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1-2 Paul Sylvanas and Timothy to the

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Church of the Thessalonians in God our

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Father and the Lord Jesus Christ grace

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to you and peace from God our Father and

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the Lord Jesus Christ we ought always to

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give thanks to God for you Brothers as

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is right because your faith is growing

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abundantly and the love of every one of

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you for one another is increasing

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therefore we ourselves boast about you

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in the Churches of God for your

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steadfastness and faith in all your

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persecutions and in the afflictions that

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you are enduring this is evidence of the

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righteous Judgment of God that you may

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be considered worthy of the kingdom of

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God for which you are also suffering

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since indeed God considers it just to

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repay with Affliction those who afflict

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you and to Grant relief to you who are

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afflicted as well as to us when the Lord

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Jesus is revealed from heaven with his

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mighty Angels inflaming fire inflicting

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and on those who do not obey the gospel

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of our Lord Jesus they will suffer the

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punishment of Eternal destruction away

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from the presence of the Lord and from

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the glory of of his might when he comes

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on that day to be glorified in his

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Saints and to be marveled at among all

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who have believed because our testimony

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to you was believed to this end we

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always pray for you that our God may

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make you worthy of his calling and may

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fulfill every resolve for good and every

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work of Faith by his power so that the

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name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified

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in you and you in him according to the

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grace of our God and the Lord Jes Jesus

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Christ well hello and welcome to the

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weekend gathering at Christ Community

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Chapel my name is Zach I'm one of the

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pastors here and I'm so glad you're here

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with us this weekend as we continue our

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fall sermon series looking at first and

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second Thessalonians we are beginning

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now this week second Thessalonians and I

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guess that's a good place to start

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because you know there's not a second of

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every book in the the New Testament

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there's not a second Ephesians or a

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second Colossians or second Philippians

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but there is a second Thessalonians

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meaning Paul didn't just write one

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letter to this church he wrote two and

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that begs the question why write a

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second letter what what's the reason for

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that why did he feel that was necessary

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and the answer we're going to find over

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the next couple of weeks is that he has

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two reasons for writing 2 Thessalonians

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that the the first is that he has to

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clarify some things that he says in

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first Thessalonians there are some

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things that he said in first

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Thessalonians that have caused some

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people to freak out a little bit and

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he's got to come back with second

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Thessalonians and explain a little more

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and and we'll get to some of those

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passages in the weeks to come but the

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second reason he writes the follow-up

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letter to the Thessalonian church is to

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encourage them remember that this is a

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church that is suffering because of

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their faith this is a church that's

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undergoing persecution it's a church who

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is in constant need of Paul telling them

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keep going don't give up hang in there

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it will be worth it he's encouraging

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them and so what I want you to keep in

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mind is that Paul's goal in this passage

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is to encourage the church that God

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calls good and what we're going to look

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for is whatever he's holding out to them

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for encouragement should translate to

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encourage us as well so if you have a

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Bible would you open it to 2

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Thessalonians uh you can take out your

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your phone or a device a tablet of some

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sort be happy to have you do that if

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you're watching online you can open the

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web browser uh 2 Thessalonians chapter 1

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if you're new here and you didn't bring

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a Bible and you'd like to use a Bible uh

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I'd love to offer you one of the Pew

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Bibles in front of you or in the back of

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the room in East Hall and if you grab

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one of those I can tell you that today's

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reading is on page

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930 I'm glad that you're here thanks for

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coming but by the way the verses will

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also be on the screen behind me as we go

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through uh I'm going to use three points

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as an outline to guide our time together

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three things that I think we need to

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lean into to understand the

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encouragement that's here for us in 2

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Thessalonians chapter 1 and those three

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points are very simple and alliterated

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for those of you that enjoy that like me

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those three points are this I want to

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talk about truth timing and trajectory

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truth timing and trajectory all right

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let's start with the first one truth

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this passage is about an

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uncomfortable topic by the way last time

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I preached my topic was

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death and this week my topic is judgment

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and and don't feel sorry for me though I

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I was going to get mad at somebody this

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week and then I remembered that I'm the

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one that planned this false preaching

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calendar so I have only to blame myself

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for giving myself these topics the topic

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here is Judgment the truth that Paul is

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wanting to convey is about God's

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judgment and the reason I use the

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heading truth is because this is a topic

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we don't like to talk about in

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2024 this is a topic that churches like

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to avoid that Christians like to pretend

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isn't in there it's one of those

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doctrines that you kind of put your

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hands over your ears and over your eyes

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and just kind of say no no no no no no

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so that it doesn't somehow get in there

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we don't like to think about or talk

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about or hear sermons about or if I'm

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honest preach sermons about judgment but

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I want you to see it is

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inescapably in the Bible there it is

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it's in the Bible by the way let me say

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this before I read it I've spent most of

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my educational career studying

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worldviews and philosophies and other

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religions and how they compare and

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contrast that's kind of what I nerd out

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on and in all my studying the one

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worldview that stands out to me as the

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ridiculous the one philosophy that I

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just think is completely backwards and

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ignorant the one religion that makes

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absolute sense if I'm honest I absolute

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nonsense if I'm honest is what I'll call

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Christianity it's a Christianity that

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that that takes some of the Bible

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seriously and and in other parts of the

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Bible not so

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seriously it's the it's the kind of

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Christianity that says I like the parts

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about Grace and forgiveness and mercy

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but not the parts about judgment friends

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if you were to take out all the sections

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of the Bible about judgment I want you

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to know you wouldn't have much Bible

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left

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you'd lose parts of

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Genesis the whole first half of

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Exodus you'd lose Joshua for sure judges

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definitely all the Minor Prophets would

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be gone whole sections of the gospels

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25 Mark 13 you'd lose Paul's sermon in

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Acts 17 you definitely lose the entire

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Book of Revelation you get my

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point so either we believe the Bible and

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believe it is God's revelation to us and

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it is the way he communicates to us and

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with us and guides us or we don't and

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either one of those viewpoints makes

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sense to me logically the one that

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doesn't is the picking and choosing

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because the same Bible that says

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everything I want to hold on to is the

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same one that says this beginning in

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verse 5 this is what Paul says this is

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evidence of the righteous Judgment of

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that you may be considered worthy of the

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kingdom of God for which you are also

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suffering since indeed God considers it

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just to repay with Affliction those who

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afflict you and to Grant relief to you

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who are afflicted as well to us when the

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Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with

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his mighty Angels INF flaming fire

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inflicting Vengeance on those who do not

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know God and on those who do not obey

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the gospel of Our Lord Jesus they will

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suffer the punishment of Eternal

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destruction away from the presence of

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the Lord and from the glory of his might

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I mean there it is it's inescapable it's

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unavoidable there it is literally in

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black and white and I want you to see

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that this passage isn't just talking

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about God's judgment it's telling us

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three things about God's judgment that I

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just want to hit quickly those three

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things are this that God's judgment is

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certain do you see in this passage

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there's no if then there's no

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conditional statement there's no if we

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don't figure it out if we don't get our

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act in order I I if we would just do

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this it wouldn't happen no no no he he

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speaks with certainty there's a day

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fixed in human

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history where it will be the

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end and Jesus Will judge all peoples who

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have lived in all times and all places

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God's judgment is certain the second

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that God's judgment is

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awful now the Bible uses a lot of

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metaphorical language when it talks

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about judgment it'll use words like like

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fire and smoke and sulfur and then if

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it is tough to tell when it's being

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literal and when it's being figurative

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but even if the words fire and sulfur

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and smoke are figurative they don't

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figure something

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positive but the most damning thing

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about hell is what he says here in 2

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Thessalonians 1 that it is a place from

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which God will turn his

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finality of Hell the finality of those

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who face God's judgment and receive

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negative results is that they will be

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separated from God and that is the most

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terrible thing you could ever

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imagine it is certain it is awful and

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eternal there have been some throughout

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the history of the church who have

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sought to kind of neutralize this

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Doctrine to minimize it to make it a

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little more palatable and what they'll

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say is that well what happens on the day

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of judgment is is that God will separate

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those that belong to him and and those

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who do not and those who do not will

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just simply cease to exist but that is

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not the picture here in 2 Thessalonians

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chapter 1 the language here of Eternal

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destruction implies that as God turns

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away from people in whatever sense he

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means they begin to disintegrate they

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begin to come undone but the process of

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Bible this is the book on which we pin

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all of our hopes of knowing that God

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loves us that God will forgive us that

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God will include us that God has a

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kingdom that there's a place for us it's

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the same book that tells us God's

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judgment is certain it is awful and it

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is

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eternal we cannot be a church that

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covers our ears or eyes in the face of

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truth no matter how difficult it is to

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preach or to

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hear now it would be fair at this point

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for you to say no hold on a second Zach

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you started this sermon by saying Paul

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writes 2 Thessalonians to encourage them

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and I'm not finding a lot of

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encouragement in this and that's fair

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that's a fair fair point and actually

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the tension there between hold on a

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second why does he write to encourage

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enage them and to write about judgment

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is the key to understanding this passage

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and actually if you would you can just

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look if you have a Bible open at the

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first couple of verses you'll see I'm

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not going to read them for time's sake

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but he's effusive in his encouragement

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he is very happy he's writing about

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judgment he's in a good

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mood he wants to say good things to them

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and the first good thing he has to say

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to them is that God's judgment is

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certain it is awful and it is eternal so

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that that that begs the question that

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might be true but what in the world is

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going on second point with Paul's

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timing why is he bringing up judgment in

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when he's trying to encourage them and

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here's what I want you to understand and

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what I've been praying all week you

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might get for the very first time when

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you understand what the Bible teaches

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about God's judgment correctly you will

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understand it is meant to be a doctrine

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that encourages

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you it really is it is meant to

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encourage you and I know you might say

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well why how what do you mean how in the

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world could it encourage me and I have

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three answers to that and they are that

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in judgment what Paul is saying that on

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the day of judgment God is saying three

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very powerful things to you on the day

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of judgment here they are he's saying I

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see you I see them and welcome in I want

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you to hear this God on the day of

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judgment is saying three things I see

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you I see them and welcome in let's just

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start with I see you on the day of

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judgment there is an accounting whereby

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God

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acknowledges all that we have done in

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obedience to him look at what Paul says

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in in uh second uh 2 Thessalonians

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chapter 1 he says this in verse six

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since indeed God considers it just to

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repay with Affliction those who to

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afflict you listen and to Grant relief

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to you who are afflicted as well as to

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us Paul says there's something about the

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day of judgment that is meant to be a

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relief and elsewhere the Bible will tell

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us that relief comes in the form of God

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acknowledging all the things that you

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and I have done in obedience and in

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trust to him and the reason why that's

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so important is because so often those

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things go seeming ly

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unnoticed think about how many times you

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have done something under the conviction

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that it is what God has wanted you to do

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and you have not gotten anything good as

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a

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result think about all the times you

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have not done something that everyone

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else was doing or that you wanted to do

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or that made sense to you because God

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told you no and you still are waiting to

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see some kind of positive result about

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that think about all the stands you have

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taken in little ways and in big ways

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where you woke up the next day feeling

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just the same and how many times have

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you wondered God are you seeing me are

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you paying attention to me do you see

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what I'm doing when can I hope for some

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kind of acknowledgement and the Bible

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says that acknowledgement comes on the

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day of

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judgment Jesus says it this way in

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Matthew 25 he says on the day of

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judgment he will separate people into

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two categories the sheep and the goats

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and to the Sheep he will say you visited

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me when I was sick you took care of me

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when I was in need you visited me when I

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was in jail he'll go through this long

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list you clothed me when I was naked you

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fed me when I was hungry and they will

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say Lord when did we do these things and

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he will say when you did it to the least

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of these you did it unto me do you know

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what he's saying he's saying I saw

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you I saw you when you went on those h

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hospital visits when you went on those

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jail visits when you were feeding when

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you cut back on the family budget so

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that you could be generous to your

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neighbor I know you didn't think I was

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paying attention but I was Brothers and

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Sisters in Christ hear me on the day of

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judgment God will be saying to you I am

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here to reward you I see you not a

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single thing you do for him will be

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wasted not a single stand you take will

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go

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unnoticed the second thing though that

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he's saying about the day of judgment is

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not just that he sees you but that he

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sees them do you remember he's writing

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to a church that is suffering he's

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writing to a church that's being

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persecuted which is why in verse 6 he

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says since indeed God considers it just

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to repay with Affliction those who

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afflict you now listen I want to get

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really serious here for a second second

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I've told you this story before but I'm

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going to tell it to you again I was once

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sitting down with a young lady sharing

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the Gospel of Jesus with her and I could

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tell I mean I I could just tell she

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believed everything that the Bible was

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saying about

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Jesus she believed he was the son of God

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she believed he died for her she

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believed he rose from the dead she

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believed that through him she could have

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eternal life but she was unwilling to

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call herself a Christian she was

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unwilling to surrender and so I finally

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asked her hey what is holding you

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back and she looked at me and she said

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listen I know if I become a

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Christian Jesus will want me to forgive

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my abusive

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father she said I grew up in an abusive

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home I was abused my entire

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childhood and I know if I give my life

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to Jesus he'll want me to forgive him

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and then she said this and if I forgive

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him he gets away with everything

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maybe that's your

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story friends do you know what the day

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of judgment is telling

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you no one gets

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away with

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anything there's a reckoning

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coming there's a reckoning coming when

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you read about Jesus coming back with

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angels and and fire and

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Vengeance it's because every victim

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every person who's been hurt every

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victim of abuse every victim of betrayal

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every victim of crime every victim who's

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ever been was made in the image of God

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and as one man said a long time ago

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Justice delayed is not Justice denied

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the day of judgment is a reckoning for

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those who have hurt you it isn't just

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God saying I see you it's God saying I

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see them

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and the third thing the day of judgment

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offers us is God saying welcome in verse

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10 is one of the most beautiful verses

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In this passage it says this when he

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comes on that day to be glorified in his

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Saints and to be marveled at among all

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who have

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believed because our testimony to you

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was believed the day of judgment is a

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day where those who have believed in

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Jesus Will Marvel at him here's the

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metaphor that comes to mind for me I had

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a kid this week who was trying out for a

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sports team at their school and as a

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parent that's always you know we felt

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pretty good because this kid played that

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sport last year at the same school and

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you know they're not the best on the

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team they're not the worst on the team

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and you know being in the middle is

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where W Rocks live so we're comfortable

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with

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that so we felt pretty good first day I

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picked this kid up from tryouts you know

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it's just first day of tryouts I say how

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did it go and they're telling me it was

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pretty good and we're I was asking them

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how many kids were better than you how

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many kids were worse than you you know

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where do you think you stacked we were

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we were feeling good we were positive we

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were optimistic we were feeling good but

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the next day I picked that kid up was

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the day where you knew where you found

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out and this kid got in the car and my

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wife had already said have them call me

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if they made the team but if they didn't

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make the team don't have them call

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me not because she didn't want to talk

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to him but because you would to let him

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breathe a little bit so this kid gets in

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the car and I'm like

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so and they said oh I made the team I

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said that's awesome tell me about it

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they said' oh the coach pulled everyone

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aside the coach looked at me and said

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hey you made the

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team we were already feeling good about

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it we were already pretty optimistic but

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there's something different when the

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coach says to

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you you're

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in friends do you know if you're born

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again in Jesus that's what's going to

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happen for you on the day of Jud

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judement you know you're forgiven right

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you know you believe you feel good about

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it you know God loves you you know God

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has a place for you but on the day of

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judgment is the moment where he will

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look at you and

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say welcome

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in this is what I'm really trying to say

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listen we have to acknowledge that the

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reason why the doctrine of judgment sits

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so poorly with us not the only reason

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but the major reason is because most of

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us have lived privileged lives where

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judgment doesn't seem

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necessary because the truth is when

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you've been

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hurt you know that if God loves you at

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all there has to be a reckoning you know

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when doing the right thing costs you

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that if God loves you at all there has

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to be an

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accounting the day of judgment is a

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doctrine of encouragement because God is

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saying to us I see you I see them and

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welcome

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in but that leads me to my third point

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which is to say that the point of this

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passage is not just to give us truth and

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not just to give us truth in a way that

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encourages us but is to remind us that

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the trajectory of all of our Lives is to

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this

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day everyone here whether we realize it

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or not is moving towards this day

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everyone here is moving towards judgment

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that is certain and awful and eternal

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everyone here is moving this

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way which means that what Paul also has

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in mind is not just the people he can

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encourage with the good news of judgment

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but those he's worried will not hear

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good news on the day of judgment those

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who are not finding them M themselves in

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Jesus that's why he says this to the

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Thessalonians at the very end in verse

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11 and 12 he says to this end we always

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pray for you that our God may make you

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worthy of his calling and may fulfill

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every resolve for good and every work of

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Faith by his power so that the name of

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our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you

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and you in him according to the grace of

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our God and the Lord Jesus Christ he's

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saying we're praying for you that God's

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glory would shine through you why

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because Paul had given his entire life

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to this idea that the day of judgment is

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coming for everyone which means the day

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of Escape is

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now so I'm praying that you will

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continue to fight that you will continue

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to follow Jesus that you'll continue to

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live out your faith so that those around

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you might one day have the same

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encouragement you have of the day of

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judgment he has in mind here that one of

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the reasons the Bible talks so much

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about judgment is because the entire

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Bible is what God has done to help you

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escape

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judgment in fact you could put it this

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way that in the Bible there are two

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great days of

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judgment one is the day we've spent most

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of our time this weekend talking about

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the day when we die and we stand before

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God the final day of judgment we give an

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account for our Our Lives we answer for

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our sins for our

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victims but the other day of

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judgment was the day that Jesus Christ

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the son of God went to the

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cross on our

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behalf the other day of judgment was the

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day that God made him to borrow from

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Paul in another book made him who knew

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no sin to become sin in order that we

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might become the righteousness of God

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when Jes Jesus the perfect sinless man

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went to the cross and came up under the

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Judgment of God when Jesus became

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separated from the father so that he

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would cry out on the cross my God my God

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why have you forsaken me when Jesus

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underwent the thing that makes hell hell

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because he became your sin and mine in

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order that he might die in our place in

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order that when he rose from the dead he

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might say to us there are two days of

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judgment choose with which one you

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want the one where you speak for

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you or the one where I speak for

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you so if you're here and you're a

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Christian listen what the Bible is

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saying to you here in this passage is to

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find encouragement in the day of

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judgment but also to be sobered up by

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the idea that the day of judgment one

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day waits for every friend every family

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member every colleague that your prayer

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would be God do in and through me in the

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things I say and the things I do and the

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things I don't do in the transformation

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of my life do something that gets their

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attention do something that helps them

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to see the day of judgment when Jesus

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was on the cross before they see the day

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of judgment where they answer to

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you but friends if you're

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here and you do not have a relationship

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with Jesus I want you to see that In

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this passage the dividing line on the

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day of judgment is not who's good and

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who's bad who came to church and who

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didn't not any of that this is the

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dividing line according to 2

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Thessalonians it says this in verse 7

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and to Grant relief to you who are

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afflicted as well as to us when the Lord

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Jesus is revealed from heaven with his

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mighty angels and flaming fire

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inflicting Vengeance on those who do not

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know God and on those who do not obey

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the gospel of our Lord Jesus the

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dividing line of human history

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is what you do with

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Jesus Oh for a generation of Christians

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who believe that more than thinking that

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the dividing line of human history is

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who votes Republican and who votes

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Democrat the dividing line of human

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history is what you do with Jesus the

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day of judgment is certain for us all

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won't you today decide that your day of

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judgment is when Jesus died for your

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sins receive his forgiveness and his

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mercy and his

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grace and be included in his kingdom so

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that one day you don't fear the end but

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you see it as the day where God himself

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because of Jesus will say I see you I

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see them and welcome in let me pray for

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us father

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God thank you for the doctrine of

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judgment thank you for telling us the

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truth thank you for warning

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us a Bible that didn't speak of judgment

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wouldn't be because judgment isn't

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coming it would be because you didn't

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love us enough to tell

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us God help us as Christians to pick up

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this truth that we have put down to be

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reminded that our hope that you see our

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our our obedience that you see what

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we're doing is in the day of judgment

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Our Hope of Justice for those who have

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heard us is in the day of judgment that

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all that is waiting for us is to hear

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welcome

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it but oh God for those who are here

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apart from

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Jesus that they might today turn to him

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before they stand before you in his name

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we pray amen