Separated From Our Loved Ones — Keith Daniel

2 Thessalonians 1 verse 8, he will return, he will return, he will return in flaming fire, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God. Taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished, who shall be punished with everlasting, everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power.

Tonight I want us to consider, tonight I want us to consider the fearful, the fearful possibility of separation, separation from our loved ones. I want us to consider the fearful possibility of separation from our loved ones, to be separated eternally from our loved ones, to be separated eternally from our loved ones.

Firstly, firstly, at Christ's return, at Christ's return, separated at Christ's return. When I was a young man in my father and mother's home that daddy so sacrificially built for us, we had our own rooms, we had this lawns and landscapes, it was beautiful.

And I was home, my bed lay at the window, long window, those days we didn't have crime like we do today, burglar guarding and security and oh my, in those days there was no fences, hardly anywhere, let alone burglar guard.

But I left the windows open because of the warmth, I wanted the cool breeze to come in, so there beside the window was my bed and I lay the windows open. Suddenly, suddenly I heard the curtains alongside of my bed where I was lying just drawing and in my days and beginning to wake up hearing these curtains drawing, I began to think oh there must be a storm, there must be a severe wind, a heavy strong wind that's blowing the curtains.

I lay there and then I began to think but there's no wind, there's dead silence, it's silent. So I opened my eyes and I looked up and there someone had drawn the curtains from the outside and I looked just above my head, the window that had been pulled open was a very large man.

We tried to work out how large he was because there was a high window and he was looking down at me, he must have been an incredibly tall man, his hand could have just reached down and taken my throat.

He was at hand with the curtain drawn open inside looking down at me, he didn't see that my eyes were open because it was darker inside the room than it was outside with the garden lights all over, I could see his face looking down at me.

He didn't know I was looking at him but eventually I didn't want to wait to see what he was going to do, I just shouted, that's Zulu, what do you want, he pulled out his hand and fled and I pulled myself up to the window and looked at this man, I couldn't believe the size of him.

The uncanny thing is he couldn't hear anything as he ran down the garden back onto the streets, the lights of the streets, he just ran but there was a silence like he was almost floating, I don't know what he had on his feet but it was uncanny.

This man had just come, drew the curtains back, tell me soul tonight, will you awake as the thief that this Bible speaks of draws back the curtains of time? Will you awake suddenly as the thief draws back the curtains of time with no warning and he suddenly appears.

1 Thessalonians 5 verse 2, the day of the Lord, the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night, God's word warns, the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 1 Thessalonians 5 verse 2, but brethren ye are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief, ye are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

Revelation 16 verse 15, behold I come as a thief, I come as a thief, blessed is he that watcheth. Revelation 3 verse 3, if therefore thou shalt not watch, if therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief and thou shalt not know what hour I will come on thee.

Luke 17 verse 34, I tell you in that night, in that night there shall be two in one bed, there shall be two in one bed, the one shall be taken, the other shall be left. Two women, two women shall be grinding together, the one shall be taken and the other left.

Two men, two men shall be in the field, the one shall be taken and the other left. And they answered and said unto him, where, Lord, where? And he said unto them, wheresoever the body is, that is the carcass, referring to Christ himself, thither there will the eagles, that is the saved, be gathered together.

Man and wife asleep in bed, she hears a noise, turns her head, he's gone. Oh that we'd all been ready. Brothers climbing up a hill, one disappears and one left standing still. Oh that we'd all been ready.

But there's no time to change your mind, there's no time to change your mind. The sun has come and you've been left behind, separated eternally from our loved ones. Separated eternally from our loved ones, firstly, firstly at Christ's return, at Christ's return.

And secondly, secondly, separated from our loved ones eternally through death, through death. Separated eternally from our loved ones at death. Hebrews 9 verse 27, it is appointed that something you will never miss that appointment.

Not one of you can miss it. It is appointed unto men once to die. It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this, the judgment, oh God lied. If there's any hope of anything of a transaction, no matter how hard you try, that could change that.

It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this, God said, and God cannot lie, sir. He will not. The judgment, the judgment, oh prepare thyself to meet with thy God. That's your side. Don't you sit there with any doctrine from hell, using scriptures but blinding your eyes to the rest of the Bible.

It's you, sir. It's you. Don't blame God if you don't come. Don't blame God if you don't come. Prepare thyself to meet with thy God. Amos cried in chapter 4 verse 12. Romans 8 verse 1, God promises that there's no condemnation, that's no judgment awaits people.

There's no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. That's a wonderful promise, and if you have any iota of integrity, you read the next part of the verse and the rest of the chapter to see the condition.

There's no such thing as a promise without a radical condition in this Bible, sir. Only a blind man or otherwise a liar to himself will blind his eyes to the second part of a verse like that, like the Jehovah Witnesses.

They can't read the second half of any verse they quote because it cancels out what they're saying. So they lie, and that's why God will judge them no matter who says they want to judge them. God says they will, and God cannot lie.

Oh, blessed are the dead, God says, which die in the Lord. Revelation 14 verse 13. Blessed are the Lord. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord. But there is the tragic possibility, beloved. There is the tragic possibility of being separated from our loved ones for all eternity at death.

None of you think it could happen, do you? I have preached in large auditoriums where, as I preach, people have fell down dead. I just stopped preaching. People who thought there might be a time for an appeal, you think you might even get to the appeal.

How do you know you won't die? It's happened to others. How do you know you won't face eternity separated? I've stood in auditoriums, great churches, the whole family that I pointed at, and I pled with them, Father, you're standing there with a lot of children.

How can you be sure that your entire family will not all be dead before you even get to your front door? That man sought God, and so did his children and his wife. Before they reached their home that night, they were all dead, slaughtered by evil people, politically.

How do you know, 20 years later, for the first time, I repeated what happened there in Dundee, in Etel, in South Africa, Southern Africa, in a large Dutch Reformed church? And I pointed to the back row there, held auditorium, another man, wife, children, and I said, how do you know that won't happen to you and your children?

How do you know that you won't be dead before you reach your front door? And you don't seek God? They sought God as a family, weeping, and they were slaughtered, all killed. They didn't die because I said that.

That was God's final call, sir. Do you honestly think God loses control when he sees what's about to happen? Do you think honestly that was that people's choice to be in that meeting? God knows! The very hairs of your head are numbered.

You don't know when, you don't know. How do you know you and your family, sir, will reach the end of this meeting? You sit there presumptuous, do you? I have a two-hour sermon. Go on the Internet, The Possibility of Death, of people I stood with or preached to that within minutes were dead over the 47 years that I preached.

How do you know? I begged some young fellow. He got on his little motorbike full of sin. I wept, how do you know? He reached home. Minutes later his whole body was chopped in half. I'm talking about a young fellow.

How do you know? Oh, there's the tragic possibility of being separated from our loved ones for all eternity at death. This is why we all, beloved, we all long to be sure that they are truly saved before we die.

We all carry a great burden for our loved ones' salvation while we live. If we are truly saved and rightly related to God, we all carry a great burden for our loved ones' salvation because we believe this book.

We don't show more earnestness about their profession and their education if we write with God. We all carry a burden for our loved ones while we live. If they are not saved. Back in our country, South Africa, recently my wife and I were in the house of a very wealthy man and a very godly man.

And he was sharing something that startled me. His name is Henny, Henny and Stella Faree, a lovely brother and sister that I've come to respect deeply over the years, godly. But he was sharing how someone who had been a friend of him for many years, gone through university with him, he was doing farming.

He had inherited a farm in a certain area of Southern Africa. And he was, it seems, once a week would take his produce that hadn't gone to the market into this exporter. He would take these lorries down to a certain section where many people would come with their lorries and take the produce and a lot of cash flowed, enormous amount of cash flowed.

And suddenly they were attacked. Oh, don't think this is unusual in Southern Africa, where any money is being openly, they were attacked by men with these big rifles, these big guns. Suddenly rove up, took the guns, give us the money.

Oh, the foreman of his farm tried to intervene and they just riddled him with bullets, pulled into a car by weeping relatives. But he died before he could get to hospital. He was riddled with bullets.

But this man who owned the farm, Kurt van Dijk, Kurt and Rita van Dijk, they shot him as he was trying to reason with him. They don't care about life. Life has no value when you reach rock bottom. You harden your heart against God and you open yourself to what the devil makes to harden yourself to life, which can be in any means today, especially through the media.

Life has no value when it comes to your sin or wickedness or wealth. These people had no value. They suddenly shot him, different places of his head and body, took all the monies, drove off, couldn't find him, never found him.

This Kurt van Dijk, he hung on to life for 61 days. He somehow hung on to life for 61 days. There was no possibility of him living. There was no possibility of him recovering. He was like so hurt, there was no possibility of him recovering.

But for some reason, in a state where they knew he had to die, he lived for 61 days. Eventually, a very godly man stood beside him with others in the room, weeping, and plead with him as he began to regain consciousness every now and again, vaguely.

You're ready to meet with God, Kurt. If anybody's ready to meet with God, it's you. Let go. Let go, absent from the body present with the Lord. And he began to speak for the first time in those 61 days, slowly, drawing, in agony, looking, trying to focus.

He was coming down. He said, I can't let go. I can't let go. You see, my wife is not sane, and I am so fearful that she will go to hell for eternity, to God's judgment, and that I will never see her. And I love my wife more than anyone in the world.

I cannot bear the thought of eternity without her and without me. And he began to sob. I can't let go. My wife is going to hell, and I'm so fearful I'll never see her again. He didn't know this, but his wife was standing behind these people, speaking to him.

She heard it. What does she do? In shock and pain and fear, she fell down on her knees, sobbing, and gave her life to Christ with all her heart, soul, and mind. She stood up, pushed past the people, held on to him, weeping, and told him what she'd done.

He smiled, tears coming down, and he died. I was preaching in a place called Christmas Rock. You can see the size of the rock in the sea. And so the community, the town around there, in the Eastern Cape of Southern Africa, we held a breakfast service, right?

What does that mean? You get two meals. You get a good breakfast, so long as you're willing to sit for another meal, a sermon, you see. So people can't come to church, they won't come, so they try everything they can, the Christians in that town.

And so I was to preach at their effort to get the whole town, and the whole town came. And that place was filled out. The sports hall, whatever it is, I don't know, the sports club, it was filled out.

Tables, lovely breakfast, you know. People come, there's a free meal, and then we can just sit through the sermon. Not an iota of wanting God, just wanting the meal. And that's how we get people saved, many multitudes.

One place, over a hundred people responded for salvation, not one ever backslid in the breakfast service. Somewhere in South Africa, years ago. Not one has ever backslid. Of those that stood, that didn't come to see God, they came to the free meal.

Well, there I was, preaching away, pouring my heart out to them now. And there was an old 88-year-old man, Afrikaans, that means from Europe. A few hundred years ago, the early descendants in Africa, escaping religious persecution.

He has this language, Afrikaans, a mix of a couple of languages of Europe. That's the last white tribe of Africa, they called them, millions of them. Well, here was this man, sitting there, 88 years old, and he listened to me, and he thought, I can't understand a word this Englishman is saying.

He was Afrikaans, he was Afrikaans. Now he's sitting there, very angry that he's got to sit. You see, many people have never stopped with the Boer War against the English. He's never forgave them, but here he is now sitting, very unhappy that he's got to listen to a sermon in English.

And he says, I can't hardly understand the language, and he preaches so softly, I can't even hear him. So he's sitting there very indignant that he's got to sit to this man from the Engels, this man that doesn't speak loud enough for him to hear a word in his age.

You see, he says, I behave myself, and I'll just sit here. So he's behaving himself. Nothing, not a thought for God. What happens? So suddenly, I begin to just refer to Jesus Christ's word to an old man.

Nicodemus, you must be born again. Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. There's no possibility of him going to heaven. Nicodemus says what you and I would say. You see, Christ knew these words.

This was to you he was speaking. He knew that billions would hear this. And you would say, well, Nicodemus, how can a man be born again? Can he go into his mother's womb a second time and be born again?

Christ says, no, that which is born of the flesh, Nicodemus, is flesh. That which is born of the spirit, capital S, is spirit. That which is born of the flesh, when you're born physically, you are a child of your mother and father, not a child of God.

No one's born a child of God. You must be born again. To become God's child, there has to be a spiritual birth. And that involves what a child can't do. The intellect. The free will. The turning, the repenting, consciously.

If you can't set yourself free, you turn to God to set you free. And if the Son shall set you free, you shall be free indeed. If he sets you free, and you know it, so you come not just for forgiveness, but for forgiveness for that which you're repenting.

And you turn under the conviction of the Holy Spirit who's made this book alive. Whoa. Your life is new. A man being Christ, he's a new creature. You shall never commit a sin as a servant of sin. But if the Son shall set you free, you shall be free.

Hallelujah. Indeed. Well, you must be born again and become God's child. Born as a work of the Holy Ghost as he sees your obedient heart, your faith, your willingness to turn or burn. That's what the old preachers used to preach.

That's the day you burn, preacher. The old man sitting there now. Suddenly, what? What? What? What? What's this thing he's been talking about? So he catches nothing in the sermon, but yeah. What happened?

Jesus said, it's like the wind. You don't know where it's coming from. You don't know where it's coming, but it comes. Wow. That's how God works. Suddenly, he's awakened. What's this man? Born again? That's never happened to me.

The breakfast service ends. He goes home and his son, daughter-in-law, who arranged this breakfast with other Christians, but he says to his son, what's this thing he's been saying? What is he talking about, born again?

I've never heard about that. Daddy, we have prayed for years that you'd listen to us, but Jesus said, I've got my church, lost my age. Leave me alone. I've got my church. Don't you come with me. But, Daddy, you wouldn't listen.

But you listen. But you want to know what God said has to happen. But, Daddy, I have to go back to the hall. I have to organize a payment and everything with this breakfast. I can't leave it, but when I come back, I'll show you from the Bible.

Daddy, please, just wait now. I'm back just now. The old man looks at this man who organized the tour with thousands of people that I preached over three weeks. Thousands and thousands, seven meetings a day.

Prisons, schools, shows, anything. Just one after the other. So this man sitting there who organized the tour in this little stoop, eating an orange. The old man comes to him and says, Buddy, what will do the Englishman?

You must be born again. What's this Englishman talking about? That's never happened before. In front of our station, our district superintendent in that section of Africa, he says, Uncle, sit down. Takes the Bible and he begins to open it.

The old man says, I never did that. I never knew that. I want that. They kneel. He cries out to God, weeping, trembling for God to save his soul by the blood of Christ from hell and to make him his child, which he was never born.

Because he was born into a Christian country. You're not born a Christian. No. He stands up. Miracle of miracles. Miracle of miracles. The Holy Spirit beareth witness with our spirit. God promises or God lied.

The Holy Spirit beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. God doesn't mock you. He died for you and you've got to live in mockery and fear and hope. He might know, you know, we know we've passed from death unto life.

John says in 1 John 2 verse 16. We know. Brother, you must know. If you don't know, you're saved. You're not saved. Oh, God lied. Which he cannot do. 1 John 5 16. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself, God says.

That's saving faith. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself. He that believeth not, God hath made him a liar. Because he believeth not the record that God hath given of his Son.

And this is the record that God hath given to us. Eternal life and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life. And he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God that ye may know that ye have eternal life and that ye believe in the name of the Son of God.

You must know, sir. This old man knew. And we must know we become his niece. No one can comprehend this but God does this. At 88 or six years of age when your heart functions with your mind and your conscience and your will and embraces the truth.

The Holy Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. He stood up rejoicing, still weeping. He knew He was saved, this God does. He wasn't being presumptuous. He knew He's born of God.

Hallelujah. Now, his son walks back in the door, the daughter. And he tells them, I'm born again, like his vehicle boarder. And he knew, he wasn't presumptuous. He wasn't taking a chance. You know! Here he's rejoicing.

His son's rejoicing. They're weeping. Arms around, oh, daddy, we prayed all these years. And then he stands there and he says, Mar, Mar is Mama. Where's Mommy? Mommy never heard this. I knew Mommy. I know everything.

Mommy never knew this. Where's Mommy? Where is Mommy? Daddy, you'll never see Mommy again. But we'll be with you for all eternity. We'll be with you forever, Daddy. But you'll never see Mommy again, Daddy.

We're all weeping. The old man, 88 years of age, fell down. On his knees, on his face. And he sobbed uncontrollably, crying, no, God, no, God.

Kneel, what, kneel.

We returned to the town two years later. That old man took his Bible, marked the verses in John chapter 3 of what Christ said to Nicodemus. And the other verses that he had been shown that relate to that, of what to do and what it means to be born again.

And the verses that relate to rejecting the light, not coming to the light, though you know it. And the eternal judgment, said John 3. He went to every single home in the entire community, a large community.

Eighty-eight, every door he wept at, every door he stood and begged them, weeping. I never knew. I never knew. I never see my wife. Many of them knew him, remembered his wife. I never see her, according to the truth.

You will never see your wife if she doesn't get saved. And he begged them to come to God, to come to God through Christ, by grace, through faith, being saved in his death. He went to every single home in the entire community.

No preacher had ever done that. No young Christian had ever done that. No youth leader or youth group had ever done that in that entire community. Every home. Weeping, with an open Bible, begging them.

You see, God, the last home in the town, when there wasn't another home to go to, he went home and died. The last home, the last day. Don't tell me that just happened. God was with the man, because he had what many don't have, an urgency and a broken heart and a fear for every soul.

You see, believe this book emphatically, emphatically. Oh, beloved, my father, my father's last words to my mother, as he lay dying, my mother holding his hand, weeping, Mordy, I'm scared, Mordy, that you're not saved.

I'm not sure, Mordy. And Mordy, I will never see you again if you don't get saved and be sure you're saved. Please promise me, Mordy, promise me that you'll seek God until you're sure. Mordy, I could never bear eternity without you.

I love you more than anything in life. I cannot face the thought of eternity without seeing you, my Mordy.

I beg you, please, be there.

The burden, the burden for our lost family can keep us on our faces, groaning daily, even aging. If they choose to reject Christ or don't see the earnestness, the burden for our loved ones can age us, daily groaning before God in agony, agony, if they die without Christ.

Here's a newspaper cutting from one of our main newspapers of South Africa. The headline, Father Drowns Trying to Save His Children. Of course, that's physical. But I immediately thought, how many godly fathers and mothers have agonized and aged and died prematurely?

I can show you many whose sons and daughters with both hands served Satan unashamedly, rejected the God of their father and mother and all that they were raised up to believe, and threw their lives into wickedness and sin and evil, embraced a life of sin and shame.

I can tell you of fathers who drowned trying to save their children, who chose to serve Satan, no matter what it did to their daddies and mommies. In our mission, we had a young man, his name was Ian Kutsi, ultra-Afrikan speaking, the Bura, that language.

He later left the mission and went into the pulpit as a pastor, and a very effective and very respected man now, no longer young. But those days, he was young. And his testimony startled me. He told how his daddy, who I know well, had stood up in a church in a large auditorium with many hundreds of people.

I preached in that church to ministers' conferences and other conferences over the years in Cape Town. He stood up, and there were his three sons, Ian and his two brothers, sitting beside him there in the church.

The dumanee, the pastor, very well-known in our country. He said these words before he brought the message. Is there anyone in this building who has a great grief and a deep burden that you long to share that we may pray with you?

Could you please, if there is anyone, share it and we will all pray with you? Ian Kutsi's daddy stood up and weeping with a loud voice cried out across this whole auditorium. I have three sons, and he pointed to them.

They all serve the devil. All my three sons are serving Satan with both hands earnestly, shamelessly. And they are going straight to hell and will be cast to hell for all eternity, and I fear for their souls.

And here he is weeping, and I ask you please to pray.

With me for their salvation.

And he sat down, dead silence in the church. Ian, this young fellow, 19 years old, if I can remember rightly, he said he was so ashamed as everybody began to turn around, all over the church and look at these three boys.

He said he went down, and he tried to crawl under the pew. Have you ever seen a man do that? He said it didn't work. He couldn't get there, and he just sat there like this. He was so ashamed. May judge that man and say that was very wrong.

Let me tell you something. That boy stood up and began to seek God. He didn't come out at the meeting, but he began to seek God with such desperation and agony of soul and the fear of eternity without, because of what his father said, he found Christ and became a preacher, and a preacher that is very loved in our country today.

You may judge that man and say, but tell me, if that man hadn't done that, do you think the possibilities there that those three boys would still be embracing a life of sin, their souls damned? So don't judge what a man stooped to in desperation.

It made his son seek God desperately in shock of what his daddy did, and the burden of his daddy that he only was shaken by when he stood up. I was with another man touring a part of Southern Africa. This year, his name is Tinos van der Vestegen, a very godly man, and he was telling me how the hometown where he comes from is a place called Malmesbury, oh, sorry, Malmesbury, Paal, Paal is a beautiful community, farmlands all over, and he said the strangest thing, there are lorries that come through the town to these big silos where they put the wheat and the corn.

All these lorries are loaded with corn and wheat, and yet they come not one, one after the other. From all the farmlands through the day to these great big silos in preparation for selling. Now, he said there's a corner in the town, just a bend, that these lorries don't slow down because it's not just a complete bend, but it's a bend, and they don't, and every time a lorry goes around this bend, there's a spillage of corn, wheat, the little corn is spilling all over the road, every single lorry, because these fellows just don't slow down.

The next one, the next lorry, and now there are little red and yellow fences, little birds. He says thousands that come to that town, that swoop down onto the street when they pick up all the little corn while they can, and the next lorry is coming.

And just before it comes, they fly away. But he said, tragically, many of them leave it too late, leave it too late, and their little carcasses, these little birds, in their hundreds every day, are lying across the street.

But what happens? The next lorry comes, they all swoop down. The dead carcasses, they know the danger. They know they could be next. They're not ignorant. They know, but there they are, down, back, trying, but again, those who leave it too late, in spite of knowing you could be cut off.

Knowing the possibility is they don't say they don't know, they just, but they do, but they leave it too late. Just to try and feed it a little longer. Now, beloved, many people tragically leave it too late to eat from the devil's tables and the devil's houses from the devil's food that he hands out to those who will take sin.

Many leave it too late just to feed a little longer. It's the same with sin, beloved. You just wait to feed a little longer on sin, and you know, you know of God's eternal judgment if you die unsaved while in sin.

But you know your life could be taken from you. You know that is a possibility, but you just linger. You just linger by carrying on a little longer with sin, believing that you could get away with it.

Terrible thing to take a chance with eternity. There's a verse in the Bible, in Isaiah, that says, seek ye the Lord while he may be found. Now, that's a warning. That's not a promise. Seek ye the Lord.

God doesn't mince with words. God doesn't play with words. If it's in the Bible, you take earnest note. Don't play the fool with God's soul, and that means with his word. Seek ye the Lord while he may be found.

Call ye upon him while he is near. Is he near? Do you think he's going to come near again and again and again and again while you just carry on and walk out? Though he came near, you know when God's speaking, warning to base men and weak men like me.

But you know you have to do with God, not a preacher, because it's his word, it's his presence. Oh, seek ye the Lord while he may be found. Tomorrow may never come for you, sir. Young girl, you honestly don't think that can happen?

So did many that I've preached to who didn't make it home after that sermon. Seek ye the Lord while he may be found. Call ye upon him while he is near. The Holy Book promises whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

What more can God do? Let me tell you what more God can do. Nothing. Nothing. That's why you will be judged. He died for you. He gave this book. He brought you under the awareness of eternity, of judgment, and he warned you of the eternal consequences if you die and you haven't sought the Lord and prepared thyself.

God's waiting to meet with thy God. Oh, seek ye the Lord while he may be found. Call ye upon him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his source and let him return unto the Lord.

And he will have mercy upon him. It's wonderful. God's amazing grace is there for the wicked who turn. That's all God wants. Oh, let the wicked forsake his way. God promises. The unrighteous man his source and let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him.

And to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. What more can God promise you? Nothing. You will face judgment righteously so for rejecting such a God through his word. Now is the acceptable time, the Bible promises.

Now is the acceptable time. Today is the day of salvation if you will harden not your hearts. That throws it back at you, not at God. Now is the acceptable time. Today is the day of salvation. I can save you now.

If you will harden not your hearts as in the day of provocation, that is when they hardened their hearts against God and he slew thousands without mercy because of the one thing he's warning you here.

He will have no mercy one day. If you harden your heart, you'll be destroyed and that without remedy, God has promised in this book. Oh, be careful. Be careful, Saul. You may be tempted to pursue sin a little longer.

Tragically, you will be cut off when you didn't think you could be or would be. Oh, the possibility was there, you knew that. You will be separated forever from your loved ones who prayed for you, who pled with you.

Don't doubt that you will be separated forever from your loved ones who prayed with you, who pled with you. And beloved, don't don't dare. We dare not fail to warn them. We dare not fail to warn our loved ones.

Don't leave it too late to warn them of the eternal suffering that they will face if they do not prepare themselves to meet with God. In Luke 16, verse 28, you all know this, how the rich man and Lazarus, they both died, one heaven, one in hell.

You don't wait for the eternal white throne, the great white throne to face judgment. If you die without Christ, you're judged already. You are cast the moment you die in hell. So death and hell would be a caution, the lake of fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

But at death, if you die without Christ, you go into flame. I am tormented in this flame, said Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and touch my tongue. I am tormented in this. Do you think Christ plays the fool with stories just to tickle the ears?