Maybe just a little idiosyncrasy of mine, but let's get Malachi chapter 1. I was feeling a little funny because I guess you'd call tonight's message a negative message, but after that, he sort of set the table. Good to be back. Had a great time. Three messages in seven days, I think I preached three of them, preached to the Spanish church, that was a real blessing, very receptive folks, lots happening down there, ate some great. barbecue brisket and beef ribs, and all of my grandchildren were under the same roof at one time, including the ones still in the womb. So we got some great pictures. That doesn't happen very often, so thank you for... Giving us leave. I hope next year read your email I hope next year that I could bring a group out there, especially of you young marrieds if that's possible Just just a good fire burning down there that I think we do good to catch You know how it is you go to Africa you come back. You can't explain it You go to Moldova you come back. You can't explain it and so just a great conference group Missionaries from hard places is what they featured this year. I mean there's a guy doing a work in Egypt Egypt and National missionary to China doing a great work. The missionary that I put out on this with these Navajos, I mean, he grew up on the mission field and watched his dad plow the fields and labor and get nothing. He said he used to sit on the floorboard of the car, traveling a hundred and some miles to where they would go to church, just praying that one person would come to church. And he graduated Bible college. His dad said, why don't you come and help me till you figure out what you're gonna do? And God opened the thing up. And I know their vision is 10 churches. I think there are six into it, working on it. And they have big VBSs every year. And I'd like to bring a group out there and help them out. If you could respond to that. And that doesn't mean that you're necessarily in. But I'd like to have him for our missions conference. And he can meet us, and we can meet him. So just look over that email. Malachi chapter 1. This will be our fifth lesson. Tonight, The Burden of the Word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. I have loved you, saith the Lord, yet ye say wherein hast thou loved us? It was not Esau, Jacob's brother. Oh, let me say this. I know there's something else I want to say. How many of you are in secular college where they dress up for Halloween? Would you stand? You're in secular college where they dress up for Halloween. How about if you're in secular work where they dress up for Halloween? Would you stand? Okay, I'm gonna let you off the hook with this. We can't have part in Halloween. Next year, the Virgin Mary, John the Baptist, Abraham, Jesus, Sarah, okay, you can sit down. You getting the point? Street preacher. Man, you be a street preacher at Naktavu's next year. Big scripture show. What are you? I'm the Virgin Mary. This is the baby Jesus. Little did I know, when he was born, he would be dying for your sins someday. Oh, Bible, what are you doing? I'm a street preacher. It's Halloween. Amen. Then you won't have to deny him. I have loved you, saith the Lord, yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us?" And that's typical sinful man arguing with God about something so obvious that God is good and that God is love. You know, it's funny, man expects all the blessings of God doesn't thank Him before He stuffs His face, doesn't thank Him when the baby's born, doesn't thank Him for that paycheck, but as soon as there's a little trouble, why would God let this happen? How about why did God bless you in the first place and you didn't thank Him? So he charges God foolishly, you know, where has thou loved us? And so what's going to go on here is the God in his long suffering, he's going to go on to explain, and what follows is a comparison of Jacob and Esau. The two brothers, Esau who sold his birthright, Jacob who is Israel, And he's gonna talk about how he treated Esau versus how he treated Jacob. Now, if you remember, Esau sold his birthright for a bowl of soup. He was out hunting, he came in, I'm starving, what good is his birthright? Well, the birthright did a lot of good. Like double the portion of inheritance. and then he traded for a bowl of lentils. Now, I like lentils, especially the way my Aunt Jo's being used to make them with bacon in them, but they can't eat bacon here anyway, so he doesn't even get the bacon in his lentils. Can I say today there's a whole lot selling their birthright? And I'm not talking about walking away. I'll talk to them about that in a minute. I'm talking about this world who could be saved will reject Jesus Christ and all His benefits. In effect, for a bowl of soup. I'm glad my in-laws aren't here. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love them here, but my mother-in-law just loves soup, and so I would just feel her being against me on this message. I mean, they go to Carrabba's and she gets a bowl of soup. When I think of soup, I think of an incomplete meal. I remember leading Joe Baldacchino to the Lord. Some of you know him. Hey, Ron, don't forget my gift. Some of you have seen Joe. We invited him over for dinner. I've led him to Christ when he first got saved. He said, what are we having? At that time, we used to have soup. Now, I like soup. I pull soup out with a ladle with holes in it, so it's more like stew. But my wife would put the big shell macaroni. He said, what are we having? I said, soup. And he was waiting. Like, what's the main meal? And I said, no, we're just having soup. Soup's kind of incomplete. Our kids get to choose whatever they want to eat on their birthday dinner, and never has one of them said, I want soup! Let's go for a special dinner. Who's got good soup? It's like leftovers. And I'm getting old, and I still don't like soup, but it's like, Old people and poor people eat soup for a main meal. Yeah, he's thinking, I love soup, yeah. Ask him how many loaves of homemade Italian bread that he made on his smoker when he ate with it, so. Even if it was your favorite, would you sell your birthright for a bowl of soup? We got the birthright being saved. portion. I'm born into this world, and I'm born again. I've got a physical father, I've got a spiritual father. I've got a physical family, I've got a spiritual family. I live in the kingdoms of this world. I have within me a kingdom of God, which comes not with observation, but is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. I get double, just minus the sin, which makes it better. So what is the world selling out what they could have? A bowl of soup. We are complete in Him. They are incomplete. The truth is Christ is the propitiation for our sin and not ours only. Don't let no Calvinist tell you that it's a predestined and all that. But also for the sins of the whole world. They had a chance for the birthright, but they settled for a bowl of Egypt's soup. Then I think about believers that walk away. Double portion. After being saved and partaking of the benefits, no, I want a bowl of soup. I don't want the blessings that come along with separated living and clean living and protection under authority and Bible living and Bible principles where people actually believe them and practice them and parents may even require them instead about just talking about them and nobody does them. For what? I want to taste a bowl of soup in Egypt. How many of you parents that lived in Egypt would say, it's not worth the trip. It's soup. Why would you want soup when you're getting prime rib in the house of God? But here's the amazing thing. Jacob wasn't a whole lot better. His name means supplanter. He's a swindler. He's a conman. He's a conniver. And what God is getting at here, hey, Jacob's no better. but I chose him because I loved him. Go to Deuteronomy chapter seven. Deuteronomy chapter seven. Woo, verse eight. Verse seven, I'm sorry. Deuteronomy 7-7, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. And let me, you know, don't let this stray too far from a New Testament application. All scriptures given by inspiration of God are profitable for doctrine, okay? The Lord did not set his love upon you. Okay, now when you're reading that as a believer, you say, okay, he's talking to those people over there, so this doesn't count for me. No, it does count for you. Nor choose you because ye were more in number than any people, for ye were the fewest of all people. Kind of like the reason he chose David instead of the big brothers. But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you. Let us never get too haughty about our position in Jesus Christ. We can get to thinking, well, I was just so, and I realize the problem that Calvinists have with total depravity. And there's a fine line between anything good in me and God. There's a spirit in me that I can respond to God. But we got to be careful to get to thinking, well, I responded. What's wrong with you? I'm special. God knew I would respond. No, we're all undone. We're all Jacob's. We're all Esau's. We do not deserve his love. We did not earn his love. We just received his love. Let's don't forget where we came from when dealing with people. And let's don't forget how long it took you and it took me. I made sport of those Christians a long time before one came along and I didn't make sport of him until after I got saved, amen? And then God's gonna go on to compare and say, I love Jacob, even though he just like Esau and treated him accordingly. And basically he goes on, let's run back to Malachi and then we're gonna run somewhere else. And he says, look at it. There wouldn't be an Israel if I didn't love Jacob. if I didn't love Israel. There wouldn't be, certainly wouldn't be an Israel, they wouldn't have lasted. See, he's gonna talk about, let's read it here. Verse three, and I hated Esau and laid his mountains and his heritage waste. Well, he did that to Israel too. But he recovered Israel. See, there is no Edom today. But there's an Israel today. That's why I believe this Bible. One big reason. Come on, man. They were laid waste. There was nothing for 2,000 years, from 70 AD till 1948. And the Bible's true again. If you're going to bank on it, bank on this one. And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste, and for the dragons of the wilderness. Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished. Now this is Edom, this is the people that he laid waste. We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down. And they shall call them the border of wickedness, and the people against whom the Lord hath indignation. forever. Now, Malachi is talking about a physical land that he promised Abraham back in the book of Genesis, and he promised it to him forever. The promises to the nation of Israel did not come on the church that we have to somehow spiritualize. God will give you the borders, and I believe it's Genesis 13, 15, 17, He'll give you the very borders that He told Abraham, I'm going to give this to you unconditionally because you believed Me and it was imputed to you for righteousness, and I'm going to give it to you forever." So one day there's going to be a new heaven and a new earth, and the Jew, the physical seed of Abraham that follows Christ will inherit that physical land. But I want to make a New Testament application to us today and use the words in these passages. Now look at verse 4. Wherefore, Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places. And thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down. You know the Bible says, If God be for us, who can be against us? Can I say, If God is against you, who can be for you? We will return and build. We're impoverished, but we will return and build. And God said, no, you won't. God said, I'll just throw it down again. And then God says he's going to give these people a name. And the name is, they shall build, I will throw down, and they shall call them I'm sorry. Call them the border of wickedness. What a phrase. And the people against whom the Lord hath indignation. How long? Forever. Does that sound like a people in the New Testament that we read about? Does that sound familiar? A border of wickedness and a people with whom the Lord hath indignation forever? Maybe some people that sold their birthright. Maybe some people that God hated. Maybe some people that wasted a birthright and are now suffering the consequences. What jumped out at me was the lake of fire. The border of wickedness. There's a lot of talk about the border these days. Build a wall! Build a wall! I don't know about all that, but I know this, if you go to hell, there'll be a border around you that's too high for you to get out. Let's look at some verses. Matthew 16. I don't know who I'm preaching to tonight. but I don't preach on it often, and hopefully you won't be there before next time I preach it. And I, verse 18, Matthew 16, 18, I say also unto thee, thou art Peter, and upon this rock, speaking of himself Jesus, I will build my church, and the gates, the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. There's gates. There's gates on hell. Get Luke 16. You say, what are you given? I'm given what God's given. Just a little picture, a little picture. Does it no justice? Just like the Bible doesn't do heaven justice. Remember the man in hell in verse 25, Luke 16, but Abraham said, son, remember, Thou in thy lifetime receiveth good things, and likewise Lazarus with evil things. But now he's comforted. Thou art tormented. And beside all this, between you and us, there is a great gulf fixed. That's a span. I don't know what's in it. But look what it says, so that they which would pass, this isn't Alcatraz, this isn't a little island prison where you can maybe swim out like them boys did back in the 50s. So that they which would pass, I wanna pass, I wanna get over there, from hence to you cannot, neither can they pass to us. That would come from that's Jonah chapter two. There's no escape, there's no escape. There's a border around it. There's gates around it. Jonah chapter 2. Amos, Obadiah, Jonah. This is a controversial passage. I just believe what it says. How so, I don't know. But then Jonah prayed, verse 1 of chapter 2, unto the Lord his God, out of the fish's belly, and said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me. Out of the belly of hell, cried I. Remember Jesus said, there shall no sign be given unto you but the sign of the prophet Jonas for three days and three nights. Out of the belly of hell, I cried, and thou heardest my voice. For thou hast cast me into the deep. Now, we're going to run somewhere to the Psalms in a minute, so just suck this stuff in while you see it. In the midst of the seas, the floods compassed me. Somebody else is going to say that, the Savior who referenced this passage. And thy billows and thy waves passed over me. Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight, yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. The waters compassed me about, even to the soul. The depth closed me round about. The weeds were wrapped about my head. I went down to the bottom of the mountains. The earth with her..." What? Say that word. Bars. There's bars, there's gates, there's borders that you can't get out. We're about me forever. Yet thou hast brought up my life from corruption. Remember what he said in Acts? Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt suffer thy Holy One to see corruption. I didn't have time to look it up, but I think in the Pentagon, I think those windows in the Pentagon are like a foot thick or something, and there was people in that 9-11 trapped in there burning alive. I know for a fact prisons in third world countries, there's a fire in there, they're trapped and they burn alive. Trapped in a fire, you can't get out with a soul that never dies. Malachi 1, Psalm 69. I just want to run over this one more time, Malachi, before we walk down through Psalm 69. Verse 3. And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places. There's another chance. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down. They shall call them the border of wickedness. And who are these people? The people against whom the Lord hath indignation forever. Psalm 69. Saved. This is Jesus Christ on the cross. In the New Testament, you read about the physical and the audible things that are going on with Jesus Christ. In the Psalms, you read what's going on from within. You read what's going on in the spiritual realm, what he's praying. And here's what he's praying. Save me, O God. See, outside they heard, my God, my God, why is thou forsaken me? Inside, it was more in depth. That's why if you miss your Old Testament, you miss a lot of riches. Now listen, Jonah, save me, O God, for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing. You know what hell's called? The bottomless pit. That's what quicksand is. There's no bottom. I am coming to deep waters where the floods, that's Jonah's prayer, overflow me. Something is going on in the spiritual realm. He's paying the price for sin. These are not pleasant waters. We're not water skiing in these waters. And isn't that funny that the final punishment on those that reject Jesus Christ and sell their birthright is called a lake? These Jehovah Witnesses want to tell you, well, hell means the grave and sheol and Hades. What does lake of fire mean? What was that big, big evangelist when we first got saved? I can't remember his name. He was the walking Bible. He remembered all that scripture. He preached a message called hell without hell, didn't mention hell one time, and showed you the lake of fire 20 times in the Bible. Jack Vennepe. Verse 3, Psalm 69. Let's take our trip through hell. I'm glad it's as close as I'm ever going to get. And I'm glad you're still alive if you're going there, and I can tell you one more time. I am weary of my crying. Sound familiar, Luke 16? My throat is dried. Run over to, keep your hand there, Luke 16. I want you to see it. I don't care about the Bible. I just want to get out of here. You get out of here and go right to hell is where you'll go. And I don't say that glad, I say it's sad. I believe this book tonight. Verse 24, and he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me. Too late. Send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this thing. You see what he did? He cried and he called for water. Because he didn't want to take the birthright of the one that cried and said, I thirst. Now you pay. Jesus is purchasing the birthright in Psalm 69, paying for your escape. But they wanted a bowl of soup. And now what he went through, you go through forever. I don't enjoy saying that. Psalm 69, verse 4. They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head. They that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty. Listen, I don't want to sound mushy tonight, but there's no love in hell. Esau have I hated. These are the people to whom the Lord has showed indignation forever. I don't need no love. You'll long for the love of God for all eternity. Here you wonder like those in Malachi, how did he love me? In hell you'll realize. Son, remember. Father Abraham, have mercy. How come you're crying for mercy now? You never did when you were warned 100 times by your parents, 500 times by your preacher. Have mercy, it's too late. You take your parents' love for granted? You turn your nose up at your parents' love? You'll have no mother to love you then. Mom, I'm sorry. Dad, I'm sorry. They ain't gonna hear you if they're in heaven. Verse 5. This is Jesus we're talking about. You'll be charged with the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. I ain't that bad. Really? Oh God thou know, how could Jesus Christ pray this? I'll tell you how. He became sin who knew no sin. Oh God thou know it's my foolishness and my sins are not hidden from thee. He became sin. And if there was nobody else in the world, no Shawcross, no Hitler, no Stalin, just you. He became sin. Too late. Verse 6, let not them that wait on thee, O Lord, God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake. Let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel. Watch, because for thy sake I have borne reproach. Shame hath covered my face. He was ashamed. shame and spitting, but you know what? You didn't want the birthright. You wanted the sin instead of the Savior. You sat there and you faked it for 25 years, but you wanted, oh, but this is my social network, and this is my cool network, and this is my family network. I have to play the part, but I have no relationship with Jesus Christ. And you'll be suffering. Why? Why won't you humble yourself and trust Christ? I just can't believe. Well, what do you believe? Darwin? Who wrote the Bible? Who wrote Origin of the Species? Well, were you there? Was Darwin there? Well, science proved nothing. They've been wrong 5,000 times. You want to bank your soul on a monkey man who's probably burning in hell? And those people that you thought loved, oh, I'm going with the cool fool skipping school. I'm getting out there with those guys. They'll hate you because there's no love in hell. Eight, eight. I am become a stranger unto my brethren. You say, why are you preaching so hard? You better be glad I am. Faithful are the wounds of a friend. Open rebuke is better than secret love. Don't mention hell. You might run him off. You're already run off in your heart. I am become a stranger unto my brethren. This is Jesus speaking, paying the price and an alien unto my mother's children. Does the price that he paid bother you? Or are you so used to it and take it so for granted? You know why? Because you don't realize how wicked you are. You don't realize how wicked, if you're a church kid, how wicked you are. Worse than a Sodomite tonight, and I'll prove it from the Bible. Because if he did the works in Sodom and Gomorrah that he did around those religious people, they would have repented, but you won't. And if there's a lowest hell, you, the sodomites will have it easier than you, don't doubt it. A stranger and an alien. I remember the message that Rex Harrison preached. 17 people got saved that day, and we couldn't preach it here because you'd get too offended. But he preached out, man says he don't believe in hell. That's all he says is phrases about hell all day. You guys that work out there, you go to college, you know, and one of those phrases are, what the hell are you doing here? Because you don't belong here. It was prepared for the devil and his angels. And now you're in a place, and you're a stranger, and you're an alien, and nobody loves you. Why? Because you rejected when he was a stranger and an alien. You didn't want it. I wanted the soup. Eat the soup in the lake of fire. forever locked in, no appeals, no mercy, too late. If you're visiting tonight, does he always preach like this? No. Verse nine, for the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up, and the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me. And we preach this in Hebrews, but men reproach God. And if you don't know that, you don't get out much. Well, all those reproaches of them hating God and blaspheming God, and especially sin is a reproach to any people, so sin was all laid on Jesus. The reproaches that they reproached God with fell on the Son. Well, you rejected that. So now the reproach that you reproach Christ with by rejecting it are falling on you. He became sin who knew no sin, and now you've become sin because all you knew was sin. and you'll be in the number of the people against whom the Lord hath indignation forever. Verse 10, when I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. What are they doing there? They're weeping, but well, I'm not a crier. Oh, you will be. And they're wailing, man. Wailing. What would it take for you to wail? I'm not sure I've ever wailed. I mean, I knew my mom was saved, so it was a relief when she finally broke out of these bones and sinews. But I know I've wailed a couple of times over souls in the early days when I was zealous. But I wonder, have you ever wailed? That's what you're going to be doing there. You know why? Because he wept. You didn't want that. You wanted the bowl of soup. Verse 11, I made sackcloth also my garment. I want to wear what I want. You won't in hell. Somebody going to tell you what to do. Give me that soup, I want the soup, now you got the soup. And I became a proverb unto them, verse 12, they that sit in the gate speak against me. I wonder what you see these, what's that guy, that artist, someone's hell. Dante, is it Dante? Somebody's hell, he has a picture of hell, I can't think of it. Dante's Inferno, that's what it is. And I don't know if there's, I know the Bible speaks about I'm a companion of dragons in another place, speaking of Christ on the cross. I wonder what's at those gates. It said the rich man was buried and the angels carried Lazarus. I wonder what's at those gates waiting. They that sit in the gates speak against me. 13, but as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time, O God, in the multitude of thy mercy. Hear me in the truth of thy salvation. Deliver me out of the mire and let me not sink into a bottomless pit. Let me be delivered from them that hate me and out of the deep waters. Watch this. Listen, this prayer was not answered. Nevertheless, not my will but thine be done didn't just stop in the garden of Gethsemane, it continued on the cross. But God so loved you. Hallelujah tonight. I wouldn't have for you and you wouldn't have for me. He's hurting, he's suffering, the flesh is suffering, the soul is suffering. Watch this now, 15. Let not the water flood, remember? Overflow me, Jonah, neither let the deep. There's something spiritual going on here in the unseen kingdom that we can't see, that somebody is drowning. And let not the pit. The pit, do a study on the pit. Shut her mouth. the borders of wickedness, mouth upon me. They that go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest is together in the dust, he keepeth back his soul from the pit. and his life from perishing by the sword. Then he is gracious unto him and saith, this is what God's gonna say, woo, at the judgment if you're saved. Deliver him from going down to the pit. I have found a ransom. That's Job 33, 24. I got to say that again. Deliver him from going down to the pit. I have found a ransom. Hey, May 17, 1986, I found a ransom. Woo! Well, you take hostages from America, we don't pay ransom. God did, hallelujah. He had me ransom, but God paid the price. He will deliver his soul from going into the pit and his life shall see the light. That's Job 33, 28. Verse 16, Psalm 69, we having fun? If we're saved, we are. Why are they shouting and rejoicing over this? We ain't going. Hear me, O Lord, for thy lovingkindness is good. Turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. You know what the father said? No. Too late. Father Abraham, have mercy on me. Son, remember, you're not gonna lose your memory in hell. You're gonna remember you wanted a bowl of soup. 17. You didn't think you could preach hell off the cross, did you? And hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in trouble, hear me speedily. Too late. See, now all of a sudden you're a believer. Now Einstein's a believer. Now Darwin is a believer. Now this crippled whatever his name is, he's a believer. Okay, okay, I believe now. Too late, without faith, it's impossible to please him. And now, you're suffering the indignation of the Lord forever. No, get now, tonight you can get out. 18, draw nigh unto my soul and redeem it. Deliver me because of mine enemies, too late. Verse 19, thou has known my reproach, and my shame, and my, this is Jesus on the cross, and my dishonor, mine adversaries are all before thee. Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness, and I look for some to take pity, and there was none. And for comforters, but I found none. No more mommy praying, no more pastor preaching, no more friends pleading and begging. You sold your birthright and now the pit has closed her mouth upon you and there's no getting out. And you'll say, how have I hated instruction? What have I done with the people? whom the Lord hath indignation forever. Why? Because you didn't do it our way? No, because you didn't do it his way. You rejected that payment, now pay. Verse 21, they gave me also gall for my meat, and my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. Now this is Jesus Christ on the cross. A prophetic prayer, writing a Psalm of David, that'd be around 600, 700 years before Christ, fulfilled in the gospels on the cross, but recorded here. And I just see, so he's praying this prayer, and he's gonna pray against his enemies now. From his heart, on the cross, he's praying against his enemies. Practically David, historically, David is probably praying against his enemies. But you know what I think? I think this is Christ's prayer for those that rejected, not only that crucified him, but that would reject him. Let's read the prayer, verse 22. Imagine Jesus Christ praying against you. Is that what you want? Let their table become a snare before them, and that which should have been for their welfare, let it, that's heaven, let it become a trap, that's hell. Let their eyes be darkened. Job, as a picture of a man in hell, said, my skin is black upon me and my bones are burned with heat. They that see not and make their loins continually, that they see not and make their loins continually shake. You ever, I'm, I've been nervous. I'm not sure I've ever been nervous enough where my knees were actually shaking, but I have been nervous enough where I was frigid in the face, maybe talking to somebody important or first time I asked my wife out on a date or something like that. Make their loins continually to shake, terrified and petrified for all eternity. For what? For what? Because I don't like the way my mother is. And I don't know if this is the, really? What a way to spend eternity. These are the people. with whom the Lord has indignation forever. Look at verse 24. Pour out thine indignation upon them and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. That's Malachi. Hell is God's wrath on fire. Hell is the payment for rejecting the payment. of crucifying his son. Verse 25, we'll finish up. Let their habitation be desolate, outer darkness, and let none dwell in their tents, for they persecute him whom thou hast smitten. Jesus, he that is not with me is against me. You crucify the Son of God afresh. They persecute him whom thou hast smitten, and that's what you're charged with, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, because he took those sins and you refused the payment. Wow, look it, look it. God smiting his son wasn't enough. You had to add insult to injury by rejecting it. 27, now we're gonna start adding. Add iniquity unto their iniquity. Revelation says, he that is filthy, let him be filthy still. Now the filth doesn't bother you, but it'll bother you then. And let not, and let them not come into thy righteousness. That prayer is gonna be answered one day if you go to hell. 28, let them be blotted out of the book of the living. Man, this thing's got heaven and hell written all over it. And not be written with the righteous. And that prayer will be answered. And your chances are over. But, I see a little sinner's prayer here in verse 29. But that's all you got to say. I am poor and sorrowful. Can you, are you that prideful? You can't say, I'm sorry. When you see him, you realize how sorry you are. Look at, but I am poor and sorrowful. Look at the sinner's prayer. Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. You think that's any mistake that the Holy Spirit put that at the end of the chapter of the cross of Jesus Christ? That's the sinner's prayer on the back of a gospel tract that you've read and refused a hundred times? You read Chick tracts for comics? Read them for your soul. 30, look it, look it, I think this is the salvation. I will praise the name of God with a song and will magnify him with thanksgiving. You're gonna sing in here for who knows how many more years and go to hell. Why don't you sing for God after getting saved? This also shall please the Lord better than ox or bullock, no works. that hath horns and hooves, 32, the humble shall see this, oh, there's scores around you that would say, yes, they finally got it, shall be glad, and your heart shall live that seek God. For the Lord heareth the poor and despiseth not his prisoners. We've been talking about a prison on fire. We've been talking about the borders of wickedness. And you know what it says? He that hath not the Son hath not life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. I'm seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. I'm eternally secure. I'm as good as in heaven now. And if you're not saved, you're as good as in hell now. But he says, the Lord hearth the poor and despiseth not his prisoners. He'll get you out. Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moveth therein. For God now will go back to Israel, will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah. There's the promise, that they may dwell there and have it. in possession. 36, the seed also of his servants shall inherit it. That's the physical promise. They that love his name shall dwell there. And I'll have a hard time. This is the question that I don't think can ever be answered. Can somebody be saved and possibly act like they're acting? Let me tell you something. You'd be surprised what Christians can do. I've seen them do the most vile things, and I believe they have a testimony. How does someone walk away, drink, smoke, curse, fornicate, and you're going to tell me they're saved? That's God's business. But don't tell me you love Jesus, because your wife wouldn't fall for that. Your husband wouldn't fall for that. Your kids and your parents would, oh, I love you, and treat you. I'd say he's lovable, amen? 36, the seed also of a servant shall inherit it, and they that love his name shall dwell therein. The new earth will be for the believing remnant of Israel, the new Jerusalem for the Christians, or a bowl of soup. Malachi 1, and we're done. Don't miss it tonight. Verse, there's another border. There's another border. Verse five, and your eyes shall see and ye shall say the Lord will be magnified from the border of Israel. That's going to be the border around the bride's city. See where we're going has gates too. and has wall, build a wall, build a wall. He went to prepare a place for us and let me tell you, there's gonna be walls and the bad ain't never gonna come in because it says dogs are without and the good are gonna be locked in there. There's gonna be no need of the sun for the lamb is the light thereof. And I'll spare you, I'll encourage you to go home and read about the wall of the city and the wall thereof and the wall thereof and the building of the wall over and over and over. Are you safe tonight? Amy, would you come? Let's all stand. If you're not safe, you know the