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February 17, 2022 8:00 am
We need some encouragement and provided together today to the Bible-based using of Dr. Don Wilton. This edition of the doctor will check for 16 as we continuing the study of life after death study know that we're here for you connecting 24 hours a day at tewonline.org oh RG now Dr. Don Wilton one, and it is reason why we can be glad is because we know that when we trust him that we are going to heaven to be with him forever.
I love you today and I thank God for each one of you. I'm going to invite you to open your Bibles to Luke's Gospel chapter 16 and I'm going to preach on my least favorite subject that I could possibly ever preach on. In fact, I would draw the knock preach on the subject. If you would beg my pardon, but I must. It is an awful subject.
This is the worst subject you've ever heard preached on it is pitiful and I wish that I didn't have to preach on. It's the saddest subject, but I've got some good news.
I'm preaching on the subject because the Bible tells us about Jesus speaks of it and not a single person needs to ever go to this place of which Jesus speaks called Hill where Luke chapter 16 in verse 19 Jesus said there was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and he lived in luxury every day. Eddie Skype was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with souls longing to eat what fell from the rich man's type. Even the dogs came by and licked the souls the time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham's side right there, and God's presence into heaven. The rich man also died, but he was very in hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and he saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by side so I called him father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue because I'm in agony in this fire but Abraham replied, son. Remember that you and your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony, and beside all of this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed so that those who would want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us and so Jansson and I beg you fall same blessings to my father's house for about five brothers who have not yet God lady morning so that they will not also come to this place of torment. Abram replied Moses and the prophets, let them hear them. He said no father Abraham. If you send somebody back from the dead, they will reprint and Abraham said to him, if I do not listen to the word of God and to the preachers of God, they will not be convinced even if someone were to come back from the data and we've already proved that Jesus was say, by inference, I have already come back from the day and the world knows and get there also many who still will not believe Jesus even went as far as to appear to over 500 people.
Often he died and rose from the date and yet they would not believe the absolute certainty of life often did. I've agonized over this. We discovered some great truths. These two men were alive just like you and me that I have to make a decision for Jesus Christ while they were alive but they both died. It was unavoidable there was nothing they could do about death comes to all people and when they did die, they were separated one wing to heaven and one window. I wish that I could sugarcoat that for you. I wish that I could try to call on the Pope called upon Dr. Billy Graham will call upon myself or our church or Constitution or tradition, or religious organization to make a pronouncement somebody with some authority some way help us please because when they died they were separated for all time and eternity. Jesus said, and we discovered some of the biblical facts that Jesus teaches about this. I called wait for next week is next week. You're not going to get on a golden chariot, like a ride like you and I cannot imagine right there in the heaven.
But before we get. They are going to deal with something I don't want to do, but if I don't tell you these things I will be disobedient to what Jesus said, he said, listen to the preachers. This is the truth. This is what you need to know, and I put a word for you today, but we discovered that hell is a place of burial. We discovered that hell is a place of torment. We've already discovered that hell is a place of last this man had a personality, a name he was recognized he had a place he had eyes last week we touched our eyes and face. Bible says he looked up and he sold. He had a tongue. He had a brain.
He had feelings we discovered that Jesus told us that all these things were there they were intact and but when you did your day. Jesus said you're wrong and it doesn't matter what your churches say and it doesn't matter what Dr. Wooton is saying and it doesn't matter what your mother and said it doesn't matter what the tradition the same and it doesn't matter what two cultures say when you're dead, you're not. This man was dated, but he was in a place of life and he was alive and I don't know how to describe how to describe somebody in hell I don't know how to describe the face. But Jesus said I had one. I don't how to describe the eyes. But Jesus said he looked up and saw I don't how to describe how you talk when you're in flames when you're being burned alive, but you never do.
I don't know how to describe it but Jesus said that's why don't you preach on these are just two remarkable like things that you are not just struggle with. But Jesus said, but we've also discovered you that this is a place of remembrance, I mean look at the Bible says in verse 25.
Remember that you give your lifetime. By the way, have you ever remembered anything of course you have. Life is full of remembering things. Well, I thought that when you die, it's over well. This man had the capacity to remember.
I don't how to describe it, and not any that Jesus was so deliberately trying to tell us about this old place folks what he's doing is he's begging us to give you give our hearts and lives. He's trying to tell us don't go there. You don't have to go day. That's what my grace is all about. My grace is sufficient for you, I died for you upon the cross. I love you God loves you give your heart to him. You don't need to go because this place is a place of remembrance, I want to be remembered. He remembered three things folks coordinate this remembered number one is lifetime. That's what Abraham said. Remember that you annual laughter in your lifetime.
That means he had the capacity to remember the span of his life off. God we remember these lifetime, but he remembered his lifestyle. What is your lifestyle on the Bible says of this man. He was a rich man dressed in purple. He lived in luxury every day. I don't think Jesus was picking on rich people. But what Jesus was saying is this man in his lifestyle had everything and evidently didn't see that his greatest need was to know the Savior during his lifetime he remembered his lifestyle.
He said you received your good things, didn't you have a goal you were born and raised in America if you begged Michael folks the word of God's applicable for anybody but if you ever wondered why you were born in some poverty-stricken pricing in Africa or South America or China or even here in the United States of America where we are surrounded by poverty by me.
Well, evidently this man was very blessed when he lived on this earth. Jesus was not condemning his blessing what he was saying this I want you to know it's harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God than it is for a camel to go through the high Veneto he so no need of God because he had everything why God why so many people in America did I say what God just the crotch on Anita crotch.
I need someone to lean on them.
I booked my box at the bull guy on the bus I got season tickets for crying in a bucket I get to tailgate the boat.
I live in I don't even go hungry. Can you see below. Us ladies and gentlemen that's what Jesus was saying this was a place of remembrance. He remembered his lifetime he remembered his lifestyle, but number three.
He remembered Lazarus all man non-way on the list for you. He remembered Lazarus. He recognized Goldie my name Lazarus, my phone rang earlier this week in a pasta frame from a neighboring state said to me brother Donna gotta tell you something said you know that book you just written the absolute certainty of laptop. Today, the said are called and they sent me a copy from the office and he said I sat down and read it.
He said my work might you write something market are set out on us and our neighbor's waited like at my life and how you write.
How do you explain someone being informing Diane not for ever being burned alive, but they never die. How do you explain it.
He said well I'm telling you this convicted me so much he say what kind of my mind was a man in my community. He's a businessman and is very well known in his community and he said I don't know what happened to me said, but when I bought this book and he said I went over to his home and on the Tony's door. He said I was shaking in my boots. I said I knew this man came to the door he'd eat me alive is a powerful businessman and the guy wasn't there so I just laid it down right there at the doorstep turnaround will go right my name and address. He said the next day, my phone rang and heart attack soon… Manny's is pretty Chani to see you. He got a Nice protocol way back to this man's home walk in the door on the first thing that this man said to him was he said preacher… Procured it. He said yes audit. He said, have you read it. He said to the preacher. The preacher said they all have our vibrated and he looked at that preacher and he said well I'm all right and I need to give my heart to Jesus.
Now if you haven't read the book all rocks. The main character, Lazarus is Billy Bob when dealing with old rock right now you know that old black lives next door to you do know that Mr. and Mrs. Albright that he or she are everywhere that you and I go there in the morning light down the street there at the bull guy am do know that Mr. and Mrs. Albright are Mr. and Mrs. America by people different from you and me. Yet Jesus said that this man died.
He went to a place of remembrance. Please forgive the eruption will be back with the rest of today's message with Dr. Don Wilton in just a moment, but he want you to know we are here for you. We love to pray with you, not just now but any time on our prayer line at 866899 word that's 866-899-WORD 9673 will also connect with great resources will help you grow in your faith resources like this. My book Saturdays with Britney is about an extraordinary relationship with a precious man who impacted lives across the world. You don't want to miss this opportunity to be inspired by his life to ending hello.
He remembered his lifestyle and he remembered his lifetime and he remembered Lazarus, Billy Bob, the servant, the man who had nothing lived in his backyard who whipped over the soul of his monster, but it's also a place of eternity. Verse 26 the word there being in. We discussed it, it means it goes on I bolus the Lord opposite of God. Would you give me something please let me call the Pope and Oscar took issue a termination to eternal damnation. I wondered about church could convene a convocation writing the southern Baptist denomination meeting in Indianapolis in June. We could bring up the subject. Maybe we could go to the Methodist so the presbyteries called the Roman Catholics, maybe we could rely on our own cultural heritage.
Somebody they somebody help us. I'm surprised nobody's got up and walked out of the service you I'm really surprised folks you wouldn't offend me if you do, but the reason I'm surprised nobody's got up and walked out is because who wants to listen to this.
I want to listen to this. I'm surprised that a parent hasn't called me yet can save preacher I want you to know I don't think children should be listening to this.
I'm surprised I'm not looking at parents with their fingers in the children's is signed by not old enough. And yet Jesus said, suffer the little children to come on to me, and forbid them not, in fact, Jesus also said it would be better that a millstone be tied around your neck and there to be dropped into the depths of the ocean and found Roldan prevent a child from coming to know Jesus Christ. Jesus said, a posture you need to understand is a lot of people not going to want to join our church man with preaching market minutes are you man we can have the biggest Google letter campaign going on in Spartanburg by going to be running to this church and the church.
They don't want to listen to this man.
There's somebody out there that's gonna cite you better get over pedestal preacher, you better calm down, but you talk to us about stuff like this. This is America.
I want you to your managing one last man to talk about these things.
It it would cost me my poop I will not stop talking about what Jesus Christ teaches us in his word. I will I love you so much as what Jesus said is not fair to me. This is not fair to me. Folks, but failed to make me have to talk to people that I love about stuff like this is not fair, but it's also a place of hopelessness.
You know, in verse 26 the Bible says you. Jesus was clear he said beside beside this, between us and you there is a great chasm is a great gulf between heaven and hell's place of hopelessness.
By the way, did you know that heaven and hell are two irreconcilable differences can never come together is hope was unattainable. Folks his broken heart was unfixable. His predicament was unresolvable. His destiny was unchangeable. Hell is a place of hopelessness never betray number seven. It's a place of pleading said our big have you ever tried to plead for something while in America we don't even really know what that is. We did not a lot of us proportionately who know what it's like to sit on the sidewalk in big folks just I'm just asking Dick do you think in the description of this man that he lived in luxury every day that he ever had to beg for anything please somebody give me something to eat please would switch somebody come and pick me up on have a motorcar to get to the shop please somebody help me to phone my refrigerator. Please do not never been to a bowl game. Would somebody give me a ticket so I can exit notable please. I don't even have a nice TV to watch.
Please would switch somebody would somebody just give me some air conditioning because I can't pay for my air-conditioning. I don't know that this man ever had to plead for anything articled one and get all three died. The Bible says he went to a place of unmitigated pleading.
It's also not made a place of earthly awareness. Now I'm turning folks. I'm about to walk out here because I don't want to accomplish. Bible says right there without any question. Jesus told us that off to this man died that he was completely aware of everything going on on the earth. I Cody was dead.
I thought that when you die that you did. I coded so Jesus said you're wrong doesn't matter how uncomfortable it makes you want to make an announcement.
I believe that unless you can prove me otherwise in the word of God. I believe, according to the word of the living God, that every person who has died outside of Jesus Christ knows exactly what you are not doing right now like in CS by watching us. But what's this guy all the biggie for those that they love. I wish I could trying describe because number nine. It's a place of futile compassion held his compassion. This is what makes us a great nation. Did you know that by the way please don't misunderstand me, but if there are some of the side relations we learn from great tragedies like 9/11, is the incredible compassion in this country. Have you noticed it wherever we were a family country or not.
That's my favorite thing you want talk to me about doing stuff I want to do for my family. I told someone the other day between my church, and between my family. I don't really have a lot of time they folks we love and and we are compassionate people, folks, we live in a caring community. I've seen a time without number, and you call go for your Carolina pregnancy, Sandra, Habitat for Humanity and Child evangelism Fellowship Church ministries all over the place of mobile mute folks. We live in a compassionate society.
This man was compassionate but the Bible say is that often he died he went to a place of futile compassion. What was he compassionate about. He had a continuing awareness. He had a continuing love. He had a continuing concern for his five brothers and for his family, but it was to not available. Let me ask you something.
He's compassion he's awareness he's love and he's concerned for his five brothers when he was alive. Could he have done something about it. You better believe I'll bet you this was the kind of man when it came to Thanksgiving everybody came to his house.
I bet he provided the barbecue safe. I mean this man could put the dinner on the type he was the centerpiece everybody came to him, but he loved, he probably love these grandkids have been sitting on his knees are bent to the number one thing he wanted to do with these grandkids did this be both guaranteeing what Albright wanted to do just what you and I want to do hold them rock type information man, not my boy how to get the ball sit in the stands go out to eat ice cream on Friday night. I mean this man was not to you and Lee was a granddaddy. He was a mess.
These kids he wanted to be around the end be the biggest. He was with compassion buddy God without Jesus Christ, and he went to a place called in the Bible save his compassion for his family continued, but he could no longer do anything about it was futile. There is only one life to live and that will soon be pasta.
It is only what is done for the Lord Jesus Christ that were lost.
What are you leaving your kids a bank balance. That's a good thing. Are you leaving them is the greatest ballplayer that ever came out of Spartanburg. That's a good thing. Are you just simply spending all your time and effort going from one game to another. Because the absolute most important thing in your life is not unimportant, but it's not the most, not the most important thing. Why are we spending time in our church holding back ministries why this week that I have to call an emergency meeting until the ministers they can't do this and cut back on that note, we can't do this and it doesn't matter about that kind you see the people's stadiums is Jesus Christ. Could be that you're one of those Jesus Christ you been listening to Dr. Don as he's been teaching and preaching from the word of God.
Now the steps in the studio share his heart. I pray you open your heart to what he wants to share next are you ready to give your heart and life to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Why don't you pray this prayer with me right now. Dear God, I know that on the center and I know that Jesus died for me on the cross today, I repent of my sins and by faith I receive you into my in Jesus name my frame. I will commute today into the family of God. This is exciting new if you just prayed with Dr. Wilton to give your life to Christ to re-dedicate your life to Jesus, you need to know we are here to encourage you to pray for you and the put some free resources in your hands the Dr. Wilson want you to have pick up the phone and give us a call once you right now at 866899 word that's 866899673. Speak with you.
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