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Robert Jeffress - Final Judgment (Part 2)

April 30, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - Final Judgment (Part 2)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Final Judgment (Part 2) | April 30, 2026
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  • Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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  • Again to judge the unrighteous in an event we call
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  • The great white throne judgment.
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  • Jeffress: you see the bible teaches that during the
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  • Millennium, there will be christians
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  • With two different kinds of bodies.
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  • Some of us, the church, will have our resurrection bodies,
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  • But there'll be a group of christians who survive the
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  • Tribulation that enter the millennium in their
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  • Natural bodies.
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  • You say, "well, that's the oddest thing i've ever heard.
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  • I mean, that's science fiction.
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  • How would believers with two different kinds of bodies exist
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  • And have fellowship with one another?"
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  • We just think about jesus christ after his resurrection from
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  • The dead.
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  • He, uh, had a new body for forty days, and yet he was able to
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  • Fellowship with his disciples and their natural bodies.
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  • It will be a pic, that's a picture of what will happen
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  • During the millennium, and that is the only explanation for how
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  • There can be both birth and death in the millennium.
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  • For example, going back to that verse we've looked at several
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  • Times, isaiah 65, verse 20,
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  • "no longer will there be in it, [talking about
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  • The millennium,] an infant who lives but a few days."
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  • There are gonna be babies in the millennium.
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  • How does that happen?
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  • In luke, chapter 20, verses 35 and 36 says,
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  • [you and i in our resurrected bodies won't be
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  • Able to procreate]...
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  • You know, no more pampers...
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  • You know, no need for that any longer.
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  • We won't be having children.
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  • But yet the millennium says there will be infants in
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  • The millennium.
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  • But he goes on to say, "or will there be an old man who does not
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  • Live out his [days]; for [the youth]
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  • Will die at [the age of] one hundred.
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  • The one who [does not reach the age of]
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  • One hundred will be thought to be accursed."
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  • Not only will there be birth in the millennium, there'll be
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  • Death in the millennium.
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  • It'll be later in life, but it will occur.
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  • "well, how can that happen?
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  • We're in our resurrection bodies and there is no death in our
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  • Resurrection bodies."
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  • The only explanation is there are christians who enter the
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  • Millennium in their natural bodies, they will have children,
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  • And those children will be deceived, some of them by satan.
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  • You know, that's an amazing thing when you think about it.
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  • After living under the rule of christ for a thousand years,
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  • Having experienced the blessing of christ ruling, some will be
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  • Deceived and actually choose to follow satan.
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  • But ladies and gentlemen, the fact is every believer has to
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  • Make a choice.
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  • Every person who's ever lived, and whatever age you live,
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  • Starting in the garden of eden, has had to make an individual
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  • Choice rather to follow god or follow satan.
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  • And this this is the reason god says, "he must be released for a
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  • Little while."
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  • Every person, whoever lives on this planet has to be given that
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  • Choice of following god or following satan.
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  • And so, the bible says, "satan will be released."
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  • He will deceive some, but it won't be a deception that will
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  • Last for all, because in revelation, chapter 20,
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  • Verse 9, ["god sends a fire.
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  • He devours those who have opposed him."]
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  • And verse ten says, "[he then takes satan and he drops him]
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  • Into the lake of fire where the beast and the false
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  • Prophet [are.]"
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  • And that prepares the way for
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  • This judgment we're looking at,
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  • The great white throne judgment.
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  • Turn over to revelation chapter
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  • 20, beginning with verse 11.
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  • There are some people
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  • Who believe, some christians, that
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  • There's only one judgment at the end of time, one judgment for
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  • Both believers and unbelievers.
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  • But the bible does not teach that.
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  • There is a judgment for christians.
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  • We're gonna talk about that judgment next week that you and
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  • I are going to face.
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  • It's the judgment called, "the judgment seat of christ."
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  • But there's another judgment for unbelievers that we're looking
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  • At today, the great white throne judgment.
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  • Look at the description of that
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  • Judgment in verse 11.
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  • John says, "and i saw a great
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  • White throne and him who sat
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  • Upon it, from whose presence
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  • Earth and heaven fled away and
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  • No place was found for them."
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  • As john looked, he saw a single solitary throne
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  • Suspended in space.
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  • Heaven and earth were gone at this point.
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  • What happened to the heaven and earth?
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  • See that white space in your bible between verse ten
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  • And eleven?
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  • See a little white space there?
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  • In that white space, this earth and this heaven were destroyed
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  • By fire.
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  • Just in second peter, chapter 3 verses 10 and 11 state,
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  • That "[one day this present heaven and earth being
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  • Reserved for judgment will be destroyed by fire.]"
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  • And when we get to the satan's judgment in verse 10 and then
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  • To verse 11, the judgment of all unbelievers, in between
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  • Those two verses, the present heaven and earth fled away; that
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  • Is, they were destroyed.
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  • And so, john only sees someone sitting on this great
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  • White throne.
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  • Now notice, this is completely different from the picture in
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  • Revelation four verse two, where at the beginning of the
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  • Tribulation, john looked into heaven and he saw god the father
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  • On a throne surrounded by the twenty-four elders, the church,
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  • And he saw the rainbow surrounding the throne, and
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  • Peals of lightning, and, and the sounds of thunder.
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  • That's not this picture.
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  • This picture is of a single solitary throne and it has a
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  • Different occupant on it.
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  • The occupant is not god the father.
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  • It is jesus christ, the son.
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  • Who is it that is going to be judged by jesus, the son?
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  • Notice, the subjects of the great white throne judgment in
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  • Verses 12 and 13, john says,
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  • "and i saw the dead, the great and the small,
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  • Standing before the throne, and the books were opened."
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  • Skip down to verse 13, "and the sea gave up the dead
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  • Which were in it, death and hades gave up the dead, which
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  • Were in them, and they were judged every one of them
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  • According to their deeds."
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  • Remember what i just said?
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  • When an unbeliever dies, no matter when it happens, his body
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  • Goes into the grave, but his spirit, the real part of him,
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  • Goes to this place called hades.
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  • It's a temporary waiting place for the unsaved, but it is a
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  • Horrible place.
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  • Jesus talked about it in luke sixteen, in the parable of the
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  • Rich man and lazarus.
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  • Remember the rich man opened his eyes and he found himself in
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  • This horrible place called hades.
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  • The bible says hades is the place where all and believers
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  • Are deposited until the final judgment.
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  • And at the great white throne judgment, john says, in verse
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  • Thirteen, hades regurgitated all of the unsafe dead from the
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  • Beginning of time to stand before this great white throne,
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  • In judgment.
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  • The subjects of the great white throne judgment are unbelievers.
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  • And how are they judged?
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  • What is the basis for their judgment?
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  • Go back to verses 12 and 13: "and i saw the dead,
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  • The great and the small, standing before the throne, and
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  • The books," underline that, "were opened and another book,"
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  • Singular, underlying that, "was opened."
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  • What is that book?
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  • It is the book of life.
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  • "but the dead were judged from the things that were written in
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  • The books," plural, not the book, the book of life.
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  • They were judged by the things which were written in the books
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  • According to their deeds.
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  • "and the sea gave up the dead which were in it and the death
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  • And hades gave up the dead which were in them and they were
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  • Judged every one of them according to their deeds,"
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  • Their works.
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  • Did you know god keeps two sets of books on all of us?
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  • There is "the book" and there are "the books."
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  • "the book" is what the bible calls the lamb's book of life
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  • (revelation 13, verse 8).
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  • It is a book that is a record of everyone who is saved, of
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  • Everyone who is trusted in christ as a savior.
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  • And you know what revelation 13:8 says?
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  • It says that book was written before the foundation of
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  • The world.
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  • Every name was entered into it before the foundation of
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  • The world.
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  • You probably thought, like i used to hear people say, "well,
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  • When somebody walks down the aisle and trusts in christ, the
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  • Savior, god pulls out his pen and writes his name in the book
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  • Of life."
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  • Doesn't happen that way.
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  • The book is finished.
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  • All of the names have already been written in it that will
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  • Ever be written in it.
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  • Revelation 13:8, "before the foundation of the world."
  • 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:07.643
  • And we say, well, how did god do that?
  • 00:13:07.643 --> 00:13:10.412
  • Did he write people's names?
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  • On what basis were those names written?
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  • Did god write down the names of people he knew would trust in
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  • Christ as savior, if given the opportunity?
  • 00:13:19.655 --> 00:13:22.758
  • Is that the basis he wrote the names down in?
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  • Those he knew would accept christ?
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  • Or did he write down the names that he predetermined would
  • 00:13:28.864 --> 00:13:33.135
  • Accept christ?
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  • The answer is the subject of another sermon at some point.
  • 00:13:36.338 --> 00:13:39.875
  • How's that for a cop-out?
  • 00:13:39.875 --> 00:13:42.811
  • But the fact is, that book has been composed.
  • 00:13:42.811 --> 00:13:46.315
  • Every name in it is a record of everyone who's ever been saved
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  • Or will be saved.
  • 00:13:51.186 --> 00:13:53.389
  • And unless your name is written in that lamb's book of life, you
  • 00:13:53.389 --> 00:13:57.559
  • Will not escape the great white throne judgment.
  • 00:13:57.559 --> 00:14:00.663
  • There is "the book," but then there are "the books."
  • 00:14:00.663 --> 00:14:05.768
  • That is, god keeps a book, a record of every person's,
  • 00:14:05.768 --> 00:14:09.705
  • Believer and nonbeliever's, works.
  • 00:14:09.705 --> 00:14:12.441
  • Every word, every action, every thought is recorded according to
  • 00:14:12.441 --> 00:14:18.781
  • The things that are written in "the books."
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  • And nothing goes unnoticed by god.
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  • The money you gave to the united way.
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  • The time you helped an elderly grandmother across the street,
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  • The ugly word you spoke to your mate just as you got into
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  • The car to go to worship this morning.
  • 00:14:33.896 --> 00:14:36.932
  • That lustful thought you had about your neighbor...
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  • Everything.
  • 00:14:39.301 --> 00:14:40.636
  • The good, the bad, and the ugly is recorded in "the books."
  • 00:14:40.636 --> 00:14:44.173
  • No good deed goes unrecorded, no sin goes unnoticed.
  • 00:14:44.173 --> 00:14:48.077
  • It is all in "the books."
  • 00:14:48.077 --> 00:14:51.580
  • The bible says that the unsaved are judged according to "the
  • 00:14:51.580 --> 00:14:56.986
  • Books," according to their deeds, according to the things
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  • That have been written in this book.
  • 00:15:00.522 --> 00:15:02.891
  • The bible says, in verse twelve, "if any man's name is not found
  • 00:15:02.891 --> 00:15:06.829
  • Written in the book of life, he was judged forever and ever."
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  • The unbeliever, listen to this, is the person who chooses to be
  • 00:15:11.767 --> 00:15:17.039
  • Judged, not by having his name in "the book," but according to
  • 00:15:17.039 --> 00:15:21.143
  • His works in "the books."
  • 00:15:21.143 --> 00:15:23.379
  • You know, one of the saddest aspects to me, of this judgment,
  • 00:15:23.379 --> 00:15:26.849
  • The white throne judgment, is the confidence with which
  • 00:15:26.849 --> 00:15:30.719
  • Unbelievers will approach it.
  • 00:15:30.719 --> 00:15:32.855
  • After the unbeliever gets over the initial shock of seeing the
  • 00:15:32.855 --> 00:15:36.825
  • Lord jesus christ, whom he rejected, sitting on that great
  • 00:15:36.825 --> 00:15:40.496
  • White throne...
  • 00:15:40.496 --> 00:15:42.297
  • After that initial shock, the unbeliever will actually start
  • 00:15:42.297 --> 00:15:45.434
  • To feel pretty confident as he hears jesus announce the basis
  • 00:15:45.434 --> 00:15:50.372
  • On which he's going to be judged.
  • 00:15:50.372 --> 00:15:52.374
  • As jesus begins to open "the books" and says, "i will judge
  • 00:15:52.374 --> 00:15:56.245
  • You as you've chosen to be judged according to your deeds,
  • 00:15:56.245 --> 00:16:00.282
  • According to your works."
  • 00:16:00.282 --> 00:16:02.851
  • But that optimism, that confidence will turn to despair
  • 00:16:02.851 --> 00:16:06.155
  • Very, very quickly.
  • 00:16:06.155 --> 00:16:08.123
  • As the unbeliever realizes that the basis, the standard, by
  • 00:16:08.123 --> 00:16:13.195
  • Which his works will be judged will not be his relative
  • 00:16:13.195 --> 00:16:17.399
  • Righteousness to other people, but by the perfection of god's
  • 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:21.370
  • Own son, the lord jesus christ.
  • 00:16:21.370 --> 00:16:24.073
  • See most of us, we judge ourselves according to
  • 00:16:24.073 --> 00:16:26.275
  • Other people.
  • 00:16:26.275 --> 00:16:27.609
  • We say, "well, i may not be perfect, but i pay my taxes.
  • 00:16:27.609 --> 00:16:29.545
  • I don't cheat on my mate.
  • 00:16:29.545 --> 00:16:31.080
  • I'm certainly better than osama bin laden.
  • 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:33.315
  • You know, so, i ought to do pretty good.
  • 00:16:33.315 --> 00:16:36.018
  • I ought to make it into the kingdom."
  • 00:16:36.018 --> 00:16:37.586
  • But god says, "no!
  • 00:16:37.586 --> 00:16:39.254
  • The basis by which i judge every man is not his relative
  • 00:16:39.254 --> 00:16:43.358
  • Righteousness compared to others, but by the perfection of
  • 00:16:43.358 --> 00:16:46.195
  • My son, the lord jesus christ."
  • 00:16:46.195 --> 00:16:47.963
  • In acts 17:31, the word of god says, god has "fixed a day in
  • 00:16:47.963 --> 00:16:52.267
  • Which he will judge the world in righteousness through a man whom
  • 00:16:52.267 --> 00:16:56.939
  • He is appointed, having furnished proof to all men by
  • 00:16:56.939 --> 00:17:00.542
  • Raising him from the dead."
  • 00:17:00.542 --> 00:17:02.077
  • Jesus is the gold standard.
  • 00:17:02.077 --> 00:17:05.247
  • He is the standard by which our righteousness will be judged and
  • 00:17:05.247 --> 00:17:09.985
  • By that standard, everyone falls short.
  • 00:17:09.985 --> 00:17:13.755
  • What happens as a result of the white throne judgment?
  • 00:17:13.755 --> 00:17:16.425
  • Look at verses 14 and 15: "and death and hades,"
  • 00:17:16.425 --> 00:17:19.795
  • That is unbelievers, "were thrown into the lake of fire.
  • 00:17:19.795 --> 00:17:23.999
  • This is the second death, the lake of fire.
  • 00:17:23.999 --> 00:17:27.269
  • And if any man's name was not found written in the book of
  • 00:17:27.269 --> 00:17:30.539
  • Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire."
  • 00:17:30.539 --> 00:17:35.210
  • We'll talk about this more in two weeks.
  • 00:17:35.210 --> 00:17:36.912
  • But will you notice that the lake of fire is a place of
  • 00:17:36.912 --> 00:17:39.781
  • Eternal suffering.
  • 00:17:39.781 --> 00:17:42.451
  • In revelation 19, before the millennium, the beast and
  • 00:17:42.451 --> 00:17:45.587
  • The false prophet are dropped into this lake of fire.
  • 00:17:45.587 --> 00:17:49.024
  • In revelation chapter 20, verse 10, it says that "satan,
  • 00:17:49.024 --> 00:17:52.361
  • [a thousand years later]
  • 00:17:52.361 --> 00:17:53.729
  • Is dropped into the lake of fire."
  • 00:17:53.729 --> 00:17:55.731
  • It says, "where the beast and the false prophet are..."
  • 00:17:55.731 --> 00:18:00.068
  • Not where they were...
  • 00:18:00.068 --> 00:18:01.537
  • But a thousand years later, they are still burning in this place
  • 00:18:01.537 --> 00:18:05.174
  • Called "the lake of fire."
  • 00:18:05.174 --> 00:18:07.543
  • The thought i want to leave with you today is this thought,
  • 00:18:07.543 --> 00:18:10.312
  • Spoken from the word of god, that when a non-christian dies
  • 00:18:10.312 --> 00:18:14.516
  • And is judged, he isn't annihilated.
  • 00:18:14.516 --> 00:18:16.652
  • He doesn't cease to exist.
  • 00:18:16.652 --> 00:18:18.487
  • He suffers.
  • 00:18:18.487 --> 00:18:19.821
  • He is tormented with indescribable suffering, day and
  • 00:18:19.821 --> 00:18:25.427
  • Night forever and ever (revelation 20:10).
  • 00:18:25.427 --> 00:18:31.633
  • You say, "pastor, i just can't put my mind around that.
  • 00:18:31.633 --> 00:18:34.536
  • I cannot understand how a good and a loving god would choose to
  • 00:18:34.536 --> 00:18:39.208
  • Punish people, to torture people forever and ever and ever."
  • 00:18:39.208 --> 00:18:43.912
  • May i remind you there will not be one occupant in the lake of
  • 00:18:43.912 --> 00:18:48.116
  • Fire who is not there by his own choice.
  • 00:18:48.116 --> 00:18:51.386
  • The unbeliever is the person who has said to god, "whatever jesus
  • 00:18:51.386 --> 00:18:56.491
  • Christ did means nothing to me.
  • 00:18:56.491 --> 00:19:00.262
  • I don't need his death.
  • 00:19:00.262 --> 00:19:01.997
  • I don't need his righteousness.
  • 00:19:01.997 --> 00:19:03.732
  • I'm happy to be judged by you according to my own merits."
  • 00:19:03.732 --> 00:19:07.202
  • And god says, "fine, i'll give you exactly what you wish.
  • 00:19:07.202 --> 00:19:10.706
  • We'll judge you according to your works."
  • 00:19:10.706 --> 00:19:15.043
  • But nobody's works will be good enough.
  • 00:19:15.043 --> 00:19:19.081
  • For you see, the bible says, unless we have a righteousness
  • 00:19:19.081 --> 00:19:22.784
  • That equals that of jesus christ himself, none of us is qualified
  • 00:19:22.784 --> 00:19:27.356
  • To enter into heaven.
  • 00:19:27.356 --> 00:19:28.790
  • He said, "well, that's impossible.
  • 00:19:28.790 --> 00:19:31.093
  • Nobody could ever meet that standard.
  • 00:19:31.093 --> 00:19:33.495
  • The perfection of jesus christ.
  • 00:19:33.495 --> 00:19:35.297
  • Nobody could ever meet that standard."
  • 00:19:35.297 --> 00:19:37.699
  • Exactly...
  • 00:19:37.699 --> 00:19:39.668
  • Exactly.
  • 00:19:39.668 --> 00:19:41.670
  • And that's why the only way we'll ever be qualified to enter
  • 00:19:41.670 --> 00:19:45.040
  • Into heaven is not on the basis of our goodness, but on the
  • 00:19:45.040 --> 00:19:49.011
  • Basis of the goodness, the righteousness of jesus christ.
  • 00:19:49.011 --> 00:19:56.051
  • I know i've said this before, but i think right now is a
  • 00:19:56.051 --> 00:20:01.256
  • Helpful time to illustrate exactly what that means, the
  • 00:20:01.256 --> 00:20:05.260
  • Righteousness of jesus christ, and what it means to put
  • 00:20:05.260 --> 00:20:08.363
  • That on.
  • 00:20:08.363 --> 00:20:10.299
  • I want you to imagine here two books: one book is titled, "the
  • 00:20:10.299 --> 00:20:14.803
  • Life and times of jesus christ."
  • 00:20:14.803 --> 00:20:17.939
  • This is a book that records every good deed, every perfect
  • 00:20:17.939 --> 00:20:22.010
  • Thing that jesus christ has ever done his complete record of
  • 00:20:22.010 --> 00:20:26.281
  • Absolute righteousness; "the life and times of jesus christ."
  • 00:20:26.281 --> 00:20:32.087
  • I want you to imagine another book titled, "the life and times
  • 00:20:32.087 --> 00:20:35.424
  • Of robert jeffress."
  • 00:20:35.424 --> 00:20:38.727
  • It is a book that records some of the good things i've done,
  • 00:20:38.727 --> 00:20:43.398
  • But it also describes every wrong action, every wrong
  • 00:20:43.398 --> 00:20:48.303
  • Thought, every wrong motivation for doing anything i've
  • 00:20:48.303 --> 00:20:51.673
  • Ever had.
  • 00:20:51.673 --> 00:20:53.175
  • This book reads like a supermarket tabloid.
  • 00:20:53.175 --> 00:20:56.511
  • It's a book, i hope nobody will purchase.
  • 00:20:56.511 --> 00:20:59.214
  • Two books: "the life and times of jesus christ..."
  • 00:20:59.214 --> 00:21:02.684
  • "the life and times of robert jeffress."
  • 00:21:02.684 --> 00:21:05.320
  • Now, what happens when i trust in christ as my savior?
  • 00:21:05.320 --> 00:21:08.957
  • You know what god does?
  • 00:21:08.957 --> 00:21:10.425
  • He takes the cover of this book and he places it on this book
  • 00:21:10.425 --> 00:21:14.996
  • Containing jesus' good deeds.
  • 00:21:14.996 --> 00:21:18.233
  • And so, when god looks at "the life and times of
  • 00:21:18.233 --> 00:21:22.170
  • Robert jeffress," he no longer sees my sin; he sees all of the
  • 00:21:22.170 --> 00:21:26.041
  • Good things that jesus did and he gives me credit for his
  • 00:21:26.041 --> 00:21:30.145
  • Righteous life.
  • 00:21:30.145 --> 00:21:31.913
  • But there's something else that happens...
  • 00:21:31.913 --> 00:21:33.949
  • When i trust in christ as my savior, god takes the cover of
  • 00:21:33.949 --> 00:21:38.053
  • This book, "the life and times of jesus," and he places it
  • 00:21:38.053 --> 00:21:41.323
  • Around my life story.
  • 00:21:41.323 --> 00:21:44.192
  • Two thousand years ago, god looked down on jesus
  • 00:21:44.192 --> 00:21:47.028
  • On the cross, he saw my sin.
  • 00:21:47.028 --> 00:21:51.433
  • He saw your sin and he judged jesus for what we have done.
  • 00:21:51.433 --> 00:21:58.640
  • It's the greatest exchange that has ever taken place.
  • 00:21:58.640 --> 00:22:02.144
  • When we become a christian, i take my sinfulness and my
  • 00:22:02.144 --> 00:22:06.782
  • Righteousness and give it to jesus christ to suffer for, and
  • 00:22:06.782 --> 00:22:11.586
  • He takes his righteousness and he credits it to my account so
  • 00:22:11.586 --> 00:22:16.725
  • That i spend eternity benefiting from the perfect life of jesus.
  • 00:22:16.725 --> 00:22:20.762
  • 2 corinthians 5:21 says it this way, "god made him [jesus]
  • 00:22:20.762 --> 00:22:26.301
  • Who knew no sin to become sin for us that we might become the
  • 00:22:26.301 --> 00:22:31.740
  • Righteousness of god in him."
  • 00:22:31.740 --> 00:22:35.210
  • Now hear me this morning...
  • 00:22:35.210 --> 00:22:37.446
  • The most important choice you ever make in life is this: what
  • 00:22:37.446 --> 00:22:42.317
  • Am i depending upon to get me into heaven one day?
  • 00:22:42.317 --> 00:22:47.322
  • Am i gonna depend upon my righteousness?
  • 00:22:47.322 --> 00:22:50.025
  • The fact that i'm a member of first baptist church of dallas?
  • 00:22:50.025 --> 00:22:52.427
  • That i got baptized?
  • 00:22:52.427 --> 00:22:53.762
  • That i had a grandfather who was a preacher one time?
  • 00:22:53.762 --> 00:22:56.198
  • Am i gonna depend on that?
  • 00:22:56.198 --> 00:22:58.433
  • Or am i gonna choose to depend upon the righteousness of jesus
  • 00:22:58.433 --> 00:23:01.870
  • Christ and the perfect life he led?
  • 00:23:01.870 --> 00:23:04.906
  • You see, it's one or the other.
  • 00:23:04.906 --> 00:23:06.641
  • Either you're depending on your righteousness or you're
  • 00:23:06.641 --> 00:23:10.111
  • Depending completely on the righteousness of christ.
  • 00:23:10.111 --> 00:23:12.881
  • It's one or the other.
  • 00:23:12.881 --> 00:23:14.416
  • It can't be both.
  • 00:23:14.416 --> 00:23:16.518
  • And ladies and gentlemen, that choice of what you're depending
  • 00:23:16.518 --> 00:23:19.387
  • On to get into heaven is a choice you have to make right
  • 00:23:19.387 --> 00:23:22.791
  • Now in this life.
  • 00:23:22.791 --> 00:23:24.526
  • If you wait until you die to make that choice, you've waited
  • 00:23:24.526 --> 00:23:27.662
  • Too long.
  • 00:23:27.662 --> 00:23:29.397
  • If you wait until you die to call on the name of christ for
  • 00:23:29.397 --> 00:23:32.701
  • Salvation, there is no salvation.
  • 00:23:32.701 --> 00:23:36.371
  • If you find yourself standing before that great white throne
  • 00:23:36.371 --> 00:23:40.275
  • Judgment, it's too late.
  • 00:23:40.275 --> 00:23:44.112
  • You must choose the righteousness of christ now to
  • 00:23:44.112 --> 00:23:49.851
  • Escape that final white throne judgment.
  • 00:23:49.851 --> 00:23:54.456
  • Jeffress: aren't you grateful to know that god has secured our
  • 00:23:58.660 --> 00:24:01.563
  • Eternal destiny when we place our faith in jesus christ?
  • 00:24:01.563 --> 00:24:05.867
  • As christians, we don't need to fear the future.
  • 00:24:05.867 --> 00:24:08.937
  • We can live with complete confidence, knowing that god has
  • 00:24:08.937 --> 00:24:13.074
  • Prepared the way to heaven for us.
  • 00:24:13.074 --> 00:24:15.677
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  • Together we're piercing the darkness with the light of
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  • God's word.
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  • Jeffress: when jesus first came to earth, he came as the savior
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  • Of the world.
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  • But when he comes for the second time, it will be as the judge of
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  • All the world.
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  • And what you decide to do with jesus today will determine
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  • Whether you experience everlasting blessing or
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  • Everlasting judgment, eternal life or eternal death.
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  • Well, there's much more to cover on the great white
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  • Throne judgment.
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  • And next time, we'll uncover where those individuals, whom
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  • Satan deceives, will come from, and also, explore the basis by
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  • Which unbelievers will be judged.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next in our
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  • Series, "perfect ending."
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  • Jeffress: one of the greatest myths about eternity is that all
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  • Christians will experience the same heaven and all
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  • Non-christians will experience the same hell.
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  • That's a myth!
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  • Such a belief is neither logical, nor, more importantly,
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  • Is it biblical?
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  • Message "rewards in heaven," here on "pathway to victory."
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