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Admittedly, I was not expecting to get up tonight, but it would appear that the Lord would have his way. Have you located yourself tonight in that verse? Have you found where you are tonight in that verse? Are you saved or are you still lost in your sins? So tonight I would present before you three different questions, each of them in regards to eternity. We will take them one by one.

So turn with me please to 2 Peter chapter 3. So my first question for you tonight while you're turning there is, in terms of eternity, where do you want to go? Do you want to go to heaven or do you want to go to hell? Now, this question really is the only one that you yourself can provide a definitive answer. The other two already have their definitive answers, but we'll get to those two later. So the first one, where do you want to go? Do you want to go to heaven or do you want to go to hell? 2 Peter chapter 3, and we'll look at verse 9. Our brother Brandon already brought this before us tonight.

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness. Now the end of this verse is what I really want to focus on, but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. So I do ask you again tonight, where do you want to go? This verse here, the Lord is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

This verse tells us what God wants. God is not willing that any should perish. God desires to have a relationship with every one of his creation.

He desires to see each of us saved. God wants us in his heaven, but he cannot allow sin into his heaven. Where do you want to go? God is not willing, the Lord is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Do you want to be in heaven at the end of life's journey, or do you want to be in hell, and eventually the lake of fire, an eternity separated from God, an eternal punishment for your sins? Now my second question, turn with me to John chapter 3. We were just hearing, I don't mean to take anything away from Brandon's message, but I see it as no accident that our messages would cross paths with each other. Now I don't know how long I'll be up here, so we may in fact have four speakers tonight, but my second question to you tonight is, in terms of eternity, where do you think you'll go? Now if you have been able to locate yourself here in John chapter 3, verse 36, as saved or unsaved, then you should be able to answer this question with confidence. But if you're uncertain, then the answer is still solidified.

There is still already an answer. Where do you think you'll go? If you were to die tonight, in your current condition that you're in, would you go to heaven or would you go to hell? What do you think? Are you saved tonight? If so, then your destination is that wonderful place of heaven. If you're uncertain or if you know for a fact that you are in need of salvation, then hell and the lake of fire is your eternal destination.

John chapter 3, verse 36, he that believeth on the sun hath everlasting life, and he that believeth not the sun shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. This verse was already stressed to us tonight quite wonderfully, better than I could bring before you. If you're not saved tonight, then the wrath of God already hangs overhead.

If you're familiar with, if you'll allow me to use this analogy, if you're familiar with water parks, you'll know that at some of them there's a giant bucket that's on an axle, and this bucket of water, or this bucket gets filled up with water, and at the right time it dumps all its contents out onto everyone or anyone that is below it. That is the wrath of God tonight if you are not saved, hanging overhead, awaiting the time of your death. Man is appointed once to die, and after this, the judgment, if you are not saved.

If you were to die tonight in your sins, the wrath of God would come crashing down. Romans chapter 6, please. My third question to you tonight is, in terms of eternity, I've already asked you where do you want to go, I've already asked you where do you think you'll go, and now my third question to you tonight is, where do you deserve to go? Whether you know the answer to this or not, there is already an answer solidified.

Romans chapter 6 and verse 23. Verse 23, for the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Bible tells us that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, all, everyone, and the wages of sin is death.

A wage is a payment that is due rightfully to an individual who is earning or deserving of it. The wages of sin is death. Where do we deserve to go, where do you deserve to go? I can tell you where I deserve to go, is it the same place that you deserve to go? I deserve hell and the lake of fire, eternal punishment, separation from God for all eternity.

Is this where you deserve to go, or do you think you deserve to go to heaven? Do you think, well, I'm not that bad, certainly not as bad as the person sitting to my right or to my left or my classmates, my co-workers, no. If you're unsaved tonight, in the eyes of God, sin is sin. Sin, no matter what relative size we as humanity may try to put on it, from the smallest lie to the greatest act of terrorism, in the eyes of God, sin is sin.

And the wages of sin is death. So who so then can be saved? Who then can be saved? Is there a way out from this eternal punishment that is due to us, that we deserve because of our sin towards God? Well, praise the Lord for the second part of this verse, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. We have in that first part, the wages of sin is death.

The wages, the righteous payment towards us for our sin is death, but the gift of God. Think of all the gifts that you've ever received in life, if you'll allow me for a second here. Did you deserve any of them? Likely not.

I know I certainly didn't. Any of the material things that I've received as gifts, I did not deserve them. So a gift is something that is freely given to someone who didn't really do anything, who didn't do anything at all to deserve it, right? The gift of God, the very God of this universe, the one who created all things, has a gift for you tonight, and that is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The very son of God came down to this earth, took on the form of a man, lived amongst humanity, mingled with his creation, his sinful creation, brushed shoulders with them, communed with them, ate with them, lived amongst them, and yet he had no sin of his own. The perfect man, perfect fully man and yet fully God in every way, the Lord Jesus Christ. He alone, though he didn't deserve it, he alone was worthy to go to the cross of Calvary and to bear the punishment of your sins on his own body on the tree.

This is the gift of God, eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. And this lovely man of Calvary, the Lord Jesus Christ, is not in the ground today. As we all know, very likely, he rose again on the third day, lived amongst man for a few more days, and then ascended back into heaven where he now sits at the right hand of God interceding for those that he has saved.

The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. So again, I ask you tonight, in terms of eternity, where do you want to go, heaven or hell? In terms of eternity, where do you think you'll go, heaven or hell? In terms of eternity, where do you deserve to go, heaven or hell? The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. You are presented with another opportunity tonight, another chance, another wonderful privilege to be under the sound of the gospel, to hear another time of how you can be saved.

So I ask you tonight, where do you deserve to go?