======================================================================== WHAT KEEPS GOING UP AND NEVER COMES DOWN by Sandeep Poonen ======================================================================== Summary: This sermon emphasizes the contrast between the red line life of worldly ups and downs and the green line life of eternal growth in God's glory. It calls for a desperate pursuit of the green line, symbolizing a life tied to Christ's glory and the promise of constant increase. The message urges believers to focus on God's intense holiness and loving kindness, reflecting on the glory seen in the face of Christ and the transformation it brings. Topics: "Eternal Growth", "Pursuit of God's Glory" Scripture References: Isaiah 40:31, 2 Corinthians 3:18, John 1:14, Exodus 34:6, Psalms 115:1, Numbers 14:21, Leviticus 10:1, 2 Chronicles 7:1, Amos 5:4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This sermon emphasizes the contrast between the red line life of worldly ups and downs and the green line life of eternal growth in God's glory. It calls for a desperate pursuit of the green line, symbolizing a life tied to Christ's glory and the promise of constant increase. The message urges believers to focus on God's intense holiness and loving kindness, reflecting on the glory seen in the face of Christ and the transformation it brings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I want to start by asking a riddle for the children. You may know the answer to this. If you do, you can shout it out. What keeps going up and never comes down? You guys know this. Is it age or rage? We just heard about anger. It may be rage too. Age. Age is the answer. But technically it's not correct. Let me tell you why. What keeps going up? Does the age keep going up? When does it stop going up? When you die, it stops going up. You may be going right back down to it. It doesn't exist anymore. What keeps going up and never comes down? That's what I want to talk about today. It's a question that I have asked myself and I'm going to put some slides together to help. Let's see if I can make this in play mode. And so how does that look on the screen? What keeps going up and never ever stops and never ever comes down? This is actually a Christian message. Now if you're in the stock market, what about some stocks that never come down but always keep going up? Some of us who work for companies hope that our stock market will always keep going up. But it doesn't happen that way. Even the best of companies. Zoom is an interesting story. I put a mark over at March 13, 2020. You know what happened March 13, 2020? That's when everybody got shut down and COVID happened. Look at the stock price, $107. Three years later or something like that, it's back where it started. Everybody was wishing, oh man, I wish I bought Zoom stock. It would have gone really big time up. And he held on to it. It's right where it started. In fact, it went lower. It's right around where it is. So how do we look at it from our lifestyle? Remember the question, what keeps going up and never stops and never comes down? Here's our lives. And let's measure success. And this is where I'm kind of drawing towards it. This is our lives. This could be a good life. Looks like a pretty good life. If you look at this graph. This is when I was born. Pretty happy. Pretty successful. Got my first toy car. Feeling on top of the world. I'm a success. Bad grades. Some of us can relate to that. Our life doesn't look that great anymore. Got into college. Some of you teenagers can understand that. I went through that. I was relieved. I finally got accepted by some college. You will too. First job. Even better than getting into college. Now I'm getting actually some money to go with it. Got married. These are all obviously different definitions of success. First child. Huge success mark. Lost job. Drops a bit. Success. It's going up and going down. What goes up and never comes down? This is a typical life. This is my life too in many ways. Not exactly the curves, but you get the point. Hasn't happened to me yet, but I can imagine how it must feel. In fact, it probably is all the way down. Just didn't have time to create a graph for this. Death in the family. Death of a parent. A loved one. Death of a child. Can't even imagine the grief of that. Bought a home. It's all relative. Don't take these things literally. Ups and downs, but you get the home. You bought a home. You're back. Kids doing well in school. Kids have bad friends and conflicts in the home. Dipping up and down. Kids finish college. Okay. Now they're on their own two feet. They're able to get a job. Enough money to retire. This is the success pattern of the world. What goes up never comes down and never stops. This is the plane we want to catch. Very simple. It's not complicated. If we catch a hold of this plane, our lives will be transformed. Here it is. Not a very complicated answer. But I want us to meditate on the glory of God and ask myself a very simple question. Which graph am I on? Are you on the red line or on the green line? Because most of us and the big draw of the world is to get us to focus on the red line. And there's a whole bumpy ride. But it is not easy to be laser focused. To be singularly focused to grabbing a hold of the green line. But here's the guarantee. The guarantee. Not high probability. The guarantee. If we are on the green line, it's always, always, always going up. And you know, in mathematics, I don't know if you're familiar with this. But in mathematics, there's this thing called a line with two arrows. That's different than just a straight line. I learned this actually when I was teaching my children math. I just drew a straight line. I thought that was the line. No, when you draw two arrows on either side, it means something. You know what it means? It never starts and it never ends. It keeps going. And you could say God's glory had a starting point and was low or lower. It's all relative. It's highest than our highest success point. But the glory of God has always been higher and it has always been increasing. No matter what happens in my life, no matter what happens in this world. The devil revolted against God. No difference. The glory of God is going up. And so if I look at all of the situations in my life, there's definitely ups and downs if I look at it on this earthly standard. And the gospel, the good news is God was saying, I want to free you from this cycle of ups and downs. And many other religions are talking about trying to be free from the cycle of reincarnation, all kinds of things. Every religion is trying to get out of this red line business. And some people say you live again and you'll have a higher red line or different things. Jesus, God is telling us there's one way to snap out of this cycle. It comes by completely letting go of this life. He who loses his life will find it. Those are not meaningless words. Those are not trivial words. This is what it means. God is trying to say, get onto the green line. That is your only hope of constantly increasing success. This is nothing new. We've heard this in other words, just like the sun rising towards the new day sun. That is the path of a righteous man. No difference. Nothing new being described here. Just a different visual. What goes up and never stops and never goes down. You attach yourself to anything in this life, good or bad, great or horrible success. We're in trouble. And I think, you know, from the definition of God's glory, most of Christendom tends to look at God's glory through some event. They look for rushing winds. They look for tingles down your spine. They look for growing church numbers. They look for more sophistication in one's music. They look for more eloquence in speech, speaking, and the message, or whatever it is receiving, different metrics. And that is not how God's glory grows. It's not based on these things. And it is, I'll use some words here, and I'll try to get a reaction out of you. It's pathetic. It's idiotic to look at the glory of God and attach it to such things. Pleasures in life, numbers of this world to define whether God is getting glory. When God created the heavens and the earth, the glory of God was going up. When the devil revolted against God, the glory of God was still going up. God wasn't shaken at all. God wasn't bothered. When God said, let there be light, the glory of God was going up. When man chose to sin and rebel against God, it didn't change whether the glory of God was going to go up. And the glory of God was revealed through the earth being cursed, through man and woman having to face consequences, and Jesus being prophesied as coming to die. The glory of God was always bubbling greater and greater. So when I look at tragedy, when I look at challenges on this earth, I can say, wait, wait, I don't understand this. I'm looking at the red line. And so the great challenge for us is to constantly, repeatedly grab a hold of the green line at all times. Not easy. It looks very easy to draw the picture, but that's the hard work that we as Christians got to do. Not living in our feelings, not living our lives based on circumstances, not living a life with what feels right and what seems right, according to culture. God is saying, you can try as much as you like red lines. And you look at all the posts on Instagram or social media, whatever it is. They show you in your best moments. They show you on the red lines going up. They won't, they'll be very interestingly quiet when it's the downtimes. When the smooth face becomes wrinkles, then we have to resort to Photoshop when the red lines are going down or faking it or hypocrisy. The reality of it is there's just ups and downs. The green line, God's glory is what we have to get a hold of. Nothing new from what we hear in scripture. When Jesus says, lose your life. When he says, you've got to die to self, we're being delivered over. What does that mean? He's saying, I'm trying to get you onto the green line so that the resurrection life of Jesus can be demonstrated. Sorry, I have to go through this animation again. Glory of God is the first thing that says, and now, as I said, it's not the pictures of what we see in Christendom today. I want to talk about three little points on what it means. The glory of God is first of all, God's intense holiness. God's intense holiness is the glory of God. Whenever we think about whenever you hear your brothers and sisters, this has helped me tremendously for decades. Now, whenever I hear about God's move revivals happening, the first question I asked, the very first question I asked myself is let me see, look at God's holiness in those people, not odd crutches on the stage because people are walking, not wheelchairs are empty because people are walking. I'm looking for holiness in these revival movements. I want to see a moving of people from sin towards holiness because that is the glory of God, not gold dust, not smoke machines, all these things that we fake. It's an intense picture of holiness, God's intense passion for holiness. And I don't have the time to show you, but there are three things that I wrote down in my notes about God's holiness. The sons of Aaron Leviticus chapter 10. If you want, let's turn with, you can read that when you have some time Leviticus chapter 10, one through three, here's the story that the sons of Aaron came and offered strange fire. This is the sons of Aaron. This is what's all new to them. And they mixed something, which is God said not to mix in God's holy place. And these two boys, sons of Aaron died immediately. God killed him. And this is what he said by those who come near to me, where I'm going to show my glory, I'm going to be treated as holy. And the consequences were massive because God was saying, I've got to show myself holy. Numbers chapter 14. Another story where the people of Israel were told, go into the promised land, scout out the land. And the spies came back saying they're giants. Well, the grasshoppers. And they were revolting against Moses and said, let's find a new leader. And God said, I'm not going to let them enter the promised land. And this is what he said. Numbers chapter 14, verse 21. You can look it up later. Indeed, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of God. And so here's what's going to happen. None of these people are going to enter the promised land. Because my glory is so important and is considered, it's relating to holiness. It gets even harder than that. Moses and Aaron. Numbers chapter 20. Numbers chapter 28 through 13. I'll point this out to you, just so that you can look at this, maybe in person. Numbers chapter 28 through 13. This is when the second time God said, there's a rock and these people need water. First time you struck the rock. Second time, now speak to the rock. And Moses and Aaron, we heard about anger. Moses was so angry. He struck the rock. That huge an issue. Yes, it was. And this is what God said. Because you have not believed me. Verse 12. Moses struck the rock in anger. Verse 11. Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock. God said to Moses, because you have not believed me to treat me as holy. You're out. And seen verse 13. This is the expression. He proved himself. Holy. This word glory. It's like saying. Beauty. If I were to explain to you a beautiful sunset. Do you think, have you ever heard, ever heard any poet, any person describe a sunset that matches what you saw? Even a video. Even a photograph. What about sweet mangoes? Have you ever heard a description of how sweet the mango is? That can give you children. You know the word yummy. Ask your mommy to define yummy. And see if it matches with what you feel about yummy. Something yummy. These are words that can't be described. But it points to something. The glory of God. You can't describe it. It points to God himself. But there are words that come close. And we have to look at scripture to find out what are the words that come close to define the glory of God that's constantly going on. The first word that we must always think about is holiness. God's holiness is a mark that always describes God's glory. Glory is much more than God's holiness. It's all of that above. It's that fragrance. It's that yumminess. It's that beauty. These words that don't have a proper definition. So let's not even try to define it. But let's look at some words that point towards it. And holiness is an incredibly important word as I showed you in the path of the Israelites. The top leaders getting tremendously punished when they didn't respect and reverence God's glory. And God said, I want to prove my holiness. I want to show. I want to give evidence of that. The first death of Christians. You know who was the first death of Christians? Who was the first Christian to die? People think it's Stephen. It's not. You know who it was? Ananias and Sapphira. They were the first Christians who died in the church. They were not the martyrs. It was God saying, I will prove myself wholly in the church. They were the first Christians who died. Jesus initiated the way the day of Pentecost happened. Ananias and Sapphira. I will prove myself wholly in the church because God's glory is always going up. God's holiness. But holiness is not just strictness. We know that. It's also God's compassion. Psalm 115 verse 1. It appeals to the glory of God. Psalm 115 verse 1. Not to us, O Lord. Not to us, but to your name. Give glory. Because of your loving kindness. It's God's love and kindness. Is the other wing of God's glory that we see it in. Again, it's a picture. It doesn't describe its full glory. But it's his loving kindness. There was a time when Moses. God wanted to destroy all the Israelites. And said, I'll have a new nation come out of you. And Moses said, no, please spare the Israelites. I just have one request of you. Show me your glory. And God said, nobody can see my face and live. You can read about that. Exodus 33 and 34. But God said, Moses, you're special to me. So I'm going to have you sit in the cleft of the rock. And I'm going to pass by and you can see my back. Because nobody can see my face and live. And he passed by and then he heard the Lord. And Moses was calling out the name of the Lord. And the Lord responded, here's my name. Full of compassion. Let's read that just so you can underline it. Go back and look at it later. Exodus chapter 34. Verse 6. The Lord descended on him, passed before him, and proclaimed. The Lord God, compassionate and gracious. Slow to anger. And the same thing happened. Slow to anger. Abounding in loving kindness and truth. Sorry if I'm going by these verses quickly. You can go back and read it. Take notes about this and go back and read it. In 2 Chronicles chapter 7. Now this is Solomon. He's built a second temple. The first was a tabernacle in the wilderness. Solomon comes and builds a second tabernacle. The temple in Jerusalem. David couldn't build it because he's a man of war. Solomon builds it. And you see the end of Solomon's prayer in 2 Chronicles chapter 6. Verse 42. Oh Lord God, do not turn your face from your anointed. Remember your loving kindness. He's appealing to your loving kindness. And see what happens. 2 Chronicles chapter 7. Verse 1. Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering. What a sight to have seen. And the glory of the Lord filled the house. Here's the glory of the Lord. Now filling this temple. And the priest couldn't enter the house because the glory had filled the Lord's house. And see how the sons of Israel responded. Back in Mount Sinai they were all scared. But all the sons of Israel now they see it. The glory of the Lord coming down into the house. Verse 3. 2 Chronicles chapter 7. Verse 3. They bow down on the pavement with their faces to the ground. Their faces in the dust. And they worship Him and they give praise to the Lord. Saying truly He is good. His loving kindness is everlasting. His holiness is non-negotiable but so is His loving kindness. And when the glory filled the temple in Solomon's time, these were not perfect people. These were people who were as fickle as the people in the wilderness. But they saw the glory of the Lord and they praised God's loving kindness. His intense holiness is how we see the glory of the Lord. His intense love and compassionate kindness is how we see the glory of the Lord. And that's all trivial compared to how we see the Lord now. Turn with me to John chapter 1 verse 14. John chapter 1 verse 14. All of that. All of that are just pathetic pictures compared to the real thing now. John chapter 1 verse 14. It says, The word of God which is as revered as His name. The name of God is so revered. The psalmist says that I revere the word of God as much as my name. You know why? Because the word of God is Christ. And He became flesh and dwelt among us and we saw His glory. The glory. Here's the glory that we've missed too. Here's the first part of God's glory. The glory of an only son of God the Father. That's the glory. Don't miss that part of the glory. We know the glory, maybe if you've heard it before, full of grace and truth. We're getting to it. But this is the glory of God. Jesus living with God as a son lives with His Father. Talk about intense holiness. Intense, infinite love and kindness. Now it's not infinite. It's intimate. Intimate. Only son and His Father. This is the glory of Jesus, dear brothers and sisters, that we now have. This is the glory of God that's constantly increasing. Remember Moses? He couldn't see God's face and live. This is the massive, unbelievable promise of the new covenant. 2nd Corinthians 3.18 We, with unveiled face, looking as if in a mirror, straight on the glory of the Lord. Wait, I thought I'm going to die if I see the glory of the Lord. Not anymore. That's the old covenant where you can't look at God and live. Now we can. Where do we see the glory of God and live? In the face of Christ. That is where we see the glory of God as the only son with His Father. This is how we are transformed too. It's not a better living program. It's not a more disciplined living program. All of those things are part of the journey. But the real secret is not all of that. It is gazing at the glory of the Lord in the face of Christ. If you're on 2nd Corinthians 3. We know some of these verses. So maybe I'll go over it quickly. 2nd Corinthians 4.4 I'll read that. Read with me, dear brothers and sisters. 2nd Corinthians 4.3 We're talking about our eyes being veiled. And the people, Moses had to wear a veil. And Paul was saying, there's a veil when you listen to the law of God. And Paul was saying, now that veil is taken away when you turn to look at Jesus. And that veil is not taken away when I accept Jesus. And when I'm baptized or when I'm born again. No, that veil keeps coming back into my life. The moment I look away from Jesus and I look at the red line of up and down. And God says, the veil will be taken away if you start gazing at Jesus who's the green line. That's my secret even today. It's not a decision I make. It's a lifestyle I live. Gazing on the glory of the Lord. But 2nd Corinthians 4.3 The gospel is veiled for those whom the God of this world have blinded. Who have blinded them to looking at the red line. This is who have been blinded. The God of this world has blinded people. What's the proof that we've been blinded? We're looking at the red line. And we're trying to get excited when the red line's going up. And get not so excited when the red line's going down. And we're blind. It's not unbelievers and believers. This is believers who are blinded because they're focused on the red line. They've not turned their gaze. Verse 4 So that they may not see the glory of God in the face of Christ. We do not preach ourselves. We don't preach red lines. We don't preach better living red lines. But we preach Christ Jesus. For God who said let light shine into darkness. 2nd Corinthians 4.6 Is the one who has shone into your hearts. The glory, the light of the knowledge of the glory of God. In the face of Christ. It is as I look at Jesus. That I see it. The whole earth will be filled with the glory of God Habakkuk says. The whole earth is going to be filled with the glory of God. In what? In the face of Christ. And God says I want all of you. To reflect the face of Christ. Because you're gazing as in a mirror the glory of Christ. That which God said you'll die if you look at the glory of God. God says now you can see it in the face of Christ. The very glory of God can be reflected in us. If we get out of the red line business and get on to the green line. I want to show you a couple of pictures as we close. This is the picture that I showed you over success. Over time. Dear brothers and sisters I don't know what's happened in your lives. Probably worse than the things that have happened in my life. Because I've not experienced much tragedy to be honest. I've had ups and downs. But I can't compare it to some of the tragedies that you've had to go through. But I do know that the green line is my salvation. And I have to make a decision day after day after day. Every day. I'm constantly being delivered over to death. God saying get on the green line. And every single situation. What may look like an up and down red line. Is really God just saying will you grab a hold of the green line. I thought of this picture when I recently remembered Afghanistan. And I don't know if you read the news in the last I can't remember year or two. When people were the U.S. troops were leaving Afghanistan. And it was a tragic picture to see people from Afghanistan. Knowing that things were going to get horribly worse. When the Taliban came back in power. Where the oppressed women didn't allow them to be educated. And many other things oppressed Christianity too. And this was one of the pictures that I saw. I remember seeing it. This is a plane. This is I don't know a big plane C-130 or something. It's a transport plane. Leaving the country and you see these people. I mean look these are people just like me. No different. They dress the same way I do. I can relate to them. They look very much like me. If you look at Afghanistan they'd be fairer than me. But quite the same. Very similar cultures. And so I could put myself very easily in their shoes and say this is me. And there's nothing in this message about U.S. being a better country and all. It's nothing to do with this world. I'm just trying to appeal to the desperation that these people had. For a life. For the red line life. That's what I'm trying to appeal to. Dear brothers and sisters the question is do we see our lives. And the patheticness and the futility of our lives. Like these people saw it. If they still lived in a country with an oppressive regime. Like we live in this world where the god of this world the devil is trying to yank you like a little puppet. With this feeling. That feeling. That story of a friend of yours. Go get this car. Go get this house. Go get this lifestyle. Whatever it may be. He's yanking you. And do you see this. I'm sick. I'm sick. I'm sick of this red line life. Lord deliver me. Like these people were wanting to get out of this life. And they were climbing on the wings of this plane as it was moving. And the Americans had to keep moving because they didn't know when the Taliban would close the airport down. So this plane was not going to stop. And there were people who climbed onto the plane and didn't go until the plane took off. And fell to their death. This is how desperate they were to get out. We'll get out of the red line. Dear brothers and sisters, Jesus came to show us a way. The question is are we desperate? Maybe we think our red line is going up. So we're like maybe hang on. Maybe not today. Maybe tomorrow. It won't happen to us. But for those of us who see and are desperate like this kind of line to get out. God has made a way. And it's not whether you were desperate yesterday. The question is am I desperate today? Am I desperate now? Life is going okay. Not that bad. Most of our lives are better than 99% of people in this world. Despite all the tragedies in our lives. God is saying are you desperate for the green line life? This was the inside of that plane. No seat belts on this one. Packed. There would be more people if they could fit in there. People wanting to get out of the red line life. This is a picture I showed a few months ago. Dear brothers and sisters. Dear children. This is the red line life. This is in your future. Whether you may know it. Ask your parents. This is the life you're going to live. Getting into college. Getting good grades. Getting bad grades. I don't know what it is. This is a pretty good life on this earth. That ends up pretty high. This is the life we have to ask ourselves. Are we on the way of the cross? Are we on the way of the cross delivered over to death constantly? So that the resurrection life, the green line life can happen in our lives. We have to make that decision. Children, if you have made that decision, you made it, I'm sure. Some of you prayed. You have to keep making that decision. Just like your daddy and mommy have to. We have to keep making that decision to be delivered over from the red line life. God, I want to be on your cross. Because it is going down. And some of us may not feel that this earth is going down. And I have this other picture that I showed about a few years ago. I don't know if you remember it. The devil is a deceiver. You see what this picture has? You see what he's showing you? Lots of pleasures. Lots of winning the lottery moments. The good luck life, maybe. Everything is going your way. But you see what he has behind in his hand as he offers you all these things. This is the life that this world can offer you. A better house. A better car. A better lifestyle. I have to marry this boy. I have to marry this girl. I have to get married. I have to have this kind of life. All these things that he offers, it's not in the will of God. Sounds wonderful. Sounds like a very smiling person offering it. And so I don't know which picture appeals to you. This one or this one. But let's be clear on one end. There's fire on one end and there's a mallet on either side. I don't know what is in your future. But this is the future of the red line life. If we don't grab a hold of the green line life. One thing in closing. God's glory. What is a verse of hope? Isaiah chapter 40 verse 31. Isaiah chapter 40 verse 31. My understanding of this verse changed completely. It became such a life-giving verse. When I understood what that weight for the Lord meant. And it's a Hebrew word. And it comes from twine that is twisted. And that's how you make rope. You know how you make little pieces of twine? And you can make it in a strong rope. And you can tie itself to a rock. And you can climb up that rope. You can climb up that rock just using a little rope. To hang on. Rock climbers use that all the time. You know how that rope is made? Little pieces of twine that are entwined with each other. And that's that word. The Hebrew word for weight. Weight gives me a very different picture in the English language. Yet those who wait for the Lord will become like an eagle. That was the picture I had. That eagle swooping by, dear brothers and sisters. The eagle is coming over your lives right now. Every day the eagle is swooping and saying, I'm going up. I'm not going to be stuck to this world. And he hovers over us every day. And he says, those who tie themselves more and more tightly to the Lord will take that plane up to freedom. You will. You can grab a hold of that. The instructions can't be clearer. Lose yourself for the life of Christ. Tie yourself to the life of Jesus who died for us. Who gave up everything for us. Even if nothing goes our way. I remember the Lord telling this to me very clearly. What if nothing ever happens good in your life from now onwards? Have I done enough for you? Dear brother and sister, listen to me carefully. If God doesn't allow one good thing in your life ever again, has he done enough for you? Did he not come to this earth for you? Did he not die for you? Did he not send his Holy Spirit for you? Among all the other things that you have. That you experience on this earth. Just even if you had none of that. Have I not done enough for you? Should I do something more for you? That was the appeal that the Lord spoke to me from Romans chapter 8. I gave up my own son for you. I delivered him over for you all. I gave up everything for you. When I gave up my only son. What more should I do for you? Those who tie themselves with the Lord. Who gave up everything for us. We'll get new strength. We'll grab a hold of that right now. Dear brother and sister, I don't know what part of the red line you're in. But we can live the life of an eagle. Eagles come and swoop in all over our lives. Every day. And we children, you can grab a hold of it. Tie yourself in with the Lord. Say, Lord, I'm yours. This world is dead to me. I don't want anything of it. I'm done. I've given myself to the world too much. To these kind of people. Too much. Too many appeals of pleasure. Thinking I'm fooled by it. I don't see it's destruction. It's coming though. Your word promised it. Those who tie themselves more and more tightly to the glory of Jesus. Will gain new strength. The glory of Jesus. Dear brother and sister. Let's meditate on the life of Jesus. Let's think about him often. A Catholic priest said that. Forgive me, Lord, if for love for you, I say your name a thousand times. Forgive me, Lord, if for love for you, I say your name a thousand times. Frederick Faber. I've thought about that, Lord. I'm going to assume you're somewhat poetic. How often do we think about Jesus? Especially in the red line moments. If they're down. Dear brothers and sisters. Tie yourselves in. Catch that plane. Before this earth burns up. Before you get whacked. Sensibilities. So many people in this earth. Who are finding out. That red line life was not worth it. So many people have found out. No matter how famous they are. No matter if their Wikipedia pages are. Pages and pages are long. If they're dead. They're not going up anymore. That number is not going up anymore. The question is. What kind of life were they living? The red life or the green line life? And there's a greater seriousness. And a greater urgency. Because the world is closing in. We're one day closer to the coming of Christ. That's for sure. We're one day closer to the coming of Jesus Christ. And God is shouting. More and more clearly like a trumpet. Get off the red line life. Sell yourself completely. Sell everything you have. Pursue the pearl of great price. 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