My friends, this is the second part of the message we began this morning, entitled, Of Spiritual Disaster. The sermon text is 16 words, very brief text, Proverbs 29.1. The first eight words tell of the beginning of a personal story. They are a prelude to spiritual disaster. We focused our attention on them this morning. The last eight words tell the end of this story, and they characterize the disaster itself. Here's the beginning of the story. He, that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck, or makes his neck stiff, is the sense. is the end of the story, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy." God willing, we would meditate on the last eight words, the catastrophe itself. This story, this short, very short story of an unnamed individual begins with a sinful person, referred to simply as he, who has the mercy in his life, for some considerable time, of frequent reproofs from the Lord. It's not specified how they come to him, but God sends reproofs in many ways. primarily through the preaching of Scripture, but also through reading Scripture and Christian counsel, even from family and friends. But the sinner, with these spiritual opportunities and advantages, persists stubbornly in his course of sin. He steadfastly continues the same as he is and does. You know, spiritual stubbornness doesn't have to look so dramatic. It's not as if when someone preaches to you that you have to shout from the pew, no, I don't agree with that, to be spiritually stubborn. Or if someone is counseling you, you don't have to get red in the face and say, that's stupid. I've had people, when I was recruiting them, stand before me and with soft voice say, oh yes pastor, that's right. And she continued to conduct herself exactly as she had before the reproof. It's just to maintain the status quo, that's all. It's not necessarily overtly hostile, it's just to continue the same old, same old spiritually. That is the prelude to spiritual catastrophe. That's what leads to this horrible, horrible end. He shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy. The end of this stubborn one is dreadful beyond what we can adequately express or even conceive. I think these are among the saddest words in all of scripture. he shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. Other translations cite it a little differently from the Hebrew. I would give you several, starting from the strictest and most literal toward those that tend more to be a paraphrase. They go like this. will suddenly be broken beyond healing. That's the ESV, and in this particular place it is a faithful translation of the Hebrew text. Will suddenly be broken beyond healing. Another translation says, will be shattered instantly beyond recovery. Another one, One day you'll be crushed and never recover. That is the persistently stubborn one who doesn't repent before frequent and faithful reproofs. And then here's a paraphrase. He will suddenly be broken and never have another chance. And then the Septuagint, which is a Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament, renders it somewhat differently. And this is an English rendering of the Greek. It goes like this. When a stiff-necked man is suddenly set on fire, there shall be no remedy. And that, whether you could justify that as a translation of the verse, it's a horrible truth of scripture. When a stiff-necked man is suddenly set on fire, there should be no remedy. I might add, ever, ever. There are three basic ideas that I gather from these terrible words, the second part of Proverbs 29.1. First of all, surely this text teaches us that all the finally impenitent will be finally ruined. Secondly, for the incorrigible, the end comes suddenly. See that? It's just simply the word suddenly in the text. He shall suddenly be destroyed. And then thirdly, this catastrophe is irrevocable. That is, there's no recourse. After it unfolds, that's it. It's eternal. Follow me for these three doctrines from the text. All the finally impenitent will be finally ruined. God is not playing games with people, my friends, when he sends forth commandments, warnings, and loving gospel invitations and calls that cost him the blood of his dearly beloved Son, Jesus Christ. People who hear the gospel of Jesus Christ, are so much more responsible and accountable for turning to God than those who live all their lives and never hear the name of Jesus. When you spurn God's overtures of love and mercy again and again and again and again, and the Lord sovereignly and in His just wrath withholds the grace of salvation that would affect a change in your heart and life, then one of two things absolutely must happen. Either God Himself must be eternally dishonored by your irreverence or else his incorrigible enemy must be eternally humiliated and ruined. And the first thing is impossible. The patient, long-suffering, merciful, waiting Lord does not withhold his severe judgment on the finally impenitent forever." In other words, as a moral being in God's kingdom, God's moral universe, your probation is temporary. God's amazing patience will have an end with you personally if you refuse to heed the reproofs of his word. Matthew Henry puts it in his typical eloquence when he says, we must either bend or break We must either bend or break. God applies the pressure of his word. And if you're a believer, you conform to the pressure. But if you resist that pressure like a stiff rod, God will break you in judgment. Bending glorifies God's mercy and grace. Breaking will glorify His terrible justice. But in one way or the other, God will be glorified in you. Either by your bending and yielding, or by your ruin. There's no way out of this for us. And all those who prove finally impenitent, who just maintain the status quo, who deflect the spiritual benefit of sermons, who continue to kid themselves that they're Christians or procrastinate in becoming one. When they're found that way, when the Lord's mercy expires, that's it. That's it. That's the prelude to ruin. It must be so, to the honor of God. It was a tribute to God's long-suffering nature and His amazing kindness that He doesn't instantly destroy rebels against His authority. It's amazing that when Adam and Eve dared to eat of the forbidden tree that He didn't kill them on the spot and send them to perdition. God is our Maker and we will not acknowledge Him. He is our sustainer and we in our sin will not praise Him and give Him thanks. He is our King. And we won't swear fealty or else we do and then we commit treason. He is altogether glorious. And we refuse to praise him. He is the only true and living God. Yet we worship the creatures instead. The Lord our God is the truth and we love and practice falsehood. He is the life. And unconverted, we continue in our pact with death. He's perfect love. And we prefer the oppression of Satan's heavy yoke, our adversary. He's judge. And we dare continue in crimes right in front of His omniscient eyes He's all-powerful and we challenge Him. He's everywhere present and we try to hide from Him. He's pure and holy such that the angels above shield their gaze from Him. And we gladly wallow in moral filth. Friends, such a state of things cannot continue forever. God's love is on display in this interim period, but His wisdom would be impugned if He maintained this forever as the status quo of His created order. Do you think you can defy Him forever and get away with it? Do you think that God will let you keep spitting in His face forever and not raise a hand against you? But Pastor Meadows, it sounds like you're talking to me. like an Old Testament preacher. What about the New Testament? In the New Testament, that's full of more of the mercy and love and grace of God, isn't it? Well, there's both a clearer revelation of God's love and of His wrath in the New Testament. Hebrews 10 talks about the kinds of sinners that drop into hell from the church, out of the church, people who make professions of faith and then apostatize. You know what it says in Hebrews 10? I would read from verse 26. For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation which shall devour the adversaries and by the way the New Testament affirms everything in the Old Testament this is quoting from the Old Testament with approval The New and Old Testaments are like God's two lips by which he speaks to us, one of the Puritans said. They're not against each other. They're not contradictory. The same God in the Old Testament is the God in the New Testament. Here's what Paul says, I believe, further in Hebrews 10. He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses." In other words, there were death penalty offenses in the Mosaic Code. No mercy for certain transgressors. And now we might expect, if we believe the hype of certain antinomians on the radio and TV, that the Bible, the New Testament, might say, after it says, he who despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses, but now in this age of grace, we can live as we please as long as we believe in Jesus and God will be all right with that and take us to heaven. Is that what it says? No. says, Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy who hath trodden underfoot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? For we know Him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, the Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Now, the New Testament does not overthrow This doctrine of Proverbs 29, 1, he who being often reproved hardens his neck shall be destroyed. All the finally impenitent, the New Testament teaches as well as the old will be finally ruined. And that doesn't mean cease to exist. that means to be in a state of misery forever and ever that's the first doctrine we glean from this second part of the text number two we also gather from it that for the incorrigible that is for those who are past correction who are so stubborn no reproof will turn them. For them, the end comes suddenly, because it says here that he shall suddenly be destroyed. He shall suddenly be destroyed. Now, when you interpret verses from the book of Proverbs, or for that matter, anywhere else in the Bible, one of the important things to notice is the genre of the literature you're reading because that sometimes has a very significant bearing on the interpretation of the text. Some well-meaning Christians have mistakenly interpreted various verses in Proverbs because they failed to note the genre. The genre of these quippy axiomatic statements is known as a proverb. And we even have ordinary, non-inspired proverbs. Lots of them in our culture and language. Penny saved is a penny earned. No, that's not in the Bible. I think that's Benjamin Franklin. Cleanliness is next to godliness. There are all kinds of them that we could think of if we were given more time. And it's in the nature of a proverb to express what is a truism. And that means something that is generally true from observation. But it doesn't mean that it's always true in all cases and all circumstances. There are exceptions to the rule. But it's frequent enough or common enough that it's a rule. You can depend on it. You can look forward to it because this is generally the way things go. And that is why, for example, Proverbs 22, 6, which says, train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it, is not to be misunderstood as an ironclad promise That if you rear your children in a Christian home, that they're going to be born again Christians and persevere to the end of their lives in faith. It's not. But that's the way God saves a lot of young people, is by faithful parental nurture. And as a general rule, it's true. And so it is with this passage. It has its exceptions. There are people who are often reproved and stiff in their necks, stubbornly resisting the reproof, and they're not suddenly destroyed. Some of them sink quietly and gradually into the quicksand of God's wrath. You know quicksand is terrible. You start to fall into a pit of quicksand. And as long as you remain still, you only sink, oh, so gradually. But the more you struggle and try to get out, the faster you go down. But one thing's for sure, once you're in it, unless somebody comes to rescue you from the side, you're going down. You're going to suffocate. It's just a matter of time. There are ungodly people that live to be a hundred years old and never repent. And they just fizzle out at the end. And then they go to hell. But so often, Proverbs 29.1 is what actually happens in their lives, in other people's lives. He who being often recruits, stiffens his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed. And that without remedy. Suddenly be destroyed. Well, that sounds frightening. It's meant to be frightening. It is frightening, if you have any sense. Feel the fear, because that may be how God makes the warning effective to you. You might think, well, Pastor Meadows, yeah, for some people, you know, that engage in risky behavior. But I'm, you know, I'm healthy, I'm young, I'm careful. Doesn't help one bit. Jonathan Edwards said, it is no security to wicked men for one moment that there are no visible means of death at hand. It's no security to a natural man. He means somebody without the Holy Spirit, a non-Christian. That he is now in health and that he does not see which way he should now immediately go out of the world by any accident. And that there's no visible danger in any respect of his circumstances. The manifold and continual experience of the world in all ages shows this is no evidence that a man is not on the very brink of eternity, and that the next step will not be into another world. The unseen, unthought of ways and means of persons going suddenly out of the world are innumerable and inconceivable. Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering. And there are innumerable places in the covering so weak that they will not bear their weight, and these places are not seen. The arrows of death fly unseen at noonday, and the sharpest sight cannot discern them. God has so many different, unsearchable ways of taking wicked men out of the world and sending them to hell that there is nothing to make it appear that God needs to be at the expense of a miracle or go out of the ordinary course of His providence to destroy any wicked man at any moment. It wouldn't surprise me if somebody in the history of the world is choked to death on a gnat. Stranger things have happened. He, the being often reproved, hardened his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed. Listen, there are many illustrations in the Bible of this principle coming to pass in specific cases. If you're one of those like me who reads your Bible systematically again and again and again, cover to cover, I'm sure many can come to mind if you'll stop and think. Remember Lot's wife, the New Testament says. She was no doubt often reproved by her godly husband Lot, and she was warned not to look back to Sodom. But she didn't listen. She turned back. And God turned her into a pillar of salt. Like that. Just one look. One look. Her life's over. Remember Korah, Dathan, and Abiram and their rebellion against Moses. Moses! You think you're such a big deal. Well, you know what? You're not the only one with the Spirit. God's given us the Spirit and we have every bit as much right to govern this people of Israel as you do. Moses said, oh yeah? Meet me before the tabernacle and we'll see who the Lord loves. The ground opened up and swallowed them with their families and all their goods alive into the pit. Remember, Achan, God told all Israel, when you conquer Jericho, don't take anything from it. It's all chirim, that is accursed and devoted to me. Burn it with fire. Kill everything that breathes and burn the city. Take nothing of it to yourselves. But what did Achan do? He saw a Babylonian garment and a wedge of gold. He snuck them back to his tent and buried them in the floor. What happened? In very short order, God killed him with the community throwing stones to punish him with the death penalty. What about Hophni and Phinehas? They were priests. they were stealing unauthorized meat from the sacrifices people brought to the temple for the worship of God and they were lying with the women at the tabernacle immorally and so it happened in God's providence they went out to battle and in one day they were both slain in the wrath of God King Saul King Saul had so many opportunities and he ruined himself by arrogance and heedlessness to God's commands, consulting with the witch at Endor, and God punished him with the sword of the heathen on the battlefield. killed after his idolatry is being reproved by prophets so many times he went he was told by my kind of the prophet that even though the 400 false prophets said you have victory in the fight against the pagan enemy my kind of the true prophet the Lord said no you're gonna if you go you're gonna die in battle and they have said Men, lock him up. Only feed him with bread and water until I get back." And Micaiah said, if you come back alive, the Lord hasn't spoken by me. So, he thought he was going to trick Providence and go into the battle incognito because it was known that the enemy troops were trying just to kill the king of Israel, not all the troops. So, he didn't even put on royal attire. He dressed like an ordinary soldier with armor. And it says there was a certain man who drew a bow at a venture. That means he just, it doesn't say why, he just pulled his arrow back on the taut string and flung it up into the air and it came down to earth lodging in the little crack in Ahab's armor. wounding him fatally, and the dogs licked up his blood. Jezebel was in the top of a tower, and when Elisha came round to see the judgment of God fall on her, he said to the man in the tower, Who's with the Lord? Throw her down. So they grabbed the queen, cast her from the top of a tall tower, And by the time they got around to take care of her body, all that was left was her feet, her palms, and her skull because the dogs had eaten her corpse. You know, you might not want to read some of these stories to your children right before bedtime. They're terrible. Judas Iscariot betrayed the Christ after traveling with him for three years and preaching the gospel. We have every reason to believe Judas performed miracles with the other apostles. But then he betrayed his Lord and was filled with remorse and went out and hanged himself and went to his own place, the Bible says. Ananias and Sapphira lied about how much their property sold for so that people in the church might think they gave all the proceeds to the common treasury. They lied to the Holy Spirit. Peter came in one at a time to them and said, tell me whether you sold the land for so much. When they said that, Ananias first said yes for that much and he lied. Peter pronounced God's judgment on him and he dropped dead like that. Same thing with Sapphire when she came in. She named the same figure because they had conspired together to lie. Peter pronounced the judgment and said, the men who carried your husband out horizontally are going to carry you out too. And she died. King Herod gave a speech one day and his hearer said, it is the voice of a God and not a man. And immediately Since he didn't give God the glory, God killed him, and he was eaten by worms, it says. Acts chapter 12. He that being often reproved, and hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. These all illustrate this principle found throughout Scripture. It's the very judgment warned about in Proverbs 1. Verse 24, where wisdom, which is really the Lord speaking, says, Because I have called and ye refused. I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded. But ye have said it not on my counsel. What that means is you thought my advice was worthless. And the proof is you didn't act on it. You said it not on my counsel. You wouldn't have my reproof. I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear cometh. When your fear cometh like a desolation and your destruction comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you, then shall they call upon Me. But I will not answer. They shall seek Me early, but they shall not find Me, the Lord says. Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord. They wanted none of my advice. They despised all my reproof. Therefore, shall they eat the fruit of their own way. They will be filled with their own devices. Because the turning away of the simple will slay them. And the prosperity of fools will destroy them. Psalm 73, 18-20 reinforces this. Surely, the wise psalmist who is a prophet says to the Lord, surely Thou did set the wicked in slippery places. Thou castest them down into destruction." The Lord, see, is the author of their demise. The Lord is the executioner. He's not only the judge who announces guilt. He is the hangman. He is the tormentor. He's the one that inflicts the punishment in His wrath. How they are brought into desolation, as in a moment they are utterly consumed with terrors. As a dream, when one wakes, O Lord, when you awake, you will despise their image. That is, you will hate the very sight of your enemies when you awake, Lord. Right now, that God lets unconverted people continue in this world, it's like He's asleep. But when he wakes up, you better watch out. And you know, again, to reinforce this is the doctrine of the New Testament also, I cite 1 Thessalonians 5. I know you'll never hear this from Joel Osteen, Maybe he doesn't like to read of his own judgment. Paul writing to the church at Thessalonica. 1 Thessalonians 5, But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. he's speaking about the times and the seasons of the end of the last days and he says for yourselves know perfectly you already know this he's saying i'm just reminding you of it you know that the day of the lord and that is a rich Biblical concept, the day of the Lord is the day of terrible worldwide cataclysmic judgment upon all God's remaining enemies. You yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night. The Bible was vindicated again this week. You know why? Harold Camping That false prophet told us all that October 21st, Friday, the day before yesterday, was the last day of the world. And everything was going to be burned up and the new creation was coming in last Friday. Well, you know, I exposed him on Facebook. And I said, I think the existence of Facebook is a fairly clear proof that the world continues as it was. No, the day of the Lord, nobody predicts that. Nobody can predict that day or the hour. The Bible says it. Harold Camping is a liar. The day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. For when they shall say, peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, like a woman in labor. with a child, and they shall not escape." When unconverted people realize that Christ is returning, it's too late. It's too late. It's too late. It's over. And once it begins to happen, it'll happen suddenly. We're not going to get a six-month radar alert that Jesus is coming back from heaven. You've got six months. No, there are signs, but once those signs begin to unfold, it happens so quickly. When Christ returns, all who remain lost will suffer this sudden catastrophe. and their catastrophe is irrevocable. That's the doctrine of the text, and it's found in this little phrase in Proverbs 29.1, and that without remedy. And that without remedy. In this life, you may be unconverted and spared temporarily by grace, and it may be that God will save you. but not in the next life. Another liar and false prophet we've endured lately is this guy named Rob Bell, who wrote a horrible book called Love Wins. And his thesis is, what he proposes and suggests, is that well, maybe some people do die and go to hell, but then they know it's all for real, and they really feel sorry for their sins, and the love of God triumphs over all human rebellion, and God, by His grace, empties hell, And we all end up in the favor of God and in heaven. It's a fantasy. It has no basis in reality. Anybody that can read the Bible and come to that conclusion must be spiritually blind and still in their sins. That's the only conclusion I can draw. You know what it says in Ecclesiastes? This is a verse that God used to convert R.C. Sproul, the great theologian. You might think it's a little odd, but here's what it says. Ecclesiastes 11, 3. If the tree fall toward the south or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. That was Sproul's conversion text. Because it dawned on him that when a man is cut down in death, His end is fixed forever. There's no changing. Once the end comes, and it can come so suddenly, and that's it. One of the last verses we read in the whole Bible, describing the circumstances in the wake of Christ's second coming, goes like this. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still. And he which is filthy, let him be filthy still. And he that is righteous, let him be righteous still. And he that is holy, let him be holy still." In other words, there's no changing. Between Abraham's bosom and hell, there is a great gulf fixed, and nobody can cross from one side to the other. One thing Dante, the Italian poet, got right about hell in his poem was, and this may not literally be true, but he portrays the entrance to hell this way. There was a sign over the door and the sign read, Abandon all hope ye who enter here. Have you let that idea of eternity have its weight in your soul? right now counts forever. This is your opportunity. If you should die and discover on the other side that you're in a pitch black furnace screaming from intense pain, And all you hear are the shrieks of tormented men and demons all about. And you can't breathe for the sulfur, the hot sulfur coming into your nostrils and your mouth. And you're dying in there. Know now that you will be tormented forever. There's no Roman Catholic purgatory that's temporary. Hell is permanent. In fact, it will only get worse because the damned in hell are not reconciled to God by their suffering. They blaspheme Him in their torments, committing more sin and heaping up ever-increasing guilt for all eternity and therefore justly suffer an ever-increasing pain. And there's no, no possible escape then. It's horrible to consider it. And we're afraid some we've already known and loved are there now. And some we know and love who are still alive are going there. He who, often being reproved, hardens his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. Without remedy. All the finally impenitent will be finally ruined. the incorrigible many of them will find the end come upon them suddenly and the catastrophe is irrevocable and this the last thing I want to say this afternoon on this subject this may be your last opportunity this may today this service may be it for you This may be the last sermon you'll ever hear. It might be the last one I'll ever preach, because I may drop dead even before I finish. One Saturday evening, many people were gathered together for an evangelistic meeting. It was the 8th of October, 1871, and D.L. Moody was the preacher. already becoming well-known. He was finishing his sermon, and he felt an urge to press for his hearers to repent and believe the gospel. But he thought, well, we're going to be back here next week, and so I'll just wrap up the sermon here and press for repentance next week. And when he was wrapping it up, the courthouse bell sounded an alarm and nobody paid much attention to it because just like we hear police sirens now and then and we don't think much of it it was something fairly normal occurrence so they wrapped up the meeting and then when people left the preaching hall and went outside they saw the glare of the flames and this was the start of the Great Chicago Fire 300 people died. And Dio Budi regretted that he didn't make a stronger appeal to his audience while he had them before the pulpit. And he resolved from then on when he preached he would plead for souls. May God be merciful and grant us more opportunities to hear the gospel and to repent of our sins. I don't wish this end on anybody. A sudden irrevocable destruction, but you know what? It could happen. I don't want any one of us here or a couple of us. To be killed this week. But you know what, if it happened, especially to certain people, I wouldn't be that shocked. God will vindicate His word, I'm telling you. God is not playing with us. Allegedly true, The story is told of a young woman, and this was confirmed by an ordained Anglican minister of the 19th century. There was this young woman. She'd been brought up in a Christian home. She knew she should come to Christ because her mother pled with her to turn to the Lord, but she Chose instead to take the way of the world. To hang out with the wrong kind of friends. Ungodly people. She kept company with them. And her mother was so concerned for her. Tenderly begged her. Just to turn around. Get right with God. receive Christ but again and again she persistently refused to listen to the gospel and these urging from her mother and so far you might think I'm talking about somebody that's been in Calvary Baptist Church but I'm not, I'm talking about a lady that lived in the 1800s Finally, this young woman contracted a terminal illness. Her case, she discovered by doctors and medical science, was actually hopeless and death was staring her in the face at a young age. Still, she was hard and stubborn when urged to turn to God in repentance and to believe in Christ. And one night, she awoke suddenly out of a sound sleep. Her mother was there by her deathbed. And this young woman had a frightened look in her eyes. And she asked her mother excitedly, Mother, what does Ezekiel 7, 8, and 9 say? Her mother said, what do you mean, my dear? And she said, well, I just had the most vivid dream and there was a presence in the room with me. And I heard a voice that said, read Ezekiel 7, 8, and 9. So the mother reached for a Bible and her heart sank as she saw the words. But she read them aloud to her dying daughter. Here's the quote. Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee. And I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations. And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity. I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee. And ye shall know that I am the Lord that smiteth. The poor girl, with a look of horror on her face, sank back on the pillow, utterly exhausted, and in a few moments she was in eternity. Grace rejected brings judgment at last. The Bible says, he who covers his sins shall not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy. If you want to be saved from this terrible catastrophe, all you need do is respond humbly and obediently to the recruits. Don't be this person in the first line, and you won't end up this person in the second line. The door of salvation is still open, and His name is Jesus Christ. And He says, through me, Come unto me, all ye that labor, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me. For I am meek and lowly of heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. That's what Jesus says. Now, in this life, while you're alive, bend your neck and receive His yoke. Yield to Him and become His disciple while you have this fleeting opportunity. I beg you. I beg you. Amen. Amen.