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Welcome to From the Pulpit and Classic Sermons.

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Each week we bring you a different message

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from some of history's greatest speakers in the

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Christian faith and powerful sermons for modern preachers

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This week we have Oswald J.

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Smith with his message Five Solid Facts.

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Therefore whosoever heareth these things of mine, and

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doeth them, I will liken him unto a

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wise man which built his house upon a

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rock, and the rain descended, and the floods

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came, and the winds blew, and beat upon

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that house, and it fell not, for it

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was foundeth upon a rock.

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And every one that heareth these sayings of

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mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened

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unto a foolish man which built his house

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upon the sand, and the rain descended, and

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the floods came, and the winds blew, and

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beat upon that house, and it fell, and

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great was the fall of it.

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These verses make it very very plain first

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of all, there is no such thing as

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universal salvation.

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If anyone has an idea that everybody is

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going to ultimately be saved, I think these

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verses would contradict that opinion.

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All will not be saved.

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All you have to do is to look

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at the parables of the Lord Jesus Christ

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to realize the truthfulness of that statement.

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Take the parable of the wheat and the

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tares.

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The wheat, the Lord Jesus Christ tells us,

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represents the Christians, those who are saved.

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The tares represent the children of Satan, those

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who are not saved.

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The disciples wanted to go and root out

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the tares, get rid of them, and leave

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only the wheat, but Jesus said, no, wait

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until the harvest, the end of the age,

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and then we'll separate the tares from the

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wheat.

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Are you represented by the wheat, or are

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you represented by the tares?

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There is going to be a separation at

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the end of the age.

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Then Jesus gives another parable, the dragnet, and

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he says that both good and bad are

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gathered into the dragnet.

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They're not separated.

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Now they continue in the dragnet until the

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end of the age, and only at the

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end of the age is the dragnet opened,

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and will the good then be separated from

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the bad, just the same as the tares

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and the wheat.

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You're in the dragnet.

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The dragnet is not the world.

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The dragnet represents the people who profess to

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be Christians, who claim to belong to God,

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and yet even in the dragnet, they're alone

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in the world.

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There are those who are saved, and there

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are those who are not saved.

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Then Jesus gives a parable about the sheep

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and the goats, the sheep representing the Christians,

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those who are saved, and the goats representing

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the unsaved.

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And again it is not until the end

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of the age that the separation takes place,

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and that the sheep are separated from the

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goats.

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Last of all, Jesus speaks about two ways,

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the narrow way and the broad way.

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And he tells about those who are on

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the narrow way, and they are the ones

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who are unsaved.

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And those on the broad way are the

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ones, as I've stated, who are unsaved, and

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those on the narrow way are the ones

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who are saved.

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But there's no separation until the end of

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the age, and then there comes the separation

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between the saved and the unsaved, those on

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the narrow way, those on the broad way.

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And the remarkable thing is that the narrow

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way is thronged.

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The broad way has very few on it.

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In comparison, therefore the vast majority will be

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The vast majority will not be found on

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the narrow way.

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And you and I ought to ask ourselves

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the question this morning, am I on the

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broad way or am I on the narrow

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way?

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If I'm on the broad way, I'll be

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lost.

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If I'm on the narrow way, I'll be

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And that leads us to the fact that

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the majority of people in the world will

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be lost.

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I think that's one of the saddest statements

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that I could possibly make, and yet it's

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According to the Word of God, the majority

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will not be saved, the majority will be

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Now you ask the question, how can a

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God of love, how can he banish the

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majority?

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How can he allow the majority to be

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lost and only the few to be saved?

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This God of love, has it ever happened

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before?

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Has there ever been a time when this

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God of love has allowed the majority to

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be lost?

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Think if you will of the days of

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the flood.

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How many were saved from the flood?

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Only three.

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Only, at least only eight.

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Only eight.

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All the others were lost.

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All the others perished, and only eight of

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all those upon the face of the earth

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were saved.

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The rest perished.

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Now God allowed that to happen, and it

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happened once.

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And if it happened once, it could happen

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again.

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And it did happen again.

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You remember Sodom and Gomorrah, when God came

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to judge those two cities, and the cities

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of the plain.

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What happened then?

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Only three were saved.

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Lot and his two daughters.

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All the others perished.

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Everybody in Lot, everybody in Sodom, and everybody

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in Gomorrah, and everybody in the cities of

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the plain, they were lost.

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Except Lot and his two daughters.

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So it happened again.

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And this God of love allowed it to

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happen.

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And I say, if he allowed it to

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happen once, he may allow it to happen

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again.

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If you were to count all the people

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in the church on the Lord's Day, and

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then count the people outside the church, you

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would find to your amazement that the vast

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majority of people would be on the outside,

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and only the minority of people would be

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on the inside.

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Comparatively speaking, only a handful would be in

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the church, and the vast majority would be

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on the outside of the church.

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Therefore even in this our day, the vast

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majority in the world are on the outside.

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They are not on the inside.

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And then when you think, if you will,

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of China, with nearly 900 million people, how

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many of them are saved?

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How many of them are lost?

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I need not tell you that the vast

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majority know nothing whatever about the Lord Jesus

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Christ, and they're on the outside.

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They're lost.

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They're perishing.

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And only a handful of people in the

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whole of China know Jesus Christ as their

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Savior.

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And then think, if you will, of India,

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with 650 million people.

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Do you find the vast majority saved, or

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the vast majority lost?

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You know as well as I do that

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they belong to their own religions, and that

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the vast majority in India do not know

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Jesus Christ as their own personal Savior.

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They're lost, and they need a Savior.

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Then think of Russia, with 250 million people.

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How many in Russia are saved?

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How many are lost?

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Russia is an atheistic country, atheist.

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They do not even profess to know God.

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They're outside the kingdom of God.

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The vast majority, in comparison to those who

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are saved, those who are lost, there are

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only a handful of people in the whole

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of Russia who know Jesus Christ as their

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own personal Savior.

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The vast majority, they're lost.

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Then think of South America, and Europe, and

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the other countries of the world.

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And today as I stand before you, I

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have no hesitation in saying that the vast

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majority of people upon the face of this

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earth are lost, and they do not know

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Jesus Christ as their Savior.

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But there's something very sad about it all,

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and that is that many are going to

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perish who expect to be saved.

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Now we come to those who profess to

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be Christians, those who profess to be saved.

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And yet even of those who are professing

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Christians, the vast majority of them are on

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the broadway headed for destruction.

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Think of the ten virgins.

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All the ten virgins profess to be Christians.

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They were not heathen.

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They professed that they were Christians, and yet

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only five of them were saved.

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The other five perished, and they were professing

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Christians.

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I want you to think of the churches

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of our day and generation, those who profess

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to be Christians, and ask yourself the question,

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how many of them are saved?

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How many are lost?

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How many know Christ?

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How many do not know him as their

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own personal Savior?

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Jesus tells us about those on the rock

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and those on the sand.

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One house built on the rock, one house

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built on the sand.

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They both looked the same.

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They were both beautiful.

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Then the floods came, and the winds blew,

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and beat upon those houses.

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And the house on the rocks stood, but

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the house on the sand was swept away.

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I wonder as we think of the people

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of our day and generation, those who profess

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to be on the rocks, I wonder how

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many of them are on the rock.

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How many of them are on the sand?

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How many will be swept away when the

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judgment comes and the storm breaks upon them?

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Now there isn't any salvation after death.

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You talk about a second chance.

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You think about an opportunity that you're going

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to have after you die.

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If you read the Word of God from

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Genesis to Revelation, you will not find one

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single statement in the Word of God anywhere

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from the first book to the last book

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that gives you any reason to hope for

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one single moment that there is a chance

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of salvation after death.

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Death will end it.

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You will die as you live.

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And if you're not saved while you're living,

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you will not get saved after you die.

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There is no second chance.

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Why should there be?

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If I offer you a Christmas present, you

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throw it back into my face.

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If next Christmas I offer you another Christmas

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present and you likewise throw it back into

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my face, how often do you think I'm

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going to continue to offer you a Christmas

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present?

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It's perfectly evident that you don't want it,

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that you're not interested in it, and therefore

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you refuse it.

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My friends, if Jesus Christ is offered to

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you as your own personal Savior and you

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reject him, and you refuse to have anything

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to do with him, why should God offer

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him again?

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Why should he give you another chance?

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Why should you have a second chance?

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If you refuse the chances that he gives

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you while you're here upon earth, why should

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God give you a chance after you die?

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He tells us that there's a great gulf

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and that it's fixed.

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No one can cross it.

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It's too great to be crossed.

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It's impossible to move it.

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It's there for eternity.

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And if you die, and if you land

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on the wrong side of the gulf, there

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is no hope for you.

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Unless you get right with God while you're

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here in this life, there will be no

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chance when you get to the next life.

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You will be on the wrong side of

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the gulf.

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I wonder if this could be somebody's last

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opportunity.

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I wonder if while you're sitting here this

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morning, even though you don't know it and

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you don't realize it, I wonder if it

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could be your last opportunity.

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You know that life is uncertain.

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You know that there are accidents on every

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side.

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How do you know but what you might

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be in an accident before you get home

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from this service today?

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How do you know how quickly it might

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happen?

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The rich fool thought he had lots of

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time.

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He said, I'll eat and drink and be

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merry.

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I have many years to live.

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I'll bestow my fruits and I'll take life

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easy because I have lots of time.

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He didn't know that God had said to

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him, this night thy soul shall be required

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of thee.

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But God said that, and that very night

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his soul was required of him.

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He never had another chance.

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He never had another opportunity.

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The only opportunity he had, he rejected, he

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refused, and he never had an opportunity again.

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Last Sunday night, a man who was a

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man of God, a man who was an

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earnest Christian, last week he was working, or

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the week before last, he was working in

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our book room here in the People's Church.

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Did he have any idea that he wouldn't

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be working in the book room this week,

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or last week, or next week?

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I used to go in and talk to

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him.

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I used to go in and see him.

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He was always smiling.

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He was living for God.

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He lived for the Lord Jesus Christ.

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But last Sunday night, his heart stopped beating.

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He went to be with God.

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He was buried last week.

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Did he have any opportunity that he would

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never work in the book room again?

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Of course not.

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He was taken suddenly, unexpectedly, and my friend,

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the only safe thing to do is to

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accept Jesus Christ now as a personal Savior

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before it's forever and forever too late.

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Remember, Jesus is coming back one of these

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days.

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Are you ready for his coming?

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Are you prepared to meet him?

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Would you be afraid to face him?

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The only time to get ready is now,

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and if you don't get ready now, it's

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going to be too late.

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Do you realize that the Holy Spirit is

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going to cease striving with you one of

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these days?

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The Bible says, my spirit shall not always

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strive with man.

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He's striving with you now.

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God wants you to be saved, and he

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sends his Holy Spirit to strive with you,

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and he strives with you seeking to win

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you to the Lord Jesus Christ.

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But you refuse him.

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You reject him.

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You remember what King Saul said?

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God has departed from me.

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God has departed from me.

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It's a terrible thing when your wife departs

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from you, or your husband departs from you,

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or your child departs from you, or your

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mother or your father departs from you.

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But what if God should depart from you?

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If God knows that you are never going

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to say yes, that you are never going

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to accept Jesus Christ as your Savior, then

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God simply says, what's the use?

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Why should I strive any longer?

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Why should I send my spirit to deal

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with this man again?

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He has said no every time I've approached

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him.

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He has refused to accept me as his

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own personal Savior.

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God is departed from me.

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And the Apostle Paul, what did he say

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about the people of his day?

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He said God gave them up.

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God gave them up.

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They had been striven with, but they would

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not say yes.

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They refused to accept the Lord Jesus Christ

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as their own personal Savior.

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And so God gave them up because they

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would not say yes, they would not come

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to the Lord Jesus Christ.

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I wonder if God has been striving with

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you, and if you have been refusing, if

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you have been saying no, if you have

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been rejecting his invitation, I wonder why he

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should continue to strive.

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Why should he continue to send the Holy

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Spirit to deal with you?

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Why should God continue to urge you if

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he knows that you will never say yes,

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that you will never accept Jesus Christ as

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your Savior?

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My friend, it's between you and God.

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You have to decide whether you're going to

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open your heart to the Lord Jesus and

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accept him, or whether you're going to refuse

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him as your Savior and say no again

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and again and again, while he does everything

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in his power to win you to the

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Lord Jesus Christ.

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What is going to be your answer?

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Shall we bow together in prayer, every head

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bowed and every eye closed?

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As we bow in prayer and before we

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sing our next hymn, let me remind you

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of the five extremely solemn facts to which

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we've listened this morning.

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All will not be saved.

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I wonder where you stand.

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Second, the majority will be lost.

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They're on the Broadway, headed for destruction.

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Third, some who expect to be saved will

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be lost.

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They're building on sand instead of rock.

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Finally, there is no salvation after death.

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As the tree falls, so shall it also

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lie.

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Our Heavenly Father, we praise you as we

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are confronted by these extremely serious, extremely solemn

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facts.

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Rather than just playing with this theological principle

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and saying, those are interesting, may we put

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ourselves into this picture and ask ourselves the

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question, where do I stand?

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Where is my life relative to the facts

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of the Word of God?

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If we are on the wrong side, by

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faith, help us to get on the right

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side.

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If we're outside, by faith, help us to

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get inside.

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If we're not saved, by faith, help us

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to find Christ.

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For we ask it in Jesus' name and

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for his sake.

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Amen.

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You've been listening to the From the Pulpit

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and Classic Sermons series.

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This week you heard Oswald J.

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Smith with his message, Five Solid Facts.

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Tune in next week to hear Corrie Ten

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Boom speak about authority over demons on From

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the Pulpit and Classic Sermons.