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Today, Dr. Byrd speaks on the
topic, What In Hell Do You Want?
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Now, here he is,
speaker-director of Breath of
Life Ministries, Dr. Carlton
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Byrd. The Word of God says to us
in Revelation 21, verse number
1, "And I saw a new heaven and
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a new earth: for the first
heaven and the first earth were
passed away; and there was no
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more sea. And I John saw the
holy city, new Jerusalem, coming
down from God out of heaven,
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prepared as a bride adorned for
her husband. And I heard a great
voice out of heaven saying,
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Behold, the tabernacle of God is
with men, and he will dwell with
them, and they shall
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be his people, and God himself
shall be with them, and be their
God. And God shall wipe
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away all tears from their eyes;
and there shall be no more
death, neither sorrow,
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nor crying, neither shall there
be any more pain: for the former
things are passed away.
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And he that sat upon the throne
said, Behold, I make all things
new. And he said unto me,
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Write: for these words are true
and faithful. And he said unto
me, It is done. I am Alpha
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and Omega, the beginning and the
end. I will give unto him that
is athirst of the fountain
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of the water of life freely. He
that overcometh shall inherit
all things; and I will be his
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God, and he shall be my son. But
the fearful, and unbelieving,
and the abominable, and
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murderers, and whoremongers, and
sorcerers, and idolaters, and
all liars, shall have their part
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in the lake which burneth with
fire and brimstone: which is the
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second death." My title, and
listen to me carefully, is a
proper title: "What in hell do
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you want?" Now, just in case
Pharisees mix that up, I was
about to say "What do you want
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in hell?" But it just gets your
attention, when I ask you "What
in hell," and I'm not using
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unholy langua, "do you want?"
God bless us now. We've sung,
but now we need a word from You.
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If we don't hear from You, Lord,
what will we do? Move by Your
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power, sprinkle out Your grace,
when the appeal is made, speak
to Your people today. Forgive me
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of my sins. In the name of Jesus
I pray for clarity of thought
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and Thy people's receptivity
from You and Your word. In
Jesus' name we pray, amen.
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Every person in this place
today, everybody watching today,
every person under the sound
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of my voice should have heaven
as a goal. We live in a world of
expectation about heaven.
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We live in a world of
anticipation about heaven. We
treat people the way we treat
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people; we love people the way
we love; we walk like we walk;
we talk like we talk; we put up
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with stuff we normally wouldn't
put up with because ultimately
we want to go to heaven.
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But as my great-grandmother used
to say, everybody talking about
heaven ain't going.
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But we want to see Jesus, and
the interesting thing about this
is that when we look
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at the world, we see so much
happening around us and there
are so many people who
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have literally forfeit the
reality of the joy of heaven for
the horror of hell.
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Today while I preach this
message, there is somebody right
now, somebody sitting here
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today, who has not surrendered
their life to the Lord Jesus
Christ. There's somebody
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who's listening to me right now
who has not fully surrendered to
the Lord. You've been
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living your life like you've
wanted to live your life, and
today I need you to
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understand that even though you
may be outside the will of God,
God is still pulling.
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God is still tugging. God is
still knocking at the door of
your heart, because God
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still wants you. I've come to
tell you today that if you're
not right with God,
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you need to get it right. Do
I have a witness in this place?
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[Aud. reaction] PB: Whether you
know it or not, I've learned,
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being in church all these years,
I've learned that you can be in
church and still bust hell wide
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open. That you're in the
building, but not really in the
Body. You're in the sanctuary,
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but not in the Spirit. Up here,
singing up here, praising up
here, praying and still
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going to bust hell
wide open. [Aud. reaction]
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PB: Because somebody in here
is caught up in some things, and
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you're so caught up--listen to
me--that you have become
comfortable in the way you are,
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because as long as you sing a
few songs; as long as you study
your Sabbath school lesson a
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little bit; as long as you
attend a couple of church
services; as long as you go
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to dorm worship; as long as you
give away some food and some
clothes and fulfill
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a few religious requirements,
then you're cool with God. But
let me tell you something:
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when Jesus comes back, when He
comes back for His church, sadly
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there are still going to be some
folk sitting still in church.
And they're going to die at the
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brightness of his coming. So
today I ask the question: What
in hell do you want?
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Now, the devil is radical. The
devil's not playing with us,
he's bold. In fact,
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he's bold in our face. When you
look at the world, I believe God
is asking us today,
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what in hell do you want? But
you know what? We don't have to
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look at the world; we can start
at the household of faith. We
can look at what's happening
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across the religious landscape
of our globe. When we look at
the fact that we now have
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children who are messed up for
the rest of their lives because
they've been molested by
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priests, what in hell do you
want? When we've got churches
and denominations that will now
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consecrate and ordain gay
bishops, what in hell do you
want? When we've got church
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folk who are just comfortable in
fornication; comfortable in
adultery; comfortable
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in ungodly relationships, what
in hell do you want? We've got
folk who will sleep
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with anything, drink anything,
and when you lie down with dogs
you wake up with fleas.
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I wish I had a witness in
this place. [Aud. reaction]
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PB: Profess anything, say
anything, believe anything: what
in hell do you want?
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When you can't trust friends;
when you can't even trust your
family, your kinfolk;
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when you can't trust homeboys
and sister girls, colleagues and
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coworkers, not even church
folks--what in hell do you want?
Today I don't come to offend
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but I came to be real, because
a whole lot of us don't realize
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the devil's playing with us.
Let's be honest, and let's be
real today: You're not going
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to hell--listen to me--you are
not going to hell because you
wear pants to church.
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[Aud. reaction] PB: You are not
going to hell because you eat
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meat. [Aud. reaction] PB: You
are not going to hell because
you wear a wedding band.
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[Aud. reaction] PB: You are not
going to hell because you like
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gospel music; you will stand
when people sing or move when
people sing the gospel music.
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You're not going to hell because
you have dreads in your hair. Or
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you color your hair. Do I have
a witness in this place? [Aud.
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reaction] PB: But today let me
tell you what qualifies you for
hell. Revelation 21:8 says,
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"But the fearful, the
unbelieving, and the abominable.
Do you know what abominable
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means? Things that make
God sick. [Aud. reaction]
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PB: Murderers, whoremongers,
sorcerers--that's folk that deal
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in witchcraft. Idolaters, liars,
shall have their part in the
lake which burneth with fire and
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brimstone: this is the second
death. Let me tell you something
today. The Bible says
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the devil comes to seek, kill
and destroy. But I love me some
Jesus. Because Jesus says,
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I have come that you might have
life and have it more
abundantly. The devil says,
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I come to rip you up, tear you
down, pull your heartstrings.
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But Jesus says, I'm a heart
fixer, a mind regulator. He
says, I'm shelter in the time of
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storm. Satan says, I'm a liar,
I'm a deceiver, I'm the father
of lies. Jesus says,
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I am the way, the truth, the
life. No one comes to the Father
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but by me, and I come to preach
this message because I believe
somebody needs to make a choice
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that you want to live. Choose
you this day whom you're going
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to serve. But as for me and my
house, we're going to serve the
Lord. It's time for us to
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reexamine our
lives. [Aud. reaction]
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PB: Let me tell you something,
folk. We catch too much hell
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here on earth. Some of us have
hell on our jobs, hell in our
homes, hell when you come to
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church. You can't go through all
that hell, die and then go to
hell, that's too much hell.
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I wish I had a witness in
this place. [Aud. reaction]
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PB: But I want to receive
everything God has for me
because what God has for me,
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it is for me. God did not
promise me hell, but God
promised me heaven. God promised
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me a mansion that the rent's
already been paid for. God
promised me streets of gold
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and gates of pearl. I'm not
trying to do hell, I'm trying to
get up out of here.
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I'm trying to receive this
promise that God has for my
life, and I ain't going to
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hell for anybody. Now, let me be
clear before I take my seat
'cause I'm not going
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to be long. I don't preach this
from a posture of moral
supremacy. I preach this
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message to you today because let
me be clear: I'm the preacher,
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but I'm flesh and blood just
like you. I feel what you feel,
I struggle with what you
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struggle with. And I'm talking
to all of us today. From the
main floor to the balcony to the
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choir loft to the media room to
the mothers' room, from the
front door to the back door,
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I'm talking to all of us because
God is raising us up. [Aud.
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reaction] PB: It's time for us
to stop playing. The game is
over. It's time for us to draw
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a line in the sand. It's
now or never. [Aud. reaction]
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PB: It's time for us to get
serious, folk. It's time for the
church to be different
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from the world. We've got to set
a standard so that when the
enemy comes in like a
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flood, we can lift up a standard
against him. Let me be clear:
You hear it all the
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time, hell is real. Hell is
what, everybody? Aud.: Real.
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PB: Hell is not some fictitious,
imaginary, fake, made-up,
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fabricated place. Hell is real.
If you don't live right, if you
don't do right, if you don't act
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right, guess where you're going.
To hell. If you disrespect God,
disobey God, ignore God,
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refuse to follow God, you don't
love God, guess where you're
going. To hell. If you
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continue to lie, continue to
cheat, continue to steal, commit
adultery, commit fornication,
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guess where you're going. If you
keep up mess, confusion,
gossip--and we gossip so much
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we don't even sometimes realize
we're gossiping. Continually
hurt people in your home,
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on your job, in the dormitory,
in the classroom, even in the
church--guess where you're
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going. To hell. Make no mistake
about it, hell is real. It's
factual, it's authentic,
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and if I go to hell, if I die
and my soul be lost, it's
nobody's fault but mine.
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Now quickly, so I give you some
scholarship to this text, there
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are four words for hell in the
Bible. How many words,
everybody? Aud.: Four.
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PB: One in the Old Testament
and three in the New Testament.
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The first word for hell is in
the Old Testament and it's
sheol. Everybody say sheol.
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Aud.: Sheol. PB: It means the
place of the dead, the
bottomless pit, the abyss.
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The second word for hell is in
the New Testament. It's hades.
Everybody say hades.
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Hades means the grave. The third
term is tartarus. Tartarus means
a place of darkness,
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a place of torture. The fourth
word, gehenna. Everybody say
gehenna. Aud.: Gehenna.
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PB: It means a place of burning.
Now, if you don't get anything
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else, get this. Hell is reality.
It's a place of the dead. It's a
place of darkness. It's a place
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of torture. It's a place of
burning. Now, we shout on
heaven, and heaven is also for
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real. And I want to make heaven
my home, because I don't want to
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be among darkness. I don't want
to be among torture. I don't
want to be among burning, and
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God knows I don't want to be
among the dead, and that's why I
can't be in a dead church.
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[Aud. reaction] PB: The Bible
says, present your bodies a
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living sacrifice, holy and
acceptable unto God which is
your reasonable service. That is
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not a dead sacrifice but a
living sacrifice. I can't be
dead. Just in case you didn't
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know, Jesus died on Friday. He
lay, resting in the grave on the
Sabbath, but early Sunday
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morning He got up, He conquered
death, hell and the grave, and
now He lives forevermore.
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Hallelujah,
somebody. [Aud. reaction]
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PB: So I shout because I want to
live and be alive with my live
Jesus. Do I have a witness
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in this place? But hell, it's
real. Hell is dead. Hell is a
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place of torment. And let me be
clear, as we said last night:
Once you go to hell, there's no
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coming back from hell. There's a
way to stay out of hell but no
way to get out of hell.
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The Bible is clear that when
Jesus comes back and redeems the
righteous from this earth,
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according to 1 Thessalonians
chapter 4, the dead in Christ
are going to rise first.
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Then we which are alive and
remain are going to be caught up
with Him in the clouds
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to meet the Lord in the air and
so shall we ever be with the
Lord. The wicked living
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are going to die at the
brightness of His coming.
Revelation 25 says that the
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wicked dead are going to remain
what, everybody? Aud.: Dead.
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PB: Revelation 20 then teaches
that at the end of the 1,000
years, at the end of
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the millennium, Satan and the
wicked will ultimately be cast
into the lake of fire.
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The sea, the Bible says, will
give up the dead which are in
it. Death and hell will
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deliver up the dead which are in
them, and every man and woman
will be judged according
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to their works. And death and
hell will be cast into the lake
of fire. Hell is a place
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of torment, and when one goes to
hell there's no coming back from
hell because the Word says,
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he that is unjust, let him be
unjust still. He that is filthy,
let him be filthy, what
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everybody? Aud.: Still. PB: Once
you are there, you are there.
And if you die, and you don't
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know the Lord, and if you are
now living and don't want to
know the Lord, guess where
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you're going. To hell. Think
about all the people you know if
life who didn't get their lives
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together; who didn't surrender
their lives to the Lord and they
thought they had time to waste.
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They were living it up, doing
whatever they wanted to do. And
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I don't care how beautiful their
funeral was, folk getting up
making remarks, lying. Do I have
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a witness in this
place? [Aud. reaction]
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PB: I don't care how many
flowers were there, I don't care
how many people were there,
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I don't care how many times we
sang "It Is Well With My Soul"
or "When We All Get to Heaven,"
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it is highly probable that if
they didn't know the Lord, if
they didn't love the Lord,
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if they didn't surrender to the
Lord, if they didn't follow the
Lord, if they didn't
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have a relationship with the
Lord, it's highly probable that
one day they will wind
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up in hell. PB: Is fornication
really that good? Is adultery
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really that good? Is stealing
really that good? Is that money
skinning really that good?
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Are the numbers really
that good? Getting quiet in the
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church house. Is that bottle
really that good? Is that
cigarette really that good?
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Are those illicit drugs really
that good? Is the latest news,
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the juicy gossip, the keeping up
of mess and criticizing what
everybody else is doing instead
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of worrying about what you're
doing, is it that good to you
that you jeopardize
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eternal life? That you'd rather
play with your soul like that. I
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speak in the name of Jesus. I
speak under the authority of the
Holy Ghost. There's nothing
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that good, that's going to cause
me to miss out on the promises
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of God. There should be nothing
that good that causes you to
miss out on heaven.
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Young people, there's nothing
that fine--[Aud. reaction]
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PB: 'Cause in 20 years you get
to the Dunlap syndrome. Y'all do
know what Dunlap is.
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It done lapped over. I wish
I had a witness in this place.
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[Aud. reaction] PB: Pastor Byrd
done laps. Some of you all
remember when I was a student,
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I was skinny as I don't know.
I had done laps, but praise God
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I've got a wife that still loves
me even though I done laps.
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[Aud. reaction] PB: So people
ask me all the time, Pastor
Byrd, how do I deal with
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temptation? What do I do with
temptation? This is how you deal
with temptation: When somebody
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tries to get you to do something
outside the will of God, you've
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got to hear it this way. What
they're really saying to you is,
Go ahead and go to hell.
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[Aud. reaction] PB: Uh, can I
get those digits? Can we move in
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together? Your response, Oh,
you're telling me to go to hell.
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[Aud. reaction] PB: Preach,
Pastor Byrd. I'm doing the best
I can! Ha-ha! Can we smoke a
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little of this something-somethi
ng together? Oh, what you're try
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ing to tell me is to go to hell.
Oh, can we just hook this thing
on up? Young people,
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turn to each other and tell each
other, I'm not going to hell
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with you. [Aud. reaction]
PB: Amen! [Aud. reaction]
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PB: I've got too much in my
future. You've got too much in
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your future with Jesus Christ to
be going to hell. Do I have a
witness in this place?
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God's got some stuff for my
life, and I've got to stop
hanging around folks
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who ain't going nowhere no time
fast. I know that's a double
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negative. Going to try to bring
me down. But I've got to stand
up for righteousness.
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I've got to stand for the
promises of God. I believe God
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is trying to tell us all, not
just the folk in white, but He's
trying to tell all of us:
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It's time to repent. It's time
to prepare to meet your God.
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It's time for us to stand on the
promises and quit sitting on the
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premises. [Aud. reaction]
PB: It's time for us to get some
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stuff right, because hell is
real. But not only that, hell is
real, but I also want
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to remind you the devil is real.
Now, remember I told you earlier
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the devil is bold. He's
what, everybody? Aud.: Bold.
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PB: Not only bold, he's
radical. He's what, everybody?
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Aud.: Radical. PB: Don't you
forget, he's real. Now, we all
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believe in angels. Amen?
Everybody believe in angels? All
night, all day, angels
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watching over me. What do you
think angels are doing? Watching
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you, over your bed? Running
errands for you? Going to get
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your food? What do you think
angels are really doing? Let me
tell you what angels are doing.
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Angels are keeping
demons away. [Aud. reaction]
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PB: Let me be clear: Genesis
1:1. In the beginning, God
created the heavens
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and the what,
everybody? Aud.: Earth.
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PB: But according then to John
1:1, Before the beginning, God
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was. God then is CEO of the
universe. You and I, we didn't
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vote Him in, and we can't vote
Him out. In the beginning was
the Word, and the Word
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was with God, and the Word was
God. Now, the fact that God was
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God before God created man, God
had angels. There were
cherubims, seraphims in heaven.
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In the heavenly court, in
heaven, these angels did nothing
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but worship God. And that's all
we were created to do, worship
God. That's why I love me some
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church. I love coming to church,
'cause I love worshiping God. Do
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I have a witness in this place?
We were created to bring glory
to God's name. Whatever we do in
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life, it's to bring glory to
God. That's what God created us
for, to bring glory to Him.
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That's why I shout hallelujah,
because hallelujah is the
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highest praise. Now, here's the
deal: God created Lucifer.
Lucifer was placed over heaven's
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choir. Lucifer was chief angel.
Lucifer's job description was to
make sure that everyone
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in heaven worshiped God and was
continuously bringing glory to
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the One who sat on the throne.
Now, the Bible says in Isaiah 14
that Lucifer wanted to be like
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the Most High God. So, instead
of giving worship, Lucifer
wanted worship. Instead of
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giving praise, Lucifer wanted
praise. Instead of giving glory,
Lucifer wanted glory.
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Lucifer said, I'm tired of every
day bringing glory to God's
name. Can I get some of
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this glory? Can I get some of
this praise? So, Revelation 12:4
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says that Lucifer convinced
one-third of the angels to rebel
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against God. Now, here's how God
works. Ellen Taylor, I didn't
know you were going to do that
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for the call to worship. Let me
tell you how God works. God is
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not going to share His glory
with anybody. [Aud. reaction]
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PB: God is not going to share
His glory with anybody. He's God
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all by Himself, and He doesn't
need help from anybody else. And
so in Revelation 12:7, 8 and 9,
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the Bible says there was war in
heaven. Michael, which is Jesus,
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and his angels fought against
the dragon, which is Satan,
against Lucifer and his boys,
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and guess who
won? [Aud. reaction]
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PB: Hallelujah, Jesus. The
answer makes somebody shout
right there. Let that
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be a lesson to you. Satan can
fight Jesus all he wants, but
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Jesus is always going to win.
That's why when I come up in a
fight against Satan, I just
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stand still and let the Lord
fight my battle, 'cause victory
is going to be mine.
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Victory is mine, victory is
mine, victory today is mine. I
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told Satan, get thee behind.
Victory today is mine.
Understand, there was war in
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heaven. Lucifer and his angels
were cast out of heaven to the
earth. To the what, everybody?
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Aud.: Earth. PB: And then
Lucifer shows up, in Genesis
chapter 3. He shows up
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in the serpent, in a snake who
was more subtle, more conniving,
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more sneaky, more deceptive than
any other creature on the earth.
And so now Lucifer roams the
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earth, and the fallen angels
that came with him, guess where
they are now? They are demons,
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walking up and down the earth.
That's why I'm thankful for
Jesus be a fence all
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around me every day. I'm so
grateful, I have angels that
attend me even when I
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don't know it. I wish I had a
witness in this place. When in
the book of Job God
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says to Satan, "Satan, where
have you been?" Satan says,
"Well, walking. To and
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fro in the earth, seeking whom I
may devour." Satan's demons are
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spirits who walk to and fro in
the earth seeking whom they may
devour, getting into human
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