That raiseth me. 00:00:27.09\00:00:34.08 Still all my song shall be, 00:00:34.11\00:00:40.97 Nearer My God to Thee 00:00:43.03\00:00:50.77 Nearer My God 00:00:50.80\00:00:56.78 To Thee 00:00:56.81\00:00:59.74 Nearer to Thee 00:00:59.77\00:01:05.79 Though like the wanderer 00:01:10.58\00:01:16.35 The sun gone down 00:01:16.38\00:01:21.93 Darkness be over me 00:01:21.96\00:01:28.10 My rest a stone 00:01:28.13\00:01:33.53 Yet in my dreams I'd be 00:01:33.56\00:01:39.88 Nearer My God to Thee 00:01:39.91\00:01:45.97 Nearer My God to Thee 00:01:46.00\00:01:51.91 Nearer to Thee 00:01:51.94\00:01:56.61 Or if on joyful wing 00:02:00.82\00:02:06.66 Cleaving the sky 00:02:06.69\00:02:11.77 Sun, moon and stars forgot 00:02:11.80\00:02:17.98 Upward I fly 00:02:18.01\00:02:23.48 Still all my song shall be 00:02:23.51\00:02:29.96 Nearer my God to Thee 00:02:29.99\00:02:35.81 Nearer my God to Thee 00:02:35.84\00:02:41.97 Nearer to Thee 00:02:42.00\00:02:47.38 Thank you, Music Festival Brass Ensemble. 00:05:47.09\00:05:50.18 Beautiful and more of that is happening 00:05:50.21\00:05:51.88 at 4 o'clock, is that right? 00:05:51.91\00:05:53.92 Howard Performing Art Center, God bless you. 00:05:53.95\00:05:56.37 Thank you, Douglas Smith, as well. 00:05:56.40\00:05:59.95 Let's pray together. 00:05:59.98\00:06:01.64 Oh, God, You're our Sheppard, 00:06:01.67\00:06:03.01 it's an old Lagrangian metaphor 00:06:06.91\00:06:08.92 but it speaks of tenderness as well as strength. 00:06:08.95\00:06:14.48 In today's teaching shepherd us through be front in centre. 00:06:14.51\00:06:18.99 We pray in Jesus name, amen. 00:06:19.02\00:06:24.55 I know this is gonna sound a bit strange 00:06:24.58\00:06:29.02 but because of the kindness of a friend 00:06:29.05\00:06:32.06 I have been to purgatory. 00:06:32.09\00:06:35.61 Little over ten years ago, we were counting down to 00:06:35.64\00:06:40.43 a global satellite event called NET'98. 00:06:44.01\00:06:46.61 And this friend felt that we needed a little bit of RNR 00:06:50.05\00:06:54.15 before that big event came and so he send us to purgatory 00:06:54.18\00:06:59.56 and I'm telling you we came back so refreshed. 00:06:59.59\00:07:03.53 Any body gives me an opportunity again 00:07:03.56\00:07:05.31 to go to purgatory I go in a heartbeat. 00:07:05.34\00:07:08.45 We're talking about purgatory Colorado, 00:07:08.48\00:07:11.06 beautiful mountain side resort outside Durango. 00:07:11.09\00:07:15.41 So truth in advertising I have been to purgatory. 00:07:18.84\00:07:23.33 But I have also been to the purgatory 00:07:23.36\00:07:25.25 that you may have been thinking of, 00:07:25.28\00:07:28.94 been there intellectually. 00:07:28.97\00:07:33.86 I was having Bible studies 00:07:33.89\00:07:34.96 with a Roman Catholic college professor 00:07:34.99\00:07:38.82 not far from here. 00:07:38.85\00:07:41.88 We are getting into the word together, 00:07:41.91\00:07:43.39 actually when we began the studies 00:07:43.42\00:07:45.20 he was a protestant college professor 00:07:45.23\00:07:48.21 but he fell in love with a Roman Catholic woman 00:07:48.24\00:07:51.54 and converted to Catholicism. 00:07:51.57\00:07:54.11 After his conversion he said hey Dwight, 00:07:54.14\00:07:55.76 we got to study now the big differences. 00:07:55.79\00:07:58.89 What shall we study? 00:07:58.92\00:08:00.69 I said, what do you say we study purgatory. 00:08:00.72\00:08:03.82 He said, that's a deal. So we agreed. 00:08:03.85\00:08:06.72 We would each write a paper. 00:08:06.75\00:08:08.28 He would write a paper defending 00:08:08.31\00:08:10.57 the teaching of purgatory 00:08:10.60\00:08:12.83 and I would write a paper questioning it. 00:08:12.86\00:08:16.06 We exchanged papers 00:08:16.09\00:08:20.29 but after that I never heard from him again. 00:08:20.32\00:08:25.30 Repeated emails, repeated telephone calls, 00:08:25.33\00:08:30.38 visits to his office where he teaches, to no avail, 00:08:30.41\00:08:36.51 leading me to conclude that perhaps his silence 00:08:36.54\00:08:40.53 was a tacit recognition 00:08:40.56\00:08:45.54 of the position in that paper that I had shared with him. 00:08:45.57\00:08:52.14 We have some Roman Catholic friends of mine 00:08:52.17\00:08:54.22 who are here right now. 00:08:54.25\00:08:58.39 We have some Roman Catholic friends I do, 00:08:58.42\00:09:03.14 listening on the radio, right now, 00:09:03.17\00:09:06.59 watching television right now. 00:09:06.62\00:09:09.48 And for you I wish you would allow me to share 00:09:09.51\00:09:12.85 just a -- just a-- just a synopsis 00:09:12.88\00:09:16.12 of what I share with my college professor friend. 00:09:16.15\00:09:19.10 Now for the rest of you who may not be familiar 00:09:19.13\00:09:22.06 with the Roman Catholic teaching of purgatory, 00:09:22.09\00:09:24.74 here is a brief summary, all right. 00:09:24.77\00:09:27.08 This is from the latest Catechism 00:09:27.11\00:09:28.82 of the Catholic churches 00:09:28.85\00:09:29.97 this would be sections 1030 and 1031. 00:09:30.00\00:09:33.68 I'll put it on the screen for you. 00:09:33.71\00:09:35.25 Quoting from the Catechism, 00:09:35.28\00:09:37.66 "All who die in God's grace and friendship, 00:09:37.69\00:09:40.73 but still imperfectly purified, 00:09:40.76\00:09:43.36 are indeed assured of their eternal salvation, 00:09:43.39\00:09:45.63 but after death they undergo purification, 00:09:45.66\00:09:48.90 so as to achieve the holiness necessary 00:09:48.93\00:09:51.39 to enter the joy of heaven." 00:09:51.42\00:09:54.30 The Catechism goes on. 00:09:54.33\00:09:55.45 "The Church gives the name Purgatory 00:09:55.48\00:09:57.60 to this final purification of the elect, 00:09:57.63\00:10:01.07 which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned, 00:10:01.10\00:10:03.90 which would be hell. 00:10:03.93\00:10:05.47 The tradition of the Church, 00:10:05.50\00:10:06.58 by reference to certain texts of Scripture, 00:10:06.61\00:10:08.65 speaks of a cleansing fire." 00:10:08.68\00:10:13.20 Rome teaches that God has provided 00:10:13.23\00:10:16.08 a burning cleansing fire into which all who have died 00:10:16.11\00:10:21.17 and who would be saved must go 00:10:21.20\00:10:23.43 before they can be fully and finally saved 00:10:23.46\00:10:25.28 into the joy of heaven and enter the beatific vision of God. 00:10:25.31\00:10:31.25 Those who died with venial sins, 00:10:31.28\00:10:34.48 is our sins for which there is divine forgiveness 00:10:34.51\00:10:38.98 but those who died with venial sins 00:10:39.01\00:10:43.09 would then go to purgatory to pay the temple punishment 00:10:43.12\00:10:45.73 for their already forgiven sins. 00:10:45.76\00:10:48.64 But those who died with mortal sins unconfessed. 00:10:48.67\00:10:52.35 The only way a mortal sin can be forgiven is 00:10:52.38\00:10:54.11 if it is confessed in the sacrament of the confession 00:10:54.14\00:10:57.74 but if they die with mortal sins unconfessed 00:10:57.77\00:11:00.95 they will go straight to hell to pay the eternal punishment 00:11:00.98\00:11:03.78 for their now never to be forgiven sins. 00:11:03.81\00:11:07.63 The fires of purgatory in hell are identical. 00:11:07.66\00:11:11.71 The difference is in the function of the fires. 00:11:11.74\00:11:13.74 Purgatory fires are for temporary cleansing 00:11:13.77\00:11:15.79 and hell fires are for eternal punishment. 00:11:15.82\00:11:19.03 Now Rome further teaches and provides 00:11:19.06\00:11:21.72 that once tenure or length of stay in purgatory 00:11:21.75\00:11:25.40 after death can be adjusted or shortened 00:11:25.43\00:11:29.88 by penitential and sacrificial acts of the living 00:11:29.91\00:11:32.78 before they die and by penitential and sacrificial acts 00:11:32.81\00:11:36.89 performed by the living on behalf of the dead 00:11:36.92\00:11:39.22 who are already in purgatory. 00:11:39.25\00:11:42.42 Hence, the pope can offer what are called indulgences, 00:11:42.45\00:11:47.55 where in the sinners temporal punishment in purgatory 00:11:47.58\00:11:50.23 can be reduced through a particle indulgence 00:11:50.26\00:11:53.65 or eliminated through a plenary or full indulgence. 00:11:53.68\00:11:57.99 That is why Roman priest perform memorial masses for the dead 00:11:58.02\00:12:01.64 giving the surviving family members an opportunity 00:12:01.67\00:12:04.64 to procure a reduced sentence in purgatory 00:12:04.67\00:12:08.28 for that deceased loved one. 00:12:08.31\00:12:10.76 Now here is the question, does the Bible teach 00:12:10.79\00:12:15.63 a further cleanse of sinners after they have died 00:12:15.66\00:12:20.06 and before they enter heaven? 00:12:20.09\00:12:24.43 The answer to that question obviously 00:12:24.46\00:12:25.97 will determine the veracity of the doctrine of purgatory. 00:12:26.00\00:12:29.24 In my paper to my college professor friend, 00:12:29.27\00:12:32.09 I begin, and by the way, 00:12:32.12\00:12:34.26 the paper is posted on our website. 00:12:34.29\00:12:36.87 Its there right now, you will be download it 00:12:36.90\00:12:39.25 and study it for yourself. 00:12:39.28\00:12:41.69 In that paper, I begin with a single text 00:12:41.72\00:12:43.93 and I wish for the few moments you and I have together, 00:12:43.96\00:12:46.13 let's begin with that same text. 00:12:46.16\00:12:47.41 Open your Bible please to the New Testament 00:12:47.44\00:12:48.97 it would be the Book of Hebrews. 00:12:49.00\00:12:51.18 The Book of Hebrews-- 00:12:51.21\00:12:53.28 by the way if you didn't bring a Bible 00:12:53.31\00:12:54.50 grab the pew Bible in front of you 00:12:54.53\00:12:55.80 because you gonna want to trace this one. 00:12:55.83\00:12:57.95 Just-- just keep your mind open, 00:12:57.98\00:13:01.03 we were into the word together. 00:13:01.06\00:13:03.25 The Book of Hebrews 00:13:03.28\00:13:04.31 that be the towards the end of the New Testament 00:13:04.34\00:13:06.06 if you-- if you grab the pew Bible 00:13:06.09\00:13:08.11 which is the New King James Version 00:13:08.14\00:13:10.27 it will be page 808 in the pew Bible. 00:13:10.30\00:13:13.95 I'm in the Today's New International Version the TNIV 00:13:13.98\00:13:17.83 and that will be the words that are on the screen. 00:13:17.86\00:13:20.74 All right, Hebrews Chapter 9, 00:13:20.77\00:13:22.09 please find Hebrews Chapter 9, Hebrews Chapter 9. 00:13:22.12\00:13:27.38 Let's being the very end of Hebrews Chapter 9:27 00:13:27.41\00:13:31.96 "Just as people are destined to die once, 00:13:31.99\00:13:35.35 and after that to face judgment," 00:13:35.38\00:13:40.00 so verse 28 00:13:40.03\00:13:41.36 "Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many, 00:13:41.39\00:13:45.13 and he will appear a second time," 00:13:45.16\00:13:46.88 by the way that's the only place in all the scripture 00:13:46.91\00:13:49.46 where the return of Christ is called the second appearing. 00:13:49.49\00:13:53.23 It's the only place which is called the second coming. 00:13:53.26\00:13:55.15 "He will appear a second time not to bear sin, 00:13:55.18\00:13:58.16 but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him." 00:13:58.19\00:14:03.02 Ladies and Gentlemen, the sequence of the human journey is 00:14:03.05\00:14:06.36 in this passage are mistakable. 00:14:06.39\00:14:07.86 Here is the human journey, 00:14:07.89\00:14:09.14 we're all on this journey, right? 00:14:09.17\00:14:10.87 Life, that's where we all are right now. 00:14:10.90\00:14:13.17 Death, after death judgment 00:14:13.20\00:14:17.10 after which comes the return of Christ. 00:14:17.13\00:14:20.02 Notice, we live, we die and when we die 00:14:20.05\00:14:24.36 the record of our life is closed 00:14:24.39\00:14:26.74 it goes to the judgment and then Christ returns. 00:14:26.77\00:14:32.62 I-- there is no further adjustment to our lives 00:14:32.65\00:14:40.55 or cleansing of our hearts once we die 00:14:40.58\00:14:45.35 because death is the close of human probation. 00:14:45.38\00:14:51.04 That point is so critical I need you to scribbling it down. 00:14:51.07\00:14:52.74 Right now, pull out your study guide please 00:14:52.77\00:14:54.76 it stocked away in your worship bulletin today. 00:14:54.79\00:14:56.91 Pull out your study guide, jot that down. 00:14:56.94\00:15:01.15 Our friend the usher's thank you, 00:15:01.18\00:15:02.60 are going to quickly come by you in the overflow 00:15:02.63\00:15:06.06 up in the balcony and here in the sanctuary as well. 00:15:06.09\00:15:09.05 I want to make sure the Brass by the way, 00:15:09.08\00:15:10.95 usher's, can we send an usher up here up, 00:15:10.98\00:15:12.51 I like the brass to have the study guide as well. 00:15:12.54\00:15:16.05 All right, other ways can you come and serve our guests, 00:15:16.08\00:15:20.39 we are so glad to have them 00:15:20.42\00:15:21.50 and I like them to be able to follow on as well. 00:15:21.53\00:15:24.94 All right, to those who are watching by the way 00:15:24.97\00:15:26.54 we are delighted to have you. 00:15:26.57\00:15:27.60 It doesn't matter what you believe we don't believe 00:15:27.63\00:15:29.43 for the next few movements 00:15:29.46\00:15:30.49 I hope you will find this study fascinating. 00:15:30.52\00:15:32.09 Get the same study guide 00:15:32.12\00:15:33.53 I'll put it on the screen for you right now, 00:15:33.56\00:15:35.25 go to our website www you see there www.pmchurch.tv. 00:15:35.28\00:15:42.83 This is the final piece in a little three part mini series 00:15:42.86\00:15:45.49 called the truth about hell. 00:15:45.52\00:15:47.50 The teaching today that raps it up 00:15:47.53\00:15:49.64 my journey to purgatory and back. 00:15:49.67\00:15:51.80 And by the way those of you going to the website right now, 00:15:51.83\00:15:53.68 you will also see there special paper on purgatory. 00:15:53.71\00:15:57.08 You click there you will have that paper 00:15:57.11\00:15:58.85 for you later brooding and study. 00:15:58.88\00:16:01.23 So, get the study guide download it 00:16:01.26\00:16:03.43 and please join us, keep your hands up 00:16:03.46\00:16:06.20 our ushers are coming your way. 00:16:06.23\00:16:08.58 Let's go a head and put that first line in though, 00:16:08.61\00:16:10.48 we are ready to go. 00:16:10.51\00:16:11.54 Death marks the end of human probation. 00:16:11.57\00:16:15.73 You say, what's the big deal, Dwight, who cares? 00:16:15.76\00:16:17.27 Hold on, hold on, hold on, just give me a moment. 00:16:17.30\00:16:19.58 Death marks the end of human probation. 00:16:19.61\00:16:21.90 IE, once we die, our eternal destiny is decided. 00:16:21.93\00:16:26.47 Now this needs to be very clear right here. 00:16:29.53\00:16:34.28 There is no-- please don't miss understand this. 00:16:34.31\00:16:39.91 There is no second chance. 00:16:39.94\00:16:45.38 The teaching of purgatory offers a subtle second chance 00:16:45.41\00:16:48.99 sort of theology where in 00:16:49.02\00:16:50.68 if you don't make it in this life 00:16:50.71\00:16:52.09 you can always depend on the after life 00:16:52.12\00:16:53.98 one more opportunity to be cleansed 00:16:54.01\00:16:57.02 so that you can saved and ready for heaven. 00:16:57.05\00:16:59.25 By the way, protestants let us not be too hard 00:16:59.28\00:17:01.50 on our Roman Catholic friends 00:17:01.53\00:17:02.64 for we protestant have also invented 00:17:02.67\00:17:06.07 a non biblical second chance opportunity 00:17:06.10\00:17:09.23 its human nature they want a second chance, 00:17:09.26\00:17:12.15 nobody wants to say curtains, finish, this is it. 00:17:12.18\00:17:15.36 And so what if protestants come up with, 00:17:15.39\00:17:17.10 they have come up with what's called the secret rapture. 00:17:17.13\00:17:19.41 Jesus comes secretly and people that are ready go with Him. 00:17:19.44\00:17:22.66 Then you got if your wife is missing 00:17:22.69\00:17:24.70 you got seven years buddy, to really get ready this time. 00:17:24.73\00:17:28.17 Its second chance theology 00:17:28.20\00:17:29.88 and when He comes the third time 00:17:29.91\00:17:31.60 hopefully you will be ready. 00:17:31.63\00:17:32.79 We all want a second chance 00:17:32.82\00:17:35.93 and that's why this teaching is so urgent. 00:17:35.96\00:17:37.89 The Bible say, hey time out, time out 00:17:37.92\00:17:39.56 there is no second chance not-- not before Jesus comes 00:17:39.59\00:17:43.05 not after death its death is it. 00:17:43.08\00:17:46.96 Human probation closes at death. 00:17:46.99\00:17:51.22 Are you thinking well, this is just 00:17:51.25\00:17:52.28 a little something from Hebrews, 00:17:52.31\00:17:53.34 oh, Bible doesn't support this. 00:17:53.37\00:17:54.90 Oh, let me take you now to the Bible's last book. 00:17:54.93\00:17:57.53 We were just in Hebrews now 00:17:57.56\00:17:58.78 let's go to the last book of the Bible. 00:17:58.81\00:17:59.92 In fact, this is the last page of your Bible. 00:17:59.95\00:18:03.29 Find the last page of the New Testament 00:18:03.32\00:18:05.96 it should be Revelation 22, 00:18:05.99\00:18:07.80 take a look at Jesus mighty exclamation 00:18:07.83\00:18:11.32 as He is returning the second time. 00:18:11.35\00:18:14.14 This is what He says, find the last page 00:18:14.17\00:18:17.09 of Revelation, the apocalypse, I'm finding that too. 00:18:17.12\00:18:21.18 Revelation 22, take a look at this. 00:18:21.21\00:18:24.59 Just one line this is almost if you have a Red Letter Bible, 00:18:24.62\00:18:27.80 you can see this is the next of the last red letter line 00:18:27.83\00:18:30.47 in all of Holy Scripture, all right. 00:18:30.50\00:18:32.57 So this would be verse 12, Revelation 22:12, 00:18:32.60\00:18:38.05 "Look," as Jesus speaking "I am coming. 00:18:38.08\00:18:41.40 My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone 00:18:41.43\00:18:44.65 according to what they have done." 00:18:44.68\00:18:48.46 Oh, boy, grab your pen real quick scribble that now. 00:18:48.49\00:18:51.16 We know that when Christ returns to the earth the second time, 00:18:51.19\00:18:55.28 He comes bringing his reward with him. 00:18:55.31\00:18:58.66 Key point, He comes with His reward. 00:18:58.69\00:19:00.41 So keep your pen moving. 00:19:03.15\00:19:04.26 That reward presupposes a prior judgment 00:19:04.29\00:19:07.42 has already taken place 00:19:07.45\00:19:08.82 rendered for every human being before Christ returns. 00:19:08.85\00:19:11.93 That reward some decision has already been made. 00:19:11.96\00:19:15.82 That's the timeline. 00:19:15.85\00:19:16.88 Look folks, the timeline for Hebrews 9, 00:19:16.91\00:19:18.80 timeline for Revelation 22 is the same. 00:19:18.83\00:19:22.08 Same time line-- life, start with life 00:19:22.11\00:19:25.76 that's where we all are, then will come death 00:19:25.79\00:19:28.37 after death judgment rendering of a decision 00:19:28.40\00:19:31.44 after that the return of Christ. 00:19:31.47\00:19:33.97 Identical timeline. 00:19:34.00\00:19:37.07 This timeline is vital for a challenges 00:19:37.10\00:19:40.34 the teaching that death is followed by an indefinite time 00:19:40.37\00:19:43.45 of purgatory of cleansing after which 00:19:43.48\00:19:45.93 there is a final judgment as Rome teaches. 00:19:45.96\00:19:48.18 No, no, no key point its all over at death, 00:19:48.21\00:19:52.74 everything is over. 00:19:52.77\00:19:54.45 Which is why life, come on guys, life is so critical. 00:19:54.48\00:19:58.14 Aren't you glad for life? 00:19:58.17\00:19:59.88 Hallelujah, think of the alternative. 00:19:59.91\00:20:03.44 We are glad to be alive but life right now is critical. 00:20:03.47\00:20:06.96 Jot it down. 00:20:06.99\00:20:08.02 Death does not transition in Holy Scripture 00:20:08.05\00:20:10.13 to human cleansing, but rather to divine judgment. 00:20:10.16\00:20:15.31 Once we died its over, 00:20:15.34\00:20:17.09 our eternal destinies are sealed. 00:20:17.12\00:20:18.68 Oh, man Dwight, I'm-- I'm gonna fear this death that 00:20:18.71\00:20:21.28 if this is the final curtain oh, my I don't want to go. 00:20:21.31\00:20:25.85 Hey, listen nobody wants to die 00:20:25.88\00:20:27.54 but I want to tell you 00:20:27.57\00:20:28.60 why you don't have to be afraid of death. 00:20:28.63\00:20:30.19 The same apocalypse tells us 00:20:30.22\00:20:32.37 why we don't have to be afraid of that 00:20:32.40\00:20:34.35 which might happen to us after we die. 00:20:34.38\00:20:36.45 This is a beautiful depiction of death. 00:20:36.48\00:20:38.26 Just turn a few pages back to Revelation 14. 00:20:38.29\00:20:41.04 You don't need a page number. 00:20:41.07\00:20:42.68 Revelation 14 just a few pages back 00:20:42.71\00:20:47.53 take a look at this description of death. 00:20:47.56\00:20:50.34 I mean, who would be afraid of death if this is the truth. 00:20:50.37\00:20:52.98 If the Bible is, the truth about death no need to be afraid. 00:20:53.01\00:20:55.83 Look at this, 00:20:55.86\00:21:01.05 "Then I heard a voice from heaven saying," 00:21:01.08\00:21:03.89 all right, this is the voice of God, 00:21:03.92\00:21:05.31 "I heard a voice from heaven saying, 00:21:05.34\00:21:07.22 'Write, Blessed are the dead'" 00:21:07.25\00:21:11.42 when you approach death 00:21:11.45\00:21:12.48 you don't have to approach it with fear. 00:21:12.51\00:21:13.54 What's gonna happen to me after I die? 00:21:13.57\00:21:14.92 No, no, no, "Blessed are the dead 00:21:14.95\00:21:18.61 who die in the Lord from now on." 00:21:18.64\00:21:20.70 "Yes," the spirit pipes it. 00:21:20.73\00:21:22.35 "'Yes,' says the Spirit, 00:21:22.38\00:21:24.29 'they will rest from their labor, 00:21:24.32\00:21:27.61 for their deeds will follow them." 00:21:27.64\00:21:30.92 Death, rest and now notice the very next line-- 00:21:30.95\00:21:35.04 you see that window right up there, 00:21:35.07\00:21:36.67 you see that window high above the-- 00:21:36.70\00:21:38.54 we call it the rose window in this church 00:21:38.57\00:21:40.05 that window is being described in the very next verse 00:21:40.08\00:21:42.77 which is verse 14 00:21:42.80\00:21:43.83 "And I looked, and there before me 00:21:43.86\00:21:45.82 was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud 00:21:45.85\00:21:49.14 was one like a son of man with a crown of gold on his head 00:21:49.17\00:21:52.44 and a sharp sickle in his hand." 00:21:52.47\00:21:55.20 Death, rest, second coming. 00:21:55.23\00:22:00.62 Oh, would you jot that down please. 00:22:00.65\00:22:02.04 What follows death for the one who believes in Christ 00:22:02.07\00:22:04.91 is rest and repose, not burning and suffering. 00:22:04.94\00:22:08.93 You don't have to be afraid 00:22:08.96\00:22:10.97 for what's awaiting you after death. 00:22:11.00\00:22:12.85 Its rest and repose. 00:22:12.88\00:22:14.77 Death doesn't come to the friends of God 00:22:14.80\00:22:15.98 is some kind of door way to punishment. 00:22:16.01\00:22:18.66 Death comes-- jot it down, death comes as a divine sleep 00:22:18.69\00:22:22.14 for the child and friend of God. 00:22:22.17\00:22:24.93 Sleep, that's it. 00:22:24.96\00:22:30.63 You know what if that's true then you want the best, 00:22:30.66\00:22:34.11 you want the best death by confession 00:22:34.14\00:22:35.58 you could ever give in our life. 00:22:35.61\00:22:36.66 I'm gonna share with you right now, 00:22:36.69\00:22:37.94 you are gonna read it and you are gonna say, 00:22:37.97\00:22:39.00 oh, boy, Dwight, when I die 00:22:39.03\00:22:40.51 I want to die with those words on my lips. 00:22:40.54\00:22:42.10 I want to take you to the greatest death bed 00:22:42.13\00:22:44.53 testimony you can give. 00:22:44.56\00:22:46.16 Only the man is not death bed. 00:22:46.19\00:22:47.59 Karen and I were in Rome back in May 00:22:47.62\00:22:50.95 and we went down into the Mamertine dungeon 00:22:50.98\00:22:53.38 where it is reputed with strong historical reliability 00:22:53.41\00:22:57.24 that Paul himself was incrassated 00:22:57.27\00:22:59.93 in that subterranean hole. 00:22:59.96\00:23:01.69 We climb down into that hole awaiting his final 00:23:01.72\00:23:05.18 it would be beheaded, all right. 00:23:05.21\00:23:07.40 So these are the last words he writes before his beheading. 00:23:07.43\00:23:12.17 I want you to note the spirit 00:23:12.20\00:23:15.49 with which you can approach death. 00:23:15.52\00:23:17.23 You need to turn back to 2 Timothy. 00:23:17.26\00:23:20.27 Let me give you page number 00:23:20.30\00:23:21.33 if you have the pew Bible it will be page 801. 00:23:21.36\00:23:22.81 Just a few-- we got to go back past Hebrews. 00:23:22.84\00:23:26.46 Just a few books back 2 Timothy 00:23:26.49\00:23:28.97 the last will and testament of Paul. 00:23:29.00\00:23:32.22 This is so beautiful. Memorize these words. 00:23:32.25\00:23:35.04 When you come to your death and I come to mine, 00:23:35.07\00:23:37.89 I want to be able to repeat these words 00:23:37.92\00:23:39.60 as I'm breathing my last. 00:23:39.63\00:23:41.69 This is beautiful. 00:23:41.72\00:23:42.88 This is what Paul is doing, he knows he is about to die, 00:23:42.91\00:23:44.59 this would be 2 Timothy 4:6 00:23:44.62\00:23:47.08 "For I am already being 00:23:47.11\00:23:48.77 poured out like a drink offering," 00:23:48.80\00:23:50.22 I hate, hey guys, I know its curtains for me, 00:23:50.25\00:23:52.81 I have hours or may be days who knows, 00:23:52.84\00:23:55.45 "I am already being poured out like a drink offering, 00:23:55.48\00:23:57.68 and the time for my departure is near." 00:23:57.71\00:24:00.97 I'm gonna die. 00:24:01.00\00:24:02.87 Notice verse 7, "I have fought the good fight, 00:24:02.90\00:24:06.73 I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 00:24:06.76\00:24:11.41 Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, 00:24:11.44\00:24:14.88 which the Lord, the righteous Judge, 00:24:14.91\00:24:16.31 will award to me on that day and not only to me, 00:24:16.34\00:24:19.04 but also to all who have longed for his appearing." 00:24:19.07\00:24:22.26 Isn't that amazing? 00:24:22.29\00:24:23.32 Would you jot that down please? 00:24:23.35\00:24:24.81 Death for the Christian, get this down never forget it. 00:24:24.84\00:24:28.13 Death for the Christian means the race is finished, 00:24:28.16\00:24:32.80 it means the faith has been kept 00:24:32.83\00:24:36.28 and it means the verdict of the judgment 00:24:36.31\00:24:38.30 is already assured. 00:24:38.33\00:24:40.81 You say Dwight, can you really show that? 00:24:40.84\00:24:42.80 Of course, you can. 00:24:42.83\00:24:43.86 He just said it number 1 but number 2 00:24:43.89\00:24:45.63 let me tell you a word Paul uses here, 00:24:45.66\00:24:47.87 you know that word for crown 00:24:47.90\00:24:48.93 and crown is being set a side for me. 00:24:48.96\00:24:51.25 The Greek word for crown is stephanos. 00:24:51.28\00:24:54.36 From what's come-- once comes the names 00:24:54.39\00:24:56.02 Steven or Stephanie. 00:24:56.05\00:24:58.83 It means that, its in the Greek Olympics 00:24:58.86\00:25:01.82 when you-- excuse me, when you cross the finish line 00:25:01.85\00:25:04.90 they gave you this little laurel wreath 00:25:04.93\00:25:06.69 it's a little green thing that went around your head 00:25:06.72\00:25:08.12 that was a crown stephanos. 00:25:08.15\00:25:09.63 It's the crown of victory. So it's talking about a race. 00:25:09.66\00:25:14.03 Hey listen, I love races, I love to race 00:25:14.06\00:25:16.63 every time there is a race here on the campus 00:25:16.66\00:25:18.26 I sign and pay my five dollars so that I can run in the race. 00:25:18.29\00:25:21.04 And for me the reason that races are so fun 00:25:21.07\00:25:24.34 is because it's such great fellowship. 00:25:24.37\00:25:26.73 I get to talk to everybody who is running, 00:25:26.76\00:25:28.03 pass me towards the finish line. 00:25:28.06\00:25:29.54 I just talk to them as they come by, 00:25:29.57\00:25:30.70 hey, hey I see, I'll see you at the end. 00:25:30.73\00:25:33.23 Yeah, nice running, shot. Set a place for me. 00:25:33.26\00:25:35.84 That kind of thing, because you just interact with people 00:25:35.87\00:25:38.12 as they run by you. 00:25:38.15\00:25:39.32 And its-- its just is a great experience. 00:25:39.35\00:25:43.25 I don't know a lot about races, all right. 00:25:43.28\00:25:44.93 Look, I don't know a lot about races 00:25:44.96\00:25:47.60 but this much I do know, when you cross the finish line 00:25:47.63\00:25:51.75 you don't have to run a few extra laps 00:25:51.78\00:25:54.34 just to make sure you are qualified for the race. 00:25:54.37\00:25:59.65 I repeat, when you cross 00:25:59.68\00:26:02.06 the finish line the race is over. 00:26:02.09\00:26:07.15 There aren't a few more laps through purgatory 00:26:07.18\00:26:10.48 just to make sure you are really qualified to finish the race. 00:26:10.51\00:26:16.30 All right, jot it down, when you come 00:26:16.33\00:26:18.23 to the threshold of death, 00:26:18.26\00:26:20.25 you cross the finish line of life and salvation. 00:26:20.28\00:26:24.67 Death is the take to, you will run through it 00:26:24.70\00:26:29.32 life is over and salvation is over. 00:26:29.35\00:26:32.54 Salvation is over, there is nothing 00:26:32.57\00:26:35.01 anybody can do for you now. 00:26:35.04\00:26:37.60 That's why this teaching is so critical. 00:26:37.63\00:26:39.24 Don't-- don't, don't, don't rest your hopes 00:26:39.27\00:26:44.60 on somebody doing a little bit of adjusting 00:26:44.63\00:26:47.42 and cleansing afterwards. 00:26:47.45\00:26:51.59 You can't. 00:26:51.62\00:26:52.65 Once you cross the finish line every race, every racer knows 00:26:52.68\00:26:55.95 it's over you can't run again. 00:26:55.98\00:26:58.13 It's over. That's the point. 00:26:58.16\00:27:02.44 Bad news, there is no second chance after death. 00:27:02.47\00:27:08.58 Good news you don't need a second chance after death 00:27:08.61\00:27:11.55 you have a Savior before death. 00:27:11.58\00:27:14.37 That's the good news 00:27:14.40\00:27:15.88 that's why Paul can be so utterly confident. 00:27:15.91\00:27:18.45 I mean did you notice this? 00:27:18.48\00:27:20.08 My Roman Catholic friends, I want to ask you 00:27:20.11\00:27:21.66 did you notice there is no-- 00:27:21.69\00:27:22.76 there is no trace of fear in his voice. 00:27:22.79\00:27:25.09 There is no anxiety like, I don't know, 00:27:25.12\00:27:27.80 I don't know it's gonna be painful I know once I die. 00:27:27.83\00:27:30.19 There is none of that. 00:27:30.22\00:27:32.25 Paul says look it, look it, look it 00:27:32.28\00:27:33.37 I know that little stephanos, 00:27:33.40\00:27:36.16 that little wreath has been put on the shelf 00:27:36.19\00:27:38.64 of God's living room and one day when I come out of death 00:27:38.67\00:27:41.82 and I wake up from that sleep 00:27:41.85\00:27:43.07 I'm gonna get that stephanos on my head and not-- 00:27:43.10\00:27:46.28 by the way not only for me but for everybody 00:27:46.31\00:27:48.59 who loves the appearing of Christ. 00:27:48.62\00:27:52.10 Oh, that's why Paul has no calms no questions. 00:27:52.13\00:27:57.51 He is decided who a Savior is. 00:27:57.54\00:27:59.40 In fact, look at this turn just two pages back 00:27:59.43\00:28:01.91 to 1 Timothy 1, I mean 2 Timothy 1 same book 2 Timothy 00:28:01.94\00:28:05.68 notice verse 12, 00:28:05.71\00:28:07.01 here is why Paul is so unequivocal and unafraid. 00:28:07.04\00:28:10.38 Verse 12, "That is why I am suffering." 00:28:10.41\00:28:12.29 He says, look guys, I really I'm suffering. 00:28:12.32\00:28:13.95 This hole that I'm in its bad that's why I'm suffering as I'm. 00:28:13.98\00:28:18.02 Yet, watch this "This is no cause for shame, 00:28:18.05\00:28:21.57 because I know whom I have believed, 00:28:21.60\00:28:24.90 and I am convinced that he is able to guard 00:28:24.93\00:28:27.11 what I have entrusted to him until that day." 00:28:27.14\00:28:29.20 When He comes I'm not worried I got the crown. 00:28:29.23\00:28:32.16 It's already set up for me 00:28:32.19\00:28:35.31 because when I cross that finish line, 00:28:35.34\00:28:38.16 the race is over, it's over. 00:28:38.19\00:28:43.46 Wow, how can anyone be so unabashedly confident 00:28:43.49\00:28:48.25 on the eve of His impending death? 00:28:48.28\00:28:50.39 Ladies and gentlemen, 00:28:50.42\00:28:51.45 it's called the Everlasting Gospel. 00:28:51.48\00:28:53.66 Some people call it therefore ever and ever good news. 00:28:53.69\00:28:58.85 So we exchange these papers, all right? 00:28:58.88\00:29:01.57 My Roman Catholic college professor friend 00:29:01.60\00:29:04.38 in his paper to me, 00:29:04.41\00:29:06.30 he said, Dwight, 00:29:06.33\00:29:07.65 I have to have cleansing. 00:29:07.68\00:29:10.13 I have read Matthew 5:48 00:29:10.16\00:29:12.80 "Be there for perfect as your father in heaven is perfect." 00:29:12.83\00:29:15.64 I'm not perfect 00:29:15.67\00:29:17.33 I know that when I die I'll not be perfect 00:29:17.36\00:29:19.36 I want to be Holy as God is Holy. 00:29:19.39\00:29:22.34 That's why I need a purgatory. 00:29:22.37\00:29:25.72 I want to tell you something, 00:29:25.75\00:29:27.33 I really admire that friend-- that professor friend of mine. 00:29:27.36\00:29:32.21 You know why? 00:29:32.24\00:29:33.77 Because he has a heart longing to be like God. 00:29:33.80\00:29:38.42 I want to be Holy like God. 00:29:38.45\00:29:40.42 I want to be perfect like God. 00:29:40.45\00:29:43.43 I wish people who believe what I believe 00:29:43.46\00:29:46.75 have the same passion of longing. 00:29:46.78\00:29:49.48 I really do, instead of settling for second, 00:29:49.51\00:29:52.25 third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eight best 00:29:52.28\00:29:55.52 and just dribbling through life 00:29:55.55\00:29:58.95 half like God and half like this planet. 00:29:58.98\00:30:06.12 My Catholic professor friend says, Dwight, 00:30:06.15\00:30:08.86 it got to be holy place, 00:30:08.89\00:30:10.67 that's why I need purgatory. 00:30:10.70\00:30:11.92 I'll tell you what are you my friend, 00:30:11.95\00:30:13.69 I have a verse for you 00:30:13.72\00:30:15.16 go right back here to Hebrews 9 00:30:15.19\00:30:16.75 where was it, we were in Hebrew 9, look at Hebrews 10. 00:30:16.78\00:30:19.90 We will end up right here. 00:30:19.93\00:30:21.10 Look at Hebrews 10, 00:30:21.13\00:30:22.54 my Roman Catholic friend everything you hunger for 00:30:22.57\00:30:25.99 that which you are passionate thrusting for 00:30:26.02\00:30:28.82 here it is, here it is. 00:30:28.85\00:30:30.43 I want you to see this 00:30:30.46\00:30:31.51 back to Hebrews chapter-- Hebrews Chapter 10. 00:30:31.54\00:30:35.15 We were in Hebrews 9 now we are in Hebrews 10 00:30:35.18\00:30:38.39 its words are written for you. 00:30:38.42\00:30:39.84 Oh, my. 00:30:39.87\00:30:40.97 Hebrews 10:10 00:30:41.00\00:30:43.32 "And by that will," now, watch this, 00:30:43.35\00:30:45.27 "we have been made holy through the sacrifice 00:30:45.30\00:30:49.68 of the body of Jesus Christ once for all." 00:30:49.71\00:30:56.04 And now notice verse 14, 00:30:56.07\00:30:57.23 "For by one sacrifice he has made perfect 00:30:57.26\00:31:00.78 forever those who are being made holy." 00:31:00.81\00:31:06.26 Would you jot this down please? 00:31:06.29\00:31:08.56 Jesus' death was a once for all sacrifice for all! 00:31:08.59\00:31:14.15 In other words, it doesn't have to be repeated 00:31:14.18\00:31:17.84 not in history again and again and again. 00:31:17.87\00:31:20.45 Not in the mass again and gain and gain. 00:31:20.48\00:31:24.05 It doesn't have to be. 00:31:24.08\00:31:25.50 It was a once for all for all sacrifice. 00:31:25.53\00:31:33.06 And notice 00:31:33.09\00:31:35.04 and here I affirm the longing of this friend of mine. 00:31:35.07\00:31:37.64 Please notice verse 14, in fact, jot verse 14, 00:31:37.67\00:31:39.87 I set it up there in the study guides 00:31:39.90\00:31:41.28 you can just jot it down. 00:31:41.31\00:31:42.34 "For by one sacrifice he has made perfect." 00:31:42.37\00:31:45.86 Remember my friend, he said Dwight, 00:31:45.89\00:31:47.23 I got to be perfect. 00:31:47.26\00:31:48.89 By one sacrifice he has made perfect forever 00:31:48.92\00:31:52.40 those who are being made. 00:31:52.43\00:31:53.60 He said, Dwight, I got to be holy. 00:31:53.63\00:31:55.51 I want to be holy like God. 00:31:55.54\00:31:56.97 Through one sacrifice he has made perfect forever 00:31:57.00\00:31:59.19 those who are being made holy. 00:31:59.22\00:32:01.09 The very longing of my Roman Catholic professor friend 00:32:01.12\00:32:04.89 is provided in the once for all sacrifice on Calvary. 00:32:04.92\00:32:09.57 Isn't this amazing? 00:32:09.60\00:32:10.63 The very holiness and perfection 00:32:10.66\00:32:12.61 that God calls for He himself provides 00:32:12.64\00:32:16.36 in the gift of Jesus Christ on Calvary. 00:32:16.39\00:32:18.89 What kind of a God is this, 00:32:18.92\00:32:20.20 who sets the bar so infinity high, 00:32:20.23\00:32:22.14 we can never reach that bar 00:32:22.17\00:32:23.60 and then He says, I'll step in as the infinite one 00:32:23.63\00:32:25.97 and cover the distance on your behalf. 00:32:26.00\00:32:29.25 Ladies and gentlemen, it's called the everlasting gospel. 00:32:29.28\00:32:32.30 Some people call it therefore for ever and ever good news. 00:32:32.33\00:32:36.02 That means its good news 00:32:36.05\00:32:37.61 at the beginning of human history 00:32:37.64\00:32:38.92 and it will still be good news at the end of human history. 00:32:38.95\00:32:43.05 My, oh, my. 00:32:43.08\00:32:48.20 Like that old gospel song sings nothing but the blood of Jesus. 00:32:48.23\00:32:53.81 Yeah, my holiness, my perfection 00:32:53.84\00:32:58.38 they are not contingent on my penance. 00:32:58.41\00:33:00.92 Today, our God's purgatory tomorrow it's all I needed. 00:33:00.95\00:33:05.96 I have done it. 00:33:05.99\00:33:07.46 This is the only time you have boy, 00:33:07.49\00:33:10.38 this is where your probation is. 00:33:10.41\00:33:12.16 Take what I have done, run with it 00:33:12.19\00:33:15.09 you'll cross the finish line perfectly, perfectly 00:33:15.12\00:33:20.19 if you are running with Me. 00:33:20.22\00:33:23.24 And then look at this only gets better. 00:33:23.27\00:33:25.30 Go down to verse 21, 00:33:25.33\00:33:26.90 "And since we have a great priest 00:33:26.93\00:33:30.37 over the house of God" that would be the-- 00:33:30.40\00:33:32.69 we have a great priest over the church of God. 00:33:32.72\00:33:36.60 I wish you jot that down. 00:33:36.63\00:33:37.85 Christ is not only our great sacrifice, 00:33:37.88\00:33:39.80 He is our great priest over the church. 00:33:39.83\00:33:44.03 The doctrine of purgatory teaches 00:33:44.06\00:33:47.57 that the pope and his representatives 00:33:47.60\00:33:49.02 the priest have the authority to administer purgatory 00:33:49.05\00:33:52.57 by their discussionary decisions 00:33:52.60\00:33:54.78 whether to remit entirely or partially the penalty of sins 00:33:54.81\00:33:58.29 being suffered by the tens of thousands of souls 00:33:58.32\00:34:01.34 who are detained in those cleansing fires. 00:34:01.37\00:34:06.16 That's why they offering indulgences. 00:34:06.19\00:34:07.89 It might be a partial easing of the punishment 00:34:07.92\00:34:10.44 or could be a full emission of the penalty 00:34:10.47\00:34:12.95 for all the sins before this movement 00:34:12.98\00:34:15.35 but it's the call, it's their call 00:34:15.38\00:34:17.83 they make the decision will it be partial or primary. 00:34:17.86\00:34:22.51 My dear friends, there is one priest 00:34:22.54\00:34:25.79 capital 'P' Priest in the universe, 00:34:25.82\00:34:29.26 who by his life and death and resurrection is nearly one 00:34:29.29\00:34:33.97 how can decide life and death for the human race. 00:34:34.00\00:34:38.12 He is the only one. 00:34:38.15\00:34:41.19 He is the only one. 00:34:41.22\00:34:42.77 Verse 21 again, "And since we have a great priest 00:34:46.80\00:34:49.38 over the house of God," now, I love 22, 00:34:49.41\00:34:51.44 "Let us draw near to God 00:34:51.47\00:34:53.48 with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, 00:34:53.51\00:34:56.58 having our hearts sprinkled." 00:34:56.61\00:34:57.84 Here it comes, "To cleanse us from a guilty conscience 00:34:57.87\00:35:02.77 and having our bodies washed with pure water." 00:35:02.80\00:35:06.57 Talking about cleansing and purification 00:35:06.60\00:35:08.53 not after death one day you can have it today, 00:35:08.56\00:35:10.34 you can have it right now, 00:35:10.37\00:35:11.57 in this split second in this very place 00:35:11.60\00:35:14.13 you can be cleansed you can be clean 00:35:14.16\00:35:17.70 for ever and ever. 00:35:17.73\00:35:20.72 Right now, 00:35:20.75\00:35:21.78 one of the joys of having to drive your car 00:35:25.90\00:35:28.84 in the winter around this place 00:35:28.87\00:35:31.26 and we thought spring was coming. 00:35:31.29\00:35:34.39 One of the Joys is that by driving on these roads 00:35:34.42\00:35:38.57 you get that awful slugging salt 00:35:38.60\00:35:41.92 and muck splashed and splattered all over your car. 00:35:41.95\00:35:48.00 It's one of my favorite rituals of the week 00:35:48.03\00:35:50.10 comes on a Friday afternoon when I drive down to the-- 00:35:50.13\00:35:53.20 drive my old Blazer down to the village car wash. 00:35:53.23\00:35:56.19 I can hardly wait for this. 00:35:56.22\00:35:58.89 I'll put the five dollars in 00:35:58.92\00:36:00.35 only the express wash not a penny more. 00:36:00.38\00:36:04.86 I put the five dollars in 00:36:04.89\00:36:08.07 you are not driving the door in front of me 00:36:08.10\00:36:10.66 because its winter is closed 00:36:10.69\00:36:12.95 I'm all alone, the doors are locked 00:36:12.98\00:36:15.22 and nobody can take me out now. 00:36:15.25\00:36:16.89 And then oh, boy, oh, boy, 00:36:19.98\00:36:22.37 when those high powered jet spray 00:36:22.40\00:36:25.90 begin to spit out that blue foam 00:36:25.93\00:36:28.88 and they cover my old car 00:36:28.91\00:36:30.33 so even the windows are all covered 00:36:30.36\00:36:32.37 and I really I'm alone, then I know this is what 00:36:32.40\00:36:36.40 I have been living for this week 00:36:36.43\00:36:40.74 because that foam that foam which is drip 00:36:40.77\00:36:43.71 and as it drips I'm saying bring it on, 00:36:43.74\00:36:46.03 bring on it high pressured rids 00:36:46.06\00:36:48.23 bring it on 00:36:48.26\00:36:52.82 and when I drive out of there 00:36:52.85\00:36:54.34 it is the cleanest car in Berrien County, hallelujah. 00:36:54.37\00:36:59.99 Ladies and Gentlemen, that is precisely 00:37:00.02\00:37:02.70 what the gospel declares happens. 00:37:02.73\00:37:05.65 Look at this, is it-- can you believe this 1 John, 00:37:05.68\00:37:08.69 put it on the screen, 1 John 1:7, 00:37:08.72\00:37:12.80 "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, 00:37:12.83\00:37:16.25 we have fellowship with one another" 00:37:16.28\00:37:18.14 now, hold on, hold on "and the blood of Jesus, 00:37:18.17\00:37:21.84 His Son, purifies" the New King James says, 00:37:21.87\00:37:24.93 cleanses us from how many sins, 00:37:24.96\00:37:27.26 how many sins you tell me? All sins." 00:37:27.29\00:37:29.99 Does that mean all sins in my past? Yep. 00:37:30.02\00:37:32.59 Does that mean the sins I did last night? Yep. 00:37:32.62\00:37:33.65 Does that mean the sins today? Yep. 00:37:33.68\00:37:35.38 Every sin you have ever committed 00:37:35.41\00:37:40.59 is cleansed, it's cleansed. 00:37:40.62\00:37:43.92 Ah, Dwight, come on give that, give me that. 00:37:43.95\00:37:45.49 How do I do it? 00:37:45.52\00:37:46.55 Which button do I pick-- 00:37:46.58\00:37:48.69 do I go through the express wash 00:37:48.72\00:37:49.75 or what which one? 00:37:49.78\00:37:50.86 I'm telling you folks, 00:37:50.89\00:37:52.09 this is the most express cleansing in the universe 00:37:52.12\00:37:54.83 and it's the most lasting and you get it this way. 00:37:54.86\00:37:59.46 Not charge, no arms giving, 00:37:59.49\00:38:01.37 no good works, 00:38:04.22\00:38:05.27 nothing but this. 00:38:11.28\00:38:12.39 Watch this, verse 9, 00:38:12.42\00:38:15.54 "If we confess our sins, he" God "is faithful 00:38:15.57\00:38:21.56 and just and will forgive us our sins 00:38:21.59\00:38:24.67 and purify us from" how much unrighteousness. 00:38:24.70\00:38:28.15 What is it say, ladies and gentlemen oh, oh, oh, 00:38:28.18\00:38:31.62 our sin, our righteousness, our stains, our mock, 00:38:31.65\00:38:37.19 our guilty sludge high powered and in a split seconds. 00:38:37.22\00:38:45.10 The cleansing form of Calvary 00:38:45.13\00:38:47.80 just eats away what it has got, 00:38:47.83\00:38:51.73 your art and chocked your life 00:38:51.76\00:38:57.11 just like that, hallelujah. 00:38:57.14\00:39:02.03 William Copper it's spelt Cowper 00:39:02.06\00:39:05.53 but it really is pronounced Copper was a-- 00:39:05.56\00:39:08.48 state of asylum four times in his life, 00:39:08.51\00:39:11.50 attempted to end his life by suicide three times. 00:39:11.53\00:39:15.33 He struggled with the meaning of the gospel. 00:39:15.36\00:39:17.87 He struggled but every now and then 00:39:17.90\00:39:20.21 the good news of the everlasting gospel 00:39:20.24\00:39:22.47 would break through 00:39:22.50\00:39:23.61 and one day William Copper sat down 00:39:23.64\00:39:26.84 and he scribbled out these words, 00:39:26.87\00:39:28.52 "There is a fountain filled with blood 00:39:28.55\00:39:31.72 drawn from Emmanuel's veins, 00:39:31.75\00:39:35.10 and sinners plunged beneath that flood 00:39:35.13\00:39:37.96 lose all, all, all their guilty stains." 00:39:37.99\00:39:43.06 Did that old hymn just make it up? 00:39:43.09\00:39:46.02 Nope, we just saw it. 00:39:46.05\00:39:48.50 It is the teaching of the gospel. 00:39:48.53\00:39:53.36 You don't need a cleansing after you die 00:39:53.39\00:39:55.92 because there ain't nothing left to change after you die. 00:39:55.95\00:40:01.87 You need the cleansing now. 00:40:01.90\00:40:05.87 Don't wait, don't you put it off, don't you dare. 00:40:05.90\00:40:09.39 Ha but its is all wrapped up in Jesus, 00:40:09.42\00:40:11.52 no wonder there is verse 23, 00:40:11.55\00:40:13.01 "Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, 00:40:13.04\00:40:17.00 for he who promised is faithful." 00:40:17.03\00:40:21.08 You cannot save yourself, my friend, 00:40:25.83\00:40:27.36 you cannot. 00:40:30.75\00:40:31.79 Look if you and I paid the penalty long enough 00:40:31.82\00:40:33.80 could we finally pay off for oh, God 00:40:33.83\00:40:35.69 you know what you could be punished for ever and ever. 00:40:35.72\00:40:38.04 You could never pay it off. 00:40:38.07\00:40:40.14 My sin is so deeply ingrained into my very-- 00:40:40.17\00:40:43.90 the very core of my being I can't pay it off. 00:40:43.93\00:40:48.02 I can't go to the merits of the treasury 00:40:48.05\00:40:52.23 of Christ in Mary and the saints 00:40:52.26\00:40:54.04 that treasury of merits. 00:40:54.07\00:40:55.21 I can't draw on that. 00:40:55.24\00:40:59.15 I can't-- I can't by performing deeds 00:40:59.18\00:41:03.13 as a protestant, good deeds. 00:41:03.16\00:41:06.63 I can't by worshiping on God's day. 00:41:06.66\00:41:10.18 I can't save myself. 00:41:10.21\00:41:11.79 I can return as much money as you wish. 00:41:11.82\00:41:14.38 I can't buy salvation. 00:41:14.41\00:41:16.57 It isn't bought by somebody who is faithful 00:41:16.60\00:41:18.55 in his stewardship. 00:41:18.58\00:41:20.15 You can't earn heaven, 00:41:20.18\00:41:23.73 its impossible not enough life times 00:41:23.76\00:41:27.93 for you to achieve enough money in that bank. 00:41:27.96\00:41:32.75 You and I are bankrupt, we are bankrupt. 00:41:32.78\00:41:36.50 Our only hope is that Jesus saves. 00:41:36.53\00:41:42.53 It is a fountain filled with blood 00:41:42.56\00:41:44.01 drawn from Emmanuel's veins 00:41:44.04\00:41:45.53 and sinners plunged beneath that flood 00:41:45.56\00:41:47.34 lose all their guilty stains. 00:41:47.37\00:41:51.16 So, here is the question, 00:41:51.19\00:41:53.41 is it good news no purgatory? 00:41:53.44\00:41:57.10 I must tell you there isn't a theologian 00:41:57.13\00:41:59.65 that knows the Holy Scripture 00:41:59.68\00:42:00.96 who will tell you there is purgatory. 00:42:00.99\00:42:03.55 Not from Holy Scripture there is no purgatory 00:42:03.58\00:42:07.95 and how about in this series the truth of hell, 00:42:07.98\00:42:09.69 well, we have discovered that hell is yet future 00:42:09.72\00:42:11.76 and it is of a short duration. 00:42:11.79\00:42:13.45 Is that good news? Is it? 00:42:13.48\00:42:17.19 I want to be honest with you, 00:42:17.22\00:42:19.35 As I got ready for this little mini series 00:42:19.38\00:42:20.79 I really struggle in my heart 00:42:20.82\00:42:21.91 and said God, I'm gonna blow this. 00:42:21.94\00:42:22.97 I just knew I'm gonna blow this. 00:42:23.00\00:42:24.90 My thumbing human inadequacy 00:42:24.93\00:42:27.40 to somehow takes the glory of the divine character 00:42:27.43\00:42:31.26 and I thumbed a ball. 00:42:31.29\00:42:35.46 I'll drop it in the middle of my examination. 00:42:35.49\00:42:39.29 And that's why we began this mini series with Calvary 00:42:39.32\00:42:41.77 we went to the cross. Why we go to cross? 00:42:41.80\00:42:44.32 Because Calvary is the only paradigm in human existence 00:42:44.35\00:42:47.92 in which we can measure what hell really will be. 00:42:47.95\00:42:51.16 Jesus died the second death that He died the death of hell. 00:42:51.19\00:42:54.88 That's why we went to the cross 00:42:54.91\00:42:56.16 and then when we are through that 00:42:56.19\00:42:57.40 last week did you notice 00:42:57.43\00:42:58.53 we pulled up the parental paradigm 00:42:58.56\00:42:59.90 and we said listen, Jesus when He told us, 00:42:59.93\00:43:02.22 we are going to pray one prayer in this life. 00:43:02.25\00:43:03.36 Here is the way you are supposed to pray. 00:43:03.39\00:43:04.64 Our Father. 00:43:04.67\00:43:06.76 He said, I just want you to call God Father. 00:43:06.79\00:43:08.97 And when we saw the paradigm of God as a Father, 00:43:12.13\00:43:16.33 when we saw the paradigm of God as a father 00:43:16.36\00:43:18.28 we had to ask the question about the caricature 00:43:18.31\00:43:21.09 how could it be that a father could burn 00:43:21.12\00:43:24.62 and torture his children forever and ever and ever. 00:43:24.65\00:43:27.70 Stop daddy, stop, I had enough punishment. 00:43:27.73\00:43:29.82 No, no, no you are gonna keep burning forever and ever. 00:43:29.85\00:43:32.83 What father, what father 00:43:32.86\00:43:35.15 would ever treat his children that way? 00:43:35.18\00:43:38.67 Take me to that father, take me to that father, 00:43:38.70\00:43:43.21 he won't be a father of love. 00:43:43.24\00:43:45.04 He cannot be. 00:43:45.07\00:43:47.15 You're saying okay, Dwight, okay, okay, okay. 00:43:47.18\00:43:49.90 But I tell you what I got a question, 00:43:49.93\00:43:52.18 why would God have hell at all? 00:43:52.21\00:43:54.81 He shouldn't have hell at all. 00:43:54.84\00:43:56.49 Now, what's the point of -- 00:43:56.52\00:43:58.23 Revelation 20 says that the lost are like the sands of the sea. 00:43:58.26\00:44:00.91 You mean you are just gonna blow them away. 00:44:00.94\00:44:03.93 I mean is there a parent who would even though that-- 00:44:03.96\00:44:07.38 even though that little child is so naughty 00:44:07.41\00:44:10.60 is there a parent who wouldn't do everything she could, 00:44:10.63\00:44:13.67 is there a mother who wouldn't save that child. 00:44:13.70\00:44:15.76 If she could save that child, 00:44:15.79\00:44:17.59 no matter how naughty the child 00:44:17.62\00:44:19.74 and you're saying that God does it. 00:44:19.77\00:44:23.87 I want to end the story 00:44:23.90\00:44:25.30 I want to end the whole series 00:44:25.33\00:44:26.88 with a story, it's a true story 00:44:26.91\00:44:29.45 and through its feeble efforts 00:44:29.48\00:44:32.14 may be one last glimpse of the love of God. 00:44:32.17\00:44:37.54 It happened on a Friday afternoon. 00:44:37.57\00:44:39.05 Telephone in the parsonage 00:44:42.22\00:44:44.47 rang in Salem, Oregon where we are living, 00:44:44.50\00:44:49.82 a voice screaming on the other end, 00:44:49.85\00:44:51.08 the voice of a parishioner of mine. 00:44:51.11\00:44:53.44 We can't find Georgie. We can't find Georgie, Georgie. 00:44:53.47\00:44:58.12 It was six year old Georgie, 00:44:58.15\00:45:00.31 full of nick, full of life their only child. 00:45:00.34\00:45:04.59 I leaped into my car raised over the interstate 00:45:04.62\00:45:07.15 just a few blocks away 00:45:07.18\00:45:08.43 by the time I got there the police were there. 00:45:08.46\00:45:12.51 And they found him. 00:45:12.54\00:45:15.80 You see, they had a backyard pool 00:45:15.83\00:45:20.44 and over the winter months alga as it will happen 00:45:20.47\00:45:24.37 just grew dark and green 00:45:24.40\00:45:27.56 and there was no way that frantic mother 00:45:27.59\00:45:30.17 could see beneath the alga. 00:45:30.20\00:45:35.62 The EMT's were performing CPR on Georgie's lifeless body. 00:45:35.65\00:45:40.74 We raced behind the ambulance to the hospital in Salem. 00:45:40.77\00:45:44.73 First ER then ICU. 00:45:44.76\00:45:49.30 Georgie was on life support 00:45:49.33\00:45:51.61 the doctors were fighting to raise his body's temperature. 00:45:51.64\00:45:54.03 They are wrapping him 00:45:54.06\00:45:55.25 and silver heat retaining aluminum blankets 00:45:55.28\00:45:58.24 and fusing floods into him. 00:45:58.27\00:45:59.96 We sat with those numb parents for six long hours. 00:45:59.99\00:46:06.48 But the medical team 00:46:06.51\00:46:07.67 tried every experiment they could conceive 00:46:07.70\00:46:11.75 in an attempt to save little Georgie's life. 00:46:11.78\00:46:14.61 Finally sometime just a few minutes after midnight 00:46:14.64\00:46:18.64 the doctor came out and gently 00:46:18.67\00:46:23.30 but plainly described to the parents 00:46:23.33\00:46:28.96 that they have done every thing they could think of. 00:46:28.99\00:46:30.80 They are just its nothing. 00:46:30.83\00:46:34.13 Georgie was on life support 00:46:34.16\00:46:36.72 there is no chance, there really is no chance 00:46:36.75\00:46:40.22 we will ever be able to save him. 00:46:40.25\00:46:43.65 And I sat there and watched 00:46:43.68\00:46:49.11 as two parents agonized 00:46:49.14\00:46:53.36 over what to do with their only child. 00:46:53.39\00:46:57.80 I tell you what, listen to me carefully. 00:46:57.83\00:47:00.43 Only a parent could understand 00:47:00.46\00:47:05.52 the agony of that decision. 00:47:05.55\00:47:08.40 Only a parent could understand. 00:47:08.43\00:47:13.11 I sat there as they made their decision 00:47:13.14\00:47:20.16 to unplug the life support 00:47:20.19\00:47:23.17 and let their only child die. 00:47:23.20\00:47:30.89 Only, a parent could understand the agony. 00:47:30.92\00:47:38.67 Now that choice that he will have to make one day 00:47:38.70\00:47:45.11 and there will be a billion parents beneath 00:47:45.14\00:47:47.76 his great white throne 00:47:47.79\00:47:51.47 who will in a very limited measure know 00:47:51.50\00:47:55.76 the love and the agony of the God 00:47:55.79\00:48:02.06 who must make the only loving decision 00:48:02.09\00:48:05.75 a heart broken parent can make 00:48:05.78\00:48:09.14 to turn off the life support system 00:48:09.17\00:48:13.55 for a child that can never be saved now. 00:48:13.58\00:48:17.65 And let her die, 00:48:17.68\00:48:20.06 let him die for ever and ever, amen. 00:48:20.09\00:48:26.87 And then it will be hells darkest movement 00:48:26.90\00:48:32.81 when God buries His head in His hands 00:48:32.84\00:48:37.06 and cries in inconsolably and all who have choose 00:48:37.09\00:48:41.29 God over Lucifer will also weep with Him 00:48:41.32\00:48:45.85 for at last they have seen the truth 00:48:45.88\00:48:49.80 God is love 00:48:49.83\00:48:54.38 for ever and ever, amen. 00:48:54.41\00:48:59.94 We cannot end this series 00:49:16.90\00:49:20.96 without making a decision. 00:49:20.99\00:49:24.24 We cannot end this. 00:49:24.27\00:49:27.98 I have to make an appeal to you right now, 00:49:28.01\00:49:32.75 this is it, there is no second opportunity 00:49:32.78\00:49:36.88 there is no second life this is all we get. 00:49:36.91\00:49:43.58 I'll make a invitation to you right now, 00:49:43.61\00:49:47.32 it doesn't matter in what religious community 00:49:47.35\00:49:50.11 you belong to right now. 00:49:50.14\00:49:52.73 I want to make an invitation. 00:49:52.76\00:49:55.25 Would you be willing to join me today right now, 00:49:55.28\00:50:01.03 in asking the Christ of this gospel 00:50:01.06\00:50:06.17 to provide the cleansing of his promise 00:50:06.20\00:50:12.61 and cleanse every sin 00:50:12.64\00:50:14.92 you have ever sinned in your past. 00:50:14.95\00:50:19.27 Every sin you and I have ever sinned today. 00:50:19.30\00:50:25.87 And then ask Him everyday for the rest of our lives 00:50:25.90\00:50:33.62 to forgive us and cleanse us 00:50:33.65\00:50:37.68 from all unrighteousness. 00:50:37.71\00:50:42.16 There is no catch to this. 00:50:42.19\00:50:43.70 This isn't like, well, you got to join 00:50:43.73\00:50:44.88 my church in order to do this. 00:50:44.91\00:50:46.19 Are you-- are you kidding me? 00:50:46.22\00:50:49.53 This is global good news all you have to do 00:50:49.56\00:50:54.88 is ask Jesus to be your Savior 00:50:54.91\00:50:58.75 and wash you in the heart wash of the gospel 00:50:58.78\00:51:03.77 and like that you are clean, 00:51:03.80\00:51:07.61 you are pure, you are saved. 00:51:07.64\00:51:11.72 How about it, I think, 00:51:11.75\00:51:14.94 I think we have to cease this moment don't you, 00:51:14.97\00:51:17.54 reaffirm or for the first time make the decision. 00:51:17.57\00:51:23.07 You don't have to put your hand on a television set, 00:51:23.10\00:51:24.70 I'm not into that. 00:51:24.73\00:51:28.44 But if you are watching right now 00:51:28.47\00:51:29.91 and I know you are you just raise you hand. 00:51:29.94\00:51:34.35 There is nobody in the room but God. 00:51:34.38\00:51:38.01 Can you say God, 00:51:38.04\00:51:41.57 please right now, 00:51:41.60\00:51:46.83 I want to be clean in Christ Jesus 00:51:46.86\00:51:49.90 my Savior forgive me, amen. 00:51:49.93\00:51:56.21 You want to pray that same prayer? 00:51:56.24\00:51:57.86 Come on, don't stand 00:51:57.89\00:52:00.95 because somebody besides you is standing 00:52:00.98\00:52:04.00 if you want Jesus to be the one 00:52:04.03\00:52:07.79 who will take you to death 00:52:07.82\00:52:11.64 keeping you cleansed 00:52:11.67\00:52:14.45 you can stand on your feet right now. 00:52:14.48\00:52:17.38 And by standing to your feet you say Jesus. 00:52:17.41\00:52:22.86 Oh, Jesus, 00:52:22.89\00:52:24.99 today and today and today until you come 00:52:25.02\00:52:31.66 I want to be clean. 00:52:31.69\00:52:34.58 The man who tried to commit suicide 00:52:34.61\00:52:39.28 the gospel finally broke through to him. 00:52:39.31\00:52:41.95 I want to sing with you the words of that one stanza, 00:52:41.98\00:52:46.41 "There is a fountain filled with blood 00:52:46.44\00:52:48.38 drawn from Emmanuel's veins, 00:52:48.41\00:52:51.02 and sinners plunged beneath that flood 00:52:51.05\00:52:53.90 lose all their guilty stains." 00:52:53.93\00:52:56.30 Let's sing that stanza together. 00:52:56.33\00:52:58.34 There is a fountain filled with blood 00:53:13.39\00:53:20.81 Drawn from Emmanuel's veins 00:53:20.84\00:53:28.47 And sinners plunged beneath that flood 00:53:28.50\00:53:36.20 Lose all their guilty stains 00:53:36.23\00:53:44.10 Lose all their guilty stains 00:53:44.13\00:53:52.10 Lose all their guilty stains 00:53:52.13\00:54:00.10 And sinners plunged 00:54:00.13\00:54:04.06 beneath that flood 00:54:04.09\00:54:08.14 Lose all their 00:54:08.17\00:54:11.45 Guilty stains 00:54:11.48\00:54:17.08 I want to sing that stanza one more time. 00:54:17.11\00:54:18.85 We are going to sing it quite as a prayer. 00:54:18.88\00:54:20.72 You understand it is a prayer. 00:54:20.75\00:54:22.79 You are saying Jesus, take me into that flood. 00:54:22.82\00:54:26.96 Cover me by Yours once for all sacrifice 00:54:26.99\00:54:30.44 and cleanse me to my core and do it tomorrow 00:54:30.47\00:54:34.19 and I'll ask you the next day and I'll ask you, 00:54:34.22\00:54:35.82 and I'll ask you until You come. 00:54:35.85\00:54:37.69 And He says I'll do it, I'll do it, I'll do it. 00:54:37.72\00:54:39.87 Sing it as a prayer this time, 00:54:39.90\00:54:41.24 we are gonna sing it quietly now. 00:54:41.27\00:54:43.94 There is a fountain 00:54:43.97\00:54:49.53 Filled with blood 00:54:49.56\00:54:52.75 Drawn from Emmanuel's veins 00:54:52.78\00:55:00.68 And sinners plunged 00:55:00.71\00:55:05.32 Beneath that flood 00:55:05.35\00:55:09.65 Lose all their 00:55:09.68\00:55:12.69 Guilty stains 00:55:12.72\00:55:17.99 Lose all their 00:55:18.02\00:55:21.39 Guilty stains 00:55:21.42\00:55:26.79 Lose all their 00:55:26.82\00:55:30.09 Guilty stains 00:55:30.12\00:55:35.35 And sinners plunged 00:55:35.38\00:55:39.85 Beneath that flood 00:55:39.88\00:55:44.03 Lose all their guilty stains. 00:55:44.06\00:55:51.49 Oh, Holy Father, you promised it 00:55:53.32\00:55:56.29 you said I'll send my son 00:55:56.32\00:55:57.89 He will do it once for all for everyone 00:55:57.92\00:56:03.76 and so we accept Your promise. 00:56:03.79\00:56:06.17 We choose to believe that the cleansing is now 00:56:06.20\00:56:11.87 in this instant You have already answered our prayers. 00:56:11.90\00:56:17.53 Oh, God now walk with us, 00:56:17.56\00:56:19.83 now let us walk with You 00:56:19.86\00:56:23.28 with our Father's love 00:56:23.31\00:56:24.95 draws near. 00:56:32.26\00:56:33.64 In Jesus name, amen. 00:56:39.18\00:56:43.26 Did you know that there's one place in cyberspace 00:56:47.19\00:56:49.45 that you can go to with the multitude of resources 00:56:49.48\00:56:52.36 that you can share with your friends? 00:56:52.39\00:56:54.22 It's our website. 00:56:54.25\00:56:55.49 Let me tell you about that website 00:56:55.52\00:56:56.62 but first let me give you the address, 00:56:56.65\00:56:57.85 www.pmchurch.tv. 00:56:57.88\00:57:01.65 You go to that website, 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