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Romans 10-14,21 -How Will They Hear- Pastor Rick Beaudry 2023-08-27
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Open your bibles, please, to Romans chapter 10 verses 14 through 21. I just encourage you to keep reading, keep studying, be aware of what's going on and expose. Ephesians five eleven says, has have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. And that's what I try and do. I simply try to expose what they're doing. Hopefully, people wake up, and they cannot govern without your compliance. And so you just resist. Alright. Romans chapter 10 beginning with verse 14. Please stand with me as we read God's holy word together. How then shall they call on him whom they have not believed, and how shall they believe in him whom they have not heard, and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach except they be sent as it is written? How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things, but they have not obeyed the gospel for Isaiah say it, Lord, who has believed our reports? So then faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God, but I say, have they not heard? Yes. Verily, their sound went into all the earth and their words under the ends of the world, But I say, did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a by a foolish nation, I will anger you. But Isaiah is very bold and saith, I was found of them that sought me not. I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me. But to Israel, he saith, all day long, I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people. Father, thank you for your holy word. Thank you that prophetically that everything's fallen into place. Thank you that we're students of prophecy. 27% of the Bible being prophetic, and we're living in a time where it's just cascading in fulfillment, just overwhelming fulfillment of of your word, Lord, the more sure word of prophecy. Thank you, Lord, that we can be disciples, that we can learn as as you teach us your word, as you open your word to us today. Help us to learn from Israel's past mistakes. Help us, Lord, to to yield afresh to your sovereignty over our lives that we might have ears to hear, that we may might have hearts to apply that which we're learning. Let our lives be built upon the rock, upon Jesus, that we'd be doers of your word, not hearers only. Bless this day, Lord. We commit it all into your hands. Be our teacher now in Jesus' name. Amen. Would you please be seated? Jesus said, go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He said in Matthew's account twenty and nineteen, go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, the son, the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you, and along with you always even to the end of the age. Where are we at today? What time is it church? What what age are we in? The end of the age, the church age. We're at the end of the church age. Two thousand years since the founding of the church, which was a mystery once hid now revealed. Well, nation of Israel, Paul is he's bringing forth the gospel. You remember in chapter nine, Israel's past rejection, chapter past election, chapter 10, Israel's present rejection, chapter 11, Israel's future restoration. So the question comes, well, with the gospel, with the Gentiles, with the church, if the nation of Israel, you know, denies Christ and rejects Christ as their Messiah in this verse seven, does that mean the church replaces, you know, the nation of Israel? No. That's what Paul's saying here in Romans nine ten eleven. That's not true. It's not true. And today, many people think that. They think that much of a prophecy was already fulfilled in seventy AD. They look at it historically. They don't look at it as it's happening now that that we're watching these things 05/14/1948, Israel be rebirth as a nation. Ezekiel thirty six and thirty seven being fulfilled. So in verse 13, it says, whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Israel still has a chance as a nation. We know in the tribulation period, the time of Jacob's trouble, that a one third remnant comes to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. Two thirds are wiped out in their obstinance in their refusal to believe in Jesus Christ, but a one third remnant's preserved. And when that one third remnant's preserved, they don't join the church. The church age is finished with the rapture. It's over. But those in the church go on into the millennium, the thousand year rule and reign with Jesus, and they rule and reign with him as kings and priests. But the nation of Israel is established as the dominant nation upon the planet. No. The times of the Gentiles are over. So what are the times of the Gentiles? Times of the Gentiles is Gentile world rule. So the Babylonians, defeated, Assyria, excuse me, the nation of Israel in May. The Assyrians, were defeated in '7 the Assyrians in July, they defeated the 10 northern tribes. In May, the Babylonians are used to destroy the nation of Israel. And the Babylonians became a world powered Gentile dominance. And then after after that, you know, after a little over seventy years, we got Cyrus, the Persian and Darius, the Mede, coming to the gate in Daniel chapter five coming under the Levee gates and going into the city in Belteshazzar. His knees are knocking. Many, many tekle eufarsen. Your kingdom's done. Your shelf life's over. You know? You've been waiting the balance and found wanting. Your king's been divided between the Medes and the Persians. And then we see the Persian empire, world dominant, until the Greeks come along with Alexander the Great. And then after Alexander the Great, it divides up with his generals, and then and then you've got the Romans coming. The Romans dominate the Greeks, and then it's the time when Christ comes, it's the Roman Empire. But the Roman Empire goes a little over five hundred years and this it's in 03/13, Constantine institutionalizes the church. We have the dark ages where a lot of unbelievers entered places of authority and such, and, in government and and the church, ruling over people, and, dark ages in the sense that they didn't allow the common people like you and I to read the bible. They had to go to mass and hear it in Latin. They don't speak Latin. They speak Koine Greek, so there was a dumbing down. There was a lack of knowledge of the word of God. But when the word of God began to be translated with Erasmus and different Greek, manuscripts and, into German and English and French and all the European different languages, and Tyndale is gonna be killed because he's translated into English. And the bible gets out to the common people. The bible takes place where a priest, a lawyer named Martin Luther, climbs the steps of the Sistine Chapel, and and here I am, here I stand, I can do no other at the Wittenberg door, and he's he's not gonna back down. He learns that what? In Romans one sixteen and seventeen, I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes to the Jew first and also the Greek. For therein is the righteous of God revealed from faith to faith as it is written, the just shall live by faith. And so the glorious gospel opens up the mission field for many of the churches in all over Europe to be sending the gospel all over the world. We have great preachers like Charles Spurgeon and Joseph Parker and and Wycliffe ministries and, you know, different different various denominations, the Lutherans, the the Methodists, the Baptists, these people commissioning, to send missionaries out and all. And meanwhile, the nation of Israel is dormant. The nation of Israel is gone. The nation of Israel isn't in the land. The diaspora, God spread them all over the world, but it was a time for the church to grow, for the church to flourish. And the church starts out Jewish, and then it Philip goes as far away as as the Samaritans, and then from there to Damascus with the Syrians and all. And so, they're they're beginning to spread, starts out entirely Jewish to the Jew first, but by and large, the nation, they're crying out, hosanna, hosanna, save now. And then four days later, crucify him, crucify him. So officially rejecting rejecting Jesus, Jesus, he weeps over the city of Jerusalem. How often I would have gathered you together as a mother hen does gather her brood under your wings, but you would not. It's their decision. And so that period of time is a is a period of time where the church age is able to flourish, and that church age, as I said, is finished at the in in Romans eleven twenty five when the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. When the fullness of the Gentiles come into the church, we don't know when that last person is. That's the end of the church age. That's when the Lord Jesus is going to rapture us. Then what happens is the rebirth of the Roman Empire, that imperial Roman Empire is gonna be reborn. So this fourth industrial revolution that Klaus Schwab's talking about, this is gonna be the fourth the rebirth of that fourth global empire, and and it's going to be imperial in the sense that it's gonna have, in Daniel two, ten toes, Daniel seven, ten horns, Revelation 17, and Revelation 13, you know, 10 kings and 10 crowns. And so the world's gonna be divided into 10 regions, and that's not the BRIC nations. BRIC nations, basically, what's happening is leveraging, getting away from the dollar. You're gonna see more and more ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fifteen, twenty, more and more of these nations, moving in a different direction rather than the dominance of the dollar. But there's a day coming where the world, according to the club of Rome, is divided into 10 regions, And in these 10 regions, it's tyrannical. A tyrannical government may be technocrats, maybe politician technocrats, globalists, trillionaires, and they're going to, have regions. So in America, America would be the North American Union, where you'd have Canada, America, and South America, Mexico as one region. And in that region, no borders, no borders on America. And in that region, they have one head, one person over that region. You got 10 of those regions. And three of these guys, three of these kings, these leader, rebel against the Antichrist. He overcomes them, he becomes the eighth. And so in that seven year tribulation period, all these nations give over their sovereignty to the beast, to the Antichrist, and so he's a world dictator, a in place of Jesus Christ, and it culminates with war, with the war of Armageddon. Jesus returns and and subdues all of his enemies with the brightness of his coming, the sword of his mouth, and then he sets up his kingdom upon earth, and his kingdom upon earth is he rule and reigns from Jerusalem. That's his headquarters. And he's king of kings and lord of lords, and then David is ruling with him, co regent as prince, and then the nation of Israel is dominant over all the Gentile nations. That's what's coming. You and I are in our new glorified bodies. We're a part of the government, but we're ruling and reigning as kings and priests. So political and religious, we're enforcers. We're enforcing Jesus ruling and reigning with a rod of righteousness. So we can we can pre know ahead of time because God will tell us because he's omniscient before somebody can commit a crime in the millennium. Right? And so there's gonna be sin in the millennium, but baby, it's gonna be nipped in the bud. No more curse, so the environment's gonna be in harmony like the Garden of Eden and such. And so we have much to look forward to. The church does not place take the place of the nation of Israel. And so Israel is one of the greatest prophetic fulfillments, prophetic signs for you and I to look at presently in our generation. Daniel nine twenty seven talks about, and Jesus talked in Matthew 24, when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place. So what's the holy place? The temple. The temple's being rebuilt. They're looking to rebuild, which would be the third temple. It's not for the Lord. It's for Judaism, the resurgence of Judaism. But the antichrist is gonna go in that temple twelve hundred and sixty days after signing that peace treaty. He's gonna go into that temple, and he used like Hitler did. He used the apostate revelation 17 Babylon whore church for for two and a three and a half years. At the midpoint, twelve hundred and sixty days in, he declares himself to be God, demands to be worshiped as God, and everybody's gonna receive a mark on the right hand of their forehead. And that mark of the beast is coupled with worship. So if you're looking in terms of, hey. They're getting rid of the dollar, and I'm gonna have to use my card. I have to use my phone, or they're gonna biometric me or whatever, and we're going to a central bank digital currency. That's not the mark of the beast. You might have to comply with that. But if they say to you, not only that, but you're gonna have to get the jab, that's where you say no. I'll take my chances. You know? They're not putting anything on my body or in my body. It's my body. So the mark of the beast is gonna go on the right hand of the forehead, and it can be a a radio frequency tattoo nowadays, and it can also be a a little tiny chip that's smaller than a grain of rice that has enormous amount of energy, your health, your bank account, your social credit score, all about you, and, track and tracing smart cities and monitoring your every move. So the devil is not omniscient. He doesn't know all things. The devil is not omnipresent. He can't be everywhere. But the AI technology is such that he's gonna try and counterfeit the attributes of God by maintaining control over the populace with his, technology. And, that's gonna be very interesting. But we're looking at the nation of Israel, and we're watching, the emergence, the wanting to of this temple. And, we're not looking for the Antichrist, but we know at one point he's gonna go in there. So as many of the prophecy guys presently are saying, you know, the Antichrist isn't gonna show up on the scene and then build the temple and build all this stuff, this infrastructure. There's no time. There's only seven years. It's being built right now. The the the kingdom that the Antichrist is gonna rule over is being built right now, being put in place. And I'm not looking for the antichrist, but Jesus said when you see these things begin to come to pass, the Abraham Accord, the one world religion of merging of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, and Hinduism, Buddhism, that's a sign. There's a one world religion, Revelation 17. And then and then it goes from being apostate Christianity to full blown Luciferian, worshiping Lucifer for the second half of the tribulation period. You've got a one world monetary system. You've got a one world government. Those are the three main things that are coming, and it's happening so fast, moving exponentially. So we can look up. What's our mission now? Get the gospel out. Occupy till he comes. Save as many people as we can. And how are they gonna hear if they don't have a preacher? You know? So we're his messengers. Jesus said to go, and, we're his messengers. Verse 14. Wow. We're just starting this? Okay. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed, and how shall they believe in him whom they have not heard, and how shall they hear without a preacher? How will they call, believe, and hear without a preacher? A preacher is a herald. A preacher is one that, you know, proclaims the good news. And I know in many cases, if you're a preacher, if you open your mouth at work or in public, you could be misconstrued as a hater, as a bigot, as one of those. You know? And you might cower in fear and be secret agent or whatever. You might get in trouble with your boss, your work, or whatever, so you gotta kinda stay under the radar a bit. If you're a teacher in the school, boy, what what juggling you have to do? Can a if a student asks you about your faith, can you share your faith? If somebody asks you, is transgenderism okay? How did God make them? You know, they get on those kind of questions. You know, how are you going to tightrope that sort of sort of provocation or drawing you in? Gotta be very careful. But when you're proclaiming the gospel, you just stand up and you proclaim it. When we were on vacation last month when we're in Huntington Beach, you know, it was so heartwarming to see people at the pier every night sharing the gospel. Young people, and I posted a bunch of it, you know, worshiping the Lord. Very powerful. And and then and then sharing the gospel and people with signs. And an elderly lady, when I say elderly, older than me, and she's passing out Bibles. She's passing out Bibles. There's a guy there with a with a with a wheelbarrow, and it says on the sign, free Bibles. Just everywhere. Just so exciting to see the gospel, the word of God just uninhibited, just just going for it. It was very, very exciting. I hope that's God. So Harold proclaims the good news. Evangelist is a messenger of good news. So Jesus is a preacher. Ain't that amazing? Charles Spurgeon, when I was studying and trying to determine if I was called to be a pastor or not, it was really way over my head. It was really bothering me. I didn't want to venture out. When I was in school of ministry, it was just astounding. These guys all knew they were gonna be pastors, and I was trying to find out. I was testing the waters. I was going to school to see if there's any gifting, if there's any kind of equipping, you know, like Spurgeon points out in his book, lectures to my students in that section chapter called, how do you know if you're called? He said, God doesn't equip behemoth to fly. So if you're a big behemoth, you know, he didn't design you to be a bird flying, you know? So you gotta have the gifting. Right? And so I I needed to determine if I had, you know, been equipped, if the Lord was giving me something I could work with and study and develop or whatever. You know, where where do I fit into the body of Christ? I'd already taught Sunday school, and I taught home bible studies, and it's what I like to do and all. But it was just astounding to me. Half the guys didn't even finish school, but, man, they were so certain, and it was something that I had to grow into. But in any event, Spurgeon, in his lectures to his students, he said, if God has called you to be a preacher, don't lower yourself to become a king. It's a very, very high calling, the office of being a preacher. And we're all preachers. All of us are preachers. All of us are evangelists. All of us, even if I don't have the gift of evangelism, I may be like a Timothy, and I need to do the work of an evangelist. I need to be an evangel. I need to share the good news with people that the Lord gives me an open door with. You know? You pray in the morning, Lord, give me an open door, and and he does, doesn't he? Somebody at the grocery store, work, wherever, neighbor, you have that opportunity to waitress, whatever you have, the opportunity to share, and it's very exciting. But Jesus went to the synagogue in Nazareth. In Luke four eighteen, he says, the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he's anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. The poor are rich in faith. Very difficult for a rich man to enter into heaven. Easy for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. But with God, all things are possible. But the poor? The poor can't rely upon their money. The poor are ready to hear the gospel, to preach the glorious the unsearchable riches of Christ to be given to the poor. No matter what your status in society is, if you have the unsearchable riches of Christ invested in your heart, I mean, you're wealthy. You're extremely wealthy, and nobody nobody's gonna ever be able to take that from you. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, people that are in prison, people that are in bondage, people that are demon possessed. He he sent me to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. You know, prophetically, it's time, gang. It's time. Don't you know the time? Don't you know the day of your visitation? There's an urgency of of understanding the time in which you live. What is God doing today? What is he doing in our midst in this church age now? And, so important. In in Mark one thirty eight, it says, let Jesus said, let us go into the next towns that I may preach there also for therefore came I forth. Man, I wish I could have heard the Lord preach. Wouldn't it been great to be one of the two on the road to Emmaus? And you're walking with Jesus, and he takes the scriptures, and he goes from Genesis all the way through exposing himself, revealing himself to them. It said their hearts burned within him as he went through the scriptures prophetically pointing, you know, to to to himself, you know, opening the scriptures. Jesus is the key that unlocks the word of God. The volume of the book is written with him of him. It's all about him. History is his story, and so very exciting, the book of Revelation, the unveiling the unveiling of Jesus Christ as God's gonna reveal his plan for humanity and sending Jesus to set up his kingdom. That I may preach there also for therefore came I forth. So God's only begotten son is a preacher. Now Noah was a preacher. Solomon, Jeremiah, Jonah, John the Baptist were preachers. Peter, Paul, and Mary were preachers. Peter, Paul, John, and Ringo were preachers. Philip and his four daughters, four prophetesses to prophesy, to speak forth the word of God. I had two girls, and when we had the one, the first one, Jessica, I'm like, oh, okay. Everybody needs a daughter. Alright. And then that was the day before you you didn't know what the sex was before the little girl come out, you know. Then we have Britney, and I'm like, oh, where's my son? Where's my son? You know? And, but she's far greater than any any any son could ever be. And I got grandsons now. But, in any event, I wanted a son. Well, Philip had four daughters, and they were prophetesses. That's exciting. That's exciting to have daughters that that proclaim the word of God. Dennis Aghajanian's a preacher. Dennis X a preacher. Steven's a preacher. Billy Graham, pastor Chuck Smith, Greg Laurie are all preachers and so are you and me. I love sharing the gospel. I can't convert anybody. I can't save anybody, but I certainly can open my mouth and plant the seed. I can spread the seed of God's word, and then you come along after me, and you water the word, and then God brings the increase. He's the one that brings the increase, but we're all a part of the the disseminating, the the spreading of the good news. And the greatest way is word-of-mouth. The greatest way is one on one in your community, in your home, wherever the Lord may may send you. It's very, very exciting. The occupy telecomm, be about your father's business telecomm. This is what America needs to hear. This is what the world needs to hear. Donna was telling me, and I've heard this several times, that the church in China is praying that American Christians would come under persecution cause we're too soft. We're too Laodicean. I'm rich and increased with goods in need of nothing. Jesus evaluating you and he says, you make me sick. Your your your correct evaluation is that you're naked, poor, blind, and miserable. You know? That's really who you are. You're lukewarm. You make me sick. I'm gonna spew you out of my mouth. And he's knocking on the door. He's been kicked out of the church. We're purpose driven. We're psychology driven. We're therapeutic driven. We're feelings driven. We're not word of God. Jesus is the incarnate word of God. We're not word of God driven. We don't care what the word of God says. We don't want much of the word of God. We want feelings. We wanna feel good. Jesus has been kicked out of the church knocking. Revelation three twenty, behold, I stand at the door knock. If any man hear my voice and open the door, I'll come in, sup with him and he with me. He's still willing for fellowship if the church will turn back to Jesus. It's so simple. Jesus is essential. More essential than anything that Jay Inslee or Newsome or Biden or anybody can concoct or come up with. Klaus Schwab, Noah Yuval Harari, you know, all these guys. They're idiots. They're absolute idiots. They're they're retarded spiritually. They're reprobate spiritually. They don't have a clue, you know, what they're doing as far as, in regard to the true and living God. Noah Yohlal Hari said Jesus is dead. We just haven't buried the body. We're gonna move on from the history of, you know, Jesus and all. These people are blasphemous reprobates, and why would anybody follow them? Why would anybody give them a platform to be the herald of the Luciferian great reset, build back better? You know? They're spreading the gospel, and I like what one guy said. We're headed toward revival, but it's not a Christian revival. It's a Luciferian revival. The reviving of the religion of Lucifer, of demonic revival. People are heavily into witchcraft, the occult, drugs, anything powerful that they can get, rejecting of Jesus Christ. So we're gonna be an anomaly. We're gonna be a very, small minority. Narrow is the way that leads to eternal life, and few there be that find it. We popularized Christianity in America in a time of prosperity because we sold Jesus to people that'll make you better, make you stronger, make you richer. You'll have your best life now. People bought into that. They want that. Well, what happens when the flip side comes? What happens when you lose everything? Will you still you know, he turns to his disciples in John six and he says, are you gonna leave me too? You know, I gave him the loaves and the fishes. I told him the cost involved. They need to come for me, but they don't want me. They just want the loaves and the fishes. They want the universal basic income. And, you know, sorry. There's a curse. People need to work. People need to find out what they're calling or whatever. You know? I'm not gonna just run around giving everybody the freebies. You know? They need to come for me because their greatest need is spiritual, not physical. Man shall not live by bread alone, but every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. So they all many of his disciples, it says. Many of his disciples turned and no longer followed him in John six. And then he turns to the 12 and he says, are you gonna leave me also? And Peter says, where are we gonna go? You have the words of eternal life. You know? I mean, where else are gonna go? There's nothing else that satisfies. Once you've tasted and seen that he is good, there's nothing else. There's no pursuit. There's nothing that can feed your spirit. If any man thirst, Jesus said, let him come into me and drink. You know? Come to him. And so he he's the fount of living water, and there's so many people out there who are who are as the deer pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after thee, oh, God. They're just they're they're they're the John four woman who can't fill that void, that emptiness, that thirst within her heart. Nothing fills it, and Jesus is able. So Jesus said to go. What don't we understand about the word go? The church of Jerusalem, nobody wanted to go. After Pentecost, would you wanna go? There was very little persecution. They were enjoying it. The church was growing exponentially. 3,000 people, 5,000 people. That was a revival. Hey, I wanna stay here and manage all this. This is great, you know? Well, then when Stephen was martyred uh-oh. Uh-oh. Christians are marked now. When the heavy, the Saul of Tarsus began to incarcerate and beat on people and compel them to blaspheme, the church started spreading out of Jerusalem. Well, Jesus told them you're gonna receive power. You're gonna receive power. Wait for the promise of my father in Acts chapter one. You shall receive power, dunamis, dynamic power to equip you to serve me. I'm telling you to go, but wait for the power to go do it. And you're gonna be my witnesses. The Greek word is martyr. You're gonna be my martyrs. See, didn't oversell it. Sometimes the way that we represent him, the way that we witness of him is in our death. And other times as a living sacrifice, we're still alive, but we're sacrificial. It's no longer me living, but Christ living through me. You're gonna be my witnesses in your Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost. That's the call going out of the gospel. So what don't we understand about the word go? It's always somebody else is supposed to go. When are we gonna go? And I I suggest to you that you guys go every day. I know you guys are evangelists. I hear about it. You're sharing the gospel with everyone in near Jerusalem. And then you're taking vacations. You're on the Internet. You're sharing with your family members and friends, and you're broadening the scope, getting the word of God out. Some of you have taken mission trips where you go and you serve and try to get the gospel out there, but, what a glorious glorious privilege, to be able to go. So we have a mission. Why missions? Why do we have missions? Number one, the command from above. Jesus said to go. That's number one. Mark sixteen fifteen, go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature, even to those that are at the Star Wars bar that look really strange, preached the gospel to every creature. The cry from beneath. There's a cry from beneath. There's a cry from hell to preach the gospel. Can you think of where? A cry from beneath. In Luke 16, there was a rich man and Lazarus, and Lazarus was a poor guy and he would eat the food of the rich man's from his garbage garbage heap, and the dogs would come and lick the sores that Lazarus had. The rich man died and Lazarus died. The Lazarus was taken by the angels of heaven to Abraham's bosom. Jesus told the thief on the cross, this day you'll be with me in paradise. Abraham's bosom was a holding compartment of hell, a double compartment Hades shield where one part was a place of comfort described as Abraham's bosom and or paradise. Why? Because in Ephesians four, before he ascended, he first descended to empty out that compartment. All the Old Testament, everybody had to wait till Jesus was crucified, buried, raised from the dead to empty out that compartment. So the story is a picture in Jesus name and names of the rich man that's there in a place of torment, grievous torment. He looks across this gulf and he sees Lazarus there, and he's not in torment. He's he's in a place of comfort with Abraham. He recognizes Abraham, and he says, father Abraham, could you send Lazarus still ordering the poor guy around? You're in hell. You're the rich guy in hell, and you're still ordering the poor guy. Can you send Lazarus over to dip his finger into the water and come over and touch my tongue because I'm in grievous torment? That's not in the abstract. That's the tangible. That's real. It's a real place. Hell is a real place where the worm dieth not and the fire's never quenched. It's not something annihilation where people don't experience separation from God or torment. We we fail to warn people about the doctrine of hell. Jesus spoke more about hell than he did heaven, and he's given an illustration here of the importance of repentance while you're still alive. And so the rich man looks across there, a and and Abraham says, no. There's a great gulf between us two. We can't go over there where you are. You can't come over here. Now watch this. The rich guy says, well, send somebody back, the cry from beneath. The cry from beneath. Send somebody back to go tell my five brothers that they don't wanna be here. Go warn them. They don't wanna be here. And Jesus told them, no, they have Moses and the prophets. What's he saying? They have the Decalogue. They have the first five books of the bible. The Pentateuch, excuse me. The first five books of the bible. They have the prophets. They have the Old Testament, if you will. And he said, no. They won't believe unless you send somebody back from from beneath. And Jesus said, if they believe not, Moses and the prophets, neither will they believe the one be raised from the dead. The obstinate, the hard hearts, it's the word of God. Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God. It's not miracles that save people. It's the word of God. It's you and I proclaiming the good news of his coming kingdom. It's the word of God. It's the glorious gospel that reaches people. They have Moses and the prophets. You know? And so that cry from beneath. Think of the multitude of people that are in hell that wish they could communicate to the people on the surface, don't come here. Whatever you gotta do, don't don't come to this place. It isn't a party. I'm not I'm not partying with miss Bud Light here. It isn't like that. We're not having parties here. It's grievous torment where the worm dieth not, the fire's never quenched. Gnashing of teeth, weeping and gnashing of teeth. That's Jesus' words. He's describing Gehenna. So you have a place called hell. You have a place Hades Sheol, Sheol in the Old Testament, the Hebrew, Hades in the Greek, holding compartment. Because in Revelation chapter 20, there's a there's a great white throne judgment where the wicked dead in that other compartment, Jesus emptied out the paradise one, they're bodily raised from the dead. And they stand before God and they have to give an account of what they did while they're in their body whether good or bad. There's a day of judgment. The Lord placed the the the video of your life, of my life. Every secret thing is shouted from the rooftops. You can't hide. Everything is naked and open before the eyes with whom we have to do. You and I, there's no record. God's wrath was poured out upon his son upon the cross of Calvary. You're never gonna stand before God and answer for any of the sins you've ever committed because they were already put upon Jesus. Those charges against you were blotted out. They were taken away with his blood upon the cross, nailed to the tree. Glorious freedom, glorious deliverance, glorious salvation. There's now therefore no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus, but there is for the wicked dead. And the only thing that gets you into hell, the only thing, not murder. David's a murderer. Moses a murderer. They're in heaven. It's not murder. It's not adultery. David's an adulterer. It's blasphemy. It's rejecting Jesus Christ. That's the only way you can get into hell is by rejecting your whole lifelong Jesus Christ. God's gonna ask you, what did you do with my son? What did you do with him? And all your excuses are gonna come up. He said, no. No. No. No. I didn't tell you to join the church. I didn't tell you to, you know, go to church. I told you to believe in my son. I told you to surrender your heart and life unto him. Well, you know, there are too many hypocrites in the church. Well, one more won't matter. It's okay. So the command from above, the cry from beneath, and then the call from without. Paul and Silas were in the area of Philippi of Macedonia, and they God, the Holy Spirit was forbidden them to go into Egypt excuse me, in Asia Minor, and, forbidden them at that time. It wasn't the right time. And there was a vision that Paul had of a Macedonian saying, come over here. Come over here. Sometimes the Lord will direct you in missions, through a vision, through people calling you. I came to Bremerton not because I had a vision. It was a nightmare. No. I came to Bremerton because I was invited. Because people that I knew in California had moved up here before me, and they kept inviting me for over two years. And, I began to step out in faith and try and figure out where I was supposed to be, where I'd wind up. And then we wound up here, and and the Lord has sustained us for twenty eight years. And it's been it's been hard, but it's also been very, very, very rewarding in our growth, in our personal growth with the Lord. I mean, I get to be a preacher. Who else would let me be a preacher except you guys? You know? So the call from without. And then the constraint from within. Second Corinthians five fourteen, Paul says, woe is me if I don't preach the gospel. There's an internal, drive, an ambition, a a desire, if you will, to to preach the gospel. And when you try to shut up like Jeremiah did and not not share the gospel, you know, it's like a burning fire within within that can't be quenched. In Isaiah six verse eight, the Lord says, you know, whom shall I send and, you know, who will go for us? And Isaiah says, here am I, send me. If you wanna go, pray. Pray each and every day. Lord, here am I. Send me. Lord, I'm available. I may not be the most gifted, but, Lord, I'm available. And Lord, with your equipping, with the power of your spirit, my availability, you'll give me the ability. You'll help me to do what you've called me to do. And so we go. We go with John three sixteen. We go with whatever we got. Here am I. Send me. Where do we begin? We begin at home. In Mark 12 two eleven, four guys took a guy who was paralyzed with the palsy. They couldn't get to Jesus as he's in Capernaum. And so they opened the roof up, they flat roofs, and they lowered him down there, and Jesus healed him, forgave him of his sins and healed him. And then Jesus instructed him, now go back home. Go home and let them just like those at Gadara, the demoniac legion of demons in them. Go home. Go home and testify, I was once blind. Now I see. Testify to these people. Some of them, like in John nine, he's been blind for forty years. What a testimony. Go home as a you were once a drug addict. Now you're sober. Once an alcoholic, now you're sober. You're once in prison, a thief. Now you got a job raising a family and kids, and what a testimony. Only Jesus could do that. Right? He gave you a new heart. Go testify to those at home is where you start with your family. We begin at home, our family. And then in our cities, Jesus commanded Matthew 10 verse five. He says, go not in the way of the Gentiles or in any city of the Samaritans entering on, but go rather than the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as you go, preach saying the kingdom of heaven is at hand. And so you the priority of the Jew first, you go into various cities, then later he's gonna open it up, you know, to go beyond over to Samaria and all. So the priority initially was the nation of Israel. Let's see if they reject me or not. They have a chance to receive me as their Messiah. These are the cities we're gonna go in. Then after the resurrection before his ascension, Jesus commissioned his church. In Luke twenty four forty seven, Jesus said that repentance or remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations beginning at Jerusalem. Acts one eight, ye shall receive power if the holy ghost has come upon you and be my witnesses, Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the uttermost. W. H. Griffith Thomas is quoted as saying, all who profess to be among the people of God ought to go themselves or help others to go. So if you can't go, you support and help through prayer, giving whatever encouragement letters. You encourage those that do go. So what don't we understand about the word go? Verse 16, but they have not all obeyed the gospel for Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report? So he's quoting Isaiah 53 verse one. Who has believed our report? They've heard the gospel, but they won't obey the gospel. Hebrews five verse nine, being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him. So faith is seen in obedience. You hear the word of God, and now you're going to obey the word of God, which is compelling you to repent. Come to repentance. Obey the word of God. Surrender your heart and life unto the Lord, and allow Jesus to come into your heart and life and to make you new. So our job is to preach, to go. Paul said, have planted Apollo's water, but God brought the increase, and so only God can save. And so then neither is he that plants anything, neither he that waters, but God that receives the increase, For we are all laborers together with God. So what an exciting thing to co labor with Jesus, to co labor you and I, to co labor with the apostles, the prophets, all of them, to all of us collectively, church in the plural, those called out the ecclesia, what a blessing to be commissioned to have a function in these last days, to share the gospel. Now Martin Niem Roller in the time of, Hitler's reign in Germany, he, he wound up going to prison for his faith and all. He was an admiral, very revered and respected and all. And he's quoted as saying, first they, as in the Nazis, the communists, not really communists, they they played the communist. You always have to have a boogeyman. Right now, the climate boogeyman. But they played Hitler got the people to give up their constitution by setting fire to the Reichstag Building, which is the government building. His own guy set fire to it. When it set fire to the building, it's the crisis. The reaction was, give me more power and I'll protect you from the communists. And they they gave up, their freedom for security, and once Hitler had all that authority, he's able to do whatever he wanted. So Niemerer, a Christian, he says, first they came for the communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a communist. Then they came for the the unions, the trade unions, and I was not in a trade union, so I didn't speak up. Then they came for the Jews, and I wasn't a Jew, so I didn't speak up. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me. Will you speak up for Jesus? Will you speak up for him? Don't hide your lamp and put it under the bed or under a bushel. Let it shine. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father who is in heaven. In Matthew twelve forty one, Jesus said, the men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation and shall condemn it because they repented of the preaching of Jonah. You remember when Jonah was there forty days in your parish? And he says, behold a greater than Jonah is here. So his own people, he came on his own, his own received him not. They didn't listen. That's what Paul's talking about. They were disobedient. They didn't they didn't adhere. So Jesus said to go. We're his messengers. We have a mission. And thirdly, we have a message. What's our message? Verse 17. So then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. The word word there is not logos, it's rhema. It's the spoken word of God. So the gospel Romans one sixteen and seventeen. I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to whosoever believes. To the Jew first, the priority Jew first, and also to the Gentile. For therein, where? In the gospel. For therein, the righteousness of God is revealed. From faith to faith, as it is written, the just, those that wanna be justified, are gonna have to come by faith, by grace through faith alone. And so we have the message. There's the message. Now why do we try to mix psychology then? Why do we want to adopt Freud and Reud at the end of the age here and act like they have secret knowledge like Gnostics of human behavior? If I look at Jeremiah seventeen nine, it says the heart's deceitful above all things desperately wicked, who can know it? You don't know another man's heart. You don't even know his brain. You can study behavior. You can use therapy, if you will. I mean, my favorite's the shock therapy. You know? Let's just put it there. You know? Or how about about lobotomies? You wanna bring back lobotomies with an ice pick? Just go through the eye and boom boom boom. Or you want chemical lobotomies. How are you gonna change human behavior? Why would the church adopt a means of of philosophy, lovers of wisdom, to bring in a lower level the wisdom of men? Why would the church do that? It's it's not a therapy session. It doesn't belong in the church. You you don't rehab people. People need to be transformed with the renewing of their minds. They need a new heart. They need to adhere to the word of God. The word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two edged sword, dividing us under of soul and spirit and joint and marrow, and as a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. It's only the word of God that can reach that person and take the the scalpel of God's word and cut out that cancer, that bad attitude, that sin, that unforgiveness, and show them the mirror of who they are that they might come to repentance themselves and walk away from that selfishness and such. You can't play the blame game psychologically. It's everybody else's fault for who you are. Grow up. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things are passed away. All things have become new. I'm not their dog anymore. They have no leverage over me. I'm a new creature, and every single day, the mercies of the Lord are new. They're new. My greatest enemy is me. Biggest problem I have is me, not somebody else. I'm not gonna play my whole life blaming somebody for what a wretched loser I am today. No. I'm not a loser. Jesus Jesus washed me in his blood. He transformed. He changed me. He doesn't look at me as some sort of a loser anymore, l seven. You know? No way. And so it's the gospel. It's not the watered down human wisdom. It's not the philosophies of men, and which are always changing, always always changing. And so it's the gospel. Jesus Christ and him crucified for the mission of sins. So God reveals himself in his word. First Peter one twenty three, being born again not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the word of God which lives and abides forever. For all flesh is as grass and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, the flower thereof fades away, but the word of the Lord endures forever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. His word won't come back void. Twenty eight years twenty eight years I refused to give into the trends that have come through the church, the programs, the systems, the philosophies of men, whether it's Rick Warren or whoever it is, I don't care. I've stayed with the word of God all the way through. Why? Because I know the word of God is productive. The word of God is the only thing that can transform a person from within by the renewing of your mind. I know it doesn't come back void. I know it's great effort. Doctor g James Kennedy once said, one of the saddest statistics of our day is that 95% of all church members have never led anyone to Christ. Now I know that's not you. You guys are spirit filled Christians. You've led many people to Christ, and that's exciting. Now I wanna help you. I wanna help you. I want you to open your bible. Everybody got a bible? Lift up your bible. Show me your bible. Alright. Open it to the first page so that you know where you're going. So because you're gonna be going, I don't know where that verse is. Very first page. Right? Open it up and write down Romans three twenty three. Some of you been with me a while, you've already had that verse in the leaflet of your bible. Romans three twenty three. What's that say? You gotta start with this unbeliever. You gotta you gotta convince this unbeliever their need of Jesus. You gotta you gotta show them their need. And the way you show them their need is that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. All of us are sinners. You ever lied? You see Ray Comfort, you know, on the streets there. You ever lied? You ever told a lie? K. You wanna establish, first of all, that all are sinners. There's none righteous. No, not one. Right? Then you take them to Romans five verse eight. But God commended or demonstrated his love towards us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for the ungodly. So while you're a sinner, while you have impotency, while you have bankruptcy, while you have no ability to fix yourself, God demonstrated his love toward you while you're a sinner, he died for you. Now that should the kindness of God should lead you to repentance. Romans two verse four. Right? You don't need to write that down. Three twenty three five eight. Then you bring them to Romans six twenty three. So now you took on the number one leaflet. You you put three twenty three. You turn your bible to three twenty three. And at three twenty three next to it, you're gonna write Romans five verse eight, which I just quoted. And then at Romans five verse eight, you're gonna write Romans six thirty three. Now you turn to Romans six thirty three. We've established that everybody is a sinner. Right? What are we gonna do with sinners? Sin means to miss the mark. Sin means you miss the mark. You're not perfect. You're going to hell. You need to be saved. So the wages, what you earn, what you deserve. Lord, I want what I deserve. I'm a good guy. No. There's none righteous. No. Not one. The wages of sin is death. What is death? Death is defined as eternal separation from God. The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God, it's a gift, is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. So there you are at Romans six twenty three. You're taking this person through. Now you're gonna turn to Romans 10 verse 13. And you write that at Romans six twenty three, so you know where to go. You're working through the bible. What's Romans ten thirteen say? Whosoever. Who do I identify whosoever? Is it only blonde haired people? Only rich people? Poor people? Jews? Gentiles? Whosoever will, let them come. Right? All that come to me, I'll know why is cast out, Jesus said. Right? Come. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden. I'll give you rest. So whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Amen. You just led somebody to Christ. There you go. But how will they hear without a preacher? Verse 18. But I say, have they not heard? Yes. Verily, their sound went into all the earth and their words under the end of the world. So the heavens the heavens declare. I mean, you have the revelation of Jesus, his word, but you also have the revelation that we saw in Romans one and Psalm 19 of creation so that they're without excuse, verse 20 of Romans one. They they can't say they didn't know because when they look up at the firmament let me read for you. Psalm 19 verse one. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows his handiwork. Day in the day, utter speech, God's communicating. And if these globalists would quit the fires and quit, you know, the plane spraying and blocking out the blocking out the beautiful blue skies that I grew up with and making everything silvery white and all. And, I mean, just destroying the planet. These are the guys destroying the planet. But you go camping during the month of August. You get you get away from the city and the lights and such, and you go camping, and you explain to your children, as they're looking up at the stars, and you let them know that God's good thoughts concerning them are number one. All those stars, that's God's good thought towards you. And if you're smart, you know, you're able to tell them where the Milky Way galaxy is and all that. I asked Kathy, what is that, Kathy? She knows. You know? I don't know. I'm a city boy. So he shows his handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge. There's no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. Now, why are you giving over to gay and lesbianism and transgenderism and all that? Because you suppress that knowledge. You suppress the truth over and over and over again. You don't give the glory to God that's due his name as creator. And when you suppress that truth and you worship and serve Gia, the creature more than the creator who is blessed, he gives you over to your base desires, men with men, women with women, to shame you. And now you wanna normalize your aberrant behavior? You want the rest of society to receive your aberrant behavior as normal? The normalization, let's go all the way to pedophilia? Well, then I wanna normalize murder. I've got the murder gene. I like to murder. How come you can't accept me? God made me this way. And every time I get angry, I I go into rage, and I just like to murder people. Then I feel better. You can't judge me. How can you judge me? So you're gonna Oprah, and you're gonna do an Oprah and say it's good for the kids to be pedophile, but you won't let me be a murderer? Can I go kill a pedophile? Makes me feel good. God made me that way. But that's the reasoning. They're reasoning that, hey. I I got the I got the gay gene. It's just the way I came out of the womb. You know? I was wired this way. Well, if even if you were, let's let's run with your argument. Even if you were, come to Christ. And such were some of you in first Corinthians six. God can change you. I was wired from the womb, a sinner. I was wired a murderer. If you hate your brother, you're a murderer. I was wired an adulterer. If you look upon a woman with lust, you're an adulterer. I was wired. But when I'm born again, I'm a new creation in Christ. God wants to change you, to transform you. He doesn't wanna leave you in that sinful, ademic condition. So you're without excuse. The problem is in John three. It's not that you can't understand. It's not a problem of the intellect. It's a problem of the heart. You will not believe. Why? Because your deeds are evil. You love darkness rather than light. You don't wanna come into the light because the light exposes your darkness. It's your heart, your evil, wicked heart. God's gotta change your heart. How do you do that if people don't want to? Where's their free moral agency? Well, with Manasseh, who offered his own children to Molech, God brought the Assyrians to put hooks in him and take them away from Jerusalem to Assyria. And in affliction, he cried out to God. Sometimes it takes God preparing us a boat that's called a fish to take Jonah into affliction, and Jonah can exercise his free will. He can go the opposite way what God's telling him to do, but God has his free will too, his sovereignty, and he can prepare a fish to take you to hell, Jonah. You're gonna feel like you're in hell in that in that fish, and you can have an attitude adjustment. You can all of a sudden, alright, uncle. Okay. I'll go do what you told me to do. How many times God's taken us to the woodshed and chastened you and I and spanked us and said, you will do what I'm telling you to do, Jeremiah. You will do it. You know? And, boy, we think we're so in control, don't we? His nature declares who God is. They have heard. They're without excuse. And we have an even greater revelation, the incarnation. Not just creation, but the incarnation, the babe of Bethlehem, the virgin born son of God that we love to celebrate every single day, especially at Christmas, and his resurrection at Easter, every single day celebrating that he conquered sin and death and hell and the devil and all of them are losers. Jesus said to go, we're his messengers. We have a mission. We have a message. And fourthly and finally, as we go, we are manifesting his favor. Verse 19. But I say, did not Israel know? First Moses say it, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation, I will anger you. So in Deuteronomy thirty two twenty one, Moses witnesses against their refusal to believe. The Gentiles will be saved. Why? The Gentiles are used of God to provoke the nation of Israel under jealousy. You are saved to provoke others under jealousy as they observe your life, as they observe what God's doing in your life, as you live out the gospel, you live out the Christian life, they see what's happening in your life, not just everything, you know, roses, but even through the adversity you've gone through. And they see your countenance. They see the way that you respond. They see the way that you're not controlled by bitterness and anger, but you have victory, you have joy, you have love in your heart, you have perseverance, you have the fruit of the spirit. They're looking at you, and they're thinking, what makes this person tick? How do they keep going? They have so much adversity, so much went wrong in their marriage and their kids and such, but they just love Jesus. There's a song in their heart. They've served the Lord all these years. They just keep getting kicked in the teeth, but they don't stop. What is it about them? If you're Job, what is it about Job? They can't take your Jesus from you. You can take everything from me, but you can't take my Jesus. Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. Right? And there's a quality of life there. There's a quality that can't come on the human level with stuff. There's a spiritual life that provokes others to jealousy. The Jews looked at the Gentiles as simply created as fuel for the fires of hell. God made them just for hell. We're the chosen people. And Jesus say, no. The true Israel of God are those who believe, and Isaac shall thy seed be called. You guys don't believe. You guys are rejecting me. It's not a natural. It's a spiritual rebirth. You must be born again, Nicodemus. So God's manifested favor on the Gentiles is designed to provoke Israel under jealousy. God's a jealous God. He doesn't want we as his people to be seduced by the devil, to be seduced by the world, and to give our love and our affection to the things of the world. In in Numbers chapter 25, the children of Israel began to go in under with the Moabite women and such. 24,000 Israelites were plagued because they went after Baal of the Moabites. And Phineas, the grandson of Aaron, one of the priests, took a javelin, and these two mover and shakers, these prince and princess, walked by Moses and just with that Obama look, you know, that prideful look, and went into their tent and began to engage sexually, and Phineas took a javelin, and he thrust it through both their bellies. End of your blasphemy of God. Right? Don't you wish you could do that? Good. Lord, send send some spec ops. Send some priests that have that. You know? Send some godly men and women that won't tolerate this evil. Amen. Just just put one at Guantanamo and waterboard him. Just one. You know? Start with Bill Gates. Knock that smirk off his face. Nobody can touch him. They're the untouchables, you know, until God says they're not. Right? Verse 20, but Isaiah is very bold and say that I was found of them that sought me not. I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me. I didn't have a Jewish background raising. I They were Catholic for a little while, but I wasn't seeking. The Lord sought me. It's amazing. I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me. I wasn't asking everyone, but the Lord manifest himself to me. God revealed himself to the Gentiles, Isaiah sixty five one. A Christian who's radically in love with Jesus will manifest a relationship with God that is so intimate, so deep, and life changing that others, Jews, Gentiles, whosoever will be provoked to jealousy wanting to know God in the way being manifested before them. They'll say, sir, we wanna know Jesus. Sirs, we've we've come for Jesus. And so whether you're in the pulpit or at work or whatever it is that you do, you should be invisible. People should see Jesus. That's why I get so angry at Christian celebrities. They're skewing. They're getting in the way of their only celebrity, which is Jesus. Sir, we would see Jesus. We wanna see Jesus. We're sick and tired of religion. We're sick and tired of being played. We're sick and tired of the lies. We're sick and tired of the begging for money. We're coming to church to be with Jesus. We wanna see Jesus and his people. We wanna see their faces reflect who he is. Does your life communicate the gospel? Would somebody want what you have? Verse 21, but to Israel, he say it all day long, I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient gainsaying people. And so Isaiah sixty five two through five, they're obstinate. They're refusing to believe. They're stiff necked, very stubborn. All day long have I stretched forth my hand. God is pleading. Watching God pleading, he takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked. His arms are outstretched upon the cross, nailed to the tree. His arms are out, and he's crying out, father, forgive them for they know not what they do. He's pleading with the lost to come to Christ. He's pleading with his father to save to the uttermost. The soldier's spear pierces the side of Jesus to determine if he's dead. Blood and water comes out. Medically speaking, he punctured the pericardium blood and water indicative of a ruptured heart. Death by asphyxiation, you push with your knees up to get a breath of air, but eventually that asphyxiation reaches a point upon crucifixion where it ruptures your heart, the blood and the water out of the pericardium with that spear. He's dead. He didn't swoon. He didn't wake up in a cool tomb. He's dead. They they they pierced him. Alright? He's dead. But he was gonna raise himself from the dead. Alright. So so all day long, I've stretched forth my hands. He died of a ruptured. He died of a broken heart. He takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked would turn from their sins. He came unto his own and his own received him not. He patiently waits for the lost to call upon him. He takes no pleasure, as I said, in the death of the wicked. His call goes out to who? To whosoever will. He sends preachers. He sends preachers with good news. I've got good news. The prophecy is not doom and gloom. It's good news. There's another king coming. Amen. He's coming. He's gonna set up his kingdom here upon earth. It's not America. He's not an American. Sorry to He's not Trump either. Jesus Christ, king of kings and lord of lords. He's coming. He's gonna set up his kingdom wherein righteousness dwells. That's not doom and gloom. Everything's not falling apart. It's fallen into place, and we should be so excited proclaiming prophecy, proclaiming his word that he promised, his promises being fulfilled in our generation, telling people, letting people know, get ready. Get ready. There's an antichrist system that's being developed, the beast system, a totalitarian communistic globalistic system right before your eyes. You can't deny it. And the bible has foretold this system. The bible has foretold every man receiving a mark on the right hand of their forehead. They can't buy or sell without it. Two thousand years ago, Revelation thirteen fifteen through 18 prophesied that. The Bible prophesied a one world, the rebirth of the Roman Empire, an imperial governmental system to cover the entire globe with 10 kings. And the Bible prophesied a one world religious system, Revelation 17, great Babylon the whore, seducing those upon the planet and presenting a different Jesus, a different spirit, and a different gospel. Jesus said to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. We are his messengers. We have a mission. We have a message. We manifest his favor as ambassadors reconciling the world under Christ. How will they hear without a preacher? We must go. Jesus said, go. What don't we understand about the word go? He's counting on you. He didn't commission the angels. He didn't commission the globalist or the transhumanist. He didn't make robots to go and share the gospel. He made you. He commissioned you. He he privileged you with this message. He privileged you as his messengers. He wants you to be a part of the saving of souls, the saving of people from the Nazis, from the globalists, from hell, from the devil. What a privilege. What a blessing. I'm looking for the rapture. Amen. Definitely. But I know that I'm to be about my father's business. Jesus said to occupy until I come. What's that mean? Get the gospel out. The church age hasn't closed yet. There's people out there in your home, in your families, in your neighborhood, where you work, where God has commissioned you. He's placed you there to share the good news because the world is filled with bad news. Lot of bad news. But Jesus, the Bible is not bad news. Unless, the only way it's bad news is if in your if you are in love with this world. And the Bible says love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. All that's in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, the pride of life, is not of the father but of the world. And the world perish in the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abides forever. The love of the world is enmity with God. You're an enemy of God if you're in love with this world. Why would you be in love with this world and these world rulers? These guys are the minions of Satan. Satan is the little g god of this world, the prince of the power of the air. That's why you see these reprobates in power. They're doing his bidding. It should make you sick. It should make you so anxious for Jesus to come back. Let's pray. Father, we thank you. We thank you that we, in our simplicity, Lord, in the simplicity of the gospel, that you've given us a measure of faith to respond, that, Lord, we're sealed by your holy spirit. We're kept by the power of your holy spirit. My name is written in the lamb's book of life. For me to live is Christ, to die is gain. It doesn't matter at this point. All that matters is that I'm about my father's business. That I hear him one day say, well done, thou good and faithful servants. You've been faithful over a few things. I'm gonna make you rulers over much. Enter into the joy of the Lord. Lord, we wanna be faithful. We wanna be found faithful when you come for us. So Lord, evermore, help us to put off the distractions, the political circus of distractions, our phones, the media, all the things that distract us from the most important, that which is best, that of fellowship with you, as worshipers of you, that we might be filled first, and then we go, filled with the Holy Spirit with the glorious good news of your coming kingdom. Equip and use us in these last days, Lord. Do great things. Do exceedingly, abundantly above all we could ask or think according to your power that works in us, Lord. And while you continue to pray, if there's anybody here this morning and you don't know Jesus Christ, Christianity is a relationship. If you don't know him as your Lord and savior, if you haven't been born again, God has given you this acceptable time. This is the acceptable time. Today is the day of salvation, and this is your moment. This is your moment that the Holy Spirit is tugging on your heart where the father's revealing the son unto you, revealing his son that this is my son. This is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. Hear him. Listen to the holy spirit. What is God speaking to your heart? Do you have ears to hear? He that has ears to hear what the spirit is saying, hear it. Is God telling you he loves you? Is God telling you his son died for you? Is God telling you he wants to save you right here and now? Anyone here, just lift your hand up. We wanna lead you in prayer. As you respond to God, prayer is not a monologue, a dialogue. God's speaking to you, now you speak to him. You pray. You say, Lord Jesus, come into my heart and life. Lord Jesus, forgive me of my sins. Write my name in your lamb's book of life. Lord, fill me with your holy spirit. Use my life for your kingdom and your glory. Make me a preacher, Lord. Make me a preacher. Make me a herald. Make me evangelist. Let me shout from the rooftops the glorious good news of your coming kingdom. Anyone here this morning? Father, thank you. Thank you that I get to rub elbows with such great men and women of God, people that have been through so much, people that have been so faithful unto you and who are so ready who are so ready to share your love with people, to share the gospel, to pray with people, to intercede for people. Such a blessing, Lord. So amazing to be a part of this church body, and I pray evermore that you would pour out your Holy Spirit upon us, fill us to overflowing, Lord, that we would glorify you, that we wouldn't be the Laodicean church, that we maybe we're the Philadelphia church, we got little strength, but Lord, bring glory and honor unto you. Be glorified, Bless, we pray. In Jesus' name, amen.
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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Sunday Service
Listen to Rick Beaudry, Pastor of Calvary Chapel Bremerton, teach the Word of God cover to cover, chapter by chapter, and verse by verse. Be edified and built up in your faith with solid Bible teaching. New episodes on Mondays in the Pacific Standard Timezone.
