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• 2 Thessalonians 17-9

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2 Thessalonians 17-9

• 7 and to give you who are troubled rest with us
  when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with
  His mighty angels,
• 8 in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who
  do not know God, and on those who do not obey the
  gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 9 These shall be punished with everlasting
  destruction from the presence of the Lord and
  from the glory of His power. NKJV

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2 Thessalonians 17-9

• Contemporary English Version 8 Our Lord
  Jesus will punish anyone who doesn't know God and
  won't obey his message.
• Their punishment will be eternal destruction, and
  they will be kept far from the presence of our
  Lord and his glorious strength.
• The Message 8 Those who refuse to know God
  and refuse to obey the Message will pay for what
  they've done.
• 9 Eternal exile from the presence of the Master
  and his splendid power is their sentence.

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• What is 750,00 miles long, reaches around the
  earth 30 times, and grows 20 miles longer each
  day? Give up?
• The line of people who are without Christ.
• When William Booth signed the guest book for King
  Edward the 7th he summed up his life work. Your
  Majesty he wrote Some mens ambition is art.
  Some mens ambition is fame. Some mens ambition
  is gold. My ambition is the souls of men.

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• Your pulpit may be at work your pulpit may be on
  the river or at home but each of us has a
  pulpita place where we can tell people about
  Jesus.
• There are people in the world, right around us
  that are lost and on their way to hell and for
  some reason that doesnt stir us anymore.
• WE HAVE LOST OUR PASSION FOR SOULS!
• We have forgotten that people without Jesus are
  lost.

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• God needs to restore in us a vision of the
  lostness of humanity and stir us up and let us
  know that it is not just our brother or sister
  who is responsible to be a witness or evangelist,
  it is also our responsibility.

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• If people are lost outside of Christ, and if
  faith in Jesus Christ is the only avenue of
  redemption, what could possibly be a higher
  priority than spreading the gospel as far as we
  can and as fast as we can, to everybody we can?

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• The first priority of any church should be making
  it hard for anyone to go to hell.
• You and I must believe that all humanity, every
  man, woman, boy and girl is lost without Jesus.
  If we dont believe that then we want be very
  passionate about seeing people saved. There is
  no urgency for us if we dont believe that people
  will go to hell without Jesus.

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• The Westminster Confession says, But the wicked,
  who know not God, and obey not the gospel of
  Jesus Christ, shall be cast into eternal
  torments, and be punished with everlasting
  destruction from the presence of the Lord and the
  glory of His Power.

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• Paul cried out, Necessity is laid upon me yes,
  woe is me if I do not preach the gospel! 1
  Corinthians 916.
• John Knox pleaded on his knees, Give me Scotland
  or I die.
• Hudson Taylor, as a young man in England, cried
  to God, I feel that I cannot go on living unless
  I do something for China.

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• Robert Arthington could not go overseas, but
  through sacrifice, helped send others. He lived
  in a single room, cooked his own meals, and gave
  over 500,000 to missions. At the end of his
  life he wrote, Gladly would I again make the
  floor my bed, a box my chair, another box my
  table, rather than that men should perish for
  want of the knowledge of the Savior.

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• William Booth Most Christian ministers would
  like to send their recruits to Bible College for
  five years. I would like to send our recruits to
  hell for five minutes. That would do more than
  anything else to prepare them for a lifetime of
  compassionate ministry.

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Woman Crying
Fire
Screams
Women Crying
Clock Ticking
Man Crying
Man Screaming