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Jack Ward
Revelation 9:1-11 A Really Bad Time Is ComingIntro: Chapter nine is a very strange verse in Revelation. Perhaps the most strange. The bottom line is this… Don’t be here for this! You will be in for a terrible time if you are here for the tribulation. Why would you take a chance? Well I don’t believe this is literally going to happen. It’s all symbolism! Even if it is symbolism someone is heading for a bad time. If there is the least bit probability this could be true why would you take a chance. If there is the least bit of a chance you could die from rock climbing…why would you do it?
/2/2026James 1:5-16 What God’s People NeedIntro: We think we have everything we need in life. Especially here in America. And we are greatly blessed but sadly those blessings are coming to an end slowly but surely. As God’s people we have needs that only God can give us we must strive to fulfill in order to walk in confidence in Him in any situation.
8/2/2026Why Did God Create the Devil? Part Three Isaiah 14:12-13Isaiah 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! 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. 16 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;
7/26/20262 Timothy 3:1-7 Signs Of The Soon Rapture of The ChurchIntro: When you seen Halloween decorations going up you know that Christmas is right around the corner. Christmas is celebrated from September to December now you know. When you see the signs that Paul was talking about you know that the rapture of the church cannot be far behind. How much worse can it get? It will get a whole lot worse when the church is gone.
7/26/2026Why Did God Create the Devil? Isaiah 14:12-13Isaiah 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! 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. 16 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;
7/19/2026Genesis 22:7-8 What’s So Important About A Lamb?Intro: Mary had a little lamb. A lamb is so meek and innocent. They don’t growl. They don’t bark. They don’t fight. They don’t run very well. They don’t have any natural defense. Yet they provide wool that clothes us…covers us from our nakedness. What does all that mean? Lambs are unable to help themselves. They cannot save themselves. Their wool is so valuable though. Lambs are highly valued in the animal world. Humans are highly valued to God as lambs are to us. When a Hebrew gives a lamb to sacrifice that is a very important animal to the owner. It’s wool is very valuable to him. He must give up a lot to offer a lamb, his best lamb. God gave up a lot to kill the Lamb of God. He gave His best, His only Son.
Why Did God Create the Devil? Isaiah 14:12-13Isaiah 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! 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. 16 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;
7/12/2026Hebrews 8:7-13 What Is the New Covenant?Intro: Covenant means Promise. God makes promises and He of course keeps all of His promises. God made a Covenant with the people of the earth. The Noahic Covenant…that God would never flood the earth again. God made four covenants with His people Israel. These are all everlasting covenants. The Abrahamic Covenant---The land. The Mosaic Covenant—the law. The Davidic Covenant—A king and a kingdom. The Mosaic or the old Covenant is a system of works in order to please God. It points to the lamb of God Jesus Christ who fulfilled the works required by the Old Covenant. Hebrews focuses on the Mosaic Covenant—or as they call it the first Covenant…..the law of works. It’s basically the Old Testament and the New Testament. Testament is a promise. Last will and Testament. Hebrews compares the Old and the New Covenants. What is the New Covenant?
Daniel 3:1-6 Will You Bow Down To Their Idols?Intro: Nephilim, Fallen ones, Rephaim terrible ones….are giants…literal. “im” means “ones.” Nephilim before the flood and Rephaim after the flood. An Idol is a Terephim means disgraceful ones. An Idol is usually made of wood or stone and represents a false god. But we have many idols today. Actually whatever is most important and a priority to you is your idol. An idol is what gives you the will to live as you do. They can be a person like a celebrity, or a thing such as money. A society can have idols that people must obey and serve or face consequences. Through public pressure and threats they force compliance and obedience to their idols. Yesterday was America’s 250th anniversary. Where are we today? We have bowed down our idols. Will you bow down to those Idols?
7/5/2026Seven Mysteries of Paul Part ThreeIntro: Paul was revealed unto him mysteries that the world needed to know. Why are there mysteries. Mysteries were things revealed after Jesus was ascended and they are for the church and the church only! This study is from Robert Breaker’s King James Study Group. Ephesians 3:7-12 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. 8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; 9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: 10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, This is why we need this. 11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: 12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
6/28/2026Ephesians 6:16-17 Three Vital Things A Christian Must Do to Survive These Days.Intro: The whole Armor of God is the (1) Breastplate of Righteousness, verse 14, (2) Feet shod with the gospel of peace, verse 15, (3) The Shield of Faith, verse 16, (4) The helmet of Salvation, verse 17 (5) The sword of the Spirit, verse 17. The first two…..righteousness and the gospel. The breastplate protects the heart and vital organs. We have a new heart to be saved. With the heart man believed unto righteousness. Then feet shod with the gospel……with our feet we take the gospel to everyone. Today I want us to look at the last three which are the most vital for our faith to remain strong each day.
6/28/2026Seven Mysteries of Paul Part TwoIntro: Paul was revealed unto him mysteries that the world needed to know. Why are there mysteries. Mysteries were things revealed after Jesus was ascended and they are for the church and the church only! This study is from Robert Breaker’s King James Study Group. Ephesians 3:7-12 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. 8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; 9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: 10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, This is why we need this. 11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: 12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
6/21/2026Jeremiah 33:3 The Guide To FatherhoodIntro: In every society and in every country we need men to be men. And we need Fathers to be men of God. Men today have been domesticated and feminized. TV when I grew had dad’s and mom in their roles. Movies today always show the man or the father to be dumb and stupid and weak. I was very fortunate to grow up in a two-parent home with a mother and a father. They kept their roles separate. I knew my dad worked on things and had the money. I knew that my mother cleaned things and fed everybody. Now that was from a 12 year old boys point of view. I grew up watching strong men and fathers in the community and in church. Leaders. Men of God. I am very fortunate. Kids growing up today sadly don’t see many strong men and fathers. The most likely place to find a strong male role model….. should be in a strong church! But even in churches today women more and more taking leadership roles that they were not created for. And they take them because they don’t have any men! What makes a Good Father and strong man?
6/14/2026Matthew 11:6 Trials and Trouble in Life-Intro: Jesus said if they persecuted me they WILL persecute you. This world is full of trouble But Jesus said the servant is not greater than His master. We are flogged, beaten down sometimes in our service to Him. With His stripes we are healed. but He healed us from our sin problem when He was crucified for our sins. And ultimately we will be healed from all pain and suffering forever and ever because He took our sins and the sorrow of sin upon Himself.
6/14/2026Seven Mysteries of PaulIntro: Paul was revealed unto him mysteries that the world needed to know. Why are there mysteries. Mysteries were things revealed after Jesus was ascended and they are for the church and the church only! This study is from Robert Breaker’s King James Study Group. Ephesians 3:7-12 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. 8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; 9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: 10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, This is why we need this. 11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: 12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
6/7/2026John 17:13-17 This World Is Not Our HomeIntro: John 17 is the real Lord’s prayer. Jesus was getting ready to leave His disciples and go to the cross. He prayed for His disciples and He prayed for those who would believe their words. That’s me and you. The model prayer is found in Matthew 6:9-13. Jesus was teaching His disciples HOW to pray. John 17 is the Lord’s prayer for all those who belong to Him. This prayer Jesus talks about how the world is against Jesus. The world is against His followers. That’s why Jesus prayed for us. For this world is against all those who follow Jesus Christ. This wicked world might be where we live but It will never be our home. Our home is with Jesus Christ.
6/7/2026Jonah—God Calls Everyone For SomethingIntro: Tells us that God has a purpose for every child of God. There are public gifts for those who are instructing, leading and teaching. in Ephesians 4:11-12 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; Why does He do this? 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. These are public gifts that is they are used in the church as leaders, teachers, and preachers. I am a pastor and teacher. I am not good at evangelism. I am not an apostle. Those jobs are filled by the time the church was established. Prophets ended when the Bible was completed and the church established.
5/31/2026Ephesians 5:11-17 How To Understand GodIntro: No one understands all about God. He is beyond understanding. But a child can understand His love, forgiveness and salvation through faith in Christ alone in His great gospel message. His word can be understood by the smallest child, but it is complex enough that it challenges the greatest minds on earth. He is unknowable by intellect alone but for those who know Him as Savior we understand all that WE need to know about God.
5/31/2026Bringing Down The Giants 1 Samuel 17:47 Intro: 1 Samuel 17:47 And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands. We face many huge obstacles and problems in this life in the mortal realm. But we who know Jesus Christ can take great comfort that no giant situation, no seemingly impossible obstacle will defeat us! God brought down every giant in the Bible. You will be surprised at how many times giants showed up in the Bible. Giants were never good. Giants were never helpful. Giants were never gentle. Giants were always trying to kill and destroy. Giants are divided into three groups. Nephilim, Rephaim and Teraphim.
5/24/2026Mark 2:16-17 Jesus Christ God’s Gift To PeopleIntro: Jesus Christ came to the earth as a man. Both man and God incarnate. He literally walked this earth from His birth to His ascension into heaven. He is coming again to this earth. Why is He going to return? Why was He born here and lived and died and rose again to just do it all over again? No the first time He had a purpose. When He returns it will be totally different. No one is going to put Jesus on a cross again. He was judged by the world, and Now He will judge the world for rejecting Him.
5/17/2026I John 5:11-14 God’s Rescue Plan For ManIntro: Have you ever been rescued from a situation? Rescued after a car break down? Rescued from a boring conversation? Many types of rescues. Mankind needs rescued. Man has no idea that they are in serious trouble. They drive 75 miles an hour on a road and the bridge is out up ahead and they have no idea. They ignore the off ramp to safety because they don’t see any danger. They think all roads lead to safety! Do they? Jesus said there is a way of life and a way of death. The way of life is straight. The way of death is broad and wide, and many there be that find it. People just stay on the road to death and never choose the way of life. Man is born a sinner is condemned already because they have not taken the way of life… Jesus Christ!
Bringing Down The Giants 1 Samuel 17:47 Intro: 1 Samuel 17:47 And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands. We face many huge obstacles and problems in this life in the mortal realm. But we who know Jesus Christ can take great comfort that no giant situation, no seemingly impossible obstacle will defeat us! God brought down every giant in the Bible. You will be surprised at how many times giants showed up in the Bible. Giants were never good. Giants were never helpful. Giants were never gentle. Giants were always trying to kill and destroy. Giants are divided into three groups. Nephilim, Rephaim and Teraphim.
5/10/20261 Thessalonians 1:9-10 Waiting For The SonIntro: The world today is spinning not only literally but spiritually. We are all aware that the world is heading in the wrong direction physically, mentally and Spiritually. We have drifted far from the peaceful shores of God’s inspired word. The world is waiting for answers to their problems. The world is waiting for a solution to their problems. The church is simply waiting on Jesus. What are you waiting for?
5/3/2026Mark 3:1-5 They Still Are Trying To Destroy JesusIntro: There has been a world at war with Jesus Christ since AD 33. It is a shame that you will hear the name of Jesus more in a secular movie than you will hear it in churches today and among Christians. Of course movies use the name of our precious Lord as a cuss word blasphemously! Peter who many believe dictated the book to Mark… talks about Jesus and those who wanted to destroy Him. Mark presents Jesus actions as the Savior-King who conquers demons, disease and death.
Bringing Down The Giants 1 Samuel 17:47 Intro: 1 Samuel 17:47 And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands. We face many huge obstacles and problems in this life in the mortal realm. But we who know Jesus Christ can take great comfort that no giant situation, no seemingly impossible obstacle will defeat us! God brought down every giant in the Bible. You will be surprised at how many times giants showed up in the Bible. Giants were never good. Giants were never helpful. Giants were never gentle. Giants were always trying to kill and destroy. Giants are divided into three groups. Nephilim, Rephaim and Teraphim.
4/26/20261 Corinthians 10:1-13 Learning From Our MistakesIntro How many heard that term. Learning from our mistakes. If learning from our mistakes worked I would be a super genius by now. The Problem is most of us don’t learn from our mistakes but keep repeating them over and over again until finally we Call upon Jesus Christ to save us. Paul talks about Israel’s advantages that made them arrogant and caused them to fall.
4/26/20261 Timothy 1:1-13 Guarding DoctrineIntro: Doctrine is what you believe and therefore what you teach comes from that. Doctrine has become a dirty word in some evangelical circles. The “Monroe Doctrine” is a set of rules the United States used in international relations. It’s the guidelines we follow. Our guidelines come from the Bible. Our doctrine comes from the Bible.
4/19/2026Luke 4:1-14 How To Win Over TemptationIntro: My grandfather said “I can resist anything but temptation. That’s humans under the fall. That’s what caused the fall. What did Eve say…”the serpent bequiled me and I did eat.” Bequiled means tempted. The favorite catch phrase today is….”I got this.” Well as soon as you say that the devil smiles and says “no I’ve got you now.” We think because we are Christians that we won’t be tempted. We will be tempted worse than before we were saved. The Devil wants to destroy you.
4/19/20261 Thessalonians 4:1-12 Preparing For The RaptureIntro: The rapture is described in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. The verses before that tell us how to live before this happens. It can happen at any moment. So how should we prepare our lives. How should we live? The Bible tells us.
4/12/2026John 10:1-5 How To Recognize a False ShepherdIntro: They say to recognize a counterfeit bill you have to know what a real bill looks like intimately! You don’t study fakes….. you study the real! We are fooled and tricked everyday by fakes. Ai is so good today that you cannot tell a real person from an AI on a video. Liars always tell you just enough truth to hide the lie. Rat poison is 99% nutritious! And some liars just tell lies so big that it just has to be true! How can you recognize false teachers and preachers in these days of AI and such good deceivers out there? It’s really very simple.
4/12/2026Revelation 21:1-27 and 22:1-6 The New Jerusalem Part SixIntro: There are many questions about the New Jerusalem of which we don’t have many answers but the basics. It’s size, It’s shape and it’s inhabitants. We know the bride of Christ will be there. We think that eventually includes the OT saints and the Tribulation saints. It is described as a bride adorned for her husband and the church is the only bride of Christ. Are the OT saints the church?….Not technically but they will be in heaven with the church…during the Marriage supper of the Lamb……. they are friends of the bridegroom. John 3:29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. Are the Tribulation saints the bride? Not likely because most likely the marriage supper of the Lamb occurs in heaven during the tribulation. Be we will look at what we know and use Biblical speculation on what we don’t know. Eventually all redeemed with be together or at least be able to fellowship with each other.
4/5/2026Isaiah 26:19 Dead Men Shall Live Again Part TwoIntro: Today we are celebrating Resurrection day. When our Lord overcame death, hell and the grave and He lives and He lives today!
/29/2026Isaiah 26:19 Dead Men Shall Live Again Part OneIntro: In one week we will be celebrating Resurrection day. When our Lord overcame death, hell and the grave and He lives and He lives today! Today we will talk about Resurrection.
3/29/2026Revelation 21:1-27 and 22:1-6 The New Jerusalem Part FiveIntro: There are many questions about the New Jerusalem of which we don’t have many answers but the basics. It’s size, It’s shape and it’s inhabitants. We know the bride of Christ will be there. We think that eventually includes the OT saints and the Tribulation saints. It is described as a bride adorned for her husband and the church is the only bride of Christ. Are the OT saints the church?….Not technically but they will be in heaven with the church…during the Marriage supper of the Lamb……. they are friends of the bridegroom. John 3:29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. Are the Tribulation saints the bride? Not likely because most likely the marriage supper of the Lamb occurs in heaven during the tribulation. Be we will look at what we know and use Biblical speculation on what we don’t know. Eventually all redeemed with be together or at least be able to fellowship with each other.
3/22/2026Psalm 27:1-6 Victory Over All Our EnemiesIntro: This is basketball tournament season. Teams want to win. They want to be champions. When they win it’s great…. when they lose its devastation. How does a team get the victory? They score more points than the other team. You know that actually a team wins by making less mistakes than their opponents. No one is perfect not even basketball teams. One team is less awful than the other and that’s the winner! That’s the way it is! God want’s to know and understand that we are far from perfect. We are awful…but He is perfect. He is Holy, Just, and perfectly righteous in every way! In basketball no one is perfect. But when they win a championship it doesn’t matter how many mistakes they made it only matters that they end up alone with the trophy. It only matters that in the end they were victorious! In the Christian life it doesn’t matter how many mistakes we make as long as we wind up standing with alone with the trophy. That trophy, the crown of life…. is given by Jesus Christ. David wrote Psalm27 during a time and season of trouble but it is a song about confidence and Victory.
3/22/2026Revelation 21:1-27 and 22:1-6 The New Jerusalem Part ThreeIntro: There are many questions about the New Jerusalem of which we don’t have many answers but the basics. It’s size, It’s shape and it’s inhabitants. We know the bride of Christ will be there. We think that eventually includes the OT saints and the Tribulation saints. It is described as a bride adorned for her husband and the church is the only bride of Christ. Are the OT saints the church?….Not technically but they will be in heaven with the church…during the Marriage supper of the Lamb……. they are friends of the bridegroom. John 3:29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. Are the Tribulation saints the bride? Not likely because most likely the marriage supper of the Lamb occurs in heaven during the tribulation. Be we will look at what we know and use Biblical speculation on what we don’t know. Eventually all redeemed with be together or at least be able to fellowship with each other.
3/15/2026Galatians 4:4-10 God’s Two Fold Plan For ManIntro: God has a plan for man. His plan is two fold. To Redeem us from our sins and adopt us as His children forever and ever! Isn’t that amazing! You make plans for your children’s future. You set aside property, and money for them. Why? Because they are yours. They belong to you. You love them. You want the best for them. God gave us His best….Jesus Christ.
3/15/2026Revelation 21:1-27 and 22:1-6 The New Jerusalem Part ThreeIntro: There are many questions about the New Jerusalem of which we don’t have many answers but the basics. It’s size, It’s shape and it’s inhabitants. We know the bride of Christ will be there. We think that eventually includes the OT saints and the Tribulation saints. It is described as a bride adorned for her husband and the church is the only bride of Christ. Are the OT saints the church?….Not technically but they will be in heaven with the church…during the Marriage supper of the Lamb……. they are friends of the bridegroom. John 3:29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. Are the Tribulation saints the bride? Not likely because most likely the marriage supper of the Lamb occurs in heaven during the tribulation. Be we will look at what we know and use Biblical speculation on what we don’t know. Eventually all redeemed with be together or at least be able to fellowship with each other.
3/8/2026Esther 7:1-6 God Will Turn The Tables On The WickedIntro: The book of Esther is the only book in the Bible that does not directly mention the name of God. There is the beautiful young orphan girl who rises from obscurity to become queen. She even hides a secret that could bring about her demise. Then there is the ambitious villain whose passion is to destroy the innocent. But in the end, the point of this true story is clear: Once again the Israelites’ God miraculously saves His people from certain destruction. The identity of the author of Esther is unknown. However the writer was probably Jewish and lived in Persia. A strong Jewish spirit pervades the book, particularly evident in the account of the establishment of the Jewish festival Purim. Purim comes for the word “Pur” which means “lot” or dice. The wicked Haman cast a dice to decide what day he would destroy the Jewish people in the ancient Persian empire. That’s why sometimes it is called the festival of “lots.” Purm was to begins on the fourteenth of twelfth month…March 2-3 this year in our calendar. (Esther 9:17-19) On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.18 But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness. 19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.It Lasted two days (Esther 9:21) To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,Mode of celebrating is mentioned in (Esther 9:17-19,22)The Jews bound themselves to keep the feast (Esther 9:27,28) Esther 9:28 And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed. Purim was confirmed by royal authority (Esther 9:29-32) The nation of Israel just finished the feast of Purim recently. Purim is NOT one of the required feasts of Israel ordained by God. Purim is at time of feasting and gladness but not ordained or required because it was NOT implemented or commanded by God during the wilderness wanderings and the time of Law giving under Moses.
3/8/2026Esther 7:1-6 God Will Turn The Tables On The WickedIntro: The book of Esther is the only book in the Bible that does not directly mention the name of God. There is the beautiful young orphan girl who rises from obscurity to become queen. She even hides a secret that could bring about her demise. Then there is the ambitious villain whose passion is to destroy the innocent. But in the end, the point of this true story is clear: Once again the Israelites’ God miraculously saves His people from certain destruction. The identity of the author of Esther is unknown. However the writer was probably Jewish and lived in Persia. A strong Jewish spirit pervades the book, particularly evident in the account of the establishment of the Jewish festival Purim. Purim comes for the word “Pur” which means “lot” or dice. The wicked Haman cast a dice to decide what day he would destroy the Jewish people in the ancient Persian empire. That’s why sometimes it is called the festival of “lots.” Purm was to begins on the fourteenth of twelfth month…March 2-3 this year in our calendar. (Esther 9:17-19) On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.18 But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness. 19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.It Lasted two days (Esther 9:21) To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,Mode of celebrating is mentioned in (Esther 9:17-19,22)The Jews bound themselves to keep the feast (Esther 9:27,28) Esther 9:28 And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed. Purim was confirmed by royal authority (Esther 9:29-32) The nation of Israel just finished the feast of Purim recently. Purim is NOT one of the required feasts of Israel ordained by God. Purim is at time of feasting and gladness but not ordained or required because it was NOT implemented or commanded by God during the wilderness wanderings and the time of Law giving under Moses.
3/1/2026Jude 1:3-4 How To Be A Good Soldier For ChristIntro: The author of this epistle calls himself Jude, and there is no reason to think that this is a pseudonym. There are six individuals named Jude in the New Testament, but only two are likely to have written this book: (1) the apostle Jude (see Luke 6:16; Acts 1:13), who is probably Thaddaeus of Matthew 10:3; (2) Jude the brother of James and the half brother of the Lord Jesus. The brothers of the Lord are named in Matthew 13:55 as “James, Joses, Simon, and Judas.”Since the author does not claim apostolic authority, and since verse 17 indicates that the apostles are a group that does not include the writer, we are left with the second candidate—Jude, the brother of the Lord and of James. This identification is confirmed by the author’s reference to his brother James (v. 1) and a reference in a letter of Clement of Alexandria (around a.d. 153–217). Although assigning an exact date for the writing of Jude is impossible, it is likely that the book was written between a.d. 60 and 64. It was almost certainly written before a.d. 70, since Jude does not make any reference to the fall of Jerusalem in a.d. 70.The United States and Israel attacked Iran early Saturday morning our time. They are wreaking havoc in Iran. Iran is sending missiles to Israel and Neighboring Islamic countries. Saudia Arabia, Quatar, etc… Our soldier have to depend upon their training and skills now. They have been thrust in to battle. Their goal is to defend their country to the death if need be. This war means the world is heading for a climax….of judgment and jubilation. Judgment of an unbelieving world and the glorious appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. Soldier know how to be good soldiers for the Untited States. How can we be good soldiers of the Lord Jesus Christ!
3/1/2026Revelation 21:1-27 and 22:1-6 The New Jerusalem…Intro: There are many questions about the New Jerusalem of which we don’t have many answers but the basics. It’s size, It’s shape and it’s inhabitants. We know the bride of Christ will be there. We think that eventually includes the OT saints and the Tribulation saints. It is described as a bride adorned for her husband and the church is the only bride of Christ. Are the OT saints the church?….Not technically but they will be in heaven with the church…during the Marriage supper of the Lamb……. they are friends of the bridegroom. John 3:29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. Are the Tribulation saints the bride? Not likely because most likely the marriage supper of the Lamb occurs in heaven during the tribulation. Be we will look at what we know and use Biblical speculation on what we don’t know. Eventually all redeemed with be together or at least be able to fellowship with each other. Got Questions.org--The New Jerusalem, which is also called the tabernacle of God, the Holy City, the city of God, the Celestial City, the city foursquare, and heavenly Jerusalem, is literally heaven on earth. It is referred to in the Bible in several places. Galatians 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all; Hebrews 11:10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. Hebrews 12:22–23 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, 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect; and Hebrews 13:14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. It is most fully described in Revelation 21 and 22.Some scholars believe that the new Jerusalem will descend from heaven and hover over the Millennial Kingdom as a satellite city of the glorified church during Christ’s thousand-year reign. Scripture offers no evidence for this position. Some believe including me…..that the new Jerusalem is presented in Revelation chapter 21 and 22 is as it will be in the eternal state, not in the Millennial Kingdom. So Paul tells us that the Jerusalem is above. Galatians 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. So right now there is a city of Jerusalem in heaven and that’s where it will be during the tribulation when it come down OUT of heaven. Revelation 21:1 which we will see shortly. In Revelation 21, the recorded history of man is at its end. All the ages have come and gone. Christ has gathered His church in the Rapture (1 Thessalonians 4:15–17). The tribulation has passed (Revelation 6—18). The battle of Armageddon has been fought and won by our Lord Jesus Christ (Revelation 19:17–21). Satan has been chained for the 1,000-year reign of Christ on earth (Revelation 20:1–3). A new, glorious temple has been established in Jerusalem (Ezekiel 40—48). The final rebellion against God has been quashed, and Satan has received his just punishment, an eternity in the lake of fire (Revelation 20:7–10.) The great white throne judgment has taken place, and mankind has been judged (Revelation 20:11–15).In Revelation 21:1 God does a complete make-over of heaven and earth (Isaiah 65:17; 2 Peter 3:12–13). The new heaven and new earth are what some call the eternal state and will be “where righteousness dwells.” 2 Peter 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Who are the residents of the New Jerusalem? The Father and the Lamb are there (Revelation 21:22). Angels are at the gates (verse 12). We know the city will be filled with the bride, the Lambs wife. Revelation 21:9 let me show the bride, the Lambs wife.…His church, God’s redeemed children. The New Jerusalem is the righteous counter to the evil Babylon (Revelation 17), destroyed by God’s judgment (Revelation 18). The wicked had their city, and God has His.
2/22/20261 Peter 1:1-5 What Have in ChristIntro: We have all we need in Jesus Christ for living, for loving, for working, for succeeding, for today and forever! In life we have many needs. We have many wants and desires. Some are met….. most are not. Life is frustrating. Filled with failures and tragedies and trials. Why bother? Well ….if we Didn’t have Jesus I would say eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die. But we have Jesus! We have the Word of God! We have the cross and the resurrection. We have the soon return of Christ. We have it all in Jesus Christ! Peter goes over what we have in Jesus Christ!
2/22/2026Revelation 21:1-27 and 22:1-6 The New Jerusalem…Intro: There are many questions about the New Jerusalem of which we don’t have many answers but the basics. It’s size, It’s shape and it’s inhabitants. We know the bride of Christ will be there. We think that eventually includes the OT saints and the Tribulation saints. It is described as a bride adorned for her husband and the church is the only bride of Christ. Are the OT saints the church?….Not technically but they will be in heaven with the church…during the Marriage supper of the Lamb……. they are friends of the bridegroom. John 3:29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. Are the Tribulation saints the bride? Not likely because most likely the marriage supper of the Lamb occurs in heaven during the tribulation. Be we will look at what we know and use Biblical speculation on what we don’t know. Eventually all redeemed with be together or at least be able to fellowship with each other. Got Questions.org--The New Jerusalem, which is also called the tabernacle of God, the Holy City, the city of God, the Celestial City, the city foursquare, and heavenly Jerusalem, is literally heaven on earth. It is referred to in the Bible in several places. Galatians 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all; Hebrews 11:10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. Hebrews 12:22–23 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, 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect; and Hebrews 13:14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. It is most fully described in Revelation 21 and 22.Some scholars believe that the new Jerusalem will descend from heaven and hover over the Millennial Kingdom as a satellite city of the glorified church during Christ’s thousand-year reign. Scripture offers no evidence for this position. Some believe including me…..that the new Jerusalem is presented in Revelation chapter 21 and 22 is as it will be in the eternal state, not in the Millennial Kingdom. So Paul tells us that the Jerusalem is above. Galatians 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. So right now there is a city of Jerusalem in heaven and that’s where it will be during the tribulation when it come down OUT of heaven. Revelation 21:1 which we will see shortly. In Revelation 21, the recorded history of man is at its end. All the ages have come and gone. Christ has gathered His church in the Rapture (1 Thessalonians 4:15–17). The tribulation has passed (Revelation 6—18). The battle of Armageddon has been fought and won by our Lord Jesus Christ (Revelation 19:17–21). Satan has been chained for the 1,000-year reign of Christ on earth (Revelation 20:1–3). A new, glorious temple has been established in Jerusalem (Ezekiel 40—48). The final rebellion against God has been quashed, and Satan has received his just punishment, an eternity in the lake of fire (Revelation 20:7–10.) The great white throne judgment has taken place, and mankind has been judged (Revelation 20:11–15).In Revelation 21:1 God does a complete make-over of heaven and earth (Isaiah 65:17; 2 Peter 3:12–13). The new heaven and new earth are what some call the eternal state and will be “where righteousness dwells.” 2 Peter 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Who are the residents of the New Jerusalem? The Father and the Lamb are there (Revelation 21:22). Angels are at the gates (verse 12). We know the city will be filled with the bride, the Lambs wife. Revelation 21:9 let me show the bride, the Lambs wife.…His church, God’s redeemed children. The New Jerusalem is the righteous counter to the evil Babylon (Revelation 17), destroyed by God’s judgment (Revelation 18). The wicked had their city, and God has His.
2/15/2026Exodus 12:23-27 What A Mighty God We ServeIntro: The Exodus is the story of Israel leaving Egyptian captivity through the birth of Moses who is a type of Christ as the deliverer of His people. God used the Exodus to teach the Godless Egyptians a great truth. Don’t mess with God’s people. He also introduced through the Exodus…. the Passover. The blood covenant, which later became the new covenant. That God would save His people from their sins through the shed blood of the Lamb of God. It is a long story that we will read briefly how we got there.
2/15/2026Revelation 20:1-14 The Millennial Reign Of Christ Part Ten….What About the Gentiles? Gentiles As Part of the Raptured Church Will Have Positions of LeadershipTwo of Jesus’ parables indicate that Gentiles will be leaders in the Millennial Kingdom. The first is the parable of the talents, recorded in Matthew 25:14–30. Before leaving on a long trip, a man gave one of his servants five talents, a second servant two talents, and a third servant one talent. The first two servants wisely invested what had been entrusted to them by their master, while the third servant buried his talent. When the master returned, he promised the first two servants that they would be rulers over many things. The third servant he sternly rebuked. Because this parable was given in the context of the Lord’s Second Coming, we can conclude that one aspect of the rewards to believing Gentiles will be rulership with Christ in the Millennial Kingdom.
2/8/20261 Timothy 1: 17-20 Is Your Faith Heading For a Shipwreck? Intro: Bankruptcies occur gradually and then all at once. The same thing with Ship wrecks. Gradually the storm comes up and before you know it suddenly the wind and the waves are tossing you upside down and you are at the bottom of the sea. You drifted because you didn’t drop your anchor. To avoid bankruptcy and ship wrecks you must be diligent. You must take care of regular maintenance, check your accounts every day or so. Keep up with your finances and they will keep you up! A ship constantly monitors all it’s systems and a knowledge of the ly the weather and the possible obstacles around them. A ship avoids drifting away from safe harbors by dropping an anchor. Our anchor is Christ. Being prepared for any obstacle to your goals and making sure you arrive safely. That’s the Chrisian life….Making sure you arrive safely in heaven. We know that our salvation is secured in Christ….You cannot shipwreck your salvation but you can shipwreck your faith, your walk with Christ, your rewards in heaven, your influence on others. Is your goal to arrive anchored to Christ, safely, securely, humbly and thankfully? Or will you limp into heaven beaten and battered when you drifted away from Christ?
2/8/2026Revelation 20:1-14 The Millennial Reign Of Christ Part Nine….What About the Gentiles? Gentiles and Jews Worship in the TempleThe Millennial temple is described in detail in Ezekial chapters 40-48. On some occasions, the Gentiles will worship at the Millennial Temple in Jerusalem, as detailed in Isaiah 56:6-7: “Also the sons of the foreigner, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer, their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all peoples.”The size of the temple described in Ezekiel chapters 47-48 seems to be able to accommodate the millions of visitors to it. In that period, the Temple will not be just for the Jewish people but for all people: “And it shall come to pass that, from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD” (Isa. 66:23).
2/1/2026Colossians 3:1-7 Above, Beyond And BelowIntro: Service above anything you’ve ever experienced, quality beyond your imagination, And prices below what you’d expect to pay! What does that sound like? A TV commercial. The goal of every advertiser is to include these three things in Advertising. I used to write commercials for radio. You had to make your client’s business be above, beyond and below. Above and beyond their competitors and below them in price. That’s the key. Well Paul describes the same three things in His message to the Church at Colossae in relation to our lives in Chris
2/1/2026The Millennial Reign Of Christ Part 8The Millennial Reign Of Christ in Isaiah chapters 11 and 65.
1/25/2026Philippians 4:4-9 Final Instructions For Finishing WellOnce the church is gone then and only then will the United States fall. The Holy Spirit working through the church is the restrainer of the Beast system today. When the church is gone they will have their utopian dream……. that will turn out to be their greatest nightmare. But how do we live in light of Christ in these days? Paul left us some instructions.
1/25/2026Who Will Go Into the Millennial Kingdom?The Raptured ChurchWhen Jesus returns to the earth at His Second Coming, following the Tribulation period, He will bring others with Him from Heaven: “And the armies that were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean” (Rev. 19:14).Who are the ones who make up “the armies”? They will be the raptured believers of the Church age, who will return to the earth in their glorified bodies to rule and reign with Christ (Rev. 1:6). This great company will be made up of Jews and Gentiles, although probably far more of the latter than the former.
1/18/20261 Corinthians 9:24-27 How To Win The RaceIntro: Everybody wants to win but not many will pay the price it takes. Luke 14:28 says For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? How many of us want to please the Lord and finish strong for Him and win for Him….but we have not prepared ourselves to win. Many enter a race but not all finish it. All great athletes have been hardened by setbacks, strengthened by failure, and by discipline and determination have come back to be winners. Only one wins a physical race. But we all have a unique race called our life. Not everyone is the same. So you must win the race that God has given you…..it’s your own life’s race and the end line is in sight! Will you run with Christ? Or without Him? Will you be the victor? or will you quit?
1-11-2026Romans 3:1-6 God Used An Imperfect People To Bring His Perfect WordIntro: Today the Bible is still the number one selling book in the world. The United States is still the number one Bible producing, reading and distributing country in the world…by far. And He did it through an imperfect people…the Jewish people. Funny that a Jewish book, written entirely by Jews except maybe Luke….but scholars are recently discovering that Luke may have been Jewish also….This book written by the hated Jewish people. Today Jews are hated on the level of the 1930’s around the world. It is getting unsafe to put an Israel flag in your front yard or to be a known Jewish person in many places in AMERICA! Yet we love or used to love their book…..the Bible! Only God can do the things He does that perplex us…….but He makes it to become perfect sense when we understand God and His work in this world.
1/11/2026 Where will the church be at that time and what will we be doing?Given that the Millennium is primarily linked to the nation of Israel, the question has been raised as to where Christians will be and what their role will be during this period. One reason why this question is difficult to answer is because the Church, to which all New Testament believers belong, is described as a mystery in the Bible. In other words, the truth of the Church was hidden in the Old Testament, although it was planned by God before time began. This means that the many Old Testament prophecies describing the Millennium do not identify the Church or its role during this era.
1/4/2026Revelation 1:5-7 The Greatest Day In HistoryIntro: The Greatest day so far was when Jesus died and rose again. But creation was a great day. The flood was a great day. The tower of Babel was a great day. But this day coming is the greatest of all days…the return of Jesus Christ our Lord to His rightful throne and making the world right again. He will right every wrong and heal every heart. What a day! And it all centers around one person….Jesus Christ! As we leave 2025 the details of what lies ahead is unknown….. but one thing we do know is that Jesus Christ will return sooner than later!
There are several passages in the Old Testament that clearly indicate animal sacrifice will be re-instituted during the millennial kingdom. Some passages mention it in passing as the topic of the millennial kingdom is discussed, passages like Isaiah 56:6-8; Zechariah 14:16; and Jeremiah 33:15-18.The passage that is the most extensive, giving the greatest detail, is Ezekiel 43:18-46:24. It should be noted that this is part of a greater passage dealing with the millennial kingdom, a passage that begins with Ezekiel 40. In Ezekiel 40, the Lord begins to give details of the temple that will exist during the millennial kingdom, a temple that dwarfs all other temples previously built, even Herod’s temple that was quite large, which existed during the earthly ministry of Christ.
12/29/2024Matthew 24:36-46 The Sudden Appearance Of Jesus ChristIntro: No one likes unexpected visitors. It’s not that we don’t like the people but we like to be notified when someone comes to our house in these days. Back in the old days visitors were common before telephones and telegraphs there was “tell a woman.” People visited each other. Now it is very uncommon for people to stop by. In fact it is so uncommon that most people won’t answer the door. We are not prepared for unexpected visitors. We are in our pajama’s or less. The bathroom is not cleaned. Clothes are everywhere. Dishes are piled up. Dust is everywhere. We just don’t prepare for visitors in our culture anymore. That sets us up perfectly for the sudden appearance of the Lord. We are in the generation of “Don’t bother my world” generation. We don’t want any interruptions to our little silly lives. But one day they will be interrupted by a visitor that we should have been prepared to meet. But sadly….most will not be ready.
12/21/2025Luke 3:31-32 The Man Who WILL Be KingIntro: Lots of people have wanted to be king. King of a realm. King of the world even! But there is only going to be ONE king and ONE ruler of the universe eventually. You know that communism doesn’t work….Islamic rule doesn’t work…..Marxism doesn’t work….even a constitutional republic doesn’t work…..why? Because wicked people always in time ruin everything! Benjamin Franklin said that only a righteous people can govern themselves under a constitutional republic. But look at America….it is falling apart at the seams because we are not a righteous people. Only a righteous people can live together in harmony and only with a righteous king. WE will have a righteous king one day and it won’t be long!
12/14/2021Matthew 1:21What is Christmas really all about? We have Christmas lights, Santa Claus, reindeer, Elves and Christmas trees. We sing Christmas songs and we have celebrations and at the center of it all is Jesus Christ. Or it should be. It is very commercialized, but you can't blame the businesses though. This is their biggest month of the year is by far the four weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Most of them make between 50 and 75 percent of their sales for the year during this time. Did you know that Christmas and Easter are the only two holiday's celebrated by the whole world? What is Christmas all about? Let's see....
12/7/2025Galatians 6:9-10 Be Good For Goodness SakeIntro: What Christmas song is that line from?........ Santa Claus is Coming to town! “He see’s you when you’re sleeping, He knows when you’re awake, he knows when you’ve been bad or good so be good for goodness sake!” …. In this world today we can get over-whelmed with all the evil going on in the world. We can be stressed out. It wears us out hearing and seeing all the Godlessness going on in the world. So God has given us a passage for that….actually many passages…… but we are going to look at this familiar portion of scripture today. We should be good not For His sake for only He is good!
11/30/2025Ezra 4:1-5 The Wicked Will Oppose GodIntro: The book of Ezra does not specifically name its author. The tradition is that the scribe Ezra wrote the book of Ezra. Ezra first appears on the scene in chapter 7, and the author of the book of Ezra switches from writing in the third person to first person in chapter 8. This would lends credibility to Ezra’s being the author. The Book of Ezra was likely written between 460 and 440 B.C. The Book of Ezra is devoted to events occurring in the land of Israel at the time of the return from the Babylonian captivity and subsequent years, covering a period of approximately one century, beginning in 538 B.C. The emphasis in Ezra is on the rebuilding of the Temple. The book contains extensive genealogical records, principally for the purpose of establishing the claims to the priesthood on the part of the descendants of Aaron. Chapters 1-6—The First Return under Zerubbabel, and the Building of the Second Temple.The Book of Ezra covers the return from captivity to rebuild the Temple up to the decree of Artaxerxes, the event covered at the beginning of the Book of Nehemiah. Haggai was the main prophet in the day of Ezra, and Zechariah was the prophet in the day of Nehemiah.The opposition of the adversaries of God to the rebuilding of the temple displays a pattern that is typical of that of the enemy of our souls. Satan uses those who would appear to be in sync with God’s purposes to deceive us and attempt to thwart God’s plans and they never give up and they never take a break.
11/30/2025 Where will the church be at that time and what will we be doing?From Precious Seed….That is a great question that we don’t have clear answers to. The millennial reign of the Lord Jesus Christ is a specific period that will occur in the near future commencing with the personal return of the Lord Jesus to the earth in a visible and overwhelming display of power and glory. On His return, the Lord Jesus will defeat the enemies of God, led by the beast during the tribulation period. Following the removal of evil, the Lord Jesus Christ, as King of kings, will personally reign over the earth bringing into fruition an unparalleled time of peace, righteousness, justice, and abundance which will affect the whole world including spiritual, social, ecological, geographical, and biological spheres of life. Revelation chapter 20 verse 4 states that the period will last 1000 years. Hence the reason it is often simply called the ‘Millennium’.
11/23/2025Mark 6:1-5 Why Do People Reject JesusIntro: Jesus was ministering in Nazareth His home town. This was his last mission work in His home town. Beginning in verse 7 he sent his disciples out two by two to other villages. In Nazareth He went to the synagogue as was His practice when entering His home town. He finds back home that people are amazed at His teaching and His amazing miracles. But there was a disconnect with Jesus. They rejected Him and His message. Why Would they do that?
11/23/2025What is the Purpose of the Millennium?From Got Questions.com--The millennium (also known as the millennial kingdom) is the 1,000-year reign of Jesus after the tribulation and before the Great White Throne Judgment of the wicked. During the millennium, Jesus will reign as king over Israel and all the nations of the world (Isaiah 2:4; 42:1). The world will live in peace (Isaiah 11:6–9; 32:18), Satan will be bound (Revelation 20:1–3), and, at the beginning, everyone will worship God (Isaiah 2:2–3). The purpose of the 1,000-year reign is to fulfill various promises God made to the world. Some of these promises, called covenants, were given specifically to Israel. Others were given to Jesus, the nations of the world, and creation. Jesus’ 1,000-year reign will be a time of promises kept.
11/16/2025Psalm 4:1-8 Why We Should Trust In GodIntro: Why should I trust in God? People die of tragedies. Wicked people get all the breaks. Why doesn’t God give me good things I’m a good person? Why does everything go wrong for me? People are hurting, downcast, ready to give up. How do I know this? They elected a Marxists communist in New York only on the hope that their lives might be better. The Democrats and the Republicans have not got it done for people. Most people in the world are NOT happy and have very little to be joyful about. I can tell you with absolute certainty that the source of all joy and all hope is found in a right relationship with your creator.
11/16/2025The millennial kingdom is the future reign of Jesus Christ on earth as He sits on David’s throne in Jerusalem. Everyone who enters that kingdom will be redeemed by God and therefore righteous (see Isaiah 35:8–10). Among those redeemed will be two distinct groups of people: those with glorified physical bodies and those with natural, earthly bodies. Those who occupy the millennial kingdom with glorified bodies can be divided into three subgroups: the church, whose bodies were either resurrected or changed at the rapture (1 Thessalonians 4:13–18; 1 Corinthians 15:21–23, 51–53); tribulation martyrs, who are resurrected after Christ returns to earth (Revelation 20:4–6); and the Old Testament saints, who we assume are resurrected at the same time (see Daniel 12:2). Those who occupy the kingdom with earthly bodies have survived the tribulation and can be subdivided into two groups: believing Gentiles and believing Jews.
11/9/2025Jeremiah 31:1-3 and 35-37 The God Of IsraelIntro: The world seems intent on picking a fight with God Himself. There is so much hatred for Jews and Israel today that it is off the charts. Tucker Carlson interviewed Nick Fuentes….. a young podcaster who is known for denying the Holocaust and praising Hitler and oh by the way he claims to be a Christian. Catholic no doubt. The Catholic church is very anti-Jewish. Fuentes hates Christian Zionists. Tucker Carlson hates Christian Zionists. Candace Owens a famous podcaster hates Christian Zionists. She is Catholic also. What is a Christian Zionist? A follower of Jesus Christ by faith and trust and who believes that Israel is forever God’s chosen people. They believe in Israel’s right to exist is Biblical and in the land belongs to God. We don’t believe that everything Israel does is right. But like a wayward brother they are part of our family and we support them even while we don’t like everything they do.
11/9/2025Nahum 3:1-19 Ninevah’s Complete RuinIntro: Given the limited amount of information that we know about Nahum, the best we can do is narrow the timeframe in which the Book of Nahum was written to between 663 and 612 B.C. Two events are mentioned that help us to determine these dates. First, Nahum mentions Thebes (No Amon) in Egypt falling to the Assyrians (663 B.C.) in the past tense, so it had already happened. Second, the remainder of Nahum’s prophecies came true in 612 B.C. Nahum did not write this book as a warning or “call to repentance” for the people of Nineveh. God had already sent them the prophet Jonah 150 years earlier with His promise of what would happen if they continued in their evil ways. The people at that time had repented but now lived just as bad if not worse than they did before. The Assyrians had become absolutely brutal in their conquests (hanging the bodies of their victims on poles and putting their skin on the walls of their tents among other atrocities). Now Nahum was telling the people of Judah to not despair because God had pronounced judgment and the Assyrians would soon be getting just what they deserved.
11/2/20251 Peter 2:1-6 Get Stoned!Intro: The cry of the sixties was “lets get stoned.” That is lets get high on LSD or Marijuana. Well the Bible talks about getting stoned. It is a great High…but It’s a good High. Getting high on Jesus who is the cornerstone of all God is doing in the universe. It is Jesus who is the living stone and He makes all those who trust in Him to be Lively or living STONES….plural. Once we are stoned what happens next?
11/2/2025Amos 8:1-14 When People Turn From GodIntro: To better understand a difficult message, it’s often helpful to understand the messenger. Amos, along with Hosea, Isaiah, and Micah, prophesied during the eighth century BC. The Jews had split into two nations, the northern kingdom, Israel, and the southern kingdom, Judah. It is interesting to note that Amos had no formal theological training; he was a farmer who raised livestock and sycamore figs (Amos 7:14). Interesting, too, is the fact that Amos, who resided in Judah, was sent by God to preach in the northern kingdom. As is often the case among a rebellious people, Amos’s calls for national repentance were met with hostility (Amos 7:12). Let’s examine the 8th chapter of Amos of the results when people turn from God.
10/26/20251 Corinthians 15:19-24 How To Have Perfect Joy In An Imperfect WorldIntro: Only those who know Jesus Christ as Savior from their sins have perfect forgiveness, perfect hope and perfect joy. In a world full of miserable people with unmet expectations we can have hope and joy in Christ!
10/26/20251 John 2:28-29 How To Arrive In ChristIntro: The word arrive means we have finished our trip. We are soon about to finish our course….we are about to make our last trip around the sun, our life journey is soon over for this mortal life. The Bible tells that this mortal must put on immortality. We are about to arrive at our destination. For the Christian it is to be with the one we love the most…..Jesus Christ our Lord. For those who do not know Jesus…… you will be with the one YOU love the most for all eternity….Yourself! One thing is sure Jesus is going to appear and we are going to arrive safely at home!
10/19/2025Matthew 5:13 Just a Pinch of Good SaltIntro: A pinch of good salt is often the key indgrediant in a dish. Salt is an amazing chemical. It has many uses. Salt can give flavor and it can even heal. But if salt gets old it loses it’s saltiness and is used for road salt. What does that have to do with the Christian life? Everything!
Genesis 15:18-21 The landGenesis 15:18 In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: Then and there the Lord made a covenant with Abram. He said, “I promise to give your descendants all this land from the border of Egypt to the Euphrates River, On the same day the Lord made a covenant (promise, pledge) with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates—
10/12/20251 John 3:1-3 Three Things To Know To Have A Great LifeIntro: There are so many people that will give you advice on how to live. There are so many short videos on line that will give you advice on what to eat to prevent cancer, what concoction to take to prevent this disease and that disease. Advice on how to think yourself to success, what not to say and what to say to bring success…it goes on and on and on. Everyone wants to have a great life but not many get there. What is a great life? A great life has love, An amazing future and strength for today. The Bible gives us all of that…..
10/5/2025Hosea 3:4-5 Great News For Israel ….Jesus Will Be their KingIntro: Hosea was to the northern kingdom what Jeremiah was to the southern kingdom, a weeping prophet. Hosea looked in the future to the Assyrian captivity of the northern kingdom, just as Jeremiah looked forward to the Babylonian captivity of the southern kingdom. Hosea’s prophecy is closely related to that of Amos. Both Amos and Hosea prophesied to the northern kingdom, although Amos was a native of the southern kingdom and Hosea of the northern kingdom. Hosea was the younger contemporary of Amos, and because their ministries overlap, there is much similarity in the sins they condemn.In Amos, the prophetic discourses are very pronounced, while in Hosea, because of the intense personal involvement of the prophet, they are not very distinctly defined from one another, a fact that makes the book difficult to outline. Hosea dates his prophecy” in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel” (1:1). Hosea’s ministry extended from about (770 to 725 B.C.).Thus, his active ministry ceased a few years before Assyria carried the northern kingdom into captivity (in 722 B.C.).The theme of Hosea is God’s loyal love for His covenant people, Israel, in spite of their idolatry. Thus, Hosea has been called John (the apostle of love) of the Old Testament. The Lord’s true love from His people is unending and will tolerate no rivalHosea’s message contains much condemnation, both national and individual, but at the same time, he poignantly portrays the love of God toward His people with passionate emotion. Hosea was instructed by God to marry a certain woman and experience with her a domestic life which was a dramatization of the sin and unfaithfulness of Israel.The marital life of Hosea and his wife, Gomer, who at times was a prostitute, provide the rich metaphor which clarifies the themes of the book; sin, judgment and forgiving love.
10/5/2025Joel 3:1-2 The God Of IsraelJoel 3:1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, The Lord says, “At that time I will restore the prosperity of Judah and Jerusalem. For behold, in those [climactic] days and at that time, When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,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. I will gather all the nations and bring them to the Valley of Judgment.There I will judge them for all they have done to my people. They have scattered the Israelites in foreign countries and divided Israel, my land. I will gather together all the [Gentile] nations [that were hostile to My people] And bring them down into the Valley of Jehoshaphat (the Lord has judged). And there I will deal with them and enter into judgment with them there For [their treatment of] My people, My inheritance, Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations, And [because] they have encroached on My land and divided it up.
9/28/2025Philippians 2:5-11 The Greatness Of ChristIntro: The Bible says in Acts 4:10-12 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. 11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. The greatness of Christ. The on rejected of Israel and rejected by the Gentiles has become the head cornerstone of the church and all of humanity! It’s all about Jesus…that’s how great He is! Everything points to Jesus!
9/28/20251 Timothy 4:13-16 What To Do Til Jesus ComesIntro: Timothy was a young pastor that Paul left in charge of the church at Ephesus. Paul gave Timothy advice of how to lead the church until he Paul was able to come to him. Ephesus was in modern day Turkey.
9/21/20251 Samuel 10:19-27 The People’s KingIntro: God was to be Israel’s king but they rejected God and that left Samuel the prophet in a difficult situation. God assured Samuel that they have not rejected Samuel but God Himself. The people wanted to be like the nations around them. They wanted what they thought was going to free them from the shackles of the Hebrew law and all it’s rules and regulations. But all the years of kings was mostly disaster for Israel. First was Saul then David, and Solomon, There were 39 kings that reigned over Israel and Judah. Saul, David and Solomon were kings in the unified Israel and Judah. After Solomon the kingdoms divided. Israel had 20 kings and all were evil. Judah had 19 kings and 8 were pretty good. Asa, Jehoshapat, Joash, Amaziah, Azariah, Jotham, Hezekiah and Josiah. God had hoped for so much for His people Israel but they rejected Him and for four hundred years they lived under kings that were basically a disaster especially after David and Solomon. Jesus Christ will be the King of the Jews during the millennium. God is not against monarchy’s if He is the monarch!
9/21/2025Ezekiel 38:17-19 End Times Shaking Things UpIntro: These verses speak of God defending His nation against Gog and his army with supernatural and earthshaking methods. God is going to cause a whole lot of shaking going on. Earthquakes seem to be a super sign of the end times. We are seeing a great increase in earthquakes or at least we can now get reports from all over the world about earthquakes to make it seem like there are more. But this message is not about earthquakes but God’s judgment coming against a religion that has hated Jews this their conception.
Joshua 2:9-11 No Fear Of God In The Last DaysIntro: Rahab the Harlot lived in Jericho. God’s people were getting ready to conquer Jericho and move on into the promised land. Rahab had heard of God’s people and their power. She was trying to help the two spies sent by Joshua to spy out the land. She was terrified of God’s people. Which means she was also terrified of their God. Do we fear God in these last days? Do we respect His people both Jews and Christians? The answer to both is a resounding NO!
9/14/2025Ezekiel 38:17-19 Things Will Be Shaking During The End TimesIntro: These verses speak of God defending His nation against Gog and his army with supernatural and earthshaking methods. God is going to cause a whole lot of shaking going on. Earthquakes seem to be a super sign of the end times. We are seeing a great increase in earthquakes or at least we can now get reports from all over the world about earthquakes to make it seem like there are more. But this message is not about earthquakes but God’s judgment coming against a religion that has hated Jews this their conception.
9/7/2025Jeremiah 1 Are You A Jeremiah? Intro: Jeremiah was one man against a whole nation. He was inexperienced, afraid, uncertain and unlearned….but He knew the Lord God and the Lord God knew Him. That made Him an unbeatable army of ONE plus THE ONE Lord God almighty! You have all the hoards of hell against you the moment that you put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ! Don’t compromise because you have opposition. Don’t quit because a few people are against you…..IF you are walking in God’s word and with Jesus Christ in prayer and in truth…you are an army of ONE!
9/7/2025Acts 2:1-21 Peters Great Sermon On The Last DaysIntro: Pentecost was one of the three major Jewish festivals; the other two are the Passover and the Feast of Tabernacles. From the Greek word for “fifty,” Pentecost was so named because it fell on the fiftieth day after the Sabbath of the Passover. Pentecost was also known as “the Feast of Weeks,” “the Firstfruits of the Wheat Harvest,” and “the Day of Firstfruits.” Ironically it occurred fifty days after Jesus was crucified. Remember they had to hurry up and kill Jesus on Friday because the Passover was on Saturday. During this harvest celebration, the Jews brought to God the firstfruits of their harvest in thanksgiving, expecting that God would give the rest of the harvest as His blessing. This particular Day of Pentecost was the day of firstfruits of Christ’s church, the beginning of the great harvest of souls who would come to know Christ and be joined together through the work of the Holy Spirit.
8/31/2025Romans 1:16-18 Confidence In The Gospel Intro: The greatest truth ever revealed is the gospel of Jesus Christ! There is not greater truth and it is the foundation for all truths that we know. That is how important the Death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ is. We can have complete confidence in the Gospel of Jesus Christ! Complete and total!
8/24/2025Proverbs 12:6-7 The Ways Of The Wicked Intro: We all were on the road to destruction, the path away from God and toward hell. But God made a way….a path to Him through faith and trust in His Son Jesus Christ. We can get on the right path. The wicked on a path that will never, ever, no not ever lead to anything good at all! The wicked have their ways and their main goal is to destroy the righteous and righteousness wherever they find it. The wicked live for the only person they really love….themselves. All are going to die and go to be with the person we love the most…. Ourselves or Jesus! Love for self will lead to hell….Love for Jesus will lead us to Him.
8/24/2025 Acts 1:9-11 Jesus Is Alive TodayIntro: The book of Acts is not a doctrinal book. It contains doctrine but it is the historical record of the beginning of the church at Pentecost and how the gospel spread to the Jews and the Gentiles. Every false and crazy church activity has come from taking what God was doing to protect and guide His church at the beginning and turned it into doctrine. Jesus Christ built His church at the beginning before the scriptures with signs and wonders that ceased. It is a supernatural book! We don’t see the supernatural anymore but we see the results of the supernatural. But the main theme of Acts is that Jesus is ALIVE and is ALIVE forevermore at the right hand of God.
8/17/2025Job 19:25-27 Absolute Confidence In Life After DeathIntro: Man is made in the image and likeness of God. That automatically means we our soul and our spirits cannot die. We will live forever! The question is are you going to live in smoking or non-smoking. Heaven or hell. With Jesus or with yourself in the lake of fire! Most today tell us that after death is nothing. We just cease the Exist. If that is the case why not do all the fun living you can while you can. Why care for anyone but yourself? Why try to help others….what is the purpose to life if we are like animals whose life ends after death. After all life is just vanity of vanities according to Ecclesiastes if there is no God and no life after death. Why bother doing anything beyond your basic neccessites? Why care for others? Why not get all you can and can all you get?
8/17/2025 1 Corinthians 15:20-26 End Times Summary In OrderIntro: God is all about order. Everything is to be done decently and in order. God created an orderly universe. God is the opposite of Chaos and confusion. If you are in a church service that has chaos and confusion that is not of God…never, no not ever! I don’t care what they say or how Godly it appears! You are being deceived and played by the Devil…who is the god of chaos, confusion, deceit and deception.
8/10/2025Galatians 1:11-20 Paul Proves The Bible Is TruthIntro: Paul is one of the most amazing people who ever lived and one of the most important! Why would a person do all the hard traveling and tough mission work and suffer so many hardships and perils if he had not been with Jesus? What would his motivation be? Fame? Fortune? Glory? Really? His motivation according to his own writings was spelled out in Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. Does this sound like a man who would tell you a lie? Yes…. Muslims die for a false religion they believe in true. But it is more of a political movement than a religion. Yes, many die for their country for they believe in the principles of freedom. Many die for their ideals or for a belief system that they have been brainwashed to believe is true and many will die honorably for a loved one. But no one would give up their whole lives and suffer daily for something they KNEW was a lie. Paul believed the things he wrote not because He was a mad man but because he actually experienced Christ on the Damascus road and actually was trained by Him and witnessed these miracles and power of God in His own life. His life is proof that the Bible IS the word Of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ is the very truth of God!
8/10/2025Matthew 24:29-31 The End Of The WorldIntro: Things are heating up and the word of God is becoming clearer each passing day. It appears that God is getting ready to wrap things up. Never before have we seen the combination of Biblical prophecy lining up and prophesized hatred of Israel be off the charts. This must be the time people. The end of the world as we know it.
8/3/2025Jeremiah 49:35-39 Iran’s fall foretold….But Not Til the Gog-Magog WarIntro: The prophecy of Jeremiah 49:35-39 to Elam, Persia, which is now Iran…..which the current Iranian Islamic regime threatens, and for all the Iranian people who have been hijacked by the ayatollahs since 1979, and for a restoration of their freedom. Israel recently attacked them with bunker busting bombs that destroyed their ability to make Nuclear weapons…..for awhile anyway. So during this time all these people kept saying that Jeremiah 49 shows us the attack accruing In 2025. I will show you that I don’t think it has anything to do with Israel’s recent attack. For one reason it did not destroy the current Islamic leadership of Iran. They are still there threatening war and the destruction of Israel. And secondly they must team with Russia and Turkey in a few months (I believe) and begin the Gog-Magog, Ezekiel 38-39 invasion of Israel.
8/3/2025Jeremiah 49:35-39 Iran’s fall foretold….But Not Til the Gog-Magog WarIntro: The prophecy of Jeremiah 49:35-39 to Elam, Persia, which is now Iran…..which the current Iranian Islamic regime threatens, and for all the Iranian people who have been hijacked by the ayatollahs since 1979, and for a restoration of their freedom. Israel recently attacked them with bunker busting bombs that destroyed their ability to make Nuclear weapons…..for awhile anyway. So during this time all these people kept saying that Jeremiah 49 shows us the attack accruing In 2025. I will show you that I don’t think it has anything to do with Israel’s recent attack. For one reason it did not destroy the current Islamic leadership of Iran. They are still there threatening war and the destruction of Israel. And secondly they must team with Russia and Turkey in a few months (I believe) and begin the Gog-Magog, Ezekiel 38-39 invasion of Israel.
7/27/2025Titus 1:7-10 How To Be An Influential ChristianIntro: This passage is used many times in Preacher or Pastor ordination services. It describes the qualities for a Church leader. But I think every Christian should have these qualities. Every Christian should strive to be this way. Every Christian not just pastors should be held to these standards in order to be an effective servant of Christ in the world. Every one of us should want to be an influence for Christ on the lives of others
Hosea 5:15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.the purpose of the Lord’s discipline was to drive the people to earnestly seek Him. The Hebrew verb for earnestly seek suggests eager longing and desire
7/20/2025Daniel 11:35. Why We Have TrialsIntro: a song from the sixties had this line “you’ve got your troubles and I’ve got mine.” Life is filled with defeats and setbacks. You will have them. The question that will determine your life direction is this…..how will you handle adversity? The word of God has a lot to say about that subject and the answer may surprise you.
7/13/2025Genesis 12:1-3 Why Should Christians Stand With Israel?Genesis 12:1-3 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 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. The cornerstone of prophesies about Israel. We should all realize that God means what He says.
4/21/2024Romans 2:4 The Goodness of GodIntro: What does it mean to be good? We don’t’ know because we are not good. We have times when we are good. We have moments. But God is good all of the time. That should give us great assurance and confidence in Him. He will always do what is right, what is best for us in the LONG run. This is not a sprint……this life we live…… it is an endurance race. And we WIN! We win because God is God and God is Good!
4/21/2024Romans 13:1-6 Give me liberty or give me deathIntro: Patrick Henry quoted those famous words. And it has been the clarion call for all nations under God even today. The key word for citizens in Romans 13 to obey the government is the word “liberty.” If we don’t have liberty….liberty of worship, property ownership and basic human rights then we must do all that we can to oppose that government, as it clearly opposes God’s mandates for human governance. We must obey God rather than men which is our first and foremost goal in every part of civil society.
4/14/2024Psalm 89:29-37 God Will Keep His Promises To IsraelIntro: Has it begun? The end of Israel? Of course not. Let me say this…..The Biden Administration has given relief of sanctions and also flat out given lran one hundred BILLION dollars which has allowed Iran to have 200 drones and rockets. And then the United States has to shoot down their own drones and rockets!! What did they think Iran would do with that money? They could care less if their citizens have medicines or food. They just want to destroy Israel. This is NOT the Gog-Magog war yet! Iran is east of Israel. Maybe slightly north-east. The Gog-Magog invasion will come from the north of Israel led by Russian, Iran and Turkey at a time when Israel is living in peace.
4/14/2024Matthew 13:24-30 Weeds Among The Wheat Part TwoIntro: Let them grow together. Why doesn’t God get rid of evil in the world? Well…..He is going to when the last person has come to faith in Jesus Christ. But why doesn’t He do it now? Why does He allow suffering and death and war and tragedies? This passage answers that question for everyone.
4/7/2024 MorningPsalm 42:5, 11 and 43:5 Why I Should Never Be DiscouragedIntro: Matthew Henry speculates that David might have written this psalm when he was prevented from to the sanctuary in Jerusalem, either due to persecution by Saul or because of Absalmon’s revolt. David was in despair. Jesus Christ was in despair the night before He was crucified. Some of this describes Jesus human emotions the night before He was crucified. Christians….. we have all been in this situation where we get sad and overwhelmed at times. That will come….. but it’s wasn’t the end for David, Jesus Christ or us today.
4/7/2024Matthew 13:24-30 Weeds Among The WheatIntro: Let them grow together. Why doesn’t God get rid of evil in the world? Well…..He is going to when the last person has come to faith in Jesus Christ. But why doesn’t He do it now? Why does He allow suffering and death and war and tragedies? This passage answers that question for everyone.
3/31/2024Colossians 1:13-19 Jesus Christ—First Among All ThingsIntro: We all want to be on the winning team right? Well Jesus Christ is the first and the last and everything in between. He wins it all because He was willing to lose His mortal life in order to save us for ever and ever! And even then He didn’t lose He gained eternal life for everyone. When He rose on the third day that was our guarantee that He did win over death, hell and the grave and that we will also.
3/24/2024Daniel 9:24-26 Palm Sunday and the Cross in DanielIntro: The Cross and the triumphant entry into Jerusalem is here in Daniel 9:25-26. This prophecy is for God’s people Israel, the Jewish people. God is telling them they will be under Gentile domination for 490 years to make up for the seventy sabbaths they missed when they had kings. God will make them pay seven times for that sin. 70 x 7 equals 490 years. It begins with rebuilding Israel and ends with the Jesus coming to rule and reign over His people Israel in His land Israel.
Even in terrible judgment, God is a God of hope (Lamentations 3:24-25). No matter how far we have gone from Him, we have the hope that we can return to Him and find Him compassionate and forgiving (1 John 1:9). Our God is a loving God (Lamentations 3:22), and because of His great love and compassion, He sent His Son so that we would not perish in our sins, but can live eternally with Him (John 3:16). God’s faithfulness (Lamentations 3:23) and deliverance (Lamentations 3:26) are attributes that give us great hope and comfort. He is not a disinterested, capricious god, but a God who will deliver all those who turn to Him, admit they can do nothing to earn His favor, and call upon the Lord’s mercy so that we will not be consumed (Lamentations 3:22).
3/17/2024Mark 5:14-17 Why Would People Not Want Jesus?Intro: The world is rejecting truth for deception and lies. They have rejected The God of the Bible. Only a remnant of believers remain in the world today. Perhaps a billion. That would be 1 in 8 people in the world follows Jesus Christ. I would say it’s more like one in 25 Christians in the world which would mean there might be 360 million true followers of Jesus Christ in the world today. Why does the world NOT want Jesus? We will look at this today.
3/17/2024Psalm 95:3 FALSE GODS THAT STILL INFLUENCE MANKIND TODAYThere are many false “gods’’ of mythology. Egypt, Mesopotamia, Babylon, Pheonicians, Caannaites, Assyrians, Greeks and other middle eastern peoples are responsible for the vast majority of these false gods which number in the Hundreds. Many are the same god only with different names in different cultures. I am only going to mention the ones that are in the Bible and two with the Catholic church. The reason is that if the word of God mentioned them …..they first of all are Real. Secondly they are still active today. The others may be real or not and we are certain that many false gods are in the world that are not mentioned in the Bible. But these may or may not be active today. And they may be operating under different names but are really the same false gods mentioned in the Bible. Psalm 95:3 For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
3/10/2024Acts 13:6-12 Opposition To ChristIntro: Don’t be shocked but the devil doesn’t want you here today. The devil hates your Jesus. The devil hates your Bible. The Devil hates your church (if it is preaching the word of God) He will do anything he can to oppose you and literally kill you if he could. He is fueling all the opponents to faith and trust in Jesus Christ. All the media, news, university elites and world elites are opposed to faith and trust in Jesus Christ. In fact, most everybody in the world is opposed to the word of God and Jesus Christ! Paul faced opposition all the time as we do today. What did he do?
/10/2024Matthew 27:50-53 Resurrected SaintsIntro: One of the most mysterious and interesting things happened at the time of Jesus death and resurrection and is only mentioned in the book of Matthew. Like Lazarus resurrection is only mentioned in the book of John. These two are similar in many ways. But different also. They both center around Jesus of course. Who broke up two funerals on Jarius Daughter, and the centurions daughter and later Paul through the apostalistic power of Jesus……brought Eutycus back to life after falling out of a window. So with Jesus being the resurrection and the life He has the power in life and in death and taking up life again. But what happened after Jesus death?
3/3/2024Colossians 3:8-11 How To Be Spiritually DressedIntro: We put off old clothes when we want to look our best. We put on things that make us reflect dignity, beauty, honor and respect. And the way we look should reflect love and respect for our family, our friends and our community. We as a church are in the greatest community in the world. A community of believers in Jesus Christ who are seeking to bring glory and honor to Him and love and respect to each other. So we know how to dress physically but how do we dress spiritually. What do we put on for Christ? Christ tells us what to put off and things to put on as we dress ourselves spiritually.
3/3/2024Genesis chapters 1 and 2 and Revelation 21 and 22 the Real NormalIntro: What is normal? In our world today that is hard to say . Everything we thought or think is normal is different. They call it the new normal. Fear is normal. Hate is normal. Chaos is normal. Pleasure is fleeting. War is normal. Murder is normal. Disease is normal. Tragedy is normal. And of course order, happiness and joy are limited and peace is very limited. But that’s normal for this sin cursed world. But what is considered normal for God and His creation?
2/25/2024John 1: 10-17 The Answer To Every QuestionIntro: We have so many questions is life. Where did we come from? Where are we going? What is the purpose to life? What is life? Who killed JFK? Why did God create Duke University? So many questions. Well, I have the answer. The answer is in a person. The question is not WHAT is the answer to every question but WHO is the answer to every question.
2/18/20241 Thessalonians 1:1-7 Thessalonians A Great Church In Tough TimesIntro: Paul started the church at Thessalonica. Acts 17:1-4 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: 2And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, 3Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ. 4And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few. Thessalonica was an important Grecian metropolis by the Roman period of history. It was the second largest city of the Byzantine empire. It was located on the intersection of two Romans roads. It was a major port. It was a center of paganism and also a fairly influential Jewish population. Jews from Thessalonica forced Paul to flee the city for awhile even though in three weeks he established a strong church there made up of mostly gentiles. Today it is the modern city of Thessaloniki in Greece. About one million population.
2/18/20241 and 2 Thessalonians… The Little Revelation and DanielIntro: Paul’s two letters to the Thessalonians reveal things about the day of the Lord that expounds upon the words of Daniel and John the Revelator. The books of 1 and 2 Thessalonians talks a lot about the end times. It covers the wrath of God, the rapture of the church, preparing for the day of the Lord and the appearance of the anti-Christ, the man of sin and son of perdition. A wealth of information that fits right in with what we read in Daniel and Revelation. 1 and 2nd Thessalonians is often overlooked and not appreciated by many for it’s last days information…….but not by us here today!
2/11/2024Galatians 2:16-21 Can the Works Of The Law Save Us?Intro: Ninety percent of the world today believes in life after death. But only a small percentage realize that we are all going to hell. Most believe we go into this eternal state of bliss and reward without ever knowing God or His Son Jesus Christ. After all they say…..life goes on because our life is an invisible force of nature. Man is naturally good. Religion is evil. I agree that religion is evil. But the Bible is crystal clear….we are all sinners in need of a savior. And without that savior we are all doomed to hell. We have that Savior Jesus Christ…..who saved us from the penalty of our sin. He saved us by the gift the grace of God. It’s a gift to us because God loves us because man is made in His own image. He cares about us. God introduced Himself by choosing a people and then declaring His requirements for mankind. Since He is creator He has the right to and we have the need to know His requirements. So Paul tells us in the classic passage from Galatians the purpose of the Law and the weakness of the Law….
2/11/20241 and 2 Thessalonians… The Little Revelation and DanielIntro: Paul’s two letters to the Thessalonians reveal things about the day of the Lord that expounds upon the words of Daniel and John the Revelator. The books of 1 and 2 Thessalonians talks a lot about the end times. It covers the wrath of God, the rapture of the church, preparing for the day of the Lord and the appearance of the anti-Christ, the man of sin and son of perdition. A wealth of information that fits right in with what we read in Daniel and Revelation. 1 and 2nd Thessalonians is often overlooked and not appreciated by many for it’s last days information…….but not by us here today!
2/4/20241 Kings 3:5-14 and 11:1-12 Great Start-Bad FinishIntro: No one started out as great a Solomon. He was appointed by God as king. He built an incredible house of Worship and a house for himself. God was pleased with him and blessed him greatly. God ws impressed by Solomons request for wisdom instead of power. And God gave him both. But Solomon didn’t finish well. He had a long kingship of 40 years. But in his later years things crumbly away. I think Solomon is a microcosm of Israel as a nation. They started out so well as God’s chosen people with a promise to be a great nation with a land of their own. The were given the law of God but ended up being scattered throughout the world. They had a great start but a terrible finish. But it is not over yet. Israel is back in their land and is the burdensome stone to the world…… but one day God will save them and be king over them.
1/28/20241 and 2 Thessalonians… The Little Revelation and DanielIntro: Paul’s two letters to the Thessalonians reveal things about the day of the Lord that expounds upon the words of Daniel and John the Revelator. The books of 1 and 2 Thessalonians talks a lot about the end times. It covers the wrath of God, the rapture of the church, preparing for the day of the Lord and the appearance of the anti-Christ, the man of sin and son of perdition. A wealth of information that fits right in with what we read in Daniel and Revelation. 1 and 2nd Thessalonians is often overlooked and not appreciated by many for it’s last days information…….but not by us here today!
1/28/2024Philippians 4:4-7 Last Days Advice From PaulIntro: We all receive advice everyday. Commercials advise you to buy something because you really will better your life. We receive phone calls advising us to get their medicare supplement, or something else we cannot live without. Road signs advise us as to what speed to drive. The weather man advises us of the tomorrows weather and how to prepare. Our spouses advise us on what repairs need to be made around the house. And some advice is very good. A wise person listens to good counsel. Paul is giving us great counsel about the last days and how to live.
1/28/20241 and 2 Thessalonians… The Little Revelation and DanielIntro: Paul’s two letters to the Thessalonians reveal things about the day of the Lord that expounds upon the words of Daniel and John the Revelator. The books of 1 and 2 Thessalonians talks a lot about the end times. It covers the wrath of God, the rapture of the church, preparing for the day of the Lord and the appearance of the anti-Christ, the man of sin and son of perdition. A wealth of information that fits right in with what we read in Daniel and Revelation. 1 and 2nd Thessalonians is often overlooked and not appreciated by many for it’s last days information…….but not by us here today!
1/21/241 Corinthians 1:4-9 Blessings In ChristIntro: WE don’t know what we have in Christ. But we need to know. We are blessed beyond belief actually. We have everything in Christ. The world wants everything. They want to be rich, they want to be gifted and talented, they want to be perfect and approved. Well, they are all looking in the wrong places. We have ALL of that in Jesus Christ.
1/14/2024Romans 7:14-25 Conflict Between Two Natures.Intro: Man is conflicted. Do we do what is right or do what we want? Do we do the good or follow the evil? We make these decisions every day. Paul understands this more than any of us. He was conflicted. What causes this conflict? Our sinful nature or as the Bible calls it “the flesh” that we cannot escape from until we shed it in death or the rapture. Until then we can still have victory every day over the flesh when we understand the conflict.
1/7/2024Titus 2:2-10 Christian CharacterIntro: Titus 2:1 But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: But as for you, teach the things which are in agreement which produces men and women of good character whose lifestyle identifies them as true Christians. Character is what you are when no one is watching. The Bible tells us what good Christian Character looks like.
1/7/20241 Kings 2:1-10 Eliminating the OppositionIntro: David has died and Solomon is tasked by his father David to purge the traitors from Solomon’s kingdom. God is going to purge the traitors from His kingdom run by His Son Jesus Christ. God is not going to put up with half-hearted effort. There is no fence to sit on. Either you for Christ or you are against Him. Some think this was very harsh for David to tell his son to eliminate any treachorious people. You cannot lead a people righteously if you have wicked traitors in the house. This is what is wrong with America today. Trump did not eliminate traitors from his government. He tried I think….. but he failed to eliminate those who were not 100% loyal to him. Now we have chaos today and confusion……a lack of law and order and the sense that things are falling apart. God did not want that for His people Israel. He wanted law and order and prosperity for His people. He does not want that for the milliennial regin of Christ. That’s why the Bible tells us that Christ will rule with a rod of iron. No opposition will be allowed in His peaceful, righteous and blessed kingdom. Why would anyone oppose that?
Romans 2:5-11 The Bible Verse No One Likes To Hear Intro: No one likes to hear certain things…..how could you be so stupid? What were you thinking? Or you have messed up! Or Gas prices are going up again! There are millions of things we don’t like to hear. But there is one thing I promise you every person is NOT going to want to hear or read. We are going to look at the verse no one likes to hear.
12/24/2023Luke 1:26-33 The Angel GabrielIntro: The Angel Gabriel is mentioned in four verses in the Bible. He appears to Daniel twice to Daniel in Daniel 8:16 And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision. And in Daniel 9:21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation. In Luke 1:19 He appears to John the Baptists father Zacharias. And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings. And in Luke 1:26 as we will look at today. God always lets His people know what is going on. He does not leave us in the dark. That’s why we have the Bible and prophecy. He is letting us know what is going to happen and what will take place.
12/17/2023Numbers 24:15-18 The Prophecy Of Balaam Intro: Balaam was a wicked prophet in the Bible and is noteworthy because, although he was a wicked prophet, he was not a false prophet. That is, Balaam did hear from God, and God did give him some true prophecies to speak. Balaam’s donkey talked and told Balaam he refused to walk and laid down fearing the angel of the Lord that Balaam could not see. However, Balaam’s heart was not right with God, and eventually he showed his true colors by betraying Israel and leading them astray. Balaam was not a Moabite but was a Aramean. Numbers 22:37 Balak has brought me from Aram. Balaam’s three prophecies of blessing on Israel infuriated the king of Moab, who told the prophet to prophesy against Israel…told him to go back home with no reward: Before he left, Balaam reminded the king that he had said from the very beginning he could only say what God told him to say. Then he gave the king four more prophecies. In the fourth prophecy, Balaam foretold of the Messiah.
12/17/20231 Timothy 4:1-7 The Ways Of The Wicked In The Last DaysIntro: The Bible tells us that evil men shall wax worse and worse. And that makes sense. The further you get from the beginning the worse things get. A spinning top loses it momentum the longer it spins. That’s the world today. The farther we get from God the more we lose our moral direction. A top weebles and wobbles until it finally falls over. People are weebling and wobbling on the brink of destruction right now. No walk with God. No strength of moral character. Just confusion and chaos. It’s sad. But Jesus warned us about these days. Our job, our ONLY JOB….is to be faithful to Him and preach the unchanging gospel of Jesus Christ.
12/10/2023Ephesians 5:11-14 Be Awake Or Stay AsleepIntro: The World today is full of activity, wars and rumors of wars, evil doings and evil goings on. It seems they never stop to rest. But let me tell you they aren’t the ones I’m worried about. They are what they are ……and they are going to do evil and stay at it. My worry is the church or at least those who claim to know God. They are asleep. They are not aware of what is going on and the true depth of the wicked and the purposes the wicked have. More than 90% of Christians do not know the basics of Bible prophecy. They are generally aware …..but they don’t know any specific prophecies. Most churches don’t believe in the rapture or even in Israel’s future kingdom. That’s okay but they are missing a great blessing and comfort. The Bible gives two blessings for reading and understanding the book of Revelation and comfort for looking for the blessed hope….the rapture of the church. It’s not a salvation issue if you don’t believe in the rapture….but it sure is a comfort and blessing issue!! It’s time to wake up though to Biblical maturity and understanding. Get off the couch and get into the word of God. Get off your feet that are swift to run to sin……. and get on your knees daily talking to the Father in Jesus name!
12/3/2023Psalm 2 Rebellion Against God—the Luciferian AgendaIntro: This world is in rebellion against God pure and simple. They hate Biblical values, they hate Biblical morals, they hate Biblical Exclusivity, They hate Biblical creation and Biblical stewardship of the earth. I’m not done yet….They hate Biblical government, They hate Biblical reasoning, They hate the Bible! They hate God’s people Israel, and they hate you and me who are a part of God’s church! These are called Luciferians. They serve Satan as much as we serve God. They are entrenched in our governments, the media, Education, military, and big Business. Psalm 2 describes these people to a tee.
12/3/2023Mark 15:11-13 The King Of IsraelIntro: Trump Derangment syndrome. Now we have Israel derangement syndrome or Jewish derangement syndrome. Genesis 12:2-3 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: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. It is God who is determined to bless Israel because they will carry salvation to the whole world. This salvation will come through the Jewish Jesus Christ and through the word of God written by God’s hand through the Jewish Moses, prophets and apostles. Mark 13:13 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. Name’s sake are followers of Jesus and Jews in general. Jesus was a Jew. Christians and Jews are the most hated people in the world. God and Satan both have agenda’s. Israel. Satan wants to destroy her and God has promised to reign over her through Jesus Christ.
11/19/2023Psalm 2 Rebellion Against God—the Luciferian AgendaIntro: This world is in rebellion against God pure and simple. They hate Biblical values, they hate Biblical morals, they hate Biblical Exclusivity, They hate Biblical creation and Biblical stewardship of the earth. I’m not done yet….They hate Biblical government, They hate Biblical reasoning, They hate the Bible! They hate God’s people Israel, and they hate you and me who are a part of God’s church! These are called Luciferians. They serve Satan as much as we serve God. They are entrenched in our governments, the media, Education, military, and big Business. Psalm 2 describes these people to a tee.
11/19/2023Psalm 118:1-14 Why Do We Give Thanks?Intro: A recent survey said this is the most unthankful generation in history. We are not thankful or grateful to parents, grandparents or friends. We are not appreciative but we expect people to serve us and to please us. Tips are at an all time low. Thank you is rarely said. And giving thanks to god abounds. What??? Yes thanks to god “little g” you thank your god. Who is your god? It’s YOU! the god of self, self righteousness and selfishness. Why do you thank someone who has no power to do anything for you? You can’t guarantee your next breath! You can’t guarantee your next step! You can’t guarantee your next heartbeat….yet you trust in yourself and give thanks to all the gods of self that give you a moment of your own evil selfish desires.
11/19/2023Psalm 2 Rebellion Against God—the Luciferian AgendaIntro: This world is in rebellion against God pure and simple. They hate Biblical values, they hate Biblical morals, they hate Biblical Exclusivity, They hate Biblical creation and Biblical stewardship of the earth. I’m not done yet….They hate Biblical government, They hate Biblical reasoning, They hate the Bible! They hate God’s people Israel, and they hate you and me who are a part of God’s church! These are called Luciferians. They serve Satan as much as we serve God. They are entrenched in our governments, the media, Education, military, and big Business. Psalm 2 describes these people to a tee.
11/12/20231 Chronicles 5:18-26 Blessing Or JudgmentIntro: Verses 18-22: These verses contain a further notice of the “Hagarites” of Trans-Jordan (east of the Jordan river) and their battles against the two and one-half tribes that settled east of the Jordan. This section is important for its recognition of “God’s” divine government in operation, directing political affairs among men in accordance with His intended purposes. Reuben was the son of Jacob and Leah. Gad was the son of Jacob and Leah’s handmaid Zilpah and Manasseh was the son of Joseph who was the son of Jacob his beloved Rachel. Only half of the tribe of Manasseh was in this area east of the Jordan. Blessing or Judgment is the choice of nations and people. If you follow Jesus Christ you will be blessed if you follow yourself and what you think is right the result is judgment and death.
11/5/2023Psalm 2 Rebellion Against God—the Luciferian AgendaIntro: This world is in rebellion against God pure and simple. They hate Biblical values, they hate Biblical morals, they hate Biblical Exclusivity, They hate Biblical creation and Biblical stewardship of the earth. I’m not done yet….They hate Biblical government, They hate Biblical reasoning, They hate the Bible! They hate God’s people Israel, and they hate you and me who are a part of God’s church! These are called Luciferians. They serve Satan as much as we serve God. They are entrenched in our governments, the media, Education, military, and big Business. Psalm 2 describes these people to a tee.
11-5-20231 Peter 1:10-13 God Has Worked It All OutIntro: God is in control. He is in control of cancer. He is in control of when loved ones die. He is in control of the Middle East! He is in control of governments! He is in control in all the chaos. He just wants you to trust the process that the world is going to have to go through. I heard someone say this week….. We are going to a wedding the world is going to war! God has worked it all out for His glory and our good!
11/5/2023Psalm 2 Rebellion Against God—the Luciferian AgendaIntro: This world is in rebellion against God pure and simple. They hate Biblical values, they hate Biblical morals, they hate Biblical Exclusivity, They hate Biblical creation and Biblical stewardship of the earth. I’m not done yet….They hate Biblical government, They hate Biblical reasoning, They hate the Bible! They hate God’s people Israel, and they hate you and me who are a part of God’s church! These are called Luciferians. They serve Satan as much as we serve God. They are entrenched in our governments, the media, Education, military, and big Business. Psalm 2 describes these people to a tee.
10/29/2023Isaiah 50:10 Stay Upon GodIntro: What a time we live in. I get up every morning and I do three things. First…I get over the surprise that I am still here. Second….. I quickly check the news to see what Israel and her enemies are doing. And third…. I read the Bible and pray. The third thing is the most important. I want to stay in the Bible and in my walk with Jesus. There has never been a time like this in our lives. No nor will they ever be like this the Bible says. Even the most ardent skeptic has to agree that this is a time like no other. The whole world is involved and the whole world is connected moment by moment. How do we “stay” upon God and what does that mean?
10/29/2023Psalm 83 Are We Close To Something Big?Intro: First of all, I don’t know for sure if this passage describes a war or a skirmish that happened in 1948, 1967, 1973 or in Israel’s distant past or if it is for today. There are many similarities to those past attacks and the Psalm 83 war. But I want us to take a closer look at Psalm 83 and see what God is saying to us here. Is it for today or has it already occurred. In the Past? Asaph who wrote it was not a poet, or a musician, he was a prophet. 2 Chronicles 29:30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the Lord with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer (prophet). And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped. Prophet’s prophecy. So this definitely is a prophecy.
Psalm 83 and beyond. Using Psalm 83 as the backdrop where are we going from there? God-Magog war is next. The rapture of the church is in between there somewhere. Wars and rumors of wars. The inner circle of Israel's enemies and the outer circle of Israel's enemies. We must keep our eyes on Israel to understand Bible Prophecy in these times.
10/23/2023 Luke 18:7-8 Delay is Not DefeatIntro: The world is falling apart. But for the Christian it’s only falling into place. God is still in control. Sin has to reach it’s apex. God is going to judge the world. God is going to rescue His children. What did you think the last days would be like? A stroll into heaven? We are the most privileged of all generations to be here and see the rapture of the church and the return of Christ being set up to an unbelieving world. Lord how long? We cry. Where Is God? He is there. He hasn’t moved. He will do things always on time, at the right time and in His time! We must learn that delay is not defeat.
10/22/2023 Warfield MBC Revival 1 Thessalonians 5:6-8 Wake Up!Intro: As long as people can go on vacation, go to Walmart, Go to a sporting event or concert or go fishing or watch a sporting event they are oblivious to what is going on in the world. During Noah’s time people were asleep. During Sodom and Gomorrah, people were asleep. During the first coming of Jesus people were asleep. Now for Jesus second coming people are asleep. What will it take to wake them up?
10/15/2023Nehemiah 4:14-16 Enemies Around Are Around UsIntro: The days are numbered since birth. Our days are numbered here on earth. For the Lord will come for us in death or in the rapture. So we should work while it is day….night cometh when no man can work. And we will always have opposition from our enemies while we do God’s work and do His will. That cannot discourage us.
10/15/2023Psalm 83 Are We Close To Something Big?Intro: First of all, I don’t know for sure if this passage describes a war or a skirmish that happened in 1948, 1967, 1973 or in Israel’s distant past or if it is for today. There are many similarities to those past attacks and the Psalm 83 war. But I want us to take a closer look at Psalm 83 and see what God is saying to us here. Is it for today or has it already occurred. In the Past? Asaph who wrote it was not a poet, or a musician, he was a prophet. 2 Chronicles 29:30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the Lord with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer (prophet). And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped. Prophet’s prophecy. So this definitely is a prophecy.
10/8/2023Haggai 1:3-8 God Will Build His HouseIntro: The Book of Haggai was written in approximately 520 B.C. Haggai sought to challenge the people of God concerning their priorities. He exhorted them to turn from the uncleanness of their ways and to trust in God. The Book of Haggai is a reminder of the problems the people of God faced at this time, how the people courageously trusted in God, and how God provided for their needs.God WILL build His house….the question is……are we going to build with Him or against Him?
10/1/2023Acts 6:8-10 How To Be Feared By The EnemyIntro: We have enemies. Some of them are not so obvious. We have people that get mad at us and may even try to fight against us. the US has enemies. We have an adversary called the devil. So if you are a Christian you have an enemy who will use every means he can to stop you from serving Jesus Christ! How would you like for the devil and his friends to fear you? Little ol me! Yes you!
10/1/2023Judges 21:25 People Do What They Think Is RightIntro: The Book of Judges does not specifically name its author. The tradition is that the Prophet Samuel was the author of Judges. Internal evidence indicates that the author of Judges lived shortly after the period of the Judges. Samuel fits this qualification. The Book of Judges was likely written between 1045 and 1000 B.C.I want this evening to look at the LAST verse in the of Judges. This verse is a duplicate of Judges 17:6. It is a sobering comment on what went wrong with God’s people and with all people in general.
9/24/2023Philippians 4:19-20 He Will Meet Your NeedsIntro: 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.
9-10-2023The Laodecian Church Revelation 3:14-18Intro: Laodicea was 45 miles southeast of Philadelphia and 90 miles east of Ephesus. It was a wealthy city with thriving banks, a textile industry, and a medical school. The city was also known for its sparse water supply. All of these characteristics are played upon in Christ’s message to the church in our text today. 15–18. References to Christ as the Amen (meaning “The True One”), the Faithful and True Witness, and the Beginning (meaning “The First Place” or “The Ruler”) of God’s creation indicate that the lethargic Laodicean church (vv. 15–18) should pay close attention to His words. This church is alive and well today and just as lethargic perhaps more so.
9-17-2023Daniel 7:23 The New World Order Is Coming No Matter What America DoesIntro: 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?”
9/10/2023Galatians 2:16-21 Why Did Christ Die?And we think that God is just some grand pa type who will pat us on the back and say “come on in buddy..” He is AWESOME! HE IS HOLY! HE IS PERFECT! HE IS JUST! HE IS GREAT!!! This almighty God loves us and sent His Son to die for our sins. How will you escape if you neglect so great a salvation? You WON’T!! But many are still trying it…it’s called religion…It’s called self-righteousness !
The Laodecian Church Revelation 3:14-18Intro: Laodicea was 45 miles southeast of Philadelphia and 90 miles east of Ephesus. It was a wealthy city with thriving banks, a textile industry, and a medical school. The city was also known for its sparse water supply. All of these characteristics are played upon in Christ’s message to the church in our text today. 15–18. References to Christ as the Amen (meaning “The True One”), the Faithful and True Witness, and the Beginning (meaning “The First Place” or “The Ruler”) of God’s creation indicate that the lethargic Laodicean church (vv. 15–18) should pay close attention to His words. This church is alive and well today and just as lethargic perhaps more so.
Hebrews 10:24-39 The Day Is Approaching Part 1Intro: 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…
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.
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…
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 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.
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
8/6/2023 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.
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.
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.
7/16/2023 Genesis 15:1 God Gives Us Victory Over Our Enemies 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.
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!
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.
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
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.
7-2-2023 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!
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.....
6/4/2023 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.
This is memorial day weekend. We will honor those who have died in the service of our country. And we remember those who in our own lives that have preceeded us in death. We know that death is real. Even the earth and all the planets and stars are passing away. And we know that it is inevitable for all of us unless Jesus comes for His church soon. But that should not depress us but encourage us because in death we will really live for the first time!
5-21-2023Daniel 1: 17-21 Right Living In A Wicked WorldIntro: Nebuchadnezzar was king over Babylon. The Jews were led in captivity there. Daniel and his three friends Shadrack, Meshak and Aded-nego were brought before the king as the best of the best of the captive Jews. The king was going to train them in all the ways of the Babylonians. That included the kings food. Daniel and his friends would not eat those things that were considered unclean to them according to Jewish law. Daniel told the prince of the Eunichs that he would not defile himself with the kings meat and wine. Melzar the prince of the Eunichs had a soft spot for Daniel and his friends and agreed to let the Hebrew children eat pulse and water for ten days. After the ten days they reported to the king and they were more healthy than the kings best men. They proved that right living in a wicked world can put us in a bad spot but it will always turn out good for God’s people. Genesis 50:20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good…..
5/14/20231 Thessalonians 5:3 Important Births In The BibleIntro: 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!
5/7/2023Deuteronomy 28:1-2 How To Be Blessed or CursedIntro: 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.
5/7/2023Zechariah 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.
4/30/2023Ephesians 6:12-14 How To Live In Victory In This Evil DayIntro: 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!!
4/30/20231 Corinthians 15:22-28 AI And The Bible Part Two 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.
Isaiah 28:15-18 The Covenant With DeathIntro: 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 Corinthians 15:22-28 AI And The BibleIntro: 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.
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.
Revelation 22:1-7 11 Great Things About HeavenIntro: 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.
John 20:8-9 Who Believes In The Resurrection? 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.
John 12:13 and Luke 23:33 The Palm Tree and CalvaryIntro: 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?
3-26-2023 Revelation 22:1-7 11 Great Things About HeavenIntro: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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….
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?”
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!
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?”
Without Faith it is impossible to please God. How can a sinful, unregenerate, unholy and unrepentant people know a holy and righteous God? Through the holiness and righteousness of Jesus Christ applied to our lives by……FAITH! Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. The word faith and faithful is in the Bible 338 times. It is only by faith that we can know God until our faith becomes sight. Faith is substance and faith is evidence until Jesus comes again then we will live in His presence.
Enoch is one of the most fascinating people in the Bible. The only person God took away quietly. Not secretly because it was known by the fact that we have his story. But taken without any fanfare. Now Elijah was taken with a chariot of fire in a fabulous event with great glory. Not Enoch. He was and he was not. Very simple but very profound.
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.
One Is the loneliest 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.
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….
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.
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.
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.
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….
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.
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….
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.
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?
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!
Let’s Make A Deal and old game show that had contestants choose between Three doors of which one had a booby prize, one had a nominal prize and one had the grand prize. There was no way of knowing, no hint as to which door was which. It was a blind choice. The World gives us doors also. We can take the door of unbelief, the door of indifference and the door of salvation. It is not a blind choice. WE choose the door we want based on what we know is behind each door. No one in their right mind would chose the door that has the booby prize or the door that has the nominal prize if they knew the grand prize was behind door number one! Yet people are doing that all day every day when they choose any door but Jesus!
No person has had more and then lost more than Job. Job was having a great life until Satan intervened and made….. with God’s permission his life a living hell with death and destruction and disaster. But God turned Job’s disaster into victory in the end. The world was in a disaster. Creation, the fall, the flood, the tower of Babel dispersion. It was a mess. Then God re-introduced Himself through a people called the Hebrews and sent them to a land called Israel. Then Israel rebelled. God moved and in the fullness of time brought a Savior who was born of a virgin. The God-man. The Lamb of God who died to pay our sin debt to a holy God. Sinful man can be born again. Job experienced the new birth. Christmas is a new birth. Christmas is a celebration of peace with God and the joy it brings us. You could say that in chapter 42 Job had a Great Christmas.
Some of us remember the show “to tell the truth.” Contestants had to guess which person was telling the truth about their occupation. It was difficult most of the time because people did a good job of lying and deceiving the contestants. You couldn’t tell who was real and who was fake. At the end the real person was asked to stand. Well It’s pretty easy to tell the real Jesus from any fakes and the Bible tells us how simple it is.
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 verse tells us how we should live. We deny our authority over our own lives , take up our cross to bear knowing life is tough in this fallen, sinful world and follow Jesus exclusively by forsaking all others. That leads us to this….Jesus said a lot of things. We say a lot of things that we try to tie to Jesus. We say a lot of things that we think are helpful to people in times of crisis. We say a lot of things that we think are going to be helpful and wise but are actually very anti-Biblical. Here are nine things that Jesus never said, and never would say…… that we say all of the time.
We give glory to ball teams, entertainers and even some politicians. We glorify the rich and the famous. We glorify ourselves and lift up ourselves so that we might have glory and praise. We seek out praise and honor and glory for ourselves. But that puts us out of balance. The glory belongs to only one and that is God. The glory is deserved by only ONE. The Lord Jesus Christ. The glory that He in His great goodness and love wants to share with us. God is not on an egotistical trip in seeking glory. NO. He wants to share His glory with His children! What He gets we get. The praise He gets He allows us to be blessed in it. The glory He gets He shares with His own.
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 verse tells us how we should live. We deny our authority over our own lives , take up our cross to bear knowing life is tough in this fallen, sinful world and follow Jesus exclusively by forsaking all others. That leads us to this….Jesus said a lot of things. We say a lot of things that we try to tie to Jesus. We say a lot of things that we think are helpful to people in times of crisis. We say a lot of things that we think are going to be helpful and wise but are actually very anti-Biblical. Here are nine things that Jesus never said, and never would say…… that we say all of the time.
For now, all those involved obeyed all the Lord had commanded. Their ordination was complete; their priesthood was valid. God would accept their service and their intercession for the people. The eighth day has a lot of meaning. The seventh day is the last day of the week. Saturday. The eighth day was actually the first day of the new week or Sunday. Why didn’t they say the first day of the week? It was called that in the New Testament in a couple of places. But in the OT it is called the eighth day in fulfillment of the seventh day of rest to the eighth day of a new beginning. The end of the law to the beginning of Grace.
Thanksgiving is already here. Wow! How time flies. We will hear this a thousand times this week…things to be thankful for. We already know we should be thankful and hopefully are thankful for Jesus Christ and His birth death and resurrection. We are thankful for our families, our home, our income, our church and on and on. But I have some things to tell you some things you may have never thought about to be thankful for.
Luke 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy) to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. People prepare for family visits. People prepare for dinner. People prepare to go to work. People prepare to take a trip. People prepare to go to a show. People prepare to go on vacation. People prepare for a job interview. People prepare for Christmas and Thanksgiving. That’s what humans do. We prepare for the future all the time. We prepare for emergencies. We have food to last for a few days. We have money set aside. We maintain our automobiles and our homes. We have fire escapes and we have flood evacuation plans. We are always preparing for the unknown or at least we should always be prepared. But in terms of Bible prophecy we don’t prepare ourselves. We aren’t ready as a church for Jesus to come for us. We aren’t looking for Jesus. We are not prepared for the times we live in and for what is coming upon this world. How can we be prepared?
Amos was a Judean prophet called to deliver a message primarily to the northern tribes of Israel. Politically, it was a time of prosperity under the long and secure reign of Jeroboam II who, following the example of his father Joash and significantly “restored the border of Israel”. It was also a time of peace with both Judah, and her more distant neighbors. The ever-present menace of Assyria was subdued, possibly because of Nineveh’s repentance at the preaching of Jonah. Spiritually however, it was a time of rampant corruption and moral decay.
Luke 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy) to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. People prepare for family visits. People prepare for dinner. People prepare to go to work. People prepare to take a trip. People prepare to go to a show. People prepare to go on vacation. People prepare for a job interview. People prepare for Christmas and Thanksgiving. That’s what humans do. We prepare for the future all the time. We prepare for emergencies. We have food to last for a few days. We have money set aside. We maintain our automobiles and our homes. We have fire escapes and we have flood evacuation plans. We are always preparing for the unknown or at least we should always be prepared. But in terms of Bible prophecy we don’t prepare ourselves. We aren’t ready as a church for Jesus to come for us. We aren’t looking for Jesus. We are not prepared for the times we live in and for what is coming upon this world. How can we be prepared?
The Book of Habakkuk was likely written between 610 and 605 BC. The prophet Habakkuk decries the sins of Judah but struggles with the fact that God’s chosen people will suffer at the hands of enemies even more wicked than they. The apostle Paul quotes Habakkuk 2:4 on two occasions (Romans 1:17; Galatians 3:11) ……the just shall live by his faith to reiterate the doctrine of justification by faith.
God answers Habakkuk’s questions, resulting in continuing faith in God’s wisdom, sovereignty, and salvation. The Book of Habakkuk begins with Habakkuk crying out to God for an answer to why God’s chosen people are allowed to suffer in their captivity. The Lord gives His answer to Habakkuk, essentially stating, “You wouldn’t believe it if I told you” Habakkuk theme is that it is permissible to question what God is doing, although with respect and reverence. Sometimes it is not evident to us what is going on, especially if we are thrown into suffering for a time or if it seems our enemies are prospering while we are just barely getting by.
The Book of Habakkuk affirms that God is sovereign and omnipotent, and He has all things under control. We just need to be still and know He is at work. He is who He says He is and does keep His promises. He will punish the wicked. Even when we cannot see evidence of His dominion, God is still on the throne of the universe. We need to stay focused on this: Habakkuk 3:19 The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
Luke 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy) to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. People prepare for family visits. People prepare for dinner. People prepare to go to work. People prepare to take a trip. People prepare to go to a show. People prepare to go on vacation. People prepare for a job interview. People prepare for Christmas and Thanksgiving. That’s what humans do. We prepare for the future all the time. We prepare for emergencies. We have food to last for a few days. We have money set aside. We maintain our automobiles and our homes. We have fire escapes and we have flood evacuation plans. We are always preparing for the unknown or at least we should always be prepared. But in terms of Bible prophecy we don’t prepare ourselves. We aren’t ready as a church for Jesus to come for us. We aren’t looking for Jesus. We are not prepared for the times we live in and for what is coming upon this world. How can we be prepared?
In Ezra 10 The list of those who had taken pagan wives included 113 men: 17 priests, 10 Levites, and 86 others. It had become a widespread problem. But why was it a problem?
Eye to Eye is Bill Koenig's 576 page ‘expanded’ in depth study of the consequences to those who attempt to divide God's covenant land from the Perfect Storm in 1993 to Hurricane Ian this year. We cannot mess with God’s chosen land and His chosen people. Who are the apple of His eye and the land of promise. The city of God is Jerusalem. The only eternal city is Jerusalem. No other people, no other place, no other city has God claimed as His own. The church is the bride of Christ, Israel is His chosen, His elect, His heritage, His people, and His vessel of blessing to this sin filled world. Israel is the physical representative of God. Israel is the billboard of God’s existence. Israel is the physical proof of God. The church is the spiritual evidence and proof of God. The Church operates in the spiritual. Faith and trust in what we cannot see with our eyes…the Lord Jesus Christ. Israel is the physical manifestation of God’s working upon this world. Israel and Jerusalem. The church is the spiritual working of God in this world. Faith and trust. So the bottom line is that dividing Israel will get you in big trouble with God.
Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control, in a September 15 interview with Paul Thacker’s Disinformation Chronicle newsletter. According to Redfield, “Everyone had to agree to the narrative” enforced by Dr. Anthony Fauci and other health officials that the C-19 virus came from a “wet market” in Wuhan and not the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). And Dr. Fauci “clearly misled Congress,” about funding dangerous gain-of-function research at the WIV. So there you go….we already knew this. Confessions are being made everyday and everywhere by the actors in this C 19 conspiracy. They are admitting to the lies that we have been told about Covid…...but what is being done about it? Absolutely nothing! In fact current CDC director Walensky this month encouraged everyone to get the “booster” shot without any qualms whatsoever! It doesn’t matter how many lies they get caught telling…. people will still follow them. Why? Because they have had their consciences seared and the minds are reprobate concerning the truth. They would rather believe “the Lie” than the truth.
Eye to Eye is Bill Koenig's 576 page ‘expanded’ in depth study of the consequences to those who attempt to divide God's covenant land from the Perfect Storm in 1993 to Hurricane Ian this year. We cannot mess with God’s chosen land and His chosen people. Who are the apple of His eye and the land of promise. The city of God is Jerusalem. The only eternal city is Jerusalem. No other people, no other place, no other city has God claimed as His own. The church is the bride of Christ, Israel is His chosen, His elect, His heritage, His people, and His vessel of blessing to this sin filled world. Israel is the physical representative of God. Israel is the billboard of God’s existence. Israel is the physical proof of God. The church is the spiritual evidence and proof of God. The Church operates in the spiritual. Faith and trust in what we cannot see with our eyes…the Lord Jesus Christ. Israel is the physical manifestation of God’s working upon this world. Israel and Jerusalem. The church is the spiritual working of God in this world. Faith and trust. So the bottom line is that dividing Israel will get you in big trouble with God.
Talk about a homecoming. One day we could be taken by Jesus to heaven and immediately be with Him and all of our departed family, brothers and sisters in Christ and our friends! This is going to happen one day! It really is whether we are looking for Him or not. As you see by my “sign of the times” in todays’ bulletin….people are actually getting stressed out by the rapture. Wow. I just can’t believe someone would be stressed out by Jesus return….unless you don’t know Him. That would be stressful for sure. Traumatic can’t even describe that.
Romans 13:1-2 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. 2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. This is the passage that causes so much confusion for Christians.
Zephaniah is a book of contrasts; for no other prophet paints a darker picture of God’s judgment, and no prophet paints a brighter picture of Israel’s future glory. Historically, the Book of Zephaniah was used in the providence of God to prepare Judah for the reforms and revival under King Josiah. Through the prophecy the nation of the prophet’s day was faced with its sin, reminded of coming judgment, and instructed concerning the ultimate glory that will come to Israel. We do not know how blessed we are. We we don’t know what we have in Christ. Against the dark backdrop describing the judgment of God upon Judah and the nation, Zephaniah goes farther than any other of the minor prophets in emphasizing the future conversion of the Gentiles to the worship of the true God.
Hebrews 13:2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Angels are all over the Bible. The book of Revelation alone has references to 31 angels. Angels are powerful, created beings. We know the names of two angels. Michael, the prince of Israel and Gabriel. We have many instances of angels in the Bible. Let’s look at angels.
We all need encouragement in this times that we live. We don’t know what going to happen tomorrow but we know who holds tomorrow. We don’t know what tomorrow will bring… but we know who knows will bring tomorrow. What do those people do without hope in Jesus Christ? We know what they do. We see it everyday….they do drugs, alcohol, lying, murder, revenge, homosexuality, transgenderism, communism, hate, cheating, stealing, pedolphilia, self righteousness, self determination, fighting, war and adultery. So people without Jesus Christ stay very busy so they don’t have to think about God and their accountability to Him. But we who are Christians are swimming against a stream flowing full of this wickedness. We need to know if it is worth it to keep on for Christ? Is it going to be worth it all?
Hebrews 13:2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Angels are all over the Bible. The book of Revelation alone has references to 31 angels. Angels are powerful, created beings. We know the names of two angels. Michael, the prince of Israel and Gabriel. We have many instances of angels in the Bible. Let’s look at angels.
1 Samuel 4:11 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain. The people of God failed. They trusted in the false leadership of Hophni and Phineahas. They died and the Ark of the Covenant was taken. The Ark that was given at the time of Moses and was still in possession by the Israelites and only disappeared before the Babylonian captivity. 2 Maccabees says that Jeremiah hid it before the Babylonian captivity. We do not know where the Ark is today. IN Revelation 11:19 the ark is in heaven. We don’t need the Ark today. The Ark symbolized God’s presence. Since Pentecost the Holy Spirit indwells each believer. This is a story about the power of God over the gods of this world….all gods….. those we invent and those real.
Hebrews 13:2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Angels are all over the Bible. The book of Revelation alone has references to 31 angels. Angels are powerful, created beings. We know the names of two angels. Michael, the prince of Israel and Gabriel. We have many instances of angels in the Bible. Let’s look at angels.
Ezekiel 37 is the dry bones chapter. The Jews were pictured as dead dry bones. Dead as a people to God but not forgotten. God made promises to Abraham about His descendants. God made promises to about the seed of the woman in Genesis 3:15. That is Jesus Christ who is a Jew! God brought them back to life and and would bring them back to their land. The Church is God’s adopted Children. Israel is God’s chosen people. God chose Israel to be a people to introduce Him to the world and through which He gave the law and then the Savior.
You can’t censor God and be a successful nation. You can’t put God out of a nations conscience and be a great nation. But we are trying to do that today in the United States. What happened when Israel tried that and what is happening to America for trying that.
Ephesians 6:11-13 Are we to Fight against the government and make a new government? How does a Christian fight against tyranny?
Chapter 8….Macedonia corresponds to the northern part of present-day Greece. Paul had established churches in the Macedonian cities of Philippi, Thessalonica, and Berea. In 2 Corinthians 8:2–5 We see the Macedonians were a great example of giving because they gave (1) during affliction, (2) in spite of great poverty, (3) with great joy, (4) beyond their means, and (5) freely. In fact, (6) they pleaded for the privilege of sharing their wealth with other believers, and (7) they gave themselves to the Lord and to others. In 2 Corinthians 8:6 Titus had begun the collection when he was in Corinth we see this in 2 Corinthians 2:13; 7:6, 7, 13–15). Paul wanted him to complete it. He appeals to the Corinthians to give as he reminds then that they should abound in everything in the Lord.
The goal of the globalists is to put God out of our society. The belief in God leads people to trust in Him and many who trust in Jesus Christ. If Jesus Christ is Lord then the globalists cannot be lord. So one has to go. And they aren’t going away. The church is!! But the doom of any nation is that nation that ignores God and tries to wipe Him from society.
We all know lazy people that just drive us crazy. Maybe you are lazy. We all have times when we just want to be lazy. But that’s okay to get a way and be lazy for awhile and be refreshed. But to have a reputation of being lazy is about the worst reputation to have. And a lot of people are that way. You ought to have to best looking yard in the neighborhood. Your home should reflect your diligence and being a hard working person. And being a lazy preacher and Bible teacher and a lazy Christian is really bad. I know we can’t do some things and we may not be able to do certain things anymore. But you can do what you can. Mary anointed Jesus before His crucifixion. She did what she could. Mark 14:8 She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying. She couldn’t preach, she couldn’t teach, be an apostle, heal the sick, raise the dead, but she could anoint Jesus. And we remember her today and forever! Laziness is a bane on any society. Laziness is in abundance in our churches among pastors, teaches and congregations. Laziness is defined as not doing anything productive, useful or beneficial for ourselves or for others. Sounds like our government doesn’t it?
I cannot guarantee your safety in this world in this body of flesh. We will die or be raptured. Either way it’s the end of this body of flesh. But I can guarantee you the real you, your soul and your spirit and your new body will be safe forever and ever! Psalm 118:6 The Lord is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me? God does rescue us every day in our flesh I’m sure. My joy is based not that I might live a long life in the flesh….. but that I will live eternally in my soul and spirit and one day soon in my new body! That is guaranteed! 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. We will be changed one day. 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 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. That is how to be safe, be safe in Jesus.
There is a spiritual Babylon in called “Mystery Babylon the great” of Revelation 17:5 and a commercial Babylon in Revelation Chapter 18 called “that Great city Babylon.” All taking their cues from the center of satanic work in the world…. Babylon in Genesis Chapter 11. Spiritual Babylon I believe is the Roman Catholic Church. Commercial Babylon nobody knows who it is. Is it a literal Babylon being built? It doesn’t seem likely. Is it the United States? I don’t know. But I have come to believe it could be the United States of America! But I am far from an expert in this….This is just my humble opinion. Could it be the elites of the world with their system? I don’t know. No one exports more goods and more evil than the United States. The dollar is still the world currency of trade. We export same sex marriage, homosexuality, Abortion, Child trafficking, pornography, gambling and now we are exporting Atheism.
People don’t have much confidence in the world today. Polls all tells us that they don’t have any confidence in our leaders either. So what are people putting their hopes in? They think that everything will get back to normal. They think that it’s just a bad time but it will get back to normal. They think the elections will put everything back to normal. They think that a new leader will make everything right. They think that a financial collapse cannot happen here. They will figure it out. It won’t get that bad here. Well none of these things can give us any confidence in life today. No one has any confidence in life today except those who follow Jesus Christ! How can you say that? Glad you asked
There is a spiritual Babylon in called “Mystery Babylon the great” of Revelation 17:5 and a commercial Babylon in Revelation Chapter 18 called “that Great city Babylon.” All taking their cues from the center of satanic work in the world…. Babylon in Genesis Chapter 11. Spiritual Babylon I believe is the Roman Catholic Church. Commercial Babylon nobody knows who it is. Is it a literal Babylon being built? It doesn’t seem likely. Is it the United States? I don’t know. But I have come to believe it could be the United States of America! But I am far from an expert in this….This is just my humble opinion. Could it be the elites of the world with their system? I don’t know. No one exports more goods and more evil than the United States. The dollar is still the world currency of trade. We export same sex marriage, homosexuality, Abortion, Child trafficking, pornography, gambling and now we are exporting Atheism.
There are many lies and liars. The Devil is a liar and the truth is not in him. He is the father of liars. After the devil I would say that our government is the biggest liar in the world right now. The media is next followed by big Pharma and then the medical world (there are many good doctors and nurses) Some more big liars are the World economic forum. And the world’s elites are all liars and deceivers. What is the greatest lie ever told? The devil has told some whoppers! Ye shall be as gods…. He told Eve. Was the biggest whopper of all. We lie to ourselves when we know something is true. We try to deny we are gaining weight. We deny we are getting old. We deny the reality of what we are. But the greatest lie to yourself is to deny that truth about Jesus Christ. That He is not God. And the second greatest liar is someone who teaches others that! Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
There is a spiritual Babylon in called “Mystery Babylon the great” of Revelation 17:5 and a commercial Babylon in Revelation Chapter 18 called “that Great city Babylon.” All taking their cues from the center of satanic work in the world…. Babylon in Genesis Chapter 11. Spiritual Babylon I believe is the Roman Catholic Church. Commercial Babylon nobody knows who it is. Is it a literal Babylon being built? It doesn’t seem likely. Is it the United States? I don’t know. But I have come to believe it could be the United States of America! But I am far from an expert in this….This is just my humble opinion. Could it be the elites of the world with their system? I don’t know. No one exports more goods and more evil than the United States. The dollar is still the world currency of trade. We export same sex marriage, homosexuality, Abortion, Child trafficking, pornography, gambling and now we are exporting Atheism.
Paul prayed. 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. That is why Paul prayed. So that others might be filled with the knowledge of Jesus Christ. That we might know Him personally and completely so that we might know the fullness of that walk with Christ. That’s why we pray for others and that is why you ought to have a prayer list for others. Pray for your family, friends, brothers and sisters and pray for your enemies that they might know Jesus Christ. He is everything and our life! And that doesn’t even do justice to describe what He is to us.
No passage gives you better summary of what going on in the last days as this one. It gives us a comprehensive summary of the day of the Lord, and exhorts us on how to live in that day. You don’t get any better than this.
Motivation—reason for acting or behaving in a particular way. What motivates you to do what you do in life? Hunger motivates you to eat. Making a living motivates you to get a job…or it should! Health problems motivate us to exercise or change our diet. Some people are self motivated. They don’t need much push they are ready and eager to try a new behavior. Some it takes a near death experience to get them motivated. Some will never be motivated to do anything. The Bible tells us that we can be motivated to do good or evil it’s all based on who and what motivates you.
No passage gives you better summary of what going on in the last days as this one. It gives us a comprehensive summary of the day of the Lord, and exhorts us on how to live in that day. You don’t get any better than this.
The five information streams are all controlled by the wicked. Media, Medical, Education, Government, and Science. So we are outnumbered. So there is not much WE can do but with God all things are possible. So we have to pray and rely on Him for guidance and wisdom in these days that we are in. The truth is that we have always been outnumbered by the wicked on this planet.
The phrase the mystery of iniquity occurs in the KJV of 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.” Other translations render the phrase as “the secret power of lawlessness” (NIV) or “the mystery of lawlessness” (ESV and NASB). Before we attempt to interpret the meaning of this phrase, let’s look at it.
: It’s not going good for America. But it is going well for those American’s who are trusting in Jesus Christ. We are seeing the beginning of the end of the age. The church age is almost over. That doesn’t cause us to be sad….but should cause us to rejoice for our redemption is drawing nigh! America has been a shining light to the worl….d not because of our goodness. But because God used us. We supported the rebirth of Israel. We have sent more missionaries than all nations combined in human history! We have published and printed more Bibles than all the other nations put together times 100! We have more churches than all the other nations put together times 100! We are founded on the gospel of Jesus Christ. Far from perfect, we have many flaws, but our ideals were based on the liberty of man found only in Jesus Christ! But alas our great American nation is going to fall and that is certain. But our great God will never leave American’s without hope. Hope in the Lord is stedfast, sure and certain to occur.
I weep and mourn over my country. I know it’s almost over for America. We have passed the point of no return. We are a nation of basically good people (even though there is none good but God) I mean that basically American’s want to be good people and live together in harmony. But it only takes a few to make the basket rotten. Face it our national Leadership is absolutely horrible! Godless, God hating people. There is no lie they will not tell, no deception they will not ply, and no person they will not sacrifice to get to their agenda. They are working for the elite, the ten horns, the ten kings of Daniel and Revelation. They are working for the devil. They have sold out for money….to China and the elites. They control all of the media. They control all of the corporations. They control all of Pharma. They control all of the hospitals. They control all of utilities and education. So we are done as a nation. There is no hope for America….. as a nation but hope for Americans! There will be no national revival but many personal revivals! We pray “Lord save as many as will come to you” and then we pray “even so come Lord Jesus!” our greatest hope. The blessed hope of Titus 2:13
The phrase the mystery of iniquity occurs in the KJV of 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.” Other translations render the phrase as “the secret power of lawlessness” (NIV) or “the mystery of lawlessness” (ESV and NASB). Before we attempt to interpret the meaning of this phrase, let’s look at it.
John Piper who wrote the book “Desiring God” said that he doesn’t own a gun and no Christian should own one. Many other Christian leaders say the same thing. What does the Bible say about gun ownership? Nothing. Guns weren’t invented yet. But it says a lot about self protection. Is it Biblical to arm ourselves for self defense? On this fathers day we need to take a look at the role of a father and God and guns.
Klaus Swabb and the globalists elite are evil. Klaus Swabb sounds like a James Bond movie villain. It’s so strange. But anyway…they want us to die. They want to get rid of freedom. They want to get rid of people. They want to depopulate. That’s not conspiracy that is fact! They want us to do the will of the UN-Elected rich and powerful of the world. Their policies are the policies of death. To kill children, kill adults and to enslave the masses. This is real…….people. They are destroying our infrastructure, they are destroying our health, they are destroying our families. They are doing things so evil it is beyond what men can think of. This plan too sophisticated for mere men to have come up with. This is evil from the depths of hell. Many atheists are starting to think this way now when they see this level of evil we are now facing. They are believing this wickedness can only lead them to believe that God is real and some are even coming to faith in Jesus Christ! But WE who know Jesus Christ are not to fear or give in to these wicked people. For God is on our side!
You’ve seen the bill boards..”The end is near.” Well what does the end look like? This final chapter of Daniel tells us exactly what it will be like. The end of the earth as we know it. But also chapter twelve is a time of trouble for Israel. Which indicates that this is the second half of the tribulation. And then we see the wrap up of all things and the coming of the Kingdom of God upon the earth. This wonderful time is preceeded by some tough times. Toughest the world have ever seen! Specific dates and times are set here in Daniel 12. But it all ends well and ends in victory for Daniel and all of us who follow Jesus Christ! Victory is on the way!
In chapter three of Acts Peter and John were going in to the temple and saw a crippled man there begging. They told him “silver and gold have I none in the name of Jesus rise up and walk.” And he got up healed of his lameness. The Jewish council didn’t like the attention that Peter and John were getting and how they gave Jesus Christ credit for the healing and accused the apostles of putting Jesus death on their heads. The name of Jesus offended them and it still offends people today.
Egypt the king of the south. Ptolemy Philometor (181–145 b.c.) Syria King of the north. Antichous Epiphaneses IV 164-175 BC) is a type of the Anti-Christ to come at the end times.
The unholy Trinity. Not the one in Revelation…the Devil, The Beast and the False Prophet. But the unholy trinity of evil….. Hatred, Deception and lawlessness. But first….On this memorial day we remember all of our war dead. They died for our freedom up until World war II after that they died for the Industrial Military complex. Even Dwight Eisenhower warned about them in his last day in office. They love war because war is money and wars get them closer to their goal of a one world government. And on the home front murder is up 44% this year. Less than one percent of all murders are done by mass killings. We see mass killing almost everyday in Chicago and New York that go unnoticed. We remember all of those innocent killed by mass shooters every day.
Only The Apostle John gives us the term “anti-Christ.” He talks about an Anti-Christ spirit in 1 and 2 John. Interestingly he does not use the word in the book of Revelation but uses the word “Beast.” The Apostle Paul calls him the man of sin and son of perdition. In Revelation and the Apostle Paul calls out a specific person. In 1 and 2 John, John is talking about a spirit of those opposed to Christ. Actually an anti-Christ hates Jesus Christ. Why do they hate the one who loved us and gave us truth and life and was innocent of any wrong doing or sin?
Antiochus Epiphanes IV ruler of Syria 175-164 BC is almost exact representative of the Anti-Christ, the Beast, the man of Sin and Son of perdition to come. He does the same things on a smaller scale. He did them before Jesus came to be born. The next Anti-Christ will do his evil just before Jesus comes to rule and reign.
Everyone is lying today. We have a Disinformation Governance Board in the federal government. The FDC chairman said last week that Misinformation has killed millions in the world. Who is telling the truth? Where do we start for the truth? The truth is out there and it’s not hard to find.
Egypt the king of the south. Ptolemy Philometor (181–145 b.c.) Syria King of the north. Antichous Epiphaneses IV 164-175 BC)
Clint Eastwood made this movie title famous. But it sure does describe the women in the Bible like Jezebel, Herodias, Gomer, Lot’s wife, the Witch of Endor, Deliliah, Potiphar’s wife, Athaliah who murdered her grandchildren, and finally Eve. Let’s change the order around a bit and start with the UGLY first.
We know what makes a person wicked. They steal, kill, rob, plunder and abuse people. But the Bible says the wicked are those who reject Jesus Christ. The little grandmother who has never received Jesus Christ is called wicked by the Bible. She is a Jesus Rejector. 1 Timothy 4:5 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. People fail to receive Jesus and turned to a false way are headed for destruction. Yes even that 90 year old grandmother!
Daniel chapter 8 covered a lot of this information now Daniel Chapter 11:2-35 expands upon it with so much detail that it is amazing considering it was written around 539 BC more than 200 to over 300 years before these events happened. These events are the times between the prophets and John the Baptist. The time between the testaments. Usually around 400 BC to 4 BC. The book of Daniel was found in the dead sea scrolls affirming what was already proven….. that Daniel was written in the fifth century BC. Only God knows the future and only God can be one hundred percent accurate in Bible Prophecy!
God only works through people and uses people who call upon Him for His glory and our good. He uses evil people sometimes for His purposes and glory but not for their good. He used Pharoah, Nebuchadnezzer, Cyrus, Pontius Pilate, Judas Iscariot and so on. But not for their good but out of the evil in their own heart. Who was the first preacher? Asked no one ever!!! Have you ever wondered that? Who started preaching. 1 Corinthians 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. 1 Corinthians 1:21 It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. Let’s meet the first preacher.
Daniel chapter 8 covered a lot of this information now Daniel Chapter 11:2-35 expands upon it with so much detail that it is amazing considering it was written around 539 BC more than 200 to over 300 years before these events happened. These events are the times between the prophets and John the Baptist. The time between the testaments. Usually around 400 BC to 4 BC. The book of Daniel was found in the dead sea scrolls affirming what was already proven….. that Daniel was written in the fifth century BC. Only God knows the future and only God can be one hundred percent accurate in Bible Prophecy!
Nothing proves the legitimacy of Christianity like the resurrection. Without the resurrection we have no Christianity. We have no hope. We have no purpose for living today except to get all we can and live the law of the jungle. But there was a resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and It’s not over yet. We also will be resurrected
One of the greatest prophecies in the Bible is Palm Sunday. We don't think of it that way ever! But it is true
One day we will meet the angel that has been with us all of our Christian lives. Hebrews 1:13-14 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool? 14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? They are here right now. Daniel experienced the greatest of Angels. Gabriel. He speaks to Daniel in tonight's text from Daniel ten. We thank Dr Cayce for the background on this study tonight.
: Nothing new under the sun means a repeat of the things that have already been. Satan has great wisdom but he only does the same things over again why? Because it works! Man can be deceived and man can be lured into sin by the same old tricks. Mystery Babylon is man trying to be God or take God’s place. Exactly what Satan did as we will see later.
Man is doomed to repeat history if he does not learn from history. How can we be so stupid? It’s not that we are stupid…. it’s that we have only one goal…to be our own god and replace the God of creation.
Mystery Babylon is the embodiment the ultimate plan to replace God with man. It has many times reared it’s ugly head in the Bible. And of course it would. It is Satan’s ultimate plan that never changes it only takes on different characters and different paths.
When in the presence of holy angels Daniel was in awe. In Chapter 7 he was in the presence of an Angel. Gabriel Spoke to Daniel in chapter 8. And Gabriel again in Chapter 9:21-27. Now in Ten he is visited again by an angelic like person. But this one has a lot of similarities to an Old Testament appearance of Jesus Christ.
The Bible that you have in your lap will never every be done away with. It will forever be. They say you can’t take it with you…well yes you can take one thing with you….the word of God and the salvation and the promises that it proclaims! Doesn’t that give you a great sense of security and confidence!
Job is the oldest book in the Bible. Written before Moses. It gives us a lot of interesting details about the devil and angels and God. It gives us the answer as to why bad things happen to God’s people. And how to handle the fact that this world is not our final home and it is a sinful, fallen world that has angels and Satan that are against humans. We must stand the test sometimes. That is we must stand in our faith, in our God, and we will neither falter or fail
The Bible gives the answers to the last days and the days we are in right now. Gabriel is the one speaking and giving this prophecy in Chapter 9:20-27. He is telling Daniel what will happen to God’s land and God’s people in their future. So prophecy is for the main part all about Israel and how the rest of the world relates to Israel. So keep your eyes on Israel and the players involved with them and you will know what’s going on. America is not the center of Bible prophecy.
Matthew 24:10-12 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. 11And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 12And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
John 4:22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
Isaiah 65:17-25 A Great day is coming where we will see peace on the earth between all creatures and man and God. Jesus Christ will rule and reign one thousand years.
Daniel 9:1-19 Daniel prays for His people that they might be forgiven for their sins as they prepare to return to Israel.
What was his problem? We think the elder son in the prodigal son is the bad guy in the story. But is he? We are going to take a look at the story and see if the elder son has a true gripe.
Daniel chapter 8 requires and explanation to Daniel. But even the explanation doesn’t clear it up for him. Bible prophecy cannot be clearly seen until the time is near for that prophecy to be fulfilled. We understand it looking back. But Daniel had no idea what this vision was about. It was important because an Angel, the angel of all Angels Gabriel came and explained it to him for verification that it would happen for sure. It is amazing in its accuracy that should prove to us that the Bible truly is the word of God!
We love our children, our grandchildren, and our favorites sports teams and our favorite food and drink. We love our favorite drug of choice and we love our sin of choice. Not everyone loves their country. Not everyone loves their spouse, or their extended family. Not everyone loves their jobs. Not everyone loves their homes. Not everyone loves their life and where they are in life. And sadly, not everyone loves God or His word. Who and what you truly love says a lot about you. Jesus told us that you can be disqualified from following Him by not loving Him more than anything else in the world. Is Jesus being strict and unreasonable, arrogant and cruel or is He actually showing His great love for us by saying this?
Daniel Chapter 8 contains another prophecy given to Daniel. This one is about the recent future in the 3rd century BC to about 150 BC. Chapter 7 was about the end times mostly. A little horn will come forth and do great harm to the people of God, the Jews and the temple. He is not the antiChrist but a precoursor to the anti-Christ to come.
This is one of the greatest combacks found anywhere in Scripture. Of which there are many. Jesus Christ IS coming back. Israel made three comebacks. Egyptian Slavary, Babylonian captivity and 1948 after the holocaust. And one to come at the return of Christ! Habakkuk had faced the frightening fact that his nation would be invaded by a merciless enemy. The prophet knew that many of the people would go into exile and many would be killed. The land would be ruined, and Jerusalem and the temple would be destroyed. Yet he told God that he would trust Him no matter what were to happen. A man spent his life running from God living only for himself and his wants and desires. One day he lost everything he had….. his wealth, his family, and his home. Then God told him…Now do I have your full attention? Sometimes Christians can lose their wealth, their family, and their home. What is God telling them? Yes you lost these things, you suffered great pain and loss, but I’m giving you a comeback better than you could ever imagine and you will glorify my name through it all! That’s today message from Habakkuk!
Baal or Baalim was the name of the supreme god worshiped in ancient Canaan and Phoenicia. The practice of Baal worship infiltrated Jewish religious life during the time of the Judges (Judges 3:7), became widespread in Israel during the reign of Ahab (1 Kings 16:31-33) and also affected Judah (2 Chronicles 28:1-2). The word baal means “lord”; the plural is baalim. In general, Baal was a fertility god who was believed to enable the earth to produce crops and people to produce children.
Asherah, or Ashtoreth, was the name of the chief female deity worshiped in ancient Syria, Phoenicia, and Canaan. The Phoenicians called her Astarte, the Assyrians worshiped her as Ishtar, and the Philistines had a temple of Asherah (1 Samuel 31:10). Because of Israel’s incomplete conquest of the land of Canaan, Asherah-worship survived and plagued Israel, starting as soon as Joshua was dead (Judges 2:13).
Asherah was represented by a limbless tree trunk planted in the ground. The trunk was usually carved into a symbolic representation of the goddess. Because of the association with carved trees, the places of Asherah worship were commonly called “groves,” and the Hebrew word “asherah” (plural, “asherim”) could refer either to the goddess or to a grove of trees.
The door to life you would think would be large and accommodate all people of the world. But that is not the case. It can accommodate all the people of all time… but it is narrow. And few find it. Why is that? Jesus tells us why.
Daniel Chapter 8 contains another prophecy given to Daniel. This one is about the recent future in the 3rd century BC to about 150 BC. Chapter 7 was about the end times mostly. The events in Daniel chapter 8 come before the feast in Daniel chapter 5.
Very few people today are faithful to the Lord Jesus Christ. Even fewer are watching for Him! The globalist elite have laid out their agenda very clearly. They are faithful to this new world order, this world economic reset, the agenda of 2030 and the Georgia guidestones that call for a new world order with a greatly reduced population so the planet can survive. They are not only patiently setting this up (it has taken almost 100 years) but they are watching for it to occur at any moment when their savior will appear. Who is their savior? The anti-Christ! Who will lead the world into this great utopia with no god but man and accountable to a group of global elites….. the ten horns and the ten kings of the dragon.
Daniels vision or dream of chapter seven verses 1-14 is explained to Daniel in Verses 15-27. What a glorious God we have who lays out the end time scenario for us. All we have to do is read it and understand. God promised that those will understand who follow Him. 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.
It’s not good math but it’s correct theologically. Evolutionists use even worse math. They believe nothing plus nothing equals everything! Faith plus nothing equals Everything! Jesus came and lived and died and rose again for our salvation. All we have to do is believe it by placing our faith and trust in Jesus Christ. That’s all we have to do to be saved! But many in the world cannot accept this. They want a part of the process. They want to do something in order to earn God’s favor. The Galatians were falling to this as we see in our text today.
Ancient of Days is a term used only in Daniel Chapter 7. It represents God in His glory. Jesus Christ is God so the references here are to Him and the Lord of glory! Daniel sees this great vision of the glorified Son of Man…the Lord Jesus.
The Bible is about the redemption of man by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ. The Bible explains how we got to this point of salvation by grace alone through faith alone. God created the world. He created a people to introduce Himself to the world. He sent a Savior to save the world. And when the fullness of time is come….He is coming back to rule the world. Mankind sinned. So we can never be good enough to save ourselves from our sin problem predicament. We need to become sinless and holy. Impossible!! But with God all things are possible!
Daniel 7:1-10 Daniel has a dream of four creatures and ten kings. The four creatures are the Babylon, Medio-Persia, Greece and Roman empires. The ten kings are ten elites, or nations or power groups that will arise in the last days. One of the kings will start out small but rule the others eventually. This is the beast, the Anti-Christ, the man of sin who will rule the world during the seven years of tribulation.
What is the New Jerusalem? Where is the New Jerusalem? Who will occupy the city? We will find out what the Bible says in this message. Revelation chapter 21 is almost entirely dedicated to this place.
The New Jerusalem will be a place of unimagined blessing. The curse of the old earth will be gone (Revelation 22:3). In the city are the tree of life “for the healing of the nations” and the river of life (verses 1–2). It is the place that Paul spoke of: “In the coming ages [God] might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:7). The New Jerusalem is the ultimate fulfillment of all God’s promises. The New Jerusalem is God’s goodness made fully manifest.
There is no fence sitting anymore. You are either for the truth or against the truth. As we end 2021 where will you stand in 2022? Will you stand for the truth of God or the lies of the devil. No middle ground on Jesus. You are either for Him or against Him. To ignore Him is to be against Him. To follow Him is to adore Him. The last two years we have seen some things we never thought we would see and do. I’m not going to rehash the last two years, you’ve been here you know what’s going on. Will it get better in 2022? Maybe. Probably not. The Bible says that evil men shall wax worse and worse. People will be buying and selling and marrying and giving in marriage in 2022. No one will expect it when the Lord comes for us. Is that because times are so good or that no one is looking for the rapture anymore? I’m beginning to think that no one is looking for Jesus. No one wants to know Biblical truth anymore especially pastors and preachers. Are you turning away from or turning to truth?
Israel has been freed from 70 years of Babylonian captivity. The Medes and Persians have defeated the Babylonian empire. Nehemiah and Ezra later are leading the return and rebuilding of Israel. Nehemiah will build the wall and Ezra will lead the rebuilding of the city and the temple. They had opposition from many. Anytime people want to glorify God, and lift up His name they will have opposition. The opposition is cruel, wicked, resourceful and they never quit. So we have to be determined, confident in our God, and willing to sacrifice even our lives to the glory of God. But we know one thing…..we cannot lose! And they cannot win!
what was your favorite Christmas gift? What was your least favorite? I have no idea on either of these. I never got something I didn’t like in some way or another. I guess my favorites that I remember were a toy submarine and I remember a Wolf Man figurine. As an adult I was always working for the Postal Service I was just glad to get it over with. Anything was great! God has given us a gift that is beyond belief and believe it or not the vast majority of people have never bothered to claim it.
Let’s make a deal a game show that aired for many years had contestants choose door number one, two or three for great prizes. One door had gag prizes. One door had pretty good stuff. One door contained a brand new car! YOU had to choose which door. Well the world today has to choose from only one door and that is Jesus! But they turn Him away and would rather choose a thief and a hireling. Jesus offers us much more than a new car! He gives us a new life and the promise of heaven and all it’s glory! Yet people choose the thief and the hireling. How to find the Door.
The most important invention in world history is the printing press. Built in 1436 by Johannes Gutenberg. With the newfound ability to inexpensively mass-produce books ideas and knowledge was placed in the hands of every literate person in the world. It helped pull the world out of the dark ages. The first book printed was the Bible. The Gutenberg Bible as it was called. The world’s greatest invention led to the word of God being placed in the hands of millions of people down through the years since. In a sense the most important invention shed light on the world and made Christianity the most important movement in the history of the world. Why is Christianity so important? Why are you as a Christian so important?
Dictionary definition of Pestilence: A Fatal epidemic disease especially bubonic or black plague. Pestilence in the Bible…means a deadly and overwhelming disease that affects an entire community.
The Black Plague, a disease killed over thirty percent of Europe’s population, was certainly a pestilence.
Spanish flu in 1918 killed 33 percent of the world’s population.
Pestilence many believe is one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse in the book of Revelation. 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. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. I believe this includes all pestilences since Jesus ascended into heaven through the tribulation period.
The word Pestilence is mentioned 48 times in the Old Testament and only twice in the King James New Testament. Biblical Pestilence is deadly and devastating to a people group.
Players, coaches and managers get kicked out of games all the time. The reason they get kicked out is that they have crossed the lines established by acceptable behavior principles. Leviticus chapter 18 contains a list of sexual sins. Sexual sins are especially heinous because they take something that God uses to procreate humanity, a good thing, a holy thing and perverts it. The land itself suffers from our sins. God raises up nations and put nations down. Always because of their sin. A sinful nation cannot continue to sin because they spread their filth to the whole world. So God has always checked those nations by bringing them down and replacing them with another. I believe this is happening to America today. God is kicking us out of America for crossing the lines He has established of acceptable behavior.
Wokeness: This word was added to the dictionary in 2017. It means “well informed, up to date, alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice.” Being “woke” means being aware….Knowing what’s going on in the community related to racism and social injustice. Well are they really “woke?” What does the Bible say about being “woke.” There is a “wokeness” to temporal things and a being “awake” to spiritual things.
We have so much to be thankful for. Yes we are losing our constitutional Republic. We are losing our liberty in America. But we will never lose Christ! He will never change! He will never leave us! The world we live in will never be the same….but Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever! I know we talk about giving thanks to God. But in times like these we need Jesus more than ever! What do we have if we don’t have Jesus? Where do we turn? There is no one that can save you from the coming wrath of man, and the wrath of Satan and the wrath of God…except Jesus Christ!
Salvation was bound up in the temple, even if in a preliminary and anticipatory way. For even as its altar and priests were a figure that pointed forward to Christ's sacrifice on the cross, so the structure itself was a type, a material prophecy of that day when the Word of God would become flesh and "tabernacle" among us. Still today it serves as a type of that future glorification that awaits us in the heavenly presence of God himself
Obadiah 1:15 For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen….. For the [judgment] day of the Lord draws near on all the nations. The day is near when I, the Lord, will judge all nations. Zechariah 14:1 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. The phrase “day of the Lord” usually identifies events that take place at the end of history and is often closely associated with the phrase “that day.” One key to understanding these phrases is to note that they always identify a span of time during which God personally intervenes in history, directly or indirectly, to accomplish some specific aspect of His plan.
2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day (day of the Lord begins with the rapture of the church)….shall not come, except there come a falling away first (Greek words mean moving away, or taking away) and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition. It appears from scripture that the church is going to be taken away BEFORE the tribulation begins. Here are some points to consider as proof……
The world today loves their little “g” gods. Many gods exist today. Some real, some imagined. The problems is that they all have a little “g.” that is, they can be called gods but they are not the real, the only, the unique, the creator, the sustainer, the saving, the prophecy fulfilling, the only truth, the God of the Bible. And that leaves the rest of them as only pretenders. There is only one contender, and that is the God of the Bible. Eliohim, the great “I am.” The Lord Jesus Christ.
The world is obsessed with death. We do everything to avoid it. We make gory movies about it. We invent a holiday Halloween that is all about death. Every image of Halloween is death. Ghosts, devils, graves, headstones, graveyards, grim reaper and on and on. We fear death! Death makes us all afraid. We spend billions perhaps trillions every year to keep from dying. Medicines, exercise equipment, vitamins, doctors, nursing homes, exotic therapies and on and on.
The elites are doing everything they can to give themselves eternal life through artificial Intelligence and weird things with Children’s blood and sacrifices to Satan. Notice how the George Soro’s, the Klaus Scwaab’s, the Pope, and all these guys are all very old men. How do they continue? It’s weird. They seem to have overcome death. But they will die. Everyone dies that has rejected Jesus Christ. They die twice….. physically and spiritually. The Bible is filled with death. But the Bible is filled with the answer to death and hope after death.
Covid, Same sex marriage, Abortion, Transgenderism, Islam, the Pope, Covid, Vaccine mandates, all this stuff is just war against God and His creation. Man is trying to make man in His image. Should I say the devil is trying again to remake man into his image with MRNA vaccines, and DNA altering shots that will kill millions and those that survive (the devil doesn’t want every human to survive just a select few that he can breed a new mankind) will be made in the devil’s image. God is going to stop this as He did in the days of Noah. Why do men seem to hate God and resist God? It’s his fallen nature to resist God. Man has as wicked heart that resists God. But God loves us and we can have and must have a new heart, a forgiven and cleansed heart from the penalty of our sin and rebellion.
Most in not all people think they are going to heaven. Most think they can go to heaven by NOT being a Christian. In other words you don’t need the Christian faith, you don’t need Jesus to go to heaven. In fact most think they can go to heaven without Jesus Christ. Just be sincere in what you believe, be a fairly good person and do some good things, be religious and be true to yourself or some other mantra like that. They are not remotely close to going to heaven. The fact is that only Christians go to heaven because only Christ claimed to be the only way to heaven and IS the only way to heaven. So If this is so important how can we know we are saved? How can we know we are a Christian?
Grace is God’s riches at Christ’s expense. Grace is the greatest word in the human language. It’s greater than love. What? Yes. Without grace we would be lost in sin even though God loves us. Grace is God giving us His salvation paid for by the blood of Jesus Christ. Yes love did it but without grace there is no salvation. When the Bible mentions grace it’s always about Jesus. Jesus is grace. Grace equals Jesus. How can we be strong in grace?
Is James crazy to tell when everything is going wrong we should rejoice? No he is absolutely correct. How can that be? Why would we be happy when everything goes wrong? Not only is it possible but that is the way every Christian should look at every trial and every trouble!
Are churches today looking for Jesus? 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. Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. 2 Timothy 4:8enceforth 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. I love talking about the rapture. I still believe in it. I still look for Him everyday! This could be the day! I’ve done this since 1970. 51 years of watching for Him. Don’t you get discouraged? I must admit I didn’t think it would get this bad. “What did you think the last days would look like” says a famous Bible prophecy teacher. He’s right. Did we think we weren’t going to suffer any? There are birth pangs mentioned in the Olivet discourse. We are in the middle of them right now!
I must admit that sometimes I wonder if maybe the preterists were right that the church will go through the tribulation and then Jesus will come. But then I read The passages I’m giving to you today and quickly I regain my confidence that Jesus is indeed going to rapture the church!
No matter how good we are to people it’s never enough. People today are not appreciative. They don’t care what you do for them as long as you do more and more. We want more government handoust and we don’t care who pays for it. We want more vaccines and we don’t care what the long term consequences will be. We want more and more and more. I remember at Christmas we would get a stocking with fruit and one toy. What do kids want today? More and More and More!
Scales indicate something satanic. Snakes have scales. Paul was satanically blinded because he could not see the truth of Jesus Christ. Like many today are blinded by the god of this world who seeks to hide the truth of the gospel from all of us.
Three steps to greatness. Graduate from high school or college, get a good job. Then get married and have children. Biblical steps to greatness….Micah 6:8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God. But sadly people instead follow the steps to departing from God in our world today. Even Christians follow these steps every day.
What is the best thing someone ever did for you? Well your mother did a wonderful thing of bringing you into the world. Your spouse did a wonderful thing by marrying you. Soldiers have done a great thing for you by giving their life for your freedom. Your company did a good thing by giving you a job. The bank did a good thing by giving you the money to by a car or buy a house. So people have done many great things for us. But can you believe that most people could care less about these things? They sure don’t care what God has done for them. What did God do for us? He gave us life. He gave us a family. He gave us a spouse, put us in a free country, gave us a job, a house, a car, children and grandchildren and pretty good health for many of us. But we have left out the most important things God has done for us…
There are many books written about personality traits and personality types. Which type are you? I’ve read some of these books. While they are interesting and maybe even accurate to a degree what does it really matter in the long run? I am what I am because God made me that way. But according to God there are only two types of people. Wicked and Righteous! So leave it to God to really simplify it.
Blindness affects 2.2 billion people in the world today. The numbers are rising. The main reason is the lack of decent eye care. Near-sightedness can lead to blindness if not treated properly in time. Untreated Cataracts and failing eye sight in the elderly leads to blindness among the undeveloped nations of the world. Myopia or near-sightedness is exploding due to children spending so much time on their devices. Diabetes patients will all experience some kind of vision problems. The cause of Much blindness of our eyes is preventable but the poor can’t access doctors and those who can often do not. There is a spiritual blindness also. Those who are spiritually poor aren’t looking for a cure and those who know about the cure won’t access it because they both think they can see.
A song from the sixties had these words…..“In times like these we need a Savior, In times like these, We need an Anchor, In times like these, We need the Bible. In times like these, O be not idle. Be very sure, be very sure your anchor holds and grips the solid rock. This rock is Jesus, yes he’s the one, this rock is Jesus the only one. I’m very sure, I’m very sure my anchor holds and grips the solid rock.” In times like these we need to remember three things that God told Joshua to be……
There are many mysteries in the world. The mystery of Stone Henge, and the UFO’s, big foot and the Lochness monster. We have the mystery of the human mind and the mystery of who killed JFK? And Did OJ do it? One mystery has been answered. The Old Testament prophets didn’t know about Jesus Christ and the church. It was not revealed to them. It was a mystery. How can one have their sins forgiven and walk with God? How can paradises be restored that mankind lost at the garden of Eden? That has all been answered
We have no idea how terrible sin is in our lives. We have no idea how sin causes death. We laugh at sin. We joke about sin. We don’t take I seriously. But sin has caused despair, hopelessness, grief, tragedy, horror, depression, sickness and finally death. How can we laugh at that? We don’t realize what power sin has over us. We must realize that sin kills. Speed kills they say….well we know that sin kills. It destroys everything it touches. Sin and death go hand in hand like love and marriage, Apple pie and baseball, Duke and the Devil. No wonder their called “Blue Devils” right? Sin and death, death and life. Life and death go together in that order. But death and life do not go together. Sin brought death but Jesus changed that to bring death and life
In the story of the woman at the well we have three things. A woman, A well, and the way. It was just an ordinary day for her. What happened next changed her life forever!
We know that there are alliances today with different evil groups and they have one thing in common…They are evil! But when evil people and good people get together the good usually turn bad. Why is that? We are sinful people with a sinful nature so we are already bent to sinning. And that is the reason we always need to watch who we hang around with and where we hang out at. Unholy alliances come when unholy people somehow get into an alliance with Holy people. That should not happen. Unholy people can cause us to stray from our faith. What is an unholy person? Be ye holy as I am holy. Holy people follow Jesus who has made us holy. Unholy people DO NOT follow Jesus Christ plain and simple.
Things we do are important. We can do wrong things. We can do right things. What we do is based on personal choice. What we know leads to understanding and making good decisions. We know for instance that China wants the three trillion dollar rare earth minerals in Afghanistan. We know that China is in Afghanistan. We know that our fake president loves China. We figure out that the United States pulled out of Afghanistan in order to give it to China. Now it makes sense. Now taking the vaccine is your business and no one else’s. If you have taken the vaccine that is your decision. I don’t want you to feel scared or alarmed. God will take care of all of us. No one should be mandated to take this vaccine…no one! It is experimental, it is not approved by the FDA. But once it is approved you will have to take it. Children and anyone under 30 should absolutely NOT take it. But for the rest of us it’s Your choice. But realize as of today in the US it has injured almost 600 thousand and killed over 13 thousand people in America and know one says a word about that in the media. But while there is not much we can know about vaccines and Afghanistan and China there are three things we can know and ought to know…..
This is a terrible time to be alive for most people. But for those who know Jesus Christ it is an exciting time to be alive! Jesus is coming soon! We are the last generation. We could go to heaven any moment, in the twinkling of an eye! But for most people it’s a time of great stress, aggravation, hatefulness, fear, sickness, sorrow and uncertainty. We of couse are subject to these same feelings of discouragement and fear. It is a discouraging world right now. We must not let it discourage us. The Bible tells us what we have to fall back on in these discouraging times.
Noah and his family have left the ark and begun the task of restarting the earth. What a task that is. God gave them instructions about how to do this. It’s very simple and God’s instructions have not changed since that day that Noah stepped off the ark. Three simple instructions form the basis for a society and life on this planet.
Many today actually most today resist God. They hate God. They don’t march down the streets against God. They don’t stand up and blaspheme God. But by their actions they resist God. They resist the Holy Spirit that draws them. They resist the God who loves them. George Carlin did several comic routines blaspheming God and claiming that God did not exist mainly because there was evil in the world. Well there is evil in the world because of man…..not God!
The last of the seven churches in Revelation I think can represent churches of all ages and also churches for today. Laodicea of a city about 90 miles miles, due east of Ephesus and 45 miles SE of Philadelphia. It was a wealthy city under Roman rule. But This last church I think represents the state of the church before Jesus comes. We will look at it in detail. Jesus is the one speaking according to Revelation 1:12-18
Elijah is the second man raptured in the Old Testament. Enoch was raptured just before the judgment of the flood in Genesis 5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
The prophet Elijah is one of the most interesting and colorful people in the Bible, and God used him during an important time in Israel’s history to oppose a wicked king and bring revival to the land. Elijah’s ministry marked the beginning of the end of Baal worship in Israel. Elijah’s life was filled with turmoil. At times he was bold and decisive, and at other times fearful and tentative. He alternately demonstrates victory and defeat, followed by recovery. Elijah knew both the power of God and the depths of depression.
“It’s only words…. but words are all I have to take your heart away.” Bee Gees 1970. Words mean a lot. In fact words mean everything. Did you know that books contain 100% words. People use words to inspire, to destroy and all in between. The devil can use words. God uses words. Words are vitally important and how we use words can mean the difference how a person feels about you.
How many things can you absolutely depend upon? Things that will never let you down? Everything breaks down over time and everything gets old and out of date. Things change sometimes for the better sometimes for the worse. Even the universe which seems pretty constant is changing and one day will be rolled up like a scroll by God.
What about people? People leave us all the time. They die or they change…. and you never know really when it will happen. Even the best of loyal friends and family and spouses will leave you eventually. Either through death or change. But there is one who will never die or never change. He will never leave or go away. He is the one constant of the universe.
Computer code is only ones and zeros. That’s it. One’s and zeros and from that come all the complex workings and processes of every computer. That’s life also. It’s all about one’s and zeros. If you have zeros you are incomplete. You must have one’s. This passage has lot’s of ones. But one is only one number. Without the one you have nothing. That one is Jesus! Do you have the one? The only one?
The world has their three truths….(1) We are made by evolution,(2) Male and female and family are just constructs, you can be whatever you want to be and with whoever you want to be with it’s up to you and (3) The care of the earth and the animals are the first priority for Humans. God has a different perspective. Of course whatever God thinks is truth. But it is in direct conflict with mankind’s basic truths. Let’s look at three basic life truth according to the Bible.
Daniel and Revelation are almost companion books. Both Daniel and the Apostle John were shown great visions of the future end times by God. Stunning and detailed descriptions that includes messages from Angels. Both Daniel and Revelation are to be read and can be generally understood but much is still veiled in mystery. If it were not, then it would not be God’s books. But Daniel chapter nine is clearly understood and we reference Seventy weeks. Seven Is the Bible number for completeness and God’s completes the history of Israel with 7 times 70. Jesus said to forgive a person not seven times but seventy times seven. Meaning there is complete forgiveness in the seventy times seven. God is seeking to completely forgive and redeem Israel from all of their past sins with their seventy times Seven!
The Bible is the word of God. It has proven that by Biblical prophecy. It has proven it is the word of God by it’s living billboard…Israel. Read Ezekiel 37 and tell me who do think are the dead bones that come back to life? It can only be Israel. Tell me the Bible is not accurate in Bible prophecy and then prove it? You cannot. You can tell me that Jesus did not rise from the dead but can you prove He didn’t? There is more evidence that Jesus rose from the dead than people who can prove you are who you are! And because He lives we know that He loves. The Bible is living, the Savior is living, the Savior is loving.
America is a great nation because of our great constitution and freedoms we enjoy. But if you read the sins we have devolved into in the bulletin I don’t see a national revival. But many are preaching a great revival is coming and Trump is returning. The church is looking for America to return instead of Jesus Christ! They are looking for Donald Trump instead of Jesus Christ. This borders on blasphemy for the church. But I see it all the time on face book!
Psalm 74:17 Thou hast set ALL the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter. Intro: America is 245 years old today. That’s a long time. I don’t think we will be around much longer. We have a border problem in America. I’m not just talking about the southern border and all the problems there. I’m talking about borders that God has set up for every nation. Not physical borders but moral borders that we have violated and that God does not take lightly
What would we do without our heavenly Father? Would gives us all things richly to enjoy. He gives us life. But even though we are alive physically we are not really alive. We are dead spiritually. Which means we are separated by our sin from our God who created us. This is not really living. Just existing.
: I don’t know how many of us were literally taken to a woodshed to be spanked. But all of us have been spanked a few times in our lives as children. At least I hope you have. All of us need to be disciplined as children. In fact I have been disciplined by my mother and my father, by most of my employers, my bosses at the Postal Service, My wife, my church, by my doctors and by the government. In fact, as I look back I guess I have been disciplined most of my life! But it did me good because I used it for motivation not discouragement! Now God tells us that He disciplines His children. Of course, He would…. because discipline is for correction……. except for your parents. I think they got a kick out of torturing us. My friend’s father said he hit him like hitting a baseball…….for distance! But anyway. God only disciplines for correction unless you have ignored His discipline and then it becomes punishment. Remember Achan? Anninias and Sapphira? But rejoice in the fact that God only disciplines HIS children
Father absence is to blame for many of our most intractable social ills affecting children today. They have lost their firm foundation without a father in the home. Our Father God is always completely involved in the lives of those who trust in Him, because He will never leave us nor forsake us. Our God has revealed Himself in the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Through Him we have a firm foundation able to stand the test of our faith and our future
Nadab and Abihu were Aaron’s eldest sons. They helped their father with the official offerings , sacrifices and ceremonial worship of God. Numbers 26:59-61And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.60 And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 61 And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the Lord. The sons of Aaron are mentioned along with the father fifteen times in Leviticus chapters 8 and 9. They did all that was expected of them and performed well evidently. They were not rebellious people. They did not cause any trouble. But something went terrible wrong. Not with God….He never changes but with Aaron’s sons. What was it? And what does it mean for us today?
Not many things are a guarantee. Some players guarantee victory. Some people guarantee satisfaction with a product. Guarantee’s mean a lot to us. We expect things to perform as guaranteed. We don’t like things to fail to live up to their claims. Well Paul claimed a lot of things to the Church a Corinth. He claimed that their faith and trust in Christ would guarantee eternal benefits that would never expire. They were trying to grasp it all in an unsure world. We are that way today. We have many uncertainties. Nothing lasts forever we say… but in Christ we have many certainties.
Check out facebook or the internet and you will see one thing. Selfish, pompous attention seeking people who think the world revolves around them. What a surprise one day when they find out just how small and insignificant they really are.
Angels are divided into two groups. The fallen angels, bound angels and the angels. 1/3 of the angels joined Satan in His rebellion. Revelation 12:4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Are demons fallen angels? The most common alternate explanation for the origin of the demons is that when the Nephilim of Genesis 6 were destroyed in the Flood, their disembodied souls became the demons. While the Bible does not specifically say what happened to the souls of the Nephilim when they were killed, it is unlikely that God would destroy the Nephilim in the Flood only to allow their souls to cause even greater evil as the demons. The most biblically consistent explanation for the origin of the demons is that they are the fallen angels, the angels who rebelled against God with Satan.
Abide means to dwell with or be in union with or to be one with. Our spouse abides with us. We are one flesh. Christ abides with us means He is with us and we abide in Christ which means we are in Christ or a part of Him…one in Christ like a marriage unites two into one Christ unites His church into Him. Same beliefs, same goals, same outcome….. to glorify God. People today lack confidence in their government, in their families, in their news media, in their products, in their religions. We can have confidence in Christ because we abide in Him and He in us.1
Jesus gave us the signs of the times called the Olivet discourse. In it He described things that would be going on in the world near the time of His return. We know that the biggest sign is the fig tree is giving forth leaves and tender figs the time is near. Israel is the fig tree. But there are other signs and two about Noah and Lot that Jesus gave us in Luke 17. Let’s look at them.
We know a lot of things in America. We have great researchers and scientists. We put a man on the moon in 1969 with adding machines and mathematicians and computers so primitive that your smart phone would make look like toys. God has given us the desire to build and invent and innovate and we have done well with that ability. But we are smart but not wise. Have you heard of people who are smart but not “street” smart. They have knowledge but don’t have the wisdom to survive in real life situations. Daniel will tell us what God thinks of our knowledge.
It takes a lot of work, digging and persistence to find Gems in the earth. But when you find them you know you have something of great value. The Bible is a rare gem in itself. There is no book on earth like the Bible. There is no book on earth that is God-breathed and God-inspired but the Bible. Proverbs is a book of wisdom, practical wisdom for living life well. There are many gems in the book of Proverbs but it seems like chapter 16 has some of the most familiar.
The Lord Jesus Christ had a mother just like we have. She gave advice to her Son just like any mother. But she also gave advice to the people at a wedding that turned out to be the greatest advice ever given by any mother or father, or anyone else.
Why anyone would want to be Ungodly is puzzling. People are ungodly for basically two reasons. Some are ignorant and the rest don’t want any part of God. God loves them. God sent Jesus to die for them and give them eternal life and peace and they don’t want that? That’s correct. They want to rule their own lives and be the master of their own fate. They want to sin, they love their sin and will not give it up. John Milton’s Paradise Lost book 2 quoted Satan as saying “I would rather rule in hell than serve in heaven.” Who said anyone would rule in hell by the way? Satan isn’t ruling in hell he is headed for the lake of Fire in the very near future. The Bible doesn’t say anything about a king of hell or the lake of fire. People are just deceived or ignorant about their future.
Luke 17 and 21 give us the Olivet Discourse we find also in Matthew 24 and Mark 13. But many have discovered the four horsemen of the appocolypse in Luke chapter 21. I am not dogmatic on anything I say today. But I believe it best fits what Bible prophecy tells us. I am but a fallible man so I cannot know the mind of God on this. But if we take the scriptures as a whole and scriptures only we can be pretty accurate about our understanding of Bible prophecy.
In this passage Barabbas name is mentioned four times. Jesus name three times. Barabbas mentioned more than Jesus. The world wanted Barabbas more than Christ. Is it that way today? Absolutely.
The Three Stooges were in one of the funniest short movies ever made in 1936 when they did a comedy about a court room as the judge kept pleading for “order in the court” the stooges kept the court in chaos and disorder just by being themselves. We know that God’s Creation is one of order, sense, predictability and repeatability. Chaos did not exist in God’s original Creation. Sin has brought Chaos and confusion and deception. Man descends into chaos when he is in charge. Just look at our world today. Covid Chaos. Sexual chaos. War chaos. Power chaos. There is disorder in the court of the worlds system today
The Lord is a Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. God does have physical attributes. He does see. He does speak. He does hear. He does reach down to us. He wants us to walk with Him. He holds us. He leads us to where He wants us to go. So In todays passage we see his eyes are upon us and His face is against the wicked and that should make us happy
Many millions have followed Jesus since He walked on this earth. Most people believe in Jesus. Many people go to church and worship Him but only a few follow Him every day. This is the nature of people. Fear, doubt, ignorance, selfish pride, and love of this world and it’s pleasures keep people from fulling committing their lives to Jesus. But in this passage we see where lots of people followed Jesus for many reasons.
Song of Solomon is part of the poetry section of the Old Testament. Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song Of Solomon. It describes the love between the Shulamite woman and her man. We are the bride of Christ. This book of Solomon is about the love of Christ for His church in my opinion. And God’s love for Israel. The church is married to Christ and Israel is married to God. The Lord yearns to bring us into His presence
Very rarely do people agree on everything. I can’t really think of one thing. People are different with different likes and desires. God made us like that. God didn’t want cookie cutter people. He didn’t want robots. He created people in His image which means we think for ourselves, we are self aware, that is we have plans, we love, we like, we have a will and desires for self fulfilment. Hopefully all in the perameters of seeking God’s guidance for our lives. We have limits and those limits are things that God has deemed wicked and harmful to ourselves and others. Even though we have the free will to do those things, God will limit them in order to keep us from usurping His will. So…even though we don’t agree on everything there are three things every human that has ever lived and will live will do and be agreeable on it and be glad to do it well maybe some not so glad…..
Remember last year the world closed their churches for Resurrection Day. But not today! Lots of action at the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Heaven comes down and Jesus goes up, the world shakes and quakes, people pass out for fear and people are shocked. The resurrection was not a quite little moment. There was a lot of action. Let’s look at it.
Most people hate change. I think there is a reason for that. Our Heavenly Father never changes. and we are made in His image. So, I think deep down inside we like things to remain the same as He does. Why does God never change? Because He is perfect in every way. Since we are not perfect we are always pursuing perfection, satisfaction and completeness and we change all the time in that pursuit. Some change is good and necessary some change is very harmful and unnecessary. Aren’t we glad that God will never change! And one day we will be perfect and complete and will have no need to change like our heavenly Father. Why does God not ever, no never need to change one iota!
It’s a terrifying world out there today. We don’t know what disaster is going to come tomorrow but we know who holds tomorrow. We live in a terrifying world if you really think about it. We can’t trust the government. Can’t trust in religion. Can’t trust in science. Can’t trust in education. Can’t trust in the media. Can’t trust in the military. Can’t trust in yourself even. How can we live in such times as these? The Bible tells us how to live in a terrifying time.
The world is full of chaos. I’ve said this many times before. The devil wants to divide. We are the most divided at any time on this planet. We are divided morally. We are divided spiritually. We divided politically. We are divided racially. The devil wants to confuse. We don’t what is right and wrong anymore. The devil wants to cause Chaos. What are all the protest’s about? To cause chaos. We can change our gender at any time. Why? To cause chaos. Why the election laws are changing? To cause Chaos. The devil wants to lie. We don’t know who is telling the truth anymore.
But God has told us He cannot lie, His word is truth and His Son is the way and the truth. So, if we want to know the only One who has all of the answers to all of our questions, we need look only to the only one. Jesus Christ!!!
Jesus healed the blind, the sick, the dead and the lame. He always told the healed to do something. To show others their faith in Christ to do what ever He asked them to do in order to be healed. The lame man today was told to take up his bed and walk. And He did! How simple yet profound as we will see….
Job suffered more than any man. He never lost his trust in God. He wavered, he wobbled but in the end Job received double for all that he lost. So God will never leave us nor forsake us and never let us down. In the end God will reward us for our faithfulness and trust in Him. But what is man and why is he so important to God? Man certainly doesn’t have many redeeming qualities for sure….
Jesus is so many things to us but to the first century church they depended upon Jesus directly to empower the church and make them victorious over all their obstacles. They didn’t have the Bible yet they depended upon complete faith and trust that Jesus is……
Isaiah provides data on the future day of the Lord and the time following. He details numerous aspects of Israel’s future kingdom on earth not found elsewhere in the Old or New Testaments, including changes in nature, the animal world, Jerusalem’s status among the nations, the Suffering Servant’s leadership, and others. It is one of those prophecies that we will look at today.
These verses contain two sets of three items, describing John’s readers as little children, Young men, and fathers. These three classifications are not about gender, physical age groups or spiritual stages. Rather, it seems that each group is a reference to all of John’s readers. For example, viewed as little children, they know their sins are forgiven. Viewed as fathers, they not only have a relationship with God, but they also have knowledge of God that comes from obedience to His commandments. Viewed as young men, they are strong. We should go through three steps to mature faith in Christ. Sadly most Christians don’t get beyond the child stage. These stages use male designations but they are comparisons for all of us. What stage are you at?
Events in the first half of the Tribulation. Interesting take on Revelation chapters 4, 5 and 6
The Bible says that broad is the way that leads to destruction and narrow is the way that leads to life. So most people will reject the free salvation offered in Jesus Christ. Why would people do such a thing. I think It comes down to three reasons.
Hebrews 1:1-2 Prophecy is about the world going to Jesus, giving account to Jesus and trusting Jesus.
The events at the beginning of the tribulation and events at the beginning of the tribulation
Today is valentines day. Originating as a Western Christian feast day honoring Saint Valentine. He was Roman Eastern Othodox Church and was either a priest or a bishop who ministered to persecuted Christians in the 3rd century. He performed Chrsitian weddings allowing the husbands to escape conscription in to the pagan Roman Army. He was arrested by Roman authorities. But Emperor Claudius of Rome liked Valentine until Valentine tried to convert him to Christs he was enraged. He was martyred for his faith on February 14, 269. It was his note that he wrote the night before his execution for refusing to deny Christ that inspired the masses. He wrote it to the daughter of the judge Asterius who put him to death and signed it “your Valentine.” It is the fourth most popular Holiday in the United States. You know it has become a very big holiday. No one can be born and live and die without someone loving them. Their creator and sustainer of Life the Lord Jesus Christ loves us. For God so loved the world He sent us His valentine the Lord Jesus Christ as proof of His love.
Two false Priests Phineas and Hofni, the sons of the prophet Eli caused great disaster on Israel. The problem was that the people followed them blindly.
Sometimes we say we have to put off the old for the new. And sometimes we say the good old days. Were they really that good? In some ways for us maybe were yearn for that innocence and that time when we had good health and our whole lives were ahead of us. I am telling that the good old days maybe better than today but nothing will compare to what we have now in Christ and where we are headed in Christ. The Old versus the new.
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. We’ve all heard that phrase meant to inspire us to be good people. It hasn’t worked!! The only way to be good is to repent of our sins and trust in Jesus Christ and have His goodness applied to our lives! Peter and the apostles are witnesses to the life of the Lord Jesus on this earth. They saw Jesus, they heard Jesus and they spoke about Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit.
We are all afraid of the future. For us, our children, grandchildren, friends, our churches, our businesses, and our freedom. Where is this all going to end? Well we know that History is coming to the return of Jesus Christ! Are we going to be on His side? Or on the side of the enemy. Are we going to be strong finishers for Christ or limp to the finish line?
We know that the Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 17 and Luke 21 all mention last days prophecies by Jesus. The Olivet discourse as it is called. The rapture is alluded to in 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. But we know that the rapture is for the church only. Jesus was dealing with the Jews and their future for the most part. But we do have four verses that allude to it with Jesus warning to be ready for the Lord will come when you think not. Remember that the day of the Lord….the rapture, tribulation, and millennium will begin with the rapture of the church. But we forget about John 5 and one little verse. We will show that marvelous passage today.
Remember when you got in trouble as a child? That means you did something wrong. You were mean and got caught. I’m not talking about troubles that come to no fault of our own but I’m talking about getting into meaness. Trouble. Wait til your father gets home. Well my mother didn’t wait she took care of the problem herself. Children at school would get in trouble and go to the principles office. Adults get in trouble with the law. Adults get in trouble at work or with their neighbors and get in trouble with their families. Job 14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. We are in trouble with God. We were born in trouble. But can get out of trouble with God.
Back in the days of bloody Mary Queen of Scots there was great persecution of the church in England. Many died for their faith by burning at the stake. There stories are told in Foxes book of Martyrs. Incredible stories of faith and courage when faced with the decision of will you turn from your faith or burn at the cross? Today I’m afraid we are going to face the same type of decisions. Will you turn from your faith to keep your insurance? To keep your income? To keep your electricity? To keep your freedom to travel? I believe it’s coming if the Lord tarries. Turn or Burn
With a new administration and leadership come hope for a better day in our nation. But sadly I don’t see anything that gives us a future worth hoping for on this earth. It will be liveable I believe for the Bible tells that It will be like the days of Noah people buying and selling and still getting married and starting families so there will still be some type of normalcy enve though I don’t believe things will ever be the same in the world people will still live their lives and become so involved in them that they won’t be aware that the Lord is coming. Matthew 24:44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. This following is the future of the world according to Isaiah. This time in history is the tribulation of the church described in great detail in Revelation chapters 6-18. This is Isaiah’s take on it as he was inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Everyone wants to have a great life. How many of us start out well but thinks just never seem to work out. Some people never seem to get things right in life. But I want you to know that there is a way to be at peace with yourself and with your God and with your life. I don’t care how many mess-ups you have had or how many mistakes you have made or how much regret you have. You can still have a great life. It’s not how you start in a race it’s how you finish.
What happened way back just before the flood? Why did God have to destroy the inhabitants of the earth? What was so bad that God went to such extreme measures? Genesis 6:5-7 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
To quote Jerry Lee Lewis there is a whole lot of Shakin going on. Earthquakes are everywhere and occurring in record numbers every day. But people are being shaken by the lockdowns, the mask wearing the fear of death from Covid or the fear of life never going to be the same. People are down, depressed, discouraged and in despair. But listen we have Jesus we cannot be shaken.
Universal Basic Income, Social Credit Scores, Vaccines, Autism and Unidentified Arial Phenomena.
We are at the end of 2020. What a year it has been. I believe 2020 was the preparation and 2021 will be the implementation of the devil’s agenda for His great reset. I’ll talk more about that in another message. But we are going to see signs increasing and fearful sites in the sky in these last days.
Christian baptism is the means by which a person makes a public profession of faith and discipleship. In the waters of baptism, a person is saying, “I confess faith in Christ; Jesus has cleansed my soul from sin, and I now have a new life of sanctification.” Very simply, baptism is an outward testimony of the inward change in a believer’s life. This is not a sermon JUST about Baptism but also about Jesus showing up at the appointed time in history.
So many start out well in a race and faulter at the finish line. Runners have enemies. The other runners, their tired bodies, and the distance. All of us can go a short distance. We can all sprint. Some farther than others. But it’s the long distance race that most people avoid. Why? It’s hard, it’s painful, it’s boring, and it takes mental toughness. You have to stay on the course but focus on the finish. A farmer plowing the field keeps his eye on the course but focuses on the end of the row so he can plow straight. While we have a life path or journey or course that we have follow, but we focus on the finish for success. Philippians 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. The Galatian church had a focus problem that cause them to stumble and faulter on their journey.
So many start out well in a race and faulter at the finish line. Runners have enemies. The other runners, their tired bodies, and the distance. All of us can go a short distance. We can all sprint. Some farther than others. But it’s the long distance race that most people avoid. Why? It’s hard, it’s painful, it’s boring, and it takes mental toughness. You have to stay on the course but focus on the finish. A farmer plowing the field keeps his eye on the course but focuses on the end of the row so he can plow straight. While we have a life path or journey or course that we have follow, but we focus on the finish for success. Philippians 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. The Galatian church had a focus problem that cause them to stumble and faulter on their journey.
We have been given so much by the Lord Jesus Christ. Salvation of course. But when we think about it what do we really have in Christ? What depths has He gone for us? What is the greatest thing anyone has ever done for you? Well, your mother gave birth to you. Your spouse married you. Guys, your wife gave you children. Maybe someone saved your life, a doctor or a friend. The greatest two things that ever happened to you are these. You were born and you were born again! You were born of a woman and you were born by the Spirit of God. You had the physical birth and now you have the new birth. How great is our salvation? Three things, amazing things that God has done for us through Jesus Christ!
This Thanksgiving will be a time of lockdown and family gatherings being discouraged by the government and by people who live in fear. When people don’t know what is going on then there is confusion and fear. We have heard so many different opinions on CCP Virus, but one thing is sure it is a shame that we cannot be with the ones we love during this time in our lives. A time of uncertainty and confusion and chaos that we have never seen in our life times. But we have a hope to be thankful for. We have someone who breaks through all the confusion, all the chaos, all the fear and says “I am.”
Warning signs are everywhere and on everything. We pay attention to them usually. Some like speed limits we don’t take very seriously. But when God warns us about something we should absolutely pay attention to it. We are pretty stupid if we don’t. God has warned us about the penalty for sin. He has warned us about false teaching. He has given us the Bible to keep us in the truth. We go off the rails when we start giving more attention to non-Biblical ideas than to God’s truth. God warns us in the Titus chapter three about three things
We are in the last of the last days. It happened when Israel returned to their land and became a nation again May 14th 1948. Matthew 24:32-34 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; (Israel) When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, (mentioned in previous verses the tribulation etc.) know that it is near, even at the doors. 34 Verily I say unto you, This generation (the people that see these events) shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
The last days or the last time is the days after Pentecost. The Old testament prophets called the last of the last days terms such as last days, In that day, at that time, time of the end, and the day of the Lord. But no doubt we are in the last of the last days. Jesus described all the signs in Matthew 24, Luke 21 and Mark 13. Also, Daniel chapters 7-12 and Zechariah, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Ezekiel also described this day is passages. I don’t have time to go into that. But I don’t think I need to tell you that we are in the season of the Lord’s return….the final days of earth as we now know it.
Without order there is only Chaos. Satan has tried to destroy the order of God and the natural Godly order of things. We are having chaos in our streets over the election, Black lives matter, and Antifa. Groups that are trying to destroy America and the world. Covid 19 has brought the world into Chaos. We have lost the order of our entire world due to this little tiny microbe virus. God says 1 Corinthians 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. 1 Corinthians 14:40 Let all things be done decently and in order. Order starts at home. If there is order at home there will be order in society.
2 Chronicles 1:1 And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly. Everyone wants to be rich and famous. They think that will bring them happiness and joy. King Solomon might have been the greatest and riches human ruler of all time. He did not set out to acquire wealth and power. The key to Solomon’s greatness was that God was with Him. God did it. God blessed Him. God used Him. God gave Him. Greatness starts out with faith and trust in God and then God will make us to become. You cannot do great things in life that last without knowing and being led by the eternal God.
Conspiracies can be good or bad. But they are always with us, they are real. If you believe in conspiracies, you are thought of as a person who wears a tin foil hat who sits in their parent’s basement all day on social media. There is the conspiracy theories to turn our nation into a socialist, Marxist nation. There is the conspiracy theories of the Bilderburgers, Club of Rome, Illuminati, Skull and Crossbones, Council on Foreign Relations, etc, etc. There is a real conspiracy behind all of these conspiracies. Satan is conspiring with demons and with willing or unwilling humans to push his agenda and his purposes. God is not conspiring because He is God. He doesn’t need anyone or anything. But He chooses to work with us and for us…. to bring about His will in this world. How is Satan conspiring to conceal the truth? Let’s look.
If we ever have sports again…..what makes a good coach. He turns losers into winners. He turns a bunch of hopeless scrubs into a fine tuned machine. He takes uncoordinated, underdogs and turns them into champions. That is one of the reaons we love sports. We love to see the underdog rise up and beat the best. Christ has done the same thing for you and me. He turned us from hopeless losers, unable, unwilling, bunch of failures and turned us into glorious winners in Christ. How did He do that?
In the Book of Matthew, Jesus told His disciples again and again that they would not know the hour of His return. The Lord was so insistent about getting this point across, He repeated himself four times in the space of a few verses. He also included a story about the 10 virgins to illustrate the point of the surprise at His sudden return. His return begins with Him coming FOR His Church and then seven years later coming FOR His church.
God’s people will always have enemies. Let’s look at how Nehemiah’s enemies attacked him. They did three things that all enemies of God do……
Woe’s are mentioned 99 times in the King James Bible. Woe means that doom is coming. Three most famous Woe’s are the fifth, sixth and seventh trumpets of the book of Revelation. Today is Homecoming. Usually I preach on heaven and I will today also. So hang with me here for a little bit.
Common Sense should always prevail. There seems to be a very short supply of that today. People are acting now on emotion instead of truth. They want fiction instead of facts. Old newspaper reporters had this motto. When the facts get in the way of the legend…print the legend. Legends sell. Facts fail. Gamaliel was a teacher of the law of the Jews. Very respected. He was a man of great wisdom even though he did not follow Jesus Christ. He made a great speech that led to a prophecy that is rings true today.
Using Oth-ni-el as an example, I want us to see what happens when we are surrendered to God, Faithful to God and make ourselves available to God and allow His Spirit to work in our lives. The Spirit hasn't changed. If He produced a masterpiece in Oth-ni-el, he can inside of us as well. There are five things that happen when we become like Oth-ni-el Faithful and available. 1. If You Are like Oth-ni-el God Will Use You - 2. If You are like Oth-ni-el you Will filled with the Spirit - 3. If you are like Oth-ni-el you will Influence others 4. If you are like Oth-ni-el you will Be victorious 5. If You are Like Oth-ni-el you will have Peace -
Globalists, George Soros, the Elite of the world all are being used of Satan to bring about this world government and the end of freedom. Please…wake up America! Wake up world! Wake up Church! No, look up Church for your redemption draweth nigh! Paul saw this coming almost two thousand years ago and warned us about those who will attempt to turn us from Jesus Christ
God cares for His children. He will never leave us nor forsake us. We haven’t gotten to heaven yet. We are still in our mortal flesh so we are still subject to the affects of our fallen world and our fallen flesh. We will not escape sickness. We will not escape death unless Jesus comes to get His church. So are we doomed? No. No. NO! We have a provision given to us by God. It’s called Contentment. It’s called God’s provision for us. It’s called confidence in God.
Globalist have been planning a great reset for many years. What is it? It is resetting everything like economies, nations, borders, leaders, governments to a new world order. The dollar will no longer be the standard currency of the world. Nation states will no longer be the focus but a global government. No more Constitutional republic, no more capitalism, free enterprise or ownership of private property. Centralized health care, world armies, no more freedom of religion and on and on. This is really what they have been planning. See Agenda 2030. Google it. It’s the great global reset.
Critical Race Theory is brain washing at the core. If you repeat something long enough and back it with threats and violence people will soon believe it. In the New church the legalists within the church….were trying to hold on to the law and were usurping Paul and others who were teaching the truth with their critical theories about the law. Paul went back to the basics to explain this false critical race theory that the Jews and the law were above all others as it pertains to salvation. But this is not true because Jesus Christ has died for the whole world…. as Critical race Theory is not truth in Amercia.
If the movie is bad you can’t wait to see those words. If the movie is good you hate to see those words. The end is coming for two groups. Satan and his angels and mortal physical man are both coming to an end one day sooner than we think. I told a couple of strangers Friday that Jesus is coming and we need to get ready. And they both agreed wholeheartedly and immediately changed the subject. They don’t want to talk about the end of our lives here on this earth and I understand that. We want to live….. that’s in our DNA. God wants us to live also and we can if we put our faith and trust in Jesus Christ. We can live now and into a great and glorious future!
1 Timothy 1:19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: Their faith is no longer useful to God. But has crashed. Not lost, but crashed. The joy of the Lord is our strength. We can have our joy restored our ship put back in the water again. This passage tells us what we have to do to protect our faith from destruction.
I’m not going to get into any lawyer jokes. We have some very good lawyers in our community. Praise God we have those who are from the liberty foundation, and Jay Sekulow, and many others who are defending the rights of believers all over this country mostly for free. Remember the famous lawyer who decided He was going to destroy the Bible with his expertise in arguments and ability to find evidence. Well one week after he started his case, he too became a Christian. The evidence he discovered very quickly pointed to Jesus being exactly who He said He was. And it was then that He decided that “I needed Him to save even me.” Lawyers are necessary because people need help in determining legal matters and the right course of action legally. We have laws so that society can function orderly and peacefully. God established laws Himself. The laws of nature, the laws of physics, and the law Moses. Only one of those has God done away with. The law of Moses was given to be fulfilled in one person. Once that was done the law is no longer needed. It is still useful for instruction and guidance but it is not necessary for our salvation and our walk with God. How did that happen? We shall see….
Common sense is wisdom gained by life’s experiences. When you are a child you don’t have much of it. When you are a teenager you have absolutely zero common sense. When you become a young adult you start to understand common sense. You still don’t have a lot of it but you are exposed to it everyday and by the time you are in your forties you have twice as much as you had when you are twenty and it doubles every ten years for the rest of your life. However……some never get all the common sense they need…..for one reason and one reason only. They have no acknowledged God in their lives and Jesus as their Savior. The most sensible thing you can do is trust in Jesus Christ. God says….Come let us reason together….so lets reason some things about Jesus today.
Once you are saved you cannot lose your salvation, but you can lose the joy of your salvation. You can lose the power of your salvation. You can lose the rewards of your salvation. You can even lose the awareness of your salvation. It can mean nothing to you. The Bible tells us that some people have shipwrecked their faith. 1 Timothy 1:19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: Their faith is no longer useful to God. But has crashed. Not lost, but crashed. The joy of the Lord is our strength. We can have our joy restored our ship put back in the water again. This passage tells us what we have to do to protect our faith from destruction.
True happiness and contentment will never be found in a vaccine, the government, the CDC, or false security of money and power. The only happiness we will ever find is in the Lord Jesus Christ! The only power is the Lord Jesus Christ! Proverbs contains nine warnings about trusting in Riches. I chose Proverbs 11:28He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall flourish as a branch. and Proverbs 22:16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
God's plan to redeem all of us through the Kinsman Redeemer. Ruth, Boaz and Naomi represent God's plan through the ages.
There a lot of things we will see in heaven. The New Jerusalem, other believers, precious jewels, the lamb of God and many other things we cannot even describe. In the last chapter of the Bible it talks about things we will see in heaven for certain. I think it will encourage us this morning to look at things we will see in heaven.
How the CCP virus has played right in to the hands of the enemy and the new world order. It’s like reading a last days novel in real life and the key is the deception of an unsuspecting world.
Human government is ordained of God. God sets up kings and brings kings down. God ordains even wicked rulers. Daniel 2:21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding: God takes them down and God puts them up. How do we as Christians respond to good government and wicked government?
We focus on the tower in this passage. The tower was not evil. It was not the tower but the hearts of the people were determined to make themselves god over their own lives. Nimrod a descendant of Ham was an empire builder. Many believe that Nimrod was the leader of this effort to build this city. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. 10And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 11Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, 12And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city. Babylon was the nation that captured Israel in 597 BC and held them captive for 70 years. Today mankind is seeking to build Babel again. And they will as Babylon comes back in the book of Revelation. There is a spiritual Babylon and a Physical Babylon coming and may already be here. Babylon represents Man always wanting to create His own utopia. Man wants to unify under their own name and their own purposes and leave God completely out.
This day we live in is full of hypocrisy and deceit. Just as Jesus said it would be in the last days. What celebrity today is really what they say they are? What politician today is what they really say they are? There is so much confusion as people flip flopping back and forth on their morals and their beliefs. All of sudden in the last four years everyone has become racists. All of sudden everyone in the last four years has become homophobic. Explain something to me…..Everyone believes the government lies to them. Everyone believes that! Everyone even the most wicked believes that God cannot and will not lie. Yet we believe the government and what they tell us about CCP virus and fail to listen to the word of God when He says to forsake not the assembling of ourselves together! The Bible we are either in or out believer or not a believer, saved or lost. There is no waffling and going back and forth. You are either a saint or an aint!
American’s are weary with all this CCP virus stuff. It is a proven fact that masks do not help. The mask material is not small enough to stop the smaller virus particles from going through. That is a fact that no one disputes. It is just a mind control thing that causes us all to fear. Seeing masks on people subconsciously causes us to fear and that is what the devil wants to instill fear and conditioning in people. Contact tracing is next. God forbid that you would ever get the virus. Not that you will die, or that you would even get very sick but you will be marked for life! Then next is the vaccine and immunity passports that shows you have been vaccinated and it is an RFI chip put under your skin preferably between your thumb and first finger. Now we have run out of coins and many businesses are no longer taking cash. So soon you cannot by or sell unless you have a credit card and soon it will be a RFI chip under your skin. See we are being socially conditioned for all these lies.
This day we live in is full of hypocrisy and deceit. Just as Jesus said it would be in the last days. What celebrity today is really what they say they are? What politician today is what they really say they are? There is so much confusion as people flip flopping back and forth on their morals and their beliefs. All of sudden in the last four years everyone has become racists. All of sudden everyone in the last four years has become homophobic. Explain something to me…..Everyone believes the government lies to them. Everyone believes that! Everyone even the most wicked believes that God cannot and will not lie. Yet we believe the government and what they tell us about CCP virus and fail to listen to the word of God when He says to forsake not the assembling of ourselves together! The Bible we are either in or out believer or not a believer, saved or lost. There is no waffling and going back and forth. You are either a saint or an aint!
I ran into this article by Randy Wilson of Medium.com. “America is a country founded by individuals. They came to America with the desire to have the freedom to worship the God of the Bible and that God might be the guiding light in their lives. It was not an existing nation ruled by a king, czar, dictator, or any other power. America was a colony of Great Britain, but also functioned as a separate entity. They realized that a distant government did not have their interests at heart. They came to understand the burden of being subjects to tyrannical rule. By significantly limiting the rights of individuals in the New World, the ruling class elite in Britain failed to understand the needs of their subjects. Individuals were shunned and ridiculed in their homeland and sought a better life for themselves and their families. They knew they could not find it under any government that existed at that time. The citizenry eventually came to a compromise on the path forward. A document called the Mayflower compact led to the declaration of independence and ultimately to the constitution of the United States.
Laodicea was 45 miles southeast of Philadelphia and 90 miles east of Ephesus. It was a wealthy city with thriving banks, a textile industry, and a medical school. The city was also known for its sparse water supply. All of these characteristics are played upon in Christ’s message to the church. This is the last of the seven churches described in Revelation. This is the only one of the seven churches to receive no commendations at all. Are we that church? Is this the last days church. I think so.
America as we knew it is in trouble. We have been bombarded in the year 2020 with wickedness and rebellion against liberty and truth. I believe we are in the last days of the great experiment called the United States. The United States has not been perfect. But we are the least racist nation on the planet and have been since our beginning. We are the only nation that fought a war over slavery and liberty for all. Yes we are not perfect, far from it. But it was a grand experiment and under God and His blessings we built great lives for all that were willing to work, be good citizens and look out for each other. But there is a cure for what ails America. And it depends upon each individual.
Matthew 7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? God is so good. He is a wonderful God, everlasting Father and prince of peace. He is love. He loves us more than any other creature in the universe. He loves His church even more than that. You may have had a good father. He was not perfect, he was not flawless but he loved you and provided for you. If you had that you are very blessed among people on this planet. Think about the Father we have in heaven. Lets focus on how good He is
John 16:33These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. Don’t be surprised that we have trouble. 1 Peter 4:12-13 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. Most of our trials and persecution is just life. It’s not some strange thing. Everyone lives and everyone dies. Everyone has times of happiness and times of sadness. The people of many nations have enjoyed many liberties and freedoms that suddenly lost them due to tyrannical wicked people who have made a power grab and these people have had freedoms taken away from them down through the years. So what is happening to America is not a strange thing, it’s just new to us. But we can handle it because even the Jewish Apostles lived under the iron hand of Roman rule and authority and they endured and thrived. Roman citizens enjoyed many freedoms and benefits but non-citizens like the Hebrews did not and were oppressed in many areas. Hence Paul and the apostles got in trouble often.
The Bible talks about the world 252 times in the King James Version. I would say that about half of those are about the world system. Satan was cast to the earth. He is the ruler of the earth. He is the prince of the power of the air. Right now he still has access to heaven. There will be a war in heaven at the midpoint of the tribulation. Satan will be cast out of heaven completely. 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. But even now He controls the darkness of the world. The evil undercurrent in the world. God is sovereign over the earth. But He permits Satan to have his kingdom of darkness and evil. He influences leaders and shakers and movers. This world system is fueled by Satan and his demon army. They work behind the scenes to deceive the non-Christian to do his will. John talks about this evil world system.
If I am an apple tree, I bear apples. If I am a Bear, I am huge, hairy, live in the woods and scare people. You are what you do and what you believe. You just are and that is what this passage is saying. People are always trying to find out who they are. People are always trying to find themselves. Well this passage will give them the answer. They may not like it.
Every evening the news starts out with the Communist party Corona virus stats. It goes like this…”World wide 5,369,351 cases and 342,396 deaths. In the US 1,655,670 cases and 98,145 deaths. Yesterday there were 10,576 new cases and 498 new deaths.” What is your reaction? We are all gonna die!! It naturally strikes fear. I have watched NBC news a couple of times and I have to admit I get scared and start to panic before I realize “hey it’s all spin created to strike fear and panic.” How can anything cause us fear or dread or take our peace from us? Jesus plainly said we WOULD have trials in the world.
Paul made a prior trip to the church at Thessalonica. He is talking about that trip and how He hopes to see them again. He reminded them of his first visit and how they set the tone of integrity, guidance, and Encouragement on how to live their lives for Jesus Christ. Today we are facing many challenges to our liberty and freedom but no one can take away our faith in Christ and we can still thrive in Christ no matter what!
People are all afraid today. They are scared to live because they are scared to die. Paul warned that always trying to be safe would be a sign of the last days.
The three worst things that can happen to us in this life are Demon possession, death and disease. Jesus took all three of these on in evidently the same day. He showed His power over the worst things that can happen to a person. If He has this kind of power then what have we truly to fear?
Stewards are those who trusted to be in charge. If you are an administrator, supervisor or a leader, someone has trusted you to be in charge of their assets. We have to have responsible people that can be trusted to do what is best for both those above them and those below them. A good administrator has to balance the interests of the company and the needs of the employees. Most of the time a good administrator will figure those things out easily. But a bad administrator or steward will not balance those things because of two reasons. Fear and selfishness. They are afraid to do what is right for all concerned because they want to please only the higher ups or the employees and that hurts both parties. So those they are responsible to and those they are responsible for are both affected. Or…….. they want to please themselves….. so that is their over arching concern for all that they do and it causes dissent and problems from both those they are responsible to and those they are responsible for. We are ALL to be faithful Administrators of all that God has left us to do and to be. 1
Rapture Ready.com is one of my favorite web sites. It is informative, Interesting, uplifting, and incredible! Great articles. There are other great sites. There are many millions I hope who believe in the Biblical teaching of the rapture. Some of our favorite preachers believe it and preach it and have written books about it. Charles Stanley teaches it. David Jeremiah teaches it. Adrian Rogers taught it. Billy Graham taught it. Franklin Graham teaches it. Greg Laurie preaches it. Jack Hibbs, Jack Graham, David Reagan, Dave Hunt, Amir Sarfati, and most, if not all study Bibles teach it! I could go on and on and on.
The things is…. if Jesus is coming for us… then It can be at any time. The Bible gives passages about the timing and things prior to the second Coming of Christ at the end of the Tribulation. But nothing is said about the timing of the rapture. He can come for His church at any moment.
“I told you so”….don’t you hate to hear that? But don’t you love to say it? Well Jesus had a “told you so” moment. God has had many of them.
Jesus warned the people of His day of the consequences of taking His life. But they ignored it. It would change everything. And praise God it did! Remember things are not falling apart but falling into place! 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. This could be and I believe it is…..the finest hour of the church! Jesus has told us.
God does things One hundred percent perfectly. His prophecies are one hundred percent accurate. His word is one hundred percent without error. His blood will cover one hundred percent of sins and save one hundred percent of all those who come to Him. I hear all the time about people who give 110 percent. But that is impossible. There is no such thing as 110 percent. You can only give what you have to begin with. An engine can only operate at maximum one hundred percent efficiency anything else is physically impossible. You can’t give what you don’t have to begin with. A container will only hold one hundred percent. Any more will flow over the side. Jesus will keep one hundred percent of His sheep.
We are NOT in the eternal state right now. We live in a fallen sinful world. How can we expect anything but the results of OUR sinful state? We did this to ourselves. But God in His mercy chose to save man-kind instead of destroying us. No one would rather not exist. We all would rather live with the chance to trust in Gods provision for our sin…… or reject Him and pay the penalty for our sin. We would all choose life no matter how it ends up. For those in hell would it have been better to not have been born? No… even in hell they have to admit that God was good to them, gave them life and gave them every opportunity to repent. Dante’s inferno describes the spirit of man to live and live his own way…I would rather rule in hell than serve God in heaven! Trouble is….. there is no ruler in Hell! But we have a Savior, who lives, and who is our entire reason for being. So How do we live in these interesting days?
Here we are in the midst of a storm of Coronavirus. No matter what we think of it…it is real. Real in the fact that we are all affected whether we are sick or not. Wouldn’t it be sad that if all this effort to quarantine everybody and shut down everything and tank our economy…… and you still got sick? If I get it, I will be very upset. Why? I’ll tell you why!! We cancelled everything, the NBA, the NCAA tournament, Major league Baseball, High School State basketball Tournament, local sports, closed churches and restaurants, schools, beaches……….and I still got sick! OOOHHH I’m gonna be mad!!!
In the world you will have tribulation but be of good cheer I have overcome the world. If we have Jesus we already should be of good cheer. This is a fascinating time. I can’t wait to get up each day and see what God is going to do that day. Right now, most of us need some joy, assurance and peace. James will tell us how in practical ways to have it.
What kind of faith do you have? Do you have faith? Of course, everyone does. Your faith is only as good as the object it’s placed in. You have faith in your car. You have faith in your seat this morning. You have faith in your government? Listen….. concerning the Corona Virus, don’t panic. Protect yourselves. Corona Virus is very contagious. So, use common sense. And have fighting faith and keep your faith strong so others can see Jesus in you.
I say that all the time that today is the greatest time in history to be alive. But is it really? I still think so for the believer in Christ but for some it’s not going to be so grand. Jesus is speaking to the Jews. This is not for the church. Tribulation is for the Jews. Jesus gives a state of the world just before the tribulation and during the tribulation.
Micah’s false gods led to false worship among an entire tribe of Israel for several generations. We may not think our sinful actions hurt others, yet they do. They can even leave a long-term negative impact on entire communities for years to come. This is the focus of our message today. What Kind of God Do You Prefer?
Remember Paul Harvey and “the rest of the story.” A daily radio program that aired for forty some years. He told the story behind the story. The Church had only heard part of what God was going to do for them and in them. The apostles were told by Jesus that He would send the Holy Spirit to them and they would have power. That would be the start of the church. They would do signs and wonders. Before they did signs, God gave them a sign…they spoke in known languages praising God and speaking what the Holy Spirit told them to say. Of course, the Holy Spirit always points to Jesus. This story is not about speaking in tongues. No it’s much more than that. We have the rest of this story as Peter gets up to speak and explain what just happened. He uses Joel 2:28-32. Let’s see what Peter says
Who do you have confidence in? Family? friends? government? Technology? Your Health? That Tomorrow will be okay? All of these things can let us down and most do. We cannot know what tomorrow will bring but we know who holds tomorrow.
We all want to be stronger in our faith. We all want to have confidence in our God. You have every reason to have strength for we serve the God who created the universe and but who stooped down to write in the sand. How big is God? As big as you want Him to be. How strong is God? As strong as you allow Him to be.
What do you have in life? Your joy. your home. your family. your job. your income. Your Health. your house. What if just one of these ended where would you be? If you lost any of these things it would be a disaster for you. What if you could get something that would never be taken from you? Never end, never fade, and get better and better every day! What would you give for that? Well we can have that and it’s free.
We watch all the time. Watching for danger. Warning signs are all around us. We are watching out for our family. We are watching out when we go outside or on a trip. We have to constantly watch out for danger in this fallen, physical world. So why do people not watch out for danger in the spiritual world? Also we watch out for good things. We watch for sales, we watch for opportunities. We watch for events we want to attend. We watch for signs about our health. We watch for our family to come and visit. So why wouldn’t we watch for Jesus?
In verse 7 he says, "Behold, I come quickly." Three times in these concluding verses the Lord Jesus says-I come quickly. He says it in verse 12. "Behold I come quickly." In verse 20 again it says, "Surely, I come quickly." Here is a three-fold affirmation from the lips of our Savior Himself that He is going to come again. What does it mean? And how quick is “quickly?” Jesus is returning again. That we know for sure. He is also returning in judgment. Who will be judged? Will everyone be judged? Every competition gets judged. There are either winners or losers with every judgment. So it will be for every human being. We must all give an account of ourselves to God.
This is the first of two inspired letters Paul wrote to his beloved son in the faith Timothy. Paul wrote 1 Timothy from Macedonia (in A.D. 62 or 63). He sent the letter to Timothy, whom he had left at Ephesus. He wrote to encourage Timothy in his responsibilities for overseeing the work of the Ephesian church and possibly the other churches of the province of Asia. It is possible that he wrote this epistle from Philippi after being released from his first imprisonment at Rome. In this epistle to the young pastor Timothy. He exhorts Timothy to guard against false doctrine, protect public worship, and develop mature leadership. Much of the epistle deals with the nature of pastoral conduct, including the qualifications of a bishop (pastor), as a true teacher of God’s Word. Practical directions for elders and for widows are also given in detail.
Today people are looking at all sorts of things to make us complete and happy. They are worried about the future that is for sure. There is doom all around us. The climate alarmist say that the world will end in 2030. Children are terrorized! The Church says that the world will be going through the tribulation and the church instead of being strengthened is terrified! The Islamic world says the last mufti is coming soon to make the whole world Muslim and the world is scared to death of them! So we need hope! We need courage! We need assurance! We need something or someone to save us!
There is a great divide in our nation and it will never go away. Why? Because it is a battle of darkness against light, truth against lies and Wickedness against Godliness. Jesus said that He didn’t come to bring everyone together but to divide and set one against another. Why? Because there is no compromise with the truth ever! We who follow Jesus Christ will understand what is going on. We are the only ones who will.
Everyone gets tempted. Satan started this in the garden of Eden. I can in fact resist anything but temptation! God cannot temp us and will not tempt us with evil. But Satan never gets weary of tempting and deceiving and lying. James 1:14 says that man sins due to the lust of his own heart. So don’t sin because you are tempted, you sin because you are a sinner. Temptation is just the vehicle or the pathway to sin. Jesus could not sin because He was NOT a sinner by nature. He was NOT the son of Adam but the Son of God! He was born a man and lived as a man on the earth but He was conceived by the Holy Spirit of God. But Satan tried to get Jesus to do anything to avoid the cross. Satan knew that Jesus would have to die. Way back in Genesis God said about Satan thou shalt bruise His heal, he will bruise thy head. Satan would bring a devastating blow to Jesus but he would not kill Him for He would rise again. Satan’s power would be eventually destroyed by Jesus.
Philippians derives its name from the Greek city where the church to which it was addressed was located. Philippi was the first town in Macedonia where Paul established a church. We will find many different things about this church at Philippi and the one in Corinth. In fact, the first church meetings here, were held in Lydia's home. Actually, Lydia and her family were the first converts to Christianity here. We will find that Paul had been instructed directly from God to go to this area, because they needed help.
There was no synagogue in this area, and the women were praying out at the river bank where they washed.
This city was said to be a Roman city in Greece. This made this church a Gentile church. There was not the problem with the Jews at this time, because they were not prominent in worship here. Both Latin and Greek were spoken here in Phillip. This was a poor church, but one that gave generously to help Paul. This was the only church that Paul would take help from.
In this church, we see ministry of the women more prominent than in the other churches. Paul, on one occasion, tells the church people to cooperate with the women that had ministered with him.
This passage gives the greatness, the uniqueness, the importance of Jesus and the majesty of Jesus.
Ever seen a hopeless situation. Ever been in one? Your team is down by twenty points with twenty seconds left is hopeless. Being stuck in the Sahara desert with a cup of water is hopeless. Being in a situation where there is a bear or a lion charging at you and your leg is broken is hopeless. Both engines out and the plane is nosediving is hopeless. But in none of these situations is it truly hopeless….there is no hopeless situation in Christ is there?
Now a lot of things are good to die. Snakes are good to die in my opinion. Cancer is good to die. Germs are good to die. In war it’s good for our enemies to die. Paul is was good for Him to die and be with Jesus but better for them if he stayed. Christians are either Growing or dying and you can’t keep dying in your Christian life. That is never any good.
Justice means making the wrong things right. We all demand justice when we are wronged. But what about God? Does He deserve justice for our sin against His goodness and love? We just cast His rule aside, His demands aside, His requirements aside and have chosen to deliberately sin against Him. We have robbed Him of His glory! This is evidence that demands a verdict. The verdict on mankind is this. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. The wages of sin is death. The soul that sinneth it should die. Justice is demanded for the God who created us, loved us, gave us, provided for us and has blessed us. He has done no evil against us…..ever! We have brought all our bad upon ourselves. We are in big trouble. Let’s look at our passage this morning. Four words I want us to look at this day.
Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? So have I become your enemy by telling you the truth? Have you heard of the Enegram? It is a personality typing a sytem has been quietly infiltrating Christian communities for the last quarter century. But some believers may be excused for their skepticism. The Enegram is an ancient system of unknown origin with a strange name. It is replete with sacred language, but is not explicitly Christian in orientation. It centers on nine personality types that are arranged into a chart resembling a pentagram. Yet it is spreading like wildfire in the church.
Titus was one of the circle of young men who were the “many witnesses” to whom the apostle Paul committed the things given to him, so they could pass them on to others who in turn would “teach others also” 2 Tim. 2:2And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. He, together with Timothy, traveled with the apostle Paul. While Timothy was half Jewish and half Gentile, Titus was of purely Gentile, Gal. 2:3 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. Is the rapture a hoax or a hoax? Is it all hype?
On February 4th the President will give the state of the Union address where he reports on how we are doing as a nation. These speeches usually are truthful and honest with some politics thrown in. What if God gave the state of the Union address? What if God gave the State of the World address? Well The prophet Micah gave a state of the world address from God in Micah chapter 7.
Rocks are the most durable things in creation. Rocks contain the ores that make iron and steel and rubies and diamonds. Rocks are everywhere. Big rocks little rocks. The Bible compares Jerusalem to a huge rock. Zechariah 12:3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. What God has planted is compared to a rock. He built the church upon the rock. Matthew 16:18 …..upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. It’s funny that 2020 means perfect vision in optometry. I think this world has perfect vision of a world without Christ. No one knows what will happen in 2020. But I tell you this……. it only matters if your life is NOT rock solid.
Years ago there was a movie staring George Burns called I think “O God.” George Burns who was an old man at the time in his eighties I believe….was God who decided to come to earth and change the world through a grocery store clerk played by John Denver. It was borderline blasphemous. Why? Who do they think Jesus was? Can’t they read the Bible and see that God has already been here. He was born, He lived, He died for our sins as the innocent Lamb of God, and He rose from the grave in victory over sin, hell, death and the grave! He came as a real man. The God-man. All man, all God! Now he is not here physically but He left His Spirit to indwell the church. So He has never left His church!
Luke 1:33And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. We all have seen the movies and read books about mythical kingdoms in these fantasies about kingdoms that are mysterious and glorious! Oz is one of those. Magical kingdoms are the stuff of every child’s fantasy. But there is a kingdom that will be beyond even the imaginations of these creative authors. It will be a kingdom to end all kingdoms for it shall never end. It is the kingdom of the king, the true king, the real king, the Savior King, the rightful king, the only king!
Have you ever felt abandoned? Many people were abandoned by their mother and father. Abortion is an abandonment I believe. Have you ever been abandoned because of what you believe? Have your friends left you because of your faith in Christ? Has your family abandoned you because of your belief in the Bible? Many of us have experienced abandonment in the spiritual sense. Well our culture is being abandoned by God because we have handed our culture over to godlessness. When someone is sick they have the symptoms. By then if may have progressed to where it is too late to save them. I believe we are already abandoned because of three symptoms already present in the world. It may already be too late for many in the world.
The greatest moment in history was the birth of the Christ child. If He had not been born the He could not have died for our sins and be raised from the dead for our justification. It is the most incredible event in world history. God lived among humans as a human! We have seen many movies and songs about God coming to earth and attempting to answer the question of what would God do if He was one of us? Well we already know what God would do….because He has already done it! He has already come to the earth as a human and we know what He did!
Many times I have been asked about where will the church be when we die? Or where will we be after the rapture. I have the answers from the word of God. To be brief we are going to be totally focused on Christ and His glory and His work. But we are going to be moving around a little bit as God brings us to the new heaven and the New earth and New Jerusalem. There are some things that first have to be accomplished by God.
Here is the question that I want us to consider. We know He is coming back. But when He returns how will he find each of us. Our text suggests 3 ways in which He could find us when He returns.
I cannot tell you the blessings I have had in God’s house. Now we are blessed in many ways and on many days besides Sunday. But if you think about it you have had the majority of your blessings in God’s house. The greatest things in your walk with Christ happen in God’s house. Fellowship, Salvations, baptisms, the Lord’s supper, testimonies, great singing, great hymns, offerings and giving, special singing, special services, Biblical preaching, praying for others, praying together, hugs and hand shakes, meeting and eating and best of all God promised if two or three are gathered together in my name I am in the midst.
We continue on the theme of last week’s message Our Precious Savior. Gold, sliver and other ornamental stones are called “precious” because they are very valuable. What a person calls precious in their life will tell you a lot about them. What is precious to a person is something of great and lasting value. Like our children, our church, our Bibles, our families and our friends. These things forever. A car, a job, a house may be nice and bless us but we would not call it “precious.” That is reserved for the really valuable and eternal. The Bible tells us that Jesus is precious. That says a lot about Him.
There are two over-all views of the end-times prophecies in the Bible: That they are literal and that they are symbolic. The literal view states that the rapture of the church, the seven-year tribulation, and the return and battle of Christ are all real events in our future. Although churches and scholars may agree on these points, there is still considerable debate about timing; specifically the timing of the rapture.
We know that bad times are coming. The weekly newspaper in Letcher County Kentucky is called “Troublesome Creek Times.” We are used to trouble in this life. Not everything goes smoothly but we thank God and because of Him most things go okay. And we know that All things work together for good to those who love God. But troublesome times are coming for this world and the followers of Jesus Christ and the Jewish people.
Paul’s letter to the Romans is his longest letter. In the first seven chapters of Romans Paul writes about how sin is devastating and how Christ has done all the work of salvation. Then we come to Romans 8:1. There is therefore no condemnation in Christ Jesus.” All that believe in Jesus Christ will have eternal life.
If you want to be a great athlete you have go through hard difficult, grueling times of training and practice. If you want to be a champion you have to train like a loser. That means if you want to win you have to be hungry for victory that you will endure anything to taste it. In the Christian life we will experience trial. Jesus said that if they persecuted me, they will persecute you. A Trial then is to be expected, rejoiced in, evaluated and entrusted to God. Thanks to pastor Ken Cayce for this outline.
Paul voices his joy at the reality of resurrection by quoting from (Isaiah 25:8; Hosea 13:14). The latter quotes death as if it were a bee whose sting was removed. That sting was the sin that was revealed by the law of God, but conquered by the death of Christ on the cross and His resurrection. In this season of Halloween in which we are obsessed with death and the devil we need to emphasize that the devil, that old serpent and his curse upon mankind has been defeated forever!
Not many of us think of the book of James and the return of the Lord, the rapture. But it’s right in there in this passage. Actually twice. James talks about the day of the Lord’s return.
The unbeatable Georgetown University basketball team was beaten in 1985 by Villanova. The unbelievable happened when president Kennedy was assassinated on a Dallas street in 1963. The Titanic was called unsinkable and sank on its maiden voyage in 1912. In fact, there is a Titanic II being built as an exact replica of the original Titanic. It was to launch in 2016, then delayed until 2018 now it’s up to 2022. Would you want to get on that ship? I don’t think so…. Man is not perfect and the world is not perfect so things break down and fail, people die and ships sink. Life is not perfect, bad things happen to all of us, our bodies break down and fail, people sink and die. But….then there is Jesus……
Hosea’s Heartbreak and God’s Grief. The tragic marriage of Hosea and Gomer painted a vivid portrait for the Israelites of how God viewed His relationship with them. Hosea and Gomer compared to God and Israel. God commands Hosea to marry a wayward woman. His whole life was a living portrayal of how God felt about Israel. Hosea marries Gomer (1:3). God is betrothed to Israel (2:19). Hosea is a faithful husband (3:3). God is a faithful “Husband” (1:7). Hosea’s love is unrequited (3:1). God’s love is unrequited (3:1). The relationship disintegrates (3:1). The relationship disintegrates (2:2). Gomer pursues other men (3:1). Israel pursues other gods (4:1). Gomer is indifferent to the feelings of Hosea (3:1). Israel is indifferent to God’s feelings (11:1). Hosea has a daughter whose name Lo-Ruhamah means “Not Loved” (1:6). God will not have pity on His wayward children in Israel (5:6). Hosea has a son whose name Lo-Ammi means “Not My People” (1:9). God declares that the Israelites are not His people (1:9). *Hosea redeems and restores the adulterous Gomer (3:2). God redeems and restores the unfaithful nation, Israel (14:4–8). A man who has found a wife hath found a good thing. But In Hoseas case maybe he couldn’t quite say that because His wife was unfaithful and caused him much grief. Marriage is a great thing and many destroy it. Israel had a great thing with God and we will see what happened....
Time is so short. The signs are all around us that Jesus is coming soon. The biggest sign is our own hearts. The second biggest is Israel is in their land and the world hates them just as Zechariah predicted. If not now when?
The world is ramping up calls for action on Catastrophic climate change. Does it exist? Well as I say in the Bulletin….let’s ask God, after all He created the world. He is the expert on the world. And as believers we need to be informed about this. It will be the number one priority for those who believe our planet is at a grave risk. And it’s all we are going to hear about.
- Is Hebrews 6:4-6 saying that we cannot be saved again if we could lose our salvation.
- Why do you cast your crowns at Jesus feet if you kept yourself saved?
- Why Is salvation called “eternal” life if we can lose it… if it is not eternal there would be “if” and “buts”?
I Timothy 4:1-8 Man’s Obessions with Himself. Intro: 1. Departing From the Faith 1Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
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Lying Hypocrites 2Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
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Not Getting Married and becoming Vegetarians 3Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. 4For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: 5For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
4 People are Obsessed with the body 8For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. Either we are too fat or too obsessed with our bodies.
- Good Doctrine defeats Bad People 6If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
7But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
Psalm 37:37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. We have a life to live and a life in Christ. One day our lives will be completed. How will it end for us? and what will people say about us? Will we limp toward the finish line or will be charge through the finish line? 2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Hebrews 12:1 …..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. So how do we live knowing that we are all going to come to an end in this life?
The Prophet Ezekiel is the author of the Book (Ezekiel 1:3). He was a contemporary of both Jeremiah and Daniel. Date of Writing: The Book of Ezekiel was likely written between 593 and 565 B.C. during the Babylonian captivity of the Jews. Purpose of Writing: Ezekiel ministered to his generation who were both exceedingly sinful and thoroughly hopeless. By means of his prophetic ministry he attempted to bring them to immediate repentance and to confidence in the distant future. He taught that: (1) God works through human messengers; (2) Even in defeat and despair God's people need to affirm God's sovereignty; (3) God's Word never fails; (4) God is present and can be worshiped anywhere; (5) People must obey God if they expect to receive blessings; and (6) God's Kingdom will come. Chapter two is the call of Ezekiel. God did not promise Him success….just His calling. We must get away from the game of numbers equals success. God will tell Ezekiel what success looks like.
12 Reason we have eternal security. We cannot lose our salvation because of these common sense Biblical reasons. And I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish….John 10:28
A Demon came to Satan and said..."lets' tell man that there is no God." Satan said, "That won't work everybody believes in God." The demon said, "Then let's tell them there is no hell." Satan said, "That won't work, everybody believes in punishment." The demon said, "then I've got it...Let's tell them there is no hurry." Satan said, "That's it, perfect!"
Jeremiah 8:20 The summer is past, It isn’t important that you like me, but it’s tremendously important that you’re washed in the blood of the lamb…that you meet God in a saving encounter before that terrible day when you’ll have to cry, "The summer is past, the harvest is over and we are not saved."
There are many false teachers and deception going on in our world today. Can you believe anything the media says? Can you believe anything congress says? Can you believe anything that world leaders say and do? Can you believe your own government? Who can you trust?
John chapter 10 and chapter 14 are my favorite chapters in the whole Bible because John 10 tells us that we are His sheep and as His sheep know Him and will simply follow Him and John 14 tells us that Jesus is the only way and tells us clearly that Jesus is God. Jesus answers Thomas questions in John 14 verse five about the way and then Phillip asked this question in verse seven that we will take a look at. Who is Jesus has been debated for centuries. Bottom line is this…..He is either God or a mad man. He clearly, and unmistakably claimed to be God in the flesh. So He is either God or liar. How can we know?
Jeremiah Chapters 30-33 contain messages for encouragement for a troubled nation. They needed hope in the midst of Babylonian captivity. So, God tells them they will come back, There will be a time of great trouble for them in the future but their nation shall never be destroyed
A ship or boat has to be anchored or it will drift away. The other day we were on our boat and we saw a very nice spot on the lake and decided to anchor there and enjoy the beach area. I thought I had my boat anchored. I looked up and without even realizing it we had drifted way down the shore line. Well I then re-anchored. The boat finally seemed secure. A little while later several boats sped by and the wake tossed our boat around as is usual when boats pass by. No problem I thought. A few minutes later to my shock we had drifted down the shore line again. This time we went even further down the shore line. We decided to leave that area and anchor somewhere else.
The point is this….. Practically, If you are not anchored properly in a boat you will drift away. Spiritually, if you are not anchored properly in Jesus you will drift away. It’s not the anchor’s fault. It‘s not the boats fault. It’s the one who chooses to let down the anchor who must assure that the boat is anchors securely. There are three reasons we are anchored safely in Christ.
What is a Holy Ghost preacher? Every preacher should be preaching by the power and wisdom of the Holy Spirit or He is just a motivational speaker. But we think of Holy Ghost preaching with revivals, especially tent revivals, healing miracles, fast and loud preaching, prophetic utterances and tongues. A lot of fakes were around then as they still are today. Just in it for show to draw large crowds and fleece the flock.
Today we don’t have as much so called Holy Ghost preaching as we used to as in the height this preaching in the early part of the twentieth century. But Simon wanted this great power that he saw demonstrated when the Samaritans received the Holy Spirit.
Proverbs 4:14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. 15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away. 16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. 18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. 19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
1If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. We are told right here in these for verses how to live in the last days.
And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan. 10 And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him: 11 And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. 12 And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness. 13 And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him. 14 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. Jesus was born and lived a normal life, or at least an inconspicuous life. Then at the right time He appears all of sudden to John the Baptist indicating that He wanted to be Baptized. Agreeing with John’s baptism of repentance. But Jesus needed no repentance but came identifying and approving of the message of John the Baptist. In fact Jesus is the fulfillment of the message of repentance and salvation. John the Baptist said according to John 1:29 Behold the lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. Thus His ministry has begun.
Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away. 12 I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; 13 And forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor? 14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail. 15 But I am the Lord thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The Lord of hosts is his name. 16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people. God has people founded by grace through faith. Those who have trusted in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior made up of both Jews and Gentiles. God has a people founded on the promises of God to Abraham made up of only Jews. God introduced Himself to the world through these people. God gave His requirements for mankind (the Law) through these people. God has demonstrated His power through these people by giving them a land. God has saved the world through the Jews by giving us Jesus Christ and the Bible.
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. 18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. God is like no other according to Isaiah. God is creator, sustainer and redeemer. What is He really like? Let’s see.
1 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. 12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. 13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God. God is so good isn’t He? He’s been so good to all of us. Yes we have bad things happen. But we have to admit many, many more good things than bad! Why is He so good to us?
1 Corinthians 2:14But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ. There is a sinful nature that we all are born with. 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 nature of man is to sin since the fall of Adam. So we need a change…a major change!
2 Samuel 7:21For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them. 22 Wherefore thou art great, O Lord God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears. 23 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods? 24 For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, Lord, art become their God. God has put on the heart of King David the desire to build the temple. He tells David that he won’t get to build it because he is a man of war and blood. But his descendant will build it. David who has known the heights and depths of life praises the God is Israel, his uniqueness and His love for Israel.
42Jesus 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. 43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. 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 sad fact is that some people don’t know whose child they really are. Their parents are a mystery do to one reason or another. But spiritually minded you know whose you are. Either you belong to God through faith in Jesus Christ or you belong to the devil. That’s it. There is not neutrality on that.
We used to be called the land of the free and the home of the brave. Today I would say Amercia has a different description. Psalm 88:12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? We are no longer the land of the free but the land of forgetfulness. We have forgotten the men who died to make our nation free. We have forgotten those who gave their lives in the formation of our great nation and constitution. We have forgotten the principles on which we were founded. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
But our biggest problem is that we are a nation that has forgotten God. I would even go as far as to say that we are nation that hates God..the God of the Bible to be specific. America has created a god that they love. He lets everybody into heaven. He does not judge sin. He wants us all to be the same. He will not send anyone to hell. He accepts every religion. It is not the cross of Christ, not the resurrection of Christ, not the grace God, that conquered sin, death hell and the grave, but God’s Love wins over unrepentant sin, death, hell and the grave!
In the previous chapter of Hebrews and the first part of Chapter six the author is scolding the believers for not be able to discern deeper things of the faith because they had not matured enough. They were not growing. It’s like they weren’t taking their faith seriously enough. So the author seeks to stir them up with a warning about going backwards in their faith even falling away into apostasy. So then Hebrews 6:4-9 is about three things…
- It is very serious to walk away from Christ into apostasy. So serious that no one can convince you to come back. Verses 4-6
- It is very serious to turn your back on Christ. You can have rewards burned up at the judgment seat of Christ and all your work for Christ here on earth will be destroyed if you do that. Verses 7-8
- You don’t have to worry about these things if you are truly following Jesus. Verse 9
: If a man ignores the warnings and slips away from the safety and constraints of the railing and the tour group. He goes too far and slips and falls into the raging waters. Now he is heading down the river and about to go over Niagra Falls…he is is a major dilemma. He needs Rescued and fast. His own wandering heart, lack of attention and stupidity has gotten him in trouble. I admire first responders. The firemen, EMT’s, Police, military. They specialize in saving lives. Most of the time they save stupid people. That’s just the facts. People go too far, don’t pay attention or try stupid stunts. It’s funny we pay professional ball players 31 million a year to play with people, and we pay first responders 31,000 a year to save people. We worship ball players and throw rocks at first responders. We praise ball players and curse first responders.
Every human is in a major dilemma with God. We have ignored God’s warnings, we have left the safety and constraints He has given us and now we have gotten in big trouble with God. We need rescued. We are all headed for disaster that will destroy us.
1 John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. Everyone wants to set their own standards of what is good. Judges 17:6 says that Everyone did what was right in their own eyes. This leads to confusion and even more sin. There has to be a standard. There has to be an ultimate law of right and wrong. Well there is……
1My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. 3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. We have a lot of blessings in this world. We have a home, a car or two, a child or two or three, friends, family, work, hobbies, neighbors, and doctors to keep us going right? The poorest person in the world has been blessed of God with life and the possibility of eternal life! We have so much in this world but we don’t really appreciate what we have in Jesus. John the Apostle tries to tell us.
Luke 12:37Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. 38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. 39 And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. 40 Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not. 41 Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all? 42 And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season? 43 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. 44. Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.
45 But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;46 The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. 47 And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. 48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. We know that Jesus is coming again. There are two parts to His one coming. The rapture of the church where He meets the church in the air but does not return to earth at this time and His return to the earth with His saints. Many disagree about the timing and the rapture but one thing we all must agree on that Jesus IS coming again to this earth with His church to rule and to reign.
John 12:28-36 28 Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. 29 The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. 30 Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. 31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. 32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. 33This he said, signifying what death he should die. 34The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man? 35Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. 36While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.
Jeremiah 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
God cannot remember our sins anymore. But God also will make sure that if you reject Jesus Christ no one will remember the Earth, the good they did, their wisdom, and their idols.
Revelation 12:17. In the book of Revelation Satan is wroth with the woman. Why is Israel described as a woman? They gave birth to the Savior Jesus Christ. Satan hates Israel for many reasons but none more important than for giving birth, making flesh the Son of God.
What does this passage say about women today? I think it speaks volumes and we will look at what it says to us today on this mothers day.
Eight Polarizing topics 1. Abortion 2. Immigration 3. Homosexuality and Transgenderism 4. President Trump and Israel 5. Climate Change 6. Socialism 7. Globalism 8. Racism
The globalist’s and enviromentalist’s are working unknowingly hand in hand with Satan to bring in the world government and world religion in order to bring his man of sin on the scene. His goal is to unite and then destroy God’s creation especially God’s people. Remember Globalists are all Darwinians. They believe in natural selection and are planning a huge natural selection event to get the population down.
35 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: 36 Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. 37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch. Years ago the church was awakened and watching for signs of His return. Now there are signs everyday and it barely gets a yawn from the church. The church is asleep as it pertains to His return.
Isaiah 45:5-6 Isaiah 45: 5-6 5 I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: 6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else. 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.
Lamentations 3:22 It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. 24The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. 25The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. Have you ever thought about how good God has been to you and to me? We should think about it. We should be thankful about God’s goodness to us. If God were not a good God. We would all be dead! If God were not a good God we all would have a miserable existence.
Acts 1:9And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. 10And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; 11Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. In order for Jesus to be resurrected He had to die. In order to die He had to become a man and in order to become a man He had to be born, a miraculous birth or a supernatural birth as all babies are miracles actually. The resurrection has three parts to it. I bet you didn’t know that did you…. well let’s look at it.
Luke 7:44 And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. 45Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet. 46My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment. 47Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little. 48 And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven. 49 And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also? 50 And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace. How are we saved? Is it by being good? Good deeds out weigh your bad. On this palm Sunday, the day that Jesus entered into the city of Jerusalem proclaimed a king and by the end of the week crucified as a criminal. Jesus provided our salvation. He did all the work. So what must I do to be saved?
Everyone is under stress today. The things that were supposed to make our lives less complicated have instead made them more complicated and difficult. But while you cannot escape stress you don't have to have anxiety about it. God has a cure.
Revelation 12:11-12 The wrath of God is coming upon this world but it seems people fear the wrath of Satan more than the wrath of God. Satan is only mad at the Jews and seeks to destroy them. Why?
Most people in this world have decisions to make everyday. What clothes to wear, what shoes to put on, what time to leave for work, ect, ect. But did you know that many, many thousands of people everyday will make life altering decisions such as career paths, marriage partners, buying a house, making a move, attending college. Many thousands will make decisions today regarding drugs and alcohol and sex. Many thousands will make the decision today to open the door of sin and walk through it to a life of ruin. What to do? How do we make good decisions?
No one is perfect. No one does everything right. But it is amazing that Jesus did ALL Things well. He did everything right. Wrap your mind around that for a minute. Jesus never did anything wrong, He was incapable of sin. He hath done all things well.
Joy…. a feeling of great pleasure and happiness. Jubilation, exultation, rejoicing, happiness, gladness, exhilaration, exuberance, elation, euphoria, bliss, ecstasy. Words cannot adequately describe heaven and being in the presence of our Savior. We can only experience it to know what It’s like. Having a child is something that you have to experience to know what it’s like. Winning a state, or national basketball championship is something you have to experience to know what it’s like. Trusting Christ as your Savior is something that you have to…… and you must experience to know what it’s like. to have this joy and peace it’s so sad that many will never experience having a child, winning a championship and the greater tragedy is that most will not experience the joy of knowing Christ. But we have this joy……
What is a pagan? Paganism is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism. Paganism has been broadly defined as anyone involved in any religious act, practice, or ceremony which is not Christian.
Judah had been conquered by the Babylonians and were going to be marched from the homeland into Babylon and live with them. They were going to endure 70 years of captivity. Daniel lived among the Babylonians all his adult life. They were a pagan people. Remember Shadrach, Meshack and Abendao? They were thrown into the firey furnace for not worshipping a pagan idol. Judah was under the judgment of God. And God gave them instructions on how to live in this pagan world and be successful, be blessed and keep your identity and ideolgy. I know today we wonder how can we survive in this world. Remember the Hebrew people survived and even thrived under Egyptian slavery for over 400 years and kept their faith and their ideology.
Our world today would be classified a pagan. Christian viewpoints and beliefs are no longer welcome in the public square. Christian ethics are no longer welcome in our laws. Christian followers are not longer welcome in the worldview of ideas. How can we survive in this paganized society we find ourselves in today?
Psalm 53 is almost a repeat of Psalm 14. Predicament: An unpleasant situation that is difficult to get out of: If you're engaged to get married but suddenly fall in love with someone else, you have gotten yourself into quite a predicament. Help us Lord to fully understand the seriousness of the hour and the shortness of time and the predicament that people are in. People are in a situation that they cannot get out of by themselves. There is no hope of them getting out of it. (1:00) Psalm 53:1 The fool hath said in his heart, “There is no God.”
One of God’s complaints and major complaint about His people was the leadership was corrupt, wicked, told lies to the people and led them into sin. I wonder what He would say about the Christian leadership in the world today? How many of our congressmen and governmental leaders would God pronounce woe upon? How many Pastors and teachers would God pronounce “woe” upon today?
Last week the Cross Talk radio had a program about what happened on Monday, February 4th. On that day Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, met together and signed ‘A Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together’, a declaration calling for tolerance and peace among the nations of the world.
There are over one billion Muslims and 1.3 billion baptized Catholics in the world. That means that one third of all the people on the earth are either Catholic or Muslim. That does not include their influence on the rest of the world who are not adherents.
The signing represents the first time there’s ever been a papal visit to the Arab-Gulf states, while marking a historical breakthrough in Roman Catholic/Muslim dialogue. It’s prophetic because of Revelation 17.
The Bible has a phrase that John used. “little Children this is the last time.” The time of the church is God’s last dispensation or work that He will do on this earth.
This is God’s work in the world. Creation, the flood, disbursing at Babel, Abrahamic covenant, the law, the land, the prophets and kings, then the new covenant with the church. After the church was established, Israel was scattered from the land. The last days, is the church age and it also includes the number one sign that the church age is almost over..…..the return of Israel to their land.
Next up is the last of the last days…….the day of the Lord…..beginning with the rapture, then the tribulation and then the millennium and judgment.
The Day of the Lord is His time. That’s why it’s called the day of the Lord. It is the consummation of the ages. God is wrapping everything up and putting an end to sin and the rebellion of man. It’s a good day for some and a horrible day for many. It’s the beginning of the end. You see when the game is in the last minute everything suddenly changes. It gets more intense. Your opponent knows time is short and they will do everything they can to win. The enemy of our faith sees the time on the clock is running down. He is doing everything he can to defeat Christ’s church and destroy Israel and deceive the rest of mankind. It’s a day that I believe is going to be here very shortly.
We are an impatient society. We want what we want and we want it now! Lord help me to more patient….now!! People today wait a lot. In doctors offices. Waiting for the service to begin. Waiting in line to check out of Walmart. Waiting in line to get into a concert. A lot of waiting. Human beings spend approximately 6 months of their lives waiting in line for things, it means like 3 days a year of lining up. The average person spends about 43 days on hold with automated customer service in one lifetime. That is just life. Waiting is hard but it can be good. We can talk to others in line. Waiting gives us time to think to plan, to pray, to look at your phone??? God wants us to wait on Him. Waiting on God is always difficult for us but the results are always good in the end.
Many events have turned people away because venues are packed due to so much demand. Yogi Berra said about a restaurant in New York that was packed every night“ no one goes there anymore because it’s so crowded.” Have you ever been locked out of an event or got to a store and found the door locked because you got there too late? I imagine that when God closed the door of Noah’s ark there were many who knocked but could not get in when the water began to rise. Not because it was so crowded but because people waited too late. Most people are in hell today not because there is a size limit but a time limit. You have to get in before you die.
Pilate looked into the face of Jesus Christ and asked Him this question. John 18:38 Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all. Jesus had just said to Pilate in verse 37….....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. Pilate asked the wrong question….the question is not WHAT is truth? The question is WHO is truth. Truth is embodied in a person. Therefore if you do not follow Jesus Christ you have automatically been deceived and tricked. You are living a life of rebellion against God and following the lies of the enemies of God.
Lots of things offer salvation. Governments offer salvation from oppression. Products offer salvation from unsightly stains. We can be saved from debt, saved from pain by doctors, saved from stress by vacations, saved from losing by picking a better team, saved from bad decisions when someone bails us out, saved from death by a miracle drug or skilled surgeon or a safe car. But what is the salvation of God?