Die In Your Sins

Date
Aug. 13, 2017

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[0:00] First, make Jesus into treasury as he taught in the temple. And no man laid hands on him for his hour was not yet come. Why do you think they didn't lay hands on him?

[0:13] Those three million fellows are rounding right. Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall feed me, and shall die in your sins. Whither I go, ye cannot come.

[0:25] Then said the Jews, will he kill himself? Because he said, whither I go, ye cannot come. He said unto them, ye are from beneath, I am from above.

[0:38] Ye are of this world, I am not of this world. I said therefore unto you that ye shall die in your sins.

[0:49] For if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. I was a leader in Christian surroundings. I didn't know any difference when I was a kid.

[1:03] I was in a Christian community. Everybody hadn't even been saved. Both sides of my family didn't have you either lost you. Church was the way of life. We went every time.

[1:14] We opened all of them. My two families were here to fill up half the church. Everybody was always there. All of them pillars in the church.

[1:25] One of them was leading the same, the deacon. Sunday school teachers. I'm very fortunate. I didn't know how fortunate we got from.

[1:37] Went off to school. Went to stay school for a few years. Started mixing and English with other kinds of people. And I realized there were more of the other kinds than what we need.

[1:48] People didn't have the good fortune to know God and his word from the ground up. Some of the earliest memories I have of my grandmother leading me to the old King King Bible.

[2:03] Bible and I'm alive. My grandfather calling the family together and having a prayer. It's the other side of the family, by the way.

[2:14] Never had a meal. We didn't have Thanksgiving. Just raised that way. We didn't know anything else. Brother Griffin, since I've gotten to be a preacher, I've tried to put the gospel out on a regular basis.

[2:32] Because in a crowd as big as ours, and certainly bigger, you've always got somebody who doesn't know the Bible like I do.

[2:44] Well, it's not rare to any. And I seek very hard to make the gospel plain and clear for those that have not been fortunate to decide. So I'm going to tell you something, Brent.

[2:56] Whether you were raised in it or you never heard of it, you're going to face God. And there are only two places to spend eternity. One of them is not good. Come on. Amen. So I think it behooves me, Brother Griffin, and others.

[3:09] I heard you preach a good gospel. I was running my way down. To get that thing out there. And those who are saved, don't get bored. That's right. Just sit there and say, dear God, put the power on the preacher and on the hearer.

[3:22] And somebody in here needs this. And so may the Holy Spirit work. And you just pray. You don't have to get saved yourself. Somebody might. Just help us out with it.

[3:37] Three times in this scripture, Jesus made the statement to the Pharisees. Wouldn't you think to be a child of a Pharisee in those days?

[3:51] All these Pharisees already stepped over the line. They kind of get saved. It was too late for all of them. In fact, it makes me want to weep.

[4:03] But he said three times to them, you're going to die in your sin. You are going to die in your sin. No question about it. You're going to. That's unspeakably horrible. What does it mean to die in your sins?

[4:19] It means you've got to go to hell. What do we call hell? Well, the Bible calls hell. It's an awful way. Don't let anybody tell you it's not what the Bible says it is. It's a burning cauldron of liquid fire.

[4:35] Well, you can't burn up. You just burn but never burn up. The descriptions of hell in the Bible are horrifying. Absolutely horrifying.

[4:48] I've got a little theory of my own. I told you about it. The Lord Jesus introduced us to a man in hell.

[5:02] He was a rich man on earth. He didn't have time for God. When he died, he went to hell. Jesus talked about how he and Abraham had a conversation. That man was described as burning in this flame.

[5:23] And he said, I wish I had a drop of water to cool my tongue. He could hear and he could speak. But we're not told he had arms and legs.

[5:38] Brother Steve, I have a theory. If we are of our father the devil, and he is an old servant, and the worm dieth not in hell, I have a fearsome, fearsome idea that unsaved people are going to hell turn into a serpent.

[6:05] Like the devil is. That rich man did not, his description did not seem like a normal person. I cannot make it as horrible as it is.

[6:19] Now, that's my theory. I don't know if that's true. But I know it's bad. Contrast that with Revelation 14, 13.

[6:30] Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord. They'll be comforted. You can die in the Lord, you can die in your sin. That's the only two ways you can die.

[6:43] Dying in the Lord is another way of saving. Dying saved. Saved is a great Bible word to describe those who went to heaven. It's not a Baptist word.

[6:54] It's a Bible word. It's in there everywhere. It's a great word, saved. If you can say and need it and know it, I am saved.

[7:06] Not a greater thing than if you can say about yourself. What a blessing to be saved. You're not saved because you deserve it. We're not saved because we're better than people who are saved.

[7:19] That's right, brother. Now once we get saved, we try to get better and better because we please the Lord. Live a good life. But intrinsically, inside and all about us, we're sinful.

[7:32] We have to fight sin and temptation all the time. We're better than anybody else. We've just taken advantage of the grace of God. And Jesus said, I've come to save sinners.

[7:44] Right? That's all we are. It means saved from hell. That's what the word means. John 3.17 says, God sent not his son to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.

[8:01] Jesus said, John 10.9, I'm the door. By me, if any man go in, then shall be saved. Romans 10.13 says, Who serve all the Lord, shall be saved.

[8:15] You go on and on and on through the Bible. That is a Bible word that means you don't have to worry about hell anymore. You've been saved from hell. I asked a man one time, Are you saved?

[8:30] And he said, Oh, yes, yes. I had a bad car wreck one time, and they pulled me out of that thing before murder. I've been saved.

[8:44] I had to tell him, I'm sorry, sir, but that's not what the Bible means when it says saved. It's all about something spiritual, not something physical. The Bible takes common words and gives them spiritual meaning.

[8:58] For instance, baptized means to dip a cup into a bucket of water. We use it to mean dip a body into a baptistry of water. It means to dip or plunge under the water.

[9:12] Before baptism came along, it just meant to put something in the water. You can baptize a dish when you're washing dishes. It takes common words and gives them spiritual meaning.

[9:26] Lost, for instance, means to not know your way home. The Bible calls for an unsaved person lost. That's right. If the gospel be hid, it's hid in them that are lost.

[9:39] From the God of this world, the devil is blinding their minds. So, when Jesus said, you shall die in your sins, he meant, you shall die unsaved.

[9:51] Horrible tragedy is, according to this Bible, more people die unsaved than saved by a great, great number.

[10:03] I can't say that without you. You know, when all of us get to heaven and get saved, the Bible says it's just a few that fall from the people.

[10:17] And most of them will be in the other place. That was a good job of these people. to keep people away from the Lord. Enter ye in the straight gate, for wide is the gate, narrowed and broad is the way that leads to destruction.

[10:35] Many there be that go in that wide gate, because straight is the gate, narrow is the way that leads to life. Few there be that find.

[10:47] Hold, orbs and holes, some people think they've found it, but they're going the wrong road. They're not going to find themselves on the narrow way. I want to give you some reasons people die of their sins.

[11:02] And I'm going to try to bury kids right now. This is very serious. We have to make it plain. First reason people die of their sins is because of unbelief. Unbelief.

[11:13] He that believeth on the Son is not condemned. He that believeth not is condemned already, because he's not believed on the name of the Son of God.

[11:27] The first thing that keeps people from getting saved is they don't believe it. I mean, they just don't believe it in their head. They just don't believe it. Oh, I've had lots of people have to say, oh, virgin birds, I don't believe that.

[11:42] Noah getting all those animals in the bull, riding out of mud for a year. He's that. Well, I've seen the ark. On vacation, we came through the Cincinnati area, 28 miles south of Cincinnati, and there is an ark.

[12:06] That thing is humongous. You would not believe. It's built on the dimensions of the Bible. You ever see that thing? You'll never again wonder if you can go all the time and you'll never see that thing.

[12:20] He could have put a dozen of each in it, still have to bring in the room. Boy, that thing's big. Now, that's not the actual ark. And I'm not going to get into this, but some have seen the actual ark up on Mount Arara.

[12:37] It really happens. Everything in the Bible happens, like it's there. You have to believe the Bible gets saved. A woman called Lee Robertson, a great preacher from Chattanooga, in the sea.

[12:49] Said, my son's in town only tonight. Can you please go down to the hotel room and get him saved? He's 40 years old, he's not saved. Lee Robertson, I'll go down to see you. He went down, walked in the room, and asked one question, sir, after he introduced himself, do you believe this Bible?

[13:10] And the man said, well, no, I don't believe it. I think that's a bunch of old men got together and said, can I convince you different? He said, no, I'm not going to ever believe that Bible.

[13:22] He said, well, sir, your mother told me to come up here and try to get you saved. It's impossible to get you saved. And I'm not going to waste my time. Good night, sir.

[13:33] And he walked back. He wasn't hard-hearted or uncarried. But if you don't believe that Bible right there, you're going to hell. That thing is the center of everything.

[13:50] That's the only tangible piece of God that the Bible will get heard. The Bible says in itself, it's alive and powerful and it is alive.

[14:02] It's a living book. You better not ever say, I don't believe that nonsense. You're just about to do your soul when you think that. First thing I have to believe, you've got to believe the Bible.

[14:15] I brought this little sheet. Let me tell you something. You know why I believe the Bible? Well, I believe it because of my granny believe it. And I raised it. And they didn't know anything else.

[14:26] When I got old enough to start studying it, I saw why she believed. There is one word that separates the Bible from every other written book on this earth from any century.

[14:39] That word is prophecy. You can read the book of Moran, you can read Mary Baker Eddie's writing, you can read the Mormon book, you can read all of them.

[14:50] Not any of them report to tell you the future. The Bible does. In hundreds and hundreds of places, the Bible prophesies things that haven't happened yet.

[15:04] They come to pass, just like it says. That proves that God wrote this book and not me. Because only God moves to begin from the beginning. and when he says something is going to happen, it's going to happen or he's not God.

[15:18] Let me read you this. Josiah was the king of Judah. In 1 Kings 13, 2, he was prophesied by name, a king will be born named Josiah.

[15:31] He will dig up these bones of these false prophets and burn them on this false prophet's altar. 321 years later, the little boy was born and he grew up to be one of the greatest kings in the history of Judah.

[15:52] He was cleansing the land of all idolatry and he came across some altars and he said, what graves are those over there? And somebody said, that's the graves of the prophets that used to sacrifice on this altar.

[16:10] He said, they go longer. They dug them up and burned them on that altar. 321 years after they called him by name.

[16:24] Now, that would be like the pilgrims landing at Wimuth Rock. And the leader of the pilgrims said, I have an announcement to me.

[16:36] This will be a great nation. And the 28th president of this nation will be Woodrow Wilson. Now, you think and you say, impossible.

[16:48] That's exactly what happened when he said Josiah would be king. Same number here. Everything is named. Another king named Cyrus was prophesied in Isaiah 44, 28.

[17:00] One and three quarters centuries later, a king named Cyrus did exactly what the Bible said he was going to do. He planned to fulfill it in 2nd Chronicle 36 in Ezra chapter 1, almost 200 years later.

[17:18] This is like George Washington, standing up and saying, I'm the first president of the United States. The 32nd president will be Franklin D.

[17:30] Roosevelt. Same number of years, same kind of prophecy. You see why believe the Bible? I'll just give you a couple of them.

[17:43] Those kinds of prophecies are everywhere in here. Everywhere. Jesus' birth in Bethlehem, which was just a little village. Jesus born there.

[17:55] Michael 5, 2, prophesied that would be where Jesus would be born 700 years before that. Fulfilled in Matthew 2, 1. Psalm number 22, written in 1950 B.C.

[18:09] and Isaiah 53, written 700 years B.C., described the crucifixion of Christ to a T. And nobody ever used crucifixion to the Roman Empire.

[18:23] And the Romans used crucifixion the first time. And it's described to a T. Those two scriptures, especially Psalm 22, tell you what the enemies of the Lord will say to the enemies he ain't going to draw.

[18:37] You can tell me that's not God's book. You have to be very careful, fellow, believe in the Bible. What I'm telling you is hundreds of things, hundreds of things, just that intricate.

[18:55] Daniel, in 536 B.C., one of the great prophets, said that when the king decreed Jews, that Jerusalem was to be rebuilt, which happened by the way in 90 more years.

[19:12] 483 years after that, the Messiah will be crucified. You know why the wise men knew it was time for Jesus? It wasn't just because they saw a star, it's because they had a copy of the Daniel, which was written in the country they came from.

[19:29] They have enough sense to add up years like I do. That decree was made in 446 B.C.

[19:43] You add up prophetical years to April 30 A.D. when Jesus was crucified, you get 483 years you've tried yourself. They did that, and they said it's time for him to come.

[20:01] That's how they knew. They believed the Bible. Well, Daniel prophesied also the four great world empires, three of which were still in the future when he prophesied.

[20:17] He predicted that Alexander the great Grecian empire would be divided into four parts, and it happened 250 years later, and he predicted many other things about the Medes and Persians and Greece and Rome and Babylon.

[20:35] They all came to pass. I have a little sheet that I made up one time to tell you why I believe the Bible. The word prophecy is the reason you can believe the Bible.

[20:47] Many others, many others. You're going to go to hell, my dear friend, I don't want you to. If you don't take that Bible literally believe what it says, you can't get to heaven.

[21:00] You can't get to heaven. Jesus is God. Jesus came down from heaven. He was born of a virgin. He lived a sinless life. He really died on the cross. He was really buried in a dead man, and he rose from the dead.

[21:15] All of that is literal, and it must be believed if you go to heaven. You say, well, I do believe all that. I've said it many times. Are you Christian? You believe the Bible? Sure I do.

[21:27] It's not enough to have him believe. James, it was, in the New Testament, said the devil thought to believe the demons, and they tremble.

[21:39] We believe it. We don't tremble. The devil's not going to heaven, are they? There's more to it than he believed. This is another one of those common words, believe that the Lord has made a spiritual word in meetings.

[21:56] Believing on the Lord Jesus Christ is different from believing that he will, and that the Bible is true when it speaks of him. To believe on him is to trust him completely.

[22:10] To yield one's future and faith into his hands, and not to try to help him save him. that's what believing on you mean.

[22:25] If they drafted me, and I were four else, and I never would have drafted, I came in between wars, I would be another Chris if I had to take him. to go.

[22:37] If they tried to make a paratrooper out of me, I would fall. I read here while back that somebody celebrated his 100th birthday Bible. God that.

[22:52] He didn't learn much in 100 years. years old. I believe if I get 100 years old, I'd never keep my feet on the ground. Yeah, I did.

[23:05] But, every one of those thousands and thousands and thousands of people that are skydivers or paratroopers or jump out of airplanes for any reason show you a perfect picture of faith and believing on Jesus.

[23:33] Again, the door of that plane and they have one thing between them and that ground. Hitting that ground that you learn about them. They have one thing. What is it?

[23:44] Oh, it's a parachute. Did you know that when they trust that parachute, they're like it's like you're trusting Jesus. It's the same thing.

[23:56] If you don't trust Jesus completely with your soul, like they trust that parachute completely with their life, you don't get to get saved. Don't you think everybody needs to know that?

[24:10] Don't you think Brother Scott and I once a while need to tell that story? Don't you think we need to make it as plain as that way? I'm going to tell you what. I know better than you do.

[24:22] Time is flying. It's flying. You're going to wake up one day, the other day, Paul and I were talking to you, she gave birthday gift. We hugged a little bit and we remade and I said, Paul, it's been years ago.

[24:39] She said, I don't know. It happened when we were sleeping. It seemed like yesterday we met. And now we're 39 years old.

[24:53] It's just half time, half long. you don't believe that but you'll wake up someday and you're seven years and you'll say, where did the time go?

[25:08] You think with little children, you wake up one day and they'll be big kids with families of their own and you'll think, well, I wish I had them back.

[25:19] If I'd known they were going to be going that quick, I would spend more time with them. Time gets away. Be sure you understand what I just told you about believing on Jesus.

[25:36] Number two, the reason people die in their sins is procrastination. Millions of people in hell don't plan to be there. I don't know anybody plans to be there.

[25:48] Once in a while you'll find somebody that says, well, I need to go to hell and call my friends on. They don't mean that. Nobody wants to go there. Nobody plans to go there. So many, many, many millions put it off too long and get caught.

[26:05] Procrastination needs to put it off. It's dangerous to delay. That's why God always saves now and urges people to get saved today.

[26:17] Isaiah 118 says, come now and let us leave them together and pray for Lord. Those sins be scarlet they be white to know. Come now and let us read together. Don't make an appointment we'll be for next week.

[26:31] You may not be here next week. Come on now. Let's talk about it. Proverbs 27. One says, boast not that of tomorrow. For thou knowest not for a day but green forward.

[26:43] One day has completely upended thousands of lives. It could yours. Sometimes something happens in a day that renders your life completely different from what it ever will be again.

[27:02] He says, now is the day of salvation. Today, if you hear your voice, harden not your heart. If you harden your heart, it'll be easier to delay the next time.

[27:14] I've said this many times, it'll be easier to get saved right now than it ever will be. If you get by today, don't do it. It'll be harder the next time than it is today.

[27:27] A man named Felix in Acts 24 heard Paul preach the gospel and tremble at his preaching. And he said, go thy way. When I have more convenient time, I'll call you.

[27:39] He never had a more convenient time. That man who trembled had a message like you're hearing. He said, hell, tonight, he laid too much. Another man that Paul preached to the king named Agrippa, he said, almost, I persuaded me to increase.

[27:54] Paul said, I wish that you were not just all together persuaded. And if he did see him later, if he didn't bother him, he did that time.

[28:08] And finally, he too went to hell. Don't put it off. You don't put anything off. It's never wise to put anything off.

[28:20] We had a lady in our church in Missouri named Judah. Remember her because of that unusual name. Judah. Judah Ross was her name.

[28:31] She lived just down the street from us. And we said you're a visitor and you've been in the home several times. One day we came in and she said Patrick I want you to pray for me.

[28:48] I may have breast cancer. I said good night Judah. This was back in the early 80s. Around 1980.

[29:00] That was a really fearful thing. fearful now there's not fearful now what then. And I said Judah good night. Did you just find out?

[29:11] She said no not really. I just had the doctor tell me that I've known for months and months. What? My mother died of breast cancer.

[29:24] My sister died of breast cancer. Every female man died of breast cancer. and I felt the heart months ago. She said today my left breast is as hard as the problem.

[29:43] We went to her funeral. She waited too long. It's a lot worse, though that's bad.

[29:54] Way too long spiritual even. It's the way on the physical. Pastor in North Dakota was loud.

[30:05] There was named Chante Little Soldier. My man in my church, Barry Fisher, went to school with Chante with a friend. He had a great burden for him to get him second.

[30:18] Chante always said, Barry, I'm going to do that. We'll be a deacon in your church. I'm so busy right now. I'm building a business and you just come back later.

[30:30] I kept coming back later. When I became his pastor, he said, will you go see my friend with me? I can't slow him down. He keeps putting me off.

[30:41] We both went. He was very friendly, very nice fellow. I tried to get him to get serious about it. He said, pastor, I'm going to tell you like and meeting the pastor and I like you.

[30:57] I want to be in your church. And I will. I don't have time right now. And for months and months, even years, he put it off.

[31:12] One day, Barry Fisher rang my doorbell. I went to the doorbell. He had his old cowboy! hat in his hand. And he was weeping by the baby. I said, Barry, good night.

[31:22] What's happening? He said, Shanta, last night, he was killed in his thirties. He was going to.

[31:34] He meant to. He wanted to be in our church. I didn't have time right now. Procrastination had more people in hell than you.

[31:47] Third reason, sudden death. Sudden death. That's why people die in their sins. Hebrews 9, 27 says, disappointed other man wants to die.

[32:01] The only trouble is we don't know when the appointment is. The Lord knows when the appointment is. My dad was a pastor before me.

[32:13] We had a country church down in Magnolia Arkansas when I was 12 years old. Had a beautiful young single woman in our church. I think she was even engaged as a very sweet lovely lady.

[32:28] Very godly Christian. We got the word one day dad did get the phone call. And he said Juliet is dead.

[32:42] She came out of her house, got to the top step, started down the steps, an aneurysm burst in her brain before she hit the ground 24 years ago.

[32:58] She didn't know she had that thing there. She had no idea. But thank God, she went to what if she hadn't been saved. I had people say, well, you know, I'm going to take care of that.

[33:13] I'm going to take care of that. How could she have taken care of that? She get a chance to, didn't she? In that church in Missouri, I've told the people that are here, those of you that haven't been coming here much, haven't heard me.

[33:30] We had an overpass being rebuilt on one of our freeways, and there was a couple driving on the freeway that came on the middle of the back, and at that very moment, a chunk of concrete came off where they were using jackhammer at the end.

[33:47] And at the moment, they came under that overpass, that big chunk of concrete, hit their windshield, took them both out just like that.

[34:00] And his wife, never knew what he was. If they had planned to do something, they could get a chance. See, the reason that many people die in their sins is because of sudden death.

[34:12] We just don't know that it might be coming. They're random shootings. They're unknown health problems like the aneurysm. They're car wrecks that we didn't expect.

[34:25] And I tell Paul I hate these seatbelts. I'm not planning to have a wreck. I don't know why I have to wear it. Nobody has to have one.

[34:38] I was 16 years old, and I was visiting a girl in her home, her family. You see, air busy. We're pretty well chaperoned today.

[34:52] Amen. Should be. Amen. We heard a loud explosion. They lived out on Iowa.

[35:04] The man said, what in the world was that? And I said, I don't know if it came from the direction of the road out front. We went to the door and saw the wreck.

[35:17] Dead on right out there in the house. Two cars smoldering, a couple people screaming. We went out to that wreck, and the driver of one of the cars was crumbled behind the steering wheel.

[35:36] It was pressed into him, and the dash was into him, and I don't know what else pushed into him, but he robbed him from the dead. I ran back to the house and called the authorities, and we stood around and waited.

[35:52] About that time, out of the other car, staggered a drunk man. They all waited, make it, don't they? He went over and sat down, had some cuts on him, put his hand, head, his arms around his knees, and his head on his hands and tried to figure out what was happening.

[36:12] He just devastated the family. When the ambulance got there, I went on back down. In those days, they didn't put red or yellow tape up.

[36:25] You could just help out if they needed help, you know. I was walking around there, asked the fellow, say, anything I could do? He said, yeah, you can hold this.

[36:37] He pulled out a little baby out of the car. Little neck was broken and his head was his got. Little diaper baby. He said, you can fold this.

[36:52] And I held that little baby until somebody took it. And I thought, well, there's one life that got slumped out before it started.

[37:04] Little baby's daddy's dad's brother's almost dead. Little brother's dead. They caused one drunkard right in a car.

[37:17] Come on. Killed a family. When they got in that car, Chad, they didn't know that was going to be there. You don't know.

[37:29] You just don't know what's coming. You just don't know. Sudden dead. dead. And then because of the Spirit's sensitivity.

[37:43] I don't have to tell you this, but the Holy Spirit is very sensitive. He don't put up much. The Lord won't let you do much. He said, my spirit will not always strive to man.

[37:54] If you grieve the Holy Spirit, God take you out or take him out. Very, very serious to grieve the Holy Spirit. Jeremiah was told this about some people.

[38:08] Pray not for this people, neither lift up cry or pray for them, neither make intercession to them, for I will not hear thee. They had despised the Holy Spirit, and the Lord shut the door on them.

[38:25] If there are Christians praying for you now, and you despise the Holy Spirit, the Lord brings him out and takes him away from you, prayer will help you.

[38:39] Prayer will help you. Napoleon's courier came running to him one day and said, we won, we won the battle. And the little general walking around surveying the battlefield, littered with literally thousands of dead French soldiers said, one more such victory will cost me my kingdom.

[39:07] And some people come to church and they consider it a victory if they get out of here without somebody taking them in some room. One too many such victories will cost you the kingdom of that.

[39:22] You haven't won anything when you get rid of them. We knock on that door and somebody gets rid of us. They don't know what they're doing. One such victory will cost you the kingdom of heaven.

[39:35] Finally, you die in your sins because of Satan and his diligence. He's going to get you every way he can. And he is a master deceiving.

[39:46] so many people. He's sober be vigilant because of the devil like a roaring lion who walk by seeking who he makes power.

[39:59] How does he do this? And I'm going to hurry now and finish up. By promoting false religion. I'd rather be a bum and afraid never having heard the name Peter than to be in most religions.

[40:10] You have a better chance of getting saved than a person in some false religion. Religion takes more people ahead than anything else.

[40:22] Number two, by using this world to lure people away. They'd rather have the world than the Lord. Number three, by blanding them to the truth. All you Baptists, all the rules, rules, rules, legalists, legalists, that's not the truth.

[40:38] You've been blinded. You already in his trap according to 2 Timothy 2 26 you're in the snare of the devil taken captive by him in will. You're even now his child.

[40:52] In this same chapter, verse 44, Jesus said, you are your father of the devil. Do you realize that people out there by the hundreds and thousands are children of the devil and don't have any idea.

[41:08] He's a great deceiver. And so because of Satan he's devised his people die in their sins. People hate preachers.

[41:19] I don't mind hate hate it. We're loved, thank God. People love us. That's good. A lot of people don't. But I keep on begging people to say it's because somebody slammed the door I'm not going to go to the next way.

[41:42] You don't lie because I've seen too many die in your sin. You can't scare us all. You can't be mean enough to stop us.

[41:56] Because we've got our nose in that book and we know what's going to be. We've got to convince you to do something about your soul salvation before it's too late.

[42:09] That's why we have a sermon like this occasionally. I want you to bow your heads please. Close your eyes and ask you a couple of questions.