1 00:00:32,500 --> 00:00:33,140 Well, shalom. 2 00:00:33,140 --> 00:00:33,700 Shalom. 3 00:00:35,060 --> 00:00:36,820 Hey, I got more shaloms this time. 4 00:00:40,580 --> 00:00:44,460 It's a joy to be back, and hopefully we can be a blessing to 5 00:00:44,460 --> 00:00:44,740 you. 6 00:00:44,740 --> 00:00:49,620 And hopefully it was a blessing this morning. 7 00:00:50,820 --> 00:00:52,860 We've enjoyed talking to some of y'. 8 00:00:52,860 --> 00:00:52,980 All. 9 00:00:52,980 --> 00:00:56,910 Some of y' all got the books and material, and so we appreciate 10 00:00:56,910 --> 00:00:57,190 that. 11 00:00:57,190 --> 00:00:59,630 That's always encouragement to me. 12 00:01:00,110 --> 00:01:02,190 It tells me that it had an impact. 13 00:01:04,030 --> 00:01:05,390 You might turn to Titus. 14 00:01:05,390 --> 00:01:09,230 We're going to get there, but I want to do something first. 15 00:01:10,030 --> 00:01:17,910 I like to talk about something close to my heart is always dealing 16 00:01:17,910 --> 00:01:18,910 with Israel. 17 00:01:19,950 --> 00:01:26,410 And there's what is called the Abrahamic Covenant, and it's a very 18 00:01:26,410 --> 00:01:31,770 famous Statement, Genesis chapter 12, and you may know it. 19 00:01:31,930 --> 00:01:36,090 I love to hear people quote it because they always misquote it. 20 00:01:38,890 --> 00:01:43,210 And let me start it there in the Abrahamic Covenant, where it 21 00:01:43,210 --> 00:01:45,650 says in verse two, and I will make thee a great nation. 22 00:01:45,650 --> 00:01:47,490 This is Genesis 12. 23 00:01:47,490 --> 00:01:50,900 Two, I will bless thee and make thy name great, and thou shalt 24 00:01:50,900 --> 00:01:51,580 be a blessing. 25 00:01:51,980 --> 00:01:57,020 And says, I will bless them that bless thee. 26 00:01:57,980 --> 00:01:59,660 And can you quote the rest of it? 27 00:02:02,140 --> 00:02:03,620 Curse them that curse thee. 28 00:02:03,620 --> 00:02:03,900 Right. 29 00:02:05,340 --> 00:02:06,460 You all flunk. 30 00:02:08,140 --> 00:02:10,180 Because it doesn't say curse them. 31 00:02:10,180 --> 00:02:12,060 It says curse him. 32 00:02:15,030 --> 00:02:15,270 Personal. 33 00:02:17,030 --> 00:02:23,110 It's personal, but you notice it's got the word curse twice there, 34 00:02:23,910 --> 00:02:25,990 but it's two different Hebrew words. 35 00:02:27,190 --> 00:02:35,630 The first one about curse him is the same word used when speaking 36 00:02:35,630 --> 00:02:41,039 of what the snake did, where God cursed him to crawl on its belly. 37 00:02:42,399 --> 00:02:48,239 And so this is a covenant curse to nations, to groups of people 38 00:02:49,039 --> 00:02:53,559 that have want to destroy the Jewish people. 39 00:02:53,559 --> 00:02:55,039 There's a covenant of curse. 40 00:02:56,639 --> 00:03:02,319 But then the second part is curse him that curses thee. 41 00:03:03,439 --> 00:03:09,090 That curse is someone who takes Israel lightly and looks at 42 00:03:09,090 --> 00:03:11,290 Israel and just says, well, it's no big deal. 43 00:03:11,690 --> 00:03:13,450 They're just another people's group. 44 00:03:13,610 --> 00:03:17,290 They're just a not very good people. 45 00:03:17,930 --> 00:03:21,049 I've had people tell me that Jews are terrible or that they had 46 00:03:21,049 --> 00:03:22,010 some relationship. 47 00:03:22,730 --> 00:03:26,490 And so this understanding of God said earlier, I'll bless them. 48 00:03:26,490 --> 00:03:27,930 How many want God's blessings? 49 00:03:28,810 --> 00:03:32,390 God promised a special blessing, the Jewish people. 50 00:03:33,590 --> 00:03:36,430 And what's the greatest blessing can we give the Jewish people 51 00:03:36,430 --> 00:03:38,470 but the gospel? 52 00:03:39,190 --> 00:03:41,350 And who else has been authorized? 53 00:03:42,230 --> 00:03:46,230 Who else has been commissioned but you in this church? 54 00:03:47,109 --> 00:03:49,750 Now, some of y' all raised your hand, said you knew Jewish people, 55 00:03:49,750 --> 00:03:52,990 and I'd ask you to write it down a piece of paper and hand it 56 00:03:52,990 --> 00:03:53,270 in. 57 00:03:53,350 --> 00:03:53,990 Some did. 58 00:03:54,070 --> 00:03:54,870 Some didn't. 59 00:03:55,270 --> 00:03:56,470 Let me encourage you. 60 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:01,240 We need to pray for people, Jewish people, hear the gospel and 61 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:02,960 prayer for you to be that witness. 62 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:07,560 We have a tract booklet on our table called God's Greatest Promise 63 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:08,240 to Israel. 64 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:12,400 And if you hand me a tract booklet, I'll give it to you. 65 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:20,720 For I have a hard time saying this word for a free. 66 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:21,600 Free. 67 00:04:22,570 --> 00:04:26,090 I don't like saying that too often I lose my street creds as a 68 00:04:26,090 --> 00:04:26,410 Jew. 69 00:04:29,370 --> 00:04:33,570 Now my prayer card's on the table for free as well, but nothing 70 00:04:33,570 --> 00:04:34,090 else is. 71 00:04:34,330 --> 00:04:37,450 Everything else you can purchase if you like, but the tract 72 00:04:37,450 --> 00:04:37,850 booklet. 73 00:04:37,850 --> 00:04:40,170 And we'll give you as many as you'll use. 74 00:04:41,770 --> 00:04:46,170 And so we've got to get our churches to get a vision and burden 75 00:04:46,570 --> 00:04:48,650 to reach their Jewish friends in their community. 76 00:04:49,730 --> 00:04:53,450 And so that blessings when you'd say, no, I don't need to give 77 00:04:53,450 --> 00:04:55,690 the gospel to the Jews, basically saying, well, I hope they 78 00:04:55,690 --> 00:04:56,690 die and go to hell. 79 00:04:56,690 --> 00:05:00,930 So I want to encourage you to have that burden for Jewish people. 80 00:05:01,570 --> 00:05:05,410 And I could list the names of the famous Jewish people of yesterday 81 00:05:05,410 --> 00:05:07,410 years who became great evangelists. 82 00:05:07,410 --> 00:05:13,010 Hyman Appleman, Sanford Mills, Dr. Cohen, Garden House. 83 00:05:13,730 --> 00:05:18,000 And I'm in that same group this one respect. 84 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,320 They were great Jewish evangelists. 85 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:24,480 I'm not there, but I have a small connection that they had. 86 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:29,280 We were all led to the Lord by a Gentile. 87 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:33,200 God used the Gentile to do it. 88 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:37,120 So let me encourage you that as my sermon number one gets through 89 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:41,700 and we go to sermon number two where it Titus chapter two and. 90 00:05:41,770 --> 00:05:45,570 And I have a message I want to give because to me it's what's missing 91 00:05:45,570 --> 00:05:46,730 in our churches today. 92 00:05:47,130 --> 00:05:50,610 It's what we're losing and we're missing it and it's causing 93 00:05:50,610 --> 00:05:51,290 problems. 94 00:05:51,610 --> 00:05:53,250 So we're in Titus chapter 2. 95 00:05:53,250 --> 00:05:54,450 Would you do me a favor again? 96 00:05:54,450 --> 00:05:58,570 Would you stand for the reading of God's word as we go through 97 00:05:58,570 --> 00:05:59,610 sermon number two? 98 00:06:00,010 --> 00:06:02,170 Hopefully it'll be better than sermon number one. 99 00:06:02,650 --> 00:06:03,850 But let's go on. 100 00:06:03,850 --> 00:06:07,370 It says in Titus chapter two, the Bible says, speak of the things 101 00:06:07,610 --> 00:06:07,860 which. 102 00:06:08,010 --> 00:06:09,690 Which become sound. 103 00:06:09,690 --> 00:06:11,050 Ooh, there's that word again. 104 00:06:11,050 --> 00:06:11,770 Doctrine. 105 00:06:13,610 --> 00:06:16,810 Now, the Bible's not totally PC anymore, you do know that. 106 00:06:17,130 --> 00:06:19,050 For it says that the aged men. 107 00:06:19,050 --> 00:06:20,890 We don't like to be called aged men, do we? 108 00:06:21,370 --> 00:06:24,330 We're young elder saints. 109 00:06:25,930 --> 00:06:33,770 That the aged men may be sober, grave, temperate, sound in 110 00:06:33,770 --> 00:06:36,910 faith and charity and patience. 111 00:06:37,390 --> 00:06:38,390 And then verse three. 112 00:06:38,390 --> 00:06:40,070 Well, see it, ladies, the same way with y'. 113 00:06:40,070 --> 00:06:40,270 All. 114 00:06:40,350 --> 00:06:42,990 The aged women likewise. 115 00:06:42,990 --> 00:06:47,550 That they be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, 116 00:06:47,950 --> 00:06:50,750 not given them much wine, teachers of good things. 117 00:06:51,470 --> 00:06:54,870 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their 118 00:06:54,870 --> 00:06:56,590 husband, to love their children. 119 00:06:56,910 --> 00:07:02,390 To be discreet chastity keepers at home, good obedient to 120 00:07:02,390 --> 00:07:06,580 their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. 121 00:07:07,530 --> 00:07:09,410 Young people, you're in there too. 122 00:07:09,410 --> 00:07:15,330 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded in all things, showing 123 00:07:15,330 --> 00:07:20,890 thyself a pattern of good works in doctrine, showing uncorruptness, 124 00:07:21,370 --> 00:07:26,410 gravity, sincerity, like that word, sound speech that cannot be 125 00:07:26,410 --> 00:07:30,970 condemned, that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed 126 00:07:31,130 --> 00:07:35,180 having no evil things say to you, things to say of you. 127 00:07:35,420 --> 00:07:36,380 Look at verse 11. 128 00:07:36,380 --> 00:07:40,660 Now, for the grace that bringeth salvation hath appeared 129 00:07:40,660 --> 00:07:47,020 to all men, teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lust 130 00:07:47,580 --> 00:07:53,660 we should live how soberly, righteously and godly in this present 131 00:07:53,820 --> 00:07:54,220 world. 132 00:07:54,700 --> 00:07:55,100 Why? 133 00:07:55,180 --> 00:07:56,700 Why are we doing all that? 134 00:07:56,780 --> 00:08:00,640 What is our motivation that we are to do these things? 135 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:03,280 The next verse gives us that answer. 136 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:09,080 Looking for that blessed hope that's the rapture and the glorious 137 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:13,120 appearing of the great God and our Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave 138 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:18,160 himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify 139 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:18,960 himself. 140 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,840 A peculiar people zealous of good works. 141 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:23,360 Let's pray. 142 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:26,410 Our gracious heavenly Father, thank you again for this opportunity 143 00:08:26,410 --> 00:08:27,130 and privilege. 144 00:08:27,370 --> 00:08:29,530 Lord, impact the people this evening. 145 00:08:29,610 --> 00:08:33,170 May they see the importance of what we're saying, that the importance 146 00:08:33,170 --> 00:08:38,330 of what we're doing, that our motivation that is on a 24 period, 147 00:08:38,490 --> 00:08:40,890 seven days a week, always should be on our mind. 148 00:08:41,050 --> 00:08:44,730 That will motivate us to do what needs to be done, impact us. 149 00:08:44,730 --> 00:08:47,210 Now, in Jesus name I pray and with thanksgiving. 150 00:08:47,290 --> 00:08:47,810 Amen. 151 00:08:47,810 --> 00:08:48,650 You may be seated. 152 00:08:51,780 --> 00:08:53,060 What is your motivation? 153 00:08:55,380 --> 00:08:56,500 Sometimes it's interesting. 154 00:08:56,660 --> 00:09:00,180 I'm at churches all the time and not all the time when I'm preaching. 155 00:09:00,180 --> 00:09:05,340 But there's always someone that you see are sleeping, falling 156 00:09:05,340 --> 00:09:05,700 asleep. 157 00:09:05,700 --> 00:09:08,180 They're not motivated, they're tired. 158 00:09:08,180 --> 00:09:12,340 And the old joke that if everybody fell asleep in church service 159 00:09:12,500 --> 00:09:16,180 and you put them end to end in front of the church, they'd be all 160 00:09:16,180 --> 00:09:18,680 more comfortable than sitting on their chair. 161 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,680 But what is your motivation of what you're supposed to. 162 00:09:22,680 --> 00:09:24,520 What you're doing on a daily basis? 163 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:29,960 The key statements aged men, aged women, young women, young men. 164 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:35,280 Now the question is, what will cause or motivate us to want to be 165 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:37,000 obedient to the word of God? 166 00:09:37,560 --> 00:09:41,480 The purpose of this message is to motivate us, to encourage us, 167 00:09:41,560 --> 00:09:43,720 to exhort our service to the Lord. 168 00:09:44,610 --> 00:09:48,210 I don't want to give you the title yet because I like to hold 169 00:09:48,210 --> 00:09:51,210 it back on this particular message because when you hear it, 170 00:09:51,210 --> 00:09:52,930 most people go, oh, Yeah, I know that. 171 00:09:53,570 --> 00:09:58,050 And I want you to build up to the title the purpose of prophecy. 172 00:09:58,050 --> 00:10:00,289 We're waiting for that shout to meet him in the air. 173 00:10:00,290 --> 00:10:02,370 It's the urgency of the time. 174 00:10:03,330 --> 00:10:05,130 That's the purpose of prophecy. 175 00:10:05,130 --> 00:10:08,450 It's to motivate you to do something for the cause of Christ. 176 00:10:09,980 --> 00:10:11,660 What are you doing for the cause of Christ? 177 00:10:12,540 --> 00:10:20,620 Years ago, back in bc, that's before children, my wife and I were 178 00:10:20,620 --> 00:10:21,900 looking for a stereo. 179 00:10:22,700 --> 00:10:23,620 We're kind of old. 180 00:10:23,620 --> 00:10:28,860 It's one of those quadraphonic stereos about 4 or 5 foot high, 3 181 00:10:28,860 --> 00:10:34,660 foot wide, had a stereo, a quad, a record player and we got 182 00:10:34,660 --> 00:10:38,590 the upgraded cassette which was high dollar back then. 183 00:10:40,110 --> 00:10:42,550 Young kids, if you don't know what a cassette is, just talk to 184 00:10:42,550 --> 00:10:43,710 mom and dad, they'll tell you. 185 00:10:44,190 --> 00:10:47,150 And we were looking for one and we've been saving for one. 186 00:10:47,150 --> 00:10:50,390 We were just been married a year or so and so we went to our 187 00:10:50,390 --> 00:10:55,630 favorite place, Sears, to look at one and there it was, the stereo 188 00:10:55,630 --> 00:10:57,790 of our dreams, what we've been looking for. 189 00:10:58,190 --> 00:11:02,070 But I'm one of these guys that I'm not quick to spend and we like 190 00:11:02,070 --> 00:11:02,710 to be patient. 191 00:11:02,710 --> 00:11:05,750 And so we're looking at this stereo with all the things that's 192 00:11:05,750 --> 00:11:09,590 on it and a salesman seeing our interest comes over and began 193 00:11:09,590 --> 00:11:10,950 telling us what all it was. 194 00:11:10,950 --> 00:11:13,790 And it was beautiful piece of furniture and all it did. 195 00:11:14,190 --> 00:11:18,950 And he still saw my hesitation so he looked at us and now this stereo 196 00:11:18,950 --> 00:11:21,350 that you're looking at is a great stereo. 197 00:11:21,350 --> 00:11:25,950 But if you want to buy this stereo at this price because it was 198 00:11:26,030 --> 00:11:28,690 on sale, you. 199 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:35,040 The sale ended that night and it was 8 o' clock and they were closing 200 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:35,560 at 9. 201 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:37,720 So you need to make your decision. 202 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:40,600 He brought urgency. 203 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:43,840 Now this is before the Internet, this is before where you 204 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:44,480 could look it up. 205 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:47,280 You didn't know that with Sears if you wait just a month or 206 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:48,920 two, it'd probably go on sale cheaper. 207 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:50,440 But you didn't know about those things. 208 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:52,240 We didn't know about those things before we had kids. 209 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:54,600 And so I said to the man, well, give us a little bit. 210 00:11:54,600 --> 00:12:00,200 And we walked around and the bottom line is we bought that stereo. 211 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:02,920 Now I told you that story for a reason. 212 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:09,480 What caused urgency for us to make the decision that day? 213 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:15,640 It was what Sears is famous for, their sales and it ends tonight. 214 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:20,240 And you got to make that decision now it motivated us to do 215 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:22,850 something we've been saving for months buy. 216 00:12:23,250 --> 00:12:26,130 We had the money, we knew what we wanted. 217 00:12:26,610 --> 00:12:30,970 But it needs some type of urgency to make the decision to Go 218 00:12:30,970 --> 00:12:31,730 out and do it. 219 00:12:32,770 --> 00:12:39,410 As a believer, what occupies your mind each morning to serve God 220 00:12:40,210 --> 00:12:41,170 when you wake up? 221 00:12:41,330 --> 00:12:46,850 What pushes you to invite your lost friends and loved ones to church? 222 00:12:47,820 --> 00:12:52,380 What motivates you to give time and talents to the Lord? 223 00:12:53,180 --> 00:12:56,940 What motivates you to give to missions or special offering? 224 00:12:57,180 --> 00:13:00,780 Except the pastor says, if you don't, you're a backslidden heathen. 225 00:13:01,740 --> 00:13:04,900 What is that motivation for you to do what you're supposed to 226 00:13:04,900 --> 00:13:05,180 do? 227 00:13:05,740 --> 00:13:07,180 Some see it's their duty. 228 00:13:08,700 --> 00:13:11,260 Some perceive that this is what a Christian should do. 229 00:13:12,220 --> 00:13:17,260 There's old saying, do God's work for the right reason and the 230 00:13:17,260 --> 00:13:20,180 right way, and God will rightly bless it. 231 00:13:21,060 --> 00:13:24,260 Now, one of the problems I have in teaching, besides several 232 00:13:24,260 --> 00:13:24,660 things. 233 00:13:24,660 --> 00:13:29,619 But one of the problems I have is I teach at Norris, and I get to 234 00:13:29,619 --> 00:13:32,340 teach two and a half hours every class. 235 00:13:33,460 --> 00:13:38,540 So I'm used to teaching for two and a half hours on my zoom class. 236 00:13:38,540 --> 00:13:40,510 I teach once a month. 237 00:13:40,670 --> 00:13:42,110 It's an hour and a half. 238 00:13:43,230 --> 00:13:46,910 But when it comes to teaching in churches, you got 30 minutes. 239 00:13:47,950 --> 00:13:49,830 So it's hard to kind of shrink everything down. 240 00:13:49,830 --> 00:13:53,910 And I try not to go over because I won't take considerable 241 00:13:53,910 --> 00:13:54,190 time. 242 00:13:54,190 --> 00:13:56,910 But then the second problem I've had is all my jokes. 243 00:13:58,110 --> 00:14:00,830 The young kids don't have any idea what I'm talking about. 244 00:14:01,390 --> 00:14:02,870 They'll look at me and have no idea. 245 00:14:02,870 --> 00:14:07,160 I talked about Lil Abner, you know, and people looked at me and 246 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:07,800 Lou Abner. 247 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:08,680 They had no idea. 248 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:11,040 I know some of you all know all about that. 249 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:15,080 Was drawn by a cartoonist called Al capp back from 1909 to 250 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:16,200 1979. 251 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:21,000 And he had a certain character that he would walk around and he 252 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:27,080 always had a cloud, rainy cloud over his head. 253 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:28,640 Some of you are smiling. 254 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:29,400 You know this. 255 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:30,520 His name was Joe. 256 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:31,760 I can never say his last name. 257 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:32,840 It doesn't have a vowel. 258 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:33,400 That's why. 259 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:36,370 And when he walked, he always had a hole in. 260 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:37,400 In his shoe. 261 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:41,960 And it was a picture symbolic of wherever he went. 262 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:44,040 He had bad luck. 263 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:47,880 And it became the most iconic image of Liu Abner. 264 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:53,480 So some people, I ask today, what's hanging over your head? 265 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:54,840 And some people say bad luck. 266 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:56,120 Like good old Joe there. 267 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:00,120 And like the cartoon, always making wrong decisions. 268 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:04,360 But if you look up, what's hanging over your head? 269 00:15:05,170 --> 00:15:08,490 Most of the time, our life's decisions are normally based on the 270 00:15:08,490 --> 00:15:12,170 squeaky wheel where we're impulse buys. 271 00:15:12,170 --> 00:15:13,890 You go in the store, how do I have that? 272 00:15:15,090 --> 00:15:19,890 Eating when depressed, quick to anger, things of that nature where 273 00:15:19,890 --> 00:15:23,650 we just live off emotions instead of Letting the Lord lead 274 00:15:23,890 --> 00:15:25,410 in our walk with him. 275 00:15:27,010 --> 00:15:30,210 I still haven't given you the title purposely, because I want you 276 00:15:30,210 --> 00:15:31,600 to stay with me and think about it. 277 00:15:32,790 --> 00:15:38,110 If we can comprehend this message tonight, if we can take it 278 00:15:38,110 --> 00:15:43,910 to heart, it'll clear up many of our problems and point us in the 279 00:15:43,910 --> 00:15:44,830 right direction. 280 00:15:44,830 --> 00:15:45,670 That's the key. 281 00:15:46,470 --> 00:15:49,990 In the right direction and the right biblical direction. 282 00:15:50,230 --> 00:15:54,230 That's the best key you can be going a direction, think you're going 283 00:15:54,230 --> 00:15:57,750 the right way, and next thing you know, oh, man, I took the wrong 284 00:15:57,750 --> 00:15:58,070 turn. 285 00:15:58,910 --> 00:16:00,190 Everything looks so familiar. 286 00:16:00,190 --> 00:16:01,710 I thought I was going the right direction. 287 00:16:01,710 --> 00:16:06,150 And the GPS says, you know, turn around, you're going the wrong 288 00:16:06,150 --> 00:16:06,430 way. 289 00:16:07,390 --> 00:16:10,830 So as a believer, what is hovering over your head? 290 00:16:11,470 --> 00:16:11,750 Now? 291 00:16:11,750 --> 00:16:13,990 When I say believer, let's make sure we got our definitions 292 00:16:13,990 --> 00:16:14,350 right. 293 00:16:14,510 --> 00:16:18,710 I mean, one who has repented of their sins and called upon the 294 00:16:18,710 --> 00:16:20,110 name of Lord for salvation. 295 00:16:20,750 --> 00:16:24,070 I've led 15 trips to Israel, and we've gone to Jordan. 296 00:16:24,070 --> 00:16:27,170 I've gone to Greece six, seven times, and I've the seven churches 297 00:16:27,170 --> 00:16:28,130 of Asia Minor. 298 00:16:28,370 --> 00:16:33,530 And one of our trips a few years back, the pastor's mother came 299 00:16:33,530 --> 00:16:36,850 on the trip and she brought one of her granddaughters. 300 00:16:37,090 --> 00:16:42,930 And the granddaughter was an older lady and she was a Catholic, 301 00:16:43,250 --> 00:16:47,010 and she gave her testimony to the group and said that she was born 302 00:16:47,010 --> 00:16:47,810 a Christian. 303 00:16:48,290 --> 00:16:52,610 And so a lot of people name what they think they are, and not 304 00:16:52,900 --> 00:16:53,540 by faith. 305 00:16:53,540 --> 00:16:54,980 It's just one they're born into. 306 00:16:54,980 --> 00:16:57,140 So we got to make sure we have the right terminology. 307 00:16:57,620 --> 00:17:00,780 One who has repented of their sins and called upon the name of 308 00:17:00,780 --> 00:17:06,500 the Lord for salvation as a believer. 309 00:17:06,500 --> 00:17:12,420 I mean, one who reads and studies their Bible, praying for 310 00:17:12,420 --> 00:17:14,180 God's direction in their life. 311 00:17:14,820 --> 00:17:18,620 A lot of people will have a Bible and hold their Bible and they 312 00:17:18,620 --> 00:17:20,620 open it when the preacher says open it. 313 00:17:20,620 --> 00:17:22,500 But they don't have any daily reading. 314 00:17:22,500 --> 00:17:23,940 They don't have any studies. 315 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:26,120 They never look at it in any depth. 316 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:30,520 As a believer, we should seek to be like our statement there in 317 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:34,840 First Peter 2, to be Christ like we're to be that Christian. 318 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:41,000 Since the Bible teaches us to number our days, number our footsteps, 319 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:44,560 we are looked through that Bible lens as we strive to live in 320 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:45,400 God's direction. 321 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:46,120 Psalms 90. 322 00:17:46,120 --> 00:17:50,000 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts 323 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:50,840 in the wisdom. 324 00:17:52,060 --> 00:17:54,460 Knowing the word of God is the beginning of wisdom. 325 00:17:55,340 --> 00:17:56,940 There's a particular doctrine. 326 00:17:56,940 --> 00:17:58,020 Yes, I haven't said it yet. 327 00:17:58,020 --> 00:18:01,660 There's a particular doctrine the Bible teaches us that will help 328 00:18:01,660 --> 00:18:05,740 you and I to keep ourselves on that biblical path. 329 00:18:06,140 --> 00:18:10,740 And What I found is when I lose this particular doctrine in 330 00:18:10,740 --> 00:18:16,460 my thought process, if we lose this type of teaching, we will struggle 331 00:18:16,930 --> 00:18:20,130 with our daily lives as we're given over to what pulls us. 332 00:18:20,130 --> 00:18:22,050 The squeaky wheel, the impulses. 333 00:18:22,610 --> 00:18:27,570 And this process, this thought process never grows dim. 334 00:18:28,610 --> 00:18:32,850 And like Lil Abner cartoon, it's always hanging over our heads. 335 00:18:33,090 --> 00:18:38,650 If we're a believer in Christ, let me give you the title of our 336 00:18:38,650 --> 00:18:45,220 message is that the imminent return of Christ can happen in any 337 00:18:45,220 --> 00:18:45,700 moment. 338 00:18:46,180 --> 00:18:47,380 The imminent return. 339 00:18:48,500 --> 00:18:50,180 You've heard that before, have you not? 340 00:18:50,500 --> 00:18:53,940 Typically you hear it in a sermon where it's a throwaway line, 341 00:18:53,940 --> 00:18:58,420 the Lord's coming back and everybody goes, amen. 342 00:18:59,220 --> 00:19:00,900 And then off they go in their message. 343 00:19:01,780 --> 00:19:05,700 But rarely have I ever heard a message on the imminent return. 344 00:19:05,780 --> 00:19:08,260 And that's what this message is purposed for. 345 00:19:08,260 --> 00:19:10,940 The word imminent is from the Latin word imino. 346 00:19:10,940 --> 00:19:13,870 It means like an overhang, it project. 347 00:19:14,670 --> 00:19:18,830 It means something hanging over one's head that's ready to befall 348 00:19:18,990 --> 00:19:20,270 or overtake one. 349 00:19:20,830 --> 00:19:23,950 It's close at hand and good news. 350 00:19:23,950 --> 00:19:24,990 It's not bad luck. 351 00:19:25,150 --> 00:19:26,910 If you're a born again believer. 352 00:19:27,950 --> 00:19:31,230 It leaves the impression that something can happen any moment. 353 00:19:33,150 --> 00:19:34,350 The imminent return. 354 00:19:35,310 --> 00:19:38,590 All events have been cleared at the start to very point of this 355 00:19:39,030 --> 00:19:39,510 Revelation. 356 00:19:39,510 --> 00:19:44,350 Chapter one, verse three says, blessed is he that readeth, and not 357 00:19:44,350 --> 00:19:47,670 just read, talking about the book of Revelation, but and they 358 00:19:47,670 --> 00:19:53,630 that hear the words of this prophecy and then keep those things 359 00:19:53,630 --> 00:19:57,830 which are written therein, for the time is at hand. 360 00:19:59,190 --> 00:20:01,830 The imminent return can happen any moment. 361 00:20:02,470 --> 00:20:05,350 It should be your motivating factor, what you do. 362 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:08,840 Everything that needed to be done has been done. 363 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:11,720 Jesus died on the feast of Passover. 364 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:14,280 He was buried on the feast of Unleavened Bread. 365 00:20:14,360 --> 00:20:18,480 He arose on the feast of first fruits, and the Holy Spirit came 366 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:23,680 right on time at the feast of Shavuot, the feast of weeks, or you 367 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:25,160 know, as the Feast of Pentecost. 368 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:27,160 Everything is done. 369 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:28,920 God's word is closed. 370 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:33,720 Revelation 22 says, if you add that there's going to be plagues 371 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:36,960 that will be written in this book, and if you take away, God's 372 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:40,600 going to take you away from the word of God and take you away 373 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:43,920 and close the vision and out of the book of life. 374 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:49,840 The next thing on God's agenda is his coming back where we're going 375 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:50,800 to meet him in the air. 376 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:53,920 The shout first. 377 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,560 Thessalonians 4:16 speaks of that shout. 378 00:20:57,370 --> 00:20:59,450 Now the feast of Trumpets is for Israel. 379 00:20:59,770 --> 00:21:00,890 That's the trumpet. 380 00:21:00,890 --> 00:21:02,490 But the shout is for us. 381 00:21:03,370 --> 00:21:08,290 It's our blessed Hope it's what we're all thinking about when 382 00:21:08,290 --> 00:21:10,010 you partake of the Lord's Supper. 383 00:21:10,570 --> 00:21:13,290 I didn't see Edwin there take the Lord's Supper table. 384 00:21:14,330 --> 00:21:16,730 He speaks of Christ, speaks of him coming back. 385 00:21:17,690 --> 00:21:22,250 When an event is truly imminent according to we never know 386 00:21:22,250 --> 00:21:26,270 exactly when it's going to happen at Pearson stated the imminence 387 00:21:26,350 --> 00:21:32,430 is a combination of two conditions, certainty and uncertainty. 388 00:21:32,910 --> 00:21:38,350 By imminent event we mean one which is certainty to come at some 389 00:21:38,350 --> 00:21:41,470 time but uncertain at what time that will be. 390 00:21:42,030 --> 00:21:43,470 I think of it a little bit. 391 00:21:44,350 --> 00:21:49,150 When we had our first child we didn't know when it was going to 392 00:21:49,150 --> 00:21:49,390 come. 393 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:51,320 We prepared though. 394 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:57,880 I went through Lamaze, had it all scoped out, I went through the 395 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:01,400 class, understood everything, had everything prepared. 396 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:05,120 We knew it was going to come, we just didn't know when but it was 397 00:22:05,120 --> 00:22:05,880 going to come. 398 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:10,240 Matter of fact, on our second child we had to prepare because we 399 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:14,000 didn't have insurance and we found out that if you come into the 400 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:19,290 hospital at 11:59pm they charge you for a full day. 401 00:22:19,610 --> 00:22:23,010 They didn't prorate it and we talked about what would happen if 402 00:22:23,010 --> 00:22:24,250 that happened and it did. 403 00:22:24,890 --> 00:22:27,610 And we sat in the car for five minutes as long as she was going 404 00:22:27,610 --> 00:22:32,810 to be okay and at 12:07 we go walking in the hospital and so that's 405 00:22:32,810 --> 00:22:34,250 what you do when you don't have money. 406 00:22:34,410 --> 00:22:35,210 But we did. 407 00:22:36,010 --> 00:22:41,050 But imminent time plays no factor when the event will happen. 408 00:22:41,450 --> 00:22:44,970 Can't know exactly when the event will happen so we must be prepared 409 00:22:44,970 --> 00:22:47,290 as we prepare for the child to come. 410 00:22:47,450 --> 00:22:51,310 Can't say a date because if you set a date that destroys the 411 00:22:51,310 --> 00:22:52,630 concept of imminency. 412 00:22:53,110 --> 00:22:58,670 I was coming back from Israel 2014 with the Pastor I co led with 413 00:22:58,670 --> 00:23:03,510 him and the book John Hagee had written his book the Blood Moon. 414 00:23:04,070 --> 00:23:08,590 It was some years ago and it was a book that was written for the 415 00:23:08,590 --> 00:23:12,270 purpose of the Blood Moon that that was supposed to be that the 416 00:23:12,270 --> 00:23:13,270 Lord was going to come. 417 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:16,640 Now he couldn't say that because he knows enough not to say 418 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:16,880 it. 419 00:23:17,120 --> 00:23:18,480 So it was a wink wink. 420 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:22,040 We all know something big is going to happen and sure enough we 421 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,040 think we Christians know what that is. 422 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:27,360 But he couldn't say it and so he sold millions of book. 423 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:30,720 But when of course Blood Moon day that was supposed to happen. 424 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:34,800 I was up in Washington State, I had preached that we had the service 425 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:39,280 earlier and then just as the moon was coming up we all left our, 426 00:23:40,100 --> 00:23:43,020 we left the church services over and we watched the blood moon 427 00:23:43,020 --> 00:23:45,900 come up and of course I was joking you all Feel lighter. 428 00:23:45,900 --> 00:23:46,860 And of course it didn't happen. 429 00:23:46,860 --> 00:23:48,500 I had preached that it wasn't going to happen. 430 00:23:48,740 --> 00:23:52,340 And because the verses he was quoting is verses that were going 431 00:23:52,340 --> 00:23:55,300 to take place during the Tribulation, Hagee was off. 432 00:23:55,860 --> 00:23:58,820 I kept wanting to email him, say, are you sending me your. 433 00:23:59,220 --> 00:24:00,020 My money back? 434 00:24:00,020 --> 00:24:01,300 Because what you said didn't happen. 435 00:24:01,940 --> 00:24:03,020 Of course I bought mine. 436 00:24:03,020 --> 00:24:04,420 I'd never buy anything full price. 437 00:24:04,420 --> 00:24:08,710 I bought it less than half price off of someone that didn't 438 00:24:08,710 --> 00:24:09,070 read it. 439 00:24:09,070 --> 00:24:12,710 But so anyway, Blood Moons is what the book was written and had 440 00:24:12,710 --> 00:24:16,190 just come out, and the pastor asked me what I thought about it. 441 00:24:16,190 --> 00:24:18,470 And the first thing I immediately said is, one, he's wrong 442 00:24:18,630 --> 00:24:21,030 because that's going to happen, like I said, in the tribulation 443 00:24:21,110 --> 00:24:21,630 time period. 444 00:24:21,630 --> 00:24:23,830 And two, no man know the day of the hour. 445 00:24:25,430 --> 00:24:26,870 And so it's not going to happen. 446 00:24:27,270 --> 00:24:29,430 And he smiled and said, well, that's what I thought, but it's good 447 00:24:29,430 --> 00:24:29,670 to read. 448 00:24:29,670 --> 00:24:30,750 And I said, well, that's okay. 449 00:24:30,750 --> 00:24:33,420 You can just don't pay full price for that book. 450 00:24:34,220 --> 00:24:36,100 But anyway, of course it didn't happen. 451 00:24:36,100 --> 00:24:36,500 They just. 452 00:24:36,500 --> 00:24:38,540 He came up with another excuse and off he went. 453 00:24:40,620 --> 00:24:43,260 The word imminent, we have a problem. 454 00:24:43,260 --> 00:24:44,220 Sometimes people say. 455 00:24:44,220 --> 00:24:45,580 Well, they'll say, soon. 456 00:24:45,900 --> 00:24:47,260 The Lord's coming soon. 457 00:24:47,339 --> 00:24:52,980 No, there was a song Andre Crouch wrote 1976, a popular song. 458 00:24:52,980 --> 00:24:56,540 Soon and very soon, we're going to serve the king. 459 00:24:57,590 --> 00:24:58,470 No, not soon. 460 00:24:59,510 --> 00:25:02,350 The soon is imminent does not mean soon. 461 00:25:02,350 --> 00:25:07,030 It may be soon, but then again, maybe another 50 years. 462 00:25:07,750 --> 00:25:10,190 When I do prophecy conferences, I always get asked a 463 00:25:10,190 --> 00:25:11,350 question just about every. 464 00:25:11,350 --> 00:25:14,670 We have a Q and A in most of my conferences, and they always come 465 00:25:14,670 --> 00:25:15,430 back and they always. 466 00:25:15,430 --> 00:25:18,110 Someone asks a bunch of questions as they try to stomp the 467 00:25:18,110 --> 00:25:18,630 preacher. 468 00:25:18,790 --> 00:25:24,070 And so anyway, so the question always gets asked. 469 00:25:25,670 --> 00:25:26,870 I've been waiting 30 years. 470 00:25:28,710 --> 00:25:30,070 When's the Lord coming back? 471 00:25:30,390 --> 00:25:32,950 And my answer is that you know what that means? 472 00:25:33,030 --> 00:25:36,670 That means we're 30 years closer to when that time was going 473 00:25:36,670 --> 00:25:37,030 to happen. 474 00:25:38,310 --> 00:25:43,350 The coming of Christ was just as imminent in the New Testament 475 00:25:43,830 --> 00:25:46,630 as when the New Testament was written as it is today. 476 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,160 There are 17 New Testament texts that deal with the imminent 477 00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:57,840 coming of Christ. 478 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:01,040 No, we're not going to deal with all 17 because of time. 479 00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:05,920 But there are 17 key texts, and let's cover just a few of them. 480 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:07,200 First Corinthians 15. 481 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:10,160 Behold. 482 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:12,360 First Corinthians 15:51. 483 00:26:12,360 --> 00:26:13,840 We cover three or four of them. 484 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:15,840 Behold, I show you a mystery. 485 00:26:16,490 --> 00:26:19,850 We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. 486 00:26:19,850 --> 00:26:23,530 All your nurseries always have that verse, we shall all be changed. 487 00:26:23,610 --> 00:26:26,770 Well, that's not talking about that type of change, but we like 488 00:26:26,770 --> 00:26:28,010 to take that out of context. 489 00:26:28,010 --> 00:26:28,730 But it's fun. 490 00:26:29,050 --> 00:26:30,010 Nothing wrong with that. 491 00:26:30,490 --> 00:26:34,250 Bible says in a moment in verse 52 of First Corinthians 15, 492 00:26:34,410 --> 00:26:38,610 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump. 493 00:26:38,610 --> 00:26:43,370 For the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible 494 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,150 and and we shall be changed. 495 00:26:46,030 --> 00:26:46,590 R.C. 496 00:26:46,590 --> 00:26:51,350 Linsky, famous scholar of the 18th 19th century, stated, the simple 497 00:26:51,350 --> 00:26:57,230 fact is that Paul did not know when Christ would return. 498 00:26:58,270 --> 00:27:02,110 He was in the exact position in which we are. 499 00:27:02,750 --> 00:27:08,750 All that Paul knew and all that we know is that Christ may come 500 00:27:08,990 --> 00:27:10,280 and at any time. 501 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:17,040 There's a word that they use for this imminent return and the 502 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:18,480 word is called perusia. 503 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:20,840 It's a Greek word, ancient Greek word. 504 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,240 It just means official visit. 505 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:25,640 And it's used a number of times. 506 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:29,800 It used for other individuals besides Jesus, Titus Stephanus and 507 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:30,000 others. 508 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,520 Even Paul used it will not cover those things. 509 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:39,010 But the promise Paul referenced the future coming of Christ 510 00:27:39,330 --> 00:27:41,410 with the observance at the communion. 511 00:27:41,810 --> 00:27:45,170 For as often as you do eat this bread, remember and drink this 512 00:27:45,170 --> 00:27:45,930 cup as you do. 513 00:27:45,930 --> 00:27:50,850 That ye do show the Lord's death till he come. 514 00:27:52,530 --> 00:27:54,050 That is the imminence. 515 00:27:54,290 --> 00:27:56,370 That is our motivation factor. 516 00:27:56,370 --> 00:28:00,050 Every morning we wake up, every night that we go to bed, we 517 00:28:00,050 --> 00:28:01,530 wake up with 10 things to do. 518 00:28:01,530 --> 00:28:04,900 We go to bed with 15 things to do the next day. 519 00:28:04,980 --> 00:28:09,060 But with our first top of list is this could be the day the imminent. 520 00:28:09,540 --> 00:28:15,180 It is our motivating factor to tell the neighbors that the Gospel 521 00:28:15,180 --> 00:28:18,500 story because time is going quickly. 522 00:28:18,900 --> 00:28:23,180 First Corinthians 16 says if any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, 523 00:28:23,180 --> 00:28:24,660 let him be anathema. 524 00:28:24,740 --> 00:28:27,460 And then there's a word there that comes afterward. 525 00:28:27,460 --> 00:28:29,060 It says maranatha. 526 00:28:30,250 --> 00:28:34,490 The key of this verse, that maranatha is a eschatological statement 527 00:28:34,810 --> 00:28:36,370 concerning Christ's coming. 528 00:28:36,370 --> 00:28:38,090 It's Aramaic in its design. 529 00:28:38,570 --> 00:28:45,770 It says it means our Lord come this return of Christ, that we're 530 00:28:45,770 --> 00:28:48,090 going to meet him in the air now, not the second coming. 531 00:28:48,330 --> 00:28:51,050 Just make sure you don't get confused in your eschatology. 532 00:28:51,610 --> 00:28:54,490 When we talk about for Christians, we're looking for the 533 00:28:54,490 --> 00:28:58,350 shout, we're looking for the upper taker, not the undertaker. 534 00:28:58,910 --> 00:29:05,190 And so maranatha was a term Aramaic to mean our Lord come that 535 00:29:05,190 --> 00:29:07,390 would take place the Lord coming back. 536 00:29:08,110 --> 00:29:10,430 William Barclay explained it this way. 537 00:29:11,870 --> 00:29:16,390 It's strange to meet with an Aramaic phrase in a Greek letter 538 00:29:16,390 --> 00:29:17,310 to a Greek church. 539 00:29:17,870 --> 00:29:23,940 The explanation is that Phrase had become a watchword, a password. 540 00:29:24,260 --> 00:29:28,020 It summed up the vital hope of the early church. 541 00:29:28,340 --> 00:29:31,300 And Christians whispered it to each other. 542 00:29:31,620 --> 00:29:36,900 They identified each other with it in a language and with the 543 00:29:37,620 --> 00:29:40,820 he said, heathens, we'll just say the lost people could not understand. 544 00:29:41,620 --> 00:29:46,180 And so maranatha, they would whisper quietly to identify other 545 00:29:46,180 --> 00:29:46,980 believers. 546 00:29:47,060 --> 00:29:48,100 The Lord comes. 547 00:29:49,750 --> 00:29:50,710 The Lord is coming. 548 00:29:51,190 --> 00:29:52,230 He's coming back. 549 00:29:52,550 --> 00:29:54,030 And they would say, maranatha. 550 00:29:54,030 --> 00:29:54,510 Now we're not. 551 00:29:54,510 --> 00:29:55,670 We don't have that problem today. 552 00:29:55,670 --> 00:29:59,630 We have to identify that way because we can talk openly in America, 553 00:29:59,630 --> 00:30:01,190 at least so far. 554 00:30:01,830 --> 00:30:04,230 That could change under this next election. 555 00:30:04,310 --> 00:30:06,230 But that's another story, another message. 556 00:30:06,870 --> 00:30:11,670 But I was up in Israel back in 2005 as part of my PhD work. 557 00:30:11,750 --> 00:30:13,910 I was studying at Jerusalem University College. 558 00:30:13,910 --> 00:30:15,830 It was a highlight of my academic education. 559 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:20,280 And there was a couple guys that we became friends with at the 560 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:21,280 school there. 561 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:24,080 And we were had some free time that afternoon. 562 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:28,040 And so one of them said to me, hey, Brother Savoloski, let's go 563 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:28,320 down. 564 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,800 There's some people that weren't far away. 565 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:34,640 They were a bunch of people and they were having a group out 566 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:34,960 there. 567 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:39,440 And you got to be very careful in Israel, especially in Jerusalem, 568 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:44,230 to witness because it will get you in trouble big time. 569 00:30:44,550 --> 00:30:46,510 Matter of fact, you'll see signs in Jerusalem. 570 00:30:46,510 --> 00:30:47,550 I've led 15 trips. 571 00:30:47,550 --> 00:30:50,430 We always point out when I, when we go to Jerusalem, there's 572 00:30:50,430 --> 00:30:53,430 a sign that says, tourists Christian, thank you for coming, 573 00:30:53,750 --> 00:30:55,590 but leave your Bible at home. 574 00:30:56,710 --> 00:31:01,150 And if you get caught witnessing to someone, there's a 575 00:31:01,150 --> 00:31:02,550 sign that says underneath it. 576 00:31:03,350 --> 00:31:07,270 If you see someone witnessing, or they call a missionary, because 577 00:31:07,270 --> 00:31:12,080 if you're witnessing, you're a missionary, and you see it, call 578 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:12,640 this number. 579 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:18,000 And Jerusalem is not a large place and there are several yeshivas 580 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,400 and seminaries, so to speak. 581 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,440 And if you call that number because they see you witnessing to 582 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:27,080 someone, they'll call that number and within five to seven minutes 583 00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:31,920 you'll have 15, 20 Hasidic Jews upset. 584 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,480 And they'll run at you, they'll separate. 585 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,220 Half of them will go to the person you're witnessing and, and 586 00:31:37,220 --> 00:31:38,220 splits you apart. 587 00:31:38,460 --> 00:31:39,900 It's all choreographed. 588 00:31:40,060 --> 00:31:42,860 And then they'll come after, the other half will come after you 589 00:31:43,020 --> 00:31:47,260 and they'll argue with you, yell at you, whistle, you're a missionary. 590 00:31:47,580 --> 00:31:53,580 And there was one famous, he's Dr. Michael Brown, he's a well known 591 00:31:54,540 --> 00:31:57,500 apologetic Jewish apologetic teacher. 592 00:31:58,300 --> 00:32:02,220 What they did to him was the guy, one of the guys got next to 593 00:32:02,220 --> 00:32:06,810 him, got in his face and then went like this, but stopped Just 594 00:32:06,810 --> 00:32:07,170 before. 595 00:32:07,970 --> 00:32:09,650 And of course what's your reaction? 596 00:32:10,210 --> 00:32:13,490 Like Dr. Brown, his reaction is to throw your arm up to protect 597 00:32:13,490 --> 00:32:13,970 yourself. 598 00:32:14,050 --> 00:32:15,890 Well, it touched his hand. 599 00:32:17,730 --> 00:32:21,250 And of course they immediately called another guy's videotaping 600 00:32:21,570 --> 00:32:24,930 and they immediately called what we call 911. 601 00:32:25,330 --> 00:32:30,560 Police came and they arrested Dr. Brown and took him to the police 602 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:31,040 station. 603 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,040 And for three hours he was there. 604 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,080 And then after three hours they let him go. 605 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,240 They knew, he knew this was a setup. 606 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,320 They've underdo this but they can get you in a fight. 607 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:42,560 Guess who gets kicked out of the country? 608 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:44,720 Not those Hasidic Jews. 609 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,920 You get kicked out and so you have to be very careful. 610 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:48,680 So we were down there. 611 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:50,840 I just wanted to tell you how it's like that in Israel. 612 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:52,560 It's very difficult place to witness. 613 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,680 And so I went down with this one young men in the school. 614 00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,000 And so we went down there to talk with the people. 615 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,320 We were talking with some of them, they were out there, there 616 00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:06,280 was a quartet type playing Jewish music. 617 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:13,640 And this man came up to me real quietly and said here, I want 618 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:17,280 to give you something, a little CD and I'll tell you about 619 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:17,720 Jesus. 620 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:23,170 Off he went because he couldn't stay long and he had to 621 00:33:23,170 --> 00:33:27,250 do it quickly because if anybody sees him it would be a very 622 00:33:27,410 --> 00:33:28,290 terrible thing. 623 00:33:28,770 --> 00:33:33,090 And so it had a little CD and a little tract booklet in English 624 00:33:33,250 --> 00:33:34,930 and it was telling about Jesus. 625 00:33:35,250 --> 00:33:37,290 And so we don't have that problem in America. 626 00:33:37,290 --> 00:33:39,970 We don't understand, we can witness at least now. 627 00:33:40,050 --> 00:33:44,050 But in that day and time period you could not do that. 628 00:33:44,370 --> 00:33:45,970 Rome hate Christians. 629 00:33:46,290 --> 00:33:53,280 They use them as torches to light the games as they poured oil 630 00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:56,920 on you and literally burnt you so you can light the stadium. 631 00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:01,080 And so it was a very difficult time in that time period. 632 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:04,360 And so you have that problem elsewhere around the world as well. 633 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:08,800 And in Jerusalem it's not near as bad in other places, but Jerusalem 634 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:09,720 is probably the worst. 635 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:11,160 So let's continue on. 636 00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,160 My time is going about gone. 637 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:15,650 I'm going by this clock, not that one. 638 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:17,720 I turned this one back. 639 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:18,920 I'm just joking. 640 00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:23,640 Philippians 4 says, Let your moderation be known unto all men. 641 00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:25,000 The Lord is at hand. 642 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,960 Your motivation is for unbelievers. 643 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:29,080 And here's the key. 644 00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:33,360 Your motivation is for unbelievers to see your actions as 645 00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:34,120 moderation. 646 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:38,520 Why the Lord is at hand as the rapture could take place any moment. 647 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:40,840 Let's think of some time periods. 648 00:34:41,329 --> 00:34:45,729 Remember on 911 how was your testimony? 649 00:34:47,489 --> 00:34:49,729 What about on Y2K? 650 00:34:51,089 --> 00:34:54,529 Remember that long time ago, people were scared. 651 00:34:55,489 --> 00:34:58,689 I saw More people in church then than ever before. 652 00:34:59,089 --> 00:35:05,929 We held my first prophecy conference in December of 1999 because 653 00:35:05,929 --> 00:35:07,649 people were wanting to hear the gospel. 654 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:11,760 Think of COVID Oh, we got churches fighting about whether you 655 00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:13,520 should take a vaccine or not. 656 00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:15,040 Vaxxer not take a vaccine. 657 00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:16,640 That's not what we should have been fighting on. 658 00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:18,560 We should have been fighting on the gospel. 659 00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:21,400 People were scared death was at hand. 660 00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:23,480 Rich or poor, it didn't matter. 661 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,640 Oh, the motivation is to see our actions. 662 00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:29,480 You're the only Bible people see. 663 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:35,040 Paul, Harold, Edwin Harold pointed out of that text the imminence 664 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:40,160 of the Lord's return is used as a motivation for Christian conduct. 665 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,760 This does not mean that the apostle contemplated that return 666 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,160 be tomorrow another place. 667 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:50,040 In the letter he admits the possibility he might die before the 668 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:51,000 anticipated event. 669 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,000 That was Philippians one where he says for I am a strait between 670 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,680 two, having a desire to part and to be with Christ, which is far 671 00:35:57,680 --> 00:35:58,000 better. 672 00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:02,690 And then he later reveals plans that he had made in chapter 673 00:36:02,690 --> 00:36:05,570 two where he says him therefore I hope to send presently 674 00:36:05,890 --> 00:36:08,930 so soon as I shall see how it will go with me. 675 00:36:09,410 --> 00:36:10,930 And so he was. 676 00:36:12,210 --> 00:36:12,770 He was. 677 00:36:13,330 --> 00:36:14,410 He planned for both. 678 00:36:14,410 --> 00:36:16,930 You've got a plan as if it's going to be another thousand years, 679 00:36:17,490 --> 00:36:21,570 but your actions need to happen if it's happening right now. 680 00:36:23,090 --> 00:36:24,610 They thought imminent meant soon. 681 00:36:24,610 --> 00:36:27,090 At that time it meant an immediate time period. 682 00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:31,720 Paul had taught the truth, but in typical fashion I found that lay 683 00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:33,520 people have a way of taking it too far. 684 00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:38,920 D Edmund Hebert made this application the best preparation 685 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:40,320 for our Lord's return. 686 00:36:40,720 --> 00:36:42,000 Let me stop here for a second. 687 00:36:42,240 --> 00:36:44,840 I've gone to a number of big time prophecy conferences. 688 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:46,040 You've probably heard about them. 689 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:50,000 They got the bigwigs, all the big book writers that written prophecy. 690 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,320 Maybe you've attended one before, maybe not. 691 00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:56,800 Every, every December I think they have a pre trib conference in 692 00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,000 Dallas and they have big name people. 693 00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,880 And I remember going to one in Tulsa some years ago. 694 00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:06,640 There was 1200 people at this hotel to hear this. 695 00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:11,320 Some big names prophecy guys had written these latest books and 696 00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:14,080 it was funny because my pastor, the pastor I was with said 697 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,320 to me most of these people don't even go to church, they just 698 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:20,360 fly to hotels, the hotels of where the new speakers are at. 699 00:37:20,700 --> 00:37:22,860 They know the book of Revelation but they don't know anything 700 00:37:22,860 --> 00:37:23,260 else. 701 00:37:23,500 --> 00:37:24,100 It's true. 702 00:37:24,100 --> 00:37:27,660 I'll never forget when I was first saved and on my own, this Jewish 703 00:37:27,660 --> 00:37:30,660 friend that I had, that we were in the synagogue, in the Jewish 704 00:37:30,660 --> 00:37:31,340 youth group together. 705 00:37:31,340 --> 00:37:35,100 He married a gentile Girl who was a believer and the lady. 706 00:37:35,420 --> 00:37:36,660 So he introduced me to her. 707 00:37:36,660 --> 00:37:38,020 She knew the book of Revelation. 708 00:37:38,020 --> 00:37:41,820 She could quote half the book, but she couldn't quote John 3:16. 709 00:37:42,860 --> 00:37:45,700 Because prophecy became something like a 9:1 number. 710 00:37:45,700 --> 00:37:46,700 9 1:1 number. 711 00:37:46,700 --> 00:37:50,360 I'm sorry, a 1:800 number to where what does the future behold? 712 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:55,200 And so D. Ebert Hebert says the best preparation for our Lord's 713 00:37:55,200 --> 00:38:00,440 return is the faithful performance of our present duties 714 00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,960 and our churches the furthest of his cause. 715 00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:10,400 The word looking for that blessed hope Looking has a sense 716 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:11,080 to wait. 717 00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:12,440 It's a use. 718 00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:14,760 It's a Christian expectation. 719 00:38:16,060 --> 00:38:18,780 I expect every year at my birthday. 720 00:38:18,860 --> 00:38:21,180 We expect every year to do something special. 721 00:38:22,700 --> 00:38:24,060 Expectation looking. 722 00:38:24,780 --> 00:38:26,900 Hope doesn't mean a wish. 723 00:38:26,900 --> 00:38:27,980 I hope, I hope, I hope. 724 00:38:28,140 --> 00:38:34,380 It speaks of a sured promised that is described as the blessed 725 00:38:34,380 --> 00:38:34,700 hope. 726 00:38:36,620 --> 00:38:41,420 1St John 2 Now little children abide in him. 727 00:38:41,420 --> 00:38:43,260 Abide is an imperative. 728 00:38:44,580 --> 00:38:46,340 Another way of saying that it's a command. 729 00:38:47,700 --> 00:38:51,580 Christians must continually abide in Christ and then it says 730 00:38:51,580 --> 00:38:52,500 abide in him. 731 00:38:52,500 --> 00:38:57,860 That this is First John 2:28 for taking notes that when he shall 732 00:38:57,860 --> 00:39:04,140 appear when lets us know that we are to be steadfast in abiding 733 00:39:04,140 --> 00:39:04,420 him. 734 00:39:04,420 --> 00:39:09,220 Whenever this event happens, we may have confidence and not be 735 00:39:09,220 --> 00:39:10,580 ashamed for Him. 736 00:39:11,430 --> 00:39:11,990 His coming. 737 00:39:12,470 --> 00:39:15,990 Our confidence that we're ready to face him. 738 00:39:16,310 --> 00:39:17,590 That we did our best. 739 00:39:17,750 --> 00:39:19,590 We did all that we know how to do. 740 00:39:19,990 --> 00:39:23,670 We witnessed the best, we know how we gave like we best we could. 741 00:39:23,750 --> 00:39:25,670 We put Christ first in our life. 742 00:39:25,750 --> 00:39:30,910 That is our confidence is in Christ and not be ashamed at his 743 00:39:30,910 --> 00:39:31,270 coming. 744 00:39:31,830 --> 00:39:35,830 Like I tell my students when they don't do well on my exam because 745 00:39:35,830 --> 00:39:36,870 they did not study. 746 00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:42,120 They are ashamed when I have to give them the the grade. 747 00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:47,160 In contrast, if you did on your best on the exam, you ought 748 00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:48,440 to have a certain calm. 749 00:39:49,240 --> 00:39:53,639 Charles Haddon Spurgeon Listen to what he shows. 750 00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,040 We're talking about the imminent coming of Christ. 751 00:39:56,440 --> 00:40:00,200 The date of that coming is concealed. 752 00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,640 When he shall come, no man can tell. 753 00:40:04,570 --> 00:40:09,370 Watch for him and be always ready that ye may not be ashamed 754 00:40:09,370 --> 00:40:10,330 at his advent. 755 00:40:10,810 --> 00:40:14,410 Should a Christian man go into worldly assemblies and amusements? 756 00:40:15,610 --> 00:40:22,130 There's a famous story of Gypsy Lee, a famous preacher, not 757 00:40:22,130 --> 00:40:26,410 Baptist second blessing with his well known about. 758 00:40:26,490 --> 00:40:27,850 But he was a godly man. 759 00:40:28,410 --> 00:40:33,110 Well, he was going to revival and he was on the way to the revival. 760 00:40:33,110 --> 00:40:35,870 It was getting late and his car broke down. 761 00:40:36,590 --> 00:40:39,470 So they had to get out of the car and it was raining, was pouring, 762 00:40:39,550 --> 00:40:44,110 was cold and they found, I don't know, a quarter of a mile half 763 00:40:44,110 --> 00:40:47,550 Mile down the road, there was a building that was lit up. 764 00:40:47,950 --> 00:40:50,350 He could hear the music coming out of it. 765 00:40:50,990 --> 00:40:52,670 He says that he went to the door. 766 00:40:52,910 --> 00:40:55,870 He knocked on the door, opened up, and it was a dance hall. 767 00:40:57,490 --> 00:40:59,050 And so he was pouring down rain. 768 00:40:59,050 --> 00:41:00,130 He had nowhere to go. 769 00:41:00,290 --> 00:41:02,210 So he went into the dance hall. 770 00:41:02,450 --> 00:41:06,010 And this young lady comes up to him and says, will you dance with 771 00:41:06,010 --> 00:41:06,370 me? 772 00:41:06,930 --> 00:41:12,289 And Gypsily said to the lady, well, ma', am, I always talk to the 773 00:41:12,289 --> 00:41:14,050 Lord first before I do anything. 774 00:41:14,530 --> 00:41:18,890 He got down on his knees and started praying that this people 775 00:41:18,890 --> 00:41:23,740 who were living like the devil and dancing ways, they should not 776 00:41:23,740 --> 00:41:24,420 be dancing. 777 00:41:24,900 --> 00:41:27,220 And he continued to preach as he prayed. 778 00:41:27,540 --> 00:41:28,340 And when he. 779 00:41:28,500 --> 00:41:33,380 When he stood up, there wasn't an individual that wasn't on their 780 00:41:33,380 --> 00:41:36,500 knees praying and crying out to the Lord. 781 00:41:36,500 --> 00:41:38,019 He had his revival, all right. 782 00:41:38,019 --> 00:41:39,140 Just wasn't at the church. 783 00:41:40,900 --> 00:41:44,980 But Spurgeon continued, he said, would he not be ashamed should 784 00:41:44,980 --> 00:41:48,460 His Lord come and find him among the enemies of the cross? 785 00:41:48,460 --> 00:41:50,900 I dare not go where I should be ashamed to be found. 786 00:41:50,980 --> 00:41:54,610 Should my Lord come on a sudden, suppose His Lord should be 787 00:41:54,610 --> 00:41:56,890 there and then come, Would he not be ashamed? 788 00:41:57,370 --> 00:41:58,170 But listen to this. 789 00:41:58,170 --> 00:42:03,970 What Spurgeon said, One here says to offender, I will never forgive 790 00:42:03,970 --> 00:42:04,250 her. 791 00:42:04,410 --> 00:42:06,730 She will never darken my doors again. 792 00:42:07,370 --> 00:42:12,090 Would you not be ashamed if the Lord Jesus came and found you 793 00:42:12,090 --> 00:42:12,890 unforgiving? 794 00:42:13,690 --> 00:42:18,730 Or that we may abide in him and never be in such a state that 795 00:42:18,730 --> 00:42:20,490 his coming would be unwelcome? 796 00:42:20,650 --> 00:42:26,270 Beloved, so live from day to day in duty and in devotion that 797 00:42:26,270 --> 00:42:28,190 your Lord's coming would be timely. 798 00:42:28,350 --> 00:42:32,790 Go about your business and abide in him, and then his coming 799 00:42:32,790 --> 00:42:35,310 will be a glorious delight to you. 800 00:42:35,950 --> 00:42:37,550 I remember one last illustration. 801 00:42:37,790 --> 00:42:39,390 One more point will be finished. 802 00:42:40,670 --> 00:42:44,790 Years ago, when I was young and foolish and played sports, I 803 00:42:44,790 --> 00:42:45,550 remember the coach. 804 00:42:45,950 --> 00:42:47,070 It was the big game. 805 00:42:47,550 --> 00:42:48,750 It was a championship. 806 00:42:49,390 --> 00:42:52,790 I remember the coach's words, because he said to the group, he 807 00:42:52,790 --> 00:42:58,670 said, you're the better team, but you have to give your best 110%. 808 00:42:59,470 --> 00:43:01,310 And I'll never forget what he said this. 809 00:43:01,310 --> 00:43:05,150 He said, if you give your best, I promise you when you walk 810 00:43:05,150 --> 00:43:08,750 off that field, you'll walk off with your head held high. 811 00:43:09,790 --> 00:43:11,070 And he was so true. 812 00:43:11,710 --> 00:43:15,740 When the Lord calls us home, when we hear the shout and we meet 813 00:43:15,740 --> 00:43:19,220 him in the air, you're not going to be able to say, I was going 814 00:43:19,220 --> 00:43:21,380 to give a special offering for the missionaries. 815 00:43:22,500 --> 00:43:26,100 Oh, I was going to donate something for the Lord to help another 816 00:43:26,100 --> 00:43:26,740 missionary. 817 00:43:27,700 --> 00:43:31,620 Because when you hear the shout, it's too Late, you may not 818 00:43:31,620 --> 00:43:35,380 get that big fat retirement that your 401k has been doing. 819 00:43:35,700 --> 00:43:40,880 The Lord comes, It's all going to be gone in a twinkling of eye. 820 00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:45,440 Finally, I have the final point in Revelation 22. 821 00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:49,920 I always had problems with this verse because it says, he which 822 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,560 testify these things, saith, surely I come quickly. 823 00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:53,040 Amen. 824 00:43:53,280 --> 00:44:03,320 Even so, come, Lord Jesus, John is here, commanding. 825 00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:06,450 I have a hard time trying to command God. 826 00:44:07,010 --> 00:44:08,210 I'm sorry, who am I? 827 00:44:08,210 --> 00:44:09,010 Who are you? 828 00:44:09,730 --> 00:44:11,210 But he commands God. 829 00:44:11,210 --> 00:44:13,730 He demands Christ to fulfill it. 830 00:44:15,010 --> 00:44:19,410 His conviction was that Christ would indeed fulfill his promise 831 00:44:19,410 --> 00:44:20,290 to come quickly. 832 00:44:20,850 --> 00:44:23,730 So convinced we too should command Christ. 833 00:44:25,330 --> 00:44:27,810 It's our expectation of the church. 834 00:44:28,050 --> 00:44:29,650 We're to constantly watch. 835 00:44:30,290 --> 00:44:33,570 That's why you hear in the New Testament, watch for you know not 836 00:44:33,570 --> 00:44:34,650 when the hour come. 837 00:44:35,050 --> 00:44:36,170 It's constant. 838 00:44:36,410 --> 00:44:38,450 It's always hanging over your head. 839 00:44:38,450 --> 00:44:39,610 It does not go away. 840 00:44:39,610 --> 00:44:45,650 For a believer, it's the motivating factor why I did what 841 00:44:45,650 --> 00:44:48,250 I do, what I do with my life and serving Christ. 842 00:44:48,650 --> 00:44:51,610 It's why I wake up in the morning with the number one thing. 843 00:44:51,610 --> 00:44:52,570 This could be the day. 844 00:44:53,210 --> 00:44:57,330 It's my motivating factor to invite others because God knows how 845 00:44:57,330 --> 00:44:57,770 we are. 846 00:44:57,850 --> 00:44:59,010 We will put things off. 847 00:44:59,010 --> 00:45:00,090 We'll set it aside. 848 00:45:01,290 --> 00:45:02,970 We'll do it next week, next month. 849 00:45:03,370 --> 00:45:07,250 I didn't finish my testimony, but when I was first saved, I was 850 00:45:07,250 --> 00:45:08,090 going to the church. 851 00:45:08,810 --> 00:45:11,450 I knew I was supposed to tell my parents how I got saved. 852 00:45:12,010 --> 00:45:13,370 I knew what was going to happen. 853 00:45:13,930 --> 00:45:17,210 So I always remember that time where I bowed my head very reverently 854 00:45:17,370 --> 00:45:20,730 and said, lord, I will tell my parents next week. 855 00:45:23,050 --> 00:45:26,730 Just like you do when you tell your neighbors and friends. 856 00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:32,680 There's got to be a urgency in your heart and in your soul. 857 00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:36,920 This church needs this urgency right now more than it needs anything 858 00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:37,280 else. 859 00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:40,000 It needs this church coming together as one. 860 00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:41,200 Working together. 861 00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:42,720 You say, well, we won't have a pastor yet. 862 00:45:42,720 --> 00:45:44,640 Okay, bring the pastor. 863 00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:46,080 Eventually he's going to come on board. 864 00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:49,080 But until that time, someone's got to hold this church together. 865 00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:50,800 And you've got to come together as one. 866 00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:52,880 And there's got to be that urgency. 867 00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:57,640 Desire to reach the lost, invite others, bring visitors. 868 00:45:57,960 --> 00:45:59,960 You can still do without a pastor. 869 00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:02,680 No one's going to sit there and say, oh, I'm sorry, he can't 870 00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:03,080 come in. 871 00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:04,200 He's not a member here. 872 00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:04,600 No. 873 00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:06,680 And we'll have a pastor to greet him. 874 00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:08,680 No, we need to bring people in now. 875 00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,360 Urgency we might not have next year. 876 00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:15,320 You might never get a pastor because the rapture could take place. 877 00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:17,760 We've got to have that urgency in the heart. 878 00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:19,480 With your head bow and your eyes closed as we go. 879 00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:20,600 The invitation time here. 880 00:46:20,900 --> 00:46:23,060 Thank you for allowing me to go a few minutes over. 881 00:46:24,900 --> 00:46:30,140 Our gracious Heavenly Father, the imminent return of Christ is 882 00:46:30,140 --> 00:46:32,820 something that should weigh on our heart and mind. 883 00:46:33,380 --> 00:46:39,540 There's no other doctrine that I know of that churns my heart. 884 00:46:40,340 --> 00:46:45,100 Why I fervently prepare for my messages to preach that there might 885 00:46:45,100 --> 00:46:46,660 be a soul that's not saved. 886 00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:50,760 Oh, I would not want to be a lost person should the rapture happen 887 00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:52,200 today tonight. 888 00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:56,000 I would not want to have to go through the wrath of God pours out 889 00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:57,240 his wrath upon the world. 890 00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:00,920 I would not want my worst enemy to go through all that. 891 00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:05,880 Lord, let this be a message to light a fire into this church the 892 00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:08,880 light of fire to serve him in a greater way. 893 00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:13,710 To give more, to do more, to witness more, to sing louder to to 894 00:47:13,710 --> 00:47:19,630 fellowship more, to bless others, to give for more missionaries. 895 00:47:20,830 --> 00:47:22,910 This church does that. 896 00:47:22,910 --> 00:47:25,510 You'll have people jumping out of the woods to want to pastor this 897 00:47:25,510 --> 00:47:26,910 church when they see the excitement. 898 00:47:27,550 --> 00:47:31,790 Lord gracious Heavenly Father, help us this evening. 899 00:47:32,430 --> 00:47:38,110 Let this be a lighting of the fire that never gets quenched. 900 00:47:38,270 --> 00:47:42,200 It hangs over our head, never goes away. 901 00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:46,920 Impact at the invitation In Jesus name I pray and with thanksgiving. 902 00:47:47,240 --> 00:47:47,880 Amen. 903 00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:50,200 As we sing quiet to stand quietly to our feet.