Good morning and welcome in everyone. Today, we are going to take a look at a passage of scripture, but before we do that, I wanted to tell you a little story.
When I was in high school, I really enjoyed astronomy. I think it was the only class that I got straight A in. We studied the moon and the stars, and learned about black holes. A black hole is a place in space where gravity is so strong, that even light cannot escape it. As a quasar, Ton 618 is believed to be a supermassive black hole, one of the largest ever found. It feeds on intensely hot gas and matter. Some people have claimed that it has a mass of approximately 66 billion suns, apparently more than the mass of all the stars contained in our entire galaxy.
This reminds me of the Christian Life.
God created everything, including black holes. God loves and cares for us, and wants all men to come to a place of repentance and has provided us a way out of His impending judgment upon sin, if we come to His Son Jesus, in faith. Just as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the great deluge in the days of Noah, a black hole is a warning sign in the heavens of judgment for those who reject God’s kind and merciful gift of grace. Like a black hole, there is an outer darkness that is coming. This isn’t a hole that you might find while touring Alcatraz, or other correctional facilities. This is a unending lake of fire; a hole of eternal damnation that one will never escape, reserved for those who chose not to love and serve God.
Matthew 22:13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Many people have to deal with prison or jail sentences while here upon the Earth, but these sentences are nothing in comparison with the punishment that is going to come later. There is a certain group of people, that no matter how much you may try, no matter how much you attempt to lead them away from sin, no matter how much you care and love their souls, they damn themselves because they completely reject biblical truth. They are unprofitable and worthless, destined and ordained to damnation. Just as certain angels turned away from God, some people are going to turn away from the truth. Eternal darkness is all that awaits them.
Jude 1:4-6 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
God grants us a gift of His grace, so we can turn from our sin and become obedient to His will. But some people who have lived the Christian Life, will eventually turn away from the faith. They willfully choose not to obey the one who shed His own blood so that we could live with him eternally. Once a person does this, they will never sincerely repent in their heart. It might have been a very close friend in the church with whom you share a lot of memories. It may be one of your own relatives, but try as you may, its impossible to bring them back to a place of Godly sorrow and repentance for what they have done.
Hebrews 6:4-6 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and 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.
God will avenge and punish those who wilfully choose to rebel against Him. If they didn’t fear God before, they will now, because they are under His vengeance.
Hebrews 10:26-31 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Each and every day that somebody chooses to reject the path of penitence, the harder their heart becomes. It becomes hardened by sin and the lack of godly sorrow.
Romans 2:5-8 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
Who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
Just as God will gather His wheat, the thorns and briers will be burned up with unquenchable fire.
Hebrews 6:7-8 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
Matthew 8:12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
The Christian life is about serving Christ. It has to do with obeying Him in love. Those who reject Christ are not going to enter into eternal life, but will be punished eternally. When you gnash your teeth, it means to hate the one who’s punishing you. Its done because of pain and anger, not because of sorrow for what they have done. The one that they once claimed to serve and love, will punish them later.
Matthew 25:30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
There is an everlasting lake of fire; a hole of eternal damnation that some will never escape, reserved for those who have chosen in this lifetime not to love and serve God. Its prepared for the people who hate the truth. Can you recognize the sign of the times? The invisible things of God can be clearly seen, even in a black hole like…..
…..Ton 618
Let’s think about these things for right now, and Lord willing, we will talk with you some more tomorrow. Till then, bye bye everybody. ❤️
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