The Final Destination of Man

Now if you've kept up with our study, you know that we're in the last message of what I have called a four-part series, "What the Bible Says About Man." Now if you're really keeping up, you'll know that it's really more than four parts. What I mean by four parts is we've had four messages, main messages, sermons on Sunday morning, but we also have four additional lessons on Wednesday nights. It's my desire to take some truth that the Lord kind of reveals to me in my later study of what we look at, and there have been some very rich truths that have been shared on Wednesday nights. If you've not gotten those, I have those available.

So it's a little deceptive. It's a four-part message if you look at the sermons, but it's eight-part if you take the sermons on Sunday morning and the Bible study lessons that we have in Wednesday night prayer meeting. But we're nearing the end of this series, and again we will touch on it again this Wednesday night. Now the title of last week's message was "The Disastrous Situation of Man," and we saw that man is in a terrible, terrible dilemma. He's in a terrible situation. Now listen, before God, we saw that unregenerated man, sinful man, was judged already according to John chapter 3 verse 18.

According to Jonathan Edwards, man truly is in the hands, a sinner in the hands of an angry God. Now John 3 18 helped us see man's condition before God. I did a little reading this week about this passage, and I like what John MacArthur says. He says that lost humanity is condemned or judged although their judgment has not yet been consummated. What is that telling us? That helps us see what John is communicating in chapter 3 verse 18. Man is under the wrath of God. Man is under the judgment of God, but that judgment has not been consummated. And what do we see in this?

Lost humanity lives in an inescapable cloud of judgment and wrath, but that judgment has yet to be carried out, and it will be carried out on a future day. Now we need to remember this. The only thing that keeps lost man from this day, this doomed day of judgment, now listen close, is the very goodness of God Himself. You realize that? As lost humanity rebels against God live their lives in that dark cloud of the wrath and the judgment of God, although that judgment has not been consummated yet, if I can borrow MacArthur's term, what we see is it is a good God that keeps them where they are today.

See, this is the disastrous situation of man, but as we continue with this last message, we're going to see that it truly does get worse, and we must fully understand man's final destination. See, the Word of God and God Himself demands that we fully understand unrepentant man's final destination. See, if you go all the way back to the first message, we begin with man's origin. God created man. He did not come out of a pool of water. He didn't come from a glob. He did not descend from an animal. We see that God created man, and now we will see the end with man's final destination.

The title of the message this morning is the final destination of man, the final destination of man, and we will look at three main truths this morning, a judgment of death, a judgment which is final, and a judgment of hell. You'll have plenty of time to write those truths down as we proceed through the message. I'll give them to you again. This is the final destination of man. We will look at a judgment of death, a judgment which is final, and a judgment of hell. And like I said earlier, we will deal with many different scriptures on our way to Revelation 20 verses 11 through 18. So let's just take a minute.

Let's look at the first main truth I want us to explore, and that is truth number one, a judgment of death, a judgment of death. Death is something that in our culture we work real hard to escape, and as a matter of fact we work real hard to dress it up. I don't know if you've been in a hospital lately. I don't know if you've been in a critical care unit of a hospital lately, but what we see is there are people from all walks of life who are trying desperately. They are working real hard, now listen, to escape death. I don't know if you've been to a funeral lately, but in our culture we are very good, now listen, at dressing up death.

I know when I was in India a little over a year ago with Luke, we witnessed a Hindu funeral, and they take that body and they put it on a platform, and there's just this great procession, this great crowd of people who go down the street with that body on top, and they go to cremate that body. And even in that culture they are dressing up death, and every culture mankind is trying to escape death. But according to God's Word, now listen, death is imminent. Physical death is imminent, imminent, but we're let us look at some things in the scripture that help us see there is a judgment of death. First of all, death is a result of sin.

Death is a result of sin. Romans 6 verse 23 is a very familiar passage for most of us. Paul says, "For the wages of sin is death." What is Paul saying? Man earns death through his sin. Do you realize that? We go work on our jobs, we go work wherever we are, and what do we do? We earn that paycheck, and John is saying, excuse me, Paul is saying that man earns death through sin. Also, James 1 verse 15 says, "Then when lust is conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is accomplished, it brings death." And what do we see? Man's sin brings forth death. Notice the difference, but yet the similarities of what Paul says and James says.

In Romans there is a payment, while in James there is a process, but the end is death. So what do we see? Death is a result of sin. Second, we see that death, it is a work of God. Death, this is a work of God. Hebrews chapter 9 verse 27 says, "And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once," and after this comes judgment. Luke chapter 12 verse 20 says, "But God said to him, 'You fool, this very night your soul is required of you, and now who will own what you have prepared?'" And notice what we see in these two passages.

"God has appointed a time when a man's soul will be required of him." Now obviously, in Romans earlier, in James earlier, we're speaking of a spiritual death and a physical death, but now right here in Hebrews and Luke we're talking about a physical death. What do we see? There is an appointed time when a man's soul will be required of him. But I want you to notice that this is a general rule, because this does not apply to all mankind. If you know your Bible, you will know that there was some who did not face physical death. Remember, it was Elijah who was taken up, was he not?

And we know in the future there will be some who will be raptured, they will be caught up, and they will not taste physical death. But we do see that death, it is a work of God, it is an appointed time by God. Third, I want us to see that death is universal to all men. Romans 3, starting at the end of verse 22 on through verse 23, "For there is no distinction for all of sin and fall short of the glory of God." Now notice that this death is for all, it is inescapable. But we do know, like I said earlier, this is a general rule. There are some who will not face death, those who are alive when Christ comes back. But what do we see?

This is a judgment of death, but this demands a question. What type of death is spoken of here? Because there are two types of death. Remember there is a physical death, then there is a spiritual death. We go to the hospital, we go to the funeral homes, and what do we see? People dealing with physical death, but yet the Bible we've been learning teaches about spiritual death. First, let's look at physical death. Ecclesiastes chapter 12 verse 7 says, "Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the Spirit will return to God who gave it." What is the writer of Ecclesiastes saying?

Mankind will die, and mankind's body will go back to the earth. Remember how God fashioned Adam? He just took some dirt. He took some of the earth and fashioned Adam. And what do we see? There is physical death. But then second, there is spiritual death. And we've been learning about this spiritual death all through this series, beginning with the fall of Adam and the fall of mankind. Colossians chapter 2 verse 13 says, "And when you were dead in your transgressions, in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive together with him." Now what is Paul saying to the Colossian church?

They were not dead physically, they were dead spiritually. But yet when they were born again, they were regenerated, they became alive in Christ, and he is differentiating between the two. He's saying, "But when you were dead in your sins," he's speaking of a spiritual death. So what do we see? There are two types of judgment in death, and lost humanity faces physical death and spiritual death. Those of us who are in Christ, we face physical death because we have been born again, born from above. For me, there's a particular date that's etched in my mind. It's March the 23rd of 2008.

Many of you have heard me speak fondly of a grandfather that I had that was influential in my life. He's a very simple individual, a country fella, grew up poor, grew up during the Depression. I used to listen to him talk about the Depression. He used to say, "Gee whiz, we were depressed before the Depression. We were so poor we didn't even know there was a Depression. We didn't have anything before, during, or after." But he died on March the 23rd, 2008. He was 99 and a half in five days. He lived by himself except for the last five days. But on that day, another individual died, and many of you might, his name might ring a bell.

His name was Al Copeland. He was the founder of Popeye's Chicken, very famous in the New Orleans area, and a very wealthy man. And he died of cancer at the age of 64, and he died in Germany seeking experimental treatment for his cancer. Now what am I showing you? A poor country fella in Wilkeson County, Mississippi dies on that day. A very rich man, a very man with a lot of opportunity dies around the world seeking cancer treatment for his cancer. But yet death came to both men, because what does Hebrew say? "There was a day set aside for those men to die." But we must see that there is a judgment of death physically and spiritually.

Many of you do not know that Adam originally was not created to die. It was because of his sin against God that ultimately he did die physically, and we know that he died spiritually. And this is a judgment of death. And all men face physical death, like I said, as a general rule. There will be some who were born again. They will not taste physical death on that glorious day. But all men, all women, all young people outside of Christ, they face physical and spiritual death. Let's move on in the message. Number two, I want us to see, there is a judgment which is final. Number two, a judgment which is final.

Now from the first born to the last that will be born, all outside of Christ will be judged. Of course we are speaking about the judgment of the wicked, of the lost, those who were unrepentant, those who were unregenerated, those outside of Christ. These are those who will die in, now listen, Adam and not in Christ. Now listen to me. All mankind either dies in Adam or dies in Christ. And there is a judgment which is final for those who die in Adam. First, I want you to see this is a judgment which is real. This is a judgment which is real.

Romans 2.5 says, "But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God." Second Peter 2.9, Peter says, "Then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment." Now notice that in both of these passages we see that this is a wrathful judgment. This is a righteous judgment and God is right in the middle of this judgment. Because what does it say? It says that in Romans that you yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of who? God.

Then we see in Peter, "Then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly and God the Lord knows how to keep the unrighteousness under punishment for that day." God is right in the middle of this real judgment. Second, I want you to see this is a judgment which is thorough. This is a judgment which is very thorough. Listen to Luke 12 verse 2 through 3, "But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed and hidden that will not be known.

Accordingly, whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light and what you have whispered in the inner rooms shall be proclaimed upon the housetops." Paul says in 1 Corinthians 4, 5, "Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes who will bring, who will both bring to light the hidden things in the darkness and disclose the motives of men's hearts and then each man's praise will come to him from God." Now notice some important truths from these verses. Jesus says that what is covered will be uncovered and what has been secret and spoken in secret will be spoken for all to hear.

Paul adds to this by saying that even man's motives will be revealed and judged by God. God will judge man's secret deeds, he will judge man's secret words, he will judge man's secret motives, as well as the deeds, words, and motives which all have known. This is a thorough judgment. And then third, I want you to see there is a day of judgment. There is a day of judgment. You have your Bibles turned to Revelation 20. This is a little more lengthy passage, verse 11 through 15, but we need to read it. Listen as I read it and read with me in your scripture.

"And I saw a great white throne and him who set upon it from whose presence the earth and the heaven fled away and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, the great and the small standing before the throne. And books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books according to their deeds. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them. And they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. And death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire.

This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. This is the day of judgment. Now notice this is what's called the great white throne judgment, never to be confused with the judgment seat of Christ that speaks of for the born-again Christian. This is the great white throne judgment for the lost, for the wicked, for the unrepentant. But I want us to notice some things about this day of judgment. First, there is a specific place of judgment.

Verse 11 says, "And I saw a great white throne in him who sat on it." This is the very throne of God, and Christ Jesus is sitting on that throne. That is the place of judgment. Notice also, this is a thorough judgment. Go back to verse 12 through 13, "And I saw the dead great and small standing before the throne, and the books were open, and another book was open, which is the book of life, and the deeds and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books according to their deeds." Now how thorough is this judgment? Notice that it says that the great and the small. What does that mean? The famous and the non-famous.

The big shots in the little guys. Also, their books open, and the books of the deeds were open. And notice also, even the oceans gave up the dead. That means those sailors who have been buried at sea, and the animals the fish at sea have scattered their bones from here to there and everywhere. They will be brought back together. What do we see? This is a thorough judgment. Also, this is a final judgment. Look at verse 14. It says, "Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire." This is the second death, the lake of fire. This is the final judgment. Also, this is an accurate judgment.

Look at verse 15, "And anyone's name that was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire." No one escapes. Those who are not written into the book of life, they are thrown into the lake of fire. It's an accurate judgment. Also, notice this is a final judgment. Verse 15, "And anyone's name that was not found written into the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire." What is this? This is that great day of judgment. And this is a real judgment. This is not some figment of one's imagination. No deed, no word, no motive, and no person will be missed. There will be no grading on the curve.

There will be no exemptions. No money, no fame, no heredity, no nationality, no class, no creed, no power can keep lost humanity from this day. You realize even bones scattered from the north to the south cannot keep a man from appearing at the throne on this day. You know, I thought about this weekend, especially last night, I thought about judgments in history. Do we not see ISIS executing judgment according to their interpretation of Islamic law? You know, history has shown us that there had been, now listen, mankind exercising judgment against mankind. What about what the Nazis did during the Second World War?

See their judgment of the Jews, their judgment of different peoples in culture, Christians and gypsies and homosexuality, homosexuals, lots of different people. It began around 1941 and it continued to the end of the war. And see, people differ on the number of individuals who were murdered. Most historians believe that some five to six million Jews were murdered and some six million other peoples were murdered. There were some 42,500 camps. There were camps and prison camps and there were death camps and labor camps and what do we see? There was a people called the Germans, the Nazis, who did what? Executed judgment against peoples.

As a matter of fact, I ran across the study where there was some group that has done some more research and uncovered more information and they say that these numbers are even off. It is much greater. Peoples executing judgment against peoples. But what do we see from the word? This is a final judgment. This is a real judgment, a thorough judgment and a day of judgment. And listen, nobody slips through the cracks. This is a final judgment. Let's move on. I want us to see number three. I want us to see there is a judgment of hell. There is the judgment of hell.

Now, if you're familiar with the New Testament, you will know that there are two terms used in the New Testament concerning the idea of hell. There is the word Hades and then there is the word Gehenna. Hades is a Greek word which is used ten times in the New Testament and Hades in the New Testament refers to a place where the wicked are placed until the final judgment which is hell or the lake of fire. Gehenna is used twelve times in the New Testament and it is used to describe a general place of the wicked as well. Now, this term Gehenna goes all the way back to the Old Testament.

In the Old Testament, this word was used to describe a place just south of Jerusalem. Back in the days of the kings, there were some kings who reverted to worshiping the foreign pagan gods. And there was a time during the kings of Ahaz and Manasseh when the people of Israel worshiped the Canaanite god Molech. And in worshiping the Canaanite god Molech, they would literally sacrifice their children through the fire. And they would do this at this particular place, now listen, just south of Jerusalem.

And see by Jesus' day, this was a desecrated place and it eventually became a garbage dump full of Jerusalem's garbage, dead animals, and the bodies of criminals who had been executed. And see, in the New Testament time, this word came to represent a place of final judgment for the wicked. Now, there's a question. What is the difference in the two? I already said something earlier that caught some of your, some of your attention. Now Hades is the temporary place for the lost until the final judgment while Gehenna is the the final place which is everlasting. I don't know if you heard it in Revelation 20.

Hades will be destroyed at the final judgment according to Revelation 2014 while Gehenna is a description of the unending place of judgment found in Mark 9 47 through 48. So in clarification, there is a temporary place of punishment, that's Hades, which will be destroyed at the final judgment and after the final judgment, the wicked will be cast into Gehenna or hell or the lake of fire. Let me do a little more explanation. When a man dies in his sin in the imaging form of Adam, he cannot be judged until the great white throne judgment. Why? The consequences and ramifications of his sin have not come to full fruition.

Let me give you an example. Joseph Smith, the individual who started Mormonism, he cannot be judged today because what he propagated has not come to full fruition. The fruit is not right yet because on that day every soul that has been led astray by his lies, he will give an account for every soul that's been led astray, all of the growth of the Mormon Church. So for God to judge him now, his work will not have come to full fruition. So what do we see? Mankind, when they're dead and they die without Christ, they go to Hades, a temporary place of punishment. And what do we see in Revelation?

Finally, when the dead, great and small, time is ceased to exist. When they stand before Christ on that great white throne, the books of their deeds are opened, every word they said, everything they did, public and private, the motives of their heart will be made known and they will be judged according to their deeds. And then what does it say? Verse 14, "And death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire, the final judgment." And what do we see? Hell is just a little hotter for certain people. Punishment is a little greater for certain individuals because of the deeds they did in the body. You see? And this is the judgment of hell.

Now I want us to look a little deeper in this. I want us to notice some things about this place called hell. First, I want us to notice this is a place of suffering. Hell is a place of suffering. Matthew 8 verse 12 says, "But the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." This is a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth according to Matthew 8, 12. Luke 12, verse 28, this story of the rich man and Lazarus. Lazarus says, "For I have five brothers." He says, "Please go to them that he may warn them.

At least they also come to this place of torment." We see it's a place of torment from Luke 16. Matthew 25, 41, "Then he will also say to those on his left, 'apart from me accursed ones into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels.'" We see in Matthew this is a place of eternal fire. Matthew 25, 46, "And these will go away into eternal punishment but the righteous into eternal life." We see that this is a place of eternal punishment. So what do we see? This is a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth, a place of torment, a place of an eternal fire, a place of an eternal punishment.

And notice that all these verses tell us that this is a place of terrible suffering. Second, I want you to see the eternality of hell. This is an eternal place, the eternality of hell. Matthew 25, 41, "Then he will also say to those on his left, 'apart from me accursed ones into what? The eternal fire.'" So this is a place of an eternal fire. Matthew 25, 46, "And these will go away into eternal punishment." This is a place of an eternal punishment. But there are more, and we don't have time to read them, that tell us the eternality of hell.

Matthew 18a, Mark 9, 47 through 48, 2 Thessalonians 1, 9, Jude 7, Revelation 14, 11, Revelation 20, verse 10, "What? Speak of the eternality of hell." So we say that it is a place of suffering, then we see that it is an eternal place, and then the third thing I want us to see, a description of hell. I want us to notice a description of hell. Matthew 7, 19 says that every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. We also see this in Matthew 3, 10, 3, 12, Matthew 18, 18, 25, 41, "What? That this is a place of an eternal fire." These are descriptions of hell.

Also Matthew 13, 42, "And we'll cast them into the furnace of fire, and in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." This is another description. It is a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth. Mark 9, 48, "Where the worm does not die and the fire is not quenched." What do we see? It is a place where the worm never dies and the fire is never quenched. That is a description of hell. Matthew 8, 12, "But the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness." What do we see? It is a place of outer darkness. Revelation 20, 14, "And death and Hades were thrown into what? The lake of fire." So we see it is a lake of fire.

Again, Revelation 20, verse 14, says that this is the second death, the lake of fire. So it is a second death. What do we see? These are all descriptions of this specific place. A place of eternal fire, a place of weeping and gnashing, a place where the worm never dies. In outer darkness, a lake of fire, a second death. But I want to ask you a question. Who is this place for? According to Matthew 25, verse 41, which we've read more than once, it was for the devil and his angels. But according to Revelation 20, verse 11 through 14, it is for all who are outside of Christ.

So this place, this specific place called hell, it is meant for the devil and his angels, those who wage war against God, who have fallen and they are demons today and it is far lost humanity. See, this is a truth that nobody, nobody wants to see. This is a truth that nobody wants to hear. I remember there was some tragic circumstances in the life of a church I was serving one time and I remember the series of events that brought me to say this and I said this to Brother Keith years ago and it is so true, rather facetious but true.

But in our day, in our culture, nobody ever goes to hell at a funeral and nobody ever goes to hell in a gospel song. But according to the scriptures, there are a whole host of people, men and women and young people alike, who do go to this awful, terrible place. And I said earlier in our culture, we dress up death and we ignore death, we fight death, we go to the hospital and spend tons of money to keep death from coming to get us and we dress it up when we go to the funeral home but in our culture, we just ignore hell. We act like it doesn't exist. When in all actuality, Jesus spoke far more about hell than he did heaven.

And to be honest with you, I left off a lot of verses that I could have used in this message. Why? Because of time. And this is an awful truth that we ignore. Now, as we begin to conclude this message, what do we see? This is the final destination of man. He outside of Christ will end up that day in Revelation 20 standing before this great and terrible and awesome day before the Lord. This is final destination. Isn't it amazing how man makes full circle created by God, rebels against God, and stands before God? It's final destination. Now, I want to move away from the message to a lot of application and I want you to listen close.

Some of you, you might not know it. You might be asking this question in several different forms but it could be, "What do I do?" If you were here this morning and you suspect that you are outside of Christ, if you are very worried that you are lost and in your sin, I want to give you some specific instructions from the Word and you need to take note of these. First of all, you better fear God. Matthew 10 28 says, "And do not fear those who kill the body, but are unable to kill the soul, but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body." If you are outside of Christ, you better fear God because Edwards was right.

You are walking over a rotten covering stretched over a hill. The second bit of instruction is that you better work hard to find the narrow gate. Luke 13 24 says, "Strive to enter the narrow door. For many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able." This speaks of your responsibility. You have a responsibility to work hard to get in that narrow gate which is Christ. Fear God and strive for the narrow gate. The third thing is that you better examine your life. Paul writes to the Corinthian church that had so many problems, so many so-called Christians sitting in the church pews.

And what does he say at the end of the two-part series, 1 and 2 Corinthians? Chapter 13 verse 5, what does he say? "Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith. Examine yourself. Or do you not recognize this about yourselves that Christ is in you unless indeed you fail the test." What is he saying in that? He says you are so full of problems you better test yourselves. Examine yourselves. Or do you not know that Christ is supposed to be in you? And how do we examine ourselves? It's hard work. It's prayer. It's being in the Word and having very very careful counsel.

I've seen a many a person they get under this type of conviction and they go to their grandma and their grandma puts her hand around their back says, "Sonny, you're a good little boy." This takes work. This takes prayer. How do we examine ourselves? We examine ourselves in light of the Word, not what you were taught growing up in the church you grew up in. And what do we see? This is a mandate to examine. Fourth, I want you to see that you better seek God while he may be found. The Wednesday night we talked about this window of grace. Isaiah 55, 6 says, "Seek the Lord while he may be found.

Call upon him while he is near." And if you're here this morning and you are not in Christ, the Lord God is near. And then fifth, you better wait on his voice. Romans 8, 16 says, "The Spirit," capital S, himself, capital H, this is deity, "bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God." That is a judicial term, bears witness. And what do we see that when God tells us who we are? You can bank on it. It is right and it is true. And so what do we see in this instruction? If you are here and you do not think you're in Christ, this is what I encourage you. I implore you to do. Fear God.

I mean let that fear rattle you to the very core of your being. Take the responsibility that you have to work hard to enter by the narrow door. And then examine yourself through prayer and through fasting and through the Word of God. And then seek God while he may be found and then wait on the very voice of God that can only call you to repentance. But what about you and I who have friends and loved ones who are outside of Christ? We better pray hard and we better witness and we better share and we better fast and we better pray because listen, our lost loved ones are walking over a rotten covering over the pit of hell.

And it is only the good grace of God that keeps them from falling through in a moment. Do you see? That should motivate us to go out and be used to reach people because they have a final destination. Now as I close, I want to echo a simple prayer that I read years ago. I remember where I was when I was at First Baptist Church in Ellisville, Mississippi and I began to have a curiosity about studying men and women that God had used in history.

That started a journey for me and I have had a habit of studying church history, reading about preachers, reading about movements of God, reading about missionaries, reading about what God has done in the past. And I've never gotten over that desire to study and read about what God has done. But one of the first individuals that I read about was an American named D.L. Moody. D.L. Moody grew up illiterate and uneducated. By his day's standards, he was very illiterate and uneducated. But what do we see? We see a man who was born again, a man who was thrust into being used of God.

There are certain things theologically that I might disagree with him about but there is no doubt that he was used mightily of God. I read even this week that the great CT Stud, a great missionary to China and Africa, was reached because of the D.L. Moody Crusades in his own country of England. But how did D.L. Moody approach this subject? He knew sinners were lost and this was his prayer. "Lord, I don't know who you're going to save. I don't know who the elect are." But this was his prayer. Real simplistically, he said, "Lord, save the elect and elect more to be saved." Now what was he saying?

There are only a certain amount of individuals who will ever be saved but we don't know who they are. Our responsibility is to go tell, to go witness, to go share, to go preach, to go love, to go sacrifice, to go give because we do not know who they are. You see? You understand? This is the final destination of mankind. We should all take this terribly serious because if we really get honest, now listen close, not with ourselves. If we get honest with the Word of God, we have lost loved ones who are in this awful place.

We have lost loved ones who are in Hades right now and if we get real honest with what the Word says, we have loved ones who are alive today and they're headed that direction. And I still believe from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet that Jesus still wants to save. Let's pray together.