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Oh great God, I come to you now

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in the name of thy dear son, Jesus.

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There may be someone here who's never been

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regenerated and they're yet a stranger to saving

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faith in Christ.

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I pray great God that you open hearts

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tonight.

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I pray that you come among us this

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evening with your presence and disturb folks.

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I pray these things in the strong name

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of Jesus.

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Amen.

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Well, I've got a very alarming sermon tonight

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friends.

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It's alarming because I have a burden for

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your souls.

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I don't want you to go to hell.

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There may be someone here who's one foot

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away, one step away from dropping into hell.

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Listen to me.

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Most folks are not concerned about going to

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hell when they die.

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Most folks believe they are going to heaven

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because most folks believe in an imaginary God

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that's all love and mercy and tolerant towards

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sin.

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Third God, you're just like them.

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Third God would never send anyone to hell

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and if hell did exist, it's just a

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place to party with your friends.

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That's what a lot of people think.

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I was watching a TV interview with Freddie

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Mercury, the lead singer for the rock band

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Queen and the TV interviewer asked Freddie Mercury

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if he thought he'd go to heaven when

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he died and this rock star arrogantly sneered

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at that question and replied, I don't want

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to go to heaven.

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I'd much rather go to hell.

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You'll be much more fun there.

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Well, he's going to go there and party

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when he dies he thinks.

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Well, he got his wish but I guarantee

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you friends he's not having fun.

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Tonight we will discuss the reality of hell

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and the aspects of hell.

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Why it is a region of darkness and

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suffering and misery and you never ever want

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to go there.

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Get the wax out of your ears and

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listen to me this evening friends.

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We are very confused about God in heaven

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today.

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We are very confused about the lost in

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hell.

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We've blurred the lines between reality and fiction.

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We think good people go to a place

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called heaven only because of their goodness and

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only really bad people like serial killers and

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sociopaths go to a place called hell.

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Next time you watch a movie or TV

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show where someone dies and they'll say well

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he's up there looking over us now or

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old grandfather is reunited with grandmother now and

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they are happy.

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Everybody goes to heaven and we say that

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because we believe God would not send a

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hard-working decent honest person who loved people

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to hell.

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Society believes when a Hollywood entertainer dies they

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go to heaven because of all the joy

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and happiness they brought people.

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Surely God wouldn't send our favorite celebrity to

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hell because our God just won't act that

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way but that's not the God of the

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Bible friends.

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The God of the Bible sends all rebels

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to hell.

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Listen to me the objective of this sermon

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is to get your attention to get you

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focused off of this world to get you

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focused on eternity so that you'll be afraid

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of going to hell and you'll be crowded

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to Christ for forgiveness of sin.

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You don't want to go to hell friend.

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Hell is a region of unspeakable horrors.

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There is an unseen world all around us

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in 2nd Kings.

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We have verification of this in 2nd Kings

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chapter 6 we read and when the servant

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of the man of God was risen early

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and gone forth behold a host compassed the

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city both with horses and chariots and his

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servant said unto him alas my master how

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shall we do and he answered fear not

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for they that be with us are more

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than they that be with them and Elisha

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prayed and said Lord I pray thee open

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his eyes that he may see and the

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Lord opened the eyes of the young man

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and he saw and behold the mountain was

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full of horses and chariots of fire round

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about Elisha there is an unseen world friends

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of angels and demons all around us I

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once knew a satan worshiper and I asked

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him how he became a satan worshiper and

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he took the time he took a whole

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hour to share with me about his life

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and how his eyes were opened to the

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unseen world I'll never forget it I asked

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him to tell me a story and this

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is what he said he said it all

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began when he was listening to rock music

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and one night while listening to a certain

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rock album he had a desire to pray

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to the devil so he prayed to the

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devil and he began to pray to the

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devil on a regular basis and one night

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in his bedroom a presence came into his

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room it was a demonic visitor the demon

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had an ancient name and he was hideous

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to look at but he spoke with authority

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and he asked the young man if he

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wanted to go further in satan's kingdom and

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he said yes so the demon gave him

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instructions that evening that after midnight he was

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to drive his pickup truck to a neighboring

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farm out in the country and there he

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was ordered to steal a goat and to

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take that goat to a wooded forest where

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he would build a fire and then take

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a knife and slit the goat's throat and

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then place that carcass on the fire as

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an offering to his satanic majesty and if

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he did this then he would be rewarded

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the young man did exactly as he was

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told he carried out the plan he went

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to the farm he stole a goat he

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took it to the woods he killed it

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he sacrificed the goat to the devil himself

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the next evening this same demon entity visited

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this young man in his bedroom and he

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asked the young man if he would like

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to receive his reward for worshiping satan he

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said yes and the demon told him he

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had the power to open his eyes to

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the unseen world the demon spoke some ancient

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words in a language that the young man

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didn't understand but suddenly scales fell off his

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eyes his eyes were opened to the unseen

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world this young man told me he could

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see demons everywhere when he went to the

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mall he saw demons walking beside the shoppers

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in the mall he saw demons walking up

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and down city streets in a crowd everywhere

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he went this young man saw demons and

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he said that when he visited the city

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of rome it was terrifying because he was

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shocked to see the city of rome literally

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crawling with hordes and hordes of demons i

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believe that young man was telling me the

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truth and i know there are demons in

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this world i know it for a fact

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because i used to live in a haunted

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house when i was a young teenager my

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family moved into a very haunted house our

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first week in that little home we were

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sitting in the living room watching tv and

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all of a sudden we heard above us

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loud footsteps walking up and down the hall

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we all looked at each other startled and

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my father tried to laugh it off by

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saying spooks but we soon discovered it was

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no laughing matter one time while we were

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sitting downstairs we heard those footsteps they went

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plop plop plop and i ran upstairs to

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see if i could find an intruder but

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there was no one there there was no

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one at least that i could see that

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house had something terrible in it terrible entities

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but the worst thing of all happened occasionally

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there was a stairwell some people call them

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a safe room where you go a storm

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closet beneath the stairway well it bothers me

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to even talk about it but one time

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i was home alone and all of a

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sudden a pounding started on that door a

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pounding a pounding and one time it was

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so hot in that house and i was

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home alone it was summertime the ac window

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units were on the brink and it was

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like 110 degrees in that little home and

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all of a sudden i heard that pounding

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on that door well i ran over to

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it i grabbed that crystal doorknob i yanked

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that door open and what came out on

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me was a cold chilly blast i never

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ever went by that door again i sure

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was glad when my family finally moved away

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listen to me friend the first aspect of

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hell i want us to know is that

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hell is populated with demons when a lost

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soul goes to hell it's surrounded by demon

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entities when you shut up in hell there's

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no one to rescue you from the demons

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who brush up against you abuse you in

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hell you are existent literally in a haunted

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region you cannot escape from the demons will

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mock you torment you and tear at you

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i've encountered a mocking demon before on several

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occasions at bridge street cemetery in northampton massachusetts

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where david brainerd is buried i've encountered a

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mocking demon every time i have visited that

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cemetery there's a tree about a hundred feet

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behind brainerd's grave and a mocking demon stays

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there the first time i heard it i

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heard its mocking laugh i ran over to

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the sound of the voice by that tree

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but there was no one there on my

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second visit to bridge street cemetery i heard

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that demon once more laughing in a shrill

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voice i thought maybe i was just imagining

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things or perhaps the sound came from voices

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from some nearby apartments but no it was

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always the same shrill voice always the same

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mocking laugh the same disembodied demon who mocked

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the revival under jonathan edwards in northampton during

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the great awakening the same demon who mocked

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the sacred ministry of david brainerd stays at

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that cemetery mocking to this very day i

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shared this with an evangelist friend of mine

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and he was unconvinced until he traveled with

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me one year to bridge street cemetery to

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visit the grave of david brainerd and as

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we stood there over that mossy tombstone we

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heard the laughing demon my friend became so

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alarmed he said we need to leave here

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immediately so we left but he heard what

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i've been hearing for years demons are all

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around us but in hell you'll not only

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hear them you will see them you will

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feel them as they brush up against you

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for in hell it's populated by demons listen

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to the words of the apostle peter from

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the second epistle in chapter two for if

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god spared not the angels that send but

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cast them down to hell and delivered them

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into chains of darkness to be reserved onto

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judgment this brings us to our next aspect

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of hell friends and that it is a

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prison once you're shut up in there you

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can never get out there's no exit doors

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in hell some people imagine that if there

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is a hell then it's not such a

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bad place to be at least you can

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hang out with your old friends but that's

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not the case at all a lost soul

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in hell has no freedom no liberty no

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rights to move about wander you're bound in

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chains you're chained up in a prison in

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darkness for all of eternity and you will

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never ever have freedom to ever move about

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again you're a condemned prisoner and in second

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peter we also see another striking aspect of

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hell and that it's a region of pitch

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black darkness jesus calls it outer darkness like

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the darkness in outer space but without the

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light of the celestial moon and stars just

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pitch black thick darkness so dark you can't

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see your hand in front of your face

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let me ask you friend have you ever

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been in a cave or a cavern or

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a room where there was no light whatsoever

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and you couldn't see what was in front

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of you you couldn't see what was behind

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you it's terrifying you're lost in the dark

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that's the darkness of hell that's the darkness

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of hell itself the bible mentions this in

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the book of job where god is describing

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the fate of the wicked he shall be

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driven from light into darkness and chased out

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of the world imagine that friend chased out

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of the world into a region of darkness

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if you lay dying without god in the

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world then demon entities hover around your deathbed

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like howling hyenas ready ready to drag you

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down to hell it breaks me up to

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try to talk to you tonight friends it's

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horrible in hell some of you are so

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anesthetized in sin so dead to spiritual things

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you don't even ever think about eternity or

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wonder about the horrors of hell but it's

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real friends in luke chapter 16 we read

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the words of christ and it came to

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pass that the beggar died and was carried

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by the angels onto abraham's bosom but there

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is a story about charles spurgeon told by

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his secretary mr harold who always accompanied spurgeon

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everywhere and when the great british preacher lay

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dying in his hotel in menton france mr

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harold looked out the hotel's window where he

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saw and he said so until his dying

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day he said he saw he saw on

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the hillside under a clear blue sky a

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bevy of angels hovering like they were waiting

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for someone well soon after that spurgeon died

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i believe that story friends that when a

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believer dies he or she is carried to

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heaven by angels just as angels carried the

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beggar lazareth to heaven so too if you

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die without christ then demons will steal your

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soul away into the darkness of hell you'll

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be chased out of light into darkness complete

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darkness mordecai ham used to relate a story

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in his famous sermon entitled sudden death where

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he related the darkness of hell he said

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well just let me read you his words

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taken from his biography the lord allowed me

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to witness the horrible death of one eternally

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lost two sisters were living in a log

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hut near the church both were young girls

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and were dying with tuberculosis the mother of

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those two girls met me at the door

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of the little log cabin and begged me

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to hasten in and do something lulu is

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dying the mother sobbed well i hurried to

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the girl's bedside and tried to talk to

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her about her need of salvation i played

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with her for a long time but to

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no avail she refused to hearken but then

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she closed her eyes and death i called

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to her lulu how is it a voice

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came back not the voice of one living

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but that of one who is in another

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world it was a voice that came up

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from the depths without any signs of movement

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of the dead girl's lips or throat muscles

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a voice i've only heard once in my

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life and that i've never been able to

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forget the lost lost oh oh so dark

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so dark so dark that story always sends

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chills down my spine friends in the lost

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soul of that girl lulu all she could

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see was darkness in matthew's gospel jesus relates

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where a lost soul goes then said the

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king to the servants bind him hand and

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foot and take him away and cast him

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into outer darkness there should be weeping and

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gnashing of teeth well that's a vivid description

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of hell weeping speaks of great loss and

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grief gnashing the teeth signifies great anger and

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regret all a lost soul has in hell

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is regret regret regret they can't even speak

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they're so full of regret they're choking on

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sorrow they're thinking about all the times they

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were witness to and they turn their back

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to the gospel they turn their back to

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the witness they scream in anger for being

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shut up in there the sound of weeping

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souls is a terrible sound friend it's horrible

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multiply that by millions and millions of people

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and that brings us to our very last

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aspect of hell i want to warn you

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about tonight and that is this hell is

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a very crowded place it's been said that

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85 people a minute die in this world

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apart from christ and enter hell do the

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math that comes to five thousand an hour

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going to hell every day 120 000 people

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are cast into hell forever that's almost a

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million people a week think of it a

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million people a week being shut up in

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that prison of misery through the course of

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a year that adds up to 40 million

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new arrivals in hell let 10 years go

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by and another 400 million souls are placed

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in chains of darkness chased out of light

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into darkness chased out of this world into

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hell to scream in agony now think in

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your mind friends of all the generations of

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people who've lived and died since adam and

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who occupy hell at this very moment and

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you'll soon learn and admit that hell is

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a very crowded place that's why it's a

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bottomless pit there's always room for new arrivals

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you don't want to go to hell friend

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trust me it's a region of horror darkness

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and damnation if i could walk you over

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to the very verge of that smoking bottomless

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pit and have an angel lift the lid

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off that pit why the screams of the

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damned would keep you up tonight if you

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were here lost without god in the world

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and all you have as your hope of

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heaven is an empty religious profession and deep

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down even though you've been going to church

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you know you've never been changed you've never

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experienced the new birth you don't know what

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it's like to have an experiential knowledge of

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god listen to me friend i implore you

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not to go to bed tonight until you

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see christ for pardon the sin listen to

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me friend jesus said i am the way

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the truth and the life no man cometh

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unto the father but by me here jesus

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answers the three greatest questions of the human

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heart how can i be saved jesus says

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i am the way how can i be

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sure jesus says i am the truth how

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can i be satisfied jesus says i am

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the life and in john 6 35 jesus

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declared i am the bread of life he

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that cometh to me shall never hunger and

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he that believeth on me shall never thirst

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listen to me friend the gospel is for

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the hungry the weary and the thirsty let

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me ask you friend are you hungry for

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god are you sick and tired of your

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sins are you thirsty for christ then what

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are you waiting for listen mister what are

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you waiting for come to him believe on

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him own him as your savior and lord

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but the only way you're gonna stay out

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of devil's hell is if you're born from

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above and washed in the blood you gotta

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get your sins onto the blood of christ

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friend come to the cross of a bloodstained

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christ and lay your sin burden down jesus

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saves let us pray