Heading For Judgment

Years ago, when I was a much younger man, I visited the island of Patmos in the Aegean Sea. I walked all over that Greek island. It was thrilling to be standing on an island where the resurrected Christ stood.

And when the apostle John got a sight of the resurrected Christ, he fell down as dead. But to be standing on that same island, it was an exhilarating feeling I'll never forget. What I was doing on the island was, I was following a Greek Orthodox monk who was taking me to the cave where the apostle John received the visions for the book of Revelation.

The monk told me that tradition had it that John was banished to the island by the emperor Domitian. Rome used the remote island of Patmos as a penal colony for criminals, and John was exiled there for preaching the gospel of Christ and refusing to participate in emperor worship. The Greek monk related to me that John was a very aged man at the time, and he'd lay his head upon a crevice or ledge in the cave as he would receive the visions of Revelation from Christ.

And he related them to his scribes who stayed near him and wrote it all down, which became the book of Revelation. And I say all this, friends, as a little introduction to my verse this evening. In the book of Hebrews, in chapter 9, in verse 27, it declares, And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment, if you don't remember anything else from my sermon tonight, friends, remember these two certainties from our verse, which is the word of God.

Number one, the certainty of death. You will die at a hundred years to each one of us in this crowd tonight, and we'll all be dead and gone out of this world, gone out of this world to another world. Some of who you are quite unprepared for.

Number two, you will not only die, but you will face a judgment. There is a common judgment that awaits all mankind, where every mother's son will stand before God and give an account of himself. The word of God is very clear on this matter.

For in Ecclesiastes we read, For God shall bring every work into judgment with every secret thing, whether it be good or evil. God keeps a record book on every one of us. He watches our every move.

He knows our every motive, and he writes it down in a book of record. Every time you sin, friend, God sees it and makes note of it. We have these dreadful words in Psalm 130.

If thou, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? Well, God keeps a record book, and he keeps a record book on you, friend, and that book will be opened up and read on a future day of judgment. Judgment! Well, that's my little introduction, friends, to my message this evening that God has heavy upon my heart. In a soul burden for you, and what I'm about to preach to you is from a great fire in my bones for the souls of men.

And this message is going to just bubble out like lava spewed out of a volcano with a deep burning core, because I can't contain it anymore. I've been praying over it and praying over it, and I must deliver it to you this evening, friends. I've lived a long time, and I've seen many friends and family die and leave this world for another world.

Death is no respecter of persons. The rich man dies as suddenly as the poor man. Death is no respecter of age.

I've seen teenagers die, young people die, children die, and all in between to the affirmed and aged die. But every single person left this world for another world. And many, in many cases, sadly, they entered an eternity that they were quite unprepared for.

I was eating a hamburger for dinner as I sat in my car adjacent to a car wash, and it was a Saturday night. Well, you can't believe how busy that car wash was and how intensely occupied were the owners of those vehicles. As soon as a truck or car emerged from being cleaned, the owner would grab a rag and walk around that freshly washed vehicle and inspect it for any smears or smudges.

Then they would carefully and intently wipe them away with a cloth to where the vehicle shined like the sun. And I thought to myself, as I'm watching them, most folks are more concerned about detailing their vehicles than they are about the details of their eternity that they live and work and suffer and die and accumulate things in this world to leave them to others while their unprepared souls leave this world. Parts with family and friends, their body is placed in a casket buried in the ground as their soul flies back to the God who gave it.

We will pass judgment upon it. So one day, friend, you will die and your soul will return to God and you will face the final judgment. Oh, this is a solemn subject, friends.

If you could only take the matter of your eternal soul seriously. I can't go any further without pausing now, friends. I must pause now to pray.

Please indulge me a few moments here to pray before I proceed, friends, or I won't be able to proceed at all. Oh, great God. Oh, ancient of days.

Who am I to stand as your messenger? I'm just an old worn out man with a pacemaker. I need your assistance, great God. I need your help.

I need your spirit. I need your power to preach your holy word. Assist me, I pray, with this message.

Oh, Father, in heaven, for you to receive glory in the salvation of man, attend your preached word in demonstration of your spirit and power, I pray, and come in open hearts and come and disturb folks to the realities of eternity. Disturb them from a false foundation of an empty religious profession awaken men and women and boys and girls to their lost condition outside of Christ's blood. And may your preached word fall like heavy hammers busting up all false foundations.

And may your word run like a fire exposing any false conversions or peerless positions outside of saving faith in Christ Jesus. If there is someone here in the sound of my voice, whose hope of heaven is nothing more than a rope of sand, then blow it away with your breath of your Holy Spirit in conviction. Show them a revealed Christ, a bloodstained savior for sin, who is their only hope, their only hope of staying out of a devil's hell.

I pray that in this message you will startle hearts as you draw aside the curtain of eternity and bring us to the very verge of eternity, to the verge of your great white throne judgment, where the judge of all the earth sits. And shall not the judge of all the earth do right? For you will by no means clear the guilty. I pray you have mercy that you extend grace and open hearts and eyes.

Open the blind eyes during this message in conviction of sin and show somebody, show somebody here they're a guilty sinner in need of a savior for sin. And I pray these things in the strong name of God's sovereign son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

Well, thank you, friends. I can now proceed. In the book of Revelation, we find that the apostle John, while on the Isle of Patmos, saw that terrible future judgment in a vision and he wrote it down.

And we get a vivid description, a graphic description of this from Revelation chapter 20 in verse 15 and following. This is the word of God here at Friends. And I saw a great white throne.

Let me say, friend, that throne is white because it's God's holy throne. And I saw a great white throne and him that sat on it from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away and there was found no place for them. Well, let me pause here, friends, to say this speaks of the final dissolution of all things.

Now we pick up in verse 12. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God. I must pause again, friends, to comment.

The apostle John saw in a vision from Christ that future event where every mother's son will stand before God and give an account of themselves. John was staring. He was looking and seeing a long line of people from all races and backgrounds, from every continent on earth and from every generation since Adam.

There they stand waiting. There they stand waiting to have their lives reviewed out of the things written in the books. Listen, friends.

And I saw the dead, small and great. I saw all the insignificant nobodies. I saw all the important somebodies from every generation.

I saw the movers and the shakers that ran society in their day. I saw kings. I saw queens.

I saw presidents. I saw popes. I saw the famous.

I saw monarchs. I saw the not so famous. I saw scientists and artists, inventors and achievers, the rich and the famous and the unknowns from all walks of life.

There they stood before God. There they stood silent and solemn. Well, let us continue, friends, with our striking passage of scripture in the word of God.

And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God. And the books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the book of life.

And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works. Well, let me pause here, friends, to say, well, what books are these here mentioned? Well, one in particular is the personal biography of your life ever since you were born. All your actions, your deeds, your thoughts, your motives, all recorded every day that you lived.

All your sins are written down there. All your deeds, good and evil, the ones, all your sins, the ones people know about and the secret sins no one knows about but you and God. And there is a law book where every mother's son will be held up to the strictness and severity of God's unbending law.

And if you stand there, friends, in your own merits, you will fail that test for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. That's what God says. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

Your only hope is to stand there in the merits of another, your sin substitute, the Lord Jesus Christ. Listen, friend, I know I am a sinner and I need a substitute for sin in the person of Christ Jesus. And so do you, friend.

So do you. The other book mentioned is the big one, the only one that ultimately matters as far as your ultimate destiny. And that's the book of life that determines your final destiny, either heaven or hell.

This is the final assize, as John Wesley called it, a great heavenly courtroom scene. Listen, friends, it's a courtroom scene where evidence is presented, cases are reviewed, and sentences carried out for the sentencing of the law must be carried out upon all guilty lawbreakers. Now, back to our text.

And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. I will stop there. Notice, friends, the terror of the Lord, the judge of all the earth whose eyes of fire as he sits there in review of every life, as every little thing you ever did, ever said, or ever thought passes under his intense scrutiny.

And if your name is not found written in the book of life, there is hell to pay. You'll be bound hand and foot and thrown into the lake of fire. No one goes to hell willingly.

They don't jump into that boiling, burning lake. No, sir, they're thrown in there by strong angels. And, boy, do they scream and holler as they hit that boiling, bubbling, blazing, fiery flame of fireball water.

I'm sorry, friends. Let me pause here a minute. I need a little strength to continue.

I'm an old man with a weak heart. Hang on, please. Listen, every one of you is heading towards a judgment.

And every time you see somebody, well, let me say this. Let me just pause here to make two critically important points I want to bring before you at this time. First, number one, every time you see another person in your daily commerce in life, every time you see someone, think of them on their way to judgment.

Everyone is heading towards judgment. You can either warn them or ignore them. It's on you, friend.

I know ministers who haven't had a personal witness in years. They say they want to see souls saved, but they refuse to go out and talk to the hellbound and warn them of dying in their sins. I know church members who haven't witnessed a person in 10 years or more.

They just let people go on to hell while they stay secret Christians. If you'll just see folks in a new light, I'm talking to believers now and reach out to the lost because they're heading to the judgment. And you may be the one who can stop them, friends, if you're concerned about their souls enough to talk to them about Jesus.

I was coming out of a gas station convenience store just the other day and a young black man asked me for some money so he could eat. I don't normally give money to the homeless because most of the time they'll just take that money and buy cigarettes or booze with it. I know that for a fact.

I've seen it with my own eyes, but this young man really looked hungry. So I walked over to him and I talked to him. I asked him why he was hungry.

He said he was homeless and hadn't eaten since last night. He was waiting for this little fast food restaurant to open so he could get some breakfast so he could get somebody to buy him some breakfast. And I asked him that if look, if I give you some money for food, are you going to buy cigarettes with it? And he said no.

He already had cigarettes. He was hungry. Well, I take that seriously.

I take it seriously because I myself was once homeless. I know how it feels to go to bed hungry. Well, I put my hand out to shake his hand and I asked him his name.

He said his name was Marcus. I said my name was Ernest and he said he had a good friend by that name. So I broke the ice and I just chatted with him for a while to get to know him better.

I asked him his age. He said he was 25. I told him my age.

I said I was 70. He acted surprised. I said, you know, my friend at 25, you've got your whole life ahead of you.

I've already lived mine, but you've got your whole life ahead of you. Yet you've got no guarantee of tomorrow. A stray bullet could take you out any time.

Is that right? And he agreed. I asked him if he knew Jesus. He said he did.

I clarified that by saying, I don't mean have you heard of Jesus, but have you ever surrendered your heart to him? He shook his head no. I then gave him the gospel. I told him about this Jesus.

I don't believe in leading people in the sinner's prayer because it's not in my Bible and I think it does more harm than good. So I just talked to him about Jesus. I shared the gospel with him.

Then I gave him some money for food, the last money I had in my wallet. And I talked to him about what God did, what Jesus did. I told him Jesus could change the whole course of his life.

Jesus could transform his life, teach him how to work, to support himself in this world and give him a hope and everlasting life in the next world. I told him I would pray for him, but what he promised me, would he give some thought to surrendering his heart to God and reading the Bible? He said he would. I said it was nice meeting him and I wished him well.

And I say all this friends, because we need to share the compassion of Christ to those we come in contact with throughout the week in our community, because as believers we each have a responsibility to witness to the lost in our community. Are you doing it friend? When was the last time you handed out a gospel track? Jesus reached out to folks so much he was called the sinner's friend. Where would I be if no one ever shared Jesus with me? Where would you be friend if no one ever shared Jesus with you? Get some gospel tracks that you like and hand them out.

I kept up a track ministry for years. Listen friends, we must talk to others about eternity. Okay now listen, my next point is this, and I'm talking to everybody here.

I want you to see friends that sin is a deadly damning thing. Sin stains the soul. Oh friend, how can I tell you how much sin stains the soul? Well let me try by sharing a true story with you from a page from my life.

Maybe this will help you understand it a little better. Years ago I was preaching in a church down south in the state of Mississippi one Sunday morning as the guest preacher, and it was customary down south that for the visiting preacher after the service was over to have a big banquet, a big smorgasbord to enjoy. Well after the service we all went into the fellowship hall.

We're on picnic tables were meals that the members had prepared, and these potluck dishes were spread all out in various casserole bowls. Well I like hot dogs, so I loaded up my plate with a few hot dogs, and I like mustard on my hot dogs. Some of you kids might like mustard on your hot dogs as well.

So I lathered them up from a jar of mustard on the table that was before me, and I sat down with an old deacon and his wife, and I wondered why they were staring at me so until I realized I had smeared yellow mustard all over the front of my brand new blue pinstripe suit. The old deacon shook his head and said, well at least we know you're human. Well I took that suit to the cleaner's friend, but that mustard stain never came out of that blue suit.

It always had a green hue. Every time after that when I wore that suit and looked in the mirror it always carried that stain, and that's what sin does to your friend. It stains you, and it won't come out.

It won't come off of you. Oh, you can try to whitewash sin by calling it other names, but that won't do. A fib is still a lie.

Taking something that doesn't belong to you is just plain stealing. Fooling around is still adultery. Sex outside of marriage is not sleeping together, but bold-faced fornication.

You can't whitewash sin by renaming it. Now listen to me, friends. Sin is still sin, and it leaves a stain on you morally that you can't wash out, even by church membership.

My new blue suit had that mustard stain, and it never came off, even when the suit was old. It still had that green hue. Well what is sin? This present generation of godless individuals who live in an X-rated society have no idea what sin is.

They've got no idea that they're sinners. Many of you don't know you're sinners, but God's word, hear me now, God's word declares that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. You, friend, are a sinner, and you aren't a sinner so much because you sin, but rather you sin because you're a big sinner.

God describes man in the book of Job in Job 15, 16. How much more abominable and filthy is man which drinketh iniquity like water? That means you drink iniquity like water, friend. You can't get enough of sin, and you know it, and not just one sin, and just one sin.

They'll be found out at the judgment. We'll send you to hell. One lie, one sin.

You've sinned hundreds of times, thousands of times, and your sins will follow you into eternity. They will follow you, friend. They'll stand at the judgment around you.

They'll rise up against you like a big black mountain of filthy iniquity. The verdict against you will be guilty, guilty, guilty. God declares in his word that he will by no means clear the guilty, meaning a day of reckoning will come where sinners will give an account to God, God who marks sin in a record book.

He'll read them aloud because sin is a staining, damning thing, but in God's word, in Isaiah, in Isaiah 118, we read these hopeful words. Come now and let us reason together, saith the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet, they should be as white as snow.

Though they be red like crimson, they should be as wool. Well, how can that be, friends? The old hymn says, what can wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Jesus is your only hope. Jesus is your only hope, friend. Jesus is the only remedy and refuge for sin.

Jesus declared, for the Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. Are you a lost sinner in need of a Savior for sin? Then come to him and believe on him and own him as your Savior and Lord. Well, that verse from our passage in Revelation where it speaks of Jesus as the judge of all the earth, sitting on his great white throne, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, this speaks of the disturbing presence of Christ.

And I want to address this to us now, friends, because folks today maintain a false view of God. Most folks just think of God as a big jolly Santa Claus who's full of love and who tolerates sin. We think he's so full of love and kindness that surely he'd never send anyone to hell unless they were a sociopath or a serial killer.

But God is a God who marks sin. God is a God who must punish sin. And all mankind is heading towards a judgment where their sins will be dealt with and exposed by a thrice holy God as he opens the record of our sinful life.

And that lake of fire burns forever and ever, fueled by God's wrath on sin. Listen to me, friend. Earth and the heavens flee from his presence because of the disturbing presence of Christ.

When all the dead of humanity stand before the judge, seated on that great white throne, their knees will go to knocking. Worse than old King Belshavar did at his feast when he saw the disembodied hand writing on the wall and his knees began to knock together. Give me your full attention, friends.

I want to talk to you now about the disturbing reality of the disturbing presence of Christ so it's seen by all. It's seen all through scripture. The very crucifixion of Christ was disturbing.

The scandal of the cross was disturbing. Listen, friends. It was disturbing.

Christ is disturbing. We read in Job, therefore I am troubled at his presence when I consider I am afraid of him. For God maketh my heart soft and the Almighty troubleth me.

Christ in his earthly ministry was disturbing. As Jesus passed through towns and villages, he disturbed things. The spiritual world was disturbed by him.

Devils cried out and besought him to possess a herd of swine. Then they ran violently into the sea and the citizens of that coast were so disturbed by that they begged him to depart from them. Everywhere Christ went there was a disturbance.

The complacency of towns and villages were disturbed by him to where the multitude thronged him. Jesus disturbed hearts and consciences. Jesus disturbed the Samaritan woman at the well until she felt her sinfulness.

Jesus disturbed religious traditions. He disturbed the religious leaders of his day to where they hated him and wanted to destroy him. Christ disturbed lives.

He disturbed physical nature in healing the lame, the sick, and the blind. He disturbed death in raising the dead to life. Jesus disturbed one's entire course of life.

He disturbed solitarsis by confronting him smack dab in the middle of the road, altering his life's entire direction, destiny, and purpose. Christ disturbed Herod's rotten heart. He disturbed the physical laws of nature by walking on the water.

Jesus disturbed reality by multiplying the loaves and the fishes to feed a multitude. In truth, when Jesus passed through towns and villages, he disturbed things. He disturbs consciences.

Jesus disturbed religious pandering by overturning the tables of the money changers at the temple. He disturbed the Philippian jailer who cried out, what must I do to be saved? He disturbed the Roman centurion who cried, truly, this was the Son of God. Jesus disturbed his very first hearers by stirring animosity in their hearts to where they wanted to hurl them headlong off a cliff.

Christ disturbed the devil wherever he went for demons would cry out, Son of God, don't torment us before the time. He disturbed the religious crowd who said he was possessed of a devil. Jesus taught by parables because bare naked truth would have been too disturbing.

Christ disturbed all things from the touch of a woman's hand to his garment. He disturbed the flow of her plague and healed it when physicians could not. By the touch of his hand on Jairus' daughter, he disturbed death itself by raising her from death to life.

Christ disturbed the very atmosphere on the Mount of Transfiguration where he spoke with Moses and Elijah. Jesus disturbed religions, disturbed reliance upon material possessions by disturbing the rich young ruler's priorities. Jesus, hear me now, friends.

Jesus, as he passed by, disturbed blind Bartimaeus who cried out, Jesus, the Son of David, have mercy on me. And Jesus disturbed the darkness of sight and made him to see. Listen, friends, give me your full attention as I close.

On the cross, Christ was disturbing. He was disturbing to look at him hanging there, soaked in sweat and bloody gore. It was disturbing to see him nailed up there naked in the shame and pain of Calvary, to see the Son of God writhing and wiggling beneath the burden of sin.

Oh, you had to look away. It was too disturbing a sight. It was too disturbing a sight to behold.

Even the angels looked away and covered their faces. It was disturbing to his friends to see him bleeding so and suffering so on Calvary. Christ disturbed the very elements of nature.

The sky darkened. The earth trembled. Rocks were torn asunder and the veil in the temple, which was 60 feet high and four inches thick, was torn right to like it was made of paper mache.

Christ disturbed things and he disturbed things that day. He disturbed death and hell itself. Jesus even disturbed the dead in their graves.

We read in the gospel of Matthew, listen, friends, and the graves were opened and many bodies of the saints would slap the rose and came out of their graves after his resurrection and appeared unto many. That's what the word of God says, friends. Look, there's nothing like the disturbing presence of Christ.

Hear me now. It's no wonder, friends, that at the last judgment, the very heaven and the earth fled away, will flee away from his presence. And that long line of the dead, small and great, as they stand before him to have their lives reviewed, their knees will knock together, their legs will turn to rubber.

Oh, friends, they'll tremble right there before that judge, that judge on that day of reckoning when the books are opened and lies are exposed. All will tremble before that king of glory and a day is fast approaching where Christ will come again with his mighty angels, oh, with a shout. This is seen clearly in the word of God, friends.

Listen to 2 Thessalonians, where we read, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and the glory of his power. Oh, friends, is that verse speaking to you? What a terrible thing, what a terrible thing to be a stranger to God in the world and not to know his dear son Jesus. If you've not trusted this blessed savior, receive him now before it's too late.

Soon he will come in judgment on this world when his anger shall burn as an oven and then you shall meet him as your judge. Hearing his love, not that we love God, but that he loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins. Well, that's a big word, friends, that big word propitiation.

Well, what does it mean? It means that Jesus, Jesus is the atoning sacrifice, the sacrifice that satisfies God's holy justice, turns away his righteous wrath against sin and makes forgiveness and peace with God possible. This is good news, friends. Now, as we close, let's look again in the book of Revelation and read the last verse of our passage.

Listen to it, friends. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. This speaks of the second death for the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

Oh, friends, there are three whosoever's in my Bible. I'll watch it in an old bout tonight, friends. The first is found in John's gospel in John 3, 16.

And these are the very words of Jesus. Listen, these words fell from his very lips. It's not me saying it.

Jesus said it for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have everlasting life. This is the first to ever. And this means you, friend.

Jesus says that God loves you and gave his son to die for you. Whosoever believeth in him should not perish in a burning hell of a lake of fire, but have everlasting life. Now let's take a look at the second whosoever I want you to know about.

And that's our verse. I just read you. I'll read it again from Revelation 20, 15.

Oh, it's a terrible mind boggling verse, friend. Listen to it. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire, meaning the lost sinner.

Oh, friend, I plead with you now, don't go to hell. It's a terrible place of outer darkness and unending torments and misery where there's weeping and gnashing of teeth. Weeping speaks of great grief and loss.

Gnashing of teeth signifies great anger and regret. Don't go to that prison, friend. Don't go to hell.

Now let's look at the third whosoever. And this one's loaded with hope, friends. Oh, I pray you grab hold of it.

I want you to know about this. It's found in the last chapter of the book of Revelation in Revelation 22, 17. And notice the whosoever mentioned here.

And I'll close this message with this last verse. First, the last gospel invitation found in my Bible. And it is my prayer.

As you hear it, you just won't hear the weak, shaky voice of an old preacher. But that you will hear his voice, God's voice, as it comes to you in majesty and authority, and that you will surrender your heart to God and receive his dear sovereign son, the Lord Jesus Christ, for forgiveness of sin. Listen, friends, the gospel is for the hungry, the weary, and the thirsty.

Let me ask you, friend, are you hungry for God? Are you sick and tired of your sins? Are you thirsty for Christ? Then come to him. Come to him in repentance, confessing you are a sinner and believe on him and own him as your savior and Lord. Well, I've gone over with you these three whosoever's from our Bible tonight, friends, and now I'm going to read you the last one.

But old friend, if God's spirit has been dealing with you, wooing you, convicting you, drawing you, don't listen to the devil and delay. Give your heart to Christ now, friend. You may be pulled out of this world unexpectedly by sudden death.

You may die in your bed tonight I've known many people to die. Suddenly one man went to bed, a young man. He got out of bed right after midnight, took two steps and dropped dead to the floor.

At least that's what his wife said. Listen, friends, you never know when sudden death will remove you. Listen to this warning from God's word in Ecclesiastes.

For man also knoweth not his time as the fishes that are taken in an evil net and as the birds that are caught in the snare. So are the sons of men snared in an evil time when it falls suddenly upon them. This means, friends, that the future is hidden from us.

We've got no guarantee of tomorrow. Man's ignorance and unreadiness for eternity can be a snare to him. It can be a snare to you, friend, if you live carelessly and selfishly.

Listen, our days are numbered, and to be unprepared in the face of unseen come destruction. To be snatched in death like an unsuspecting fish or bird is both foolish and dangerous. You've been warned, friend.

I've faithfully preached the unvarnished gospel tonight to you. Like we say in the South, I've given you the oil straight from the can. I haven't diluted the truth of God to make it more palatable to you.

I haven't come here to entertain you or make you laugh. Rather, I've been honest with your souls. I've warned you of a future judgment that awaits all mankind.

I've warned you of a burning hell for unsafe souls. I've told you about the love of God and the justice of God. I've held up a bloodstained Christ for pardon of sin so you could get to him.

My hands are free from your blood on them. Oh, friends, this sermon, it's been a solemn warning and one I've lost sleep over to faithfully deliver to you. Will you hear? Will you do? Will you do what's required of you? Will you surrender to the rights and claims of Christ and the gospel? Or will you just harden your heart and go on in your sins to your own perdition and destruction? Listen, you will give an account of yourself to God one day, one day, a common day at the last judgment.

Well, listen, friends, I pray these whosoever passages will follow you and disturb you, give you no rest, that they'll hang over you like specters in the night, give you no peace in your heart until you turn to God in repentance and faith in his dear son. Don't be like the ignorant fish or the bird caught in the devil's snare. You've heard the truth of God in this sermon.

You've got no excuse as you face God at the judgment. Now, friends, listen to this last whosoever in this gospel play. And like I said, it's my prayer.

You just don't hear my tired voice. Gosh, I'm sure worn out, friends. I've got to end this sermon now.

I may not make it. Listen, friends, this preach has been honest with you. And I pray that as I read this last verse to you, that you'll hear God's voice as it comes to you in conquering majesty and authority.

Listen to this gospel plea. And the spirit and the bride say come and let him that heareth say come and let him that is a thirst come and whosoever will let him take the water of life freely.