In this message, I want to carefully consider what has driven men of God to tears and to remind ourselves of the tragic condition of those who refuse to believe and obey the Gospel.

2 Thessalonians 1:6-9 English Standard Version (ESV)
6 since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 7 and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels 8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from[a] the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,