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29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it. The lion roars and scars its victim. It takes it away, and the prey thinks it is safe, but instead of safety, the lion eats his prey alive! That is what the world has done! It has roared at us, and those who fear it will be put into its mouth, and taken to a place that seems safe and pleasing. It is at that time that the world will have its way with you, and then “there will be none to deliver!” Beware of wanting the world. If the Lord gives you over to it and refuses to deliver you, you have no hope at all.
30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
There is coming a day when time shall be no more. The darkness of the night will come, and the day will be over. Time will run out! And for those who know not the Lord, it will be a time when they will “roar like the roaring of the sea.” They will howl in real torment! The darkness of the end of time will turn them to everlasting sorrow, and the light of heaven—the light of time for repentance will be over, and hell will be their eternal home, and as Revelation 14:10-11 clearly says of those who go to hell, “the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: 11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night.”
Conclusion: If you are saved today, the doctrine of eternal torment should spur you on to evangelism! If you are lost, the fact that this judgment of eternal sorrow is coming, should move you to consider the claims of Jesus Christ. Run to Christ! He is the only one who can deliver you!!
Closing Hymn: 252 Nothing But the Blood
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[1] Some of the introductory material for this message is gleaned from John Piper’s The Echo and Insufficiency of Hell, preached June 14 and 21, 1992. Accessed 04 June 2006 at http://www.desiringgod.org/library/sermons/92/061492.html.
[2] Clark Pinnock and Delwin Brown, Theological Crossfire: An Evangelical/Liberal Dialogue, (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1990), 226-7.
[3] David Edwards, Evangelical essentials, with a Response from John Stott, (Downers Grove: Inter Varsity Press, 1988), 314-320.
[4] Billy Graham, Facing Death And The Life After, 1987, 217.
[5] Edwards, Evangelical essentials, 314-320.
[6] Piper, Echo., emphasis mine.
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