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We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s concluding message of this teaching will be a blessing to you and your family. Now take your Bible and turn to the book of Revelation chapter 21. Revelation and chapter 21. Revelation chapter 21 and look in verse 3. You see most of the Scriptures you boil it down to them, it’s talking about either saved or lost. Believers, unbelievers. Faith, faith. So whenever you study the Scriptures, always keep that in your mind and it’ll help you to understand the Bible.

Now in Revelation in chapter 21, look in verse 3. Now it already doesn’t start it off, it says, and I saw a new heaven that I knew coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And then he says here in verse 3, and I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people. God himself shall be with them and be their God.

as God is going to have some people in heaven. So how did it get there? Anybody does eat bad things can’t go. But then heaven is going to have a lot of people. They got there because Jesus Christ went to the cross and all of those sins. Yes, that’s the way I was. And it might be the way I still am. But He still loved me and died and paid for my sins 2000 years ago before I was born upon this earth and I can go to heaven.

Now I’m seeing all of this because I’m going somewhere. I’m leading you somewhere. You don’t know yet but I’m going to show you just a little bit. So he makes a statement in verse four, God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. There shall be gri no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away. Now this bicycling, this is what’s going to happen forcellent Beleved. On the Lord.

They have eternal life. They’re going to heaven when they die. And verse 5 says, And he that set up on the throne says, All things new. And the words are true and faithful. And he said in me. It is done.ctic Mic. Freely. Keep us in mind. He just said what it’s going to be like there. What there’s not going to be in what there will be. And then he makes the statement, he says, let him that is thirsty. Take of the water of life and look at that next word, freely.

Salvation, getting there, is always free. It’s always free. Can’t be any other way. From the beginning of the Bible to the end of the Bible, man can only be saved one way, and that’s by faith in Christ. And a man goes to hell not because of all the little bad things that he does because they’ve been paid for. He goes because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. So as you study the Bible you know these two things.

No man gets to heaven except by faith in Christ. No man goes to hell except because of unbelief. So that’s why he says going all around priests to the gospel so that everybody can hear and believe. The reason for preaching it so they will believe it. yet people may not believe it. The Bible says, and I said this in Sunday school, in Revelation chapter 17 it made the statement, for God hath put into their hearts their desire to come together and give their power unto the last beast upon this earth, this antichrist, the head of this last world government.

And then in the book of John in chapters 13, it makes statement and then Satan put into the heart of Judas to betray the Son of God. So God can interject thoughts into a person’s mind. The devil can interject thoughts into a person’s mind. God can read a person’s mind but the devil cannot. But you can either accept or reject those thoughts because you’re not a robot. You cannot be just taken over and done against your will. But God can lead you and the devil can lead you.

You can do the Lord’s work and you can do the devil’s work. So you need to discern your thoughts whether or not they are of God or the devil. And many people do not know enough of the Word of God to discern which one it is. They think, I just thought of that. Do you hear what I thought? Because somebody wants to lead you. If it leads you contrary to this book, if it leads you into something that’s ungodly, it’s not of God.

The Holy Spirit will never lead you contrary to the book. He is the Holy Spirit, not unholy spirit. Now here in Revelation, look what he says here in verse seven. He that overcome shall inherit all things, and I will be his gut. He shall be my son. So that’s those who have trusted Christ as Savior, that is the believers. I’ll look in verse eight, but the fearful and unbelieving, the abominable, the murders, the horn mongers, the sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, so have their part in the lake which burn up with fire and brimstone.

Only two groups of people, saved, unsaved, believers, unbelievers. And the believers, he could have just said it in one word. But a lot of people lose the meaning of that one word. So he’s just list them. Have you ever done this? Well, yes, have you ever done this? Yes, have you ever done this? Yes, have you ever done this? Yes, you’re a sinner. This is what he’s talking about. You realize you are gonna spend an eternity in a little lake of fire?

You’re lost. He could just use the word lost. He could just use the one word unbeliever. But what do you mean? So he explained, God explains what do you mean so that you won’t have any doubt, any question about what God’s talking about. Do you understand that all these are sins? And these sins can condemn you to hell because of unbelief, that’s why you needed a savior. That’s why you needed a payment made. Christ did it. Do not we most of the time believe that you can be saved up to the time you die.

I’ve led many people to the Lord in the emergency room and a hospital and sometimes just hours before they pass away. I’ve got down beside a person in a bed and they have no visible response. And I’d simply whisper and talk in their ear. And then when I get through, I had one time I did this and the lady was, his wife was sent at the end of the bed And her husband was not in a coma. And I said, man, from what I understand, the hearing could be the last thing.

I said, do you mind if I talk to him? She said, I don’t care. So I got down and I was going through the plan of salvation. Sir, I would just want you to know, I don’t know if you can hear me or not, but God loves you. And he sent his son, Jesus Christ, to down the cross and pay for your sins. And if you will trust him as your only hope of going to heaven, God said he would save you and give you eternal life, and you can know that you’re going to heaven when you die.

I said, if you understand what I’m saying, would you just let me know by just blinking your eyes? And all of a sudden, you all went like that. The wife liked to have a heart attack. She wouldn’t call somebody, she’d come to the room. And I had a word of prayer with him. And it was only a couple hours later. The man died. But could he hear? Yeah. I hope to see you when I’m in heaven. But we always teach to believe as long as you’re alive you have an opportunity to trust Christ as your Savior.

But do you know what kind of a condition you’re going to be in when you die? I mean, are you going to be in your full full? Be killed in a car wreck? You say, well, I’ll get ready to die. Then I’ll trust the Lord. Well, do me a favor. Don’t die until then. I had told that to a person one time. He says, well, I can’t control when I die. I says, I know. I says, don’t it make sense to right now trust Christ as your Savior?

You want to be certain you’re going to heaven when you die. And so I’ve had some little trust to the Lord. some no trust or not had some of these just laugh and make a joke out of it. But there’s coming today, it won’t be a joke. It won’t not be a joke. And he says with Berneth, with fire and brimstone, which is the second of fire and brimstone, they going to die. Now it doesn’t say anything in its verse here about them getting the mark of the beast or the worship in his name and the government.

Nothing like that. It’s just your believer, your unbeliever. But what do you mean? Now we know that some of these things are going to take place, but look here in chapter 22. Chapter 22. Chapter 22 and look down in verse 11, the key is understanding it’s the condition that you’re in when you die. If you’re saved when you die, you go to heaven. If you’re lost when you die, you go to hell. So that’s why you have to make the decision before you die.

After death, too late. There is no other chance. There is no other opportunities. When you die, it’s appointed and the every man wants to die and after this, the judgment. There’s going to be this judgment. So that’s why it’s so important for you to trust Christ as your Savior. Now get what he says here. He that is unjust, which is the fixity of your character, at the moment when you die. Let him be unjust still. Means for eternity. As a tree falls in the woods, Let it lay where it fell.

As you die, when you die is the way it will, it will be for eternity. If you’re saved, when you die, you’re saved for eternity. If you’re lost when you die, you’re lost for eternity. Look what else. He that is filthy, let him be filthy, still for eternity. He that is righteous, let him be righteous, still for eternity. He that is holy, let him be holy, still for eternity. And behold, he said, I’m coming quick. He said, I’m coming quick.

I got my reward with me. And verse 14, he says, blessed, that’s two believers. Verse 15, unbelievers. Verse 14, blessed are they that do his commandments, oh, blah, blah, blah, blah. This is talking about into the holy city. You get to go in and his commandment is that you receive his son, Jesus Christ. In verse 15, out are dogs and sorcerers and horn mongrels and mergers and nigh dollars and whosoever leaventh and make a lie, a little lie. And the reason for that is over in verse 27.

See there in Revelation chapter 21 verse 27, where it says, and there shall in no wise enter into it anything that they follow, Neither whatsoever worketh abomination or makeeth a lie, but they which are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. See, when you trusted Christ as your Savior, you were born again and your name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. So this is only the believers, you get to go in and the unbelievers don’t.

And God stays true from the beginning, clean to the end. Now, Luke will be very quickly in Revelation 14. Revelation 14. Revelation 14, there’s a statement made there that might knock your socks off. This is during the tribulation period. This is during that period of time that’s right ahead of us. It’s when there’s going to be a one-world government upon this earth and he makes a statement there in verse 9. And the third angel followed them saying with a loud voice, if any man worshiped the beast and his image, receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wind of the wrath of God.

Which is poured out without mixture. That means there’s no delusion. It means there’s no mercy. In other words, God has listened to man for so long and watched man for so long. And now doing the tribulation period to seven years, worst for the time the world’s ever known, God’s going to have enough. You ever felt like that sometime? I’ve had enough. I’ve had enough and he’s going to pour out his judgment and is called over and over again the wrath of God upon this earth without mercy.

No mercy. It’s not deluded. No word you take wine and you might want to delude it with a little water or something like that. So it’s not so strong. But God says this is full strength. And so he says here without mixture into the cup of of his indignation, he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angel, in the presence of the Lamb. So here’s your fire and your brimstone. And then in verse 11, and the smoke of their torment ascended up forever and ever.

And they have no rest day nor night who worshiped the beast in his image and whosoever receive it, the mark of his name. So what happens to them, the end results of them is the same thing that happens to every person that rejects Christ the Savior. So what happens to them? What they get to go to hell, to a literal fire burning hell. Everyone that rejects Christ. Now these things that are mentioned, that mark of the beast in his hand, that forehead, and all that’s just explain what he means.

If you do this, you did it because you’re an unbeliever. Just like all those people do all those other things right because they’re an unbeliever. And so as you read this, you’ll find out God is going to separate the sheep from the goats, the sheep of those that believe, Matthew chapter 25, and the goats are those that do not believe, and the ones that get to go into the kingdom. And the others get to go into a lake of fire, believers and unbelievers.

Take your Bible and turn to the book of 2 Thessalonians. 2 Thessalonians, this year you do definitely need to see. And 2 Thessalonians in chapter 2, in verse 9, and verse 9. The Bible tells us that in the last days, this tribulation appeared upon the earth, where all the nations will come together and give their power to one and they’ll have a one-world government and that’s why the statement is made in chapter 13 of the book of Revelation, who is able to make war with this beast, this last government because, I mean, it controls the world, control the whole world.

It’d be like Hitler getting in power and conquering every country in the world and now once they’re in place, how do you stop them now when they’re in charge of all nations and have the military power to control all the nations of the year? That’s what this last one is going to be like. And it says that children will turn in their parents, and parents will turn on their kids. And everybody will be spying on everybody. You’re talking about big brother in the end.

It’s coming. It’s not a story. It’s the book. It’s going to be real. So he says here that Jesus Christ is coming back. And when he comes back, he’s coming in verse 9, whose coming is after the working of Satan during the tribulation period with all power and signs and lion wonders. So Satan is going to have his little, his debut. He’s been looking for his opportunity to control this world and he’s going to have it. It’s going to be the worst period of time the world’s ever known.

America has been one of the greatest nations on the face of this earth. because of our Christian heritage. You take that away, America will cease to be great. And that is slowly happening. But he says, Satan is going to be doing his thing with his man during this tribulation period upon the earth. Worse period of time, the world’s ever known. He’ll be able to lie to people and to see people and they will believe it. But how does he get this ability to manipulate the people in the world so easily?

One reason. You see there in verse 10, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them, that perish. And here’s the word because, when you see the word because it’s telling you why, because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved. They did not believe the truth. They would not believe the truth. It wasn’t that they could not believe the truth, because you can’t blame them if they could not.

But it’s they believe not the truth that they might be saying. In verse 11, for this cause, God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a lie. So it always boils down to those that believe and those that do not believe. You either believe the truth or you’ll believe a lie. If you believe the lie, you get the opportunity to advance to the place a call the lake of fire where they have no rest day nor night and the smoke of their torment ascended up forever and ever.

Now you think about it, if you’re not saved now, if you’re not positive of the one to heaven when you die, you probably aren’t going. If you don’t know how to get there, for sure you probably are not going. But it doesn’t have to stay that way. All you have to do is admit to God, Lord, I am a sinner. And I believe Jesus Christ died on that cross and paid for my sins and I’m going to trust him as my Savior.

And God said, if you trust him, he has to save you. See, God has to keep his word. If you trust him, they depend upon him to take you to heaven when you die. Because you what I want to go to heaven. I want to go to hell. I believe Christ died paid for my sins and I’m not going to try to earn my way to I’m going to believe in trusting him to take me to heaven when I God said he has to save you He has to give you eternal life God can’t go back up on his word God cannot lie.

He has to keep his promise. He says he that believe it on me half everlasting life If you believe it and then get what he says In verse 12, that they all get this, that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure and unrighteousness. This portion of scripture is talking about that period of time during the tribulation period. When there is this mark of the beast, When they do have this number of his name, when they do talk about the 666, that’s because they have not believed.

So I believe a person can trust Christ’s name. Where are you when you die? Do you believe or not believe? It’s not, was your whore monger? Was your nada’later? It’s not whether or not did you receive the mark or you didn’t receive the mark? Did you believe? And I believe that anybody can trust Christ as their Savior. Or whether they get to a place where they can no longer believe because of the hardness of their heart, that’s between them and God.

But I want every person to know as much as I possibly can. Your salvation, you’re going to heaven, depends on whether or not do you believe that He said what He said and did what He did. Will you believe He did it for you? Will you trust Him as your Savior? Now when you believe that, God saves you, gives you, you turn life, you get to go to heaven when you die. Now look there in chapter 3 in verse 1.

He says, finally brethren, pray for us that the word of the Lord may have free course and be glorified even as it is with you and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men. And you ought to underline this statement, for all men have not what? Faith. Not everybody has it. There’s those who believe and there’s those who will not believe it. But He says, pray for us as we go into all the world because there’s wicked men and they do wicked things and they will try to stop you or shame you.

Ruin your testimony, lie about you. It doesn’t matter, but you do it anyway and then get what’s his statement. He said, they all do not have it, but in verse three, but God is faithful. The Lord is faithful, who shall establish you and keep you from evil. And we have confidence in the Lord touching you that ye both do and will do the things which we command you. So this is what God wants us to do, but it’s just not all men have faith.

Those that believe, they get to go to heaven. They’re no better than you. If you don’t trust Christ to save you, it’s not because they’re better. They chose to believe it. You chose not to believe it. God will say, okay, you get the results of your decision. But God doesn’t make anybody. He didn’t make you a robot. He didn’t make me a robot. I could have rejected Christ as my Savior. But I was 18 years old when I heard this for the first time.

Made such good news to me, I couldn’t believe it. Iactually argue with my father-in-law for a while, because I couldn’t believe it was so simple. It was too easy. I say, you mean you don’t have to do something? You have to do something. Can’t do anything. You don’t go to church to go to heaven. You don’t change your life to go to heaven. Doesn’t make God love you anymore. God loves you. So all you have to do is believe He did it for you.

And you trust Him as your savior and Him gives you as a free gift ever lasting life. Do you have faith? Means can you believe God? Can you take Him as His word? All those people that day touching him, but only one touched him with faith, and he knows. Do you think that God in heaven knows whether or not you believe him or not? That’s what’s important. It doesn’t matter if anybody else thinks you’re saved or not. What matters is does God know you believe him?

That you believe that he died and paid for your sin? Does God know? God can see your faith. And you say, well, I believe it. I don’t really believe it. Well, God knows that. You’re not going to heaven because you lied to somebody, lied to the pastor and the church. You’re either saved or you’re lost. No two ways about it. Look up here, this hand represents you and me. You see, God says to go to heaven, we have to be perfect, no sin, but bad news.

We were born with a sinful nature and we sin. We do all these bad things. And God says that He loves us, but He hates our sin. But because of sin, we can’t get in. And God said, we have to pay for it. The wage of sin is death. So that’s why every man’s sinned, everybody’s condemned. We’re all in the same boat. But God loves us. Wants us to go to heaven. And He says, you can’t go to heaven unless you’re perfect.

And nobody’s perfect. We have all sinned. So God says, you can’t save yourself. This hand represents Jesus Christ. People have heard about this all their life. Jesus Christ was the Lord. God in the flesh. He came into the world because He loves us. He hates our sin, not us, our sin, because it separates us from Him. But we can’t go to heaven with the sin, or we’ll do up there what we do down here. So God sent His Son.

Who had no sin to take our sins. And he died on that cross and paid for them, came back from the dead. He says, if we were, if we would believe, he did it for us. He would put this payment to our account and we get to go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did for us. You see, if I offered you my Bible and you accepted you’d have a Bible, and if I offered you my wallet and you accepted you’d have an empty wallet, and if Christ walked in here and offered you eternal life and you accepted you would have eternal life.

If it’s eternal life, it would be forever and ever. It would last forever. So it made sense to me 50 years ago to trust Christ as my Savior. There’s no tricks to it, no gimmicks. I’m not going to have you stand up and come forward. You don’t have to sign anything. You don’t have to do anything. So what do I have to do? Anything at all? You have to believe. So why not right now? It’s quite as if you don’t mind.

Just say in your mind, Lord, I don’t understand everything. I got a lot of questions and doubts about a lot of things, but I don’t know when I’m going to die. And it’s sure I don’t want to go to hell. I want to go to heaven. So I believe that you did it for me. I believe you paid for my sins and I’m trusting you. See you can’t make a mistake this way because the only the two living God can read your mind.

True? So it’s between you and him, because all you got to do is believe it. Let’s pray, show him. Every headbound, every eye closed and no one looking around, if you’re here today and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, would you believe he died on that cross and paid for your sins? Will you trust him as your Savior? Don’t you want to go to heaven to be sure? God says, he that believeth of me hath everlasting in life and he’ll never cast you out and never lose you.

So it heads about nice clothes and if you will trust Christ, it’s your Savior this morning. I’m going to ask you if you just slip your hand very quickly and put a rep back down. You don’t have to do anything. You don’t have to stand up, sign a card. I’m not going to pin you against the wall. I’m not going to embarrass you. I write where you are. So yes, preach what that made sense to me. And right now I trust you as my Savior and I’d like for you to pray for me in closing.

Would you just slip it very quickly and put a rep back down? In what law? In what law? Our Father, we thank You so much for Your Word You’ve given us. We pray for wisdom in all these matters. We simply want people to understand the clarity of Your Word that just boils down to just either You believe or You don’t. But the consequences are so great. By simple childlike faith, we can have eternal life and enjoy the pleasures of eternal bliss forevermore.

But Father, for those who do not believe, it will be eternal separation from You in a literal fire burning hell. the soul have no rest, they no night. In the smoke of their torment, I’ve sent this up forever, never. Help us to be wise to do right. In Christ, and we pray, Amen. You’ve been listening to Bible Line, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you are blessed by today’s message.

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