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Romans 11:25,36 -Glory Forever- Pastor Rick Beaudry 2023-09-17

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Romans 11 beginning with verse 25. For I would not brethren that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits that blindness and part has happened unto Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved as is written there shall come out of Zion, the deliverer and shall turn away unguidliness from Jacob. For this is my covenant unto them when I shall take away their sins. As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes, but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's sake. For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance. For as ye in times past have not believed God yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief. Even so have these also now not believe that through your mercy, they also may obtain mercy. For God has concluded them all in unbelief that he might have mercy upon all. Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God, how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out. For who has known the mind of the Lord or who has been his counselor or who has first given to him and it shall be recompense unto him again. For of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be glory forever. Amen. Father, we thank you for your holy word. And Lord, we it's just such a privilege to be able to meet here at the Seventh day Adventist Church and their love for us and their, Karen and treating us like a ministry. They let they let us meet here, Lord, we're just so thankful. Lord, we pray for your blessing, your continued blessing upon them and the church that meets after us, that the churches in Kitsap County would flourish, Lord. We'd be a great light in a very dark county, in a very dark era and time. Lord, we lift up our loved ones who've been sick. We lift up Daryl. Thank you that is successful heart surgery and Jason and Karen Menard. And Lord, we lift up Mike and others who have gone through traumatic things this past year. Continue to bring healing to their bodies. Continue to undergird and strengthen the families represented here. Thank you for the example of Mike and Dee, eighteen years of bliss, eighteen years of great marriage, and others in the room here. Thank you, Lord, that you're a God that takes broken people and broken lives and puts us back together. For those of us that have fallen, Lord, you've been there to help us back up and keep us going. Undergird and strengthen our children, our grandchildren. Lord, we wanna make it to the finish line. We wanna see each one enter into all that you've intended, all that you desire for them. Anoint and bless this time as we study your word, be with Sue, be with Marlene as a minister in Hawaii, and, Lord, just pour out your Holy Spirit upon each of us. Give us ears to hear and eyes to see, Lord, that our spiritual faculties would be adapted discerning the times in which we're living, So blessed now we pray. Be our teacher in Jesus name. Amen. Would you please be seated? In Jeremiah chapter nine verse 23, thus saith the Lord, let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, neither let the rich man glory in his riches, but let him that glory glory in this that he understands and knows me that I'm a god that exercises loving kindness and judgment and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, saith the Lord. Isn't it isn't it a blessing that you know God? Isn't it a blessing that the thing that you can boast in that you can really, you know, lift your arms up and praise and worship is that I know Jesus. I know where I'm going. And the reason you know him is because he revealed himself to you. You didn't you didn't choose him, he chose you. And in in that election, God electing you, there came a point in time where God revealed himself to you through the gospel. The glorious gospel is the means by which, the message by which that he reveals himself, you know, unto us. And so so, you know, how is it, you know, so many people don't know him? It frustrates me when I watch people that are in unbelief, and I know that the devil has blinded their eyes. And, you know, and you have to sow in another water, and God has to eventually bring the increase, but the the gift of watching God save somebody is just such an amazing miracle when you see the light bulb go on and you see their lives begin to be transformed and changed, you know, right before your eyes. It's very exciting to be in a church that, has a birthing room, a place where new believers are birthed. The little babies are just so incredible. This week, Britney, you know, posted a little video of Ruthie, with a little place where she says, dude, you know, and and it was so hilarious. It's so funny, but that we love being around babies. We love being around these infants and watching that new birth take place. So too with spiritual infants with people being born again. If you're in a church that doesn't evangelize, it's been said that it fossilizes and there's a sterility, very sterile and, you know, a dry orthodoxy if you will. Anytime you share the gospel with somebody at work or play or wherever and you have that blessing of inviting them to church or you have the blessing of sharing the Romans road that we had you write in your bible, Romans three twenty three and Romans five eight, Romans six twenty three, and, Romans 10 verse 13, whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. It's a huge blessing to be a part of that process, a part of God's moving and working because at this point in time, he's enlisted you and I. We're in the Lord's army. We're in that we're fulfilling the great commission. And in this church age in which we're in, there's a point in time where the fullness of the gentiles will become in and the church age will end and, it will end with the rapture where the Lord will come for us, you know, for his bride. And so it's for God's glory that this is taking place that a man should come to understand. It says in verse 36, of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be glory forever. Amen. To God be the glory. Paul's theme, Romans one sixteen and seventeen, the theme of this book, I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. Are you ashamed of the gospel of Christ? No. 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, the priorities to the Jew, and then to the Gentile. For therein, where? Within the gospel, for therein, the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith as it is written, the just shall live by faith. And so here we have the glory that's due under the Lord's name and that we can glory, we can praise the Lord because we know him and we know him because he first knew us. We love him because he first loved us. And so it's through the gospel. The gospel reveals the glory of God as seen in four areas. The glory of God is seen in his marriage. Secondly, his Messiah. Thirdly, his mercy. And fourthly, and in his matchless wisdom. Notice first of all, his glory seen in his marriage. Verse 25. For I would not brethren that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits. This word mystery speaks of a truth, something that was once concealed and now revealed. So in the old testament, we could see the wife of Jehovah. We could see that the Lord, had a relationship that he likened to marriage with the nation of Israel. Even with Hosea, you know, given a writing of divorcement and all that in their in their idolatry and their lack of faithfulness unto God, divorcing them for a time. But, his promises to them are yay and amen and he's going to fulfill those promises. In Jeremiah 31, we see that he's gonna write his his law within their heart. There's gonna be a remnant that's gonna be preserved through the tribulation period that's gonna come to know him. All of Israel, all the elect, you know, shall be saved. But the mystery that was hid from the apostle Paul and Peter and all the rest of the Jews was the mystery of the church. They never saw the church in the Old Testament. It's a mystery, something once concealed, now revealed. This church age that we're in at Pentecost when, you know, when the the, holy spirit was poured out upon that 120 people, and then it's exploding to 5,000, 3,000, and continuing on into Samaria and all the way to the house of Cornelius in chapter 10 to the Gentiles and Paul all the way to Damascus in chapter nine and it begins to spread all over the world and the the largest most prominent cities in the Roman Empire that of Rome and Corinth and Ephesus and others are just exploding in growth with the the church, churches being planted and all. And so that which was once concealed now revealed a divinely given insight, God's plan of salvation as pertaining to Jews and Gentiles. So the church is made up of Jews and Gentiles starts out with the Jews and then as the Jews, you know, continue to reject, the gospel goes forth in a broader way to that of the Gentiles. And so in Ephesians three verse six, Paul writing about this, he said that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs and of the same body and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel. This is this is just unheard of in the mind of the Jew. They'd wake up each morning thanking God that they weren't born a slave, that they weren't born a gentile, that they weren't born a woman. The males, these chauvinistic males. That's how they'd wake. That's how they'd roll. They saw the Gentiles as simply fuel for the fires of hell. So when the Gentiles started getting saved, it provoked the Jews to jealousy. They're all jealous like you. You guys can't come. You can't come. We're the doorkeepers. You can't come unless you you're proselytized and become a Jew. You gotta be circumcised. You gotta follow the law. You gotta live like us and all. And and and so no. No. No. No. Salvation's by grace through faith alone. The just shall live by faith. Colossians one twenty six, even the mystery which has been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints to whom God would make known that is the riches of the glory of of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory, the indwelling of the holy spirit. That the holy spirit would indwell if you have not the spirit, Romans chapter eight, you're none of his. And so the dispensation of the holy spirit being given, Nicodemus, you must be born again. And so not just body and soul, but body, soul, and spirit. Christ in you, the hope of glory, the indwelling of the holy spirit, the birth of the church in this regard. The old testament saints did not have the indwelling of the holy spirit, but we in the church do because Jesus was crucified, buried, raised himself from the dead. He says, it's expedient that I go to the father because I'll send the comforter. I'll send the Holy Spirit who's gonna be with you, in you, and upon you. The epi experience, the power of the holy spirit, the baptism of the holy spirit, empowerment for service. And, Jesus spoke of that in acts chapter one verse eight. His witnesses, his martyrs in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost. How are we gonna do the job he's given us? In the power of the holy spirit. Can't do it in the arm of the flesh, but he hasn't left us alone. He's given us the comforter, the holy spirit. To God be the glory, great things he has done. Notice it says, that blindness in part is happened to Israel. So only in part and only temporary. The church does not take the place of the nation of Israel. The nation of Israel has been set aside. They're awaiting the seventieth seven of Daniel, the time of Jacob's trouble, the tribulation period pertaining to the nation of Israel, where Zechariah, 13 verse eight nine indicates that only a one third remnant will be saved. So if there's 16,000,000, Jews on the planet today, if it were to happen, the tribulation period, only one third would come through that fire, purified coming through that fire, and would be waiting for the Lord there at Basra in Isaiah 63 waiting for the Lord to come as they cry out, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. And they're running from the antichrist. They're they're they're in the Rock City area, Petra, Southern Jordan, Basra, Mount Seir, and prophesied by the Lord. And so that's that one third remnant that's gonna come through the time of Jacob's trouble. Two thirds are gonna be destroyed by the Antichrist and by the cataclysmic events that the antisemitism that comes against the apple of God's eye. In Revelation 12, the devil sees his time is short. He's cast out of heaven and he runs after. He goes after all of his effort for the second half of the tribulation period against the woman, which is the nation of Israel. And so blindness in part has happened to Israel only in part and temporary. We're not replacement theology people. We don't think the church has taken the place of the nation of Israel. And so Jews are being still safe in the church age. In Matthew eleven twenty five, Jesus said, I thank thee, oh father, lord in heaven because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and has revealed them unto babes. The Gentiles were just babes in understanding. The Jews should have far greater understanding. They have the old testament. They've been studying the old testament, but they didn't see the prophetic keys. They didn't see Isaiah 53 as pertaining to Messiah that would be crucified. They didn't see, although they read Psalm 22, they didn't see it. In the time where the Lord was born in Bethlehem there, know, in time when, the attacks went out from Caesar Augustus and all the world be taxed and Mary and Joseph have to trek toward Bethlehem from Nazareth area, You know, the wise men come all the way from Babylon. And so Daniel and the boys left some sort of information there in, you know, Babylon concerning the king of the Jews and, they're following the stars, his star of specific sore star, the star of Bethlehem that stood over the house that he was in two years after his actual birth. But, you know, the the religious leaders along with king Herod, there's another king? Where where is he to be born and all? And they they said Bethlehem is only six miles from Jerusalem, but they wouldn't even go see for themselves. And so there's no room for him in the end. There was no room in the hearts of these people in the nation. He came unto his own, his own received him not. But to as many as received him, to them gave he the power to become the sons of God. Whosoever will, let him come. But blindness in part has happened unto Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles come in. Notice it says, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. That word until speaks of a set time or dispensation. So you'll hear, people talk about dispensationalist. What's that mean? It's a big word. It just means God deals with us in a period of time in a certain way. This is called the dispensation of the church age. So we're in the church age until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. Now there's a set number when it talks about this dispensation, it's not it's not just a timing thing but also the fullness. We'll see that in a second. So this present dispensation is the church age, a dispensation of grace whereby the holy spirit is gathering a bride for Christ. It's not, the Luke twenty one forty two which is the times of the Gentiles. So don't confuse, the fullness of the Gentiles with the times of the Gentiles. Luke 21, excuse me. Luke twenty one twenty four speaks of the time where the Gentiles would be dominant over the nation of Israel. So where do we see that? We see that in the book of Daniel with Nebuchadnezzar, God raising up king Nebuchadnezzar to wipe out the Jews and wipe out Jerusalem, and also they became dominant, a world dominant power over the Jews and, destroying, Jerusalem in May. And then later in the times of the Gentiles, we see the Medes and the Persians led by Cyrus in Daniel chapter five, Belteshazzar, the grandson of of, Nebuchadnezzar. He's there partying with all the implements and the vases and the and the goblets and all the stuff having a having a huge party. And, there's a siege going on outside the city gates with the Babylonians excuse me, the Medes and the Persians coming And, they think it's impregnable. They got food. They got water. They got everything. There's no way into this impregnable city. But, Cyrus and Darius come up with an idea of damming up the Euphrates River causing it to flow in a different direction. And then his armies were able to come underneath the levied gates which Isaiah prophesied of and, come up into the city as in a moment and, Belteshazzar seeing the handwriting upon the wall, many many Tekel Eupharsan. And, so what's that mean, Daniel? It means your kingdom's taken from you. You've been waiting the balance and found wanting, given over to the Medes and the Persians. The Medes are the present day in Iraq, the Kurds, and still the present day, those in, the Kurds, and then Iran is the present day Persians. And so the Medes and the Persians. Then after that, you know historically that Alexander the Great came and subdued the Medes and the Persians, and they had a world dominating, empire. He dies at about 33 years of age, and, the kingdom's divided to his four generals. And then this goes for a period of time, and then we have the Romans in the time of Christ. The Romans conquer the Greeks. The Greek culture permeates all of Roman culture and, is dominant. The bible's written in Koine Greek, so the Lord is setting the stage for not only the Romans to rule and reign with a with a with with law in the Pax Romana, the various streets and bridges and all the means of travel during that particular time and boats and stuff because he wants the message to get out. But also, the Greek culture has a language, a very powerful language called Koine Greek, and the bible is penned in Koine Greek, the New Testament, and, the Masorets with the Old Testament and Hebrew. And so we have, we have something very very precious that's been given us to in that era. And so the Romans in their government, they're cut off later, divided east and west, and we talk about this, times of the Gentiles. We're gonna see the rebirth of the Roman Empire during the tribulation period where a person's going to emerge, some feel out of the European community, we don't know, but going to emerge, it's part of that group that crucified the Lord and part of the 10 toes. Many feel that this guy's alive today, we don't wanna bring attention to him, but he's going to sign a peace treaty with the nation of Israel, this antichrist, in place of Jesus Christ. And the type of government in that 10 toes is gonna be imperial and that it's gonna be a rebirth of the Roman Empire in that they had, conquered various parts of the world, and then they would have various garrisons and forts and and Roman soldiers governing those areas. So an imperial rule over the planet, and we see 10 toes, 10 crowns, 10 kings, 10 different, possibly technocratic corporate type rulers, where the world is divided up into these 10 regions, and that is gonna be the final phase of the times of the Gentiles. What's going to cause the end of the times of the Gentiles? The return of Jesus Christ. Some would say in 1967 when Israel took hold of Jerusalem that that was the end of the times of the Gentiles, but no. No. No. No. The Gentiles still dominate a policy, over Israel, and the antichrist, certainly, he will. He's gonna go into the temple that he helps rebuild, declare himself to be God, demand to be worshiped as God, and he's gonna destroy, as we said, two thirds of the Jews. So when Jesus returns, that times of the Gentiles will end. We're gonna see Israel in the land, Israel in all of their borders that have been promised to them, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They've never realized all of the geographic area that was that they were blessed with and, that they were bequeathed, and, we're gonna see them in the land. David's gonna be ruling and reigning as a prince. The 12 apostles gonna be ruling and reigning upon thrones. You and I ruling and reigning as kings and priests, and Jesus ruling and reigning as kings of kings and lord of lords for one thousand years, he's gonna rule and reign. So that's a picture and understanding of the difference between the until the fullness of the gentiles and the time of the gentiles on into the millennium. Ephesians five thirty two says, this a great mystery but I speak concerning Christ and the church. And so the intimacy, the communion, the two becoming one in marriage. In acts fifteen fourteen, James is quoting Simon, quoting Peter. He says, God at the first did visit the gentiles to take out of them a people, for his name. And so there was a there was a discrepancy in acts 15. They had a meeting, a church meeting of the religious leaders. The brother of Jesus, James was there, and Peter and and Paul and Mary and Ringo no. Peter and and Peter's there, and he's standing up. You know, why put a burden upon them that neither we nor our fathers were able to bear and that they were debating over whether the Gentiles should be circumcised or not. Circumcision speaking of the keeping of the law. And so the grace that's extended toward the Gentiles, the grace that extended toward the Jews, and that's what they came up with. And so stay away from things that offend, from things that are strangled, and fornication because it offends the Jews, you filthy Gentiles. You know? Stay away. So they had a they had a meeting there, a tribunal if you will. And so they're describing the way that the Lord's bringing in these Gentiles as they brought in at the house of Cornelius and the holy spirit was poured out upon the house of Cornelius. Second Corinthians eleven two, Paul says, I've espoused you to one husband that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. So the picture is that the church is the bride of Christ. The nation of Israel is the wife of Jehovah. There's an intimacy. If you lived in a family like I did where your mom's married seven times, one of the things that wells up inside of you is a desire to have what's taken away from you. So you want a family. You want to be successful at marriage in the sense that you, don't, you know, go through, different spouses and partners over a lifetime and put your kids through the the craziness, you know, that that, you know, that many of us have to endure. And so for me, I was looking around at people that were married, people that had homes and families and all, and it was evangelistic toward me. It was something I yearned for, but also was something that I definitely knew I didn't have the ability, that I wasn't gonna be able to accomplish, that it wasn't in me. It wasn't something that I'd be successful at. And, and so the Lord began to work in me and when he saved me, I began to discover that it was his intention all along, as he said within the garden, it's not good for man to be alone that the two would come together and become one. That picture in the garden is a picture of the intimacy that Jesus prayed for in John 17 that we'd be one with the father even as he and, you know, the son are are one. That one is the communion. We're gonna partake of communion. That intimacy on the spiritual level, but on the human level, the greatest the greatest intimacy that we can experience is the two becoming one, male and female. He made them and they come together in that oneness. And so, that is that is the foundation of society is that of the family. And it it begins with marriage. And so the Lord wants you and I to recognize that we're the bride of Christ. Husbands, love your wives like Christ loved the church and gave himself for her. So all through the scriptures, see you and I as the church described in this manner, and there's a marriage involved, this this this marriage, if you will. And so, we, we thank the Lord for that, you know, evangelistic persuasion when you and I, we think in terms of a lot of times, you know, hey, I gotta get in the ministry. I gotta be a great missionary. I gotta be a Billy Graham. Just be who God's made you to be. Be a husband. Be a wife. Be a family. Be a grandparent. Profound. Why do you think the devil hates the family so much? Why do you think the devil's trying to skew and destroy what is male, what is female, what is marriage, and trying to destroy it with a, you know, redefinition of marriage that it's not just between a man and a woman can be toward, you know, anything nowadays? And so it's because it's powerful. There's a powerful picture in that of marriage of God's desire that we be one with him, that we know him intimately and in the life of the spirit. And so so he describes his church as as his bride and notice it says, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. So we looked at the timing of it and this word fullness speaks of full number, a full set number or unto completion until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. So there's a set number of Gentiles during the church age. God knows what that number might be. Let's say that number is when that tenth million. No. It's narrow. A few there be that find it. Alright. Let's when that 20 south thousands person no. I don't know. I don't know what the number is. Whatever that number is, that last person, when the fullness comes in, that last person, then it's the rapture. Now if you're here and you're holding back, you get saved today. We're ready to go. Quit holding it back. The fullness, that completed number, the full number that God determines. He knows the end from the beginning. He knows exactly who that last person is. You know? And he's he's long suffering, not willing that any would perish, but that all would come to repentance. That's why he's waited so long so that he could bring you and I into the fold, into the family. And, and he's gonna love us for all eternity. He's never gonna divorce us. He's never gonna throw us away. You're never gonna be orphaned on into the kingdom. In the ages to come, his kindness gonna continue to be poured out upon us. Only God knows that exact number at the end of the age when that last Gentile responds to the gospel. The rapture of the church gonna take place at that point, and, we're gonna be raptured up. He's gonna come for you and I, his bride. Now, the Jewish marriage is in four stages for you and I to understand the scriptures. A Jewish marriage is what this is pictured after and you and I may not have a picture of what entails, you know, in a Jewish marriage. There's four stages. The number one is the arrangement or betrothal. And the father would go to another father and he'd say, hey, I got a son and this son of mine, he's brilliant. You know? They might just be little babies. You know? And, and why don't we arrange ahead of time that your daughter and my son would be married one day? It could be a year before the marriage, it could be as as their children, an arranged marriage with if you will. And the father would have to pay the bride price, which in the case of Jesus is blood. It's his own blood that was paid. He's the kinsman redeemer, the go well. It's his blood. He came not to be ministered unto, but to minister and give his life a ransom for many. And so you and I are blood bought. That's why Paul's talking to the Ephesian elders in acts 20 saying, take heed. Take heed over these sheep. Some are gonna come in from among you, some from the outside, but you pastors take heed because they were purchased with his blood. These are blood bought. They're very precious, you know, in his sight. And that's why Paul said, I'm jealous over you with a godly jealousy, to the church at Corinth because, you know, I've espoused you to one husband and I fear lest as the serpent beguiled Eve so to you could be seduced from the simplicity that's in Christ Jesus that you would be seduced and you'd come to a different Jesus. You'd come to a different gospel. You'd embrace a different spirit. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't listen to the to those that are trying to sway you and take you away for the simplicity, you know, that's in Christ. So the father or the groom, he pays the bride price. That's the arrangement. And then secondly comes the fetching. The fetching. And then the fetching, what would happen is the son would go to prepare a room off of his dad's house or build a house and everything and, the arrangements would all be made. But the bride would be like we see in Matthew 25, the 10 virgins, five with oil, five without. They're they're they're getting ready. They got their garments, he could come at any moment, they don't know when he's gonna come, when the groom's gonna come, but there'd be a fetching. It could be at night, it could be midnight, could be any time. And, and so the emphasis upon being ready and that's the emphasis you and I have. Jesus can come to fetch us at any moment. That's why he tells us to be watching, to be ready, to be looking up knowing that your redemption draweth nigh. And so Jesus told you and I in John fourteen one through three, he said, let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. In my father's house are many mansion. You see he goes to the father's house. In my father's house are many dwelling places. If it weren't, so I tell you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am, there you may be also. Location. Location. Location. Where is he? Heaven. Heaven. And he's promising to come again. And so he said, always that you'd be counted worthy to escape these things. What things in Luke 21? The tribulation period. The things that you see, the cataclysmic events. As we said earlier, what problem do you have that the rapture won't solve? So pray always that you'd be counted worthy to escape these things and stand before the son of God. Location, location, location. Where is he? He's gonna take you back to heaven. So you're gonna be raptured, you're gonna be caught up, taken to heaven, you're gonna be there for seven days, this would last and, in many cases, seven years. And when you're there, you have the marriage ceremony. That would be the next phase is the marriage ceremony. You'd go to heaven before the second coming, before the end of the tribulation period. You would stand at the Bema Seat judgment where the Lord is going to reward you. He's going to pour out his blessings upon you. And you see in Revelation chapter 19, the first 10 verses is the church in heaven and 11 through, to the end, 11 to, verse let's see. Revelation six through eight is the ceremony one through 10 in heaven. 11 through 21 is, our return with him. So we're gonna be raptured. He's gonna come for us in the cloud. So Jesus or excuse me. The apostles Paul said, the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, with the trump of God. And the dead in Christ shall rise first, then we would that are alive and remain shall be caught up together with him in the clouds and forever be with him. And so to meet the Lord in there, so shall ever be with him. And so he's gonna catch us up in the clouds. He's gonna come for you and I. He's not gonna, as the post tribulation guys say, take us up in the clouds and then come right back with us in the second coming. This isn't the second coming, this is the rapture of the church. And it's before the tribulation period, because the tribulation period is a period of wrath. And so in Revelation chapter one verse 19, John the beloved was instructed to write the things which you have seen, write the things which are, write the things which shall be hereafter, after these things, after the church age. So write the things which are the the outline of the book of Revelation chapter one is the risen Lord in his glory, a vision of Jesus in chapter one of Revelation. Write the things which, which you have seen. Write the things which are in the present tense is Revelation two and three, the church age. And you see the word church church church church of Smyrna church. When you get to chapter four, no mention of the church, but the four and twenty elders are in heaven because in chapter four verse one, that Greek word again, shows up after these things, speaking of time. And so John says, there was a door opened up in heaven. He looked up in heaven. He heard a voice say, come up hither and I'll show you things which shall be hereafter. Metatauta in the Greek, after these things. So the church is in heaven in chapter four and in chapter five because who is worthy to open the scroll and loose the seal? Only the line of the tribe of Judas worthy to open the scroll and loose the seal. John saw him as a lamb that had been slain. Now from chapter six on the 1918 particularly, but into 19 because Armageddon is the tribulation period, no mention of the church. Church does not mention the tribulation period. You don't go in the tribulation period. You're not gonna be there. Why? Because we're not subject unto God's wrath. It's a time of wrath where God pours out his wrath upon a Christ rejecting world. To the church of Thessalonica, he says, wait for his son from heaven whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivered us from the wrath to come. We're delivered from the wrath to come at the cross of Calvary, but he's coming again to grab you and I to take us out of here to deliver us from the wrath that's gonna come upon the earth. The the eschatological wrath that's coming in the tribulation period. First Thessalonians five verse 10, we're told that we're not appointed under this wrath. Now there are those who think in in Revelation six that there's a pre wrath, you know, sort of a judgment that we're gonna suffer the wrath of men and not down to verse 17 of chapter six, you know, then it's the wrath of the lamb. Problem with that is who's opening the seal? It's Jesus in chapter five. He's the only one where they'd open the seal. Right? And so the other problem with that is if you're gonna if you're gonna try and say, well, the the seal judgments or trumpet judgments, you know, the the trumpet when the trumpet sounds, the last of the trumpet judgments, you know, that's when the rapture's gonna take place. Well, that's found in first Corinthians chapter 15 verse fifty one and fifty two. And, it says, I'll show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep but we shall be changed in a moment and twinkling of an eye at the last trump. The trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed for this corruption must put on incorruption, this mortal must put on immortality. That word trumpet is, is familiar to those in Corinth and Thessalonica in that it refers to the feast of trumpets, feast of trumpets. The very last blast of the trumpet is the Tekkit Gadola, which is a long, you know, hour blast of the trumpet. It's at the last trump, the trump of God. That's when the rapture is gonna take place with Michael the archangel. Jesus give him the command, go get him. Then Michael, you know, is submissive to Jesus and gives the command and set that point. Now, if it were the trumpet judgment that brings on the rapture, how did the church of Corinth and Thessalonica know about the book of Revelation and that trumpet because it wasn't written yet. Wasn't written till '95. So in '65, when Thessalonians and when Corinth is being written, he's teaching them something and he and they're familiar with the feast of trumpets. The feast of trumpets when the rapture is gonna, take place is what he's alluding to here. And so the, rapture of the church and, the 10 virgins, five are wise, they have the oil, five are unwise, they don't. Jesus said, pray always that you'd kind of worthy to escape these things and stand before the son of man. Luke twenty one twenty eight, when you see these things begin to come to pass, look up for your redemption draweth nigh. So the five wise have the oil which is the holy spirit which is their saved. So you get saved during the church age and you'll be ready. Those that are not saved just going through the motions, they don't have the oil. If oil is representative of the holy spirit, if you have not the holy spirit, you're none of his in Romans eight. You're not a believer. So the key to being ready and watching is to be a spirit filled believer, to have the holy spirit. And be in the church that teaches prophecy and be a student of prophecy yourself to be watching connecting the dots and be ready. It's ludicrous to demonize the doctrine of the rapture, the pre trib rapture and and not teach and not encourage one another as you see this day approaching. It's called the blessed hope, not the bummer hope in Titus two thirteen, you know, looking unto Jesus, you know, the author and the finisher of our faith or that that the, looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great god and savior Jesus Christ. And so we're looking, we're watching. In first John chapter three, verse two, beloved, now are we the sons of god who does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is. And he that has this hope in him, what hope? The hope of the rapture. He that has this hope in him purifies himself. I want to be ready. I don't wanna live like I used to live thinking, hey, I'm saved and I can live any way I want. Once saved, always saved. No. I want to be ready. I want to be growing the grace and knowledge of the Lord and be empowered by the holy spirit, be about my father's business to occupy till he comes. And so it's a doctrine of not escapism in the sense of, you know, hey, I'm out of here at the end. Although we will escape, you know, I like the idea that we're gonna escape these things that are gonna come upon the planet, you know. But it's more of a of a an awareness of how short time is. And the Pentecostals used to say it this way to pastor Chuck when he was growing up in these holiness churches. You really wanna go to the movies? What if Jesus came while you're in that movie theater? You know? So they put the fear of God in these kids, you know, that, hey, could come at any moment and, you know, what what's he gonna find you doing? You know? And so, but there is a certain truth to that and that he could come at any moment. What do we wanna be found doing? I wanna be about my father's business. I wanna be doing what God has called me to do. To the church of Philadelphia in Revelation three verse 10, the Lord says, because thou has kept the word of my patience. Are you keeping the word of his patience? Are you long suffering? Are you patient? You keep looking up. The Tim LaHaye series, Left Behind series, all the movies, all the stuff, did it did it erode your desire for the soon return of the Lord? Did you look but then it didn't happen? Have you kept the word of his patience? Are you patiently waiting knowing that he's long suffering, not willing that any would perish but that all would come to repentance? You don't wanna fall into the prophetic picture of fulfilling prophecy by saying, oh, where is the promise of his coming? As Peter says, since the beginning of time, everything continues as it always has. You know, he's never coming again. You know, and that's where Peter says, out of this, they're willingly ignorant. They're ignorant. One day is a thousand years. Thousand years is one day with the lord. He's long suffering. God's long suffering unwilling that any would perish but that all would come to repentance. So nineteen hundred years, the nation of Israel hasn't been in the land, and then on 05/14/1948, they're reborn as a nation, and the Lord waits for me in January 1980, the gospels preached, I respond, and my name's written in the lamb's book of life. But God knew from the very beginning that I was one of them, that I was part of that fullness if you will, that complete completed number which is not complete just yet. So because I was kept the word of my patients, I also keep thee from the hour of temptation which shall come upon all the world to try them that dwell upon the earth. The entire earth is gonna go through that tribulation period from Revelation six on to 19. On to 19 in that the Lord Jesus returns with his bride and she's got her white garments on. Jude says he comes with 10 thousands and thousands of his saints and he's going to come back with us. Not we don't need to help him. We're just with him and we come back having, the arrangement, the fetching, the ceremony in heaven, and now we come for the fourth phase of the Jewish wedding, that is the marriage supper. The marriage supper of the lamb. When Jesus returns, we return with him. The blood's as high as the horse's bridle. The only way we get to the peace is that the prince of peace pull out his sword of his mouth and the brightness of his coming, the Shekinah glory and wipe out the antichrist, the false prophet, all the globalists, all these pretenders. Oh, how the heathen rage and imagine a vain thing against the Lord and against his anointed in Psalm two. God holds them in derision. God's laughing from heaven at the machinations, the strategies of Klaus Schwab and Noah Yuval Harari and the council in foreign relations and BlackRock and State Street and Vanguard and these trillionaires that think that they can control and become as gods, you know. And, you know, they're gonna they're going to experience abject failure, abject poverty. They're found in Revelation chapter six hiding in their billion dollar bunkers, trying to hide from the wrath of the lamb. I mean, he's the one that can shake the planet and cause whatever kind of bunker they build for it to collapse with an earthquake. He can cause radiation to permeate him. He can cause anything he wants. And, by him, and they don't get this, by him, all things consist. What that means is everything you see, everything you don't see, the atoms, the neutrons, the protons, everything is held together by Jesus. He's the creator. And it's all held together because he's a god of order. And they try to diminish his glory as you see in Romans one where they worship and serve the creature rather than the creator and they diminish the glory that's due him as creator with their so called climate, you know, religious system, their climate change stuff, which is not science, which is a total religious system, a false religious system, if you will, the worshiping of the planet. And then secondly, they diminish his glory by not worshiping him as as redeemer. They they don't recognize or value his going to the cross, his burial, his resurrection, and and his soon return. And so they were actually concocting plans, putting plans together to stop Jesus from returning and take possession of the planet that he made and the planet which he purchased with his own blood when our first federal head, Adam, fell being usurped by the serpent. And so, crazy crazy insane rebellion against God and God says he laughs from heaven. God has a plan. It's all happening according to plan. The stage is being set for God to be glorified. He's going to pour out his wrath upon these Christ rejecters. He's not gonna pour out his wrath upon you and I. Why? Because he already poured out his wrath upon his son upon the cross of Calvary. There's no fearful looking to have judgment for you because God judged yours his son in your place. You're not gonna be judged but, you're gonna be rewarded at the Bema Seat judgment. So the marriage supper at the start of the millennium, John the Baptist who's the friend of the bridegroom, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Noah, all the old testament patriarchs are gonna be there. Now they're not they're not being married to Jesus. You have to make distinctions. You have to make distinctions between different groups and different time periods. You have the old testament saints. The old testament saints were held in a place where we see in Luke 16 where the rich man and Lazarus were. Abraham's bosom. They couldn't even be in their resurrected bodies until after Jesus resurrected. So the rich man was in a place of grievous torment and Hades, Sheol, a double compartment of the center of the earth. But there was a place that Jesus told the thief on the cross this day will be with me in paradise. In Ephesians four, he that ascended first descended in the lower parts of the earth, he emptied that compartment out. Those are the old testament saints. And then you have new testament saints who are who who is the church, a distinction from the time of Pentecost to the present, the church age, if you will, this dispensation. What group is after the church age? You have a group called the tribulation saints. Revelation six and seven, innumerable multitude of people beneath the throne of God who refused the mark of the beast. Are you refusing? Are you getting ready? Are you being conditioned to receive the mark of the beast? Is the world being conditioned to receive the central bank digital currency of fulfillment of Revelation 13, you know, eighteen sixteen through 18 where no man's gonna be able to buy or sell without a marketer's right hand or his forehead. Are you gonna take the mark? You're allow him to chip you? And, I don't I don't, I don't care if you wear a mask. Mask isn't gonna send you to hell. I I don't wanna give into compliance. So if if I have to if I'm electing, and I know it's a lie, I'm not gonna do it. But as I've talked to many of you, I wouldn't die on that hill at work, you know, wouldn't give up your job for, you know, not wearing the mask. If they do sue you, then, excuse me, fire you from your job or whatever, you know, you gotta sue them and you've gotta you've gotta go for it against them. You can't just passively give in. But, I'll walk away from a restaurant because I'm not gonna wear the mask. I'll walk away from the gym because I'm not gonna wear a But you, if you need a medical procedure or at work or whatever you have to wear that mask, wear the mask. I don't care. I mean, you're you're giving in. You're compliance. They're teaching you compliance. If you can tell them no and get away with it, fine, but determine what hill you wanna die on. Bring the literature in. Be be a student. Be ready to let them know that that, these masks hurt people, that they make you sick. They make you sicker. You get all sorts of respiratory problems and they don't they don't do what you're telling them to do. It's a psychological brainwashing, a means of compliance is what it is. But you're awake, you're ready, but by no means would you ever ever ever ever allow them to put something in your body. That's the line in the sand. That's the line, you're not gonna chip me, Bill Gates. We're not gonna do it, Biden. Not gonna happen. Well, I'm gonna sneak it in through the food. I'm already sneaking it in through the food and you don't know it. Well, I'm gonna spray you with it. Stanford University came with a with a air, you know, one one within the air. They can just spray this room and all of you have been you receive. Well, I can't control that. As much as lies within me, I'm gonna do what's right, not violate my conscience and try and resist. If I have to come to church with a gas mask, oh, maybe I'll have to do that then, but but I'm not I'm not gonna give into it. And I'm not gonna eat the Costco meat on the little toothpick that Alan had that was synthetic meat. I mean, they're coming hard. I'm buying more meat. I'm buying more meat, more freezers, more meat all the time. I'm a carnivore. Gotta stay healthy. So there's a whole lot of rebellion in my heart against the evil and against what's going on and we cannot be passive. I would use the word coward. The church that is passive toward this evil is led by pastor cowards and we cannot be cowards. Our children, our grandchildren deserve better. They deserve more. So as much as lies within us, as much as we can, we resist the evil at every turn. And, the early church, 6,000,000 of them died in the first two centuries simply because all they had to do to stay alive and keep their job was to pinch a little incense once a year in a pagan temple and say Caesar is Lord. They would not do that. They wouldn't diminish the glory that was due God's name. And so they're willing to be ostracized, willing to be persecuted know, and wiped out in that way. So you have the tribulation saints. You also have a group called a 144,000, 12,000 from each of the tribes of Israel. You which and then you also have another group of Jews who are the one third that are preserved at the rock city area of Petra, a one third remnant according to Zechariah, you know, thirteen eight nine. You also have some Gentiles in Matthew 25. Jesus is gonna separate the sheep from the goats. All the Jews that enter into the millennium are saved, But the Gentiles that enter in, they too are saved, separated sheep from the goats. The sheep are the Gentiles that make it through the tribulation period without being chipped and somehow they make it through which is a clue for you and I. Because we need to live if this communism that's coming, not the tribulation period, communism. This communism that's trying to envelop the planet envelop China at one point in time and Chiang Kai shek got stabbed in the back by our own government and our government funded Mao. Mao killed 60,000,000 of his own people. So somehow, someway, if we work together and we live according to Matthew chapter six where we seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, all these other things be added unto us. He feeds the birds. He used ravens to feed and bring some meat to Elijah. Right? Carnivore and some bread. That was weird. Some bread too. So if we walk by faith, the Lord is going to provide and I encourage you to watch that Catherine Austin Fitz video that, I posted because, she thinks that we can really stall these guys and slow them down, you know, be in salt and light through prayer and also through our unwillingness to comply to go along with it and to use gardens and networking locally, with our food, bartering, all different ways that we don't embrace the, cashless society. So cash, why do they hate cash? They're gonna demonize cash. Cash is freedom. They don't know what you're buying, what you're doing. Cash is privacy, and cash is king. Right? They wanna get rid of the cash. They wanna have a digital footprint for every single thing you purchase and control, every single thing you do. So we need to be aware that at the end of the tribulation period, we come back with the Lord and he he has the marriage supper of the lamb upon planet Earth here after a seventy five day interval. And, somewhere in there is is the that's the beginning of the millennial rule and reign. And, Jesus in Luke 12 is gonna gird himself. He's gonna be ministering unto you and I, if you can believe that. Zephaniah is gonna be singing and just celebrating as a groom, the blessing of of being with his bride. And and again, only 2% of the present day church studies the rapture. What a beautiful doctrine. What a beautiful beautiful picture of being married to Jesus. That he would arrange ahead of time, that you would be his, that he'd pay the bride price for you, his blood, willing to pay that price that it would take to buy you out of slavery, out of sin, out of death, That he would wash away all your sins in his blood, that he blot out the handwriting of ordinances that was contrary to you and nailing it to his cross. Right? What a wonderful savior. What a wonderful husband, if you will. Husbands, love your wives like Christ loved the church. No woman could resist a man that loves in that way. That's the secret guys. Love her supremely. Love her by laying your life down. Oh, she's supposed to submit. Why don't you submit to Jesus first? Why don't you submit to God? Why don't you give up your life? You give up your life and you see what an easy time she has living in submission to your leadership within the home because she sees that you're in submission to Jesus, and she doesn't fear Jesus. She fears you, but not Jesus. So the marriage ceremony taken to heaven, who knows what's gonna go on there, you know, what he's gonna say, how he's gonna reward you. He's gonna say, well done thou good and faithful servants. You've been faithful over a few things. I'm gonna make you ruler over much, you know. Your your position in the millennium is gonna be predicated based upon your faithfulness now. Simply be faithful to what he's given you to do and he's gonna reward you for your faithfulness. Not what you accomplish, but your faithfulness with what he's called each of us to do. So the gospel reveals the glory of God as seen in his marriage. Secondly, as seen in his Messiah. Verse 26. And so all Israel shall be saved as it is written, there shall come out of Zion the deliverer. Notice the deliverer. And shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. So this is the promised Messiah. In Isaiah fifty nine twenty, he's called their redeemer, the deliverer, the savior, the Christ, the anointed one. And, Jesus asked his disciples, who do men say that I am? Some say you're John the Baptist, some say you're Elijah, some say you're Jeremiah. Who do you say that I am? Thou art the Christ, the son of the living God. Blessed art thou Simon Bar Jonah for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my father who is in heaven has revealed this to you. What can you and I glory in? That God's revealed himself to you and I. Right? That's all we can glory in. I know God because I love him and he first loved me. He revealed himself unto me. Blessed art thou Simon Bar Jonah for flesh and blood. The natural man understands not the things of God neither can he know them. They're spiritually discerned. Eyes not seen nor ear heard neither has it entered into the heart of men the things which God has prepared for them that love him but God has revealed them unto us by his spirit. God is revealing unto you and I what's coming. God's revealing in your heart. He's stirring your heart, letting you know that he's coming, that the best is yet to come. Not your best life now. The best is yet to come. And I say unto you that you are Peter, little stone and upon this rock, this massive rock, I'm gonna build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. And so he's the redeemer, the deliverer, the savior, the Christ, the anointed one. His second coming after the seventieth seven of Daniel is when Jesus is coming after the seventieth seven. And so how do we how do we know this? And his first coming is predicted and second coming Daniel nine twenty four through '25. We're told in Daniel that there'd be sixty nine weeks or weeks of years. 69 times seven is four hundred eighty three years determined of three hundred and sixty days of a Julian calendar would be a hundred and seventy three, eight hundred and eighty days from one event. One event. From the time of the command to go and restore and rebuild Jerusalem, the temple in Jerusalem, to the coming of the Messiah, the prince shall be one hundred and seventy three, eight hundred and eighty days. So when do we know historically? In Nehemiah chapter two verse one, the command went forth from Artaxerxes on March fourteenth four forty five BC that Nehemiah, Ezrael, all of them could go back to Jerusalem after being in bondage in for seventy years in Babylon. They're able to go back to Jerusalem and begin the building of the walls and the rebuilding of the temple, The temple Zerubbabel's temple, second temple period. And so so this command went forth on March fourteenth four forty five BC. And four hundred and eighty three years later, a hundred and seventy three, eight hundred and eighty days later, on April six thirty two AD, these numbers are sir Robert Anderson, far more brilliant than me. He's the one that computed this years ago. And Jesus walked into Jerusalem, and they're crying out, Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna, save now, save now. This is his fulfillment of Zechariah that he'd be riding on a donkey. He's riding on this donkey. He's coming in. The people are shouting, Hosanna, Hosanna quoting Psalm a 110, Psalm a 118. Save now, save now is what Hosanna means. And they're laying palm, Palm Sunday laying palm branches down receiving him as the Messiah. The religious leaders, stop these people. Stop them from what they're saying, you know, they're they're worshiping you in that way. And, and he says, if they refrain, if they don't worship, the rocks are gonna cry out. The very rocks would cry out. Within four days, these same people are shouting out, crucify him, crucify him. Let his blood be upon us and upon our children. The nation had officially rejected the Messiah, the deliverer. So in Isaiah chapter nine here, it says that Messiah would be cut off and that he'd be rejected. He came onto his own, his own received him not and, they did not receive him. He was in the world. The world was made by him. The world knew him not. And so in John one, and so in Daniel nine twenty six, messiah is cut off and, Jesus said in Luke nineteen forty two, if thou had known even thou nation of Israel, at least in this thy day, this very day, the things that belong under your peace, but now they are hid from your eyes. So this blindness in part has happened unto them. They they couldn't see. They couldn't see the fulfillment of the prophecies. They weren't in the 2% of those who study prophecy and went over their head. You don't wanna be in that 98% that aren't students of prophecy. You wanna be a student of prophecy. You wanna be like Simeon, you know, and and Anna who are there in the temple waiting for the redeemer, waiting for the messiah to come. They knew the prophesied messiah was coming. And they're they're in the temple, heard from a very young age, her husband died and you know, whole life long just waiting for the messiah of Israel to come. Are you the one? Should we look for another? You know? And praise the Lord that all throughout history, God's always had his remnant. He's always had that 2% of people that are watching, that are waiting. But Daniel nine twenty six, he's cut off. If people went but in students of prophecy that understood that the back would be plowed, that his beard in Isaiah 50 would be pulled out, that in Isaiah 53, fifty two and fifty three, his visage, his face was so marred more than any man, more than the sons of men. And that he would be beaten beyond the recognition of a man. That he'd be crucified in Psalm 22 also. And, they could've they could've seen this as as students of prophecy. Verse 27. For this is my covenant under them when I shall take away their sins. Not just cover their sins. The day of Yom Kippur is a covering of sin. The Kaphar just covers sin. The great day of atonement of at onement of reconciliation with the nation. But Jesus is the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. No longer covering, no need of covering it and year by year the priesthood. We have a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. And and so Jesus spoke of before, after this cutting off that there'd be a point in time in Matthew 24 verse 15 that when the temple is rebuilt and the antichrist goes into that temple and declares himself to be god, demands to be worshiped as god, that that would be at the midpoint of the tribulation period. And, twelve hundred and sixty days thereafter, the lord Jesus is going to return after that. Twelve sixty into it, the antichrist is gonna go into that temple, declare himself to be God, demand to be worshiped as God. And Jesus described it as Daniel did, the abomination that makes desolation. And so on Isaiah forty three twenty five, I even I am he that blotted out thy transgression for mine own sake and will not remember thy sins. Verse 28, as concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's sake. And so that of election. When you look at Matthew 24, be very careful to make distinctions again because the preterist and a lot of the post tribbers and stuff, they don't make distinctions between the saints. Remember when I took you through Old Testament saints? I took you through the church saints. I took you through tribulation saints. Those are distinctions. Very important to make those distinctions. They're saints in a general way, but in this epoch of time, this dispensation of time, the Lord's dealing with the church in a in a particular way, an administration of grace, the the time of God's grace being poured out. When the fullness of the Gentiles be come in, there's another period or dispensation of time. It's called the tribulation period. Seventy seven of Daniel, the final seven year period in dealing with humanity and dealing with the nation of Israel. It's a time of Jacob's trouble, a time of purifying the nation of Israel and for the nation of Israel to enter into all that the Lord has has given. So in Matthew chapter 24 when he uses the word elect, there's gonna be great tribulation. And he says, except those days be short, no flesh should be saved. But for the elect's sake, the Lord Jesus intervenes to save the nation of Israel, lest everybody upon the planet be wiped out including the elect. Also in Matthew 24 verse 24, he said if it were possible that they could deceive the very elect, these these false prophets, if you will, during that time, if it were possible, but the Lord's not gonna allow that to happen. And and so also he talks about how he's going to send the angels in Matthew 24 verse 30 to gather his elect at the end of the tribulation period from the four quarters, you know, of the earth. And so that of election. Elect, they are for the father's sake, so his elect. Then shall appear the sign of the son of man in heaven, then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn and they shall see the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven. So this is second coming. Everyone's gonna see, every eye is gonna see Jesus coming. We're gonna be coming with him with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of the trumpet and they shall gather together his elect, Matthew 24 verse 30, from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other. And so the elect, remember, it's not you and me there, it's the nation of Israel. Verse 29, for the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance, so God's not changing his mind. He keeps his promises. You see again as we get to Jeremiah 31, his unconditional promise that he's making the nation of Israel to bring them place of being born again. You and I being confident of this very thing that he that has begun a good work in you, that he's gonna perform it. God is not gonna throw you aside as a piece of trash and say I'm tired of this. You're too obstinate. You're too whatever. He's gonna complete the work that he's begun in you and I. He's gonna perfect you and I. And so when we see him, we're gonna know even as we are known and that we're gonna have our new glorified bodies and overcome this old sinful nature. So the gospel reveals the glory of God as seen in number one is marriage, number two, his Messiah. And number three, his mercy. Verse 30. For as you in times past have not believed God, so the Gentiles, you guys in the past didn't believe God, yet have now obtained mercy. So mercy is not getting what you deserve. You deserve judgment but you're getting mercy. So I'm not gonna give you what you deserve. I'm gonna be merciful to you. In fact, I'm be gracious to you. I'm gonna give you unmerited favor through their unbelief. Because of his mercies, we become his bride. Verse 31. Even so have these also now not believe that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. So you and I are able to provoke them to jealousy as they see during this church age so many of us celebrating Christmas, the Messiah, celebrating Easter, his resurrection, celebrating the rapture, the soon return, and we we rejoice with the nation of Israel fully recognizing that God according to Genesis twelve one two three is gonna bless those that bless Israel, curse those that curse Israel. So we are totally favorable toward the nation of Israel because our savior is a Jew. Our king of kings and lord of lords is a Jew and you and I've been as we saw last week, we've been grafted in, you know, to the true vine. So there's nothing really special about us except in this dispensation. He decided to to save us. Verse 32, for God has concluded them all in unbelief that he might have mercy upon all. So there you are in Romans three twenty three. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. All means all. So if everyone's guilty, what? Then God can be merciful. God can be gracious. Salvation is a free gift. If you could earn it, if you'd be good enough, then there'd be boasting. There's no boasting, is there? Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches, but let him that glories glory in this that he understands and knows me. How'd you get to know him? He revealed himself to you. So there's no there's no boasting in you, you know, doing it or working it or thinking it. He put those thoughts within your heart. Everything is from him. All the glory is due unto him, not us. And so all have sinned and come sure of the glory of God. None righteous, no not one. Psalm 103 verse 10, he has not dealt with us after our sins nor awarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. So if you're being condemned by anybody, if you're sensing condemnation that's not coming from the Lord, that's not coming from God, That's not the voice of God. When I hear people demonizing somebody, when people have demonized Cathy and I and us and say, oh, they're just evil. I know that's not God speaking through them. That's not God. That's that's that's the accuser of the brethren in Revelation 12. That's the devil who's trying to condemn and get people to quit, get people to be discouraged and say, you know, I'm out of here. I don't have to take this anymore. That sort of thing, you know. It's very unloving, unkind, but, you know, it's never been my experience in Kitsap County over twenty eight years, it's never been the world. I won't say never. To to some degree, the state when we got our daycare shut down, definitely an attack from the world. But, but the the church became sick. There was a sickness that developed in the church, and that sickness was a spiritual sickness. It was a spiritual problem just like in America. The problem's not a political problem. The problem's a sickness. It's a spiritual sickness. And we can quench the holy spirit. We grieve the holy spirit when we when we, you know, when we walk in in sin, in practicing of sin. And if we don't love one another, we quench the holy spirit. It's real simple. Love one another. You love one another, the holy spirit's tickled, holy spirit's excited, and the holy spirit wants to pour out more and more of his spirit upon us and bless us in greater and greater greater ways. And so I saw where in that sickness, there were people that saw that as their mission to try and, you know, destroy the church, destroy the work that was going on. And it was so incongruous. It was so strange. It was like, who am I dealing with? Who are my enemies? Who what's going on here? You know? And I'm so thankful that those years, those lessons, those things are behind me. But Jesus warned us that people in our own family would be our enemies. Homeland security is funding snitches. That if you hear pastor Rick say something that's contrary to the Biden, contrary to the new world order, you snitch on them, you know, and they're gonna pay people like the Nazis did, you know, like the communist did, to turn people in. They're gonna turn their doctor in. They're gonna turn in, you know, whoever to try and get your doctor's license revoked and lose your job and and all those sorts of things, kind of pressures and leverage and stuff to try and silence us. They're afraid of the truth, aren't they? That's why you have to have fact checkers because they're afraid of the truth. Right? They don't like the truth. But I love it. I love it the way you guys are posting truth. This past week, ton of you were posting truth about nine eleven. There's still a ton of so called Christian ministries that believe the official story of nine eleven. If you don't understand the nine eleven, then, you know, you're still in the dark. You still don't know the devil's playbook and understand what's at stake here. But once that light bulb goes on and you realize your own government did that to you, now things start to make sense from the standpoint of of, fool me once, you know. Shame on me or whatever how that goes, but not a second time. So it's it's there's that cognitive dissonance that had been in denial of acting like Pollyanna, that everything's so great, and that's where we wanna be because ignorance is bliss. But when your comfort zone is invaded, when the hedge of protection is taken down, the Lord shows you clearly that Building 7 fell at 05:40 in the evening without any airplanes hidden it. How did that happen? A controlled demolition is how it happened. Now you may not wanna go there because how could my own government and that's where you're gonna be. You're gonna go find a church that doesn't talk about these things that try and evade the truth. But you guys, the gloves are off. It used to be I couldn't talk about president Trump. You guys would like this if I said anything about him. You know? He's like, grind your teeth. You know? He's the messiah. Why are you talking like that about him? You know? Well, the other day, he he, you know, he may not agree with the changing of people's, you know, gender as children, but he wants the adults to make their own choice. Well, you can't have it both ways, bro. You're have to make a decision. You can't promote the warp speed jab and then act like nobody should wear a mask and not be jabbed now. You gotta go back to where you started, where you were where you were influential as a salesman trying to convince everybody that this was a gift from God, and you need to cite, you need to reveal the amount of people that have died from these jabs. But he's gonna win by a landslide. Why? Because people have no hope. They have nobody else they can hope in. So it's called the Judah sheep. You evangelicals are gonna be sucked in to following this Judah sheep, and he's gonna lead you to the central bank digital currency. He's gonna sell you of an ID so that we don't have fraudulent elections anymore, so that we don't have, you know, health problems anymore. Everyone will have an ID. All of your medical stuff will be on that ID and we don't have that ugly dirty cash anymore. We're gonna have a central bank digital currency and you're all gonna get $15,000 put in your fed account. We're gonna incentivize you and move you into the cities. He's gonna be the salesman if he's elected. That's the only way they'll allow him to deceive the evangelicals. They they they say it's like this. It's like a tea kettle, and they get it all hot. You get angry at the Bidens, and you get angry at all them, and you're about ready to go insane. And Claus Schwab is saying, you people don't understand. You know, your servitude's gonna be a good thing for you. Why are you starting to fight us? Why are you fighting us? And and and then they turn the kettle down a little bit before you blow. And then they pick it back up again, you know, at another point in time. And so don't think they're done with us. They're they're not. And so before you blow and you go crazy, they're gonna put out a a fake one to calm you all down, but he's gonna take you to the same zone. He's gonna take you to the same place which is globalism. That's where they're all going. It's globalism, and the bible prophesies it. And so don't be deceived. So not by works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the holy ghost. Titus three verse five. To God be the glory forever, his mercies are new every morning. And so the gospel reveals the glory of God is seen in the his marriage, his Messiah, his mercy, and fourthly and finally, his matchless wisdom. Verse 33. Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable are his judgment and his ways past finding out. You guys that are out there, you gals that are out there, are you a fixer? You Do like to fix the problems, like to analyze and figure out what's wrong. How can we fix this? How can we fix America? It's a spiritual problem. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteous, all these other things will be added unto us. That's that's how you fix it. How are you gonna get people to do it though? That's the hard part. That's really difficult to get people want to repent and turn on to God. The city of Nineveh did. From the king on down, they all repented sackcloth and ashes and God repented the evil that gave him a reprieve of a little over a hundred years. Are we worthy of that? If there's 50 righteous, Abraham prayed to God. If there's 45, there's 40. If there's 35, there's 30. If there's 10 righteous, will you not judge? Will you not pour out your wrath? Weren't even 10 righteous, was there? But before the judgment came, the Lord what? The Lord delivered and just Lot. Before the wrath is poured out upon this planet, God's gonna deliver you and I in the rapture of the church, isn't he? And so we see his matchless wisdom. You know? How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out? Man, I'm always trying to figure things out. I'm always trying to fix it. I'm always trying to pray in such a way that I direct God. I used to pray this one. I used to mock him, and I I'm not proud of it. But we had millions of dollars of equity, and we were losing everything. And I would I would gather on Sunday nights and worship and prayer, and I would I wouldn't mock so much with other people around, but I'm gonna open up to you in my private time. I reached the point where I was like, just sell a building. Read my lips, God. Sell a building, you know, because there was so much equity. It's the way everybody does it. Right? But nothing would sell. So I'm trying to figure this out, save the house, save this, save that, and I can't get anything done. And so the Lord taught me. He answered my prayer. He said, no. You let go. My grace is sufficient for you for my strength's perfected in weakness. So we had to learn to let go. You're gonna have to learn to let go. We're gonna have to all of us be letting go of things that own us, things that move us in a direction. So I thought I thought, man, hey, I'm I'm I'm in the zone, man. I'm working for God. There's no way the Lord will remove the hedge of protection and take us down, Woody. That's I've never heard of that happening before. And so there was a great deal of difficulty in trying to understand the things of God and what he was doing, and his ways aren't our ways. They're past finding out. I still don't know. Christie might be trying to explain to somebody new in the church, hey. What happened when you're down there? And I told her, I said, don't even try it. There's no way they can understand. And quite frankly, I still don't understand. You know? I just have to walk by faith. I have to continue to walk by faith. So his salvation, who would know? In first Peter one verse 12, the angels desire to look into it. The angels are blown away at God's plan of salvation. It so blows their mind to watch Lucifer in Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28, usurp authority against God and try to do a coup against God. And for one third of the stars in Revelation 12 are cast out of heaven, one third of the angels fell with Lucifer. And so now they're watching human beings who are vile and wicked people and he's got a plan of salvation. He's got a way to say there's no plan of salvation for angels, but he's got a plan of salvation for these human beings who are fashioned from the dust of the ground who are lower beings than the angels. And not only that, but his son would go back not as an angel, a higher being, but a lower low life as a son of man. He would take on the form of a man, the god man, and he would allow himself to be crucified, buried, and then raise himself from the dead. He'd actually allow his creation to abuse him in this way. Oh, the depth of the riches, both the wisdom and, you know, majesty of God. I mean, it's insane. Who could come up with these angels are blown away in first Peter one verse 12. He says, let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord. Isaiah 55 verse seven. And he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts neither are your ways my way saith the Lord for as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. And so his matchless wisdom. Who can know the mind of God? Now, I look at Revelation seventeen seventeen, you a student of prophecy. That's a verse that you wanna go to over and over and over again to try and understand what's happening now. The Lord is putting in the globalist hearts what he wants them to do. God is using them to set the stage for the return of Jesus Christ. He's setting a trap. God is setting a trap. We're at the end of the church age. We're getting ready for the tribulation period, the earth dwellers. You and I are earth dwellers. Our citizenship is in heaven. The Lord's coming for us his bride, but he's setting the stage for the antichrist, the beast system, the economic system, the food, the famines, the pestilence, all the the stage is being set. These guys are insane wanting to cut down all the trees and bury them. They're absolutely insane with the Maui massacre. They're smart city. God is allowing these guys to get away with this. We're always saying, when is one gonna be arrested? God's allowing them because God has something greater, something bigger that he's gonna do, which is he's gonna return. We wanna fix it. We wanna stay here longer. We want a better place for our grandkids, but God says, no. The shelf life is up. Put a fork in it. It's over. It's time for my son to return. And you know what? If his reason for returning is nothing more than to stop these guys from their adrenachrome and their pedophilia and praying upon little children, come quickly, Lord Jesus. Amen. We don't seem to be able to stop it, do we? It's escalating. It's growing. It's becoming more and more dangerous to be a be a child, you know, in this world in which we we live. Verse 34, for who has known the mind of the Lord or who has been his counselor? Man, I try to counsel God all the time. Like I said, Lord, just do it this way. Lord, I I gotta figure it out, man. I gotta figure it out, Lord. This is real easy. Real easy. Easy peasy, Lord. Easy peasy. Here's step one. Here, I'll I'll talk slower. I'll talk slower. Do do you get it? Yeah. And I'm so irreverent, you know? So prayer. What is prayer for? What's the purpose of prayer? To get my will done or God's will done? For me to come into conformity with God's will? So let's pray this. Our father, go ahead. Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. Right? I'm not carrying the burden anymore. I just gave it to him. He's gone and I'm not. Right? Thy will be done. Praise the Lord. Verse 35, or who has first given to him and it shall be reckons to him again. Do you try to make god your debtor? You try to give to him and he's gonna give back to you. Isn't that how the faith guys on the Christian stations do it? Seed given, man. Seed given, give. You'll get back. You give. You you're overflowing. You'll you'll get more. You know? They try every manipulative means of getting money out of people. But, you know, how are you gonna make God your debtor? Really? God, you owe me. You owe me, God. Really? It says to for of him and through him and to him are all things. Everything you have has come from him. Even your ability to work, even your ability to think, everything has come from him. So how is he your debtor? And how would you pay for your sins if it wasn't for his son's blood, his price of redemption to redeem you? So for him, it's all for him, It's all through him. It's to him are all things. It's all about him. The volume of the book is written of Jesus. History is his story. It's all about the son. It's all about Jesus Christ. It's not about you and I. It's about him. So eyes off of myself, my eyes on him, Lord, how can I glorify you? Lord, here am I, Lord. Use me. Lord, you want me poor? Okay. I'll be poor. Lord, you you want me sickly? Okay. You're sovereign. I'll be sickly. What do you want, Lord? Your will be done, not my will, but thy will be done as we surrender unto him. And yet somehow we got it back that we can order God, manipulate God, in debt God. We can bounce him around. We can rub him like a genie and get our three wishes and things like that. I mean, that's a lot of work. You're working it, man. Just walk in love. Let it be a love relationship. To God be the glory forever. Great things he has done in revealing himself unto us through how? Through the gospel. In first Timothy one seventeen, now under the king eternal and mortal invisible, the only wise god, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. Post tribulation rapture, preterist, not teaching prophecy diminishes the glory that's due God's name. We're living in a time where we can be students of prophecy, we can be watching, we can be looking for the Lord Jesus to return in his glory for you and I, and then to come back with him when he comes in his glory to destroy the antichrist to set up his kingdom and unite rule and reign with him. I mean, is that doom and gloom unless you're in love with this world? If you're in love with this world and you don't want it to end and you don't wanna hear about prophecy and the soon return of Jesus and the globalists and all the stage being set for God to judge, then you know what? You're you're gonna agonize in the arm of the flesh. You're gonna be a person that's very, very unhappy. There's no joy. But if you're with those that have let go, and you're looking and you're watching for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and savior, man, you're set free. You're free. Coming to church is to worship him. It's to worship him and to be encouraged and to be built up and strengthened and to become aware of just how close we are. How close we are to the soon return of Jesus. Who wouldn't want the Lord Jesus to return? That's ludicrous. It's crazy to be a Christian and say, oh, Lord, just wait a little while. I wanna I wanna get married. You just If you could go back there, would you say come now? Come quick? Well, lord, wait a little. I want some kids. Are they teenagers yet? Really? You want some kids? I mean, is there anything as good as what he has planned for us, you know? And so 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 to the Gentile. For therein is the rights of God revealed from faith to faith as it is written, the just shall live by faith. Are you gonna continue to live by faith? The emphasis in Romans on justification, the emphasis in the church of Galatia, the just shall live by faith. They were they were falling away and they were trying to avoid persecution. They were, mixing the law with grace. And then to the church of the Hebrew believers, the just shall live by faith. They were trying to avoid persecution. They're falling back into Judaism. So, you know, I alright. I'll wear the mask. I'll live under the radar. I'm a Christian, but a secret agent Christian, and the Jews won't persecute me if I look like a Jew and live like a Jew and all. I won't eat any, you know, any pig. I won't have any bacon, you know, stuff like that. And and so the writer's letting them know that, no, that's a falling away. Don't fall away. The just shall live. The emphasis in Romans on the just, in Galatians on shall live, and the emphasis in Hebrews by faith by faith by faith, chapter 11. Without faith, it's impossible to please God. For they that come to him must believe that he is and that he's a rewarder of those who diligently seek him. Are you seeking him for his glory? Is that why you're seeking him? Is that why you wanna know him? You wanna bring glory and honor unto him? To him be glory and honor forever and ever and ever. Amen. Let's pray. Father, thank you. Thank you for the simplicity, Lord. It's just so simple. It's about you. It's not about me, not about us. It's about you. And Lord, when we get out of the way, when we surrender and we realize that you wanna live your life through us, that we're dead men walking, Lord is so much easier. There's such a greater peace, such a greater joy and blessing to allow you to live through us, Lord. As I'm crucified with Christ, nevertheless, I live, yeah not I, but Christ live within me. And the life that I now live, I live by the faith of the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. Thank you, Lord. I don't have to do it. I don't have to fix all the world's problems. I can look up knowing my redemption draws nigh. I can surrender to your sovereignty, to your desire to come for us and preparing a place for us. Lord, we're watching even so come quickly, Lord Jesus. And if you're here this morning and you're that person that's holding out on all of us, We're waiting for the fullness of the Gentiles to be come in. Quit holding out. Give in now. We're ready to go. Give it up. Quit fighting God. If that's you, if you don't know Jesus as your Lord and Savior, and he's working on your heart, and he's revealing himself unto you, and he's telling you how much he loves you, and that his son died in your place, and the blood of his son has washed away all your sins, past, present, and future, and there's now therefore no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus, but you're not in Christ Jesus yet. You need to be, you need to get into the boat. Get in. Get in Christ. He's the groom, you're the bride. He wants he wants you to be drawn to an intimate rich relationship with himself on the spiritual level that nothing else on the human level can compare. The bride of Christ. If that's you this morning and Jesus is asking you, will you marry me? Will you marry him? Will you say yes? Just lift your hand up. Anyone here this morning? Come on, man. Father, thank you. Thank you, Lord. Thank you for saving us. Thank you that we're sealed. We have the seal of the Holy Spirit upon us. Nobody can snatch us out of your hand. Lord, you're gonna play for keeps. You never fail. Thank you, Lord, that it's not our job. It's not our responsibility to fix everything and carry that load and that burden of all the wickedness that's happening. Lord, you're the only one that could subdue them. You're the only one that could stop the wicked one as we fight not against flesh and blood, but against spirits and principalities of the air. Greater is he that's in us than he that's in the world. Since you're for us, who can be against us? Lord, we're more than conquerors through him that loved us. Help us to not walk in defeat, but to walk in the victory that's already ours, Lord. Enjoying so great a salvation, enjoying it right now. As we relinquish control, as we set aside that desire to be in control, as we surrender to you in your sovereignty. Even so come quickly, Lord Jesus. 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.

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