Gehenna

A sobering message on the reality of hell and the danger of spiritual lukewarmness. Drawing from Revelation and Luke, this sermon explores the consequences of our choices, the nature of the afterlife, and God’s call to fully commit. Jesus’ sacrifice offers salvation—but rejecting it leads to separation. Don’t live for the moment; choose eternity and take your faith seriously.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

So I entitled today's message uh Gehenna. Yeah, just write Gehenna and we'll dive into Gehenna. Some of you um may know what that is and some of you may not know what that is, but we're gonna dive into what that is, amen. Now throughout my time in the Bible, uh throughout my time studying the scripture, I have come to realize that the Lord never used a person in the Bible who thought himself to be righteous. God, I found that he always used men in the Bible who thought very little of themselves, amen. He got to a gentleman by the name of Gideon. He said, You are a mighty man of valor. Gideon couldn't believe that God was calling him a mighty man, amen. And I I began to ask God, why do you always use people so mightily in the scripture who don't think highly of themselves? Amen. And the Lord began to minister to me. And I want to tell you what he told me. Can I tell you? Yes, sir. Some of you look a little bit sad. You be sad in the house of the Lord. Amen. You know what we teach, you know, sadness in the house of the Lord. You can't be sad in the house of the Lord. Amen. After such a worship session, you I mean, you should be carrying the virtues of what you received in that worship session. Amen. So even if you came in angry and hungry, you say angry and hungry. By the time you've worshipped, you're not hungry anymore. Amen. Yeah. That hunger is yesterday's problem.

SPEAKER_01 2:26

Yes, no self, no self.

SPEAKER_00 2:30

So anyway, the Lord said to me, the reason why I use um uh these individuals who do not think highly of themselves. The Lord Jesus said to me that in my prayer time, he who, and write this down, he said, he who is forgiven much loves much. I want you to bear that in mind. He who is forgiven much loves much. When you understand and you know that you are not perfect, you start to tolerate other people. And trust me, in this life you will come across people who have zero tolerance for others. Praise God. The only way to break those people down is to show them that they're not as good as they think they are. What I found interesting was Jesus came and he did not go to the Pharisees who were praying in the synagogue every day. He went to look for businessmen. You know those people that were fishing? Peter was fishing, his brother was fishing, James, the brother of John, was fishing. And these were not broke guys, they had a business, a fishing business. He went to look for them and said, I want to do these are the ones I will train. Not the Pharisees who were praying in the synagogue. And the Pharisees thought themselves so highly. Amen. Yeah. But God said, I'll go for the ones who have no in their brains, they're not even thinking about spirituality. Because when I go to them, they will say, I mean, do you remember what Peter did? Peter said, get away from me, I'm a sinner. These guys recognize that they're they're living terrible lives. Praise God. Now, why I've entitled today Gehenna is because um Gehenna means hell. Okay, it means hell. So I want to talk to you a little bit about hell today because Easter's around the corner. So I want to dive in and talk to you a bit about that. Can I do that? Some people believe that hell is a concept, hell is not real. As in, like some people say hell is on earth. We are living hell now. Some people say that. You've not lived in Newham. No, sir, you must go there. That's hell, that's where judgment is. God has God will send you to live there in your council house if he's angry at you. Amen. This is some people's mentality. Well, some will say, No, no, no, no, sir, you need to go to Iran or go to Iraq, that's where hell is. You have not read your Bible. You've not read your Bible. Say hell is a real place. Say hell is a real place. Now, just because you don't believe that hell is a real place doesn't make it any less true. Do you understand that? Just because you yourself in your spirit, you're like, but there's no proof of hell, as there's no proof of oxygen, that doesn't make it any less real. Now in Revelation chapter 3, verse 15, if we can go there quickly, blessing, if you can go there and we'll read. Revelation chapter 3, verse 15.

SPEAKER_02 6:57

Thank you, sir. Revelation chapter 3 from verse 15 says, I know your works that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. Verse 16. So then, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of my mouth. Verse 17. Because you say I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked. Verse 18. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in fire, that you may be rich, and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed, and anoint your eyes with eyes out that you may see. Verse 19. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore, be zealous and repent.

SPEAKER_00 8:06

Praise God forevermore. This is not our chief scripture, but this is a good place to start. God is dealing with lukewarm individuals. Praise the Lord. He's dealing with lukewarm individuals. So a lukewarm person is someone who has not made a conscious decision to pick a side. And the Lord Jesus says, pick a side. Amen. The worst thing you can do is dance between two sides. In some in some industries, you can get yourself killed like that. Praise God forevermore. So the Lord Jesus says, I'd rather you be cold or hot. So that means it's better for me to know that you've picked Satan over me than for you to leave me guessing. Because sometimes you come to church, and at other times you don't come to church, and at other times you give your tithes, other times you don't give your tithes, other times you say, I'm gonna live like a Christian, other times you say, I'm not gonna live like a Christian, I'm tired of this Christian thing. You're confused. So he says, It is better for you to pick a side. He's asking you to make a decision in your spirit that you're gonna pick a side. I belong to God or I belong to Satan. Amen. And there's many roads that lead to Satan. So if you're gonna pick Satan, it's very easy to do so. But if you're gonna pick the Lord Jesus, it's a narrow road. That road is narrow, it takes a lot of discipline. Praise God. So he says, I'm gonna spit you out your mouth, spit you out of my mouth. Yeah, which is very profound, but I can't get into that now because there are different levels of people here. So I'll just skip over that for now. Well, he says something interesting in the next verse. He speaks about he says, Buy gold from me that has been tried by the fire. He says, Take take my products. He says, I have things to sell to you. Take on my products. I'm gonna show you some interesting things today. We're gonna come back to this. Um, go to Luke chapter 16. We're gonna come back to this lukewarmness. So by the time we leave here, you will find out whether you are lukewarm or not. Luke chapter 16.

SPEAKER_02 11:02

Thank you, sir. Luke chapter 16 from verse 1 says, He also said to his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and an accusation was brought to him that this man was wasting his goods. Verse 2. So he called him and said to him, What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be a steward.

SPEAKER_00 11:32

Sorry, um, can you jump to 19 for me?

SPEAKER_02 11:36

Yes, sir. John, note Luke chapter 16 from verse 19 says, There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fed sumptuously every day. Verse 20, but there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate. Verse 21, desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, the dogs came and licked his sores. Verse 22. So it was that the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. Verse 23. And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom.

SPEAKER_00 12:31

Wait, let's now take this one step at a time. He says, My Bible says, Yours says in Hades, in torment. My one says in hell. Very abrupt. Yeah. He lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. Okay, cool. So I'm gonna keep asking you to read reread that. Alright, it says, number one, in hell. So you must know hell is real. Number two, he said he lifted up his eyes. You must know that you will have your eyes intact when you're in hell. Don't think you're going there blindly. No, you will see the decisions that you made, the results of the decisions you made. So you're going in there full. You see, if you were on this earth, yeah, and you were you had your leg amputated, you're walking into hell. As you die, your spirit, man, the leg is not amputated. Your spirit is fully healthy, and God makes sure of that so you can feel everything. You know, I always say to you, God is not African, but this one it sounds very it sounds very close. You know, no, but honestly, your human spirit, if you if you uh if you had one eye blind, or you had some sort of physical ailment, none of those things exist once you cross over to the other side. How do I know? I've been there. Many of you of you see me go in there every week. Praise God forevermore. I've I've been there and I've seen that. I'll tell you of my personal experience later on. First, let's look at the scripture. It has to be the word first. You know, this is how strange religions have come up. Let's stick to the word first. Say, stick to the word. Now tell your neighbor, stick to the word, brother. Yeah, let's stick to the word. So so it says first, it says, He died and was buried, and then he was in hell. Alright? In hell, he looked up, so he had a neck. No, you know, I got I got to break it down like that for you. Alright? And you can share this uh podcast with um some of your unbelieving friends. Praise God forevermore. The Bible says he looked up, he had eyes. He looked up, he had a neck. The Bible says he looked up and saw Abraham. He means he had intellect. So don't think that you're you're gonna you're gonna go into the afterlife and you're like, wow, I don't know anyone. No, brother, you will see the people that you molested, you will see them, the people you harmed, you will see them. Now that story that we're gonna look at now is very interesting. It said he he looked up, he saw, he saw Abraham, and it says he saw Lazarus in Abraham's bosom. Now, let's read on, let's find out a little bit more about hell, shall we? Okay, go ahead, tell us.

SPEAKER_02 15:57

Thank you, sir. Luke chapter 16 from verse 24 says, Then he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue.

SPEAKER_00 16:15

So let's not go over the part where he says he was in torment. Now let me give you some revelation. In hell, there are chambers, there are chambers, you have you have chambers of torture and torment in there, and these chambers of torture and torment are attached to the lives you were living. So, for example, if you were a person who enjoyed harming other people, first of all, you must know that you didn't harm those people of your own volition, it was demons that pushed you to do it because demons hate human beings. I know it because it says it in the Bible, and I cast them out every day. I cast out demons every day. So these evil spirits they hate you and they hate me. Why? You may say, but I'm not part of this beef, so why am I getting involved in this beef? Let me enlighten you. The simple fact that you're a human being, you have joined the beef. Tap your neighbor and say, You've joined the beef, bro. Yeah, you're part of it. The only way to be to come out of this is to turn it into an animal. Yeah, be an animal. If once you're a dog, fish, demons have nothing to do with you, they're not interested. What they are looking for is the the very creation that is made after God's image, and that's you and I. They hate us. So they cause you to do things they know will catch you in the afterlife. So as you get there, all right, let's say you were someone who harms people, the very demon that caused you to harm people will be with you there. He will he will now tell you the truth. You say, You see, all those thoughts you were having, those ideas of killing people and harming people, it was me. And what makes it worse is they will laugh at you. Say, hi, it's it's me. I was the one that gave you ideas to go and sleep with that person. It was me, hi. It was me that told you to steal that day. It was me. Hi, hello. Praise God. That's how they are, that's their nature. Very evil, very rude, and very intelligent. I told you before, demons understand the chemistry of the human body, so they know how to trick you into doing things they want you to do, and so that's why you need to always be led by the spirit. Am I boring you? He said, Lazarus, he looked up, he said, Abraham. So you will see people that you know there too. There was a guy giving a testimony um of his near-death experience or after-death experience. Yeah, he said, and I found this very fascinating. He said that as he uh crossed over into the other side, he had a car crash. Yeah, and he as he had this car crash, he was in pain, he hadn't died yet. But he said, after two minutes, he realized all the pain was gone. He said he felt stronger, he felt he was in his 60s, he said he felt strong, he felt young again. He said, Wow, praise God. But in that time he found himself standing and he was looking around, he said, Wow, you know, it's like the knowledge that he had a car crash had left his mind. But he looked and said, Wow, what's this situation? There's a car crash, this looks terrible. And he said, He looked in the driver's seat. He said, Who's that guy that looks exactly like me? This is on YouTube. He said, Who's that guy that looks like so? He said he was really upset that somebody was sitting in his car and had crashed it. So he was already getting irritated. So as he was marching towards the vehicle, he realized that the person in there was him. Then it came to his knowledge that he had died. Now, when you cross over into the realm of the spirit, there's no such thing as the prophetic. Who knows what the prophetic is? Raise your hand if you know what the prophetic is. The prophetic is what you see me doing every week. I meet a new person, I tell them things about themselves that they may have never told anyone. It's just a secret between them and God, and God reveals it. Praise God. That's the prophetic. That doesn't exist there. Everyone there is a prophet, so you will see someone in the spirit and you will know their entire life immediately. I'm able to do it here because my senses are heightened. And no, I don't smoke weed. Praise God. It's it's I can do it because it's my office. I was born for it. You understand? That's why I wake up today, put me in front of anybody Asian, Chinese, black, white, you've seen it, Indians, anyone. You put them in front of me. If I I will start from A to Z because I was born to do it. God has brought me up in that thing. Do you understand that? And it's not just that, it comes with a lot. Nevertheless, when you cross over into that place, all of us will be able to do it to each other. So you may see him and you know his first name, his last name, what he did when he was a child, all the way up to his age, and why he is being judged for what he's been judged for. All that information comes to you in seconds. So this should I go back to the story? Should I preach about prosperity? Yeah, you'll be blessed, you'll make money in the name of Jesus. Praise God. It's a good thing, anyway. So the gentleman said, um, he's noticed himself there, and he said, At every step he was taking to get closer to the vehicle was getting heavier and heavier and heavier and heavier. And then he said he noticed that he started floating away from the vehicle. He said within a split second he was sucked into like a portal. And he said he found himself in a place that looked like his um grandmother's house. And there were some people there that said to him, Oh, welcome to paradise. He said, Oh, yeah, I'm in paradise. I made it. They said, Welcome to paradise. They were saying, Isn't it peaceful here? He said, Yeah, this is peaceful. He said, They brought him to this house. This was his grandmother's house. His grandmother said, I've made cookies for you. He said, Wow, grandma. And they were talking. He said, The conversation was locked, they were talking. Now, you see, if you if you die, if you die like that, and you get resuscitated in that moment, you'll come back and say, I can live anyhow. I went to paradise. You will preach to people and say, I was smoking weed, I was drinking, I was doing all this, and I still went to paradise. Should I enlighten you of what happened next? Are you sure? Okay, let me enlighten you. So the guy, the guy in question, the guy in question, um he says, as they were, his grandma was giving him the cookies. He said there was there was guests, people he didn't know, you know. They went to the garden, and then he says uh his grandma was getting a little bit agitated with him and more aggressive over time. Yes, it went from oh, how are you putting your eye to move move over there? Ah so he's he's panicking, he's like, Why, why? And then and then he thought he thought to himself, could it be, could it be that I'm not in paradise? But he continued anyway. All the people around him, those people that were, you know, it looked like a party, like everyone was in the garden, it was nice, they were, you know, having coffee, all of this. He said, They get as the day was going on, the day, they were getting closer to him, more aggressive. They went from saying nice things to using profanity to becoming more aggressive, and he said, This is when everything changed. He sat down on like a like a bench he used to sit on when he was a kid. He said he realized that that bench was not actually a bench, it was a creature. So he stood up and screamed. That's when all the individuals around him metamorphosed into their real form. He said he didn't know how he didn't notice that because their eyes were reptilish. He said, I don't know what happened, how I didn't realize that this was all deception, and they started dragging him. They said to him, You deserve to be here, and you know what he said that that really shocked me. He said, I couldn't even even argue with them. I knew I deserved to be here. I knew it. They were dragging him. The entire place changed. It was not his home, it was a cage, it was a cell. Are you listening? This was a cell, he was in a cell that um they turned it into one of his fantasies to play with his mind, and then they attacked him. Praise God forever. He said he saw different cells with different types of torments in there attributed to the sin of the person. He said there was a gentleman there that he his thing was raping women, he enjoyed it. He said the demons were raping him, and he could feel everything, and it's like he would feel you know, you know, in on earth, God has given us a coping mechanism. Can I tell you what that is? Some of you don't know this, but one of the coping mechanism mechanisms he's given us is when the pain reaches very far, you pass out, so your body shuts down, you don't feel anything anymore. That doesn't exist over there. The pain just keeps increasing. There's no there's no breaks. This is the nature of hell. I'm not teaching this to scare you, I'm teaching this to give you knowledge and wisdom on how you should conduct your life. Jesus did an amazing thing for us in dying and stopping us from going to that place. He said, I'm gonna give my flesh so that the relationship with my father and you become like this. Hell is everything God is not. So someone asks, if God really loves me, why would he send me there? No, no, no, my brother, he's not sending you there. You're choosing it, it's like you're choosing a mill. You have an option, you have this mill, mill one, and mill two. You said, I want to go here. This is what I want. How he said, Take my sacrifice and live for me. Your response is living for you is too difficult. I love the soft life. I've killed a demon there. You love the world, the present world. You want to live to the fullest. You have to experience the present world. So, in your experiencing the present world, here over there, you will experience the other side of the present world. He said he saw the gentleman that created the Mormon, the Mormon uh religion. Praise God. And I went to I started doing my research. I I found out that a lot of the practices in Mormonism is very symmetrical to the occult. They have a lot of practices that's very similar to the occult. So he was saying that he saw this guy that was the founder of the Mormon church. He said he saw this guy in his library or something, and an angel appeared to him and told him, I want you to create this religion. We have now revealed ourselves to you. And he was genuinely convinced, and he lived his life. This this guy, I won't give you his name, but this guy lived his life based on what that angel was telling him. And then when he finally passed, when he died, the angel who was appearing to him as an angel showed him his true form and said, I was not an angel, I'm a demon, and this is where you deserve to be, and brought him there. So let me spell it out for you magic, witchcraft, new age, all of these things lead to one place, and that is the pit of hell. Look at your hand, just look at your hand, everybody. Just look at your hand. You see that hand of yours, that hand is flesh, it will lead you back to the ground. If you follow what your body tells you to do, it will lead you back there. If you follow your body, you see when your body tells you to do things and you follow your body, it will lead you to the ground there. Praise God forevermore. So the rich man said, Lazarus, can you take your finger? Can you tell Abraham to tell Lazarus to put his finger in water and just let me just taste a little bit of water? He was in torment, it was hot, and he was thirsty. Why would he ask them for water?

SPEAKER_01 32:38

He saw food if we're both in hell.

SPEAKER_00 32:46

Why am I asking you for water? We're in the same place, brother. If the rich man is looking at Abraham and saying, Please, can you tell Lazarus to give me just a bit of water? Just a little bit. It means that the rich man looked and saw them on the other side enjoying themselves. So, what am I telling you? In the realm of the spirit, there's food there, better food there than here. What you're seeing here is a shadow of there, is a shadow. You see that you see, uh, for example, uh disciple Pharrell's wearing blue, um, he's wearing brown. All of these colors, you know, grey, these are dull. It's dull. When you cross over onto the other side, everything brightens, everything brightens. Some of my visions are more clearer than the physical here.

unknown 33:42

Wow, wow.

SPEAKER_00 33:44

I remember one time I went to work. I looked at my boss and I said to him, God took me to your household. He said, What? And I was describing the house to him. I said, It's a yellow painting on the wall. You have this picture here, you have that. He was like, Ha! I haven't been there in beers. I said, I'm I was there like 10 minutes ago. He said, How? I said, In a vision, God took my spirit in a vision, and it was so real, yeah. Closer, closer, it was so real. Tell your neighbor, the spirit realm is more real than the physical realm, and you must understand that. So live for the spirit, the spiritual realm, not the physical. That's why Jesus said very clearly, buy gold from me that has gone through the fire. What is he saying? He's saying, live for things that will not rot, for things that don't have an expiry date. I'll show you some things in the scripture today. Can I I've I've brought this part up again, but can I sh before can I show you something there in that scripture? He said, Um Abraham, Father Abraham. Now, just to prove to you that you know all things, remember the rich man and Lazarus lived almost a thousand years after Abraham. How could he recognize that that was Abraham? How did he know? Another thing that you must also notice in that scripture is that he's not telling Lazarus to send Abraham to give him water, he's saying, Abraham send Lazarus. It means when you cross over there, there's hierarchy. Even you, you will get there and say, Ha God, I wow, I just I just yeah, because you know how you lived, but even even if you make it like that, it's better than hell, isn't it? But when you get there, it's a sad thing. I said there's hierarchy. You see how there's work here, there's work there. Most of you don't know what New Jerusalem is. You don't know. Jesus said in the book of Revelation, chapter 20, he said, I make all things new. He said, This is a new world where he's the ruler. So we eat there. Alright, you will know your wife when you see her. Oh, that's my wife. You you will know this is your sibling. This is your everything will be just the same. Praise God forevermore. So Lazarus was to be sent as a as a maid. That rich man knew that Lazarus was a no one on earth, so like, just send him to give me water. Now, let's look at what Abraham said to him, which tells us that you can talk in hell. Is it can we agree on that? Okay, alright, let's read what Abraham responded. What did he say?

SPEAKER_02 37:29

Thank you, sir. Luke chapter 16, verse 25 says, But Abraham said, Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things, but now he is comforted, and you are tormented.

SPEAKER_00 37:51

Continue. Is that what he says?

SPEAKER_02 37:53

Um Luke chapter 16, verse 26 says, And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot.

SPEAKER_00 38:08

Wait, let's slow down. How did Abraham know that Lazarus was tormented on earth? Didn't I tell you? You know all when you cross over there, you know all things. Raise your hand if you've had a dream before. Just raise your hand. And raise your hand if you've had a lucid dream before. Where you're you can control your movements, you you were going into certain places, and raise your hand if in your dream before you just knew things, no one had to explain it to you, you're just aware. Have you had that experience before? It's that times a billion. Praise God. It's that times a billion. Tell your neighbor life is spiritual. Tell them there's a world that you don't know of, and that world is vast. And tell them you must make aim and haste to learn about that world. Because that's where you're going after this, most people, most people are so myopic, they live for now, and then they follow this this uh guy that came and said you only live once. Finished everybody, everyone is was running with that. You only live once, you only thank God I was spiritual around that time. I said, You want me to say those words? I'm limiting, I'm limiting my life. I'm not gonna say that. I only live once. What's that? These are men that don't understand the realm of the spirit. Should we go back to the text? Can I? Okay, so Lazarus is now in Abraham's bosom. Abraham says, Well, um, there's a certain life Lazarus lived, which was a terrible one, but now he's being comforted. Okay, and uh now you're in torment. Read on.

SPEAKER_02 40:17

Thank you, sir. Luke chapter 16, from verse 26 says, And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us. Verse 27. Then he said, I beg you therefore, Father, that you would send him to my father's house. Verse 28, for I have five brothers that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.

SPEAKER_00 40:52

Are you listening to that? No, no, no, no, no. Are you l did you hear what he said? Now, can I educate you on something? Even though in the spirit realm you know you know all things, as in you have general knowledge about other people and things, but the rules you have to study on earth. When I tell you that come to church so we train you, we're not just training you for here, we're training you for when we get there. Because you don't want to get there and you don't know what you're doing. We're having to explain to you what the Bible says and what you can and cannot do, all right, there, like Abraham was explaining to the rich man. Abraham is telling the guy, the guy's in hell, Abraham is telling him, Brother, I can't come there. That's not the rules, not how this works. Abraham is having to explain to the dead man spiritual law. Say it's too late. Not only is Abraham explaining spiritual law, the gentleman, all right, is now saying, Abraham, can you go back there and warn my brothers, my five brothers? I have five of them. Abraham, someone who knows things of the spirit, he said, I can't cross back over. That's not how this works. Some people are like that on earth. You have no, you have no knowledge of spiritual things at all. So everything you learn about spiritual things is when you arrive in hell. Demons are having to teach you now, but that's too late. That place was so terrible. He begged Abraham and said, Please, can you send someone to go and tell my brothers? I don't want them to come here. I don't want them to come here. That place is a terrible place. You wouldn't want your worst enemy to go to hell. Uh raising his hand in his prayer room, praying for his congregation. And he went into a vision, an open vision, and he said he saw, he had like 10,000 members. He said he saw a bunch of his members walking, shackled, walking, and he will call the in the vision, he's calling them, he's calling the name, he says, You they're not responding, they're walking off the cliff. And the Lord said, Many of my children are on their way to hell, but they're my children, but they're on the way to hell. One of the ways to secure your spot first class premium ticket in hell is to be lukewarm. Praise God. Being lukewarm is the number one way to secure your spot in hell. I preached on uh Thursday and I said, be aggressive about the things of God. What do we do we have to beg you? Is that what you want? You want us to go on our knees and beg you and sing you a poem and write a poem for you to say, please, or come to church, or and you want us to do backflips and cartwheels and beg you to come to church. Why? Why why do we care about where you go more than you should care?

unknown 44:46

No, sir. No, sir. No, no.

SPEAKER_00 44:48

Why? Do you think that I take pleasure in telling you don't do this? I said to you, don't, don't, don't do you think I take pleasure. Now you may ask me, so Pastor, if I don't so some people are like, if I don't come to church, so that means I'm gonna go to hell. Listen to the message. Listen, listening is a skill. Listen to the message. The message is simple. In your inconsistency of attending church, you learn less, which means you apply less, which means you find yourself in the world more. Which then makes you look warm. I'd rather you be there or here. If you look warm, I will spit you out. It's that simple. Oh Pastor, I don't have money for travel. I don't have money for if you were to meet the love of your life, you walk there. You can't walk there. You're talking to me about travel. I don't have money for travel. I've seen what guys, I've seen what guys have done just to meet a woman. They found online. People are flying to different countries. You're talking, you live in Woolwich. What are you talking about? I was 18 years old. My friend, at that time, I had not even left London. I was 18 or 17. He left us and went all the way to uh what not Novampton. What's there's another N. Is it Nottingham? Hi, that's far. He went to Nottingham. He he went there. He said, I have to see this babe. I said, I said, brother, for a woman, he said, you don't understand. I have to he was motivated. For a woman. Talk less of the women, the things I've seen women do for men. A woman will empty her account. For a man she doesn't know. She will she you've only known him for two weeks. You're cooking for him. You're even asking him, send me you know your clothes, let me take it to the dry cleaner. Two weeks you've known him. She will overextend herself. For for a man she just met. But Jesus who who let me let's adjourn the service. I'm tired. I'm tired. Jesus who who physically sit down. Let me tell you what happened to him. Okay, you know, in in those times they were people who were very malicious and evil. They would develop uh materials that can harm people in ways you never thought. The way they beat this man, yeah, the way they beat him, the Bible says when he reappeared to the apostles, they couldn't recognize him. He looked that different. They beat his face into disfiguration. For you and I. Now you might say, but I don't know, Donnie. Like I just I'm not feeling it, so like I just don't know him. That's why you're coming to church is to learn about what he did for you. Do you remember the story I gave you of the boy who was ashamed of his mother? Not knowing he was being bullied because of his mom's face. He didn't know that she pulled him out of the fire when he was a kid. That's why her face, her face was burnt. But he discovered this when she had died. Now, let's say that woman, his mother was Christ, and you are the boy, you've been neglecting Jesus this entire time. You don't know what he did for you. Just because you don't know something, it doesn't mean it didn't happen. So when wise people are telling you, older people are telling you, seasoned people are telling you, brother, wake up, stop being prideful. Who do you think you are? That's right, that's right, that's right. Put your guard down and go and study and learn what did this Christ do for me? Till this day, no one is more famous than Christ in the world now, today. Go to the Muslim countries, they know him, Hindus, they know him everywhere, East Asia, they know him.

unknown 49:40

That's right, that's right.

SPEAKER_00 49:42

Name me one name more famous that transcended thousands of years than Jesus Christ. That's the power of the word. So you must be aggressive about his business, you must be aggressive about it and be aggressive about learning about him and what he did for you. You see, the more I discover about what he did for me, the more I run in love with him. I'm discovering, so you did that for me. How many times has he saved you and you didn't even know? He protected you and you never even knew because he doesn't announce it. But just because God doesn't announce it doesn't mean that we must we must treat him anyhow. I was speaking to a couple and I said to them, you know, when you have a gentle wife, yeah. I was speaking to the guy, I said, When you have a gentle wife, yeah, she may say to you, my husband, I'm not happy that you did this. Yeah, don't mistake her gentle tone for the message being unserious. Because in her mind, she's saying, Listen, you that's what she that's what she's really doing, but but but because she's gentle, she's talking to you nicely, but in her brain, she's going mad. So just because Christ deals with us gently, because it's his nature, it doesn't mean that you should mistake his gentleness for foolishness. You will pay for what you've done, all the things you're doing up until now, the life you're living, you want to be the guy, you want to do things your way, you will pay for it. And it may be the case, you may see me on the other side like Abraham, and you will ask me for Kelewele. I'll tell you kindly say, please don't even ask. Don't even ask. I loved you on earth. That would be my response to you. Because over there, you want no association with. Should I adjourn the message? Let me show you one thing that I came across here. Revelation, Revelation 20. This is an exciting scripture. Revelation chapter 20.

SPEAKER_02 52:30

Thank you, sir. Revelation chapter 20, from verse 1, says, Then I saw an angel coming down from the heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit, and a great chain in his hand. Verse 2. He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old.

SPEAKER_00 52:52

Okay, one second. It says, it says, You saw an angel. This is this is John, yeah. John the beloved. He's in a vision. He says, I saw an angel holding a chain, yeah, next to the bottomless pit. He says, right? Okay, let's not go over that so lightly. Do you know what a bottomless pit is? What is bottomless? Bottomless. No, that is it keeps it keeps going. There's no there's no end. Bottomless pit. That's hell. Can someone quickly find out? Because I know you guys are good with chat GPT, Kimmy, all of this stuff, you know, Claude. Go on there, find out what how hot is the center of the earth. Someone just just tell me very quickly. How hot is the center of the earth? How hot is that place? You should have found out by now, yeah? Okay, read it, read it. Yeah, read. Roughly as hot as read it, read it in the mic so the podcast can pick it up.

SPEAKER_03 54:25

Yes, sir. The temperature at the center of the earth, the core, is estimated to be about 5,200 to 6,000 Celsius in heat, roughly as hot as the surface of the sun.

SPEAKER_00 54:44

Now, do you know how far the sun is from us? Some people have died because of the sun in this in this world. In this world, the sun has killed people. The sun is far. Do you know how far the sun is? That thing has whacked people have died. Some people are walking in the sun have just collapsed. That's it. Because the sun is is it was burning them. And the point I wanted to drive home is that Earth has a place where it stops. So you can call it a pit of some sort, you know, when you go deeper, but it stops somewhere. You understand? We can say 5,000, 6,000 degrees, whatnot. Hell is bottom l. How far can you go? How and and I can and and I'm just imagining that the more evil people are you're you're you're down there. I was gonna adjunct this, but the deepness of the messages is important for me to drive home. And I want you to bear with me on this because you need to hear it. Some of the stuff you have planned this weekend, yeah, some of the decisions you have made, you don't value your life. You must value your life, and don't be deceived by Satan. It is possible to value your life at a young age. Say it, it is possible to value my life at a young age. It's possible. Read on for me.

SPEAKER_02 56:52

Thank you, sir. Revelation chapter 20 from verse 2 says, He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. Verse 3. And he cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished.

SPEAKER_00 57:20

Okay, so if you so we're gonna look at that, or do you want do you want us to look at that next week? The thousand years stuff. Okay, okay. So Revelation 20, if you look at the first one, it says, and I saw an angel come down from heaven having the key of the bottomless pit. The thing has a gate. I'm saying gates because in Psalms David said he saw a gate. Do you remember that? The devil screamed, he said, Who stands at the gates of hell? And a voice responded and said, The master has arrived. This is when Jesus had died, but King David was prophesying it. So that place has a gate, it has keys, there are people in charge. It's a whole structure, brother. It's like a company, it's a proper thing. So we think that we can we go our way out of you know your lape in heaven and and bribe the angel at the gate. And let me let me in. Let me show you something. Let me show you something. Your criminal ways can't work there. I want to show you something. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Okay, read on.

SPEAKER_02 58:59

Thank you, sir. Revelation chapter 20 from verse 4 says, And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was jump all the way down to 15, please. Yes, sir. Revelation chapter 20 from verse 15 says. Thank you, sir. From verse 14 says, Then death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, verse 15. And anyone not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

SPEAKER_00 59:35

Did you hear that? So let's look at this last two last scriptures. Yeah, it says, It says, Death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. So hell is not the end. There's something else called lake of fire. Where there's no cells, there's nothing, it's just fire now. And it also says death was thrown in there. Praise God forevermore. Now, for those of you that don't didn't know this, death is a spirit. Amen. Death is a spirit, so nobody on this earth dies without the spirit of death arriving there and doing that deed. Death is a spirit. And the Bible says, the spirit of death will be thrown into the lake of fire, and hell will be thrown into the lake of fire. And the following verse says, Those whose names were not found to be in the book of life, what will happen to them? They'll be cast into the lake of fire. So the question I want to ask you now is raise your hand now if you think you believe that your name is written in the book of life. Confidently. My name, like rapture happened today. My name is in that book. I'm confident. You know what's interesting? I think some of you will change your minds tomorrow. After you make that error. When you're amongst other people, so you're you know encouraged. But when you're alone, your own voice will tell you, can you stop it? Just stop it. You know yourself, just stop it. No, you you know yourself. I want to help you today. You don't believe me? I want to help you today to have your name written in the book of life. Praise God. I want to help you. As we're approaching Easter, which is on Sunday, alright, Easter Sunday, we have around the corner. I want you from this message to prepare your heart for Easter. Because the service that we're gonna have on Sunday is gonna be a lot to do with repositioning you to ensure that if the rapture takes place, that you are safe. I mean, you're going with the first flight. You are gone, brother. Jesus will come and meet us in the air. He will meet us in the air. We've passed that point of having to convince you that oh, you know, spiritual things are real. Oh, yeah, he can meet us in the air. We explain it to you. No, no, no, no. If you still don't believe after this, then hell is for you. It's for you. Praise God. There's the book of life, there's the book of death. So Satan also has a book where he looks and says, No, this uh do you remember the dispute that he had uh with the Lord about Job? Do you remember that? That's what he'll be doing. He'll say, No, but that girl, she I think she's mine. God will say, No, but she's she's been behaving. Satan will say, No, no, no, no, no. I saw her in Peckham. Let me tell you what she did. He starts recounting, and that's right. The Bible calls him the accuser of that's all he does. Satan is a snitch. He's a snitch. All he does is he snitches to God and keeps telling him why does he have to snitch to God if God knows all things? Because God chooses not to see your mistakes. God says, I'm not gonna look at your mistakes because if I look at your mistakes, I myself will kill you. I my I forget Satan, I myself I will deal with you. So God says, I will I'm blinded by the blood of Christ. The blood of Jesus has blinded, I'm not looking at that, but then Satan turns around and says, No, you have to look, you have to look based on your rules. She rejected you, and that's why I'm saying, Don't be that person, don't be like Alistair Crowley, it's only on his deathbed. He founded the entire cult, and then on his deathbed, he says, What have I done? If I was there, I would say, You go where you see what you're seeing there, follow them, go there, you should be there. Do you know how many lives you destroyed with your cult? They believe that they they gain their power from energy of children. Maybe I shouldn't go into that. These people are evil. They believe in this thing. You haven't heard of the Grand Pontiac, so you you you don't know these things. They believe in living forever, and the way to live for and regenerate is through children, it's through sexual practices with kids, and they get the energy from that. That's what they believe, and that's the man that founded those things. So on his deathbed, he said, What have I done? He saw he saw all the demons that used to whisper to him, Go and take that child, go and take that child. He saw them. He said, What have I done? That imagine your lost breath. That's the only thing you can say. What have I done? What have I done? I destroyed the world. What have I done? And I don't want that for you. I'll give you one last testimony. There was a pastor who was on a plane. He was on a plane and he said he was on this plane going turbulent on the plane. They were going to Thailand. He said the plane was turbulent. He said there was carnal people, there was Muslims, there was all kinds of people. He said he was in the plane. And it was I mean, the turbulence was too much. People started crying. He said the biggest guys on the plane were crying. Someone on the floor screaming, God, please. He said he sat there and closed his eyes and said, I'm in a win-win situation. Oh, you're too quiet. Some of you are afraid of death. And some of us are not. Because it's a win-win. If I die, I go to be with him. If I live, I get to talk about him. I win. It's a win-win. He said he was in the plane. He said, He said, Father, I'm in a win-win situation, but I don't think my time is up. So I hand over the plane to you. He said he closed his eyes. This is in his book. He said he closed his eyes and slept on purpose. He forced himself to sleep in there. And then the following line he said, which I was so inspired by, he said, I only slept because Jesus slept in the wind on the boat. That's what he said. Jesus knew that if he died, it's a win, win. That's why the boat was doing all this. The disciples screamed, Do you not care that we die? The guy, God is snoozing. Jesus was sleeping. They had to wake him up. And as he woke up, he said, Oh, you have little faith. And he said to the wind, Be still. This is the kind of confidence, this is the type of generation that I want to build here. Yeah. Confident about your relationship with God. And you know no harm can come upon you. And if any harm does come upon you, you're going to be with the Father. Lift your hands and bless him. Thank you for listening to Pastor Max's teachings. Make sure to subscribe and for more information, find us at Faith and Victory Wallach.