I'm going to start reading in verse 6 and
read down to verse 12 what I'm going to deal with this evening
if the Lord would enable me to. And I saw another angel fly in
the midst of heaven having the everlasting gospel to preach
unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred,
and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God,
and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come,
and worship him that made heaven and earth, and the sea, and the
fountains of water. And there followed another angel,
saying, Babylon is fallen, that great city, because she made
all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
And the third angel followed with them, saying with a loud
voice, If any man worship the beast in his image, and receive
his mark in his forehead or in his hand, 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
fine brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and the presence
of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment
ascended up forever and ever, and they have no rest day or
night who worship the beast in his image. whosoever receiveth
the mark of his name. Here is the patience of the saints. Here are they that keep the commandments
of God and the faith of Jesus. You know over in Revelations
11 and verse 12, God said come up hither and the believers are
described as ascending up into heaven on a cloud. You can look
at that at your own leisure, but that's what it says. He said,
God said, come up hither. And all the saints arose in a
cloud up into heaven. And then, here in verse 12, it takes us
back to what was going on before the judgment day. You know, it's
about the great dragon and his beast. And all the awful things
that the beast did, and all the false prophets, and all the things
that they said had blasphemy on his name, on his head, and
had all them horns, and showing how ferocious, how mean, how
cruel they are. And so the two beasts and the
dragon. But now, we're back where we
were in heaven again. We said heaven started out over
there in chapter 11, verse 12. Everything that was going on
between that time, And now we're going back to heaven. We're going
back to where we was when we was taken up. And look what it
says there in verse 5. They were redeemed, of course,
from among the men on the earth. And in their mouth was found
no guile. They were honest people. God honoring people. Didn't have
any guile. They didn't have any put on.
Didn't have any sham religion. What they said about Christ was
real. What they said about Christ was
true. What they believed about Christ is right. What they believed
about Him is true. God Himself taught them, so they
had no guile. No deceit. No deceit. It's awful. It's awful to be
deceived. But it's even worse to be deceived
in yourself. I don't want to be deceived.
I don't want to be deceived. I want to know Christ. I want
to be found in Christ. I want to stand before God today
like I'll stand before Him in eternity in Christ. I want to stand right before
God right now where I'll stand when I face him, in the righteousness
of Christ, believe in the gospel of the grace of God given us
in Christ. And that's why there's no guile
in their mouth. No guile in their mouth. And
then not only that, but listen to this. And they are without
thought. before the throne of God. Now they're in heaven now. And God says they're without
fault before the throne and before God. Before the throne of God. Oh my, I could find fault with
me. I have no problem finding fault
with me. And anything you think about
me or anything you say about me, You ain't even, you ain't
scratched the surface yet. Anything you say would be true,
because if I haven't done it, I thought it. So you know we
can't take offense at what people say about us or do to us, because
we're without fault before God. Without fault before God. And
now we return to all the things that come before Christ's coming. Now there's three angels. Christ's
going to come back again, here it tells us in the latter part
of this chapter. But there's three angels here,
and all three of those angels have voices. They speak voices
of warning. I read about three angels. There's
a voice of an angel there. I saw another angel fly with
a voice. In verse 8, they're following
another angel's saying. And in verse 9, and the third
angel. So there's three angels here.
And they've all got something to say. They have one purpose. One purpose, and they're warning
mankind, respecting the judgment to come of God's judgment, and
that men may turn to God Himself in true faith and turn away from
themselves and from their sin. And note what the first angel
says. And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven. He's flying and he's right in
the middle of heaven. Having the everlasting gospel
to preach unto them that dwell on the earth and to every nation
and kindred and tongue and people. Now when he calls it the everlasting
gospel, and he talks about an angel, now we know that angels,
God never used an angel to preach the gospel. Not one time did
he use an angel to preach the gospel. Not one time. Can you find it, God? He used
angels. He used angels. But he never
used one to preach the gospel. And so when he talks here about
the gospel being preached, the eternal gospel, This is symbolic
or a picture of the preachers that God sends, and He sends
them with one gospel. One gospel. And I want to show
you that. You keep this and look over in
Galatians chapter 1 with me. Galatians chapter 1. You know,
I was telling the men back in the service, I was looking at
Schofield's Bible, looked it up on the internet, looked it
up on my phone really, And he got seven dispensations. And
he has seven Gospels. And I don't know which one of
the Gospels that he believes, but I know this. And God don't
have seven dispensations in this world. He does everything he
does on purpose. He declared the end from the
beginning and from ancient times and things that are not yet there
that said all my counsel shall stand. God does things on purpose. Everything that happened from
eternity to the eternity is everything is purposed. Salvation is purposed. Christ was purposed. The Word
was purposed. Holy Spirit's purposed. My salvation's
purposed. Everything that happens, happens
on purpose. There's no accidents. And so
listen, here he comes and he talks about this everlasting
gospel. There's no place in this blessed book where you cannot
find but one gospel. One. And God Himself defines
that gospel. He said it concerns His Son.
And He said He promised it. From ancient times, He promised
it in the prophets. And our Lord Jesus Christ, when
He preached Himself, He preached Himself. He says, you know, when
you read Moses, He's talking about me. When you read the prophets,
they're talking about me. When you read the Psalms, He's
talking about me. Talking about me. And if we can't find Christ in
the Scriptures, we're not looking at it right. And I tell you,
beloved, what I'm trying to say is this, that the gospel has
always been everlasting. God is an eternal God. And everything
he does, he does on the basis of eternity. So if he's got a
gospel, the gospel's got to be like himself. It's got to be
eternal. Did God take us a lamb slain from the foundation of
the world? And I talked about that lamb this morning. So if
God provided us a lamb before the foundation of the world,
that means He had a gospel for us before Christ ever come into
this world. Ain't that right? And the gospel
means good news. Good news. And oh what good news. that God provided a lamb? What
good news that God has come to seek and to save sinners? What
good news that Christ went to a cross and bore the sins of
all of His people in His own body there? What good news that
we are made the righteousness of God in Christ? What good news
that we are justified by faith that Christ was delivered for
our offenses and raised for our justification? Now what in the
world is justification? That means that God in heaven
himself says, I justify them people, nobody can charge them
for nothing. The justification takes place
in heaven where God says, I justify them people. Why do they say,
I justify them? How come? Because my son bore
their offenses. And they believe Him, they trust
Him. And so I'm going to justify them.
Well, I've seen this about them. They're justified. The way the
law says, they're justified. The heart says, they're justified.
This, they said this. Don't you bear a thing, Gimston.
They're justified. Who's at thee condemneth? It's
God that justifies. Huh? When we're talking about
the gospel, we're talking about the everlasting gospel. Now,
I said we was in Galatians. Ain't that where we're supposed
to be? I want you to look here with
me in verse 6. This is an amazing thing. I'm
marveled. I stand in absolute marvel that
you're so soon removed from him that called you into the grace
of Christ unto another gospel. So what he's telling you is here
you leave Christ, you leave your only hope. And what he says now,
which is not another. There's not another gospel. But there be some that trouble
you, come to you and really, really trouble you, and listen
to this, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. We always hear
about perverts. I tell you, whoever perverts
the gospel, I'd rather, listen, I heard Henry say one time, I'd
rather my son be a bartender than be a free will Baptist preacher. More chance, there's more, it
would reveal the condemnation and what he's talking about here,
when a man perverts the gospel. What does it take to pervert
the gospel? Add that much, add that harsh breath to Christ and
you've perverted the gospel. Take away anything from Christ
and you've perverted the gospel. You take away anything from the
righteousness of Christ and you add one thing that you do to
what Christ did and you pervert the gospel. You know what you have to do
to fall from grace? Just add one thing to what Christ
did. That's all it takes. Well, they
fell from grace. Well, the only way you'll ever
fall from grace if you're really saved by Christ is if your wife's
name's Grace and you fall out of bed. You know, I didn't mean to be
funny, but that's the truth. God's people ain't going to fall
from grace. They're not going to another gospel. When God teaches
you the gospel, I tell you what, there ain't nobody going to get
you away from it. If that's what old Barnard used
to say, if that's the truth that I'm going to say, I'm going to
find it and when that man's telling it, I'm going to sit right down
there and listen to what he's got to say. And look what he
goes on to say, he said, they pervert the gospel. But look
what he says here in verse 8 now. And this is what we're talking
about. But though we, or an angel from heaven, I mean if me or
an angel from heaven preach any other gospel than that we have
preached unto you, listen to this now, let him be cursed. Oh my, as I said before, so say
I now again, if any man preach any other gospel to you than
that you have received, let him be accursed. Oh, I tell you the
gospel God was the first one to preach the gospel in the scriptures.
So I tell you the gospel, and I tell you this is like the angels,
and then you know in here we're called. We have a calling from
heaven, and it's a heavenly calling, and we're calling men from sin
to Christ so that they can go to glory and be with Christ.
We've got a heavenly message, a heavenly message. Peter says
this, he says, he said, receiving the end of our faith, even the
salvation of our souls. The goal of our faith, the end
of our faith, when we get to the end of it, you know what's
going to happen? We're going to spend eternity
with Christ. There'll be an end to faith one of these days. We
won't need it anymore. But he says when we receive the
end of our salvation, the end of our faith's salvation, he
says, He said that we are looking at the angels, and everybody
in the prophets, they inquired, they looked through the scriptures,
inquired diligently, looked in the Bible, reading through the
scriptures, to see when Christ would come, and the glory that
Christ would have, and they preached the gospel sent by the Holy Spirit
that was sent down from heaven. They was looking for what we
got. They was searching for what God's taught us. They was looking
when Christ would come. They was looking for how much
glory He'd have when He got here. And that's what Isaiah was doing.
They was looking. And then when they heard it and
learned it, they said, We preach the gospel with the Holy Ghost
sent down from heaven. Ain't that right? Ah ha ha. Oh
boy. And then look what it says here.
And they come to preach to them that dwell on the earth. Sit on the earth. And listen
to this now. You know wherever you go, whatever
language you got, whatever nation you live in, whatever your kindred
is or anything else, there's one gospel for. One gospel. I've been to Mexico
several times. Oh my, you preach the gospel
down there and them Mexicans as they've been interpreted to
them, they'll start crying and they'll start rejoicing and they'll
start saying Amen. I'll tell you, I wish I could
speak Chinese, I'd go to China and preach. But wherever I go,
this is the thing, wherever you go, whatever language you got,
God's got somebody there to preach the gospel to. He'll have somebody. If He's got an elephant there,
if He's got sheep there, He'll go send somebody to get them.
Ain't that right? And then, you know the men who
are on the earth now, dwell on the earth, that's why we preach
the gospel to them. Because men on this earth right
now, We've warned them about the judgments to come. It's like
Noah. He was a preacher of righteousness.
And he kept saying judgments coming. But you know the scriptures
tells us very plainly that as it was in the days of Noah, so
shall it be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man. What
was it like in the days of Noah? It said over in Matthew 24, it
said they were eating and drinking. We all eat, we all drink. I ate
today, you ate today. We drank coke, we drank water,
we drank something. Eating and drinking, nothing
wrong with that. They were marrying and giving in marriage. And what
they were doing is they were so charmed by the world and so
delighted by the world and so interested in their fleshly appetites,
so interested in what they were doing. It's like that fellow
said, listen, I can't come because I married a wife. And that's,
you know, and that's what people do now. And so they go about,
and the scripture says, and they knew not until the flood came. They knew not. And that's what
he's talking about here. You go preach the gospel to these
people. Because they're indifferent, they're unconcerned, they're
listless, they're easy going, they're careless. There ain't nothing wrong with
marrying. Nothing wrong with giving and marrying. But when
your life is taken up with nothing but this life, it's going to be awful. Men will
be taken up with this world and its charms. and won't know their
danger, don't have a clue what their danger is until it's too
late. And we preach the eternal gospel always in hope that somebody
is going to hear it, somebody's going to believe it. Huh? Oh,
there's people here that I preach to all the time. I just keep
praying, keep hoping, keep trusting that one of these days they say,
I heard it! I got it! I see it! My whole family, that's where
they're at. They're just like they was in the days of Noah.
They get up in the morning, drink their coffee, go about their
day. God don't enter their brains. People sitting in front of their
phones, in front of their computers, and they just don't think about
God. You go out here and you see all
this traffic running up and down the road, you know, up and down
the road. These people, where are they
going? What are they doing? They certainly ain't coming to
hear the gospel. Oh my. Well, he said, here's what he
said. Verse 7. This angel said with
a loud voice. He said, I want people to hear
what I got to say. Here's the first thing he says. Fear God. Fear God. Oh my. Give glory to Him. Oh, that's
what the gospel tells us. That's what the gospel teaches
us. Fear God. Give Him all the glory. Attribute
everything to Him. To Him be the glory. Huh? And look what he says. Give glory
to Him. Why? Because it's the right thing
to do. And this is why. Because His
judgment, the hour of His judgment is to come. And I mean it's coming. I mean it's coming fast. And
look what He says. And worship Him. Worship. We
come here. Sweet Shirley and I was talking
about this earlier today. We don't come here to have a
good time. We don't come here to have fun. We don't come here
to be entertained. We don't come here to be made
to feel good. We come here to worship God. To worship God in Christ. To
hear what God has to say to us. And by God speaking to us, we
can leave here and say, I heard from the Lord today. And go home
and be thankful. And we come to worship. We come
to adore. We come to bow down. We come
to enjoy. We come to delight. We come to
enjoy Christ, His gospel, His grace, His mercy, His patience,
His longsuffering. We come to worship Him. To give Him all the glory. Hey,
oh God, you got the glory. Why? Because he's the one that
made the earth, he's the one that made the heavens, and he's
the one that made the sea, and he's the one that made the fountains
of the earth. Oh my, he's got it all. And what we got, he gave
to us. Oh boy, bless his name, bless
his name. Then he says, the hour of his
judgment's come. No one who continues in unbelief
will escape. For the Lord's people, this is
a day that the Lord has made for us. It's the eternal good
tidings. We have eternal good tidings.
It will mean our final and full salvation. Be plumb saved. Plum saved. Boy, would that be
a day. Well, plum saved. Plum saved. Plum saved. Now look what is that in 2nd
Angel. Look what the 2nd Angel says. They're warning now. The
2nd Angel says this. And there followed another angel,
saying, Babylon is fallen, that great city, because she made
all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. Oh my, he just got one thing
that he says about Babylon is fallen. Babylon is fallen. That great city, that great city,
she's fallen. She's made everybody drunk in
her wine of her fornication, spiritual fornication. Now when
you think about Babylon, go back with me, everybody knows what
Babylon is. Babylon was a great huge city. God sent Israel into captivity
into Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar come down and
got them. Come down and brought them all. Brought them in. And everybody that was anybody
up there, they just assimilated into the Babylonian culture and
language. But you remember, there's four
men that did. Four men. that was not impressed
by Babylon, by it's king, by it's glory, by it's power, by
it's great everything. Daniel, they said you got to
eat what we tell you to eat. Daniel said I ain't going to
eat it. Okay. They made a great statue
and said Daniel you got to bow down to that. I ain't going to
do it. And if anybody prays to anybody but the God we saw over
here said if we catch him praying then we got to throw him to the
lions. Now Daniel opened up his window
and he prayed every single morning, noon and night. Finally they
said well, Daniel it's time to go to the lion's den. He went to the lion's den. Babylon
did not impress him a bit. They put him in the lion's den. King came over and looked, peeked
over in there and said, damn you, you alright? He said, yes,
my lord, come. Shut the mouths of the lion.
He used them for pillars. And then there's three other
ones. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. They made that great statue.
Bow down, bow down. Everybody don't bow down to this
statue. We're not going to do it. Oh,
listen to what I told King, said them fellas there, said they're
causing us trouble. They're gonna make trouble for
everybody in town if you don't get them fellas to, we'll have
a house, everybody will rebel against us if you don't deal
with them fellas. And they took old Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abednego, and they got a big furnace. And they heated that
furnace, and heated that furnace, and heated that furnace, and
heated that furnace, and kept on going until it got seven times
hotter. And the fellas that opened that
furnace to throw them in, it killed them. But they threw them
in that furnace. And they looked in there, and
they said, whoa, somebody's walking around in there with them. Who was it? Son of God. What I'm telling you is, Babylon
has fallen. It's always been fallen to us.
But the world, you know, everything now is based on globalism. Globalism. And the world's got to be as
one. Everybody, we've got to all mix
and mingle because, you know, we can't live without one nation.
We can't live without this part and that part. Everything's got
to be all one. That's Babylon. And I'll tell
you why, she's got her wine, and she's forgot God, and she's
so impressed everybody in the world, and all the billionaires,
and billionaires, and all the people, and she just keep pouring
out that wine, pouring out that wine, and they get drunk on it.
And this world's drunk on the wine of Babylon. I can show you
that, I can show you that. And I think it's Isaiah, 24. Yeah, look in Isaiah 24. I looked
at this before. I'll show you something here.
Look here what it says about the world. 2420. Isaiah 2420. Oh my, that great city. Oh, it seduces
people. This great city seduces people. People say, I've got to move
from here and go someplace else to do this and do that and do
this thing. I can't find a good job unless I go out and do this
great big city. Look what it says right now. The earth shall reel to and fro
like a drunkard. and shall be removed like a cottage,
and the transgression there shall be heavy upon it, and it shall
fall and not rise again." Drunk like a drunk man. That's
what the world is like that. And these nations drank of the
passion. And I tell you, men are constantly
warned about these things. Constantly warned. And then look
what the third angel says. Oh my. I know folks that's drunk on
the wine of this world and babbling. I mean they're just drunk on
it. Drunk on it. Drunk on it. I'm telling you
they're drunk on how much money they make. Drunk on the kind of cars they
have to drive. Drunk on the clothes they have
to wear. They can't wear clothes like you and I'd wear. They gotta
wear shirts that cost two or three, four hundred dollars.
They gotta wear suits that cost ten thousand dollars. They gotta
wear shoes that cost you twelve, fifteen thousand dollars. You say there's people like that.
Oh yeah, there's lots of people like that. There's people that lives in
houses I couldn't pay the taxes on and couldn't pay the light
bill. Oh boy, they're drunk on the
wine of this thing. Don't you do that. Don't you
get drunk on this. On this world. Don't get drunk
on the world. Don't do it. It's not worth it.
It's already fallen. It's already fallen. Well, Scott,
you had a car one time. You used to tell me about it. Firebird or something, wasn't
it? Firebird. He was out there shining it up,
polishing it up. Scott walked by and said, you
know, God's going to burn that thing up one of these days. You
sold it, didn't you? And that's the truth. He's going to burn it all up.
He's going to burn it all up. Oh,
but I tell you, When he comes, I won't be with him. Yes, yeah,
like the girl saying, I'm going home. I'm going home. I'm going
home. And then look what the third
angel says. In verse 9, the third angel followed them saying with
a loud voice, If any man worship the beast, now the beast, remember,
that first beast was the one that had blasphemy on his head.
Second beast was the false prophet. And if any man worshipped the
beast, worshipped that false prophet, worshipped that one
who blasphemes the name of God and his image, and received his
mark in his mind, that forehead represents the mind, the understanding,
or in his hand, that means with what he does, what he's doing,
well, he said, this is what's going to happen. And he says
with a loud voice, he says in no uncertain terms, he's using
solemn language here. He's using solemn language. 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 the presence of the Lamb. Those that are attached
to this world are going to perish with the world. Our Lord says you can't serve
God and mammon. To serve Satan, you're going
to have to suffer with Satan. If you live without Christ, the
consequences are going to be dying without Christ. Men cannot
sin and get away with it. And he says the same that has
this mark of the beast. The same. The same. We talked a minute ago about
perverting the gospel. The false prophet, that's what
he does. The same, the same ones shall drink. Now there they've
drunk the wine of the fornication of Babylon. Now here, God says
they're going to drink the wine of the wrath of God. And he said
it's poured out, there's no mixture to it. Pure wrath, pure anger. Unmixed, unmixed, unmitigated. And these people, they're going
to be tormented, tormented with fire and brimstone. Now look where it says it's going
to happen at. Oh, in the presence of the holy
angels, and right in the very presence of the Lamb of God Himself. He said, God says, the Lamb said,
this is alright. God's just to deal with men like
this. Here on this earth, there's kindness. There's longsuffering. God is
good. There's still rain as far as
on the just and the unjust, on the good and the evil. While
you're here. God's patience. God's longsuffering. It's still here. Still on this
earth. Still here to call men, manifest itself to men. But boy,
oh boy, when that judgment comes, nothing but wrath and being tormented,
tormented, tormented, continually. Because it's in their presence,
the angels and the Lamb. You know why they agree with
it? Because the punishment is just. God's punishment is just. Then in verse 11, and this judgment
never ends, look what it says here. And the smoke of their
torment, see fire and brimstone is there now. And the smoke of
their torment ascendeth up forever and ever. It goes up just in
the presence of God forever and ever. And listen to this, and
they have no rest day nor night. who worship the beast in his
image, and whosoever receiveth the mark in his head. You know,
that's vivid language. You consider the things that
people say about God. Consider the things that people
say about his son. Consider the things people say
about his word, and you'll understand Why God does what he does to
people. Look in over here in chapter
9 verse 20. You think God's not just to punish
people? Listen to here. You know whatever he does with
my children, he's going to be just. Whatever he does with yours,
he's going to be just. We hope, we hope that God regards
our children like he did Jacob. But He may, He may, He may let you have an Esau. He might. He very well may. He may. I hope He don't. I wouldn't want one of my children
to be an Esau. But if that's what God wills, that's the way
it will be. And I won't, what am I going to say about it? What
can I say about it? What can Esau say about it when
God said I love Jacob? And Esau, I don't want nothing
to do with you. That's what makes him God. And
that's what makes us people that we're absolutely and utterly
dependent on him. That's what makes him God. Oh,
you all are so blessed, Elder. You're so blessed, your children
here. You and Steve, you're all so blessed to have your children,
all of them converted. The only thing that you can attribute
that to is God and His grace. That's the only thing you can
attribute it to. Your children are no different than anybody
else's, but God had mercy on them. God did. Ain't that something? And the preacher ain't got a
person in his family that attends the worship of God. Not one. But God was that way with his
four boys, wasn't he? But God's gonna do just exactly
what's right. With me, you, our sons, our daughters,
our children, our grandchildren. Look what it says here in verse
20 of Revelations 9. And the rest of the men, which
were not killed by those plagues, yet repented not of the works
of their hands. They didn't even say, I'm sorry,
Lord God forgive me. And they did not repent that
they worshiped devils, and idols of gold and silver and brass
and stone of wood, which neither conceived nor hear nor walk.
They didn't repent. Neither repented they of their
murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornications, nor
of their thefts. Don't you think God would be
just in punishing those people? And that's what He is. He says,
Oh, I don't. One thing I am so thankful for, and this is what
the Gospel tells us. I've done been judged. I've done
been to God's judgment. Done been judged. and walked out of the courtroom. Nobody said anything against
me. Why? Because Christ stood before
the judge, took my place, and I walked out. O Lord Jesus, O our Savior, Our
blessed, blessed Master, our Lord, our God. Oh Lord, we get at a loss sometimes
when we think about you. And when we hear what is going
to happen to those who don't repent, who don't turn to you,
and who don't believe you, and don't trust you. It's a fearful
thing, fearful thing. And Lord, I pray that you would
bless the gospel to our hearts, to our understandings. Make it
alive and real and vital to us. For Christ indeed is our life.
He is our life. And Lord, bless those who don't
have that life of Christ, don't know that life of Christ. Bless
them, oh Lord, God, to see it, to believe it, to embrace the
Lord Jesus Christ. He'll never put anybody off if
it comes to Him. There's never been a soul that's
ever come to Him with outstretched hands, with nothing in them,
with a heart sorrowful for the way it is. It comes to you for
a new heart, comes to you for a new mind, comes to you to know
you. Oh Lord, we'll never cast them
away. Father, save your people in this place. Bring your glory
to yourself through the preaching of the gospel and the salvation
of your people. We ask these things in Christ's
name. Amen. Amen. To God be the glory. Great things
he hath done. Great things he hath taught us.
What's that? 49? 449? Okay. You'd lead that course,
would you?