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August 17, 2025 52 mins
Churches will preach about God's love all day long, but they won't tell you that Jesus warned about hell more than He promised heaven — or why the phrase 'go to hell' rolls off your tongue so easily but never comes from the pulpit.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Who have you worn? Who have you told abound Jesus?
Because their blood might be on your hands. This is
the very reason that I brought Church of the Undead
to weird darkness, because I want to take you with me.
I'm warning you, I'm telling you about Jesus. Is I
want to be certain of your salvation. Go to hell.

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You've said it, you've heard it, maybe someone said it
to you this week. It rolls off the tongue so
easily when you're angry, when you're cutting someone off in traffic,
when you're arguing online, Go to hell? Do you understand
what you're actually saying. You're telling someone to burn alive forever.

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You're wishing eternal torment on them, endless suffering, infinite agony,
separation from everything good, everything loving, everything merciful for eternity.
We threw it around like it means nothing, like it's
the same as saying get lost or buzz off. But

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those three words go to hell describe the most horrifying
fate possible for a human soul, and we use them
as a casual insult. You know where You'll never hear
those words. Church churches will talk about God's love all
day long. They'll preach about purpose and destiny. They'll give

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you seven steps to a better marriage and five keys
to financial breakthrough. But Hell, that word has practically disappeared
from the modern pulpit. A phrase so common that children
say it on playgrounds, so widespread that it's in every
TV show, so casual that we text it to each other.

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But pastors won't preach about its reality. We're more comfortable
damning each other to Hell in anger than we are
discussing Hell's existence in your Something is terribly wrong with
that picture. You're sitting in church on Sunday morning, and
the pastor is talking about God's love. He's telling you
about grace and mercy, about kindness to your neighbors, all

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good things, things you need to hear. But when was
the last time you heard him talk about what happens
when someone dies without Christ? When was the last time
anyone mentioned the devil as more than just a metaphor
for bad choices. Churches today have gone quiet about Hell.

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They've stopped warning people about Satan. And that's silence. It's dangerous. Hello, weirdos,
I'm Pastor Darren. Welcome to the Church of the Undead.
Here in the Church of the NDAD. I step away

(02:56):
from being a host of Weird Darkness and step into
the clothes of a reverence. But that doesn't mean that
I'm not sharing things that are dark, stranger, and macab
You'd be surprised how many of the stories you hear
from true crime and paranormal creators actually have a spiritual
message as well. If you're a Weirdo family member from
my Weird Darkness podcast, but we're a weirdo in Christ

(03:16):
from this one, welcome to the Church of the Undead.
And I use the word undead because as Ephesians two states,
even when we were dead in our trespasses, God made
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Full disclosure, I might use the term pastor because I've
branded this speechure as a church and I got a
ministry license online. But I do not have a theology degree,
nor did I ever go to Bible College. I'm just
a guy who gave his life to Christ at the
age of twenty one and has tried to walk the
walk ever since, and has stumbled a lot along the
way becauseank everybody else, I am an imperfect, heavily flawed

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human being. So please don't take what I say as gospel.
Dig into God's Word yourself for confirmation, inspiration, and revelation.
That being said, Welcome to the Church of the Undead.
Bill Scott was running a Christian radio station when a

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woman called in. She wasn't just troubled, she was possessed.
For eighteen months, Scott and his team battled demonic forces
that manifested through this woman. Objects moved on their own doors,
slammed without anyone touching them. The woman's voice changed into
something inhuman. Sathan is one tough adversary, Bill says. Just

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as it seems like Sathan has been defeated, it rises
up again, even more ferocious than before. Bill discovered something
during those months that most churches won't tell you. The
danger is not so much in the overtly manifesting year.
It's in the subtle destruction that slowly slithers into our
lives and wreaks havoc. Behind that possessed woman, Scott found

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broken marriages, ruined lives, and churches split apart. Everyone focused
on the dramatic possession, but the real damage came from
the quiet evil that crept into relationships and destroyed them
from within. Father Charles Carpenter spent twenty five years as
a priest in Mexico. He started out skeptical about demonic activity.

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Experience changed his mind. People frequently consult what are called
divinos and brujos. He said, at first I gave very
little credence to the power of these persons, but then
over the years I saw the effects in certain persons
who consulted them. A Catholic leader, someone known for being
practical and level headed, describes his daily encounters with darkness, saying,

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my most frequent encounters involved black shadows and figures that
I see out of the corner of my eyes. I'll
see something in my real vision. It's almost always in motion.
When I turn my head, the figure will melt quickly
into a fluid like shadow and then flow away through
the edges of the room or along the ceiling. I
see these things frequently, almost every day. These aren't stories

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from medieval times. They're happening now to ordinary people, to Christians.
Ronald Reagan, not the president, but a man from Tennessee
with the same name. Ronald Reagan got stabbed in a
fight as a young man. His heart stopped, and he
went somewhere. No Sunday school class prepared him for quote.

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I knew my body was still on the gurney, but
I was floating, and I began to hear screams of
people all around me, crying and wailing. Reagan saw faces
of people he knew, people who were already dead. They
told him something that haunts him to this day, Ronnie,
don't come here. There's no escape. After he recovered, Reagan

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repented and dedicated his life to helping save others. He
became a pastor. His near death experience wasn't some hallucination
caused by lack of oxygen. It changed the entire direction
of his life. Michelle Steele's story is even darker. After
years of drug abuse and prostitution, she overdosed on cocaine,

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her heart stopped. Darkness surrounded me, she says, and I
found myself standing in front of a skull. I could
see that hell was real. Medical researchers have documented thousands
of these near death experiences, As we covered in last
week's message, Doctor Jeffrey Long has studied over four thousand
cases of people who've died in comeback. He is most

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convinced by the similarity of the stories he hears from
people who have gone to heaven and hell, from what
they have seen and felt to what they report upon
their return. A woman giving birth found herself in what
researchers call a void experience. She was suddenly in deep
empty space. Circular entities told her something terrifying. They said

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she never existed, that she had been allowed to imagine
her life, but it was a joke, that she was
not real. She argued with them, giving facts about her life,
descriptions of earth. They insisted none of it had ever
been real. These aren't the feel good stories you hear
on Christian television. Medical professionals and clergy often don't know

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how to handle these experiences. Too Often, physicians prescribe medications
to mask questioning and dismiss the NDE near death experiences
as fanciful or pathological. Therapists will not address the matter
or leave the client feeling blamed or romanticized spiritually and
cannot deal with its dark side, and Clujie have no

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idea what to say or reject the experience outright, you
know what these people ask after experiencing Hell, What did
I do to deserve this? Or what are the rules
if the rules I lived by don't work? They thought
being a good person was enough. They thought God grades
on a curve. Nancy Evans Bush and doctor Bruce Grayson

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have spent decades studying near death experiences. They discovered something
that should shake every comfortable Christian. No evidence supports the
conventional assumption that good people get pleasant endes and bad
people have distressing ones. Saints have reported extremely disturbing NDEs,
while felons and suicide attempters have encountered bliss. Saints experiencing Hell,

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criminals experiencing heaven. It doesn't line up with what you
would expect, does it. Reports have surfaced of people hearing
voices in Hell saying, but I'm a Christian, I'm not
supposed to be here. Another man discovered his two childhood
pastors were in Hell, while his aunt, who he always
thought was lost, was actually in heaven. Being religious isn't enough.

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Going to church is isn't enough. Even being a pastor
isn't enough. Modern churches want to fill seats. They want
to be welcoming. They focus on God's love because love
doesn't defend anyone. Love doesn't make people uncomfortable, love doesn't
drive away visitors. But there's more to it than that.

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The seeker sensitive movement convinced pastors that church should feel
like a rock concert and a ted talk. Don't make
anyone uncomfortable, don't mention sin, definitely, don't mention hell. They
call it removing barriers to the gospel. What they've really
done is remove the gospel itself. Then there's the prosperity gospel.

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Poison your best life now, health and wealth, blessing and breakthrough.
These preachers turned God into a cosmic vending machine and
Jesus into a life coach. Joel ostein fills stadiums, telling
people to live their best life now. When was the
last time he mentioned hell? When did he last warn

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anyone about eternal judgment. Pastors are terrified at being labeled
fire and brimstone preachers. They've been to seminary where professors
mocked Jonathan Edwards sinners in the hands of an angry God.
They've been taught that modern people are too sophisticated for
a talk of judgment. They want to be relevant, winsome,

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culturally engaged, so they preach a neutered gospel that saves
no one. Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life sold fifty million copies.
It mentions Hell exactly once in forty chapters. Once the
most popular Christian book of our generation outside of the Bible,

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barely acknowledges eternal damnation even exists. Churches conduct market research now.
They survey the community, what would you like in a church?
Nobody says, please tell me about eternal punishment, So churches
give people what they want instead of what they need.
They're running customer service, not rescue operations. But Jesus didn't

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come to Earth just to talk about love. The apostle
John tells us exactly why Christ came quote the reason
the Son of Man appeared was to destroy the works
of the devil un quote. The devil isn't a metaphor
Hell isn't symbolic, and pretending they don't exist won't make
them go away. In our world today, most of us

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don't even think of the existence of the spiritual realm.
I believe that this is the way Satan likes it.
When churches stop talking about spiritual warfare, Satan wins without
firing a shot. He doesn't need dramatic possessions when subtle
deception works just fine. Monsignor Steven Rossetti, an exorcist with
decades of experience, shares testimonies from ordinary people who've encountered

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Satan himself, not demons, Satan, These aren't simply horror stories,
he says. We aren't helpless when we face the devil.
But how can you fight an enemy you don't believe exists?
You want to know where Satan is right now? Look
at your phone. Not literally, He's not living in your iPhone,

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but social media has become his playground. Depression and anxiety
skyrocket with screen time. Teenagers are killing themselves over cyber bullying,
Pornography is destroying marriages at unprecedented rates, and everyone's addicted
to the endless scroll, the constant validation, the digital dopamine hits.

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Satan doesn't need to possess people when he can distract them.
Why make someone's head spin when you can make them
scroll TikTok for six hours straight? Why manifest dramatically when
subtle addiction works better? Look at entertainment. Every streaming service
pushes shows glamorizing immorality, sexual promiscuity, mocking those of faith,

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particularly Christianity. Lucifer is portrayed as a misunderstood hero. Witches
are the good guys, Demons are romantic interests. You're being
programmed to sympathize with the devil. The music industry artists
literally perform satanic rituals on stage and call it art.

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They flash satanic symbols, and everybody thinks it's just marketing.
Lil NASX sold shoes with human blood in them and
gave Satan a lap dance and a music video. The
world laughed. Churches said nothing. Video games invite you to
play as demons, cast spells, make deals with devils. It's

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just fantasy, people say, But you're training your mind to
see evil as entertainment. You're desensitizing yourself to darkness. Dating
apps have turned human beings into commodities to swife through
marriage is at all time low. Hook up culture as
replaced courtship. People are lonelier than ever while being more

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connected than ever. This isn't progress, It's spiritual destruction disguised
as freedom. Satan's not hiding in the shadows anymore. He
is on your feed, in your playlist, on your screen,
and because churches won't talk about him, you don't even notice.

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James's story shows how it usually starts. No spinning heads,
no green vomit, just harassment that builds over time. Harassment
and oppression are the most common form of demonic activity,
and in a way the most frightening. The devil doesn't
enter at some definitive point in time and then make
a clean departure. He hangs around untiringly for months or years.

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One victim felt evil as a physical weight. Another saw
grotesque figures. Some see but darkness like a pitch black
sheet has been pulled down over part of a room.
The progression is always the same. It starts small, a feeling,
a shadow, strange coincidences. Then it escalates, and by the

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time you realize what you're dealing with, you're already in deep.
Father Pierre Payallo performed an extracism on a boy who
didn't speak Latin during a ritual. When the priest reached
the words Glaudia pati et video, the demon spoke through
the boy's mouth in perfect Latin, I don't want to,

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meaning it wouldn't glorify the father's son and Holy Spirit.
How does a child who has never studied Latin suddenly
speak it? How does he know to protest at exactly
the right theological moment. Here's something your pastor probably hasn't
told you. Jesus talked about hell more than he talked
about Heaven. Count him up yourself for every verse about heaven,

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the two about Hell, the gentle Jesus meek and mild.
He warned about eternal fire more than anyone else in scripture.
In Matthew twenty five, verse forty one, Jesus doesn't mince words, saying,
depart from me, you curse it into the eternal fire
prepared for the devil and his angels, eternal fire prepared.

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These are metaphors. Jesus is telling you exactly what's waiting.
He calls it a place where their worm does not
die and the fire is not quenched in Mark nine,
verse forty eight. A worm that never dies, fire that
never goes out. Jesus repeats this three times in the
same chapter. When the son of God repeats something three times,

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you'd better pay attention. In Luke sixteen, Jesus tells the
story of the rich man in Lazarus, the rich man
dies and finds himself in Hell. He's not metaphorically uncomfortable,
he's in agony, saying, I am an anguish in this flame.
He begs for just a drop of water on his tongue.
One drop. That's how intense the torment is at Abraham

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tells him something terrifying. Between us and you. There is
a great gulf fixed so that those who want to
pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from
there pass to us. In other words, no escape, no
second chances, no appeals process. Jesus warns in Matthew ten,
verse twenty eight, do not fear those who kill the

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body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who
can destroy both soul and body. In Hell. Your body
dies here, your soul that goes on forever. And Jesus
is telling you to be more afraid of hell than
of being murdered. In Matthew thirteen, verse forty two, Jesus

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describes hell as a furnace of fire where there will
be weeping and gnashing of teeth. He uses this exact
phrase six times in the Gospels. Six times he warns
about the weeping and gnashing of teeth. This isn't poetry,
it's prophecy. The Gospel is supposed to be offensive to

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those who reject God. Paul told us that the message
of the Cross is foolishness to those who are perishing.
It should disturb people who aren't right with God. It
should make them uncomfortable. That discomfort, that's the Holy Spirit
convicting them of sin. When churches remove the offense from
the Gospel, they remove its power. They turn Christianity into

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self help. They make Jesus into a life coach instead
of a savior. You can't appreciate salvation if you don't
know what you're being saved from. You can't understand grace.
If you don't understand judgment, You can't value heaven if
hell doesn't exist. Howard Storm was an atheist professor, and

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he had emergency surgery. We talked about him last week.
His soul left his body and he was viciously attacked
by evil creatures and hell. When he tried to pray,
it further provoked the furious creatures. They screamed at me,
there is no God. Storm survived. He became a Christian minister,
but millions die every year without that second chance. Those

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who've been there and returned don't describe cartoons with pitchforks.
They described something far worse. From medical studies and testimonies,
hell is described as lonely, void, grotesque, tormenting, miserable and depressing.
Its complete isolation from God and from hope. It's realizing

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too late that everything you believed was wrong. One person
described it, I was filled with a sense of absolute
terror and of being pasted the help of anyone, even God.
Another said, I expected the Lord to be there, but
he wasn't. I called on God and he wasn't there.
That's what scared me. Mister Reagan saw it as passing

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through the open mouth of an active volcano or a
burning lake. Others describe total blackness, complete emptiness, or unspeakable torment.
The descriptions vary, but the horror remains constant. Not for
a long time, if ever, do they lose their fear
of death. Once you've glimpsed hell, you never forget it.

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Revelation fourteen, verse eleven describes the fate of those who
reject God, and the smoke of their torment goes up
forever and ever, and they have no rest day or night,
no rest, day or night, forever and ever. John isn't
writing poetry here, He's describing reality. Second, Thessalonians one, verse

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nine tells us the lost wills for the punishment of
eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and
from the glory of His might. Eternal destruction, complete separation
from God. That's what hell is, the absence of everything good,
everything loving, everything merciful. Jude one, verse seven speaks of

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those suffering the punishment of eternal fire. Daniel twelve, verse
two prophesies that many shall awake to shame and everlasting contempt.
Isaiah sixty six twenty four describes corpses where their worms
shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and
they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh. The Bible

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uses over fifty descriptions for hell, outer darkness, the lake
of fire, the Second Death, the pit Gehenna, shield hades,
the abyss, and churches today act like these are just
ancient metaphors that don't apply to modern people. Jesus said

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in Matthew seven verses thirteen and fourteen. Enter through the
narrow gate, for wide is the gate, and broad is
the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
But small is the gate, and narrow the road that
leads to life, and only a few find it. Many
Jesus isn't saying most people make it to heaven. He's

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saying most people don't. Maybe you're listening to me right now,
rolling your eyes, you think, ah, Hell's a fairy tale.
You choose to control weak minded people. You consider yourself
too intelligent, too rational, too sophisticated to believe in devils
and eternal punishment. You pride yourself on being above what
you see as primitive superstition. Tewond Peter three, verses three

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and four was written specifically about you knowing this first
of all, that scoffers will come in the last days
with scoffing, following their own sinful desires, They will say,
where's the promise of his coming forever? Since the fathers
fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from
the beginning of creation. You're not original, you're not enlightened.

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In fact, your fulfilling prophecy so On fourteen, verse one
doesn't pull punches. The fool says in his heart there
is no God. The Bible doesn't call you uninformed. It
calls you a fool. Not because you lack intelligence. Many
brilliant people still reject God, but because you're gambling your
eternal soul on your finite understanding. Here's what you need

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to understand. Your disbelief doesn't make hell disappear. Proverbs fourteen,
verse twelve warns there is a way that seems right
to a man, but its end is the way to death.
Your opinion about hell is irrelevant to its existence. Gravity
doesn't care if you believe in it. When you jump
off a building first going Bethians one, verse eighteen explains

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your reaction perfectly, For the message of the Cross is
foolishness to those who are perishing, but to those who
are being saved, it is the power of God. So
of course it sounds like foolishness to you. Your perishing,
your spiritual blindness isn't the sign of intelligence, It's a
symptom of spiritual death. You mock believers. Romans one, verse

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twenty two describes you claiming to be wise they became fools.
You think you're smarter than billions of believers throughout history,
smarter than Newton, Pascal Faraday, and countless other brilliant minds
who did believe your arrogance is staggering. Consider this. If

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you were wrong and we are right, you lose everything
for eternity. If we're wrong and you're right, we lose nothing.
We've lived lives of purpose, hope, and meaning. Pascal called
this the ultimate wager, and you're betting on the wrong side.
But here's what really exposes your position. You can't explain consciousness.

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You can't explain near death experiences, where people report verifiable
information from outside their bodies while clinically dead. You can't
explain how children with no religious training describe identical experiences
of hell. You can't explain why hardened atheists like Howard
Storm came back from death as believers. Hebrews nine, verse

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twenty seven states, simply, it is appointed for man to
die once, and after that comes judgment. Your appointment is coming.
Your heart will stop, your brain will cease functioning, and
then you'll know, and then it'll be too late. The

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testimonies are mounting. Atheist professors, skeptical doctors, people just like
you who thought death meant nothingness. They've been there and back,
and they're terrified, not of death. But off what comes
for those who reject God after death. Doctor Maurice Rawlings,
a cardiologist who resuscitated hundreds of patients, started as a skeptic.

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Then he began hearing what his patients experienced while clinically dead.
Patient after patient described hell. He wrote, I'm a doctor,
I've seen death, but nothing prepared me for patients screaming
I am in hell as I brought them back. You
think you're too rational for faith, James two verse nineteen

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has news for you. You believe that God is one
you do well, even the demons believe and shudder. In
other words, you believe in God. But the demons believe
in God too. So the demons are more rational than you.
They know God exists, they know Hell is real, and

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they're terrified of it. You you laugh at it. Second,
Thessalonians two verses ten through twelve explains why you can't
see the truth. They perish because they refused to love
the truth and so be saved. For this reason, God
sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe

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the lie, and so that all will be condemned to
have not believed the truth, but have delighted in wickedness.
You delight in mocking believers. You take pleasure in ridicule.
You've chosen your delusion, and God is letting you have it.
But here's the thing. God still loves you despite your mockery,

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despite your arrogance, despite your rejection. Romans five, verse eight says,
but God shows his love for us, and that while
we were still sinners, Christ died for us. So while
you were mocking him, he was dying for you. And
this is your warning, not from me, but from God's word.

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Proverbs twenty nine, verse one cautions he who has often
reproved yet stiffens his neck will suddenly be broken beyond healing.
How many warnings will you ignore? How many testimonies will
you dismiss? How long will you gamble with eternity? One day,

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maybe today, maybe in fifty years, Your heart will stop.
In that moment, all your clever arguments, all of your
intellectual pride, all your mockery will evaporate, and you'll face
the reality you spent your life denying. The question isn't
whether you believe in hell. The question is whether you'll

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still be laughing when you get there. Churches need to
start telling the truth. Again. Yes, God loves you. Yes,
Grace is real. Yes, Jesus offers forgiveness. But sin is
also real. Hell is also real. Satan is also real,
and ignoring them won't make them disappear. Chuck WedRock is

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president of the International Association of Near Death Studies. He
notes that negative experiences often happen to people who've lived
largely negative lives, but not always. Sometimes they serve as warnings,
sometimes they serve as wake up calls. They will say
after their back that it was one of the most
important things to them that got them on a better path,

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if you will, as better humans in terms of their
life characteristics. The Catechism of the Catholic Church reminds us
the power of Satan is nonetheless not infinite. He is
only a creature, powerful from the fact that he is
pure spirit but still a creature. Satan is powerful, yeah,
but Christ is more powerful. Hell is real, but Heaven

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is equally real. Here's the good news, and it really
is good news. God doesn't want you to go to hell.
Tewod Peter three verse nine says the Lord is not
slow in keeping his promise as some understand slowness. Instead,
he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish,

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but everyone to come to repentance. God made a way out,
just one way, not multiple paths, not many roads, one way.
Jesus said it plainly in John fourteen, verse six. I
am the Way and the Truth and the life. No
one comes to the Father except through me. That's pretty exclusive.

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That's really narrow, and that's exactly what he meant to say.
So how do you take that direction, that way, that
narrow path. Romans ten, verse nine gives you the exact formula.
If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord,
and believe in your heart that God raised him from

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the dead, you will be saved, will be saved, not
might be not hopefully, will be saved. But let's be
clear about what this means. Confessing Jesus as Lord isn't
just saying words. The word lord means master boss, the

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one who calls the shots in your life. You are
surrendering control. You're admitting that you've been running your own
life and making a mess of it in the process.
Romans three twenty three tells us why we need this, saying,
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory
of God. All means well, all that includes you, and

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that includes me too, That includes the nice lady who
teaches Sunday school and the pastor behind the pulpit. And
Romans six twenty three explains the stakes. The wages of
sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal
life in Christ Jesus, our Lord. In other words, sin
earns you death, spiritual death, eternal separation from God hell.

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But God offers a gift. And you can't earn a gift.
You can't deserve a gift. You can only receive it
or reject it. John three point sixteen the verse everybody knows,
but very few people really understand. For God so loved
the world that he gave his only begotten son, that

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whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Whoever in this verse means whoever, no exceptions. There's no
fine print here. But you do have to believe, and
believing means trusting your eternal destiny entirely to Jesus. Here's

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what believing looks like. At sixteen thirty one says, believe
in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved. Not
believe about him, even demons believe he exists, believe in him,
trust him like you trust a parachute when you jump
from a plane. Your life depends on it, because your

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eternity literally does. Ephesians two, verses eight and nine make
it crystal clear, for by grace you have been saved
through faith, and this is not your own doing. It
is the gift of God, not a result of works.
So that no one may boast. You can't earn your
way out of hell. You can't be quote unquote good enough.

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You can't donate enough, you can't volunteer enough, you can't
pray enough. It's grace, which is undeserved favor. It's that
or nothing. But here's where many churches stop. And this
is also why it's dangerous. James two nineteen warns you
believe that there is one God. Even the demons believe that,

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and shudder, mental agreement isn't enough. The demons know exactly
who Jesus is, but they're still going to hell. True
faith changes you. Second Corinthians five seventeen promises, Therefore, if
anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The

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old has passed away. Behold, the new has come. If
you are really saved, well, you're different then, not perfect,
but different. You've probably have new desires, new priorities in life,
a new direction. On one. John five point thirteen tells
us that you can know for certain. I write these

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things to you who believe in the name of the
Son of God, that you may know that you have
eternal life. No, not hope, but no kN now, not
wonder but no kN now. Capital k on that but Jesus.
He's also warned in Matthew seven, verses twenty one through
twenty three. Not everyone who says to me, Lord Lord,

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will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but the one who
does the will of my Father, who is in heaven.
On that day, many will say to me, Lord Lord,
did we not prophesying in your name? And cast out
demons in your name? And do many mighty works in
your name? And then I will declare to them, I
never knew you. Depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.

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Many people think they're saved, but aren't. They said the words,
they went to church, they did the religious stuff, but
they never truly surrendered to Jesus as Lord. They never
truly repented, turned away from their sin and toward God.
So how do you know for certain you're not going

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to hell. You make Jesus the actual lord of your life.
You believe he died on the cross for your sins,
that he took the punishment you deserved. You believe God
raised him from the dead, proving he conquered death and hell,
and you trust him completely with your eternity. If you've
never done that, you can do it right now. Romans

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ten thirteen promises everyone who calls on the name of
the Lord will be saved, and that everyone includes you
right where you are, right now. But don't wait. Second
Corinthians six', too, Warrens behold now is the favorable. Time
behold now is the day of. Salvation you're not promised.

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Tomorrow you're not promised to your next. Breath Second corinthians
thirteen to five commands examine yourselves to see whether you
are in the. Faith test, yourselves not examine. Others don't
compare yourself to other. People examine. Yourself test, yourself because
hell is full of people who assuonomed they were just.

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Fine are you a Cultural? Christian you maybe wear a
cross or A CHRISTIAN t. Shirt you Say god bless,
you show up On easter And. Christmas but when was
the last time you read Your? Bible when did you
last share the? Gospel when did you last deny yourself
something because it Dishonored. God jesus has harsh words for

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lukewarm believers And revelation, three verses fifteen and. SIXTEEN i
know your. Works you are neither cold nor. Hot would
that you were either cold or. Hot so because you
are a lukewarm and neither hot nor, COLD i will
spit you out of my. Mouth, huh spit you. Out

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that's What jesus thinks of a half hearted. Faith maybe
you're living in unrepentant. Sin you know what you're doing is,
wrong but you've convinced. Yourself god. Understands god knows my.
Heart you, say, well yeah he. Does jeremiah seventeen nine
tells us what he. Sees the heart is deceitful above all,

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things and desperately. Wicked First john, three verse six is.
Clear no one who abides in him keeps on. Sinning
no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him
or known. Him if you're comfortable in your, sin if
you can sin without, conviction you might not be saved at.
All BUT i prayed a prayer WHEN i was. Seven,

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okay So matthew seven twenty one warns not everyone who
says to, Me Lord lord will enter The kingdom of.
HEAVEN a prayer doesn't save. You faith saves, you living
faith that produces real. Change, oh BUT i was, baptized

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you might, Say, well the thief on the cross wasn't baptized,
yet he's In. Paradise judas was probably baptized By jesus,
himself but he's in. Hell water doesn't save. You jesus saves.
You But i'm a good. Person uh. Huh isaiah sixty,

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four verse six, says all our righteous acts are like filthy.
Rags your best, day your greatest, deed your most generous,
Moment they're all filthy rags In god's. Site you can't
be quote unquote good. Enough here's the. Test do you

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love What god loves and hate What god? Hates or
have you Made god in your own? Image approving what you,
approve accepting what culture. Accepts romans, twelve verse two commands
do not be conformed to this, world but be transformed
by the renewal of your. Mind if Your christianity doesn't

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cost you, anything it's probably not. Real if your faith
doesn't change your, behavior it probably not saving. Faith if
you can't remember the last time you told someone About,
jesus you might not really believe he's the only way
to avoid. Hell i'll get it right With god When i'm.
Older you might think that's what a lot of people tell. Themselves,

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yeah you'll have your fun now and then you'll fight
religion on your. Deathbed you, think, eh you're gaming the.
System you live like, hell and then slip into heaven
at the last. Second The proverbs twenty, seven verse one
destroys that. Plan do not boast about, Tomorrow it, says
for you do not know what a day may. Bring
you don't know if you'll have a. Deathbed most people

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don't get a. Warning heart, attack car, accident brain, aneurism
gone in an. Instant even if you do get a,
deathbed who says you'll be able to. Respond stroke victims
might have a, deathbed but they can't. Speak they could
be there for, months, weeks sometimes, years not realizing. It

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dementia patients can't think. Clearly morphine clouds your. Mind you're
gambling that you will have a clear moment at the perfect,
Time but here is the bigger. Problem hebrews, six verses
four through six warns that you can reach a point
where repentance becomes. Impossible, Quote for it is impossible in

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the case of those who have once been enlightened and
then have fallen, away to restore them again to repentance.
Unquote what that means, is every time you reject the,
gospel your heart gets a little harder Towards. God every
time you say, ah not, yet it becomes even easier
to keep saying it the next. Time pharaoh hardened his

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heart Against god Until god hardened it. Permanently there's a
point of no, return and you don't know where that.
Is romans, one verse twenty eight describes those who wait
too long saying and since they did not see fit
to Acknowledge, God god gave them up to a debased.
Mind in other, Words god stopped, calling The Holy spirit

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stopped convicting. Them you're given over to your. Choices you
think you're in control of your. Salvation Timeline james four
or fourteen says you do not know what tomorrow will.
Bring what is your? Life for you are a mist
that appears for a little time and then. VANISHES a
mist a. Vapor you're here one, second gone the. Next

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that's your, life and you're betting eternity on your ability
to time your repentance. Perfectly you're listening to me right
now for a. Reason maybe you've been comfortable in your,
faith assuming everything's. Fine maybe you've been avoiding the uncomfortable
parts of. Scripture maybe you've never really considered that hell

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might be. Real the research is. Clear roughly one out
of every three people who come close to death will
have transcendental, experiences and not all of them are. Pleasant
some see, heaven some see, hell and afterward you never
recover your original. Self that's lost to. You it's not

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your physical body that has, died but something in. You
you won't be the same. Again Every, sunday churches fill
with people who think that they are. Safe they've said a,
prayer they've been. Baptized they show up most. Weeks But
jesus warned us many will say to me on that,
Day Lord, lord did we not prophesy in your, name

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and in your name drive out, demons and in your
name perform many? Miracles and THEN i will tell them,
PLAINLY i never knew. You if you are truly. Saved,
well you have a job to. Do ezekiel three eighteen
makes it terrifyingly. Clear IF i say to the, wicked
you shall surely, die and you give him no, warning

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nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way
in order to save his, life that wicked person shall
die for his, Iniquity but his BLOOD i will require
at your. HAND i THINK i need to say that,
Again ezekiel three point. Eighteen IF i say to the,
wicked you shall surely, die and you give him no,

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warning nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked
way in order to save his, life, well that wicked
person shall die for his, iniquity but his BLOOD i
will require at your hand their blood on your. Hands you,
know people heading to, hell family, members co, workers, neighbors,

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Friends when did you last warn? Them when did you
last share the? Gospel or are you too, polite too
afraid of being, offensive too worried about being labeled a?
Fanatic jude one twenty three commands us to save us
by snatching them out of the. Fire. Snatching that's pretty

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that's a pretty urgent. Word. Snatching it's. Desperate you're just
being barely saved from the. Danger that's not a casual
conversation over. Coffee that's grabbing somebody before they fall off a.
Cliff but churches have made you ashamed of the. Gospel
they've trained you to be, silent to be, respectful to
not impose your. Beliefs, meanwhile people are dying and going

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to hell because nobody told them the. Truth proverbs twenty,
four verses eleven and twelve condemns your. Silence rescue those
who are being taken away to, death hold back those
who are stumbling to the. Slaughter if you, say, behold
we did not know, this does not he who weighs
the heart to perceive. It god knows you. Know he

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knows you're staying. Quiet he knows you were more afraid
of social rejection than you are of your loved ones
burning in hell. Forever the Early christians were killed for their.
Faith they were fed to, lions burned, alive crucified upside.
Down you won't even risk an awkward. Conversation they died

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to spread the. Gospel you won't even speak. It mark
eight thirty eight should terrify, You for whoever is ashamed
of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful
generation of, Him will the son Of man also be
ashamed when he comes in the glory of his father
with The holy. Angels ashamed of. You Jesus, christ who

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died for, you will be ashamed of you because you
were too embarrassed to speak his. Name your silence isn't,
love it isn't. Respect it's, cowardice and it's condemning people
that you claim to care. About if you knew someone's
house was on, fire you'd wake them, up you'd, scream

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you'd break down, Doors but you know their soul is
heading to eternal, fire and you say. Nothing churches won't
preach about hell anymore for some, reason so that means
you AND i have To your pastor isn't going to warn,
people so you. Must the world has gone to sleep

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and the church is singing lullabies instead of sounding. Alarms
the gospel isn't just About god's. Love it's About god's.
Justice it's not just About, heaven it's About. Hell it's
not just about, angels it's about. Demons and until churches
start preaching the whole truth, again people will continue walking
blindly toward a fate they never saw. Coming give me

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a fire And brimstone preacher, again, Please satan's greatest trick
isn't making you think he doesn't. Exist it's making churches
too polite to warn you about. Him the question isn't
Whether hell is. Real the testimonies are too, consistent too,
numerous too life changing to, dismiss even if you don't
read the ones from The. Bible the question is are

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you absolutely certain where you're going when your heart stops?
Beating and if you are certain of your, salvation who
are you taking with? You who have you? Warned who
have you told About? Jesus because their blood might be
on your. Hands this is the very reason THAT i
Brought church of The undead to weird, darkness BECAUSE i

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want to take you with. Me i'm warning, You i'm
telling you About. Jesus IS i want to be certain
of your? Salvation right? Now someone you know is one
heart beat away From. Hell what are you going to
do about? It because once that heart, stops there are
no second, chances no, appeals no, negotiations just. Eternity and

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eternity is a very long time to be. Wrong eternity
is forever to wish someone had warned. You eternity is
endless regret that you didn't warn. Others the clock is
ticking for, you for, them for all of. Us so
what are you waiting? For if you've heard all of

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this and you know that you're not right With, god
don't wait another, second don't gamble another. Moment in, fact
pray this prayer with me right. Now say it out
loud and mean it from your. Heart Lord. JESUS i
Know i'm a. SINNER i KNOW i deserve. Hell i've
lived my own way and it leads to. Death BUT

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i believe you died on the. Cross from my, SINS
i believe you took the PUNISHMENT i. DESERVE i Believe
god raised you from the, dead proving you defeated death and.
Hell right, NOW i turn from my. SINS i. Repent
i'm done running my own. LIFE i surrender to you

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as My. Lord you're the. Boss now you call the.
SHOTS i trust you completely with my. Eternity come into my,
Life Lord, jesus save me from, hell make me, New
give me Your Holy spirit to change me from the inside.
Out help me to live for, you to warn others
to never be ashamed of your. Gospel thank you for saving,

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Me thank you for your blood that covers my. Sins
thank you That i'll never have to fear hell again
BECAUSE i belong to you now In jesus'. Name. Amen
if you just prayed that prayer and meant, it The
bible says you're. Saved romans ten thirteen promises everyone who

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calls on the name of The lord will be, saved
and that includes. You right now this, moment find A
bible believing, church get, Baptized tell someone about your decision,
today start reading The gospel Of, john and warn others
about the hell that you've just us. Escaped because now

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you know the, truth and the TRUTH i set you.
Free if you like what you, heard share this episode
with others whom you think might also like. It maybe
the person you shared with or want to join this
weirdo congregation. Too to listen to previous, messages visit Weird

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darkness dot com slash. Church that's Weird darkness dot com slash.
Church I'm Darren. Marler thanks for joining me weirdos and
until next, Time jesus loves, you and so DO. I
god bless
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