1 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:08,119 This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark 2 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:12,240 Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland, 3 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:16,400 County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,720 continues teaching through God's Word. 5 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:40,680 The nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time of 6 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:44,240 the dead, that they should be judged, and that you should 7 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:46,960 reward your servants, the prophets and the Saints, and 8 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:50,600 those who fear your name small and great, and should destroy 9 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:54,280 those who destroy the earth. Then the temple of God was open 10 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:57,920 in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple, 11 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:03,080 and there was lightning noises, thunderings and earthquakes and 12 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:06,120 great hail. Come quickly, Lord Jesus. 13 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:09,160 Amen. In our culture today, sin is 14 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:11,720 celebrated as if it's no big deal. 15 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:15,120 Those who follow God openly are mocked for doing so. 16 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,920 It's much like Noah, who is mocked for building the ark when 17 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:21,840 there had been no rain and no ocean before. 18 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:24,520 Yet his faith in God did not disappoint. 19 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:29,160 In today's message, Pastor Clark encourages you not to lose heart 20 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,720 as you trust in God, even when the world looks at you as if 21 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:35,560 you're out of your mind. God will do as He has said in 22 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:39,240 His Word, and judgment will one day come upon the world for sin. 23 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:43,200 Now here's Pastor Clark in Revelation Chapter 15 with 24 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,200 today's edition of Living Waters of Grace. 25 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:52,680 We're to be lovingly and humbly aggressive about righteousness 26 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:57,200 in this land. Verse 2, it talks about those 27 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:58,760 who had the victory over the beast. 28 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,800 And this is again the the tribulation martyrs and they 29 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:06,160 were also described in Revelation Chapter 7, nine 30 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:09,039 through 17. You can check that out later. 31 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:14,000 These we're reading about now though, the completion of those 32 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,360 who survive the tribulation because that that tribulation 33 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,680 isn't over yet until after the bulls of wrath are poured out 34 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:24,040 and the battle of Armageddon is over and then the second coming 35 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:27,760 of Christ occurs. But this period is we're reading 36 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:30,960 about right now is within the time parameters of the 37 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:33,360 tribulation. And as I said that the bowl 38 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:35,760 judgments are still waiting to be poured out. 39 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,320 Now, even though the Antichrist has killed these people in the 40 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:44,760 in the natural and the body physically, they have victory 41 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:47,240 over him. And it's a glorious thing that I 42 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:49,560 love what Jesus says in Matthew 1028. 43 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:54,040 Do not fear those who kill the body that cannot kill the soul, 44 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:58,280 but fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body. 45 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:01,160 And hell. Now I don't know what my and 46 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:03,800 demise will be, nor do you know what yours will be. 47 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:08,120 If things get more difficult and our rights are being taken away, 48 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,000 will there come a time where they'll begin to make examples 49 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,080 of Christians? They've done it in past 50 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:16,360 centuries. Nero did it, you know, and Titus 51 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:20,080 did it back in 8070. We know it's happened throughout 52 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:23,680 the history of the church in the the first several thousand 53 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:25,800 years. And there's more martyrs believe 54 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,840 it the occurring, more martyrdom occurring today than ever before 55 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:35,840 in countries such as Sudan and Iraq and Afghanistan, you know, 56 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:40,880 and Iran. It's just horrible what's going 57 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:45,840 on in Indonesia and other countries that are led and ruled 58 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:49,720 by Islam. And you don't have the ability 59 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:54,560 in these countries to stand up as a Christian and proclaim the 60 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:58,120 gospel of Jesus Christ because if you do, you're threatened 61 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:03,120 with losing your life. And so many people do lose their 62 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:06,040 life in these countries. And the wonderful thing is that 63 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:10,000 they the more the persecution gets heavier and more intense, 64 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:14,200 the more the church comes alive. I mean, we need some heat. 65 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:17,760 All of us need heat to wake us up out of our lethargy and our 66 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:22,240 complacency and our indifference of Oh well, this another Sunday. 67 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:26,360 One day, if we don't watch it, life will not continually be 68 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:30,640 like we got used to it being in the good old USA because our 69 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:33,840 rights and our freedoms are being taken daily. 70 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:38,160 They are. And if you don't see that 71 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:41,640 occurring, I don't care. Republican or Democrat, it's not 72 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:45,760 a, it's not a, a party issue, it's a heart issue. 73 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:49,680 And so we have people leading our countries, leading our 74 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:53,400 school systems, leading our local governments that have No 75 00:04:53,400 --> 00:05:00,000 Fear of God before their eyes. And persecution is what brings 76 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:03,080 life. It brings the gospel out. 77 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:06,200 It brings many, many people coming to the Kingdom. 78 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:11,200 And that's what happens in the in the revelation, in spite of 79 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:15,480 the horror that goes on and all the difficulty, many, many, many 80 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:19,120 people become Christian. So if it's your your day and 81 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:22,600 they're taking you to the firing squad or they're taking you to 82 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:26,360 the gas chamber, they're taking you to the fire pit, you know, 83 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:28,240 when you're in your mind, you think of, boy, that would be 84 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:29,440 horrible. I don't want that. 85 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:31,880 And none of us wanted it and no one in their right mind would 86 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:34,360 want that. But if they do, we can be 87 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:36,120 encouraged. What Jesus says do not fear 88 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:40,760 those who can kill the body. A few moments of discomfort, 89 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:42,800 right? And we're with the Lord. 90 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,600 You read about those who were martyred in, in, in the fire. 91 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:49,960 They put him in the fire and, and they're still in there 92 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:53,920 praising God and, and they, they would cut off their hands and 93 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:57,040 their arms and they cut out their tongue and, and, and, and, 94 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:59,280 and they had people in the fire. The last thing they would do 95 00:05:59,280 --> 00:06:00,600 would put their hands up to heaven. 96 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:03,120 Just showing they only have allegiance. 97 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:06,520 The martyrs to the King of kings and Lord of Lords. 98 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:11,920 Verse three and four they sing the song of praise, 2 songs, one 99 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,120 song of Moses and one the song of the Lamb. 100 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:18,520 And I love what Jesus says in Matthew 517. 101 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:22,240 Do not think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. 102 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:24,840 I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. 103 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:31,360 Jesus and Moses are like this, the old covenant and the new 104 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:33,760 covenant. They come together and the 105 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:38,080 person of Christ Jesus doesn't say that the law is 106 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:40,520 inconsequential. It's critical. 107 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:46,160 It's absolutely a necessity, but we don't get our justification 108 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:48,000 by keeping the law. We could never keep it. 109 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:49,760 We all broke it. We still break it. 110 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:53,240 Christ kept the law. He's a fulfillment of the law. 111 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:57,400 Law was brought by Moses, and grace and truth was bought by 112 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:02,040 Jesus Christ. Jesus is very close to Moses. 113 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:07,240 He anointed Moses in the Old Testament. 114 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:11,040 He walked with Moses in the midst of his ministry. 115 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:14,960 Jesus spoke with Moses. If you remember, in Mark Chapter 116 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:19,040 9 on Mont Tabor and the Mount of Transfiguration, Moses and 117 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:22,560 Elijah were there in the midst with Jesus and Jesus in his 118 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:25,800 transfigured state, along with Moses and Elijah. 119 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:30,040 Moses is alive, Elijah is alive, and the Kingdom. 120 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:34,280 One day we'll see them. It talks about Moses in the book 121 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:37,880 of Hebrews Chapter 11 verse 23 through 29. 122 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:44,880 Verse 27 says by faith he forsook Egypt, and like Moses, 123 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:50,040 you and I, by faith we forsake this world, not fearing the 124 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:57,240 wrath of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is 125 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:00,920 invisible. And I trust every day you and me 126 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:07,280 are enduring this world and its heartache and its insanity by 127 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:12,920 trusting him who we can't yet see, who the Bible says not 128 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:16,480 seeing we believe. So there's this perfect union 129 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:21,640 between the law of God and between the grace of God Christ 130 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:25,960 fulfilled what we have been unable to fulfill and the song 131 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:29,400 is beautiful. The song gives praise to God. 132 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:32,240 It gives praise to God for his works. 133 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:35,120 It says great and marvelous are your works. 134 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:39,840 This would be a good worship song to learn worship team and 135 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:42,880 put the music, wouldn't it the lyrics here we got great 136 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:47,720 musicians, you know and and pray that you can put this song to to 137 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:50,160 to some worship. We can we can sing this song 138 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:53,520 here at Calvary. God's works great and marvelous 139 00:08:53,520 --> 00:09:00,960 are his works his ways just and true are your ways his 140 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:05,880 worthiness. You shall not fear you, O Lord, 141 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:09,720 who shall not fear you, O Lord, and glorify a name, your name, 142 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:14,880 for you alone, our holy, for all nations come and worship before 143 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:19,120 you. The song magnifies God's works, 144 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:22,080 His ways, His worthiness, and His worship. 145 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:27,800 All nations shall come and worship before you, for your 146 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:33,320 judgments have been revealed. So the verse 5 and 6, the angels 147 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:34,920 are coming now after these things. 148 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:38,240 I looked and behold, the temple, the Tabernacle, the testimony in 149 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:41,240 heaven was open. This, this blows my mind. 150 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:43,440 I mean, I don't know how you guys think about having what it 151 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:45,320 looks like. And some people have. 152 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:47,400 You're going to be on clouds with harps and that's all you're 153 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:50,840 going to do forever. Believe me, that is the farthest 154 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:53,680 from the truth. I mean, heaven is a physical 155 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,440 realm. It's a dimension that transcends 156 00:09:57,680 --> 00:10:02,720 this space and time, but it's actually more real and tangible 157 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:06,160 than this world that we're passing through that's going to 158 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:09,240 one day be destroyed and the new heaven and the new earth is 159 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:11,160 going to be revealed. Not any. 160 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:15,560 Will there be a new Jerusalem that will descend out of heaven? 161 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:17,880 But there'll be a new heaven and a new earth. 162 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:20,480 So the real estate, the territory that we're going to 163 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:24,400 have access to in our new bodies, our glorified states, 164 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:28,000 it's going to be incredible. I mean, the, the beauty and the 165 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,960 things to do and the things to wonder and the things to 166 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:33,480 experience, You know, we're going to go to heaven and it 167 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:35,000 isn't going to be like, oh, it's boring. 168 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,640 This is all there is. And I, you know, I'm perfect now 169 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:40,680 and I, you know, and no, we're going to the Bible says in the 170 00:10:40,680 --> 00:10:44,800 ages to come, he's going to show us his exceeding riches and his 171 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:49,400 grace toward us in Christ Jesus. I mean, eons upon eons upon 172 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:50,840 eons. And we're never going to once 173 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:52,560 say, isn't there anything new here? 174 00:10:52,680 --> 00:10:56,400 Because his mercies will be new just as they are now. 175 00:10:56,400 --> 00:11:00,040 Morning by morning, day by day, every every day, there's going 176 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:02,840 to be some new cool thing that one of us, Wow, you should see 177 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:05,320 what I saw the other day. I was 1,000,000 miles from 178 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:07,920 Pluto. And, and God, he showed me this 179 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:10,400 thing that I never, you know, and we're all going to be like 180 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:13,040 that all the time. We're going to be so excited and 181 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:17,200 so stoked and so in love with God and so in love with Christ 182 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:20,240 and the Holy Spirit and the Kingdom of heaven that none of 183 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:23,240 us are ever going to ever long for anything that's on the face 184 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:25,400 of this earth. Matter of fact, it says later on 185 00:11:25,560 --> 00:11:27,240 he's going to wipe away all tears. 186 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,080 There will be no more remembrance of the former things 187 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:32,840 for the former things that passed away. 188 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:37,000 The temple of the Tabernacle of his testimony in heaven, this 189 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,720 literal temple and the Kingdom of heaven. 190 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:43,960 We study about this in Exodus and Hebrews. 191 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:47,240 It reminds us of the Tabernacle of meeting with God. 192 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:52,280 When God told Moses to build this temple, this Tabernacle, it 193 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:54,240 was based on a pattern of heaven. 194 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:59,400 If you ever read the specific details of everything that was 195 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:03,640 design about how that temple was built, the, the, the, the 196 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:06,280 structure, the parameters, the height, the width, the depth, 197 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:09,440 the, the different instruments in there that were used to, to 198 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:13,520 magnify and and glorify God in the midst of the sacrificial 199 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:16,120 worship system. The, the, the, the color of the 200 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:20,960 material and the length and the, and I mean, it's a spectacular, 201 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:23,880 the attention to detail. And when we get to heaven 202 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:27,040 someday, the Tabernacle that we're going to see is going to 203 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:31,040 be mind blowing because the beauty of it will exceed 204 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:34,240 anything that man could have ever made on earth. 205 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:37,560 The, the, the temple, the Tabernacle that was built on 206 00:12:37,560 --> 00:12:43,360 earth by man with man's hands was only a pattern, a a slight 207 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:48,880 facsimile of the reality of what was existing in the Kingdom of 208 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:51,400 heaven. And out of this temple the seven 209 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:53,280 angels come with the seven plagues. 210 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:57,400 They bring God's judgment, and these judgments are sent out by 211 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:00,720 God and by Him alone before His throne. 212 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:04,520 It talks about their clothing, bright linen, having their chest 213 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:08,800 girded with golden bands. The bright, pure linen 214 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:12,120 represents the purity and the holiness of our Savior Jesus 215 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:14,640 Christ. The gold band represents God's 216 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:17,320 judgments that are pure and righteous. 217 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:21,400 And verse 7 and 8, it talks about the four living creatures. 218 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:24,720 This is fascinating to me and I, I never thought about this when 219 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:26,400 I read this. You know, the four living 220 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:29,640 creatures that I read about in Isaiah prior to the Lord's 221 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:32,160 Supper. What are they doing continually? 222 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:37,120 They're saying, holy, holy, holy are you, O God, who was and is 223 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:40,480 and is to come. They do that 24/7, day in and 224 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:44,440 day out, day in and day out, day in and out, for all eternity. 225 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:49,120 But they stop here for a moment. One of the four living creatures 226 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:53,680 give to the seven angels the 7 golden bowls of the wrath of God 227 00:13:53,680 --> 00:13:56,480 who lives forever and ever. It's almost like everything 228 00:13:56,480 --> 00:14:02,080 stops in heaven, this constant sound of holy, holy, holy are 229 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:02,880 you. O God. 230 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:09,680 They take and give to the angels what now will bring the ultimate 231 00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:16,400 glory to God, this outpouring of His final just wrath and anger 232 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:19,320 upon the face of an ungodly world. 233 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:23,520 I don't know about you guys, but I used to watch like New Year's 234 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:28,080 Eve thing on TV and I'd have my few drinks at one time and all 235 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:31,760 that goofy stuff. And you know, I mean party, 236 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:35,360 whatever it is that we would do. And, and, and, and that's like 237 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,120 Sodom and Gomorrah. When you look at what goes on on 238 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:42,520 New Year's Eve in Times Square, people are drunk beyond 239 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:47,920 recognition, having sex in the street, urinating in the street. 240 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:51,680 This drugs everywhere. I mean everybody all there. 241 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:56,000 It's like the what it is, guys and gals. 242 00:14:56,200 --> 00:15:00,480 It's the picture of the real cesspool of what this earth 243 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:04,360 represents to a holy God. It's the masses of humanity. 244 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:08,160 You give them an opportunity to gather, to basically flaunt 245 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:11,680 before a holy God, immoral lifestyles. 246 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:16,240 And they want to know what, when's the next event I can show 247 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:19,240 up at? When's the next party I can go 248 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:22,040 to? And God has to look at this and 249 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:25,080 and then this is what his wrath is going to come out upon. 250 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:27,800 I mean, it isn't like those people down there. 251 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:30,480 Many of them have heard the truth of the gospel. 252 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:33,200 Many of them have family members that are praying for them and 253 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:35,680 tell them you need a savior. You need to turn from your sin. 254 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:38,080 You need to repent, you need to get saved. 255 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:40,480 Oh, I don't want to hear that. I'm tired of hearing that. 256 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:42,960 Leave me alone. And they just keep running from 257 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:44,560 it. They're, you know, the the 258 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:46,520 prodigal. We just want to go out and do 259 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:48,640 our own thing. And some of us, by the grace of 260 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:51,840 God, come to our senses and say, there's got to be more to life 261 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:54,360 than this. Living in this cesspool of sin, 262 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:59,240 I start to feel so dirty and so filthy and so messed up. 263 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:02,040 And, and I'm looking up into the heavens at night and the stars 264 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:04,320 and the skies. And I say there has to be more 265 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:07,440 to life than what I'm living, that there has to be a reason 266 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:11,240 why I was created. And then the Holy Spirit begins 267 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:14,640 to work and begins to draw us to truth. 268 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:20,240 And we begin to like the next drink or the next sexual 269 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:24,640 encounter, or the next thing I steal, or the next thing I am 270 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:28,560 jealous over, the next thing I'm lustful over, the next thing my 271 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:32,840 greed or my selfishness, it doesn't fulfill me anymore. 272 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:35,760 It's empty the the next drug. It just doesn't do it for me 273 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:38,720 anymore. I am so burnt out and so over 274 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:41,360 this world. And that's why some people sit 275 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:44,040 in the end of the bed with a gun, thinking there's nothing 276 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:45,600 else. I'm going to kill myself. 277 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:48,920 I'm going to take my life, but thank God for the gospel of 278 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,400 Jesus Christ. Thank God for the Gideon Bibles 279 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:54,240 that are in the hotel rooms when the when the man or the woman's 280 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:56,720 in there not knowing what to do. And then they're looking and 281 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:59,800 they open the drawer and they see a Bible and they open it for 282 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:01,920 the first time. And in the front, it gives them 283 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:05,240 the plan of salvation. And they read the gospel and 284 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:08,520 they get saved and they put their gun down or someone who's 285 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:11,680 sitting in the hotel room and they're scanning the TV, this 286 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:13,839 looking. And all the sudden they catch an 287 00:17:13,839 --> 00:17:18,359 old Billy Graham evangelistic gospel message or someone else 288 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:21,040 who's faithful to preach the word in the middle of the night 289 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:23,880 to some lost soul, and they get saved. 290 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,800 This temple represents the holiness of God. 291 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:32,080 And the bulls are now given in the midst of the cloud of God's 292 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:36,280 glory that's filling the temple. There's an old worship song. 293 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:40,400 I see the Lord and his glory fills the temple. 294 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:45,320 Holy, holy is the Lord. And so these 7 golden bowls, 295 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:50,960 they're not a big like a round concave bowl, they're flat like 296 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:53,600 saucers. And they're used in the Old 297 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:57,520 Testament for the ritual drinking or the pouring out of 298 00:17:57,520 --> 00:18:02,160 sacrifices upon the altar. Their their contents are quickly 299 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:05,560 and easily poured out, such as were used in a temple to hold 300 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:08,520 the fire when the incense was burned. 301 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:11,760 So it isn't like these huge bowls that they're going to need 302 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:16,040 5000 angels to get in the bottom and finally pour it out. 303 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:18,440 They're they're just waiting just to be tipped. 304 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:21,960 And as they're tipped, God's judgment flows everywhere. 305 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:26,000 The temple's filled with the glory of God. 306 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:29,960 It says in verse 8, as we begin to conclude, the temple was 307 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:33,000 filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power. 308 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:37,520 The glory fills the temple. It says no one can enter. 309 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:40,600 Why can't anyone enter into the temple? 310 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:43,680 It's no more time of intercession. 311 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:47,520 There's no one that can go in behind, behind in front of the 312 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:50,600 the throne of God and say, wait, there's more. 313 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:54,240 It's over. There's no more time for 314 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:57,240 intercession. The judgement of God is going to 315 00:18:57,240 --> 00:19:01,160 be poured out. The cloud covers the Tabernacle 316 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:03,440 of meeting. In the Old Testament, the glory 317 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:07,880 of the Lord fills the temple. It says Moses in Exodus chapter 318 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:11,640 40 was not able to enter the Tabernacle of meeting because 319 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:15,960 the cloud rested above it and the glory of the Lord filled the 320 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:18,840 Tabernacle. It's referred to the Chicana 321 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:22,080 glory. It was a coin phrase used by the 322 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:27,200 Hebrew rabbis that meant that He came to dwell in our midst, the 323 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:30,680 divine visitation of the presence or dwelling of Jehovah 324 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:34,600 God on the earth, the visible manifestation of God's glory. 325 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:38,240 And I sense that sometime I hope you do too, when I come here and 326 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:43,720 I worship before the Lord. And these worship people, 327 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:46,360 they're, they're excellent musicians, but that's not what 328 00:19:46,360 --> 00:19:49,000 they're about. These people love Jesus Christ. 329 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:53,200 Their heart is to truly honor him and to worship him and to 330 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:55,440 have their eyes on him and to glorify him. 331 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:58,560 And as they do that, they bring us in with them. 332 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:04,880 And we're caught up in this sense of the Kabat of God, the 333 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:08,440 manifest presence of God. And I see many of you, you, you 334 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:11,520 raise your hand or your, your heads are down or you're about 335 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:15,640 or some of you are about about on the face of on your face or 336 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:19,280 wanting to be on your knees because you're so aware of God's 337 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:24,520 presence in the worship. And that's what God wants us to 338 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:28,920 experience more and more because as we as we experience his 339 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:31,640 presence, I don't want to be in sin. 340 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:36,480 I don't want to be unforgiving. I don't want to be bitter. 341 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:39,000 I don't want to be jealous. I don't want to be greedy. 342 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:44,080 I don't want to be vengeful. I want my heart to be made right 343 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:48,840 with God and experience God's love and heaven. 344 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:53,640 After these judgments are poured out, we will have access to this 345 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:56,640 temple always and forever. I love what it says. 346 00:20:56,640 --> 00:21:00,560 IN2013 of Revelation I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, 347 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:04,360 behold, the Tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with 348 00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:06,760 them, and they shall be His people. 349 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:10,480 God himself will be with them and be their God. 350 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:15,840 So the bowls are poured out. They come from His glory and 351 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:19,880 from His power, and there's no intercession that can avail at 352 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:23,840 this point in time because the world is now doomed. 353 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:27,080 All sinful people on the earth, the Pagan empires will be 354 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:28,920 brought to their knees and destroyed. 355 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:32,080 These bowls of wrath are the third woe. 356 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:34,040 And we've studied that throughout the Book of 357 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:39,000 Revelation, which is associated with the 7th trumpet and the 358 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,600 end, second coming of Jesus Christ. 359 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:46,920 And I like to just conclude in Revelation Chapter 11, verse 14, 360 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:49,400 it says the second woe is passed. 361 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:52,160 And again, this is the chronological aspect. 362 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:56,040 You can't just go from verse to verse, chapter to chapter and 363 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:57,840 Revelation. You have to flip back to keep 364 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:00,320 the things in continuity and flow and context. 365 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,320 The second woe is passed. Behold, the third woe is coming 366 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:05,120 quickly. And that's what we study today, 367 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:07,760 this third woe that is about to be poured out. 368 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:12,960 The 7th Angel sounded the the 7th trumpet at the at the end of 369 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:17,200 this period, beginning into the period of the bowls being poured 370 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,960 out, it says there were loud voices in heaven saying the 371 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,840 kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord 372 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:26,520 and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever. 373 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:30,600 And the 24 elders who sat before God on the Thrones fell on their 374 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:34,560 faces and worshiped God, saying, we give you thanks, O Lord God 375 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:39,960 Almighty, the one who is and who was and who is to come, because 376 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:42,720 you've taken your great power and reign. 377 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:45,480 The nations were angry and your wrath has come. 378 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:49,600 And the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that 379 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:52,760 you should reward your servants, the prophets and the Saints, and 380 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:56,400 those who fear your name small and great, and should destroy 381 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:00,000 those who destroy the earth. Then the temple of God was open 382 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,640 in heaven, and the ark of his covenant was seen in his temple, 383 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:08,760 and there was lightning noises, thunderings and earthquakes and 384 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:11,720 great hail. Come quickly, Lord Jesus. 385 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:15,280 Amen. If you're here today and you 386 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:19,280 don't have a Savior, I can't make you get saved. 387 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:23,520 I can't save you, but His Spirit can, and I know His Spirit is 388 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,480 present here today. The Holy Spirit convicts you. 389 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:28,360 It gives you that gnaw. He gives you that gnaw. 390 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:32,000 Hey, this stuff's true. You got to deal with it. 391 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:33,920 This is real. You can leave here and try to 392 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:37,080 forget about it, but you can't. You can run, but you can't hide. 393 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,720 God is coming after you today because He loves you and He 394 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,760 wants to spare you from all these things that are going to 395 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:48,600 come upon the earth one day, and they could be sooner than later. 396 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,600 As we look at what's happening in the world, we have a sense 397 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,840 that these days are closer than ever. 398 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:00,800 Thanks for being with us today here on Living Waters of Grace. 399 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,440 We're in the Book of Revelation, and we find it fascinating how 400 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:09,080 influential and involved the angels are in this book. 401 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:13,640 They bring about whatever it is that God has instructed them to 402 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:17,000 do, but it's through their actions that much of the 403 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,920 judgements come on the earth. The angels are in submission to 404 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:25,000 God as their authority, but He utilizes them in unique ways 405 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,440 throughout this book. Like angels have a specific 406 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:32,160 purpose from God, you have a unique purpose and plan too. 407 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:36,360 God wants to use you in your life as a testimony to others 408 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:39,840 and to bring others who are currently lost into the fold of 409 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,520 God. God would love more than 410 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:45,960 anything for all who are willing to come to Him for salvation, 411 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:50,480 but he wants it to be their choice, not a forced situation. 412 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:55,320 This is the way God works, not forcing himself on anyone, but 413 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:59,520 giving each person free will. If you're interested in learning 414 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:03,440 about this choice that's free and that it's a gift, go to 415 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:08,560 calvarychapelonline.com and click on the About Us tab and 416 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:11,200 then find the link for what we believe. 417 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:14,960 We'd love to be a help and a resource for you as you walk 418 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:18,040 through what it means to be a follower of Jesus. 419 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:22,040 If you find the contact tab on our website, you can get in 420 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,760 touch with us or submit a prayer request. 421 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,680 We'd love to hear from you. 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