kay
okay
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
You
He is a wonderful savior to me song number 200
Song number 200
He's a wonderful savior to me
I was lost in sin but Jesus took me in
He's a wonderful savior to me
He's a friend so true, so patient and so kind
He's a wonderful savior to me
Everything I need, in Him I always find
He's a wonderful savior to me
Oh, He's a wonderful savior to me
He's a wonderful savior to me
I was lost in sin but Jesus took me in
He's a wonderful savior to me
He is always near to comfort and to cheer
He's a wonderful savior to me
He forgives my sins, He drives my every tear
He's a wonderful savior to me
Oh, He's a wonderful savior to me
He's a wonderful savior to me
I was lost in sin but Jesus took me in
He's a wonderful savior to me
He includes the love of Jesus every day
He's a wonderful savior to me
Sweeter is His grace while resting on my leg
He's a wonderful savior to me
Oh, He's a wonderful savior to me
He's a wonderful savior to me
I was lost in sin but Jesus took me in
He's a wonderful savior to me
Great singing everybody, let's open up the service with a word of prayer
Lord, we love you and we just want to thank you again for Steadfast Baptist Church
Such a wonderful church to gather together and praise you Lord
Just help us to raise up our voices as we sing unto you
And bless the service in Jesus' name
Amen, alright
For our next song, let's go to song number 448
Song number 448
Brethren, we have met to worship
Song number 458
Everybody sing it out together on the first
Brethren, we have met to worship
And adore the Lord our God
Will you pray with all your power
While we try to reach the Word
All is made, unless the Spirit
Of the Holy One comes down
Brethren, pray and holy manna
Will we shower all around
Brethren, seek for sinners round you
Some bring on, some bring of hope
Death is coming, hell is moving
Can you bear to let them go
See our fathers and our mothers
And our children sinking down
Brethren, pray and holy manna
Will we shower all around
Sisters, will you join and help us
Moses' sister, aid in him
Will you help the trembling mourners
Who are struggling hard with sin
Tell them all about the Savior
Tell them that he will be found
Sisters, pray and holy manna
Will we shower all around
Let us love our God supremely
Let us love each other too
Let us love and pray for sinners
Till our God makes all things new
Then he'll call us home to heaven
At his table we'll sit down
Christ will burn himself and serve us
With sweet manna all around
Amen.
If you don't already have a bulletin and you'd like one,
just slip your hand up real quick.
Our ushers can come by and get you guys a bulletin.
On the front are a Bible memory passage, Proverbs 31.
We're getting close to finishing this specific chapter,
and so if you are able to quote the entire passage,
Word Perfect, to a non-family member,
then you can receive a prize.
And of course, the ultimate prize is getting that much Bible into your heart, folks, okay?
That's why we do these programs.
That's why I like doing them, is to try and motivate the church to memorize Scripture.
Obviously, I wish I didn't have to use prizes, but you know what?
It doesn't bother me at all, okay?
I just want people to memorize the Bible.
And I feel like whether I see you again,
it's going to bless your life if you have a lot of Bible in your heart.
On the inside, we have the service times, the soul winning times, also church stats.
Please make sure you're communicating that to your soul winning captains, lieutenants.
Also, if you have your maps, make sure you're filling them out
and turning them into the appropriate bins
so we can make sure we're marking our progress appropriately.
On the right is a list of several expecting ladies.
Please be in prayer for all of them.
We have several who are expecting.
Also, upcoming events, this Saturday is preaching class.
April 9th to the 10th is the Verity Baptist Youth Rally.
April 13th is the Shreveport Louisiana Soul Winning Marathon.
There should be a sign up sheet.
Please sign up if you're planning on attending.
May 5th is the Spring Swap.
If you want to bring items, you can bring them on the Wednesday before.
They need to be items of value.
If you say, I'm not sure if this has value, it doesn't.
Okay, so there you go.
Also, Cedar Hill Soul Winning Marathon.
We had a lot of people participate.
I didn't get an exact count on the soul winners,
but we ended up having 53 salvations,
and it was really uplifting and encouraging to me.
That was better than I even anticipated that we would do,
and so soul winning still works, folks,
and so we need to keep going out there into the highways and hedges
and compelling people to be saved
and also compelling them to come into church.
On the back is our prayer list,
and then before I go there,
because we'll go over this as a church family,
the announcement below is the congratulations
to the Yoo Kim family on the birth of Oliver James.
He was born on the 30th at 648 p.m.,
weighing 8 pounds and 21 inches long.
Congratulations to them.
Super exciting.
Great to see so many prayer requests
turn into miracles like this.
Also, we do like to go over our prayer list on Wednesday nights.
We've been praying for Brother Hall for his leg continue to heal.
We've been praying for Ms. Cooley's stepdad's cancer treatments.
We've been praying for the Naim's grandmother
for her vision, health, and salvation.
We've been praying for the Carlsen's mother for her health.
We've been praying for Ms. Miller's friend Tamara
for cancerous treatments.
We've also been praying for Brother Caputo for a friend
who was asking for prayer.
Also, we've been praying for Brother Bess, his friend Saul.
And then we've been praying for Ms. Oz as well.
So we'll go ahead and say a quick word of prayer as a church family.
Thank you Heavenly Father so much for this evening
and for our opportunity to be here in church.
I pray that you would just please bless our church family
that is not able to be in church this evening.
Please also be with those who are struggling with illness or sickness.
I pray that you give them a speedy recovery.
Those who have been dealing with issues for a long time,
I pray that you would give them patience,
that you would perform a miracle and give them health and restoration.
I pray that you would also help bless our friends
that need favor, whether it be with a job or with just their finances.
I pray that you would just help them to have the right opportunities
to motivate them to work hard.
And I pray that you would also just bless our church
when we go out soul winning.
You have to bless our upcoming soul winning events.
Please also bless all the expecting ladies.
And in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
We're going to sing our hymn of the week,
Where the Spirit Blows.
It's in the special handout.
So if you want to sing along, sing it out nice and loud.
It's got lots of good doctrine.
Where the Spirit Blows.
Alright, that was Where the Spirit Blows.
In your laminated handout.
Where the Spirit Blows.
Jesus told me, over land and sea,
Red, white and white, sweet in His sight,
Where the Spirit blows, we will go, go, go, go.
Where the Spirit blows, we will go.
Yellow and brown, to every town,
Not just the Jews, let's go and choose,
Where the Spirit blows, we will go, go, go, go.
Where the Spirit blows, we will go.
Father, Spirit, Son, these three are one,
Holy, Trinity, always with me,
Where the Spirit blows, we will go, go, go, go.
Where the Spirit blows, we will go.
We marched and fell, sent Christ to hell,
But He arose, crushing our foes,
Where the Spirit blows, we will go, go, go, go.
Where the Spirit blows, we will go.
He heals the lame, all on His name,
Faith alone saves, He empties the graves,
Where the Spirit blows, we will go, go, go, go.
Where the Spirit blows, we will go.
Revelation chapter number 19.
Revelation chapter 19, the Word of God reads,
And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven,
Saying, Alleluia, salvation and glory,
The honor and power unto the Lord our God.
For true and righteous are His judgments,
For He hath judged the great whore,
Which did corrupt the earth with her fornication,
And hath avenged the blood of His servants at her hand.
And again they said, Alleluia, and her smoke rose up forever and ever.
And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts
Fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne,
Saying, Alleluia, Alleluia.
And a voice came out of the throne,
Saying, Praise our God, all ye His servants,
And ye that fear Him, both small and great.
And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude,
And as the voice of many waters,
And as the voice of mighty thundering,
Saying, Alleluia, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Let us be glad and rejoice,
And give honor to Him,
For the marriage of the Lamb is come,
And His wife hath made herself ready.
And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen,
Clean and white, for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
And He saith unto me,
Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.
And He saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
And I fell at His feet to worship Him,
And He said unto me, See thou do it not,
I am thy fellow servant,
And of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus,
Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse,
And he that sat upon Him were called Faithful and true,
And in righteousness He doth judge and make war.
His eyes were as a flame of fire,
And on His head were many crowns,
And He had a name written that no man knew but He Himself.
And He was clothed with the vesture dipped in blood,
And His name is called The Word of God.
And the armies which were in heaven
Followed Him upon white horses,
Clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
And out of His mouth goeth a sharp sword,
That with it He should smite the nations,
And He shall rule them with a rod of iron.
And He treadeth the winepress,
And the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
And He hath on His vesture and on His thigh a name written,
King of kings and Lord of lords.
And I saw an angel standing in the sun,
And he cried with a loud voice,
Saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven,
Come and gather yourselves together
Unto the supper of the great God,
That ye may eat the flesh of kings,
And the flesh of captains,
And the flesh of the mighty men,
And the flesh of horses,
And them that sit on them,
And the flesh of all men,
Both free and bond,
Both small and great.
And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth,
And their armies gathered together
To make war against him,
That sat on the horse and against his army.
And the beast was taken,
And with him the false prophet,
That wrought miracles before him,
With which he had deceived them,
That had received the mark of the beast,
And them that worshipped his image.
These both were cast alive
Into a lake of fire,
Burning with brimstone,
And the remnant were slain,
With the sword of him that sat upon the horse,
Which sword proceeded out of his mouth,
And all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
Let us pray.
Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you for Revelation chapter 19, Lord.
And I just pray that you fill Pastor Shelley with your spirit, Lord.
Help us to learn from this passage
And make applicable changes to our lives.
And I just pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.
Amen.
So we're getting close to wrapping up the Revelation series.
And Revelation chapter 19 is continuing with the same thought
That was kind of brought up in chapter 17
In regards to the judgment of Babylon.
So we, in chapter 18, talked about Babylon
And Babylon was destroyed.
And right on the heels of that in chapter 19
It gives the reaction from heaven.
Verse 1,
And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven saying,
Hallelujah, salvation and glory and honor and power unto the Lord our God.
For true and righteous are his judgments,
For he hath judged the great whore,
Which did corrupt the earth with her fornication,
And hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
So at the very beginning of this chapter
It brings the reaction of all of us in heaven
And we're all very excited, we're rejoicing,
We're praising God for having judged this great whore.
For having judged Babylon the way that he did so.
And notice in verse 2,
For true and righteous are his judgments.
We're not going to look at his judgment and think that it was wrong
Or improper or not equitable.
No, we're going to look and say,
This was the exact right judgment.
Your judgment is true.
Your judgment is right.
And we're going to be very appreciative of what God has done.
In verse 2 he says,
He has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
Now this is, for some people, confusing
Because they simply just don't understand judgment.
They don't understand the Bible.
They don't see why someone would be pleased, happy, or rejoice at judgment.
But this is a biblical concept.
Keep your finger here, but go to Psalm 48 for a moment.
Go to Psalm 48.
I want to show you a couple of Psalms here.
That according to the text, according to the Bible,
You know, God's people rejoice when God judges.
And the Bible says very clearly about the Lord himself
That the Lord loves judgment.
The Lord likes to judge.
And I think what's interesting in this chapter,
It makes a lot of mentions to things that are true and faithful and things that are righteous.
One of those things that was mentioned is his judgments.
God's judgments are true and God's judgments are righteous.
The only good judge in the universe is God.
And we all love judgment.
You know, if you've been wronged,
What you're hoping for is the judge to rule a righteous judgment.
To give the right judgment.
You don't want to get ripped off, taken advantage of.
You don't want someone to get off the hook.
You want them to get the right judgment.
And many times people are very happy, static,
When the judge rules in a very important case.
It's not uncommon.
In fact, it's very natural when an individual maybe loses a loved one.
Or perhaps there's some kind of a murder trial.
And the perpetrator is there in the court.
And they go through the legal process, through due process.
But after all of the hearing,
And after all of the testimony,
And after all of the prosecution's evidence,
And the defense's evidence,
And then you have the jury,
And then you have the judge,
Finally the judge rolls out the judgment.
And when that person's convicted and given a righteous judgment,
Well, often times the victim's families are happy,
You know, crying with joy,
And they're relieved at the fact that justice has been served.
And if they were to exonerate this murderer,
Or they were to try to say,
No, he did fine,
Or he's not going to get any punishment,
There would be weeping,
There would be sadness associated with that particular judgment.
And the same goes with us,
In the sense that we would be upset
If God just allowed the wicked to just get away with everything.
The natural reaction, the normal reaction would be
To actually praise God when the wicked are judged.
Now look at Psalm 48 and look at verse number 11.
Let Mount Zion rejoice,
Let the daughters of Judah be glad,
Because of thy judgments.
Notice what causes joy, judgment.
You know, I don't want to judge.
Well, you know what, you're stripping people of joy.
People like judgment.
You know who really likes judgment?
Righteous people.
When you go to the workplace,
You know what you like from your employer?
You know what you like from your boss?
Judgments.
You like to hear,
Good job.
You know what that is?
It's a judgment.
If you do a good job,
You know what you like to hear from your boss?
Good job.
You know, it's frustrating when you work really hard,
Or you put an extra effort at work,
And then it's just like,
No judgment.
No feedback.
No input.
And it's also frustrating if
Someone at the company is slacking off,
Showing up late,
Not doing a good job,
And the boss comes in and is like,
Don't you just love this guy?
And you're just thinking like,
No, I don't.
He's kind of a slacker.
You know, he's not really doing a good job.
What you would want is the boss to come in and say,
You're getting a raise because you're working hard,
And you're getting fired because you're lazy.
And then you'd be like,
Woo!
You know,
Fire the lazy guy, right?
You're excited about it.
And some people,
They would think like,
Oh, that's mean and that's harsh.
Yeah, you socialist devil you,
Who just doesn't want any real judgment.
But you know what?
Socialism is evil anyways, folks.
Okay?
Socialism sounds good on paper,
And it's horrible in reality.
Okay?
And what God's people like is judgment.
We all love judgment,
And that's what actually makes us rejoice.
It makes us glad.
Notice what makes you glad is true judgment.
Go to Psalm 97.
Psalm 97.
Imagine you're going to play a sport,
Or you're going to compete in an event,
And after you do the best,
You beat everyone.
You excel.
You're number one.
Everybody gets the same trophy.
That doesn't make you glad.
You know what'd make you glad?
To win the race,
And get the first place trophy.
That makes you glad.
Or even not even getting first.
Sometimes people,
They're very content and very glad just to get second.
Or just to get third,
Because they've been training their whole life.
They worked really hard.
And you know what?
They're just even glad that they were able to place,
Or to compete.
But you know what they liked about it?
They liked the judgment aspect.
They liked that there was a judgment,
Associated with that particular competition.
You know, I've played games with people,
Where they don't care about playing the game,
And it's the most infuriating thing ever.
It's so frustrating.
You play Monopoly with people,
And you know, it's like you play with your mom,
And like a friend or something,
And you totally like crush your friend,
And the mom's like,
Let's just give them some more money anyways.
And you're like, no.
No.
It's like, don't just take his properties.
And it's like, I'm taking all of them.
I'm going to go full Jew on this guy, all right?
You know, it's like, that's,
It's kind of frustrating to play a game,
And it's like, you're not playing by the rules,
It's just like,
Or you're just totally dominating, winning,
And they're like, let's just not keep score.
No, no, we're going to keep score.
You know, you like to keep score.
In fact, it's funny,
Because I was playing a game with my wife the other night,
And she was crushing me.
And it was like, towards the end,
Like it was obvious that she already won.
And I'm like, do we even have to count it?
And she's like, yes.
So you know what I did?
I counted it, all right?
And I got slaughtered.
I came up wanting.
But you know what?
People like judgment.
People like to know the score.
People like to know what's going on.
Don't get this strange idea that somehow
The Bible talking about God's people liking judgment
Being an unnatural reaction,
It's actually the natural reaction, folks.
The only reason someone doesn't want to keep score
Is like me, I was losing.
The only reason somebody wants...
Everybody gets a trophy.
Why? Because you lost.
Right?
Everybody gets to participate.
Why? Because you wouldn't get picked.
Right?
That's the reason why people have that attitude.
Or it's like, I don't want God to say how good we're doing or not.
It's because you're wicked.
The people that are righteous,
They like God's judgment.
The people that are wicked,
They hate God's judgment.
They don't want any kind of judgment.
And so we can see this dichotomy
Of loving and hating judgments
Actually based on one's own actions
And one's own selfish ambitions.
It's not really a result of what's good or not.
Judgment is good.
Objectively.
It is good.
The reason why people don't like judgment
Is because they themselves
Are a lazy person.
They're selfish.
They're not good.
Or they're just wicked to the core.
Now Psalm 97, I want to look at a few verses here.
Look at verse 8.
Zion heard and was glad
And the daughters of Judah rejoiced
Because of thy judgment, O Lord
For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth
Thou art exalted far above all gods
Ye that love the Lord hate evil
He preserveth the souls of his saints
He delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked
Light is sown for the righteous
And gladness for the upright in heart
Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous
And give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness
Now I just feel like this passage really
Encapsulates what we're describing this evening
When we see the righteous rejoicing
At being delivered from the wicked
And the wicked being destroyed
And notice again in verse number 10
Ye that love the Lord hate evil
We should love the idea of evil being punished
And destroyed because we love God
And we hate evil
That's what the Bible says
Oh, you guys are so hateful
No, it's because I love God so much
You know, if someone hates with a really fervent hatred
They must love something
Because everything has an equal and opposite reaction
If someone has a vitriolic hatred towards something
Well then he has a fierce love towards something
Now for many people
Their hatred is fueled by a narcissistic self-love
Okay, so it's not to say that hate is always good
Hate can have its negative aspects
It can be bad, it can be wrong
When you just love yourself
Well then you could end up hating others
You could be a very selfish person
This is what Jews are
Jews love themselves and are selfish
So they're willing to hate the goyim
To hate other people
They're willing to take all of their money
And charge them extreme usury and interest
They want them to defile themselves and destroy themselves
They hate them because they love themselves
And we should love God
We should love righteousness and true holiness
So then what we hate is we hate evil
We hate pride, we hate selfishness
We hate the things that are of the flesh
And we hate those that embody such actions
You know, God doesn't just hate the abstract idea of selfishness and pride
He hates people that are prideful
He hates people that are selfish
He hates, you know, he's not like
I just hate the idea of murder
No, he hates murderers
He doesn't hate the idea only
He hates the person
Because without the person, the idea wouldn't even exist, folks
Okay, and I've never heard anybody
No person's just like, man, I just hate the idea of murder today
No, no, no, they hate the murderer
They associate it with the person and the person's actions
And you can't abstract these two things one from another
We have to recognize that God also hates sinners
He abhors the wicked, he abhors the bloody, deceitful man
God hates sin and he hates the sinner
But, you know what, he provided a redemption for that sinner
For the righteous
And when we become saved, we're no longer that sinner
That's why God can love us
Because if we were still that sinner
God couldn't love us in that state forever
Now he loved us enough to send his son
And to give us an opportunity for redemption
But that love runs out
God's long suffering nature runs out
His mercy runs out, his grace runs out
Of time for those who rejected and rejected and rejected
And eventually, they will be destroyed because God hates them
God is not destroying people he loves, folks
You know, it's a radical concept today
What I'm going to say is really controversial
But God hates the people he's burning in hell
You know, I guess I would have thought that was really simple
Like, to figure out
But for some reason, this world today
Doesn't understand the fact that God hates the people
That he's burning in hell for all of eternity
Like, he's not doing it out of some grand scheme of love
Like, boy, you were confused
That you thought that I didn't like you
But boy, do I love you so much there
Burning in hell for all of eternity
I'm never going to look at you again
Or have anything to do with you
I mean, what rationale exists when people say that?
Yet there's this big movement today
To just say, well, God is love
Literally every action that God has is love and love only
False
God is more complex than just your one attribute of love
God has many attributes, including wrath
Including anger
Including the fact that he's a man of war, the Bible describes him
And so God has enemies
God will destroy his enemies
And God will show his strength and his wrath
And you know what?
Hell really demonstrates how upset God can get
You say, how upset can God can get?
More than you could ever imagine
What kind of punishments does he dole out?
Worse than you could ever imagine
What kind of strength does he exude against his enemies?
Strength that's unmatched and unparalleled
And I praise the Lord that we serve a God
Who's not just this Santa Claus that doles out presence to everyone whether they're good or bad
That he literally punishes the wicked
It makes me glad and rejoice that God will punish the wicked
I am looking forward to that day
And you know what?
Those of us that love the Lord
Will also hate evil and rejoice at their destruction
Go back to Revelation chapter 19
So it's a very normal reaction
I guess some people get confused and think like
How dare someone get excited about these people's destruction
And you think this isn't real
Look, there are bleeding hearts out there
When you talk about bad people
They're just like, well, did you pray for them?
You know, it's like
Man, you were really mean to Joe Biden
Did you pray for him?
No
I prayed for his destruction
You know, it's like
People hear about a rapist
Or some child molester
Or like some sodomite
And they're just like
You guys just don't seem very loving towards these people
Not right
I'm not loving towards those individuals
Like, that's bizarre
If I literally love everyone
Then how can I even hate evil?
Who are we even fighting at that point?
Like, how could you even have an enemy?
How could I even love my enemies when there is no enemy?
What's an enemy at that point?
There's just no enemies?
Now we need to minister to the devil
You know, maybe the devil's been misunderstood
You know, we can reach him
You know, I know he's the father of lies
Let's try to win him over, you know?
It's like, this is a bizarre attitude
And a bizarre behavior of Christianity
You know, Christianity needs to recognize that God hates sin
And we need to love judgment
We need to love righteousness
We need to love truth
And recognize that sin is something that should be dealt with appropriately
You know, when we were singing this song about brethren were come to worship
You know, part of that song is praying for people to stop sinning
Like, we should desire for people to actually give up sin and stop sin
Not just think like it's cool or something like that
Or, well, we're all sinners, not a big deal
No, no, sin is a big deal
Sinning is an issue that we have in our world
How dare you think that some sinners should be put to death?
How dare you not think that?
You know, we should believe in justice
And when man fails
Well, God steps in
And God is gonna have a major hate
There's been so much capital punishment
Delinquency
On this planet
That God's gonna have to just really
Torch the place
To get things back into a stable environment once again
Because when Jesus Christ comes
He's gonna rule and it's gonna be the prince of peace
The earth is gonna actually be peaceful
Why? Because we wiped out literally billions
Of people that were wicked to the core
And people that were deserving of death
And they finally got that
You cannot have peace with this much evil on our planet
Just like, why did God flood the entire earth?
Because sometimes it's just that bad
Like sometimes, it wasn't like
Well, why didn't God go around and have Noah minister to everybody?
I mean, you know, all these bleeding heart liberal Christians
It's like, why didn't God send Noah
Instead of wasting time building an ark
Why didn't Noah just go out there
And just get everybody saved or whatever, right?
Win everybody over
It's like, oh, why don't you just go
And minister to all these people
Look, sometimes it just becomes
A point of no return, folks
And unfortunately, for many people
Even alive today
They've already reached that point of no return
And it doesn't make any sense
Trying to minister to those individuals
And trying to win them over
You can't win everybody over
And we need appropriate justice
In order to thrive as a community
Now, look what it says in verse 3
And again, they said, Alleluia
And her smoke rose up forever and ever
Notice that this is an eternal destruction
Of the great horror of Babylon
Babylon is gone
And will never rise again
There will never be another Babylon
There will never be another world empire
Run by heathen
Run by the unsaved
No, from now on
It is only God at the helm
Of the earth
It is God that's ruling on the earth
Literally
Some people think that we have to bring in the kingdom
And start setting up this like
Eternal, righteous kingdom ourselves
We're not gonna do that
Jesus is the one that's gonna do that
And Jesus is the one that's gonna set up this reign
Jesus is the one that's destroying Babylon
Not us
We are just there to watch
We're the welcoming party
But we're not gonna do anything
Now, it says in verse 4
And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down
And worshiped God that sat on the throne
Saying, Amen
Alleluia
And a voice came out of the throne
Saying, Praise our God
All ye his servants
And ye that fear him
Both small and great
And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude
And as the voice of many waters
And as the voice of mighty thunderings
Saying, Alleluia
For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth
I think what's kind of interesting here
And I don't know exactly how to
Elaborate on this point
What I find interesting is in verse 5
Notice what it says
All ye servants
All ye that fear him
Both small and great
Now consistently
This phrase used in your Bible
Is not talking about physical stature
Not what it refers to
When the Bible uses the phrase
Small and great
It's often referring to status
So apparently
There's still an
Obvious status
In heaven
It's not socialist
There's not this socialism ideology
That well
Socialism would work if we had the right leader
Socialism is wrong
There is no idea
No no no
Remember the first point
God loves judgment
And those that are the most hard working
And the most faithful
And the most righteous
God is going to elevate to positions of greatness
And those who have done nothing
For God
And just get there by the skin of their teeth
Are going to be the least
Read Matthew chapter number 5
The Bible makes it abundantly clear
There are some Christians who are literally
Teaching lies in Jesus name
And not only teaching lies
Breaking God's commandments on purpose
And the Bible says they are going to be called
The least in the kingdom of heaven
I often
Question myself
Who are these individuals?
And I don't know
I don't know exactly who that is
But I think personally
That there's probably a lot of pastors
A lot of preachers
That are just liars
And it doesn't mean that they're not saved
It doesn't mean that they're going to go to hell
Because praise God we're saved by grace
Through faith
Not of works
There's a lot of pastors out there
Breaking the commandments
I mean they're just a bad person
They're a bad Christian
They preach lies literally
But here's what I know
They're not going to be the greatest in heaven
They're going to be the least in the kingdom of heaven
And you know what I think personally
There's a lot of these big
Non-denom churches
Where the pastors are actually saved
Not all of them
And I'm obviously not talking about someone like
T.D. Jakes
That guy is as queer
As the next fag in Hollywood
I'm not talking about
Kenneth Copeland
I'm not talking about Joel Osteen
Those guys I don't believe are saved at all
You know you run into
Just a lot of these
Non-denom churches around here
Let's just be honest
If you drive around Dallas Fort Worth
You'll see a mega church on almost every corner
I mean we have so many
Large churches
Just large
You know it's just all the experience
And the tree and the whatever
I mean I don't know it's just like all these weird names
And there's just all these crazy
Churches
And I've run into people from these churches that are saved
I've talked to people that are on staff
At some of these churches and they're saved
You know we go to
Watermark
What a dumb name for a church
Like who even thought of that
You know if that's the name
They picked what were the names they turned down
You know like think about
Whatever names they came up with that they didn't use
When they came up like alright we got all these
Options on the table
Watermark
What kind of dumb name is that
I've met people that go to a lot of these
Non-numb churches that are actually saved
Now again a lot of them aren't
Too and I get that
But I think that there's probably
A decent number of
Pastors that are gonna really
Fit closely into that mold
Of Matthew chapter number 5
People are breaking the least commandments
And teaching men to do so
I mean what would be things like that
How about dress standards
How about going to church and being
Faithful at church
How about you know just lots of different things
That we talk about and people are like
Oh you guys are majoring on the minors
Well I'd rather do that than be breaking them
I'd rather be doing that than
Lying about them
And someone in Heaven is gonna be the least
And a lot of times
The Bible you know talks about that
Which you know is highly esteemed
Among men is abomination
The sight of God
So like men might be thinking like oh
We think our pastor of the experience
Is gonna be really greatly rewarded in Heaven
And God's like nope you know the guy
Never went so I never preached the gospel
Wasn't getting people saved
Wasn't getting people baptized
Wasn't even checking the people who got baptized
Whether they were even saved or not
Was preaching all kinds of lies
When it comes to drinking
I mean virtually every single one of these pastors
Preaches a pro-alcohol version of Christianity
That's a lie
That's not true
And again I'm not saying that they're all
Because I think a lot of them probably are
Because you corner them and they're like yes
Salvation's a free gift just by faith
It's not of works a lot of them aren't Calvinists
Or anything like that
I'm sure that there's a lot of Christians today
And a lot of serious Christians
Who are just seriously wrong
And they're liars
And they're gonna be the least
In the kingdom of Heaven folks
You see I can't wait to join their church
Well have fun being the least
You know what I mean?
I guess like couldn't you go to a church
Where there's a bigger sanctuary
And a bigger play place
You could drop all your kids off
With some Sunday school teacher
That's gonna dance around with them
And feed them goldfish and whatever
You could go once a week, once a year, whatever
I mean you make a lot of decisions
Every single day
Why are you making them?
Well you know why I make a lot of decisions?
Because I don't want to be the least in the kingdom of Heaven
I'd rather be the greatest in the kingdom of Heaven
It's not like I even know
But I know what the Bible says
And by faith
I know that God takes the commandments seriously
And I want to take them seriously
And I know that God's gonna reward me according to my works
And I know that the people
That are going to a lot of these fun centers
That's all they're doing is having fun
And I'll be honest with you
There's a lot of things that are way more fun
Than a non-denominational church
Like
Like if I'm gonna go to church
I'm not looking for fun
I'm looking for spiritual maximum
Like I want to get the maximum
Spiritual out
And then if I want to have fun
I'm not going to the non-denominational church folks
I'm gonna go to like the Rangers game or something
Right?
Or I'm gonna go to the Stars game
Or I'm gonna go play golf
Or I'm gonna like enjoy something with my family
Go on a vacation with my family
Or go eat somewhere or something like that
I'm not gonna go to the non-denominational church
And it's like, it's funny to me
Because so many people, what they want
Is they want their cake and to eat it too
They want to have fun and then think they're being spiritual
And they're failing at both
They're not even having the fun that they really wanted
And they're not doing anything
Worth spiritual value
That's why I think a lot of people
You know, a lot of people quit a church like ours
They don't just go join some lame church
They already know it's lame
They usually just don't go to church
And that's sad, you know
If you didn't go to our church, you'd find another
At least fundamental Baptist church
Where they still are King James
Where they still emphasize soul winning
Where you're still getting plugged in
Because you know what, you don't have to come to this church to serve God
You know what, you better serve God
And don't go to one of these lame
Fun centers out there
And become one of these
Lame Christians that
Deceive only yourself thinking that somehow
You're still spiritual when you're not at all
And many of these people
Are even worse than the heathen
It's frustrating
You meet these liberal Christians
And they're like pandering to pedophiles
And child molesters
Normal people that don't go to church are thinking
I don't think that's right
You know, they almost have more
Knowledge on things that are right
Than the liberal Christians
Because they're going to a fake, bad church
And they're hearing lies
Literally
Oh, but my pastor's saved
Did he lie to you?
Did you not read the story when the young prophet
Went into Samaria and then on his way home
The old prophet showed up and lied to him
Is what the Bible says
He lied to him
And by lying to him, he killed him
There's probably Christians out there
Who are going to lame churches
Hearing a pro-alcohol sermon
And then they're getting drunk and killing themselves
In a drunk driving accident
And it's why?
Because that old prophet lied to them
Because their preacher lied to them
And tried to convince them that it wasn't a big deal
And you know what?
God takes Christianity seriously
And those who are saved are going to be judged harshly
And when they get involved
In such sin, you know what?
The lying might come out of nowhere and just destroy them
Don't go to a church
Where they're going to lie to you
That's worse than not going to church in many cases
You know, obviously go to a good church
Go to a real church
And you know what?
Don't think that you're really serving God
With the guy that's lying to you
The guy that's wearing skinny jeans
And a glass pulpit or whatever
I've never met anybody like that
That's good
So you can take that for what it's worth
But also in this chapter
Notice when it describes God
This is a pretty famous verse
Or phrase
The Lord God omnipotent reigneth
This is what we have in the Hallelujah Chorus
It's a really famous song
That sings this particular part of Scripture
And they just sing it over and over and over
But we get the word omnipotent
Omni
It's a root word
Means all
So sometimes when people talk about God
They'll talk about Him being omnipotent
Omnipresent
And again
The first word is all
So the second word on omnipotent
Potent is talking about power
If you're going to say
This has a potent
fume
Or this is very potent
You're kind of talking about the power
Or the strength of something
So when we talk about God being omnipotent
What the Bible is describing
Is that He's all powerful
Now the other words
Aren't really derived from
Direct Scripture
That people will bring up
They kind of bring up a trinity
They talk about omnipresent
And they talk about Him being omniscient
And omnipresent would be the fact
That He's like
Everywhere at all times
There's not really a verse that says that
But through lots of different verses
You kind of get that idea
That God literally is everywhere
And is at all times
There's no beginning to God
There's no ending of God
You can't escape Him
You can't get out of His presence
So they'll often talk about Him being omnipresent
Also
Omniscient
That's the latter word
Kind of like science
Which is knowledge
Was the idea of God is all knowledgeable
Or knows everything
He has all knowledge, all understanding
He understands everything
And again, another word that's not derived
Directly from Scripture
But is something that from a culmination of verses
We can kind of see this
God knows all of our thoughts
He knows the count of the number of hairs
On our head
God is going to be able to judge
Literally every single work
The Bible says that
Every idle word that is spoken
Is going to be coming into judgment
So in that sense
It seems pretty clear and evident
From a lot of these passages
When you put them together
That God literally knows everything
There's not any kind of knowledge, wisdom, understanding
He's aware of everything
He is everywhere
And then He has all power
Now some people misunderstood
Omnipotent
They think that God can do anything
That's not what
Omnipotent means
Because the Bible does say there's limitations to God
In the sense that He cannot lie
He can't do evil
So God is
Think about it this way
If God is truth
Why? Because He's truth
The truth can never be a lie
These are direct opposites
Because He's light
He can't be darkness
In fact there's no darkness in Him
As the Bible describes
So there is some limitation in that sense
But He's not limited in the fact
Of how much power He possesses
He can truly do anything He wants
And make anything come to pass
But He has His own limitations
Based on His own character
He can always pick righteousness
That He's never going to do anything
Unrighteous
But if you think about it
Righteousness, doing right
Is always the superior thing
It's always better
So why would God not always choose
The best option
Telling the truth is always better
Than telling a lie
So if God's going to always pick the best option
Which would make sense
Then He's just going to always tell the truth
And He's always going to do the absolute best thing
And just like a king
Who can make any decision that he wants
You can argue he's omnipotent
Because he's in full power
Full control
Of whatever's happening in that realm
That does not mean though
Just because someone's omnipotent
That everyone's going to obey your will
That's where free will comes into the play
A king can say
Anybody that blasphemes the king's name
Is off with his head
If they do it
It just means there's a fear of punishment
When they do it
And it's going to happen
It's not like he's going to do it and get away with it
No no no, we're going to capture him
And we're going to grab him and off of his head
So in that sense God is like
Hey, those who don't believe in Jesus
They're going to hell and there's no exception
And He's omnipotent in the sense that
He has all power, all strength
And everything He decrees
Will come to pass
Omnipotent reigneth
Also what's great about this
Is at this moment
We're really
On the heels of or bringing into
Christ coming into the earth
And literally ruling on the earth
Which is going to be so refreshing
From someone like Joe Biden
Which talk about omnipotent
Or omniscient
This guy is like the literal opposite
Okay, he doesn't have power
Over his own faculties
This guy doesn't even know where he's at
I mean talk about a worthless leader
To lead our nation
Now again, the president doesn't even
Technically have omnipotence
It's not granted unto him
He doesn't have full reign and supreme
Authority like a king would
But he is technically
The most powerful person in the world
In theory
I'm not saying that he truly is
But that position holds that potential
Power and that
Type of authority
And it's just so frustrating to watch
All these whoremongers
Liars and politicians
Take those reigns
Politician
Someone who doesn't tell you what they believe
They tell you what you want to hear
So that you'll vote for them
Why do we put these people in office?
You know, it's all messed up
And it'll just be so beautiful
It'll be so lovely
To have the Lord Jesus Christ ruling
And him reigning
And him being in charge
People will be confused about
Who's really in charge of this world
The Bible talks a lot about the devil
Being in charge of the world right now
He's the prince of the power of the air
He's the god of this world
Is what the Bible describes him as
And how he's allowed to do a lot of things
That we really hate
But at some point he's going to be chained up
Thrown in hell and Jesus Christ is going to be ruling
And reigning on the earth
We're going to praise the Lord God
Omnipotent who reigneth
Verse 7
Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him
For the marriage of the Lamb has come
And his wife
Hath made herself ready
Verse 8
And to her was granted
That she should be arrayed in fine linen
Clean and white
For the fine linen is the righteousness of saints
And he saith unto me, Write, blessed are they
Which are called under the marriage supper of the Lamb
And he saith unto me, These are
The true sayings of God
Now a lot of people talk about this phrase
The bride of Christ
It's not really again
A direct quote from the scripture
It's a derived meaning
It's a derived thing from text
And this is one of the texts that kind of gives us
That illusion
Now some people when they talk about the bride of Christ
There's a lot of different ideas out there
I've heard some people say the bride of Christ
Is a city
They'll say it's like New Jerusalem
But a city really is the people
Even if you were going to try and make that argument
And I've never seen a city
If you look at verse number 8
Arrayed in fine linen
And when we're talking about city
I'm meaning like the buildings
Or the physical structures
I've seen people arrayed in fine linen
And so I believe it makes total sense
To say all the saved
Could be in a euphemism called the bride of Christ
Now again it's not talking about an individual
It's talking about a collective
It's saying all the saved
Are just loosely
Described as the bride of Christ
And again it's not
A lot of times feminine words
Are used to describe
Things that aren't necessarily feminine
You know
So I said like la mesa
You know that in Spanish means the table
That doesn't mean the table is now feminine or something
Like it doesn't mean like all tables are girly
There could be a masculine looking table
And there could be a feminine looking table
But for whatever reason
Tables are just described as
La mesa
And you'll notice that
A lot of cities in the Bible
Are referred to in a female format
Like it'll say her or she
When it's talking to cities
Because that's just generally
How the Bible describes them
And it would make sense
That you would use the female
Because what does the female indicate
It indicates submission
It indicates being subject
And if we think about it
We're subject unto Christ
Just as a wife
Is supposed to be subject unto her husband
So it makes sense that it would be
In this fashion as a bride in a sense
And now a bride
If you think about it
When a bride gets married unto a husband
Don't get the wrong idea
It's to obey the husband
It's to serve the husband
It's to be in full submission
And subject unto the husband
That's the patriarchy
Yeah it is
Go for it
I like it
God created that way
I married a woman
I didn't marry her
To be like alright let's be co-pals
Let's be buds
She's my wife
In fact one of the first questions
I even asked when we were dating
I said look
If we are gonna keep going
I like you
I would like to get married to you
But whoever I get married to
Is gonna go to my church
They're gonna go to the church that I want to go to
Just because she was raised
In a very strong Baptist Christian home
Where her father was very heavily
Involved in church
And in the ministry
And was on staff at their church
And I thought like you know she may want
Us to go to her church
Or to go where her family is
But I'm like no no no
You're gonna go where I go
That's the church that we're gonna go to
Why? Because I wasn't marrying a 50-50 gal pal
I was gonna marry a wife
And you know what? Christ isn't looking for someone
To just be buddies with him
No he's gonna marry a bride
In a sense
And we as a collective are gonna be subject unto him
We are there to serve
Him and to serve God
We are in submission
Unto Christ
Just as Christ is in submission
Unto God
And we're submitting unto Christ
The Bible tells us this in 1 Corinthians
Chapter 11
We understand the role that's being played here
It says in verse number 9 also
That we have the marriage
Supper of the Lamb
Now I'm not gonna get to that yet
But I want you to keep that in mind
That there's this marriage supper
You know it's kind of interesting that a lot of things the Bible alludes to or brings up
Are kind of practices
That we have in our culture today
I mean think about it
We get married
Based on a lot of these things that it's bringing up
The wife is submitting unto the husband
She's making vows
Unto her husband
And that she's going to obey him
And then additionally a lot of times when people get married
They have a meal
Like there's a meal associated with
The marriage and it's a special meal
You know a lot of times people have a rehearsal dinner
That's kind of
A pretty common theme
And that's essentially like
The last meal
Before the wedding ceremony
Or sometimes people have a meal for the wedding
Or right after the wedding ceremony
And it's just kind of interesting how we have this
Marriage supper of the lamb
There's a specific meal associated with
This marriage
And again what is the marriage that's being set up?
Well the marriage that's being set up
Is Christ ruling and reigning on the earth
For a thousand years
And you say with who?
With us
We are his servants ruling and reigning with him
Just like in a marriage
The wife is ruling and reigning
With her husband as a queen
She is the queen of the castle
She is in charge
Of that castle
And the children are subject unto
The husband and the wife
Unto the father and the mother
But we understand that there's a chain of command
Even within the parental structure
Where the wife is subject
Unto the husband
And when we go into the millennial reign of Christ
And make something clear
We're going to be ruling and reigning
With Christ
But obviously there's an authority structure
Who's at the top? Jesus
There's Jesus and then there's us
And then there's going to be the other people
That are on the earth
But we will be literally ruling
And reigning
And so you know it's a lot of similarities
To what's happening
In our world today and what's being described
It also says these
Are the true sayings of God
Verse 10, and I fell at his feet to worship him
That's kind of an interesting
Verse because we've just had so
Much narrative
At least for me, I kind of even
Forgot there was somebody there talking to the guy
Who also is like, oh
Who's this guy? Well I believe
If we trace it back
What it actually goes to is Revelation chapter 17
Go back to Revelation chapter 17
And look at verse 1
And there came one of the seven angels
Which had the seven vials
And talked with me saying unto me
Come hither I will show unto thee the judgment
Of the great horror
That sitteth upon many waters
So in our narrative, he's going through all these
Different visions and one aspect
Is one of those particular seven angels
Of the seven last plagues with the vile judgments
Came unto John
And he's like, hey let me tell you about the horror
You know, let me tell you about
Babylon and its destruction
And that's what he does
Chapter 17 he describes the horror
Chapter 18 he goes into more detail
Describing the horror
Chapter 19 describes the reaction
In heaven
And then after he's kind of described
All of that
Then notice in verse 10
And I fell at his feet, go back to Revelation chapter 19
Look at verse 10
And I fell at his feet to worship him
Now this is a clear verse
On what worship means
It just literally means to kneel down or to fall down
This is why the Catholics
They'll say like, oh we don't worship Mary
You're on your knees
What do you mean you don't worship Mary?
Well, yeah we're praying
And we're praying to Mary
While we're kneeling
You're worshiping Mary
And notice what the
Normal natural reaction
Of a fellow Christian would be
What does he say?
In verse number 10
He said unto me
See thou do it not
Hey Catholics
See that you do it not
Hey we're praying to Mary
We're kneeling and worshiping Mary
See that you do it not
Oh we're doing this to Thomas
Or we're doing this to James
Or we're doing this to whoever saint they want to name
No, see that thou do it not
What are we supposed to do?
I am thy fellow servant and thy brethren
That have the testimony of Jesus
We should only kneel before God
We should only bow before God
That's a really important
Chapter in the Bible about this
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
Are being told to what?
Bow before the graven image
And to bow unto this false god
And to bow whenever King Nebuchadnezzar
Tells him
And that's coming in the future
Where there's going to be another great man
Like Nebuchadnezzar
In the whole world, all the world to do something
To bow before the Antichrist
And to bow before his image
That he's going to have created
His abomination of desolation
And you know what the Bible tells us
Hey don't do that, worship God
We don't worship man
And we don't worship the devil
We worship God
What does that mean?
Literally our knee bows for him only
It says for the testimony of Jesus
Is the spirit of prophecy
This is pretty interesting
What this guy's talking about
I find these verses
Puzzling for me, but you know
I think if we slow down
It helps kind of make a little more sense
But what I think is cool
Is notice it says I'm thy fellow servant
And of thy brethren
That have the testimony of Jesus
This sounds like it's just another saved guy
And this is what I think is cool
This is my personal opinion
I think this is cool
There's some saved guys out there
That are going to be part of the seven
Vile trumpet, like these vile guys
Like I was thinking like
It's just like an angel or like some random person
Or like some random creation
Or something, it's like
Somebody that we could know
Wouldn't that be cool?
You're like, Ben I didn't know you were
Number six, you know
It's like, man that's cool
You know, like
That's just awesome
You think like there's nothing to do in heaven
This is a cool job
Like
Can you imagine
Hey I'm applying for a job
What is it? The locust from hell
You know I get to pour that
It's like that would be cool
Like there is going to be cool stuff to do
In heaven folks
There is really awesome jobs to get
You know
There's so many people that they get saved
And they do nothing for God
What opportunities
And what kind of jobs
And what kind of tasks that we can have
You know what, God is going to reward the faithful
So with some pretty cool jobs
And again, I don't think that these jobs
Are being handed out lightly
It's probably some pretty serious Christians
You know
Somebody that was really dedicated
To the things of God
Maybe somebody we read about in the Bible
One of their names
Like Timothy
Pretty great Christian
I mean I would think he could be rewarded pretty greatly
Maybe it's people from the past
You know maybe it's somebody like a William Tindale
Or something like that
Who God uses and allows
Him to do such a thing
Or maybe it's somebody from the modern era
Some great pastor
What if it was Pastor Jack Hyles
I know that hair lifts a lot of people
But it's like that would be pretty funny
That would be pretty cool
If he got to do one of those things
He's serving God
Don't think like
Oh you know
I'm just doing this stuff for God
I'm just meaningless, I'm just wasting my life
Or something like that
Look this isn't your life, Christ is your life
And there is a great reward to be had
By serving God and investing in your
Spiritual future
This guy has the testimony of Jesus Christ
I love that
You know he doesn't have his own testimony
You know
His testimony is the testimony of Jesus Christ
And the people who are saved
Their testimony is the testimony of Jesus Christ
And look at this
The testimony of Jesus Christ
Is the spirit of prophecy
What does that mean?
It means this
Those who are saved
Those who have the testimony of Jesus Christ
Are the ones who understand the Bible
That's the spirit of prophecy
You know why the natural man
Can't understand the Bible
They that have the testimony of Jesus Christ
The natural man is not going to receive
The things of the spirit of God
Their foolishness unto Him
You know who understands the things of God
They that have the testimony of Jesus Christ
Because that is the spirit of prophecy
And when you think about prophecy
Prophecy is preaching
Prophecy is the word of God itself
And if we think about it
Jesus Christ is the word of God
And what is the spirit of prophecy
It's this
When we think about Revelation chapter number 1
Verse number 1
It's the revelation of Jesus Christ
And in some sense
Somehow
This thing that I have in my hand
Is Jesus Christ
And this is the testimony of Jesus Christ
And this is the spirit of prophecy
You know what's not the spirit of prophecy
Oh man I went to this church service
And I wasn't really into it
And then I went down and came down the aisle
In my eyes
And God said that I'm going to witness to North Korea
Oh sorry that was Isaiah
Salvador
You know that's not the testimony of Jesus Christ
That's not the spirit of prophecy
You know there's so many of these Pentecostals
And fake Charismatics
Going around talking about all the
Prophesy and oh you know God gave me this vision
And blah blah blah
You know what the spirit of prophecy is
The testimony of Jesus Christ
That's the spirit of prophecy
Bible preaching
You know what's the right thing to say
Whatever this book says
And you know what I'm not interested in your testimony
I'm interested in His testimony
I'm interested in the testimony of Jesus Christ
And you know what we're reading tonight
We're reading Revelation
Which is the revelation of Jesus Christ
We're not getting up and preaching our personal opinion
Or getting up and telling you stories
And fanciful ideas
No no no we're preaching the Bible
And you know what people need to get some Bible
Because that is the spirit that they need
Not the spirit of the world
Not a carnal spirit
Not a carnal idea
You know what makes this guy so great
He has the testimony of Jesus Christ
And that's the spirit of prophecy
And you say well I want to be filled with the spirit
Well get filled with this
Get filled with the word of God
You know the things of God
Are coming from the word of God
Not this God told me
No He didn't
Or I cleaned myself up
No no no no
Jesus Christ cleaned you up
Inside
Jesus Christ made you brand new on the inside
And then the word of God washes the outside
You know everything about your cleaning up process
Was Him it was the testimony of Jesus
It was this book
It wasn't anything you did
That you're special about you
No no no it's all about Him
And it's all about His word
And we need to get the word of God deep into our hearts
That's the spirit that we need
Look at what it says in verse 11
And I saw heaven open and behold a white horse
And He that sat upon him was called faithful and true
And in righteousness
He doth judge and make war
Boy I love Jesus Christ
Oh Jesus
He was so loving
You know Jesus Christ is going to judge and make war
Yeah He came to love you by dying on the cross
You know when He comes back the second time
If you're not saved
He's not coming to love you
He's coming to love you for fun
Or to just hang out
Or just be buddies
Or you know I want to have a relationship brah
No no no He's going to judge and make war
And notice in verse 12
His eyes were as a flame of fire
And on His head were many crowns
And He had a name written that no man knew
But He Himself
And He was clothed with a vester dipped in blood
And His name is called the word of God
You know what's another name of Jesus Christ?
The word of God
That's why the Bible literally says in John chapter 1
In the beginning was the word
And the word was with God
And the word was God
Because Jesus Christ is the word of God
You say how does that make sense
Well you know what I'm not God so I don't know
I just know that it's true
I just know that Jesus Christ
Is the word of God
And that the word of God is Jesus
And the Bible says this so many times
Go to 1 John chapter number 1
The Bible makes it clear that somehow
In some way
Jesus Christ is literally the word of God
And you say like I want to have a relationship with Jesus
It's your Bible
That's how we have a relationship with Jesus
And that's why you know
When we talk about the Bible version issue
What could be more important
Than having the right Bible when it's literally Jesus folks
You know
People that don't care about Bible versions
Don't care about Jesus
It would be like if I
Opened up the phone book
And I look and there's like
18 Jesus' okay
Which is pretty common
Especially if we're in Mexico or something
It's like all Maria and Jesus
I'm just looking at Jesus Jesus Jesus
And it's like Jesus Gonzalez
Jesus Garcia and Jesus Manuel or whatever
And I say like
There's a guy Jesus is really important
Do you know which one?
Doesn't matter
Let's just call any of them
It's like but wait a minute
These aren't all the same person
It's not all the same number
They don't all reach the same landline
I want to know the right one
I want to get it dialed in
That person doesn't really love Jesus
When they just say it doesn't matter
Just any of them will do
No no no
The one that loves Jesus is the one that wants to get the exact right number
The exact right person
I want the King James Bible
Cause I want to have the right Jesus
I don't want to have another Jesus that Paul said
Paul said there's another Jesus
And you know what makes me so frustrated
Is how many stupid pictures they are
Online of this long haired hippie
That everybody calls Jesus
I hate that every meme
Is a long haired Jesus
That doesn't exist
I hate how every picture
And every painting
Is this long haired homeless bum
Wearing some long dress
That they call Jesus
You know that's not the right Jesus
And it's not a shocker to me
That they don't have the right Bible either
The Catholics who have the wrong picture
Have the wrong Bible as well
And those of us that want the right picture of Jesus
It looks like this
It's not a picture book
Sorry
You know my kids like picture books
Well you know you need to grow up
And read some books that don't have any pictures
Okay and that's the one about Jesus
Look at 1 John chapter 1 verse 1
That which was from the beginning
Which we have heard
Which we have seen with our eyes
Which we have looked upon
And our hands have handled
Of the word of life
Notice I said wow we saw
Heard and touched something
And what did we touch?
We touched the word of life somehow
And verse 2
For the life was manifested
And we have seen it
And bear witness and show unto you
That eternal life which was with the Father
And was manifested unto us
That which we have seen and heard
Declare we unto you
That ye also may have fellowship with us
And truly our fellowship is with the Father
And with his son Jesus Christ
I like how in verse number 2
It says there's eternal life
And eternal life is with the Father
And then in verse number 3
It says there's the Father and he is with what?
Jesus Christ is eternal life
And that's why Jesus Christ constantly brought up
That the words that he spake unto them
They are spirit
And they are life
Because we get eternal life
From this book
From the words of scripture
That's why it's so important when we go out and preach the gospel
That we're preaching the words of God
We're preaching John 3 16
We're preaching Romans chapter 10 verse number 9 and 10
We're going out and we're preaching
Acts chapter 16 verse 30 and 31
Because these words have spirit
These words have life
These are the true and faithful words
And this is what gives someone salvation
And these words were literally manifested in a person
And that person is Jesus Christ
It's incredible
His name is called
The Word of God
Because Jesus is the Word of God
And you know when someone doesn't like a verse in this Bible
They just don't like Jesus
Which is totally capable
I mean isn't there some people in this world
Go over to Revelation chapter 3
Aren't there some people in this world that you like
But you just don't like everything about them
Well that's how a lot of Christians are
There's a lot of Christians that like Jesus
But here's the problem
They don't like everything about Jesus
They don't like all the aspects of Jesus
And you know what
We don't want to be Christians who cherry pick
Which parts of Jesus we like
We want to like all of Jesus
Every aspect
And there's not a bad aspect to like
Or dislike or there's not something that's wrong
It's all good anyways
Revelation chapter 3 look at verse 14
And unto the angel of the church
The Laodiceans write
These things saith the Amen
The faithful and true witness
The beginning of the creation of God
So notice how Jesus Christ describes himself
He is the faithful and true witness
Look at chapter 1 verse 5
Revelation chapter 3
And from Jesus Christ who is the
Faithful witness
And the first begotten of the dead
And the prince of the kings of the earth
So notice Jesus Christ is the faithful
and true witness in chapter 3
He's the faithful witness in chapter 1
Go to Revelation chapter number 22
The Bible said
About Jesus Christ himself
That
He who's sitting on that horse
Is called faithful and true
He's faithful and true
He's the faithful and true witness
And notice how it's worded in Revelation 22 verse 6
And he said unto me
These sayings
Are faithful and true
So the person's faithful and true
And then the sayings of God are also faithful and true
Why? Because it's the same person
That's both faithful and true
And boy I'm so glad
That I have a Bible today
That's faithful and true
Faithful and true
There's so many people today
They don't have a Bible that they could
Literally say this is faithful and true
They say well this part has an issue
This part's not that faithful
Well this part's not that true
No no no I'm so glad I have a Bible today
That's faithful and true
And that I have a God that's faithful and true
And that I understand that that's Jesus
Who's the faithful and true witness
He is a witness
Go if you would
Back to Revelation chapter 19
The Bible says in verse 14
In the armies which were in heaven
Followed him upon white horses
Clothed in fine linen, white and clean
Hey remember how the
City or the marriage
I'm sorry the bride
Is also arrayed in what?
Fine linen
Okay the Bible said if you look back in verse number 8
She should be arrayed in fine linen
Clean and white
Okay look at this
Clothed in fine linen, white and clean
The arachnids are like totally different
Cause it said clean and white
And then it said white and clean
That's totally different
Not even the same
The word order is just completely reversed there
Obviously we're talking about
No no it's the same folks
Don't be a ruckmanite
Or a rucktard
Verse 15
Out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword
That with it he should smite the nations
And he shall rule them with a rod of iron
Fierceness and wrath of Almighty God
And he hath on his vesture
And on his thigh a name written
King of kings and Lord of lords
So notice
Jesus Christ is a supreme ruler
Out of his mouth goes a sharp sword
And the Bible is a sharp sword
It's described as that
In Hebrews chapter number 4
As being a two edged sword
And so you know we see a lot of parallels
All over the place
I want to just finish this chapter though
It says in verse number 17
And I saw an angel standing in the sun
And he cried with a loud voice
Saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven
Come and gather yourselves together
Under the supper of the great God
Notice here
It mentions the supper of the great God
Well
Just a few verses before
It was talking about how something else was about to happen
What?
The marriage supper of the lamb
So I believe you have to connect these two thoughts
And then it's like hey we're about to have the supper of the great God
Doesn't sound like two different events folks
Sounds like the exact same event
That we've been describing here
Now it says in verse number 18
What is this?
That you may eat the flesh of kings
So he's telling all the birds
That they're going to eat something
Notice this, the flesh of kings
This is a physical meal
And the flesh of captains
And the flesh of mighty men
And the flesh of horses
And the flesh of all men
Both free and bond
Both small and great
Notice again the phrase small and great is used in this chapter again
What is it describing?
Those who are the greatest and those who are the least
They're going to eat both
Also they're going to literally eat the flesh of horses
This tells me there's literally horses in this battle
You know I kind of had hypothesized
A few times about
Different interpretations of some of these things
But it seems like that giant army
That's headed from the east
Is literally containing real horses
Which again I think makes a lot of sense
Because if you're going to cover the terrain
Of a Euphrates river being dried up
A horse is a great animal
To travel
Unlevel terrain
It's really unmatched and unparalleled
To any kind of war animal
Additionally horses will march into battle
Like knowing it's going to die
Like I don't understand it
But somehow horses will literally
Just charge at a spear
And run into the spear
I mean I don't get it
You could at least say it's brave
It's not maybe smart
But it's brave
But many animals
Would not do that
They would not just run straight into something like that
They would sense the danger
Or just be too cowardly or too fearful
Or frightened by sounds
Horses aren't going to be startled that easily
In the battlefield by the gunpowder
And the cannon
And all the other stuff
If you hit them in the heels
Or nip them with your heels
They'll just charge wherever you're going
And they're a brave beast
And that's why they're used in battle
For rough terrain
For being brave in battle
And arguably
They can walk a lot longer than a man
They can carry a man
They're strong
Even Jesus Christ is riding on a horse
So it sounds like horses are a pretty
Awesome animal just in general
But the birds are going to eat the flesh
Of all these mighty men
The captains, the small and the great
And the horses
Verse 19, I saw the beast
And the kings of the earth and their armies
Gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse
And against his army
And the beast was taken
And with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him
With which he deceived them
That had received the mark of the beast
And them that worshipped his image
And were cast alive
Into a lake of fire burning the brimstone
I think that that's important
That it's mentioning alive here
Because these are like the only two people
That get like a ticket straight
Into the lake of fire
And for the thousand years
It's just going to be them
They're just hanging out in the lake of fire by themselves
That's a special punishment
For being the false prophet
And for having been
You know, the
I'm sorry, the beast
They are going to get a special punishment
Of having to go straight into the lake of fire
No judgment even needed
Just straight to jail, no pass and go
Just bam
Now the devil technically goes to hell for a thousand years
Then gets loose
Then he'll later be thrown into the lake of fire
Along with everybody else that was in hell
But for some reason
The beast and the false prophet
They don't get thrown into hell dead
Because you have to understand
These people are dead
I saw the dead stand before god
And he opens up the books
You know, when you have the great white throne judgment
It's the dead that are being thrown into the lake of fire
You know, it's not the dead here that's being thrown into the lake of fire
These people are thrown alive
Into the lake of fire
The beast and the false prophet
You could argue that the beast already
Got a little bit of time in hell
I don't know, the false prophet
Just straight to hell
Or straight to the lake of fire, I'm sorry
Hell can mean lake of fire in some ways
But I'm using those words
To try and distinguish the two places
It says in verse 21
In the remnant were slain with a sword
Of him that sat upon the horse
Which sword proceeded out of his mouth
And all the fowls were filled with flesh
Now I'll go to one more place real quick
And we'll finish, Ezekiel 39
And I'm not going to belabor this point
But
If you kind of understand
The timeline for revelation
Then I believe some of the Old Testament passages
Will actually make sense
Now
I'll probably explain this a little bit more
In some more chapters
But some people talk about the battle
Of Gog and Magog
And that's mentioned
In the next chapters, okay
When we talk about what's going to happen
But
I believe if you study Ezekiel correctly
That
The Gog and Magog that are mentioned
Have a dual
Future fulfillment
They have a dual future fulfillment
I'd like to preach another sermon on this to explain it all
But if you kind of understand what's happening in Ezekiel
At first they have all these dry bones
And then flesh comes on them again
And that's a picture
Of the rapture
That's a picture of the resurrection
Where everybody is resurrected again
Okay
Well what happens
Shortly after the resurrection
Is Armageddon
And the battle of Armageddon is what we just read
Where Jesus Christ comes
On the horse with all of his saints
To the great battle
Of Armageddon
Where all of the armies of the beast and the antichrist
Are gathered together
And he slays all of them instantly
Okay
What happens after
You slay all of these armies
Well in Revelation
You have all the birds coming
You have all these carcasses from that great battle
What do you have in Revelation after that?
You have the millennial reign of Christ
Well if you think about Ezekiel
It's laid out the same way
You have that dry bones
Resurrection event
Then you have the battle of Gog
And the book of Ezekiel
Where the birds come
And they eat the flesh of all the mighty men
And then you have what?
The whole rest of the book describing them building something
The temple of God
It follows that exact same pattern of
Rapture resurrection event
Then you have that event of the battle of Gog
Which will be the battle of Armageddon
Then you have the marriage supper of the lamb
And then you have the millennial reign of Christ
Or the building of the temple
So then
I believe because God is a very efficient author
He then
Is going to bring up something else that happens after
The millennial reign
What happens at the end of the millennial reign
You have the actual battle of Gog and Magog
That Gog referred to
And God uses this as a dual fulfillment
Where you can go back to this event
And mention how it's going to be similar again
To where there's going to be this particular battle
But if you pay attention
And I'm not going to read this whole chapter
I'm just kind of giving you a highlight
Read the whole chapter yourself please
But Ezekiel 39
You'll read after this battle of Gog and Magog
It talks about them like burying bodies
Specifically for seven months
Okay
They're actually burning weapons
For seven years
So they're spending like all this time
There's no weapons
They're burning all of them
They're trying to get rid of all of these bodies
Well
That doesn't really make a lot of sense
If we're only limited to the
Battle of Gog and Magog
Because as soon as we're done with the battle of Gog and Magog
In Revelation chapter 20 when we get to this
It just goes straight into the great white throne judgment
And then we have a new heaven and a new earth
There's no need to bury bodies
Because the whole earth
Has been recreated
Like it's just completely all new
But I want you to understand something
In Christ's millennial reign
It's still the same earth
Albeit there's been some major
Geographical shifts
Because the Bible talks about how all of the mountains
Have come down
And Babylon's gone
And so like there's going to be some
Definitely scars
Or marks or some differences
As far as just the topography of the earth
But it's still the same earth
And those people that died
Their bodies are still laying there on the ground
And somebody's got to do something with them
So it makes perfect sense that when we read this passage
All of the things that we read about them
Doing things carnally and physically
Is talking about that millennial reign of Christ
And when we have the reverb
Or the echo
Or that second picture of Gog and Magog
That we're just ushering
Straight into the great white throne judgment
And we enter in the new heavens and new earth
Something similar actually happens at Esther
And Esther is an incredible book
Of end times Bible prophecy
Basically the entire book of Esther
Is just an end times book
And I preach whole sermons on it
Go listen to the book of Esther explained and stuff
But you'll notice that they have a couple days
Where they slaughter their enemies
And they like slaughter all of them
And then they do it a whole other time again
Like there's a second event
Where there's a whole other day
Where they slaughter all their enemies
And I believe that's also the picture
How you have that battle of Armageddon
And then you have a whole other event
Of the battle of Gog and Magog
Because the battle of Gog and Magog is very similar
Where all the enemies of God are gathered together
Around Jerusalem from the devil
Who's loose for a season
He brings them all there
God destroys them all with fire
From heaven
But that's a little bit different
God proceeds out of his mouth
And the Bible talks about how much blood there's going to be
And there's going to be literally just a pool
Lake or river of blood
From this particular event
God's going to torch the fire
Out of everybody
When we talk about the battle of Gog and Magog
So there really isn't anything to bury
Okay
It's like the Holocaust where you can't find any of the bodies
Okay
It's like where are the six million bodies
They're all gone
They disappeared
You just have to believe it
Now let's read a few verses before we finish
I explained a lot
But let's just read what the Bible says
Ezekiel 39 verse 1
Therefore thou son of man prophesy against Gog
And say, Thus say the Lord God
Behold I am against thee
O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal
And I will turn thee back and leave
But the sixth part of thee
And will cause thee to come up from the north parts
And will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel
And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand
And I will cause thine arrows
To fall out of thy right hand
Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel
Thou and all thy bands
And the people that is with thee
I will give thee unto the ravenous birds
Of every sort
And the beasts of the field to be devoured
Thou shalt fall upon the open field
For I have spoken it
Sayeth the Lord God
So notice in this passage
He's talking about this great army
That's going to be given over to the fowls of the earth
Now fast forward to verse 17
And now son of man, thus sayeth the Lord God
Speak unto every feathered fowl
And to every beast of the field
Assemble yourselves and come gather yourselves
On every side to my sacrifice
That I do sacrifice for you
Even a great sacrifice
Upon the mountains of Israel
That ye may eat flesh and drink blood
Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty
And drink the blood of the princes
Of the earth
And of rams, of lambs, and of goats
Of bullocks, all of them
Fatlings of Bashan
And ye shall eat fat till ye be full
And drink blood till ye be drunken
Of my sacrifice
Which I have sacrificed for you
Thus ye shall be filled at my table
With horses and chariots
With mighty men
And with all men of war
Sayeth the Lord God
And I will set my glory among the heathen
And all the heathen shall see my judgment
By my hand that I have laid upon them
So the house of Israel shall know
That I am the Lord their God
From that day and forward
So he's saying
Hey, there's this special event
Where there's gonna be so much bodies
So much blood
That literally every bird
And every beast
Is gonna eat and drink so much
To where they're just completely full
And they're still leftovers
This is that marriage supper of the lamb event
And then he's saying
After this point
Everyone will know
Israel will know that I'm their God
From this day forward
Why? Because you're entering directly
Into the millennial reign of Christ
And Christ will have an everlasting kingdom
He's going to rule forever
There will never be a time
When he stops ruling
After he takes his throne
Here at this event
And so I believe it's
When we read this passage
I mean verse number
I want to say
Verse 20
Is almost identical
To what we were reading there in Revelation
Because even when it says
That's what he was saying
The small and the great
And so he kind of studied
You look at these verses
It becomes really clear that we're talking about the same event
Now again, read the whole chapter
It has some things that apply to some different timelines
Just like Jonah does
And just like Matthew 24
They all have a few verses here and there
But you read the whole context of verse 39
It's talking about this major event
Of this battle
Of the birds being fed and eating the flesh of these men
Which fits perfectly
With what we have in Revelation chapter number 19
Where you have the battle of Armageddon
And you have the marriage supper of the lamb
The supper of the great God
And they're eating the flesh
And in seven months
Of the millennial reign
People are going to be hired
To bury the bodies
Of all of these men
Whatever the leftovers
I mean there's so much leftovers even
From all the animals
They're still having to bury the bodies
And I hope it's all the liberal Christians
Who hated judging
Who like didn't
Didn't want to hate anybody
I love everybody
I happen to shovel these people
Into the grave that they have
And you know again
Hey if that's my job
I'm going to do it
I'm ready
I'll get Elon Musk
He'll be straight in the lake of fire
If he's the false prophet
I don't know that he is
I'm just throwing that out there
But you know hey
Study the Bible
Because it's pretty cool what's happening
This is going to happen
Everything that I'm saying is going to happen
This is the spirit of prophecy
This is the testimony of Jesus Christ
These things will come to pass
And you know it's blessed that he that readeth these things
It's blessed that he that believeth these things
And you know what? Who are you going to be?
Small or great?
Who are you going to be in the story?
Because you're going to be in the story
If you're saved you're in the story
If you're not saved it's
You know we'll get to chapter 20 here in a minute
Okay you don't want to be in that chapter
You want to be with us
But some of us are going to be small
Some of us are going to be great
And what you do here for Christ
Is going to determine that
And we're going to be there for all eternity
All the stuff you did here won't even matter
All the things you built all the time
We wasted on carnal things here
It just won't even matter
That's why we should take Christianity seriously
And take our job seriously
Take the last days that we have in our lives
And squander them on carnal things
Or selfish pleasures
Or going to some lame church
Don't be the lame church guy
Who has to go and bury the bodies
Thank you Heavenly Father so much
For giving us this chapter and this information
I pray that we would get it deep
Into our hearts and minds the importance of serving you
And that there is a great reward
To those who are faithful
And to those who seek to please you
To keep your commandments
I pray that we would take Christianity seriously
I pray that you would help us to motivate
Other Christians
To serve faithfully
I pray that you would help us to do a great work
And get many people saved
So they wouldn't have to go through such evil
Of the end times
And I pray that you would also just keep us safe
Help us to be mindful of the Spirit
In Jesus' name we pray
Amen
Alright in closing let's go to song number 90
Song number 90
Jesus, lover of my soul
Song number 90
Song number nine, zero, one, two, three, four, five, six,
Jesus, lover of my soul,
thank me till I close the wide.
While the near water's warm,
while the tempest still is nigh.
By the old my Savior died,
still the storm of life is past.
Saving to the hidden path,
oh, receive my soul at last.
Other refuge have I done,
aims my helpless soul on Thee.
We are weakly not alone,
still support and comfort Thee.
All my trust on Thee is saved,
all my help from Thee I bring.
Cover my defenseless head
with the shadow of Thy name.
Thou, oh Christ, are all I want,
more than all in me I find.
Raise the fallen, cheer the faint,
heal the sick, and lead the blind.
Just and holy is my name.
I am all the righteousness,
wild and full of sin I am.
Thou art full of truth and grace.
Grant this grace with me and thou,
grace to follow all my sin.
Let the human dreams abound,
make me keep, endure within.
Thou art like the mounted heart,
freely let me take out Thee.
Spring Thou up within my heart,
Christ to all eternity.
Great job everybody, you were all dismissed.
you