Participants: Thomas Gill
Series Code: FC
Program Code: FC000248
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00:31 Welcome to Faith Chapel.
00:33 My name is Thomas Gill and I come from India. 00:37 This program is designed to especially enrich you 00:40 and give you the power of God's word, so that you'll be 00:43 strengthened so mightily, that God can move you 00:47 in the areas in which you've never moved. 00:49 The message which I'm going to share with you 00:51 from the word of God, the title is 00:54 "Can someone tell me when Jesus is coming?" 00:57 Before we listen to the message let's have a word of prayer. 01:02 Heavenly Father, we want to thank You for Jesus, 01:04 who had promised so many years back that He's going to return. 01:09 And we wait for Your soon return and as my brothers 01:12 and sisters are watching this program, I just pray 01:14 that your spirit will enrich then mightily, 01:17 so they will hang on to Jesus Christ 01:19 and they will meet Him in the clouds. 01:22 In Jesus' name we pray, amen. 01:26 If you have your Bibles, you can turn with me 01:28 to the scripture from 2 Peter 3:3,4. 01:40 It says: [text on screen] 01:56 There are people, those who ask this question 01:59 in my ministry when I meet them: 02:01 "Pastor, can you tell me when is Jesus coming?" 02:04 There are people, those who go through the scripture 02:07 and try to find out when is Jesus coming. 02:10 Now, I would like to put this question to Lord Jesus Himself, 02:15 who said 2,000 years back "I'm going to come very soon. " 02:20 Now very soon doesn't mean 2,000 years because people 02:23 can't understand that the Lord said He is coming soon 02:26 and it is almost 2,000 years now. 02:28 Many people have lost their faith in Jesus, 02:31 just because He had not come. 02:33 D. L. Moody, one of the preachers who was preaching 02:35 in America, he read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation 02:39 and you know what? He found out for his interest 02:44 that there are 2,500 mentions that Jesus is coming back 02:51 to this world. 02:52 Now, when the Bible says 2,500 times that Jesus is coming, 02:55 it means it is very important to understand the subject: 02:59 "When is Jesus coming?" 03:01 So, let's read from the Bible. Jesus Himself spoke like this, 03:05 John 14, the very profound and very power words 03:08 of Jesus Himself when He was on this Earth. 03:11 When Jesus was talking to people, 03:13 John 14:1-3, He said this: [text on screen] 03:41 The Bible mentions that Jesus is coming very soon, 03:44 and this is the hope of people in the past and all the ages 03:49 which are going to come. 03:50 Every believer of the Lord, Jesus Christ, is supposed 03:54 to believe that He's going to come. 03:56 Now, why am I saying "supposed to believe"? 03:58 Because the Bible simply says so. 04:00 Now do we have any account from the Bible that it's going 04:05 to be fulfilled? I would say "yes". 04:07 We are going to learn today how we can trust 04:10 in these last hours, that Jesus is going to return very soon. 04:15 Charles Wesley was one of the founders 04:18 of the Methodist church. 04:19 In his life he wrote around 7,000 songs. 04:22 Now I do sing, I play music and I have 04:25 some classical instruments, some classical understanding 04:29 of Hindustani music and I have learned it, 04:34 but I have not sang 700 songs in my life, 04:39 or written 700 songs. 04:41 My wife is a writer too, she writes Christian hymns, 04:44 she writes Christian songs, and I do sing her songs, 04:48 but he wrote 7,000 songs, Charles Wesley that is. 04:52 But of the 5,000 songs that he wrote, he wrote on the soon 04:56 return of Jesus Christ. 04:58 This passion was there in his life, so that he could not have 05:02 any other subject in his heart and mind, but to sing 05:06 that his Lord is going to come soon, 05:09 and that's what he was singing about. 05:11 If you will go to the epistles of Paul, there are 05:13 around 13 epistles, or letters, which Paul had written 05:17 in the Bible, in the New Testament. 05:20 I studied them more than 25 times, or even more, 05:24 but I found out that almost 10 books which Paul has written 05:29 in the Bible, out of the 13, he didn't forget to mention 05:34 that Jesus will return one day. 05:37 Now, if we go to certain scriptures in the Bible, 05:41 they will tell us that Jesus is going to return. 05:44 Let me share one scripture with you in the last book 05:47 of the Bible, Revelation 1:7. 05:51 John explains it like this: when he was with Jesus 05:57 working for 3 and a half years and he carried the gospel 06:00 around the world after Jesus had gone to heaven, 06:04 and he mentions in Revelat. 1:7 [text on screen] 06:23 Now, the Bible says that Jesus is going to return. 06:27 John is saying: "Behold, He comes in the clouds of heaven. " 06:30 If we go to the book of Acts, it mentions that Jesus was taken 06:34 up in the clouds. As He went so He is going to come. 06:39 This is such wonderful thing to understand and to see 06:43 what God wants us to understand today. 06:46 Jesus is going to return and all things are possible with God. 06:51 The Bible says "Heaven and Earth shall pass, but my word" 06:55 "shall never pass". We need to hang on 06:57 to the words of God. 06:59 Some people can't really hang on to the word of God. 07:02 They say: "What more proof can we have, so we can trust" 07:06 "that Jesus is really going to come?" 07:08 I would like to share some things with you 07:10 which will give you an understanding, 07:12 but before that, I would like to share one verse with you 07:15 from the book of Titus 2:13. 07:19 The book of Titus is a very tiny little book from the Bible. 07:23 It says in the book of Titus 2:13: [text on screen] 07:35 What blessed hope? The soon return of Jesus. 07:43 The Bible says and talks to us, that you need to look 07:47 at the glorious appearing of Jesus Christ 07:50 because that is the blessed hope. 07:52 If you are looking for His coming, you have a hope, 07:57 which is so blessed, which nobody can take away. 08:00 I was sharing with you how we can be sure 08:04 that Jesus is going to come. Well, there is a good answer 08:09 which I found in the Bible. 08:13 If you area believer of Jesus, and I want you to believe 08:16 in Jesus because there is no other way, there is no other 08:19 savior, there is no other God apart from Jesus Christ, 08:23 but in case you are not a believer, 08:25 let me share with you this: as I read my Bible, you understand 08:31 that there is a person in history called Jesus Christ. 08:35 Now, I have never seen Mahatma Buddha, but I know, 08:38 because history tells me that there was somebody 08:41 called Mahatma Buddha. 08:42 Like for example, there is a tiny little group called Sikhs. 08:46 Now, the Sikh religion is very prominent in Punjab. 08:50 65% or 70% of people living in Punjab are Sikhs 08:57 Punjab is a state in North India, however, if I say 09:01 that there was no Guru Nanak, because they had 10 Guru's 09:04 and the first Guru was Guru Nanak Dev, I would be 09:08 the biggest fool, living on the face of the Earth 09:11 because he lived almost 300-400 years back. 09:15 That man was alive on this Earth. 09:17 If I say, or you say, there is no Jesus Christ, we become 09:21 fools, not because of the Bible, but because there was 09:26 a man in history, his name was Jesus Christ, and the Bible 09:30 gives us so much account of the Lord, which no other book 09:33 can give, so I would like to ask you to understand 09:37 the scripture very well, because it tells us this: 09:42 the Bible says that there are around 1,500 prophecies 09:45 which were given concerning the birth of Jesus. 09:49 Jesus came around 2,000 years back, it's almost 2,000 years 09:53 that Jesus has come into this world. 09:55 There was a prophecy, there were several actually, 09:58 but all together there were around 1,500 prophecies 10:02 made about Jesus Christ, which were fulfilled by Jesus Christ, 10:06 and which fits only to this man, only to this personality 10:11 from history, who died on the cross and rose from the grave. 10:16 Now, 1,500 prophecies in the Bible, just for 1 person 10:22 in the entire Old Testament, 39 books, that's so amazing. 10:26 How much more amazing can it be, just regarding 10:30 that Jesus was a real person and all those prophecies 10:33 were fulfilled when he was born, when he was preaching, 10:37 when he came sitting on the donkey to Jerusalem, 10:40 when he was spat on, when he was slapped, 10:43 when he was dying on the cross, all these things were fulfilled 10:47 in Jesus Christ. 10:48 So, we have an account that past prophecies 10:52 before the birth of Jesus Christ, or before His dying 10:55 on the cross, the prophecies were made 10:58 by the prophets of the old. 11:02 Take the prophecy of Isaiah 53. 11:05 He will be crucified, that's what the entire chapter 11:08 speaks of, He will be condemned, He will be led by the people 11:13 to die on the cross, and every person will go away. 11:17 This prophecy was fulfilled, the prophecy 11:20 was spoken by Isaiah almost 800 years before Jesus Christ. 11:25 Talk about David making a prophecy in Psalms 22, 11:29 where it says: "My God, my God, why have You forsaken Me?" 11:34 This prophecy was made by King David, knowingly, 11:39 and we can understand that David never died, he never 11:43 prayed like this, so why say: "My God, You have forsaken Me"? 11:46 The worlds Jesus spoke on the cross, there were 7 words 11:50 according to the Bible, which He spoke. 11:52 One was "I thirst", one was "My God, My God," 11:56 "why have you forsaken me?" 11:57 So this prophecy exactly fits the life of Jesus Christ, 12:02 and this personality called Jesus, so past prophecies 12:05 were fulfilled in Jesus. 12:08 When He spoke, saying: "I'm going to return. " 12:14 we can understand that if the past is fulfilled through 12:17 His birth, resurrection and death, this also 12:20 will be fulfilled, that Jesus is going to come. 12:22 What are the signs of Jesus' soon return? 12:25 Well, the Bible mentioned a couple of the signs, 12:27 and they are very major signs. They will take not 1 community, 12:31 not 1 nation, not 1 type of group, but these signs 12:35 will be all over the world. 12:38 By this, we will know that He is returning very soon. 12:41 May I share some of them, some parts, with you 12:44 from the Bible because that will give you more understanding. 12:48 If you have a Bible wherever you are sitting, in a church 12:52 or in room, in a plane, or in a car, wherever you are listening 12:56 to this message, or maybe afterwards, you can open 12:59 to this scripture. Matthew 24. 13:01 The entire chapter is a very anointed chapter. 13:04 It talks about the soon return of Jesus Christ, 13:07 and certain signs which He gives us, that we can 13:10 understand that He is coming back. 13:12 The first verse which I would like to read is Matthew 24:6,7. 13:17 [text on screen] 13:38 Now, the Bibles says that there shall be wars. 13:41 Who is saying this? Jesus Christ! 13:44 Who was crucified, and who rose up, and who lived on this Earth 13:48 for 40 days after His resurrection, who went up 13:51 into heaven, He doesn't want His disciples to be deceived 13:54 in any way. 13:55 He said: "Before I will come, there will be wars" 13:58 "on this earth. " If you have ever read a book 14:02 by Doug Batchelor, it says in one of his books that there are 14:06 around 14,000 wars which have been fought by different 14:10 nations, different tribes, different people until today. 14:14 Now, according to the Bible, we are living almost 14:16 in the last century of the world, that's what I believe, 14:21 but it's almost 6,000 years that this Earth has been created, 14:25 but 14,000 wars have taken place. 14:28 Somebody told me that approximately, I might be 14:34 a little bit wrong, that there around 202 countries 14:39 in the world. On the world map you will find these countries. 14:45 The thing is, all these countries, 14:48 inwardly or outwardly, are fighting. 14:51 They are fighting for one thing, to say: "We are supreme. " 14:56 "We are this... We are that... " 14:57 I come from India. Our land, our nation was 15:03 set free from the British rule almost 50 years back, 15:08 but India and Pakistan are always at war. 15:12 Talk about Israel and Palestine. 15:15 Pope John Paul II, 5 years back when he went there, 15:20 and gave a message, he said: "I would like the people" 15:24 "of Israel and Palestine to be at peace. " 15:28 Bill Clinton came to India, these were his first words: 15:31 "I want Pakistan and India to be at peace. " 15:34 The world's countries are longing to be at peace 15:37 with each other, but the word's of Jesus were very true, 15:41 "there will be wars, and there will be nations after nations" 15:46 "fighting with each other. " 15:48 The reason why all these things are happening, 15:51 don't think that God is doing it, Jesus did not say that: 15:54 "I will interfere and I will create war. " 15:57 My people believe this, it's not like that. 16:01 Jesus said: "These things are going to happen before I come. " 16:08 There was a cricket match which India and Pakistan played, 16:11 there were several other cricket matches as well back home, 16:14 they played so many cricket matches, and India 16:17 went to Pakistan to play cricket and Pakistan came to India 16:22 to play cricket, for what? For one single reason. 16:25 They said in the newspaper, they said on the television, 16:29 on the radio, that India and Pakistan should live in peace, 16:33 that's why we are holding these cricket matches, 16:36 and thousands of people came to watch them. 16:39 Is there peace between Pakistan and India? 16:42 Ask Indians, ask those people, 16:44 those who go about their business, those who live 16:47 in Cashmere, hundreds of people, thousands of them, 16:50 have been killed in the attacks of bombs, suicide attacks, 16:54 and with guns, ammunition, everyday every newspaper 16:58 in India is filled with wars and rumors of wars. 17:02 The words of Jesus were fulfilled right there in your 17:06 living room, or as you are watching this program. 17:10 Jesus was saying there shall be wars, and rumors of war 17:13 "Let not your heart be troubled" these were the words 17:17 which He said. 17:18 I would like to share something more. 17:20 Jesus said: "when I come, just before My return," 17:24 "just as I'm about to leave heaven and come" 17:27 "with mighty thousands and trillions of angels" 17:30 "back to this Earth, this will happen, there will be" 17:33 "a sign before I come back to this Earth. " - what sign? 17:37 He said, Matthew 24:37,38, 17:43 very important verses for us to understand, [text on screen] 18:09 Now, the Bible explains something, it says: 18:13 "As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be" 18:17 "before I return. " Now to understand 18:19 the days of Noah, I never lived in the days of Noah, 18:23 none of you have lived, but the Bible mentions 18:26 that Noah lived in the very first chapters of the Bible, 18:32 right after Adam and Eve, Noah was there, 18:36 and he preached for 120 years. As he was preaching, 18:39 he was convicted that rain is going to come, the flood 18:43 is going to come, but what kind of a generation was he 18:46 living among? The people in those days, 18:51 for your personal study, you can read the entire chapter 18:53 of Genesis 6, it will explain to you what kind of people 18:56 they were; They were violent, 18:59 but that was not the only sin. The great sin 19:02 which the people of Noah's day were doing, was that they 19:06 were sexually immoral people. The Bible explains 19:10 in Genesis 6, saying their every thought was evil, 19:14 their every desire was evil, they were so much in sin, 19:19 that even if a lady was walking, and if she's going past, 19:23 they would only speak evil about her, 19:26 they would only think about raping her, 19:29 having sexual things with her, or having every kind of passion 19:35 which is like a beast, which is like the worst 19:38 kind of animal on this Earth, they had those kind 19:41 of desires. 19:42 The people of the world will be the same, Jesus said. 19:45 Now, as we just read the words, it says: 19:48 "They will be marrying and they will be" 19:50 "eating and drinking". 19:52 Now, those of you who are not married, don't think that you're 19:56 not suppose to get married, you can go ahead and get married, 20:00 you can go ahead and eat and drink. What the Bible 20:03 is saying, it's talking about being unconcerned about Jesus' 20:08 second coming. Eat and drink what is 20:11 healthful for your body, marry just 1 person 20:14 who will love you and whom you will love too. 20:17 But the Bible is saying that it will be as it was 20:20 in the days of Noah. 20:21 The days of Noah were evil, are we living in the evil days? 20:27 I was on the internet some time back, 20:29 and I found out on one website that there are more than 20:34 1 million nude pictures of ladies, just on the internet. 20:41 The internet is a great blessing, we can write emails, 20:45 we can store so many things, we can get so much information, 20:49 but nude pictures, every thought of this generation is evil. 20:55 I used the internet back in India when I was there, 20:59 I used the internet at certain internet facilities 21:03 because I don't have the internet at home, so I just go 21:07 and use it outside, I saw most of the people want to 21:11 lock their doors, they don't want anybody to know 21:14 what they are doing, they want to be very private. 21:19 Now, the Indian government has passed a law, the police 21:22 want to catch those people who are hiding, and using 21:26 the internet because it is violating the society, 21:29 because whatever they see on the internet, on the screen 21:33 of the computer, that's how they behave outside 21:36 with ladies, and ladies behave outside with the gents. 21:41 Why? It is just because the words of God 21:44 are being fulfilled "as it was in the days of Noah" 21:47 "so it shall be in the end times. " 21:50 Everything is exactly fulfilling as Jesus said: 21:55 The words of Jesus are not to be taken lightly, 21:59 they are very profound and they have a great meaning for 22:03 the end of time, and I, as a minister of God, can let 22:08 you know that we are at the very last hour of the history 22:12 of the world, "as it was in the days of Noah, so it shall be" 22:17 "in the end time. " I just want to share 22:19 one strategy with you on the divorces and marriages. 22:23 I just got it from one of the books which I was reading, 22:27 it says that in 1870 if there were 34 marriages, 22:33 I'm talking about the US, there would be only 1 divorce, 22:37 but in 1900, if there were 12 marriages, they would have 22:42 1 divorce and in 1930, if there were 6 marriages, 22:49 one would be divorced. 22:51 In 1990 they said that if there is 1 marriage, 22:56 there will be 1 divorce. 22:58 Can you see how marriage has been troubled, 23:02 how marriage commitments have been lowered down because 23:06 of sexual immorality, just because of the passion of the 23:10 lust which men and women in the nations of the world have. 23:14 Marriage commitments are just for a while, it's just like 23:18 changing clothes, we change our spouses. 23:21 There is not much love remaining in our married lives. 23:25 I was talking to my wife the other day, I said 23:28 there is a new name for sin today, like adultery is not sin, 23:32 you know what they call it? They says "we are having fun. " 23:36 Having alcohol, or having a drinking habit, they say 23:40 "it's just fun, it's just a part of the society. " 23:44 "We are not outdated", but if you go to the scripture, 23:47 the scripture tells us that we are not supposed 23:51 to live a sinful life. 23:58 There's another website which I went on, 24:03 in that also, they said that the people, the young minds, 24:06 when they are very young, maybe 3 or 4 or 5, when they go 24:11 and see the television, they have very bad pictures to see, 24:16 and whatever we behold, we become like. 24:20 It's very important to to understand in what hour 24:23 we are living. 24:25 There is another sign that I would like to mention, and it's 24:28 very important. The Bible says when all these 24:31 things are happening: floods, tsunamis, disasters, wars, 24:36 and all these problems are happening in the world, 24:39 you know, there is a last alter call which God 24:42 is giving to the world, and that is the compassion 24:46 of Jesus Christ. 24:47 The message of salvation shall reach to all nations. 24:51 When sin will be rising higher, higher and higher 24:56 the message of the gospel will also go far and wide. 25:01 Matthew 24:14, it says [text on screen] 25:15 The Bible says that the end is going to come when the gospel 25:18 is going to be preached. Just imagine how many 25:21 countries are receiving the channel, 3ABN. 25:25 Almost 99% of the world has 3ABN, and they're watching 25:30 the programs, spiritual programs and other programs 25:34 which will bless the lives of the people 25:37 because God doesn't want anybody to perish. 25:40 I have some information for you, 10 [?] people, 25:43 like 1 million people, came to Nigeria to one of the gospel 25:47 meetings, just imagine a sea of people listening to 1 gospel 25:51 preacher who was preaching on the top of his voice, 25:54 holding the microphone, but 1 million people came 25:58 to just 1 meeting because people are hungry in Africa 26:01 for the word of God. 26:03 I just have one more piece of information to give you: 26:06 30,000 Bibles were distributed in the Olympic stadium in Russia 26:11 Just imagine 30,000 Bibles, people just want it, 26:15 those countries which were atheist, they have Bibles now. 26:18 Those countries which were idol worshipers have 26:21 Jesus Christ now in their lives. 26:24 In one of the places I was hosting some meetings, 26:27 I was not the preacher, I was just hosting the meeting, 26:30 you know how many people were baptized? 26:32 Almost 26,000 people were baptized in 1 single crusade. 26:38 What an awesome thing it is. 26:40 Because the word of God says: "Before I come, the message" 26:44 "will go to the entire world. " 26:46 A young man who went to Africa as a missionary, 26:50 he had a wife and children, and he became old, 26:53 and he finished his work, he lost his wife in Africa, 26:56 and his children, he was coming back to America. 26:59 When he came back, in those times, I'm talking about 27:02 more than 50 years back, when he came back, he was 27:05 traveling by ship and the President of America 27:08 was also traveling on the same ship, so when the ship 27:13 landed at port, he was very much discouraged to see 27:17 thousands of people welcoming the president, 27:20 and he went to one of the rooms and he said: "Lord, you have" 27:24 "so many people for this president, and not even" 27:27 "a single man, or a single person came to welcome me?" 27:32 That night when he was praying in agony and discouragement, 27:35 the Lord gave him a small vision, I want you to understand 27:38 what the Lord said to him, it will impress 27:41 your heart so much, God said: 27:43 "For the president thousands of people came," 27:47 "but my son, I am coming to receive you myself. " 27:51 Is it not true? If you have Jesus in your heart, 27:54 Jesus is going to come soon to receive you. 27:57 [Music for Credits] |
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