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Robert Jeffress - Jesus The Judge (Part 2)

April 9, 2025 | S25:E170

Robert Jeffress - Jesus The Judge (Part 2)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Jesus The Judge (Part 2) | April 9, 2025
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  • Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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  • Dallas, texas, this is pathway to victory with
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  • Dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress.
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  • Welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • People often say that the wicked will meet their just rewards.
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  • So is there really going to be a day of reckoning?
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  • And if so, who will be the judge?
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  • Today we're going to examine what the bible says about the
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  • Various judgments that will occur at the end-time, and we'll
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  • Also discover why jesus christ has been appointed as the
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  • Ultimate judge of all humanity.
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  • My message is titled "jesus the judge" on today's edition of
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  • "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • ♪ it's not conservative or liberal; however they're ♪
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  • ♪ defined it's not about interpretation or the ♪
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  • ♪ judgment of the mind it's the opposite of politics ♪
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  • ♪ power or prestige it's about a simple message and whether ♪
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  • ♪ we believe, it's still the cross it's still the blood ♪
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  • ♪ of calvary that cleanses sins and sets the captives ♪
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  • ♪ free it's still the name, the name of jesus that has power ♪
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  • ♪ to save the lost, it's still the cross though some may ♪
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  • ♪ say it's man's religion or ancient history, the cross of ♪
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  • ♪ jesus still remains the price for sin that sets us ♪
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  • ♪ free it's still the cross, it's still the blood of ♪
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  • ♪ calvary that cleanses sins and sets the captives free ♪
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  • ♪ it's still the name ♪
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  • ♪ the name of jesus that has power ♪
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  • ♪ to save the lost ♪
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  • ♪ it's still the cross ♪
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  • ♪ thank god ♪
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  • ♪ it's still the cross ♪
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  • Male announcer: jesus is the most talked about person in
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  • Human history, but we can't fully grasp who jesus is until
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  • We understand both his first and his second coming.
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  • In his powerful new book "jesus revealed in the end times,"
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  • Dr. robert jeffress unveils the glorious return of our savior.
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • Remember that during the tribulation, there are many
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  • Jews who will be saved, many who aren't saved. but in the
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  • Last three and a half years of the tribulation, satan,
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  • The dragon, in concert with the beast, the antichrist,
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  • Goes after christians and jews alike; and many of them
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  • Flee into the wilderness and they escape death. but they
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  • Can't escape the judgment of god. he is bringing back all
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  • Of the jews at this time for a judgment. what is that
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  • Judgment? it is according to a standard he will lift up,
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  • And that standard is jesus christ. acts 17:31 says,
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  • "god has appointed a man by whom the world will be
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  • Judged." now listen to this because a lot of christians
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  • In today's world are confused about this: you
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  • Don't go to heaven for being a jew. being a jew is not
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  • Enough to get you into heaven. there are some false
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  • Teachers among christians teaching all you have to do
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  • Is be a jew to go to heaven. no,
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  • There's one way to heaven, it is through faith in
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • And so before the millennium, it is important to separate
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  • Righteous jews, those who have trusted in christ, and the
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  • Unrighteous rebels that need to be judged, those who have
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  • Opposed the messiah, and that's what happens during the judgment
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  • Of israel.
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  • "it is a time to separate the righteous from the unrighteous.
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  • I could point to many scriptures.
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  • Isaiah was one.
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  • Another one is ezekiel 20, verses 37 to 38.
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  • God's talking to israel.
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  • He said, "i will make you pass under the rod, and i will bring
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  • You into the bond of the covenant."
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  • In other words, they're outside the covenant if they're jews and
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  • Not believers.
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  • Abrahamic covenant, that was for believing jews, not for every
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  • Jew, for believing jews.
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  • Paul said, not all those who claim to be israel are
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  • Really israel.
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  • The only way you can be a true israelite is to believe in
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  • Christ and be a descendant of abraham.
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  • But he's saying here, "i will make you pass under the rod, and
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  • I will purge you from the rebels, those who transgress
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  • Against me, and i will bring them out of the land where they
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  • Sojourn, but they will not enter the land of israel."
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  • Here's a group of jews who will not enter the land, and it's
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  • Those who have rebelled against the gospel.
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  • "i will bring them out of the land where they sojourned; they
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  • Will not enter israel.
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  • Thus you will know that i am the lord."
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  • Jeremiah 23:6.
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  • "in his days judah will be saved, and israel will
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  • Dwell securely."
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  • That's believing judah, believing israel will
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  • Dwell securely.
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  • "and this is his name by which he should be called 'the lord
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  • Of righteousness.'
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  • And that closely fits in with the fourth judgment.
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  • Not only will israel, not only will the jews who survived the
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  • Tribulation be judged to separate the righteous from the
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  • Unrighteous, the gentiles will be judged at this time, as well.
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  • The judgment of the gentiles in many ways similar to the
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  • Judgment of israel, and that is it occurs in the interim period
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  • Before the millennium and it's a way of separating the righteous
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  • From the unrighteous.
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  • Only the righteous will enter into the millennium.
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  • Jesus talked about this judgment of the gentiles in matthew 25:31
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  • To 33, part of the olivet discourse.
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  • "when the son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels
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  • With him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.
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  • All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate
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  • Them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep
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  • From the goats, and he will put the sheep on his right and the
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  • Goats on the left."
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  • Now when we talk about the judgment of the nations, listen
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  • To this; it's not what we think.
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  • I used to think, used to hear people say, "well, god's gonna
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  • Judge the united states of america and he's gonna judge
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  • Great britain and scandinavia, there's gonna be a judgment of
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  • Nations because after all, that's what it says."
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  • And you press them, "well, why are these nations?"
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  • "well, they're primarily non-jewish.
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  • There are a few jews, but mainly it's non-jews, and so we're
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  • Gonna be judged by nations."
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  • No, that's not what it's saying.
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  • That's impossible.
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  • First of all, there are no eternal judgments of nations.
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  • We are judged individually, by our relationship with god.
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  • Now, a nation can be under god's judgment.
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  • We see that in the old testament, babylon.
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  • Because they practiced child sacrifice, and israelites,
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  • Because they imitated that, they were judged by god, they had
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  • Dire consequences.
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  • I believe the same thing is true in america.
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  • I believe as long as we allow the murder of millions of unborn
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  • Babies in the womb, we're going to experience god's judgment.
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  • And even righteous people, those who believe the right thing
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  • About life, have to suffer the fallout of living in a nation
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  • That doesn't believe that.
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  • But that's not what this is talking about.
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  • The best way to understand the nations, the word is "ethne"
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  • In greek.
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  • It's simply referring to individual gentiles, non-jews.
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  • God is going to judge gentiles just like he judged the
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  • Israelites, and joel 3:2 talks about that.
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  • What will be the basis upon which he judges the gentiles?
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  • That this is so misunderstood.
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  • Look at matthew 25:34 40.
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  • He has just said, "i'm gonna separate the sheep from the
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  • Goats, believers from unbelievers."
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  • Verse 34.
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  • "then the king will say to those who are on his right, 'come, you
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  • Who are blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom which i
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  • Prepared for you; for i was hungry, and you gave me
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  • Something to eat; i was thirsty, and you gave me something to
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  • Drink; i was a stranger, and you invited me in; naked and you
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  • Clothed me; i was sick and you visited me; i was in prison and
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  • You came to me.'
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  • Then the righteous will answer him and say, 'lord, when did we
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  • See you hungry or feed you or thirsty and give you something
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  • To drink?
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  • When did we see you a stranger and invite you in or naked and
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  • Clothe you?
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  • When did we see you sick and in prison and come to visit you?'
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  • And the king will answer and say to them, 'truly i say to you, to
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  • The extent that you did it to one of these brothers of mine,
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  • Even the least of them, you did it to me.'"
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  • Now, some people rip this passage out of context and say,
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  • "well, that's the mission of the church: feed the hungry, clothe
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  • The naked, visit those in prison.
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  • That's what we're supposed to do.
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  • That's what jesus said, and if you do that enough times, you
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  • Get to go to heaven."
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  • Is that what jesus is saying?
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  • No, remember the context.
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  • He's talking about how gentiles will be judged who live during
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  • The tribulation, and jesus is saying how they treat the
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  • Brothers of jesus.
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  • Who are the brothers of jesus?
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  • Jews who are saved.
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  • He's talking about the 144,000 witnesses.
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  • They're the ones who are imprisoned and kept from eating
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  • Because they won't take the mark of the beast.
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  • He said, "to the extent that you show mercy to them and love for
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  • Them, you're showing love for me."
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  • How they treat the 144,000 witnesses is a proxy for their
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  • Relationship to jesus.
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  • That's what he's talking about here, the judgment of
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  • The gentiles.
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  • There is a final judgment.
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  • And that is the great white throne judgment, and it is the
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  • Judgment of all unbelievers from the beginning of time.
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  • I thought for a long time yesterday afternoon, how to
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  • Explain this to you.
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  • But in the bible there are two resurrections.
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  • The first resurrection, the resurrection of all of
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  • The believers.
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  • Every believer is a part of the first resurrection.
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  • "as in adam all die, so in christ all shall be made alive,
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  • But each according to his order."
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  • The first resurrection isn't one event at a time in history, it's
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  • A series of things that occurs.
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  • There's a resurrection parade.
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  • Jesus is at the head.
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  • He was the first one raised from the dead.
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  • Following jesus is the church.
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  • That's you and i, when we are raised and given our new bodies
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  • At the rapture of the church, and then the old testament
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  • Saints will be raised, along with the tribulation martyrs.
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  • They get their new body at the end of the tribulation and then
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  • Some in the millennium.
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  • Yet, there's at the end of the millennium four different times,
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  • Four different groups of people received a resurrection body,
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  • But they're all part of the first resurrection.
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  • "blessed is he who is part of the first resurrection, for over
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  • Him the second death has no power."
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  • But there is a second resurrection that it occurs one
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  • Time, and it's when all unbelievers who have ever lived
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  • Are raised in judgment.
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  • Now listen to this.
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  • When believers die, they immediately go into the presence
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  • Of jesus to be absent from the bodies, to be at home with
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  • The lord.
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  • Doesn't matter whether you're an old testament saint.
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  • You lived in jesus time, you're in the church age, whether
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  • You're in the tribulation, when a believer dies, he goes to be
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  • With christ, but his body awaits a resurrection at the
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  • Appointed time.
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  • When a non-christian dies, since the day of adam, he goes to
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  • Another place called hades.
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  • It is a temporary holding place for unbelievers.
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  • It is a place of terrible suffering.
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  • Jesus talked about it in the parable of the rich man in
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  • Lazarus in luke 16, but that's not their final destination.
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  • They are awaiting the one judgment, the great white throne
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  • Judgment, that will dispatch them to their
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  • Ultimate destination.
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  • So there are two resurrections.
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  • The first resurrection and then the second resurrection that
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  • John describes in revelation 20, verses 12 to 13.
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  • Now you listen closely for the next eight minutes because what
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  • I'm about to tell you, will change your eternal destiny.
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  • Many of you, it determines your eternal destiny.
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  • So listen carefully.
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  • Revelation 20, verses 12-13, john says, "i saw the dead, the
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  • Great and the small, standing before the throne,
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  • And the books--"
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  • Underline that, "the books were opened; and another book--"
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  • Underlying that singular book, "--was opened, which is the book
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  • Of life, and the dead were judged from the things which
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  • Were written in the books--" the books plural, "--according to
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  • Their--" what?
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  • "--their deeds, and the sea gave up the dead which were in it,
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  • And death and hades gave up the dead which were in them; and
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  • They were judged, every one of them, according to their
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  • Deeds," plural.
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  • What does it mean, "death and hades gave them up."
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  • At the great white throne judgment, all unbelievers who
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  • Have been waiting in hades, perhaps for thousands of years,
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  • They will be raised in order to be judged.
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  • Now, what is the basis?
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  • How will non-christians be judged?
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  • Notice, god keeps two sets of books.
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  • There is the book, singular, the book of life, that records the
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  • Name of every person who's ever trusted in christ as
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  • Their savior.
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  • If you are a christian today, your name is written in
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  • Indelible ink in that book of life.
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  • There is the book of life, but there are also the books.
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  • There is a set of books that records your every thought, your
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  • Every word, your every action.
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  • It records that for every human being who has ever lived.
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  • Now, when an unbeliever stands before jesus christ at the great
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  • White throne judgment, he will be judged not by the book.
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  • His name isn't in the book, he will be judged by what's in
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  • The books.
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  • You see, the unbeliever has his name not written in the book of
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  • Life out of his own choice.
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  • He has said, "i don't need jesus christ to go to heaven.
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  • I don't need god's grace.
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  • I'm good enough.
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  • I'm not perfect, but i'm good enough to make it to heaven on
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  • My own.
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  • I don't need god's grace."
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  • God says, "fine.
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  • If you want to be judged by your works, we'll judge you by
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  • Your works.
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  • Let's open them up and see what they are."
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  • And every unbeliever will see a list of everything he's ever
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  • Done, said or thought.
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  • And he will come to an understanding.
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  • That the perfect standard of righteousness, jesus christ,
  • 00:17:04.646 --> 00:17:09.084
  • Means that he has fallen short of that perfect standard
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  • Of righteousness.
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  • And the bible, says because of his own choice, he will be
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  • Judged by his works.
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  • And the bible says if any man's name was not found written in
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  • The book of life, look at verse 14.
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  • "if anyone's name--" verse 15, "was not found written in the
  • 00:17:28.103 --> 00:17:31.173
  • Book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire."
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  • What is the lake of fire?
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  • It is the eternal destination of those who are unsaved.
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  • If a person's name is not written in the book of life,
  • 00:17:43.085 --> 00:17:46.188
  • He will be cast into the lake of fire.
  • 00:17:46.188 --> 00:17:48.757
  • Remember, it's that place where the beast and the false prophet
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  • Were cast at the second coming of christ.
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  • It's a place where 1000 years later satan was cast.
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  • It is a place of darkness, of solitude, of loneliness, of the
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  • Weeping and gnashing of teeth, matthew 13:42, but the worst
  • 00:18:03.238 --> 00:18:07.943
  • Thing about the lake of fire is this.
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  • Jesus said in matthew 25:46, it is an eternal destination.
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  • He was cast into the lake of fire and tormented day and night
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  • Forever and ever.
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  • You know that word forever is "aionios" in greek, and it's
  • 00:18:27.162 --> 00:18:31.633
  • A word that describes the eternality of heaven.
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  • If you're a christian, you're gonna be with the lord forever.
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  • 1 thessalonians 4, on and on and on and on, no end to it, but the
  • 00:18:38.840 --> 00:18:44.613
  • Same word that describes the eternality of heaven is a word
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  • That's used to describe the eternality of hell.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, here's the terrible truth about hell.
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  • When a person has spent 10 billion trillion years in that
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  • Horrible place, he will not have lessened by one second the time
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  • He has left to spend there.
  • 00:19:10.472 --> 00:19:14.643
  • "i don't believe that, pastor.
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  • I can't believe in a jesus christ who would
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  • Sentence somebody to an eternity of suffering.
  • 00:19:22.284 --> 00:19:25.487
  • I can't accept that."
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  • Then you don't believe in the jesus of the bible.
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  • You believe in the jesus of your own imagination.
  • 00:19:31.326 --> 00:19:35.030
  • Because the jesus of the bible said, "hell is a place of
  • 00:19:35.030 --> 00:19:38.233
  • Eternal damnation."
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  • Jesus spoke more often of hell than he did about heaven because
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  • It's a reality, and it's a reality from which every sane
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  • Person would find a way of escape if they could.
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  • And jesus christ is not just one way, he is the only way
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  • Of escape.
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  • What does that mean for us today?
  • 00:19:58.487 --> 00:20:00.956
  • Revelation 22:12, jesus said, "behold, i, the judge, am coming
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  • Quickly, and i bring my reward with me to recompense every
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  • Person for what he has done."
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  • For some people, that's a rejoicing thought.
  • 00:20:16.538 --> 00:20:19.541
  • That's something to anticipate.
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  • If you're living for christ and your name is written in the
  • 00:20:21.677 --> 00:20:24.379
  • Lamb's book of life, you can look forward to rewards.
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  • But again, whatever they are, paul said they're worth
  • 00:20:27.816 --> 00:20:30.452
  • Sacrificing for and worth living for.
  • 00:20:30.452 --> 00:20:33.889
  • Jesus is coming to reward the righteous, but don't forget he's
  • 00:20:33.889 --> 00:20:38.093
  • Also coming to judge the unrighteous at the great white
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  • Throne of judgment.
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  • The best thing you can do to be ready is to trust in
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  • Jesus christ as your savior today, because the judge
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  • Is coming.
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  • One of the most popular judges in america today is judge frank
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  • Caprio, who served as the chief judge of the municipal court of
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  • Providence, rhode island until recently.
  • 00:21:04.119 --> 00:21:07.322
  • His rulings are televised on the program "caught in providence."
  • 00:21:07.322 --> 00:21:11.360
  • You may have seen it on television.
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  • He's known as a judge who's especially merciful and
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  • Compassionate, trying to offer help to those convicted to start
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  • A new way of living.
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  • But he wasn't always a compassionate judge.
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  • In fact, on his first day as a judge, first day on the bench,
  • 00:21:26.742 --> 00:21:31.279
  • A woman was brought to him who had $300 in parking tickets, and
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  • He tried to offer her a repayment plan.
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  • She said she didn't have any money to repay the fine, and he
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  • Grew so angry at her that he ordered that her car be seized
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  • And sold at an auction.
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  • After he finished that case, he was feeling pretty good
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  • About himself.
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  • His dad happened to be in the courtroom that day to watch his
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  • Son and his first day as judge.
  • 00:21:58.273 --> 00:22:01.309
  • Judge caprio came up to his father.
  • 00:22:01.309 --> 00:22:03.111
  • "well, how do you think i did, dad?"
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  • His father said, "lousy, you didn't do too good at all."
  • 00:22:05.347 --> 00:22:09.885
  • Frank said, "what do you mean?"
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  • He said, "frank, that woman was scared.
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  • She had no hope.
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  • You intimidated her.
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  • You can't treat people that way."
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  • And from that point on, judge caprio decided to be
  • 00:22:21.163 --> 00:22:25.500
  • A compassionate, a kind judge, but in a recent interview,
  • 00:22:25.500 --> 00:22:30.639
  • He said, "nevertheless, my primary role is to do justice."
  • 00:22:30.639 --> 00:22:38.480
  • You know, we have a compassionate savior named
  • 00:22:38.480 --> 00:22:42.017
  • Jesus christ who loved you and me so much, he voluntarily came
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  • And gave his life for the forgiveness of our sins.
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  • He's a compassionate savior, but he's always a just judge,
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  • As well.
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  • And one day he's coming to render justice to everyone who
  • 00:22:59.701 --> 00:23:04.706
  • Doesn't know christ as savior.
  • 00:23:04.706 --> 00:23:07.442
  • How can you be ready for the coming judge again?
  • 00:23:07.442 --> 00:23:11.713
  • Do you know for sure your name is in the book of life?
  • 00:23:11.713 --> 00:23:15.417
  • Do you know for sure you've trusted in jesus christ as
  • 00:23:15.417 --> 00:23:18.553
  • Your savior?
  • 00:23:18.553 --> 00:23:19.988
  • Trust in him today.
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  • Accept him today.
  • 00:23:22.057 --> 00:23:24.259
  • Because ladies and gentlemen, the truth is you either accept
  • 00:23:24.259 --> 00:23:27.829
  • Him as your savior today or you face him as your judge one day.
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  • Jeffress: the reality that jesus christ will one day judge
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  • Every person who has ever lived should fill us with both
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  • Reverence and a sense of urgency, and i hope today's
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  • Message has given you a clearer understanding of what the bible
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  • Teaches about judgment and eternity.
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  • Now before we conclude our program today, i want to say
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  • A special word of thanks to our pathway partners and anyone who
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  • But it is a crucial truth that people desperately need to hear.
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  • Through your faithful partnership we can continue
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  • Together we are piercing the darkness with the light of
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  • God's word.
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  • Now stay right there.
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  • I'll be back with more "pathway to victory" in just a moment.
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  • Announcer: most teachings about bible prophecy focus on
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  • Wars, natural disasters, and economic turmoil, but the end
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  • Times shouldn't scare us.
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  • They should bring us hope.
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  • In his brand new book, "jesus revealed in the end times,"
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  • Dr. robert jeffress takes a radically different approach to
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  • Prophecy, helping you see the end-times through the lens
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  • Of jesus christ.
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  • Jeffress: in my new book, i share why the bible's prophecies
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  • About the last days should fill us with joy and peace, as we
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  • Anticipate the return of our savior jesus christ.
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  • Jeffress: when jesus comes again, he will conquer his
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  • Enemies and our enemies; he will conquer satan himself.
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  • He will conquer sin and evil forever.
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  • Jeffress: the truth is sobering.
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  • Jesus christ will one day judge everyone, both believers
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  • And unbelievers.
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  • Christians will receive rewards for faithful service, while
  • 00:26:15.664 --> 00:26:19.501
  • Those without christ will face the great white throne judgment.
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  • Our eternal destiny hinges on whether we trust in christ for
  • 00:26:23.772 --> 00:26:27.976
  • His offer of salvation in this life, and next time we're going
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  • To discover that this exalted judge also wants to be our
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  • Closest friend.
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  • We'll learn how jesus demonstrated friendship
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  • Throughout scripture and what that means to us today.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next in our
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  • Series "jesus revealed in the end-times."
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  • Jeffress: would you like to have a best friend?
  • 00:26:53.068 --> 00:26:55.370
  • Well, we have such a best friend, though few of us really
  • 00:26:55.370 --> 00:26:58.640
  • Know it.
  • 00:26:58.640 --> 00:26:59.974
  • "he's a friend," proverbs 18:24 says, "who sticks closer than
  • 00:26:59.974 --> 00:27:04.479
  • A brother."
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  • His name is jesus.
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  • And throughout eternity we will have the distinct pleasure of
  • 00:27:08.383 --> 00:27:12.721
  • Knowing him forever and ever as our eternal friend.
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  • Announcer: set your dvr and join us next time for the
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