(Disclaimer: This transcript is auto-generated and may contain mistakes.) suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy suddenly means is without warning and without remedy means there's no fixing it there's no going back it gets to a point where it's just too late and in proverbs chapter one the bible is describing a time when it would become too late for people who had rejected the word of god they didn't want to listen to what god had to say now they're looking for him now they're seeking him and they can't find him now let's go through this point by point here in proverbs one it says because i've called and ye refused i have stretched out my hand and no man regarded it's not that god isn't interested in saving people it's not that god doesn't love people and reach out to them and give them every chance look he stretched out his hand but they didn't regard it he called unto them but they refused he says but you would none of my reproof he's saying you didn't want to be corrected you didn't want to be told that you were wrong you said it not all my counsel so you looked at the wisdom and truth of the bible and you turn your nose up at it and say well i don't need that i'm not interested that's nothing that's just written by a bunch of goat herders or what right isn't that what people say when they mock the bible which is the greatest book on this planet which is not even in the same class with any other book no other book can even be compared to it he says i also will laugh verse 26 at your calamity i will mock when your fear cometh now some people would look at this and see god laughing at the wicked or mocking the wicked and they would say well i isn't very loving of god i can't believe that he would do such a thing but folks hold on a second god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life god's love is not in question god is an extremely loving god he's very merciful compassionate he's very gracious and god loved us so much that he sacrificed his son on the cross to save us the bible says the very hairs of our head are numbered every thought that we have he knows it all together he forms and fashions us in our mother's womb it's not that god isn't a loving god it's just that god eventually when you've spat in his face and rejected him so many times will eventually give up and give you up