1 00:00:00,460 --> 00:00:02,320 Admittedly, I was not expecting to get up 2 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:05,420 tonight, but it would appear that the Lord 3 00:00:05,420 --> 00:00:06,240 would have his way. 4 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:10,640 Have you located yourself tonight in that verse? 5 00:00:11,340 --> 00:00:13,920 Have you found where you are tonight in 6 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:14,420 that verse? 7 00:00:14,620 --> 00:00:17,700 Are you saved or are you still lost 8 00:00:17,700 --> 00:00:18,320 in your sins? 9 00:00:19,500 --> 00:00:22,940 So tonight I would present before you three 10 00:00:22,940 --> 00:00:26,560 different questions, each of them in regards to 11 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:27,240 eternity. 12 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:30,220 We will take them one by one. 13 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:33,280 So turn with me please to 2 Peter 14 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:33,960 chapter 3. 15 00:00:39,580 --> 00:00:41,760 So my first question for you tonight while 16 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:45,060 you're turning there is, in terms of eternity, 17 00:00:47,020 --> 00:00:48,380 where do you want to go? 18 00:00:50,550 --> 00:00:54,010 Do you want to go to heaven or 19 00:00:54,010 --> 00:00:55,030 do you want to go to hell? 20 00:00:55,030 --> 00:01:00,530 Now, this question really is the only one 21 00:01:00,530 --> 00:01:05,810 that you yourself can provide a definitive answer. 22 00:01:06,030 --> 00:01:08,250 The other two already have their definitive answers, 23 00:01:08,630 --> 00:01:09,730 but we'll get to those two later. 24 00:01:10,450 --> 00:01:12,410 So the first one, where do you want 25 00:01:12,410 --> 00:01:12,790 to go? 26 00:01:13,750 --> 00:01:16,350 Do you want to go to heaven or 27 00:01:16,350 --> 00:01:18,250 do you want to go to hell? 28 00:01:19,630 --> 00:01:24,650 2 Peter chapter 3, and we'll look at 29 00:01:24,650 --> 00:01:25,350 verse 9. 30 00:01:25,870 --> 00:01:27,590 Our brother Brandon already brought this before us 31 00:01:27,590 --> 00:01:27,890 tonight. 32 00:01:29,630 --> 00:01:32,110 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, 33 00:01:32,450 --> 00:01:34,110 as some men count slackness. 34 00:01:34,410 --> 00:01:35,490 Now the end of this verse is what 35 00:01:35,490 --> 00:01:37,290 I really want to focus on, but is 36 00:01:37,290 --> 00:01:40,850 long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that 37 00:01:40,850 --> 00:01:44,710 any should perish, but that all should come 38 00:01:44,710 --> 00:01:45,350 to repentance. 39 00:01:46,410 --> 00:01:49,210 So I do ask you again tonight, where 40 00:01:49,210 --> 00:01:50,090 do you want to go? 41 00:01:50,870 --> 00:01:54,310 This verse here, the Lord is not willing 42 00:01:54,310 --> 00:01:57,510 that any should perish, but that all should 43 00:01:57,510 --> 00:01:58,230 come to repentance. 44 00:01:59,070 --> 00:02:01,810 This verse tells us what God wants. 45 00:02:03,250 --> 00:02:05,090 God is not willing that any should perish. 46 00:02:06,490 --> 00:02:09,090 God desires to have a relationship with every 47 00:02:09,090 --> 00:02:09,990 one of his creation. 48 00:02:10,570 --> 00:02:12,990 He desires to see each of us saved. 49 00:02:15,050 --> 00:02:17,370 God wants us in his heaven, but he 50 00:02:17,370 --> 00:02:18,990 cannot allow sin into his heaven. 51 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:23,620 Where do you want to go? 52 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:30,220 God is not willing, the Lord is not 53 00:02:30,220 --> 00:02:33,080 willing that any should perish, but that all 54 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,800 should come to repentance. 55 00:02:38,850 --> 00:02:41,650 Do you want to be in heaven at 56 00:02:41,650 --> 00:02:44,190 the end of life's journey, or do you 57 00:02:44,190 --> 00:02:47,210 want to be in hell, and eventually the 58 00:02:47,210 --> 00:02:50,730 lake of fire, an eternity separated from God, 59 00:02:51,590 --> 00:02:55,170 an eternal punishment for your sins? 60 00:02:59,740 --> 00:03:02,860 Now my second question, turn with me to 61 00:03:02,860 --> 00:03:03,840 John chapter 3. 62 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:06,380 We were just hearing, I don't mean to 63 00:03:06,380 --> 00:03:10,740 take anything away from Brandon's message, but I 64 00:03:10,740 --> 00:03:12,720 see it as no accident that our messages 65 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:14,120 would cross paths with each other. 66 00:03:14,540 --> 00:03:15,880 Now I don't know how long I'll be 67 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:18,080 up here, so we may in fact have 68 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:20,760 four speakers tonight, but my second question to 69 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:24,920 you tonight is, in terms of eternity, where 70 00:03:24,920 --> 00:03:26,900 do you think you'll go? 71 00:03:28,060 --> 00:03:30,500 Now if you have been able to locate 72 00:03:30,500 --> 00:03:33,960 yourself here in John chapter 3, verse 36, 73 00:03:34,900 --> 00:03:41,450 as saved or unsaved, then you should be 74 00:03:41,450 --> 00:03:44,250 able to answer this question with confidence. 75 00:03:44,850 --> 00:03:47,330 But if you're uncertain, then the answer is 76 00:03:47,330 --> 00:03:48,190 still solidified. 77 00:03:49,650 --> 00:03:51,330 There is still already an answer. 78 00:03:52,970 --> 00:03:54,370 Where do you think you'll go? 79 00:03:54,590 --> 00:03:57,810 If you were to die tonight, in your 80 00:03:57,810 --> 00:04:00,010 current condition that you're in, would you go 81 00:04:00,010 --> 00:04:03,750 to heaven or would you go to hell? 82 00:04:04,190 --> 00:04:04,790 What do you think? 83 00:04:06,450 --> 00:04:07,670 Are you saved tonight? 84 00:04:08,470 --> 00:04:12,390 If so, then your destination is that wonderful 85 00:04:12,390 --> 00:04:13,070 place of heaven. 86 00:04:14,030 --> 00:04:16,370 If you're uncertain or if you know for 87 00:04:16,370 --> 00:04:17,750 a fact that you are in need of 88 00:04:17,750 --> 00:04:21,630 salvation, then hell and the lake of fire 89 00:04:21,630 --> 00:04:22,910 is your eternal destination. 90 00:04:25,870 --> 00:04:28,790 John chapter 3, verse 36, he that believeth 91 00:04:28,790 --> 00:04:32,410 on the sun hath everlasting life, and he 92 00:04:32,410 --> 00:04:34,410 that believeth not the sun shall not see 93 00:04:34,410 --> 00:04:38,330 life, but the wrath of God abideth on 94 00:04:38,330 --> 00:04:38,610 him. 95 00:04:38,610 --> 00:04:41,770 This verse was already stressed to us tonight 96 00:04:41,770 --> 00:04:44,610 quite wonderfully, better than I could bring before 97 00:04:44,610 --> 00:04:44,890 you. 98 00:04:46,910 --> 00:04:48,810 If you're not saved tonight, then the wrath 99 00:04:48,810 --> 00:04:50,670 of God already hangs overhead. 100 00:04:51,790 --> 00:04:54,670 If you're familiar with, if you'll allow me 101 00:04:54,670 --> 00:04:56,290 to use this analogy, if you're familiar with 102 00:04:56,290 --> 00:04:58,170 water parks, you'll know that at some of 103 00:04:58,170 --> 00:05:00,490 them there's a giant bucket that's on an 104 00:05:00,490 --> 00:05:03,370 axle, and this bucket of water, or this 105 00:05:03,370 --> 00:05:05,890 bucket gets filled up with water, and at 106 00:05:05,890 --> 00:05:09,470 the right time it dumps all its contents 107 00:05:09,470 --> 00:05:13,510 out onto everyone or anyone that is below 108 00:05:13,510 --> 00:05:13,790 it. 109 00:05:14,690 --> 00:05:16,750 That is the wrath of God tonight if 110 00:05:16,750 --> 00:05:21,950 you are not saved, hanging overhead, awaiting the 111 00:05:21,950 --> 00:05:22,890 time of your death. 112 00:05:24,410 --> 00:05:27,790 Man is appointed once to die, and after 113 00:05:27,790 --> 00:05:31,050 this, the judgment, if you are not saved. 114 00:05:31,890 --> 00:05:35,970 If you were to die tonight in your 115 00:05:35,970 --> 00:05:39,510 sins, the wrath of God would come crashing 116 00:05:39,510 --> 00:05:40,030 down. 117 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:49,380 Romans chapter 6, please. 118 00:06:06,130 --> 00:06:08,310 My third question to you tonight is, in 119 00:06:08,310 --> 00:06:12,470 terms of eternity, I've already asked you where 120 00:06:12,470 --> 00:06:15,350 do you want to go, I've already asked 121 00:06:15,350 --> 00:06:17,830 you where do you think you'll go, and 122 00:06:17,830 --> 00:06:19,670 now my third question to you tonight is, 123 00:06:20,590 --> 00:06:25,030 where do you deserve to go? 124 00:06:26,710 --> 00:06:28,310 Whether you know the answer to this or 125 00:06:28,310 --> 00:06:30,490 not, there is already an answer solidified. 126 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:38,100 Romans chapter 6 and verse 23. 127 00:06:38,100 --> 00:06:44,320 Verse 23, for the wages of sin is 128 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:48,160 death, but the gift of God is eternal 129 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:51,800 life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 130 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:55,840 The Bible tells us that all have sinned 131 00:06:55,840 --> 00:06:57,780 and come short of the glory of God, 132 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:04,080 all, everyone, and the wages of sin is 133 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:04,500 death. 134 00:07:05,260 --> 00:07:07,140 A wage is a payment that is due 135 00:07:07,140 --> 00:07:11,080 rightfully to an individual who is earning or 136 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:12,020 deserving of it. 137 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:16,900 The wages of sin is death. 138 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:19,420 Where do we deserve to go, where do 139 00:07:19,420 --> 00:07:20,220 you deserve to go? 140 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:23,380 I can tell you where I deserve to 141 00:07:23,380 --> 00:07:24,840 go, is it the same place that you 142 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:25,420 deserve to go? 143 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:27,860 I deserve hell and the lake of fire, 144 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:31,980 eternal punishment, separation from God for all eternity. 145 00:07:32,700 --> 00:07:38,610 Is this where you deserve to go, or 146 00:07:38,610 --> 00:07:39,810 do you think you deserve to go to 147 00:07:39,810 --> 00:07:40,010 heaven? 148 00:07:42,050 --> 00:07:44,770 Do you think, well, I'm not that bad, 149 00:07:45,090 --> 00:07:46,890 certainly not as bad as the person sitting 150 00:07:46,890 --> 00:07:48,030 to my right or to my left or 151 00:07:48,030 --> 00:07:52,090 my classmates, my co-workers, no. 152 00:07:53,730 --> 00:07:58,350 If you're unsaved tonight, in the eyes of 153 00:07:58,350 --> 00:07:59,910 God, sin is sin. 154 00:07:59,910 --> 00:08:04,690 Sin, no matter what relative size we as 155 00:08:04,690 --> 00:08:06,810 humanity may try to put on it, from 156 00:08:06,810 --> 00:08:10,150 the smallest lie to the greatest act of 157 00:08:10,150 --> 00:08:13,890 terrorism, in the eyes of God, sin is 158 00:08:13,890 --> 00:08:14,230 sin. 159 00:08:15,650 --> 00:08:18,270 And the wages of sin is death. 160 00:08:21,250 --> 00:08:23,710 So who so then can be saved? 161 00:08:24,990 --> 00:08:26,310 Who then can be saved? 162 00:08:27,650 --> 00:08:31,010 Is there a way out from this eternal 163 00:08:31,010 --> 00:08:33,350 punishment that is due to us, that we 164 00:08:33,350 --> 00:08:36,390 deserve because of our sin towards God? 165 00:08:38,110 --> 00:08:40,990 Well, praise the Lord for the second part 166 00:08:40,990 --> 00:08:43,430 of this verse, but the gift of God 167 00:08:43,430 --> 00:08:47,510 is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 168 00:08:48,850 --> 00:08:50,710 We have in that first part, the wages 169 00:08:50,710 --> 00:08:52,250 of sin is death. 170 00:08:52,670 --> 00:08:55,570 The wages, the righteous payment towards us for 171 00:08:55,570 --> 00:09:00,850 our sin is death, but the gift of 172 00:09:00,850 --> 00:09:01,290 God. 173 00:09:03,560 --> 00:09:05,220 Think of all the gifts that you've ever 174 00:09:05,220 --> 00:09:07,760 received in life, if you'll allow me for 175 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:08,280 a second here. 176 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:10,320 Did you deserve any of them? 177 00:09:11,300 --> 00:09:12,160 Likely not. 178 00:09:13,020 --> 00:09:14,580 I know I certainly didn't. 179 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:17,120 Any of the material things that I've received 180 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:18,840 as gifts, I did not deserve them. 181 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:21,360 So a gift is something that is freely 182 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:24,920 given to someone who didn't really do anything, 183 00:09:24,980 --> 00:09:26,340 who didn't do anything at all to deserve 184 00:09:26,340 --> 00:09:27,380 it, right? 185 00:09:29,220 --> 00:09:33,440 The gift of God, the very God of 186 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:36,920 this universe, the one who created all things, 187 00:09:37,380 --> 00:09:41,260 has a gift for you tonight, and that 188 00:09:41,260 --> 00:09:46,140 is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 189 00:09:46,380 --> 00:09:50,720 The very son of God came down to 190 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:52,560 this earth, took on the form of a 191 00:09:52,560 --> 00:09:57,240 man, lived amongst humanity, mingled with his creation, 192 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:02,080 his sinful creation, brushed shoulders with them, communed 193 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:05,640 with them, ate with them, lived amongst them, 194 00:10:06,620 --> 00:10:08,140 and yet he had no sin of his 195 00:10:08,140 --> 00:10:08,400 own. 196 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:13,480 The perfect man, perfect fully man and yet 197 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:18,880 fully God in every way, the Lord Jesus 198 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:19,480 Christ. 199 00:10:20,980 --> 00:10:24,020 He alone, though he didn't deserve it, he 200 00:10:24,020 --> 00:10:27,980 alone was worthy to go to the cross 201 00:10:27,980 --> 00:10:32,420 of Calvary and to bear the punishment of 202 00:10:32,420 --> 00:10:35,460 your sins on his own body on the 203 00:10:35,460 --> 00:10:35,740 tree. 204 00:10:35,740 --> 00:10:41,840 This is the gift of God, eternal life 205 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:44,060 through Jesus Christ our Lord. 206 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:48,960 And this lovely man of Calvary, the Lord 207 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:50,920 Jesus Christ, is not in the ground today. 208 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:54,740 As we all know, very likely, he rose 209 00:10:54,740 --> 00:10:59,120 again on the third day, lived amongst man 210 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:01,500 for a few more days, and then ascended 211 00:11:01,500 --> 00:11:04,200 back into heaven where he now sits at 212 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:08,640 the right hand of God interceding for those 213 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:09,480 that he has saved. 214 00:11:10,140 --> 00:11:13,420 The wages of sin is death, but the 215 00:11:13,420 --> 00:11:16,320 gift of God is eternal life through Jesus 216 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:18,080 Christ our Lord. 217 00:11:18,560 --> 00:11:22,560 So again, I ask you tonight, in terms 218 00:11:22,560 --> 00:11:25,180 of eternity, where do you want to go, 219 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:28,040 heaven or hell? 220 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:31,320 In terms of eternity, where do you think 221 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:36,000 you'll go, heaven or hell? 222 00:11:38,590 --> 00:11:42,520 In terms of eternity, where do you deserve 223 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:46,320 to go, heaven or hell? 224 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:49,200 The gift of God is eternal life through 225 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:50,460 Jesus Christ our Lord. 226 00:11:50,980 --> 00:11:54,120 You are presented with another opportunity tonight, another 227 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:58,000 chance, another wonderful privilege to be under the 228 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,060 sound of the gospel, to hear another time 229 00:12:01,060 --> 00:12:02,160 of how you can be saved. 230 00:12:04,430 --> 00:12:09,980 So I ask you tonight, where do you 231 00:12:09,980 --> 00:12:10,720 deserve to go?