Revelation chapter 16. Looking through most of this
vision this morning. And the title of the message
is, The Vials and Repentance. The Vials and Repentance. In chapter 15, we have an introduction
of these vials that are given to these angels In chapter 15,
we see that seven angels were given these seven vials which
are full of the wrath of God. Full of the wrath of God. Yet
before we are given the meaning and the execution of these vials,
these last plagues, God first of all gives to His saints, to
those who are in Christ, who through faith believe Christ
have received not the mark of the beast but rather the seal
of the Holy Spirit. And believe me, you have one
or the other. You'll have one or the other. In Ephesians 1 and verse 13,
it says, "...in whom in Christ you have also trusted after that
you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation,
and whom also you that believe, you were sealed with the Holy
Spirit." Every believer in Christ is sealed, secure, fortified,
safe. Seeing that the Holy Spirit dwells
in us, keeps us in the faith in Christ, moving us by His sovereign
grace and eternal love, He causes us to be rooted down and built
up in Christ. You, who have the seal of God. You, who believe on Jesus Christ. I want you to understand, before
we get into the meaning of these vows, it is incumbent upon me
not to trouble you, but rather to comfort you. These vials that
are being poured out the wrath of God are not for you They're
not for you Why you are sealed Not with the mark of the beast
but rather with the mark of the father the seal of the father
is in your forehead You are his by sovereign grace and mercy.
Therefore, let not your heart be troubled. When I explain these
things to you, they are going to be dark, they are going to
be heavy, a burden. But it's not meant for you to
bear them. This is why God gives this whole
chapter 15, so as you should be comforted before He tells
you these vials and what they're for. You should be comforted
and not troubled by these things. Let not these vials of the wrath
of God cause you anxious fears, for we are set free from the
wrath and judgment of God through Jesus Christ." Not that God excused our sins, but rather,
our sins are punished. Just not in us. Our sins were
punished in the substitute. God dealt with our sins. You
see, He didn't just overlook our sins. God dealt with them
in Christ. In Isaiah chapter 53, we know
that to be one of the prophecies, one of the best gospel messages
in all the Old Testament. It says, We all like sheep have
gone astray, everyone turning to his own way. But He laid on
Him. What? The iniquity of us all. And by His stripes, we were healed. You see, our sins were not overlooked,
believer. Our sins were dealt with. The
wrath of God was poured out for our sins just upon the head of
our substitute, and not us. And see then the believer, we
by Christ's blood, shall stand before God in absolute victory,
free from sin, free from the wrath of God. which is pictured
in chapter 15 by these saints standing on the sea of glass. Look at that in verse 2. And
I saw, as it were, a sea of glass mingled with fire. And them that
had gotten the victory over the beast, over his image, over his
mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of
glass, having the harps of God. Not even these harps are ours.
They're God's harps. I like that. Nothing belongs
to us, but rather all is His, and He gives it to us. And we
stand on the sea mingled with fire. What is that? We stand
on the justice of God. We stand on the wrath of God.
Why? We are above it because Christ
has already suffered in our stead. We stand. You stand before God,
pure and holy, with harps of God, singing what? A song of
deliverance. They sang the song of Moses and
of the Lamb. That is a song of deliverance.
When they had crossed the Red Sea, they were safe on the other
side. You, believer, are safe in Christ. Safe. This is the message of
comfort for you, that you have escaped, and all your foes shall
be destroyed before your face. This is the message of the vials,
that all our enemies, all the enemies of Christ, shall be destroyed. As Pharaoh was crushed by the
same sea they walked through, even so this sea that we stand
on shall crush them. It shall crush our foes. And
in verse 5 of chapter 15, the God of all grace gives hope. You see that when it says the
door, the temple of the tabernacle of testimony was opened, was
in heaven opened. The God of all grace gives hope
then to man. Hope to sinners in this. Jesus
said, I am the door. If any man enter in, that's important,
isn't it? I didn't say measure the door.
Theologians measure the door. Many of them never go in. Oh, they tell you all about Christ.
All of you know about Jesus here this morning. But have you entered
in to Christ? Because that's only safety. Noah
was not safe except he entered in the ark. And I tell you, you that have
entered in are safe. And you that are without, the
door is open. If you will not come in, I want
you to understand, it is your rebellion that keeps you out.
It is your sin that keeps you out. The door is open. The way
of the Christ is open. Jesus who is the fulfillment
of the tabernacle, the only place where God will meet with men
in mercy. He has rent that veil in twain and I tell you the way
to God is open, it is clear, it is trusting Christ alone.
It is forsaking your sins, it is repenting from your works.
and turning to Christ. It is to cease from labor and
believe only on Jesus Christ. The door is open. Whosoever shall
call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. That is faith
in Christ the Lord. This calling is no mere confession
of the mouth. I see this all the time. People
pressuring their children to make some confession. Some profession
of faith. And they go up there and they
say the words, they say the prayers. They don't mean them, they don't
understand them. They just say them, they repeat
them. And some man tells them, you're okay. You're not okay.
If it's just your mouth, you're not okay. You must believe with
the heart. For with the heart man believeth
unto salvation, and with the mouth confession is made. You
see, both are involved, both are necessary. That which is
in the heart always comes out of the mouth. This is the work of God upon
the heart of the sinner. It is God exposing the sin and
deadness of the sinner. If any man is to come in, he
must know his need. Why would you come to Christ
if you don't have a need? I don't come to Christ, I don't have
a need! I'm alright! You're not, but I'm not going
to... nobody forcing you in here. Only
those who have a need will come in. And God must expose your
sin to show you your need. This is the work of God. To break
the sinner, to expose the sinner, to see he cannot save himself.
It is to cause the sinner to have nowhere else to go. I like
that woman who had the issue of blood. That's one of my favorite
miracles the Lord did because that is a picture of salvation.
That woman, she had a physical ailment. And what did she do? She went to doctor, after doctor,
after doctor. She spent all she had. She went every place else she
could go. And when she was broke, and she
had no place else to go, then Christ appeared. Then, in a last
ditch effort, she went because she had no place else to go.
Is that not how men come to Christ? With nothing. That's how I come
to Christ. With nothing. I have nothing
to offer. I have nothing to give. I cling to Him in faith, trusting
Him to heal my sickness and sin. And so then God sends His servants.
like those servants of the king into the highways and hedges
this morning i'm going into the highways and hedges beating the
bushes my message is clear god has chosen a bride for his
church chosen a people Christ Jesus has redeemed them. Bought them. And our message to them is this. All is ready. All is ready. Salvation without the deeds of
the law is manifest. Jesus has accomplished and finished
all that God requires. Come now, the door's open. This
is the message of the church. The door is open. Christ is the
way. Believe on him. Come and buy
wine and milk without money and without price. Wherefore do you
spend your money for that which doesn't satisfy you? All right,
who's been satisfied by their sin? What lust has satisfied? What lust have you satisfied?
If it's satisfied, you should never want it again, right? But you do. Why? It doesn't satisfy. Why is religion always perpetually
trying to do because nothing satisfies? Work religion never
satisfies. You never do enough. You never
earn enough. You're never good enough. You're
always working, always trying, always doing. Why do you labor
for that which satisfies not? All is ready. Come in. Come in. It's open. Feast. And all who come in are saved
forever, completely redeemed before God. But you who refuse,
to all who begin to make excuses. This morning, do you have an
excuse for not coming? What is your excuse? What is
your excuse? What is your excuse for not coming? This is what happens. Every time
Christ is preached, there's always an excuse. Those men begin to make excuses
in that parable. He says, Oh, I've got ox. I've
got to go try them. I've got property to tend to.
I've got a wife. I've got a family that needs
tending to. I can't come now. I've got things I've got to do. I've got things I want to do.
And I can't come to Christ and have these things too. They begin
to make excuses. well now then we begin to talk
about these vials to you now presently that we
make excuses god is all around you sounding warnings sickness is a warning anybody
had the flu that's a warning sorrow anybody cry anybody have
trouble That's a warning. Calamities all around us. These
are meant by God to warn you to flee from the wrath to come. For all who will not come to
Christ must suffer the full wrath of God without measure. That is what is meant by the
trumpets in chapter 8 and 9. The trumpets are warnings. You get sick, God warns you,
He heals you. You get sick, God warns you,
and then He heals you. You get sick, God kills you. I want you to know that's not
a trumpet, that's a vial. What was a trumpet at one time,
now has become a vial of wrath poured out on you. These vials are not meant to
warn men, but rather these vials are poured out upon men are divine
acts of judicial reprobation. God said my spirit shall not
always strive with man. How many times have you seen
a man come and sit as a child and hear the gospel over and
over and over and over and over and yet go away never to hear
it again. I tell you that man dying in
his sins he was reprobate long before he died. God gave him
over to what he wanted. That's a vow poured out. So,
after so long of God's providential warnings, He then ceases to warn. He leaves those who willfully,
obstinately, and utterly continue in unbelief of His Son. He will soon leave them with
no hope or opportunity of salvation anymore. this is seen in chapter fifteen
by the shutting up the temple read that verse eight and the
temple was filled with smoke and the glory of god and from
his power and no man was able first of all the door was open
now no man is able to enter in why? because the vials have been
poured out how sad is the day when god withdraws
his influence of his spirit and his gospel from the hearing of
men." You mark it down. It is no sad
occasion to them, but it is a sad occasion to us
who understand. This is what is meant by the
pouring out of the vials. The pouring out of the vials
are not prophetic events in some future state, but they are taking
place even now today. This is a very present word in
this very age that we live in. This is happening today. This is happening and taking
place today and there are many instances in scripture that give
us examples of this, that show us this. Pharaoh is an example
of this. Pharaoh is an example. God sent
him ten plagues. Can you get any more clear warnings
than these plagues of flies and locusts and water turning to
blood? Can you get any more? And I'll
tell you, these vials, if you were to compare them to the plagues
of Exodus, you would find that they're very similar. They're
very similar. They match right up. But he warned
him. These things were warnings. And
yet, what was Pharaoh's response to these warnings? He would not
repent. He would not repent and believe
God. He hardened his heart. Yet even
before his death, I tell you, God had already poured out his
vial because the scripture says God hardened Pharaoh's heart. Do you not see that God gave
him over to what he desired most anyway? God was not unjust to
harden his heart. Pharaoh's heart was already hard.
He was already obstinate against God. He was already doomed before
the Red Sea, wasn't he? Isn't that what God told Moses?
You go tell him, let my people go. And what did God say? He
will not let them go. He will not let them go. and yet i'll tell you his doom
was complete when god poured out that vial at the red sea
and he was crushed and died in his sins go to acts chapter i
want to show you this one go to acts chapter uh... Acts chapter 12. Now, this Herod
is the grandson of Herod the Great who slaughtered the children
in Bethlehem. His father was Herod that sent
the Lord Jesus Christ to Pilate for the crucifixion. And this
is his son, Herod Agrippa. And in chapter 12, after he had
heard the disciples, after he had put them in prison, after
he had this is what he did now about the time here to the king
stretch forth his hand to vex certain of the church he killed
james the brother of john with the sword and because he saw
it please the jews he proceeded further to take peter but look what happened to him
in chapter twenty three he heard the gospel rejected it an apostle of Christ imprisoned
another, and he gave this speech. He gave this speech. He was dressed
in his royal apparel, and everybody says, oh, what a wonderful speech!
And he was filled with pride, and look what happened in 23,
and immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he
gave not God the glory. And he was eaten of worms, and
gave up the ghost. Now what was this? What was the
meaning of this? This was to Herod a vial poured
out on him. But what was it to everyone else
that were alive and remained? What was that? It was a warning.
So what the same event was to one was a vial, it was a trumpet
to others. Now then, let us consider chapter
16, and I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the
seven angels, go your ways, pour out the vials of wrath of God
upon the earth. And the first wind had poured
out his vials upon the earth, and there fell a noisome and
grievous sore upon men, which had the mark of the beast, and
upon them that worship his image. My friend, this is incurable
diseases. That's all this is. These sores
that are grievous to men are incurable diseases. At times, God pours out upon
men incurable diseases, and He will bring the unrepentant sinner
by these things to hell. Every sickness is a warning,
but a fatal disease is by no means a warning, but rather a
vial used to bring that man to eternal ruin. Let no man be so
presumptuous as to suppose to have a deathbed conversion. That
is a presumption, isn't it? Well, I'm just going to live
like hell all my life. I'm going to defy God, and when
I come to my deathbed, then, at the last minute, then I'll
be saved. Prince, deathbed conversions
are rare things. Rare things. Matter of fact, one's only coming
to my mind right now in all of Scripture, the thief on the cross,
and that's it. He's rather the exception, not
the rule. Seldom does a man ever find repentance
on his deathbed. But believer in Christ, I want
you to understand, you get sick, that's not a vial for you. Believers do get sick, but that's
not to cause you to be despairing. These afflictions and sicknesses
may indeed come upon the believer as well as the unbeliever, but
these are for their doom, but rather, not for our doom, but
rather for our good. What does an incurable disease
do for us except usher us into heaven? Remember, believer, all things
work together for your good. All things, even sickness. Sickness and fatal diseases are
never vials of wrath upon the saints, though we are still prone
to these as the lost, but ours is very different from theirs." Why? Because Christ bore our
judgment. These things are to wean us from
the world and set our affections on Christ. And surely fatal diseases
do that, don't they? They cause us and force us to
let go of the things of the world and look ahead to our home. Second of all look at this second
one and a second angel poured out a vial upon the sea and it
became as blood of a dead man and every living soul died in
the sea if you remember this this trumpet of the sea it was
blown and Many things died it says one-third of those died
in the sea, but if you see the difference here everything died
so what's the difference between a trumpet and a vial the vial
is final and There's a finale in this. There's an end in this. And this speaks of all maritime
calamities. All things upon the sea, floods,
hurricanes, tsunamis. In Psalm 48, verse 7, it's a
picture of how God will destroy all those who oppose the gospel
and His church. But all believers who perish
at sea, what is that to you? Is that a vial? No. No. We will not be dropped into hell
by these calamities at sea, but rather we shall sail into the
safe haven of heaven. Now thirdly, he goes, and the
third angel poured out the vials upon the rivers and the fountains
of waters, and they became as blood. These rivers and fountains made
by God are for life and benefit of man. But when these things are turned
to blood, what is this but the fountains are dried up? This
is all those who die of lack of rain and famine in the land. God pours out, God withholds
the rain. Imagine if God just withholds
the rain for a year. Do you realize how many would
die? Now, those who will not repent,
those who will not come, this is a vial poured out on them.
But to you, believer, if you die of starvation, does that
mean God despised you? No. No. It's not a vial to you. And fourthly, look at this. He
says, and I heard, let's see, In verse
7, I heard another angel out of the altar say, Even so, Lord
God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments. And the fourth
angel poured out his vial upon the sun, and the power was given
to him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great
heat and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over
these plagues. And they repented not to give
him glory. Scorching may be the desert,
lands it may be barrenness it may be drought as well these
vials are poured out upon men and they are meant to punish
and send those to hell number the next one it says the fifth
angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast and his
kingdom in full was full of darkness and they gnawed their tongues
for pain and blasphemed the god of heaven because of their pains
and their sores and they repented not of their deeds When a kingdom
is fallen, that's what this is, the fall of earthly anti-Christian
governments and false religion. I was thinking about this this
week. When men go so far in patriotism, I tell you it's nothing less
than worshiping a government. we should be good citizens we
should be we and this country's been good this country's good
it's it the rulers of it her wicked and we should pray for
them paul said we should pray for the it's not that we should
revolt against any government as but i'll tell you this if
this government falls we're not going to be any less in trouble
why because this is not our home our government is in heaven our
rulers in heaven they cannot be moved but i'll tell you a
man that worships a government the man who follows after government
that government falls they are in disarray this is a vile poured
out on those who worship governments and false religion the same thing
if a man's worshipping a false preacher and that man be becomes
who he actually is he's exposed This has happened to a lot of
those false preachers on television, people following them, following
them, following them. They're exposed! And what do
their congregants do? They're mad! They're upset that
this has come upon them! They don't know where to go!
They don't know what to do! But they will not come to Christ.
They will not come to Christ. And the next one is, look at
this in verse 12. And the sixth angel poured out
a vial upon the great river Euphrates, and the waters there have dried
up, and the ways of the kings of the east might be prepared.
And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs out of the mouth of
the dragon, and the mouth of the beast, and the mouth of the
false prophet. For these are the spirits of
devils working miracles which go forth unto the kings of the
earth and the whole world to gather them to battle of the
great day of God Almighty. Here we have on this pouring
out of the sixth vial is what is called the battle of Armageddon. This is no physical battle but
a spiritual one. This is that time when Satan
should be loose from the pit for a little season. And what
does he do? He sends out through his instruments
all the wicked philosophies and doctrines that he has pinned
up over the years, and they pour out of their mouth like vile
frogs. Unclean. The way is prepared to make warfare. Even so, in the kingdoms of nations,
they set themselves against Christ. And in this time, this warfare,
though it's been throughout all the generations, at this time
it will come to its finale. That's what this is. This is
the final apostasy, when many shall go away from the church
in that final apostasy. And at that time, God is ready
to do away with them all. Really, this was no battle for
God. This is just the final one. Kings and people of the earth
will move against the church and the saints, that the church
will appear to be dead, helpless, and extinct. Then shall all the
vain philosophies of Satan be loosed upon the earth. But then
the final vial of judgment of God is poured out in verses 17
through verse 21. And here describes the full torment
of that great day when the wrath of God is full poured out. And
notice this. In verse 17, the seventh angel
poured out his vial upon the air, and there came a great voice
out of the temple of heaven from the throne, saying, It is done. The end. The end. What is the end of everyone who
rejects Christ? The end is eternal wrath. Eternal judgment of God. Now then, we see these vials. We know what they are. We know
who they're for. But what is the result of these?
What is the result? When God blows the trumpet, or
if God pours out the vial of His wrath in reprobation to these
men, what is the result? The result is this. They will
not repent. Now listen, I've told you the
way is open. I've told you that Christ has died for sins. I've
told you to come in and all who come in shall be saved. And not
one of these vials shall be poured out on those who believe. For
Christ is our refuge, our substitute. He satisfied the justice of God
for us. But all who will not come, God
warns you with trumpets, and there is a time that He will
not strive with you. There is a time He will give
you no more space for repentance. He will bring upon you a final
calamity, a sickness, the sea, drought, famines, whatever the
vial is. but the result is always the
same want you to get this judgment
never changes the heart never changes the heart It never
causes one to cry out for mercy. You think it would, right? You
think that would be reasonable. God gives a man an uncurable
disease. You would think that he would
move that person to repentance. The wicked man instead will try
to blame God for his calamity. He'll blame God for the punishment
rather than confess his sins and repent. We say, surely these judgments
that come upon men will cause him to fear God. Surely this
will do it. This sickness. Surely. Surely
my son will see it there. Surely my daughter will see it
then. Surely, with all this pain and suffering their sin is caused,
you surely would think that they would repent. but look back in your text, look
back over to uh... look at these that are scorched
in verse nine it says these men, this fire was poured out on him
they were scorched with great heat and what did they do? they blasphemed the name of God
which hath power over the plagues and they repented not to give
him glory Now, I want to be clear about this. Because God does
at times act providentially in judgments and use them. Case
in point, the woman that we had mentioned earlier with the sickness.
God used that sickness to bring her to Christ. Now, I'm not saying that all
sickness and all these things are exempt from God's using them. God uses providential judgments
to awake and arouse and impress and subdue and humble his elect
people. Like Manasseh. There's one in
scripture, right? Manasseh, that wicked king that
killed those infants. All those infants in Israel,
burned them to false gods. And when he was told he was dying,
he turned to the wall and he pled, and God showed mercy to
that wicked man. the demoniac of Gadara, the blind
Bartimaeus, the leper, the woman with the issue of blood, all
providential judgments used of God to awaken the soul to their
need of Christ. So what do we mean that judgments
never produce repentance? We mean this, that providential
judgments by themselves never produce repentance. If God does
not cause a man to repent, the judgment itself will not cause
a man to repent. You see, God must give repentance. You cannot repent except God
give you repentance. Many live in poverty and sickness,
of all sorts of troubles and sufferings, and yet they don't
repent. Their hearts are only hardened.
Why? Because God does not give them
repentance. No amount of heat or pain or
trouble can cause repentance. Consider hell. What more punishment,
what more suffering is there than hell? But I tell you this,
there is no repentance in hell. No one repents in hell. Therefore
afflictions only expose what type of nature we have. Isn't
that right? If you have a wicked, ruined
nature and that alone, suffering will only reveal a worse character. That which is bad becomes worse.
But you take a man who has a new heart, what does affliction do?
It shows forth that which is good. It causes us to flee to Christ,
doesn't it? Affliction. What does it cause the wicked
to do? Run from Christ. Blaspheme Christ. Therefore,
if you are not hardened, listen, if you today, right now, are
not hardened in your heart, if you are not set against God,
listen, come now Today is the day of salvation. Today. Today, if you will hear His voice,
harden not your hearts. Repent and believe the Gospel
today. Why? You may not be able tomorrow. Now if the judgment of God will
not cause men to repent, what will? Goodness of God. This message of judgment, you
know that doesn't cause any man to repent? It makes people fearful. It makes them afraid for a little
while, but that just goes away. As soon as you leave here, if
you're at lost, this thing may cause you a little bit of trouble,
talking about hell and judgment and things like that, but as
soon as you get up, that's all goes away. That's short-lived. You'll return to your vomit.
You'll return to your sin, and it won't affect you one bit. But I'll tell you this, the only
thing that gives repentance is the goodness of God. Where can
we see the goodness of God? only in the face of Jesus Christ.
That God sent His Son to this earth to condescend so that He
should save the most unworthy people. That should cause you to repent.
That should melt your heart. That the Son of God gave His
life That the Son of God suffered
the wrath of God in the stead of the most guilty, the most
vile. In love, in compassion, in mercy,
He gave His life. That should melt the heart of
stone. It should cause men to come and
plead for mercy. Behold the goodness of God leadeth
men, the Apostle said to repentance. And all who come to God in repentance
must come by Jesus Christ alone. You must leave everything and
come to Him by Christ. But beware, there is a such thing
as false repentance, isn't there? If judgments are the grounds
and cause of your repentance, it will not last long. How many times have you seen
a man come in tears? I've seen this many times. In tears because
of his troubles. In tears because of his pain.
And he comes to me and he says, what do I do? I said, you should
believe on Christ. And he makes some profession
of faith so as to clear his conscience, so as to do away with his trouble.
He doesn't want his trouble anymore. And I'll tell you, that man grit
his teeth in the service of God just as long as he possibly could,
and then he could not bear it any longer, he left. Why? It was false. It was false. His judgment caused his repentance. Cain. That's one who repented,
isn't it? Cain repented. That didn't last
long. Judas repented, didn't he? Repented
to the wrong people. Repented to the Jews and not
to Christ. King Herod was very sorry he
had to cut off the head of John the Baptist. But his repentance
didn't last long. He killed the Lord of Glory. No man will repent of his sins until Christ is revealed as the
all-sufficient substitute. True repentance is a gift of
God, of the Holy Ghost, and causes the sinner to see his ruined
state and flee to Christ alone. This is pictured in the prodigal
son. You remember that prodigal son? He said, give me what I've
got coming. And he took what he had and he
went out and spent it all. I'll have my way into hell with
the consequences. Pretty soon the man was living
in the slop house with the pigs, eating the husks. He had nothing. The scripture says, then he came
to himself. What was that? That's a picture
of us. We wanted our own way. We went
our own way. And we found ourselves eating
the husks of religion, eating the husks of our lust and the
passions of the flesh. And then, by the Spirit of God,
we came to ourself and said, what am I doing here? My Father
is rich. My Father, my servants of my
Father eat better than this. I will go to Him and confess
my sins. I am not worthy to be called
thy son. Make me thy servant. You know,
he's going back with his head down. He's reciting this over
and over. Please, please just give me the
servant status. Just give me, just give me crumbs
of mercy. You remember what happened when
he came. The Father saw him and ran. Only time in Scripture God's
in a hurry. He sits on the seat of His throne,
anxious to save. He ran and He kissed Him. And He said, Father, I have sinned. And Father said, Shut up. Bring
the robe. Kill the fatted calf. My Son
that was dead is now alive. See, that providential judgment
was not for his condemnation, but rather to bring him to salvation. Have you come to yourself? Have
you come to yourself? If you have, then all the providential
judgments of God are not against you. If you haven't, they are. Which are you? Happy are you if you are in Christ. None of these things will hurt
you. Not one. Christ is your refuge. Christ
is your friend. sticketh closer than a brother. But if you are outside of Christ,
I have warned you. I have warned you. Your blood is on your own head. Now may God the Holy Spirit apply
it. to your hearts. Stand and be
dismissed and pray.