1 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:08,119 This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark 2 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:12,680 Waffer, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland, County 3 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:16,400 of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,760 continues teaching through God's Word. 5 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:41,280 One of the greatest assaults in the last days in the evangelical 6 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:45,640 church movement is a movement towards anti-Semitism which 7 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:49,600 means that God is no longer favoring Israel and the churches 8 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:53,320 should not be interested in the favor of God in Israel because 9 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:56,800 Israel is a, from their perspective an apostate nation 10 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:01,120 and has no hope of repentance. Well, the Bible's full of God's 11 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:04,599 love for Israel throughout the Scriptures, His commitment to 12 00:01:04,599 --> 00:01:07,200 Israel, his focus on Israel in the last days. 13 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:10,400 Have you ever been given directions in a small town? 14 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:13,760 You know, like drive past the traffic light, hang a left at 15 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:16,400 the railroad tracks, Then once you see the giant ice cream 16 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:18,480 cone, keep an eye out for the big oak tree. 17 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:23,120 And then you're almost there. Well, in Pastor Clark's message 18 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:26,160 today, he tells you that the signs of the times you're living 19 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:30,920 in are all around. You are living in the last days. 20 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:34,480 The Bible has given you the landmarks to look out for. 21 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:37,920 Are you seeing them? Are your eyes open to the times 22 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:41,400 you're in now? Here's Pastor Clark in Second 23 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:45,720 Timothy Chapter 4 with today's edition of Living Waters of 24 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,760 Grace. There's a form of godliness, but 25 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:51,880 it denies the power thereof. People will wear robes. 26 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:53,760 There'll be symbols in the church. 27 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,680 There still may be a cross, but a lot of the newer churches that 28 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:00,000 are being built have no cross because the pastors say that the 29 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,560 cross is something that will stumble people. 30 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:05,000 And you know, we don't want to offend the seekers. 31 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,160 Well, the Bible clearly says the cross is to them that perish 32 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:10,440 foolishness. It's a stumbling stone to them 33 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,160 that perish. The majority of the churches out 34 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:17,240 there nowadays do not believe that Jesus is God Incarnate. 35 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:19,520 They don't believe in the virgin birth. 36 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:21,160 They don't believe in the resurrection. 37 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:25,520 The Barn Up organization took a poll of the percentage of people 38 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:28,800 that claim to be evangelicals, and evangelicals were always 39 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:31,480 known as people that believed in the importance of being born 40 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:35,400 again, The inerrancy of Scripture, the infallibility of 41 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:39,000 God's word, the faithfulness of the truths of the gospel. 42 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:41,600 That Christ came to die for our sins according to the 43 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:42,760 scriptures. He was buried. 44 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:46,080 He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures and 45 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:49,400 he rose and he shall come again with glory to judge the quick 46 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:51,120 and the dead. His Kingdom shall have no end. 47 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:55,280 One of the statements in the nice and creed that was one time 48 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,840 proclaimed by all Christian churches and that's another 49 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:02,400 document that's no longer even affirmed by most churches. 50 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:05,920 The number of people that go to church without their Bibles. 51 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:09,000 I was driving up here. I had to run back home to get 52 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,040 something. I'm riding by a church and and I 53 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:14,120 see people going, looks like nice people just sort of walking 54 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,360 in, you know, just do my thing, you know, no Bible. 55 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:22,640 Why would anybody go to a Bible teaching church without a Bible? 56 00:03:22,640 --> 00:03:25,240 I don't understand. I mean, whenever we don't need 57 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:27,280 the Bible, we don't need the church anymore. 58 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:29,480 It's a waste of time going to a church. 59 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:33,240 If you don't have a Bible, you need to carry your Bible to 60 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:35,720 church. If you don't take your Bible to 61 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:37,280 church, do you believe the Bible? 62 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:39,640 Now we have Bibles here, in case you forget. 63 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:41,840 I'm not trying to condemn anybody or anything like that. 64 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:45,120 The point I'm trying to make is whenever churches do not have 65 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:48,440 the focus on the Bible anymore, the people that come to church 66 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:52,520 or the pastors, it's obvious that the church has moved toward 67 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:56,040 this movement of hypostasy and the One World church. 68 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:59,160 They'll be sucked in very easily by this integration of all these 69 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:02,600 different religious systems. The greatest contributor to 70 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:06,440 apostasy today and apostasy, and you read about it in Hebrews and 71 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:09,800 other sections of the Scripture, apostate person is someone who 72 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,760 at one time claimed to believe and know the truth, and they 73 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:16,440 moved completely away from it. It's amazing how some scholars 74 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:19,560 of the Bible and people who once proclaimed the authority of the 75 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:23,160 Scriptures will be on their deathbed and they'll be refuting 76 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:25,440 the scriptures. They'll be saying, well, I don't 77 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:27,800 believe this stuff anymore. It was a hoax. 78 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:30,400 It's not important. I mean people at one time who 79 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:33,600 were supposedly sound in their Bible teaching. 80 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:36,840 The greatest contributor to apostasy today is this 81 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:41,960 self-centered religious movement called the faith movement and 82 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:44,800 it's run by faith teachers and faith movement. 83 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,280 Another name for it is a positive confession movement. 84 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:52,400 It promotes a faith devoid of moral and doctrinal content and 85 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:56,720 which promises that whatever one truly believes and confesses 86 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,120 with one's lips will come to pass. 87 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,640 You ever hear of that? It's like a mind power 88 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,360 visualization. The faith in yourself, not faith 89 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:07,640 in God. Your faith is more upon what you 90 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:11,280 affirm and what you say, and somehow through that power you 91 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:14,680 develop these energies to be able to receive all these 92 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:18,680 manifest blessings of heaven. Eastern mysticism and the mind. 93 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:21,760 Science cults like Christian Science and the positive 94 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:23,600 thinking of Norman Vincent Peale. 95 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:27,040 The possibility, thinking of Robert Shuler, the positive 96 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:30,680 confession teaching of Hagen and Copeland and Price and David Cho 97 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:34,400 and Osteen and others, Man, by thinking he can bring into his 98 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:38,200 experience whatever he desires, becomes little gods. 99 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,040 I remember one time years ago when I was a follower of Kenneth 100 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:44,360 Copeland and when I was involved in bad doctrine many years ago, 101 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:47,120 he said you're going to become like little gods. 102 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,120 Well, this is exactly what these faith teachers say. 103 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,800 We create our own world. We're partners with the 104 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:58,880 Infinite, a universal creative mind which receives the impress 105 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:03,600 of our thought upon it. Go to Second Timothy 4, three 106 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:09,120 and four, for the time will come when they will not endorse sound 107 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:10,960 doctrine. You think that's come yet? 108 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,600 But according to their own desires, because they have 109 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:19,280 itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers, and 110 00:06:19,280 --> 00:06:22,160 they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned 111 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:24,800 aside. The fables, but it says 112 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:27,720 exhorting us, but you be watchful on all things and door 113 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:30,760 afflictions do the working of evangelists fulfill your 114 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:34,040 ministry and verse 2 it says preach the word, be ready in 115 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:38,360 season and odysseys and convince rebuke, exhort with all 116 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:42,160 long-suffering and teaching. We need to in love point these 117 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:45,880 errors out to people because if they don't repent and see the 118 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:49,000 errors they're in, they're going to be sucked in to this apostate 119 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:51,400 world. One world church movement, this 120 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:54,680 beautiful building that the Lord bless us with at one time was a 121 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:58,400 Swedish Lutheran Church. It came over over 100 years ago 122 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:02,280 with godly people that taught the Word of God, that believed 123 00:07:02,280 --> 00:07:05,240 in the importance of the Lord's Supper weekly, that believed in 124 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,040 the importance of repentance, that taught the Word of God 125 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:11,200 faithfully. The Church of the Lutheran 126 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:14,560 Evangelical Synod, and I don't know how many years it happened. 127 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,720 They no longer began to have the emphasis on the Word, but 128 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:19,400 started looking at social programs. 129 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:23,200 They began to do such things as ordination of women pastors, 130 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:25,200 which the Bible clearly deep affirms. 131 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,240 And nothing against women. And women are just as spiritual 132 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,000 as men, if not more so many times. 133 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:33,720 But the role of a pastor in a church is a male role. 134 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:38,280 It says in First Timothy chapter 3 that he desires the office of 135 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:41,600 the Bishop or pastor. Elder Shepherd desires a good 136 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:43,560 thing. It's not a female role. 137 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:46,400 But it doesn't mean that females can't serve in the church and 138 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,040 minister in the church. But they're not to be the 139 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:51,480 pastors. Well, this church, this movement 140 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:55,480 became ordaining women, and then it began to be open to the 141 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:59,200 homosexuality movement and ordaining homosexuals. 142 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:02,400 And this is not any happening in the Lutheran Church, but in the 143 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:04,920 Methodist Church and the Presbyterian during churches. 144 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:08,160 It's appalling what's happening in these last days that we live. 145 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:12,640 It says in the last days, First Timothy 41 people will give heed 146 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:15,640 to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons. 147 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:19,960 Second Timothy 32 says for men shall be lovers of their own 148 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:22,200 selves rather than lovers of God. 149 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:26,320 Robert Schoeller wrote a book called Self Love, the Dynamic 150 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:30,800 Force of Success, and he is impacted very deeply. 151 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:34,520 Billy Hybels of Willow Creek as well as Rick Warren and 152 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:36,440 Saddleback. I mean, why in the world that 153 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:39,320 these guys wanting to hang out and their conferences and that 154 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,039 kind of stuff. It's scary because it just goes 155 00:08:42,039 --> 00:08:45,440 to show that any of us, including myself and pastors in 156 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:48,280 Calvary Chapel and other churches that are endeavoring to 157 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:52,680 be faithful in these last days can be sucked in by compromising 158 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:56,040 and listening to the teachings of false teachers. 159 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:00,160 It says there is a new concept and practice today. 160 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:03,120 Peter Wagner, a famous teacher on revivals. 161 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:06,040 This is interesting. Wagner has the audacity to say 162 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:09,040 Jesus and Paul in the early church fathers didn't know about 163 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:10,880 this stuff. In other words, there's new 164 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:13,440 insight, there's new revelation now, OK. 165 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:17,440 He says they now hold the key to spiritual breakthroughs and 166 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,440 worldwide revival. What they talk about is like 167 00:09:20,680 --> 00:09:24,240 praying against territorial spirits, spiritual mapping, 168 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:29,600 ground level spiritual warfare, occult prayer warfare, strategic 169 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:33,640 level sin warfare, cosmic sin warfare, and praying through 170 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:36,200 windows. Now where in the world did you 171 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:39,160 ever see Jesus talking about this stuff or the apostles? 172 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:43,360 The Bible very clearly says resist the devil and he'll flee 173 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:46,240 from you. Jude again tells us, and this is 174 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:49,360 Michael the Archangel, one of the highest created angels in 175 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:52,200 the Kingdom of heaven. He's having this discussion. 176 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:54,720 He says yet Michael the Archangel and contending with 177 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:59,520 the devil when he disputed about the body of Moses dared not to 178 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:03,280 bring against him a revelling accusation, but said the Lord 179 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:06,080 rebuke you. How many times you've heard 180 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:09,960 people like thinking that they got some authority to twist the 181 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:13,440 devil around in their own authority in their own name. 182 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:17,720 I mean, if Michael the Archangel who's on the outside of the 183 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:22,640 throne room of God's heaven has fear and also a healthy respect 184 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:25,200 of the Prince of darkness, realizing he doesn't have the 185 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:27,240 authority. He doesn't have the power. 186 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:30,240 But the Lord Jesus Christ is the only one that has the authority 187 00:10:30,560 --> 00:10:33,280 over the power of the enemy. And we have authority over that 188 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:36,200 enemy through the power of Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy 189 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:38,920 Spirit who lives us. It says resist the devil and 190 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:41,360 he'll flee from you. So these delusions from the 191 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:46,720 counterfeit revival are becoming very, very big in the sense of 192 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:49,400 impacting the evangelical community. 193 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:53,640 It's just unbelievable what has happened and occurred. 194 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:56,840 They called it the Holy Laughter movement and people were barking 195 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:59,200 and acting like animals. And I mean, this stuff that had 196 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,880 nothing to do with any kind of biblical premises or teachings 197 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:07,040 of what real repentance is and what real Holy Spirit revival 198 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:08,680 is. You know, the counterfeit, it 199 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:12,200 looks so close, it looks so good that the Bible says it can 200 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:14,720 deceive the very elect if possible. 201 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:17,800 You know, one time I remember leaving at Kenneth Copeland 202 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:19,880 conference and I was high, but I wasn't high. 203 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:23,920 And the Holy Spirit, I was so out of my mind in the sense of 204 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:26,960 what was reality that I drove through a red light and it was a 205 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:30,080 miracle I didn't kill someone. And the counterfeit, the 206 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:32,600 delusion. And if any of you are involved 207 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,960 in any of these false teachings, if you're embracing any of these 208 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:38,960 counterfeit revivals, I would ask you before the Lord to 209 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:41,200 repent. Throw the books away, burn them, 210 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:45,200 get rid of them, turn your back on anything that is not the 211 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:47,840 truth. You can't mess around with light 212 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:50,480 and darkness. You can't mess around with 11. 213 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:54,840 The Bible says a little 11 a little sin will destroy the 214 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:59,160 whole body. So John talks about these 215 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:03,480 nations in verse 10. He says that there are 7 kings, 216 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:07,520 5 have fallen and one is the five that have fallen in John's 217 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:11,920 day was Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medio, Persia and Greece. 218 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:14,960 And the one it was at that particular time was Rome. 219 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:19,520 The other is yet to come, the one world empire to come, a 220 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:24,400 revival of the Roman Empire. Verse 11 he says the beast that 221 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:29,480 was and is not is himself also the 8th and is also of the seven 222 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:32,680 and is going to perdition. So we see the manifestation of 223 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:36,040 this individual called Antichrist who will have control 224 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:39,560 over this one world religion, one world government, one world 225 00:12:39,560 --> 00:12:43,200 financial and banking system. As we talked last week, the 10 226 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:47,880 horns which you saw are 10 kings who have received no Kingdom as 227 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:51,520 yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the 228 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:54,240 beast. These are of one mind and they 229 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:56,440 will give their power and authority to the beast. 230 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:58,720 So in other words, the Beast is going to use this false 231 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:02,080 religious system to accomplish his goals up until a certain 232 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:04,200 time. Once he accomplishes what he 233 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:07,440 wants to accomplish, he could care less about that group of 234 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:09,680 people and their religion. Matter of fact, he's going to 235 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:13,680 come against it and destroy it. These will make war with the 236 00:13:13,680 --> 00:13:18,160 Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of Lords 237 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:21,680 and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen 238 00:13:21,680 --> 00:13:24,120 and faithful. So the Lord Jesus Christ, when 239 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:27,000 he comes back at that final battle of Armageddon, will come 240 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:30,440 against all these false religious movements as well as 241 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:33,320 the authority of the One World Government and the Kingdom of 242 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:35,800 the Antichrist. And then he said to me, the 243 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:39,440 waters which you saw where the harlot sits are peoples, 244 00:13:39,680 --> 00:13:42,440 multitudes, nations and tongues. So there's going to be a 245 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:47,280 tremendous amount of people that are in this deception where this 246 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:50,880 one world religious ruler and government will rule and reign 247 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:53,840 for a period of time. And it says in verse 16, and the 248 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:57,160 10 horns which you saw on the beast, these will hate the 249 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:01,040 harlot, make her desolation naked, eat her flesh and burn 250 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:03,040 with fire. So we see all the sudden the 251 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:06,480 uptight feelings of all these nations that thought that they 252 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:08,320 were in good with this world ruler. 253 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:11,120 He commits treason against them. He doesn't want them and said 254 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:13,840 now they're angry and they're going to try to come after him 255 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:16,640 to destroy his system. And this is what's interesting 256 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:19,040 here again with God's sovereignty and Providence in 257 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:21,720 verse 17. For God has put it into their 258 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:26,320 hearts to fulfill His purpose to be of one mind and to give their 259 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:30,080 Kingdom to the beast until the words of God are fulfilled. 260 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:33,640 So everything's under control. Whenever you see all this crazy 261 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:36,840 stuff happening in the world, don't panic, don't worry, don't 262 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:40,080 get upset, don't get fearful. Get closer to the Lord. 263 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:42,280 Deal with your own heart, but look up. 264 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:45,280 Your redemption's drawing nigh because God has everything under 265 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:47,080 control. Aren't you glad? 266 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:49,960 You don't have to worry. You don't have to fear what's 267 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:52,240 going to come upon the world. Doesn't mean there won't be some 268 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:55,680 difficulty, perhaps for us, our persecution or trial, some 269 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:58,040 degree of tribulation in the world. 270 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:01,360 You will have tribulation. But be of good cheer, he says. 271 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:07,000 I have overcome the world. So we see verses 12 through 15. 272 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:11,040 These 10 kings allude to the 10 nation confederation. 273 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:14,920 This is also talked about in Daniel chapter 224 and 25. 274 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:18,840 These 10 European powers are subject to the anti Christian 275 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:21,600 powers shall make war against Christ. 276 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:25,520 Europe is spiritually right now as we speak, bankrupt with 277 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:29,160 regard to believing and living the gospel of Jesus Christ. the 278 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:32,080 Reformation had occurred that was a wonderful movement of God 279 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:35,440 and needed to occur because of the abuses of the teachings of 280 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:39,920 Rome is now a faint memory in Europe and Wales and London and 281 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:43,600 England and Scotland, the birth place of the Reformation, less 282 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:47,800 than 3% of the population attends any church on any given 283 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:50,720 Sunday. So Europe is primed already to 284 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:54,840 just give devotion to this false spiritual movement that is in 285 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:58,480 the process of developing now and growing stronger and 286 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:01,240 stronger and stronger. If you go into your Barnes and 287 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:03,920 Noble, your Borders bookstore now, you know, the Christian 288 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:07,240 section, which you usually check out, the New Age movement, the 289 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:11,480 occult and spiritist movement is almost about the same amount of 290 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:14,320 space that they give to the Christian teachings in these 291 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:16,760 stores. And it's growing more and more 292 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:20,920 every day. We see the movement in 1957, and 293 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:23,360 this is interesting. I don't hear much about it now, 294 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:25,320 but it still exists. It's called the European 295 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:30,080 Economic Community and in 1957 they got together to combine 296 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:32,840 their nuclear, coal and economic resources. 297 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:34,920 And of all places they met in Rome. 298 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:37,920 They signed a treaty. It's called the Treaty of Rome. 299 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:42,640 And the European Economic Community has a flag and it's 300 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:46,360 prominent as any other national flag in some of the European 301 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:49,440 countries today. This euro dollar coin, on the 302 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:53,000 back of it there's a woman riding a multi headed beast. 303 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:57,040 I mean, the symbolism is this astounding of what's occurring, 304 00:16:57,040 --> 00:16:59,240 and most of us are clueless to these things. 305 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:02,400 Now, you know, what do we do with this stuff as we study 306 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:05,440 these things? As I try to say many times when 307 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:08,359 we're studying the Book of Revelation, it's a fascinating 308 00:17:08,359 --> 00:17:09,400 book. It's exciting. 309 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:11,680 It's all about the prophecy and the return of the Lord. 310 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:13,359 What's going to happen in the last days? 311 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:17,240 But what's more important is what's happening to you in the 312 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:20,160 last days. Where's your heart with the 313 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:21,760 Lord? Where's your life? 314 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:24,040 Where's your priorities? What are you focusing on? 315 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,119 What are you believing? What are you feeding on? 316 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:30,360 What are you participating in? Jesus says His Kingdom is not of 317 00:17:30,360 --> 00:17:33,800 this world, but we can't have it both ways, guys and gals. 318 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:36,160 We can't be friends with the world and and try to be 319 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:40,080 disciples of Jesus Christ. We have to have a real solid 320 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:44,360 focus and commitment to what the truth of Jesus Christ is. 321 00:17:44,360 --> 00:17:47,920 We we need to live like the apostles lived in the sense of 322 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:51,280 their zeal and their thirst and their hunger for Jesus Christ. 323 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:55,200 Paul said follow me like I follow Jesus Christ. 324 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:58,280 The Bible says in the last days there's going to be scoffers 325 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:00,440 that aren't going to believe in the coming of the Lord. 326 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:03,160 Someone told me yesterday in the men's meeting a good friend of 327 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:06,840 theirs, it goes to a Baptist Church is saying that there is 328 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:11,320 no such thing as a rapture and denying about the catching up of 329 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:13,080 the believers and and doesn't believe. 330 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:17,000 You're basically scoffing at it. One of the greatest assaults in 331 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:21,320 the last days in the evangelical church movement is a movement 332 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:25,040 towards anti-Semitism which means that God is no longer 333 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:28,720 favoring Israel and the churches should not be interested in the 334 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:32,360 favor of God in Israel because Israel is a, from their 335 00:18:32,360 --> 00:18:36,440 perspective an apostate nation and has no hope of repentance. 336 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:40,560 Well, the Bible is full of God's love for Israel throughout the 337 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:43,480 Scriptures, His commitment to Israel, his focus on Israel in 338 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:47,480 the last days, the focus of many Jewish people coming to Christ 339 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:49,920 in the last days. The Christ of all places, when 340 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:53,360 he returns, is not going to land in any other spot or any other 341 00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:55,960 place but the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. 342 00:18:56,360 --> 00:19:00,200 And so that is one assault against the truth in these last 343 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:03,200 days by those who claim to be followers of Jesus Christ. 344 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:07,240 There's also an assault against the teachings of of the rapture 345 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:10,240 of the church. And the enemy does not want 346 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:13,360 people to believe that Christ can come at any moment. 347 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:16,920 One of the wonderful things about the teachings of the soon 348 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:19,400 coming of the Lord in the rapture is that the Bible says 349 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:23,840 every man that hath his hope in himself purifieth himself even 350 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:27,360 as he is pure. So that means for me and for you 351 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:31,600 that every day I need to expect that Christ could come. 352 00:19:32,120 --> 00:19:36,120 I need to allow my heart to be searched and turn away from 353 00:19:36,120 --> 00:19:40,000 anything that would be unpleasing in the sight of the 354 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:45,640 Lord, so that when He comes, He'll find me busy doing what He 355 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:49,160 told me and you to do. If you don't think that the Lord 356 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,680 could come any moment, it's real easy to become LAX in your 357 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:56,720 Christian life. You have no anticipation, no 358 00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:59,640 fervor to work out your salvation with fear and 359 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:01,440 trembling as the Bible commands us. 360 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,120 Knowing that it's God who works in us both to will and to do 361 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:08,520 with his good pleasure. The importance of holiness and 362 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:11,760 purity in the church in the last days is critical. 363 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,560 And yet the church in the last days is becoming unholy and 364 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:18,120 unpure. And so as a result of that, 365 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:21,440 people are being very, very complacent and very 366 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:25,760 lackadaisical and very superficial in their walk with 367 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:28,120 the Lord. And so as a result, for you and 368 00:20:28,120 --> 00:20:31,840 me as a church, Calvary Chapel and his members of one another, 369 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:35,200 mother and this body, the Bible says that we're to exhort one 370 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:37,720 another. And so much the more as we see 371 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:40,600 today approaching right when we get together, we have fun, we 372 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:43,760 have fellowship, we enjoy each other's company, But our focus 373 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:46,920 is to encourage each other to move closer to the Lord, not 374 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:50,920 move away from the Lord, deal with our priorities in our life, 375 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:55,080 not spending time and foolish endeavors and wasting our 376 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:59,680 resources and our lives for what's going to perish and not 377 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:04,120 last, but to focus our attention on what will last forever. 378 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:08,640 And so as we study this book, I pray that we're examining our 379 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:11,120 own lives. What are we living for? 380 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:14,160 Is my marriage what it needs to be? 381 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:17,240 Am I loving my wife like Christ loves the church? 382 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:20,840 Am I training up my kids in the nurture and admonition of the 383 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:24,280 Lord? Am I working for my boss? 384 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:26,360 Is work unto the Lord and not unto men? 385 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:29,880 As a man, am I keeping my eyes focused on the finished goal on 386 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:32,160 the cross and not looking to the left to the right? 387 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:36,200 Am I monitoring what's being watched on my television in my 388 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:40,560 home or what's being listened to on the airwaves of my computer 389 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:44,800 or my radio in my car? Looking at my finances and 390 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,440 asking God what is it that He wants me to use my finances for 391 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:51,800 in these last days? The Bible tells us layout and 392 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:55,040 offer yourselves treasures on earth where a moth and rust does 393 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:57,200 corrupt and thieves break in and steal away. 394 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,200 But layout for yourselves treasures in heaven, where a 395 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:03,400 moth and rust does not corrupt, nor thieves just break in to 396 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,600 steal away. As we study these things 397 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:09,800 together, they are very, very serious, very, very important. 398 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:12,840 We're to be sober minded. We're to be full of the joy of 399 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:14,600 the Lord, the joy of the Lord's, our strength. 400 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,720 But we're to be sober minded, not to be double minded, right? 401 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,720 James told us in that section. Don't be double minded. 402 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:23,960 Have any of you been guilty of being double minded in your 403 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:26,440 life? I have I don't want to be double 404 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,320 minded. Whatever is holding you back 405 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:31,160 from giving your all and on all to Christ, don't, don't let 406 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:34,000 another day or a week go by where you're not going to say 407 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:35,960 Lord, not my will, but your will be done. 408 00:22:36,120 --> 00:22:39,520 If you have talents, if you have gifts, if you have abilities, if 409 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:43,080 you have a calling on your life, don't hold back to say Lord. 410 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:45,480 I don't know what you want to do with it or what you want to use 411 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:47,120 it for, but I'm willing to use it. 412 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:50,680 If you're being called to this church, then allow the Lord to 413 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:54,800 use you in this church so that you're busy about what the Lord 414 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:56,960 wants you to be busy to you about in the last days. 415 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:00,160 The evidence of God's Spirit working in the church is when 416 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:04,200 people become people of prayer. For Jesus says my house shall be 417 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:06,960 a House of prayer. And some people say, well, I can 418 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:09,520 pray at home. I can pray in my bed on my knees 419 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:10,520 beside. Yeah, you can. 420 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:12,200 But I know lots of times we don't. 421 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:15,000 When the Holy Spirit is working in the church and through the 422 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,080 message and through the worship, there's a level of conviction 423 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:22,560 and a level of intensity that God puts upon us that now is the 424 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:26,160 time to deal with salvation. Now's the time to deal with 425 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,480 commitment and sacrifice. The Lord and the more of us that 426 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:33,440 come together and pray and say and we see each other pushing in 427 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:36,280 and not pushing away, it encourages the church and the 428 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:38,600 body that to become a place of prayer. 429 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:42,760 The most important thing for us to be as a Church of prayer and 430 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:46,000 the most important thing for us to be as a people of prayer to 431 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:51,080 humble ourselves before Him. We are digging into the Book of 432 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:53,520 Revelation here on Living Waters of Grace. 433 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:57,480 Pastor Clark is tackling this challenging book as we try to 434 00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,800 discern the messages that are within its pages. 435 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:05,360 There's so much imagery and at times you're not always sure 436 00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:07,560 what's literal and what's metaphorical. 437 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:12,080 At one point there's a reference to an adulterous woman riding on 438 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:15,120 a beast, and as someone else mentioned, at one point it 439 00:24:15,360 --> 00:24:20,040 almost sounds like a rodeo from hell, and in actuality it kind 440 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:23,120 of is. You learn about the downfall and 441 00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:27,120 demise of a sinful and rebellious world, falling down 442 00:24:27,120 --> 00:24:32,640 in worship to someone who is the anti hero, the enemy, Satan 443 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:37,960 working his insidious ways into the minds of fallen people. 444 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:43,600 It's sad and it's heartbreaking, but it's a classic story of good 445 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,920 versus evil. Thankfully, we know how this 446 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:52,680 story ends. Jesus wins, Jesus reigns, and 447 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,680 evil is conquered once and for all. 448 00:24:56,160 --> 00:25:00,480 We pray and trust you've received Jesus as your Savior, 449 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:04,480 but if you haven't, don't wait until the events and revelation 450 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:06,920 become what's happening on the streets. 451 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:10,520 None of us wants you to be there at that time. 452 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:15,440 Instead, we'd love for you to be with us in heaven as we 453 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:20,960 celebrate the marriage supper with Jesus as his bridegroom. 454 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,480 To get a better understanding of where we are in the Book of 455 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,800 Revelation. To listen to any messages before 456 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:31,840 or after this one, you can find them at our website, 457 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:37,000 calvarychapelonline.com. That's it for today's edition, 458 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,880 but we hope you'll want to hear Pastor Clark teach more from the 459 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,480 Book of Revelation. It can be exciting to think 460 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:48,160 about the future for believers, but it can feel a bit harrowing 461 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,720 for those who don't believe. Come hear more next time on 462 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:53,480 Living Waters of Grace.