Broken Beyond Repair

Pastor, teacher, and author Adrian Rogers has introduced people all over the world to the love of Jesus Christ and has impacted untold numbers of lives by presenting profound truth simply stated. Thanks for joining us for this message. Here's Adrian Rogers. Take your Bibles and turn to the book of Proverbs. Chapter 29 And verse 1.

If we ever had a solemn text, The text tonight is a solemn and a serious text. He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck. shall suddenly be destroyed. And that without remedy. I've read this through in a number of different translations.

One translation gives it this way. That he will be suddenly destroyed. and broken beyond repair. That's the title of my message tonight, Broken. beyond repair.

In front of every unsaved man, woman, boy, and girl, There is a deadline. If you cross that deadline, You will be broken. Beyond Repair. There's a time I know not when.

Now there is a place. I know not where, which marks the destiny of men. to heaven or despair, There is a line by us not seen. that crosses every path. Tis the hidden boundary.

Between God's mercy And God's wrath.

Now our verse tells about that line, he that being often reproved and hardeneth his neck. Shall suddenly be destroyed. He will be broken. Beyond Repair. He enters into a situation that I would call hopeless.

And the Bible tells us that it is hopeless. To me, hopelessness is the saddest word. in the English language. I want you to notice four definite thoughts that come out of this text tonight. And the very first thing is: I want you to notice God's merciful conviction, the spiritual conviction that God often gives.

He that being Often reprove. Just underscore the phrase often. You see God in loving patience. deals with a sinner. Over and over and over and over and over and over again.

We are often reproved. What patience God has. What love God has. What mercy God shows.

Now if God had spoken only one time, It would have been more. than justice demands. But God does strive with us. God's Holy Spirit does knock on our hearts. God does reprove our sins.

God does call over and over and over again. How does God reprove us? How does God convict us? How does God speak to us? May I mention several ways?

God speaks through the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, When He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will reprove the world of sin, of righteousness, and judgment. I don't know about you, but before I came to Jesus, Before I was saved, I know that I know there are times. That God's Holy Spirit just came into my heart and said, Adrian, you're wrong. You're a sinner.

You need to get saved. And I can remember, even as a child, the hand of God in conviction being on my heart as the Holy Spirit of God in his own way in the inner precincts of my soul spoke to me. But not only does God speak through his Spirit. God speaks through sickness. Have you ever been sick?

Been on a bed of affliction. And God spoke to you, and you realize that this mortal frame is not going to last forever. You realize that your body is winding down to the grave. I found out that many times in a hospital, so many times you have a marvelous opportunity to bring people to Jesus Christ because at that time that sickness is the messenger of God to bring people under conviction. Not only does God reprove through His Spirit, and not only does He reprove through sickness, but through sorrows, heartaches.

When you went to the funeral of your mother, God spoke to your heart. When that little baby in your family died, God spoke to your heart. When there was an anguish, a sorrow, a heartbreak, and you said, I need somebody to give me comfort. I need somebody to give me strength. I need something to make sense out of this.

And your heart was broken. God was speaking to you, and God speaks to sorrow. And through sorrow, I mean to bring us sometimes to our senses. Another way that God speaks, He often speaks through His servants. Oh, He speaks through His servants, the prophets, through preachers.

God speaks to you through me. I have no illusions about being anything in my own right or having any strength of my own, but I'd be a fool if I thought that I preached without the anointing and the power of God. Of course, God speaks through me. I don't have to brag to say that. I'd have no business standing in the pulpit if I didn't think that God speaks through me.

And I can say with Isaiah, the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, for the Lord hath anointed me to preach. And I try not to preach a sermon until I have soaked it in prayer. And so many times, as a matter of fact, to my knowledge, every time, if not practically every time, I bow my head and say, Oh my God, please, in the name of Jesus, anoint me and give me a message for the people. But not only does God speak through his servants, the preachers, God speaks through his servants, the singers. God will put the finger of conviction upon your heart, upon your life.

Sometimes it's through the separated life of a brother or sister, somebody that you'll see that you'll work with. There's that smile, that victory, that overcoming. And you see the way that person lives and God speaks to you through that life. And that life compared to your life, you know there's something about them that you don't have. Then God speaks not only through his servants.

God speaks not only through sorrows, and God speaks not only through sickness, and God speaks not only through the Spirit, but God speaks through the Scriptures, through the Bible. Maybe you've heard a word from the Scripture, maybe a gospel tract, maybe you've been reading the Bible yourself. Years ago, I read about a man who was a deep sea diver. He'd been fighting the Lord, and he went down to the bottom of the ocean, and there he found an old encrusted bottle with a cork in it. He brought it to the surface, took the cork out, and somebody had put a verse of Scripture.

In a bottle and put a cork on it. It said, For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. That deep-sea diver said, If God loved me enough to follow me to the bottom of the ocean, I'm going to give my heart to Him. But God does speak through His scriptures.

Now, I don't know how God has spoken to you, but there's not a mother's child in this building that God has not spoken to. And God speaks. We're often reproved. But I want you to see not only spiritual conviction, but I want you to see stubborn rebellion. Notice what happens: He that being often reproved.

Hardeneth his neck. That means a person who stiffens his neck. He refuses to get right after God has spoken. And I've seen people harden their neck. I've seen people stiffen their necks.

I've seen people stubbornly rebel against God. Let me mention some ways that people rebel against God.

Sometimes people harden their neck by procrastination. Which is a form of disobedience. They say, Well, I'll get saved, but not now. You're in Proverbs 29, 1. Turn to Proverbs 27:1.

God's word says, Boast not thyself of tomorrow. For thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. If you are saying, Well, God is speaking to me, God has spoken to me through the songs. God has spoken to me through the scriptures. God has spoken to me through the sermon.

God has spoken to me through his servants. God has spoken, and one of these days I'm going to get right. May I tell you, all you're doing, my dear friend, is hardening your neck. Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Dr.

Robert G. Lee, former pastor of this church, said that tomorrow. Is a period of time found nowhere except perhaps in the fool's calendar. What he means by that is that tomorrow never comes, another former pastor of our church. Dr.

Ramsey Pollard. My dear personal friend, Dr. Pollard. used to preach a sermon called One More Night with the Frogs. And in that message, Dr.

Pollard told about Pharaoh. And Pharaoh had rebelled against God, and God had spoken to Pharaoh, who was keeping the children of Israel bondage there in the land of Egypt. And God sent a plague upon Pharaoh. And the plague was the plague of the frogs. Frogs covered the land of Egypt.

I mean, there were frogs. Everywhere. You get in bed, there'd be frogs between the sheets. A woman would open the oven, there would be frogs in the oven. A man put his hands in his pocket, there would be frogs in his pockets.

Little boys going to school would squish frogs between their toes. There would be piles of dead frogs, smelly, rotten, awful frogs, croaking frogs. The den must have been terrible. Frogs everywhere. Finally, Pharaoh had had it up to here with the frogs.

And listen to what the Bible says in Exodus chapter 8, verses 9 and 10. And Moses said to Pharaoh, Accept the honor of saying, when shall I intercede for you, for your servants, and for your people? To destroy the frogs from you and your houses, that they may remain in the river only. In plain English. Pharaoh, do you want me to pray and ask God to take away the frogs?

And when do you want me to do it? And then in verse 10, Pharaoh said, tomorrow. tomorrow.

Now, here are the frogs everywhere. And here Pharaoh has a chance to have the frogs taken away. Pharaoh, when do you want the frogs taken away? he said, to morrow. And that's where the title of the sermon comes from: One More Night with the Frogs.

I mean, why didn't he just simply say, take away the frogs today? It's amazing. Frogs in his food, frogs in his bed, frogs in his clothes, and yet he says, one more night with the frogs. What is there about a sinner that makes him want to hold on to his sin? What is there about it?

The sinner is plagued because of his sin. He has troubles. He has doubts. He has burdens. He has suffering.

He has sickness. He has sorrows. He has fears. He has disappointments. He has heartaches.

And yet, when you ask him if you want to be saved, he says no. Not tonight. Tomorrow. Give me one more night with the frogs. He hardens his neck.

By the way, let me give you three reasons why you ought not to postpone giving your heart to Jesus Christ. Number one, dear friend. If you wait, Till tomorrow. You'll lose tonight. We often hear people say, get right with God, you may die.

Well, that is true. But get right with God, you may live. You see, dear friend, every day that you live without the Lord Jesus Christ is a lost day. Even if you knew that you could live for 50 more years and then get saved, do you realize that would be 50 wasted years, 50 years going down the tube? Or you know what?

Deathbed repentance, Billy Sunday said that deathbed repentance is burning the candle of life for the devil and then blowing the smoke in God's face. And so, get right with God. You may live. And if you don't get right with God today, you'll lose today. I'll tell you another reason that you ought to get saved today is that something worse may come tomorrow.

You see, after the plague of the frogs came the plague of the lice. And after the plague of the lice came the plague of the flies, and after the plague of the flies came the plague of the locust, and after the plague of the locust came the plague of the boils, and after that came fire and then darkness and then death. And it got worse and worse and worse. Those of you who are under conviction, why do you put off giving your heart to Jesus Christ? Why?

Tomorrow Something worse will come. Tomorrow it will not be better. Tomorrow you will only have more sin to repent of and less time to repent in. Our third reason you ought to be saved is this, that tomorrow may not come. Tomorrow may not come.

Our text speaks of sudden destruction. He shall suddenly be destroyed. and that without remedy. Joyce and I were in our house, and a thunderbolt.

sounded right near us. It was so loud and so near that everybody in the house just jumped. I didn't think anything about it until I went out in our front yard. And if you pass our house, you'll see the elm tree in our front yard has the bark stripped from way up in the tree all the way down to the ground where that bolt of lightning. Hit that elm tree.

And just peeled the bark off and blew the bark way across the yard, a mighty bolt of lightning. It's something awesome to see.

Now the elm tree already had that blight in it. And I thought maybe the tree's gonna die anyway, so it's not all that bad. About the same thing. Yeah. And I want to tell you, the bark is worse than the blight.

Dear friend, That bolt of lightning. Hit that tree. I got to thinking: suppose, suppose we're standing in the front yard, and that bolt of lightning had hit me. It's very possible. Very possible, right in my own front yard.

Did you know that 400 to 500 people a year in the United States die? being hit by lightning. We talk about like a boat out of the blue. Many times, a person is hurled into eternity by a bolt of lightning. You never know.

You never know, tomorrow may not come. I remember Dorothy so well. She was a member of our church in Merritt Island. And as I was standing at the front door, shaking hands with people going out, Dorothy, one of the sweetest members in our church. She came by, she was a mature lady, patted my hand, smiled at me.

She always had a twinkle in her eye. She said, I'll see you tonight, Pastor. I said, all right, Dorothy.

So long. That was Sunday morning. That day, going home from church, she went over the overpass. Over the Banana River Bridge going over Cocoa Beach. And coming over that overpass was another automobile on the wrong side of the road.

Dorothy never even really knew, I suppose, what hit her car. Just like that, she was gone. She left church on Sunday morning. Full well expecting to be back Sunday night. I'll see you tonight.

Pastor. My dear friend, On your way home from church, you may meet something like that. You say, Pastor, are you trying to frighten me? You got it. That's right.

Dear friend, I would to God I could. I'd rather frighten you into heaven than lull you into hell. Listen, the Bible says, he that being often reproved and hardeneth his neck shall what? Suddenly be destroyed.

Now, she wasn't destroyed because she'd hardened her neck. I just bring that up as an illustration of how frail that life is. Tomorrow may never come.

Some harden their neck by procrastination. I'll tell you another way that people harden their neck, not only by procrastination, but by pride. Did you know the reason that many people will not come down an aisle and make a public decision for the Lord Jesus Christ? They're afraid about what other people will think. If they come down and confess the Lord Jesus as their personal Savior, they're going to say, well, these folks around here will think that I'm an old sinner if I go down there.

That's right, Bud. That's what you are, an old sinner. But so is everybody else, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. An unsaved man sits in an auditorium like this, and a preacher preaches a message like I preach, and he looks around and he says, I'm just as good as the rest of these folks. What he needs to do is to be honest enough to say, I'm just as bad as the rest of these folks, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

And a church is nothing but a society of sinners who finally realized it and banded themselves together to do something about it. It's the only organization I know of, you have to profess to be bad before you can join, unless it's the hell's angels. Dear friend, listen, you come saying, I am a sinner. I am lost.

Some of you are unsaved church members. If you were to die tonight, you'd go straight to hell. But you've been in this church so long, you've taught a Sunday school class, you've been a deacon, you've done this or that. And when the invitation is given, the devil says, Don't you go down there and make a fool of yourself, make a spectacle of yourself.

So you stiffen your knees and you harden your heart and you lift up your head and you walk right on out to your doom because. Pride has kept you from coming to Jesus Christ. Tell you another way that people harden their heart, not only through procrastination and pride, but through pleasures. Pleasures. The Bible speaks of these people, 2 Timothy 3, verse 4.

They are lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. There's certain things they say, well, if I give my heart to Jesus, then I'm going to have to give this up or give that up, so I'm not going to give it up. That's so stupid. That's so foolish. Because the only thing God asks you to give up are things that'll hurt you.

If it'll make you good, healthy, holy, wholesome, God says help yourself. And, my dear friend, what you give up is nothing compared to what he gave up for you. And thirdly, what you give up is nothing compared to what you get. Who wouldn't give up dirt for diamonds? My dear friend, listen, I'm not inviting you to a funeral, I'm inviting you to a feast, I'm not inviting you to death, I'm inviting you to life.

I was on the street one day, and an old derelict came up to me and he said, Mister, I'm so hungry I haven't eaten at all. He said, Would you give me some money? Would you give me some money? I need some money to eat with. I looked at him and smelled his breath, and I thought he wanted to get a little liquid nourishment.

So I said, No, I won't give you any money. But he said, I'm so hungry. I said, fine. I said, come on in, let's have a meal together. We were by a restaurant.

I said, come on, let's just sit down and eat. And I'll buy you something to eat, and I'll sit here and talk with you while you eat. And so he kind of reluctantly came in. He was dirty and filthy and disheveled and obviously penniless in rags. And so I sat down there with him and bought him a meal.

And we sat down there and talked for a while. And in the course of the meal, I, of course, pushed the claims of the Lord Jesus on him and told him about Christ, told him how Jesus loved him and how Jesus wanted to save him. And I asked him, I said, Now, sir, would you like to give your heart to Jesus Christ? Would you like to be saved? You know what he said to me?

He said, No. I said, no, why not? You know what he said? Oh, he said, there's so much to give up. That's what he said.

I mean, he said there's just so much to give up. Can you imagine that? Isn't the devil a deceiver? My dear friend, the Lord thy God is a son and a shield. No good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly.

But you see, people harden their heart by these silly excuses, and indeed they are silly excuses.

Now, I've talked to you about spiritual conviction. I have talked to you about stubborn rebellion. Let me talk to you about sudden destruction. Notice what our text says: He that being often reproved, that spiritual conviction hardeneth his neck, that is his stubborn rebellion, shall suddenly be destroyed. That is sudden destruction.

You see, there's an end to God's patience. God does speak. God does speak. But finally, God's patience wears out. Let me show you how a man may be destroyed.

There are three ways that he may be destroyed. He may be, his mind may suddenly be destroyed by strong delusion. There may be the destruction of his mind through strong delusion. That's the reason that many people are in false cults today, Jehovah's Witnesses and other cults like this today, because when they heard the truth, They refuse the truth, and now they believe a lie. 2 Thessalonians, the 2 chapter, verses 11 and 12, says this: For this reason, God will send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie, that they all might be damned who received not the love of the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Now, what does that verse tell us? It means that when a person hears the truth, And he doesn't act upon the truth. God's judgment is that this man will be deceived. And there are many people who, I said this morning that no man can believe until God opens his eyes. But this judgment is worse than that.

Not only does God not open his eyes, but God sends him delusion and judgment that he might be damned. And so many times the mind, the mind is destroyed through strong delusion, and a person gets a lie firmly entrenched in his mind. But not only may the mind be destroyed, often there's the destruction of the spirit through spiritual desertion. What I mean by that is that the Holy Spirit of God Can be insulted. and sinned against until the Holy Spirit no longer speaks.

to an unsaved man. The Holy Spirit just withdraws himself. The Holy Spirit just deserts the sinner and leaves him alone. You say, Would the Holy Spirit just desert a person? Yes, he would.

Let me give you some scriptures. Genesis chapter 6 and verse 3. And the Lord said, My spirit shall not strive with man forever. Our shall not always strive with a man. Romans 1 verse 24, therefore God also gave them up.

Romans chapter 1, verse 26: For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. Romans 1 verse 28, and even as they did not like to retain God in the knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind. God gave them up, God gave them up, and God gave them over to a reprobate mind. There's a verse of scripture in the Old Testament that says that Ephraim is joined to his idols. Let him alone.

Let him alone. There may be the destruction of the mind through strong delusion. There may be the destruction of the spirit through spiritual desertion. The Holy Spirit of God just deserts a person. That person is no longer able to come to Christ because he's no longer convicted.

Let me show you a terrifying passage over here in Hebrews chapter 6. Keep one finger where you are and turn with me to Hebrews chapter 6.

Now, theologians have raced their theological motors about Hebrews chapter 6 and what it says. I'll tell you what I believe it deals with. I believe it deals with the unpardonable sin. Hebrews chapter 6, verse 4, he speaks of an impossibility. Look at it in verse 4.

For it is impossible. For those who were once enlightened. and have tasted of the heavenly gift. And we were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come. If they shall fall away, To renew them again unto repentance, seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

Now this verse says, there are certain people that it is impossible to renew to repentance. Who are these people? These are people who have been often reproved. Notice, it is impossible for those who were once enlightened. The Holy Spirit enlightens you and have tasted of the heavenly gift.

The Holy Spirit gives you samples of heaven, were made partakers of the Holy Ghost. The word partaker means have gone along with the Holy Ghost, have been dealt with by the Holy Ghost, and tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come. That is, God has worked on them. If they shall fall away, that is, if they harden their neck, there comes a time when it is impossible to renew them to repentance. The illustration I can think of: if you go into the back of the supermarket sometime, I went into the supermarket and there was a lady there, and she had little tidbits of sausage on toothpicks.

And to give you, to kind of whet your appetite, just a taste, just a morsel. And um The idea is that they do that to show you what's in the showcase to get you to carry it out and buy it.

Now, suppose you go back there by the meat market and they're giving away little samples of cheese, and we'll say that you're a cheese hound and you really love cheese, and there's an exotic and an imported cheese, and you taste that, and you roll it around, and on your tongue, you say, That's just what I want. Give me three pounds of that cheese. And so they wrap it up, and you take it out there to the checkout counter, and the girl drags it over that thing, and the little thing says, Beep, beep. And you look up there. And you see that it says $26.

You say, what? It's $26. What's $26 for?

Well, didn't you buy that cheese? That's imported cheese. That's $26 for three pounds of cheese. That's right. You've got to be kidding.

I'll put it back.

So you just leave it there and go out.

Now that's exactly, in a way, that's what this verse is talking about. Here is a person who knows what he's dealing with. He has tasted the good word of God. He has been made a partaker of the Holy Ghost. He knows what is happening.

But when it comes to paying the price, He says, put it back. I don't want it. It is not that he doesn't know. He does know. He has been enlightened.

God has dealt with him. He has been often reproved, but he says, no. The Bible says you'd be suddenly destroyed. There may be the destruction of his mind through strong delusion. There may be the destruction of the spirit through spiritual desertion.

Or there may be the destruction of the body through sudden death. Through sudden death. Many times the body dies suddenly because a person says no to the Lord. It may be a physical destruction. I read that in God's dealing with the Amorites in the Old Testament.

The Amorites were a wicked people, but God spoke to them and spoke to them and spoke to them. They did not repent. In Genesis chapter 15 and verse 16, God said, that the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. That is, there's a time. when inequity is full.

That is, there's a time when people cannot go any further. I'm afraid that America is coming close to that place. And God said of the Amorites: the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. But if you continue through the Bible, till you come to Deuteronomy chapter 7 and verse 17, then God says something else about the Amorites. This time God says, thou shalt utterly Destroy them.

You see? At first, the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. God's patience dealt with them, and God spoke, and God warned, and God spoke, and God warned. But there came a time when their iniquity was full, and God said, utterly destroy them. I'm wondering if the cup of God's indignation is filled to the brim with you today.

You say, well, I'm not a very wicked person. Friend, let me tell you something. The worst sin is not rape. It is not incest. Do you know what the worst sin is?

Do you know what the most vile sin in this world is? It is un Belief.

Now you may not believe that. But Jesus Christ said to Capernaum, one of the most cultured and beautiful cities in his time. I visited the ruins of Capernaum many times there on the north shores of Galilee. Jesus said for that city, it would be easier for Sodom and Gomorrah in the judgment. than for the city of Capernaum.

And he explained why. He said, Because so many wonderful works were done here, and yet you did not repent. You see, he said, if these other cities had heard what you've heard, they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes. And I'm telling you, my dear friend, that you may be sitting here saying, Well, God's cup may not be full to the brim with me, because at least I'm not living a vile, wicked life. Are you hardening your heart against getting saved?

Are you taking the knowledge, the truth that you've heard? I'm telling you, there's souls in darkness who would leap for joy to hear what some people have heard in this building tonight. They tell us when Ralph Bethay was here, he told about being down in Kenya and handing out tracts, and people almost tear them out of his hands, wanting the truth all over the world. But we sit in an air-conditioned, upholstered church and have a preacher tear his heart out and beg us to come to Jesus. We think, well, maybe one of these days we might just do God a favor.

And give our hearts to Him. I'm telling you, my dear friend, the cup of iniquity is getting fuller and fuller and fuller. You see, he that being often reproved and hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. The mind may be destroyed by strong delusion, the spirit may be destroyed by spiritual desertion, and the body may be destroyed by sudden death. There's one other thing in our solemn text that I want you to see, and it's what I want to call not only sudden destruction, but a settled destiny.

Look again: he that being often reproved, that's spiritual conviction. Hardeneth his neck, that stubborn rebellion, shall suddenly be destroyed, that sudden destruction.

Now watch this, and that without remedy. That, my friend, is a settled condition. You know what the Bible makes clear? The Bible makes it abundantly clear that once you have crossed the deadline, Once you have come to this point, And judgment begins, there is no turning back. I said that I read this text in a number of different translations.

Let me give you the way different translations give this. Ours that we just read is without remedy. Another says, never have another chance. Another says, beyond healing, Another says, broken beyond repair. Another says he shall suddenly be done for.

Do you remember the story that Jesus told about the rich man who died and he went to hell? And when he got to hell, then he began to talk about. Mercy and begging for mercy, and said, Send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. And what was God's answer given to this man? It was this, Between us and you, There is a great gulf fixed.

so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot. Neither can they pass to us who would come from thence. What does it mean? It means, dear friend, that when you're in hell, you never get out. There is no remedy.

You are broken beyond repair.

Now, I know there are a lot of people who believe in reincarnation. As far as I'm concerned, that just means putting the milk back in the can. There are a lot of people who believe you can be recycled. That's all of the devil. The Bible says you'll be suddenly destroyed and you'll be broken beyond repair.

Hebrews 9, 27 says, as it is appointed unto men once to die. And after this, the judgment. It doesn't say once to die and after this a second chance. There is no way out once you're in hell. Let me give you Jesus' description of hell.

Matthew chapter 25 and verse 46, and these shall go away into everlasting punishment. but the righteous to life eternal. My friend, if hell is not everlasting, neither is heaven. For the same Bible uses the same words to describe the same condition. Hell and heaven are both described as everlasting.

The duration of heaven and the duration of hell are the same. At death. When a man is destroyed, Whether he is destroyed. By uh the unpardonable sin. Or whether he is destroyed.

By sudden death. Whenever that happens, His destiny is settled forever and eternally decided. Let me give you a verse from the Old Testament, Ecclesiastes 11.3. If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth. If a tree falls to the south or the north, In the place where the tree falls, So shall it lie.

And then God makes that application to the way that a man dies.

Someone wrote these words, as the tree falls, so must it lie. As a man lives, so must he die. As a man dies, so he will be. All through the years. of eternity.

He's broken beyond repair. Do you know what hell is spoken of in the Bible? among the many figures of speech and descriptions of hell. Hell is also called a bottomless pit.

Now, friend, nobody can climb out of a bottomless pit. Because there's no way to climb. Hell is a place where you descend ever lower and lower. And lower and and lower and lower. Ours is a solemn text tonight.

And God has spoken to some hearts tonight. And God has told some women, men, children. that you need to be saved. Listen to the text again. Listen to the Word of God.

He that being often reproved, hasn't God been good to you? Time and time and time and time again, God has reproved you. He that being often reproved and hardeneth his neck. Have you done that? Just by procrastination.

Or by pride. Or through the pleasures of this world. Have you put off giving your heart to the Lord Jesus Christ? Have you hardened your neck? Then God says you're going to be suddenly destroyed.

I mean, tonight may be the last call that God will ever give, or you may not die physically. Just something inside of you may die. You may cross the deadline. You may cross that place where you're broken beyond repair, beyond repair. And then the Bible says.

That there will be no remedy. It'll be too late. I just beg you to come to Jesus while you can tonight. Father, I pray that many in this building We'll say yes to Jesus Christ. Holy Spirit of the living God.

Draw them to the Saviour tonight, in His name I pray. Amen. If you would like to learn more about how you can know Jesus or deepen your relationship with him, simply click the Discover Jesus link on our website, lwf.org. For a copy of this message or additional resources, visit our online store at lwf.org. or call 1-800-274-5683.

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