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Welcome to From the Pulpit.

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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 from modern preachers,

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too.

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This week, we have CM Ward with his

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message, Who's Begging Now?

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It's revival time across the nation and around

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the world.

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And now, as we join in honoring Christ,

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our Savior, with millions across this nation and

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around the world, it's revival time everywhere.

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Praise God, Jesus has opened up the way

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for salvation.

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The choir now brings a message of positive

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hope and joyful confidence in the song, Leaning

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on the Everlasting Arm.

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And now,

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it's testimony and song time for everyone with

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your friend and the friend of millions, CM

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Ward.

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This has been a wonderful week for me,

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friends.

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Not only have I received word from folk

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all over the world who have given their

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hearts to Christ, but I have received hundreds

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of requests from revival time members asking me

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to send my special Mother's Day card to

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their mother.

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One day alone, I received better than 1

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,500 letters asking that this request be filled.

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The last 48 hours, I've heard from so

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many friends asking me, Well, Brother Ward, if

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it isn't too late, would you please send

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one of your special greetings to my mother?

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Well, to all of you in my audience,

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my answer, of course, is yes, I will.

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God bless all of you, dear friends.

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I wouldn't leave out one dear mother.

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So even if your letter gets to me

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a day or two late, I'm going to

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go the extra mile and see that your

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mother gets a personal and very special greeting

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from me.

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All I need, of course, is a letter

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from you giving me your mother's name and

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address, and I'll work late at night rather

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than ever permit your dear mother to feel

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that she's been left out.

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I mean that.

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God bless you.

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I'm for every wonderful praying mother in this

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audience.

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And there are letters from everywhere this week,

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but the one I'm going to share with

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you is pretty dear to my heart.

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Many years ago, in my evangelistic work, I

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was able to win a young man to

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Christ who has since found his life's work

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in Africa, and he writes me from Kenya

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right in the midst of the bloody Mau

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Mau trouble.

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Brother Ward, 24 years ago, you laid your

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hand upon my shoulder during an evangelistic campaign

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and started me toward God.

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I sense a way out here in Africa,

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listening to Revival Time through Radio Ceylon, that

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in your broadcast ministry, you're still reaching out

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a friendly hand to lead men toward God.

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The awful happenings out here, Brother Ward, remind

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us that we haven't any time to lose

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if we're to complete our task.

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This truly demon-inspired Mau Mau, with its

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horrible, obscene oaths, has rooted deep into the

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hearts of these great African tribes, and only

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spiritual revival can tear away this obsession and

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bring deliverance.

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Brother Ward, it's 24 years since you led

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me to Jesus Christ, and I haven't forgotten

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you.

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Please ask your Revival Time audience to pray

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for my wife and myself, our 11-year

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-old boy and our 9-year-old girl,

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as we work for Jesus in the midst

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of this terrible African uprising.

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You know, neighbor, a letter like that gets

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a hold of you.

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Now, I know that Jesus not only saves,

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but Jesus also keeps.

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And I want you to sing an old

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-fashioned gospel song for that friend and his

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little family out there in Africa.

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And as you sing it now, picture that

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little missionary family in the midst of that

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terrible environment of murder and treachery, and then

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let them feel your faith and prayer as

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you send them this song.

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We're going to sing tonight, What Can Wash

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Away My Sins?

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And the answer is nothing but the blood.

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Let's all trust the blood.

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Everybody sing.

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What can wash away my sins?

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Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

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What can make me whole again?

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Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

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And now here is Lil Sunberg with a

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very special song for all the mothers among

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our radio friends.

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Mothers, prayers have followed me.

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I greet my Lord from day to day.

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I've scorned His love, so full and free.

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And though I've wandered far away, my mother's

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prayers have

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followed me.

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Have followed me.

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He turned my darkness into day.

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I'll praise His name both night and day.

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For mother's prayers have followed me.

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I'm coming home.

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I'm coming home to leave my wasted

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life anew.

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For mother's prayers have followed me.

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Have followed me the whole world through.

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For this radio service, your Revival Time evangelist,

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C.M. Ward, speaks on the theme, Who

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is Begging Now?

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The text in two parts.

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And he desired to be fed with crumbs.

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And send Lazarus that he may dip the

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tip of his finger in water and cool

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my tongue.

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This account reduces life to bread and water,

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neighbor.

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And it's a page out of the Bible

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that sets forth the truth in the plainest

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of fashions.

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First of all, Jesus is not trying to

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say that you go to heaven because you

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are poor, and you go to hell because

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you are rich.

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It isn't the state of your pocketbook so

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much as it is the state of your

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heart.

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The dogs had a better conscience than the

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gentleman on the boulevard.

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The Bible says that the dogs came and

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licked the beggar's sores.

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That was the only hospitalization he ever had.

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His canine friends did the very best they

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could for him.

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And it will be a solemn moment in

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the universe when God calls upon the animal

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creation to testify against man's inhumanity to man

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and man's unfaithfulness to his God.

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Simple animal sense would cause us to go

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God didn't have to speak twice to the

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animal when he wanted them to march into

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Noah's ark.

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The wisest of earth could stand around and

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scoff at God and laugh at the ark

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and prove so easily that it would never

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rain while the animal obeyed its creator.

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The lion in the Persian pit of capital

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punishment will hush its roar in reverent respect

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for God's servant Daniel.

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Two sea bears demanding more courtesy from their

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cubs than parents were demanding from their crop

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of juvenile delinquents in Elisha's day would be

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so startled at the blasphemy of the younger

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generation and their mockery of old-time religion

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that they themselves would open war against such

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ribald indecency.

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Crows will bring meals on time to a

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preacher being tracked down by bloodthirsty Jezebel.

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A whale will give a submarine ride to

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one of God's evangelists.

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A mule will try to reason a man

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away from his willful backsliding.

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And dogs will lick Lazarus' sores.

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What makes a man's heart so hard for

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God to reach?

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The answer is right here on this page

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of the Bible, neighbor.

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The answer is selfishness.

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The Bible says that this man was clothed

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in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously

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every day while an honorable but unfortunate man

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sat at his gate every day asking but

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for a crumb.

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How selfish and hard can men get?

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Well, ask the American prisoner of war from

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Korea.

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He'll tell you, oh yes, the human heart

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will so often put animals to shame.

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That's why this man went to hell.

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Now, there's a second truth that Jesus presents

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in pretty plain fashion.

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It's the truth about death.

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He says that rich men die as well

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as poor men.

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That politicians will die and voters will die.

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That scientists will die and ignorant will die.

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That athletes will die and the sick will

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die.

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This is the way it's written on this

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page of the Bible.

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And it came to pass that the beggar

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died.

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And the very same verse records this fact.

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The rich man also died.

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He couldn't bribe death.

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His influence couldn't cheat the undertaker.

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All of his financial assets couldn't demand a

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special deal.

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Death is a common denominator.

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That's what Jesus is saying here.

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And it's interesting to see what Jesus says

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about these two men and death.

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He says about one man, the beggar died

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and was carried by angels.

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He says about the other man, that the

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rich man also died and was buried.

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One man's honors began after death, while the

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other man's honors ended with the burial committal

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in the cemetery.

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To one man, death meant a glorious release.

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To the other man, it meant the end

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of every privilege he'd ever enjoyed.

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His life had become worthless a long time

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before they ever buried him.

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He might have found life in feeding the

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poor, in binding up the wounds of the

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sick, in sharing his wealth with the underprivileged.

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But he buried himself in his purple and

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his fine linen, and the heaped up food

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on his table, and behind locked gates of

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his private estate.

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He was dead inside a long time before

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some physician pronounced him dead on the outside.

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I want to ask you, neighbor, in this

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hour, what will the record say about you?

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Will a band of angels come to gather

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you home, or will they simply bury you?

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That's what you must decide.

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Don't deceive yourself.

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Death is more than a chapel service.

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It's more than a beautiful casket, or a

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new suit of clothes.

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It's more than a headstone.

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Death is a report card.

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It's a final auditing.

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It's the figures on the scoreboard.

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And in this hour, I want you to

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think.

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I want you to answer this question.

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How will I die?

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One man can die in purple, but rotten

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inside.

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The other man can die full of sores

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on the outside, but clean as a whip

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on the inside.

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They say clothes make a man.

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Don't you believe it?

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It's what's behind the clothes that count.

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And there's a third lesson that Jesus writes,

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so that all men may read.

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It's this.

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The justice of God cannot be limited to

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this life.

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There's another world, whether men want to believe

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it or not.

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The Bible says, some men's sins are opened

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beforehand, going before the judgment, and some men

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they follow after.

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Here's an example of that truth.

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One man begged for bread in this world,

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and the other man begged for water in

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the next world.

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And as long as there's a God in

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heaven, neighbor, there'll be an evening of process.

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Folks so often get an idea from what

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they see on this side of eternity that

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it pays to be a rogue, that a

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good man gets a raw deal, that it's

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smart to be crooked, that the only law

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to live by is to get all you

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can, hold on to all you get, and

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let the next fellow look out for himself.

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King David was so troubled about this that

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he wrote about it in one of his

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psalms.

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Let me read it to you.

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As for me, he said, my feet were

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almost gone, my steps had well nigh slipped,

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for I was envious at the foolish when

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I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

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They are not in trouble as other men,

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neither are they plagued like other men.

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Their eyes stand out with fatness.

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They have more than heart could wish.

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They are corrupt, and they say, How doth

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God know?

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And is their knowledge in the Most High?

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Behold, these are the ungodly who prosper in

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the world.

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They increase in riches.

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Verily, I have cleansed my heart in vain.

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I have washed my hands in innocency.

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All day long have I been plagued and

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chastened every morning.

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And when I thought to know this, it

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was too painful for me.

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Until, said David, I went into the sanctuary

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of God, and then understood I their end.

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Jesus pulls back the curtain, neighbor, and he

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lets us take a look into eternity.

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And here on this page of God's book

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is the echo of eternity.

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Son, remember, he said, thou in my lifetime

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receivest thy good things.

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Likewise, Lazarus' evil things.

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But now he is comforted, and thou art

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tormented.

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One man took the good things in this

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world and used them selfishly and sinfully to

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his damnation.

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The other man took the sorrows and the

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heartaches of this world, and he made them

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lead him to God and Paradise.

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If I had to, I'd rather beg on

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this side of the grave than the other

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side.

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The word here is remember.

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Don't think you're getting away with anything.

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God's keeping the books, mister.

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If we suffer, we shall reign.

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If we shut God out of our lives

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here, he'll shut us out of himself in

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the life to come.

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You've got to look farther than the grave,

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neighbor.

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Look into eternity in this hour, and then

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and then only give me your final answer

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on how you want to live.

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And there's something else that speaks to us

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in this page in the Bible.

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It's this.

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Changes have to be made on this side

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of the grave.

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The only second chance is the second chance

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you get in this life and not the

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next.

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I don't know whether the rich man made

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a will before he died or not, but

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I know he tried to make one after

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he reached eternity.

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He said, I'd like to contribute something toward

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the gospel.

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I'd like to warn my family not to

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come here.

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I'd be in favor of sending Lazarus back

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to life and let him preach in my

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hometown where I lived so many years when

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I was clothed in purple and fine linen

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and fared sumptuously every day.

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He said, I pray thee, sir, thou wouldst

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send him to my father's house, for I

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have five brothers, that he may testify unto

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them, lest they also come into this place

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of torment.

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There'll be plenty of people in hell with

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a missionary spirit.

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They never had a dime to give toward

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spreading the gospel in this world.

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They said the church was always begging for

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money.

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It doesn't matter to them that two-thirds

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of our world are hungry and diseased.

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It doesn't disturb them that 55% of

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the hospital beds in America are filled by

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mental patients and there is an immediate need

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for beds for 329,000 of others.

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They think it's a waste of time that

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52 martyrs have given their lives for Jesus

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Christ in Columbia alone since 1948.

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These folk never think of the gospel in

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their purple and their fine linen and their

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sumptuous living until it's too late.

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Then they want a special miracle.

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My friend, let me tell you that the

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only special miracle that God will ever provide

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for our salvation was done for all of

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us when He gave His Son to die

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in our stead on the cross of Calvary.

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Take a tip from me.

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You'd better do your supporting of preachers on

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this side of the grave when you have

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the chance.

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And Christ would have us know one more

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thing.

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There's a great gulf fixed so that they

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which pass from hence to you cannot.

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Neither can they pass to us that would

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come from thence.

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Mankind has bridged most distances.

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Perhaps in our lifetime man will bridge the

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distance between earth and Mars or the moon

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with his rocket ships and nations will be

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racing to establish air bases on other planets.

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Let that be as it may.

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One thing is certain, neighbor.

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No false doctrine, no wishful thinking, no ingenuity

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of man, no new translation of the Bible

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will ever build a bridge between hell and

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heaven.

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Men's hearts would have to change first.

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And this man was just as selfish after

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death as he was before.

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It's still cool my tongue.

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Send him to my house.

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There's no heaven in this man's soul.

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There may be remorse, but there's no repentance.

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There's torment, but there's no confession.

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Death does not change a sinner.

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A funeral sermon may preach a dead man

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into heaven, but that's only preacher's talk.

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Men's sins follow them into eternity.

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How wonderful in this hour that on this

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side of the grave any man who would

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change sides may do so.

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It's up to you in this moment.

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There aren't enough devils in hell to keep

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you from becoming a Christian if you want

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to.

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And there aren't enough angels in heaven to

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keep you out of a lost eternity.

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If you're determined to squander your soul, Christ

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opened up the way.

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Only in eternity can it ever be said

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that neither can they pass to us that

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would come from hence.

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Today you may change sides.

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And with all my heart I urge you

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to do so.

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I want you to do now what you

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will wish you would have done one minute

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after you reach eternity.

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This is the moment of your choice.

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To you the Creator has given a free

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will.

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Yours is the responsibility to exercise that will

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for good.

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Eternity is a long, long time in which

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to remember.

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Don't wait until the gulf is fixed and

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you are forever a lost soul.

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Neighbor, change sides now.

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Will you pray with me?

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O Christ, help us not to live so

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selfishly and so unconcerned about our souls that

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we will never know what we have missed

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until it's too late.

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Help us to see who is at our

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gate this moment.

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And O Christ, we ask Thee to wash

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us as white as snow in this hour.

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We need something more than that which might

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cool the tip of our tongue.

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We need our lives renewed through Thy redemption.

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Grant us this cleansing now.

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Amen.

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You've been listening to From the Pulpit.

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This week you heard CM Ward with his

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message Who's Begging Now?

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Tune in next week for another powerful message

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from God's Word on From the Pulpit.

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Amen.