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I was having a conversation with a Christian

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who made the following comment.

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She said, I don't think it's fair for

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God to send someone to hell who has

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never heard the gospel like a native in

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the jungles of Africa who's never heard the

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gospel.

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I don't think it's fair for God to

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send that person to hell.

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Now before we accuse God of being unjust,

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let us examine who God is.

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He is the great God almighty who made

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heaven and earth and his very name is

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holy.

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He dwells among the cherubim and seraphim who

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praise him for his majesty and bow before

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his authority as a supreme ruler of all

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things.

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The trouble with that lady's comment is the

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fact that her view of God is too

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small.

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She has shrunken God down to her level

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of understanding and by her interpretation, she accuses

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God of unfairness of injustice in sending someone

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to hell who has never heard the gospel,

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but nobody asked her.

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Her opinion doesn't matter.

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God is a fair and just judge and

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shall not the judge of all the earth

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do right.

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And that is what we are going to

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look at this morning, friends, why God is

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a just judge and why he has every

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right to send someone to hell who has

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broken his law, because that is the bottom

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line.

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A man is a sinner, a lawbreaker, a

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guilty rebel who already stands convicted and guilty

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as charged.

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And the sinner's only hope is to find

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refuge in the person of Jesus Christ, because

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the wrath of God will indeed be poured

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out upon all guilty rebels who have broken

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the law of God.

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God's law is strict.

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God's law is severe.

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And God requires perfection to get to his

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heaven.

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And man is not perfect.

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Man is a lawbreaker, a poor sinner in

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need of pardon.

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A man is not on probation here on

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earth, friends.

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No, sir.

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Man already stands guilty before God for breaking

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his holy law through sin.

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And a future day is coming, a day

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of judgment where the judge of all the

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earth will sit on a throne of judgment

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and each person who has ever lived will

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be brought before that throne.

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It will be a courtroom scene.

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The angels will be the bailiffs.

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The sinner will stand before the judge's bench

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and his case will be reviewed.

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Time will be taken to present the evidence

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of that person's life.

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Their actions, words, thoughts and motives will be

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presented to the judge who sits on that

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throne and that person's life will be held

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up against the strictness and severity of God's

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holy law.

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And everyone will fail that test because divine

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justice must be carried out.

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The sentence of the law must be carried

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out.

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The poor, miserable sinner will stand there with

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no excuse.

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The Bible says every mouth will be stopped.

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He will stand there guilty as charged.

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He will stand there in his own merits

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as he is held up against that strict

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and severe law of God.

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And he will fail that test.

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Listen, friends, I know I'm a sinner and

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I need a substitute in the person of

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Jesus Christ.

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And so do you, friend.

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So do you.

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But the trouble is a man does not

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see his condition as dangerous.

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His concept of God is too small.

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God is to him like a human who's

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on his level, who thinks as he does.

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And in his mind, God won't send anybody

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to hell.

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And man is blind to his great danger

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of dying in his sins and being cast

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into a burning hell for all eternity because

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he does not see himself for what he

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is, a guilty rebel or one who is

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guilty as charged or one who deserves to

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be sent to hell for divine justice must

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be enforced.

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His trouble is how he compares himself with

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others.

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He compares himself with others and comes to

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the conclusion that he's not so bad after

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all, that there are some really bad people

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in this world and he is not as

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bad as they were.

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He's done some good things in his life.

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He supported charities.

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He's even given money to the church.

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He helps his neighbor when his neighbor is

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in need.

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He's a pretty good person compared to many

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others.

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So he concludes he will go to heaven

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when it is all said and done.

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But the problem is he is greatly mistaken

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because it doesn't matter a hill of beans

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how he sees himself.

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What matters is how God sees him and

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what God looks at him.

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He sees a transgressor of his holy law.

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He sees an enemy before him, a guilty

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rebel who hates the very attributes of a

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holy God and who refuses to bow to

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the lordship of Jesus Christ and allow Christ

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to reign in his life with utter authority.

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Rather, he sits on the throne of his

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life and he lives unto himself.

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He's broken the law of God time and

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time again because man drinks iniquity like it's

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water.

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He loves the sins and hugs them, coddles

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them, indulges them and because of sin God

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stands against him ready to cut him down

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with his sword of justice.

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Now you won't hear that message from many

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pulpits in America these days because it's not

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a popular message.

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But that's my message this morning friends and

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my message is entitled Divine Justice and the

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Sinner.

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Our text today is found in 2 Thessalonians

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in chapter 1 and verses 7 through 9.

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You may turn in your bibles there now.

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There is a coming day of judgment friend.

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You can count on that as surely as

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the sunrise in the morning.

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Every mother's son will stand before the bar

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of God on that day of judgment.

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Here now is the word of God.

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And to you who are troubled rest with

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us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed

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from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming

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fire taking vengeance on them that know not

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God and that obey not the gospel of

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our Lord Jesus Christ who shall be punished

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with everlasting destruction from the presence of the

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Lord and from the glory of his power.

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Now that is not a text you will

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hear from your average pastor in America today.

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It's not an encouraging word.

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It's not a politically correct one either because

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it speaks of hell and its fire and

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it speaks of the wrath of God poured

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out on sinners taking vengeance on them that

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know not God and that obey not the

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gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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And there are a good many church members

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who fall into that category as well.

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Baptized church members who never submitted to the

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reign of the Lord Jesus in their lives.

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They joined the church but remained in their

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sins.

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They became good church members but they were

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never changed individuals.

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They were still mean to their family members.

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Bitter, hateful, angry church members who look good

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on Sunday morning but the rest of the

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week they live like the devil himself because

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the devil is still their father.

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Although they are baptized, they've never passed from

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the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of

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light and life.

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They've never been awakened to their lost condition,

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never been convicted of sin, and never been

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born again by the Spirit of God.

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They are not washed in the blood and

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born from above.

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Rather, they are filthy still and God will

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take vengeance upon them even if they even

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if they are deacons in good standing.

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God is no respecter of persons.

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You see, friends, when you come to Christ

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savingly something happens.

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A self is dethroned and another is enthroned

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there.

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The Lord Jesus Christ.

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Notice our text in 2 Thessalonians mentions Christ

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Jesus three times in this text and all

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three times he is referred to as Lord.

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Listen, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed

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from heaven that know not God and that

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obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus

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Christ who shall be punished with everlasting destruction

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from the presence of the Lord.

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Listen, friend, if he isn't your Lord, he

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isn't your Savior.

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You've been duped by the modern gospel of

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our hour, the modern gospel that only declares

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God loves you.

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God has a wonderful plan for your life.

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All you have to do to go to

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heaven and to be with God forever is

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to accept his son, Jesus Christ.

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Just invite him into your heart.

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Now, friend, just repeat this prayer and you

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will be saved.

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Welcome, friend.

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You are now a Christian.

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That is the modern diluted gospel of your

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day and mine, and that watered down version

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of the gospel can't save a flea, let

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alone a guilty sinner who loves his sins.

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If you're going to be saved, friend, you're

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going to bow to the Lordship of Christ

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and surrender you all to his claims and

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rights on your life where Christ Jesus, the

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Lord reigns.

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He must reign.

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He is a living Lord who sits at

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the right hand of the father, and he

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earned that right by way of a bloody

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cross.

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You must come to him there.

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You must submit to him there.

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You must throw down your shotgun of rebellion.

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You must pull up that stake in your

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life, that stake you have planted in the

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ground, that area of rebellion in your life

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where you have told God, OK, God, I

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will follow you and you can have all

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these other areas in my life, but you

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can't touch this one.

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I'm holding on to that.

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I'm putting a stake in the ground and

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attaching a sign to it that says in

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capital letters, keep off the grass, keep off

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this area of my life.

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But you, friend, by doing that, do not

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obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ

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with all his rights and claims on you

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where he declares, if any man follow me,

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let him deny himself and take up his

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cross and follow me.

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You, sir, are a haughty rebel.

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You, ma'am, are a haughty rebel.

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You, young lady, are a haughty rebel.

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You, young man, are a haughty rebel who's

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told God not to touch your life and

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leave you alone to hug your sins.

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You were sitting on a false foundation of

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carnal security and you stand with the same

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crowd in the Bible who cried out, oh,

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we will not have this man reign over

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us.

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You fall into the same category of the

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crowd in George Whitefield's day when George Whitefield,

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the great evangelist, was in America in 1740

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during the Great Awakening.

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He was preaching on Boston Common to 20

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,000 hearers.

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At the time, Boston had a population of

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60,000 people, so Whitefield had the ear

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of one-third of that city.

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I've been out to Boston Common many a

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time.

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I have walked the spot where Whitefield preached.

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It's still a grassy area today.

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Just picture in your mind those 20,000

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people standing out there beneath the sky to

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hear him preach.

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And this is what he told them.

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He said, you are monsters of iniquity.

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You are half devils and half beasts.

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And your great problem is you do not

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have God's good grace to see your wretched

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condition.

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You won't cry and lament over your sins,

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but if you won't cry over your sins,

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as great as they are, as numerous as

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they are, George Whitefield will cry for you.

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And that great man would throw back his

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noble head and weep like a baby, weep

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over poor blind sinners who were ignorant to

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their own condition.

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And that is your problem, friend.

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You've never been awakened to your lost condition

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and your perilous position outside of Christ.

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You are a transgressor of the law of

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God and an enemy of the gospel of

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the Lord Jesus Christ because you still sit

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on the throne of your life and rule

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there.

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You cry out, we will not have this

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man reign over us.

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You reign, but your reign will come to

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a sad end for a day is coming,

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which is spoken of here in our text

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today.

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And you better listen more closely to it

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this time than you did the first time

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when I read it before.

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Let me read it to you again.

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And to you who were troubled, rest with

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us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed

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from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming

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fire, taking vengeance on them that know not

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God and that obey not the gospel of

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our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished

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with everlasting destruction from the presence of the

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Lord and from the glory of his power.

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Listen, friend, divine justice must be meted out

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by a holy God who hates sin.

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There is a foolish statement made by many

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evangelists today.

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They say God loves the sinner, but hates

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the sin.

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That is a politically correct version of a

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perverted gospel.

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Listen, friend, if you are outside of Christ,

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God stands against you.

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You are an enemy in his sight, an

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enemy who deserves to be cut off and

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sent to hell.

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Listen to his word, which declares God is

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angry with the wicked every day.

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If he turned not, he will wet his

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sword.

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He had bent his bow and made it

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ready.

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God stands against you with the sword of

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his divine justice unsheathed, ready to cut you

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down.

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Your only hope is to fly to the

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refuge of the Lord Jesus Christ and stand

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in his merits.

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Jesus is the substitute for sin.

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When he hung on that bloody tree, the

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wrath of God was poured out upon him

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because of sin.

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Hell came to Calvary that day and darkness

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settled over the land as the father turned

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away from looking at his son because God

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hates sin so much he could not even

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look at it.

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Divine justice was carried out at Calvary that

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day, friend, by a broken hearted God who

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had to look away from his only begotten

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son and divine justice that day, friend, was

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taken care of.

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Jesus said from the cross, it is finished.

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Divine justice was paid in full by the

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blood of the lamb.

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I deserve that divine justice.

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I deserve hell.

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I'm a guilty rebel and so are you,

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my self-righteous friend.

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But I, like Paul, have obtained mercy.

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I'm washed in the blood.

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How about you?

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How about you?