welcome to from his heart with pastor Jeff Shri who's in a new series today called revelation the triumph of the Lamb we're today we'll get a glimpse of the earthly kingdom of God and the thousand-year reign when perfection will rule and the curse will be removed it's a lesson called the kingdom to come [Music] [Music] [Music] if you have your Bible please turn to Revelation chapter 20 for the last several weeks we've been in a series on the book of Revelation and we are starting to wind down there are three more messages left and you know a study of Revelation revelation tells us about the future and many many people are interested in the future we know that's true just in the human make up because that's why you have psychics and seers and astrologers they're in that business of telling you the future some of you may read your horoscope I hope not but if you do it's because you think well I'm gonna see what today holds I'm gonna see the future people are interested in that I heard about a frog he was a lonely frog he wanted love he wanted companionship he went to a psychic and he sat down there with the psychic and she had her crystal ball and he said what's in my future and she looked in her crystal ball and she said I see a young girl and he got excited and the psychic said and I see she is so interested in you she wants to know everything about you and the Frog was so excited he said where am I gonna meet this girl and work at a at a party where she said biology class [Applause] interested in the future well we've been talking about the book of the revelation which is a book that tells us about the future now revelation 119 Jesus himself gives the outline of the book of the book and he tells John who's on the island of Patmos exiled on the island of Patmos he said John write the things that you've seen and he does revelation chapter 1 he said John write the things that are and he does revelation two and three the seven letters to the seven churches of Asia Minor and he and he says and write the things that will take place after these things and he does from revelation chapter four until revelation chapter 22 the end of the book and we've used for our outline I have it on the screens here just to give you an idea of how things are going to shape out for the timeline of the end times we are in the present church age that's what this is called it's the church age Jesus died on the cross he rose again from the dead the day of Pentecost came 50 days after Passover the Holy Spirit came to live inside the hearts of true believers and we're in the church age and we in the church age are waiting for the coming of the Lord in the clouds the rapture of the church that's the next thing on God's prophetic calendar and after the rapture of the church the Antichrist is going to be revealed it says that in 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2 and that begins he's going to sign a treaty with Israel and it's a seven-year treaty and Daniel tells us it's it's lasts for seven years and that will begin the Tribulation Period the time of Jacob's trouble and it's broken into two halves the first half Jesus called them the beginning of birth pangs the beginning of Sorrows like a woman ready to give birth it starts out with pain and that's mild and then it starts to increase the pains are far apart and then they start to intensify and get closer and closer together at the middle point of the tribulation period at that three-and-a-half year period the the Antichrist is going to show his true colors he's going to present himself in the temple of God declare himself to be God shut down all our the worship of anyone other than himself mark all the people you either get the mark of the beast 666 on your hand or on your forehead and if you don't get the seal then you can't buy or sell and you're on his hit list and so that last three and a half years is called the Great Tribulation and then at the Battle of Armageddon the Lord returns returns with his church comes now not in the clouds he comes down from the clouds sets his feet on the Mount of Olives he does battle with the Antichrist and his forces and he defeats them with the power the sharp sword that goes out of his mouth and defeats him with a word and then he sets up his kingdom so today we want to look at the reign of Christ on the earth you know Jesus told us when the disciples said Lord teach us to pray he gave us the model prayer he said pray then in this way our Father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven we are to pray that we are to think about that the coming kingdom where God's will is done on earth as it is in heaven will that has never happened yet but it is coming and the Bible tells us about the coming kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ in Revelation chapter 21 I'll begin reading in verse 1 and I saw an angel coming down from heaven having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand and he laid hold of the dragon the serpent of old who is the devil and Satan and bound him for a thousand years and threw him into the abyss and shut it and sealed it over him so that he should not deceive the nation's any longer until the thousand years were completed after these things he must be released for a short time and I saw Thrones and they sat upon them and judgment was given to them and I saw the souls of those who been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years the rest of the Dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed this is the first resurrection blessed and holy is the one who has part has a part in the first resurrection over these the second death has no power but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years so here's our question for today what's the reign of Christ on the earth going to be like what's this kingdom of the Lord going to be like well I want to share with you five characteristics of this coming kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ characteristic number one his kingdom will be free from the devil and his deception the very first thing that the Lord does when he sets up his kingdom is he gets the devil out of the way look at it again in Revelation chapter 20 he said I saw an angel coming down from heaven having the key of the abyss the abyss is the bottomless pit it's an incarceration place for the worst of demons and he had a great chain in his hand and he laid hold of the dragon the serpent of old who is the devil and Satan very very specific who he's talking about he's he's given the the picture of a dragon because the devil is very fierce he's the serpent of old that makes us think of Genesis chapter 3 when the serpent slithered his way into the Garden of Eden the devil is not a dragon the devil is not a serpent he is the devil and Satan so sometimes you get people like Bill Maher and and atheists and and those who try and make fun of Christians or say well if you believe the Bible then you believe in talking snakes I don't believe in talking snakes but I do believe in a talking devil and the devil is likened to a serpent the because he's crafty he's likened to a dragon because he's fierce but he is the devil and Satan and he was bound for a thousand years and the angel threw him into the abyss and shut it and sealed it over him so that he should no longer deceive the nation's the Lord takes the devil out of the way that's the very first thing that he sets up binds him with a chain puts him in manacles so to speak and if you've ever seen somebody being led out a criminal especially a violent criminal they will put him in these chains where his hands are chained behind his back his feet are chained and then there's a chain going between his hands and his feet I mean he's not gonna be able to run he's not gonna be able to get away and the Lord puts the devil in some kind of change some kind of manacles to where he's not going to be able to move and then he throws him into the bottomless pit the bottomless pit the abyss Abba sauce in the Greek not a fun place because when we read about the man from Ghaderi who had the Legion of demons he was at the tombs and when Jesus spoke to those demons he says what is your name and he said legion for we are many and those demons implored Jesus please don't send us into the abyss that's a bad place you don't want to go into the abyss and so remember Jesus let him go into the swine and the swine ran off the side of the cliff and were drowned but but the abyss is where the devil is going to go for a thousand years now why is it so important that the Lord incarcerate the devil and when you put the devil into the bottomless pit that's also including all his demons and all the deceivers that are included with the devil in his demonic horde why is that so important it says so that he should not deceive the nation's any longer in the Millennial Kingdom in the kingdom of Christ there is no deceiver so there's no false religion there's no heretical doctrine there are no spiritual lies out there there are no other religions during the reign of Christ on the earth why because the devil is the author of all of that and he is going to be bound and thrown into the abyss and he can't get out of there for a thousand years I love what the scripture says about the millennial kingdom it says in Isaiah chapter 11 verse 9 speaking of this kingdom that's to come for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea no false religion no false doctrine no false teaching everyone will know about the Lord and the knowledge of the Lord will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea so that's the very first characteristic second characteristic the kingdom will be a millennium it will be a millennium now we get the word millennium from the Latin it's two words in Latin Mille which means a thousand and annum which means year you put those together million immune years and in Revelation chapter 20 the first seven verses we run across a thousand years or the thousand years six times how long is the kingdom of Christ well six times the Lord says it's a thousand years I mean it seems pretty straightforward to me if you talk about the kingdom of Christ and you say well I wonder how long that is I would say well it's thousand years why do you think so because it says it's six times that it's a thousand years yet you have people smart people theologians who debate and say no I don't believe the Millennial Kingdom is a thousand years as a matter of fact you have three major schools of thought as it relates to the Millennium 1st of the schools of thought is this thing called amillennialism amillennialism in greek if you put an A the Alpha prefix in front of a word it negates it so millennium is a thousand years our millennium says no thousand years so when our Millennials are millennialist doesn't believe in a thousand year reign of Christ he said well that's just all symbolic and there is no such thing as a 1000 year reign of Christ on the earth I think that's very difficult position to hold if you say you believe the scripture because this seems very very clear the second school of thought is a post millennial what's a post millennial post millennial says Jesus comes back after the Millennial Kingdom and so we as believers in Jesus we are living right now in the Millennial Kingdom and the gospel is triumphing and see they kind of take that they they have to say the thousand years are symbolic why because Jesus died in the first century it's been almost 2,000 years so 1,000 years can't be literal in their minds why because it's been almost 2,000 years so they say well that's just that's just a designation for an undisclosed amount of time one author even said this he said there is no one in the world that could possibly know how long the thousand years is going to be like what kind of seemed like it'd be a thousand years you know I thought about that you know you stand before God as a theologian and you know you're sitting down with the Lord and asking him questions about the word and Psyche Lord I never could figure out how long that kingdom was gonna be he said well where did you have trouble cuz I told you six times in seven verses it was a thousand years I mean it's just pretty straightforward and so there's the amillennial view I reject it there's the post-millennial view I reject it then there's the premillennial view and the premillennial view says that there's the age where Jesus died and rose again the church age that we're living in and then is coming after the rapture will come the tribulation then the second coming of Christ to the earth and then he sets up his kingdom and at the end of the Millennial Kingdom there will be the final judgement of all those who rejected Christ so the kingdom is a literal 1000 year Kingdom and it is yet to come not everybody believes that but this is America and you have a right to be wrong so just easy just easy characteristics number three the kingdom his kingdom will be a return to the Garden of Eden this is what gets so cool so okay we have the devil is incarcerated thrown into the abyss so he's not there deceiving anyone anymore and you have this kingdom that the Lord sets up that's for a thousand years and he changes things on earth it's going to be the easiest way to think about it is a return to the Garden of Eden when you read in Genesis chapter 2 about how God had a garden to the east in Eden and it was filled with all fruit trees and it was so lush and it was just a wonderful wonderful place and beyond anything our minds can comprehend because we don't have anything like that I heard a story about Cain and Abel when they were just young boys and they were out playing one day and they came home at the end of the day and they were so excited they talked to to their dad to Adam and said daddy daddy said Cain and Abel we were playing and we were climbing a tree and from the tree we saw into this place it's a garden and it was so beautiful and these fruit trees and the fruit on there and we couldn't get in there because it was all walled up but man dad you think we could ever live in a place like that and Adam said well we did once boys until your mother ate us out of house and home it's just a story but the Garden of Eden what a beautiful place now that's what the earth is going to be like when the Lord sets up his kingdom see the curse on the land will be removed when Adam and Eve sinned God said cursed is the land because of you it's going to produce thorns and thistles and weeds and you're gonna have to really work the land now Adam by the sweat of your brow you're gonna earn your bread because of the ground it used to be before they sinned you could just kind of tickle the soil and all of a sudden things would grow like crazy but not after they sinned and so at the millennial kingdom the thousand-year reign of Christ what does he do he removes the curse from the land and the Bible makes this very clear in Romans chapter 8 it says this for all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are against its will all creation was subjected to God's curse but with eager hope the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay that's coming and the Bible says in Isaiah chapter 35 verse 1 that there's a coming there's coming a day when the Lord sets up his kingdom that the devil that the the desert will bloom like a rose and it's going to be lush and it's going to be green and it's going to be fertile and it's going to be awesome the curse will be removed from the land and then the curse on the animals will be removed you know when God made the animals Adam and Eve weren't afraid of the animals the animals didn't attack Adam named all the animals they didn't he wasn't saying hey that D I can name that Lion Lord but I got to do it from a distance because he could come after me there wasn't any kind of attack of viciousness about those animals and the Bible says this in Isaiah chapter 11 in that day the wolf and the lamb will live together wolves eat Lambs today but not in the Lord's Kingdom the leopard will lie down with the baby goat the calf and the yearling will be safe with the lion and a little child will lead them all the cow will graze near the bear the cub and the calf will lie down together the lion will eat hay like a cow the baby will play safely near the hole of a Cobra yes a little child will put its hand in a nest of deadly snakes without harm nothing will hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain man that's gonna be pretty cool you know I don't know about you but I used to love going to the beach when I was a kid and then in seventh grade I saw jaws and it ruined it for me I mean it to this day I don't like I can't see what's in there and I was here in the back of my head as soon as I get in the water no no you know I mean it's just what a scary kind of deal well in the Lord's Kingdom you can go swim in the ocean and the Sharks will take you for a ride they will not hurt God says in all my holy mountain the kingdom will be a return to the Garden of Eden characteristic number 4 his kingdom will be ruled in complete perfection the rule of Christ on earth the perfect God ruling it will be in perfect rule perfect order it says in zechariah 14:9 and the Lord Yahweh the Lord Jesus will be king over all the earth in that day the Lord will be the only one in his name the only one and he rules from Jerusalem Mount Zion which he loves which his chosen for himself Jerusalem will be the capital city of the world and the Lord will set up shop right there that's where his throne will be and that's headquarters of the world and when he comes to rule you mark it down there will be peace there will be prosperity there will be health and perfect justice peace because he's the Prince of Peace and when he rules there's peace and it says in Isaiah chapter 2 that in that day men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks and they won't know anymore the implements of war there won't be any army basis there won't be any kind of defense systems set up nation-to-nation because everything will be peace we will see prosperity like never before we will see health like never before now we get a glimpse of that in the Gospels when Jesus would come to the plate to a place by the Sea of Galilee and people would bring all their sick and he would heal them all and so he as one preacher said he basically banished disease from Israel during his three and a half year ministry there well when he's king over the whole earth there's not going to be any sickness there's not going to be any disease those of you who work in health care and need to go have to find a different line of work because there's not going to be a hospital or a clinic or any surgery center there's not going to be a need for that because everyone will be healthy there will be peace prosperity health and perfect perfect rule perfect justice in the kingdom this is what the Bible says concerning the Lord's justice he rules with a rod of iron says in Isaiah chapter 11 verse 3 and he will delight in the fear of the Lord and he will not judge by what his eyes see nor make a decision by what his years here but with righteousness he will judge the poor and decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth and he will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked also righteousness will be the belt about his loins and faithfulness the belt about his waist you need to remember something about the kingdom of the Lord the coming Kingdom the Millennial Kingdom the Millennial Kingdom has glorified Saints in it but it also has human beings in it those who survived the tribulation who put their faith and trust in Jesus Christ during the tribulation and they didn't die by Antichrist or by all the plagues taking place we don't know how many that's going to be but Matthew chapter 25 talks about the judgment between the sheep and the goats and he puts the sheep on his right hand and the goats on his left hand and the Sheep are those who put their faith and trust in Christ the goats were those who didn't and so the Sheep get to go into the Millennial Kingdom the goats are excluded and so the Sheep are human beings they haven't been glorified they're just in their regular human mortal bodies and so they go into the kingdom believers in Jesus everyone starts out a believer in Jesus but it doesn't stay that way and we're gonna get to that in just a minute so the Lord will be there ruling in perfect peace and if there's any funny business going on in the Millennial Kingdom somebody wants to rebel against the Lord in the Millennial Kingdom instant death instant death he rules with a rod of iron the Bible speaks of his reign in Psalm 2 says do homage to the son lest he become angry and you perish in the way for his wrath may soon be kindled blessed are those who take refuge in him the Lord doesn't put up with a lot in the Millennial Kingdom and so he rules with a lot of rod of iron and there's perfect justice you come before the Lord with a case he's going to decide it with perfect justice you're not going to be able to get some slick to get you off when you're guilty because the Lord sees through all of that so there'll be peace and prosperity when he's King and there will be glorified Saints ruling with him this is what is so cool look at verse four and he said and I saw Thrones and they sat upon them whose the day will the armies clothed in white linen bright and clean we came with the Lord in Revelation chapter 19 when he came back we came with him we're gonna be sitting on those thrones and judgment was given to them and I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded why because of the testimony of Jesus and because of the Word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years those who are martyred during the Tribulation Period they come back to life and they rule and reign with Christ it says in verse five the rest of the Dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed this is the first resurrection blessin and holy is the one who has part in the first resurrection over these the second death has no power but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years it says it again a thousand years we rule and reign with Christ now this is kind of cool to think about because you have three classifications here of glorified Saints you have Old Testament Saints Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and David and Daniel and all those people in the Old Testament John the Baptist was the last of the Old Testament prophets and he called himself not the bride but the friend of the bridegroom the Old Testament Saints are going to be raised up and they are the Friends of the bridegroom the Church of Jesus Christ we were glorified in the rapture we got a brand new body in the rapture a glorified body that's going to be like Jesus's and so we're there ruling and reigning Old Testament Saints Friends of the bridegroom they have glorified bodies we have glorified bodies as the bride the tribulation Saints who died during the reign of Antichrist those seven years where it was so horrible they are raised up and they are glorified and the Old Testament Saints the Bride of Christ the tribulation Saints were all glorified and we rule and reign with Jesus for a thousand years Luke chapter 19 Jesus tells a parable about the king getting going on a long journey and he took ten of his servants and he gave each of them a minor a minor was equal to about a hundred day's wages and he said do business with this until I return and he was gone a long time just like it's been a long time since Jesus ascended to heaven he's gone a long time but then when he came back he settled accounts and one servant came up and said master you entrusted to me one miner look I made ten more and he said wonderful you'll be over ten cities well done and then the other one came up said master you entrusted a miner to me I made five more he said great you're over five cities and so we get the idea that God is gonna put us over cities and the more faithful I am the more I do with what he's given me then the more responsibility I have in his kingdom some are going to be over ten cities some are gonna be over Bowie County you're over the Lord says you've done great you're over Bowie County the Lord says to Larry you're over Maude and so you know it's gonna be different for different people you know it just depends some people say well it doesn't really matter how you live just so long as you're there hey you want to live every day this is the mindset of a of a believer who loves Jesus you want to live every day for his glory you don't want to say hey I just want to just skate by just you just by the skin of my teeth just so long as I'm in heaven I don't really care about all that you know at the judgment seat of Christ when you see your life go up in smoke and on everything that you did you did for sin and self and then it's all and you're just standing there you're standing on the rock because you put your faith in Christ but you're saved yet so as through fire and there's nothing to show for your life there's nothing to give to your Savior there's there's no crown to throw at his feet he wipes every tear from our eyes why cuz they're gonna be tears at the judgment seat of Christ for those who wasted their life as a believer though those who were entrusted with the mine and said I didn't do anything with it I don't have anything to show for my time as a Christian you don't want to be like that hey we rule and reign with him and your faithfulness determines what kind of reign you have with him and then characteristic number five his kingdom will be subjected to a final rebellion this is mind-boggling but so critical verse seven and when the thousand years are completed Satan will be released from his prison remember he is bound with a chained thousand years in the abyss Satan is released verse eight and he will come out to deceive the nation's because that's what he does he deceives the whole world he's a deceiver he deceives the nations which are in the four corners of the earth north south east and west Gog and Magog which is used to just designate the nations to gather them together for the war the number of them and watch this the number of them is like the sand of the seashore and they came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the Saints and the beloved city Jerusalem and fire came down from heaven and devoured them and the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are also how long is hell it's forever and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever the Millennial Kingdom is a perfect place perfect environment perfect rule perfect righteousness perfect knowledge because the null the Lord covers the earth as the waters cover the Seas nobody is being deceived Jesus you can see him in Jerusalem in his glory you can see the Saints in their glorified bodies and when the devil is released after the 1000 years he gathers to himself to his plan of rebellion so many people from the kingdom that the number is like the sand on the seashore remember I told you we come into the kingdom glorified Saints but also human beings human beings who believe in Jesus they come into the kingdom and they have children and it'll be like it was in the days of Genesis the early chapters of Genesis I don't believe there's gonna be any death in the kingdom unless you're a rebel and the Bible says that if you don't live to be a hundred it's because you are a curse of the Lord and the Bible says the youth in the Millennial Kingdom Isaiah 65 lasts for a hundred years adolescence is for a hundred years I mean you think about that you're 95 years old you're still living at home your parents are like hey you need to get out of the house just just 15 I mean that's how it is your adolescence is a hundred years and so the implication would be God gives you one hundred years in the Millennial Kingdom to make a decision for Christ now everybody nobody openly rebels against the Lord because if you openly rebel against the Lord he kills you but there will be private rebellion the scripture says in the Book of Psalms men will give fake obedience to the Lord they'll be afraid of God because because of the Lord because do how much of this unless they become angry and you perish in the way there's a fear of God but there's not a rev for God there's not a love for the Lord in many hearts so many that the devil can be released and in no time he gathers the rebels like the sand on the seashore and they come against the Lord now yes yourself why does God do that why does he let the devil out because it proves once and for all that the heart of the human problem is the problem of the heart and even when you're in a place where there's perfect environment where there's perfect education where there's perfect knowledge where everything is perfect you still have to humble your heart and receive Christ as Savior and Lord the only way a person is saved is through repentance and faith and when you're born into this world you're born in sin you're born in Adam and even people in the Millennial Kingdom when they're born from their mom and dad they're born in Adam they're born sinners they're born with a wicked heart you take your baby home from the hospital after you give birth you take home a little sinner they're born with a wicked heart that's just the human experience that's the depravity of man and the Bible says in Jeremiah chapter 17 verse 9 who can understand the human heart there is nothing else so deceitful it is too sick to be healed what does that mean that means there's nothing that you can do to heal the sickness in your heart the Lord says though you wash yourself with ly ly E and use much soap you then get the stain of your iniquity is before me declares the Lord God there's no way to get the stain of sin out of your heart there's no way can't get it out either what God has to do is give you a new heart he has to take that old heart and give you a new heart because God doesn't reform your heart God transforms you and when you give your life to Christ he gives his life to you and Ezekiel chapter 38 says we get a brand-new heart Jesus spoke to Nicodemus who was the most moral man in Israel he was the ruler of the Jews on the Sanhedrin Pharisee of Pharisees and he said to Jesus rabbi we know that you have come from God because nobody can do the works you do unless God is with him and Jesus looked at that moral man and said this unless a man is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God and then he said to him again Nicodemus didn't get it he's a born again how am I gonna do that I'm gonna climb up in my mother's womb and be born a second time and Jesus said unless a man is born again he cannot enter the kingdom of God you can't see it you can't enter it you need to be born from above you need the for the Lord to come into your life through his spirit and give you a brand new heart that's the only way that you can enjoy the kingdom that's the only way that you can be right with God we hear people say this all the time I had a guy email me this just just on Friday I said I sent out an email encouragement some of you might get that you can sign up for it it's free it comes out every Friday you go - from his heart org and sign up for it but I said that sometimes we have people when they want to do a funeral and they're talking about songs to choose they'll say well you know I want us to play that Frank Sinatra song I did it my way I said hmm well let me tell you if your dearly departed really did it quote/unquote my way then you're saying that he went to hell do you really want to say that because there's a way that seems right to a man but the end is the way of death and so I wrote about this I said there's two ways to go in life there's God's way or my way and I said my way leads down the highway to hell I have to stop going my way and I have to choose to go his way I have to do that in this life I have to do that if I'm born in the Millennial Kingdom because God has only one way for someone to be saved and that's through repentance and faith repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and unless you do that you will never go to heaven and if God would let you in heaven without doing that it wouldn't be too long before you would say in your heart I can't stand to be here I wish we could rebel against him kill him and take control that's what happens at the end of the Millennial Kingdom now let me tell you something that's interesting John chapter 1 says this Jesus was in the world he was in the world and the world was made through him and the world did not know him he came to his own to the Jews and those who were his own did not receive him but as many as received him opened their heart welcomed him in humbled themselves welcomed him in but as many as received him to them he gave the right to become children of God even to those who believed in his name who were born not of blood not a blood was that means not talking about the blood of Christ he's talking about the bloodline who were born out of blood that means that you can't be born into a Christian family and that all of a sudden makes you a Christian it's not through the bloodline it's not through generation who were born not of blood that's why people in the Millennial Kingdom babies that will be born mom and dad are believers because everyone's a believer when they start out in the kingdom but when they have children they have that little sinner and that little sinner has to decide for himself herself to trust Christ mom and dad can't do that and they're not just grandfathered in God has Oh grandchildren he just has children just has children who are born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh what is that that means you can't grit your teeth and some how by determination make yourself a Christian you're not a generation it's not of the will of the flesh it's not of determination nor of the will of man what is that that's nomination that means that mom and dad can't decide for you that means that Pastor Jeff can't decide for you no one can decide for you sin is personal and so is salvation and you have to personally receive Christ and if you don't do that then you're gonna do it your way and you're gonna die and go to hell and even if God lets you come to heaven it wouldn't be too long before you'd say I do not want this man ruling over me that's what happens at the end of it all to show that the heart of the problem is the problem of the human heart and so closing out I ask you this question have you ever been born again because if you haven't you'll not see the kingdom of God you'll not enter the kingdom of God George Whitfield the great preacher in the 1700s used to always preach John chapter three you must be born again you must be born again you must be born again Oh a reporter asked him one day said mr. Whitfield why do you always preach you must be born again he said I'll tell you why it is because you must be born again our friend the Lord is coming soon and now is the time if you're not ready to get yourself ready simply pray this prayer from your heart Lord Jesus I need you I know that I'm a sinner and I'm lost I can't save myself but Jesus I believe that you died on the cross for my sins that you rose again from the dead and that you are Lord of all and right now Jesus I ask you to come into my heart forgive me of all my sins be my Lord and Savior I surrender all to you my friend if you'll pray that kind of prayer and mean it the Lord will come in and your life will never be the same I'd love to hear from you to know that you're watching to know that God is using this broadcast to make a difference in your life to know that you just prayed that prayer with me to receive Christ as Savior and Lord please take the time to call that toll-free number on your screen write me email me let me know what's going on and how we can pray for you you really are important to God and you're important to us and we're here for you thank you for watching from his heart today the viewer-supported broadcast ministry of dr. 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