#843 – The Urgency of Eternity (Revelation 20:15)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 30 November 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Every person will one day enter into everlasting life or eternal torment. May we urgently proclaim the gospel while we still can.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:05.0	Revelation chapter 20 verse 15
0:10.0	says if anyone's name was not found written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the Lake of Fire.
0:19.0	I can't really imagine a more sobering verse or picture in the Bible, then Revelation Chapter 20,
0:35.8	verse 15, especially when you realize up in verse 10
0:41.2	of the same chapter of this lake of fire was described as a place of
0:47.6	torment day and night forever and ever. This is something I just been thinking about a lot recently and I really don't want to stop thinking about.
1:00.0	Now with that said, it's not a pleasant thing to think about it's not a good thing to
1:07.2	dwell on in a sense but the Bible clearly teaches, Jesus himself clearly teaches, that all who do not trust in
1:19.2	him as their life for life in him as Lord and Savior of their life when they die will
1:32.3	be thrown into a lake of fire, a place of torment, day and night forever and ever.
1:40.0	Like the Bible says forever and ever.
1:42.9	Think about that.
1:44.0	And ever adds nothing to the meaning.
1:47.6	Forever would have been sufficient.
1:50.8	But it adds and ever just to make sure we don't miss the point.
1:55.0	Like eternity is at stake
1:58.0	with whether or not people believe in Jesus,
2:02.0	trust in Jesus as their life.
2:06.0	And so, I think it's good for us to think often about this.
2:12.3	Yes, to think often about the joys of heaven that await us and
2:16.5	the joys of heaven that await all who trust in Jesus, but also to consider the
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