They didn't just have the old men and the old women. They had all the generations from the older to the youngest and they were all being taught the same thing. Folks, you will never go wrong. You will never go wrong in church building when you do it the way the Lord instructs us to in His Word. That being said, we want to ask you to turn your Bibles today to the book of Ezekiel chapter 18. Ezekiel chapter 18. I have a word for us today that I know I've preached out this text before. I have it heavily underlined and marked up in my Bible. But there's something that just grabbed a hold of me the other day when I was in my study. Something that grabbed my attention. And I want you to consider this today. If you're here and you don't know the Lord as your Savior, I want you to just stop Pay attention to what God's Word says. There are two different types of people in the world today. There are those that are saved by God's amazing grace. Then there are those that are not. There are those that have looked and lived. There are those that have been bitten by sin and have died because they have refused. We go back to the book of Numbers and we think about that text. where the Israelites, as they had, was on their journey, they began to argue and complain with God. God put upon them this serpent. The serpent was taking the lives of many. He heard the complaint, He heard the woes of the children of Israel. And He instructed Moses, build a brazen serpent, and hang it upon a pole for all the camp to see. Folks, I want you to know something today. They were instructed on how to live if they were bitten. Just like today, sin bites a lot of people. As a matter of fact, Sin has bitten every human being that has come into this world since Adam and Eve. The only way to find life and the only way to live is to do as God instructed the Israelite of the book of Numbers. He told them if they would look upon the serpent, they would live. I tell you today, if you would look upon the Savior, as He hangs on Calvary's cross, and as He was buried and rose again the third day, you look upon that Savior, you too shall live and not die the eternal death. The Bible states in Ezekiel 18 verse 1 down through verse 4, The word of the Lord came unto me again, saying, What mean ye that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying the fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? As I live, saith the Lord, God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. Behold, all souls are mine. I want you to stop right there, sinner friend. I want you to get a hold of this. Many today that I talk to in this world say, I'm going to live my own life and I'm going to do my own thing and I'm going to be my own boss. I don't want anybody telling me what to do, especially when it comes to religion. I've heard that and I've had men to stand in my face and just get so upset because of a simple message of Jesus Christ and Him crucified. But as we look at what we're seeing here today, we understand that God says your soul belongs to Him. Your life belongs to God whether you realize it or not. The Bible says all souls are mine. As the soul of the Father, so also the soul of the Son is mine. The soul that sinneth, it shall die. There is no ifs, ands, or buts about it. God's Word says the soul that sinneth, it shall die. What does the book of Romans tell us about the soul of man? That we all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Therefore, the soul that sinneth, it shall and will die one day. Verse 21 of this same text of Ezekiel 18 states this. And if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all of my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. Now here's a contrast to the first of the chapter. The first of the chapter definitely says, The soul that sinneth, it shall die. Because why? Because your soul belongeth unto the Lord. He demands something from you as an individual. And here the demand is being made forth and being brought into fruition. He says, He that doth lawful and right, he shall surely live and shall not die. All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him. You know what, I look at that and I go back to Romans in chapter 5, Romans in chapter 8, where we're talking about justification and no condemnation. We see that word no condemnation. We're not condemned any longer. Why? Because we have looked and we have lived. Before that, we stood condemned to die because the Bible says that not only does our soul belong to God, But that because of the sin we have sinned, we shall die. Now, I'm not using that in the physical sense, but in the spiritual sense. The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The spiritual part of man. And thus being born into this world, We are born into sin, the Bible says. And as such, all of us are condemned and confined to eternal death, outside of God's mercy, outside of God's sovereign grace and amazing grace. Now where do you stand today? The Bible goes on to say in verse 23, Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die, saith the Lord God, and not that he should return from his ways and live? But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and commiteth iniquity, and doth according to all the abomination that the wicked man doth, shall he live? All his righteousnesses that he hath done shall not be mentioned in his trespass, that he hath trespassed in his sin, that he hath sinned, in them shall he die. Yet you say the way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel, today men will look at me and say, God is not just in sending me to hell. But I have you to know today that God's justice demands that we all find ourselves in the pits of hell. That's God's justice. God's wrath is poured upon those who reject Jesus Christ in the pits of hell. But to those who will look, they shall live. And the wrath of Almighty God will not fall upon them. You know why? Because the wrath of Almighty God has fell upon His Son, Jesus Christ, in our stead. That's the beauty of salvation. That's the wonder and amazement that Jesus Christ came and died for us and that if we look to Him, we shall live. Oh, is not my way equal, saith God? is not our ways, speaking about you and I, unequal. When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them, for his iniquity that he hath done, shall he die? Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness, that he hath committed and doth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive, because he considereth and turneth." Now, stop right there for just a moment. He is considered. What does Isaiah 118 speak to? God says, come now, let us reason together, saith the Lord. That word reason there means to consider. You need to stop right now, sinner friend, to consider Your future. You need to stop right now and consider even your past and realize that it's not necessarily all the darkest sins that you've committed that's going to send you to hell. It's the fact that you've been born into this world with the blood of the first Adam coursing through your veins is what's going to send you to hell. You see, men look at me and they say, Well, preacher, I'm not all that bad. I'm really a pretty good person. But you've got to realize you're gauging yourself against humanity and not the God of heaven. It's the God of heaven who is the just one to look upon. Now, as we look at this scripture, The Bible says, Because he considereth and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. I want to bring a message this morning entitled, Dying or Living? Which are you? Heavenly Father, Lord, as we bow before your throne today, we do so with thankful heart. Thank you, dear God, for your great salvation. We thank you, dear God, for that One that was hanged upon a tree, who gave His life that if we would look to Him, we should live. Father, I'm praying that this Old Testament Scripture would find lodgment in the heart of the New Testament age, that those that are in this house today who do not know the Savior will realize that just being born into this world is enough to send an individual to hell because we are born with the blood of the first Adam, the fallen Adam. We need to be reborn by the blood of the second Adam as he covers and paid the sin debt. Lord, I pray that you open the eyes of the blind in here today. Lord, that you would move upon their hearts and you would draw them unto thyself and help the lost sinner today to realize there is no other way but Jesus Christ and Him crucified, hanging upon a tree, and if we look to Him, we shall live. Oh, Father, today I pray, open the eyes of the blind and unstop the year of the death. Lord, I pray that you'll crush the stony heart Lord, that you would reveal yourself unto lost sinners in this house. Draw them by thy power, Lord. Call them out by name. Help them today to look to the only Savior that'll save them from all their sin. Lord, I pray that you'll bless and you would touch my lips. This old tongue of clay, Lord, move upon my mind. Help me, dear God, to say what thus saith the Lord. Help me today, dear God, to say what you want me to say. Lord, we pray that you'll open the eyes of those that are not even in this house today. They may be out in radio land or somewhere listening by sermon audio somewhere around this world. Oh, dear God, today I pray that you open the eyes You would help them to see the need that they have, that we might see souls saved in this place today. Lord bless, I pray. Forgive us our sin in Christ's name. Amen. Emmanuel to our visiting friends and our radio audience. The word of God declares, the soul that sinneth, it shall die. And according to the New Testament readings, The Bible says all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, and that is you and I together. Another scripture of God's Word says and lays open the fact that since there is none righteous, death is a certainty for all humanity. As a matter of fact, in Hebrews 9, verse 27, the Bible says, And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment, but as a certainty some may look and live, dying or living, which are you? We travel back to the exodus of the Israelite as they fled Egypt. The people began to speak against God because of their hardship during the journey. Notice what God did. Let's go back to the book of Numbers for just a moment. Numbers in chapter 21. Now I want you to think about this. I want you to think about your own life right now. Think about where you're at. Think about what you're doing. Think about the things in life and the things that the Word of God has stated here in His Scriptures. The Bible says in Numbers 21, beginning at verse 4, They journeyed from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea to come past the land of Edom. And the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. In other words, they had a hard journey. They began to bicker and complain. They began to become very bitter. And the people spake against God and against Moses. Wherefore have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, neither is there any water, and our soul loatheth this light bread. The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, and much of the people of Israel died. Therefore the people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, For we have spoken against the Lord and against thee, praying to the Lord that he may take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole. And it shall come to pass that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. and Moses made a serpent of brass and put it upon a pole. And it came to pass that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. I want you to just for a moment to think about where you're at right now. As I stated, the Bible states that all of us have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Therefore, we're bitten by that sin. And there is only one way that we are going to survive the bite of sin. The bite of sin will leave you with nothing but eternal death. It will leave you with damnation. The bite of sin will destroy your physical and spiritual body. So what are you to do? The bite of sin needs to be addressed. It ought to be addressed in this very moment, in this very setting where we're at here today in the house of God. Today if you're here and you're lost, you don't know the Lord is your Savior. You're sin bitten and you're dying and you need to understand that without the cure you're going to die and go to eternal death in a lake of fire. Now this is Bible. This is not A myth as many people look at the Bible today and they say well the Bible is a Bible that is a book that is nothing but myths. Men today have found out once they've died without the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior. They have found out that the Bible is not a myth. The rich man when he died, the Bible says he lifted up his eyes being in torment. Folks, hell is real. The Bible is not a myth. The Word of God is sure. And just like the rich young man who had torn down all of his barns because he had so much, he began to brag about what he was going to do. And the God said today, thy soul shall be required of thee. As a matter of fact, he called him a fool because he had not regarded the God of heaven. He had not thanked God for any of all His goodness and all of His goods. And God said, Today thy soul shall be required of thee. What if thy soul should be required of thee this very hour? By the time that the clock strikes twelve, What if thy soul should be required of thee sometime in the next 20 to 25 minutes? What would be your fate? What would be the ending? Again, I use words like that very carefully because there is no end to eternity. And all of us, whether you realize it or not, are eternal beings. some eternal beings into life and to life, and some eternal beings from death unto death. Some eternal beings in a place called heaven, others are eternal beings in a place consigned in the pits of hell. Where even today the rich man that lifted up his eyes as he had spoke of Lazarus, that rich man is still begging for that one drop of water. The same principle of Numbers 21 rules even in this New Testament age in which we now live. Our image to look upon is Jesus Christ upon the cross of Calvary dying in our place. Dying and being buried and resurrected the third day that we may live eternally and have eternal life. Dying or living. Which are you? First of all, I want to touch on this matter for just a moment. Are you now living in sin? Have you been made guilty for sin? You know, as I look across this congregation of this great crowd, I think about the individuals who have never made a profession of faith, and I wonder what your thoughts may be going across your mind even now. I wonder what you're thinking about in eternity to come. What's it going to be like for you? Ezekiel, again we go back to the book of Ezekiel in chapter 18. The Bible states this in verse 4. Behold, all souls are mine, saith the Lord. That's what God says. Your soul belongs to the Almighty God of Heaven. He says, Behold, all souls are mine, as the soul of the Father, so also the soul of the Son is mine. The soul that sinneth, it shall die. Verse 20 again, the Bible says, The soul that sinneth, it shall die. Folks, I want you to know something. God didn't put this in here just to take up room. As we look at this scripture here, you have to realize that this is a scripture that should grab your attention. Twice said, even here in these first few verses of scripture, the soul that sinneth it shall die. In Romans 3, We go back to the New Testament. A lot of people, they'll look at me and say, well, you're just dealing with the Old Testament. Well, let's go to the New Testament. Romans 3 and verse 19, notice what it says here. Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them that are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. I'm speaking to every soul in this house, whether you're a saved sinner or a lost sinner. Ask yourself this question. Am I sinning against the Holy God of Heaven? Is my life a life that's a picture of sin against the Holy God of Heaven? And if it is, if you're saved by the grace of God, the Holy Spirit has already dealt with you over this. You see, that's the wonder of the Holy Spirit. Every time we sin, He pricks our hearts. He lets us know, hey, that's not right. God's Word says otherwise. God's Word says what you're doing is wrong. We need to realize that, and I know we do. If you're saved by God's amazing grace, the very moment that we step out of line, God's Word and God's Holy Spirit touches us and causes us to realize that we have sinned, and again, we've come short of the glory of God. And what's it designed to do? To draw us unto God and say, Lord, forgive me, for I once again have sinned against thee and against heaven. You know what that does? That refurbishes our relationship with God. That makes our relationship possible. I'm talking about our communion with God possible. You see, God does not bless unrighteousness. It doesn't matter what you think about unrighteousness. It's not the greatest sins in the world that causes God to turn away from us. It could be just as simple turning cold to the God of heaven and losing your first love and walking away from God. Brother Jim brought that out this morning. Listen, when we walk away from God, We're asking for trouble not only for ourselves but for our children under us, for our grandchildren that are coming along, for all who are coming behind us. We need to be careful to save the Son of God. Think about it. The Word of God declares that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Being born into this old sin-cursed earth because of the sin of Adam and Eve, bad blood courses through our veins. And as such, sin has passed on through association with Adam, the first Adam, and all have become sinful, including you and I. Today you may be sitting in this house, a lost individual, and you may be thinking, well, I'm not all that bad. I come to church. I give to the church. I'm good to my neighbor. I do the things that I'm supposed to do. I'm a good, outstanding person. But what does the Bible say? The Bible says there's none that doeth good. No, not one. That's what God says. Remember, a lot of times we as humanity gauge ourselves off of humanity. When we need to be gauging ourselves off of God and His holiness, The very moment that you gauge yourself against the Holy God of Heaven, you realize you're coming up short. You need to be saved by God's amazing grace. I go back and I think about Romans 1, verse 18 down through verse 32, and man, I tell you what, that's a scripture that ought to get a hold of our hearts. It's where the wrath of God begins to be poured out upon sinful flesh. You know why? Because when we knew God as God, we did not respect Him as God. You have been told how God sent His Son to die on the cross of Calvary to pay your sin debt, yet we regard Him not. We turn away from Him as if He is nothing. God says we've all become guilty. We are without excuse. We are without excuse. Now secondly, I want you to think about this. Dying in your sin, do you realize that one day you will stand before the holy God of heaven? Ezekiel 18 and 20 again, the Bible says, The soul that sinneth it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. What's that saying? You say, is that a proverb or is that some kind of riddle that I need to figure out? What it is, is this. You're going to give an account for your own life. Nobody else. You're not going to be able to blame your father, your mother. You're not going to be able to blame your wicked uncle or your aunt or whatever it may be. Many today blame all of their sin upon somebody that they knew. I heard a young man tell me one time, the reason why that I'm an alcoholic is because of what I saw somebody else do. Listen, I want you to know something. You cannot blame anybody. The world today wants you to be able to blame everybody but yourself. That's what we see going on in the world today, is that nobody wants to be responsible for their own life and well-being. Everybody wants to blame everybody else when it comes right down to it, it's your own fault. Because when you knew God, listen, I want you to stop and consider this with me. What does God's Word say? You're not going to give an account for your father, for the sins that he has committed, for his drunkenness, for his waywardness, for all the things that you want to blame him for, for the reason that you are what you are and how you are today. Listen, you cannot blame your father. You get into the realm of socialism today and that's where they'll take you. You've got to blame somebody else. You can't take that for yourself. That's what socialism will do for you. But I want you to think about this for just a moment. I've known men and women who have had drunkard fathers who have never touched a drop. I know men and women who have had wicked parents and people who have abandoned them to be some of the greatest parents you will ever see in life. You are going to give an account for your own life, my friend. You need to be aware of that because it is coming. The Bible states this. In Ezekiel 18 and 4 again, Behold, all souls are mine. As the soul of the Father, so also the soul of the Son is mine. And the soul that sinneth, it shall die. Where? Think about this. Where will all this transpire? You go back to Psalm 69 for just a moment. Psalm 69. Please turn there in your Bibles with me. Psalm 69 verse 21. Notice with me here what it says. They gave me also gall for my meat, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. Let their table become a snare before them, and that which should have been for their welfare let it become a trap. Let their eyes be darkened that they see not, and make their loins continually to shake. Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. Let their habitation be desolate, and let none dwell in their tents. For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten. They talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. Add iniquity into their iniquity, and let them not come into thy righteousness. Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous. Have you ever stopped to consider what these words mean? Have you ever stopped to consider what Jesus Christ went through on the cross of Calvary? Have you ever considered as He cried out and they said He's a thirsting and they stuck an old sponge of old sour vinegar in His mouth? If you ever considered the fact, as they looked upon Him, as the Bible says, as the bulls of Beth-shan. And they looked upon Me and they gaped upon Me with their mouths. As they would make fun of Him there on the cross of Calvary. And they would tell Him, if thou be the Son of God, come down and save thyself. And as they walked by the cross that day, they were all making fun of Jesus Christ as He hanged there on the cross of Calvary. In His nakedness, as He hanged there, they laughed at Him. They mocked Him. They ridiculed Him and they belittled Him. There were a lot of people there that day. There's a lot of people there, and there was a lot of people that died. As I look and I go back and I think about Matthew 27, when in that moment, when Jesus Christ gave up the ghost, the soldier that was standing by said, Surely this was the Son of God. But how late it was for so many, too late. Just like it's going to be in today's society when Jesus Christ comes and he calls his chosen, his people home. One day it's going to be too late for you. I hear these young boys pray a prayer. Lord, save them before it's eternally too late. The moment that you die and you pass from this life to the next, it's eternally too late for you. Eternally too late. But those who live and live, they have Jesus Christ standing in their stead. You see in Revelation 20 verse 11 down through verse 15, you have what is known as the great white throne judgment seat of God. There the Bible says as that man, woman or whoever it is stands before the God of heaven there, the Bible says heaven and earth flee away. It's just you and God. I can't even begin to imagine as the Bible speaks here about the loins of man shaking so fiercely. I can't imagine and I thank God I don't have to imagine for me because I'm not going to be standing there for I've truly trusted the Lord as my Savior. But how many will be standing there? The Bible says, Hell hath enlarged herself. Why? Because people continue to refuse the Lord Jesus Christ and Him crucified. They are caught unawares. They are caught unprepared. They never look to live. They turn their faces and die. That's what's happening all across this world today. People are turning away from God and they're dying without Jesus Christ as their Savior. You know what their end is? Their end is a confinement to the pits of hell. Today, Jesus Christ is taking the place of those who look and live. Having died in their stead, paying their just due, Matthew 27, 45-54, we see Jesus Christ at the moment of darkness. At the moment that He cried out, Eli, Eli, lemai sabachthani. That is to say, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken Me? He forsook His only Son because He was taking our sins upon His shoulders. And the God of heaven is so holy that He wouldn't even look upon His own Son when He placed upon Him our sins. He turned His back on His only Son. And Jesus Christ knew at that moment that God had turned away from Him. You know why? Because He was getting ready to suffer our wrath on His self. I can sit here now and say that and I've got chills all over my whole body to think about that. He died for me. And he took God's, all of God's wrath that I should have had. This is the hour Jesus Christ faced the wrath of God in our place. willingly suffering your just due, willingly facing the God of heaven, will you not look to Him and live today? Or will you be the one of Revelation 20, 11-15 standing with nowhere to hide and nowhere to run and no place to get away from? Now lastly, I want you to consider this with me. Think about the alternative here. The people of the book of Numbers in 21, they were dying, period. They were dying. And they died because of their own negligence of God. They began to talk about God and talk down about God. They began to sin against the holy God of heaven just like we do every day. The Bible says God sent serpents upon them and they bit them and they died. They began to cry out to Moses, please have the Lord of God of heaven just to turn away from these serpents. Get them out of here. For we have sinned. They recognized their sin, didn't they? They've been made guilty. Oh, I pray today that you're made guilty. But you know what? Guilt alone will not save you. There's not one innocent person in hell today. They've all become guilty. They've all become to know that Jesus Christ died for sinners. They've all become guilty before the holy God of heaven. But if you turn, you shall live. Just like the people of Numbers 21, as they looked upon the serpent, the brazen serpent, The Bible says they lived. You look upon your brazen servant, Jesus Christ, the Lord and Savior. You look upon Him as He hanged on the cross of Calvary. As He was buried, look upon Him. And as He rose again victorious the third day, look upon the Savior who was your beneficiary. He was the one who gave you life. and is even now willing to accept all who will come unto Him. John 1.11, the Bible says, He came unto His own, but His own received Him not. In verse 12, the Bible says, But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that what? Believe upon His name. Ezekiel 18 and 5, I'm going to look at this and I'm going to have to hurriedly come to a close here in just a moment. But I want you to think about this now. Verse 5 of Ezekiel 18 says, But if a man be just and do that which is lawful and right. Think about it. What was lawful and right today? The book of Acts tells us that God commands men everywhere to repent. That's you and I. That's all of us. That's lawful and right. Because number one, God commands it. Number two, God sent His Son to die in your place. When the Israelite turned and looked, they lived and did not die. That will happen to you today as well. You turn and look to Jesus and you'll live and you'll not die. John, we go back in our closing remarks now. The Bible states this in John chapter 3. You knew where I was going. Verse 15, the Bible says that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Look and live, my friend. What are you doing today? What is your state right now? Are you living or are you dying? Do you know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior or are you right now without Him? John chapter 5 verse 24 says, Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my word, listen to me, he that heareth my word, listen, here's the way of hope, he that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life. John 14 and 6, Jesus Christ as He is speaking here, He states this, Jesus saith unto him, speaking unto Thomas, I am the way, He's the way my friend, He's the only way. He says I'm the truth and I am the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me. I want to use this last scripture here, and I want you to consider it. The Bible says in Acts 2 and verse 37, Now when they heard this, what had they heard how that Jesus Christ had died at Calvary? How that it was by their own hands that He died, just like it's by your own hand today that He died. It's by your own sin. It's the reason why Jesus Christ died. Now knowing when they heard this, they were tricked in their heart. In other words, they were convicted in their heart. They were made guilty. And said unto Peter and the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? Are you asking that question today? Do you want to live or do you want to die? You want to live, you need to be asking the question, What shall I do? What is my responsibility? What should I do? The Bible says, Come unto the Father. The Bible says, Repent of your sin. In other words, be sorry for your sin. Be sorry for your life as a sinner. Confess the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior. And He says, I will save you. Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for or because of the remission of sin. Would you not today? Would you not do as others have? There were others in that day, they looked to the serpent In the middle of the camp, there it was. I mean, that's the only way they was going to live. And sinner friend, it's the only way you're going to live today. You've got to look to the Savior. Where's He at? Right now, He's in the middle of the camp. Right now, He's right in the middle, in the midst of all of us. You say, well, how can you say that? Well, I like to go back to Romans 10 and 8, where the Bible says, but what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart. That is the word of faith which we preach. That if thou shalt confess in thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. That's it, my friend. Now, are you going to live? Or are you going to die? What are you going to do? I pray today that you live. I pray today that you look to Jesus and live. I pray today that you understand that it's only Him that can save you. Talking to a man this morning, I said that's the only way, my friend. Jesus Christ and Him crucified, there is no other way. It isn't done by our good works. It's not done by anything other than Jesus Christ and Him crucified, hanging upon a tree, being buried and raised again that we might have life and have it more abundantly. Will you live or will you die? Eternal death. You know, I've heard people say, well, once you die, it's all over with. No. Eternal death. Think about it. Think about the act of eternal death. Eternal death is something that I couldn't even begin to phantom because I've never experienced death itself. But those who have died, especially those who have died without the Lord, just like the rich man, he lifted up his eyes being in torment, and it's a continual torment. Death is tormentuous. For death is something that you cannot elude. It's coming for all of us. Are you ready? Will you live or will you die? Let's all stand, please. O Most Gracious and Divine Heavenly Father, Lord, as I bow before your throne, I do so with thankful heart. I know, dear God, that even this morning you have spoke to this heart of this pastor. Lord, you have moved upon my lips the words that you wanted me to say, and I feel without any hesitation, and I'm very confident in the fact that the message that was delivered was a message that you wanted this people to hear. Lord, I pray for the lost sinner here today. Help them to understand the only way to find life is to look to Jesus. Oh, Father, I pray that you'll cause people today to repent of sin and trust Jesus Christ as Savior. Confess Him as Lord and Savior of the world. Father, we pray that you'll bring salvation to lost souls and bless the saved that's in this house today. help us to reflect even this morning the bounty of the redeemed lord i pray that you bless us save souls and save lives and father forgive us our sin in jesus christ name have our song leader in afghanistan come ♪ Bear the sorrows of a week of mourning ♪ ♪ For your life will soon be gone ♪ ♪ Oh, come stand to face the judge alone ♪ ♪ And prepare to be found ♪ He gives the right, when your life is spent in glory, God prepares to meet thy God. Oh, I'm sad to face the judgment, unprepared to meet my end. One day it's a thought, isn't it? One day, and I told you a while ago, the 12 o'clock hours are a patch. It would be a perilous thing for you to walk out of here without the Lord Jesus Christ in your sight. Very very full. All right, we're going to be dismissed now. Remember, the evening service is 5.45. You meet, 6.30 prayer room, but do come back at 3, 4, 7 o'clock. I pray, I want you again to be much in prayer for our families that are not with us, you know, Jacob Evans' family, Dalton Evans' family. They're still working in E-Town, and all the families are with them right now, so we're thankful that they're able to do that. There's more we're missing, though, but be much in prayer for them, and Lord, bring them back this way safely, and God will just continue to bless our church family. Until we do meet again, I pray the Lord's grace will shine upon you. I pray that his smile will appeal to your family. And I truly pray that all his blessings will rest upon you. Let's be dismissed now. Thank you, God, again for the day's given us. Father James, take us with you. Dismiss us. You're heavenly, Father. We thank you for this. We bless you. Let's do another day. Let's do another day. Let's do another day. Let's do another day. Let's do another day. Let's do another day. Let's do another day. Let's do another day. Let's do another day. 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