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After being elected President of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1979, Adrian Rogers met with President Ronald Reagan.
After being elected President of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1979, Adrian Rogers met with President Ronald Reagan.
– King of Kings Lyric Video – Hillsong Worship
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Adrian Rogers pictured below
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Today at Fellowship Bible church this song fit perfectly with the sermon today!
Without hope, without light
‘Til from Heaven You came running
There was mercy in Your eyes
To fulfill the law and prophets
To a virgin came the word
From a throne of endless glory
To a cradle in the dirt
Praise the Spirit, three in one
God of glory, Majesty
Praise forever to the King of Kings
And to reconcile the lost
To redeem the whole creation
You did not despise the cross
For even in your suffering
You saw to the other side
Knowing this was our salvation
Jesus for our sake you died
Praise the Spirit, three in one
God of glory, Majesty
Praise forever to the King of Kings
All of Heaven held its breath
‘Til that stone was moved for good
For the Lamb had conquered death
And the dead rose from their tombs
And the angels stood in awe
For the souls of all who’d come
To the Father are restored
Then the Spirit lit the flame
Now this gospel truth of old
Shall not kneel, shall not faint
By His blood and in His name
In His freedom I am free
For the love of Jesus Christ
Who has resurrected me
Praise the Spirit, three in one
God of glory, Majesty
Praise forever to the King of Kings
Today at Fellowship Bible Church, Justin spoke on Revelation 20.
Below is the best sermon I have ever heard on Revelation 20!
Adrian Rogers -The Final Judgment
A time is coming when all the dreams and schemes men have sold their souls for will turn to rust, mold and corruption. God will put the final period upon the final sentence, upon the final chapter in history. Then we will stand before the Lord. Join Adrian Rogers and discover—are you ready?
“It is my heart’s deepest desire that until Christ returns for His church, this ministry would continue to proclaim the truth of God’s Word and His life-giving, life-altering love on broadcasts throughout the world” – Adrian Rogers
The Great Judgment
Dr. Adrian Rogers
Revelation 20:11-15
I want to speak to you tonight on one of the most
serious subjects I know anything about and that is the
final judgment, the final judgment. Now, you need to
pay attention because one of these days, if you don’t
know the Lord Jesus Christ, you are going to come into
judgment. You have a date with Deity. You are going
to meet Jesus Christ.
I heard of a young minister one time who came to
a village town to be the pastor. In that village,
there was a man who was a skeptic, a scorner, an
agnostic, a pseudo intellectual. His favorite sport
was baiting preachers, teasing preachers, arguing with
preachers, ridiculing the Gospel. He could hardly
wait ’til the new minister came to town. One day they
met in the town square. This man, whose name was Burt
Alney, met the new minister and he said to him, I
understand you’re the new minister in town. Is that
correct? He said, Yes sir, I am. He said, Well I
want to tell you something, my name is Burt Alney.
And I don’t believe in God. I don’t believe the Bible
is the Word of God. I believe that heaven is mere
sentimentality. To believe in hell is a blunder and
foolishness. I believe that you’re a pious fraud and
an imposter, and I believe that all of the people who
go there to hear you preach are hypocrites. The young
minister looked at him and quoted a verse of
Scripture. He said, “It is appointed unto man once to
die, and after this the Judgment.” Alney said, Don’t
quote the Bible to me. He said, I don’t believe the
Bible. What do you have to say to that? The young
minister said, “It is appointed unto man once to die,
and after this the Judgment.” He said, That’s no
argument, don’t give me that, I said I don’t believe
that. He said, It is appointed unto man once to die,
and after this the Judgment. He said, That’s stupid.
I don’t think you know enough to argue. He said, “It
is appointed unto man once to die, after this the
Judgment.” It so infuriated Burt Alney that he
wheeled around, turned and walked away in disgust.
But later on Burt Alney gave this testimony. He said,
as I walked home that night, I walked over the bridge,
and as the creek was beneath me, the frogs in that
creek were saying, Judgment, Judgment, Judgment,
Judgment, Judgment. And what that man had said so
reverberated through my soul. “It is appointed unto
man once to die, and after this the judgment––that I
could not get it out of my heart and my mind until I
gave my heart to Jesus Christ. I pray God tonight
that this will etch itself upon your consciousness and
reverberate through your soul.
Listen to me my friend; one of the most solemn
facts I know is that one day, one day, every unsaved
man, woman, boy, and girl in this world will come to
Judgment. Now, the message that I’m going to give you
tonight is straight from the Word of God, and if you
have a Bible with you, you may keep it open there in
your lap. The very first thing we see as we speak
about the final Judgment, which really is a trial, is
a court, it is eternity’s court. The Supreme Judge of
the Universe is sitting there upon the bench. I want
you to notice that in every court trial there are
three parts. First of all there must be a judge, and
secondly there must be some defendants, and thirdly
there must be a judgment.
Now, the Bible tells us this is what is going to
happen. First of all I want you to notice the setting
of this whole thing. Look in verse 11, “And I saw a
great white throne.” Now, when the Bible says it’s
great, that speaks of the power of it. When the Bible
says it is white, that speaks of the purity of it.
When the Bible says it is a throne, that speaks of the
purpose of it, for this word throne is not the kind of
a throne that a king would sit upon. This kind of a
throne was a judgment bench. A person who stands
before this is not coming to worship a king.
Sometimes people say, Oh, pray for us all that one day
we’ll stand before thy great white throne. Don’t pray
that prayer for me please. And don’t pray it for you,
if you know what you are talking about. Those who
stand before this throne are standing there to be
judged.
And who is it that’s sitting upon this throne?
Look again here in the Word of God. “And him that sat
on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled
away.” Who is this person? Who is this judge that’s
sitting upon the throne? Well, I want to tell you who
the judge is not going to be. You’re not going to
judge yourself. The judge in that day is not going to
be your opinion of yourself. It’s not going to be
some friend. We all have friends who will write a
letter of recommendation for us. They don’t bear
false witness against us, they bear it for us, Amen?
They say all of these nice things, but your friends
are not going to be the judge. Your mother, your
father is not going to be the judge. My mother had a
way of overlooking all of the faults and foibles and
in me. But your mother is not going to be the judge.
Who is the judge? Who is the one who sits upon this
throne? The Bible says, “In him that sat upon the
throne, from whose face the earth and the heavens fled
away.” Who is this one? So awesome, so terrifying,
so fearful that even the heavens and the earth flee
from his presence. Are you ready for this? The judge
will be none other than Jesus Christ. Did you know
that? Jesus is the judge.
The Bible tells us in John the fifth chapter,
“The Father judgeth no man, but hath commiteth all
judgment unto His son.” Now that’s very important
because I want to tell you as surely as my name is
Adrian Rogers, as surely as I stand in this stadium,
as surely as there’s breath in my body, as surely as
there’s a God in heaven, you are going to meet Jesus
Christ. Everybody here is going to meet Jesus Christ.
Now, you may not walk down this aisle and give your
heart to Jesus, but in some church they’ll roll you
down the aisle perhaps after you are dead and some
preacher will preach your funeral, but your soul will
be in hell before the undertaker learns you are dead.
And dear friend, you will be drawn out of that place
called hell, that place that the Bible calls Hades,
and as we’re going to see in a moment, you will stand
face to face with Jesus Christ. Do you know what the
Bible says? The Bible says, “As I live saith the
Lord, every knee shall bow to God. Every tongue shall
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God
the Father.” Now, that tells me that if you don’t
meet Jesus as Savior, you’ll meet Him as judge. If
you don’t meet Him in grace, you’ll meet Him in
judgment. But you have a date with Deity. You’re
going to meet Him as the Lamb. You’re going to meet
Him as the Lion. You’re going to meet Him as the
Savior, or you’re going to meet Him as the Judge, but
you’re going to meet Him.
Now listen, listen, this is the setting. There
is a great white throne. Now, who are the defendants?
Let’s continue to read. Look here in this passage of
scripture. The Bible says in verse 12, “And I saw
the dead, small and great stand before God, and the
books were opened. And another book was opened which
is the book of life, and the dead were judged out of
those things which were written in the books according
to works.” Now, the Bible teaches that there’s a
summons that’s going to go out, and the dead are going
to be summonsed into this court. Who are these? Who
are these dead that are coming to the judgment? “I
saw the dead, small and great.” Well, listen, the big
shot, the great, the little shot, the small, the up
and out, the great, the down and out, the small, those
who are well known and those that nobody knows
anything about––all of these unsaved are going to
stand in the Judgment.
Now, let me tell you they are basically in four
categories of persons. Four types of people will
stand there to be judged, and I want you to listen
carefully to see if you’re in one of these four
categories. First of all, the out and out sinner will
be there, and I don’t think there are any like that
here tonight, but there may be. These are those who
hate God, who hate Christ, who hate the Bible. They
hate revivals. They hate preachers. They hate
churches. They spit on the cross. They ridicule the
blood. They shake their puny fists in the face of
God, boldly, braggingly, brazenly. They say, God, if
there be a God, you’re not big enough to make me serve
you. They hate God, and they despise what we’re doing
here tonight. Now, there are none like that here
tonight, unless you’ve come to make fun. And if you
have, may God have mercy upon your soul. But they
will be there. They will be there.
But I’ll tell you another category of persons who
will be there. These are not the out and out sinners,
they’re just the opposite. These are self-righteous
people. These are good people. These people go to
church from time to time. These people give their
money. These people have been baptized. These people
have gone to Sunday school. These people have
culture. They have manners. They think that the
Gospel is for the thief. They think the Gospel is for
the murderer. They think the Gospel is for the
pervert. They don’t think the Gospel is for them.
They don’t think they need to be saved. Jesus said,
“Except your righteousness shall exceed the
righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees, you
shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of heaven. “
Some people are going to hell because they drink, but
some people are going to hell because they never
drink. They think the Gospel is for the drunkard, but
not for them. They think they don’t need to be saved.
And when a preacher preaches a sermon like this,
they’ll stand in the invitation, they’ll look around
to see if any of those old sinners are going to go
down there and give their heart to Jesus Christ. I
told you the night before last, I’ll tell you again––
the worst form of badness is human goodness when that
human goodness becomes a substitute for the second
birth.
Now, mark it down. There is no sin greater than
self-righteousness that keeps you from going to Jesus
Christ. Most of the people in America are egomaniacs,
strutting to hell, thinking they’re too good to be
damned. There are about five billion people on planet
earth today. If you were to put those five billion
people in a single file, they would reach out around
the moon, circle around the moon a number of times and
come back to the earth and you still would not have
reached the end of that line. If you were to take a
golden cup and place it in the hand of all five
billion people and tell each one to deposit all of his
own personal goodness and righteousness that he
innately has in that cup, and then pass it on to the
next person, and on to the next, when that golden cup
got to the end of five billion persons, there would
not be enough righteousness in that cup to save one
boy or one girl. Do you understand what I am talking
about? God says that our righteousness is as filthy
rags in the sight of a holy God. Would to God, would
to God, would to God the Holy Spirit would show you
tonight, oh my friend, that your church membership
cannot save you, your keeping of the Ten Commandments
cannot save you. The Bible says, “If righteousness
come by the law, then is Christ dead in vain.” Do you
know what that means? That means that if you could be
saved by your good works, Calvary was a blunder and
the blood of Jesus Christ was spilled rather than
shed. Christ died in vain.
I‘ll tell you a third category of person who will
be there. Not only, my dear friend, the out and out
sinner, not only the self-righteous person, but
there’s another category of persons who will be there,
and this is the procrastinators. They’re not out and
out sinners. They don’t hate God. And they’re not
self–righteous. They know they need to be saved.
Every time the Gospel is preached, they feel that tug,
they feel that quiver. Every time a preacher stands
up and says, Come to Jesus, there is something in them
that says, I ought to go. But the devil whispers in
their ear, and the devil intimidates them and
procrastination comes into their heart and they say,
Not tonight, not tonight, tomorrow, tomorrow. Oh, I
know we all know that we’re going to die, but do you
know what most of us think? Most of us have the idea
that somehow we’re going to live to be about ninety–
eight, and then we’re going to get a little cough and
then we’re going to go to the doctor. He’s going to
thump on us a little bit and he’s going to say, you’ve
got about four months to live. So then we’re going to
visit all of the grandchildren and the great–
grandchildren. And then we’re going to call all of
our loved ones in around the bed. And then we’re
going to put on our pajamas, and crawl up in the bed,
turn up our toes and die. That’s the way most of us
think we’re going to die. But I want to tell you,
dear friend, more people die with their street clothes
on than die with their pajamas on. Did you know that?
People die on their way home from church. In where I
used to preach, in another church, five people in
another city, five people were killed on their way
home from church.
I can remember Dorothy, another little lady.
Stood on the front steps of my church in Ft. Pierce, I
can see her in my mind’s eye now, that perky little
smile. And, Dorothy was a Christian, thank God, but
the principal is the same. Dorothy said to me as she
stood there, Pastor, that was a great sermon. I’ll
see you tonight. I can still hear it in my ears.
I’ll see you tonight, pastor. And as Dorothy went out
the five twenty causeway, and over the overpass going
over the Banana River, another car was coming up on
the wrong side of the hill, hit her head on. I doubt
that she ever even saw it. The next moment she was in
with Jesus. If that had happened to some of you,
you’d be in hell tonight. If going home that thing
happened to you, that next moment you’d be in hell.
The procrastinators, I say, are going to stand
there. I tell you, there are souls in hell who would
give a million worlds like this one to have the
opportunity to come to Jesus tonight. The Bible says,
“Today, if you’ll hear His voice, harden not your
heart.” The Bible says, “He that being often reproved
and hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed.”
God’s Word says, “Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for
thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.” I tell
you I would not go without Jesus Christ twenty–four
hours for ten million dollars. I mean that with all
of my heart. If you were to put ten million dollars
on this platform and say, All you have to do is
renounce Christ, do without Christ for one day. Ten
million dollars for one day. God in heaven knows,
number one I would not deny Jesus for ten million
dollars. Number two, dear friend, I might die during
that twenty–four–hour period. The Bible says, “What
should it profit a man if he should gain the whole
world and lose his own soul. Or what should a man
give in exchange for his soul?”
Who is going to be there? “I saw the dead, small
and great standing before God.” I’ll tell you who
will be there. The out and out sinner will be there.
I’ll tell you who will be there, the self–righteous
person will be there. I’ll tell you who will be
there, the procrastinator will be there. And I’ll
tell you someone else who will be there. These are
church members who have gotten their name on the
church role, but they’ve never had their name in the
Lamb’s book of life. Church membership, whether
Bellevue kind or any other kind, has never saved
anybody. You ask some people, Are you a Christian?
They say, Well, I’m a member of the church. You ask,
When were you saved? Well, I was baptized at thus and
such a time. Friend, the church is not the way to
heaven. Jesus is the way to heaven.
Now, suppose when I came out here tonight to come
to this crusade, when I got ready, rather than coming,
I find a place that says Show Place Arena. I get up on
that sign and I sit down and I fold my hands and I sit
on that sign and you pass by and you say, Pastor,
that’s very interesting. What are you doing? And I
say, Well, I’m going to the crusade. You say, You’re
going to the crusade? Yes, yes. Well, well, well,
how’s that, pastor? Well, you see what it says here,
Show Place Arena. That’s what it says, and I’m on it,
so I’m going to the crusade. You say, Pastor, that’s
not the way to the Crusade, that’s just the sign that
points you to the way. The church is not the way to
heaven. The church is the sign that points you to the
way. Jesus is the way. Jesus, you say––everybody
knows that. Friend, everybody doesn’t know that.
You’d be surprised.
There’s some people in this building tonight, you
are members in good standing of some church, but I
want to remind you, so was Judas. He was a charter
member of the first church, and he was the treasurer,
and tonight he’s in hell. Are you saved? I’m not
asking if you’re a member of the church. Judas, are
you a member of the church? Yes, I am. I’m a charter
member. I’m a disciple, I’m an apostle, I’m the
treasurer of the church. Judas, have you ever been
born again? He’d have to answer no, and tonight he’s
in hell. There are four categories of persons who are
going to be judged.
Now, here’s the third and final thing I want you
to notice. We’ve talked, first of all about the
courtroom and the Judge, the great white throne and
Jesus is on it. Secondly, we’ve talked about the fact
that the dead, small and great, will stand there to be
judged. Now, the third and final thing I want you to
see tonight is the basis of the judgment. Every
judgment has three parts. First of all the evidence
is presented against you. Secondly, you have a chance
to make your defense. Thirdly, the verdict of the
court is given.
Now, let’s suppose that the end of time has come
and it is time for the resurrection of the unsaved
dead. The graves vomit up their shrieking, moaning,
groaning dead and they stand one by one to be judged,
that time when I told you about that you’re going to
meet Jesus Christ. There’s a Negro spiritual that
goes this way: I went to the Rock to hide my face,
and the rock cried out, no hiding place, no hiding
place. The heavens and the earth flee away. Every
rock, every cave, every building, every closet, it’s
gone. Just you and Jesus. You cursed His name behind
His back, I wonder if you’re going to curse Him to His
face now? You ridiculed Him now, I wonder if you’re
going to ridicule Him then? I am telling you, you
listen to me, the most sobering fact that I know is
that you’re going to stand before Jesus Christ.
“I saw the dead, small and great, stand before
God. The sea gave up the dead which were in it.”
Listen, dear friend, death and hell delivered up the
dead which were in them, and they were judged, every
man. You see, when you die, your body goes to the
grave, but your soul goes to Hades, literally Hades,
that’s what it says. Death and Hell, in the Greek,
it’s death and Hades. It is the place where spirits
go before the resurrection. And your spirit is in
Hades, your body is in the grave.
He says here, “And death and hell gave up the dead which were in them…” Death has the body when your body dies, death comes after your body and carries it down to the grave to disintegration but there’s a part of you that doesn’t go to the grave; It goes to a place called Hell. It’s a translation of the Greek word Hades. It’s the place of the departed dead before the FINAL JUDGMENT. They go there to wait the judgment. You say, “Well, wait a minute. If they’re already in Hell why are they taken out of hell to be judged?”
That’s not the Lake of Fire, that’s Hades. They’re going to be cast into the Lake of Fire. You say, “What is the difference?”
Well, suppose a person commits a crime and he is indicted by the grand jury. He’s so dangerous that the judge will not grant bond. So he is put into the county jail, and he is held there until he is judged. He is taken out of that jail, judged, and put into the penitentiary. The Lake of Fire is the eternal penitentiary, but the death has the body and hell has the soul. That’s where people without Christ have died and their body in the grave, their soul being held there waiting until the Final Judgment. Well, why bring them out and judge them again? Because it’s not all over yet, as we’re going to see.
Hugh Hefner, who founded the Playboy empire, I’ll pray he’ll get saved. I hope he will. But if he doesn’t, when he dies he’ll go into a holding place and be taken out then to be judged. Why can’t he be judged now? Because it’s not finished yet. You see, he has corrupted those who will corrupt those, who will corrupt those, who will corrupt those, and on and on and on and on and that wicked influence will not stop until it has reached the shores of eternity. So God has to wait until it’s all over to bring these out of that holding place and say, NOW WE ARE GOING TO FACE THE RECORD. That is the Final Judgment friend, when all the facts are in.
But when the summons comes, death that has the body, and Hell that has the spirit will give them up. Your body will come from the grave. Your spirit will come from hell. And that spirit will be reincarnated, and in this case, reincarcerated in that body. From the Arctic wastes they will come. From the depths of the oceans they will come. From the jungles they will come. From graves that are millenniums old, and bodies that have turned to dust, they will come. Fresh corpses will rise again. I saw the dead, small and great. They will come. They will come. They will be raised.
You know, I have never ever been able to
understand why unsaved people come to church at Easter
to celebrate. I never can understand it. I’m glad
they come, because it gives me a chance to shoot them
full of the Gospel, but I could never understand why
an unsaved person would come to church on Easter. Do
you know what Easter is? Easter, my friend, if you
don’t get saved, is the day that seals your doom.
Don’t you know that?
Acts chapter 17 says that “God has appointed a
day in which He will judge the world in righteousness
by that man whom He hath ordained whereof He hath
given assurance unto all men in that He raised Him
from the dead.” Now, what does that mean? It means
the proof positive of the judgment is the resurrection
of Jesus Christ. You can’t hold court if the Judge is
dead. But furthermore, you can’t hold court if the
defendant isn’t there. What God is saying is this,
listen to me––the same God that raised Jesus Christ up
from that grave, listen, is the same God who’s going
to bring you into judgment. Listen. Death and hell
delivered up the dead which were in them. Some people
get the idea that they can commit suicide and end it
all. You can’t do it. Let me tell you friend, you
cannot crawl up into the grave and hide from God. You
can’t pull the dirt over your face and hide from God.
Could you have your body cremated and have your ashes
scattered by the four winds of the earth, to the four
corners of the earth? The Spirit of Almighty God
would bring those ashes together, bring that dust
together, reincarnate into that body your soul, and
you will stand before Him, and you will be judged,
face to face with Jesus Christ. You’ve got a date
with Deity. “As I live, saith the Lord, every knee
shall bow to me and every tongue shall confess to
God.”
Three parts to the Judgment. First of all, the
evidence will be presented against you. The Bible
says, “and the books were opened,” the books were
opened. God is keeping books. God has a record. God
has written down every deed, every thought, and every
word, every word. Did you know the Bible says every
idle word that men shall they give account thereof in
the Day of Judgment? Every filthy thing you ever
said, every lie you ever told, every lustful thought
you ever had, every dishonest deed you’ve ever done,
every proud act. All of it is recorded with a pen of
iron and rocks of lead and letters of flame. I want
to tell you, my friend, God is keeping the record.
There’s a camera right here taking a picture of me.
There’s a microphone and what I am saying is being
recorded and it can be played back and be heard later
- I am telling you, my friend, just as surely what
you are thinking this very moment is being recorded.
Did you know that? I mean what you’re thinking this
very moment. Every thought that you have right now,
God is recording. Every word that you speak. Jesus
said, “That which is done in secret shall be shouted
from the house top.” God has the record, and when you
stand there, the case will be presented against you.
You will see your sins––sins that you’ll remember,
sins that you’ve forgotten. Things that you did in
Vietnam and Korea. Things you did in the back seat of
an automobile, or the back room of some business
place. All of those things are recorded. Every lie
you ever told. Every time you pinched a wrinkle into
your mother’s brow, every gray hair you gave your
father, every mocking sneering thing you did about
Jesus Christ––you will face that sin, my friend. There
will be a foul mountain of sins. And the most self–
righteous person in this world when he sees his sins
and the great sin of rejecting Jesus Christ, high
treason against heaven’s king. It will all be there,
and that will be the evidence presented against you.
And then you’ll have a chance to make your defense.
What will you say? Now, listen, let’s practice
right now. Let’s just suppose that you’re standing
there before Jesus Christ. I’m talking to those of
you who are not saved. And remember, remember friend,
this may be the last sermon you’ll ever hear. What
will you say? I know what some of you will say.
You’ll say, Well, I’ll just call out for mercy. There
won’t be any mercy. If you want mercy, you may have
- If you want grace, you may have it. If you want
forgiveness, you may have it. But you must have it
now, you’ll not have it then. The Bible says, “It is
appointed unto man once to die, and after this the
Judgment.” The Bible doesn’t say anything about
salvation, forgiveness after death. As a matter of
fact, the Bible teaches that the only chance that you
have for salvation is in this life. And you will not
get mercy. Well you say, I’ll ask for justice. You
don’t need justice friend, you need mercy. Justice is
what you’re going to get. You’re going to be judged
according to your works.
You say, Well, then I’ll make an excuse. Well,
what will you say? I know what some of you are going
to say. You’re going to say, Well, Lord, I’ll tell
you why I wasn’t saved. I wasn’t saved because there
were so many hypocrites in the church. Why, I went to
Bellevue Baptist Church, and I saw someone singing in
the choir. And I knew that man. I knew his
lifestyle. I knew that woman. I knew the way she
lived. She’s a hypocrite. That’s why I wasn’t saved.
That’s why I wasn’t saved. And the Lord’s going to
say to you, I didn’t say believe on the hypocrite. I
said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt
be saved.”
I know what some of you are going to say. Well,
I wouldn’t go down there and confess Christ as my Lord
until I was sure I could live it. He’s going to say,
I didn’t say believe on yourself. I said, “Believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.”
Well, I’ll tell you why I wasn’t saved. It was
Adrian Rogers. I went to hear him preach, and he
yelled and he screamed and he lifted his hand and he
pointed his finger and he talked about sin and all of
that, I didn’t like that kind of preaching. And He’ll
say, I didn’t say believe on the preacher. I said,
“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be
saved.”
Well, I didn’t know which church to join. There
are so many churches. The Baptist church, the
Methodist church, the Presbyterian church, the Church
of God, the Church of Christ, the Episcopalian church,
Vegetarian church, I didn’t know which church to join.
So many churches. And He’ll say to you what I’m going
to say to you. I didn’t say believe on the church. I
said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt
be saved.”
Well, you say, I didn’t have time. I mean, I was
killed on that Wednesday night. I was in an
automobile accident. I died of a heart attack. I
died in my sleep. I didn’t have time. And He’ll say
to you, You had time that night when my servant Adrian
Rogers preached and prayed and plead with tears, when
he poured out his heart and begged you to come to
Jesus. You had time, that night, but you walked out
of that place without Jesus Christ. You had time.
I’ll tell you, my dear friend, that every excuse that
you can possibly think of will falter and fail and you
will bow your head and plea the only plea that you can
plea before a righteous God, and that is guilty.
Guilty of the crucifixion of the Son of God because,
my dear friend, your sins were the nails that nailed
Him to that cross and your hard heart the hammer that
drove those nails.
Now, you’ll have a chance, dear friend, to hear
the verdict of the court. Do you know what it is?
It’s right here in the Word of God. Now listen to it.
I want you to get serious. “And whosoever was not
found written in the Book of Life was cast into the
lake of fire, this is the second death.” May I be
serious with you? We live in a world now where people
are telling other people to go to hell. Hell is no
joke. If there is no hell, this Bible is a book of
blunders. If there is no hell, Jesus Christ is a
liar, for He had more to say about hell than any other
preacher in the Word of God. “Whosoever was not found
written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of
fire.” Every demon will be there to shriek and moan
and groan as they too are pulled down into that liquid
lake of fire, for hell is prepared for the devil and
his angels. God doesn’t want you to go to hell. I
don’t want you to go to hell. That’s the reason I’m
preaching this crusade. If you think I’m preaching it
for my health or if you think I’m preaching it because
I don’t have anything else to do, you’re wrong.
Friend, I’ve never been busier in my life. But the
reason I’m here tonight, and the reason I put this
prayer in this energy is I don’t want you to go to
hell. And God has lifted up some blockades to keep
you from going to hell. The song we’ve sung, the
scripture we preach, the prayers, the tears, they’re
God’s blockades on the road to hell. But above all
there’s a cross. Listen, for you to go to hell,
you’re going to have to climb over and trample beneath
your dirty feet the precious blood of Jesus, for the
cross is God’s blockade on the road to hell. Do you
know Jesus? Are you saved? I mean, are you
absolutely certain beyond the shadow of any doubt if
you died right now you would go hell?
I’m going to tell you a brief story and I’m going
to be finished. I heard this story years ago about
some men who were out on a prairie and the prairie had
caught fire. And there were winds of thirty and forty
and fifty miles an hour that were sweeping the fire
along. The men tried to outrun the fire and it became
evident they would never outrun the fire. One said to
the other one, we’re going to burn to death. We’re
going to perish. But the other man said, No, I know
what to do. And he reached into his pocket and took
out a book of matches. He struck a match and kneeled
down and set the grass on one side of him on fire.
And the wind caught that grass and began to burn this
way. Now the fire was burning this way, and now the
fire was coming this way. His friend said, You’re a
fool. He said, Now, we’re surrounded by fire. He
said, No. He said, I’m know what I’m doing. The
waited a moment. And then he said, Step over here on
the burned–off place, because the fire cannot come
where the fire has already been.
Are you listening to me? The fire of God’s
judgment fell at the cross of Calvary and that’s where
I’m standing tonight. Amen? And the fire can’t come
where it’s already been. Amen? You see, I settled my
case out of court. Amen? The fire cannot come where
it’s already been. And Jesus on the cross endured the
fires of God’s wrath and He took your judgment for
you. And the Bible says, “There’s therefore now no
condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.”
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