll be judged for their words.
They'll be found guilty.
And then they'll be cast into the lake of fire.
And then what God's going to do is he's going to actually remove hell out of the center
there and he's going to put it into the lake of fire.
That's what he said, death and hell were cast into the lake of fire.
This is the second death forever.
When people die and go to hell, they go to hell forever.
When they get cast into the lake of fire, they go to the lake of fire forever.
Say, Pastor Jimenez, where are we going to be during the Great White Throne?
Well, let me show you something.
From whose face the earth and heaven fled away.
Notice, when God begins the Great White Throne judgment, the earth and heaven, they fled away.
They went away.
And there was found, making all these two words, no place for them.
You know what the Bible says?
It says that the Great White Throne judgment, the earth is going to fled away,
heaven's going to fled away, and there's going to be no place.
You know what that tells me?
There's nowhere for us to go.
You say, well, I don't want to be at the Great White Throne judgment.
God, I'm just going to hang out in heaven while you take care of this.
No, no, heaven's fled away.
You know when we preach and teach about, man, you've got to get out of soul lane
and you've got to go out and preach the gospel and you say,
I don't really have time for that.
You know, Saturdays are really my gardening day and I don't really like that.
That's not my thing.
God didn't give me that gift.
That's the thing.
The Bible says that there will come a day called the Great White Throne
where God is going to resurrect every unbeliever that ever lived
and they will stand before his throne and he will judge them
and you and I will be standing there watching.
And you know what?
You know someone who does.
You've got a gang member.
You've got a neighbor.
You've got a coworker.
You've got a cousin.
You've got a friend.
You've got somebody who doesn't know about Jesus Christ.
And you know what the last thing I want in my life
is to stand at the Great White Throne
and watch one of my family members,
one of my so-called friends,
somebody I knew stand before God
and they might say, God, I did so many good things
and I did so many good works and I went to church
and I lived a good life and I want to go to hell.
And God didn't say,
Depart from me, I never knew thee, ye workers of iniquity.
And the last thing I want is for somebody to look at me and say,
Why don't you tell me?
Why are you there?
Why aren't you here?
You knew!
You knew that this was going to happen.
You knew about Jesus Christ and you never told me.
And let me tell you something,
you better get motivated on Saturday morning
to get up and go slowly and get motivated
to open your mind when you go slowly
and get motivated to tell somebody about Jesus Christ
because you will regret it.
That's the Great White Throne, Judge.
You say, Well, I'm not going to go to hell.
Yeah, but is your friend going to go to hell?
My best friend, we do everything together.
You preach the gospel, so I'm kind of nervous about that.
Why don't we have the confidence?
Well, you know, I'm really tired, I worked all week.
It's not always my day of sleeping.
You better get your act together
and figure out that there's more to life
than your little garden or your little sleeping inn
or whatever it is you have, your excuse,
that you say, I can't do that.
I can't go knock on somebody's door.
You know what?
I love that when that little old Hispanic lady
stands before the judge and is going to cry,
she's not going to look at this guy and say,
Well, nobody told me.
She's not going to look.
She's going to look at me and say,
Hey, do you remember I told you?
I want to be like Paul, your blood be upon your head.
I cease not to fear to preach the gospel.
Let me ask you this.
Who are you preaching the gospel to?
Who are you giving the gospel to?
And maybe you ought to learn how to give the gospel.
And more than just learn, maybe you ought to go.
Jesus Christ said this,
Go ye therefore into all the world
and preach the gospel to every creature.
Say, Pastor Jimenez, I'm not going to stand up to you.
Great white throne judgment.
I know you're not.
You're saved.
But you will be there.
You will be there.
What are you doing with your life?
The Bible says this,
If our gospel be hid,
it is hid to them that are lost.