HERE COMES THE JUDGE - Revelation 20:1-15

if you're here today and you've never heard why Jesus died for us and how it is so relevant to us, you've heard an attempt to communicate that. And you're not here by accident. He knew you were gonna hear this today. He knew you were gonna be here today, so you've been set up. But something he doesn't know, yes, there are some things God doesn't know. He doesn't know of a better time for you to be saved from the second death than today. And he doesn't know of any other way to save you from the second death than through the way he provided through the death of his son that he set up. Today is a day of salvation. [00:51:35] (53 seconds)  #DayOfSalvation

So we have hope of our resurrection because of his. He's the last Adam. We're we're our death is because of the first Adam. But because of the last Adam, we have hope of our resurrection. Why? Because our names are in the book. Why are names in the book? Because the blood of Jesus paid it all. Paid it all. Our natural blood that courses through our veins is the greatest logistic system known to man. It transports water and nutrients to every cell of our body, millions of places. And transports waste from every cell of our body including dead cells to be expelled from our body. That's what the blood does for us. [00:42:29] (48 seconds)  #BloodPaidItAll

There's no other way, and he knows of no better candidate to receive the benefits of that than you. Oh, I'm wicked. Well, he loves that. Not that you're wicked, but he loves that opportunity to show his hand like the blackest of velvet showing off the brilliance of a diamond so the brilliance of his redemption to be shown against the horror of our past. And it begins by calling on his name. We access this salvation by calling on his name. So what I'm gonna do here is lead us all into prayer, and it's gonna be a sample of what you need to do if you wanna get in on this and have your name written in the book of life. [00:52:28] (44 seconds)  #CallOnHisName

And because his death was something he didn't deserve, that death could be applied to the case before God for anyone. So that no one in all of creation, physical, spiritual, and otherwise, can accuse God of being unjust. He doesn't play favorites. He can choose what he chooses but it's he's not fair. He's just. So that in redeeming wicked humans, no one in creation can say you're not just because he did it through the greatest act of injustice known to man. You know, slap me around, that's very offensive. Harm my child, that that doubles or multiplies the offense. Right? [00:39:47] (52 seconds)  #JusticeThroughSacrifice

So the planet should have melted when they did that to God's son. But God used it. Here's the here's the key. If one man Adam messed us up, one man, the last Adam can fix us up. Right? So through his resurrection, we have hope of our resurrection. There's the empty tomb, no one can explain. There's the followers who were fearful hiding and denying that they knew him suddenly became radical evangelists proclaiming the good news of his resurrection. None of them under the threat of death, actual death and real torture and suffering and all sorts of persecution recanted their story. [00:40:40] (49 seconds)  #EmptyTombWitness

Maybe you became a believer and were sold a bill of goods and now you feel like a bait and switch trip was done on you. No. God loves you. He cares for you. He chose to send his son to die for you. But now he wants to enable you to live a life free of sin so that he gets all the glory. We cannot do it in our own strength. He gets all the glory so that we are part of that redeemed community he's preparing for heaven. What are these trials and tribulations we're going through? They're to transform us and make us more like his son so that heaven is a fit place to live. [00:32:18] (34 seconds)  #TransformedForHeaven

So there are arguments going on over the book of life and eternal security. That if you mess up, your name is going to be blotted out of the book. We do have warnings of that. Right? But we also have people whose names were never there from the foundation of the world. So you have that issue to deal with. So we don't want our names redacted. Right? So taking this seriously, it's easy for people to defend eternal security by saying, well, their names never in the book to begin with. [00:24:38] (32 seconds)  #BookOfLifeDebate

So he's thrown into the bottom of his pit, no trial for a thousand years. Is that a literal thousand years? We already talked about it. A lot of years. A long can we say a long time? A long time. Without a trial, without bail and then he's going to be released and he can prove himself and he's going to return right back to the same wickedness. Proving himself worthy of being tormented for all eternity with the beast and the other creatures that are already there. He will be bound and imprisoned for a long time. [00:11:47] (38 seconds)  #BoundAndJudged