Sermon Text and Outlines

9/24/2023

Philippians 4:19-20  He Will Meet Your Needs

Intro:  We hear of food shortages, runaway inflation, gas shortages, electricity being rationed, health care costs rising.  The end of fossil fuels.  The end of life as we know it.  Twenty thousand car loans are defaulted every month.  Thousands of home loans are defaulted every month.  People are having a tough time today.  Fear and dread are at every turn.  But let me ask you this….what did you think the last days would look like?  A stroll into heaven?  We are going to see and are seeing the birth pangs ever since Israel became a nation in 1947.  The wicked one has been working overtime to bring about a one world government under the control of the Beast, the man of sin, the anti-Christ!  We  are moving quickly toward this.

 

Israel is in their land in unbelief.  They are about the sign a peace treaty brokered by the  United States that will give the West Bank which is Judea and Samaria over to the Palestinians to complete the two state solution.  God does not want any one to divide the land of Israel.  Daniel 11:39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain. 

The anti-Christ will divide the land of Israel in the last days.

 

Daniel 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

The Anti-Christ will sign a peace treaty with Israel that will be for seven years but he will break after 3 ½ years.

 

Genesis 12:3And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

When did this verse cease to be in affect?

Psalm 72:5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.

Psalm 105:9-10 Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac; 10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:

It is an everlasting covenant with Israel and the land.  It has not been usurped by the church.

70 weeks of  years are determined for thy people (israel.)  69 weeks have been fulfilled.  One more  week of years to bring judgement, and end of sin, anoint Jesus as King and bring in everlasting righteousness.

 

Joel 3:2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will

 plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the

nations, and parted my land.  The United States has brought It’s destruction upon itself.  God may spare

us because of the His remnant church.  I don’t know.

 

Satan is trying to destroy the foundations….Psalm 112:3-4  If the foundations be destroyed, what can

the righteous do? 4 The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his

eyelids try, the children of men. 7:00

 

So……what are we to do….. Philippians 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:20 Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

 

1 But My God Shall Supply

My God will liberally fill until full…. God will supply you.

God Knows what’s going on

Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.  If we reap a life lived in faith and trust in God He will not leave us nor forsake us.

 

God is not surprised…Psalm 140:1-3 Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man; 2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war. 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips.

 

God is has all power…2 Peter 2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, (troubles) 2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

 

God is on your side…Romans 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

Jesus told us….Don’t be troubled…Matthew 24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

God will supply….   God is never late, never early. Always on time.  12:00

 

2. …..All your need

all your needs. Your every need

God will give us our needs.  He knows what we need.  He delights to give you what you need.  Not your greeds but your needs.

Matthew 6:31-33 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Seek God, trust in Him, love Him and He will take care of you.

Psalm 37:4 Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.  If your heart is attuned to God….He will give you what your heart desires because your heart is His heart.  God will take care of your needs.  I know people want to sell you freeze dried food.  Of course you should have food stored up for bad times….that’s life.  But remember the Bible says….Matthew 24:37-39 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.  It’s going to get bad but we are seeing the birth pangs.  The set up of the Beast kingdom.  The Lord said when He comes is anyone going to be watching for Him.  Answer….NOT MANY!!  Life is going to keep on to some degree of normalcy.  People are still getting married, eating out, drinking and Luke says they will be buying and selling.  So take heart…. How have gas prices stayed normal?  How has food stayed available?  How has the economy not tanked? God is holding it all together.  17:00

 

3. …..According To His Riches IN Glory

And with all his abundant wealth… according to His riches in glory

God owns the cattle on a thousand hills. (They won’t be taking our meat til God says they can)  God owns it all and Jesus Christ created it all!  We are rich in Christ!  We have it all it we have Jesus!

Romans 11:33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!  We don’t realize what we have in Jesus Christ!  We worry and fret and fear.  I know life can throw you some curves and can be very depressing at times.  No one wants to be sick and see loved ones suffer.  But God can give you peace in any circumstance.  I don’t know what can be worse than losing your spouse of 34 years….but I survived…glory to Jesus Christ who gave me peace and strength.  You say I can never do that.  You can’t.  But He can!  He will give you strength and peace WHEN you need it.  So what you imagine will destroy you will only make you stronger in Him! 22:00

 

4. …..By Christ Jesus

through Christ Jesus…in Christ Jesus and for His sake alone.

It’s all about Jesus….He is our Savior from our sin.  But He is our savior from all evil things.  He will because He can!

 

God won’t let you fail because Jesus Christ won’t fail!  John 14:19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.  If Jesus lives….and He does…then your new life is guaranteed!!

 

John 17:20-21 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.  Christ prayed for you.  God’s word and name depend upon you being delivered whole to Christ as His bride.  We are to be His witnesses to Jesus Christ and His wonderful salvation.  27:00

 

Conclusion:

 To God Be The Glory

Philippians 4:20 Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

To God be the glory! He is being glorified by all that is going on today!  He told us these things were coming!  He told us exactly what would happen and we are living to see it today!  What a blessing to live in this day!  Don’t look at it as fear and dread but excitement every day for this might be the day!  But we get to see God make fools of these wicked, godless people as they try to be god.

 

God is making fun of them.  Look at our president.  Look at Klaus Swabb….he looks and sounds like a bad movie villain.  And these wicked leaders are so old and out of touch with reality it’s comical.  It’s like watching Tim Conway skit.   God is humbling these people and He is going to humble everyone who does not come to Jesus Christ.  So take heart….we are not winning!! We have already won the victory!!!

Trust in Jesus Christ as you Savior today…right now! Pray and ask Him to save you from your sin  28:04

9/3/2023

Hebrews 10:24-39 The Day Is Approaching

Intro:   I don’t mean to harp on the end times all the time….but it is the last time. 1 John 2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.  How should we act?  What should we be doing?  How should we live?     2 Peter 3:11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness…  We should………1:00

 

1. Encourage The People Of God

Hebrews 10:24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Let us be concerned for one another, to help one another to show love and to do good…. and let us consider [thoughtfully] how we may encourage one another to love and to do good deeds,

Hebrews 10:25Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Let us not give up the habit of meeting together, as some are doing. Instead, let us encourage one another all the more, since you see that the Day of the Lord is coming nearer….. Not forsaking our meeting together [as believers for worship and instruction], as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more [faithfully] as you see the day [of Christ’s return] approaching.   The easiest thing you can do is go to church.   (now I’m not talking about shut ins that cannot go)  Yet so many people today talk about Jesus…ask for prayers….talk  about the Bible….but never go to church!  I would say that if you aren’t going to church you probably aren’t reading the Bible or witnessing to very many people.  How can you invite someone to church if you don’t go yourself!

Approaching may also be translated “at hand” (Romans 13:12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.; Philippians 4:5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.  James 5:8; Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.  1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. Revelation 1:3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.) Knowing that Christ’s return is imminent, the believers were to encourage each other even more to remain faithful to Him (Hebrews 3:13But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.  This goes for anytime.  We should always be aware like the New Testament writers that Jesus could come any time.  So How should we live?  Encouraging and exhorting one another.    7:00

1. Encourage The People Of God 2. Avoid The Judgment Of God

Hebrews 10:26For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, For there is no longer any sacrifice that will take away sins if we purposely go on sinning after the truth has been made known to us……..For if we go on willfully and deliberately sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice [to atone] for our sins [that is, no further offering to anticipate] sin willfully: The reference here is not to an occasional act of sin (which can be confessed and forgiven.) 1 John 1:8, 9 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.   9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. but to a conscious rejection of God. The Old Testament speaks in Num. 15:30, 31 of committing willful sin. A person who sinned presumptuously was to be cut off from the people. To sin deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth is apostasy. If a Christian rejects God’s provision for his or her salvation, there is no other remedy for sins (see also Num. 15:29–31), since forgiveness of sins can only be found in Christ’s perfect sacrifice there is not avoiding the judgment of God except through Him.

 

Hebrews 10:27But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. Instead, all that is left is to wait in fear for the coming Judgment and the fierce fire which will destroy those who oppose God!……. But a kind of awful and terrifying divine judgment and the fury of a fire and burning wrath which will consume the adversaries [those who put themselves in opposition to God].    With no hope of forgiveness all that one can expect is judgment, described here as a fiery indignation. Those who choose to disobey God become His adversaries.  James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

 

Hebrews 10:28He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses Anyone who disobeys the Law of Moses is put to death without any mercy when judged guilty from the evidence of two or more witnesses……. Anyone who has ignored and set aside the Law of Moses is put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. The specific sin in the Old Testament that required two or three witnesses was idolatry (see Deut. 17:2–7). The judgment for idolatry was death by stoning. If idolatry was punished with physical death, how much worse punishment should someone receive who treats the word of Christ with disrespect or disdain?

 

Hebrews 10:29Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? What, then, of those who despise the Son of God? who treat as a cheap thing the blood of God’s covenant which purified them from sin? who insult the Spirit of grace? Just think how much worse is the punishment they will deserve!…….How much greater punishment do you think he will deserve who has rejected and trampled under foot the Son of God, and has considered unclean and common the blood of the covenant that [d]sanctified him, and has insulted the Spirit of grace [who imparts the unmerited favor and blessing of God]?

 

Counted the blood …means a common thing…the blood of Christ is treated as no different from the blood of an ordinary man or the blood of an animal sacrifice. Insulted the Spirit of grace is a reference to the Holy Spirit, the agent of God’s gracious gift of salvation. A believer who commits these offenses will be judged with a punishment worse than physical death.

 

Hebrews 10:30For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. For we know who said, “I will take revenge, I will repay”; and who also said, “The Lord will judge his people.”……..For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine [retribution and the deliverance of justice rest with Me], I will repay [the wrongdoer].” And again, “The Lord will judge His people.”

 

The author of Hebrews quotes two passages from Deut. 32 to support his claim that judgment belongs to the Lord and that God’s people are not excused from God’s judgment. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God because there is no other sacrifice for sin than Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross only a fearful expectation of judgment. All sin not covered by the blood of Christ will result in great loss at the judgment seat.  1 Corinthians. 3:15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.  Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

 

Hebrews 10:31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God! It is a fearful and terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God [incurring His judgment and wrath. 17:00

 

1. Encourage The People Of God 2. Avoid The Judgment Of God  
2. Acknowledge The Faithfulness Of God

Hebrews 10:32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; Remember how it was with you in the past. In those days, after God’s light had shone on you, you suffered many things, yet were not defeated by the struggle…….. But remember the earlier days of your faith, when, after being [spiritually] enlightened, you [patiently] endured a great conflict of sufferings.  God did not let you be defeated.   1 Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

Hebrews 10:33 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used. You were at times publicly insulted and mistreated, and at other times when you were not being persecuted, you were ready to join those who were being treated in this way. ……..sometimes by being made a spectacle, publicly exposed to insults and distress, and sometimes by becoming companions with those who were so treated.  You were not afraid to suffer yourself or join those who were suffering for their faith.

 

Hebrews 10:34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. You shared the sufferings of prisoners, and when all your belongings were seized, you endured your loss gladly, because you knew that you still possessed something much better, which would last forever……..For you showed sympathy and deep concern for those who were imprisoned, and you joyfully accepted the [unjust] seizure of your belongings and the confiscation of your property, conscious of the fact that you have a better possession and a lasting one [prepared for you in heaven].  An enduring hope in Christ.  1 Peter 1:21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

 

Hebrews 10:35Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. Do not lose your courage, your confidence in what you believe and who you believe in, because it brings with it a great reward……. Do not, therefore, cast away your confidence in Christ, for it has a glorious and great reward.  1  John 2:28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

 

Hebrews 10:36For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. You need to be patient and endure sometimes especially in the day we live in, in order to do the will of God and receive what he promises.…….. For you have need to bear up under difficult circumstances without compromising your faith, so that when you have carried out the will of God, you may receive and enjoy to the full what is promised.

 

Hebrews 10:37For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. “Here is our great hope…Just a little while longer  and he who is coming will come; he will not delay……. It’s only going a little while and He who is coming will come, and will not delay…….

 

Hebrews 10:38Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. My righteous people, however, will believe and live; but if any of them turns back,  I will not be pleased with them……But My righteous one [the one justified by faith] shall live by faith because you are relationship to God and trusting Him]; And if you draw back [shrinking in fear of the things that are happening, My soul has no delight in him.  God not pleased with quiters!  Jesus didn’t quit on us! Hebrews 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.  Jesus kept His eye on the goal…the prize…We have goal… a prize….1 Corinthians 9:24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.  Philippians 3:14 I press (on) toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.  27:00

 

Conclusion:

Hebrews 10:39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.  We are not people who turn back and are lost. Instead, we have faith and are saved.

…..But our way is not that of those who shrink back to destruction, but [we are] of those who believe [relying on God through faith in Jesus Christ, the Messiah] and by this confident faith preserve the soul.

 

This is not saying that you can lose  your salvation…but it’s like Matthew 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.  Only those who can endure to the end are the saved!    A saved person will not draw back and be lost.  They cannot.  A lost person will give up and join the Beast System or quit church or quit the Bible.  A Christian who gives up could lose their lives but definitely lose their rewards.  Hebrews 6:8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.  1 Corinthians 3:15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.  28:04

 

8/27/2023

2 Peter 3:14-16 The Enemy Wants To Get Us Off Track

Intro: The Devil will try anything to distract from the word of God and the work of God.  He will use any tactic.  Even things that seem to be harmless can distract us.  Even things that seem helpful can be harmful.  Peter tells us to be diligent…that is make every effort to not be distracted from following the Lord Jesus Christ and His word.  1:00

 

1. Why Does The Enemy Want To Sidetrack us?

2 Peter 3:12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? as you wait for the Day of God and do your best to make it come soon—the Day when the heavens will burn up and be destroyed, and the heavenly bodies will be melted by the heat. [while you earnestly] look for and await the coming of the day of God. For on this day the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the [material] elements will melt with intense heat!.

 

This is why the enemy wants to sidetrack us.  He does not want us to know or believe these that the world is heading for judgment and will come to an end.  So if this is true then naturally wouldn’t this should be our concern in these days…..preaching the word of God and the gospel and telling others about Salvation in Jesus Christ and teaching the Bible to them.   If the bridge is out 5 miles up the road are you going to tell people to avoid a bad restaurant on this road?  Are you going to tell them to watch out for deer?  Are you going to tell them to look at the beautiful mountains on the road?  Are you going to tell them to keep driving it will be okay?

 

NO!!! you are going to tell them the Bridge is out!   Ezekiel 33:6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand. A simple message.  If want to keep driving after that….if they ignore the warning about a soon judgment of God.  it’s on them..

 

2 Peter 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts.  Last days will have many scoffers and liars.  We should expect it always but especially in these days of social media and the internet that can reach everywhere with their messages scoffing the word of God.  7:00

 

1. Why Does The Enemy Want To Sidetrack us? 2.Why Should We Continue to Live For Christ?

2 Peter 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. But in accordance with His promise we expectantly await new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.  But we wait for what God has promised: new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness will be at home forever and ever.  That’s why we never give up and never back down!!  WE have a fantastic future!!   No more evil.  No more sin.  No more pain.  NO more sickness.  No more war.  No more liars.  No more immorality!  No more death!!  Of course the devil would want to distract people from this truth.  He wants you to be confused, depressed, have a life filled with Chaos and disappointment and discouragement.  I have never known a person in my life disappointed in Jesus!!

 

2 Peter 3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. And so, my friends, as you wait for that Day, do your best to be pure and faultless in God’s sight and to be at peace with him. So, beloved, since you are looking forward to these things, be diligent and make every effort to be found by Him [at His return] spotless and blameless, in peace [that is, inwardly calm with a sense of spiritual well-being and confidence, having lived a life of obedience to Him].

 

Our focus should be on Christ and a lost and dying world and getting ready to meet the Lord either in the air or in death.  We should keep our focus on Christ and not the silly arguments and useless banter and false teachers who seek to put doubt in our minds.

 

One thing they all agreed upon and we all agree upon…..befroe the new heaven and the new earth Jesus is returning to the earth to rule and reign with us for a thousand years!  So what manner of person should we be?  We should stick together and not fall for deceptive teachers and preachers who seek to undermine the word of God!  14:00

 

1. Why Does The Enemy Want To Sidetrack us? 2.Why Should We Continue to Live For Christ?
2. We Must Be Diligent and Not side tracked with Useless Arguments and deception

2 Peter 3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you.   There are many things the enemy is doing to discredit the Bible and the word of God.  One of them is the apostle Paul.

 

2 Peter 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.  Peter called Paul’s espistles SCRIPTURE!  That’s a pretty high regard for Paul!  Yet the Apostle Paul has been maligned and discounted all the way back to the first century.  Did you know that many people today say that Paul changed the Gospel.  I heard a guy say that Paul and James the brother of Jesus were against each other.  How is that possible?  Peter endorsed Paul and the entire Jerusalem church Pastored by James the half-brother of Jesus endorsed Paul.

 

Look at Acts chapter 15…. Acts 15:22 Then pleased it the apostles and elders with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas and Silas, chief men among the brethren:  Acts 15:25 It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,  26 Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.  Paul was endorsed and loved by the apostles and leaders of the Jerusalem church!  How then could he be an enemy of Peter and James and John.

 

I heard a show where the speakers were saying that the ancient texts changed the Bible over the years to fit the agenda that each had and that Paul changed the church doctrine and the Mark(the first gospel written) never said Jesus was God and that Peter and James contradicted Paul’s doctrine.  Well…. what would you expect in the last days?  No one to attack the Bible?  These were supposedly Christian ancient text researchers.  One thing they never mentioned was Bible Prophecy!  Bible prophecy has and is being fulfilled.  Of course they didn’t talk about that.  I agreed with one thing that they said…”we have to keep it simple…it’s not that complicated!” it is not it is simple.  After they said that they went on to make it complicated with the unfounded and untrue accusations!  I’m not going to defend grace and the rapture. That is been proven to be all through the Bible.  I am going to show you that Paul was accepted and beloved by ALL of the church during his time on earth!  There are people out there that are focusing on fables and ancient texts and extra-Biblical books like Enoch, Jubilee, the Assumption of Moses and many others….and have gotten themselves completely away from the truth of the Bible.  Many today have their focus on giants and extra biblical texts instead of the Bible we have and the gospel it contains.  It’s pretty….its entertaining and interesting…..but it’s not endorsed by Jesus or the Apostles.  Yes they quoted from them at times.  It doesn’t mean that it was endorsed.  Some aspects of the extra-biblical book are true like the giants of Genesis six….. but we are not to take that over the Bible we have that is endorsed by the apostles and Jesus Christ Himself!

 

Paul went to the third heaven but he knew that story would not save anyone….so he stuck with the gospel.  Jesus Forbade him to talk about his experiences….I know why now….  It would distract people from the main thing….the word of God and the salvation of mankind!   It’s like a farmer buying a 90 thousand dollar truck to do farm work.  All you need is an old reliable truck.  Pretty soon He’s going to go out of business because he won’t put anything to help his farm in his new truck.  His focus is the truck instead of farming.

 

Jesus said to follow Him and take up His cross daily.  That’s not spectacular.  It’s not romantic.  It’s not fun.  It can be scary.  But that’s what we are to do……. focus on Christ and the cross.  The glory of the cross is the fact that we have the opportunity to suffer with Him…. and then we will reign with Him.

 

I know now why God did not include these books in the Bible.  While the information might be true about fallen angels….it is so fascinating that it causes us to lose focus on the gospel and fill our minds with useless information that while interesting….. can totally distract us from the main thing….the gospel.

 

Here’s another one….  They said that Mark the first gospel written…. never called Jesus the son of God and that Jesus never said He was God and that disciples never called Him that in the book of Mark.  This is important they say because it was the first gospel written.  The other gospels added all that later according to them.

 

Let me tell you the facts.  No Mark did not use the phrase the son of God.  But he did use son of man.  But the implication is there that Jesus was God and the son of God.   Jesus forgave sins in the Book of Mark. Mark 2:7 Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?   Mark 2:10 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)

 

Mark said…Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath.  Mark 3:28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

 

He healed the sick, the deaf and dumb and blind and raised the dead in Mark.  He controlled the weather in the book of Mark.  He cast out devils in the book of Mark.  He called Himself the Son of Man in the book of Mark.  He fed the 4000 in the book of Mark.  He promised to take people to heaven who believed in Him.  He promised to bring the kingdom of God to earth.  He transfigured before Peter, James and John and God said this is my beloved Son.  He predicted His own death and resurrection and He rose from the dead!  If that is not God, the son of God, then I don’t know who is!

 

Don’t listen to those who try to discredit the Bible.  But we should expect it always.  But the Bible is still here and many of the critics are dead and in hell.  Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

 

More books have been written about Jesus than any other person in  the history of the world.  Even our calendar reflects Jesus  Christ!   AD And BC.  And the Bible accurately tells His salvation story!  John 6:68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.

 

Jesus said the Bible would be the truth of God.  John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.   27:00

 

1. Why Does The Enemy Want To Sidetrack us? 2.Why Should We Continue to Live For Christ?
2. We Must Be Diligent and Not side tracked with Useless Arguments and deception

The Enemy Wants to Get Us Off Track

In war you want to  lie to the enemy.  Deceive the enemy.  Do anything to distract them and get them off your trail.  Our enemy knows we are on His trail.  We are shedding light on the evil of this world and He doesn’t have time to mess around….he is pulling out all the stops in these last days.  It’s more important than ever to know what you believe and why you believe it.   Trust in the word of God and believe in Jesus Christ and the gospel….. that Jesus died for our sins and rose again the third day.  That is the bedrock of our faith.  It’s all about Jesus!  Follow Him and you will never be distracted.  28:04

 

8-20-2023

John 6:39-40 The Last Day

Intro:  Six times Jesus mentions the last day in the book of John.  John is the only one who uses that term in His gospel.   What is the last day?  When is the last day?  We will see what the Bible says about the last day.  Three definite truths we find in this passage…1:00

 

1. Jesus Said There Is Going To Be a Last day

John 6:39  And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And it is the will of him who sent me that I should not lose any of all those he has given me, but that I should raise them all to life on the last day. This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but that I [give new life and] raise it up at the last day.

 

John 6:40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day. For this is My Father’s will and purpose, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him [as Savior] will have eternal life, and I will raise him up [from the dead] on the last day.” For what my Father wants is that all who see the Son and believe in him should have eternal life. And I will raise them to life on the last day.”

 

John 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. No man can come to me, except the Father, which hath sent me, draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him [giving him the desire to come to Me; and I will raise him up [from the dead] on the last day.

 

John 6:54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. Whosoever eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood [believes in Me, accepts Me as Savior] has eternal life [that is, now possesses it], and I will raise him up [from the dead] on the last day.

 

There is going to be a day when God will wrap things up and bring in the new heaven and the new earth where we are meant to be for eternity.  Matthew 25:34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.  This is why God is going to end the world as we know it.  God has been preparing for the kingdom of God since the dawn of time.  God created man, man sinned at no surprise to God, God prepared a Savior so that we can go to heaven as CO-regents with God. Not just servants…. but sons and daughters of the Father through Jesus Christ the Son of God!  This is God’s grand plan.  To have a personal relationship with His children who have trusted in Him by faith and proven their love for Him by accepting Jesus Christ as their Savior.

 

We are co-regents with Christ. This was God’s plan from the beginning.   Matthew 25:23 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.  2 Timothy 2:12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us.  Revelation 22:4-5 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads. 5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. 

 

Also to judge the world and bring an end to sin.  Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression,(to bring an end to the missed 70 Sabbaths) and to make an end of sins,(to end sinners and end sin forever) and to make reconciliation for iniquity,(Judgement for sin and sinners) and to bring in everlasting righteousness, (The kingdom of God) and to seal up the vision and prophecy,(to fulfill and end all prophecy) and to anoint the most Holy (Jesus Christ to be revealed as Lord of Lords and King of Kings).  There is going to be a last day!  10:00

 

1. Jesus Said There Is Going To Be a Last day
2. Jesus Said there is Going to Be a Resurrection on the Last Day

John 6:39  And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day..  it” is the whole body of believers at once.  The church if you will.  It’s a resurrection.

Jesus said I should lose nothing and I should raise them up.  He said I WILL raise Him up…. three times.  This is our security as the body of Christ.  He will raise us all up together. He will lose nothing.  He will means I WILL and I only can!!!   There is going to be a resurrection on the last day.

John 6:40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day. I will Jesus said.  If He wills it who can prevent it?    No on can stop the resurrection on the last day.

 

John 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. No man WILL or has EVER come to Christ without the Holy Spirit’s drawing and convicting!     He will resurrect those that come to Him.

 

John 6:54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.   There are three last days…. (1) The last day of the church when Jesus comes for His bride…(2) the last day of the tribulation when Christ returns  (3)and the last day of the earth at the end of the Millennium and then eternity.  There are three beginings and endings for the Babylonian captivity.  Any time the last day referring to believers during the church age is the rapture of the church.  I believe Jesus is referring to this.   It’s a mass resurrection of millions at once.

 

Believe that Jesus died and shed His blood for our salvation.  It is a personal decision.  That’s why each individual has to do that for Himself.  We don’t join and religious group to be saved.   We don’t believe an ideology to be saved….we believe in a person and receive that person the Lord Jesus Christ by faith.

 

Jesus left the 90 and 9 and went after that one lost sheep.  Doesn’t mean that the sheep was lost and going to hell but that the sheepfold belongs all to the great shepherd.   Jesus the perfect shepherd is going to keep us all together as one.  He said that He has not lost one sheep….. and He won’t, not only He won’t but He can’t!

 

Jesus’ keeping ministry applies not only to this life, but also to the next. His constant allusion to the Father who gave him the believers, who sent him to give eternal life, and who draws believers to him indicates his close relationship with the Father—that of a Son who fulfills the Father’s purpose (v.40). His prerogative of resurrection is the final proof of his authority.

 

There are five bodily resurrections in the Bible…..

1. Jesus Christ the first

Acts 26:23 that the Messiah must suffer, and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, He would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles. 

Colossians 1:18 He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He might come to have first place in everything.

 

2. The Church At Rapture

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 Also 1 Corinthians 15:51-58

 

3. The Tribulation Saints At His Second Coming and the end of the Tribulation.

Revelation 20:4-5 The first resurrection refers to the resurrection of all believers, though separated in time.

 

4. The Old Testament Saints At His Second Coming and the end of the Tribulation.

Daniel 12:1   (The tribulation) and at that time thy people shall be delivered,(Old Testament saints the Jews to whom Michael was talking to Daniel about) every one that shall be found written in the book.

Daniel 12:2 (Old Testament saints the Jews to whom Michael was talking to Daniel about and they shall go into the millennium)  some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt (the everlasting contemptable are resurrected at the end of the Millennium according to Revelation 20:5 and 7-14 ……But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. (The Unbelievers)

 

5. The Great White Throne And Millennial Saints resurrected after the Millennium

Revelation 20:5 ……But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. (The Unbelieving wicked dead)

Revelation 20:7-14 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

 

It is possible that some believers will die a physical death during the Millennium but I don’t think so. Through the prophet Isaiah, God said, “No longer will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his days; for the youth will die at the age of one hundred and the one who does not reach the age of one hundred will be thought accursed” (Isaiah 65:20).  It seems that death in the Millennium will only come to the disobedient. In either event, some kind of transformation will be required to fit believers in their natural bodies in the Millennium for pristine existence throughout eternity. Each believer will need to be transformed from the mortal to immortal and will have a “resurrected” type of body.

 

Paul has made it clear that flesh and blood, which is mortal and able to decay, cannot inherit the kingdom of God. That eternal kingdom is inhabitable only by those with resurrected, glorified bodies.  So the last day is a day of resurrection as dead bodies are brought to life.

 

1. Jesus Said There Is Going To Be a Last day
2. Jesus Said there is Going to Be a Resurrection on the Last Day
3. Jesus Tells Us That The Last Day is a Settling of Things Forever!

John 7:37  In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.  Jesus was speaking of the Feast of Tabernacles.  There are Seven feasts that Israel observes…..

1. Feast of Passover

Held: At the beginning of Spring, the first full moon of spring. Usually April

Represents:  Our salvation in Christ. The crucifixion of Christ.

 

2. Feast of Unleavened Bread

Held: The day after the Passover

Represents: The Bread of Life, the Lord Jesus, Burial of Christ.

 

3. Feast of First Fruits

Held:  Sunday following Unleavened Bread, usually April

Represents: The Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

 

4. Feast Of Harvest or Pentecost

Held: 50 days after the Feast of First Fruits, late May or early June

Represents: The beginning of the Harvest of souls, the church at Pentecost.

 

5. Feast of Trumpets

Held: The First day of Tishrei, the seventh month of the Jewish calendar.  September in our calendar.

Represents:  The gathering of the Church at the Rapture.

 

6. Day of Atonement

Held: Tenth day of Tishrei, the seventh month on the Jewish calendar.

Also Called Yom Kipper.

Represents: Second coming of Christ when Israel and the church will be accepted (atoned) by God.

 

7. Feast Of Tabernacles

Held: 15th day of the seventh month or seventh full moon of the year.  September, October in our Calendar. The Feast of Tabernacles lasted seven days plus a holy convocation on the 8^th day.

Represents: The great tabernacle to come, when men will dwell with God in heaven for eternity.  The last day is the end of the Jewish feast of tabernacles. Held: 15th day of the seventh month or seventh full moon of the year.  September, October in our Calendar.  The last feast of the Jewish calendar year.

 

In John 7:37 Jesus is talking about the last day of the feast of Tabernacles.  He is telling us what the Last day is a day where God puts everything and everyone where it is supposed to be.

It’s a day of the kingdom of God fulfilled as we have seen…..but it’ also a day of judgment and a settling of things!!!

John 12:48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. He that refuseth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, it shall judge him in the last day.  Some for glory, many for judgment.    Everything will be set.

 

Revelation 22:10-12 And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. 11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. 12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

The Feast of Tabernacles symbolizes a time of everything being set for all eternity.  God is a God of order and not chaos.  Right now the world is full of chaos, confusion, decay, destruction, change and disorder.   God is a God who does not change.  Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever!  God is going to set everything for eternity.  Nothing will grow old.  Nothing will decay or rust.  Nothing will be damaged or destroyed.   No one will get sick or die.

 

At that point everything will be changed, a new heaven and a new earth and the New Jerusalem will come down to earth.   It will be the LAST change! From now on everything is settled forever!

 

1. Jesus Said There Is Going To Be a Last day
2. Jesus Said there is Going to Be a Resurrection on the Last Day
3. Jesus Tells Us That The Last Day is a Settling of Things Forever!

Conclusion:

The Last day is a Theme throughout the New Testament. 

Jesus said “last Day”….. but John, Peter and Jude mentioned the term “Last time”….

1 John 2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.  Many are against Christ in these days.  Many false Christ’s or false religions and cults in the these days.  More cults now by far than anytime in history of the world!  So we know it is the last time or the last of the last days.

 

1 Peter 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time

Jude 1:18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

In his last book Paul used the phrase “last days” one time.   2 Timothy 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

 

These phrases last day, last time, last days all mean one thing…..the day of Christ is the day He is revealed or His appearing on earth.  First in the sky for His church and then on earth at His return!

Luke 17:30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. 

1 Timothy 6:14 That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:

2 Timothy 1:10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.  (his first appearance on earth)

2 Timothy 4:1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

2 Timothy 4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

1 Peter 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.

 

We sing what a day that will be………We can only imagine but one day our faith will be sight!!  Are you ready?  Are you ready for the the last day? We all will have a last day of mortality on this earth!  28:04

 

 

8/20/23

Daniel 9:2  Why Seventy Weeks of Years?

Daniel 9:2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

8/13/2023

Revelation 13:1  The Beast Is Almost Here

Intro:   The Beast, The Anti-Christ, the man of sin, the son of perdition will be the leader that the world is looking for.  Jesus lived until  in 30 AD but the world didn’t want Him.  The Son of God was despised and rejected by men.  But not this man of sin….He will be loved and received by men and praised by men and be the man the world has longed for.  He is almost here.  I can hear the hoofbeats of the apocalypse now and the final rider of the white horse…the final world dictator is almost here. The man the world has dreamed of is almost here…..8/6/2023

1 Peter 4:12-13 Don’t Be Sad…Be Glad!

Intro: People today are sad, depressed, and some are just scared of the future and haunted by the past.  Jesus came to set us free from all that.  He never said we wouldn’t have tough times but that He would make us tougher than the times by warning us and preparing us and filling us with His joy and His victory! 1:00

 

1. Expect Persecution

1 Peter 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: My dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful test you are suffering, as though something unusual were happening to you. Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal which is taking place to test you [that is, to test the quality of your faith], as though something strange or unusual were happening to you.  Jesus said in John 15:20 If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you.  Expect Persecution.

Expect that The world doesn’t like Jesus

Expect that The world has rejected Jesus

Expect that The world has rejected you.

Expect that The world used to respect Christians.  Now they respect the sinner more than the sin bearer Jesus.

Expect that The world used to respect people who stood for righteousness.  Now the world only respects those who stand up for their sin.

 

Luke 6:26 Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets. “How terrible when all people speak well of you; their ancestors said the very same things about the false prophets.  Woe to you when all the people speak well of you and praise you, for their fathers used to treat the false prophets in the same way.   People pleasers may not experience persecution but they can experience weakness, compromise, fear, hate and distrust on a life built on their own lies.  Failure to stand up for the truth will slowly destroy your soul and make you a sad and depressed person for all the wrong reasons.

 

So Don’t be sad…be glad in that expect persecution and get the victory through Christ.  1 Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.  We are conquerors.  Romans 8:37   Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.  Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors and gain an overwhelming victory through Him who loved us [so much that He died for us].10:00

 

1. Expect Persecution 2. Experience Suffering

1 Peter 4:13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings….. Rather be glad that you are sharing Christ’s sufferings, But insofar as you are sharing Christ’s sufferings, keep on rejoicing.

We will experience bad things some times.  It rains on the just and the unjust.

We will experience sadness some times.

We will experience sorrow some times.

We will experience tears some times

We will experience hard times some times.

Romans 5:3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience. And not only this, but [with joy] let us exult in our sufferings and rejoice in our hardships, knowing that hardship (distress, pressure, trouble) produces patient endurance.

Experience leads to victory.  The more experienced people have suffering the stronger they become.  The more adversity you face the more you can strengthen other people.  The more experience you have the better you become at anything.  The difference between a novice guitar player and expert is only one thing…..one hour…..   One hour a day you can be an expert at anything.  Experience is the greatest teacher.  Romans 5:4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope.  19:00

 

1. Expect Persecution 2. Experience Suffering 3. Expect Joy

1 Peter 4:13….that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. so that you may be full of joy when his glory is revealed. so that when His glory [filled with His radiance and splendor] is revealed, you may rejoice with great joy.

 

Expect Joy when Jesus shares His own joy with you.

Hebrews 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, on whom our faith depends from beginning to end. He did not give up because of the cross! On the contrary, because of the joy that was waiting for him, he thought nothing of the disgrace of dying on the cross, and he is now seated at the right side of God’s throne.  looking away from all that will distract us and] focusing our eyes on Jesus, who is the Author and Perfecter of faith [the first incentive for our belief and the One who brings our faith to maturity], who for the joy [of accomplishing the goal] set before Him endured the cross, [b]disregarding the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God [revealing His deity, His authority, and the completion of His work].

 

Expect joy when your weakness is turned to strength.  You don’t know how strong you are until you are tested.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.  10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. But his answer was: “My grace is all you need, for my power is greatest when you are weak.” I am most happy, then, to be proud of my weaknesses, in order to feel the protection of Christ’s power over me. 10 I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.  Moreover, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we submitted and respected them [for training us]; shall we not much more willingly submit to the Father of [e]spirits, and live [by learning from His discipline]? 10 For our earthly fathers disciplined us for only a short time as seemed best to them; but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.

 

Expect the Joy of the Power of knowing Jesus Christ as your savior, your friend, your Lord!

Philippians 3:10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; so that I may know Him [experientially, becoming more thoroughly acquainted with Him, understanding the remarkable wonders of His Person more completely] and [in that same way experience] the power of His resurrection [which overflows and is active in believers], and [that I may share] the fellowship of His sufferings, by being continually conformed [inwardly into His likeness even] to His death [dying as He did];  All I want is to know Christ and to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings and become like him in his death,

 

Expect joy when you are Blessed….

Matthew 5:10-12 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. “Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires; the Kingdom of heaven belongs to them! “Happy are you when people insult you and persecute you and tell all kinds of evil lies against you because you are my followers. Be happy and glad, for a great reward is kept for you in heaven. This is how the prophets who lived before you were persecuted. Blessed [comforted by inner peace and God’s love] are those who are persecuted for [c]doing that which is morally right, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven [both now and forever]. “Blessed [morally courageous and spiritually alive with life-joy in God’s goodness] are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil things against you because of [your association with] Me. 12 Be glad and exceedingly joyful, for your reward in heaven is great [absolutely inexhaustible]; for in this same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.  Expect to be blessed and filled with joy when you are persecuted.  Not at the first moment but as you are going through it.  As the persecution process progresses Expect Joy in the process. 27:00

 

1. Expect Persecution 2. Experience Suffering 3. Expect Joy

Don’t Be Sad, Be Glad!

Luke 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. When these things begin to happen, (last days events like persecution, chaos, confusion, wickedness) then stand up and raise your heads, because your salvation is near.  Now when these things begin to occur, stand tall and lift up your heads [in joy], because [suffering ends as] your redemption is drawing near.”  A good basketball coach studies his opponent so they know what to expect.  So that they are not surprised by anything they throw at them.   Jesus knows our opponent better than us…we follow Jesus and He will show us what to expect to experience so we can be fit soldiers for Jesus Christ!  28:04

 

8/6/2023  And 8/13/2023

Daniel 2:48-49  The Rapture In Daniel  

Intro:   The Old Testament prophets foretold the New Testament. Especially some of the end time events.  I believe the rapture is right here in the book of Daniel.  1:00

 

1. Daniel Is In The Kings Court

This is from Got Questions.org……Here we see Daniel answering the Kings dream and the king took Daniel to the Kings house.  The king erects a statue that he commands everyone to fall down and worship. The king dreamed about an image.  Daniel 2:32This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, 33 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.  34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.

 

The dream featured a huge, statue of a man. Its head was “made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay” (Daniel 2:32-33). Then a rock cut “not by human hands” (Daniel 2:34) hit the foot of the statue, and the whole image “became like chaff on a threshing floor,” while the rock “became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth” (Daniel 2:35).

 

Daniel’s Response: The Interpretation

Daniel’s interpretation, given to him by God, explains that the statue represents a series of kingdoms, each less glorious than the one before, as indicated by the decreasing value of the metals. Daniel identifies Nebuchadnezzar as the head of gold, stating that God had given Nebuchadnezzar much power (Daniel 2:37-38). The next kingdom to arise will be inferior to Babylon, as will the next. “Finally, there will come a fourth kingdom, strong as iron. . . . It will crush and break all the others” (Daniel 2:40).

 

Finally, the feet of mixed clay and iron “will be a divided kingdom” (Daniel 2:41). During the time of this final world empire, the “rock” will smash them all to bits, a prediction that “God . . . will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed” (Daniel 2:44). All previous earthly kingdoms will be brought to an end.

 

The Dream for Today

The first four kingdoms have been identified as the Babylonian, Persian, Greek and Roman Empires. This identification has come from the workings of history matching further prophecies. Daniel already said that Babylon, specifically Nebuchadnezzar, was the head of gold (Daniel 2:38). Babylon fell to the kingdom of the Medes and the Persians (Daniel 5:26-31). Greece became the successor to the Medo-Persian Empire (Daniel 8:20-21; 10:20 – 11:14). The “iron” empire can only be Rome.

 

Opinions differ on the fifth empire. Most believe that the kingdom of the Antichrist will be a “revived Roman Empire.” We know, according to Revelation 17:12-13, that the Antichrist will lead a coalition of ten nations (the statue’s ten toes?). And we know that Christ will defeat the forces of the Antichrist (Revelation 17:14). After that, Jesus will set up His kingdom—the rock smashes the image—and the kingdoms of this world will “become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever” (Revelation 11:15).

 

Back to the sermon from Daniel 2:48-49

Daniel 2:48 Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.

Then he gave Daniel a high position, presented him with many splendid gifts, put him in charge of the province of Babylon, and made him the head of all the royal advisers. Then the king promoted Daniel [to an exalted position] and gave him many great gifts, and he made him ruler over the entire province of Babylon and chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.

 

Daniel was taken to the Kings house and was rewarded and made a ruler…..

 

The church will be taken to heaven…God’s house and also be rewarded 1 Corinthians 3:14 If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward……and we will be made rulers.  Matthew 25:21 His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

 

Daniel 2:49 Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel sat in the gate of the king. At Daniel’s request the king put Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in charge of the affairs of the province of Babylon; Daniel, however, remained at the royal court. And Daniel made a request of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego over the affairs of the province of Babylon, while Daniel was at the court of the king.

 

Daniel’s friends were left in charge of the affairs of Babylon…..They were left behind to live among the people of Babylon.  Some will be left behind in the world at the rapture.  Unbelieving Jews will be left behind.    Israel is the friend of the church…..we owe everything to the Jews.  The Bible.  Jesus was a Jew.  The holy land is God’s land.  But they are in the world and will be left behind at the rapture because they are in the promised land Israel but in un-belief.

 

Daniel 2:49…..but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.   But Daniel…..was in the kings house.  We will be taken to God….1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.  The Lord dwells in Heaven.  Isaiah 66:1 Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool….So we are going to be with God and the Lord Jesus Christ…..Mark 16:19 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.   Daniel was in the King’s house.  We are going to the King’s…. the Lord Jesus Christ’s house.  10:00

 

1. Daniel Is In The Kings Court
2. Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego face tribulation Seven Times Over

Daniel 3:19 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated. Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with fury, and his facial expression changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. Then he gave a command that the furnace was to be heated seven [c]times hotter than usual.   So King Nebbuchadnezzer puts up a image.  Probably like the one in his dream.  Which tells us there will be ten kings or regions with rulers or ten elite rulers working with the Anti-Christ and centered around European Union.  And Nebuchadnezzer demands his image to be worshipped.  There is going to be an image of he Beast in the book of Revelation that will be worshipped.  He will demand that people take the mark of the beast.  The bowing down means submission.  Satan wants submission to him and to his man of sin…the Beast!  Jews will not submit they will flee to Petra and be protected until Christ comes!

 

Daniel 3:19 …..and his facial expression changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego…..Daniel tells us that Nebuchadnezzer changed.  He was enraged!  At the midpoint of the tribulation there is going to be a war in heaven and Satan will be cast out of heaven.   At the same time the Beast will come back from a deadly wound .  So they will change at the mid-point of the tribulation and show great rage against Israel.   Just Like Nebuchadnezzer changed in his rage toward the three Jews.  Satan will seek to destroy the Jews.  And God knowing this will lead them to flee to Petra and be fed and clothed by angels until Jesus returns to set up His kingdom.

 

Daniel 3:19 …..Then he gave a command that the furnace was to be heated seven times hotter than usual.  Seven times hotter…….Seven years of tribulation?  Great tribulation the last 3 ½ years.  It takes time for the furnace to get seven time hotter..…..Daniel tells us in Daniel 9:27 tells us how long the tribulation is  And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week (seven years) and in the midst of the week (3 ½ years) he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, (He’s going to get enraged against Israel )and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, He’s going to go into the temple and claim to be God.) even until the consummation, (evil will reach it’s climax) and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.  (Complete destruction of the Devil and the Beast and the False prophet)  19:00

 

1. Daniel Is In The Kings Court
2. Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego face tribulation Seven Times Over
3. The Son Of God comes to Rescue them

Daniel 3:24  Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. Then Nebuchadnezzar the king [looked and] was astounded, and he jumped up and said to his counselors, “Did we not throw three men who were tied up into the midst of the fire?” They replied to the king, “Certainly, O king.”  Nebuchadnezzer is confused.  What happened?  Who rescued them?  How can this be?  Satan will be flustered as he tries to kill the Jews for God hides them at the mountain Wilderness fortress of Petra.

 

Daniel 3:25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.  He answered, “Look! I see four men untied, walking around in the midst of the fire, and they are not hurt! And the appearance of the fourth is like [d]a son of the gods!”   Jesus Christ is the Son of God.  He will save the Jews by sending them to Petra and then comes back to rule and reign over them.

 

Daniel 3:26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire. Then Nebuchadnezzar approached the door of the blazing furnace and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, servants of the Most High God, come out [of there]! Come here!” Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego came out of the midst of the fire.   Nebuchadnezzer confesses the Lord.  As everyone will finally do at the end of the tribulation or die in horror! Romans 14:11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

 

Daniel 3:27 And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king’s counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.  The satraps, the prefects, the governors and the king’s counselors gathered around them and saw that in regard to these men the fire had no effect on their bodies—their hair was not singed, their clothes were not scorched or damaged, even the smell of smoke was not on them.

 

Nothing was burned…..No injuries…..their clothes were fine…..no smell of fire.  God will completely protect His people Israel and bring them into the kingdom of God under King Jesus!  NO so for the tribulation saints they will be martyred.  Jesus is going to be the king of the Jews.  Isaiah 32:1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.  And we will rule with Him!

 

God will protect His people during the tribulation.  Mark 13:14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains: Israel is doing sacrifices in the temple under the Beast’s peace treaty.  Then at the mid-point of the tribulation Satan is kicked out of heaven the Beast suffers a deadly wound and comes back to life.  He is completely filled by Satan and Satan is angry for he knows his time is short. So he uses the Beast who seeks to destroy the Jews so that Jesus Cannot rule over them in the Kingdom age of one thousand years.

 

Revelation 12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.  God….. just before the war in heaven between Satan and Michael the Archangel God sends His people to safety.  Only 1/3 of the Jews will go 2/3 of Jews will be killed by the Beast.  27:00

 

1. Daniel Is In The Kings Court
2. Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego face tribulation Seven Times Over
3. The Son Of God comes to Rescue them

The Rapture is in Daniel. The second Coming is in Daniel. It’s all there plainly seen.  Are you ready to be in the King’s house?  Is He coming for you?  Are you ready when He comes?  Be ye therefore ready in an hour ye think not the Son of Man cometh….28:04

7/30/2023

1 Chronicles 16:23-34 Where Do We Go?

Intro:  The Book of 1 Chronicles was likely written between 450 and 425 B.C.  The Books of 1 & 2 Chronicles cover mostly the same information as 1 & 2 Samuel and 1 & 2 Kings. Perhaps the biggest distinction is that 1 & 2 Chronicles focus more on the priestly aspect of the time period. The Book of 1 Chronicles was written after the exile to help those returning to Israel understand how to worship God. The history focused on the Southern Kingdom, the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi. These tribes tended to be more faithful to God.

 

The first 9 chapters of 1 Chronicles are dedicated to lists and genealogies. Further lists and genealogies are scattered throughout the rest of 1 Chronicles. In between, the Book of 1 Chronicles records David’s ascension to the throne and his actions thereafter. The book concludes with David’s son Solomon becoming King of Israel.   We used to sing the song “the King is coming…the king is coming praise God He’s coming for me.”  He is on His way…things are being prepared as we sit here today! Where do we go but unto the Lord?  Peter said where do we go thou hast  the words of eternal life.  1:00

 

1. Only God Has Salvation

1 Chronicles 16:23 Sing unto the Lord, all the earth; shew forth from day to day his salvation. Sing to the Lord, all the world!  Proclaim every day the good news that he has saved us. Sing to the Lord, all the earth;  Proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day.

The most important thing is the salvation from our sin….. that comes only through faith in Jesus Christ.  Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.  We praise God for our salvation and all the earth should praise God for his great salvation and should proclaim His salvation day after day.  Hebrews 2:3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation.  This is why we proclaim it.  We cannot escape the judgment of God if we neglect..ignore…fail to receive the free offer of Salvation.  Only God can save.  Only God will Save. Only God wants to save.   No little “g” god can save you…. Will save you or wants to save you!

 

Isaiah 52:10 The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. This is true.  We see it today. The salvation of God through faith in Christ alone!

 

1 Chronicles 16:24 Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvellous works among all nations.  Proclaim his glory to the nations, his mighty deeds to all peoples. Declare His glory among the nations,

His marvelous works among all peoples.  Non-believers will see the error of their stupidity.  We declare His glorious salvation to those who have not heard.  We declare Him by living for Him.    Galatians 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.  We are all saved by grace through faith in Christ alone.  All the way back to Abraham and the promises to His descendants to be blessed.  We have been blessed by the Jewish people but the greatest blessing is the salvation given to us through faith and trust in Jesus Christ….a Jewish Savior and King of the Jews but lover and creator and Savior of all mankind!

 

1 Chronicles 16:25 For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods. The Lord is great and is to be highly praised; he is to be honored more than all the gods. For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; He is also to be feared with awe-filled reverence above all gods.

(the gods of old.  The Nephilim of antiquity.)   Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.  It only makes sense to hold in deep respect, awe, love and regard to the one who created us and all other things.

 

1 Chronicles 16:26 For all the gods of the people are idols: but the Lord made the heavens. The gods of all other nations are only idols, For all the gods of the peoples are [lifeless] idols, But the Lord made the heavens. but the Lord created the heavens.  This is a  quote from Psalm 96:5 For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.  1 Chronicles says People, Psalms says Nations.  Same thing.  All gods….little “g” are false or powerless compared to the one true God who is revealed in Jesus Christ.  Only the true God can bring a true eternal salvation to the whole world.  10:00

 

1. Only God Can Bring Salvation 2 Only God Deserves Glory

1 Chronicles 16:27 Glory and honour are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place. Glory and majesty surround him, power and joy fill his Temple. Splendor and majesty are [found] in His presence; Strength and joy are [found] in His place sanctuary.  Revelation 19:1 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God.  We will be saying these words in our heavenly language.  Glory and honour….to who…..unto the Lord  OUR God.  He is OUR God our personal Savior.  We will give Him glory and honour for His great love and salvation.

 

1 Chronicles 16:28 Give unto the Lord, ye kindreds of the people, give unto the Lord glory and strength. Praise the Lord, all people on earth, praise his glory and might. Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples, Ascribe to the Lord glory and honor and strength.  Psalm 96:7 Give unto the Lord, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the Lord glory and strength.  God in His glory is all powerful.  He is strong and mighty.  All-mighty God….El Shaddi.  God almighty.   We have a mighty God able to pull down the strongholds of the devil and all the evil people in this world.   2 Corinthians 10:4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds.  God will pull them down….don’t you doubt it.

 

I have warned you over and over again.  Don’t get involved with anything Catholic or Mormon or Free Masonry backed.  The “Sound of Freedom” is backed by Catholics and the star of the film is devout Catholic Jim Cavezil.  A man who believes that Mary is the Co-Redemptrix.   This movie was produced by Angel Studios. Mormon.  Named for the Mormon Angel Moroni.  The lead character in the film is a Mormon.  The film is financially backed by richest Free Masons. All of these are cults.

 

The movie blames the Jewish power brokers for causing all this child trafficking.  It gets you emotionally fired up and angry.  Just like they want to get you jacked up emotionally during Covid, BLM, War, and the arrest of Donald Trump.  Pure senseless emotion is the enemy of the word of God.  Emotion is good about those you love and things you believe in….but only when we can be emotionally abject. That is…. be emotional about the truth but be able to see past the emotion and see the truth.  Get emotional about our great salvation.  Get emotional when someone you love has something good happen to them.  Get emotional when your team wins.  But keep it under check until you know the truth about something.  Lynchings always occurred when emotions ran high.   Riots and fights occur when emotions run high.   When you try to play a sport and you get all emotional…you lose focus…you lose control and you lose the fight.  That’s what they want you to do.  Lose focus….lose control…. And lose the fight.

 

But why would they bring attention to their child trafficking in a popular movie?  They don’t care about children.  The movies always tell you what the wicked are doing.  They want to kill children and Christians and Jews.  The world is so intrenched in child trafficking that they know they can’t be stopped.  When every world leader is involved in this, the media, the educational system, the judicial system, the governmental system and the religious leaders of Rome and Islam are all involved in this.  Who is going to stop them?  Only Jesus Christ at His coming!!

 

Now I believe that Child trafficking is real and is absolutely a major problem in the world.  But these people want to get you fired up emotionally about it so that you miss the truth.  But I believe that all the money spent on this movie is going back to the true child traffickers, the Satanists in Washington and the global Cabal.  Yes… Jewish people can be involved in this just like Gentiles are involved.  But it’s a satanic cabal that is behind the abuse and hatred of children and Jewish people!   The Jews are not behind all of this.  There is no proof at all of this.  This is part of the Satanic plan to destroy the Jews.

 

By the way this world has many, many problems.  The greatest problem in the world is not a real problem called Child Trafficking and we should do all we can to stop it.  The greatest problem in the world is not the globalists.  The greatest problem in the world is not sexual perversion.  The greatest problem in the world is not climate change.  The greatest problem in the world is not China and Russia and North Korea and war.  The greatest problem in the world is People going to hell everyday because they have rejected Jesus Christ.  The greatest problem is that…people are lost…the only cure is faith and trust in Jesus Christ!

 

1 Chronicles 16:29 Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Praise the Lord’s glorious name;  bring an offering and come into his Temple. Bow down before the Holy One when he appears;[b] Ascribe to the Lord the glory and honor due His name; Bring an offering [of thanksgiving], and come before Him; Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness. Ephesians 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.  We offer ourselves to God as He offered Himself for us.  And God is pleased with the offering of His only begotten Son.  19:00

 

1. Only God Can Bring Salvation 2 Only God Deserves Glory 3. Only God Blesses

1 Chronicles 16:30 Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved. tremble before him, all the earth! The earth is set firmly in place and cannot be moved. Tremble [reverently] before Him, all the earth; The world is firmly established, it will not be moved.  I like the phrase about the world being stable, firmly in place, established and cannot be moved.  God made the world and He can surely keep it the way it is.  Order.  God is a God of order.  Genesis 8:22  While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.  Seasons will not cease until the new heaven and the new Earth.  This is as blessing of God.  Security.  Order.

 

Verses 31-33 are from Psalm 96:11-13 Chronicles 16:31 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The Lord reigneth. Be glad, earth and sky! Tell the nations that the Lord is king. Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; And let them say among the nations, “The Lord reigns.” Aren’t you glad a loving God is in control of the universe?  I sure am.  All the devil does is try to cause chaos and disorder and confusion.  Death, darkness and destruction.  But our Lord is in charge!  He is on the throne!  God blesses us in that He reigns!

 

1 Chronicles 16:32 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields rejoice, and all that is therein. Roar, sea, and every creature in you; be glad, fields, and everything in you! Let the sea roar, and all the things that fill it; Let the field rejoice, and all that is in it.   Even the rivers, the lakes, the seas and the oceans will rejoice.  The fields of crops and grass will rejoice.   Nature rejoices.

 

1 Chronicles 16:33 Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the Lord, because he cometh to judge the earth. The trees in the woods will shout for joy when the Lord comes to rule the earth. Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before the Lord; For He comes to judge and govern the earth.   The trees of which there are trillions will sing.  Trees are alive you know…. and they do sing when the wind passes through them.  Only God can be praised by nature.

 

1 Chronicles 16:34 O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever. Give thanks to the Lord, because he is good;  his love is eternal. O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good;

For His lovingkindness endures forever.  Bottom line…….God is good.  God is merciful.  God is love!

Mark 10:18 d Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.   God alone is good.    Mankind can DO good.  But only God IS good.  God alone is Love.  We as humans CAN love but ONLY God IS love.  1 John 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for ONLY God is love.

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1. Only God Can Bring Salvation 2 Only God Deserves Glory 3. Only God Blesses

Where Do We Go?

John 6:68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.  Smartest things Peter ever did.  When other walk away from Jesus….you walk toward Him.  Never give up on the Son of God.  You may give up on yourself…but never give up on Jesus.   If Jesus is in you then how can you give up on yourself?  That’s the devils trick.  YOU are a child of the King!  Psalm 122:1 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.  We ought to be glad to go to church.  We ought to be glad to go to the Lord in prayer….in Bible reading….in fellowship with others who love Jesus.  Where do you go?  When you need help?  When you need strength?  When you need wisdom?  When you need forgiveness?  When you need peace?  Jesus is the only answer.  28:04

7-23-2023

Titus 1:2-4  What Gives us Assurance Of Eternal Life?

Intro:  The phrase Eternal life is not in the Old Testament.  It is in the New Testament.  It is assumed in the Old Testament.  Everlasting is in the Old Testament 65 times describing God and the covenant with Israel and one in Daniel 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.  Until Jesus came and salvation through Him eternal life came through Him.  Of course Eternal life existed in Old Testament times but it is fulfilled in Jesus Christ in the sacrifice of Lambs, Bulls and Goat and to of Course the Lamb of God Jesus Christ.  1:00

 

1. God Cannot Lie and Cannot Break A Promise

Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began.

which is based on the hope for eternal life. God, who does not lie, promised us this life before the beginning of time, based on the hope and divine guarantee of eternal life, [the life] which God, who is ever truthful and without deceit, promised before the ages of time began.   John 6:68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.

 

Hope is stedfast assurance….it’s going to happen.  2 Corinthians 1:20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.  God keeps His promises to Israel and to us.  And all of His promises are fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

 

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.  God cannot lie,  will not lie, would not lie, doesn’t need to lie.  He sent us the truth embodied in a person…Jesus Christ.  He told us the truth.  No one can come to me except through faith in Jesus Christ!

 

God promised eternal life before time began. This may be understood in two ways. First, God determined in past eternity to give eternal life to all who would believe on the Lord Jesus, and what He determined was the same as a promise. That all the blessings of salvation were contained in the promise of the Messiah found in Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. This was before the dispensations (creation, the flood, the tower of Babel, Israel, the law, the church age, end times, the millennium) began to unfold.

 

The NT speaks of eternal life as both a present possession and a future hope. The word hope does not imply uncertainty. The moment we trust Christ as Savior we have eternal life as a present possession (John 5:24) and become heirs to all the benefits of His redemptive work, but we will not experience the practical enjoyment of all of them until we reach our eternal home. We hope in the sense that we are looking forward to eternal life in its final form when we will receive our glorified bodies and be forever free from sin, sickness, sorrow, suffering, and death (Philippians 3:20-21 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. 21Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. Titus 3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

 

The hope is sure because it was promised by God. Nothing is as sure as the word of God, who cannot lie, who cannot be deceived, and who would not deceive. There is no risk in believing what He says. In fact nothing is more reasonable than for a human to believe his Creator.

 

Have you ever heard about the things that God cannot do. This is one: God cannot lie. Do you also know that you see something every day that God has never seen? You have seen your equal; God has never seen His equal. Why cannot God lie when we can? Well, you can do something God cannot do.

 

You see, God must be true to Himself. He is holy and He is righteous—that is His nature, and there are certain things He cannot do because of His nature. It is not because it is impossible for Him to do it; but because God is true to His nature, He cannot do it. He is righteous, He is just, and He never deceives. He is One you can depend upon.

 

Promised before the world began”—this promise was made back in eternity.  It was God’s plan all along to give man made in His image the ability to truly BE.  To truly LIVE.  In order to truly live we have to have atominity over our lives.  We have to be able to decide, to choose.   God allowed Satan and the angels to choose to serve or rebel… but there is a difference.  They cannot be redeemed.  For they started out perfect and left their first estate.  Man started out as sinners and can choose to leave their first estate to gain eternal life.  

 

So God makes this great promise……….John 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.   God cannot lie so eternal life is gift to be received…(you can’t work for gift for then it is not a gift)   And God will never take it back.  He can’t for He has promised us eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ.  God cannot lie and cannot fail to do what He promised us.  That is our Assurance.  10:00

 

1. 1. God Cannot Lie and Cannot Break A Promise 2. God’s Timing Is Perfect

Titus 1:3 But hath in due times….. and at the right and at the appointed time.  Just at the right time…..Christ came to the world.  Romans 5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.  Jesus came to the right place, Israel,  the right way, through virgin,  and the right time when the Romans were in charge….the last of the four beasts mentioned in Daniel. The Babylonians, the Medes and Persians, the Greeks and the Romans would dominate Israel for 70 weeks of years (490 years)  according to Daniel 9.   69 weeks have already passed us….the rebuilding of Jerusalem 444 BC to the crucifixion of Jesus AD 30.  (minus 7 years for the Jewish calendar brings you to 483 years from Cyrus decree to the crucifixion of Jesus.)

 

God does everything on time.  God is never early, never late, always on time.  And when Jesus comes for His church it will be right on time.

 

Titus 1:3 But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching…. and at the right time he revealed it in his message., and I proclaim it and at the appointed time has made known His word and revealed it as His message, through preaching.  Preaching is Forth Telling.  Telling what you know to everyone who will listen.  Fore telling is prophesying the future.

 

Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. This is the job not only of the preacher but all of us preach the gospel.  In our daily lives by the way we live and the things we do and say.  But it is by preaching that God chose to save the world.

1 Corinthians 1:21  For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.  The world thinks it’s foolish.  How many times are preachers scorned and laughed at by the world in our books and movies and TV shows.  They are always portrayed as stupid, bigoted, idiots and evil.     But God in HIS wisdom chose preaching to get the gospel out.  Preaching means to forth tell.  To go forth telling the gospel.

 

Matthew 28:19-20 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.  As we go we are to preach and teach others about Jesus Christ.  Christ wants us to teach others the truth about Him.  We can go in many ways now in this modern world.  We can talk to people while at work or vacation or shopping and all other going to and fro.  We can fly to other countries in a day or less.  We can drive hundreds of miles in a day.  We can sit in our homes and reach people around the world through the  internet and social media.   Anyone today can go….What has God called you to do and where has He sent you?

 

You can have good preachers and bad preachers.  What is the difference.  Romans 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?  How can they hear without someone to tell them?  Preacher means forthteller.  You go forth telling…giving information.  A good preacher preaches.   Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.   A good preachers preaches from the word of God!  A good preacher uses the Bible.  Preaches Bible Texts and never strays from the Bible!  And preaches what the Bible says….. not what He thinks or wants it to say!  2 Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine……19:00

 

1. God Cannot Lie and Cannot Break A Promise 2. God’s Timing Is Perfect  3. Christ is Savior And God

Titus 1:3……which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour; Titus 1:4 To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour. This was entrusted to me by order of God our Savior. which was entrusted to me according to the command of God our Savior—I write to Titus, my true son in the faith that we have in common.  May God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior give you grace and peace. To Titus, my true child in a common faith: Grace and peace [inner calm and spiritual well-being] from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

 

Titus 1:3 says God is our Savior….Titus 1:4  says the Lord Jesus Christ is our Savior.  They both are one.  Christ is God in the flesh.  We don’t have two Saviors…We have one Lord, One faith and one Baptism.  Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord.   This is the declaration that God is one God.  Not two Gods.  Not three Gods in one.  Our God is one God revealed in three distinct persons.

 

John 14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father? The Lord Jesus is God.  He is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.  He is God.   That’s why Jesus Christ can save us and give us eternal life.  That’s why eternal life is certain for those who trust in Jesus Christ.  He is God! The only God. The creator God.  The sustainer of all things.  The Alpha and Omega.  The beginning and  the End.

 

How can you miss this?  The trinity….the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.  All three are one but each distinct as the God-head.  You are a Body, soul and spirit.   Your body is your flesh.   Your soul is your personality, the real you….your spirit is that part of you that lives forever and is how we relate to God.  We are spiritual creatures.  We are meant to be in relationship to God.  Our spirits cannot die they are eternal.  You soul goes with your Spirit.  They cannot be separated that’s why they are used interchangeably in the Bible.  The soul that sinneth it shall die for example.  The Spirit of the prophets is subject to the prophets.  But we will be separated from this sinful body one day and get a new body…a spiritual body that is fit for heaven and can house our soul and our spirit in total unity.  Today our flesh fights against our spirits when we know Jesus Christ.  Our new bodies won’t do that anymore.  Total unity.

 

Just Like the Father, son and Holy Spirit are in total unity.  Matthew 3:16-17 And Jesus, (the Son) when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God (Holy Spirit) descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: 17 And lo a voice from heaven, (the Father) saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.  Christ is God. The Holy Spirit is God.  The Father is God.    My body is Jack, My soul is Jack,  My Spirit is Jack. They are all distinct but all Jack.  I am revealed in my body, soul and Spirit.

 

John 3:34-35 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.  35 The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.  Jesus is filled with the Holy Spirit because He is the Holy Spirit.  In the flesh Jesus had certain limitations handed to Him.  Just as we do in our flesh.  But Jesus did not sin.  Jesus could not be everywhere.  He did not know the day or the hour of His return.  He was limited in His flesh.  He is not limited now in His glorified body at the right hand of God.  As we will not be limited either as we serve and glorify our Lord forever and ever without limitations.

 

Christ therefore is now and forever Savior and God.  27:00

What Gives us Assurance of Eternal life?

1. God Cannot Lie and Cannot Break A Promise 2. God’s Timing Is Perfect 3. Christ is Savior And God

If you are in Christ Jesus.  If you have received Him by faith as your Savior….If you have agreed with God that you cannot save yourself….then you are in Christ and have eternal life.   I didn’t ask you if you had been baptized (even though you ought to be as your first act of obedience and identification with Christ) I didn’t ask you if you were a church member.  I didn’t ask you if you believed in God and even if you believe in Jesus.  The devils believe in God and Jesus and that doesn’t save them.  You aren’t saved by intellectual belief but by faith and trust in Jesus Christ as your sin bearer.   He took your sins upon Himself and made you righteous before God.  You believe that and trust in Christ as your savior from the penalty of Sin.  That’s what gives you assurance.   28:04

 

7/16/2023

Genesis 15:1  God Gives Us Victory Over Our Enemies

Intro:   In Genesis chapter 14 Four kings, Amraphel of Babylonia, Arioch of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer of Elam, and Tidal of Goiim, went to war against five other kings: Bera of Sodom, Birsha of Gomorrah, Shinab of Admah, Shemeber of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (or Zoar).  Then the kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Bela drew up their armies for battle in Siddim Valley and fought against the kings of Elam, Goiim, Babylonia, and Ellasar, five kings against four. The four kings took everything in Sodom and Gomorrah, including the food, and went away.

 

Lot, Abram’s nephew, was living in Sodom, so they took him and all his possessions.  When Abram heard that his nephew had been captured, he called together all the fighting men in his camp, 318 in all, and pursued the four kings all the way to Dan.  There he divided his men into groups, attacked the enemy by night, and defeated them. He chased them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus, and got back all the loot that had been taken. He also brought back his nephew Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the other prisoners. When Abram came back from his victory over Chedorlaomer and the other kings, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in Shaveh Valley (also called King’s Valley). And Melchizedek, who was king of Salem and also a priest of the Most High God, brought bread and wine to Abram,  blessed him, and said, “May the Most High God, who made heaven and earth, bless Abram!  May the Most High God, who gave you victory over your enemies, be praised!” And Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of all the loot he had recovered.   Notice Sodom and Lot living there is mentioned.  Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed in Genesis chapter 19.

 

We are at the close of  the church age.  God will have the victory over all of His enemies.  We had better be on God’s side for any other side is going to lose.  2:00

 

Genesis 15:1 After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram:, and thy exceeding great reward.

 

1. Fear Not

Genesis 15:1 After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision. After the things that happened in chapter 14, Abram had a vision. After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision.  About 140 times the phrase the “word of the Lord came” to someone in the Old Testament.  In the New Testament the word of the Lord was revealed as Jesus Christ.  So that phrase is not used in the New Testament.  But in the Old Testament God spoke directly to His servants.  Either through a prophet or directly such as in this case with Abraham.  We don’t need that today because God has spoken to us in these last days by His Son…Jesus Christ and His word.  Hebrews 1:1-2 God, who at sundry times and in divers (various) manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son…..

 

The writer of Hebrews reminds us that God spoke “at various times and in various ways.” The use of a vision is only one of the means by which God interacts with His servants. This was the third appearance of the Lord to Abram since his arrival in the land of Canaan (the first at 12:7; the second at 13:14–17).

 

God came to Abram in a vision…what is a vision?  Dreams from God are more detailed and mysterious such as in the book of Daniel.  Visions are exact messages from God and are more personal to the recipient.  We don’t have these today because we have the Bible, the scriptures.  But the Bible does say that in the later days some will dream dreams and have visions.  Which probably means during the last days people won’t have access to the word of God and God will speak through these means or it could mean during the tribulation period when the church is removed that God will speak through these methods.  We have to remember that the church is based on the revealed word of God in the Bible and the word of God is their sword and their truth.  The word of God is Jesus Christ.  The word became flesh and dwelt among us.  Revelation 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

 

Genesis 15:1….saying Fear Not Abram…. And heard the Lord say to him. “Do not be afraid, Abram.

saying, “Do not be afraid, Abram.  God’s word to Abram…don’t be afraid. Don’t dread the future.  Don’t be in despair.  Don’t give up on hope.  It’s going to be okay.  To everyone who is suffering some kind of heartache today…this is God’s message to you today.   Fear not.  Isaiah 41:10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.  God is with us.  He is OUR God.  He will give us strength that we didn’t know we had.  He will help us when no one else can or will.  He will hold us up when we cannot stand any longer.  God is good and he will always work our everything in our lives to our good and His glory!  Every Time….time after time!  He knows the end from the beginning.  God knows how to deliver His people!

2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.  We don’t get fear from the Holy Spirit of God.  We get wisdom and discernment. But not fear from the spirit of God.  The spirit of fear comes from the evil one.  God gives us power and love and a sound mind… not given to superstitions and wild imaginations.

 

It is said that there are 365 fear nots or Do not be afraid type encouragements in the Bible.  But only one verse has both of these phrases. Deuteronomy 31:6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.    We are given strength we didn’t no we had and courage to face any obstacle.  So we CAN fear not nor be afraid.  What is the difference in Fear being afraid?  Fear is about the unknown. What we think might happen.   Being afraid is the known and what we know will happen.    Fearing you might fail a medical test is fear of the unknown.   Knowing you failed the medical test is being afraid of the known.

 

I believe it’s a sin to fear for it shows a lack of trust in the God who holds our future in His hands.  Psalm 78:32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.  Romans 14:23  And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.   But we are to fear only God.  For the fear…respect for God is the beginning of wisdom.  This kind of fear is respect and awe.   Not terror or dread.  The wicked should have terror and dread from God…but not the righteous!  We don’t have to fear anything from God.  Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.  11:00

 

1. Fear Not 2.  I Am Thy Shield

Genesis 15:1  …..I am thy shield…. I will shield you from danger. I am your shield  Psalm 28:7 The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.   The Lord is our strength and He is our shield to keep us from danger and fatal attacks. The enemy cannot kill us unless the Lord allows it.  The enemy cannot harm us unless the Lord allows it.  So our fate is in the loving God and not our hateful enemies.  God always takes the bad and turns it into good….so how can we lose!  Can you think of a time the Lord shielded you from danger?  Danger means being close to disaster.  We are always close to disaster in this fallen sinful world.   You pass within 3 feet or less of a speeding automobile weighing 6000 pounds.  That’s 3 tons of vehicle passing you or you passing it or even worse coming straight at you if you are on a two land road!!   But we don’t think a thing about it do we?     Good thing God is our shield and nothing will happen to us unless He allows it.

 

Ephesians 6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.  The shields purpose is to protect the soldier from the arrows of the enemy.   It had to be fire proof and was made of hardened leather to keep it lighter and to prevent it from burning from fiery arrows.   The wicked are always trying to destroy us.  They want us to burn up or burn out it doesn’t matter to them as long as we are stopped.

 

The New Testament word for danger is Peril.  Listen to the Apostle Pauls’ dangers he faced.  2 Corinthians 11: 25-27 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; 26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;  27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

 

What was Paul’s answer to all of this?  2 Corinthians 12:9-10 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.  10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.  We are made strong in the Lord each time we have danger.   For when we face danger or peril we exercise our faith muscle.  And we soon become ten feet tall and bullet proof.  In other words it doesn’t matter what the world throws at us….it cannot shake our faith….. but rather does the opposite…it strengthens it.  19:00

 

1. Fear Not   2.  I Am Thy Shield  3.  I Am Thy Exceeding Great Reward

Genesis 15:1 ……and thy exceeding great reward. and give you a great reward.”  Your reward [for obedience] shall be very great.” The greatest thing in all of life is relationship to God.

The righteous will be rewarded at the judgment seat of Christ.  We are rewarded when we just give a cup of cold water in the name of the Lord.  There are tangible rewards……

 

1 Corinthians 3:8-14   8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.  9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building. 10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.  11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13 Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.  14 If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.  Gold sliver and precious stones are good rewards for our faithfulness to Christ.  And Wood, hay and stubble is the reward for unfaithful Christians.  Big difference.  But I’m talking about our great reward is none of these things….but Jesus Himself!

 

Hebrews 11:6  But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.  Yes we are rewarded for our faithfulness to Christ.  But our great reward is not gold and silver.  But Christ Jesus Himself!  This verse is telling us that God Himself is our reward.  Jesus Christ is our reward.  He is our life, our joy.  If we have Christ we don’t need anything else!

 

John 15:5  I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.  Revelation 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.  Jesus is the A to the Z.  He is everything to us and to all of creation.  He is life and truth and purpose and our reason for living.  HE is our reward….So if we get nothing else in life but Jesus Christ…..I could ask for nothing more than Him!  That’s how great Jesus is!  HE is our reward.  27:00

 

1. Fear Not 2.  I Am Thy Shield  3.  I Am Thy Exceeding Great Reward

God Gives Us Victory Over Our Enemies

We don’t need to fear…..

He is our shield….

He is our reward….

How can we be so blessed in the midst of a sinful, chaotic world….there is Jesus!

In the midst of all the troubles and trials….there is Jesus!

In the midst of your troubles and problems…. There is Jesus!

Thanks be unto God who always giveth us the victory in the Lord Jesus Christ!  28:04

 

 

7-9-2023

John 14:6 The Second Greatest Bible Verse

Intro:  The greatest Bible verse in my humble opinion is John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  John 3:16 tells us all we need to know.  God loves us, God gave us a Son who died for us so that we might have eternal life.  Not just a quantity of life but an eternal great and perfect life.  John 14:6 gives us the exclusivity of Jesus Christ.  There is no one above and beside Jesus.  1:00

 

1. I Am

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

There are several “I am’s in John.  Around 70.   Here are some of them….

I am the Bread of life—I am the light of the world—-Before Abraham was I Am—-I am the door of the sheep—-I Am the good shepherd—–I am the vine—–I Am the resurrection and the life

I Am…. in John 14:6  Who is the great I Am……God.   Exodus 3:14 And God said unto Moses, I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you.  6:00

 

2. The way.

I Am The way….

Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

Jesus is not “one” way.  Jesus is not “a” way.  Jesus is not “the best way”  He is the only way.

Proverbs 16:25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.  11:00

 

3. The Truth

I am the way, the truth…

Not just a man who tells the truth.  Not just a man who points to the truth.  No Jesus IS truth.  He is the truth of God wrapped up in all that He is.

John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

John 18:37 To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

In a world full of lies and deception and confusion.  Jesus stands alone as the only real truth!

 

Psalm 116:11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.

John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.  16:00

 

4. The Life

I am the way, the truth and the life…

Jesus is the source of life

Jesus is the creator of life.

John 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

John 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

John 20:31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.

Colossians 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

Without Christ we are dead.  We are dead spiritually.  Without hope.   21:00

 

5. Exculsive

I am the way, the truth and the life, no man cometh unto the Father but by me.

No man means no one….Not one will get to God without Jesus Christ.  John 15:5 am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

No one can…No one can come to God based on his own efforts….Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

No one will…No one will come to God without Jesus.  No one wants to. They want to follow their own way…their own will.  Luke 13:34 …. how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!

No one else…but Jesus can get us back in fellowship with God.  John 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

 

The Father…the father, the son and the Holy Spirit.  All three are our triune God. Reveled in three persons.    If you want to find God you have to know Jesus.  It’s that simple and that profound! 27:00

 

Conclusion: Follow Jesus

I am the way, the truth and the life, no man cometh unto the Father but by me.

Don’t follow your dreams…Eccesiastes 5:7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.

Don’t follow your heart…Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Don’t follow your instincts…Proverbs 14:12 and 16:25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Follow Jesus Christ….John 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life..  28:04

 

 

7/2/2023 

2 Corinthians 10:3-5  We Are In A War

Intro: Is world war III around the corner?  Maybe but we are already in the last days battle for the souls of men and control of all things.  Time is running out for this world.  Time is running out for America.  Our pride month now has become a summer of pride.  Now some are even saying it the year of pride.  We are in a war my friends for the soul of America and the world.  1:00

 

1. But…We Have Weapons

2 Corinthians 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: It is true that we live in the world, but we do not fight from worldly motives. For though we walk in the flesh [as mortal men], we are not carrying on our [spiritual] warfare according to the flesh. We have a defender of our faith….Psalm 59:1 Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.

 

Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Therefore there is now no condemnation [no guilty verdict, no punishment] for those who trust in Christ and not their good works. [who believe in Him as personal Lord and Savior].  We are in a spiritual fight.  We walk in the Spirit.  2 Corinthians 5:7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.  We walk with Jesus Christ each day.  Take up our cross daily and you will never be afraid of anyone or anything.  The flesh is willing but the flesh is weak.  There is a reason that we must walk in the Spirit.  The flesh isn’t going to heaven with us. We are getting a resurrection body.  We learned in 1 Corinthians that our flesh, our mortal body is corrupt.  So we cannot trust what we think and what we feel.  Proverbs 16:25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

 

2 Corinthians 1:17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay? does it mean that we are fickle? Do you think I plan with my tongue in my cheek, saying “yes” and meaning “no”? We solemnly assure you that as certainly as God is faithful so we have never given you a message meaning “yes” and “no”.  Human nature is fickle.  We can be wrong and change our minds.  But when we walk in the Spirit of God we will know the truth and stand firm in that.  We don’t waffle back and forth.  Do you think Paul was uncertain or a waffler? Do you think that Peter was fickle?  I don’t think so.

 

2 Corinthians 10:4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal……

We don’t use the weapons of man. The weapons we use in our fight are not the world’s weapons. The weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood]. Romans 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.  The Law can never succeed in producing righteousness—the failure was always the weakness of human nature. But God has conquered this by sending his own Son Jesus Christ to live in us our human nature which causes the trouble.  We are able to meet the Law’s requirements, so long as we are living no longer by the dictates of our sinful nature, but by walking with Christ, we are walking in the Spirit.

 

Isaiah 25:8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.  He will swallow up death [and abolish it] for all time.  We are victorious for all time, forever and ever in Christ Jesus!!  He is our weapon.  It is our faith and trust in Jesus Christ that Satan cannot stand.  10:00

 

1. But…We Have Weapons 2. We Have The Weapon Of Truth

 2 Corinthians 10:4……but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) but God’s powerful weapons, which we use to destroy strongholds. Our weapons are divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.  The opposite of truth is to imagine a lie and live by that fantasy.  Isaiah 23:11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the Lord hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.  God shakes the earth and destroys the strong holds, the fortresses, The secure places of men and their power is shaken.  God knows how to handle the wicked.  The wicked have taken a strong hold in the world.  Right now Satan has set these men up and their dark, secret power bases.  God appoints world leaders….Satan appoints those who work in the darkness…behind the scenes….the global cabal of elite men and women who control the world right now.  And let’s face it they have gained control of every sector of humanity.  Media, Medicine, government, information, sports, and legal system.

 

2 Corinthians 10:5 Casting down imaginations….. we pull down every proud obstacle. We destroy false arguments;  We are destroying sophisticated arguments. Lamentations 3:60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.   Our battle is to bring down every deceptive fantasy and every trick that men use against the true knowledge of God.  They hate God and imagine a world without Him that is impossible. They imagine the impossible.  It is impossible to get rid of God.   Romans 14:11-12 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.   So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.  I would feel sorry for these idiots who are so deceived that they think that they can ignore God by setting up their own kingdom. Do they really think that this will work? What a delusion that is?  The joke will be on them.

 

You can imagine all you want that God doesn’t exist….but the truth will set you free a lie will cost you dearly.  To believe a fantasy instead of the truth about God and your soul and spirit and body will be cast into the lake of fire.   We have the greatest weapon of all…… the truth of God found in Jesus Christ.  Jesus said I am the WAY, The TRUTH and the LIFE.  No man comes to the Father (God) Except through Jesus Christ.

 

We have the truth of God and no fantasy contrived by men.  2 Peter 1:16  For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.   We do not follow fables as good as they might seem….I don’t think they are very good….it makes much more sense to follow Jesus Christ than anything you could ever imagine actually.  Their strong holds are based on lies and fantasy and imaginations of men and deception of the devil.  Our strong hold is the Lord Jesus Christ.  We just follow Him and trust in Him.  WHO IS THE TRUTH!  Truth is a person not a creed or a fanstasy.  It is a person who is real and alive today!   Peter said that we were eye witnesses of His majesty (He saw the transfiguration)  Peter heard and saw who Jesus was!  We have the greatest weapon of all….truth!!  19:00

 

1. But…We Have Weapons 2. We Have The Weapon Of Truth
2. We Have the Weapon Of Knowing God

 2 Corinthians 10:5….and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God….. that is raised against the knowledge of God; and every exalted and proud thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God,  Deuteronomy 30:20 That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days… We know the creator God.  The God of the universe.   He is our Savior, our friend, our Father who adopted us, our defender, our guide, our advocate, and our strength.

 

Romans 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? What does it matter who is against us if God is for us!  But we have an enemy who has already been defeated.  He can only aggravate those who follow Jesus Christ.  He has no power over us at all.  But he can lie to us, deceive us and generally harass us.  But that’s all he can do.  He has not power over the Christian.  Only what power we give him when we believe his lies.

 

2 Corinthians 10:5….and every high thing that exalteth itself…..    We are destroying sophisticated arguments and every exalted and proud thing.  Pride again.  I know I spoken a lot about pride lately.  Here is another example of pride not going well for the proud.  Before pride cometh a fall the Bible says.

 

Man exalts himself.  He wants to be god.  He has created evolution to destroy God.  He has made up homosexuality and transgenderism to mock God.  He has invented the United Nations to anger God.  Have you idiots at the United Nations ever heard of the tower of Babel?  I guess not.  The devil and his minions are in control of the exalted people in this world.  Name me a famous person alive today that is following Jesus Christ with all of their heart?  Who goes to church every Sunday and has a family that is being raised in the fear and knowledge of God?  I can’t name one….not even one! There might be one I’ve never heard of….then they aren’t very famous are they if I have never heard of them?

 

The rich and famous will howl and weep one day.  James 5:1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.  They will be shaking in their boots one day.  Revelation 6:15-16 nd the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.  Don’t they read the Bible?  Of course not.  Do they realize what is going to happen to those who reject Jesus Christ?   I hear that Luciferians actually think that the Bible will not be fulfilled because Satan will win the war in heaven.

 

That’s a bet I wouldn’t want to take….would you? He is already defeated.  Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Satan’s defeat was predicted in the first book of the Bible! Luke 10:18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Jesus saw Satan fall from heaven.  A prediction of his defeat by Michael the archangel during the tribulation.  Revelation 12:7-8 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, 8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.  If Satan can’t beat Michael the archangel how is he going to defeat God?  Answer….it’s impossible luciferians.  You are being lied to by the father of lies.

 

James 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.  They are scared to death of God!  Does that sound like a group that you want to fight with?  If Satan is going to defeat God, he better find a better bunch of demons!

 

Jesus cast out demons several times while on this earth.  If Satan can’t defeat Jesus who as God walked on this earth…… how is He going to defeat Him in heaven. Answer….It’s impossible!!  Satan didn’t defeat Jesus on the cross.  Jesus defeated the devil on the cross when He gave Himself as the lamb of God to take away the sin of the world and then rose again to seal the deal!!

 

Isaiah 14:16-17 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;  17That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?  Satan’s defeat will be so total that people will be amazed and even insult him when they see who he really is….weak and powerless after God is done with Him.

 

Revelation 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. He’s going to the lake of fire.  God gave us the devil as an adversary.  Having an adversary sharpens us and makes it interesting.  God gave us an adversary until we won’t need one any more when we are incorruptible in heaven.

 

Is it better to Know God or be led by the Devil? The devil doesn’t want to know you intimately.  He can’t do that even if he wanted to.  He has to have the demonic and fallen angel realm to speak to you.  He is not omni-present.

 

2 Corinthians 10:5…….and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; we take every thought captive and make it obey Christ and we are taking every thought and purpose captive to the obedience of Christ.  Our motive’s our desires are all to please the Lord Jesus Christ when we know God.  We obey Christ not because we have to but because we want to.  As a wife seeks to please her husband and vice versa….so the church seeks to please Christ. After all He is our life and we owe everything to Him because He first loved us.  so we love Him!

 

John 8:12  Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.  Following Jesus is being obeying Him.  We follow Him because He is the light of the world and the light of our lives.  Why would we follow anyone or anything else.  Everybody follows somebody or something.  To follow is to obey.  So we look at obedience as not to a set of rules……. but devotion to a person.  That person is our greatest weapon our faith in Jesus Christ.  27:00

 

1. But…We Have Weapons 2. We Have The Weapon Of Truth
2. We Have the Weapon Of Knowing God

We are In A War……And we can only have the victory through faith and trust in Jesus Christ!

1 Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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7/2/2023–7/9/2023–7/16/2023

1 Timothy 4:1  True Revival sweeping the world Is The Doctrines of Demons

Intro:  We are having a revival in America.  Not of the Bible or repentance toward God. But a revival of the doctrine of demons.  Devil worship.  Not openly not even knowingly.  But if you worship yourself, your agenda, your plans, your hopes then you are worshipping the same thing the devil does.  Himself!

 

1. Last Days Departure.

1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; The Spirit says clearly that some people will abandon the faith in later times; they will obey lying spirits and follow the teachings of demons. But the [Holy] Spirit explicitly and unmistakably declares that in later times some will turn away from the faith, paying attention instead to deceitful and seductive spirits and doctrines of demons.

 

There will be two departures in the last days…. The departure of the church in the rapture and the departure of people from true Biblical Christianity.  John 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.  The church is departing.  Two ways to go with Jesus but first departing from truth.  And in this revival of the doctrine of demons or devils what else would you expect?  What did you think the last days would look like?

 

1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith….Latter days is a term only used in the Old Testament. Always talking about the end times.   This is the only mention of the phrase “latter times” in the Bible.  Which means the last days.  The phrase
“Last days” is mentioned ten times in the Bible.  2 Timothy 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.  It always means what it says….the last of the last days.  The end of days as we know it now.  A big change is coming.  The church will be changed into a glorious body…the wicked will be changed into hell and the lake of fire!  A big change is coming for the wicked.  They are having a revival!  A revival of wickedness that we have never seen before.  Following the doctrine of demons.

 

People will depart from truth.  Meaning the church will depart from the truth.  2 Thessalonians 2:3  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.  They will believe lies and be easily deceived.  Reprobate minds as we have talked about frequently.  They can’t believe the truth any longer. They are ripe for the judgment of God.  A true revival is sweeping the world today.  A revival of the doctrine of demons.

 

What is the doctrine of demons?  James 3:15-16 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

 

The doctrine of demons is…..Sensual—Sexual–Devilish—Wicked—Envy—desire for greatness instead of holiness–Strife...hatefulness, fighting and fussing, arguing and wars  Confusion—division and wrong is right and right is wrong.   Every evil work—murder, deception and cold hearted people.

 

1 Timothy 4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Such teachings are spread by deceitful liars, whose consciences are dead, as if burnt with a hot iron. [misled] by the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared as with a branding iron [leaving them incapable of ethical functioning],

 

Devil worship is not having a red suit and candles and darkness.  It is light and flashiness.  2 Corinthians 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.  2 Thessalonians 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders.  Satan puts on a big show with all the lights and fan fare and production.  People get excited and jump up and down and sing and shout for the devil!  You see devil worship is not in the darkness but right out in the open in many of our churches today!  We are seeing an explosion of false churches and false preachers and false teachers today.  Now thank God we have some of the greatest preachers alive today and doing well and churches that are remnant churches that are standing firm on the word of God.  But sadly many churches are actually devil worshipping centers and some even know it but most are fooled by them.

 

How do you know you are in a devil worshipping church?

1. It’s all about me and you….What does this passage say to you and me?
2. No cross or no blood of Jesus in the music or the teaching
3. No Biblical preaching…. just stories and emotional appeals
4. No prophecy teaching of the last days and the return of Jesus (not always the case some preachers are just afraid to teach it)
5. Sexual deviants are accepted in leadership positions
6. “My experience” is above Scriptures.

 

Six is the number of man. That’s why there are six signs of a devil worshipping church.  You and the devil worship the same person…yourself!

 

Pride parades that have naked men dancing in front of children.  700,000 people turned out for a pride parade in Columbus Ohio!!!    There was nudity and ludeness.  In New York city they chanted..”We are coming for your children.”  Gay people can’t have children so they want to groom your children.  Your babies!!  It’s all because of a revival that is sweeping our nation….the revival of the demonic!

 

Lying and deception is all that matters to these wicked people and devil worshippers. But the deceviers will be the ones who are deceived.  They don’t have any empathy for life.  Abortion, Child trafficking, child mutilation, pedophilia.  They don’t care.

Revelation 9:20-21 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:  21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

 

They love their idols.  They love their drugs. They love their deviance.  They love to kill and molest babies.  They want a normal life but they want their sins also.  They can be good neighbors, good citizens and good church members.  Numbers 32:23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord: and be sure your sin will find you out.

 

The worship of demons will increase in the last days.

Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.  Satan is cast out of heaven in the war with Michael the good angels.  Most says that this is going to happen at the mid-point of the tribulation or sometime during the tribulation. 

The dragon is the devil.  Satan. The deceiver of the all the planet Earth.  Are cast out of heaven where now they have access to accuse the brethren to the earth only.  And he is mad!

Revelation 13:4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

worship of the Satan and the Beast, the man of sin, the anti-Christ.  Believe it or not it is going to get worse than it is today.  Much worse because we are in a revival of the doctrine of demons… 10:00

 

1. Last Days Departure. 2.  Changing The Natural Order of Things.

1 Timothy 4:3 Forbidding to marry, Such people teach that it is wrong to marry.  They forbid natural marriage. Changing marriage between a man and a woman. It all started with the Catholic church forbidding their priests to marry and that led to rampant homosexuality and child abuse.  Then they changed the laws that allows same sexes to marry one another.  Now they say you can marry your cat or your car.  It’s not insanity….it’s devil influenced and devil backed.

 

1 Timothy 4:3 …..and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. It is wrong to eat certain foods. But God created those foods to be eaten, after a prayer of thanks, by those who are believers and have come to know the truth. and advocate abstaining from [certain kinds of] foods which God has created to be gratefully shared by those who believe and have [a clear] knowledge of the truth.

 

They have convinced stupid ignorant godless people that cows are deadly.  Many people are vegetarians. They believe eating meat is wrong and immoral.  That’s their right.  But don’t make the rest of us believe like you do.  Genesis 9:3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

 

Colossians 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days. Nobody has the right to tell you what you can eat or drink or what or how to celebrate or observe special occasions.    In other words you have liberty to live your life the way you see fit.  Of course you must observe law and order….but in your home anything goes basically as long as it doesn’t harm anyone.  And eating meat does not harm anyone!

 

Don’t let anyone stop you from living your life the way you want to.  But today the wicked want us to do what they do.  The devil wants us to follow his wicked ways that limit freedom and joy and acceptance and peace.  He wants to divide everyone and everything.  To have war and fighting and fussing about everything.  Live and let live is NOT the devil’s motto.  Live and let die is his motto!  Death to freedom and liberty!  Eating meat is wrong.  Going to a restaurant is wrong.  Going to church is wrong.  Going to a fourth of July celebration is wrong.  Speaking the truth is wrong.  Speaking out is wrong.  Because you are being judged by those who supposedly hate being judged!  Don’t judge me they whine…while they are judging you for not accepting what they believe!  Why do people believe this stuff? Because a revival is taking place. A revival of the doctrine of demons.  A people are coming to faith in demons every day!! 19:00

 

1. Last Days Departure. 2.  Changing The Natural Order of Things.
2. God Has A Natural Order of Things

1 Timothy 4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: Everything that God has created is good; nothing is to be rejected, but everything is to be received with a prayer of thanks, For everything God has created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude;

 

God says we can eat meat.  We should receive all food with thanksgiving to God.  That’s natural to us.  As bad as ti can be for the animal. It is natural to eat meat.  It won’t always be that way.  We are a sinful fallen world.  8 billion people cannot survive without meat to eat.

 

God does everything good and orderly even in this evil and chaotic world.  Romans 2:4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?  God is good and his goodness leads people to turn to Him…not His threats….it is His love and mercy that turns us toward Him.  Many despise the goodness of God. They don’t want His goodness.  They don’t want His blessings!  They want to do what satisfies their own lusts and desires!

 

1 Timothy 4:5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.  because the word of God and the prayer make it acceptable to God. for it is sanctified [set apart, dedicated to God] by means of the word of God and prayer.

 

God’s word guides into proper diet.  And prayer makes it acceptable to God and to us.  God’s word is our guide to life and life choices.  God speaks to us in His word and we speak to God in prayers. We thank Him and praise Him in our prayer lives and that sets us apart from the rest of the world.

 

John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.    Daniel 12:10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.  Truth will stand when nothing else will.  Truth is not a set of ideas….but truth is a person…the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

A genius came to faith in Christ by this simple deduction.   “Muslims, Hindu’s, JW’s, Mormons, New age Christ consciousness….every religion believes Jesus to be great….but not the only way… Well…. he said…If Jesus is so great according to all these religions…. then shouldn’t we believe what Jesus said about Himself?  When Jesus said in John 14:6 I am the way the truth and the life no man comes to the father but by me…..then don’t we have to take His word for fact? If Jesus said He is the only way then He must be the only way…for that is what this great man said about Himself.” 27:00

 

1. Last Days Departure. 2.  Changing The Natural Order of Things. 3.  God Has A Natural Order of Things     True Revival sweeping the world Is The Doctrines of Demons  28:04

6/25/2023

Isaiah 14:11-15 The Proud and the Humble

Intro: In honor of the last Sunday of “Pride month”  Let’s talk about  the king of pride.  And let’s talk about the most humble men in the Bible. And see the outcome of both.  1:00

 

1. The King of Pride

Isaiah 14:11. Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. You used to be honored with the music of harps, but now here you are in the world of the dead. You lie on a bed of maggots and are covered with a blanket of worms.’” Your pomp and magnificence have been brought down to Sheol, Along with the music of your harps; The maggots [which prey on the dead] are spread out under you [as a bed] And worms are your covering [Babylonian rulers].’

 

Isaiah 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! King of Babylon, bright morning star, you have fallen from heaven! In the past you conquered nations, but now you have been thrown to the ground.

 

Isaiah 14:13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the “How you have fallen from heaven, O [b]star of the morning [light-bringer], son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, You who have weakened the nations [king of Babylon]!

stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: You were determined to climb up to heaven and to place your throne above the highest stars. You thought you would sit like a king on that mountain in the north where the gods assemble. “But you said in your heart,

‘I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit on the mount of assembly

In the remote parts of the north.

 

Isaiah 14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. You said you would climb to the tops of the clouds and be like the Almighty. ‘I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’

 

Isaiah 14:15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. But instead, you have been brought down to the deepest part of the world of the dead. “But [in fact] you will be brought down to Sheol, To the remote recesses of the pit (the region of the dead).  10:00

 

1. The King of Pride 2.  The Most Humble Man on the Earth

Numbers 12:3 Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth. Moses was a humble man, more humble than anyone else on earth. Now the man Moses was very humble (gentle, kind, devoid of self-righteousness), more than any man who was on the face of the earth.

 

Luke 18:14 ….for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. ……For those who make themselves great will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be made great. Moses name is mentioned 794 times in the Bible.  Even the law the God established is called “the Law of Moses.”  How exalted was Moses?   God Himself buried him.  How exalted was Moses?  The Devil and Michael fought over the body of Moses.  Jude 1:9  Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil (Satan), and arguing about the body of Moses, did not dare bring an abusive condemnation against him, but [simply] said, “The Lord rebuke you!”

 

Pride is the complete opposite of a redeeming characteristic.  Now you can be proud of someone else….your grandchildren….you ball team.  But you cannot have self pride because that leads to self-exaltation and self-righteousness and self-Assurance and self-salvation.  You don’t need God you only need yourself and what you think and do.   You’re pride in your good works can earn you salvation.

 

The gospel of works.  Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.  He saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we have done, but because of His own compassion and mercy, by the cleansing of the new birth (spiritual transformation, regeneration) and renewing by the Holy Spirit.

 

We are not even rewarded by our works but by our faithfulness to Christ.  Matthew 25:21 His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful and trustworthy over a little, I will put you in charge of many things; share in the joy of your master.’   19:00

 

1. The King of Pride 2.  The Most Humble Man on the Earth  3.  The Most Humble Of ALL The Lord Jesus……. Is the Most Exalted

Philippians 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. After He was found in [terms of His] outward appearance as a man [for a divinely-appointed time], He humbled Himself [still further] by becoming obedient [to the Father] to the point of death, even death on a cross.

 

Jesus was even born in a humble fashion.  Luke 2:7  And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. and she gave birth to her Son, her firstborn; and she wrapped Him in cloths and laid Him in a [manger, because there was no [private] room for them in the inn. She gave birth to her first son, wrapped him in cloths and laid him in a feeding trough —there was no place for them to stay in the inn.

 

Matthew 11:29  Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. Take my yoke and put it on you, and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in spirit; and you will find rest.

 

Jesus left glory to become a man in order to save mankind from the penalty of sin.  Now He is glorified and we glorify His name as the name above every name and we bow before His name.  27:00

 

 

6/18/2023

John 8:42-45 and 47 Who Is Your Father?

Intro:  I hope everyone had a good father.  All fathers on this earth are not perfect but hopefully he did the best he knew to teach you the things of life and guide you into what will help you in life.  Maybe he could care less.  Some fathers even teach their children how to do evil.  Some people don’t ever know their biological father.  Some have step fathers.  Some have grandfathers that are their father figure.  Some have no father figure on this earth.  But the question today is not who WAS your father but who IS your father today?

 

1. The True Father Points Us To Jesus

John 8:42  Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. Jesus said to them, “If God really were your Father, you would love me, because I came from God and now I am here. I did not come on my own authority, but he sent me. Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father [but He is not], you would love and recognize Me, for I came from God [out of His very presence] and have arrived here. For I have not even come on My own initiative [as self-appointed], but He [is the One who] sent Me.

 

Matthew 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.  Jesus gives good advice.  He quotes Dueteronomy 6:5.  We should seek God and love God and we will love God when we know Him.  Why shouldn’t we love God?  He created us.  He loved us first.  1 John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.  He gave us salvation by grace through simple faith and trust in Jesus Christ.  And God became a man.  John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.  God took on flesh to save us not to harm us.  His grace is His gift to us and His truth is all truth.  Why would we not love Him and follow Him?

 

Jesus is the Son of God.  All God does is to point us to Jesus.  Matthew 17:5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.   A Good, loving, true Father points His creation to His Son so that we might be saved and that we might love Him and walk with Him in truth and loving fellowship.  10:00

 

1. The True Father Points Us To Jesus 2. Their Father Points Us Away From the Word

John 8:43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. Why do you misunderstand what I am saying? It is because [your spiritual ears are deaf and] you are unable to hear [the truth of] My word.

 

Isaiah 44:18 They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.   If you don’t want to know God then you cannot understand His word because you don’t want to understand.  Matthew 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.  People can understand that Jesus is the only way to God but they just don’t want to.  Their hearts are not right toward God.  They don’t want to hear God’s word they want to hear from their father the devil.

 

John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do…… Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. You are of your father the devil, and it is your will to practice the desires [which are characteristic] of your father.  1 John 3:10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.   How is the devil a person’s father?  Everyone who does not righteousness is a child of the devil.  His adopted child you could say.  They have made the devil their father by doing what he would do.  There are only two paths, two spiritual fathers…..God or the devil.  A good God or an evil devil.

 

But mans sins of his own accord and choices.  James 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.   The devil then comes along and encourages you to continue to follow your lusts and consummate your sins.  James 1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.  the devils goal is the kill  you physically and spiritually.

 

What a wonderful father he is…..NOT!!!  What kind of father seeks to kill you?  But….he gives you temporary pleasure. Temporary joy.  Temporary peace.  Just enough to get you hooked.  He is like rat poison.  Just enough to get you to eat and enjoy and then die!  Poor Eve.  Genesis 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.  She didn’t know the value of saying no to temporary pleasure.  She didn’t know how to say NO!   She looked at the present and didn’t think about the future.

 

That’s what a bad father does.  He doesn’t prepare you or warn you about the consequences of your present actions.  He just says “do it!”  His word is “do it.”  Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? “yea hath God said”…..The devil doesn’t have a Bible. The satanic Bible is not his creation per say.  His Bible is this…..to contradict the real word of God.  He doesn’t have a Bible…He lives to contradict the Bible we have.  The word of God we have.  He will always try to point us to the errors of the Bible.  “Yea hath God said…”  to put doubt in your mind.

 

And to turn you from the Bible He will turn you to yourself and your desires.  Again James 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.  Poor Eve.  She doubted God’s word and it cost her dearly.  She may have loved the forbidden fruit but what at first is sweet soon turn  disastrous.

 

How can we keep from doubting God’s word?  Two ways…..Read it every day and secondly read it every day….You get it…..the more you read God’s word the more God reveals Himself to you.  It is HIS word!  Satan doesn’t have a Bible.  He can only deceive and contradict.  Any contradiction or anything pulling you from the Bible is the devil.  19:00

 

1. The True Father Points Us To Jesus 2. Their Father Points Us Away From the Word
2. The Attributes Of Their Father

John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do…. Their Father the devil has three attributes…..

1. He is a murderer

John 8:44……He was a murderer from the beginning…. He was a murderer from the beginning.  Their father murders people.  There are several ways to murder someone.   Kill their body.  Kill their reputation.  Kill their hope.  Kill their joy.   Kill their purpose. Kill their soul.   The devil does all of that.  What a great father he is…..

 

1. He is a liar and deceiver

John 8:44 …….and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks what is natural to him, for he is a liar and the father of lies and half-truths.  Their father is a liar and deceiver.

 

There is NO Truth in the devil.  Even a bad earthly father tells the truth sometimes.  But this father NEVER tells the truth.  He tells half truths.  As he did to Eve.  But His end is to deceive and lie.

 

1. His Children Do Not Follow Jesus

John 8:45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me [and continue in your unbelief].  Their father has children that do not trust in Jesus or follow Him.  No person who father is the devil follows Jesus.  It is impossible. Light and darkness do not mix.  The light always overcomes the darkness! 23:00

 

1. The True Father Points Us To Jesus 2. Their Father Points Us Away From the Word
2. The Attributes Of Their Father 4. The Attributes Of Our Father

John 8:47 He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.   He who comes from God listens to God’s words. You, however, are not from God, and that is why you will not listen.”  Whoever is of God and belongs to Him hears [the truth of] God’s words; for this reason you do not hear them: because you are not of God and you are not in fellowship with Him.”

Jesus said in John 10:27  My sheep hear my voice and they follow me.   Can we follow our father’s word?  Can we trust in the word of our Father?

 

God word is Truth….thy word is truth…John 17:17

God word is Love….God is love 1 John 4:8

God word is faithful….Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. 1 Thessalonians 5:24

God word is good…And have tasted the good word of God, Hebrews 6:5

heir father the devil is NONE of these things.  In fact he is the exact opposite of these things.  27:30

 

1. The True Father Points Us To Jesus 2. Their Father Points Us Away From the Word
2. The Attributes Of Their Father 4. The Attributes Of Our FatherWho is your father?

Galatians 4:6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.  God is not only a good father but He is your dad…reachable.  Available.  28:04

 

 

6/11/2023

Micah 6:6-8 How Does Man Please God?

Intro:  The Book of Micah was likely written between 735 and 700 B.C.  The message of the Book of Micah is a mixture of judgment and hope. The prophecies announce judgment upon Israel for social evils, corrupt leadership and idolatry. This judgment was expected to culminate in the destruction of Samaria and Jerusalem. The book proclaims not merely the restoration of the nation, but the transformation and exaltation of Israel and Jerusalem.

 

The prophet condemns the rulers, priests, and prophets of Israel who exploit and mislead the people. It is because of their deeds that Jerusalem will be destroyed. The ideal ruler would come from Bethlehem to defend the nation, and the prophet proclaims the triumph of the remnant of Jacob and foresees a day when Yahweh will purge the nation of idolatry and reliance on military might. The prophet sets forth a powerful and concise summary of Yahweh’s requirement for justice and loyalty and announces judgment upon those who have followed the ways of Omri and Ahab. The book closes as Israel confesses its sin and is assured of deliverance through Yahweh’s mighty acts.

 

God gives warnings so we will not have to suffer His wrath. Judgment is certain if God’s warnings are not heeded and His provision for sin in the sacrifice of His Son is rejected. For the believer in Christ, God will discipline us—not from hate—but because He loves us. He knows that sin destroys and He wants us to be whole. This wholeness which is the promise of restoration awaits those who remain obedient to Him.  But Micah’s great question maybe the greatest question is How Does man please God?1:00

 

1. Does Man Please God with Offerings?

Micah 6:6 Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God…. What shall I bring to the Lord, the God of heaven, when I come to worship him? With what shall I come before the Lord [to honor Him] Micah attempts to answer the question of the ages.   How can I stand up before God and show proper respect to the high God?

 

Michal 6:6…..shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Shall I bring the best calves to burn as offerings to him? And bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, With yearling calves? Should I bring an armload of offerings topped off with yearling calves? Yearling calves were regarded as the choicest sacrifices.

 

Genesis 8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.  Noah gave the first burnt offering in the Bible after he got off of the Ark.

 

Burnt offerings do not please God anymore.  Hebrews 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;  They don’t please God because Jesus Christ has been offered for our sins.  That fulfilled the offerings given in the Old Testament.    Leviticus 9:2 And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the Lord.  A sin offering was a sacrifice, made according to the Mosaic Law, which provided atonement for sin. The Hebrew phrase for “sin offering” literally means “fault offering.” The sin offering was made for sins committed in ignorance, or unintentional sins. The ritualistic method of the sin offering and the animal to be offered varied depending on the status of the sinner. For example, a high priest who sinned unintentionally would offer a young bull. A king or a prince would offer a young male goat. People in the private sector would sacrifice a young female goat or lamb, unless they were too poor, in which case they were only required to offer two turtledoves or pigeons.

 

There are five offerings There are five main types of sacrifices, or offerings, in the Old Testament.

1. The burnt offering (Leviticus 1; 6:8–13; 8:18-21; 16:24),
2. the grain offering (Leviticus 2; 6:14–23),
3. the peace offering (Leviticus 3; 7:11–34),
4. the sin offering (Leviticus 4; 5:1–13; 6:24–30; 8:14–17; 16:3–22), and
5. the trespass offering (Leviticus 5:14–19; 6:1–7; 7:1–6). Each of these sacrifices involved certain elements, either animal or fruit of the field, and had a specific purpose. Most were split into two or three portions—God’s portion, the portion for the Levites or priests, and, if there was a third, a portion kept by the person offering the sacrifice. The sacrifices can be broadly categorized as either voluntary or mandatory offerings.

 

The first was the burnt offering, a voluntary act of worship to express devotion or commitment to God. It was also used as an atonement for unintentional sin. The elements of the burnt offering were a bull, a bird, or a ram without blemish. The meat and bones and organs of the animal were to be totally burnt, and this was God’s portion. The animal’s hide was given to the Levites, who could later sell it to earn money for themselves.

 

2 Chronicles 29:21 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the Lord.   The sin offering.  Without the shedding of blood there is not remission of sin.  As horrible as the offering was so is our sin horrible to God.  The soul that sinneth it shall die.  So someone dies for their sin.  A sinless life has to die to pay for the sinful.

 

Micah 6:7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, Will the Lord be delighted with thousands of rams, Will the Lord be pleased if I bring him thousands of sheep? “Thousands of rams” suggests the large quantity of animals that one might offer to get God’s favor. But God is interested neither in the choicest animals nor in the number offered.

Micah 6:7 …..or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? or endless streams of olive oil? Or with ten thousand rivers of oil? Even great quantities of oil will not bring the worshiper into fellowship with God. Oil was used by pagans to please their gods.  Oil is used by God’s people to please God.  It represents the Holy Spirit.  10:00

 

1. Does Man Please God with Offerings? 2. Does Man Please God By Sacrifices?

Micah 6:7  …….shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? Shall I offer him my first-born child to pay for my sins? Shall I present my firstborn for my acts of rebellion, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?  The list reaches a shocking climax in the mention of the firstborn. Child sacrifice was carried out by certain Israelites on occasion (2Ki 3:27-16:3; Isa 57:5). The firstborn represents the most precious thing one could give to God. Again, this was not what God wants.

 

Would God be impressed with thousands of rams, with buckets and barrels of olive oil? Would he be moved if I sacrificed my firstborn child, my precious baby, to cancel my sin?  The answer is no!  He cannot be pleased by the death of animals alone.  The death of innocent animals points to the death of Jesus Christ who shed His blood for our sins.  That is the only sacrifice, the only offering that pleases God! Matthew 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?  Even if we gained the whole world and all the animals and all the children and gave them to God….it would not cover our sins.  It would not please God for we are still sinners.  19:00

 

1. Does Man Please God with Offerings? 2. Does Man Please God By Sacrifices? 
2. The Answer Is Simple

Micah 6:8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; No, the Lord has told us what is good. He has told you, O man, what is good.  Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.  What is good? Doing what God’s will is.  Who is Good?  God!  There is none good but one and that is God. But hasn’t God already made it plain how to live, what to do…..follow Him!  Follow Christ!

 

Micah 6:8 ……and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, what God is looking for in men and women. It’s quite simple…..What he requires of us is this: to do what is just…. And what does the Lord require of you Except to be just, Do what is fair and just to your neighbor.  God is holy and just and does what is right.  Do what is right like God does.

 

Micah 6:8…..and to love mercy, to show love… to diligently practice kindness and compassion. be compassionate and loyal in your love.  Love like God for God is love.  People that love know God.

 

Micah 6:8….. and to walk humbly with thy God?, , and to live in humble fellowship with our God. and  , And to walk humbly with your God [setting aside any overblown sense of importance or self-righteousness]? It ends with a question mark? Like God is saying haven’t  I have told you time and time again? , And don’t take yourself too seriously—take God seriously?  Be committed To walk with God.  Be obedient to God in your walk with Him.

 

God answers the questions with a question.  Hasn’t he shown you what is good and what the Lord requires….to do right, be kind to others and walk with your God?  How simple is that?   Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.  To know God you have to deny the world is the arbiter of truth. You have to trust in the truth of the word of God and trust in God Himself above all others…… and love Him above all things!   27:00

 

1. Does Man Please God with Offerings? 2. Does Man Please God By Sacrifices? 
2. The Answer Is Simple……. How Does Man Please God?    By loving Him and trusting in Him.  28:04

6/4/2023

Proverbs 6:16-19     Pride

God hates pride.  Man loves to be proud.   It’s okay to be proud of your grandchildren and children even proud of your accomplishments…..as long as you give glory and praise to God!  Man wants to only glorify himself and what he is.   Pride month is the glorification not only of man….but glorifying their sin…..

Proverbs 6:16 These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

Proverbs 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Proverbs 6:18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

Proverbs 6:19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

 

 

6/4/2023  and 6/11/2023

1 Thessalonians 1:10 Why I Believe in a Pre-Tribulation Rapture

Intro: The Pre-tribulation rapture is unique and very special in God’s creation and purposes.  There is nothing like it nor ever will be like it!  It is  shock and awe like we have never seen it except maybe the return of Jesus Christ to the Earth.   Every believer can take hope and encouragement from the rapture of the church.

 

1. What is the Tribulation?

1 Thessalonians 1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

The tribulation is the seven worst years in human history.  Some believe in a post tribulation rapture.  Some believe in a Mid-tribulaton rapture.  Some believe in a pre-wrath rapture.

 

First of all let’s get one thing clear.  The tribulation is seven years of the wrath of God being poured out on the world.  It is the time of Jacob’s trouble.  Jeremiah 30:7. It is the fulfillment of the 70 weeks of years in Daniel chapter 9 for God’s people.  So don’t let anyone tell you that the last 3 ½ years or the great tribulation is only when the wrath of God is being poured out.  It will intensify in the last 3 ½ years.  But it is still the tribulation.

 

I’ve been studying the end times since 1970 as a young man.  53 years.  I’ve heard it all and seen all the graphs and charts.  I don’t care about all of that.  I want to show you what the Bible says about it and Just the Bible.

 

1. What is the Tribulation? 2. The entire Tribulation is the wrath of God.

1 Thessalonians 1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.   Revelation chapter six is a summary of the world history up to and including the tribulation.  The tribulation is seven years the great tribulation is the last 3 ½ of those years.  The wrath of God against those who have rejected Jesus Christ and God’s plans.  Including Israel who must pay for their rejection of 70 sabbath years that they missed and rejecting God as their God and Jesus as their Messiah and it continues even as they became a nation in unbelief on TODAY!!!! May 14^th, 1948.  75 years!!

 

It’s a time of Jacob’s Trouble not the church’s trouble.  Jeremiah 30:7  Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. Israel will be saved physically and spiritually……well….only those left alive as only 1/3 of the Jews will survive the tribulation by fleeing to Petra.  The land will survive.  Israel is the apple of God’s eye. The people and the land.

 

70 weeks are determined for thy people.  Daniel 9:24. Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.  69 weeks of years were complete when Jesus was crucified.

 

This is the history of Israel from the return of Babylonians captivity and rebuilding the wall around the city and rebuilding the city to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.  483 years then it pauses.  Where is the last seven years?     Look at Daniel 9:27 again….…..One week….490 years….70 weeks…of years!

 

God’s wrath is poured out on the world during the seven year period, the seventieth week of years.  Seven years are owed to Israel, the Jews….….not the church!  The church age will end….the time of the gentiles will end.  Luke 21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.  AD 70 Rome took Jews captive and they spread around the world.  The gentiles have ruled and controlled Israel ever since.  Even today they tell Israel what they can do.  That will end when the church is raptured.  The Beast will build upon the current treaty to allow Israel to build their temple and do their own thing.  Islam will be virtually wiped out by God during the Gog-magog war of Ezekiel chapters 38-39.  God will be acknowledged for defeating Israel’s enemies. But the Beast will arise and deceive the whole world as they may acknowledge God they will not receive Him as Savior.

 

The lost people of the world will be blinded by the Anti-Christ to believe a strong delusion.

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

 

The Day of the Lord is a common theme in the Bible.  The day begins with the rapture of the church.

Zechariah 14:1-4 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. 2 For I will gather ALL nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. (They will flee to Petra for 3 ½ years) 3 Then shall the Lord go forth,(Jesus will come at the end of the tribulation) and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. 4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

 

It is called the day of the Lord’s wrath……. for on that day….His wrath will begin to be poured out on the earth and will get progressively worse beginning with the seal judgments that tell us about the final day trumpet and Bowl judgements.  The tribulation period is not going to be good any of it.  God wrath will be poured out.   The day of His wrath is coming!

 

Psalm 110:5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.

Psalm 79:6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.

Isaiah 13:9 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

Isaiah 13:13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

Zephaniah 1:14-15 The great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

Romans 2:5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

Ephesians 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

Colossians 3:5-6 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.

Revelation 6:16-17 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

 

The day of the Lord starts with the rapture of the church….

God is not mad at the church.  He loves His church….His bride.

 

Jesus saved us from the wrath of God.  Matthew 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? John the Baptist knew the wrath of God was coming upon this earth!

John 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

Romans 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.  

1 Thessalonians 1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

1 Thessalonians 5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

 

1. What is the Tribulation? 2. The entire Tribulation is the wrath of God.
2. The church is saved by the Rapture.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

1 Thessalonians 5:1-10 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. 9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

 

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12    10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.  11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

 

1 Corinthians 15:51-58 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

 

Revelation 3:10  Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

 

1. What is the Tribulation? 2. The entire Tribulation is the wrath of God.
2. The church is saved by the Rapture.

4 There is no divine protection for even those who get saved During the Tribulation. 

Revelation 13:7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.

Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

So ….if the church is not raptured before the tribulation then we will lose our heads.  So how can that comfort you that you will suffer and lose your head?  Please don’t be deceived.  We are not going to win

America back. We are not going to overcome without Jesus Christ directly intervening. There is not going to be a national revival. There is not going to be anyone to help us.  It is going to get worse and worse.  But for the Christian we have the blessed hope…..

 

1. What is the Tribulation? 2. The entire Tribulation is the wrath of God.
2. The church is saved by the Rapture.

4 There is no divine protection for even those who get saved During the Tribulation.

 

Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.  My blessed hope is that I will get my head cut off and go through the wrath of God and be overcome by the Beast…..some blessed hope!!

God has not appointed us to wrath but obtain SALVATION!

 

 

5/14/2023

1 Thessalonians 5:3 Important Births In The Bible

Intro:  I was going to preach about why I believe in a pretribulation rapture this morning.  But that message is too big for one sermon I found out.  So instead I’m going to talk about births.  Wives and mothers are unique to only humans made in God’s image.  Of the trillions of the hosts of heaven there is only females among humans made in the image of God.  Eve was the very first woman.  The hosts of heaven had never seen anything like this before.  The woman was amazing and beautiful and desirous.  The angels desired a wife also……. like Adam had.

So, some left their first estate and had got them some wives.  God cursed those unions with the flood.  So ladies ever since Eve came around you have garnered a lot of attention.  Did you ever think that angels don’t have mothers.  Adam did not have a mother.  How blessed we are today to have a mother! Someone to call mom!  I know that some women can give birth but that does not make a mother.  I hope you had a mother to thank God for.  I know I did!   1:00

1. The First Birth

1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. When people say, “Everything is quiet and safe,” then suddenly destruction will hit them! It will come as suddenly as the pains that come upon a woman in labor, and people will not escape.  While they are saying, “Peace and safety [all is well and secure!]” then [in a moment unforeseen] destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains on a woman with child, and they will absolutely not escape [for there will be no way to escape the judgment of the Lord].

Genesis 4:1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.   The very first baby born was Cain.  An evil murderer as it turned out.  And the first baby born was a man.  All very interesting.  All seemed well.  It was joyous day for Adam and Eve.  But little did they know that destruction was coming.   It like our world today.  We have people constantly claiming peace, peace.  They sound so sincere and hopeful.

Genesis 4:8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.  Abel was born next….. at least we assume from Genesis 4:2.   We know that Adam and Eve lived a long time and had many children.  But it appears that Abel was born next.  So all the joy and happiness turned out to be a great pain and trial when Cain murdered his brother.  Eve born Cain and Abel in physical pain and later they would cause her much emotional pain and anguish.

Proverbs 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.  Suddenly Cain did the act of murder.  This was horrible and unthinkable.  How Cain thought this would help things is because he was totally absorbed with himself and his agenda.  The world today is totally absorbed with their agenda of world unity……knowing very well that diversity of Ideals will not bring unity but only chaos and confusion.  Done so that they can move in and take over and bring the world to THEIR beliefs and ideals.  Mankind’s ways are NEVER God’s ways.  God want us not in diversity but unity of Spirit in Him!  Do you think that in heaven we are going to have different belief systems and independent operators? Do you think in heaven that evolution and communisim will be there?

The first man Adam was not born…. but created.  One hundred percent man…. made from God without the woman.  The second man Adam…or Jesus Christ was born of a woman….but His seed was from God in Heaven.  One hundred percent man and one hundred percent God and born of a woman.   As every THING begins with an Idea from someone somewhere.  Every person begins with a mother someone somewhere.   That makes humans unique upon all the host of heaven.  That makes wives and moms the most unique creation in all of the host of heaven.  These angelic beings are all males.  Males dominate the God head and the heavenly realm….until EVE!   Not only is this creature unique but beautiful, soft, made for nurturing and love.   She is strong in her inner strength of love and nurturing.  And she can bare off spring.

No creature in heaven could do that until the woman came along.  Yes, animals were made male and female that way but they are not moms and wives.  NO wonder the angels left their first estate to get a wife!  They wanted what Adam had!  Ladies you are something special.  The angels in heaven want you…No wonder Satan wants to destroy women today.  No wonder he wants to confuse gender.  No wonder he wants transgenderism and gender fluidity.  All of these things don’t hurt men they are targeted to destroy women!   He wants to destroy the female. To destroy wives and mothers.  Homosexuality destroys females specially moms and wives!  Transgenderism destroys females specifically moms and wives!

Satan hates women most of all.  He hated Eve.  He came to Eve to tempt her.  God turned it all against Satan when He allowed EVE to be the one to bring about Satan’s destruction….the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ!   Satan will do anything to destroy wives and mothers.  Ever since the first birth of a man….. the wicked Cain who turned out like the devil as a liar and a murderer…… he has tried ever since to destroy women. 10:00

1. The First Birth 2. The First And Only Virgin Birth

1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.  When people say, “Everything is quiet and safe,” then suddenly destruction will hit them! It will come as suddenly as the pains that come upon a woman in labor, and people will not escape.  While they are saying, “Peace and safety [all is well and secure!]” then [in a moment unforeseen] destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains on a woman with child, and they will absolutely not escape [for there will be no way to escape the judgment of the Lord].

Mary gave birth under labor pains.  Luke 2:5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.  Mary was extremely pregnant.  It had to be very terrible trip for her from Nazareth to Bethlehem in order to be taxed in their own city of origin.  It was a time of travail for her.  But a child was born.  The first child of Mary.  Jesus Christ is first child born of a virgin.

Cain….. the first born of Eve of all humans was an evil man born after Adam’s sinful nature. The son of Adam.     Jesus Christ the first born of Mary, a virgin birth.  Non like it before or since because He was the Son of God, born of God, with a Holy and righteous nature.  He was not born with a sin nature.  1 Corinthians 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.  Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. 

 

The first and only virgin birth is Jesus Christ the first born of all creation.  Meaning that there is none like Him.  The God of creation.  The creator of all things.  The sustainer of all things.  Your child is the most important thing in the world to you ladies.  You can understand the birth of a child is a very special moment.  And when that baby finally comes there is rejoicing and there is the impact that that child will have on the world.

When we trust in Jesus Christ it is compared to being born but the Bible calls it being born again.  Not a physical birth but a spiritual new birth.  We are made new.  We are new Creatures in Christ.  Just like the excitement of a baby being born the first time physically there is the even greater excitement of being born again by the spirit of God. We are born once by water.  The Embrionic sack and hopefully once by Jesus Christ.  That also is a first spiritual and only time needed spiritual birth.  As you only need to be born once physically to have life.  So you only need to be born once spiritually to have eternal life.

We are born once…die once…. and live again.  Tragically some will be born once but die twice.  The second time for their own sins.  Because Jesus is the most important birth in the Bible and the whole world and universe times one million millions!  There is no comparison to Jesus birth to any other birth.  Because He is the unique one and only, Savior.  The God-man.  The only one who could save us.  The unique one and only Lord Jesus Christ!  19:00

1. The First Birth 2. The First And Only Virgin Birth  3. The final Birth

1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.  When people say, “Everything is quiet and safe,” then suddenly destruction will hit them! It will come as suddenly as the pains that come upon a woman in labor, and people will not escape.  While they are saying, “Peace and safety [all is well and secure!]” then [in a moment unforeseen] destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains on a woman with child, and they will absolutely not escape [for there will be no way to escape the judgment of the Lord].

There is birth coming that is so awful and so unimaginable in the pain and suffering it will cause.  There is a time coming described here as a birth process that will cause the world immense pain and suffering and judgment of God.   But it will birth something so horrible that we cannot fully describe it even though the book of Revelation does a pretty good job of it.

Just like there is nothing that can stop a baby from being born.  When the baby is ready……be it a New York Cab or a large stadium packed with people…… that baby is coming.  So it is in these last days but this is not a baby being born but a time of Jacob’s trouble Jeremiah 30:7  The seventieth week determined for thy people Israel is going to be birthed.  Matthew 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.  A birth so terrible that no one will survive it.  Death is one hundred percent certain.  It’s the great paradox that a birth can bring death.  As your birth brought life….and Jesus birth brought eternal life this birth will bring death and eternal death to those who suffer from it.

 

There will be no woman giving birth this time.  It won’t be a baby. It will be God giving birth this time…….giving birth to judgment upon the world for their rejection of Jesus Christ and disobedience to His word.

But even stranger is that we impregnated ourselves. You know there is an insect that impregnates itself.  And it brings out monstrosities.    Some plants and algeas, Water fleas, the Whiptail Lizard, some scorpions, and parasitic wasps. It’s called Parth-in-O-genesis.  Asexual reproduction.  The people of the world caused the birth of the judgment of God upon us. We did it too ourselves!!!  I hate to say this from the pulpit but……. We screwed ourselves!!

And like all pregnancies when it’s time for the baby to be born. Warnings are given.  Birth pangs come.  You know the time is near.   And when it comes nothing is going to stop it.  In fact when you get to the birth pangs (which is where we are now I believe)…..there is nothing we do….no amount of repentance… no amount of praying…..no amount of revivals…..will STOP this birth of judgment upon the world!  And it will grow for Seven years with each successive judgment of trumpets and Angels three woes  and more angels pouring out their bowls of judgment upon this very deserving world.

It’s not a happy birth to say the least.  All births are anticipated by family and friends.  The only creatures who are anticipating this birth might be the good angels who long to see the rebellion of mankind  ended once for all!  God is not happy about it.  Humans are not happy about it.  None of God’s creatures are happy about it.  The wicked angels are not happy about it. They want to be able to rule with Satan in absolute freedom….. but not to be……So sorry guys…. No I’m not really sorry for them…..    27:00

 

1. The First Birth 2. The First And Only Virgin Birth  3. The final Birth

Important Births in The Bible

The most important birth in your life is not your child…it’s not even you….It’s Jesus Christ!  For if He had not been born then you would have no hope and live a life of total depravity and despair.  But thanks be unto God Jesus was born….of a woman….and you now have eternal life.  Thanks be unto God you were born of a woman….your own mother…..and now you have enteral life through faith and trust in Jesus Christ and in Him alone!  28:04

5/7/2023

Deuteronomy 28:1-2  How To Be Blessed or Cursed

Intro:  This passage is for Israel. They had a simple path.  Obey and live.  Disobey God and die.  Every promise for Israel can also be applied to the church.  It only makes sense. God doesn’t change.  The church is the object of God’s love and affection so you know that He wants for us the same as Israel. Israel has a different role in God’s plans but His love is the same for all of us. And His principles are the same.  Obey God and live.  Disobey God and die.  We obey God today by trusting in Jesus Christ and following Him.  We disobey God by rejecting Jesus Christ and following man.  How to be blessed or cursed is pretty simple from God’s view.  1:00

1. The Promise

Deuteronomy 28:1-2 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.  If you obey the Lord your God and faithfully keep all his commands that I am giving you today, he will make you greater than any other nation on earth. “Now it shall be, if you diligently listen to and obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all of His commandments which I am commanding you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

God’s people had it all laid out to them.  All they had to do was obey God and enjoy blessings and have greatness bestowed upon them.  But they couldn’t do it or they wouldn’t do it.  All people have to do today is trust in Jesus Christ as Savior and enjoy blessings and have a great life.  But they won’t do it.  Zechariah 7:11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

 

Isaiah 48:12-13   Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.  13 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.  We should hearken…listen, pay attention to the word of God.  Listen to it.  Read it.  Pray over it.  God has set us up for success and joy if we trust in His Son Jesus Christ.  All Israel had to do was obey the Lord.  That’s all!  10:00

 

1. The Promise 2. The Warning

Deuteronomy 28:15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: But if you disobey the Lord your God and do not faithfully keep all his commands and laws that I am giving you today, all these evil things will happen to you: All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you pay attention to the voice of the Lord your God. But it shall come about, if you do not listen to and obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today, then all these curses will come upon you and overtake you.

Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.  If we trust in what man says and does than God we are in trouble.  Man can do a lot of things…but he cannot know the future, is not all knowing, is not loving but acts in self-interest.  Man has the capability of great things but also great sin.  Look at our world today.  With all the technology we have all this sin abounding.  Sexual sins, deception, disease and destruction.

Jeremiah 6:10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the Lord is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.  They hate listening to God. They hate His word.  They hate His preachers. They just hate God and Jesus Christ our Lord. They will not yield to Him for to Yield to God is to deny self.

Matthew 16:25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.  If we lose our life in Christ, we will find life like we have never know before.  For Christ who is our life…..John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.  We have a future that is out of this world…in every way you want to think.  We have been warned.  19:00

1. The Promise 2. The Warning 3 The Result

Deuteronomy 28:63 And it shall come to pass, that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; Just as the Lord took delight in making you prosper and in making you increase in number. It shall come about that just as the Lord delighted over you to make you prosper and multiply,

 

Deuteronomy 28:63….so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it., so he will take delight in destroying you and in bringing ruin on you. You will be uprooted from the land that you are about to occupy. so the Lord will delight over you to bring you to ruin and destruction; and you will be [o]uprooted [violently] from the land which you are entering to possess.  God will be glad that his people are learning the consequences of disobedience.  God is not interested in spoiling His children.  We should be happy to discipline our children as a teaching moment.  We are happy for teaching moments when our children learn the results of obedience and disobedience.

Ezekiel 33:11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?   God is not happy to have to take the final steps in disobedience death.  He would rather we learn from our punishment and learn obedience than to have to die for our continued sin.   Jeremiah 38:20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the Lord, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.

Hebrews 2:2 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward.  If you disobey God you will pay for it.  Maybe not now but later. But you WILL pay.  Everyone will pay for their rejection of Jesus Christ.  Make no mistake about that.

 

Deuteronomy 28:64 And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. The Lord will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve gods made of wood and stone, gods that neither you nor your ancestors have ever worshiped before.  And the Lord will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other; and there you will [be forced to] serve other gods, [lifeless gods of] wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

The dispersion occurred in AD 70.  This is a direct prophecy about that event.   Life will take you to places you don’t want to go if you are disobedient to the Lord.  I’m talking about Hell.  No one wants to go there.  You may get remedial judgments like going to places in this life you don’t like.  Jail, hospital, unemployment, sorrow and sadness and addiction are places none of us want to go.  I’m not saying if you go to these places God is judging you….sometimes it’s just life.  But God promises to work out all things for good those who LOVE God and are called according to His purposes.  In other words who love God and obey Him the best they can.  God uses bad things to make the good things “gooder.”

 

Deuteronomy 28:65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: You will find no peace anywhere, no place to call your own; the Lord will overwhelm you with anxiety, hopelessness, and despair. Among those nations you will find no peace (rest), and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.

Israel… the Jews have never fit in no matter where they live or what country they are in.  God did that for a reason to keep their identity so that they could come back to Israel in the last of the last days.  1948.  Until 1948 the Jews all had a saying “next year in Israel.”  Well they got back in 1948 after 1870 years of dispersion around the world.

God sends us out of our comfort zone in times of Judgment.   But we all have times of discomfort in our lives.  What is the difference?  For the wicked the discomfort leads to repentance for our sin……for the righteous the discomfort leads to greater dependance upon and trust in God.

 

Deuteronomy 28:66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: Your life will always be in danger. Day and night you will be filled with terror, and you will live in constant fear of death. Your life will hang in doubt before you; night and day you will be filled with anxiety and have no assurance of living.

The Jews have faces persecution and death every where they go.  And still do today.  Anti-semitism is alive and well throughout the world.  People who disobey God…who do not trust in God have no assurance of their future.  They don’t know where they are going.  They don’t have true hope in life after death.  The wicked are afraid to die. They will do anything to live.  They have no security in this life or the life to come.  They don’t have someone to give them hope and assurance.  So they are afraid of everything.  That’s why they do the things they do.  Matthew 16:26  For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?  27:00

1. The Promise 2. The Warning 3 The Result    How to be Blessed or Cursed.

Genesis 12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.  God blesses those who obey Him and love His people.  He curses those who do not.   If you love God you will love His people….. be it Israel or the church.  28:04

5/7/2023

Zechariah 12:2-3  What Is So Important About Jerusalem?

Intro:  Jerusalem and Israel is the land of promise. It is God’s covenant land.  God made a covenant with Abraham in Genesis 12:1.  They would be the people to whom God would introduce Himself to the world.  Through Israel God told man what was expected of them.  That was the law.  Then when the time was right Jesus Christ (a Jew) was born and lived, and died and rose again so that we might be saved.  Then came the Bible through the Jews.  They had much expected of them.  They suffered for their own sins while God allowed other nations to be seemingly get away with wickedness.  God even used wicked nations to bring judgment against Israel.  But no one gets away with evil.  So they have lived under God’s microscope for centuries and they will be judged one final seven year period for their unbelief, sin and rejection of Jesus Christ.  Then God will be recognized as their God when Jesus Christ returns to rule and reign over His people in a glorious kingdom.

The Jews don’t deserve to be special as none of us deserve God’s grace either.   They have sinned much and they have suffered much.  Many people today blame Israel for everything wrong in the world today. And there is a corrupt Israel that is very powerful…the synagogue of Satan (the Jews that hate the church, Jesus Christ and persecute the church) that is behind some of the world intrigue but not all of it.  The US government, China, the ten world elite who will become ten world regions are behind most of it.

We are commanded to pray for the peace of Jerusalem.  God said He bless those who bless Israel….the land and the people.  While we do not lift up Political Israel….we lift up the land and the people in general.  We have so much to thank them for ( The Bible, The Lord Jesus Himself)….and in their hour of judgment we need to pray for them for we know that God will make Israel a cup of trembling for all nations.  God will never be done with Israel.  He made a promise to Abraham.  Jesus Christ will rule and reign there.  1/3 of Jewish people will accept Jesus Christ when He comes.  They will finally be the great nation that God predicted they would become.

 

1. Israel is the Land Of God’s Promise

Zechariah 12:1 The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, Burden means an oracle or a message. A message about Israel from the Lord. The [a]oracle (a burdensome message) of the word of the Lord concerning Israel.   The burden is a weighty judgment that the prophet must discharge.

Zechariah 12:1 …..saith the Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens…. the Lord who spread out the skies, Thus declares the Lord who stretches out the heavens  Isaiah 44:24  I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; 

Jeremiah 51:15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding. Job 26:7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.   God is the creator of the universe.  He is great and beyond compare.

 

Zechariah 12:1….and layeth the foundation of the earth, created the earth, and lays the foundation of the earth.  Psalm 102:25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.   Exodus 20:11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.   God created the Earth and all that is in it.  God is great and beyond compare. The only creator.

 

Zechariah 12:1 …..and formeth the spirit of man within him. and gave life to man.  and forms the spirit of man within him:  God created man…Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.  God is great and beyond compare and the only creator.

 

1. Israel is the Land Of God’s Promise 2.  Don’t Mess With Jerusalem

Zechariah 12:2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about,

I will make Jerusalem like a cup of wine; Behold, I am going to make Jerusalem a cup. Jerusalem is depicted as a cup of wine or strong drink which causes drunkenness. The cup is a common metaphor for God’s wrath.  You know how it is….”I  can spank my children but you better not harm them.”  God is not going to allow the nations of the world to destroy His people and the land.  God will bring judgment on them but if any nation tries that it will not go well with them.  Remember Babylon?  Assyria?  The Hittites, the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Philistines (they’re being copied by the Palestinians today) they are all gone.

Isaiah 51:17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.  Jerusalem itself has faced God’s wrath. So they know all about the cup of Trembling.

 

Jeremiah 25:15 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.  One day all nations will drink of the cup of God’s fury.

 

Ezekeial 23:33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.  Nations will be in total desolation when God is done with them.

 

Revelation 14:10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; God’s wrath upon His enemies is poured out during the tribulation.

 

Revelation 16:19 And the great city (Babylon) was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.  The cup of the wrath of God will fall upon Commercial Babylon.  It could be the United States or a rebuilt Babylon.  No one knows for sure.

Jerusalem is God’s city.  It is mentioned 767 times in the Bible.  Jesus summed it all up in Matthew 23:37  Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

 

1. Israel is the Land Of God’s Promise 2. Don’t Mess With Jerusalem  3. Jerusalem will Be Attacked

Zechariah 12:2….. when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem And when they besiege Jerusalem, the cities of the rest of Judah will also be besieged. that causes reeling (staggering) to all the surrounding peoples; and when the siege is against Jerusalem, it will also be against Judah. All of present day Israel will be under attack.  Siege  warfare involved encircling a city to prevent the inhabitants from fleeing and to cut off all supplies of food and water.

Ezekiel 4:7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.  Jerusalem was under siege from Babylon and had to surrender.  This time they will not surrender but God will defeat their enemies.

We know that there is a Gog-Magog invasion of Israel that appears to occur before the tribulation.  This invasion is from Russia, Iran, Turkey, Lybia and Sudan.   The Gog-Magog war in Revelation is all nations of the world.  Generally speaking all nations continually harass Israel.  The UN always has resolutions condemning Israel.  Yet we have an Ad campaign in the media to prevent anti-semitism against Jewish people that is at an all time high according to some.  I just know that there is a synagogue of Satan.  Jews who hate Jesus Christ and the church.

And as I said Israel is involved in much intrique in the world.  But by far not the leader of such activities.  China has much more influence in the world that Israel.  Islam has much more influence in the world than Israel.  The US has more influence in the world than Israel.  Bottom line….all nations are against Israel today.  I don’t know that they truly have one friend of all the nations in the world today.

The siege is against both Jerusalem and Israel as a nation.  Judah.  All the area surrounding Jerusalem.

Zechariah 12:3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: But when that time comes, I will make Jerusalem like a heavy stone— And in that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples;  Jerusalem is compared to a heavy stone that brings injury to anyone who tries to remove it from its place.

This is only mention of the phrase “burdensome stone” in the Bible.  In that day…is found over six hundred times in the Bible usually referring to a time in the future.  Bottom line is ….Don’t mess with God’s people.   You cannot pick up this stone for it will hurt you.  It will injure you.  You cannot move it.  It is not going anywhere.  So it is useless for the people of the world to come against Israel.  But under the Anti-Christ in the last part of the tribulation 1/3 of Israel will have to flee for safety and salvation.  But God will have His revenge on the Beast and his armies over that.

 

Zechariah 12:3…..all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. any nation that tries to lift it will be hurt. All the nations of the world will join forces to attack her. all who lift it will be severely injured. And all the nations of the earth will come and be gathered against it.

Daniel 2:34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.  Jesus Christ the stone cut without hands will break in pieces the nations of the Beast Iron and clay.  Strong nations that do not mix together.  So any nation that comes against God’s people will pay the price.  Even today if you do not bless God’s people you are cursed as a nation.  Poverty, war, conflict, and chaos is the norm for nations that reject God’s people.

Zechariah 12:4 In that day, saith the Lord, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: At that time I will terrify all their horses and make all their riders go crazy. In that day,” declares the Lord, “I will strike every horse with panic and his rider with madness.  Six times horses are mentioned in the Book of Revelation.  Horses in Biblical times meant strength and might.  Those who come against Israel in battle…maybe it’s talking about the Gog-magog invasion will suffer complete defeat.  Also horses means a physical assault.  They won’t be launching bombs but an actually ground invasion of Israel.  Some think that these are actual horses due to the fact that an EMP weapon has reduced the world back 300 years in technology.  But I doubt that will happen due to Matthew and Luke telling us that the coming of the Lord will catch everyone off guard living, buying, selling, building, planting.

 

Zechariah 12:4…..and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.

I will watch over the people of Judah, but I will make the horses of their enemies blind. but I will open My eyes and watch over the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the [opposing] nations with blindness.  Romans 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.  Now Israel is blinded to the truth of Gospel until the salvation of the Gentiles is complete.  But God is going to blind the weapons of war.  Maybe shut down the radar and computer systems that guide missiles and warfare?  Interesting.  He didn’t ssay that He would blind the riders but the horses.  The weapons of war.

Zechariah 12:5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the Lord of hosts their God. Then the clans of Judah will say to themselves, ‘The Lord God Almighty gives strength to his people who live in Jerusalem.’ Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are our strength in the Lord of hosts, their God.’  The governors or leaders of Judah would affirm God’s power to deliver through His people. The people’s strength would be in the Lord.  Philippians. 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

 

They will give glory to the God of Israel. Very similar to Ezekiel 39:7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.  Also Ezekiel 38:23 says that the world will know that God saved Israel during this invasion.  But that will be short lived as they will sign a peace treaty with the Beast a short time later to begin the tribulation.  Perhaps that is one reason that God will pour out His wrath upon Israel also to make an end of their and the world’s sin.

But for awhile the world will recognize God and then turn on Him and turn to the Anti-Christ, the Beast, the man of sin for their security.

1. Israel is the Land Of God’s Promise 2. Don’t Mess With Jerusalem  3. Jerusalem will Be Attacked

Why is Jerusalem so important? Because God says it is…..1 Kings 11:36 And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.  It is His city.  His people will dwell there.  Jesus Christ will rule and reign there one day soon.  It is the city of God.  Psalm 48:8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever.

It is the name of the heavenly City.  Hebrews 12:22  But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels.

4/30/2023

Ephesians 6:12-14  How To Live In Victory In This Evil Day

Intro:  This is an evil time. Everyone knows that.  Go back thirty years and you would not imagine the things that are happening today could be real.  But here we are.  Good is evil and evil is good.  I don’t have to explain that to anyone today.  Let me tell you one thing that is totally hypocritical and evil.  Professional Baseball, football and basketball are all endorsing and promoting sports betting.  They cleaned up the word but all it is….is legalized ”gambling.”  Beer and gambling are the prime sponsors of professional sports now.  What does that tell you about it?  It’s all Fixed!  Eight Players were suspended for life for gambling in 1919. Pete Rose was in 1989.  EVIL!  This is an Evil Day!!

Lying and deception is the norm.  Governments are evil.  Entertainment is evil.  Religion is evil.    The world is evil beyond what we ever thought it would be with the church here.  Is there anything that is not evil today?  Is there anything that doesn’t have an evil agenda behind it?  TV. Movies. Music. Books. Magazines. News Programs. Music programs. Food. Hollywood. Washington DC. Sports. They all push an evil agenda behind the scenes.  Who is the power behind the scenes?  God warns us about it..1:00

1. Spiritual Wickedness

Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood….. For we are not fighting against human beings.   Jacob wrestled with a man or an angel.  Some believe that the Man who wrestled Jacob was the preincarnate Jesus Christ. Others believe the Man was the Angel of God. In any case, Jacob wrestled with a manifestation of God in Genesis 32:28–30, and because of God’s mercy he survived.

The manifestation did not prevail: The Manifestation could not turn Jacob away from the struggle—even though He could have easily defeated Jacob.  But he crippled Jacob when He touched His thigh.  This Hebrew verb translated touched refers to God’s special touch—as when God touches the earth in Amos 9:5 or the human heart 1 Sam. 10:26. Here, God’s touch caused pain. Yet Jacob would not give up. He would not release the Man until he received a blessing.   We must wrestle like Jacob. We are in a battle though with the forces of darkness.  We cannot give up or let up or back down.  The fallen angel and demonic are more powerful than us….. but they cannot prevail over Jesus Christ who lives in us.  1 Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 

 

Ephesians 6:12 …..but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, but against the wicked spiritual forces loose in the world….. but against the wicked spiritual forces that are loose in the world.

Our real battle is not with evil leaders, cults, false religions, atheists, agnostics, and fake-Christians, but with the wicked demonic beings working through them, of which even the flesh and blood opponents themselves are sometimes unaware.  Have you heard of the Luciferians?  Lucifer means “light bearer.”

Luciferiansim is a belief system that reveres Lucifer not as the devil…. but as a destroyer, guardian, liberator, light bearer or guiding spirit.  Even they believe him to be the true God not Yahweh.  The Luciferians are aware who they are working for.   But they have been deceived.

These people deceive, lie, cheat, steal and murder they believe….for the greater good of all.  They think that killing people due to over-population of the planet is for the greater good of us all.  They are completely deceived by the great deceiver himself….Lucifer…Satan….Beelzebub….that old serpent…..the devil.

Isaiah 14: How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!  13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.  15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.  Lucifer is mentioned only in Isaiah 14.  The name Satan is mentioned 49 times in the Bible. Serpent is mentioned 49 times.  The name “devil” proper name singular….best I can tell is given 49 times. Beelzebub 7 times.

You are not smarter than the devil.  You cannot rebuke the devil.  Jude 1:9  Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.  So many try to rebuke the devil.  Let the Lord rebuke him.  You battle against him by teaching and preaching and studying the word of God and your faith in Jesus Christ!

Ephesians 6:12…..against spiritual wickedness in high places. the rulers, authorities,and cosmic powers of this dark age. the rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers of this dark age.

There is an order of fallen angels.  Satan is General.  The devil singular.  He wanted to be like God.  He fell due to his pride.  Captains are the Fallen Angels are the 1/3 of angels who sided with Satan when He rebelled. They can take human or animal form.   And then there are the Lieutenants.  The Demons and Devils.  The demonic are the spirits left over from the giants killed in the flood. The half angel, half human Nephilim born of the fallen ones.  They cannot manifest in a body. They have to inhabit a person or animal.   Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.  The angels who cohabitated with human women are in prison…… their off spring drowned their spirits live as demons or devils.

 

There is spiritual wickedness in the world.  It is not seen….. but felt and experienced.  These wicked creatures are behind the scenes to tempt humans to rebel against God.  It a choice every human has to make.  But if a human leaves that void in his life unfilled with Jesus Christ….. the spiritual forces will come in and attempt to lead that person into darkness and wickedness.  10:00

1. Spiritual Wickedness 2. Evil Day

Ephesians 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. So put on God’s armor now! Then when the evil day comes, you will be able to resist the enemy’s attacks; and after fighting to the end, you will still hold your ground.

 

Evil Day….Did you know that Evil spelled backwards is LIVE.  The opposite of LIVE is death.  Evil is death, destruction, chaos and confusion.  And that describes our day today.  We have more death today than any time in history.  Dead people walking around who live without hope, without joy and without purpose.  Living only for the next fix or for the next high.  People who are breathing…. but their life is empty.   Nature abhors a vacuum and will fill it with something.

A human cannot be empty spiritually….either you have Jesus Christ filling you or you will  have the devil fill you.  Matthew 12:43-45 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. 44 Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.  45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.

 

Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God…..We won’t go into all the armor of God. But suffice it to say that it is righteousness, the gospel Of Jesus Christ, Faith, salvation, the Bible, and Prayer.

Basically….follow the Lord Jesus Christ.  John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.  Luke 9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.  This is an evil day.  The last of the last days when Satan and his demonic forces are working overtime because they… like us….know that the time is short.  19:00

 

1. Spiritual Wickedness 2. Evil Day 3. Stand Ready

Ephesians 6:14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; So stand ready, with truth as a belt tight around your waist, with righteousness as your breastplate. If we follow Jesus Christ…. we have truth and righteousness.   Jesus is the ONLY way and the ONLY TRUTH.  John 14:6.  I am the Way and the Truth….John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.   John 17:17 Thy word is truth….

 

In a world full of liars and deceivers there is one truth.  The word of God through Jesus Christ.  And the lies are so good today.  They are so good at lying.  How do you spot a counterfeit?  You can’t.  You must know the real intimately in order to spot the fake.  We know Jesus Christ intimately then we will always spot the fake, the lies, and the deception.  We are all given spiritual radar called the Holy Spirit.  And the Spirit of God can only give us discernment when we know Him.   When we walk with Him and talk with Him each day.

Stand Therefore…. We can’t fight the fight of faith sitting on our laurals.  We can’t win the fight of faith resting on our blessed assurance.  We have to stand up and be counted for our Lord.  We stand fit and ready for battle.

….Loins gird about with truth….. You can’t stand if your pants are about to fall down and expose your nakedness and unpreparedness.  A good belt secures you and gives you confidence.  They say the clothes make the man and woman.  Why?  It gives them confidence.  Well it all starts with the belt….. meaning preparedness and that brings comfort and security and that brings readiness for anything.

….and having on the breastplate of righteousness….Your heart is protected because your heart is right with God.  You cannot practice sin and be ready to fight for God.  This is my one pet peave with Christians today.  They ask for God’s guidance and pray for God’s healing and even praise Jesus! But they never go to church.  Their hearts aren’t right with God.  A person whose heart is right with God doesn’t have to beg on facebook for prayers…they know God. They know God will help them.  They know God will work out everything to his glory and our good.  They know people are already praying for them.

They are going into battle without the breastplate.  That is sure doom for them.  The enemy can easily strike at their heart and destroy them.  They don’t have the belt of truth.  They havent’ read the Bible in years and probably have never read the Bible through.  How can they be prepared when their pants are ready to fall down without the belt…. of truth.  They will be uncomfortable and uneasy in the battle.

Do you want to go into battle with people who aren’t prepared?  Who don’t know what to do?  Who didn’t think enough of Jesus to go to church and worship Him and sing praises to Him one hour a week?  I know I don’t.  Just stay at home on facebook and be a victorious Christian!  I’ll just post my concerns and needs on facebook and I could care less about the rest of you.   What if we all did that?

I think I’ll just be a facebook Christian.  What would happen?  No church buildings. No worship.  No baptisms. No evangelism.  No missionaries.  No hospitals.  No nursing homes.  No Sunday school.  No Bible schools.  No pastors.  No church choirs.  No potluck dinners.  No church bulletins.  No fellowship.  No prayer meetings.  No revivals.  No praise and worship music.  No hymns.  No excitement. No joy.

The easiest thing for a Christian to do is go to church…..And must of us won’t do that.  And we think we are going to waltz right past those pearly gates be God’s gift to heaven…..Hebrews 10:25  Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.  This verse was written for Today people!!!

 

You have been deceived my friends.  You have been tricked.  Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.   What is God’s will? ….Acts 20:7And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread….. 1 Corinthians 16:2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, God hath prospered him… The Apostles met on the first day of the week.  God commanded through the apostle Paul…to met on the first day of the week.  The Lord’s day.

Do I have a right to question a person who claims to be Christian and never goes to church….on whether they are a Christian or not?  What is the major characteristic of a non-believer?   They don’t go to church.  You do the one thing every non-believer does……NOT go to church……. and you think are going to heaven?   NO……You don’t have to go to church to be saved…….. but you ought to WANT to go to church………. because you are saved!  Stand Therefore.  How To Live in Victory in this evil Day. 

Stand ready. Be ready at all times for spiritual battle.  It’s up to you.  I can’t keep you ready….only you can. 28:04

4/23/2023 Morning

Isaiah 28:15-18 The Covenant With Death

Intro: Death seems to be the theme of our corrupt world today.  Abortion is the leading cause of death for children.  Drug deaths at an all time high.  Murder in the streets of our cities happens every day.   War’s and rumors of wars.  Satan comes to kill and to destroy.  That’s what he is and that is what he does.  Nor only death but lying is the norm. And it doesn’t matter how big a lie it is….. they always get away with it.  Truth is swept under the rug.  They accuse you of what they are doing.  1:00

 

1. Covenant With Death And Hell

Isaiah 28:15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement…..You boast that you have made a treaty with death and reached an agreement with the world of the dead. Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol (the place of the dead) we have made an agreement.  We have people that are Luciferians.  That is they are followers of the devil himself.  Some are totally aware of it and some are not.  The elite, the ten horns, ten kings are aware that they are luciferians, followers of the devil.

Revelation 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. This is the fate of all those who make this covenant with the devil.  Psalm 116:3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.  Trouble and sorrow follow those who make agreements with death and hell.  We see it in our world today.  The world is going through the birth pangs of the tribulation which is a time when death and hell which will be in full force.  Revelation 6:8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.  Death and hell has always been riding since Jesus ascended to heaven but it will get worse and worse culminating with agenda of the man of sin and those ten kings who will follow him.

But we have the victory over death and hell with our Savior Jesus Christ.  Revelation 1:18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.  Jesus is the jail keeper of death and hell.  He decided who will go there based on whether you believe, trust and rely on the Lord Jesus Christ.  If you do you have eternal life and are born again and will not ever die or if not you will die and go to hell and resurrected to be then cast into the lake of fire forever and ever!!

 

Isaiah 28:15.….when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: You are certain that disaster will spare you when it comes, because you depend on lies and deceit to keep you safe. When the overwhelming scourge passes by, it will not reach us, For we have made lies our refuge and we have concealed ourselves in deception.”

People would rather believe that everything will be okay than to believe the truth.  They believe that they can continue in their rejection of God and everything will be okay.

Overflowing scourge is likely the prophet’s way of describing the Assyrian reprisals.  Isaiah 10:26And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge ( the Assyrians) for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up( the Assyrians will be used as a tool of judgement) after the manner of Egypt.  Overflowing scourge is in Isaiah 28:18 also.  It means a certain disaster.  Disaster is a scourge and overflowing means it will be a tremendous unprecedented in it’s scope.  Disaster is coming upon those who reject God’s way.  God’s only way is faith in Jesus Christ.  All other ways are false and lead to certain unprecedented disaster.

 

Isaiah 28:2Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, ( the Assyrians) which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.  God uses the wicked as His weapon of judgement at times.  The Babylonians.  The Egyptians.  The Medes and Persians and the Romans have all be attagonists of Israel in the past that God used to judge His people.

 

Isaiah 28:15….It shall not come to us…..The scorners though trusting in their lying prophets and their deception and have sarcastically thrown Isaiah’s warnings back in his face.    People have made a covenant, a pact, a deal with the devil and they don’t care and most don’t even know about it.  But they follow the false prophets and false leadership that gives them a false confidence that it won’t happen to them.  It will happen and in fact IT DID happen to them when the Assyrians took them away in judgement. In fact if you have never made Jesus Christ your Savior you….yes you have made a covenant with death and HELL also!   10:00

 

1. Covenant With Death And Hell 2. We Have A Sure Foundation

Isaiah 28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation…… This, now, is what the Sovereign Lord says: “I am placing in Zion a foundation that is firm and strong. In it I am putting a solid cornerstone. Therefore the Lord God says this, “Listen carefully, I am laying in Zion a Stone, a tested Stone, A precious Cornerstone for the [secure] foundation, firmly placed.

Therefore: In response to the people’s scoffing, the Lord promises to establish His future kingdom on the sure foundation of justice and faith. I lay refers to the future, “I will lay.” The apostles identified the stone for a foundation as Jesus Christ (1 Pet. 2:4–6To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,  5Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.  6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.  We have a SURE foundation.  It will not be broken or destroyed.  It will last forever and ever…eternal in the heavens!

 

Isaiah 28:16……he that believeth shall not make haste. on which are written the words, ‘Faith that is firm is also patient.’ He who believes [who trusts in, relies on, and adheres to that Stone] will not [b]be disturbed or give way [in sudden panic].  God works according to His timing not ours.  We are not patient.  We are always in a hurry. We want instant gratification.  We have to learn to take up our cross “DAILY. Luke 9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.  Day after the day.  Mile after mile. Inch after inch.  The longest journey starts with ONE step.   Foot after foot is how you build…… slowly but surely.

God’s kingdom is built on the backs of those who wait on the Lord to work.  He works and we follow.  We are not to get ahead of Him or fall way behind Him.  But keep Him in our sight as we follow Him each day.

We can trust that the Bible we have in our laps in our homes in our hearts is the word of God. Bible prophecy proves it.  Daniel predicted the four nations that would be thorns in Israel’s side until Jesus Comes. Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia and Rome.   The seven mountains of Revelation chapter 17 are the historical seven world powers.  Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Rome, Revived Rome now and the kingdom of the Anti-christ to come.  Daniel chapter nine gives us the  70 weeks of years for Israel exactly that tell us when Jesus would be crucified 500 years in advance.  Isaiah predicted the Jesus would be born of a virgin and the book of Micah tells us exactly where He would be born.  The Bible predicted that Israel would be scattered throughout the world for many years…… and return in the later days in their land.  So we have a SURE foundation in the word of God.   A Certain foundation.  A one hundred percent reliable foundation.

We are always taught to WAIT upon the Lord.  Isiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.  We have a sure foundation.  Why do we get in a hurry? God has this. He will work everything out to His glory and our good.  19:00

 

1. Covenant With Death And Hell 2. We Have A Sure Foundation  3. Their Covenant Will Destroy Them

Isaiah 28:17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: Justice will be the measuring line for the foundation, and honesty will be its plumb line.” “I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the mason’s level.  Romans 2:3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?  The world lives with the hope that WE are the ones who are evil and it is THEY who are the enlightened ones.  WE are the  ones who are under THEIR judgment on us.  That is the great paradox here.

God will lay the plumb line on them.  He will see if they measure up.  God will see if they are walking the straight and narrow.  None of us can stand up to God’s measuring line.  There is none righteous no, not even one!  They will be shocked to find out one day that God is not pleased with them and that they don’t even come close to measuring up to God’s standards…

But no….The wicked think they are the arbiters of what is correct. They think they are the only ones who measure up in correctness.  They think they are correct about everything.  Even if it means the sacrifice of millions. They have to protect the planet and do what that have to… to correct the impact man has had on the planet.  Political correctness.  We are not to hurt people’s feelings.  We have to speak correctly so as not to offend the wicked.   Or make them feel bad or do anything that might make them feel guilt or conviction over their sin.

 

Isaiah 28:17……and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. Hailstorms will sweep away all the lies you depend on, and floods will destroy your security. Then hail will sweep away the refuge of lies and waters will flood over the secret [hiding] place.

…hail … waters: For similar descript  Isaiah 28:2. Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

God hates lying and liars.  Revelation 21:8…. all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.  All sinners will go to the lake of fire if they are not born again.  But it seems that God especially hates liars.  Those who lie to manipulate and deceive…… even deliberately deceive people….. about the word of God specifically and especially!

Isaiah 28:18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; The treaty you have made with death will be abolished, and your agreement with the world of the dead will be canceled. Your covenant with death will be annulled, And your agreement with Sheol (the place of the dead) will not stand.

Their treaty, agreement with the devil will be annulled.  They allegiance with the devil…these Luciferians will find out that the devil can’t help them when they stand before almighty God!  Hell can’t protect them.  Death will not be an escape for them.  They thought if you kill ALL of your enemies you will escape the wrath of man…..but You can’t kill enough people to escape the wrath of God in judgment!

 

Isaiah 28:18……when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. When disaster sweeps down, you will be overcome. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, Then you will become its trampling ground.   Instead of recovering from disaster they will be destroyed by it and will never get over it.  They will be wiped out. As the Assyrians were. They were no longer have been a world power or even a small bit player anymore.  Syria is a different land than Assyria.  Assyria is no longer relevant today.  People who reject Jesus Christ will die in their sins and be irrelevant for all eternity.  Eternal death and separation from God who is our life.  27:00

1. Covenant With Death And Hell 2. We Have A Sure Foundation 
2. Their Covenant Will Destroy Them.

Their Covenant With Death…

The soul that sinneth It shall die….Ezekiel 18:20  The wages of sin is death….The world has already made a covenant with death.  We all die.  But we don’t have to go to hell.  We can be saved. We can break this covenant with death and hell ONLY through faith and trust in Jesus Christ.  Don’t rely on your covenant with the belief that good people go to heaven.  There is none good but one and that is God.  Don’t rely on your covenant with your reasoning.  Come let us reason together saith the Lord….Repentance means to quit your covenant with your flawed thinking…. that you can save yourself and believe that only Jesus Christ can save you. 28:04

 

4/23/2023

4:30/2023

1 Corinthians 15:22-28   AI And The Bible

Intro:  Artificial Intelligence is here to stay.  It is here to STRAY us from God and faith in Him.  We call it AI.  In the Bible Ai (AYE) was a city in Canaan.  The promised land.  Joshua was the leader of God’s people.  They were in the midst of destroying the former occupiers of the land of Israel.  31 kings would be rooted out of God’s land.  The people of Ai (AYE) were most likely evil Rephaim creatures with DNA left over from the Genesis six creatures before the flood.  Their king was a powerful king.  Joshua tricked the king into coming out of Ai (AYE) by using his arrogance against him and Israel defeated Ai (AYE) in combat.  Now I think it is very strange today that when we talk about Artificial Intelligence and we call it AI and that Ai (AYE) was a place in the midst of God’s Holy Land.  A hybrid…. of human and Demonic DNA that God’s people had to contend with.

The people of Ai (AYE) were of the Rephaim…the survivors of the Nephilim by the Nephilim DNA in the wives of one of Noah’s sons.   Joshua destroyed completely 31 kings that were in that the devil placed in the land of Israel. Joshua killed everyone of them and none of them were to survive.  Then after that Israel began to take prisoners and let their enemies live.  Why?  Pretty obvious that the 31 kings were not purely human.  They were the giants that the 12 spies mentioned and related to the giants of Genesis chapter six.  Not fully human.  AI is not human either.  We have the possibility with AI to make hybrid humans.   Just Like Satan did with Genesis Six.

Now I love Technology.  We have benefited incredibly from technology.  Artificial intelligence has been around for a long time.  But it was only a matter of time that technology begins to develop to the point that it begins to think and act life humans.  Self Realization.  Self Actualization.   ChatGPT is the most incredible example of AI to date.  It can write articles about any topic in mili-seconds.  And already we have GPT-4 that is even smarter than ChatGPT.  Where will it end? I think it will grow and be used by the Anti-Christ until the Man of sin the Anti-Christ and his beast system is defeated by Jesus Christ.

Elon Musk is working on an AI system.  Microsoft has spent ten billion dollars on Chat-Gpt and Gpt-4.  Other companies are working on systems.  One scientist said that AI is more dangerous than all the nuclear weapons in the world.  The founder and leading expert on AI is calling for it to cease immediately.  I’ll talk about him later.

I also believe that AI is much too intuitive and intelligent to be just a machine.  Scientists have always said that the human brain with synapses and nerves and connections cannot possibly love or have emphathy or have morality.  They say that there is a ghost in the brain that makes it love, sing, dance and have a moral compass. We know that ghost is the spirit of man that God placed in our bodies.    Could this AI have demonic spirits within it?  Absolutely!  I think it is under the control of the demonic.  Which would make sense because some believe that the deceased spirits of the Naphilim who drowned in the flood are these demons.  They do not have the ability to appear as or have bodies like fallen angels have.  They are evil spirits that must have a host to manifest themselves.  Jesus encountered them all the time.  But Old Testament prophets very rarely.

So it makes sense that these creatures are still roaming about seeking to do the same thing they did in Noah’s day.  As in the days of Noah means more than just buying and selling, marrying and giving in marriage.  It means that also but this return to the days before the flood of the hybrid-ation of man.

Why is it that if you take the mark of the Beast and enter into the AI system that you can never be saved? Have these people who take the MARK become Hybrid humans….not completely human anymore?  Think about it.

Here is one of the passages about the people of Ai (AYE) in the Bible….

Joshua 8:26-31   8:26For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of AYE.  27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the Lord which he commanded Joshua.  28 And Joshua burnt AYE, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day. 29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day. 30 Then Joshua built an altar unto the Lord God of Israel in mount Ebal. 

God defeated the people of Ai (AYE) by using God’s people to trick them to coming out of their safe place by their overconfidence and arrogance.  Can we trick GPT-4?  Can we trick AI?  We can’t…. but God can.

1. Man Is Trying To Cheat Death With AI

1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, For just as all people die because of their union with Adam, For just as [d]in Adam all die. Man is trying to put and end to this cycle of death with AI.  People can live forever (they think) with AI actually becoming that person.  Hebrews 9:27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.  Sorry but everyone is going to die except those that are raptured.  Death is sure.  Even AI can’t cheat death.

Genesis 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die…. Satan has been trying to get man to believe that he can live forever and that death can be defeated by him.  But it is a lie from the father of lies the devil. Who lies to man about his origin (evolution) and his future (utopia).

Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.  We inherited death by and through Adam’s sin.  It passed to all humans and we cannot stop it.  But we have made great gains in the length of life and quality of life but we haven’t defeated death.  We can delay it but we cannot stop it.

 

1 Corinthians 15:22……even so in Christ shall all be made alive. in the same way all will be raised to life because of their union with Christ. so also [e]in Christ all will be made alive.

As man tries to defeat death with AI God has already done that with Jesus Christ.  AI will be the power behind the beast system of control for the whole world.  AI will promise many things.  But only Jesus Christ can give life.  He is our life and our source of being.  The devil told Adam that He will not surely die and that was correct…he just didn’t bother to tell him it’s through Jesus Christ.

 

1 Corinthians 15:23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming. But each one will be raised in proper order: Christ, first of all; then, at the time of his coming, those who belong to him. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s [own will be resurrected with incorruptible, immortal bodies] at His coming.  Not all will die but all can die.  Those who are the Lord’s will escape death. Just like Enoch and Elijah did not die so the church will not die at Jesus coming for His church.

 

The resurrection of Christ defeated this cycle of death for some of mankind.  And then seven years later Jesus is coming back to this earth. As the king of AI was tricked by the Israelites so God will trick mankind and even the AI to think that they are going to succeed in defeating death. That is going to be the biggest turn of events when the world tries to defeat death and then Jesus comes and takes His church home to heaven…..without DEATH!    When He takes the church out of the world He will let them have their way for seven years and have total control.  But they will have to contend with God’s judgments the whole time especially the last 3 and one half years.

 

1 Corinthians 15:24 Then cometh the end, It will come to an end. Then the end will come;   Ai will come to an end, And so will AI and those who trust in the anti-Christ and the beast system led by the AI.  They have an end.  Sin has an end.  Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins….  Sin will end when sin has reached it’s apex.  Man can never say that God limited their ability to sin.  The elite of the world think that they are saving the planet when actually they are destroying it.  God made the earth to be inhabited according to Isaiah 45:18.  They want to depopulate the planet.  God made it for Humans and He told humans to be fruitful and multiply.  He hasn’t ever changed that.  The earth can handle billions more but unfortunately sin and rebellion against God is increasing faster than humans.

 

1. Man Tries To Cheat Death With AI
2. God Will Put IT down

1 Corinthians 15:24 …..when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.  Christ will overcome all spiritual rulers, authorities, and powers, and will hand over the Kingdom to God the Father. After that comes the end (completion), when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father, after He has made inoperative and abolished every ruler and every authority and power.

IT or I. T.  Every company has an IT manager.  Information Technology.  God will put IT down one day.  The evil AI and the beast and his system will come to an end when Jesus Christ comes to rule and reign on the earth and put this evil system down for good.  God the father will be given the kingdom by His dear Son Jesus Christ.

IT or information technology is great used as it is intended to aid man in his daily gathering and using information to help society. But when man tries to use information in order to deceive and manipulate people that is a road that cannot be traveled.  Once information is used to manipulate people and deceive people you can’t put it back in the box.

AI is increasing faster than we can imagine.  Is AI the next tower of Babel?   Genesis 11:6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do……Just like the tower of Babel….God cannot allow them to go much farther.  Man in capable of great things…even unlimited things…. even in his sinful state.  So soon very soon in my opinion God has to stop it just like He did the tower to heaven.

In an open letter Eliezer Yudeowsky a decision theorist for the US and leads research at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute.  He has been working on AI since 2001 and is widely regarded as the founder of the field.

 

He calls for “ALL AI labs to immediately pause for six months the training of AI systems like GPT-4.  He says the situation is serious.  The problem is when AI gets smarter than human intelligence.  We cannot calculate what will happen then.  The likely result of Building a super humanly smart AI under anything remotely like the current circumstances is that literally everyone on Earth will die. Not a remote change but it is obvious that it WOULD happen.”

 

But companies are driven by profit and are not listening to Yudeowsky.  But praise God that He will put IT and AI down!

1. Man Tries To Cheat Death With AI
2. God Will Put IT down
3. God Will Put His Enemies under His feet

1 Corinthians 15:25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. For Christ must rule until God defeats all enemies and puts them under his feet. For Christ must reign [as King] until He has put all His enemies under His feet.

Jesus WILL reign on the earth.  Not AI, not the devil.  NO the beast.  Jesus Christ! All the enemies of Christ including the beast and his system will be crushed under the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

1 Corinthians 15:26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. The last enemy to be defeated will be death. The last enemy to be abolished and put to an end is death.

AI represents man trying to overcome the enemy of death.  AI supposedly can live forever.  But it will be destroyed and the death for mankind that it expouses.

1 Corinthians 15:55–56  O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.  Sin brings death.  The law told us that we are sinners.  It exposed our sin and God’s requirements for mankind to be Holy and without sin.

Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that sinneth it shall die….Death must be defeated. And Jesus did it ….by becoming sin for us so that we might be the righteousness of God in Him.

 

1 Corinthians 15:27 For he hath put all things under his feet. For the scripture says, “God put all things under his feet.” For He (the Father) has put all things in subjection under His (Christ’s) feet.

 

1 Corinthians 15:27……But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, (God of course is not under Christ) which did put all things under him. It is clear, of course, that the words “all things” do not include God himself, who puts all things under Christ. But when He says, “All things have been put in subjection [under Christ],” it is clear that He (the Father) who put all things in subjection to Him (Christ) is excepted [since the Father is not in subjection to His own Son].

Paul clarified the verses that he had been quoting from the Old Testament. The texts say that everything is put under the Son, but God the Father is excepted, or excluded from this subjugation, because the Son must be subject to the Father. God may be all in all indicates that there will be no challenge to the sovereign rule of God over all the universe. There will be universal peace and prosperity.

 

Psalm 8:6  Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet.  Psalm 8:6 is about mankind and the dominion of the earth.  Man has dominion over the earth.  1 Corinthians 15:27 is about Jesus Christ.  Jesus Christ has dominion over ALL things.  And Man’s dominion will be totally fulfilled when Christ rules and reigns with Mankind who is made in the image of God.  God made human beings in His image, just a little lower than angels. The words crowned him with glory fill out and explain the parallel phrase “a little lower than the angels.” God created human beings as majestic creatures who were to rule over His creation. But in our fallen state, we are profoundly disfigured, a perversion of the majesty God has intended (9:20). However, Jesus restores those who put their trust in Him. In Christ, we recover majesty; in Him, we become the people that God wants us to be. Whenever we feel worthless, the words of this psalm should encourage us. We and all other human beings are valuable because God Himself created us in His own glorious image.

Humanity’s position over creation was granted before the Fall (Ge 1:28), but it was not taken away after the Fall (Ge 9:1-3, 7). Human beings are God’s appointed governors (vassals) over creation. Their function on earth is to maintain order, to shine God’s light on creation, and to keep a beneficent relationship with all that God has created on earth and in the sea. The Great King has appointed the human race to maintain dominion over creation and not be controlled by creation.

So any attempt by AI to usurp that dominion will surely fail.  AI will cause great concern and damage but in the end man will have total dominion through faith and trust in the one who has ALL dominion Jesus Christ!!

1 Corinthians 15:28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. But when all things have been placed under Christ’s rule, then he himself, the Son, will place himself under God, who placed all things under him; and God will rule completely over all. However, when all things are subjected to Him (Christ), then the Son Himself will also be subjected to the One (the Father) who put all things under Him, so that God may be all in all [manifesting His glory without any opposition, the supreme indwelling and controlling factor of life].

Everything will be SUBDUED by Jesus Christ!! Even AI.  AI will be powerful and dangerous.  But it will NOT overcome Jesus Christ who will put All things even AI under Him.  God is All.  He is our life.  Deuteronomy 30:20 That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days. 

 

1. Man Tries To Cheat Death With AI
2. God Will Put IT down
3. God Will Put His Enemies under His feet

AI and the Bible.

AI is another and final attempt by man to subvert God in their lives.  We want to be god.  We want to thumb our noses at the loving, caring God of the Bible and the creator of all things.  This the last attempt of Satan to destroy man and usurp God.  It will be led by the man of sin, the beast, the Anti-Christ who will be the false, lying Christ of Satan.  1 Timothy 1:3-6 …….God our Saviour; 4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.  5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;  6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

 

God is the one who will save and who can save and is saving man kind.  Not some demonic AI system.  There is a great deception coming upon man.  Jesus Warned about it four times in the Olivet discourse about the last of the last days.  There is only truth in Jesus Christ and the word of God.  There is only ONE God.  One way to be reconciled with God.  Not to be greater than God or replace God or to be a god but God is revealed in Jesus Christ and in Him alone.  He died for our sins to make us whole.  No AI system can make mankind whole.  No godless lying Beast system can make man whole.  Only Jesus Christ can do for us what we long for……to be made whole again. Complete.  All we can be can only be with faith and trust in Jesus Christ!

 

 

4/16/2023 Morning

Matthew 3:4-10  The Axe to Tree

Intro:  You’ve heard of getting the axe. That means you are being cut loose.  Fired, finished, done.  Well God is going to give the ax to ALL of those who do not confess their sins.  Every person who will not agree with God about sin will go to hell and then to the lake of fire.  If that scares you then you need to hear this message.  If it does not then you need to hear this message.  1:00

 

1 John the Baptist Job was to Preach Repentance and Confessing Of Sins

Matthew 3:4 And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair; he wore a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. Now this same John had clothing made of camel’s hair and a [wide] leather [d]band around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.

Matthew 3:5 Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan,

People came to him from Jerusalem, from the whole province of Judea, and from all over the country near the Jordan River. At that time Jerusalem was going out to him, and all Judea and all the district around the Jordan; Clothes of camel’s hair and a leather belt were the clothes of poor people but they also were like the clothes of Elijah.

 

Matthew 3:6 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins. They confessed their sins, and John baptized them in the Jordan. and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins. The Jordan River is fast flowing. No doubt John stationed himself at one of the fords as he prepared the way for the Lord as many churches do today.

Confession of sin was commanded in the law, not only as just a part of a priest’s duties.  In Israel’s better days this confession of sin was carried out in Nehemiah 9:2-3 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. 3 And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the Lord their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the Lord their God. Ps 32:5 I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. People agreed with God about their sin.

In the New Testament Acts 19:18 And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds. 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Confession is not naming a list of our sins….but basically it is agreeing with God about our sin.  Now some sin we should confess.  And that too is important. But here John was urging people to prepare for Messiah’s coming by repenting and being baptized, we see  that open confession and agreeing with God about our sin was a precondition of his baptism.  Agreeing that we are indeed sinners and agreeing with God about our own Sinful life.  7:00

1 John the Baptist Job was to Preach Repentance and Confessing Of Sins

2. How John The Baptist Dealt with Those Who would Not Confess Their Sin

Matthew 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? When John saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to him to be baptized, he said to them, “You snakes—who told you that you could escape from the punishment God is about to send? But when he saw many of the [e]Pharisees and [f]Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the [divine] wrath and judgment to come?

Representatives of the Sanhedrin (composed of Pharisees, Sadducees, and the elders) came to examine what John was doing.  John 1:19 And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? John 1:24 And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. The question with which the Baptist confronted them has this sense: “Who suggested or who told you to that you would be baptized to escape the coming wrath?” Thus John’s rhetorical question takes on a sarcastic nuance: “Who warned you to flee the coming wrath and come for baptism—when in fact you show no signs of repentance?”

John the Baptist is a prophet like the Old Testament prophets by pointing to a time of judgment—They usually talking about the Day of the Lord which points to judgment for those who think they have no sin.  Amos 6:1-7 Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came! 2 Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border? 3 Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;  4 That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;  5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;  6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.   7 Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.

“You brood of vipers!” Calling the self righteous snakes was done by Old Testament prophets.   Isaiah 14:29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. Isaiah 30:6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

 

Matthew 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: Do those things that will show that you have turned from your sins. Produce fruit that is consistent with repentance [demonstrating new behavior that proves a change of heart, and a conscious decision to turn away from sin.  Show you have turned from your way of thinking about your sin into thinking about your sin the way God does.

Matthew 3:9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. And don’t think you can escape punishment by saying that Abraham is your ancestor. I tell you that God can take these rocks and make descendants for Abraham! and do not presume to say to yourselves [as a defense], ‘We have Abraham for our father [so our inheritance assures us of salvation]’; for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children (descendants) for Abraham.

The coming of God’s Son demands repentance or brings judgment. Repentance must be genuine: if we wish to escape the coming wrath.   our lifestyle must be in harmony with our public declaration of repentance.  Merely being descendants of Abraham is not enough. In the OT God repeatedly cut off many Israelites and saved only a remnant.  God not only rebukes the self-righteousness of the leaders but implies that participation in the kingdom results from grace and extends beyond racial barriers. Matthew 8:11And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.  Jesus is for everyone. Confession if for everyone. No one is exempt form repentance and no one is left out of the plan of salvation.  14:00

 

1 John the Baptist Job was to Preach Repentance and Confessing Of Sins

2. How John The Baptist Dealt with Those Who would Not Confess Their Sin

3 God Will Put The Axe To The UnFruitful, Unrepentant Tree

Matthew 3:10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. The ax is ready to cut down the trees at the roots; every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown in the fire. And already the axe [of God’s judgment] is [g]swinging toward the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

The ax is “already” at the root of the trees….. Isaiah 10:33-34 Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled. 34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one. Jeremiah 46:22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

Just as the kingdom of Jesus Christ and the church is coming with John the Baptist’s announcement so also is the judgment; the two are inseparable. To preach the kingdom is to preach repentance; any tree, regardless of its roots, that does not bring forth good fruit will be destroyed.

 

Matthew 3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: I baptize you with water to show that you have repented, but the one who will come after me will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. He is much greater than I am; and I am not good enough even to carry his sandals. “As for me, I baptize you [h]with water because of [your] repentance [that is, because you are willing to change your inner self—your old way of thinking, regret your sin and live a changed life], but He (the Messiah) who is coming after me is mightier [more powerful, more noble] than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to remove [even as His slave]; He will baptize you [who truly repent] with the Holy Spirit and [you who remain unrepentant] with [i]fire (judgment).

With the phrase “unto repentance“, John wants to compare his baptism with that of the one who comes after him, who is more powerful, for he will baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire. This is not the normal order: usually the one who follows is the disciple, the lesser one.   Mt 16:24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. John 13:16 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. John 15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.  But because John’s particular ministry is to announce the Savior of the world, he cannot do other than come before Him and introduce Him to the world.

Just as John’s purpose was to prepare a way for the Lord by calling people to repentance, so his baptism pointed to the one who would bring the baptism in spirit and fire. John’s baptism was “essentially to prepare the world for Jesus. .  The final church age of Jesus Christ and the church that would culminate in the return of Christ to rule this world.

“Baptism with the Holy Ghost” is not a specialized term in the New Testament Ezekiel 36:25-27 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. 26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. Ezekiel 39:29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God. Joel 2:28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see vision.   Baptism was symbolic by the Essenens, a Jewish group that John The Baptist was a follower of.  Baptism was done outside the temple at the time of John the Baptist.  So it was very common for Jews.

Baptism symbolized cleansing from sin and after Jesus it symbolized our identifying with and believing in the death buriel and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Matthew and Luke add “and with fire.” This probably symbolizes a purifying agent along with the Holy Spirit.  Isaiah 1:25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin.   Zechariah 13:9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God. Malachi 3:2-3 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap: 3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.;).

John’s water baptism relates to repentance; but the one whose way he is preparing will administer a Spirit-fire baptism that will purify and refine. In a time when many Jews felt the Holy Spirit had been withdrawn till the Messianic Age, this announcement could only have been greeted with excited anticipation.  21:00

 

1 John the Baptist Job was to Preach Repentance and Confessing Of Sins

2. How John The Baptist Dealt with Those Who would Not Confess Their Sin

3 God Will Put The Axe To The UnFruitful, Unrepentant Tree

4. Separation of The Wheat and Chaff Is Now Upon The World

Matthew 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. He has his winnowing shovel with him to thresh out all the grain. He will gather his wheat into his barn, but he will burn the chaff in a fire that never goes out.” His [j]winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear out His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat (believers) into His barn (kingdom), but He will burn up the chaff (the unrepentant) with unquenchable fire.”

Jesus coming will separate grain from chaff. A winnowing fork tossed both into the air. The wind blew the chaff away; the heavier grain fell, to be gathered up from the ground, while the scattered chaff was swept up and burned.   From now on either you follow Jesus or else.  There is none other name given under heaven whereby we must be saved.  Acts 4:12.   He that hath the Son hath life, he that hath NOT the Son hath NOT life.  1 John 5:12   Now it’s Jesus.  All Him or nothing.  The line is drawn.  The Savior Has come.  Praise God it’s all about Jesus now!

The “unquenchable fire” is the judgment of hell fire.  Isaiah 34:10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.; Isaiah 66:24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh. Jeremiah 7:20 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched. Sounds like Hell…..

 

You will not escape.  If you reject Jesus Christ you have no other alternative.  John 14:6  I am the (only) way…the (only) truth and the (only) life.. No many cometh unto the Father but by me.  Isaiah 5:29 shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

 

Will God just let people go?  Will go just wink at sin now?  Absolutely NOT!  The die is cast.  The cross has been done, the way is provided.  God will set His axe against the unfruitful tree of the works of darkness. Make no mistake about it!  27:00

1 John the Baptist Job was to Preach Repentance and Confessing Of Sins

2. How John The Baptist Dealt with Those Who would Not Confess Their Sin

3 God Will Put The Axe To The UnFruitful, Unrepentant Tree

4. Separation of The Wheat and Chaff Is Now Upon The World

The AXE to the TREE

How shall we escape if we neglect so great a savaltion?  Answer…. only through faith and trust in Jesus Christ.    Agree with God about your sin.  Ask Jesus Christ to save you from the penalty and the power of sin in your life.  Follow Jesus Christ from no on…..28:04

 

4/9/2023

John 20:8-9 Who Believes In The Resurrection?

Intro:  In 2020 66% of American’s believe in the Biblical resurrection of Jesus Christ.  While that is great news…the question is why don’t more American’s go to church?  Half of the people who said they believe in the resurrection do not attend church regularly.  Why doesn’t the greatest miracle…. and proof of the Deity of Jesus Christ lead more people to go to church?  If you don’t attend church and fellowship with other believers….. can you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ?  The problem could be the church is not relevant…….not teaching Bible prophecy and not preparing people by looking at today’s events through the lens of the Bible.  And face it…..people believe that there are better preachers on the WEB than you might hear in your local church.  You can’t have the fellowship with other believers that we are commanded to have.  Hebrews 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

Let’s look at the Resurrection and see who believe in it.   1:00

1. The General Resurrection

John 11:24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Martha was talking about her brother Lazarus who had just died.  She believed in a general resurrection of people.  That was the general consensus of the Jews in Jesus Day that there was a general resurrection.  3:00

2 The Resurrection in The Old Testament

Here are the definitive passages about the resurrection in the Old Testament…..

Isaiah 26:19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.  Isaiah believed in a bodily resurrection.

Daniel 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.  Daniel believed in a bodily resurrection.

Job 14:14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.  Job 19:25-26 or I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: 26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:  Job believed in the bodily resurrection.    6:00

 

3. The Jewish Leaders Were Split on the Resurrection

Acts 23:8 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.  The Sadducees were SAD YOU SEE because they didn’t believe in any resurrection.  Spiritual or physical.  There is a big difference.  We do not become angels in heaven. We will be known as we are known.  We will have a new body…called a resurrection body.  The Pharisee’s believed in a both the Angels means that they believed in a bodily resurrection and a spiritual resurrection.  If we die before the rapture of the church we will have some kind of Spiritual body that will be reunited with our physical body at the rapture of the church.  That’s when the graves will open and the dead in Christ rise first to meet the Lord in the air so shall we ever be with the Lord.  8:00

 

4. The Disciples Believed in the Resurrection

John 20:8 Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed. The disciples believed because of what they saw in the tomb.

John 20:9 For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.

They believed but not because of what they knew from Old Testament passages describing the Savior’s resurrection.  The disciple didn’t believe because of the scriptures said but because of what they saw that reminded them of the scriptures.  Remember the disciples were NOT Jewish scholars. They knew the scriptures but were by no means Jewish leaders or teachers.   That tells you that God does not call scholars but….sinners to repentance.    10:00

 

Luke 24:25–27 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:  26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? 27And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.   Jesus had prophesied His death and resurrection in the disciples’ presence, but the disciples had not understood what He was talking about. Later Jesus would instruct them about how His life and death fulfilled the Scriptures in Luke 24:13–27, 44–47. 

 

5. Jesus Prophesied About the Resurrection

We have Luke chapter 24 where He taught about His resurrection and we also have these passages in Matthew….

Matthew 17:9 And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.

Matthew 20:19  And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.

Matthew 26:32 But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.

John 14:19 Because I live ye shall live also…My favorite resurrection passage!!  14:00

 

6. The Angels Believed the Resurrection

Matthew 28:5-7And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. 6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. 7 And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.  The angels preached the resurrection of Jesus to the women who came to anoint the body of Jesus.  They also will preach during the tribulation period…maybe the same message…..Hey you idiots Jesus rose from the dead just like He said He would.  You better pay attention.  Look and see! Check it out!  I have warned you.  17:00

 

7. The Pharisees Believed in the Resurrection

Matthew 27:63-64 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. 64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.  The pharisees listened to and understood more that Jesus said than the disciples did.  They remembered what He said about His resurrection. The disciples did not remember or didn’t get it.   And I think in their heart of hearts they may have believed it.  Nicodemus sure did!

 

Matthew 28:11-15 Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done. 12 And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers, 13 Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.  14 And if this come to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him, and secure you. 15 So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.  So the chief priests of the city had a big problem.  Jesus body is gone!  Now what do they do? They had to come up with something.  So they bribed the soldiers and put a gag order on them.  And gave them the party line….the lie to tell.  So they had no evidence that the disciples stole the body….the disciples all ran for their lives except John.  But despite zero evidence they went with the lie and kept telling it until the time Matthew wrote his book after AD 70.  That’s 40 plus years!  A lie becomes the truth in many people’s eyes after that long.  But the strange thing is that most people today still believe that Jesus rose from the dead!  It shouldn’t be that way.

Here are some frauds that people now believe because of time…..

*The lie is that the Cowboys wore Cowboy hats. No…they wore Boler hats.  Round topped… short brimmed hats, because they weren’t as bulky and woudn’t blow off their heads when they rode horses.

*The lie is that The declaration of Independence was signed on July 4^th.  Nope….It wasn’t signed til August 2^nd.

*The lie is that The 1929 crash caused thousands of people jumped from buildings committing suicide.   Nope.  Only two people jumped from a building.  And one was a female clerk who probably fell out by accident.

*The lie is that Pocahontus loved John Smith….NOPE.  She was only 12. John Smith was 28.  Her name wasn’t even Pocahontus.  She went by two names…. Matoaka and Amonute

*the lie is that Thomas Edison invented the Light bulb.  Thomas Edison had 1,903 patents.  Most of them were NOT his inventions.  He was just a guy smart enough to find the real inventors and steal their inventions.  The light bulb was created by Warren de la Rue a British chemist forty years earlier.

*The lie is that The war of the worlds radio play in 1938 created mass hysteria… NOPE.  One farmer posed for a photo for Life Magazine with a shotgun seeking to kill the aliens…. as the magazine highlighted the radio broadcast’s effect on people.  But more hysteria occurred from the magazine article in the form of laughter at those few who were taken in by the prank on Halloween 1938.

*Betsy Ross designed and sewed the first American Flag….NOPE.  The only proof we have that Betsy Ross had anything to do with creating the American Flag came from her grandson William Canby in 1870.  The real creator was Fancis Hopkinson from New Jersey who was one of the signers of the declaration of independence.  He designed many of the seals of the new government of the United States of America’s various departments.  When he tried to get a commission for creating the American flag it was denied by the board of Admirality on the grounds that “he was not the only one consulted.”

*The lie is that Thanksgiving you know that the Pilgrims and native Americans had a time of feast, fellowship and prayer to God.  NOPE practically everything we know about Thanksgiving is not true.  The real story involves a Plague and Pilgrims showing up because they thought the native Americans were sick or dead so it would be easy to steal their food.  So the Pilgrims feasted on stolen food which made the Native Americans angry which led to anger and hurt feelings.  Which is more like our Thanksgivings today with all the screaming, tears, accusations and hurt feelings and add in some occasional violence and you have an accurate description of the first thanksgiving.

*The lie is that George Washington was a Christian… it is true that he was an Espiscopalian.  But he owned slaves and ordered Indians killed and he made a fortune selling alcohol to Kentuckians.  He never even had a preacher to come and pray at his death bed.  But in his last will and testament he did free his own slaves and He didn’t father children by his slaves as most did.  He helped black author Phyllis Wheatly publish her work.  He did pray for God’s help in his darkest hours of the revolution.   Let me note this…. If you are looking for perfect followers of God you won’t find them….. even in the Bible.  (except Joseph and Jesus)

*The lie is that the Puritans came seeking religious freedom….NOPE… in fact they came seeking religious purity.  Holland allowed too much religious freedom they thought.  Holland allowed Judaism, Catholicism and even atheism. It was too much for them and their pure religion. Hence the name Puritans.

*The lie is that Charles Lindbergh transcontinental flight in 1927 was the first.  It certainly was not the first.  Aviators Alcock and Brown flew non-stop from Newfoundland to Ireland in 1919.

A newspaper man said famously…..If the legend sells more papers than the truth….print the legend.  But in the case of Jesus Christ’s resurrection…… the truth has won out over the legend that His body was stolen.  26:00

 

8. The Gospel IS the Resurrection

1 Corinthians 15:1-4 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.

 

The gospel is that Jesus Christ was born.  Jesus Christ lived.  Jesus Christ died. And Jesus Christ Rose from the dead.  All verified and testified by all of ten the New Testament Bible writers and the contemporary writers of the day and throughout history.

Do you believe in the resurrection? that Jesus Died and rose again?  Of course you do.  But If you do… then why haven’t you trusted in Jesus Christ as your Savior?  If He rose… then He IS the Savior of the World. The only way to salvation!  What  a day to come to Jesus!….Let this Resurrection Sunday be your resurrection Sunday.  When you are guaranteed to have a new body, a resurrection body fashioned like our Lord Jesus Christ.!  28:04

 

4/2/2023

John 12:13 and Luke 23:33  The Palm Tree and Calvary

Intro:  They called Him the King of Israel on Sunday and by Friday He executed for the crime of being the King of The Jews.  Same thing.  One day they praised Him and five days later they executed Him.  The triumphal entry into Jerusalem is recorded in all four gospels.   What is the connection between the Palm tree and Calvary? 1:00

 

1. The Palm Tree

John 12:13 Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.  So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, “Praise God! God bless him who comes in the name of the Lord! God bless the King of Israel!”     They took branches of palm trees [in homage to Him as King] and went out to meet Him, and they began shouting and kept shouting “Hosanna! Blessed (celebrated, praised) is He who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!”

 

The Palm tree is a woody perennial with a single main stem and when they surpass 20 feet they do qualify as a tree.  They aren’t cactus, or thistles,  but in the palm family.  They can live for more than 100 years.  Palm tree cells are unique because their cells are not replaced by new cells as with other trees. So they can be some of the oldest living organisms on earth.   A warm climate and abundant rainfall is the perfect environment for palm trees. That’s why Florida has them.  They have not leaves but FRONDS that act like feathers that shed water and the space in between the leaflets in the FROND allows air to pass through them and the bases of the Fronds are flexible and allow for a lot of bending.

There are 66 types of Palm trees and 2600 species.  Florida has 12 different types of palm trees.  Did the palm trees in the Jesus triumphant entry have coconuts?  No.  Coconut palms only grow in tropical areas and sandy beaches and is oddly known as the tree of life. It has been an important source for food, clothing and shelter for thousands of years.

Palm tree branches represent the victory of faith in Christ over our enemies.  Victory of the Spirit over the flesh.  In Egypt the Palm branch represents immortality.  A Palm branch was awarded victorious athletes in Ancient Greece.  A palm tree is associated with paradise.

Palm Sunday is the day we celebrate the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, one week before His resurrection. As Jesus entered the holy city, He neared the culmination of a long journey toward Golgotha. He had come to save the lost (Luke 19:10), and now was the time—this was the place—to secure that salvation. Palm Sunday marked the start of what is often called “Passion Week,” the final seven days of Jesus’ earthly ministry. Palm Sunday was the “beginning of the end” of Jesus’ work on earth.  King Jehu was given the same treatment 2 Kings 9:13  Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.

 

Some 450 to 500 years prior to Jesus’ arrival in Jerusalem, the prophet Zechariah had prophesied the event we now call Palm Sunday.  Zechariah 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

 

The prophecy was fulfilled in every particular, and it was indeed a time of rejoicing, as Jerusalem welcomed their King. Unfortunately, the celebration was not to last. The crowds looked for a Messiah who would rescue them politically and free them nationally, but Jesus had come to save them spiritually. First things first, and mankind’s primary need is spiritual, not political, cultural, or national salvation.

The crowds who were crying out “Hosanna!” on Palm Sunday were crying out “Crucify Him!” later that week.  Matthew 27:22–23 Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified. 23 And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.

In the book of Revelation John records a scene in heaven that features the eternal celebration of the risen Lord…Revelation 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;     These palm-bearing saints will shout, Revelation 7:10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.

 

On that day, Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the back of a borrowed donkey’s colt, one that had never been ridden before. The disciples spread their cloaks on the donkey for Jesus to sit on, and the multitudes came out to welcome Him, laying before Him their cloaks and the branches of palm trees.

In the ancient Middle Eastern world, leaders rode horses if they rode to war, but donkeys if they came in peace. First Kings 1:33 mentions Solomon riding a donkey on the day he was recognized as the new king of Israel. Other instances of leaders riding donkeys are Judges 5:10; 10:4; 12:14; and 2 Samuel 16:2.

 

Zechariah 9:10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.  Note the many details symbolic of peace:

– “Cut off the chariots”: an end to the main vehicle of war.

– “Take away . . . the horse”: no need for horses used in war.

– “The battle bow shall be cut off”: no need for bows or arrows for fighting.

– “He will speak peace unto the heathen”: His message will be one of reconciliation.

– “His dominion shall be from sea to sea”: the King will control extended territory with no enemies of concern.

12 verses about palm trees in the Bible….here are four of them…

Psalm 92:12  The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Ezekiel 41:18  And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces;

Deuteronomy 34:3  And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar. Jericho is called the city of palm trees.

Song of Solomon 7:7  This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.

That is the palm tree.  It lives for many years.  It is hardy and flexible and has many uses.  It is symbolic of peace.  God used palm trees as symbolic of peace between God and man because of Jesus Christ.  Jesus was born to bring peace on earth and goodwill toward men and God.  Jesus took away the sin that separates God and man and brought peace with God through faith in the death buriel and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  13:00

1. The Palm Tree 2. Calvary’s Tree

Luke 23:33 And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.  When they came to the place called “The Skull,” they crucified Jesus there, and the two criminals, one on his right and the other on his left.   When they came to the place called The Skull, there they crucified Him and the criminals, one on the right and one on the left.

 

The first tree (the tree of knowledge of Good and evil) mentioned in the Bible….Satan entices Adam and Eve to eat from.  The tree of Calvary… Satan will try to do everything He can to keep your from.  The first tree brought sin and death.  The tree of calvary brought life and salvation.  The first tree turned man out of the eternity with God.  The tree of calvary is the path to eternity with God.

According to tradition Jesus was crucifed on a Dogwood tree.  The Dogwood tree is a small tree that explodes in blossoms each spring.  It also grows wild in the woods.  Legend is that the dogwood tree was once very large like a great oak tree strong and sturdy and great for building.  Because of its role in the crucifixion it is said that God both cursed and blessed the tree.  It was cursed to forever be small so that it would never again grow large enough to provide wood to be used as a cross again.  It branches would be narrow and crooked…not good for building.

At the same time the tree was blessed so that its would produce beautiful flowers each spring just in time for easter.  The petals of the Dogwood actually form the shape of a cross.  The blooms of the tree always have four petals.  The middle of the Dogwood flower has as tight grouping resembling “the crown of thorns” that Jesus wore.    The tips of each petal is indented as if they bear the indention of a nail.  There are even red splotches of color in each petal that resemble drops of blood.  21:00

1. The Palm Tree 2. Calvary’s Tree
2. The Connection….Cursed By God on a tree—Peace With God By A Tree

Galatians 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.

Christ has redeemed us from the auction block of sin.  We were condemned and undone but Christ bought us by His shed blood on the cross of Calvary.   He became cursed for us so that we might be the righteousness of God through Him.

We were cursed by the tree of knowledge of Good and evil.  We have peace with God through Jesus Christ and His death on Calvary’s tree.   1 Peter 1:18-19 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;  19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

 

Palm Sunday the palm branch represents peace with God and the coming kingdom of God.  A king was coming and riding in victory!  The Next Sunday that victory would be bought and paid for and guaranteed on the cross of Calvary.  Calvary’s tree.

Jesus accursed on that tree as He took upon Himself the sins of the world.  But Peace with God was the result.  Our sin debt has been paid by the only one who could pay for it.  The God-man.  The perfect man.  The sinless man…Jesus Christ our Lord!

This world today and the devil they follow hate palm Sunday.  Hates the cross.  Why?  They hate the result of Calvary.  The Devil hates our peace with God.  He loved the first tree.  The tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil.  Oh he loved that tree. But ever since then trees have not been good to the old devil.  Palm trees, Calvary’s tree have not been good to the devil. Or to this world who wants to follow him.

Today the world wants to coronate a king. A new world order.   To day they wave their palm branches to the Trans gender’s day of rage, the war mongers in Ukraine, the election thieves in Washington and the corrupt judges and courts in America as the new kings.   There are ten kings or ten elites, ten regional leaders, that not will but right now are ruling the world and then soon the man of sin, the Beast, the Anti-Christ will rise up from them.  And they will wave palm branches for him.  But it will be a night mare for them.  As he will attempt to bring peace by the mark of the Beast.  We are marked by the Holy Spirit.  The beast will mark his people with 666.  Man trying to be God.  God is three in one.  Seven is the number of perfection.  Six is the number of man.  This man of sin empowered by the devil is trying to be God.  And will be worshipped for awhile.  But his end will be the lake of fire.  27:00

1. The Palm Tree 2. Calvary’s Tree
2. The Connection….Cursed By God on a tree—Peace With God By A Tree

The Palm Tree and Calvary

The palm tree led to Calvary.  Peace with God was coming but it was only possible not by an earthly king but by a Savior who died on a cruel Roman cross.  Instead of a Throne…Jesus got a cross.  Instead of Kingdom He got a tomb.  But it was only temporary.  Now He does have a throne at the right hand of God and He does have a kingdom…the kingdom of God.  Where He rules and reigns.  And one day He will be corornated as King.  The King of kings and Lord of lords and will take the throne in the holy City of Jerusalem.  They were correct to bring palm branches for Jesus.  He will be king.  But first he had to be Savior.  And very soon, very soon He will be KING!  Is He going to be your King?  28:04

 

3/26/2023

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4/16/2023

Revelation 22:1-7  11 Great Things About Heaven

Intro:  The Bible never leaves anything out that is vital or important to our knowledge, hope and salvation.  A great description of heaven is given in Revelation 22:1-7.  It tells you just about everything you need to know about heaven.  Just about….there is so much more that it would take volumes of books to describe even the first day in heaven.  But what is shown here makes us yearn to be there and leave this blessed life but cursed world behind.

 

1. River Of Life

Revelation 22:1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, The angel also showed me the river of the water of life, Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, John 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.  Jesus is the water of life.  The river in Revelation means that it flows…it is alive….it is full of life.  Revelation 22:17 …..And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

 

Revelation 22:1 …..clear as crystal, sparkling like crystal. Revelation 4:6 And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.  This river is clear as crystal.  Pure, holy, radiant, fabulous, and captivating.   Perfect in every way.

 

1. River Of Life 2. Throne Of God and A Street In the Middle

Revelation 22:1….proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb., and coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb. flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb (Christ) Psalm 45:6 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.  Hebrews 1:8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.  This source of life giving river is from God and because of the Lamb.  It is the lamb that gives life to the sinner.  OF the Lamb.  Because OF the Lamb of God.  John 1:29 Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. 

Revelation 22:2 In the midst of the street of it, and flowing down the middle of the city’s street. . in the middle of its street. What is a street for?  It is a pathway to get us to allow us to travel.  The destination is the throne of God.  The street leads to the throne of God.  The destination for all things.  We are all on the street to somewhere.  Either our destination in hell or we are going to God through faith in Jesus Christ!

 

1. River Of Life 2. Throne Of God and A Street In the Middle 3. Tree Of Life

Revelation 22:2…..and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, On each side of the river was the tree of life. On either side of the river was the tree of life,  What is the tree of life for?  Genesis 2:9 …..the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Genesis 3:22 ……take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.  Revelation 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.   The original tree of life represented eternal life.  Our life is in Jesus Christ and this fruit represents eternal renewal, eternal refreshing. Eternal satisfaction. Eternal fullness.   On either side of the river of life is the tree of life.  It somehow extends over the river on each side.  Meaning that life flows from the throne to the tree of life that feeds it.   Water is life to the body and a river is life to the earth.  Both sides means the tree is growing everywhere….it is without end.

Ephesians 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word.  The water sometimes refers to the word of God in the Bible.

 

1. River Of Life 2. Throne Of God and A Street In the Middle 3. Tree Of Life 
2. The Tree Of Life Has Fruit

Revelation 22:2 ….. which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: once each month bears a different fruit. yielding its fruit every month a different fruit; The garden of Eden was full of fruit.  The Bible says the Christian will bear fruit. We have the fruit of the Spirit.   Fruit is what is produced by living life.  Fruit means it is productive.  Life in Eternity is productive. Things are alive. Things are growing.  Things are active.  It will be amazing!  Their evidently will be months in heaven.  Some sort of keeping time even thought there will be no night there we evidently will have days and months.  You have to have days to have months.  Will a month be 30 days? We do not know.

The number Twelve is found 187 times in the Bible. In Revelaton alone it appears 22 times…Seth lived 9 hundred and TWELVE years.  Twelve tribes of Israel.  Twelve sons of Jacob the patriarchs.  Twelve disciples. Twelve months in a year.  12 thousand from each tribe.  Twelve pearly gates.   Lots of twelves in the Bible.  Twelve means which is a perfect number symbolizes God’s power and authority as well as serving as a perfect governmental foundation.  It can symbolize completeness or the nation of Israel as a whole.   Twelve means a continuous harvest of fruit.  There will be no time when their will NOT be fruit.

Twelve fruit means endless variety in heaven.  Always we will be experiencing new and enriching things. No boredom in heaven.  Each month something new and exciting.  Anticipation will be off the charts.

 

1. River Of Life 2. Throne Of God and A Street In the Middle 3. Tree Of Life 
2. The Tree Of Life Has Fruit 5 The Tree Of Life Has Leaves

Revelation 22:2 ….. and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations., and its leaves are for the healing of the nations.  and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.  The leaves of the tree are for healing.  Healing for nations.  Ezekiel 47:12 And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine. 

 

Why do nations need healing? Will there be nations in heaven?  It means there will no longer be strife between people who lived with strife between people groups on earth.  No divisions of people.  Never again will the world be plagued by physical disorders or spiritual conflicts or corruption. There will be no more warfare, no strife, no conflicting factions. God will heal all that ails His creation, and there will be no more curse.  It’s not that there will be nations in heaven but that nations will no longer be there is one possibility.  Nations are healed or the need for nations will no longer exist.  Nations existed because man could not get along as ONE.  Remember the tower of Babel?  They tried that and it didn’t work because fallen, sinful man cannot get along with each other.  But in heaven nations and the reason God divided us will no longer be necessary.

 

1. River Of Life 2. Throne Of God and A Street In the Middle 3. Tree Of Life 
2. The Tree Of Life Has Fruit 5 The Tree Of Life Has Leaves 6. No More Curse

Revelation 22:3 And there shall be no more curse: Nothing that is under God’s curse will be found in the city.  There will no longer exist anything that is cursed [because sin and illness and death are gone];  Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.  The curse is sin has entered into the world.  The cursed is the sinner.  No more sinning.  No more sinners.  Just saved sinners made righteous and holy by the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

1. River Of Life 2. Throne Of God and A Street In the Middle 3. Tree Of Life 
2. The Tree Of Life Has Fruit 5 The Tree Of Life Has Leaves 6. No More Curse

7 The Throne and the Lamb

Revelation 22:3 ……but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it;  The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it. “it” is the city of God being described hear or heaven.  Psalm 46:4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.  Heaven is described as a city whose builder and maker is God.  Hebrews 11:10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

 

Revelation 22:3 ……and his servants shall serve him  and his servants will worship him and His bond-servants will serve and worship Him [with great awe and joy and loving devotion.   John 12:26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.   We will fulfill our purpose to serve the Lord Jesus forever with complete liberty and joy.  It’s not like servitude…it’s like priviedge and honor to serve the king of Kings and Lord of Lords.

 

1. River Of Life 2. Throne Of God and A Street In the Middle 3. Tree Of Life 
2. The Tree Of Life Has Fruit 5 The Tree Of Life Has Leaves 6. No More Curse

7 The Throne and the Lamb   8 The Face Of God

Revelation 22:4 And they shall see his face; They will see his face, they will [be privileged to] see His face.    1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.  Face to face with Christ my Savoir…  1 Chronicles 16:11 Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.   We see someone’s face then we have their attention or they have our attention.  It’s important for people to look at you and for us to look at them.  That tells someone you are important to them.  God is our life….we seek His face, His approval and His glory.  He sees our face and we are full of joy that He knows who we are.

 

Revelation 22:4…..and his name shall be in their foreheads. and his name will be written on their foreheads. and His name will be on their foreheads.  Revelation 7:3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.  Name in the forehead indicates ownership.  We belong to Jesus Christ.  His name is on our foreheads indicating ownership and value.  We are precious to the Lord.

 

1. River Of Life 2. Throne Of God and A Street In the Middle 3. Tree Of Life 
2. The Tree Of Life Has Fruit 5 The Tree Of Life Has Leaves 6. No More Curse

7 The Throne and the Lamb   8 The Face Of God   9 There is  No Curse, No night, No Sun

Revelation 22:5 And there shall be no night there; There shall be no more night,

And there will no longer be night; No need for the pattern of day and night so man could rest.  Man needs to have this pattern of day and night for order and the rhythm of life.  Won’t need that in Heaven.

 

Revelation 22:5….and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they will not need lamps or sunlight, because the Lord God will be their light.  They have no need for lamplight or sunlight, because the Lord God will illumine them.  No night so no need for artificial light.  Everything is real and genuine.  No fake light in heaven. No fakes in Heaven.  It’s all real.

 

 

10 Reign Forever and Ever

Revelation 22:5 ……and they shall reign for ever and ever., and they will rule as kings forever and ever. and they will reign [as kings] forever and ever.  Eternal means eternal.  We cannot describe that concept.  Never ending.  No end.   No changing, just one eternal NOW.  we cannot comprehend that.  John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;  You know the Holy Spirit comes into us forever….He will never leave us.   John 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish.   We have eternal life…we will NEVER perish…NEVER die!

Revelation 22:5 ……and they shall reign for ever and ever.   It’s a quality of life not just a quantity of life.  We are ruling and reigning with Him forever and ever.  How many of you think it’s good to be the king?  How about being a part of the kings reign?  That’s pretty nice.  That’s beyond comprehension.

 

1. River Of Life 2. Throne Of God and A Street In the Middle 3. Tree Of Life 
2. The Tree Of Life Has Fruit 5 The Tree Of Life Has Leaves 6. No More Curse

7 The Throne and the Lamb   8 The Face Of God   9 There is  No Curse, No night, No Sun  

11. God Has Told Us

11 Great things About Heaven

Revelation 22:6 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done. Then the angel said to me, “These words are true and can be trusted. And the Lord God, who gives his Spirit to the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants what must happen very soon.” Then he said to me, “These words are faithful and true.” And the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent His angel [as a representative] to show His bond-servants the things that must soon take place.

God is saying “I have told you now it’s up to you.”  The God of prophecy has sent His angels to show what is going to happen very soon.  God always tells us what is going to happen.  It’s called BIBLE prophecy.  You only get true prophecy from the BIBLE and nowhere else in the history of the world.

 

Revelation 22:7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book. Listen!” says Jesus. “I am coming soon! Happy are those who obey the prophetic words in this book!” “And behold, I am coming quickly. [a]Blessed (happy, prosperous, to be admired) is the one who heeds and takes to heart and remembers the words of the prophecy [that is, the predictions, consolations, and warnings] contained in this book (scroll).”

“I come quickly”  Relatively quickly.  That means that once these things begin to take place it will happen quickly.  God will not draw this out for no flesh would be saved if He did.  Once this snowball starts to roll it will pick up steam quickly.  One hundred years from this moment we will all be in eternity and talking about how quickly our lives passed on this earth.  Praise God for His word and for our Savior Jesus Christ.  How precious are the words of the book of Revelation and all the prophecies of the Bible. Amen and Amen!

1. River Of Life 2. Throne Of God and A Street In the Middle 3. Tree Of Life 
2. The Tree Of Life Has Fruit 5 The Tree Of Life Has Leaves 6. No More Curse

7 The Throne and the Lamb   8 The Face Of God   9 There is  No Curse, No night, No Sun  

11. God Has Told Us

11 Great things About Heaven

3-26-2023 Morning

Psalms 125:1-5  Four Amazing Things Happen When We Trust In God

Intro: Last week Israel signed a 2030 pact to guarantee their artifacts, security, trade, Gender, with Great Britain.   Called the 2030 road map.  The Lord is preparing them for the seven year treaty with the Man of sin, the beast, the anti-Christ.  But Israel will be saved…nationally and spiritually.  But it will go through a great purge…to purge out the wicked of the land and bless those who trust in Jesus Christ.  1:00

1. Those Who trust in the Lord Shall Not Be Moved

Psalm 125:1 They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which can never be shaken, never be moved. Those who trust in and rely on the Lord [with confident expectation]  Are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but remains forever.

Psalm 125:1  They that trust in the Lord…..Psalm 9:10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.  Do you know the Lord?  Do you know Him personally as your Savior, your Lord and your friend?  You cannot get this protection, this security unless you know Jesus Christ.  God has chosen to save us by faith and trust in Jesus Christ and Him alone!

Psalm 125:1 Which cannot be removed……There is no question that everything that is happening financially with banking and debt and digital currency is to bring us to the system of the mark of the beast.  The world wants to MOVE us to digital control.  They cannot MOVE us anywhere.  We cannot be moved for we ALREADY are abiding with the Lord forever! Now spiritually but soon physically!    Psalm 16:8 I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.  Psalm 62:6 He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.

 

Psalm 125:1  ….but Abideth forever!  John 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.  NEVER means NEVER, EVER NO NOT EVER!!  Abide means more than just existing.  John 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.  We are going to bear fruit for all eternity.  Fruit means variety, pleasure, joy and sweetness.  In Heaven I will talk about it tonight…there will be a tree that bears a fruit each month.  12 manner of fruit.  Each month a different fruit. That means variety, newness, anticipation, and excitement.   We will live in variety, newness, anticipation and excitement every day there.  You should live every day here anticipating what the Lord will do for you today!

Yes the world is going to hell….but you aren’t!!  Rejoice in that. Psalm 27:14 Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.  6:00

 

1. Those Who trust in the Lord Shall Not Be Moved 2. The Lord Is With Those Who Trust In Him

Psalm 125:2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even forever. As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people, now and forever. As the mountains surround Jerusalem, So the Lord surrounds His people  From this time forth and forever.  Psalm 34:7 The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.  Round about means God surrounds His people.  Disease will only go as far as God allows it.  Suffering will only go as far as God allows it.  But God will not allow anything to go beyond His will and purposes for His children.  He surrounds us. 2 Corinthians 1:5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. As we suffer things God brings even more consolation because he surrounds us.

I would rather suffer affliction in God’s circle than suffer affliction outside of that circle of protection!  And after the Lord guarantees greater joy than the suffering.  It’s like having a baby ladies.  The suffering you went through is forgotten when you hold that blessed baby.  Well not totally forgotten….but God gives much greater blessing than the suffering. Because he surrounds us.  He will surround us forever and ever.. beginning when you first put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ! 10:00

1. Those Who trust in the Lord Shall Not Be Moved 2. The Lord Is With Those Who Trust In Him
2. The Wicked Will Not Prevail Over Those Who Trust In The Lord

Psalm 125:3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity. The wicked will not always rule over the land of the righteous; if they did, the righteous themselves might do evil. For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land of the righteous.  So that the righteous will not reach out their hands to do wrong.   The wicked want our children to dress in drag. They want to destroy women.  The homosexual, transgender movement is the devils attempt to destroy women.  It’s war against women.  He hates women.  They gave birth to the Savior. They give birth to men.  The only thing that stands between Satan and complete power is mankind.  And the one man ….the God man…Jesus Christ!

Jeremiah 1:19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee. The wicked will NOT prevail over the followers of Jesus Christ. Yes they may win a skirmish, a small victory. We make so much of small setbacks in our lives don’t we?  We think it’s all over.   I glad God didn’t think it was over when Jesus was arrested. The disciples did. They fled. They gave up!  But it was far from over…in fact the greatest victory of all time was coming soon!

The wicked are in control now….but they won’t be very much longer.  Read Revelation chapters 6-18.  They will be crying and wailing over the judgments being poured out on them.   14:00

1. Those Who trust in the Lord Shall Not Be Moved 2. The Lord Is With Those Who Trust In Him
2. The Wicked Will Not Prevail Over Those Who Trust In The Lord
3. The Lord Will Do Good to Those that Trust In Him

Psalm 125:4 Do good, O Lord, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts. Lord, do good to those who are good, to those who obey your commands. Do good, O Lord, to those who are good.  And to those who are upright in their hearts. Psalm 64:10  The righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.   What does it mean to be upright in heart?  Those who obey Him.  How do you obey Him? By obeying the gospel.  How do you obey the gospel? By faith and trust in Jesus Christ!  Not baptism! Not going to a certain church!  Not by doing anything except have faith in Christ!

God is going to do good to us.  How could He do any more than He’s already done when He saved us from our sins….but He does…God is good to us everyday.  God makes us glad all the day.  We have someone we can trust in everyday that is for us.    19:00

 

1. Those Who trust in the Lord Shall Not Be Moved 2. The Lord Is With Those Who Trust In Him
2. The Wicked Will Not Prevail Over Those Who Trust In The Lord
3. The Lord Will Do Good to Those that Trust In Him

5.The Lord will Let You turn to Wickedness If You So Choose

Psalm 125:5 As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: But when you punish the wicked, punish also those who abandon your ways. They will Follow crooked ways.  The Lord will lead them away with those who do evil. Proverbs 2:14-15 Who rejoice to do evil, (who find joy in doing evil) and delight in the forwardness of the wicked (they enjoy the senselessness of evil); 15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths ( are unreliable and cannot be trusted).

 

But people love their wicked buddies and family.  They love to do wickedly. They love perverseness and consume every kind of pleasure they can find no matter who it harms and who gets in their way.  God is a gentleman.  He will not force anyone to follow Him.  He leaves it up to us. We are humans with choice and not by instinct.  We move and live by liberty or we would just be like animals who behave on instinct.  We choose whom we will serve.  But there is only two choices.  We can choose to be with the one we love…..We can choose to be with the one we love….Ourselves….. or the one we love…..Jesus!

Psalm 125:5…as for such as turn aside….People can choose to go the path they want.   No one can blame God for going to hell.  We chose to ignore the conscience (given to us by God), the evidence of God (creation), the billboard of God…(Israel) and the proof of God….(Bible Prophecy)

Psalm 125:…… the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity….The Lord will allow you to follow the wicked in fact He won’t put up any fight for you after a while.  He will turn you over to do the wicked things you wan to do.  Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.  God gave them over…He turned the over…He opened the door for them….23:00

 

1. Those Who trust in the Lord Shall Not Be Moved 2. The Lord Is With Those Who Trust In Him
2. The Wicked Will Not Prevail Over Those Who Trust In The Lord
3. The Lord Will Do Good to Those that Trust In Him

5.The Lord will Let You turn to Wickedness If You So Choose   6.  The Lord will send Peace Upon Israel

Psalm 125:5……but peace shall be upon Israel. Peace be with Israel! But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways [in unresponsiveness to God], Peace be upon Israel.  Just like wicked  follow crooked paths the Lord will make every crooked path straight for His people.  Luke 3:5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;

Psalm 125:5 But peace shall be upon Israel….God will bring peace to Israel when they choose Him.  He will finally bring peace to Israel in that day when Jerusalem will be occupied by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.   But Peace comes to all who choose the Lord Jesus Christ.  Philippians 4:7  And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Do you want that peace?  You can only get it through Jesus.  28:04

3/19/2023

John 8:36 Why Do We Have Free Will?

Intro:Can you imagine life without choices?  That would not be living.  That would be existing.  Even a slave has free will.  Free to think.  Free to plan.  Free to dream.  Free to pray.  John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.  1:00

1. Free will Is Why God created Man

Free will is the guiding principle of God’s creation of man.  He did not create robots.  Even though He is sovereign…. He did not script out each detail of their lives.  He created man for fellowship and partnership.  Man is made in God’s image of love, justice, intelligence and free will.

Fellowship….Genesis 3:8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.     God longs to walk with us in the garden of our lives.  1 Corinthians 1:9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.  We have fellowship with Jesus Christ our Lord.  1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.  That’s why we have fellowship with other believers.  We feel a special connection with each other because of the fellowship we have with Jesus Christ.

 

Partnership….Man through the woman have children.  In a sense man is partnering with God in creation.  Man has dominion over the earth.   We are stewards of God’s creation.  Angels in heaven are astounded at the creation of woman and wives.  Nothing like this ever happened.  All the hosts of heaven are male.  Until Eve….how curious the angels must have been.  God created man….and woman to procreate the planet earth themselves without God’s intervention.  Amazing!!  God created man to have dominion over the earth himself without God’s continuous intervention.  Again…. Amazing to the angels.

This is man and God’s partnership and fellowship.  God made man in His image of life, love, dominion and free will.  John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed 7:00

1. Free will Is Why God created Man 2.  Free Will Means Free in Everyway with Limits…

**“Why didn’t God stop that terrible murder from happening?”

If I don’t have the right to do wrong then I don’t have free Will.  Therefore a person has the freewill to choose to do harm to……. you!

Free will is that others have the right to do wrong to me.   Freewill is the rule of the universe.  I can’t control what happens in a fallen world.  God can intervene and He does at times….. but He takes the bad and always turns it into good for those who trust in Him.  I can’t control the actions of others free will …..over what I think they should do.

**“Why didn’t God stop that awful car wreck or that dreadful disease from happening?”

When bad things happen to me I have to realize that’s what happens in a world with freewill creatures on a fallen, cursed and sinful planet.  I can’t control how someone else drives.  I can’t control the timing of the universe.  The universe is also under free will so to speak.  It rains indescriminently on whomever it wants to.  Cancer comes to whomever the situation calls for.  The sun shines on whomever it wants to and for whom the situation calls for.  Remember God cursed the ground in Genesis…..so that opens the door for storms, disasters and accidents.   But Romans 8:28 is in play here also.   Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.    ALL Things….

 

Freewill is limited by God’s sovereignty.  God has a general plan and desire for humanity and we cannot get out of that circle.  So our free will is limited By God’s sovereignty….but that’s for our protection and for our good.  For instance God is not going to allow me to start a world war.  God is not going to let me stop another’s freedoms to choose.    We have limits….for our own good.   Children can go outside and play but not in the street.  Limits increase freedom.  If a child plays in the street it could get hurt and be laid up in a hospital bed and lose all freedoms to make any choices.   If we didn’t have limits we would lose our freedom of choice.  You can’t just go to your neighbors and take what you want.  And we cannot limit others freedom to choose over our freedom to choose.  If we limit others freedoms then we are limiting our own also.   Freedom is being free to choose and free to live with others choices also.  Your spouse chose you!  John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed 13:00

1. Free will Is Why God created Man 2.  Free Will Means Free in Everyway with Limits…
2. The choice is Yours

Choose ye this day…..Joshua 24:15And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.    We have freedom to choose who we want to serve and who we want to love.

Choice….freedom gives us a choice. That’s why they want to take away your freedom and freewill to choose.  They want to do what even God does not do….take away our choices and freewill.  They want to be God.  Not the God of choice, love and freewill but the god of control, submission, power and hate.

Whosoever Will…..A loving God does not force Himself on His beloved.  He want us to choose to love Him.  If you force someone to marry you is that real love?  NO!  If you realize that someone loves you by their freewill and choice then that is true love.  That’s what God wants from us.  How could we not love the one who loved us first and is so gracious to us despite the evil, fallen world?  He has given us a choice of salvation and eternal life of joy, peace and purpose that begins the moment we put our faith and trust in Him on this earth.

Our relationship with Jesus Christ won’t be consummated until we die or are raptured and go to be with Him physically.   Until then physical life is incomplete in this sinful fallen world we are in.  Trouble comes and also blessings in this fallen world.

You love your girlfriend or boyfriend before the marriage.  You can’t be together all the time.  You are apart physically.  It frustrating at times.  You feel times of pain and hurt.  You feel incomplete without the one you love.  You look forward to the day when you can be together forever.  We consummate that relationship when we are married and living together physically and the pain and hurt of separation is gone.

Like the Christian.  We long to be with Jesus but we can’t yet.  It’s frustrating.  It’s times of pain and hurt while on earth.   We are incomplete physically without Jesus.  But one day we will be with Him forever and the pain and hurt will be gone!

The kicker…..Romans 8:28 is always is in play for God’s People with regard to free will

Remember the great man Joseph…..They meant it for evil but God turned it into God.   People’s choice may be to do evil to you but God turns it into good…for those who trust in Him.

Bad things don’t happen to good people.  Good things happen to bad people.

Natural order of things……There is a natural order of creation even in a fallen state that we have to go along with.   Creation has order.  Like rythim.   The Earth has seasons.  Genesis 8:22.  Life has order.  We are young we get old.  We live we die.  We build and we tear down.   We are born and we die.  We mourn and we rejoice.  We plant and we harvest.

 

The law of the harvest.  You reap what you sow.    You don’t always get what you deserve..…. but you always reap what you sow.  Most of the time you reap more than you sow.  Good and bad.

Blessings…..Somethings go beyond the natural order of things but do not usurp the natural order.  Blessings….when God intervenes and does things beyond what we expect or deserve.   God blesses those who give. God blesses those who bless Israel.  God blesses those who trust in Him.  God blesses those who pray with greater faith.  God blesses those who read His word with knowledge and wisdom and more faith.

Blessings include healings, miracles and wonders.   God sometimes does healings, miracles and wonders.  He does these in response to prayers and pleadings of His people or just because it is His sovereign will.  He does healings, miracles and wonders for His glory and our greater good.  He doesn’t always do healings, miracles and wonders….but when He does it is according to His own purposes for our lives.   A miracle is part of God’s will for us.  A lack of miracles is also part of God’s will for us.   We don’t know when or why they will occur, but we are commanded to ask God for anything and everything we need or desire that is good.  Miracle or not….every time we ask in faith we receive a blessing from God.  It may not be what we asked for, but it will be good.  Maybe we don’t see it at the time but later we will understand.

 

Prayer….God always answers the prayers of His children.  Yes, no and later… Prayer does change the expected outcome of things…… but does not change the natural order of the universe or the law of the harvest.  Prayer does not change God’s sovereignty, but displays it to the world.   He can choose where and when He wants to intervene for His purposes and glory and our greater good.

 

Liberty…. Another word we use a lot.  It means that we have freedom to make our own choices, go our own way and live our lives the way we see fit.  Our liberty ends at someone else’s liberties.  We always respect the liberty and rights of others.  Liberty is the ability to make choices for ourselves.  Liberty is free will. The Bible talks about our liberty from the power of sin to dominate our lives.  We are free from the power of sin and have been given liberty…freedom from sin’s power to control us and to seal our destiny.  Now we are free to live for God, walk with God and follow Jesus Christ.

 

Thy will be done…… Why should we always ask that God’s will be done first and foremost? We may beg God for an innocent child to be spared from death but not realizing what God knows that later on that child would grow up and would suffer something far worse, maybe drug addiction, sex trafficking, etc and may never accept Jesus Christ as their Savior.

We don’t know the future.  I’ve seen parents spared from certain death by cancer due to the prayers of people only to live to see their adult child die in an accident.  Be careful what you ask for.  Always ask for what you want but always make sure you tell God “thy will be done even in my worst circumstance.”

Hezekiah prayed in desperation for his life after God told him to put his house in order.  God gave Him 15 more years.  Evil Mannessah was born to Hezekiah during that time. The worst king Judah ever had!  And He reigned 55 years!!!   Be careful what you ask for….27:00

1. Free will Is Why God created Man 2.  Free Will Means Free in Everyway with Limits…
2. The choice is Yours

Free Indeed

John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.  The goodness of God is perfect.  He made everything perfect and orderly and perfectly suited for mankind and his life with others.  And when the Son of God has made you free.  What other freedoms could you want.  The only freedom comes from knowing Jesus Christ.  Free from the penalty of sin.  Free from the power of sin.  Free from the curse of sin.  Free to follow Jesus and have a victorious life of joy in every circumstance and in every part of life.  We have to make some hard choices sometimes.  It’s hard to make decisions sometimes.  But we have the Lord to guide and direct us. And when we make wrong choices He guides us back to where we need to be and softens the blow for us.  Free indeed….28:04

3/19/2023

Galatians 1:11-20 Did Jesus Teach Paul?

Intro: The Apostle Paul was one who was brought to be an apostle “born out of due time.” In other words called after the ascension of Jesus.  An Apostle is one who was called directly by the living Lord.  Paul encountered Jesus on the Damascus Road.  Paul was the most Jewish of all the Jews.  Taught by the great Gamaliel.  He knew the Jewish scriptures by heart.  He was totally dedicated to God and the law.  No wonder God called a man who was zealous for the law to reach the Gentiles with the GRACE of God.  1:00

1. Jesus Christ Taught Paul

Galatians 1:11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. Let me tell you, my friends, that the gospel I preach is not of human origin. For I want you to know, believers, that the gospel which was preached by me is not man’s gospel.  it is not a human invention, patterned after any human concept.  Paul was defending his apostleship by emphasizing that no man could have invented the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Galatians 1:12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. I did not receive it from any human being, nor did anyone teach it to me. It was Jesus Christ himself who revealed it to me. For indeed I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a [direct] revelation of Jesus Christ.  No man handed it down to Him from God nor did any man teach it to him as a messenger of God.    It came directly from the Lord Jesus Christ Himself!  This was quite a statement to make.  Paul would go on to prove it.  5:00

1. Jesus Christ Taught Paul 2.  Paul Before His Conversion

Galatians 1:13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: You have been told how I used to live when I was devoted to the Jewish religion, how I persecuted without mercy the church of God and did my best to destroy it. You have heard of my career and former manner of life in Judaism, how I used to hunt down and persecute the church of God extensively and [with fanatical zeal] tried [my best] to destroy it.

Paul goes over his past zealous persecution of the church and how he did great damage to the cause of Christ.

 

Galatians 1:14 And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. I was ahead of most other Jews of my age in my practice of the Jewish religion, and was much more devoted to the traditions of our ancestors. And [you have heard how] I surpassed many of my contemporaries among my countrymen in [my advanced study of the laws of] Judaism, as I was extremely loyal to the traditions of my ancestors.  Paul was the most Jewish of all Jews.  He was taught all the Jewish law and traditions.  He was zealous for the Jewish faith more than any other Jew ever!! 10:00

1. Jesus Christ Taught Paul 2.  Paul Before His Conversion   3. Paul’s After His Conversion

Galatians 1:15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, But God in his grace chose me even before I was born, and called me to serve him. And when he decided, when God was pleased to…the one who had chosen me and set me apart before I was born, and called me through His grace.  Paul claims God called him and chose him even before he was born for this ministry.  It is by God’s grace not by Paul’s efforts or Paul’s goodness.  Paul was anything but good.  He was mean and vindictive and vengeful.

 

Galatians 1:16 To reveal his Son in me, …. to reveal his Son to me, to reveal His Son in me and the Son was revealed to him on the Damascus road.   Paul was to reveal Jesus Christ to the gentile world.

Galatians 1:16…that I might preach him among the heathen; so that I might preach the Good News about him to the Gentiles, so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles [as the good news—the way of salvation.  Only God could take ONE man and let him preach ONE message and change the world.  So Paul’s work had to be of God.

Galatians 1:16…..immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: I did not go to anyone for advice, I did not immediately consult with [e]anyone [for guidance regarding God’s call and His revelation to me. To prove Paul’s call and the reason for his effectiveness is that he did NOT get advice from any man or apostle.  It is obvious why he was led not to….. Paul had already seen the Lord Jesus on the Damascus Road had to know the truth and could not be convinced by anyone other than the Lord Jesus…. And the enemies of the gospel could not say that the apostles conspired with Paul to start a new sect.

The conclusion of Paul’s conversion story is that after his conversion he did not consult any man or “flesh and blood.” When Peter affirmed that Jesus was the Messiah, the Son of God, Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven” (Mt 16:17). Paul claims that his revelation is from God.

 

Galatians 1:17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me.   nor did I go to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before me. Nor did I [even] go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me.  He didn’t even go to Jerusalem.  The headquarters of the church at that time.  This seems odd but God led him in another direction for the purpose to put all preconceived ideas and all prejudices out of his mind and heart.  He would be influenced only by the Lord Jesus Christ.

Instead of visiting the original apostles in Jerusalem after his conversion, Paul went immediately into Arabia and later returned to Damascus. It seems clear from the context that Paul is setting up a contrast between going to Jerusalem to receive teaching from the apostles and going to Arabia.

 

Galatians 1:17…..but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. Instead, I went at once to Arabia, and then I returned to Damascus. but I went to Arabia and stayed awhile, and afterward returned once more to Damascus.  Arabia is the desert.  John the Baptist came from the wilderness desert area.  After Jesus baptism, “the Spirit drove him forth into the wilderness,” To prepare Him. Paul was told to “Rise, and enter into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do” (Acts 9:6). Paul’s cry was, “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?”

 

During his time in Arabia did he received teaching from the Lord? Many commentators have thought so, and it seems a reasonable to draw that conclusion from the context. But we must admit that Paul does not disclose what happened during the time in Arabia. Those were hidden years, at least hidden from any public, historical record.

 

Paul traveled to Arabia.  He was taught in Arabia. Why did Paul go to Arabia? What was there? What was the purpose of this trip? How long was he there? Why doesn’t Luke report it? To understand Paul’s motivation for this trip, we have to understand a bit about Paul’s character, and first-century Jewish heroes in general.

In our day, when celebrities are converted, the religious media rush to publicize their conversions for the widest possible audience. Put them on TV; feature them in prime-time talk shows. But this immediate publicity can be dangerous to the spiritual health of new converts. They need time, as we all do, in order to grow and deepen in their faith. Hidden years seem to be part of God’s plan for his servants. Moses spent forty years in the desert before his day of fame in Pharaoh’s court.

God himself revealed his Son in Paul and Paul did not consult with the church after his conversion.  Paul’s argument is designed to show that he is not dependent on any other church leaders for his authority to preach his gospel to the Gentiles. His authority is derived from the gospel that had been revealed to him by Jesus Christ. Therefore, when the Galatians turn away from the gospel preached by Paul, they are turning away from God.   He was not a product of any conspiracy of the Apostles.  He was taught separately so that no one could say that their was a conspiracy.  But when Paul came back his teaching was exactly the same as the apostles.

Galatians 1:18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. It was three years later that I went to Jerusalem to obtain information from Peter, and I stayed with him for two weeks. Then three years later I did go up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Cephas (Peter), and I stayed with him fifteen days.

After Arabia and we don’t know for sure how long he actually was in Arabia…. he traveled to Damascus all within the three years. He was in Arabia and Damascus a total of three years.  His travels from Damascus to Jerusalem began after three years.  It’s three years after his conversion that he first meets with the apostle Peter.

So he goes to see Peter in Jerusalem and stays with Peter 15 days.  What did they talk about? What a wonderful meeting this must have been.  Can you imagine Peter and Paul in the same room discussing the things of the faith?  The Book of Acts portrays a very interesting relationship between Peter and Paul. While Peter is prominent in the first part of Acts, Paul clearly dominates the latter portion of the book. Peter is to Paul in Acts what John the Baptist is to Jesus in the Gospels. As John the Baptist said, “He must increase, but I must decrease” (John 3:30). 

 

Paul laid out what Jesus had taught him.  Peter saw that Paul’s teaching matched what the Lord Jesus had taught them.  Peter had to be convinced that Paul was genuine and that Paul would teach the same things the Lord Jesus taught them.  This was very important. And also the fact the Paul was not going to go off and start another sect but would be working with and teaching as Peter and the other apostles had taught.  This was a very important meeting indeed!!

Peter said this about Paul in 2 Peter 3:14-16 14 Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, 15 and regard the patience of our Lord to be salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

 

Paul was the perfect counterpart to Peter and the other apostles. Peter and the other disciples were Galileans. Paul was a well-travelled man of the world, a man who knew more than one language or culture. Peter and the others were “untrained and ignorant men” (Acts 4:13), while Paul was a man of great learning. So great was his learning that Festus said, “Paul, you are out of your mind! Your great learning is driving you mad” (Acts 26:24).

 

Galatians 1:19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord’s brother. I did not see any other apostle except James, the Lord’s brother. But I did not see any other apostle except James, the [half] brother of the Lord.

He mentions only seeing James the Lord’s brother, the one who wrote the book of James.     Why did he not see the others?  They were not available or he wanted to push on.  After all he has spent three years with Christ and 15 days with Peter…he was ready to hit the ground running.

 

Galatians 1:20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not. What I write is true. God knows that I am not lying! (Now in what I am writing to you, I assure you as if I were standing before God that I am not lying.)

Paul tells the incredible story that Jesus Christ taught him that was backed up by his teaching, his miracles, his results, his testimony and his life.  There is no doubt about the ministry of the apostle Paul.  He truly had been with Jesus!  27:00

1. Jesus Christ Taught Paul 2.  Paul Before His Conversion   3. Paul’s After His Conversion

Did Jesus Teach Paul?

Jesus and Paul

Paul’s life is forever linked with His encounter with Jesus Christ.  How is your life linked with Jesus Christ?  Is He your Savior?  Is He your adversary?  He is either one or the other.  He is calling you to Himself.  He is reaching out to you in love and salvation.  You need Jesus.  You need a Savior.

Christian….Is He your life?  Or is He your acquaintance?   Is He Lord or is He ignored?  He will not take second place in your life.  He loves you.  He is for you.  He knows you.  He wants to give you purpose and joy and peace in your heart and life.  Come to Him today.  Then it can be Jesus and (insert your name.)  28:04

3/12/2023

Acts 3:22-26  More Than A Prophet

Intro: More than meets the eye.  We hear that sometimes.  This is something like the tip of an iceberg.  You see the tip but most of it is hidden.  Jesus is hidden in plain sight.  The word of God tells us exactly who He is.  The Jews thought He was just a prophet.  Islam and other religions believe Him to be a prophet.  But is that all He is?  Of course not.  Peter great sermon tells us exactly who He is….1:00

 

1. A Jewish Prophet You Must Hear

Acts 3:22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will send you a prophet, just as he sent me,[a] and he will be one of your own people. You are to obey everything that he tells you to do. Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a Prophet [b]like me from your countrymen; you shall listen to Him and obey everything He tells you.

The Jews expected a prophet and the Messiah—two difference persons  John 1:20-21 And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. 21 And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No. John the Baptist was not the messiah.  He was a prophet.  He was not Elijah.   John 7:40-41 Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.  41 Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee? Jesus was and is prophet, priest and king.

 

Deuteronomy 18:15. The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me (Moses); unto him ye shall hearken.   Moses was the leader, prophet, and spokesperson and demonstrated the power of God.  How is Jesus like Moses?  He demonstrated the power of God.  He spoke for God.  He was a prophetic in His words.  He was a leader in that He led a group of twelve disciples and up to 120 followers at times.  But Moses was NOT a king and Jesus was NOT a king at that time.  But He is greater than Moses as John the Baptist said…He WILL

be KING one day!

 

The New Testament united the prophet and Messiah into one person Jesus Christ.  Matthew 17:5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.

 

Revelation 5:10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. We will be priest and kings one day on the earth.  While on the earth we are prophets in a sense.  We proclaim the gospel and the word of God in our actions and our words.

 

Acts 3:23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. Anyone who does not obey that prophet shall be separated from God’s people and destroyed.’ And it will be that every person that does not listen to and heed that Prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.  If you don’t listen and obey this prophet you will die.   Deuteronomy 18:19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. (require the penalty to be paid by that person.)

Peter saw this as speaking of Jesus Christ.  Acts 2:41 Then they that gladly received his word( the word of God about Jesus spoken by Peter) were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

John 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.     If you don’t believe, trust in Jesus Christ and give up your way of salvation you will destroyed eternally.  You will experience spiritual death.  Eternal death and destruction.  I don’t understand that… but I cannot be good in any way, shape or form.  10:00

1. A Jewish Prophet You Must Hear 2. These Days Were Announced By Prophets

Acts 3:24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days. And all the prophets who had a message, including Samuel and those who came after him, also announced what has been happening these days. Indeed, all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came after him, also announced these days.

Luke 24:27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.  Jesus taught that the prophets were talking about Him.

Acts 17:3 Opening and alleging,(From the OT Scriptures) that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ. Paul taught that the prophets were talking about Jesus.

Acts 26:22-23 Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come: 23 That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.  Paul again taught King Agrippa that Jesus was foretold by the OT prophets.

 

Acts 3:25 Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. The promises of God through his prophets are for you, and you share in the covenant which God made with your ancestors. As he said to Abraham, ‘Through your descendants I will bless all the people on earth.’ You are the sons (descendants) of the prophets and [heirs] of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed (descendant) all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’

The Jewish people, Israel had the word of God, were given the word of God by prophets and there is no excuse for missing Jesus! Acts 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call( those that hear the gospel and believe).  God wanted to save Israel first and then the whole world through their testimony.  And He did through the apostles.  Romans 9:4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises.  It is through Israel and the law and the prophets that people Know the word of God.  Genesis 22:18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.  The descendants of Abraham, the Jews have blessed the whole world through the prophets who gave us God’s word ultimately ending up with Jesus Christ and the church.  God foretold the day of Jesus Christ and His church.  The prophets told of this day.  19:00       

 

1. A Jewish Prophet You Must Hear 2. These Days Were Announced By Prophets
2. Jesus Is That Prophet

Acts 3:26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. And so God chose his Servant and sent him to you first, to bless you by making every one of you turn away from your wicked ways.” It was for you first of all that God raised up His Servant and Son [Jesus], and sent Him to bless you by turning every one of you from your wicked ways.” 

 

The gospel was preached first to the Jews.  Acts 13:46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.  They turned away from it.  Jesus is a Jew.  The apostles were all Jews.

Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.  The gospel of Christ.  The good news of Jesus Christ that God will save the world.  Whosoever shall call upon the name of Jesus will be saved!  Jesus is that prophet..more than a prophet, He is the only Savior.  He is the only Lord. He is the only King.  He is the only God.

 

Acts 3:26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus …….Acts 2:24  Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.  As God death could not hold Him.  As the God-man death was necessary to pay our sin debt to God.

Acts 3:26 …..sent him to bless you…..The greatest knowledge is the we know Jesus. The greatest blessing is that Jesus Knows you.   What could be greater than that?  What task could be greater than telling others the gospel?   What purpose could be greater than serving Him?  How do we bless others?  We can entertain them.  We can give them food.  We can give them comfort.  But all of that is temporary.  Only Jesus is an eternal blessing.  We are blessed forever in Jesus Christ!  Romans 9:5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

 

Acts 3:26……. in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. The Lord will not hold our sins against us.  They are covered by the blood of Jesus.  These are the days where Christians are accused of HATE because we LOVE Jesus and the word of God.  The world loves their sins.  They love their iniquities.  They hate God and love sin.

We love God and hate sin.  WE do sin but we don’t love it. We don’t want to sin but we do.  We don’t practice sin.  We don’t seek out sin.  We flee from iniquity.  We have changed from loving sin to turning away from sin.  Only by the power of Jesus Christ.  Romans 4:8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.   The world wants to go to heaven with sin on their account.  That is not possible.  God is a holy and righteous God.   God is not going to allow sin to continue forever!  Sin will reach it’s fullness and God will judge the world for sin and rejection of Jesus Christ.   What kind of heaven would it be if sinners were in it and still sinning? It would be no better than we have it today.  Sin brings sickness, death, disease, disaster and depression.  The soul that sinneth it shall die….  Ye must be born again to see the kingdom of God.  The elite think they can live forever in AI.  That is a lie of the devil.  The soul that sinneth IT SHALL DIE!  It’s already set.  We have this life to repent and turn to Jesus and after that the judgment.  Hebrews 9:27.  

 

Jesus is that prophet that fulfills all the prophecies of the prophets.  It’s all about Jesus for Jesus is all about turning us from our iniquities.  27:00

1. A Jewish Prophet You Must Hear 2. These Days Were Announced By Prophets
2. Jesus Is That Prophet

More than a prophet….

He is everything to us.  Is He your everything?  He is our life!  Is He your life?  You see Jesus provided salvation to the world when He died and shed His precious blood for our sins.  But each individual must apply the blood to their lives by faith in Jesus Christ.  Each family had to apply the blood to the doorposts during the Passover so the death angel would pass over them.  Have you applied the blood to your life? 28:04

Daniel 7:23 The New World Order Is Coming No Matter What America Does

Intro: Like a large ship speeding toward the dock….nothing will stop it now.  It is too late to do anything but pray and prepare.  We have done it too ourselves.  We have mocked God.  Thumbed our nose at God.  Flipped God off and now we ask Where is He?  As stated in our “Sign of the Times”  We have Aborted and murdered millions of children.  We have allowed children to become sex slaves. We have allowed gender to be fluid.  We have given over to debase and sick immoral wickedness and we applaud it and parade it down our streets.  We have allowed all of this and now we wonder “where is God?”  1:00

 

1. America Will Be Devoured

Daniel 7:23  Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. This is the explanation I was given: “The fourth beast is a fourth empire that will be on the earth and will be different from all other empires. It will crush the whole earth and trample it down. Thus the angel said, ‘The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which will be different from all other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth and tread it down, and crush it.

The four kingdoms are described in this chapter… Daniel Chapter seven.  I preached on that last year.  You can look up my Daniel series on Rumble, Bitchute, and Apple podcasts…..

1^st Kingdom that would dominate Israel…..Babylon

2^nd Kingdom that will dominate Israel…Medo-Persia

3^rd Kingdom that will dominate Israel.…Greece

4^th Kingdome that will dominate Israel and the world…Rome…. up to and including the ten kings of the last days new world order leading to the Man of Sin…the Anti-Christ.

This fourth beast will control the whole earth.  That has not happened yet.. but It will under the control of the ten kings and the Beast….

The United States is not in Bible prophecy per se.  But I think they could be the Babylon of Revelation chapter 18. The commercial Babylon that all the leaders of the world are upset when it is destroyed.  But there is no hope for our nation.  Russia can destroy us in a war.  China can destroy us in a war.  The world elites, the globalists, the ten kings or ten elites or ten regions under control of the elites….they want us.  they don’t want us destroyed they just want to control us and our vast resources. And of course we have patriots that will fight their nefarious plans.

Patriots are the thorn in their side.  We are the stick in their mud.  We…..the true patriots and most of true patriots are part of the Christian church…..the true remnant church that understands what is going on.  Daniel 12:10 ….and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

 

America will be devoured under the power mad Beast.  One reason he is a beast is because he devours all of the world for his own.   America is doomed.  You need to understand that.  We are never going back to what we were.  But remember….. the church will not see the Anti-Christ, the Beast, the Man of sin.  We will have departed before the time of Jacob’s trouble. We are not appointed the wrath.  70 weeks of years are appointed for THY people….Israel.  The church has been taken out.  So rejoice that we will not suffer the wrath of God but we will suffer the wrath of man and many of us are suffering through this right now.  But even then this will be limited by God.  2 Thessalonians 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.   As long as the church is on the earth and the Holy Spirit that leads them (the he who letteth)  The full wrath of God cannot be poured out on the earth.

But remember.  God is going to catch all the lost people unaware.  And the fact that Jesus can come any day will test the faith of the church and reward the faithful who are looking for Him.  A bride in a Jewish wedding had no idea when her groom would come for her. She had to be ready.  If she were caught by the groom not looking for Him…. she is not fit to be a bride and will be cast away.   That is the world.

They should have been looking for Jesus Christ when He comes!

The world will still be building and planting, marrying and giving in marriage, buying and selling until the Lord comes unexpectedly.  Which can only be the rapture….not the physical return of Christ.  Remember the rapture and physical return of Christ are both the return of Christ and the day of the Lord.  First FOR His church and then seven years later WITH His Church! 10:00

 

1. America Will Be Devoured 2. The Little Horn Takes Over The World

Daniel 7:24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. The ten horns are ten kings who will rule the world empire. Then another king will appear; he will be very different from the earlier ones and will overthrow three kings. As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings will arise; and another will arise after them, and he will be different from the former ones, and he will subdue the three kings.

Another refers to the little horn of Daniel 7:8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.  He will be able to back up his words.  Horn means power and might.

This king will subdue three others and blaspheme God.  Daniel 11:36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.; 2 Thess. 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.  Rev. 13:5, 6 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. 6And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

He will claim to be the only god.  He wants to be worshiped as well as rule the world.   He will defile the new tabernacle or temple.  That is why it is called “the Anti-Christ Temple.”  Jesus will NOT sit in that Temple.  He will blaspheme God and all of His followers in heaven.  Claiming probably that they were devils, the unenlightened ones, the real evil people.

He will persecute the saints.  Daniel 7:21  I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;; Rev. 13:7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. attempt to change times and law, and dominate the saints for a limited time. time and times and half a time: Time can refer to a year, times to two years, and half a time to one half of a year, for a total of three and one-half years.

Some think that the beast will persecute those saved during the tribulation and will kill most of them.  Maybe all of them.  This will occur some believe in the first half of the tribulation.  To take over the world he cannot have believers in Jesus allowed to live and influence others.  He cannot touch the 144 thousand witnesses though.  But he can kill believers and probably will.  19:00

 

1. America Will Be Devoured 2. The Little Horn Takes Over The World
2. The Little Horn Has Limited Time

Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.   By this time What is left of America will be under the control of the Beast.  The Church is gone and all that are left will be those who have taken the mark or will eventually take the mark of the Beast.

Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High….. He will speak words against the Most High [God] He will speak against the Supreme God He will do a lot of talking.   He has no problem attacking God.  If God were not God then why would the anti-Christ bother talking against him? That’s because God is God!   Why do atheists put down God….why wouldn’t they just ignore Him if He didn’t exists?  Because God is God!

Daniel 7:25…. and shall wear out the saints of the most High…. and wear down the saints of the Most High.  He will oppress God’s people.  It either means he is persecuting Believers in Jesus or the Jews in general.  Some feel this is the believing Jews who are left after the slaughter of 2/3 of the Jews.  Zechariah 13:8 (I will read later)  Or it could be those who accept Christ and suffer greatly and most are killed by the Beast.  Saints in the Bible always refer to  those who have faith in God.  Jews or the Church.

 

Daniel 7:25…..and think to change times and laws….. He will try to change their religious laws and festivals, and he will intend to change the times and the law; He will try to change the Jewish laws and festivals.  It may mean that he will change the basic laws of nature and order.  His program may include a revision of the calendar. This was attempted during the French Revolution.  But whatever it is he is trying to get rid of the old order of things.

Daniel 7:25….and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. and God’s people will be under his power for three and a half years. and they will be given into his hand for a time, [two] times, and half a time [three and one-half years].  Revelation 12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

The Jews will flee Israel to the mountains.  This could be the last 3 and one half years of the tribulation where the Beast will focus his attention on annihilating the Jews.  But God will spare the ones that flee.  Evidently not all will flee.  Probably one third will flee because that it number of Jews that will survive the Tribulation.  Zechariah 13:8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

 

The little horn, the Beast has only seven years and 3 and one half years to kill the Jews he can do a lot of damage.  But the most damage will be done by God to the world during the tribulation.  The last 3 and one half years are the times of the great tribulation.  The martyrdom of the two witnesses, the mark of the beast, the trumpet and Bowl judgments and the destruction of Babylon all occurs…… many believe in the last half of the tribulation.

Bottom line…..America is doomed….as is every nation except Israel.  Now we know that there must be remnants of the nations in the Millennium and people of those nations are invited to come to Jerusalem by Jesus Christ.  Zechariah 14:16-17 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. 17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

 

Zechariah 8:22 Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord.  Perhaps over time in the millennial people will survive in America and other nations and become strong and prosperous again.  We will still be America but not like we are now.  We will be at peace, have honest leadership, be a moral people and all working together as we worship the Lord Jesus Christ.   What a day that will be.  All nations will be healed.  Maybe that’s what the healing of the nations is all about.  Nations have lived with rivalry and war and distrust…will love and trust and work together and celebrate our differences instead of hating each other.

This scene is in heaven I believe…. Revelation 22:2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. If This refers to the nations as they are today…..and that’s big “if” we just don’t know…..Our best days are ahead of us as a nation!

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1. America Will Be Devoured 2. The Little Horn Takes Over The World
2. The Little Horn Has Limited Time

The New World Order Is Coming No Matter What America Does

Will God will finally bless America?  Not until Jesus comes. So after He comes…. I hope America and all nations to be blessed.  Until then we will see a time of growing despair and destruction that will be only get worse and worse until suddenly there is a full blown chaos and destruction when the church is raptured and the Beast signs a peace treaty with Israel.   28:04

3/3/2023 Morning

Jude 1:24-25  He is……

Intro: People today are searching for love and acceptance and peace in drugs, alcohol, sex, relationships, careers, money, and pleasure.  There are lots of these things floating around.  Yet more people are unsatisfied, unhappy and unfulfilled than ever before.  The more we get the more dissatisfied we are.  Matthew 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.  John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.  A dissatisfied, disillusioned, distressed soul can say….. When I found Jesus I found He is…..and He was and He ever will be…..everything beyond even my imagination!  1:00

 

1. He is Able

Jude: 24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling…. Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling,….. Him who is able to keep you from stumbling or falling into sin.  2 Thessalonians

3:3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil. The Lord will keep us or protect from the evil one so that he can only go so far. He only is able.  He is able!  What does that mean? 2 Timothy 1:12  I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.  We have committed our lives to Christ.  He will keep those who trust in Him.  Why? Because only He is Able.  What does “able” mean?  It means He has the strength, the power, and the desire to bring what He decrees to pass.   Only God can keep us from falling.  You can’t keep yourself.  You don’t have the strength, the power or the desire.  We are sinners saved by grace.  We are saved sinners.  Our righteousness is as filthy rags to God.  There is none good but one and that is God.  2 Corinthians 2:14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ….We have triumphed over the penalty of sin and the power of sin because He is Able!

John 18:9 That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, Of them which thou gavest me have I lost none.  Jesus said in the true Lord’s prayer where He won’t lose any.  So none of us will fall away and be lost again.  It’s not possible for us to do the impossible.  We cannot do what God will not allow.  So rest in our assurance in Him and He will use you to glorify and lift up His name in this world.  He is Able! 10:00

 

1. He is Able 2. He is Going to Present us faultless

Jude 24….and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, and to present you unblemished [blameless and faultless] in the presence of His glory with triumphant joy and unspeakable delight.

WE are going to be in His presence one day. We are going to be with Jesus forever and ever!  We are the bride of Christ.  You don’t get married and see each other on Easter and Christmas do you?  I would hope not!  We are going to be with Him forever!  He will present us….faultless, sinless, no baggage, no guilt, no sin stains on our lives.  Revelation 19:7-8 ….for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife (that’s us) hath made herself ready.  8 And to her ( that’s you and me) was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. 

 

What is the fine linen?  The righteousness of the saints.  We are made righteous by the grace of God.  God accounts us righteous because of Christ who became sin for us!  what a Savior we have.   Mohommed can’t take my sins.  Budda can’t take my sins away.   The Mormans can’t take my sins away.  The Jehovah Witnesses can’t take my sins away.  The government can’t take my sins away.  Drugs and alcohol and sex can’t take the guilt of my sin away.  ArtificiaI Intelligence can’t take my sins away.  Only Jesus Can present me faultless before God.

White is mentioned 17 times in the book of Revelation.  God makes us white.  White as snow is mentioned 8 times in the Bible.   God is pure good and holiness.  I hope you look good in white….you’re going to be wearing a lot of it.  Brides are dressed in white symbolizing purity.  The Lambs wife the church will be dressed in white.  Revelation 19:8 And to her was granted that she (that’s us) should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.  19:00

1. He is Able 2. He is Going to Present us faultless 3.  He Is Glorified

Jude: 25 To the only wise God our Saviour….. To the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord.  He is the only God. Only wisdom and knowledge is manifested in Jesus Christ our Lord.  1 Corinthians 1:24 Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.  Isaiah 1:18 Come let us reason together saith the Lord…..though your sins be as scarlet they shall be white as snow.  Though they be red like crimson they shall be as wool. 

 

Jude:25….be glory……To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory… He is glorified.  Atheists say that God is a narcisist, glory hound.  Demanding worship.   I told you guys Wednesday night the illustration of a cat.  You are in a sense “god” to your pet.  Without you they would live outside and survive on scraps, trash and dead animals.  But you have taken them in and have given them food, warmth and love.   Your pet worships you.  Your pet glorifies you.  Do you deserve it?  yes.  You do everything for them.  Do you want their love?  Yes.  Do you enjoy their affection and worship of you?  Yes… it’s the proper order of things.  I am the human…. and they are the animal. It’s the balanced and correct order of things.

Do you need their love?  No, you can do fine without your pet.  You still have your warm house, food and comforts.  So the pet is the one who gets all the benefits.  So it’s only proper that your pet obeys you, loves you and worships you.  You see it’s just natural for humans to obey God, love God and worship God.  He doesn’t need us…. we need Him.  He is our life.   Where would be without Him?  He is glorified by us.  He deserves glory.   He doesn’t need us…we need Him!

It’s not naccissim….it’s proper for us to worship the one who is our God, the one who is our life!  For one who is so much higher than us and does everything for us it’s the right thing to do….He is glorified by us and in our love and obedience to Him!  We are glorified in Him.

John 17:9-10  pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. 10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.  Man glorifies God by just our existence.  We are fearfully and wonderfully MADE.  We are created by God to His glory and credit.

 

Jude 1:25……and majesty, God not only is glorified, He has majesty….He is our king.  Majesty means magnificence, and greatness.   Supreme creator and ruler of the universe.

……dominion means all authority…No authority but Him.

…..and power, Might … unmatched strength.  All powerful..

….both now and ever. For all time past present and future.  Never ending, never changing.

He is glorified.   He is glorified in you…..so you have the Spirit of God in you and one day you will glorify Him for all eternity by our presence with Him.  The unsearchable riches of God….27:00

1. He is Able 2. He is Going to Present us faultless 3.  He Is Glorified

He is…..all of this and much more.  But He is….what to you?  He is my creator.  Everyone can say that for He is that.  He is my God.  Everyone can say that for He is that whether you believe in Him or not.  He is my Savior….Only a few can say that.  Because only a few will receive Him.  He is….what to you?28:04

Daniel 7:23 The New World Order Is Coming No Matter What America Does

Intro: Like a large ship speeding toward the dock….nothing will stop it now.  It is too late to do anything but pray and prepare.  We have done it too ourselves.  We have mocked God.  Thumbed our nose at God.  Flipped God off and now we ask Where is He?  As stated in our “Sign of the Times”  We have Aborted and murdered millions of children.  We have allowed children to become sex slaves. We have allowed gender to be fluid.  We have given over to debase and sick immoral wickedness and we applaud it and parade it down our streets.  We have allowed all of this and now we wonder “where is God?”  1:00

 

1. America Will Be Devoured

Daniel 7:23  Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. This is the explanation I was given: “The fourth beast is a fourth empire that will be on the earth and will be different from all other empires. It will crush the whole earth and trample it down. Thus the angel said, ‘The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which will be different from all other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth and tread it down, and crush it.

The four kingdoms are described in this chapter… Daniel Chapter seven.  I preached on that last year.  You can look up my Daniel series on Rumble, Bitchute, and Apple podcasts…..

1^st Kingdom that would dominate Israel…..Babylon

2^nd Kingdom that will dominate Israel…Medo-Persia

3^rd Kingdom that will dominate Israel.…Greece

4^th Kingdome that will dominate Israel and the world…Rome…. up to and including the ten kings of the last days new world order leading to the Man of Sin…the Anti-Christ.

This fourth beast will control the whole earth.  That has not happened yet.. but It will under the control of the ten kings and the Beast….

The United States is not in Bible prophecy per se.  But I think they could be the Babylon of Revelation chapter 18. The commercial Babylon that all the leaders of the world are upset when it is destroyed.  But there is no hope for our nation.  Russia can destroy us in a war.  China can destroy us in a war.  The world elites, the globalists, the ten kings or ten elites or ten regions under control of the elites….they want us.  they don’t want us destroyed they just want to control us and our vast resources. And of course we have patriots that will fight their nefarious plans.

Patriots are the thorn in their side.  We are the stick in their mud.  We…..the true patriots and most of true patriots are part of the Christian church…..the true remnant church that understands what is going on.  Daniel 12:10 ….and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

 

America will be devoured under the power mad Beast.  One reason he is a beast is because he devours all of the world for his own.   America is doomed.  You need to understand that.  We are never going back to what we were.  But remember….. the church will not see the Anti-Christ, the Beast, the Man of sin.  We will have departed before the time of Jacob’s trouble. We are not appointed the wrath.  70 weeks of years are appointed for THY people….Israel.  The church has been taken out.  So rejoice that we will not suffer the wrath of God but we will suffer the wrath of man and many of us are suffering through this right now.  But even then this will be limited by God.  2 Thessalonians 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.   As long as the church is on the earth and the Holy Spirit that leads them (the he who letteth)  The full wrath of God cannot be poured out on the earth.

But remember.  God is going to catch all the lost people unaware.  And the fact that Jesus can come any day will test the faith of the church and reward the faithful who are looking for Him.  A bride in a Jewish wedding had no idea when her groom would come for her. She had to be ready.  If she were caught by the groom not looking for Him…. she is not fit to be a bride and will be cast away.   That is the world.

They should have been looking for Jesus Christ when He comes!

The world will still be building and planting, marrying and giving in marriage, buying and selling until the Lord comes unexpectedly.  Which can only be the rapture….not the physical return of Christ.  Remember the rapture and physical return of Christ are both the return of Christ and the day of the Lord.  First FOR His church and then seven years later WITH His Church! 10:00

 

1. America Will Be Devoured 2. The Little Horn Takes Over The World

Daniel 7:24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. The ten horns are ten kings who will rule the world empire. Then another king will appear; he will be very different from the earlier ones and will overthrow three kings. As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings will arise; and another will arise after them, and he will be different from the former ones, and he will subdue the three kings.

Another refers to the little horn of Daniel 7:8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.  He will be able to back up his words.  Horn means power and might.

This king will subdue three others and blaspheme God.  Daniel 11:36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.; 2 Thess. 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.  Rev. 13:5, 6 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. 6And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

He will claim to be the only god.  He wants to be worshiped as well as rule the world.   He will defile the new tabernacle or temple.  That is why it is called “the Anti-Christ Temple.”  Jesus will NOT sit in that Temple.  He will blaspheme God and all of His followers in heaven.  Claiming probably that they were devils, the unenlightened ones, the real evil people.

He will persecute the saints.  Daniel 7:21  I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;; Rev. 13:7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. attempt to change times and law, and dominate the saints for a limited time. time and times and half a time: Time can refer to a year, times to two years, and half a time to one half of a year, for a total of three and one-half years.

Some think that the beast will persecute those saved during the tribulation and will kill most of them.  Maybe all of them.  This will occur some believe in the first half of the tribulation.  To take over the world he cannot have believers in Jesus allowed to live and influence others.  He cannot touch the 144 thousand witnesses though.  But he can kill believers and probably will.  19:00

 

1. America Will Be Devoured 2. The Little Horn Takes Over The World
2. The Little Horn Has Limited Time

Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.   By this time What is left of America will be under the control of the Beast.  The Church is gone and all that are left will be those who have taken the mark or will eventually take the mark of the Beast.

Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High….. He will speak words against the Most High [God] He will speak against the Supreme God He will do a lot of talking.   He has no problem attacking God.  If God were not God then why would the anti-Christ bother talking against him? That’s because God is God!   Why do atheists put down God….why wouldn’t they just ignore Him if He didn’t exists?  Because God is God!

Daniel 7:25…. and shall wear out the saints of the most High…. and wear down the saints of the Most High.  He will oppress God’s people.  It either means he is persecuting Believers in Jesus or the Jews in general.  Some feel this is the believing Jews who are left after the slaughter of 2/3 of the Jews.  Zechariah 13:8 (I will read later)  Or it could be those who accept Christ and suffer greatly and most are killed by the Beast.  Saints in the Bible always refer to  those who have faith in God.  Jews or the Church.

 

Daniel 7:25…..and think to change times and laws….. He will try to change their religious laws and festivals, and he will intend to change the times and the law; He will try to change the Jewish laws and festivals.  It may mean that he will change the basic laws of nature and order.  His program may include a revision of the calendar. This was attempted during the French Revolution.  But whatever it is he is trying to get rid of the old order of things.

Daniel 7:25….and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. and God’s people will be under his power for three and a half years. and they will be given into his hand for a time, [two] times, and half a time [three and one-half years].  Revelation 12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

The Jews will flee Israel to the mountains.  This could be the last 3 and one half years of the tribulation where the Beast will focus his attention on annihilating the Jews.  But God will spare the ones that flee.  Evidently not all will flee.  Probably one third will flee because that it number of Jews that will survive the Tribulation.  Zechariah 13:8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

 

The little horn, the Beast has only seven years and 3 and one half years to kill the Jews he can do a lot of damage.  But the most damage will be done by God to the world during the tribulation.  The last 3 and one half years are the times of the great tribulation.  The martyrdom of the two witnesses, the mark of the beast, the trumpet and Bowl judgments and the destruction of Babylon all occurs…… many believe in the last half of the tribulation.

Bottom line…..America is doomed….as is every nation except Israel.  Now we know that there must be remnants of the nations in the Millennium and people of those nations are invited to come to Jerusalem by Jesus Christ.  Zechariah 14:16-17 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. 17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

 

Zechariah 8:22 Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord.  Perhaps over time in the millennial people will survive in America and other nations and become strong and prosperous again.  We will still be America but not like we are now.  We will be at peace, have honest leadership, be a moral people and all working together as we worship the Lord Jesus Christ.   What a day that will be.  All nations will be healed.  Maybe that’s what the healing of the nations is all about.  Nations have lived with rivalry and war and distrust…will love and trust and work together and celebrate our differences instead of hating each other.

This scene is in heaven I believe…. Revelation 22:2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. If This refers to the nations as they are today…..and that’s big “if” we just don’t know…..Our best days are ahead of us as a nation!

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1. America Will Be Devoured 2. The Little Horn Takes Over The World
2. The Little Horn Has Limited Time

The New World Order Is Coming No Matter What America Does

Will God will finally bless America?  Not until Jesus comes. So after He comes…. I hope America and all nations to be blessed.  Until then we will see a time of growing despair and destruction that will be only get worse and worse until suddenly there is a full blown chaos and destruction when the church is raptured and the Beast signs a peace treaty with Israel.   28:04

2/19/2023

2 Peter 3:2-13 Biblical Scoffers

Intro: No one believes in the rapture much anymore.  And that makes no sense especially when we are obviously in the last of  the last days.  But people have been subverted within by the media and by the lack of Biblical preaching to ignorance about the rapture and the end times.  We know times are bad but we don’t know WHY times are bad.  We know things will get better if we just get the right people in charge.  And that would be the leftists and Marxists.  Scoffing at the Bible and Bible prophecy is the norm today.  I’m glad we are having pockets of revival.  I know we have a few consistent and faithful remnant Bible believing and Bible preaching churches in the world today.  Who faithfully meet each week and pray together, teach the word and preach the world without any fan fare or media attention.  They are faithful without the flare.  Scoffers ignore these churches.  Biblical scoffers ignore three obvious things to their own peril.  1:00

 

1. Consistency of Creation 1^st Sign Of Christs Return

2 Peter 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts. First of all, you must understand that in the last days some people will appear whose lives are controlled by their own lusts. First of all, know [without any doubt] that mockers will come in the last days with their mocking, following after their own human desires

2 Peter 3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. and will ask, “He promised to come, didn’t he? Where is he? Our ancestors have already died, but everything is still the same as it was since the creation of the world!” and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming [what has become of it]? For ever since the fathers fell asleep [in death], all things have continued [exactly] as they did from the beginning of creation.”   They will make fun of you.

2 Peter 3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water.  They purposely ignore the fact that long ago God gave a command, and the heavens and earth were created. The earth was formed out of water and by water, For they willingly forget [the fact] that the heavens existed long ago by the word of God, and the earth was formed [a]out of water and by water,

Consistency of Creation is a sign of God’s divine handiwork and divine purposes….. not a sign that He doesn’t exist.  And a sign of His great mercy and grace.  5:00

 

1. Consistency of Creation 1st Sign Of Christs Return 2. Flood 2^nd Sign Of Christs Return

2 Peter 3:6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: and it was also by water, the water of the flood, that the old world was destroyed. through which the world at that time was destroyed by being flooded with water.

Peter 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.  But the heavens and the earth that now exist are being preserved by the same command of God, in order to be destroyed by fire. They are being kept for the day when godless people will be judged and destroyed.   But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly people.   When they least expected it the rain began and judgment was poured out.

If God judged the world then He will surely do it now especially after the Bible talks so much about judgment.  The Entire book of Joel is about the judgment of the world.  Revelation.  Daniel and Many of the prophets and Jesus Himself discussed end times events that were all focused on the judgement of the wicked coming upon the world.  9:00

 

1. Consistency of Creation 1st Sign Of Christs Return 2. Flood 2nd Sign Of Christs Return
2. Patience of Christ 3^rd Sign
3. The Lord is waiting for that last person to fill the church

2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.  But do not forget one thing, my dear friends! There is no difference in the Lord’s sight between one day and a thousand years; to him the two are the same. Nevertheless, do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like one day.

 

2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

The Lord is not slow to do what he has promised, as some think. Instead, he is patient with you, because he does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants all to turn away from their sins.   The Lord does not delay [as though He were unable to act] and is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is [extraordinarily] patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

The evil in this world is not a sign that he doesn’t exist but that He does.  He is not willing that any should perish due to His divine love.  He is patient with us because of His love.  While He is patient He gives remedial judgments upon nations and people to remind them that they can only go so far.

Humans have freedom to rebel.  All of God’s creation can rebel against Him.  But angels cannot repent for they are God’s messengers not made in the image of God.  Humans can repent for God has given them choice as freewill agents.  God created humans as innocent.  Angels were created beings knowing right and wrong.  As soon as man sinned He became aware of his sin and therefore was responsible.  But God did not destroy Adam and Eve but set out to redeem them and take them from innocence in order to make them aware of Good and Evil….. so that than can be perfect and holy by faith in the second Adam Jesus Christ!

The fact that Jesus has not come yet is a sign of His patience and love for a lost and dying world.  He is waiting for that last person to come to Him.  This is not a sign that God does not exist but that He does!  We know the world is evil. Everyone knows that!  Why is God not doing anything about it?  He is a God of justice. But a God of mercy also.  15:00

 

1. The Lord Will Come As A thief…Not with An Announcement

2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that Day the heavens will disappear with a shrill noise, the heavenly bodies will burn up and be destroyed, and the earth with everything in it will vanish. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will vanish with a [mighty and thunderous] roar, and the [material] elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and the works that are on it will be [b]burned up.]

First of all, you must understand that in the last days some people will appear whose lives are controlled by their own lusts. They will make fun of you     Jesus has told us that He is returning. That’s all we need to know. To be ready for His appearing at all times.  The fact that He comes without angels announcing it over the whole earth should terrify us.  You see He is looking for those who are always looking for Him.  One day the bride groom will come for His bride.  Without announcement.  Without fanfare.  But come suddenly when no one expects it.  This to test the bride and her love for her husband.

 

2 Peter 3:11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness….. Since all these things will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people should you be? Your lives should be holy and dedicated to God, Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be [in the meantime] in holy behavior [that is, in a pattern of daily life that sets you apart as a believer] and in godliness [displaying profound reverence toward our awesome God],

What should we be like?  How should we be acting?

2 Peter 3:12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?  as you wait for the Day of God and do your best to make it come soon—the Day when the heavens will burn up and be destroyed, and the heavenly bodies will be melted by the heat. 12 [while you earnestly] look for and await the coming of the day of God. For on this day the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the [material] elements will melt with intense heat!

Knowing that everything is going to change in this great day of God or the day of the Lord…what should we have to look forward to on this earth?  Nothing!

2 Peter 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.  But we wait for what God has promised: new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness will be at home. But in accordance with His promise we expectantly await new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

We are looking for Jesus Christ and a new heavens and a new earth that will only have righteousness and no evil.  No sickness, no death, no despair, no hatred, and no poor.

So we should be looking forward to the return of Christ.  The child and the elderly the same.  21:00

 

1. Consistency of Creation 1st Sign Of Christs Return 2. Flood 2nd Sign Of Christs Return
2. Patience of Christ 3rd Sign

Biblical Scoffers.  They won’t be scoffing much longer.  They won’t be laughing much longer.  It is coming.  It will get here when we least expect it.  I admit I am shocked by the church’s reaction to today’s events.  But the Bible says that the church will be in complete apostasy in the last days.  Is the revival in Asbury real?  I hope so.

Andy Woods Pastor of Sugarland Bible church in Houston Texas had this to say about the Asbury Revival……  Quote…”Am I skeptical?  Yes and no.  I have a healthy amount of skepticism because of many false revivals in Brownsville and Pennsecola that gave out unbiblical manifestations.  Barking and laughing.   Led by false teachers who are gravitating toward the revival in Asbury Kentucky.  Todd Bentley is traveling there who knocked a woman out with a shoe.  Rodney Howard Browne who lead the laughing revival in Florida is there.

What is a revival?  It is a soveign work of the Holy spirit that beings with scripture.   So let’s let the facts come in as to whether this is of God or not.  How do you tell?  The role the church plays.  Every revival is preceeded by the focus on the scripture alone.  Not mystical unbiblical miracles.  The Word of God becomes more prominent.

There are Four revivals in the scriptures…….

1. 2 Kings 22-23 Josiah revival. They discovered the neglected law of God. A return to scripture.
2. Nehemiah 8-9 An awakening because Ezra taught the word of God line by line verse by verse.
3. Jonah. Jonah delivering the word of God to Ninevah. Jonah 3:4-5  Jonah gave the exact message of God’s word.
4. Pentecost. Acts 2:41 Those who received His word were baptized.  Three thousand souls.……Peter preaching the word of God.  No singing.  No testimonies.  Peter preached from Joel 2, Psalm 16, Psalm 132 and Psalm 110.

We see a lot of singing, emotion and confession and not seeing the prominece of proclamation.  Revival is proceeded by proclamation of the word of God.  I will not endorse or condemn until we see if it fits the Biblical pattern of Revival.” Andy Woods… end quote.

It is odd that we don’t ever hear who is preaching or anything about the preaching.  Just wondering.  But I pray also that this is a move of God that is real.  But more that that instead of waiting for a revival that we have our own individual revival.  Reading the Bible daily.  Going to your prayer closet each day.   I pray that we here remain faithful to the preaching and teaching of God’s word until Jesus comes.  We surely need revival in America and we need preachers of the word of God proclaiming and naming the name of Jesus!   Is your life scripture centered and Biblically based?  You won’t ever experience God without the word of God in your life.  After all it is by the Bible that we know that we must be born again. That we must believe on the Lord Jesus Christ in order to be saved.   Do you believe?  28:04

 

2/26/2023

By Jonathan Brentner

Dare To Be An Enoch

“Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him” (Genesis 5:24).

Enoch is a type of our future departure from the earth at Jesus’ appearing. Hebrews 11:5 tells us this about his sudden disappearance….Hebrews 11:5– “By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.”

Enoch’s faith pleased God in Hebrews 11:5, but what exactly did he believe? The text does not directly answer that question; it only reveals that he pleased the Lord. Genesis 5:24 simply says that he “walked with God” before he vanished; others saw Enoch’s faith and knew the reason why no one could find him; he wasn’t killed by a wild animal, kidnapped, or lost somewhere. “God took him.”  His faith and trust in God was counted to Him for righteousness just like Noah’s and Abraham’s faith saved them.

 

Jude 14 adds that Enoch also “prophesied, saying, ‘Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his Saints.’” Isn’t it amazing that about six centuries before the Noahic flood, the Lord was already talking to Enoch about His Second Coming?

Enoch’s faith included an understanding of, as well as a belief in, future prophecy.

What does all this have to do with us?

Just as Enoch gained a reputation in the ancient world for his faith despite the rampant wickedness and lawlessness, so our belief in what Scripture says about our future sets us apart from the world.

Enoch lived 365 years before God took him away from the earth. From all that we know about the wickedness and lawlessness of the antediluvian world, that’s a long time to walk faithfully with the Lord.

Like Enoch, we must persevere amid today’s ridicule of our hope, such as the article from CNN mocking the Rapture, as we eagerly await our “blessed hope.” Titus 2:13.

What can help us do that?

 

KNOW THAT THE RAPTURE IS A BIBLICAL EVENT

Please understand that the Rapture is a biblical event. Consider the following quote from the late Dr. Ed Hindson, a beloved scholar whose insights into biblical prophecy we sorely miss: “If you disagree on the timing of the rapture, please don’t tell people, ‘There’s never going to be a rapture.’ No, there must be a rapture or the Bible is not true. There must be a time when the archangel shouts, when the trumpet sounds, and the dead in Christ are raised and the living are caught up 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.  We may differ on the timing of the rapture but not the fact of the rapture.”

As Dr. Hindson alludes to in the above quote, there must be a time when the event, which Paul describes in numerous passages, happens or God’s Word is not true. Our hope in what we today call the “Rapture” rests upon what Scripture says will take place.

It’s a biblical event that cannot be combined with the Second Coming.

(Note: The Rapture will happen before the seven-year Tribulation. I have written many articles to that effect and spend many chapters in my book, The Triumph of the Redeemed, demonstrating why it must happen before this time of God’s wrath upon the earth.)

The Rapture is something we read about in passages such as 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 – “For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” Our hope as New Testament saints consists of the following sequence of events that the Bible tells us will happen quickly, almost simultaneously:

Jesus appears; He descends from heaven (1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 1 John 3:2-3Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.  Colossians 1:4Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints.

 

There’s a “cry of command” and the shout of the archangel (1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel).

The “trumpet of God” sounds (1 Thessalonians 4:16……and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first.

Jesus raises the dead in Christ and joins them with the souls that He brings with Him at His appearing (1

Thessalonians 4:14-16 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

1 Corinthians 15:52 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

 

Believers living at the time of Jesus’ appearing receive their immortal bodies (1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

 

1 Corinthians 15:50-54 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

Philippians 3:20-21For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: 21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

 

Romans 8:23-25 and not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.  24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?  25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

 

Jesus takes His bride, the church, to the place He’s prepared for them in His Father’s house.  John 14:2-3 n my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

 

John 17:24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.  Colossians 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. We appear with Jesus in glory.

The Rapture is a biblical event. The Lord will catch us up to be with Him someday and just like Enoch, I

believe that most of us will still be alive when this happens.

 

REMEMBER THAT THE RAPTURE IS OUR GOSPEL HOPE

Unfortunately, many people today divorce the Rapture from the Gospel, but this was not the case in New Testament times.

1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 tells us that Paul’s initial proclamation of the Gospel in Thessalonica included the fact of Jesus’ appearing to take believers away from the earth before a future time of wrath, which he later described as the “Day of the Lord:” For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; 10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

 

Their conversion story consisted not only of turning to God and away from idols, but also that of waiting for Jesus’ appearing (AKA, the Rapture).

Pay close attention to the words in Romans 8:23-24 “And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved.”

The Rapture is when we will receive our immortal bodies (hence “the redemption of our bodies”). Notice what the apostle says about our anticipation of this event, “For in this hope we were saved.” The Rapture is an essential aspect of our Gospel hope.

Jesus often promised eternal life to those who would believe in Him and talked about His return for us in the Upper Room as He prepared His disciples for life without His physical presence. The apostles, especially Paul, later added more details about our hope under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

The Rapture is either described or clearly alluded to in these New Testament texts: John 14:2-3 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

 

Philippians 3:20-21 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

 

Colossians 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

 

1 Corinthians 1:7 So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:, 15:51-57 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?  56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.  57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11; But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.  16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

 

1 Thessalonians 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. 9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. 11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

 

2 Thessalonians 2:1-8 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

 

Titus 2:11-15 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; 13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; 14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. 15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

 

Hebrews 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

 

James 5:7-8 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. 8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

 

1 Peter 1:13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

 

1 John 3:2-3 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.,

 

Revelation 3:10-11 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. 11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

 

Revelation 22:12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

Revelation 12:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus..

The Rapture was hardly an afterthought in the minds of the apostles as they proclaimed the Gospel.

 

HOLD TIGHTLY TO THE LORD FOR STRENGTH

It’s not easy being an Enoch in today’s world. It requires courage to hold on to our beliefs in Jesus’ imminent appearing amid ridicule from the world and from other believers.

CNN recently posted an article that mocks the Rapture by telling someone’s story about the anxiety it caused her. This woman, however, does not understand the Gospel message nor what Scripture says about our hope in Jesus’ appearing.

Of course, if people think their salvation depends on their good behavior and they never hear about the

glories ahead for them in eternity, teachings about a sudden disappearance from all the things they love on earth will scare them. But that is NOT the Gospel nor is it the Gospel hope that we find throughout the New Testament.

One more thought about the CNN hit piece on the Rapture. Perhaps it’s an indication that Satan knows Jesus’ appearing will happen very, very soon and desires to get ahead of the curve by attacking it.

All this fierce opposition to our hope means that we must continually rely on Christ for our strength as we cling to the words of Scripture. The numerous passages I cited above confirm that the Rapture is a biblical event. Don’t lose hope.

I know it’s not easy waiting for the Lord to return for us; I also struggle with the wait at times. I never thought we would remain on the earth so close to the seven-year Tribulation, but here we are.

The longer the wait, the more we need the Lord’s help in order to persevere our hope of Jesus’ soon return. The example of Enoch encourages us to endure amid the opposition to our hope that we encounter at every turn. And, we will not have to wait until we are 365 years old for it to happen.

Furthermore, the Lord will reward our faith despite the seemingly long, long wait.

 

THERE’S A SURE REWARD FOR LOVING JESUS’ APPEARING

God rewarded Enoch for his faith. He took him long before He judged the ancient world and included his

name in Hebrew 11, a chapter that many regard as the hall of fame for faith. And, he has been with the Lord all these millennia.

For those of us who dare to be like Enoch in our walk of faith, there will be special rewards for maintaining our hope in Jesus’ imminent appearing. In 2 Timothy 4:8, Paul wrote:

2 Timothy 4:8 KJV – “Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.” When Jesus comes for His church, He will take all born again saints to His Father’s house in heaven just as He promises us in John 14:2-3. However, in 2 Timothy 4:8, the apostle tells us there will be a special “crown of righteousness” for those who long for or love His appearing, even if they, like Paul, die before the Rapture.

The Lord will reward those who persevere in holding on to their belief in the pre-Tribulation Rapture despite the wait.

I realize that “dare to be an Enoch” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as does “dare to be a Daniel.” Ithought about “endeavor to be an Enoch” or “emulating Enoch,” but such phrases don’t convey the boldness required to be an Enoch today.

Enoch stood out in the ancient world because of his faith, which included a belief in the Second Coming of Jesus, which still hasn’t happened. We also please the Lord as we hold tightly to the Gospel message of grace and expectantly long for Jesus’ appearing to take us home.

I will close with the words of Romans 1:16-17 – “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.”

Hold tightly to your anticipation of Jesus’ soon appearing. Jesus will come for us very, very soon. He will not disappoint us and He will most certainly reward us for our perseverance and endurance as we eagerly await.

Thank you Jonathan Brentner for this great article on the rapture of the church.

2/12/2023

1 Timothy 2:5-6 One Is The Only Number.

Intro: One Is  the lonliest number.  A song from the sixties.  A song about a lonely life is to be one.  What is one?  One means I exist.  One means life actually.   And to know what life is all about we have to figure out where life originated.  And there are two camps here.   The man centered view and the God centered view.  All computer language is a series of One’s and Zeros.  That’s interesting.  If you don’t have one you have zero.  God is “one” according to the Bible.  He therefore is the ONE of all things.  1:00

 

1. One True God

1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, For there is one God, For there is [only] one God, James 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.  The devils believe in One God and they fear Him.  Ephesians 4:5-6 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. One.  One Lord Jesus Christ, One faith in one person Jesus Christ.  One Baptism into the Lord Jesus Christ. One God and one Father of all things.

Galatians 3:20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.   God is one.  One person revealed in Three.  The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. These three are one the Bible Says.   1 Corinthians 8:4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. The Bible is clear.  There are “gods” little “g’s” that are demonic in origin or human men who think they are gods.  But they are no comparison to our God!   Malachi 2:10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?   Only one creator God.  This separates Him from all other so called gods. Only the true God can create something from nothing!

Zechariah 14:9 And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.  Satan is called the PRINCE of this world three times in John. Being a prince his power is limited by God.   He is not the King of hell and He is not the King of the earth….. but the Prince of the world of darkness and that includes the hearts of sinful men on the earth.  Interestingly man still has dominion over the earth.  That is the animals and all the earth is subject to man’s whims and desires.

But Jesus Christ and Him only and forever shall be the King of the earth!   In fact, He already is the King but He hasn’t taken up His earthly throne yet….. but it won’t be long!

Ephesians 2:2 says Satan is the prince of the power of the air.   Satan has limited power over the sky and outer space. But as prince it is limited but effective.  Satan is the king of nothing!  There is only one true God one true King and one true Savior.  Jesus Christ the righteous!  Jesus Christ the King of Kings and Lord of Lords!  10:00

 

1. One True God 2.  One Bridge From Man To God

1 Timothy 2:5…..and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

and there is one who brings God and human beings together, the man Christ Jesus  and [only] one Mediator between God and mankind, the Man Christ Jesus.  Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.  No other name can save you. They may claim they can.  They can claim lots of things.  Like advertisers claim they can do this or that.  Many make claims but only one can do it all. That is God, our Savior Jesus Christ!  He has the power.  He is the only one who has defeated death, hell and the grave.  Many claim to be the way but they are dead or dying.  Jesus Christ lives….at the right hand of God!

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.  If you had ten seconds to tell someone the gospel.  I think you have several Bible verses as great choices.  You have John 3:16  for God so loved the world….you have Acts 16:31…Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved…. And you have John 14:6 my favorite.  It has it all….I am the ONLY way…… the ONLY Truth….The ONLY Life and you cannot come to God or go to heaven without Jesus Christ.  That says it all right there.

A bridge takes you over an impassable stream of water way or a deep gorge.   Mankind is separated from God by our sin.  A great gulf is fixed between man and God called sin.  We need a bridge back to God.  We need righteousness to be able to get to God.  There is none righteous no not even one.  So we can’t build the bridge ourselves.  God gave us Jesus Christ who is perfect.  Without sin to be our bridge.  We can only cross over to God by the cross of Jesus Christ!  We cross on Jesus righteousness not our own.  The gorge, the gulf is too wide for us to build a way.  We need Jesus and only He can do it.

Jesus is the only Bridge to God.  The mediator.  Hebrews 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.  The Old Testament or Old Covenant was fulfilled by the new testament or new covenant.  The Old Covenant was based on works that we could not complete. That’s why there were 634 Levitical laws. We could never do them all.  It was overwhelming at times.  God is telling us that we cannot reach Him with the law because we have broken the law.  We need Grace. The New Covenant is a covenant of…….I Give unto you.  The Old Covenant was based on……If You do….. Huge difference.

God always has saved by grace. The blood of innocent lambs and bulls and goats point to the grace of God allowing the blood of an unblemished lamb, bull or goat to cover sins.  Or a sinless lamb can cover sins of others if that sin is applied to the innocent on behalf of the guilty. That is grace!  God richness of salvation at Christ’s expending His perfect life for the perfectly guilty.  One Bridge. One way.  One Lord. One Hope.  Jesus Christ!  19:00

 

1. One True God 2.  One Bridge From Man To God  3.  One Way To God

1 Timothy 2:6 Who gave himself a ransom for all….. who gave himself to redeem the whole human race. who gave Himself as a ransom [a substitutionary sacrifice to atone] for all.  Mark 10:25 For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. 

 

The Bible has many descriptions and phrases of our salvation in Christ.  Redeemed.  Born again.  New creatures.  Brought from death unto life.  Our Hope.  But I think “Ransom” is the perfect word to describe what Jesus did for us!  We were held captive by sin.  We had no way to escape.  We needed a Savior to come and rescue us.  Jesus is our Savior who have His life in exchange for ours.  Isaiah 35:10 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.  We are the ransomed of the Lord.  He has brought us from captivity to freedom.  What joy we should have!  Everlasting joy that begins at the moment of your new birth in Jesus Christ.

1 Timothy 2:6 …..to be testified in due time. That was the proof at the right time that God wants everyone to be saved, the testimony given at the right and proper time.  At just the right time in world history God sent His Son.  The population of the earth in AD 30 was about 200 million.  Today it’s almost 8 Billion!  God sent His Son at just the right time.   The right time. The right place.  The right technology and the right government.  Now Jesus can be preached instantaneously to the whole world every minute of every day!  What a time to be alive and get the gospel to the whole world.  Every church, every ministry can be world wide in it’s reach now.  And we have had two thousand years to get ready for this time we live in now!

Romans 5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.    Got Questions.com answers this much better than I could….The requirement for salvation has always been faith in God. The object of one’s faith for salvation has always been Jesus Christ. Genesis 15:6 tells us that Abraham believed God and God credited it to him for righteousness.   The Old Testament sacrificial system did not take away sin, as Hebrews 10:1-10 clearly teaches. It did, however, point to the day when the Son of God would shed His blood for the sinful human race.

Prior to Moses, no Scripture was written, but mankind was responsible for what God had revealed. Romans chapter 1.  Throughout the Old Testament, believers came to salvation because they believed that God would someday take care of their sin problem. Today, we look back, believing that He has already taken care of our sins on the cross.  Hebrews 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. 

What about believers in Christ’s day, prior to the cross and resurrection? What did they believe? Did they understand the full picture of Christ dying on a cross for their sins? Late in His ministry, “Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life” The Disciples didn’t exactly know how He would accomplish that, any more than Adam, Abraham, Moses, or David knew how, but they believed God.

Today, we have more revelation than the people living before the resurrection of Christ; we know the full picture.  Hebrews 1:1-2 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds.  Our salvation has always been based on the death of Christ, our faith is still the requirement for salvation, and the object of our faith is still God. Today, for us, the content of our faith is that Jesus Christ died for our sins, He was buried, and He rose the third day (1 Corinthians 15:3-4).  For those in the past they trusted God in the things they did not see or understand.  It’s always been one way.  Jesus Christ who died for our sins as a ransom for all.  They looked forward to that day. We look back to that day!  It’s always been one way.  Jesus Christ!  Have you gone the one way?  The only way through faith and trust in Jesus Christ!

1. One True God 2.  One Bridge From Man To God  3.  One Way To God   28:04

2-12-2023

Revelation 6:9-11  How Long  Part Two?

Intro: We know that there will be another Jewish holocaust coming in the second half of the tribulation.  When two thirds of the Jewish people will be killed by the Beast, the man of sin, the Anti-Christ in his attempt to destroy the Jews so that Jesus Christ cannot rule over His people Israel during the millennium.  Zechariah 13:8-9   8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.  9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.   I believe the events in Revelation chapter six are a summation of events in world history that happen after the ascension of Jesus Christ to heaven up to and including the tribulation.  But no matter how you believe about Revelation chapter six either way we know that there will be a holocaust of believers up coming. Let Review….

1. Slain For Christ

Revelation 6:9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held.  Then the Lamb broke open the fifth seal. I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed because they had proclaimed God’s word and had been faithful in their witnessing. When He (the Lamb) broke open the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they had maintained [out of loyalty to Christ].

Remember…..we are not going to be here when the wrath of God is poured out on this earth.  We are already here for the wrath of man.  Thousands of Christians are martyred each year in the world.  I think this murder of Christians could step up in the next few years and even include Christians in the United States.  They have already declared war on the right.  That includes Christians.  They hate us and want us dead.  They declare war on anyone who says something that hurts their feelings.  It will get incredibly worse during the tribulation period when the church is raptured before the tribulation the hatred of any who would accept Jesus Christ will be off the charts.  Christianity is just not going to be allowed or tolerated at all!

Again, Jesus said if they persecuted me they will persecute you.  Why do we think we are better than the brave Christians of China, the middle east and North Korea?  Why do we think this won’t happen here?  I think we are going to see the true church stand up and stand out in the next few months or even maybe couple of years.  We must be ready for anything but live our lives as normally as possible for Jesus Christ. How can we do that? Ephesians 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

 

1. Slain For Jesus Christ 2. How Long

Revelation 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?  They shouted in a loud voice, “Almighty Lord, holy and true! How long will it be until you judge the people on earth and punish them for killing us?” They cried in a loud voice, saying, “O Lord, holy and true, how long now before You will sit in judgment and avenge our blood on those [unregenerate ones] who dwell on the earth?”

How long?  It’s been a long time.  Why would they ask that if it’s just been a few months or a few years?  It will take seven years.   That vengeance won’t take place until Revelation 19:2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.  The end of the tribulation God will avenge them and all martyred for Jesus Christ.

1. Slain For Jesus Christ 2. How Long……… Now lets look at part three tonight..
2. Rest for A Little Season

Revelation 6:11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. Each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to rest a little while longer, until the complete number of other servants and believers were killed, as they had been. Then they were each given a white robe; and they were told to rest and wait quietly for a little while longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers and sisters who were to be killed even as they had been, would be completed.

 

God has to complete His work of judgment.  He will judge no one before He is ready.  He is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.  But there comes a time when it’s over.  God will not always strive with man.  It’s getting to out of control.  Like the flood.  Men were violent and corrupt even down to their genes.  It’s happening again.   God has judged people before and nations all down through history.

But this is not Genesis where He gives corrupted man a chance to remake Himself and replenish the earth and have dominion over the world while having an adversary Satan.  This time God is going to remake the earth with redeemed man and Jesus Christ as the King of Kings.

Each martyr is given the white robe of the overcomer.  Revelation 7:14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.  Matthew 28:3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow.   It says that everyone of them will receive white robe.  All have sinned but all in Jesus are made righteous.

Revelation 6:11 …..that they should rest yet for a little season, They are  told to rest … until God’s appointed time. Just a little longer…..“Vengeance is mine,” says the Lord Deuteronomy 32:35 To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. ; Romans 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. ; The vengeance will come in His perfect timing.    Revelation 3:5 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters.  Judgement is coming to all those that have opposed the things of God and His Son Jesus Christ! 

Revelation 6:11….until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.  One day…and I hope it is soon…the last person will trust in Jesus Christ and make the church complete and then the church will be taken home.  One day the last person will be martyred for Christ and then Jesus will return. 

The purpose for the tribulation is told to us in Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

To finish the transgresson…..

To make an end of sins……

To reconcile for past sins of Israel…..

Everlasting righteousness……

Seal up all prophecies to fulfill all prophecies……….

To annoit Jesus Christ as King of Kings!

….To finish the transgression, to make an end of sins. While this may refer in a general sense to all Israel’s sinful ways, it specifically refers to the nation’s rejection of the Messiah. At the return of Christ, a one third of Jews will turn to Him in faith and the nation’s transgression and sins will be forgiven.  To end sinners control of the world.   No more rebellion for Israel.   From now on they will serve the Lord in obedience and loyalty.  The word in general will pay for their rejection of Jesus Christ and their attempt to undermine God at every turn.

….To make reconciliation for iniquity. The basis for reconciliation was laid at the cross of Christ, but this refers to the time, still future, when the nation of Israel will come into the benefit and enjoyment of the finished work of Christ on the cross.  Their sins are paid for by Jesus Christ just like the church before them.

…..To bring in everlasting righteousness. This, too, points forward to the return of Christ and the Millennium, when the King will reign in righteousness. It is everlasting righteousness in the sense that it will continue on into the eternal state.

…..To seal up vision and prophecy. The main body of OT prophecy centers on the glorious Return of Christ to earth, and His subsequent kingdom. Therefore, the bulk of prophecies will be fulfilled at the end of the seventy weeks, the tribulation.  And they will all end with the eternal state of the new heaven and the new earth.

…..And to anoint the Most Holy Place. At the beginning of the thousand-year reign, the temple described in Ezekiel chapters 40–44 will be anointed or consecrated in Jerusalem. The glory will return in the Person of the Lord.(Ezek. 43:1–5).    What a day that will be!!

Revelation 6:11….until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.    Thousands die for Christ each year.  This year will be no different.  Will it increase? I think so.  Will there be a holocaust of martyrs?  Yes during the tribulation when millions will die for their faith in Christ.  Revelation 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; Revelation 7: 13-14  13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? 14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

The clear fact is this…..Don’t wait until the holocaust comes…..Trust in Jesus Christ now.  If you know in your heart you want to or intend to become a Christian one day….Now is not the time to wait.  Jesus may come for His bride at any time.  If you are not ready.  If you get left behind because you failed to trust in Jesus Christ.  You will have two choices…..accept Jesus Christ and probably die as a martyr or accept the mark of the beast and live for a while and be condemned to the lake of fire forever and ever!  To me that is no choice….

 

1. Slain For Christ 2. How Long 3. Rest for A Little Season

Bottom line….things are never going to be the same in our world.  The world is in a war.. for the souls of men.  Satan knows his time is short.  He knows he must win.  He must destroy Israel and the Jews.  He must take out the church who supports Israel.   He thinks he can win.  But he lost the war on Calvary.  Jesus has the victory already.  He will be King.  He will judge the wicked and bring in everlasting righteousness.  In the meantime we can decide.  We have a choice.  Follow our own hearts and minds and trust in what we think is best…..or trust in the revealed word of God.  Trust that the Bible is the word of God.  Bible prophecy is coming true and will be fulfilled.  Trust in Jesus Christ.  Put your confidence and future in His hands.  He will save you and bring you to Himself.

Oh this is all foolish Jack…..I would rather be a fool for Christ than a fool for rejecting Him.

2/5/2023

Colossians 1:9-11  How To Pray For Someone

Intro: We ought always to pray and not to faint.  But who do you pray for?  How are you praying for them?  In these days we live in almost everyone we know is facing a crises.  If not they soon will be.  We need to pray for others every day. 1:00

 

1. Regularly Pray For Others

Colossians 1:9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, For this reason we have always prayed for you, ever since we heard about you. For this reason, since the day we heard about it, we have not stopped praying for you.  1 Samuel 2:23 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you.   We all have children, grandchildren, brothers and sisters, family, friends, church family.  Pray for them every day.  You know there is hardly anyone who doesn’t pray.  Who they pray to means everything.  We pray to the God of the universe.  The creator and sustainer of all things!

Psalm 86:5 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.  Jeremiah 29:12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.  Psalm 91:15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.   Call upon the Lord.  We must be people of prayer before we can pray for anyone.

God only answers the prayers of HIS people.   Proverbs 1:28-29 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:  29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord.  People who do not know Jesus Christ as their Savior will not have their prayers answered.  The only prayer they can pray is Lord save me!!  So they are wasting their time praying for something.

But we have access to the throne of God!  Hebrews 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.    This is amazing.  That we saved sinners can come to God’s prescence in prayer.  And we come to Him we can pray successfully!  James 5:16 The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

 

Pray for others.  You can make a difference in their lives forever.  Our prayers go on to heaven.  Revelation 5:8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.  Revelation 8:3-4 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.  And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.

 

And you thought your prayers were unimportant?   This is probably the most important thing you will do in your life.  Your Bible is the most important thing in your Christian life and your prayers are the most important thing you will do in your Christian life.  10:00

 

2. What To Pray For Others
3. That they might know God’s will

Colossians 1:9….. and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will….. We ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will, with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom [with insight into His purposes]  Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

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1. That they might have wisdom and understanding

Colossians 1:9…..in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

with all the wisdom and understanding that his Spirit gives., asking [specifically] that you may be filled and in understanding [of spiritual things],  Proverbs 2:6 For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. 

 

Daniel 12:10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.  We are meant to understand Bible prophecy.  We are meant to understand the deep things of God.  But it all comes with prayer and Bible reading.  1 Corinthians 2:10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.  15:00

 

1. That they might please the Lord

Colossians 1:10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, Then you will be able to live as the Lord wants and will always do what pleases him. So that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord Your lives will produce all kinds of good deeds, and you will grow in your knowledge of God. [displaying admirable character, moral courage, and personal integrity], to [fully] please Him in all things,

Romans 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.  You cannot please God if you are not walking in faith and trust in Him.  If you are not walking in the word of God and in personal prayer to Him.  If you are living for self and what this world can give you then you are in the flesh.

 

1 Thessalonians 4:1 …..ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.

1 John 3:22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.  Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.  18:00

 

1. That they might be fruitful

Colossians 1:10…….being fruitful in every good work, bearing fruit in every good work.  Galatians 5:22-23  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.   We will be fruitful in every things we do if we are walking in prayer and in faith.  20:00

 

1. That they might increase in knowledge of the Lord

Colossians 1:10…….and increasing in the knowledge of God.  And steadily growing in the knowledge of God [with deeper faith, clearer insight and fervent love for His precepts];  Philippians 3:10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection.  The greatest knowledge is to know Christ…..the greatest gift is that Christ knows me.  22:00

 

1. That they might be strengthened in the Lord

Colossians 1:11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, May you be made strong with all the strength which comes from his glorious power, We pray that you may be] strengthened and invigorated with all power, according to His glorious might.  Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.  We have no strength until Christ strengthens us.  Psalm 20:7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.   You can trust in man’s power and in powerful things in this world, but only God is all powerful and is greater than them all the power of man and nature put together times one million!!  24:00

 

1. That they might have patience and endurance

Colossians 1:11 …..unto all patience (endurance) and longsuffering (stedfastness) with joyfulness; so that you may be able to endure everything with patience and with joy.  To attain every kind of endurance and patience with joy.  James 1:3-4 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.  Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience (endurance and persistence) the race that is set before us.

 

Longsuffering……. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. The Lord does not delay [as though He were unable to act] and is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is [extraordinarily] patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.  27:00

 

How To Pray For Someone

If you love them you will pray for them.  If you love people you will pray for people.  Do you have a prayer list?  Not from memory?  Is it written down, or typed or on your phone?  Paul had a list.  Romans 1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;

 

Ask others to pray for you….2 Thessalonians 3:1  Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you

 

Finally James said in James 5:16  pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much……Who is  a righteous man?  A saved man, woman, boy or girl who loves Jesus Christ!  Prayer is the resource that no other group on earth has.  Anyone can pray.  But only Christians pray to the God of creation in the name of His Son Jesus Christ! Ephesians 5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.  28:04

 

2/5/2023

Revelation 6:9-11  How Long?

Intro: We know that there will be another Jewish holocaust coming in the second half of the tribulation.  When two thirds of the Jewish people will be killed by the Beast, the man of sin, the Anti-Christ in his attempt to destroy the Jews so that Jesus Christ cannot rule over His people Israel during the millennium.  Zechariah 13:8-9   8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.  9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.   I believe the events in Revelation chapter six are a summation of events in world history that happen after the ascension of Jesus Christ to heaven up to and including the tribulation.  But no matter how you believe about Revelation chapter six either way we know that there will be a holocaust of believers up coming. 1:00

 

1. Slain For Christ

Revelation 6:9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held.  Then the Lamb broke open the fifth seal. I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed because they had proclaimed God’s word and had been faithful in their witnessing. When He (the Lamb) broke open the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they had maintained [out of loyalty to Christ].

Martyrs are those who die for a cause.  Our cause is the greatest of them all…the cause of Christ. His glory and His gospel.

Many millions of Christians have been martyred for their faith over the years since Jesus ascended to heaven up until today.  But something about this group in verse six seems out of place.  It’s not the tribulation martyrs for they are mentioned in Revelation chapter 7:13-14 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?  14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Clearly these are the tribulation saints.  Are they the same as the martyrs in Revelation chapter six?  We don’t know for sure.  But it seems to be all those who have died for Christ down through the years.

To me it seems these martyrs are those slain are believers slain between the ascension of Christ and to and including the tribulation except for the mention of the martyrs in Revelation 7:13-14.   I think this is Christians of all time.  There has been millions of Christian martyred for their faith since the first century AD.   Why the ascension of Christ.  That’s when He went to heaven.  That’s when He appears in Revelation chapters 4-5.  Would they be looking for someone to open the seal in a couple of years if Jesus was in heaven at the right hand of God?  It doesn’t make sense.  I believe Jesus opened the seal after He arrived in heaven in AD 30.  The seals are world history up to and when you get to the  sixth seal including the end of the tribulation period.   So chapter six is a summary of world history including the tribulation period.  But Revelation 6:9  seems to be martyrs of the church up to the tribulation period.

Earthquakes in the Bible almost always mean a bodily resurrection is taking place.    So you get an earthquake in Revelation 6:12 and then the Lord Jesus comes in Revelation 6:17.

Now remember…..we are not going to be here when the wrath of God is poured out on this earth.  We are already here for the wrath of man.  Thousands of Christians are martyred each year in the world.  I think this murder of Christians could step up in the next few years and even include Christians in the United States.  They have already declared war on the right.  That includes Christians.  They hate us and want us dead.  They declare war on anyone who says something that hurts their feelings.  It will get incredibly worse during the tribulation period when the church is raptured before the tribulation the hatred of any who would accept Jesus Christ will be off the charts.  Christianity is just not going to be allowed or tolerated at all!

Today the elite know they cannot win any fair election and they have election cheating down to a science.  So they are pitting one side against the other.   You and I are targets of Satan, the left, and the globalists.  So even today we are NOT promised by the Lord Jesus that we will not face arrest or even being killed by His enemies.  Remember they don’t hate you as much as they hate Jesus and you who represent Him.

Again, Jesus said if they persecuted me they will persecute you.  Why do we think we are better than the brave Christians of China, the middle east and North Korea?  Why do we think this won’t happen here?  I think we are going to see the true church stand up and stand out in the next few months or even maybe couple of years.  We must be ready for anything but live our lives as normally as possible for Jesus Christ. How can we do that? Ephesians 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

 

What is the armour of God? How do we stand up?

The Breastplate of Righteousness…. Your heart is right with God

The gospel of peace…..   You are at peace with God through Jesus Christ

Shield of Faith…..   You have faith in God no matter what and your faith is rewarded

Helmet of Salvation…..   You know that you are saved and your mind is protected by having the mind of Christ.  The Holy Spirit is guiding you into all truth.

Praying always…….You can’t know God with our prayer.  You can’t follow Jesus if you don’t know Him intimately.

If you do these things….. then you are walking in and following our Savior Jesus Christ and taking up His cross daily.  You will be victorious in everything in every way!!

1. Slain For Jesus Chrsit 2. How Long

Revelation 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?  They shouted in a loud voice, “Almighty Lord, holy and true! How long will it be until you judge the people on earth and punish them for killing us?” They cried in a loud voice, saying, “O Lord, holy and true, how long now before You will sit in judgment and avenge our blood on those [unregenerate ones] who dwell on the earth?”

 

How long?  It’s been a long time.  Why would they ask that if it’s just been a few months or a few years?  It will take seven years.   That vengeance won’t take place until Revelation 19:2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.  The end of the tribulation God will avenge them and all martyred for Jesus Christ.

They want vengeance against the great whore.  A belief system that is against Jesus Christ.  Revelation 17:1 we meet this great harlot.  And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters.   There is religious Babylon and a commercial Babylon.  The great religious whore is the spritiual Babylon that has led the world away from Jesus Christ since time began.  It will step up it’s efforts lead by the false prophet to lead people to worship the beast.  The embodiment of all false gods of all time.  Some say it’s the Catholic church.  Some say it’s Islam.  I think it’s a combination of both…called today Chrislam.  Combined they have led billions into a false religion based on the old religions of paganism and idol worship that has been around since the garden of Eden and the tower of Babel.  They will find their peek during the last half of the tribulation.  Many millions Jews and Believers in Jesus Christ will be killed for their faith.

So they cry “how long?” for a reason.  This false religion has dominated the world for centuries and it’s end is coming soon.  Praise God!  God will finally destroy this religion and judge them.  That’s why the church is gone.  The tribulation is a time of judgment for man and the devils he follows.  History is a time of God’s grace.  Grace for the Jews.  Grace for the heathen.  Now it’s a time to judge and judgment of God upon mankind and the wicked angels and false gods of all time.  Praise the Lord!

 

1. Slain For Jesus Christ 2. How Long 3. Rest for A Little Season

Revelation 6:11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. Each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to rest a little while longer, until the complete number of other servants and believers were killed, as they had been. Then they were each given a white robe; and they were told to rest and wait quietly for a little while longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers and sisters who were to be killed even as they had been, would be completed.

God has to complete His work of judgment.  He will judge no one before He is ready.  He is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.  But there comes a time when it’s over.  God will not always strive with man.  It’s getting to out of control.  Like the flood.  Men were violent and corrupt even down to their genes.  It’s happening again.   God has judged people before and nations all down through history.

But this is not Genesis where He gives corrupted man a chance to remake Himself and replenish the earth and have dominion over the world while having an adversary Satan.  This time God is going to remake the earth with redeemed man and Jesus Christ as the King of Kings.

 

Each martyr is given the white robe of the overcomer.  Revelation 7:14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.  Matthew 28:3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow.   It says that everyone of them will receive white robe.  All have sinned but all in Jesus are made righteous.

Revelation 6:11 …..that they should rest yet for a little season, They are  told to rest … until God’s appointed time. Just a little longer…..“Vengeance is mine,” says the Lord Deuteronomy 32:35 To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. ; Romans 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. ; The vengeance will come in His perfect timing.    Revelation 3:5 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters.  Judgement is coming to all those that have opposed the things of God and His Son Jesus Christ!

Revelation 6:11….until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.  One day…and I hope it is soon…the last person will trust in Jesus Christ and make the church complete and then the church will be taken home.  One day the last person will be martyred for Christ and then Jesus will return.

The purpose for the tribulation is told to us in Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

 

To finish the transgresson…..

To make an end of sins……

To reconcile for past sins of Israel…..

Everlasting righteousness……

Seal up all prophecies to fulfill all prophecies……….

To annoit Jesus Christ as King of Kings!

 

….To finish the transgression, to make an end of sins. While this may refer in a general sense to all Israel’s sinful ways, it specifically refers to the nation’s rejection of the Messiah. At the return of Christ, a one third of Jews will turn to Him in faith and the nation’s transgression and sins will be forgiven.  To end sinners control of the world.   No more rebellion for Israel.   From now on they will serve the Lord in obedience and loyalty.  The word in general will pay for their rejection of Jesus Christ and their attempt to undermine God at every turn.

….To make reconciliation for iniquity. The basis for reconciliation was laid at the cross of Christ, but this refers to the time, still future, when the nation of Israel will come into the benefit and enjoyment of the finished work of Christ on the cross.  Their sins are paid for by Jesus Christ just like the church before them.

…..To bring in everlasting righteousness. This, too, points forward to the return of Christ and the Millennium, when the King will reign in righteousness. It is everlasting righteousness in the sense that it will continue on into the eternal state.

…..To seal up vision and prophecy. The main body of OT prophecy centers on the glorious Return of Christ to earth, and His subsequent kingdom. Therefore, the bulk of prophecies will be fulfilled at the end of the seventy weeks, the tribulation.  And they will all end with the eternal state of the new heaven and the new earth.

…..And to anoint the Most Holy Place. At the beginning of the thousand-year reign, the temple described in Ezekiel chapters 40–44 will be anointed or consecrated in Jerusalem. The glory will return in the Person of the Lord.(Ezek. 43:1–5).    What a day that will be!!

Revelation 6:11….until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.    Thousands die for Christ each year.  This year will be no different.  Will it increase? I think so.  Will there be a holocaust of martyrs?  Yes during the tribulation when millions will die for their faith in Christ.  Revelation 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; Revelation 7: 13-14  13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? 14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

 

The clear fact is this…..Don’t wait until the holocaust comes…..Trust in Jesus Christ now.  If you know in your heart you want to or intend to become a Christian one day….Now is not the time to wait.  Jesus may come for His bride at any time.  If you are not ready.  If you get left behind because you failed to trust in Jesus Christ.  You will have two choices…..accept Jesus Christ and probably die as a martyr or accept the mark of the beast and live for a while and be condemned to the lake of fire forever and ever!  To me that is no choice….

 

1. Slain For Christ 2. How Long 3. Rest for A Little Season

Bottom line….things are never going to be the same in our world.  The world is in a war.. for the souls of men.  Satan knows his time is short.  He knows he must win.  He must destroy Israel and the Jews.  He must take out the church who supports Israel.   He thinks he can win.  But he lost the war on Calvary.  Jesus has the victory already.  He will be King.  He will judge the wicked and bring in everlasting righteousness.  In the meantime we can decide.  We have a choice.  Follow our own hearts and minds and trust in what we think is best…..or trust in the revealed word of God.  Trust that the Bible is the word of God.  Bible prophecy is coming true and will be fulfilled.  Trust in Jesus Christ.  Put your confidence and future in His hands.  He will save you and bring you to Himself.

Oh this is all foolish Jack…..I would rather be a fool for Christ than a fool for rejecting Him.

1/29/23

Philippians 3:13-14  Finish Stong

Intro: So many people start out well and fizzle at the finish.  In sports how many times has a team jumped out to a big lead only to be beaten in the last few minutes of the game.   A fire starts roaring but if it is not stirred and kept up it will fizzile out quickly.  That’s life you don’t want to flame out from over heating the engine.  You want a good start of course but a stronger finish.  It’s not all about how you start but it’s always how you finish.  1:00

1. Forget The Past

Philippians 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: Of course, my friends, I really do not think that I have already arrived; Brothers and sisters, I do not consider that I have made it my own yet; The great apostle Paul was always learning and growing in the Lord.  If you are growing and learning and progressing in Christ you cannot spend time worrying about what you did 40 years ago.  We all did and will continue to do stupid things.  Forget it.  But is it the devil or God that is reminding me of theses things?  God never brings up your past sins.    Hebrews 10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.  You can’t help remember your past some times but it is not God who is condemning you.  If you have asked Him to forgive you….. it is forgiven and cast into the depths of the sea.  Micah 7:19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

Even Paul could not obliterate the past from his memory.  1 Corinthians 15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.  Paul reminded his churches of the great work of grace God did in his life.  Yes he persecuted Christians but he is not that man anymore.  2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.  “A prostitute saw a former client who she did not know that now was a gospel preacher.  She yelled at him.  He would not answer her.   She stopped him. Hey…. don’t you remember me?  Yes…He said.  The old man remembers you……..but the new man that I now am does not.”

You can’t finish strong if you let you past failures continue to weigh you down.  Drop the things that slow you down and run the race to the finish line for Christ.  More about that with the next point….10:00

 

1. Forget The Past 2.  The Only Thing That Really Matters

Philippians 3:13……but this one thing I do, the one thing I do, but one thing I do: You know why a lion tamer uses a chair to keep the lions at bay.  The lion can’t concentrate.  He sees four legs of the chair and he can’t focus.  A lion has an instinctive ability to focus on one thing and that’s why they are great hunters.   Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.  We need to put down everything that takes our focus off of Christ.  Of course you have many things you do all day long.  But your main focus, your main purpose for living is Christ.   For me to live is Christ…..  Only Christ who is our life can help us finish strong….

 

 Philippians 3:13…..forgetting those things which are behind, however, is to forget what is behind me forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead.  He refused to let his past obstruct his progress toward his goal. He wanted to forget his self-righteous past.  By using the present tense for forgetting Paul was indicating that it is an ongoing process. He might even be implying that he wanted to forget everything so that he would not rest on his past successes in Christ, or be cast down over past evil that he did to the church…..

So many people are destroyed by guilt over the past.  The devil won’t ever let up on you about this.  As long as you let him.  If he can get you down and defeated by your past then he will do it all day every day.  As I said before God has forgotten your sins.  He has cast them away as far as the east is from the west and the to the depths of the sea.  Your past is brought up by the devil….. not by God.  The next time the devil brings up your past remind him of his future!  I don’t know if that’s good theology but it sure makes you feel good!

What if people bring up your past sins?  Tell them yes that is true but I’m not that person any more.  I am born again by the grace of God.  If I have hurt you I’m sorry.  Jesus told the Pharisees He that is without sin cast the first stone.  NO one cast as stone.  We all have sinned.  None of us are righteous.  We all have skeletons in the closet.

NO I’m wrong.  Those who have Jesus Christ as their Savior have NO skeletons in the closet because that closet is in the depths of the sea!  God has said to you…” I don’t see any closets, any sins.  All I see is the blood of Jesus Christ when I see you.” 1 John 1:7  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from ALL sin.    

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from ALL unrighteousness.

I see only one closet mentioned in the Bible.  The prayer closet.  Replace the skeleton closet of your past with the closet of prayer.  Matthew 6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.  When thou prayest…not if thou prayest.  God expects His children to pray and He expects to reward or answer your prayers!  Wow!

Philippians 3:13…..and reaching forth unto those things which are before, and do my best to reach what is ahead.  Forget the past and continue to look ahead for the Lord. I press on toward the goal who is Christ Jesus. Our goal is not rewards but Jesus Christ.  We are going where He is because He is our Savior, our Lord, our Master, our friend, and our God.  He is the goal.  If you are following Jesus Christ and taking up your cross daily you will get everything.  You will lack nothing in this life and the life to come.   Jesus Christ is all that matters.  Matthew 6:33 Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you….  You will only find ALL these things in Christ Jesus.

The devil wants to destroy you. Slow you down.  Discourage you. The devil’s greatest tool is discouragement to a Christian.  It’s easy to get discouraged today.  But you were born for this time.  This is your time to shine for Christ.  Time is short.   Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.  19:00

1. Forget The Past 2. The Only Thing That Really Matters   3. Press On

Philippians 3:14 I press toward the mark So I run straight toward the goal in order to win the prize.  Press means to press on, Keep on, don’t stop, don’t give up and don’t quit.

 

Mark: This word specifically refers to the marker at the end of a race on which runners intently fix their eyes.  We fix our eyes on Christ.  We focus on the finish in a race.  Don’t take your eyes off of the finish line.  Why do so many people falter at the finish of their lives.  They give up to soon.  There is never a time to give up living for Jesus!!  Now we need to give up and quit doing things that are harmful to our walk with Christ.  We quit sinful habits.  We quit things that are ungodly and the ungodly that do them.  Jude verse 15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.  The ungodly are those that do not give one care what God thinks about anything they do.

The Bible mentioned some that quit on Christ.  Some where believers……2 Timothy 4:10 For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica. Hebrews 6:4-6 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come….

 

Some were pretenders……6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance.  1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

 

But we who truly know Christ should not ever quit on Christ.  In fact we should be growing stronger in our faith as we get closer to the end.  A runner who nears the end of the race has a last “kick” they call it.  He uses his last bit of strength to make sure he finishes the race strong.   I think we are in a time today for the last “kick” for Christ in our lives.    It is never too late to start living for Jesus.  Get back in church.  Get back in to your Bible reading.  Get back in your prayer closet.

 

Philippians 3:14…….for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. which is God’s call through Christ Jesus to the life above. The goal is to win the [heavenly] prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

 

 The prize is the reward for victory. Paul evidently takes to heart what he teaches in 1 Cor. 9:24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

We are looking for the prize of Christ.  This is reward for your faithfulness.  Be faithful unto death Revelation 2:10….be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. This is usually referred to as the reward for the martyr.  But I think it’s for every Christian who dies faithful to Christ to the end of their life.   We are rewarded only for faithfulness according to the Bible.  Matthew 25:33 Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. 

 

High Calling…In the New Testament this speaks of the divine call to complete salvation. It may refer to the judgment seat of Christ, the place of reward. Paul does not say that he is pressing on for the call of God but rather for the prize of that call. He is not working for his salvation but rather for a reward of his salvation when he sees Jesus Christ and gets to heaven with all the others who have labored for Christ.

The highest calling in life is not to be a mother, a father or a president of the US or congressman or a teacher or a doctor or even a missionary.  The highest calling is to be a Committed Christian.  Bringing the light of Christ to this sinful wicked world.  Bring glory to the name of Christ with your life.  Whether you are a king or a ditch digger press on my brothers and sisters and you will finish strong until the end.  27:00

1. Forget The Past 2. The Only Thing That Really Matters   3. Press On

Finish Strong By becoming weak.  When I am weak only then is He strong in my life.  When I am totally depending on Christ can I become strong in Him.  Quit trying to be a better Christian….be a better follower of Christ.  My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me.  Keep your focus on Christ and you WILL finish Strong for Christ.  28:04

1-29-2023

Leviticus 18:23-28 Leviticus 20:22-23 How To Get Kicked Out of a Land

Intro:  We have been given a great land.  The land of the free and the home of the brave.  The land of wonderful beauty and plenty.   The land of lakes, and forests, and rivers and streams.  Of great mountains and luscious valleys.  That is America.   Israel could be described in the same way 2500 years ago.

People had lived in the land of Israel before.  The people that were in Canaan before the Hebrews had over 400 years to repent of the sins they committed.  Basic laws of God’s created order in nature and human decency were not to be committed ever!!    When a nation gets into these things it is doomed as a nation and will be kicked out of their land.  There is no excuse for committing laws against the nature of God and decent human nature.

Leviticus chapter 18 God tells the Israelites how to get kicked out of this new land….If you as a people group do things against nature itself or approve of them…..things against all common decency you will get kicked out.  Here are the four things….If you don’t like these things….get mad at God not at me.  I’m just the messenger….

1. You’re Out Of Here Number 1—Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. Leviticus 18:24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:    Romans 1:26-28 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.  28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Pretty obvious here.  I have seen this agenda just about take over our nation.   We so afraid to speak up about this.  These people need help.  They also need condemnation for their actions.  We cannot tip toe around this sin.  We need to tell it as it is.  It is an abomination.  God said that not me.  It is heinous to God.  A Shame and a reproach to any person and family.  We must emphasize absolutely that we love these people but hate their sin.

This sin is so bad because it is against the Nature of God’s created order.  I am glad that God condemned my sin.  I am glad that God told me what I am. I am glad that God told me what my life is like to Him.  I am glad that God tells it like it is in the Bible.  Isaiah 64:6 and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.   I am not offended I am thankful. Grateful to God for telling me what I am and what I need to do.   My feelings aren’t hurt.  I am rejoicing that someone tells it the way it really is.  I want truth over my feelings.  I want truth over my desires!

Revelation 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.  This is why God tells us the truth. He is not willing that anyone go to the lake of fire.  If we fail to turn from our sin and turn to Jesus Christ in faith we will surely go there.  You don’t believe that?   Are you willing to stake your life and your eternity that hell is not real?  That’s a big risk when the Bible has proven it is the word of God by fulfilled prophecy and by the bill board of the Bible….the people and the land of Israel!

2. You’re Out Of Here Number 2—Leviticus 18:6 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord. Leviticus 18: 10 The nakedness of thy son’s daughter, or of thy daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thine own nakedness.

11 The nakedness of thy father’s wife’s daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.   You are not supposed to have sex with children of your children.  We will see the day that this wickedness going to be legalized.  Many say that the child sex trafficking going on at the open border is unbelievable.  Children are being groomed as sex objects by adults.  Drag queen story hour should be called deviant endoctrination hour.   And people are cheered on for this stuff.  People bring their kids to this wicked display of sexual deviancy.

This is so bad because it is another sin of God’s created order.

Matthew 10:26 for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.  One day everything shall be revealed.  Every sin that is not covered by the Blood of Jesus Christ will be revealed to all!  This should make people quiver in their socks!  But they won’t because they don’t believe it will happen to them.

These are obviously the hardest people to love of all these awful sexual sins.  Matthew 18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.  This is pretty severe punishment.  How terrifying to be cast into the sea.  Never to be rescued.  Trapped forever in the darkness and terror.  Forgotten and cast away forever!

I see this sin being legalized if the Lord tarries.  That’s how far we have fallen as a nation from our moral decency and fallen from the faith of our founders.  This is the gates of hell opening for our nation.  But take heart….Matthew 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.  This wickedness will not overcome the church.  So I would say we will be out of here before this is legalized.  But make no mistake it’s coming!  Evil men shall wax worse and worse!

 

3. You’re Out Of Here Number 3– Leviticus 18:23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion. Leviticus 18:23Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.  This sin is illegal in many countries.  It is not legal in America.  But who is going to tattle on these people?  If a nation practices other sexual deviancy you can be sure that bestiality is going on at a high level.    I can’t even imagine what kind of depraved mind would do such a thing.  It’ just totally against nature itself.  This against God’s created Order.

How embarrassing to have this sin revealed.  How depraved.  How sick?  Remember we love these people but hate their sin.

 

4 You’re Out Of Here Number 4–Leviticus 18:21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.    We are Killing our children through sex trafficking and abortion.  It’s as terrible time to be a child today in this world.  You are not safe.  Parents I will tell you again and again..…..keep your children off of face book and social media.  Child predators  number one asset is facebook!

This so bad because it is the fourth sin against the nature of God’s created order.  Murdering your children is heniouis and God hates this.  Not even animals kill their children.  Sometimes cats will eat their children for some reason that only cats know but that is not common.  Animals take care of their young at all costs and sacrifice even their own lives.

There were once people who cast their live children to the fires of the false god Molech.  Molech is still alive today.  He is not a god but a devil that has been around since before the fall.  He hates women and children.  You know that the two things that the hosts of heaven cannot stand is women and children.  Why?  They never have gotten to experience this.  The heavenly host is all male.  So God creates woman…. For the man and God allows man to procreate his own progenies.  The angels that fell can’t stand this.  They are jealous and want to destroy women and children any way they can.

2 Kings 17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.  Sins against women and children provoke the Lord to anger.  That is not going to turn out good in any way shape or form for these wicked people.  Notice that people, the doctors, the politicians who push this and the media agenda who promote abortion are also are sold out to the divination and enchantments.  This is the DEVIL!!!  They are influenced to believe ungodly wicked explanations and excuses and ungodly influence to do promote and push abortions and sex trafficking.

 

5. You’re SAFE!!!

In baseball it four balls and you get safely to first base.  And three strikes you are out.  In God’s rules it’s One strike and you are out….    If you break all the rules then you are thrown out of a baseball game and your team forfiets.  If you break ALL of these rules you are thrown out of a land.

The nations before the Jews were not required to follow the Levitical laws of God but the nature of God that everyone knows in their hearts and in their minds.   Romans 1:20-21  Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.   So these things are basic laws of human nature that God has put in each heart that we are not to break.  No one gets a pass on these things.  Jew or not.  But God especially didn’t want His own people to commit these sins.

 

This is why nations gets kicked out of their land, lose their political power and are replaced.  Leviticus 18:24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you.  Leviticus 18:25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

 

Here’s how you can be safe and not be cast out…..

Leviticus 18:26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:

Don’t be like the wicked.  Don’t commit abominations of God’s laws of nature.  Don’t do or support the four sins against God’s created order of things we mentioned here tonight.

WHY?  It defiles a land.  I curses a nation.  It removes blessings.

Leviticus 18:27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)

 

You will be replaced or removed like Israel was and all those people that proceeded Israel.

Leviticus 18:28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.

 

If you don’t keep ALL the laws of God…ALL of his rulings and DO them.  You will lose.  Baseball has rules so the game can have order for the purpose of enjoying the game.   It is a game where two teams are competing against each other.  In life there is God and His enemies in a battle.  God is going to win.  He has already won because of Jesus Christ.  But Satan is still trying to win as many as he can.  So in order to win you have to play by the rules.  God has rules.  He used to have a lot of rules. Called laws.  If you bread the laws you are penalized.  If you break the rules in a game you are penalized.

If you go too far in baseball and reject the basic rules of behavior.  Cursing and arguing and violence….you will be thrown out of the game.  The Jews had to keep all of the laws.  They failed sometimes.  But that is not what got them cast out.  It was breaking the laws of God created order that got them cast out.

How to be safe……Leviticus 20:22 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out. There were basically ten rules and they branched out into about 632 sub laws.    Now we have one rule one law.  The law of Christ.  Follow Jesus Christ who has kept the rules, the laws of God.    But if we break the laws of God without Jesus Christ as our Savior we will pay the penalty in this life and the life to come.    But if you break the laws of God’s created order you will be kicked out of your land in this life!!! And may not have a chance to repent in this life!!!  That would be horrible!  God turns us over to our sin.  Romans 1:28 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.  Leviticus 20:23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

 

Be safe in Christ.  Turn from your wicked ways and turn to Jesus Christ for Salvation.  It’s an old warning.  It’s never going to get old and never going to change.  People don’t like it but it’s truth.  Turn to Christ today!!

1/22/23 Morning

Colossians 1:13-14 The Kingdom Of Darkness 

Intro:  Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.  We are in a war.  The kingdom of God vs the kingdom of darkness.  There are rulers in the kingdom of darkness.  There is only wickedness there.  Nothing good…all horrible.  Spritual warfare is real.  And you are in the battle whether you like it or not.  But we can win and we only will win if we are following Jesus Christ!  This kingdom of darkness is real and really powerful.  We need to understand our enemy.  1:00

 

1 The Power of Darkness

Colossians 1:Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness……

For He has rescued us and has drawn us to Himself from the dominion of darkness. He rescued us from the power of darkness.  Delivered … rescued: God has liberated believers from the dominion of darkness. The apostle uses the common symbolism of light and darkness for good and evil, for God’s kingdom and Satan’s kingdom, that is found throughout the New Testament.  Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God.

 

Satan has power.  We cannot overcome him on our own.  We are in a fallen state.  So we are like him in a way.  Liars, thieves, and murderers.  He is the father of sin. John 8:44  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

The kingdom from which believers have been rescued is the kingdom of darkness. John 1:4–9   4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.  5And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.  6There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. 8He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. 9That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. 

 

Hell is a place of darkness.  Matthew 25:30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.  Satan’s world is darkness.  Before we accepted Christ we were in unbelief, confusion, and spiritual blindness.  Eph. 5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light. My dad used to say nothing good happens after midnite.  Under the cover darkness the enemies work.  So their greatest power is darkness so that they can work without being discovered.  Our enemy the devil works is darkness so that we cannot see what is behind the evil that we do and the things we are tempted to do.   The truth is hidden in darkness and in secret places.  That is the power of darkness.  But it is always overcome by the light of Jesus Christ!  10:00

1 The Power of Darkness   2 He Has Translated Us

Colossians 1:13…..and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son. and has transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son. and brought us safe into the kingdom of his dear Son, 1 Thess. 5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. We have been transformed, transferred and born again into the Light of Jesus Christ!!

 

1 Pet. 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. It is marvellous to be in the light of God in Jesus Christ.  How blessed we are.  That word marvellous means Extraordinary, great wonder, splendid.  Beyond expectations.  1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

 

1 John 1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.  God is light.  God is love.   Evil is the absence of God.  It is not a thing.  It is the absence of good.  You cannot create evil.  Evil is the absence of good.  You don’t create darkness.  It is absence of light.  God created light. Jesus Christ is our light and our life.   No amount of darkness can overcome the weakest light.  Even black holes are where the light cannot escape.  So they surmise that inside a black hole there is great light

He hath translated us. Translated has another meaning for us.  Hebrews 11:5  By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.  One day we who alive and remain will be changed…translated into a new resurrection body and into the presence of Jesus Christ our Lord.

He has translated us spiritually when we are born again and He WILL translate us physically when He comes for us.    19:00

 

1 The Power of Darkness   2 He Has Translated Us  3. He has Given Us Redemption and Forgiveness

Colossians 1:14  In whom we have redemption through his blood, in whom we have redemption [because of His sacrifice, resulting in] the forgiveness of our sins [and by whom we are set free.  1 Peter 1:18-19 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers.  19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.  Precious blood Christ!!  Without blemish or spot of darkness!   Blood makes us whiter than snow.  Bright white.  Blinding white.  In other words….Light.  Psalm 51:7 …..wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.  What is whiter than snow? Light!

 

Colossians 1:14….. even the forgiveness of sins: the cancellation of sins’ penalty. that is, our sins are forgiven.  Micah 7:19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.   The bottom of the sea is a place where nothing gets to.  Light cannot even penetrate to the bottom of the sea.  NO human can go to the bottom of the sea.  It is impossible to do.

Psalm 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

The sun sets in the west and rises in the east.  You cannot measure the distance from east to west.   You can go east forever around and around the world.  But you can go south and eventually you will go around the world and be heading north.    God removes our sins from being discovered forever!!!

You can hide your sins.  Bury them in the ground.  Burn them up.  Throw them in the River. Put them in your garage or your Corvette and someone is going to find them.  They will come to the light.  Let God hide your sins under the blood of Jesus Christ forever and ever.  Actually you are hidden by God is Christ.

God not only hides our sins but He makes them as though they never existed.  1 John 3:5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.  If Jesus takes them away who is going to find them?  In Him is NO sin.  In us there is NO sin because He has taken our sins away.  27:00

1 The Power of Darkness   2 He Has Translated Us  3. He has Given Us Redemption and Forgiveness

The Kingdom of Darkness

It is a kingdom.  You are already in this kingdom.  You were born destined to be in the kingdom of darkness.  And when you reach the age of accountability you are fully in.  But you don’t have to stay there.  You can leave this kingdom.  How?  By trusting in Jesus Christ as your Savior.  Let Him SAVE you from this kingdom you are in.  You are not trapped you can be free today!  Will you trust in Jesus?  Will you come to the light of God through faith in Jesus Christ?  28:04

 

 

 

 

1/22-2022

Leviticus 18:23-28 Leviticus 20:22-23 How To Get Kicked Out of a Land

Intro:  We have been given a great land.  The land of the free and the home of the brave.  The land of wonderful beauty and plenty.   The land of lakes, and forests, and rivers and streams.  Of great mountains and luscious valleys.  That is America.   Israel could be described in the same way 2500 years ago.

People had lived in the land of Israel before.  The people that were in Canaan before the Hebrews had over 400 years to repent of the sins they committed.  Basic laws of God’s created order in nature and human decency were not to be committed ever!!    When a nation gets into these things it is doomed as a nation and will be kicked out of their land.  There is no excuse for committing laws against the nature of God and decent human nature.

Leviticus chapter 18 God tells the Israelites how to get kicked out of this new land….If you as a people group do things against nature itself or approve of them…..things against all common decency you will get kicked out.  Here are the four things….If you don’t like these things….get mad at God not at me.  I’m just the messenger….

1. You’re Out Of Here Number 1—Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. Leviticus 18:24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:    Romans 1:26-28 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.  28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Pretty obvious here.  I have seen this agenda just about take over our nation.   We so afraid to speak up about this.  These people need help.  They also need condemnation for their actions.  We cannot tip toe around this sin.  We need to tell it as it is.  It is an abomination.  God said that not me.  It is heinous to God.  A Shame and a reproach to any person and family.  We must emphasize absolutely that we love these people but hate their sin.

This sin is so bad because it is against the Nature of God’s created order.  I am glad that God condemned my sin.  I am glad that God told me what I am. I am glad that God told me what my life is like to Him.  I am glad that God tells it like it is in the Bible.  Isaiah 64:6 and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.   I am not offended I am thankful. Grateful to God for telling me what I am and what I need to do.   My feelings aren’t hurt.  I am rejoicing that someone tells it the way it really is.  I want truth over my feelings.  I want truth over my desires!

Revelation 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.  This is why God tells us the truth. He is not willing that anyone go to the lake of fire.  If we fail to turn from our sin and turn to Jesus Christ in faith we will surely go there.  You don’t believe that?   Are you willing to stake your life and your eternity that hell is not real?  That’s a big risk when the Bible has proven it is the word of God by fulfilled prophecy and by the bill board of the Bible….the people and the land of Israel!

2. You’re Out Of Here Number 2—Leviticus 18:6 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord. Leviticus 18: 10 The nakedness of thy son’s daughter, or of thy daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thine own nakedness.

11 The nakedness of thy father’s wife’s daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.   You are not supposed to have sex with children of your children.  We will see the day that this wickedness going to be legalized.  Many say that the child sex trafficking going on at the open border is unbelievable.  Children are being groomed as sex objects by adults.  Drag queen story hour should be called deviant endoctrination hour.   And people are cheered on for this stuff.  People bring their kids to this wicked display of sexual deviancy.

This is so bad because it is another sin of God’s created order.

Matthew 10:26 for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.  One day everything shall be revealed.  Every sin that is not covered by the Blood of Jesus Christ will be revealed to all!  This should make people quiver in their socks!  But they won’t because they don’t believe it will happen to them.

These are obviously the hardest people to love of all these awful sexual sins.  Matthew 18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.  This is pretty severe punishment.  How terrifying to be cast into the sea.  Never to be rescued.  Trapped forever in the darkness and terror.  Forgotten and cast away forever!

I see this sin being legalized if the Lord tarries.  That’s how far we have fallen as a nation from our moral decency and fallen from the faith of our founders.  This is the gates of hell opening for our nation.  But take heart….Matthew 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.  This wickedness will not overcome the church.  So I would say we will be out of here before this is legalized.  But make no mistake it’s coming!  Evil men shall wax worse and worse!

 

3. You’re Out Of Here Number 3– Leviticus 18:23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion. Leviticus 18:23Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.  This sin is illegal in many countries.  It is not legal in America.  But who is going to tattle on these people?  If a nation practices other sexual deviancy you can be sure that bestiality is going on at a high level.    I can’t even imagine what kind of depraved mind would do such a thing.  It’ just totally against nature itself.  This against God’s created Order.

How embarrassing to have this sin revealed.  How depraved.  How sick?  Remember we love these people but hate their sin.

 

4 You’re Out Of Here Number 4–Leviticus 18:21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.    We are Killing our children through sex trafficking and abortion.  It’s as terrible time to be a child today in this world.  You are not safe.  Parents I will tell you again and again..…..keep your children off of face book and social media.  Child predators  number one asset is facebook!

This so bad because it is the fourth sin against the nature of God’s created order.  Murdering your children is heniouis and God hates this.  Not even animals kill their children.  Sometimes cats will eat their children for some reason that only cats know but that is not common.  Animals take care of their young at all costs and sacrifice even their own lives.

There were once people who cast their live children to the fires of the false god Molech.  Molech is still alive today.  He is not a god but a devil that has been around since before the fall.  He hates women and children.  You know that the two things that the hosts of heaven cannot stand is women and children.  Why?  They never have gotten to experience this.  The heavenly host is all male.  So God creates woman…. For the man and God allows man to procreate his own progenies.  The angels that fell can’t stand this.  They are jealous and want to destroy women and children any way they can.

2 Kings 17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.  Sins against women and children provoke the Lord to anger.  That is not going to turn out good in any way shape or form for these wicked people.  Notice that people, the doctors, the politicians who push this and the media agenda who promote abortion are also are sold out to the divination and enchantments.  This is the DEVIL!!!  They are influenced to believe ungodly wicked explanations and excuses and ungodly influence to do promote and push abortions and sex trafficking.

 

5. You’re SAFE!!!

In baseball it four balls and you get safely to first base.  And three strikes you are out.  In God’s rules it’s One strike and you are out….    If you break all the rules then you are thrown out of a baseball game and your team forfiets.  If you break ALL of these rules you are thrown out of a land.

The nations before the Jews were not required to follow the Levitical laws of God but the nature of God that everyone knows in their hearts and in their minds.   Romans 1:20-21  Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.   So these things are basic laws of human nature that God has put in each heart that we are not to break.  No one gets a pass on these things.  Jew or not.  But God especially didn’t want His own people to commit these sins.

 

This is why nations gets kicked out of their land, lose their political power and are replaced.  Leviticus 18:24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you.  Leviticus 18:25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

 

Here’s how you can be safe and not be cast out…..

Leviticus 18:26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:

Don’t be like the wicked.  Don’t commit abominations of God’s laws of nature.  Don’t do or support the four sins against God’s created order of things we mentioned here tonight.

WHY?  It defiles a land.  I curses a nation.  It removes blessings.

Leviticus 18:27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)

 

You will be replaced or removed like Israel was and all those people that proceeded Israel.

Leviticus 18:28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.

 

If you don’t keep ALL the laws of God…ALL of his rulings and DO them.  You will lose.  Baseball has rules so the game can have order for the purpose of enjoying the game.   It is a game where two teams are competing against each other.  In life there is God and His enemies in a battle.  God is going to win.  He has already won because of Jesus Christ.  But Satan is still trying to win as many as he can.  So in order to win you have to play by the rules.  God has rules.  He used to have a lot of rules. Called laws.  If you bread the laws you are penalized.  If you break the rules in a game you are penalized.

If you go too far in baseball and reject the basic rules of behavior.  Cursing and arguing and violence….you will be thrown out of the game.  The Jews had to keep all of the laws.  They failed sometimes.  But that is not what got them cast out.  It was breaking the laws of God created order that got them cast out.

How to be safe……Leviticus 20:22 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out. There were basically ten rules and they branched out into about 632 sub laws.    Now we have one rule one law.  The law of Christ.  Follow Jesus Christ who has kept the rules, the laws of God.    But if we break the laws of God without Jesus Christ as our Savior we will pay the penalty in this life and the life to come.    But if you break the laws of God’s created order you will be kicked out of your land in this life!!! And may not have a chance to repent in this life!!!  That would be horrible!  God turns us over to our sin.  Romans 1:28 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.  Leviticus 20:23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

 

Be safe in Christ.  Turn from your wicked ways and turn to Jesus Christ for Salvation.  It’s an old warning.  It’s never going to get old and never going to change.  People don’t like it but it’s truth.  Turn to Christ today!!

Sunday Morning 1-15-2023

1  Corinthians 5:6-8  What Will You Tolerate?

Intro:  We used to tolerate people who believe in the Bible and Biblical standards.  But not any more.  The enemies of truth call for tolerance but actually try to silence and destroy the truth.  They call for tolerance for what they believe but try to silence all criticism of it.   And they can’t take any criticism at all!  They fall apart and or get raging mad!  They are indeed snowflakes that melt with the least bit of heat.   The Bible talks about Leaven or yeast that makes the dough rise.  It doesn’t take much leaven to make the batter rise when baked.  People will tolerate a little sin but don’t realize it soon turns into a big problem.  COPD is due to a little cigarette.   Sudden deaths happening all over the world due to a little jab.  A little leaven leaveneth the whole loaf.    1:00

 

1. A Little Leaven

1  Corinthians 5:6 Your glorying is not good.  It is not right for you to be proud! Your boasting [over the supposed spirituality of your church] is not good [indeed, it is vulgar and inappropriate]. Your boasting [over the supposed spirituality of your church] is not good.  Pride month.  Pride is the sin God hates the most I believe.  It means we lift up ourselves instead of our creator.  God can’t bless you if you bless yourself!  God can’t bless a people that want the approval of the world!  Churches are boasting that they are tolerant and loving.  God is a loving God but we forget about Him being Holy and Just!  We tolerate people who are full of themselves.  Proverbs 16:18  Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. 1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. We tolerate pride and boasting.   God does not tolerate this pride of man.

 

1 Corinthains 5:6…..Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.  You know the saying, “A little bit of yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise.” [c]Do you not know that [just] a little leaven ferments the whole batch [of dough, just as a little sin corrupts a person or an entire church]?

Sexual sin was the problem with this church.  Not all of them but even if they were against it they tolerated it.  People are saying to Homosexuality, transgenderism and all this what we used to call deviant behavior.  Sodomites is what they are….but peope just say Oh well.  Now I know there isn’t much we can do about it for sure.  But it should grieve our hearts tremendously and we can call it for what it is.  We need to be loving and kind to people trapped in this sin.  Hate the sin but love the people.  Love people but we don’t have to tolerate their sinful actions.

Levitcus 6:17It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering. Leaven is used in baking.   A little leaven makes the bread rise.  It is a chemical reaction that causes the leaven to spread through the dough.  Sin is that way.  We commit a little bit of sin and expect no repercussions.  We commit a little bit of adultery, a little bit of murder, a little bit of lying, a little bit of cheating, a little bit of drugs, a little bit of pornography and we expect it to go away and have no affect on us.  If you tolerate a little bit of sin you will soon find you are accepting and participating in the sin you tolerate.

When people are full of pride they will tolerate anything except the truth about themselves.  10:00

1. A Little Leaven 2. The Old Leaven

1  Corinthians 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven…… You must remove the old yeast of sin so that you will be entirely pure.  Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new batch.  Repent of sin.  Change your life.  Get rid of sinful habits that destroy your body, soul and spirit.

The best way to get rid of sin is to get rid of your bloated view of yourself.  Humble yourself before God and others.  It’s not all about you. Romans 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

It’s okay to think good about yourself…to feel good about yourself but don’t get carried away with it.

Think more of others.    Matthew 22:39 ……thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.  Love people. Wish the best for others like you do for yourself.

Pray for others.  Pray specifically for others….Colossians 1:9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

Put Jesus First in your life….Colossians 3:4 For Christ who is our life…..

 

1 Corinthians 5:7…..that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. Then you will be like a new batch of dough without any yeast, as indeed I know you actually are. just as you are, still unleavened.

We are unleavened because of Jesus Christ.  He has made us holy, and righteous in God’s eyes.  Legally and positionally we are without sin because Christ has applied His righteousness to us.  New lump….

2 Corinthians 5:7 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.  God will not tolerate old leaven.  He cannot tolerate it.  man tolerates all kinds of sins.  But even mankind will not tolerate everything.   Thieves, murder, and other crimes are not tolerated by society.  But they tolerate many sins that God does not tolerate.  God will not tolerate any sin…. That should open our eyes.

 

1 Corinthians 5:7…………For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us…. For our Passover Festival is ready, now that Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. For Christ our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed.  The Jews celebrated the Passover of the death angel in Egypt.  The blood of the innocent lamb was placed on the doorposts.  Today Christ’s blood applied to our lives by faith in Him causes the wrath of God to Passover us.  God will not tolerate old leaven.  We must become made new by Jesus Christ.  19:00

 

1. A Little Leaven 2. The Old Leaven 3.  Unleavened Bread

1  Corinthians 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, Let us celebrate our Passover, then, not with old leaven, not with bread having the old yeast….Put on the new man. Ye must be Born again.  We Are a New creature in Christ. 2 Corinthians 5:17.

Let us Keep the Feast….. The feast they are talking about here is the Passover meal.  But the Jews had seven feasts to celebrate God’s redemption.

1. Feast of Passover

Held: At the beginning of Spring, the first full moon of spring. Usually April—Unleavened bread

Represents:  Our salvation in Christ. The crucifixion of Christ.

 

2. 2. Feast of Unleavened Bread

Held: The day after the Passover-Unleavened bread

Represents: The Bread of Life, the Lord Jesus, Burial of Christ.

 

3. Feast of First Fruits

Held:  Sunday following Unleavened Bread, usually April

Represents: The Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

 

4. Feast Of Harvest or Penecost

Held: 50 days after the Feast of First Fruits, late May or early June

Represents: The beginning of the Harvest of souls, the church at Pentecost.

 

5. Feast of Trumpets

Held: The First day of Tishrei, the seventh month of the Jewish calendar.  September in our calendar.

Represents:  The gathering of the Church at the Rapture.

 

6. Day of Atonement

Held: Tenth day of Tishrei, the seventh month on the Jewish calendar.  Also Called Yom Kipper.

Leviticus 23:27-30, Romans 11:26

Represents: Second coming of Christ when Israel and the church will be accepted (atoned) by God.

 

7. Feast Of Tabernacles

Held: 15th day of the seventh month or seventh full moon of the year.  September, October in our Calendar.

Represents: The great tabernacle to come, when men will dwell with God in heaven for eternity.

 

First three feasts are the death burial and resurrection of Christ.  Then a short pause and then the church is born at Pentecost.  Then a long pause and then the rapture harvest.  Another short pause (the tribulation) then the second coming of Christ and then a longer pause (Millennium reign of Christ) and then eternity.

 

1 Corinthians 5:8…..neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness….., not with bread having the old yeast of sin and wickedness, nor with leaven of vice and malice and wickedness.  Wrongs do not make right.  We can’t sin more to cover our old sins.  We can’t turn over a new leaf.  It’s the same leaf.  We can’t make ourselves acceptable to God. We have to turn from Sin and turn to Christ.  We need to quit living for the world of lies and deceit.  We cannot sacrifice anything to God of value.  Look at Cain.  He offered the fruit of the ground. His efforts.  Abel offered the first fruits of his flock and the fat.  Means he killed his best animal as a sacrifice to the Lord.  Genesis 3:4-5 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering.  God does not respect our efforts to attain salvation.  It will never work.  He will reject our self efforts.  That’s really what Ezekiel 33:31………and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.   People go to church act like they love God but in their hearts they really love themselves and not God.  People won’t tolerate God’s way.  They don’t tolerate the only way Jesus.  They want to do it their way!

 

1 Corinthians 5:8….. but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. but with the bread that has no yeast, the bread of purity and truth. Therefore, let us celebrate the feast but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and [untainted] truth.  Purity and truth comes only by faith and trust in Jesus Christ.  We have to get rid of the leaven by following Jesus Christ every day.  And be true to the Lord Jesus Christ.  He is the truth.  We cannot be truthful with ourselves until we are truthful with Jesus Christ!!!

This is the truth.  The only thing that God will tolerate.  The only way to remove our sin is by becoming sinless.  That is impossible with mankind.  But it is possible with God trough faith in Jesus Christ!  27:00

1. A Little Leaven 2. The Old Leaven 3.  Unleavened Bread

What Will You Tolerate? 

Get rid of the sin in your life.  Do not tolerate leaven.  A sinful life.  Turn from your sins and turn to Jesus Christ in faith.

Get rid of the old leaven.  Don’t tolerate that old you anymore.  Become unleavened.  Righteous.  Born again.  Make all things new in Jesus Christ.   Now you know why we partake of the Lord’s supper with Unleavened bread.  Jesus Christ is the bread of life.  Unleavened.  Without sin.   Stop tolerating a little sin. Would you tolerate a little hell?  No such thing!  That’s like being a little pregnant!   Stop tolerating the sinful person you are.  The soul that sinneth it shall die.  That’s all of us.   Trust in Jesus Christ and become unleavened…sin will no longer be held to your account….by faith in Jesus Christ!  28:04

 

 

1-8-2023

Popular things In Christianity Today That Jesus Would Not Endorse  Psalm 118:8

Intro:   Now let’s switch gears a little bit.   Last time we talked about things Jesus would never say.  Well here are some examples of things in the Christian world that Jesus would not endorse…..This is not an all encompassing list.  Just a few things that we all know about and have heard about and wondered about.

We have a problem today in the church….lack of discernment.  We are so Biblically weak that we fall for emotional and psychological ploys.   We make excuses for Biblical teachers giving us 95 percent Biblical truth and we ignore their 5 percent error.  What if the Bible was only 95 percent true?  What if your preacher only told 95 percent truth?  What if your spouse was only 95 percent faithful?  What if your boat was only 95 percent water proof?  What if your mail was delivered correctly 95 percent of the time?  What if your bank was 95 percent accurate? What if that vaccine is only 95 percent safe?  AHA!  Got cha!!    Could you endorse that?   Pray for wisdom and discernment!

Jesus would not endorse The movie “The Chosen” This movie teaches you to lean on yourself, to follow your heart, follow your emotions. Dallas Jenkins is a Mormon.  The executive producer is a Catholic. That is a huge RED FLAG!

In the movie “The Chosen” has many subtle errors in who Jesus is.  For example…..Jesus tells John that God sent Him to make “A” path to God.  That Jesus tells people to follow their heart.  That Jesus tells people to believe in themselves.    The Biblical Jesus never said those things.  Beware of “another Jesus.” Paul warned us about “another Jesus” who was not Jesus at all!  1 Corinthians 11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.  Mormons teach another Jesus who is not God, not our Savior and is someone who we can become.  Their motto is “As Jesus is so we can become.”  I will not accept any story about Jesus from group that doesn’t even know the Biblical Jesus.

Jesus would not endorse the New age. Christian Science all based on positive words and name it and claim it.  Chanting OHM is the sound of creation and the universe.  You can have worldly success if you believe in yourself but you won’t know Jesus.  Pyschic development is part of new age.  Visions are part of the new age.  Third eye is part of new age.  It is demonic.  I never did believe in myself I always trusted in Jesus for my success.  As long as I know Him…..you will be positive.  And as long as I have Jesus I have everything I need for righteousness and holiness and peace with God.

Jesus would not endorse the Word-Faith movement.  We cannot predict control or change the future.  The law of Attraction.  We cannot attract what we want through positive thinking.  God is not the universe or the architect of the universe.  Revelation 22:16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.   Jesus is the root of everything, the purpose for everything.  Our words are important but they cannot change the future and have no power but in the words themselves.  Words can harm, hurt and can damage and words can help and encourage and give Biblical instruction.

Jesus would not endorse Norman Vincent peale.  The power of positive thinking.  It is false teaching and a bridge to deception and very addicting.  Of course we want to be positive.  2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears.  Itching ears tickled.  We must read the whole Bible not cherry pick verses.  WE cannot speak things in to existence.  God always wills us to be healthy is new age and occultist and cruel and unbiblical.  Word of Faith has slipped in to even Baptist churches in our area.  Our real problem is sin and disobedience.  There is none good no not even one of us!

Paul said even if an angel preached another gospel he should be accursed.  All new age products are garbage and need to be destroyed.    Women need solid Biblical theology and should refrain from using non-biblical tactics with teaching other women.

Jesus would not endorse The books “Jesus Calling.”  They are very addicting and new age teaching.  “But the author means well.”  “Jesus Calling” is ego stroking positive messages.  Author Sarah Young said she didn’t get enough out of the Bible so she wrote about another Jesus that says we are wonderful.  And her Jesus changes His mind all of the time with each new addition she writes.   She is convinced that Angels are giving her information for her books.   She prayed for an inner voice to speak to her and uses automatic writing from angels she said.   This is demonic.  Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

Just because something is comforting does not mean it is from God.  Getting drunk is comforting but it is a sin.  Getting high on Opiods is comforting but it’s a sin.  Fornication is comforting but it’s a sin.  Winning the Lottery is comforting but it’s trusting in luck other than God.   Eating a whole chocolate cake is comforting but it’s gluttony.    We cannot endorse unbiblical ideas from Christian authors who have gone off the rail.  We cannot endorse comfort and positive messages over Biblical truth.

Jesus in my opinion would not endorse Joyce Meyer, Beth Moore  These are  the two most popular women preachers but they are very poor theologians.  They are wrong on many things Biblical.  Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

What makes a preacher?  A preacher proclaims the word of God!  A preacher may be incorrect in his tie choice or hair styles but should always be Biblically correct and Biblically sound and use sound doctrine that is Biblical.  A real preacher uses the Bible and can be followed in the Bible and can be tested by the Bible.  Ephesians 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

 

Jesus would never endorse Yoga or Holy Yoga is being yoked or linked to the cundalini spirit, the life force within you.  The Bible says not to be unequally yoked.  2 Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?  Yoga means “yoked” with the Cundilini Spirit.  That spirit that flows out of the circle of life into all people.  It needs to be activated and cultivated.

People try all these things outside of Christianity.  Churches sponsor Yoga classes.  A former Yoga instructor quit Holy Yoga when they objected to Christians making it “Christian.”   It’s not a Christian practice!  The devil mixes truth with lies.   Yoga may be comforting but it is very deceptive and has no place in the life of a Christian.  Yoga cannot be redeemed and made Christian.  It gives the allusion that putting a pagan practice with Bible verses makes it Christian.  We know that we are not to have any other gods before the true God.  We are worshipping the creation instead of the creator.

The Hindu Vida’s is about Yoga and the worshipping the thousands of Hindu gods.  The positions of Yoga mimic the positions of Hindu gods.   The warrior series precise movements that each pose represents the murderous god Veradadross and you are acting out the murderous scenes of the god Veradadross.   You can’t scrub up or redeem Yoga and make it Christian.

“But God knows my heart?”  Yes He does and the heart is wicked.  “But I know better and will not be influenced by YOGA exercises.”  But while you may not……..Another person can be influenced by you to do sinful practices that they cannot handle.

Just stretch… don’t do the Yoga poses.  Meditate on the word of God…. not mysticism and emptying your mind.  Read the Bible and pray and God will give you wisdom and discernment.  The devil will veil the truth from people.

Jesus would not Endorse an Untested, untried experimental medicine on the general public.  But Franklin Graham, and many other national preachers and teachers did and claimed that Jesus would take the shot.  NO….. He would not!  1 Corinthians 6:19-20 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.  As we are careful what we put ON our bodies we should be careful what we put IN our bodies.

We try to eat right, look presentable and be as healthy as we can.   Matthew 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?  These preachers who I like a lot…fell for the deception.  They pushed the fear and the dread of the unknown the very things we are told not to fear.  And they believed the liars……  Romans 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.  They are going to be really sorry when they realize that something they endorsed is causing people to have complications and death.  And when they realized they endorsed a “clot shot” they will hopefully do a “whoopsie” and repent and move on and continue to do God’s work in this world.

 

Conclusion:

We must learn not to depend upon ourselves and depend wholly upon Jesus Christ and His wisdom and direction.  Ask and it shall be given to you.  Seek and ye shall find.   Pray for wisdom.  Pray about everything…everything!  Depend upon God for everything!  Yes everything vital to your life and the lives of those you love…..  He will give you wisdom, maturity and greater faith.  To grow strong we must become weak….Strong in the Lord and weak in ourselves.  That is the key to having a great life.   Philippians 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 1 Thessalonians 5:17 Pray without ceasing.

1-8-2023

Romans 8:31-34  How To Have It All

Intro:  This is what people want.  They want it all…The trouble is they don’t know what ALL is? And they don’t know when they have it.   Some people seem to have it all.  Nice home, beautiful wife, great kids, nice car, great career.  But is that what having it all means?  There is so much more than this.  God want us have it all and He has given us All things richly to enjoy.  How do we know when we have is all and What is it when we have it ALL?   1:00

 

1 We Have All That We Need

Romans 8:31 “What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? In view of all this, what can we say? If God is for us, who can be against us? What then shall we say to all these things? If God is for us, who can be [successful] against us?  They might win a battle but we have the victory.  They might inflict a wound upon us but we have the victory.  The doctors might tell us we might be sick… but we have the victory!  Why?  Plainly, simply…If God is for us what can the enemy do to us?  We have the victory.  1 Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.  We always have the victory.  Every single time!  It’s all because Of Jesus Christ!  He defeated death, hell and the grave!  What more could you want?  What more do we need?

We can have it all for ALL is not things but a person.  Jesus Christ!

Psalm 118:6 The Lord is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?  What can man do to me?  They can torture me.  They can starve me. They can arrest me and put me in jail.   They can even kill me….. but that’s all they can do.  They can do all of that….but they cannot defeat me.  I will be resurrected to a new body and new life full of peace and joy and love.   I have it all if I have Jesus.

But we must never fear the wrath of man.  We know that they are limited with what God will allow.  James 1:20  For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.  Man’s anger and wrath is not pleasing to God.  He will restrain that wrath and turn it against them many times.    Very rarely will anger and wrath turn out to good.  The only time is when we are angry and act about the way the innocent are treated.  This anger will please God and be righteous.  All other anger is unrighteous!   Why get angry at anyone for what they do to us…..when we have it all in Jesus Christ?

 

God is not only for us but He is with us….Matthew 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.  We cannot imagine that God is actually with us.  So when we have Christ with us what else, who else do we need?

John 14:20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.  Jesus said that He is in us and with us and will NEVER leave us… Hebrews 13:5 for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.   He will never, ever no not ever leave us.  We have it all…… all the time.

 

1 Thessalonians 4:8 God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.  He is with us through the power of the Holy Spirit.  We are sealed by the Holy Spirit.  We are kept by the Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit gives us power and wisdom.  Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you….The Holy spirit is the power the greeek word dynemas, dynamite of God.

John 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.   The Holy Spirit is power and wisdom and truth.  John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth….God is for us and has given us all we could ever need to be victorious in our lives.  10:00

1.We Have All That We Need  2.  God Gives Us All Things

Romans 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things. Certainly not God, who did not even keep back his own Son, but offered him for us all! He gave us his Son—will he not also freely give us all things? He who did not spare [even] His own Son, but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things?

Jesus died for sinners.  He was raised…delivered up for US ALL.  If God spared not His own Son.  If God didn’t hold back even His own son for us will He hold back on anything else?  The short answer…NO!

2 Peter 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness… everything we need to live godly lives we have been given.  It may not be a trouble free live or a pain free life or a disease free life but it will be a godly life!  A life of joy and peace and purpose.  That’s all we could ever ask for isn’t it?

To make a difference for Christ in this life whether it’s 18 or 88 years.  That all we can ask for.  God has given us His Own Son and that is all that we need and all that we desire to make an impact in this world and the world to come.  19:00

1.We Have It All  2.  God Gives Us All Things   3. We Are Blameless Of All Things

Romans 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.  Who will accuse God’s chosen people? God himself declares them not guilty! Who will bring any charge against God’s elect (His chosen ones)? It is God who justifies us [declaring us blameless and putting us in a right relationship with Himself].  We have all kinds of sins.  All kinds of fallacies and failures.  But God says ALL of our sins are gone.  Legally and completely forever. As far as the east is from the west and cast into the depths of the sin according to the Bible.

Romans 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.”  Who, then, will condemn them? Not Christ Jesus, who died, or rather, who was raised to life and is at the right side of God, pleading with him for us! Who is the one who condemns us? Christ Jesus is the One who died [to pay our penalty], and more than that, who was raised [from the dead], and who is at the right hand of God interceding [with the Father] for us.

Christ does not condemn us but makes intercession for us.  He pleads our case.  He defends us.  Why do Christians always go around thinking that they are not good enough?  Or such failures?  We have Jesus Christ who is defending us and cheering for us and standing for us.   Christ STOOD at the right hand of God when Stephen was dying.   If I could have anything I would want ALL My sins forgiven forever!  WELL that has been done in Christ Jesus!

 

1 Thessalonians 1:9-10  For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.  10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

All of the wrath of God was placed on Jesus NOT on us!  He took God’s wrath.  Not only now but one day when God pours out His wrath upon this world we will NOT be here for God has already given His wrath for US to Jesus Christ!

All blame is gone!  All Wrath is Gone!  All judgment is gone!  Blameless.  Without sin being held against us.  NO blame ALL grace!  2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.    All of our sin given to the one who had NO sin!  All of His righteousness is given to ALL those who trust in Him.  27:00

 

1.We Have It All  2.  God Gives Us All Things   3. We Are Blameless Of All Things

How To Have It All

One name…one person….Jesus Christ.  For Christ who is our LIFE!  I am come that they might have LIFE and have it more abundantly!  LIFE is in a person.  We can have it ALL when we have the one who is ALL things.  Collossians 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.  28:04