ENTRY & END TIMES | When Christ Comes | Matthew 25:31-46 | Philip Anthony Mitchell

You could be seated. I want to say something that might sound a little inappropriate, but I just want to remind everybody this is not a black church. Don't exist here. This is the church of Jesus Christ. And we thank God for this mixture of melanin, white, black, and brown, because there is no black church here. It is only the brothers and sisters of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen, anybody. This is what heaven is going to look like. And I want you to love each other deeply, no matter the color of your skin. For we will never make skin color an idol, nor is it a God. Your skin is not an idol, nor is it a God. And I want us to love one another deeply. No matter what we look like. Amen, church. I said, amen, church. I said, amen, ecclesia of Christ. Amen, everybody. My skin color will never be a God. I got two sisters, black, married to two white men. My first best friend was a white boy in the hood in Queens, crackhead parents. We're going to love one another deeply, for love covers a multitude of sins. And we will not make our skin color an idol, or a God, whichever camp you fall into. I don't play those games. And I don't care. I ain't up here for popularity. I want to die empty and die faithful. And so if you are a guest to 2018-2019, we welcome you to this multi-ethnic, multi-generational gathering of brothers and sisters. Where we are serious about the spread of the gospel and the multiplying of disciples. And if you are one of our digital disciples watching us live right now from across the nation and around the world, we welcome you to 2018-2019. We love you, we pray for you. You are our family, and we look forward to seeing all of you in October 12th at Access at State Farm Arena. I met a teenager yesterday, 16 years of age, who said, preach a pastor, that's you. I was at the movies with my kids, and she said, I'm coming to Access. And I said to her, do you even know what it's for? She said, yeah, we're going to pray. I said, how old are you? I'm 16. I said, so you understand when we come together, we're only coming together to pray. She said, yes, and I will be there. No celebrities, no gimmicks, no stunts, no trickery, no foolishness. Just summoning the army of 2018-2019 from across the country in this hour to come together and pray. And worship Christ. And cry out to the Savior, that He may heal this nation. Amen, anybody. And if you're not a follower and you crept up in this room, man, we are glad that you're here. We welcome you to this family. We want you to know that you can belong before you believe. You can be amongst us before you believe. And I pray with tears in my eyes, that you will be brought aboard the Ark of Safety before time has run out on you. For time is running out. And for this reason, we come to the end of one of the most important series. And I will study through the book of Matthew together. A study that has taken us three years with no rush. As we are unpacking the final prophetic words of the Lord Jesus Christ and the final actions of the Lord Jesus Christ in the final days of His life. These end time teachings. Our text today is coming from Matthew 25, 31-46. And the title of this message is When Christ Comes. Spirit of the Living God. Lord, we want nothing right now but the sincere word, the milk, the meat, the bread with the oil on it. Father, you know how I have wept this morning, pleading with you even now for some type of awakening in the hearts of the sons and daughters in this moment. How I have pleaded with you this morning and even now that something would shift in the core of our hearts. How our eyes will be opened. How our lives God will be stirred and burned. Lord, please hear my Christ. Beyond a sermon, a clarion call to the sons and daughters in this hour. Help me in my weakness proclaim this truth. In the strength of the Holy Spirit I ask. In the mighty, in the majestic, in the matchless name of our soon coming King. The Lord Jesus Christ and all God's people who agree, they say amen and amen and amen. My brothers and sisters, you know this very morning as I was in my prayer closet just kind of just weeping and praying over this text. In a moment the Holy Spirit brought back to my remembrance as I was praying and weeping over this text. I was reminded by the spirit of God of a horrific dream I had long before I was saved. Still living in Queens, New York where I fell asleep on a particular night and on that night I had a horrific dream. And in the dream I was in deep blackness and a bed so dark I could see no light or no other human beings. I remember in the dream dealing with this deep foreboding that I was in a place and I had no sense of hope at all. But just hopelessness had gripped my soul in the dream. I felt immense terror like I had never felt before. I remember being trapped and felt like I was pinned down by these demonic beings that was on top of my chest. And I remember being so afraid that I could not even talk, I could not even muster a word, I could not even say anything. And as the dream went on longer and longer, man I began to sink into this deep paranoia that I was never going to say anything. That I was never going to get out of this place. It felt so real and it felt so viable. And when I thought all hope was lost in my mind I kept just hearing the name of the person who I would hear my parents talking to me about all the time in my house. I would hear the name of my parents. They would kneel down and cry out with that name. And when I could not talk because my mouth was gripped by fear in my mind I just started calling on the name of Jesus. In my mind. I kept saying Jesus help me. Jesus help me. Jesus help me. In my mind. When I could not talk I was crying out to him in my mind. And then I wake up from the dream in a panic and a cold sweat. And in that moment I felt the wind of grace. When I said to myself oh my God I'm still alive. When I thought I was about to be eternally lost I woke up and I thought oh my God I'm still alive. And you would think in that moment I would give my life to Christ and I did not. And you would think in that moment I would turn to the Lord and I did not. And I thought about in my lack of turning to him in that moment how it is lost on humanity. The seriousness of eternity that is coming for every human being and how temporal this life is. For the unbeliever it is lost on them. Hear me. Of the horrific fate that awaits them if they die in their sin apart from Christ. They have no idea of the horrific and graphic fate that awaits them. When I stroll through social media and I see unbelievers, rappers, R&B stars, athletes, ignorant people, sages, gurus, all these people in false religions. When I stroll through social media and walk the streets of Atlanta my heart be broken when I think about God. All these millions of people if they die they have no idea what they are about to suffer if they die without the safety of Christ. And then I also think it is just as tragic that it is lost on the believers. That it is lost on believers especially in America about the seriousness about eternity. A seriousness that should impact our prayers and our priorities and our passion and yet it does not for too many of us. It is only Sunday morning and there is no thought after that of the fleeting nature of this life. How all of it is temporary. Here today gone tomorrow and so we waste time and we waste days in Ansel everything that seem noble. And other things that are complete waste of time. Watch we give no thought to the great commission or we give no thought to the person who called us to himself. And called us into a kingdom and called us watch to the harvest fields. Hear me that Jesus said is ripe for harvest and yet you are at work and you don't pray. And you are on your college campus in the field and you don't pray. And you move around the city of Atlanta and you don't pray. And you come to family gatherings with unbelievers in the room and yet you don't pray. You don't pray. We are in the harvest field that is so ripe and yet we are not prepared laborers for that harvest. And I think this is a tragedy in the American church and it is a tragedy because of all the things Christ taught. There is almost nothing he taught more than anything outside of what is going to happen in eternity and the end time teachings. We won't fear any teachings of Christ in the New Testament more than except the sermon on the Mount. The words of Christ about the end times and about the signs of the end and about the things that's coming for all humanity. Like this text that we approach today. How you know the setting for the very last time Christ on the Mount of Olives. Just outside Jerusalem. His followers ask him a simple question. When will these things be? And what will be the sign of your coming and the end of the age? And then what you and I have preserved for us in Matthew 24 and Matthew 25 is the longest recorded answer of Christ to any question he's ever been asked. Two whole chapters. Matthew devotes to the answer of Christ about his prophecies about the end times. His prophecies about the signs of the end of the age. Things that I'm going to tell you again for the last time. We are seeing the beginning of all those things right now while we're sleeping on the job. He prophesies about his coming and then to strengthen his argument about his coming. He gave his followers three parabolic story illustrations to give them warning about the end times. He talked to them about the faithful and the unfaithful steward. Why? Because he wanted them everybody to watch. Be ready. He taught them and taught you and I about the parable of the ten virgins. Why? Because he wanted you to be ready. Then he taught us about the parable of the talents. Why? Because he wanted you to be ready. Ready for what? Ready for what we come to right now in this text. A text so serious. So graphic. So important. That man I could barely study every time I looked at this text this week. I would just burst into tears. I shed this drips of tears all over the pages of my Bible as I'm reading this text to myself. Over and over and over this week my Bible carries the stain of my tears that has fallen on the pages this week. As I thought about the implications of this text and who it affects in the end. Matthew who was present in that moment he records the final eschatological words of Christ before he is crucified. Matthew recorded that Jesus said these words, hear the words of your Savior carefully today. The Lord said, not Philip said, the Lord said, hear the words of the Lord. Matthew 25 verse 31, the Lord said, when the Son of man comes in his glory and all of the angels with him, he will sit down on his glorious throne. Now I want to draw your attention to the word when. Very, very important word. This is not hyperbole. This is not a parable. This is a prophecy of Christ. When, meaning no one will stop this event from happening. He is coming again. Now there are too many people living life who don't know what happened. Don't know what's happening now. Don't know what's about to happen because they don't have a biblical worldview. And for those of us who are followers of Christ, we should have a biblical worldview. That is you should see the world through the lens of a biblical context. To see the world through a biblical worldview, you will understand five things very importantly. You will understand that in the beginning God created a perfect world. And that world was spotless and without blemish. That is creation. We would understand that mankind rebelled against God and because of their rebellion, sin and death into the world. And because of that we deal with sickness and disease and murder and war and insecurity and violence and shame and rape and molestation. We deal with all of that. How could a loving God exist while mankind is suffering because you don't have a biblical worldview? A loving God exists when you understand a biblical worldview because we understand because of the fall part two. We live in a world that is broken. Then we understand because of a biblical worldview we are living in an era right now called redemption. This era between when Christ came and that all the way through the end of the tribulation period where all God is doing right now, watch, is issuing invitation. All God is doing right now in this era, issuing invitation to human beings and we are living in an era where people who are hearing that invitation are coming aboard the Ark of Safety. They are being saved and this generation, watch, this invitation eventually will go silent. And what is coming next is what we read today in the text. What is coming next? Fourth word, consummation. The end of all things as we know it is the next thing on the clock. And following consummation is the fifth word, new creation. The brand new heaven and the brand new earth that only the redeemed will live in. And so when we have a biblical worldview, oh my God, oh my God, when we have a biblical worldview, you understand that the breath you're taking right now is in the era of redemption and the thing that is most important to God now is the fishing of men. The harvest, there's nothing more important to him. So if we're in about that with him, what are we about? If we're not partnered with him in our prayers and our labor and our giving, if we're not partnered with him, then what is your Christianity about right now? It is fluff, it is boring devotionals, it is dumb books, it is conferences that have no meaning. It's us going to service and then going to dinner and then not caring about this until next Sunday. If your heart and your giving and your life and your prayers and your mind is not partnered with God in the redemption of souls, if that is the thing that is most important to him right now, and we're not about that life, then what life are we about as Christians? And the reason we're not about that life, because you're too attached to right now. When was the last time you was in prayer and said, Lord, I look forward to the day that I will be with you. You've never said that because you're too attached to right now. You think this is the best that God has to offer. But the Lord prophesied that all of this is coming to an end. Watch, when is it coming to an end? When the Son of Man comes, how will he come in glory? You remember what he taught? The sun will be darkened. The moon will not give its light. The cosmic powers of the heavens will be shaken and the stars will fall from heaven. The world will be in blackness. Everybody's staring at the sky, confused and terrorized during the tribulation period and then the sign of the coming of the Son of Man. We will see him. Every eye will see him coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory, with flashes of light and thunder and lightning. He will burst the sky and everybody will see him coming in the sky with power and great glory. And the world will mourn and tremble. And he will not be alone. I'll torture this. He says all of his angels will be with him. He will be coming with millions and billions of angels, an army coming behind him and with those angels, you and I, who would have been raptured, will be coming with him behind him on the clouds of heaven, riding on our horses in glory. That's all of Revelation 19. It's all in the book. He's coming with angelic beings. He's coming with the raptured church. Read Revelation 19. It's in the book. But watch. But when he comes, what will he come and do? He will sit down on his throne. To sit down on a throne is to communicate to everyone alive at the end of the tribulation. I have all authority now. The Antichrist no more. Your favorite president no more. I, Jesus, on the earth. Now I will be the last president on the earth. No more Republican party. No more Democratic party. No more parliament. When Jesus returns, he will be the last president in history, period. Now pay attention. Look at me. The Lord Jesus is not a spook. I just want to remind you theologically he has a physical body. And I just want to remind you theologically he is seated somewhere right now. That according to that book, he is temporarily, right now he is temporarily, watch the word, temporarily, we're seated at the, he's seated right now at the right hand of the father. Or on a throne. Watch. But the throne he is seated on now, according to Hebrews, the unknown writer is a throne of grace. It's a throne that the unbeliever can cry out, save me while there is still time. Watch this. It's a throne when the unbeliever can repent while there is still time. It's a throne when God might hear the cry of the unbeliever. While there is still time. It's the throne that the believer can go to him about any problem in life. Any issue. Any financial issue. Marital issue. Anything you're dealing with in this life, Hebrew tells us it's a throne we can come to how? Holy. In times of need for what? Mercy. And what? Grace. So right now that throne, watch this, is open. I'm going somewhere. But when he comes, he will switch thrones. He will go from a throne of grace to a throne of judgment. He will switch thrones. He will switch seats. From a throne of grace, he will switch seats to a throne of judgment. A throne where there is no second chance. There is no more grace. There is no more crying out. There is no more Lord help. There will be no more. When he sits on that second throne, everybody's fate will be sealed. That mankind better take advantage of where he's sitting now. Because where he's going to sit, they're not going to be ready for where he's going to sit. While you're playing church. Go right. Keep playing church. He will switch seats. And he will sit on a throne of judgment. Verse 32. And before him will be gathered all the nations, the ethnos. And he will separate people one from another as the sheep separates, as the shepherd separates sheep from goats. And he will place the sheep on his right hand. But the goats he will place on his left hand. Now, the Lord prophesied, look at me, that when he comes back from heaven to the earth, he's going to set up his kingdom on the earth. The scripture teaches us it will be a millennial kingdom, a thousand years before he recreates everything. He will dwell as the final president on the earth. He will reign from Jerusalem on the throne of judgment. And when he comes somehow supernaturally by the power of the spirit, he's going to summon all the people, groups of the world to his presence. And now, watch, with everybody standing before the Lord, as he's seated on the throne of judgment. No second chance, no grace, no arguments. He's going to divide humanity in half. On his right hand, which is the hand of honor, he's going to put the sheep. On the left hand, which is the left hand of disgrace, he's going to put the goats. In the first century, the right hand was the hand of favor. Because they didn't have toilet paper, in the first century, they wiped their behind with their left hand and washed it in running water. This is the hand of disgust, the hand of disgrace. He will put the sheep on his right hand, the hand of favor, and the goats on his left hand. So he will separate the world into only two groups, the only two groups that exist today. The saved and the unsaved. I'm Christian, I'm Muslim, I'm Buddhist, I'm atheist, I'm agnostic. You can claim whatever you want. In the eyes of God, there are only two groups in the world. Those who are saved and those who are not. And he's going to divide them. He will typecast the believer as sheep, dasa, gentle, needing a shepherd. He typecast the unbeliever as a goat, while rambunctious, don't want to be led. And notice when he comes, there is no middle group. There is no purgatory group. There is no pray them out of group. He's going to divide the whole world into the saved and the unsaved. No middle group, no middle ground, and in that moment, everybody's fate will be sealed. This can happen in our lifetime. Because I believe we're living in the end times right now. And because we're living in end times right now, the rapture can happen in our lifetime. The tribulation can happen in our lifetime. This prophetic event, it was distant future for the followers of Christ. It is near future for us. This can happen right now in our lifetime. Because he comes what? Immediately after the tribulation, that's only seven years. The rapture happened next year, and the tribulation after that, ten years from now, Christ could be here. Verse 34, then the king will say to those on his right hand, Come, the last invitation ever given. You who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom. Watch this, prepared for you from the foundation of the world. I feel the spirit today. He's going to give his last invitation, not to the unbeliever. He's going to give his last invitation to the followers of Christ. He's going to say to them, now that you have ended your labors. These are all the people that survived the tribulation, all of us who are alive. He's going to say, now come, watch, come, inherit the kingdom that has been prepared for you from the foundation of the world. He gives one last invitation, come in here. I'm setting up an earthly kingdom. Now you guys come in, watch and inherit the kingdom. He said, you who are blessed of my Father, that word blessed of my Father is you who have been saved by the goodness of God. Not those who have been saved by morality, lies. Those who have been saved by good behavior, lies. Those who have been saved by church attendance, lies. Those who have been saved because you were baptized as a baby, lies. Those who have been saved because you was christened at three, lies. Those who have been saved not by anything they can boast in. Those who have been blessed by the Father, those who have been saved by grace and grace alone. Now your time for reward has come. Man, I'm looking forward to this day. Y'all hitting the head. If you think all you want is this, I'm looking forward to the day when he says for the last time, come, watch. He says to them, watch this, inherit. Who gets an inheritance? The only people that gets an inheritance are people who are connected to somebody greater by blood or by a contract. The only people that get inheritance are people who are connected to someone else by blood or by a contract. The last time I checked, I was saved by the blood of the Lamb. I was washed in the blood of the Lamb. I've been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. So because I'm covered in this blood, I am eligible for my inheritance. And then here is my documentation that told me everything I'm going to get in my inheritance. Everything that's coming in my trust fund. Everything he set aside for those who have been redeemed. Here is my contract. I'm holding in my hand my contract of the new covenant that I made with you. This is powerful to me. Y'all crazy. If you're not excited about what's coming, I'll hold in my hand the contract of what's been promised to me. Read the end of Revelation. You see what's coming in your contract. Oh preacher, tell us we're going to be blessed and we're going to get the house we want. I'm telling you right now you're going to be blessed when you get the inheritance you really want. What are we talking about? You want to talk about houses and cars? Or you want to talk about what you're going to inherit in the world to come? What are we talking about? I ain't wasting time with you. I ain't got time to profit life to you. I'm prophesying what the Lord Jesus said. Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom that has been prepared for you from the beginning of the world. Somebody give him praise for the kingdom. I ain't worried about no house. What's talking about? That's bottom shelf blessing. Worrying about no job? That's bottom shelf blessing. He is Jehovah Jireh. I ain't worried about no enemies. He is my defender. That's all bottom shelf blessing. I'm thinking about this knucklehead from Queens. New York is going to be in glory, but the one who saved me, man. Now he tells them the reason that these at the end of the millennial radies at the end of the tribulation period, I mean we'll be there, but in context, he's talking to those at the end of the tribulation. Now he watches. Those who survived the tribulation, now he tells them why they got the invitation. Now pay attention, because there's prescriptive theology for you. Why did they get the invitation? Verse 35, 4, I was hungry. And you gave me food. I was thirsty. And you gave me drink. I was a stranger. And you welcomed me. I was naked or have clothes. And you clothed me. I was sick. And you visited me. I was in prison. And you came to me. I want to draw your attention to the word for. The word for communicates the reason for the invitation. He said, you got the reason for the invitation is because all these things you were doing during the tribulation is the evidence that you really put your faith in me. He said, here is the marks, the evidence that you really put your faith in me, that during the times of hardship, you were doing all of these kind deeds, all of this gospel compassion, taking care of one another, loving on people, helping people. Helping people. You were doing all of these things during the tribulation. These are the evidence that they will really save. It's called, watch this word, fruit. I'm saved. We don't see no fruit. Y'all be looking at all these people on social media. I'm a Christian. Really? We're looking for fruit. Yeah. I'll never be impressed by seeing people a profile Christian, or you seeing somebody by your Christian. You reckless, you wild, and you crazy, but I'm a Christian. Y'all see people in society do this all the time. They always attach Christian because they know that label will get them some clout in the street. But what we're looking for is not a title. What we're looking for is fruit. We're looking for watch this word, evidence that you belong to God. And the evidence that somebody's really saved, watch what flows out of them. Love, compassion, mercy, generosity, helping other people in need, inviting people into your home, taking in orphans and widows, helping the person on the street, helping the poor, helping missionaries, supporting gospel ministry. The evidence that you're really a Christian, we see the acts of love pouring out of your life. No fruit, no credibility. Anybody impressing me with a title Christian? No fruit, no credibility. Verse 37, then the righteous, who? The righteous will answer him saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or imprisoned and visit you? And the King, notice he's not calling himself the Son of Man. Notice he switched his own title from Son of Man to King. Notice he switched his own title now. Now that I'm back on the earth, no more Son of Man. Now I'm King. And the King will answer them and say, truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these, my brothers, you did it to me. Full stop. Now the righteous in the end get a revelation. Oh snap. Watch this. They're confused. They're saying, Lord, when did we do this for you? Watch this. Their confusion is a sign to us that they were doing these things without looking for applause. The fact that they're confused, Lord, when we do this, that means all this time they were doing good, they were doing it and it wasn't contrived. They were doing it from their heart. They were doing it because they were full of the Spirit. They were doing it because they had the character of Christ. They were loving on people without looking for applause. That's why they're surprised. Lord, when did we do this for you? And he said, in as much as you did this for the least of my brothers, you've done this for me. Now a third group shows up in the text. Who is the least of my brothers? These are all of the people, mostly Jews, who will be persecuted during the Tribulation. You ain't even seen a Holocaust yet. Watch. Who watches? Don't got time to teach us. I need to teach Revelation. Who did not take the mark of the beast. The Scripture says in the last days, during the days of the Antichrist, there will be a mark of the beast, right-hand or forehead. And unless somebody has that mark, they cannot buy or sell. If you don't have the mark, you cannot buy or sell. Can't get food. Can't get groceries. Can't rent an apartment. Can't buy a car. Can't pay bills. Won't get a job. That means Christians in the end will live nomadic. They will suffer brutally for the faith. But those who are a little bit well off, they see their brothers and sisters suffering, and they're caring for them. They're taking them into their homes. They're giving them food. They're giving them clothes. They're hiding out in caves. They're saying, I have an apple. You can have half. I have a loaf of bread. You can have half. I got this out the trash can. You can have half. They're sharing with one another. The prescriptive theology for you and I is that if we are really safe, we will see this coming out of your life. We will see acts of kindness coming out of your life. If everybody under the sign of my voice, if you're really a father of Christ, we will see the evidence of this coming out of your life. We will see love coming out of your life. You will be making the love of God tangible. You will be giving. You will be helping people, inviting people into your home, taking in orphans and widows, helping missionaries, supporting gospel ministry, helping to pour on the side of the road. I'm at war part, give a dollar to the homeless man. We will see acts of kindness and benevolence pouring out of your life. It's the Lord saying, don't be selfish. It's the Lord saying, don't live self-absorbed. It's the Lord saying, serve M25. It's the Lord saying, do outreach. It's the Lord saying, support outreach. It's the Lord saying, where is the... It's the Lord blessing those who have the evidence of salvation. If you are really a father of Christ under my voice, we will see things like this. Watch, pouring out of your life. I did not ask you when was the last time you helped anybody. Watch this, with no strings attached. All right, let's land the plane. Everybody look, because that's what's going to happen for the whole, the righteous. Where the righteous going? They're going into the kingdom. You know why the Lord is separating humanity? He's about to, he's going to separate humanity when he comes. Everybody look at me. He's going to separate humanity when he comes. Listen, because when Jesus establishes his millennial kingdom on the earth, read about it in the book of Revelation, no sinner can go in there. That means when he comes, he will remove from the earth every person who's not saved. All right, let me let me let that settle on you. When Christ physically bodily returns to, this is serious, there's so many of your family members are going to be there. When he physically returns to the earth, he will separate humanity. Why? Because no unsaved person can go into the kingdom. So if they can't go into the kingdom, where will they go? They can't stay on the earth. Why? Because since he will rule the earth, no sinner can be there with him. Okay, Lord help us. Since this is not in the sky, since Christ will be ruling on the earth and no unbeliever can go into the kingdom, that means no unbeliever can stay on the earth. He has to dispose of them somewhere. Did you catch that? Since no unbeliever can go into the kingdom and since his kingdom will cover the whole world, that means no unbeliever can remain standing on two legs. He has to do something with all those goats. What is he going to do with them? 41. Then he will say to those on his left, since you cannot come into the kingdom, that's going to run the whole world. The most dreadful words human beings are going to hear when the Lord comes. Some of your family members are going to be there because you don't pray for them. Some of your uncles are going to be there. Some of your parents are going to be there. Some of y'all got friends in school. They sit next to you at a desk. They're going to be here. He's going to say to them, Lord help us. Depart from me. You who are cursed. You who are damned into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. So everybody who's not saved, they can't stay on the earth. He will send them straight into eternal fire. They will lose their life on this side and immediately wake up in the eternal flames. They cannot stay on the earth. Now, you say God is cruel. I say you don't read. He said the eternal fire was prepared not for humans. It was prepared for the devil and his angels. He said preach, I don't understand. The devil was not always Satan. He was Lucifer, an angelic being who lived in the presence of God. According to the scriptures, he rebelled against God and took a third of the angels with him. They were cast out of heaven. Those angels became demons that roamed the earth. Now listen to me carefully. The Lord never intended for anybody to be in hell. It wasn't part of his original program. But when Satan rebelled and when those angels rebelled, now they can't come back to heaven. So he has to create a place to bound them for eternity. God, Lord. So God creates a place to house Satan forever and those demons forever. Watch. And Satan knows where he's going. Prove it to me, Philip. When Jesus was being tempted in the wilderness, Jesus quoted the scriptures and said it is written. But Satan also quoted the scriptures and said it is written. Go read Matthew chapter 4 for yourself. Jesus says it is written. Satan says it is written. Both of them are quoting the Bible. That's why you have to know the difference when you listen to people. Oh, he's a great preacher. She's a great preacher. Jesus says it is written. The devil says it is written. You have to know the difference between who you're listening to. If Satan was quoting the scriptures in the temptation of Christ, that means he knows the Bible. I'm about to help y'all. He already knows where he's going in the end. He knows that there was no escape from that sentence. Now watch. But because he knows there's no escape, he does not want to go there alone with his demons. So what the devil is doing in this era of redemption is working overtime to take as many human beings with him as possible. He wants to make sure he arrives. So people who end up in hell, the Lord never intended for a human being to be there. But if you follow Satan in this life, you will follow him all the way. Right? So how does he trick people to go in there? False religions. Raise up progenitors. Let us stray by demons. Create a new religion. Now you have millions of people in a new religion disconnected from Christ. All of them headed to hell. Raise up mystics. Raise up psychics. Raise up pretty women on social media and handsome men on social media who are spiritual leaders disconnected from the Bible, leading thousands of people astray. He's doing everything he can to trick as many people as possible to not go to heaven. This is why the Bible is banned in multiple nations all around the world. But the Koran is not banned. The Bible is banned. Why is the Bible banned in multiple nations around the world? But the Koran is not banned. The devil has no need to ban what belongs to him. There's no false religions banned around the world. The only religion that's banned around the world is book. Banned around the world is Christianity. Banned around the world is Christianity. And unfortunately, watch this word, the majority of humanity is going to end up there. Pritcha, how could you say that? Jesus says, broad is the road that leads to destruction. But narrow is the road that leads to life. Watch this word and see. People are on it. That means the majority of humanity is going to end up with Satan. Because they don't want God. They don't want Christ. They don't want the Scriptures. They don't want accountability. They will even know Christ now as the loving Savior or meet him later at a wrathful judge. Help us Lord. Help us Lord. Help us Lord. Thank you. Thank you. Like that baby is crying. It's the way we need to start crying for everybody who's not saved. I'm telling you right now. And then verse 42, why are they going there? For I was hungry and you gave me no food. I was thirsty and you gave me no drink. I was a stranger and you did not welcome me. I was naked and you did not clothe me. I was sick and in prison and you did not visit me. That is, I saw no fruit in your life. No evidence who belonged to me. Verse 44, then they will answer saying, Lord, when did we see you? Hungry or thirsty or stranger or naked or sick or in prison. And we didn't minister to you. You know what you hear in their voice? Terror. They're afraid. They know in this moment they're headed to damnation and they can't escape. Now they're begging for grace. Lord, when did we see you and not help you? When did we do that Lord? You hear in their voice? Terror. They know they can't go into the kingdom. They know they're going to hell. And now they say, Lord, no, no, no, no, no. When did we see you and not hungry and not feed you and not help you? Lord, when did we do that Lord? No, no, no, no. Then he will answer them and say, truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of these, the lease of these, you did not do it to me. You know why people are headed to hell? For what they don't do. You know why the majority of human beings, even people sitting in churches, are going to end up in damnation? Keep playing around. It's for what they don't do. They don't confess their sin. They don't repent. They don't turn to Christ. They don't stop playing church. They don't stop playing with God. They don't read. They don't pray. They don't help nobody. They don't sow. They don't give. They're not generous. All that talk, no evidence. And the last verse, and these will go away into eternal punishment. But the righteous into eternal life. And now in this moment, I want to call us to pray. Because I think we will be foolish if we run out of hand. Don't pray. What are we praying for? We about to take a moment and pray for every person we know who's not saved. Because they are headed for a horrific ending. Your uncles, your cousins, your parents, your friends, your coworkers at your job, your campus mates. How about this? Half the people following you on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. We would be foolish to leave this room in a moment like this and not stop to pray. For family members and friends. I'm telling you right now, the majority of people we know are going to end up here if we don't stand in the gap. You think this is a game? People are going to meet this fate when the Lord comes, or they're going to meet this fate when they die, whichever one comes first. You think this is a game? So right now in this moment, everybody who's a believer pray. Just take a moment and start praying for family members and friends who are not saved. Just pray for just, don't be selfish. Come on. I just have to, the unrighteous are going to eternal damnation and the righteous into eternal life. Only two fates, two destinations, two endings. Pray. Pray. This is what the church is supposed to do. Pray. This is what Jesus asked of you. My house will be a house of prayer. Pray. Pray. You know people who are not saved. Pray. You got friends who are not saved. Pray. You got family members who are not saved. Pray. You got loved ones with your last name who are not, they are headed for a horrific ending. Pray. Man, cry out for them. Your aunts, your uncles, your cousins, your friends, your followers on social media. Pray. Pray. Pray. Time is running out. Pray. If you can't pray right now, I don't even know if you're saved. That means you're dead of the spirit. You don't care about the loss. You don't care about people heading to hell. And if you're in this room and you can't pray, you are lost. You know what you need to be doing right now, repenting. You know what you need to be doing? Every person listening to my voice, you can't pray for anybody saved? Because you're not saved. You need to be crying out to God. You need to be asking Him, Lord, oh my God, forgive me for my sins. I surrender. I see a man on his knees in the back. You in this room, you in the overflow, you hear my voice. You need to be asking God, forgive me for my sins. Save me, Lord. Deliver me, Lord. You need to be crying out for salvation. He's sitting on the throne of grace, but He will not sit there forever. His next throne will be one of judgment. You need to be praying for forgiveness. You may not get another opportunity. You may not see next week. You may not see tomorrow morning. You need to be begging God, Lord, forgive me, please. Turn this room into access. Pray. Turn this room into access. Pray. If you got to get on your knees, you can do that. If you want to walk the aisle, you can do that. You can do whatever makes you comfortable. I don't care. What time is it? We're going to take two minutes. Turn this room into access and pray. Whatever you got to do, you can walk. You can get in the aisle. You can kneel down. You can do whatever you want. You need to pray. There are too many people attached to you who are headed to hell. You need to pray. We're praying right now. We turned this room into access. We pound heaven right now. You need to lay down. You can lay down. You need to put your face on the floor. You can put your face on the floor. You need to get on your knees. You can get on your knees. Pray. Pray. Pray. The Lord is coming. Pray. The Lord is coming. Pray. The Lord is coming. Pray. Pray. The Lord is coming. Pray. Pray! Pray! Pray! Pray! Pray! Pray! Pray! Pray! Pray! Pray! Pray! Hallelujah Lord! Hallelujah Jesus! Glory to your name Father God! Pray! Hallelujah Lord! Lord God, we repent God right now God! We repent God before we ask you for anything God! We say purify our heart Lord! God we say God we are sorry God for the ways that we breathe you God! We say that we are sorry God for our unrepentant sin God! God we lay down the altar God! Father God we pray for every loved one God! Pray! Every neighbor God! Every fan God! Every co-worker that doesn't know you Father! God we pray Lord! You withdraw them to yourself God! God I pray Lord God! That you withdraw them to yourself God! God I pray Lord God! That you would give them a conviction God! For holiness God! God I pray Lord that they would repent of their sins God and they would turn to you God! God you said in your word that it is the goodness of the Lord! That leads people to repentance God! And I pray Lord that they would see your goodness God! And they would want to change their ways God! God I pray Lord God that you would open their blinded eyes! Open their hearts God! To receive God! To see you rightly God! God I pray Lord God that you would draw them to yourself God! Draw them God! Draw them God! Draw them God! Draw them God! Draw them God! We don't want to see them in hell God! We pray Lord God that you would open their eyes God! Open their hearts God! Open their hearts God! Open their eyes! Open their spirits God! To what you want to do with them Lord! God we ask you God for souls Lord! We ask you God for souls Lord! We ask you God that you would save them God! We ask you God that you would save them God! We ask you God that you would save them God! We don't want to see anyone lost the Lord! We pray for the sinner! We pray for the unbeliever God! Draw them to yourself Lord! Draw them draw them draw them draw them God! Father God I pray Lord that they would feel us through you! That they would feel you through us God! That we would be your hands and feet Jesus God! That we would be willing to put ourselves on the line God to be used by you God! Use us to draw them in! Use us to love them into the kingdom! Use us God to disciple them into the kingdom Lord! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Thank you! Praise! Praise! Praise! Praise! Your kingdom come! Your will be done! On earth as it is in heaven! Say! Set free! Heal! Yalimba! Rescue Lord! Hallelujah! Hallelujah Lord! Hallelujah Lord! Hallelujah! Time is running out! Time is running out! Praise! Praise! Praise! Praise! Praise! Praise! Praise! Praise! Praise! Praise! Praise! Praise! Praise! Praise! Praise! Praise! Praise! Praise! Praise! Praise! Praise! Praise! Praise! Praise! Praise! Eternal God, for you seal this moment, you would hear the cries of the unbeliever, unto repentance, and the cries of the believer, the salvation of those we love. See our tears. Hear our pleas. Save, heal, deliver, awaken the saint in this hour to mission and bring the unbeliever to the foot of the cross in this hour. Let revival break out in this city and in this nation and the world before the end has come. We pray, laborers, to be sent into the harvest that is ripe for harvest. Hear these prayers. Father, and the mighty, and majestic, like the cries of that baby, hear our cries, and the matchless name of our soon-coming King, the Lord Jesus Christ. And all God's people said, Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. They're going to have to wait until everybody coming for the next gather and they got to wait. I'm not rushing these people out of here. They're just going to have to wait. I'm sorry, BMAC. 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Save us Save us Save us Save us Your church is calling We say save us Save us Save us Save us We're creating on behalf of the generation Say save us Save us Save us Save us Save us Save us Save us Save us Save us Save us I'm going to be a great man. Everybody lift your hands. Everyone. Just lift them. Just lift them. Just lift them high. Everyone. Everyone. Just lift them high. Lift them. Lift them. No announcements. No offering. The Lord bless you. The Lord keep you. The Lord make his face. To shine upon you. And give you peace. Now and forevermore. Go in peace. In Jesus name.