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Sometimes God will step in and he will take someone's life, not always, we don't always understand his choices, but in his wisdom he will choose to in certain situations end someone's life right there for committing a sin unto death, Old Testament or New Testament. He'll do it. Now some people would say, well these people weren't saved, but you know we don't have any indication that Achan and Ananias and Sapphira were not saved. I'm assuming that they were saved based on the context of the story. There's no indication that they weren't. But here's a guy who was for sure saved where God took him out. Look at King Saul, 1 Samuel 28, 1 Samuel chapter 28. Here's a man where there's no doubt that he was saved. You say, well why do you say that Pastor Anderson? Well first of all, God handpicked this man to be the king over Israel for a reason, because he was a godly man. Not only that, but the Bible talks about God giving him a new heart, you know, which has to do with salvation. The Bible talks about him being changed into another man, which has to do with, you know, being a new creature, being saved. Not only that, but if you read the story right here, the Bible talks about the fact that he's going to go to heaven when he dies. Look if you would at 1 Samuel 28 verse 18. This is Samuel speaking unto Saul. Because thou obeyest not the voice of the Lord, nor executest his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the Lord done this thing unto thee this day. Moreover the Lord will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines, and tomorrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me. The Lord also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines. Now when Samuel says to him, tomorrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me, you have to understand, Samuel has come back from the dead to speak to him, just his spirit has come and spoken to him. So when he says, you're going to be with me tomorrow? He means you're going to be dead tomorrow. But not only that, we know that Samuel is in heaven, he's with the Lord. He's not in hell. So he says to Saul, you're going to be with me tomorrow, meaning you're going to die and you're going to go and be with the Lord. You say, well why is that a punishment? Well because look, we're all going to die physically, you know, unless we make it unto the second coming of Jesus Christ. We're all going to die physically on this earth, and if we're saved, we're all going to heaven. Here's the thing, there's a loss of reward associated with not finishing the work that God gave you to do on this earth. And the more work that we do for the Lord, the more glory we're going to share with him throughout, you know, the millennial reign of Christ, and the more rewards we're going to earn and so forth, and you know, obviously, dying an untimely death is not something that any of us want to do. I mean, who here knows for sure if you died that you'd go to heaven? Put up your hand. Alright, who wants to take the next train out? You know, pretty much, you know, almost no one. Right? Most, you know, most of us want to stay here, and you know, some people like the Apostle Paul might say, I have a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better. But honestly, most of us would rather stay here and do work for God. We want to live our lives. We want to raise our children. We want to serve the Lord. We want to accomplish something. We don't want to just, it to be over, the race to be over. We want to keep running. And so, that's what the Bible's teaching here when he tells them, tomorrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me. If you read the story, guess what happens tomorrow? They all get killed in battle, him and his sons, which I believe that he was saved, and I believe that his sons were all saved. There's no indication otherwise. They're all worshipping the Lord. They all seem to be believers, and with Saul, there's zero doubt that he was saved.