In today's troubled world,
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people are
wondering where we're headed?
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Revelation Today
presents the answers.
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Bible prophecy reveals
what the future holds in store.
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Revelation Today.
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I grew up in a country
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that was a member of
the British Commonwealth.
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That meant that the queen,
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Queen Elizabeth II was
the queen of New Zealand
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and Queen Elizabeth II
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didn't visit New
Zealand very often
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but when she did
it was a big deal.
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And as a little kid attending
my little parochial school
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there right on the main
road we were excited to learn
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that the queen was
driving from one appointment
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to the other
right past our school.
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And so we lined
up outside our school
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and we had little flags, I
think if I remember rightly
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and we waited and
waited and she didn't come.
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So lunch time came and I
used to go home for lunch
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it was in the olden days
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and it was while I
was going home for lunch,
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I turned around and
noticed the motorcade was coming
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I was so excited,
here was the Queen
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I stood on the
sidewalk she drove right by
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I waved to the
Queen and she waved back.
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The Queen waved to me,
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it was a big deal
when the Queen was coming.
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Years later, as an
adult I was at an airport
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when the Queen was back.
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She came, this is
out of different town
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and she came and landed
in the big Air Force plane
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and number of us
were on the runway
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there watching the Queen
coming and taking photographs.
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When a Queen
comes it's a big deal.
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If you be in some place
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when the president
is turned up its big,
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the security is
there, roads are closed down.
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What's it gonna be
like, when the King returns?
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What an event that will be?
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And it's not something
any of us need to miss.
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I am excited to announce to
you that the "King Is Coming."
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That's the title of
tonight's presentation
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and our presenter is
once again Ron Halvorsen.
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God bless you. The
last I save for best.
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The great theme of the Bible,
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I mean this great theme
is that "The King Is Coming."
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I mean, this is
the great finale,
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the second
coming of Jesus Christ
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and where would we better end
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in the greatest
and most glorious event
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that is described in
the Book of Revelation?
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You see, this event, the second
coming of Jesus Christ our King
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who created all the
things, who is the Savior,
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who is the blessed
Lord, who is the coming King,
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this is the final story
of hope for a hopeless world.
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This is the final hope for men
and women living in this earth.
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This is the final hope
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when Jesus
welcomes home His children.
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The new life lived
in a new place, heaven,
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the corruptible life
now with incorruption,
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the mortal life
now with immortality.
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I mean, this is the
great event of all events.
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The earth made new by
the power of the God Himself.
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The Bible says to us,
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"If in this life only
we have hope in Christ,
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we are all men most miserable."
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Now this home coming of
Jesus is described in the Bible.
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It is the great theme, it
is the great day of parades
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and angels singing and
shouting words of victory
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and no secret event here.
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I mean, you don't hide a parade,
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you can't hide a parade
when either sides to come
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ten thousands angelic hosts
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coming down the
streams through horizon,
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when He comes with
the trumpet playing
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and the dead
rising and saints being
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caught up to glory
its no little event
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it is the climax of
all that's gone before.
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Jesus is coming again.
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I don't care who the skeptic is,
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I tell you He said it, I
believe it that settles it.
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It is the final act
of Jesus, the home coming
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is when the King
of heaven welcomes us.
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Now this picture is described
in the Book of Revelation.
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And He says, this
lamb which was slain
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now will come
not as a slain lamb
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but He will come as King
of Kings and Lord of Lords.
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The King is coming
and He's coming back
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for the purpose to
reach us for the glory of God.
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John writes in the Revelation
from that dark tank prison,
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he writes of the
glorious return of his Lord
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and the old man's heart
was beating faster and faster,
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and faster soon Jesus would
come back that was his prayer.
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And he says, that our
world would be rescued by God.
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I mean, this rescue takes place
at the coming of Jesus Christ.
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Revelation 1, John writes,
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"Behold, He cometh with clouds,
every eye shall see Him."
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The King is
coming, glory, the King.
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Those who were
skeptic, those who mocked Him
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those who tried
to do away with Him
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from the face of the earth
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they will look
to heavens and cry,
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rocks fall on us
and hide us from Him
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who sitteth on the throne,
Jesus Christ, King of Kings.
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You wonder why I get
excited? His coming is soon.
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The curtain is about
to fall with the finality
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on the theatre of human history.
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The unfolding on
the drama of redemption,
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the Great Controversy is all
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but complete
and all that remains
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is the climactic
return of our Lord.
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The final event
comes with urgency
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because the Lord
is coming back soon.
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So we must answer His call now.
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Revelation 1:7 tells us,
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just the text says
that "He will come in glory
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and His coming
every eye will see Him."
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And it does not
say He will come,
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it says He is coming.
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He's on His way.
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I mean, you see,
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that's the
present tense, eminent,
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that He is already
processing His coming.
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I mean, Jesus is on His way.
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He was on His way
long centuries before,
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before light ever
touched the planet called earth.
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He was on His way long
before the green grass sprout
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and little flowers
blossomed in the point tree
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He pointed His
fingers to the sky
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and He, oak spread out its arms
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and lakes cuddled down
in the huddles of the glen,
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rivers ran down to the sea.
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He was on His way.
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"Blessed is he who reads
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and those who hear the
words of this prophecy,
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and keep those things
which are written in it,
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for the time is near."
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It says near as a heartbeat.
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It says near as a heartbeat.
That's how near it really is.
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When I talked to people
about the soon return of Jesus
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they always give me this.
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Well, it could be hundred years,
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it could be thousand years,
it could be million years.
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No, for you, it
is a heartbeat away.
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He is coming in this generation,
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for if we die in this generation
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we are raised
in this generation.
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So His coming is
near. Even at the door.
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And that's why I
look for that coming.
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But when He does
appear it'll be great glory.
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He will be attended
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the Bible says,
by clouds and glory.
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What a picture the
saints dressed in white robes
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who comping in His return.
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He uses to tern
the cloud of witnesses.
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I mean, so bright and brilliant
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and those who
rose in the special
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resurrection of the death
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and multitudes of
angels, the first Advent,
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He came as a little baby wrapped
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in swaddling
clothes lying in the manger
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and He was greeted
by a choir of angels.
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Glory to God in the highest.
Peace on earth, goodwill.
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Now He comes as a King.
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I mean, the first Advent,
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the first Advent He came
and His throne was a cross.
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The second Advent,
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He comes as one on the
great white throne of judgment.
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Listen to me, the first
coming of the world is the old,
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the second coming
of the world is new.
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The Book of
Revelation could be entitled
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The Book of Home Comings.
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When I was
traveling, for a few years
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I traveled alone in evangelism
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and I have to leave my
wife and my two children
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and I would hug them, goodbye
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and I take off for six weeks.
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And all the time I was thinking
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only five weeks,
three days and 12 hours.
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And I'll be checking
the time, checking the time.
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We're living just
out of Los Angeles
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and I would fly in late at night
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usually into Los Angeles.
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And as I came down into the base
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and saw those lights,
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there are
stretching out before me
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my heart would
beat faster and faster.
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I mean, I was coming home
and I was looking anticipation
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and the plane
landed and I grabbed my bag
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and ran down and
picked up my suitcase
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and my suitcases and I would run
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and they would
be waiting for me.
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What a wonderful
thing it was the homecoming?
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I look forward to that
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because I'd be in
the arms of my family.
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I'm looking
forward to the homecoming
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because I want to put
my arms around my family.
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I love my family.
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I want to put my arms
around my whole family.
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I'm looking for
the homecoming of Jesus
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because I want to put my
arms around my momma again
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and my daddy
again and I want to,
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I want to see my grandparents.
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I want to go home.
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I want to see my roots in those,
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Norwegians in history
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who have given
their lives to Jesus
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and in that first resurrection.
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So I'm looking for
the coming of Jesus.
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And John describes it
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because he was
looking for the same thing.
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He was looking for the
coming of Jesus Christ.
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And he says, the
coming of Jesus is glorious.
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I mean, a great pathway
through Orion's golden card is
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in which comes the
marching of God's mighty armies.
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The King is coming
with trumpet sound.
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The King is coming
with the sound of music,
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angelic choirs.
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I mean they are singing
octaves we can't even think of.
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And this majestic
parade is led by Jesus Christ.
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Banners are flying the
sound of mighty hoofbeats
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and heavens horses
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and this is the
final coordination
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of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Keep in mind, the
second coming of Jesus
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is not casually unimportant
event in a listed of events.
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It is the climax of
all that has gone before.
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Everything we believe
is Christian about Christ,
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the crib, the
incarnation that's gone before.
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The cross and
Calvary and salvation
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finds it's satisfaction
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in the
coordination of Jesus Christ.
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If Jesus Christ does
not come back to get us
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the cross means nothing.
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If Jesus Christ does
not come back to get us
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Bethlehem means nothing.
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If I tell you Jesus Christ
doesn't come back to get us
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all the prophecies of
the Bible mean nothing.
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But He is
coming to get us. Amen.
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My Bible says, He is coming.
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Jesus, and He is
coming, He is coming to get us.
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I mean, the
facts are everywhere.
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The coming of Jesus Christ
is glorious to the eye, visible.
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"Therefore if they say to you,
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'Look for Him in the
desert' do not go out.
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'Look, He is in
the inner rooms!'
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Do not believe it.
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For as the
lightening comes out of east"
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it's visible the coming of Jesus
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"as it flashes to the west,
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so also will be the
coming of the Son of Man."
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That will be a great day.
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"Which also said,
Ye men of Galilee,
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why stand ye
gazing up into heaven?
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This same Jesus, which is coming
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will come in like
manner as ye have seen Him
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go into heaven."
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I mean this is the Word of
God. Facts about His coming.
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His coming is
glorious to the eye.
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His coming is
glorious to the ear,
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every ear will hear Him.
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The sound of a trumpet,
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the thunder clap of the heavens,
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the thunder clap of the heavens.
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Listen to the word of God.
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"Then He shall send His angle
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with a great sound of a trumpet,
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and they shall gather together
His elect from the four winds,
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from one end of
heaven to the other."
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That's the
promise of Jesus Christ.
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"For the Lord
Himself shall descend
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from heaven with a shout,
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the voice of the
archangel, the trump of God,
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and the dead in
Christ shall rise first"
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that's the promise of
the Lord Jesus Christ.
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He is coming back.
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He is coming back and
He is coming back soon.
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"Then we which are
alive and remain should be
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caught up together
with them in the clouds,
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to meet the Lord in the air
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so shall we ever
be with the Lord."
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Comfort one
another with these words.
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Listen to me, that's a promise
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He is coming
visibly, He is coming audibly.
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If you hear anything
else it's a total lie.
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It's a prefabricated
teaching of the theologian.
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But He's coming, is
visible. His coming is audible.
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I tell you its clear to
me as I read the Word of God
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but the coming of Jesus
Christ is not only visible,
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its not only
audible, it is literal.
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"Which also said,
Ye men of Galilee,
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why stand ye
gazing up into heaven?
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This same Jesus,
which is taken up
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from you into heaven
shall so come in like manner
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as ye have seen
Him go into heaven."
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It was the real Jesus.
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Thomas, put your
finger in my hand.
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Thomas, put your
hand into my side.
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It was the real Jesus.
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I mean, it wasn't a fake Jesus.
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It was the real
Jesus that was coming,
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and coming in glory.
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And that's what
my Bible tells me
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the real Jesus is
going to come back again.
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Satan tries to
disguise it and counterfeit in
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but we have
enough in the Word of God
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to know the coming of Jesus
and how it's going to come.
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"Cast not away
therefore your confidence,
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which hath great
recompense of reward.
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For ye have need
of patience, that,
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after ye have
done the will of God,"
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notice he says, "ye
might receive the promise.
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For yet a little while,
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and he that
shall come will come,
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and will not" He
will not "tarry."
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And hear to me God.
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Share your news
with your neighbors,
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and your friends
and your relatives.
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Help them to prepare to me God,
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because pay day some day
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as the old
preaching used to say,
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pay day some day.
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And Jesus Christ,
His disciples came to Him
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and He told
them about two signs.
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He told them about
the fall of Jerusalem
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and He also
talked about the signs
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of the second coming of Christ.
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By the way in Mathews 24,
He begins with those words.
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"Tell us, when
will these things be?
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And what will be the
sign of Thy coming," and what?
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"The end of the world."
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I mean they
believed in the end of age.
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They believed this would
be the end of all things.
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I mean that's what He
was saying here, end time.
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They wanted to know, know
when the end of human world,
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the end of human
heartache, the end of human pain
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when it would take place.
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They needed to know.
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The hub of the whole
treatise swings on verse 44.
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"Therefore be ye also
ready, for in such an hour
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as ye think not
the Son of Man" what?
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"The Son of man,
cometh." Be therefore ready.
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Peter said about the
second coming of Christ.
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He says, He stands ready
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to pass judgment on
the living and the dead.
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James says, the
judge standeth at the door.
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It's the grand
finality, all things are ready.
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"And I charge you
therefore before God,
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the Lord Jesus Christ,
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who shall judge the quick
and the dead at his" what?
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"Appearing and his Kingdom.
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Henceforth there
is laid up for me
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a crown of righteousness."
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Here is the apostle who
had been saved by grace.
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Here is the apostle
who would come to know God.
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He says, "Now I've laid
a crown of righteousness,
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which the Lord,
the righteous judge,
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shall give me at
that day, not to me only,
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but unto all them also
that love His appearing."
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Do you love His appearing? Amen.
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Are you expecting Him to appear?
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Are you living as if
He is going to appear?
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That's the question here tonight
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before we close these series
of meetings on Revelation.
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I mean, are you, are
you ready for that return?
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Are you ready?
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All things are ready. Get ready.
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Now these four things
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we learned about
the second coming.
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The coming of
Christ is imperative.
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Do you hear me?
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The coming of Jesus
Christ is imperative.
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Secondly, the coming of
Jesus Christ is immutable.
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Thirdly, the coming of
Jesus Christ is Emmanuel.
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And finally the coming
of Jesus Christ is imminent.
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Let me tell you,
powerful forces swirl
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around the mankind today.
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I mean, forces destined
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to bring about a profound change
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in both our physical
world and our spiritual world.
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There are number of
malignant dark forces
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opposing God, opposing His word.
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These forces sees upon science
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and technology as prime
tools for the exploration
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and conquest of soul.
00:17:08.28\00:17:10.30
We talk about
laser particle beams.
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We talk about
biological and temporal weapons.
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We talk about cloning.
00:17:15.76\00:17:17.67
We talk about
hi-tech surveillance.
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You can't hide.
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So, instead I'm gonna
move out of the country
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and I'm gonna get away from
all this stuff and I can hide.
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Don't go there, go
to the city and hide.
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Lot of warm bodies there.
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I think they can
distinguish a cow
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and you run through a field.
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But they can figure me out
running to a crowd in Brooklyn.
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We all look
alike. We all look alike.
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I mean, we talk about
hi-tech surveillance system,
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genetic engineering, robotics,
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conflict in the Middle
East, pollution, death, planet.
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I mean, just think of the
world the technology hi-tech,
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the age of hi-tech
arrived with magnum force.
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Computers, I'm
amazed at computer.
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I told my wife the
other day if I had a computer
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when I was a young man I
would have been dangerous.
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I wouldn't be texting everybody,
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I would be doing
something of value.
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But I would have been dangerous.
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Google.
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I would've been number
one scientist in my class.
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Computers, if you
kids can't make it now,
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I give up.
00:18:38.50\00:18:41.36
I had an excuse, I was dumb.
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But you are dumb but you have
something smart, a computer.
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I mean, we're talking about
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telecommunication
satellite, drones.
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You realize we've knocked
off more terrorists with drones
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then we do with the
whole army, Navy and Air force.
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I mean, look at me, I
mean, this is a world,
00:19:05.13\00:19:08.54
you know Frude in a
book "Intimate Machine,
00:19:08.57\00:19:10.54
Close Encounters with
Computers and Robots" said this,
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"Soon we shall have
robots as companions
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and even as sex partners."
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Can you imagine?
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Bowing God out
and bowing man in,
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there is no limit
to His perversion.
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Jesus-- it's imperative
00:19:26.23\00:19:27.30
that Jesus Christ
comes cuts it short.
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You see, if He does not come
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He has to apologize
to Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Jesus will come.
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The robotics, there's
material similar to human flesh,
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did you know that?
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They manufacture organic brains.
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I'm waiting for the
one that fits my head.
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They already have
biological computer units.
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This is not
science fiction malarkey,
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its reality talking about
00:19:52.04\00:19:53.56
artificial eyes,
artificial noses.
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By the way, it distinguishes
00:19:55.85\00:19:57.05
the dozens of
different flower smells.
00:19:57.08\00:20:01.90
Bert Valley, one
time head of the Harvard
00:20:01.93\00:20:03.88
seven member team researchers,
successfully cloned a molecule
00:20:03.91\00:20:07.86
which triggers the
growth of body cells,
00:20:07.89\00:20:09.90
the generation of organs.
00:20:09.93\00:20:12.39
In the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem,
00:20:12.42\00:20:14.05
biotechnologists have also been
successful in another realm.
00:20:14.08\00:20:17.89
They have successfully
manipulated DN chemicals
00:20:17.92\00:20:21.27
to change aged mouse cells
back into young mouse cells.
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Whoa! Eternal life.
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Jesus needs to
come, its imperative.
00:20:28.68\00:20:31.36
"But thou, O
Daniel, shut up the words,
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and seal the book
until the time," what?
00:20:32.78\00:20:34.82
"Even to the time of the
end, many shall run to and fro,
00:20:34.85\00:20:37.12
knowledge shall be" what?
00:20:37.15\00:20:38.18
"Increased."
00:20:38.21\00:20:39.24
I mean, you can't deny
we're living in a time warp.
00:20:39.27\00:20:42.55
"We're going
through this time wrap."
00:20:42.58\00:20:44.22
And I look forward to
the coming of Jesus Christ.
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It's imperative that He come.
00:20:46.14\00:20:47.65
I mean its
imperative than you say
00:20:47.68\00:20:48.82
that Jesus Christ intervenes.
00:20:48.85\00:20:50.74
Its imperative that
Jesus comes through His people
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before mankind tries
to wipe out His people.
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DNA, one of the presidents
of Colombia University,
00:20:56.61\00:20:59.65
formal president said
the end cannot be distinct.
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I mean, when we read
some of those statements.
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"And His
thinking has been sound,
00:21:06.14\00:21:08.21
then the world is at
the end of its tether.
00:21:08.24\00:21:10.42
An end of
everything we call life
00:21:10.45\00:21:11.84
is close at hand
cannot be evaded."
00:21:11.87\00:21:13.34
This is an
evangelist H.G. Wells.
00:21:13.37\00:21:15.89
"The end, there
beckons more and more
00:21:15.92\00:21:17.48
clearly general annihilation."
00:21:17.51\00:21:19.23
Albert Einstein.
00:21:19.26\00:21:20.44
He had no Christ in that picture
00:21:20.47\00:21:23.06
it was desperation.
00:21:23.09\00:21:25.78
"I cannot see any
future for our known world."
00:21:25.81\00:21:28.24
Former chancellor of
the University of Chicago.
00:21:28.27\00:21:30.21
Listen, this is not
evangelistic talking,
00:21:30.24\00:21:32.19
not pastors talking, this
is what scientist are saying,
00:21:32.22\00:21:35.05
this is what
educated people are saying.
00:21:35.08\00:21:36.76
They can't see much of
the future for this world.
00:21:36.79\00:21:38.93
I want to tell you
00:21:38.96\00:21:39.99
there is not much of
future for the world we know
00:21:40.02\00:21:42.16
but there is a
feature for the new world
00:21:42.19\00:21:43.52
that God is going
to give to His people.
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I mean look at this,
one columnist writing about
00:21:46.42\00:21:49.34
the uncertainness of our
times commented satirically.
00:21:49.37\00:21:52.90
"The very best
our leaders could do
00:21:52.93\00:21:54.52
to sophisticate
their actions in such a way
00:21:54.55\00:21:57.30
as to ensure the way
to international hell
00:21:57.33\00:21:59.78
was paved with good intensions."
00:21:59.81\00:22:03.21
A sales clerk holding
up her gadget pictures,
00:22:03.24\00:22:06.03
here is an educational
toy designed to adjust a child
00:22:06.06\00:22:10.10
to live in the world today.
00:22:10.13\00:22:11.44
Anyway he puts it
together its wrong.
00:22:11.47\00:22:15.69
Oh, messy.
00:22:15.72\00:22:17.53
I hope you get that by Thursday.
00:22:17.56\00:22:18.98
I don't know the
way, the look you gave me
00:22:19.01\00:22:21.44
I'm surprised anyway.
00:22:21.47\00:22:23.69
Readers Digest commented,
if you put all the economist
00:22:23.72\00:22:26.43
and laid them end to end
00:22:26.46\00:22:27.67
they would all point
in a different direction.
00:22:27.70\00:22:30.46
Republicans and Democrats.
00:22:30.49\00:22:33.45
A businessman he
was always getting lost,
00:22:33.48\00:22:35.22
and he would go
hunting on a weekend
00:22:35.25\00:22:37.38
and Monday he would
come he wouldn't be there.
00:22:37.41\00:22:39.78
Tuesday, finally he
shows up, what happen?
00:22:39.81\00:22:41.75
I got lost, lost in the wood.
00:22:41.78\00:22:43.33
So his birthday came
they gave him a compass.
00:22:43.36\00:22:46.19
And so they sent him off
to the woods with his compass.
00:22:46.22\00:22:49.04
And came
Monday, he wasn't there.
00:22:49.07\00:22:50.40
Came Tuesday he wasn't there.
00:22:50.43\00:22:51.49
Came Wednesday, he was lost.
00:22:51.52\00:22:54.89
And he came in and they say's
00:22:54.92\00:22:57.17
how could you get
lost you had a compass?
00:22:57.20\00:22:59.75
Well, he said I
started to go towards the north
00:22:59.78\00:23:03.88
and the needle kept
pointing towards the southeast.
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It's immutable.
00:23:09.94\00:23:11.65
All right, the
second coming of Christ
00:23:11.68\00:23:13.02
is immutable as
well it's changeless.
00:23:13.05\00:23:15.86
God never changes.
00:23:15.89\00:23:17.85
And if He said He's gonna come,
00:23:17.88\00:23:18.91
He's gonna come in
His time, He's gonna come.
00:23:18.94\00:23:21.74
It's immutable.
00:23:21.77\00:23:23.52
But the coming of Jesus
Christ is also Emmanuel.
00:23:23.55\00:23:28.46
The coming of Jesus, listen,
"That by two immutable things,
00:23:28.49\00:23:31.92
in which it was
impossible for God to lie,
00:23:31.95\00:23:34.39
we might have
strong consolation."
00:23:34.42\00:23:36.46
He says, it's immutable.
00:23:36.49\00:23:37.68
Changeless, it can't be changed.
00:23:37.71\00:23:39.89
"We have fled the refuge
to lay hold upon set before us
00:23:39.92\00:23:43.26
which hope we have as
an anchor of the soul."
00:23:43.29\00:23:45.41
He says, we have
an anchor of the soul,
00:23:45.44\00:23:46.89
that anchor is the
second coming of Jesus Christ.
00:23:46.92\00:23:49.59
"Both sure and steadfast,
00:23:49.62\00:23:51.06
which entereth into
that within the veil."
00:23:51.09\00:23:53.55
Dear brothers and
sisters, the only anchor
00:23:53.58\00:23:55.34
we have in this world
that holds us on the rock
00:23:55.37\00:23:58.47
is the anchor of the
second coming of Jesus Christ.
00:23:58.50\00:24:01.36
That He is coming
00:24:01.39\00:24:02.42
and we're gonna
hold fast till He comes.
00:24:02.45\00:24:05.44
We're gonna be
faithful till He comes.
00:24:05.47\00:24:07.66
"For that which cause I
also suffered these things
00:24:07.69\00:24:10.00
nevertheless I am not ashamed
00:24:10.03\00:24:11.55
for I know whom
I have believed,"
00:24:11.58\00:24:14.16
and then he says, "Am persuaded
that he is able to keep that
00:24:14.19\00:24:17.24
which I have committed
unto Him against that day.
00:24:17.27\00:24:21.80
And the Word was made
flesh," this is Emmanuel.
00:24:21.83\00:24:24.69
The coming of
Jesus Christ is Emmanuel.
00:24:24.72\00:24:26.55
Listen to me carefully.
00:24:26.58\00:24:28.28
"For God sent not his Son into
the world to condemn the world
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but that the world
through him might" what?
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"Be saved." John 3:17.
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The Bible says, Acts 1:11,
00:24:35.80\00:24:37.24
"Which said also,
Ye men of Galilee,
00:24:37.27\00:24:39.00
why stand ye
gazing up into heaven?
00:24:39.03\00:24:40.53
This same Jesus,
which is taken up
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will come in like
manner as ye have seen him go."
00:24:42.19\00:24:44.38
The coming of Jesus
Christ is immutable.
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The coming of
Jesus Christ is Emmanuel.
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And by the way he uses
that Greek present word
00:24:49.62\00:24:53.11
and he says be
ready it's suggested
00:24:53.14\00:24:55.78
the second coming
will be a bodily return,
00:24:55.81\00:24:58.31
great contrast
at the first Advent.
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Look, the first time He
enters through a woman's womb
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and no one saw Him
enter, the second time
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He comes every
eye shall see Him.
00:25:06.04\00:25:08.03
The first time He
came is a Lamb of God.
00:25:08.06\00:25:10.41
The second time He comes
as a lion of a tribe of Judah.
00:25:10.44\00:25:13.83
The first time He
came to redeem us.
00:25:13.86\00:25:15.75
The second time He
comes to reign over us.
00:25:15.78\00:25:18.17
The first coming He
came as king of the Jews.
00:25:18.20\00:25:20.78
Second coming He
comes as King of King's
00:25:20.81\00:25:23.15
and Lord of Lord's.
00:25:23.18\00:25:24.44
The first time He comes
to receive a crown of thrown.
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The second time He comes
to receive a crown of a glory.
00:25:27.30\00:25:30.50
You see, the first time He
came in the weakness of a baby.
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The second time He comes
in a power of Almighty God.
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The Almighty God. It's real.
00:25:40.44\00:25:46.92
Dad asks son what
he want for Christmas?
00:25:46.95\00:25:50.28
I want a horse.
00:25:50.31\00:25:53.15
A wooden horse? No.
00:25:53.18\00:25:55.94
An iron horse? No.
00:25:55.97\00:25:58.64
I want a horse made of horse.
00:25:58.67\00:26:02.67
I want the real thing.
And I want the real thing.
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The real thing
when Jesus comes back
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He comes back as a real thing.
00:26:09.77\00:26:11.93
The same Jesus
which has taken up
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into heaven shall
so come in like manner
00:26:13.59\00:26:15.74
as you have see
Him go into heaven.
00:26:15.77\00:26:17.68
The coming of
Jesus Christ is Emmanuel.
00:26:17.71\00:26:20.09
God with us again.
00:26:20.12\00:26:21.50
Listen to me, God came
into this world to be with us.
00:26:21.53\00:26:24.10
The great thing
that we love about God
00:26:24.13\00:26:26.13
is that He was not far off,
00:26:26.16\00:26:27.53
He did not like some
theologians try to tell us
00:26:27.56\00:26:30.12
created a universe
and then stepped back
00:26:30.15\00:26:32.48
and He sits
somewhere in the darkness
00:26:32.51\00:26:34.56
of the universe not concerned.
00:26:34.59\00:26:36.90
Our God was so concerned
when He created the world,
00:26:36.93\00:26:39.64
our God stepped
down into the world.
00:26:39.67\00:26:41.97
Our God was so
concerned about an Adam
00:26:42.00\00:26:43.90
who falls that He becomes
the second Adam not to fall.
00:26:43.93\00:26:47.57
Our God was so concerned
00:26:47.60\00:26:48.93
when He saw the garden
turned into a wilderness,
00:26:48.96\00:26:51.09
He came to the wilderness
00:26:51.12\00:26:52.23
to turn the
wilderness back into a garden.
00:26:52.26\00:26:54.94
Our God was so concerned
when man sinned and death
00:26:54.97\00:26:57.89
God came to die as a lamb slain
00:26:57.92\00:26:59.76
from the
foundation of the earth.
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He came to-- that's how
much God is concerned about us.
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That's how God-- much
God is concerned about.
00:27:06.36\00:27:09.34
I tell you there
is no prophetic event,
00:27:09.37\00:27:11.17
no prophetic
chart, no historical event
00:27:11.20\00:27:13.68
awaits fulfillment prior
to His coming for His church.
00:27:13.71\00:27:16.69
All New Testament
writers exhorted us,
00:27:16.72\00:27:18.85
watch, wait, watch, look,
pray, expecting at any moment
00:27:18.88\00:27:24.85
the return of Jesus
Christ back to the earth again.
00:27:24.88\00:27:28.65
The return of Jesus
Christ back to the earth again.
00:27:28.68\00:27:31.27
And He uses that
word, be ready, be ready,
00:27:31.30\00:27:35.43
be ready, again
and again and again.
00:27:35.46\00:27:38.55
I used to like to play hooky.
00:27:38.58\00:27:41.93
I had my own trune
office I played hooky so much.
00:27:41.96\00:27:45.08
My mother spent more time
in high school than I did.
00:27:45.11\00:27:47.02
But any way, I used
to like to play hooky
00:27:47.05\00:27:53.08
and we used to go
down-- my brother Billy and I,
00:27:53.11\00:27:55.50
we used to go
down the Belt Parkway
00:27:55.53\00:27:58.49
and we go down to the
lower part of Brooklyn
00:27:58.52\00:28:00.18
that's were the
ferry was to Staten Island.
00:28:00.21\00:28:03.59
And Billy and I we
were always in trouble.
00:28:03.62\00:28:07.54
But we would get on the
ferry across the Staten Island,
00:28:07.57\00:28:13.38
it was a cheap ride five
cents in that day a nickel,
00:28:13.41\00:28:16.91
take boat ride for a nickel.
00:28:16.94\00:28:19.25
I can't start my
motor for a nickel,
00:28:19.28\00:28:22.53
I took a whole boat ride.
00:28:22.56\00:28:24.53
And if you stayed on the ferry
00:28:24.56\00:28:26.06
you got a round
trip ticket on the boat.
00:28:26.09\00:28:29.17
But we used to
go out on the ferry
00:28:29.20\00:28:31.19
and it was very interesting
00:28:31.22\00:28:33.31
because we
would get there early,
00:28:33.34\00:28:34.37
you know, and get
there we had the time table.
00:28:34.40\00:28:37.03
We picked the time table off
00:28:37.06\00:28:38.86
and looked at it the ferry
was gonna leave in 10 minutes
00:28:38.89\00:28:42.12
and my brother and I would get
00:28:42.15\00:28:43.47
on to ferry as soon as we could,
00:28:43.50\00:28:45.53
we want to be the
first on the ferry,
00:28:45.56\00:28:47.10
and we'd be sitting
there and looking out
00:28:47.13\00:28:49.27
and there would
be people sitting,
00:28:49.30\00:28:50.78
standing around above the dock
just talking and visiting and,
00:28:50.81\00:28:55.52
you know, just
having a nice time,
00:28:55.55\00:28:58.55
and they would get
closer and closer and closer.
00:28:58.58\00:29:01.85
But they're so involved in
visiting relatives and friends
00:29:01.88\00:29:05.15
and they're standing on the dock
00:29:05.18\00:29:07.79
and they'd be
standing there and visiting,
00:29:07.82\00:29:11.12
we'd be sitting on the
ferry, and all of a sudden
00:29:11.15\00:29:15.96
and then people would
realize and suddenly would run
00:29:15.99\00:29:18.63
to the ticket
counter to buy their ticket.
00:29:18.66\00:29:21.08
I mean, bad enough
standing around like a goon
00:29:21.11\00:29:24.24
but then running
for a ticket counter
00:29:24.27\00:29:26.47
to buy a ticket.
00:29:26.50\00:29:29.21
And the ferry pulled out
they'd be standing there.
00:29:29.24\00:29:33.12
Don't let the
ferry pull out. Amen.
00:29:33.15\00:29:36.04
Amen, don't let
the ferry pull out.
00:29:36.07\00:29:40.68
Be always ready
00:29:40.71\00:29:42.92
because readiness
is the important thing.
00:29:42.95\00:29:46.87
Jesus told His disciples--
now I give you all the signs,
00:29:46.90\00:29:51.43
I show you all these things,
00:29:51.46\00:29:54.37
for the purpose
that you will be ready.
00:29:54.40\00:29:57.52
And the
disciples lived every day
00:29:57.55\00:30:00.78
with expectancy of
return of Jesus Christ
00:30:00.81\00:30:05.44
and every one of
them died with expectancy.
00:30:05.47\00:30:11.84
They were laid to
rest with expectancy.
00:30:11.87\00:30:16.32
Peter, crucified
upside down, expectancy.
00:30:16.35\00:30:23.19
I'm not worthy
to die like my Lord,
00:30:23.22\00:30:25.20
upside down, great expectancy.
00:30:25.23\00:30:28.83
There was Andrew
and there was Paul
00:30:28.86\00:30:34.74
and there was the apostles,
Luke and John, well, Matthew.
00:30:34.77\00:30:39.38
And John was the only
apostle of all the apostles
00:30:39.41\00:30:41.52
that lived until his
death, a natural death.
00:30:41.55\00:30:45.44
But it wasn't
natural getting to his death.
00:30:45.47\00:30:47.96
They boiled him in the oil,
00:30:47.99\00:30:50.25
tried to make a
French fry of him, it failed.
00:30:50.28\00:30:53.77
The king got so scared at this,
00:30:53.80\00:30:56.39
he got so
scared then what he did
00:30:56.42\00:30:59.61
was he put John on
the isle of Patmos.
00:30:59.64\00:31:03.02
That was the
Alcatraz of that day.
00:31:03.05\00:31:06.20
And he was on
Alcatraz for sometime.
00:31:06.23\00:31:10.23
But you could not destroy
his faith in return of Jesus.
00:31:10.26\00:31:14.93
And Jesus came to
John, and He said,
00:31:14.96\00:31:16.86
look at these things, John.
00:31:16.89\00:31:18.95
In the very first chapter
He says, look at these things,
00:31:18.98\00:31:21.05
I'm gonna come in
glory, so watch the heavens.
00:31:21.08\00:31:24.86
And the old man I
could picture Him,
00:31:24.89\00:31:27.40
is demised the old man looking
out across the Aegean Sea,
00:31:27.43\00:31:34.64
looking up to the
heavens waiting for his Lord.
00:31:34.67\00:31:39.26
Went back to Ephesus
00:31:39.29\00:31:41.32
and there he
fell asleep in Christ,
00:31:41.35\00:31:43.97
with expectancy.
00:31:44.00\00:31:47.26
And the next thing he
knows, did you hear me?
00:31:47.29\00:31:52.44
The next thing he knows
breaking forth from the grave
00:31:52.47\00:31:56.92
would be Jesus coming
for him, coming for him.
00:31:56.95\00:32:03.21
I don't know if I
told you this once before
00:32:03.24\00:32:04.96
but I had a lovely
Christian grandmother.
00:32:04.99\00:32:08.26
Well, both
grandmothers were wonderful
00:32:08.29\00:32:09.51
but my Norwegian
grandmother, she was faithful,
00:32:09.54\00:32:12.88
they came over to America,
my grandpa was a shipbuilder
00:32:12.91\00:32:18.38
and he worked as a carpenter
to get his whole family.
00:32:18.41\00:32:21.83
They were five I
think, five children
00:32:21.86\00:32:23.56
and my dad was
conceived in Norway
00:32:23.59\00:32:27.16
and he was born in America.
00:32:27.19\00:32:29.78
But anyway he worked
his way across to America.
00:32:29.81\00:32:33.04
And my grandmother was a
faithful Christian woman.
00:32:33.07\00:32:36.21
She'd go to all meetings,
like these she would love it.
00:32:36.24\00:32:38.96
Me preaching?
00:32:38.99\00:32:41.21
Could you imagine
what my-- and we love them.
00:32:41.24\00:32:47.84
She was stricken with a
stroke and half her body,
00:32:47.87\00:32:54.89
my mama took her in
00:32:54.92\00:32:55.95
and she had half
a smile on her face
00:32:55.98\00:32:57.72
and she took care of
her-- I forgot how many years.
00:32:57.75\00:33:00.70
But soon she got so that my mama
00:33:00.73\00:33:02.43
couldn't take
care of any longer.
00:33:02.46\00:33:04.72
And she had to put her in
one of these county homes.
00:33:04.75\00:33:10.53
And every now and
then I would go out there.
00:33:10.56\00:33:12.28
It was four hours each way,
00:33:12.31\00:33:16.31
subway, subway, subway,
bus, bus, trains from trains--
00:33:16.34\00:33:20.32
I carry so many
train fares in my pocket,
00:33:20.35\00:33:24.42
every time I go
by a bus stop now,
00:33:24.45\00:33:27.00
I feel sorry for
people who have to--
00:33:27.03\00:33:29.46
because I had to ride the buses,
00:33:29.49\00:33:30.90
I know what it's like.
00:33:30.93\00:33:32.89
And then I go in
walk down the corridor,
00:33:32.92\00:33:34.96
and I go into that room
it's a big room many beds
00:33:34.99\00:33:38.31
and I walked over
to my grandmother.
00:33:38.34\00:33:40.24
She always had half
a smile on her face,
00:33:40.27\00:33:42.21
never complained.
00:33:42.24\00:33:44.28
She know much English,
00:33:44.31\00:33:45.52
she would say
things in Norwegian
00:33:45.55\00:33:46.98
which I couldn't understand
but there was one thing
00:33:47.01\00:33:49.61
she always said,
good boy, good boy.
00:33:49.64\00:33:52.32
Here is black leather
jacket it's got blood.
00:33:52.35\00:33:54.50
Here I am-- I wasn't a good boy
00:33:54.53\00:33:57.53
but to grandma I was a good boy.
00:33:57.56\00:33:59.73
Can you imagine
when Jesus Christ comes
00:33:59.76\00:34:01.71
and breaks that
grave open in Brooklyn
00:34:01.74\00:34:03.73
and that woman comes off
and she sees me rising up
00:34:03.76\00:34:07.18
and she says,
good boy, good boy!
00:34:07.21\00:34:10.41
And then I tell
her about the thousands
00:34:17.09\00:34:19.58
and tens of thousands of people
00:34:19.61\00:34:21.29
I shared the good
news of the gospel
00:34:21.32\00:34:23.93
and she would be so proud.
00:34:23.96\00:34:26.03
If there's buttons on her robe,
00:34:26.06\00:34:28.14
they will pop and
that's why be ready.
00:34:28.17\00:34:32.82
Well, such an hour as you
think not the Son of Man comes,
00:34:32.85\00:34:35.96
He's coming to rescue us.
00:34:35.99\00:34:38.03
My brothers, listen to me,
He is coming to rescue you.
00:34:38.06\00:34:41.36
It was June 2, 1995,
while flying a machine
00:34:41.39\00:34:45.39
for the United States
Air Force in cooperation
00:34:45.42\00:34:47.55
with the United Nations,
00:34:47.58\00:34:48.80
Captain Scott
O'Grady was shot down
00:34:48.83\00:34:52.66
over Bosnia
territory in Eastern Europe.
00:34:52.69\00:34:56.80
He safely ejected from
his burning crashing plane,
00:34:56.83\00:34:59.80
slowly
parachuting to the ground,
00:34:59.83\00:35:02.77
did so with
growing fear and dread
00:35:02.80\00:35:05.20
as he saw people including
enemy soldiers watching him.
00:35:05.23\00:35:09.40
And he landed in a grassy field
00:35:09.43\00:35:10.84
slightly away from
the gathering crowd.
00:35:10.87\00:35:13.85
He quickly ran into the
woods and he hid under bushes
00:35:13.88\00:35:19.35
and they came stamping
by and they missed him.
00:35:19.38\00:35:24.25
And there it was for
the rest of his time,
00:35:24.28\00:35:28.06
I mean, it was
swarming with the subs.
00:35:28.09\00:35:30.33
For the next six day,
00:35:30.36\00:35:31.40
Captain O'Grady eluded
there would be captives
00:35:31.43\00:35:34.38
by remaining frozen
with his face in the dirt
00:35:34.41\00:35:36.75
and moving very
cautiously only at night.
00:35:36.78\00:35:40.26
He stumbled upon, upon
that was fully of dead bodies
00:35:40.29\00:35:45.52
and he had to lay there
in those dead bodies to hide.
00:35:45.55\00:35:50.67
Those days and nights
were filled with terror.
00:35:50.70\00:35:53.90
He gave a tremendous testimony
when he had been delivered.
00:35:53.93\00:35:56.85
He said I prayed
for a lot of things.
00:35:56.88\00:35:59.88
He delivered
throughout the entire time,
00:35:59.91\00:36:02.40
he said when I prayed for rain,
00:36:02.43\00:36:04.70
He gave me rain.
00:36:04.73\00:36:07.07
One night he
prayed to hear someone,
00:36:07.10\00:36:08.58
just someone's
voice and that very night
00:36:08.61\00:36:11.25
he heard the
voice of T.O. Hanford.
00:36:11.28\00:36:14.18
On the sixth day,
00:36:14.21\00:36:15.66
he got a radio
contact with a US plane
00:36:15.69\00:36:18.51
and the rescue team
came to get him home.
00:36:18.54\00:36:22.15
And when he was
in the helicopter,
00:36:22.18\00:36:23.65
he kept saying thank
you, thank you, thank you.
00:36:23.68\00:36:29.10
Captain Scott O'Grady
was rescued from the enemy.
00:36:29.13\00:36:36.76
How much more
should we be thankful
00:36:36.79\00:36:40.08
that one day our
experience of life ends
00:36:40.11\00:36:45.38
that one day Jesus
Christ is going to, what?
00:36:45.41\00:36:49.31
He's is going to
deliver us. I want Him to come.
00:36:49.34\00:36:54.18
I'm tired to know
00:36:54.21\00:36:55.24
the two-thirds of
the world's population
00:36:55.27\00:36:57.10
goes under
nourished, I'm tired of that.
00:36:57.13\00:36:59.67
I'm sick of the
crime and the rape
00:36:59.70\00:37:01.23
and the murder and the mayhem,
00:37:01.26\00:37:03.63
tired of reading
about killings and rapes
00:37:03.66\00:37:07.48
and I want to
see Him with my eyes.
00:37:07.51\00:37:10.76
I want to touch
Him with my hands.
00:37:10.79\00:37:13.77
I mean, I want to
thank Him with these lips
00:37:13.80\00:37:18.62
and hold Him in these arms.
00:37:18.65\00:37:23.08
When I was at
seminary I married my wife,
00:37:23.11\00:37:25.16
I told you the
beautiful girl and we thought
00:37:25.19\00:37:27.96
two mouths are
cheaper to feed than one,
00:37:27.99\00:37:29.61
sooner there were three mouths.
00:37:29.64\00:37:33.41
And then she was
pregnant for the fourth mouth.
00:37:33.44\00:37:36.51
I was at the
seminary I had no money,
00:37:36.54\00:37:38.18
I had no-- we didn't
even have any kind of medical,
00:37:38.21\00:37:41.76
I mean, no medical at all
00:37:41.79\00:37:44.69
and we were
wondering what's gonna happen?
00:37:44.72\00:37:46.69
How were gonna have this baby?
00:37:46.72\00:37:47.76
I don't have any
money, I'm working fulltime
00:37:47.79\00:37:50.12
to pay for our apartment
and pay for our seminary
00:37:50.15\00:37:53.05
and my wife she is
working and she was a waitress
00:37:53.08\00:37:58.11
and she is
working and I'm working
00:37:58.14\00:37:59.70
and we're getting
nowhere and finally she said,
00:37:59.73\00:38:02.71
well, may be I should go back
East of Vermont to my uncle.
00:38:02.74\00:38:05.70
He's a doctor
that's better then Medicare
00:38:05.73\00:38:10.49
or Obama Care or
whatever care it is.
00:38:10.52\00:38:12.46
I mean, it's
better than anything.
00:38:12.49\00:38:15.20
And so I had to send her back,
00:38:15.23\00:38:16.43
I had to send my boy Ronny back.
00:38:16.46\00:38:18.25
It was a terrible moment
there in that railroad station
00:38:18.28\00:38:22.34
when they were going back East,
00:38:22.37\00:38:23.40
I was going West to--
00:38:23.43\00:38:24.81
I hold a field
school in California
00:38:24.84\00:38:26.85
or to be in a field
school in California.
00:38:26.88\00:38:29.07
I was gone for
almost three months.
00:38:29.10\00:38:31.86
While I was
there I got a telegram,
00:38:31.89\00:38:34.64
"Diane, 8 pounds"
whatever was born.
00:38:34.67\00:38:39.34
But you know, you can't
burp a telegram come on.
00:38:39.37\00:38:43.48
I mean, what's in
personal about a telegram?
00:38:43.51\00:38:46.54
But when my time went up
I went back to the seminary,
00:38:46.57\00:38:49.63
I got a car and I drove.
00:38:49.66\00:38:51.37
My wife had moved from
Vermont over to New York State
00:38:51.40\00:38:54.66
to be with her
grandmother who raised her.
00:38:54.69\00:38:57.14
I drove through Canada
00:38:57.17\00:38:58.20
because it was five
miles an hour faster
00:38:58.23\00:38:59.96
and I went ten
miles an hour faster.
00:38:59.99\00:39:02.79
And I remember
when I drove into that
00:39:02.82\00:39:04.30
I wanted to see my babe--
00:39:04.33\00:39:05.36
I haven't even seen my baby
and drove into that driveway.
00:39:05.39\00:39:11.46
Came to a stop, ran
out, ran to the door
00:39:11.49\00:39:13.25
no one was home
they've gone somewhere
00:39:13.28\00:39:16.12
and I sat there
two and half hours
00:39:16.15\00:39:17.64
but then a car
came in, my wife got out
00:39:17.67\00:39:20.95
with the little
baby Diane in her arms
00:39:20.98\00:39:24.67
and I put my arms
around her and my baby
00:39:24.70\00:39:27.00
and held her for the first time.
00:39:27.03\00:39:29.16
You talk about joy
for the first time.
00:39:29.19\00:39:33.36
Little Ronny he
was trying to figure
00:39:33.39\00:39:34.75
who I was, my little boy
and then finally he realized,
00:39:34.78\00:39:40.10
daddy, daddy and
leaped into my arms.
00:39:40.13\00:39:43.28
What a home coming that was.
00:39:43.31\00:39:45.19
When I was finally
united with the ones I love,
00:39:45.22\00:39:47.78
my dear friend, what a
home coming it's gonna be
00:39:47.81\00:39:50.19
when we are united
with the once we love.
00:39:50.22\00:39:52.48
That's why
Jesus is coming again.
00:39:52.51\00:39:56.37
That's why
Jesus is coming again.
00:39:56.40\00:39:58.52
And I want to say to you here,
00:39:58.55\00:40:00.34
you who believe I want to say
00:40:00.37\00:40:02.06
"Look up, lift up your head
your redemption draweth nigh."
00:40:02.09\00:40:08.68
Your redemption draweth nigh.
00:40:08.71\00:40:11.15
Good evening, everyone.
00:40:49.26\00:40:50.61
Time to take a look
at some Bible questions,
00:40:50.64\00:40:52.35
I'm glad we can do
that, let's do that now.
00:40:52.38\00:40:54.82
And here is the first question.
00:40:54.85\00:40:57.94
Our Bible question is,
00:40:57.97\00:41:00.43
"can you explain
the unpardonable sin?"
00:41:00.46\00:41:03.40
Let's look at in
Bible in Matthew Chapter 12
00:41:03.43\00:41:06.67
and we'll start
off in about verse 30.
00:41:06.70\00:41:08.71
Matthew 12:30 or so.
00:41:08.74\00:41:11.50
The unpardonable sin,
00:41:11.53\00:41:12.61
that sounds serious, doesn't it?
00:41:12.64\00:41:14.14
Before we read that
verse or a little passage here
00:41:14.17\00:41:17.66
I want to say
this, I'm glad and I hope
00:41:17.69\00:41:20.54
that you are glad that
God is a forgiving God.
00:41:20.57\00:41:24.48
1 John 1:9 reassures us.
00:41:24.51\00:41:26.92
If we confess our sins,
00:41:26.95\00:41:28.59
He is faithful and just
to forgive us of our sins
00:41:28.62\00:41:32.43
and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness.
00:41:32.46\00:41:36.85
God is a forgiving God.
00:41:36.88\00:41:40.06
For unfortunate
woman who'd been set up
00:41:40.09\00:41:43.05
was dragged into the
presence of Jesus one day by men
00:41:43.08\00:41:45.73
who were willing to stone her
00:41:45.76\00:41:48.26
and she said to him at
the end of the exchange,
00:41:48.29\00:41:52.14
where are your accusers?
00:41:52.17\00:41:53.20
She's what, they
are not here anymore.
00:41:53.23\00:41:55.30
Jesus said, I
don't condemn you either,
00:41:55.33\00:41:57.94
go and sin no more.
00:41:57.97\00:41:59.39
He forgave her, He could
have thrown the book at her,
00:41:59.42\00:42:01.59
they could have
thrown stones at her,
00:42:01.62\00:42:05.49
but Jesus is in the business
of forgiving, excuse me.
00:42:05.52\00:42:08.87
In another place, the Bible says
00:42:08.90\00:42:10.18
that God is not
willing that any should perish,
00:42:10.21\00:42:12.62
but they all
should come to repentance.
00:42:12.65\00:42:14.74
God is in the business
of getting people saved,
00:42:14.77\00:42:16.58
He wants people to be in heaven.
00:42:16.61\00:42:20.39
But there is somebody
00:42:20.42\00:42:21.69
who can do something about that,
00:42:21.72\00:42:23.33
there is somebody who
can frustrate God's plans
00:42:23.36\00:42:26.13
and that somebody is you.
00:42:26.16\00:42:27.65
God won't drag
you to heaven kicking,
00:42:27.68\00:42:29.42
and screaming
over your objections,
00:42:29.45\00:42:31.28
you have a choice to go
00:42:31.31\00:42:32.91
and if you want
to choose not to go,
00:42:32.94\00:42:34.36
He will sadly or with
some sadness honor your choice.
00:42:34.39\00:42:39.58
So let's read here
in Matthew Chapter 12
00:42:39.61\00:42:42.04
where Jesus
speaks and says this,
00:42:42.07\00:42:44.87
"He that is not with
Me" verse 30 "is against Me,
00:42:44.90\00:42:47.70
and he that gathereth not
with Me scattereth abroad."
00:42:47.73\00:42:51.57
Jesus wants us to
be a 100% with Him.
00:42:51.60\00:42:53.76
With Him not
fighting against Him.
00:42:53.79\00:42:55.78
Verse 31,
"Wherefore I say unto you,
00:42:55.81\00:42:59.90
all manner of sin and blasphemy
shall be forgiven unto men,
00:42:59.93\00:43:03.59
but the blasphemy
against the Holy Ghost
00:43:03.62\00:43:08.31
shall not be
forgiven unto Him or unto men.
00:43:08.34\00:43:11.86
And whosoever speaks a
word against the Son of Man,
00:43:11.89\00:43:14.41
it shall be forgiven him,
00:43:14.44\00:43:15.76
but whosoever speaks
against the Holy Ghost,
00:43:15.79\00:43:17.60
it shall not be forgiven
him, neither in this world,
00:43:17.63\00:43:20.54
neither in the world to come."
00:43:20.57\00:43:21.96
We're not talking
about a one off event
00:43:21.99\00:43:23.43
where you say oh, I don't
believe in the Holy Spirit.
00:43:23.46\00:43:26.57
You've committed
the unpardonable sin.
00:43:26.60\00:43:28.53
That's not what
God is getting at you.
00:43:28.56\00:43:31.66
Jesus said, that one
thing the Holy Spirit would do
00:43:31.69\00:43:35.56
would be to convict us of sin.
00:43:35.59\00:43:38.41
That's one of the
Holy Spirit's great works.
00:43:38.44\00:43:41.53
So-- excuse me,
00:43:41.56\00:43:44.50
you're carrying
on in a certain way,
00:43:44.53\00:43:46.71
the Spirit will say wrong way,
00:43:46.74\00:43:49.46
and it's calling
you to turn around.
00:43:49.49\00:43:51.51
You are not going
in certain direction
00:43:51.54\00:43:53.53
the Spirit says you
need to go down this way
00:43:53.56\00:43:55.76
and we'll urge you that way.
00:43:55.79\00:43:57.82
You're about to say
something you shouldn't say,
00:43:57.85\00:43:59.54
it's the Spirit
that says, uh-uh,
00:43:59.57\00:44:02.19
you're sitting there in
your chair doing nothing
00:44:02.22\00:44:03.75
and it's the Spirit that
says this is for you to do.
00:44:03.78\00:44:07.92
So now when the Holy
Spirit calls you to follow God
00:44:07.95\00:44:11.89
according to the
Bible and you say no--
00:44:11.92\00:44:16.50
excuse me again and you say no.
00:44:16.53\00:44:20.27
What you are saying is
00:44:20.30\00:44:22.46
I'm not agreeing
with the Holy Spirit,
00:44:22.49\00:44:24.30
I'm not gonna follow God.
00:44:24.33\00:44:25.48
You are speaking as it
were against the Holy Spirit.
00:44:25.51\00:44:30.02
The Holy Spirit
convicts us of sin,
00:44:30.05\00:44:31.98
when He does so,
you confess your sins,
00:44:32.01\00:44:35.31
when you do so,
God forgives your sins.
00:44:35.34\00:44:39.07
The sins that cannot be forgiven
00:44:39.10\00:44:40.62
are the ones that
are not confessed.
00:44:40.65\00:44:43.95
So when Jesus is calling
you to a deeper experience,
00:44:43.98\00:44:46.73
I'm on full
surrender and you say oh, no.
00:44:46.76\00:44:51.03
Then you are
resisting the Holy Spirit
00:44:51.06\00:44:53.38
who is speaking to your heart.
00:44:53.41\00:44:55.48
And if you don't
turn it around and say,
00:44:55.51\00:44:56.84
okay, Lord, take my heart.
00:44:56.87\00:44:58.93
You will ultimately
commit the unpardonable sin.
00:44:58.96\00:45:02.42
That's why it's
dangerous to dilly-dally
00:45:02.45\00:45:04.08
around with the Word of God,
00:45:04.11\00:45:06.13
that's why it's
dangerous to delay repenting,
00:45:06.16\00:45:09.05
that's why it's
dangerous to play fast
00:45:09.08\00:45:11.21
and loose with
what the Bible says
00:45:11.24\00:45:13.00
because you can imagine
when you say no to God today,
00:45:13.03\00:45:16.45
you might come to the place
00:45:16.48\00:45:17.62
where you never say yes to God.
00:45:17.65\00:45:20.38
And it's important
that we say yes to God,
00:45:20.41\00:45:24.25
vitally, vitally important.
00:45:24.28\00:45:25.91
You know how it is right,
you can have an alarm clock,
00:45:25.94\00:45:27.97
when it rings, it wakes you up,
00:45:28.00\00:45:30.39
but after a week
or a month or a year
00:45:30.42\00:45:32.18
that thing can ring
in, ring in, ring in,
00:45:32.21\00:45:33.94
you can sleep on as though
it isn't even ringing at all.
00:45:33.97\00:45:38.30
You get used to it,
you can shut out the voice,
00:45:38.33\00:45:41.34
you know, how you can do
that with your spouse, right?
00:45:41.37\00:45:44.33
Okay, I'm
kidding, I hope you don't,
00:45:44.36\00:45:45.83
but you can do that with people.
00:45:45.86\00:45:47.34
Someone can be speaking to you.
00:45:47.37\00:45:48.63
Notice a child
engrossed in reading a book,
00:45:48.66\00:45:50.71
engrossed in playing a game
00:45:50.74\00:45:52.17
and you are
speaking to the child
00:45:52.20\00:45:53.71
they're not hearing you.
00:45:53.74\00:45:55.31
It's not that
they disrespect you,
00:45:55.34\00:45:57.97
they just got
engrossed with something
00:45:58.00\00:45:59.57
and you can get
engrossed with sin to the point
00:45:59.60\00:46:02.44
that you failed
to hear God speaking.
00:46:02.47\00:46:05.44
When you don't hear the
voice of the Holy Spirit anymore
00:46:05.47\00:46:08.17
and the Spirit
cannot get through to you
00:46:08.20\00:46:10.17
because you said,
no, no, no, no, no
00:46:10.20\00:46:12.40
so many times
you come to the place
00:46:12.43\00:46:15.15
where you commit
the unpardonable sin.
00:46:15.18\00:46:18.50
God does not want
that for your life.
00:46:18.53\00:46:21.53
The way around
that, the way to avoid
00:46:21.56\00:46:22.93
that is to say yes to Jesus
00:46:22.96\00:46:25.61
when Jesus speaks to your heart,
00:46:25.64\00:46:27.62
to surrender
rather than to resist.
00:46:27.65\00:46:31.32
Another Bible
question and here it is.
00:46:31.35\00:46:33.68
What did Jesus mean
when He said in Mark 1,
00:46:33.71\00:46:36.53
"The time is fulfilled?"
00:46:36.56\00:46:38.54
Well, let's turn to
Mark Chapter 1 and find out.
00:46:38.57\00:46:41.99
Mark Chapter 1, and I believe
you're talking about verse 14.
00:46:42.02\00:46:45.71
There it is.
00:46:45.74\00:46:47.16
"Now after that
John was put in prison,
00:46:47.19\00:46:48.95
Jesus came into Galilee,
00:46:48.98\00:46:50.81
preaching the gospel
of the kingdom of God."
00:46:50.84\00:46:52.62
Verse 15.
00:46:52.65\00:46:54.76
"And saying, the
time is fulfilled,
00:46:54.79\00:46:58.57
and the kingdom of
God is at hand, repent,
00:46:58.60\00:47:01.36
and believe the gospel."
00:47:01.39\00:47:04.62
What time could He
been talking about?
00:47:04.65\00:47:07.99
What had happened?
00:47:08.02\00:47:09.32
Well, Jesus had
just been baptized.
00:47:09.35\00:47:12.90
And what was the
significance of that?
00:47:12.93\00:47:15.01
The significance of that
is, that the baptism of Jesus
00:47:15.04\00:47:18.32
was according to a
time prophecy in the Bible.
00:47:18.35\00:47:22.31
Which one? Tune
with me, I'll show you.
00:47:22.34\00:47:24.58
Book of Daniel, Chapter 9.
00:47:24.61\00:47:27.39
The Book of Daniel
Chapter 9 would find
00:47:27.42\00:47:28.87
a time prophecy there.
00:47:28.90\00:47:30.98
Its remarkable, it
speaks to the baptism of Jesus.
00:47:31.01\00:47:34.94
Did you know that the baptism
of Jesus was prophesied of?
00:47:34.97\00:47:38.16
Oh, sure. And
the death of Jesus.
00:47:38.19\00:47:40.21
The timing of those
things were prophesied of.
00:47:40.24\00:47:44.10
Yes, that's correct.
00:47:44.13\00:47:45.49
So let's look
here, Daniel Chapter 9
00:47:45.52\00:47:48.80
and we'll pick
it up in verse 24.
00:47:48.83\00:47:52.26
I'll read some of verse
24 and then we'll go on.
00:47:52.29\00:47:56.59
"Seventy weeks are
determined upon thy people
00:47:56.62\00:47:58.75
and upon thy holy city,
to finish the transgression,
00:47:58.78\00:48:02.44
to make an end
of sins," and so on.
00:48:02.47\00:48:04.67
And number of things are
gonna happen in seventy weeks.
00:48:04.70\00:48:09.05
Now verse 25 "Know
therefore and understand,
00:48:09.08\00:48:13.14
that from the going
forth of the commandment
00:48:13.17\00:48:15.74
to restore and
to build Jerusalem
00:48:15.77\00:48:19.47
unto the Messiah the
Prince shall be seven weeks,
00:48:19.50\00:48:25.18
and threescore and two weeks."
00:48:25.21\00:48:28.31
Excuse me.
00:48:28.34\00:48:29.73
There will be a 69 week period
00:48:29.76\00:48:33.53
from the decree
issued giving permission
00:48:33.56\00:48:37.99
to rebuild Jerusalem
and reestablish society.
00:48:38.02\00:48:42.44
From then to the coming
of the Messiah, 69 weeks.
00:48:42.47\00:48:49.77
Now we know that that decree
was issued years ago, 457 BC.
00:48:49.80\00:48:56.07
You read about that
decree in Ezra Chapter 7,
00:48:56.10\00:48:59.66
its written right
there, it's laid out for you.
00:48:59.69\00:49:02.69
The decree was issued by
King Artaxerxes in 457 BC.
00:49:02.72\00:49:07.13
So 69 weeks after that,
it would have been 456 BC.
00:49:07.16\00:49:12.28
Except in Bible prophecy,
a day represents a year,
00:49:12.31\00:49:16.22
a week, seven years.
00:49:16.25\00:49:18.57
Sixty nine week is 483 years.
00:49:18.60\00:49:21.38
Now you start in 457 BC
you stretch off 483 years,
00:49:21.41\00:49:26.15
you get to the year 27 AD.
00:49:26.18\00:49:28.55
So in 27 AD the Jewish scholars
00:49:28.58\00:49:31.77
would have been
looking at their--
00:49:31.80\00:49:33.21
looking at their scrolls,
consulting their sundials,
00:49:33.24\00:49:37.74
looking at each other and saying
00:49:37.77\00:49:40.08
according to Messiah--
according to the scriptures
00:49:40.11\00:49:43.35
Messiah should be here
about now, they would say.
00:49:43.38\00:49:46.73
Now Jesus could hardly walk
into the temple of Jerusalem
00:49:46.76\00:49:49.13
and say, ladies and
gentlemen, I'm the Messiah.
00:49:49.16\00:49:52.54
They would have
taken Him as a whacko,
00:49:52.57\00:49:54.16
or as a
conspiracist or a troublemaker.
00:49:54.19\00:49:57.38
They would have taken
Him as an insurrectionist.
00:49:57.41\00:49:59.63
So Jesus after His
baptism, when He was baptized
00:49:59.66\00:50:03.24
that's when He
became the Messiah,
00:50:03.27\00:50:05.19
He was anointed.
00:50:05.22\00:50:06.81
Read about it in Acts 10:38,
anointed when He was baptized.
00:50:06.84\00:50:13.45
I need to check
that just to make sure
00:50:13.48\00:50:14.79
I've given you the right text.
00:50:14.82\00:50:16.61
I don't want you
to turn there now
00:50:16.64\00:50:17.68
and say, oh, boy,
was he ever wrong.
00:50:17.71\00:50:21.59
Acts Chapter 10--
00:50:21.62\00:50:23.47
oh, back of the
page and verse 38.
00:50:23.50\00:50:28.99
"God anointed Jesus of Nazareth
00:50:29.02\00:50:30.52
with the Holy
Ghost and with power."
00:50:30.55\00:50:32.08
The Spirit rested upon Him
when He was baptized in 27 AD.
00:50:32.11\00:50:37.06
So Jesus after His
baptism begins His ministry
00:50:37.09\00:50:40.07
and He says to people
00:50:40.10\00:50:42.08
who are looking at
the time prophecies,
00:50:42.11\00:50:44.53
"The time is fulfilled."
00:50:44.56\00:50:48.07
Now it's hard to find a
parallel for this day and age
00:50:48.10\00:50:52.81
because back then that
was the big time prophecy,
00:50:52.84\00:50:56.89
Messiah must be
coming right about now.
00:50:56.92\00:51:00.46
Jesus was
essentially saying, its Me.
00:51:00.49\00:51:03.89
That time prophecy
in Daniel talking about
00:51:03.92\00:51:06.02
the Messiah being
anointed, that's Me.
00:51:06.05\00:51:09.34
You all know I was baptized,
you were there, many of you,
00:51:09.37\00:51:13.17
I'm the Messiah.
00:51:13.20\00:51:14.48
So when Jesus said
the time is fulfilled,
00:51:14.51\00:51:15.95
He was saying I'm here
to announce my Messiahship,
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the time prophecy of
Daniel 9 has been fulfilled.
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Fantastic prophecy. And
now another Bible question.
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"I can't reconcile the
God of love with the God
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who would destroy the wicked."
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Okay, that wasn't
the Bible question,
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that was a Bible statement.
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I cannot reconcile the
God of love with the God
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who would destroy the wicked.
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All right, then,
well, imagine this,
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eternity stretches
before us, sin is like a disease
00:51:44.69\00:51:49.86
and its just inflicting more
and more and more of the world
00:51:49.89\00:51:53.75
and therefore the universe
if I can put it that way.
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What does God
need to do with sin?
00:51:56.53\00:51:58.54
The whole plan of salvation
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deals with God
getting rid of sin.
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Now if you've got a
mangy dog in your backyard
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and that dog is
somehow connected to sin.
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Well, maybe I don't
need to talk about your dog,
00:52:12.30\00:52:13.79
you love your mangy dog.
00:52:13.82\00:52:14.89
If it is a
rattlesnake or a crocodile
00:52:14.92\00:52:16.95
or a disease or
pollution and these things
00:52:16.98\00:52:21.36
you're associated with sin
then when sin is disposed off,
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these things will be
disposed off as well.
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You don't expect
that throughout eternity,
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we're going to have AIDS
and tuberculosis and Ebola,
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those things will
be done away with,
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because they are caused by sin.
00:52:34.27\00:52:37.22
What about unrepentant sinners?
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Now that's an important
one. Unrepentant sinners.
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Is God gonna
save them for eternity
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so that they can
live in the earth made new
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and be miserable and
make others miserable
00:52:49.31\00:52:51.33
and spread their
sin or would you suggest
00:52:51.36\00:52:56.39
that what God does
is He zaps their minds
00:52:56.42\00:52:59.53
and make saints out of sinners.
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So that now
instead of wanting to be
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sinful throughout
eternity they wanted to be holy.
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If they have
chosen to reject Jesus
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what right does Jesus have
to force them to accept Him?
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That's just not true.
00:53:13.17\00:53:14.55
Well, it wouldn't
it be more merciful
00:53:14.58\00:53:15.92
if God just
took people to heaven
00:53:15.95\00:53:17.44
and changed their minds.
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Wouldn't that-- wouldn't
that be God being a dictator.
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And imagine someone who
didn't love God on earth
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going to heaven.
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They're suddenly
gonna love God there?
00:53:25.48\00:53:28.20
They didn't
like purity on earth,
00:53:28.23\00:53:29.71
they'll like purity in heaven?
00:53:29.74\00:53:31.05
They didn't like unity on earth,
00:53:31.08\00:53:34.76
they're gonna
like unity in heaven?
00:53:34.79\00:53:37.32
Understand something,
the Bible says, way back,
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choose you this day
whom you will serve.
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God gives us the
power to choice-- of choice.
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And let me read this to you
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because I'll put it into a more
00:53:46.21\00:53:48.23
contemporary
narrative biblically speaking.
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In Romans Chapter 6 it
says this, in verse 16,
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"Don't you know, that to whom
00:53:56.33\00:53:58.25
you yield
yourselves servants to obey,
00:53:58.28\00:54:01.41
his servants you
are to whom you obey,
00:54:01.44\00:54:03.94
whether of sin
indeed unto death,
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or of obedience
unto righteousness?"
00:54:06.52\00:54:08.71
We get to choose
who we're going to obey.
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Now God is not a
malicious torturer
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and I will agree with you
that in spite of all I've said,
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the idea of anyone
being blotted out for eternity
00:54:17.07\00:54:21.08
is a solemn and
sovereign thought.
00:54:21.11\00:54:23.85
The only way we can balance
00:54:23.88\00:54:24.91
that up really is
to say God is just.
00:54:24.94\00:54:27.57
God's given them all
the opportunity to be saved.
00:54:27.60\00:54:30.83
God has
demonstrated that He is loving.
00:54:30.86\00:54:34.16
People had access
to the Word of God.
00:54:34.19\00:54:38.26
And God cannot allow sin
to exist throughout eternity,
00:54:38.29\00:54:42.29
so He's going to get rid of it.
00:54:42.32\00:54:44.44
The fact is God
getting rid of sin
00:54:44.47\00:54:47.11
is proof that
God is a God of love.
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He loves you too much
00:54:49.52\00:54:50.71
to let sin be with
you through eternity
00:54:50.74\00:54:53.55
and He loves sinners
too much to make them
00:54:53.58\00:54:55.54
miserable by dragging
them to heaven a place
00:54:55.57\00:54:58.10
they would hate as
long as time lasts.
00:54:58.13\00:55:02.79
Thank you. Great question.
00:55:02.82\00:55:05.61
Another Bible
question, let's read it now.
00:55:05.64\00:55:07.29
This question says,
00:55:07.32\00:55:08.95
"How can
rejecting the Holy Spirit
00:55:08.98\00:55:11.27
be worse than a
sin like murder?"
00:55:11.30\00:55:13.83
Oh, let me tell you,
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can you think of a
person in the Bible
00:55:16.72\00:55:17.99
who is a murderer and
has already gone to heaven?
00:55:18.02\00:55:23.40
Yes, you can,
that person is Moses.
00:55:23.43\00:55:25.63
Moses murdered.
00:55:25.66\00:55:27.41
And then if you
read in the Book of Jude,
00:55:27.44\00:55:30.68
you'll read in Jude
00:55:30.71\00:55:31.84
that there was a
dispute about Moses' body
00:55:31.87\00:55:34.45
and Moses was
specially resurrected
00:55:34.48\00:55:36.22
and Moses was taken to heaven.
00:55:36.25\00:55:37.66
How do we know that?
00:55:37.69\00:55:38.72
Because He appeared with Jesus
00:55:38.75\00:55:39.83
on the mountain of
the transfiguration.
00:55:39.86\00:55:42.19
Moses died, saved,
00:55:42.22\00:55:45.75
in spite of the fact
that he was a murderer.
00:55:45.78\00:55:49.24
The Apostle Paul if he
wasn't a murderer himself
00:55:49.27\00:55:51.64
was plotting to
murder an enabled murder
00:55:51.67\00:55:54.55
and unjustly dragged
people to their murderous death.
00:55:54.58\00:55:57.75
Christians know this.
And why did he do that?
00:55:57.78\00:56:00.55
Because he was
motivated by a spirit
00:56:00.58\00:56:02.20
that was not the spirit of God,
00:56:02.23\00:56:03.81
but we know that he repented.
00:56:03.84\00:56:05.83
Will we see Paul in
heaven? Yes, certainly.
00:56:05.86\00:56:08.51
He will come up
in the resurrection,
00:56:08.54\00:56:10.25
a saved man, he will
not be lost eternally.
00:56:10.28\00:56:16.29
So now when we
consider our question,
00:56:16.32\00:56:18.76
it's important that
we think about this.
00:56:18.79\00:56:21.95
Why is rejecting the Holy Spirit
00:56:21.98\00:56:24.88
worse even than murder?
00:56:24.91\00:56:26.00
Because murderers can repent.
00:56:26.03\00:56:28.92
I've met many murderers
00:56:28.95\00:56:31.43
who have repented of their
sin and become children of God.
00:56:31.46\00:56:34.89
That happens, and thank
God that God is that merciful.
00:56:34.92\00:56:38.21
Well, I'm not
taking murder lightly,
00:56:38.24\00:56:40.17
it's a terrible sin.
00:56:40.20\00:56:42.24
But God, thank God,
00:56:42.27\00:56:44.29
He is able to
forgive even a murderer.
00:56:44.32\00:56:47.40
Now when someone
commits the unpardonable sin,
00:56:47.43\00:56:49.62
rejects the Holy Spirit of
God, God can't forgive them,
00:56:49.65\00:56:53.26
because they're not
acknowledging their sin
00:56:53.29\00:56:56.38
and confessing it before
God, it could be anything.
00:56:56.41\00:56:58.98
When you refuse to
yield something to God.
00:56:59.01\00:57:01.53
If a murderer
says, I'm a murderer
00:57:01.56\00:57:03.26
and I'm so sorry,
forgive me of my sin.
00:57:03.29\00:57:05.60
God can forgive that person.
00:57:05.63\00:57:07.53
But if someone says I'm selfish
00:57:07.56\00:57:08.83
and I want to be
selfish, I'm dishonest,
00:57:08.86\00:57:11.16
and I want to
keep being a thief,
00:57:11.19\00:57:12.78
I'm lustful and I want
to keep committing adultery.
00:57:12.81\00:57:15.40
How can God forgive that?
00:57:15.43\00:57:17.32
So that rejection
of the Holy Spirit
00:57:17.35\00:57:19.08
ends up being worse
than, well, anything,
00:57:19.11\00:57:22.82
because anything can be forgiven
00:57:22.85\00:57:24.77
except a refusal to repent.
00:57:24.80\00:57:29.50
Thanks for your questions.
00:57:29.53\00:57:30.65
I have appreciated to having
the opportunity to answer them.
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God bless you tonight.
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