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The message I have for us tonight, friends,

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is a solemn one.

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It's about the five foolish virgins and how

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they represent a good portion of our churches

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in America today.

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One of the greatest burdens that I carry

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is for the church in America.

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I grieve over its sad spiritual declension and

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its great failure to reach this generation with

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the true, undiluted gospel of the Son of

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God.

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The modern gospel grieves my heart because it's

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been diluted to such a sad degree that

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it doesn't even resemble the New Testament pattern

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and it doesn't get the job done as

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far as bringing the loss to repentance and

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faith in Jesus Christ.

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There used to be a time in America

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when the gospel was preached in its purity

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and proper order.

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There was a day when preachers would preach

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up the sinner's room and his duty of

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repentance.

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Preachers would warn the lost of dying in

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their sins and going to a place of

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misery called hell.

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They were honest with folks and showed them

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their necessity of regeneration through the new birth.

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They preached about a bloody cross and the

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Savior who died there.

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But you won't hear much about that anymore

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in our churches in the land and it

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breaks my heart because people are joining our

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churches and remaining in an unconverted state.

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It just breaks my heart.

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When I look at the church in America

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today, how forsaken of God it really is

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and too many evangelists have for too many

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years preached only about the love of God

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and they have not preached the full counsel

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of God and it's a crying shame.

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It's a crying shame because too many church

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members are dying in their sins and opening

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their eyes in hell and its regions.

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We don't do men favors by diluting the

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gospel message to make it easier to swallow

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or rather we do them great harm.

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It's harder to reach a person with the

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gospel once they've become a church member because

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they think it no longer pertains to them.

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They already did that.

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They made their decision.

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I like what Vance Havner used to say.

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He said, I could have led a lot

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more people to the Lord had they not

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already joined the church and it's true friends.

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It's sad but true.

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R.G. Lee shocked his denomination at a

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convention one year by stating he believed only

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one out of ten of his members in

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his church was truly saved.

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I recall Leonard Ravenhill's assessment of the American

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church.

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He said that in his opinion only 5

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% were truly converted.

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The Lord of Glory spoke of the tares

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and the wheat, the sheep and the goats

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and he spoke of the dragnet of fishes

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where the good fish would be separated from

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the bad at that final day.

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One thing we know for certain from scripture

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that there will always be a mixture in

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our churches of the sound and the unsound,

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the converted and the unconverted.

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That's what my Bible states.

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So my message this evening is an alarm

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to the unconverted, a warning to the unsaved.

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How terrible it is to be a church

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member and believe yourself to be truly converted

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when the reality of your life stands as

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a great witness against you.

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You are so self-deceived that you cannot

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even see your great danger of dying in

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your sins and being cast into hell.

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Listen friends, I know what I'm talking about

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because for years I was an unconverted church

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member.

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However, I rested my hope, having on a

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good opinion of myself and a long track

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record of service, God had to show me

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I was lost.

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Have you ever been lost friend?

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How do you know you're saved if you've

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never been lost?

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My message this evening is entitled Five Foolish

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Virgins and we will examine why they were

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so foolish because foolish they were.

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Let me pray now that the Spirit of

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God will be pleased to attend the preaching

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of His word.

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Let me pray.

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Blessed King, the church in America experiences your

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withdrawn presence from our midst because of our

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sins and our refusal to turn and forsake

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our wicked ways and to seek your face

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in repentance and sackcloth.

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We need you, Lord Jesus, to come back

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to your sanctuary and be prominent and preeminent

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once more.

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Lord Jesus, we need you to visit your

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church in America.

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Come take a whip cord to it and

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clean it out of all the idols of

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entertainment and defilement.

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You are on a throne in glory, dear

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King, and there you rule while we continue

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to play our silly games on Sunday mornings

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in this land.

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Send us, great God, the grace of repentance

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and turn us, O Lord, in your mercy.

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Turn us, O Lord, before it's too late.

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Have mercy, I pray.

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And now, King Jesus, I pray that by

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your Spirit you will convict hearts today that

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are sitting upon false foundations of carnal security.

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Break up those false foundations, great King.

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Attend the preaching of your word with your

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majesty and power.

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Let your word be a hammer that breaks

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the rock in pieces.

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It's the prayer of this poor preacher.

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Amen.

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Well, friends, our passage is found in the

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Gospel of Matthew in chapter 25.

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You may turn in your Bibles there now.

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And I want to ask you to listen

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carefully to this message, for it has to

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do with where you will spend eternity, either

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in heaven with Jesus and a heavenly host,

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or in hell with Satan and a demon

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horde.

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Your eternal welfare should be your greatest concern.

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It should be more important to you than

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your 401k plan, more important than your big

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plans for retirement because you may not live

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to see it.

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We spend all our time and energy on

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things of this world to the neglect of

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souls, our souls.

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Listen carefully now to the reading of God's

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word.

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Then the kingdom of heaven should be likened

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unto ten virgins which took their lamps and

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went forth to meet the bridegroom.

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And five of them were wise and five

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were foolish.

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They that were foolish took their lamps and

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took no oil with them.

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But the wise took oil in their vessels

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with their lamps.

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While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and

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slept.

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And at midnight there was a cry made,

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Behold, the bridegroom cometh.

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Go ye out to meet him.

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Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their

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lamps.

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And the foolish said unto the wise, Give

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us of your oil, for our lamps have

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gone out.

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But the wise answered, saying, Not so, lest

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there be not enough for us and you.

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But go ye rather to them that sell,

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and buy for yourselves.

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And while they went to buy, the bridegroom

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came.

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And they that were ready went in with

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him to the marriage, and the door was

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shut.

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Afterwards came also the other virgin, saying, Lord,

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Lord, open to us.

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But he answered and said, Verily I say

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unto you, I know you not.

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Now listen friends, there are several elements here

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which need attention.

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We are to concentrate on the five foolish

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virgins which represent the false professor, the unconverted

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church member.

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Number one, notice there is a number mentioned

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by our Lord.

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That number is five out of ten.

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That represents fifty percent or half.

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Here are ten church members who each believe

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themselves to be sound and truly converted and

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on their way to heaven.

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But five of them are living on a

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false hope of carnal security, for they are

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not truly born again.

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Apply that percentage to the average church in

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America today.

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Let's say you have a thousand members.

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That means five hundred are lost church members

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who are greatly deceived.

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They sit upon a false foundation with a

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false peace.

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Now notice the second element here mentioned.

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They are described by the word foolish.

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When Jesus spoke of the fool in the

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Gospels, he referred to a person as someone

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who was careless about their eternal welfare, the

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parable of the rich man who built bigger

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barns to store all his goods and said,

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Take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

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But God said unto him, Thou fool, this

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night thy soul shall be required of thee.

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Then who shall those things be which thou

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hast provided?

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God calls that man a fool, a fool

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because he cared not for his soul.

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And the five foolish virgins fall into that

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same category, although their case is even worse

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for they believe themselves to be wise, but

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they are self-deceived.

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And that brings us to this third element

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in our text.

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The five foolish are still called virgins.

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In other words, they look good on the

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outside, they pass the test on the outside,

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but they don't cut the mustard on the

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inside, they've never experienced change through the new

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birth, they lack the spirit of God, they

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are unsanctified individuals.

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They believe themselves to be safe in their

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hope of heaven, but when it comes time

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for them to meet the bridegroom, they are

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quite unprepared and lost.

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Notice our passage states that the door was

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shut, their day of opportunity was over, friends.

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When death comes, it's all over, the door

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of salvation is shut.

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As a tree falls, it shall lie.

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In Revelation it declares, He that is unjust,

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let him be unjust still.

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And he which is filthy, let him be

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filthy still.

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And he that is righteous, let him be

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righteous still.

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Listen friends, there are no altar calls in

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hell, all that's in hell is weeping and

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gnashing of teeth and endless misery and regret.

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But the saddest thing about our passage today

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is that these five foolish virgins believe they

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have an intimate relationship with Jesus, they address

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him as Lord, they say, Lord, Lord, open

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to us, and they expect him to open

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the door and let them in, but to

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their horror, Jesus replies, I know you not.

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How terrible it will be for you, dear

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unconverted friend, when you die, believe in yourself

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to wake up in heaven and see the

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face of Jesus, and instead you wake in

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hell and its terrors.

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Or many, not like the five foolish virgins,

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the five foolish slept on soft pillows of

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carnal security, they had a good opinion of

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themselves and were self-righteous, they rested on

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their duties, they had their lamps, and they

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had done what they thought was necessary through

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a long track record of service, but they

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failed to have the oil of the Holy

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Spirit within, they had a carnal security and

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a false hope of heaven, and in the

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end, their doom was sealed, there was no

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more opportunity, the worst thing about hell, friend,

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is once you are shut up in there,

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you're in there forever.

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If I could take you and lead you,

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and if I could open the lid of

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hell and let you hear the screams of

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the damned, it would keep you up tonight,

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but we don't preach on hell enough and

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warn sinners not to go there.

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Do you mind the things of the spirit,

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friend, or do you mind the things of

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the flesh?

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Romans speaks of the unconverted.

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For they that are after the flesh do

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mind the things of the flesh, but they

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that are after the spirit, the things of

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the spirit, for to be carnally minded is

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death, but to be spiritually minded is life

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and peace, because the carnal mind is enmity

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against God, for it is not subject to

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the law of God, neither indeed can be,

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so then, they that are in the flesh

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cannot please God.

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You see, friends, these five foolish virgins could

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not please God because they were in the

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flesh and bore to the spirit, Romans 8

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verse 9 declares, Now, if any man have

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not the spirit of Christ, he is none

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of his.

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An unconverted church member looks good on the

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outside, but on the inside is rotten as

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all get-out, they are void of the

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spirit of God, they've never been regenerated by

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the spirit of God, listen, friend, just because

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you're the chairman of the deacons, you may

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be filthy still, you must be born again.

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Listen, dear fellow church member, if you think

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you have peace, is it scriptural peace?

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Many cry peace and safety when sudden destruction

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is coming upon them, are you willing to

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hope that your condition is good, but yet

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you've never experienced change through the new birth?

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Will you perish in your sins?

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Please, dear friend, don't be a self-deceiving

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hypocrite who rests on a false foundation of

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self-righteousness and carnal security, flee to the

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only refuge you have, and that is in

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the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Listen friend, when a person gets saved, something

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happens, a self is dethroned and another is

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enthroned there, the Lord Jesus Christ, he reigns

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upon the throne of your life, and you

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must take up your cross and follow him

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with all his rights and claims upon you,

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you can't have half a Jesus, friend, you

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can't have Sager only, you must submit to

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him as Lord, throw down your shotgun of

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rebellion, break up the false foundation of your

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self-righteousness, and be like the publican who

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beat his chest crying, Lord be merciful to

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me a sinner.

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Listen friend, do you allow yourself in any

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way of wickedness, do you truly love and

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delight in God above all things, Satan is

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a master of deceit, be sure he's not

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deceived you, the peace you may have may

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be from the evil one, go to God

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to search you and try you, examine yourselves,

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whether you be in the faith, prove your

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own selves, no you're not your own selves,

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how that Jesus Christ is in you, except

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you be reprobates, five wise and five foolish,

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the five who were foolish faced a closed

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door for it was too late, their future

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was with the misery of the unconverted in

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a place of burnings called hell, dear friend

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repent before it's too late.