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Brent was a Marine guard at Camp David, the retreat of the President
of the United States. And he was working there on September 11, 2001 - at a
time when it was believed that Camp David could be a target that would be
hit by hijacked airliners, as the World Trade Center and Pentagon had been.
Well, Brent said there were alarms going off all day as the security at Camp
David was on high alert. Several low-flying aircraft had gone over before
all the flights were grounded, and at one point, Brent was assigned to a
rooftop where he was to watch for threatening aircraft. He was armed only
with his M-16 rifle. I said, "Brent, what good would an M-16 do against a
big airplane?" His answer really set me back - "Oh, it probably wouldn't do
any good at all. But at that moment, I knew what my last mission would be -
to give the warning."

I think the reason that Marine's answer hit me so hard is because his
mission that day is my mission every day. And it's your mission, too, if you
belong to Jesus Christ ... to give the warning.

God gives us a graphic picture of our assignment - and of the
consequences of failing to carry it out - in our word for today from the
Word of God. In Ezekiel 33:6-8, God uses the picture of a watchman on the
wall of an ancient city and He says, "If the watchman sees the sword coming
and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes and
takes the life of one of them, that man will be taken away because of his
sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for his blood."

Then God brings it down to us. "I have made you a watchman for the
house of Israel (where it says "house of Israel," put in the place you work,
the area you live in, the school you attend); so hear the word I speak and
give them warning from Me. When I say to the wicked, 'O wicked man, you will
surely die, and you do not speak out to dissuade him from his ways, that
wicked man will die for his sin, and I will hold you accountable for his blood.'"

You and I are the watchmen on the wall for the people around us who
do not yet understand the eternal consequences of running their own lives -
and that the Son of God Himself paid those consequences so they don't have
to. The Bible leaves no doubt that the people we know who have never grabbed
Jesus as their personal sin-Rescuer have no hope of heaven. They are, in
God's words, "being led away to death," (Proverbs 24:11) "without hope and
without God," (Ephesians 2:12) and will be "shut out from the presence of
the Lord" (2 Thessalonians 1:9) if they die without Christ.

And you have the information that can save their life forever. Have
you told them? It's very sobering to put the name of a lost person you care
about in that statement from Ezekiel - "When you do not speak out to
dissuade ___________ (put their name in there) from his ways, then
____________ (there's that name again) will die for his sin, and I will hold
you accountable for his blood." You are the watchman that God is counting on.

There's a reason you are where you are. Jesus has assigned you where
you are to be the one who will give the warning ... to deliver the news that
can literally forever save the life of someone you know and someone you care
about. So, your mission is nothing less than life-or-death.


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the farthest west? and the farthest east?

ANSWER: North - Alaska
South - Hawaii
West - Alaska
East - Alaska

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God did this so that men would seek Him and perhaps reach out
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