committed the unpardonable sin. What? You mean God just gave up on him? In Hosea 4.17
the Bible says, Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone. What? Ephraim has decided to
serve idols rather than Jehovah God, just let him go on to hell. You say, is that possible?
There's a church out in Arizona, some 6,000 members I suppose, maybe more, but when the
pastor was a young man years ago, he's retired now, when he was a young man he used to go around
the state of Arizona and put up a tent and get some people saved and start a local indigenous
independent Baptist Church right in the town. One night he preached and came back to the hotel,
we were staying, a guy across the hotel said, hey ain't you Bill? He walked over and said,
Dr. Beale? I used to come to your tent meetings and you'd get up there to preach and give that
invitation and I'd stand up and grab a hold of that chair in front of me until my knuckles
would turn white and the beads of perspiration would break out of my forehead. He said, but one
night, Beale, you got up there and preached and you gave that invitation and I got up and took
a little chair in front of me and all of a sudden I could feel my hands relaxing and I reached up
and my forehead was dry and he said, ever since that day, Beale, I want you to know I've not been
afraid of your blankety-blank God. Dr. Beale said sometimes the middle night God wakes him up in a
dream and there's that man's face in front of him. If it were possible to get a hold of every angel
in heaven and every Christian on earth and have them praise throughout all eternity, as soon as
that man dies he goes straight to hell. You mean that Jesus Christ taught that kind of doctrine?
Yes, I'll show it to you. Luke 19, 11, the Bible says, When Jesus was come near, he beheld the city
and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou on this thy day, the things which belong
unto thy peace, but now they are hid from thine eyes. What's he saying? If you'd have listened to
and paid attention to the Prince of Peace when he's in your town, but you wouldn't do it now,
all things you saw and heard are hid from your eyes. What's deeper than that? In John 12, 36,
and 7, these things faked Jesus and departed from them, for though he had done so many miracles
before them and they did not believe on him, verse 39, they had now reached the point where they could
no longer believe. Why? Because he had done so many miracles before them and they did not believe on
him, they had now reached the point where they could no longer believe. And because he had done
so many miracles before them and they did not believe on him, they had now reached the point
where they could no longer believe. You mean God gave up on them? Romans 1, 21, Because that when
they knew God, they glorified him not as God, wherefore God also gave them up. Romans 1, 25,
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the
Creator. For this cause, God gave them up. Once more, Romans 1, 28, And even as he did not like
to retain God as their knowledge, God gave them over to reprobate mine. Here comes the young man
in the service, sits in the back, in his 20s. The Gospels preach and the invitation given and two
dozen people come forward. But not that young man. Here's a mother and dad standing down here
after the service and she said, Wasn't that Bobby in the service, dear? Yes, dear. Well, I saw him
leave the service. He's not saved, is he? No, dear. Isn't that terrible, Bobby walking out of the
service rejecting Christ once? No, no. See, the preacher had been out his house and tried to lead
him to Christ. The visitation team had been out last week. He saw it on the television, was on the
radio, was in the newspapers, in the magazine, was on the billboard, and the Gospels popular today,
and you can't miss it. And I want you to know that last year Bobby rejected Christ at least 365 times,
because the Bible teaches in 2nd Corinthians 6-2, Behold, now is accepted time. Now is the day of
salvation. And in the Old Testament, he that being often reasoned with and hardened with his neck
shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. See, there's a line by us unseen that
passes every, crosses every path, the hidden boundary between God's patience and his wrath.
To pass that limit is to die. To die as if by stealth it does not quench the beating eye, nor
pale the glow of health. Conscience may still be at ease, and spirit light and gay. That which is
pleasing still may please, and care be thrown away. But on that forehead God has dealt indelibly a
mark, unseen by man, for man is yet as blinded in the dark. Indeed, the doomed one's path may
bloom as even bloom. He does not, will not, know or feel that he is doomed. He feels, perhaps,
that all is well and every fear is calm. He lives, he dies, he wakes in hell, not only doomed, but
damned forever, and forever, and forever. If you read it right in the Greek, it never ever stops
saying forever. That's why Psalm 95 and verse 7 teaches today, if you hear his voice, harden not
your heart. In Joshua 24 15, choose you this day whom you serve. In Hebrews 2 3, how shall you
escape if you neglect so great salvation? Please listen to me. I'm coming to some very serious
territory right now. Don't miss this. Don't miss it. Let me warn you. Please, let me warn you. There
is a line drawn over which you cannot be saved. If you think that you can just wait till you die
and on your deathbed you can come to Christ, you've got nothing coming. Here your life is.
I've found this somewhere. I do not know where. There is a line. I don't know where it is. But
that line is drawn and when you cross over that line, from that moment forward, you will never
have a chance to be saved. In Romans chapter 1 and verse 24, it says, God gave them up. Are
you listening? God gave them up. Now one of these days you're going to hear the gospel for the last
time and say, no, and God's going to say, okay, I'll knock on somebody else's door and I'll not
knock on your door anymore. In Romans 1 26 it says, God gave them up. In Romans 1 28 it says,
God gave them over. In Genesis 6 3, my spirit will not always strive with man. In Ephesians 4 19,
who being past feeling have given themselves over. Hebrews 12 17 tells about a man named Esau.
In the Bible it says, Esau found no place for repentance, though he sought it with tears. Esau
cried to get saved, but he couldn't get saved. He crossed the line. I was in seven times it says,
God hardened Pharaoh's heart. Now listen carefully. Let me plead with you this morning. Let me beg you
today. If you have the least desire to go to heaven, if there's just a little bit of a desire
to go to heaven, then this morning you trust Jesus as your savior. Don't join this church if you
don't want to. Don't ever come back if you don't want to. And you can miss first Baptist Church,
but don't miss heaven. Whatever church you belong to, whether you go back to your own church or not,
that's not the issue. But don't you let anybody tell you that anything can take you to heaven
except Jesus Christ Himself. And don't take a chance. Years ago, I was preaching in my own
church in Texas, Miller Road Baptist Church, Garland, Texas. One night, I was preaching a
Bible reading, by the way, in my own church. And one night, two very distinguished middle-aged
ladies walked in, obviously ladies of some means. The service ended, I went back and I said,
ladies, do you know you're Christians? And one of them said, I can't become a Christian. I said,
what do you mean? And she said, I can't become a Christian. She said, when I was a child,
so they tried to get me to trust Jesus and I didn't. And when I was a teenager,
they tried to get me to trust Jesus and I didn't. And when I was a young adult,
they tried to get me to trust Jesus and I didn't. She said, preacher, I can tell you the place and
the time when I crossed over a land to which I can never get saved. She said, I heard you on the
radio. I thought maybe if I came to your church, I might get that feeling back again. But she said,
it's gone, it's gone. And she began to scream, last forever, last forever, last forever,
last forever. Let me lovingly warn you, ladies and gentlemen, that God will not forever and
ever and ever and ever keep the invitation to you. One day the invitation will come for the last time
and you'll have crossed the line. Today, listen carefully, I'm through.
Today is the best chance you'll ever have to get saved.