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Thy word is a lamp unto my feet
and a light unto my path. This is the Lamp and Light broadcast
coming to you from Central Baptist Church in beautiful Ocala, FL.
Lamp and Light is a ministry that takes a book of the Bible,
verse by verse, teaching it as it is, to men as they are, without
compromise or apology, while at the same time speaking the
truth in love. giving the lamp and light to
all. Last week, in our study of Revelation
chapter 20, we were shown two scriptural truths in this passage
in Revelation 20, that morality is not salvation, and that the
heart of man is desperately wicked. Let's continue with that thought
today. And now, here is our teacher and radio pastor, Dr. Andy Bloom. 2 Peter 3.9 The Lord is not slack
concerning His promise, as some men count slackness, but is longsuffering
to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should
come to repentance. You see, He's not wanting anyone
to perish. In 1 Timothy 2 He said that He'd
have all men to be saved. In John 3.16 He says, For whosoever
believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. So again, he is wanting people
to be saved. Revelation chapter 22 verse 17,
we get there, he'll say, whosoever will, let him come. Romans 10,
13, whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be
saved. I mean, there are many other verses that show whosoever
will. Because we're created in the
image of God, we have a free will. And this time of the millennium
will show that very thing. They have free will, but not
necessarily wisdom. In that the devil will deceive
them in only a short season. Now friend, you may have a lot
of things in this life. And you may think that you have
attained by your hard work, and you may have attained much by
your hard work. But remember, you are to be walking with God.
Walk with God and trust Him implicitly daily. Know His Word. The way to overcome, just like
the people that tell counterfeit bills, they don't study all the
counterfeits, they study the genuine article. They can usually
tell a counterfeit because they know the genuine article so well. So my friend, the way for us
to know the devil's deceit is to know our Lord so well, to
know that He is holy. When we know God is holy and
He does not will sin, He does not predestine people to sin,
you'll know that that holy God then is such that when somebody
comes up with something that sounds good and if there's a
question in your mind you can measure it by your knowledge
of God through His Word and overcome the tempter. Now, there are two
scriptural truths I see here. First of all, morality is not
salvation because During the millennium they had a thousand
years of morality. Morality is not salvation. The second truth that I see here
is that the heart of man is desperately wicked. In Jeremiah chapter 17
verses 9 and 10 says the heart is deceitful above all things
and desperately wicked. Who can know it? That's interesting
that phrase who can know it. Because this is the idea of it. Take all the ability of man and
his knowledge, his sciences, mathematics, and all other accumulated
knowledge, and put together with an all-out effort, it still cannot
know the depths of how desperately wicked the human heart is. However, Jeremiah 1710 says,
I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give
every man according to his ways and according to the fruit of
his doings. God searches the heart. God knows
your heart. My friend, that is a fearful
thing. And so we see that they're gathered
together, and he's gathered them together for battle. And then
verse 9 here of Revelation 20 says, And they went up on the
breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about,
and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out
of heaven, and devoured them. Well, this is at the end of the
little season, of course. and Satan leads this following
against Jerusalem and against the camp of the Christians and they may be gathered together
but these are the people that are trusting God although the
multitude is as the sand by the sea because they know the power
of God is greater than their numbers by the way we need to
understand that in the church the power of God is greater than
numbers The power of God is greater than the numerous enemy. The
power of God is greater than the flesh. Don't rely on the
enemy. Don't rely on the flesh. Walk
in the Spirit. And God sends fire and he destroys
them. The devil is cast alive into
the lake of fire forever. And that reminds us of Matthew
25, verse 41, where it says, Then shall he say unto them on
the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire,
prepared for the devil and his angels." Well, that place was prepared
for Satan, my friend. God doesn't want you to go there.
It's for the devil and his angels. Some people say, well, boy, there's
the devil and he's just tormenting people in hell. No, he doesn't.
Hell is so bad it torments the devils, the super-spirits. They're
tormented there because it was prepared for them. Then you see
verse 10. He says, and the devil that deceived
them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the
beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and
night forever and ever. Now, it's unfortunate, but I
even hear Christians lately that say mockingly, oh, he's one of
those old fire and brimstone preachers. Well, it's a truth. It is a truth. Now, there are
some men out there that are supposed to be preachers, that are supposed
to be men of God, and they say, oh, I cannot see a real literal
lake of fire where people are tormented and there's a flame.
No, but hell is just being separated from God, and there is no chance
ever again of communion with Him. And oh, what a torment that
is. Well, there are people that don't
commune with Him in this life, and they don't feel tormented. And this ignores Bible truth. No wonder they got to come up
with new Bible versions. Because Bible truth is too hard
for them to swallow. That brimstone comes from an
old English name for sulfur. Brim developed into burn, sulfur
being the stone that burns. When sulfur ignites, it burns
with a very bright light and with the noxious odor of sulfur
dioxide. That smell, by the way, was noted
by the ancients both in lightning storms and volcanic So both become
known as fire from God, and hence the Greek words for brimstone
came to be therion and theriotis. Whether or not the lake of fire
and brimstone will actually incorporate burning sulfur as we know it,
the use of the term indicates that this fiery lake will have
brimstone and I don't think it's going to be any less than what
we know of brimstone today and it will be a part of the fiery
judgment of a holy God and we must remember revelation is not
a revelation of prophecy although that's a byproduct of this book
it's a revelation of Jesus Christ and right now we're seeing the
revelation of his holiness The beast and the false prophet are
imprisoned in this lake of fire. They've been there a thousand
years earlier. They were satanically controlled
men, humans. But they're there. Their bodies
are not consumed away. They're still there. God has
made their body to where it feels the pain. And yet it doesn't consume away.
The worm dieth not. My friend, the person dies and
their sin goes to hell, they're going to have a body that feels
pain, that feels the burning fire. But that body will not
pass away. That body will not be devoured. and they'll be tormented day
and night forever and ever that torment is going to be worse
for some than it is for others and we'll see that a little bit
later in this chapter the great thing is Satan is tormented night
and day forever and I am so glad when I think
of the great troubles that he has brought to this earth the
way that many people have been hurt by him. Now, the word translated
tormented, bassanazo, also has the sense of torture, to be harassed
and distressed. Although there be no day or night
in hell, John used those familiar terms to describe the endless,
never-ceasing suffering It's inflicted upon the devil forever
and ever, the beast, the false prophet, and it'll be from the ages, and
to the ages, and to the ages, to the ages. That's Satan who
had so personified evil. and has been the instigator thereof
down through the ages, now faces the same forever in the endless
age to come. He is tormented day and night
forever. Praise the Lord! Hallelujah! He is holy. He is just. Vengeance belongeth unto me,
saith the Lord. I will repay. aren't you thankful
for the God that you and I have and for the God you and I serve
and I'm glad that we have a living Savior and He is just now that
takes us to the fourth point here and we see the votes of
judgment in verses 11 through 15 this is your radio pastor,
Pastor Andy Bloom saying May the Word of God be a lamp unto
your feet and a light unto your pathway today. We want to thank
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Jesus.
Final Results Pt 7
Series Study of Revelation
| Sermon ID | 52410818296 |
| Duration | 15:16 |
| Date | |
| Category | Radio Broadcast |
| Bible Text | Revelation 20 |
| Language | English |
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