Revival Sermon Judgement Day

Great God, desolation is all around us as we struggle in a world gone mad. The devil prowls our communities, ravishing our young with drugs and alcohol, pornography and sex. In absence of spiritual leaders, we experience your absence among us as we have grieved your spirit away by reckless, unabashed sin.

Grant us, great God, the grace to see our crimes against thee in your broken law. Shine the spotlight of your purity into our hearts and bring us into conviction of sin. Grant us the grace of repentance to turn back to you in a day of evil.

I pray that you move in someone's heart today, Lord, and I pray you disturb the hardened sinner. I pray that a sovereign God will single someone out and come in their life with divine power. Salvation is of the Lord, your word declares.

Now, O Lord, bless the reading of your holy word. I pray these things in the strong name of Jesus. Amen.

In Hebrews 927 we read, And as it is appointed unto man once to die, but after this the judgment. Listen, friend, you have a red letter day in God's appointment book. You will one day die in a peer at a calming judgment.

The title of my message today, friends, is the final judgment day. We will focus our attention in the book of Revelation and chapter 20. In Revelation chapter 20 verses 11 through 15 we read, 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.

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. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them. And they were judged, every man, 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.

And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. Here we see God's majesty and man's accountability. We see the holiness of God and the sinfulness of man.

We see a broken law and the throne of justice. We see the stark reality of a heaven and a hell. That day a judgment has come.

It's a universal judgment, a judgment according to works. It is the last judgment. As Moses trembled at the foot of Mount Sinai when it was all together on a smoke.

So this great white throne and the judge who is sitting on it is so terrible to behold that the very earth and heaven flee from his presence. He's going to try and convince me that the arrogant atheists will shake his fist at almighty God and that day the last judgment will be so intimidating it will make knees go to knocking. It's tears will make blood drain out of faces and its sentencing will create shrieks of anguish and regret.

It's a heavenly courtroom scene. John Wesley called it the grand size. There stands the small and great.

There stands Caesar. There stands Hitler. There stands the serial killer and the pornographer.

There stands the adulterer and fornicator and murderer. There stands kings and queens and presidents. There stands the famous Hollywood actors and actresses, the rock stars and the pop stars.

There stands the billionaires who spent their lives making money their God. There stands your next door neighbor that you never witnessed to. There stands a family member.

Everyone will be brought one at a time before that throne and before that judge and will have to give an account to him. There's no hurry on that day for time stands still. Or sinners as sinners are brought one by one before that judge.

The Greek word for judged is the word chrono and it's rich in meaning. It means to divide, to separate, to judge, to pass sentence, to adjudge, to punishment, to condemn, to be brought and called into judgment, to go to law with, a court of justice, one whose business and special gift is to judge, tested or judged by the sun, by the light, as spotless, pure, clear and sincere. So on that day every mother's son will be arraigned and brought before that throne of judgment.

It's white, which signifies purity and holiness. Cases will be reviewed, evidence presented. All will pass beneath the intense scrutiny of that judge and shall not the judge of all the earth do right? We read about this righteous judge in Revelation 19.

And I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse and he that sat upon him was called faithful and true and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire and on his head were many crowns and out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword that with it he should smite the nations and he shall rule them with a rod of iron and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of almighty God and he hath on his vesture and in his thigh a name written King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Where the great white throne symbolizes purity and holiness of God Christ Jesus is the judge seated on that throne and if I may so speak the angels are bailiffs in charge of the books Satan is the prosecutor, the accuser of the brethren There I stand, my sins stacked up and rise like a mountain against me I stand in the dark shadow of my sins My mouth is stopped as my sins accuse me The strictness of God's unbending law is brought before me held up against me like a plumb line If I stand there in my own merits I will fail that test For no man is perfect for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God The sentence of guilty hangs over my head like the sword of Damocles ready to descend at any moment Just then there is a disturbance in the courtroom and my defense attorney, my advocate, Jesus Christ rises to his feet He comes beside me, throws his arms around me and announces to the court He must be acquitted because he's with me, he's with me He is justified by my own blood Look in the book of life and you will find his name written in there Then a shout of hallelujah goes up in the courtroom and it echoes through the chambers and Jesus takes his seat on that throne again and he looks at my case now with a different light in the manner of a judge at a county fair ready to hand out blue ribbons for excellence He reviews the gold and silver and precious stones of a life lived for him and he begins to hand out crowns to me which I lay at his nail-pierced feet The angelic choir sings the hallelujah chorus as I am given a heavenly escort into paradise and eternal life I am reunited with friends and family The heavenly portals close behind me and all attention now goes back to the courtroom to fall upon the next case who is up before the judge and solemnity hangs in the air The person standing there is the unbeliever who has broken God's law and has no alibi or defense He stands there as the bailiffs read an unrelenting list of transgressions For there is nothing hid that shall not be manifested Neither was anything kept secret but that it should come abroad Every dirty, rotten sin he boasted about in life will haunt him then All the adulteries and fornications he bragged about in life now stand in accusation against him All the lies mount up as evidence undisputed All the times he took God's name in vain and made the name of Jesus a curse word or listed to his shame Every filthy deed he committed and every foul thought he entertained is revealed The books are opened and his life story is laid bare Evidence is in and the case has been carefully reviewed and now it is time for the sentencing of the law to be carried out The angel searches the book of life and without lifting his eyes he shakes his head in the negative The sinner is not found written in the book of life The judge drops his gavel and in a voice of rolling thunder cries Guilty! Then the sentencing of the law is carried out against him as he is condemned to an eternity of suffering His cries pierce the hush of the courtroom as the angels come with shackles and chains and bind him hand and foot and there is wailing and gnashing of teeth and he is cast against his will into a boiling lake of fire The waves, the flames crash up and down as he drops out of sight in those rolling waves of flames and one is reminded of the words of the prophet Isaiah But the wicked are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest whose waters cast up mire and dirt There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked For verse 15 declares his doom And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire But one cannot read verse 15 of Revelation without thinking about verse 10 which states And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever God prepared a place of punishment for the devil and his angels Wouldn't you think that it would be an awful consuming prison of hell Wouldn't you think it would be so nightmarish no one in their right mind would ever want to go there Will you be there, friend, alongside the devil suffering for your sins It was the devil that deceived you lured you into sin He gave you the taste of the pleasure of sin for a season Now your time is up Your destiny is sealed Your doom pronounced The sentence carried out upon your guilty head As I live, saith the Lord God I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked But that the wicked turn from his way and live Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways For why will you die, O house of Israel How is it with you, friend Is your name written in the book of life Or will you be consigned to the fires of torments Will this be your case Will you stand in the shoes of the sinners in Zion Spoken of by the prophet Isaiah Who trembled upon discovery that they were in hell The sinners in Zion are afraid Fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings Repent before it's too late, friend Get an interest in Christ Jesus If you've not trusted in 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 Then you shall meet Him as your judge And this was manifested the love of God toward us Because that God sent His only begotten Son Into the world that we might live through Him Jesus came into the world doing good Healing the sick, giving sight to the blind Raising the dead and bringing joy to the weary Yet what happened? Men cried, away with Him And nailed Him to a cross On Calvary, Jesus, the spotless Son of God Was crucified, becoming a curse for us God is holy and He hates sin But every stroke of that Roman's hammer Was an explanation point that God must punish sin God must punish sin God must punish sin Look at that man on the cross See Him there with His arms outstretched Beckoning you to come to Him and believe on Him Look at that bloodstained Savior from sin As He hangs there He squirms beneath the terrible weight of my sins He is crucified so I can live I know I am a sinner And I need a substitute for sin And so do you, friend, so do you Jesus is the sin substitute He bore my wretched sins on that bloody cross When all was against Him His love flows out to a world of guilty sinners There is hope for a sinner in the blood of the Lamb That bloody cross was a spectacle, a scandal Jesus nailed on a cruel tree Look at that man on the cross Look at Him, He says, come now And let us reason together Sayeth the Lord, though your sins be as scarlet They shall be as white as snow Though they be red like crimson They shall be as wool The cross is the place where wicked men Sought to get rid of Him But by His death it becomes the place Where a saving power flows out to all Who come in repentance Confessing they are sinners And own them as their Savior and Lord Jesus said, come unto Me All ye that labor and are heavy laden And I will give you rest Is God dealing with your soul, friend? Do you see your danger of coming to a judgment day To stand there with no hope or help? Do you sense your peril? Do you feel your need of a Savior from sin? The gospel is for the hungry, the weary and the thirsty Are you hungry for God? Are you weary of your sins? Are you thirsty for Christ? Then come to Him and believe on Him Come while there's time Seek ye the Lord while He may be found Call ye upon Him while He is near Let the wicked forsake His way And the unrighteous man his thoughts And let him return unto the Lord And he will have mercy upon him And to our God for He will abundantly pardon Come, friend, and lay your sin-burden down At His nail-pierced feet Jesus said, all that the Father giveth Me Shall come to Me And Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out Come to Christ, friend, and surrender all you are To all He is, for He is Lord He is Lord