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September 23, 2020

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Pastor Robert concludes the Eternity: Your Choice series as he discusses how God’s character is the answer to your tough questions.

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ROBERT MORRIS: 300 million --why in the world
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would God createa universe that big,
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except He wants us to walk out,
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look at the stars and say,“There's got to be a God.”
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ROBERT: The titleof the series, by the way,
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is, “Eternity: Your Choice.”
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So, I want to nail it downthat God did not choose
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some people to go to heaven
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and some people to go to hell,that it is completely
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your choice whereyou spend eternity.
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So we talked about, “WhosoeverWill”, “Where and How.”
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This weekend,the message is, “Why?”
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And what I'm going to do is takesome of those tough questions,
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and we're going to answer those.
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For instance, why wouldGod send someone to hell?
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Why would a loving God,is the way
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it's phrased many times,send someone to hell?
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Why did God evencreate hell?
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Why did God create twotrees in the garden?
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And of course,there were many trees,
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but I'm referringto the Tree of Life,
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the Tree of Knowledgeand Good and Evil.
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Why did God even giveAdam and Eve a choice?
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I mean, that's a questiona lot of people have. Why?
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Okay, in order to answerthese questions though,
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please hear me.
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You can never answera difficult question about God
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without making surethat your answer
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is congruent with His natureand His character,
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and we know His nature and Hischaracter through Scripture,
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and the whole of Scripture.
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It's very importantyou understand
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it's the whole of Scripture,
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because thereare some Scriptures
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that would tend us to believesome way of thinking
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that might cause us to think,“Well, God might do that,
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and God is justifiedto do something like that.”
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But if you try to answerdifficult questions about God
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without taking intoconsideration His character,
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if you begin going down a lineof thought, and this is very,
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very important to me --again, I'm not trying
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to pick a fight with someonewho believes that way.
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I'm really not.
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But, it is so difficult for meto believe that people
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can believe thatand not believe God is good.
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In other words, I don't knowhow you can believe
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some of these thingsif you believe God's good,
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God's a good God.
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So, we're gonna look at someattributes of God today
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that are extremely important,because here's the reason.
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When I read somethingin this book and I think,
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“Now, I don't understand that,that sounds like God
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might be harsh,or mean, or cruel,”
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I always go back to, “Well,I may not understand it,
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but I know God's good,”and I know God's character,
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and I've studiedthe whole of Scripture
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to know God's character.
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So, we have to answerdifficult questions
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in light of God's character.It has to be congruent.
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Any way of thinking youhave has to be compatible
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with Scripture,the whole of Scripture.
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All right?So, three points today.
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Number one, I've alreadyalluded to, God is good.
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He is good.
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Psalm 119:68 says,“You are good and do good.”
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“You are good and do good.”
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By the way, if youtold yourself that,
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reminded yourself of thatScripture every morning,
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it might change your day.
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“You are good and You do good.”
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Now, this is the reasonI really love this Scripture,
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“You are good and You do good.”
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Now, listen carefullyto what I'm gonna say, okay?
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God isn't goodbecause He does good,
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God does goodbecause He is good.
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Do you follow me?Let me say it again.
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Him being good is not dependentupon Him doing good.
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He does goodbecause He is good.
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See, it's like God is truth.He is truth.
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Jesus didn't sayI know the truth,
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he said “I am truth.”I'm truth.
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Okay, so because God is truth,He can't lie.
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He can't lie.
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This is what,and it's a real big problem
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with most people's definitionof the sovereignty of God,
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because what they thinkthat it means is that God
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can do anythingHe wants to do. No.
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What it means is...I wish you'd study it.
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Sovereign means He's the supremeruler of the universe.
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But because He iswho He is, you say,
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“Well, God can doanything He wants.”
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No, God can't actoutside of His character.
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He can't.Are you all following this?
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Am I making it clear,because it's not
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that you follow me,it's me saying it clearly.
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God is truth,so He can't lie.
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He's not a manthat He shall lie. Okay.
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In the same way,God is love.
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So, everything I readin the Scripture,
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I have to put within,does this fit
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in the basic that God is good?
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We're gonna talk aboutGod's love in minute,
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but God is good. Okay.
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So, let me explain somethingabout how good God is.
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Moses asked Godto see His glory.
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Now, “glory” is this huge word.
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I could tell you the Hebrewand the words it comes from.
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I could tell you the Greekand the words it comes from
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and explain, but thatwouldn't help us much, okay?
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So, I'm gonna give youa practical definition.
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Glory is whatyou're famous for.
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It's what you're known for.
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Okay, so Moses, when he said,“Show me Your glory,”
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here's what he was saying --show me what You're famous for.
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Show me what You're best at.What do You do best, okay?
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Look at this.
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Here's what he said,and we'll get to Isaiah 5
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at the very...along time from now, okay?
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Just, all right?
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Exodus 33:18, “And he”,Moses, “said,
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“Please show me Your glory.”
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Then He”,that's God, said, okay,
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“I'll make My goodnesspass before you.”
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I love that Scripture!
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Show me whatYou're famous for.
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He said, “Oh.
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Well, I'm famousfor being good.
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That's what I'm famous for.I'm known for good.”
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Okay, so because I know that,anything I read in the Bible
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has to line upwith the goodness of God.
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And what happens is we readsomething in the Bible,
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and we think, “Man, that soundslike God's being mean.”
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So, let me show you one.
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When Adam and Eve sinned, Goddrove them out of the garden,
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and He gave a reasonwhy He drove them out.
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But when you understandHe's good,
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you understand whyHe drove them out.
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Okay, let me read it,Genesis 3:22.
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“Then the Lord God said,“Behold, the man has become
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like one of Us,” Us:Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
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“To know good and evil.
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And now”, watch, “lest heput out his hand and take also
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of the Tree of Life,and eat, and live forever,”
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and then noticethe sentence stops there,
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even though that's nota complete sentence.
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Watch, and that'svery important,
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why I'm telling you this.
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“Therefore the Lord God senthim out of the garden of Eden
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to till the groundfrom which he was taken.
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So He drove out the man;and He placed cherubim”,
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that's really big dudes.
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That's what that means inthe Hebrew, really big dudes,
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angels, “at the eastof the garden of Eden,
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and a flaming sword”, watchthis, “a flaming sword” --
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it doesn't even sayanybody was holding it.
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“A flaming sword whichturned every way”, north,
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south, east, and west,“to guard the way
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to the Tree of Life.” Okay.
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Here's why I said, you know,I want you to notice
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the sentence says, God said,
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“Hey, man hasbecome like Us now.
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He knows good and evil.
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We'd better drive himout of the garden,
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lest he take from the Treeof Life and live forever,”
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and then it doesn't go on.
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“Lest he take from the Treeof Life and live forever,”
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da dada da, what?What does that mean?
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Okay, so many people have said,“See, that just shows God
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was mad at Adam and Eve,and in His temper,
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He just drovethem out.” No.
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God's good.Here's why He was saying it.
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He said “They are now -Adam and Eve -
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are now in a fallen state.They're in a fallen state.
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They are now separatedfrom Me, and if they eat
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from the Tree of Life now,they will live forever
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in a fallen state,separated from Me.
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Get ‘em out.
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Get ‘em out right now,and put a flaming sword down
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there so they don't eat fromthat tree in a fallen state,
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because they'll live forever,separated from Us.”
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You all see that?
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See, that's God's goodness,but people don't pick that up
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if you don't have it rootedin you, God's a good God.
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By the way, three Scripturesin Revelation tell us
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that that Tree of Lifeis in heaven,
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and you can eat from itall you want
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because you're ina redeemed state,
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and it's fine for youto eat from the Tree of Life
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in a redeemed state,but He doesn't want you
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to eat from itin a fallen state.
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He doesn't wantyou to stay fallen.
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[Applause]
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So, God's a good God,and that's the first thing
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I want you to know.
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Here's the second thing,God is just.
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He's just.
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It's not just that He doesjust things, He is just.
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Isaiah 45:21, “There is noother God besides Me”,
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this is God speaking,“a just God and a Savior.”
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“A just God and a Savior.”
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There will never beinjustice with God
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or any of His judgments, never.
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Because I know that --see, I can't go along
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with this thing that Godchose some to go to heaven
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and some to go to hell,‘cause that's not just.
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That's not justice,and I know God. I know God.
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I don't know if youall know this,
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I've met Him personally.I'm saved!
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Are any of you all saved?Anybody here?
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Okay, so you'vemet Him, too!
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I'm not special,you met Him too!
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And I talk to Him every day!
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Do you talk toHim every day?
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I talk to Him every day.
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And, He wrote me a love letter,and I've read it,
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multiple times!
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So, I can't believe anythingthat doesn't line
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up with this book!
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I cannot believe it,‘cause I know this God!
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I know He's good,and I know He's just.
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So, we have thesequestions, though.
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Well, would a loving God,or how could a just God,
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send anyone to hell?
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And I'm gonnaanswer that, okay?
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But, here'sanother question.
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Would God send someone to hellwho's never had a chance?
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Never heard the gospel,never had a chance?
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Okay, let's answerby the Bible -
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not our opinion, by the Bible.
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Romans 1:18, “For the wrathof God is revealed
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from heaven againstall ungodliness
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and unrighteousness of men,who suppress the truth
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in unrighteousness,because what may be known of God
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is manifest”...now, let me just tell you
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and then I'll goin a little deeper.
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The word “manifest”means to make known.
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That's what it means.
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I know it soundslike a big word,
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but it means to make known.So, watch this Scripture.
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“Because what may be knownof God is made known.”
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In other words, God makes itknown to every person. Watch.
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“In”, underlinethat word, “in them,
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for God has shown it to them.”
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I want you to remember“in” and “to”.
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“For since the creationof the world”, now, watch this.
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This is kind of tough toexplain, but it's good.
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Listen, watch.
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“His invisible attributes...”
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now, what's the word“invisible” mean?
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You can't see Him, right?Okay, watch.
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“What can't be seenabout Him”, watch,
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“His invisible attributes,are clearly seen.”
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Kind of a playon words, isn't it?
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In other words,His character,
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His goodness, is clearly seen.
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His love is clearly seen.
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“Being understood bythe things which are made,
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even His eternal powerand Godhead, so that they”,
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that's the people who livein unrighteousness
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and won't accept Him, “so thatthey are without excuse.” Okay.
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So, God manifests Himselfto every person
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internally and externally.
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That's what it's saying,internally and externally.
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So again, let me give youa little moral manifest.
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If I said to you,“There is a multi-billionaire
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in the service.
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I just wantedeverybody to know that.”
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And then, I'd just go on,and you'd think,
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“Oh, okay, big deal.”
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But if that multi-billionairegot up and began to do
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what only a multi-billionaire could do,
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and that is giveevery person $100.000...
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are there anymulti-billionaires in the --
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No, I was just joking,just joking, just joking.
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Okay, but if he did,and he gave to every person
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what only he could do,he did for them
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what only he could do for them,
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he'd be manifestinghis presence.
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He wouldn't justbe in our service,
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in our presence,
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he'd be makinghis presence known. Listen.
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This is why I love worship,
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because it's not justthe omnipresence of God,
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it's the manifestpresence of God.
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He gets up during our worship,and He begins to walk around
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and give to every personwhat only God can give to you.
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He's the only one thatcan give it to you.
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[Applause]
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He makes Himselfknown, all right?
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So, how does He make Himselfknown, according to this,
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internally and externally?
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Let me say it thisway, all right?
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God manifests Himselfto every person on the inside,
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because we havea conscience.
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Every personhas a conscience.
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He manifests Himself toevery person on the outside,
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because we have creation.Conscience and creation.
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Your conscience tells youthere's a God, and creation
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tells us there's a God.Think about this.
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Why did God createa universe this big?
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Stars, as far as right now,as far as our telescopes can go,
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this is what I've been told,300 million light years away.
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Light years.
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If you traveledthe speed of light,
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186.000 miles per second.That's pretty fast.
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300 million -- why inthe world would God create
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a universe that big, exceptHe wants us to walk out,
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look at the stars and say,“There's got to be a God.”
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There's got to be God.
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And here's what'samazing to me.
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People say that thattakes a leap of faith.
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Okay, here's the other one.
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Nothing collided with nothing,and all of this came into being.
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You want to talkabout a leap of faith?
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[Applause]
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It is crazy!
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By the way, it is stillcalled the Big Bang Theory.
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Okay, but why?
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Why did God do this?Let me tell you something.
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God put eternityin every person's heart.
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God has put eternityin every person's heart.
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Think about this.
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No person can ever say,“No one told me.”
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Here's why.
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Because God can comeand say, “I told you.
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I came to you whenyou were a child,
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and I put it in your heartto wonder about Me.”
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I want to just take a littlepoll at every campus, all right?
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How many of you rememberwondering about God
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when you were a child?Can I see your hands?
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That's because Godput it in your heart.
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And let me tell yousomething else,
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so this may blow you away,and I'm just gonna list
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a few of the Scriptures,just because of time, okay?
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Just a few.
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Every person - this iswhat the Bible says -
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every person - every,every person who seeks
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after God will find Him.Every person.
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Let me just show you a fewof the Scriptures, all right?
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Proverbs 8:17,“I love those who love Me,
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and those who seek Mediligently will find Me.”
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Not might, not should,not hopefully - will. They will.
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“If they'll seek Mediligently, they will.”
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Jeremiah 29:13, “And youwill seek Me and find Me.”
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You will find Me.
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The verb stillapplies to find.
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“When you search for Mewith all your heart.”
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Jesus Himself, Matthew 7,Sermon on the Mount, 7 and 8.
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“And ask, and it will begiven to you; seek,
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and you will find; knock,and it will be opened to you.
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For everyone who asks receives,and he who seeks finds,
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and to him who knocks itwill be opened.”
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And Acts 17,this is the way Paul put it
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in his sermon on Mars Hill.
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Verse 26 and 27, “And Hehas made from one blood
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every nation of men to dwellon all the face of the earth,
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and has determinedtheir preappointed times
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and the boundaries of theirdwellings, so that”, so that,
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because, therefore, “so thatthey should seek the Lord.”
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He's done this for every person.
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He's put it in everyperson's heart to seek Him.
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“In the hope that they mightgrope for Him”, that's the hope,
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and if they do grope for Him,and grope, by the way,
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means to make an effort.
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That's all it means,just make an effort.
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Watch.“And find Him.”
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God put eternity in your heartso you would look for Him,
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and if you look for Him,you'll find Him,
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because He is not farfrom each one of us -
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“though He is not farfrom each one of us.”
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So, God's a just God.
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He's good, He's just,and here's number three,
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God is love.
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1 John 4:18, “He who does notlove God does not know God,
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for God is love.”
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Okay, so this question,why would a loving God
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send anyone to hell?
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Well, I'm gonna get to it,but just for a moment,
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could we just lookat that, that issue,
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from a biblicalperspective, okay?
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First of all, you needto know something about hell.
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God did not createhell for people.
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People say, “Well, why woulda loving God even create hell
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for people?”
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He didn't createhell for people.
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He created hell forthe devil and his angels.
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Jesus' own words,Matthew 25:41.
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“Then He will also sayto those on the left hand,
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“Depart from Me, you cursed,
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into the everlastingfire prepared” -
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the root of this wordin the Greek means “built”.
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Built “for the deviland his angels.”
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So, He didn'tprepare hell for you.
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He prepared heaven for you.
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“I go to preparea place for you.”
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He didn't prepare hell for you,and He built it
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for the devil's angels,but men became evil.
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And so, watch what happened.
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This may be something you'venever seen in your life.
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By the way,I'm now at Isaiah 5.
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I got there. Okay?
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And we'll read somethingafter this also
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in Isaiah 5, so youcan stay there.
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Verse 11, “Woe to those whorise early in the morning,
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that they may followintoxicating drink;
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who continue until night,till wine inflames them!
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The harp and the strings,the tambourine and flute,
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and wine are in their feasts;but they do not regard
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the work of the Lord,nor consider the operation
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of His hands.
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Therefore my peoplehave gone into captivity,
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because they have no knowledge;their honorable men
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are famished,and their multitude dried up
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with thirst.”Watch 14 carefully.
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It uses the Old Testamentword for hell, which is “Sheol”.
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“Therefore Sheol”, watch,“has enlarged itself.”
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Hell added on.The devil added on to hell.
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“Therefore Sheol”...God didn't do it.
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“Sheol has enlarged itselfand opened its mouth
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beyond measure; their glory andtheir multitude and their pomp,
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and he who is jubilant,shall descend into it.”
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Hell was enlarged by necessity,not by design.
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I'm gonna say that again.
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I'd love for youto never forget that.
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Hell was enlarged by necessity,not by design,
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and hell enlarged itself.
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Satan added on to it,because he got a third
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of the angels to follow him,and then he got people
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to follow him.That's why.
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So we say, “Well, why woulda loving God, you know,
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send anyone to hell?”
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It's normally askedvery rhetorically,
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very angrily, very...I had a really good word
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somewhere in my notes.
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Accusingly,that was a good word.
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All right.
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You all just editthat part there.
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[Laughter]
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Let me just give you three,the three major.
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There are many more stories ofrejection of God in the Bible.
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I want to give youthe three major stories
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of the rejection of God.
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The first is in Isaiah 14and Revelation 12,
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also Ezekiel 28.
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Lucifer was the worshipleader in heaven.
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He led a third of the angelsto rebel against God.
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Here's what I want youto remember about that.
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They weren't borninto a bad situation.
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God never abused them,never treated them bad,
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and a third of themrejected God.
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That's the first rebelliousstory, rejection of God.
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The second one isfound in Genesis 3.
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God creates Adam and Eve -perfect bodies, perfect health,
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perfect garden,perfect marriage,
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perfect relationship with Godand perfect relationship
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with each other,and they rebel against God.
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The third one'seven worse than that.
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He sent His own Sonto this earth,
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who explainedto them the Scriptures,
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who did nothingbut good for 33-1/2 years,
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3-1/2 years in public ministry.
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Healed people,raised people from the dead,
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loved on people,had dinner with sinners,
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never actedprideful or arrogant.
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And we rejected Him so muchthat we tortured Him to death,
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the inexcusable rebelliousrejection of the loving God.
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Okay, do you want meto answer the question,
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why would a loving Godsend anyone to hell?
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It's a simple,simple answer.
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He wouldn't.He wouldn't.
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People send themselves to hell.
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ROBERT: There really is a heavenand there really is a hell,
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but here's the good news.
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There really is a Saviorwho gave His life
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so that we could spendeternity in heaven,
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and the choice is yours.
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I don't believe you're watchingtoday by accident.
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I believe that God'sdrawing you today
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to give your life to Him.
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He's trying to drawyou to Himself,
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and that's why you heardthis specific message today.
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So, I'd like to encourage youto simply give control
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of your life to Jesus right now.Give Him everything.
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Don't hold back anything.
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Hey, thanks somuch for watching.
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