I can't begin to tell you how
much I have profited in my soul in preparing this message. God
the Holy Spirit has blessed this portion of scripture to my heart
in remarkable ways, in comfort and edification to my soul. And
I pray that he will bless the message he's given me to your
hearts. for your comfort and edification
as well. My text is perhaps, perhaps the
most troubling text in the Bible for believing souls. Until just
a few weeks ago, it had troubled me considerably for 47 years. It's now a passage full of comfort
and encouragement because I now understand what I was not able
to understand for 47 years until God opened the text to me. If
you're a believer, if you trust Christ, the message or the passage
here I'm certain troubles you if you do not understand it clearly. And the reason why it troubles
so many is because it is misunderstood misrepresented, misinterpreted,
and misused commonly by preachers who, even those preachers who
mean well and who seek honestly and faithfully to serve the cause
of our Redeemer and his people. Now my subject is this. Sin unto
death and sin not unto death. Sin unto death and sin not unto
death John chapter 5 verse 16 If any men see his brother sin
a sin Which is not unto death Unless I fail to call your attention
to it later notice the words which is are in italics and If
any man see his brother sin a sin, not unto death, he shall ask
and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death. I
do not say that he should pray for it. All unrighteousness is
sin. And there is a sin not unto death. Now, when we read here about
the sin under death and sin not under death, if your experience
is like mine, Satan immediately throws questions in your mind,
causing you to hear his insinuations of damnation, causing us to immediately
begin to ask ourselves, have I believed in vain? Have I committed
the unpardonable sin? Have I blasphemed the Holy Ghost?
Is my professed faith in Christ nothing more than the religious
refuge of reprobate man? All these questions arise and
Satan's fiery darts pierce our hearts to the quick only because
of one thing. We fail to hear God's word as
it is given in its context right here. We fail to hear God's word
as it is given in its context right here. It is profitable
sometimes to study the scriptures by getting your concordance down
and looking at places where the same word is used throughout
the scriptures, but not usually. Not usually. Not usually. In fact, I think, if I'm not
mistaken, the poorest excuse for studying the scriptures,
the poorest way to find the meaning and understand what the scripture
teaches, is to do word studies. What this word means here, it
must mean everywhere, so we'll follow it out and see how it's
used everywhere. That just isn't the case. Words are used in their
context and mean different things depending on how they're used
in their context. If you want to understand the
scriptures, seek to see the context in which anything is taught and
interpret it according to its context and in the context, the
larger context, of all the Word of God. Don't allow the fiend
of hell to turn the Word of God into a contradiction in your
own mind. All right, now let's look at
the context. Remember John's purpose in writing this little
epistle. You remember what his purpose
is? You remember? His purpose is to assure us. His purpose is to give us comfort. His purpose is to give every
believing sinner, every sinner who trusts the Lord Jesus Christ,
confident assurance of faith in Christ, confident assurance
of salvation by Christ, confident assurance of everlasting immutable
acceptance with God. Now that's clearly John's purpose
in these five chapters. Fifteen times. Perhaps more than
that, but I counted today 15 times. 15 times, at least that
many. John uses these two words, we
know. We know. Not we suppose, not
we think, not we hope, we know. We know. Let's look at some of
them. I want you to see the context in which this is found. John's
purpose, he writes, by the dictation of God the Holy Spirit, that
we might know that we know Christ. Look in chapter 2, verse 3. Hereby
we do know that we know Him. Verse 5. Hereby know we that
we are in Him. Verse 20. Ye have an unction,
an anointing from the Holy One, and ye know all things. Verse 21. Ye know all the truth. Verse 2 of chapter 3. We know
That when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall
see him as he is verse five You know That he was manifested to
take away our sins and in him is no sin. What great words of
assurance chapter 3 verse 14 We know That we pass from death
into life We know We know we pass from death into life because
we love the brethren verse 19 Hereby we know that we are of
the truth and shall assure our hearts before him verse 24 We
know that he abideth in us chapter 4 verse 13 Hereby we know that
we dwell in him and he in us because he's given us of his
spirit Chapter 5 verse 13 these things have I written unto you
that believe on the name of the Son of God and that you may know
that you have eternal life. Verse 19, we know that we are
of God. Verse 20, we know that the Son
of God is come and has given us an understanding that we may
know Him that is true and we are in Him that is true, even
in His Son, Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal
life. Now let me ask you, In the light
of these things, in the light of this sure testimony, in the
light of this repeated, constant testimony, John says, if you
believe on the Son of God, you know you have eternal life. You
know you have an unction from God. You know that you know all
things. Why do we so quickly? Hear the accusations and the
slanders and the doubting questions The fiend of hell raises in our
minds when we read the book of god It's a it's unbelievable unbelievable
It's it's amazing to me With regard to myself and with regard
to folks to whom I preach you you preach the word of god you
I mean just Man, sometimes I get done preaching. I think oh What
comfort, what consolation, what peace, what joy? This ministry's
got people, somebody meets you at the door and says, well, Brother
Don, I wonder if maybe I've committed the sin against the Holy Ghost. Folks can't see the sun for the
clouds. They refuse to look at the sun,
insisting on looking at the clouds. I want us to understand what
God teaches us in this passage. Now, here in this context, the
more immediate context, not only is John giving us assurance,
the reason for the epistle is to give us assurance, comfort,
confidence before God as believers. Here in this passage, immediately
he's giving us a word of instruction to assure us of our certain success
at the throne of grace when we pray. He's telling us, be assured
of this, you know, you know that when you pray, you have what
you seek from God. Be assured of this you cannot
fail at your father's throne be assured of this every child
of god Prevails with god in prayer. Let's see. That's what it says
verse 13 These things have I written unto you chapter 5 verse 13 These
things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the
son of god now i'm not talking to just anybody I'm not not talking
to all of you. I'm talking to all of you who
believe on the name of the Son of God Everybody who trust the
Lord Jesus that you may know that you have eternal life That
you may believe on the name of the Son of God Verse 14 and this
is the confidence we have of him this this is the confidence
God's given us in his son if we ask anything of According
to His will, He heareth us. And if we know that He heareth
us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that
we desired of Him. Now, Bob, that's the context.
Here's the next word. If any man see his brother sin
a sin which is not unto death, see his brother sin a sin not
unto death, he shall ask, and God shall give him life. for
them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death. I
do not say that you shall pray for it. All unrighteousness is
sin, and there is a sin not unto death. Now, before I show you
clearly what the passage is teaching, let me state emphatically What
you ought to know, John is not teaching here that men sometimes
assume he is teaching. John is not here saying that
a brother in Christ, a believer, might sin a sin unto death and
be reprobate at last. People take passages, talk about
folks falling away and they're all returning to his own vomit
and such as that. And so there you have evidence
that man may be a true believer and wind up in hell after all.
Please, please don't even entertain such a foolish notion. Don't
entertain such a foolish notion. If salvation depended on you,
you'd go to hell. That today, tomorrow, or yesterday. Salvation doesn't depend on you
and me. It doesn't depend on us holding on and holding out.
Yes, God's people do hold on. Yes, the righteous shall hold
on his way. Yes, God's people do persevere
in faith. But our perseverance doesn't
depend on us. It depends on God. He preserves
us in grace and therefore we persevere in grace and not one
sheep of Christ shall ever fall away. That's not going to happen.
This is God's work and God did it forever. Second, John is not
here suggesting that God sometimes has to kill his people because
they just won't behave. Now, I've heard this all my life,
and it's never set well with me. It's never set well with
me because it runs contradictory to everything else taught in
scripture. Somebody said, well, old Bob Huntser, he got out of
sorts, and God chastened him, and God chastened him. God took
his babies. God took his wife. God took his
health. He still wouldn't hear God said, the Lord just killed
him and took him to glory. And somehow the idea that God
killing a fellow to punish him for sin takes him to glory and
that's punishment just doesn't sit well. That just doesn't sit
well. Since when is it punishment to be absent from the body and
present with the Lord? God doesn't punish us for our
sins. He punished our sins in his son,
our substitute. He does chasing his own in love
for that to correct them. And if God's determined to correct
you by business, he'll get the job done. He will correct you.
He will correct you. He doesn't, he doesn't just administer
the rod. He makes the rod effectual. No,
God doesn't doesn't just kill a fella taking the glory now
I'll talk about those other passages that you may think have relation
to that some other time but be assured of this that's totally
contrary to Everything written in the book and you can you can
just dead sure bake on this Any doctrine any teaching any anything
somebody suggest is taught in this book mark? just Throw it
at the whole Word of God And if the Word of God absorbs it,
it's so. And if it bounces back in your
face, it ain't. The whole Word of God teaches contrary to that. And certainly John is not teaching
us here that which the papists have tried and have made a fortune
on for 2,000 years nearly, that there are some mortal sins and
some venial sins. Some sins that Will wind you
up in hell and some sins that can be pardoned Some sins that
are forgivable and some sins that are not forgivable I'll
talk to you in a little bit about that blasphemy against the Holy
Ghost which shall not be forgiven a man But let's move on for a
little bit and let me show you clearly what John says here five
statements and I'll wrap this up Just listen to me for just
a few minutes number one When a brother sins, pray for
him and save his life. When a brother sins, pray for
him and save his life. Look at verse 16. If any man
see his brother sin a sin, not unto death, he shall ask. The word is beg. It's a different
word that's translated pray later. He shall beg. He shall beseech.
He shall earnestly entreat. He that is God shall give him
life For them that sin not unto death God Shall give to the man
who prays for his brother Life for them that sin not unto death
now nowhere else in the entire Word of God Will you find these
three words used together? sin a sin If you see your brother Quite
literally, John's saying, sinning a sin. Even more literally, sinning
sin. If you see your brother sinning
sin, what are you to do? Well, if I see my brother sinning
a sin, John's words are suggesting here an eyewitness record. He doesn't say if you hear that
your brother sinned a sin. It doesn't say if somebody reported
that your brother sinned or sinned. If you see your brother sin and
sin and death, what do you do? What do you do? Well, we got
to tell somebody about it. That's not what love does, is
it? That's not what love does. This lady sitting here, I promise
you she knows me better than any of you do. And, uh, She knows a good bit about me
that you wouldn't want to know You uh, well you might some some
of you might want to know but uh, she she knows a good bit
about me I sure wouldn't want you to know And we've been married
now for 45 years almost I'll tell you something. I'll guarantee
you Tell him i'll guarantee you I'll guarantee it You've never
heard her say one bad thing about this man. About this one. You've never heard her offer
a complaint about this man. Never heard her point out any
fault in this man. When she talks to you about me,
you'd think, man, everybody in the world ought to love him.
When she talks to you about me, you'd think, why, he's the finest
fellow that ever walked on two legs. You'd think, this man's
remarkable. How come? I'll tell you a little
secret. She loves him. And you know what love does,
Larry? It covers all sin. It's what the book of Proverbs
says, isn't it? Love covers all sin. Just covers it up. Pretends it
doesn't exist. Love covers it up. Religion exposes
it. Reprobate ungodly hypocrites
talk about it. Love covers it. Covers it. Refuses to talk about it. Won't
say a word about it. Won't say a word about it. So
next time you hear somebody talk to you about somebody else's
head, tell them to shut up and cover it up. I'm as serious as
I can be. Did you hear what Jonathan did?
Shut up. I don't want to know about it. I don't want to know
about it. I don't need to know about it.
Won't do him any good, you any good, or me any good for me to
know about it. Cover it up and pray for him. Turn back to Galatians
chapter 6. Galatians chapter 6. Let me show
you. Hatred stirs up strife the wise men says but love covereth
all sins He did cover the transgression Seeketh love he that repeateth
the matter. The only reason he does it is
to separate friends That's the only reason it does it if he
that repeats the matter there's only one reason he repeats it
to separate friends problem 17 verse 9 Don't talk to others
about it. Talk to God about it. If you
pray for your sitting brother, you become the instrument by
which God graciously preserves his life and restores his soul. Galatians 6. Brethren, if a man
be overtaken in a thought, ye which are spiritual restore such
in one in the spirit of meekness. What does that mean? Considering
thyself. lest thou also be tempted. Bear
ye one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. Love your brother. Cover his
sin. Just like Shem and Japheth went
backwards into the tent with a blanket and covered their father's
nakedness, refused to look on it and refused to talk about
it. How come? Because they love their father.
Only the wicked who wish to separate friends Gossip and slander and
talk about the faults and evils of others Pray for your brother
and you become an instrument of good to his soul Preserving
his life and restoring his soul. All right back in our text. Here's
the second thing when a brother sins when a brother sins He has
not sinned under death. I When God's children sin a sin,
it is not unto death. Sinning a sin, no matter what
it is, no matter how often it is committed, no matter how grievous
it is, no matter how much trouble it causes, no matter how grievous
a matter of turmoil it stirs, no matter how much havoc it wreaks,
if a brother sinned a sin, It is not unto death. The Savior
said, I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish. They shall not depart from me,
the Lord God says in his covenant. Now I want to be as crystal clear
as I can possibly be. Mark Henson, if you believe on
the Son of God, If you're washed in His blood and robed in His
righteousness, you cannot sin away His grace. Well, aren't you afraid to say
that? No, I'm not afraid to say that. Aren't you afraid of what
people will do later? Why are you telling me there's
a license to sin? Is that what you heard? I don't
think so. I don't think so. The only fellow
who heard that is one who wants a license to sin. That's exactly
right. Are you saying man can just do
anything he wants to? I'm saying there's nothing you
can do to destroy or even harm God's grace and his love for
you. It can't be done. The purpose
of God cannot be nullified. The promise of God cannot fall
to the ground. The blood of Jesus Christ cannot
miscarry. The seal of God's spirit cannot
be broken. And this grace that was heaped
upon us one time with finality before the world began, God will
not take from us, no matter what happens in time. That which is
done and experienced in time will in no way alter our everlasting
salvation given us in Christ before the world began. Number
three, having said that, hear this. God, the Holy Spirit tells
us here in verse 16, but there is a sin under death. This is
the part of the text that's troubled me for so long, but not anymore. What's John talking about? There
is a sin under death. Notice he says a sin, singular,
not sins, plural. John's here talking about one
specific sin, but the language is even more specific in the
Greek text. I'm always hesitant to refer
to the Greek text, but I think this is important. In the Greek,
There is no indefinite article. It's a little one letter word,
a or an. It's not in the Greek. Anytime
that you find that in the New Testament or in the old, it's
been added by the translators because that's the only way to
express it and run smoothly in English. There is no indefinite
article. So this is how the text literally
reads. There is sin unto death, still
singular. The sin he's talking about is
the sin and fall of our entire race in our father Adam. In Adam we sinned and in Adam
we died. In Adam we died spiritually because
Adam's transgression and fall is that which we participated
in, and all the race died in him. In Adam, we died and we
shall die physically, every human being. For the reprobate, death
in Adam goes beyond that. For the reprobate, death in Adam
was a sin unto everlasting death, eternal damnation, and separation
from God in hell. That simply means this. For the
reprobate, there is no escape from Adam's fall. For the reprobate,
there is no recovery from Adam's ruin. Esau shall never become
Jacob. The seed of the serpent shall
never be translated into the seed of the woman. Goats shall
never become sheep. The reprobate shall never become
elect. Now, none of us know who the
reprobate are. until God makes his elect known
in the saving operations of his grace. But that said, I do know
this. Cain and Ham and Esau and all
the other sons of Adam outside the election of grace, whose
names were not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb before
the foundation of the world, only exist Because they carry
the seed of the woman who shall be the seed of Jesus Christ who
shall serve him They only exist in this world for the benefit
of God's elect The only reason the reprobate exist is for the
benefit of God's elect. There's no other purpose. There's
no other purpose Our Lord Jesus says concerning them. You're
not going to be sheep He didn't come here seeking the salvation
of all men And we don't seek the salvation of all men. He
came seeking the salvation of his sheep He came to give his
life for the sheep. He laid down his life for the
sheep He sends his spirit after the sheep and to many he never
sends his words as well God gives everybody an opportunity to be
safe Go ask those folks to whom god said of concerning whom god
said to the apostle paul. No, you can't go preach to them
Grace those folks. Our Lord said, well, when did
they coison? If the things that are done in
you had been done in Sodom and Gomorrah, they would have repented
long ago. Well to you, I withheld from
them the very means by which you ought to believe. No, no,
he never intended the salvation of all men. They exist only for
the preservation of God's elect under the time of their calling.
The Savior puts it this way as he spoke to the Pharisees who
persisted in their willful unbelief and rejection of all right He
said ye believe not Because ye are not of my sheep Now you can
do with that what you want to that's what he said Sinning what
is this sinning a sin? Sinning a sin unto death They
continue in willful unbelief, blaspheming God the Holy Spirit,
stopping their ears to the voice of God, blinding their own eyes
with willful darkness, sinning a sin unto death. They keep upon
themselves or they heap upon themselves wrath against the
day of wrath because they will not hear God. They will not hear
God. Ralph Barnard used to make a
statement that I thought strange when I was a young man. He said,
if a man walk in the light God gives him, God will give him
more light. The sad fact is nobody will. The heathen without the
gospel do not have saving light and revelation. But Don, they
do have light. They do have light God gives
them by creation. They know God's eternal power
in Godhead. They have the light God gives
them in conscience. They understand that God's righteous
and just and demands righteousness and justice. But they do not
walk in the light that God's given them. Rather, they blind
themselves to that light and refuse to hear that light and
walk after the lust of their own hearts. Men and women by
nature, God speaks all how God speaks in creation, in providence, Judgment falls, tornadoes, tsunamis,
earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, sickness, pestilence, disease,
famine. God speaks and warns of wrath
to come and men refuse to hear. They refuse to hear, they will
not hear. They harden their hearts, they will not hear. God speaks
by the gospel and men stick their fingers in their ears and refuse
to hear. And God says, I've stretched
out my hand. I called, and you refused. You would minimize reproof. So when this is done, you will
eat the fruit of your own ways, continually blaspheming the Holy
Ghost, saying no to the revelation of God. You refuse to believe. And hell shall be your portion
rightly. Now concerning this sin and the
death, God the Holy Spirit says, don't pray for it. Look at our
text again. There is a sin unto death. I do not say that he shall
pray for it. What's that talking about? I
think I can have you verify from your experience what it's talking
about. Merle Hart, how often have you,
these many years and experience of God's grace, tried to pray
for somebody and you just couldn't pray for? Try to pray for God to be merciful
to them. You repeat the words, you make out your prayer list,
and you read off the names. Lord, I pray for Don Fortner,
Don Lanier, Larry Brown. But it's just so many words.
Just can't pray for it. Just can't pray for it. Try,
but you can't. And if you utter their name before
God, God says, I won't hear you. I won't hear you. I would not
that you should pray for it. Let's look at some scripture.
Come back to Jeremiah. Jeremiah chapter 7. Israel was a nation reprobate
and cast off by God's decree before the world was. They must
be cast off in time so that the gospel might go to you and I
in the Gentile world in the four corners of the earth. They must
reject the gospel. They must crucify God's son.
They must shut their eyes to the revelation of God, given
them for 2000 years, given to them alone. They are a reprobate
nation and they must be cast off. And yet they must be cast
off because they deserve it. Because they will not believe.
Because they will not trust the Son of God. Because they will
not hear the Word of God. So that their being cast off
is altogether a matter of justice and it's their fault. Now, about
those people. Do you know how God spoke to
his prophet? He said, Jeremiah, don't pray for them. Don't pray
for them. I'm sending these folks to Babylon.
Don't you pray for them. If you do pray for them, I'm
not going to hear you. They're going to Babylon. The glory says,
verse 16, chapter 7, Therefore pray not thou for this people,
neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession
to me, for I will not hear thee. Chapter 11, verse 14 says the
same thing again. Therefore pray not thou for this
people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them, for I will
not hear thee in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble. Chapter 14, verse 11. Then said
the Lord unto me, pray not for this people for their good. Three
times he says this. Three times he said, Jeremiah,
don't pray for this people. I won't hear you. I will not
do them good. I will not be merciful to them.
But there's another one besides Jeremiah who refused to pray
for the reprobate, them that sin a sin unto death. Turn to
John chapter 17. John 17. Verse 9. This is our Savior's great high
priestly prayer. He's praying for God's elect.
He's praying for His people, those given to Him by His Father
before the world began, given to Him by His Father out of the
world. Praying for their salvation, their comfort, their preservation
in the midst of great difficulty. And then in verse 9, he seems
to make what appears to be a strange declaration. Then he says, I
pray for them. Them. Those you gave me. I pray
not for the world. I'm not praying for those who
sinned a sin and a death. I'm not praying for those in
the world outside the election of grace. I'm not praying for
any except my Israel, my church, my elect. But for them which
thou hast given me, for they are thine. All right, here's
the fourth thing. All unrighteousness is sin and
deserves eternal death in hell. Verse 17, all unrighteousness
is sin. The soul that sinneth, it shall
die. Sin would have destroyed all
of us in the Adam fall. Adam's sin and our sin with him
and in him would have plunged us all headlong into hell forever
except for one thing. Christ the Lord. Who maketh thee to differ? Christ
does. What is it that prevents us from
everlasting ruin because of Adam's transgression and our transgression
in him and resulting from him? Christ's intervention on our
behalf before the world began. Christ's covenant engagements
on our behalf before the world began. Our union with Christ
from everlasting. Our election in Christ from eternity. Our redemption by the precious
blood of Christ in time. Our salvation, regeneration,
and gift of faith in Christ Jesus in time in the sweet exercise
of his grace. But all this is the work of God's
grace and God's grace alone. Our sin deserves hell like anybody's
sin does. All unrighteousness is sin, but
Christ stepped in. And He would made sin for us
who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of
God in Him. All right, now, here's the fifth
thing. Verse 17. There is a sin not unto death. What? There is a sin not unto
death. Again, notice John, by divine
inspiration, uses the word singularly. A sin. Just one sin. There's just one sin, not unto
death. Just one. Just one sin, not unto
death. And that's the sin of God's elect
in Adam. Our sin in our father Adam, not
in death. Oh, but brother Don, we died
spiritually. Yes, we did. Yes, we did. But we died. We're
going to die physically. Yes, we shall. But God's elect
shall not die. Not going to happen. Not going
to. What did our savior say? I am
the resurrection and the life. He that liveth and believeth
on me shall never die. How come? We have life in Christ
and with Christ from eternity. And nothing in time is going
to harm that. Well, what happened when we sinned
and fell in our father Adam? I like the way I told you something,
Brother B.B. Caldwell put it. I'd never heard
this before. Brother Carol Poole said, Brother Caldwell, you say,
we fell up. We fell up! What's it mean? We benefit by the fall, not harmed
by it. God's elect, in the end, when
God's finished with everything, will suffer no loss, no injury,
no harm of any kind by the fall, but only gain and profit and
benefit. The reprobate, like the fallen
angels who kept not their first estate, sinned unto death, and
there's no recovery for them. But God's elect sinned not unto
death, but rather for the glory of God. Oh, I'm going to catch some flack
for that. I knew it before I said it, that's all right. I wrote
it out to say it just on purpose. Brother Fortner said God's gonna
be glorified by our sin. No, Brother Fortner didn't say
that. God the Holy Spirit said that in Revelation chapter four
and in Revelation chapter five and in Psalm 76. God's gonna
be glorified by everything. We could never have known. We
could never have known God. in the revelation of his grace
and glory, in the redemption of our souls by Jesus Christ
had there been no fall. But what a blessed fall. What
a blessed fall. We could never have known redemption.
We could never have known forgiveness. Oh, sweet knowledge. The sweetest
knowledge on the earth, the sweetest knowledge in heaven is the knowledge
of sin forgiven by the love of God through the blood of Jesus
Christ. And there is the knowledge of
God's glory. And when God gets done, he's
going to make it manifest that we've suffered nothing. Look
at Revelation chapter 21. I'll wrap this up. Blessed and
holy, John says, is he that hath part in the first resurrection.
On such, the second death hath no power. All right, Revelation
21. Look at this. It's all done now. It's all done
now. The beast and the false prophet
cast into hell. All the reprobate cast into hell,
all the fallen angels cast into hell. Every soul, sinner, chosen
of God, redeemed by the blood of Christ, gathered with Christ
into glory, into perfection of heavenly bliss. Revelation 21
what? I saw a new heaven and a new
earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away. Let's see if we can put it another
way. The first heaven and first earth
are gone because they don't make any difference. The first heaven
and first earth are gone because they don't matter. They're passed
away. And there was no more sea. And I, John, saw the holy city,
New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as
a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out
of heaven say, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men. And he will
dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself
shall be with them, and shall be their God. Now watch this.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. All tears. That means when God gets done Sally punch
of those eyes will never burn again. You understand that? For anything. There'll be no
regrets of any kind. No sorrow of any kind. God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes. Read on. And there shall be no
more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, Neither shall there be
any more pain. How come? How can there be no
death, no sorrow, no pain, no crying? How can that be? For
the former things are passed away. The former things are passed
away. Satan, where is he? He's cast
into hell. And the Lord Jesus triumphs over
him. And we triumph over him. And
he gains nothing. He gains nothing. And we lose
nothing. And Christ loses nothing. And
the triune God loses nothing. Yes, bless God. There is a sin
not unto death. You pray for it. Beg God. Beg God for it. That is, for those who sin not
unto death, and God shall give them life. There is a sin not unto death. Oh, may God be pleased to have
mercy upon you who know Him not and snatch you from the jaws
of death. according to his own everlasting
purpose of grace in Christ Jesus. Amen.