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 --> 00:00:12,240 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 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:40,640 You can't do it by the energy of your human ability and your 6 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:42,560 flesh. It's through the power of God's 7 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:44,400 Spirit. And if God's Spirit lives in US, 8 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:47,520 he's the one that enables us to live the Christian life. 9 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:49,880 Amen. It's God's Spirit. 10 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:52,360 And that's good news because you can't fake it. 11 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:54,720 And if you've been faking it, get the pressure off yourself 12 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:57,000 and just finally say, God, I can't do this. 13 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:01,320 I need you to be my Savior. I need Your Holy Spirit to live 14 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:05,280 in me to enable me to keep these commandments that I continually 15 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:09,320 have a tendency to break. Picks your little kid helping 16 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:12,560 his dad mow the lawn. Sure, he's walking behind the 17 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:15,040 mower with his hands on the handlebars and the grass is 18 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:18,560 getting cut, but his dad is the one who's actually pushing the 19 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:22,440 mower and doing the work. In today's message, Pastor Clark 20 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:25,520 teaches you that you can't follow Christ in your own 21 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:30,400 strength, but it's the Spirit of God within you who empowers you. 22 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,880 The Christian life cannot be lived in the flesh, but you must 23 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:36,240 walk in the power of the Holy Spirit. 24 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:40,360 Now here's Pastor Clark in Revelation Chapter 16 with 25 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:43,400 today's edition of Living Waters of Grace. 26 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:47,000 We're all blind until Christ comes into our life. 27 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:49,680 Christ is the one that gives us true vision. 28 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:52,840 He's the one that gives us the ability to see into the 29 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:56,680 spiritual dimension. And when our eyes are anointed 30 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:59,920 by the Spirit of God and we're able to see things for the first 31 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:02,920 time, all of a sudden we know our lives have changed. 32 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:06,000 You remember the guy in the gospel, they're asking him what 33 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,360 happened to him when he met Jesus and he didn't know a lot 34 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:11,360 about the Bible and he didn't know much about theology or 35 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:12,960 doctrine. He said, hey, this is all I can 36 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:13,960 tell you. This is all I know. 37 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:19,600 I was blind and now I see. And so for us here today that 38 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,560 have had that encounter, we can say Amen to that. 39 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:26,800 And we see at that time also the love that we're to have for 40 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:30,880 Jesus Christ. If He's truly awakened us and 41 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:36,200 caused us to be able to see what he sees and what he ordained and 42 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:40,640 what He knows, then we have this hatred in our lives for sin. 43 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:44,840 God hates sin, and He hates it so much that He put his Son on 44 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:50,320 the cross and He allowed him to be crucified on behalf of all of 45 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:52,840 us. That's how much He loves us. 46 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,960 And so we should love him because of what he's done for 47 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:58,160 us. A matter of fact, the Bible says 48 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:00,760 we love him because he first loved us. 49 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:04,240 And we need to love what God loves and we need to hate what 50 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:06,880 God hates. And so that's why he gives the 51 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:09,280 admonition to the church in Laodicea. 52 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,560 Be zealous therefore, and repent. 53 00:03:13,640 --> 00:03:15,080 Be zealous, therefore, and repent. 54 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:18,080 There isn't a week that goes by in this church that the subject 55 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:21,080 of repentance isn't spoken about him and brought up. 56 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:22,960 Why? Because we need to be zealous 57 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:26,040 and repent. We are part of this Laodicean 58 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:29,520 movement in these last days, and we're doing everything we can by 59 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:35,000 the grace and the power of God to be less likely to be numbered 60 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:36,880 with that church. We want to be like the church in 61 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:40,440 Philadelphia that had still a little faith and was faithful 62 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:44,240 and remain faithful to the end. But we need to be zealous. 63 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,200 And to be zealous means to be fired up. 64 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:49,040 It means not emotionally stirring and jumping around like 65 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:53,080 a fanatic, but having a tenacity in our hearts and our lives that 66 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:55,960 we are seeing. Serious about the gospel. 67 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:59,280 We're serious about holiness. We're serious about repentance. 68 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:02,680 We're serious about living the way the Bible tells us that 69 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:05,640 we're to live. And so as a result, when things 70 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:08,560 come up in our lives that are inappropriate, we don't mess 71 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:10,200 around with it. We repent of it. 72 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:13,520 We ask the Lord for his mercy. We ask him to cleanse us and to 73 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:16,000 forgive us from our unrighteousness. 74 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,560 And when we repent, as I said last week, we stop going this 75 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:21,760 way and we start going God's way. 76 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:25,480 And every time we're tempted to move back a little bit or we we 77 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:28,600 struggle or we stumble, we, we, we don't stay there. 78 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:31,960 We just keep getting up by the grace of God in his mercy, and 79 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:36,680 we just keep walking toward him. In continual metanoia, which is 80 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:39,960 an active verb tense, which means to continually live in 81 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:43,520 repentance, moment by moment by moment by moment by moment. 82 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:45,840 Someone might say, well, is there a time when I don't have 83 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:47,840 to repent? Yeah, when you're in heaven. 84 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:51,920 But until that time, you repent continually. 85 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:56,640 And it's a wonderful thing to have that blessing to be able to 86 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:00,880 recognize and acknowledge our wrongdoings in turn from them, 87 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:04,240 because God will cleanse us and strengthen us and restore us to 88 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:07,880 to fellowship with him. This is something that Jesus 89 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:15,160 says in John 14 verse 15. If you love me, keep my 90 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:17,480 commandments. If you love me, keep my 91 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:22,120 commandments. So the adverse would be, if you 92 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:24,320 don't love me, you won't keep my commandments. 93 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:26,200 So that's a a heart check for all of us. 94 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:29,600 You just say to yourself today, do I really love God? 95 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:33,440 If I do, it should be reflected in me keeping his word. 96 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:37,000 If I'm not keeping his word, I don't love God. 97 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,480 Who am I trying to kid? I certainly can't kid him. 98 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:44,000 That's how he tests me. If you love me, Clark, you'll do 99 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,320 what I tell you to do. You'll you'll follow my word, 100 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,320 you'll follow my ways. Another translation says if you 101 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:51,880 love me, you will keep my commandments. 102 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:55,760 It isn't a like this question he's asking will you love me 103 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:59,680 keep my commandments? It's an imperative statement 104 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:03,640 that if you love me, you will keep my commandments. 105 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:06,560 He says in first John chapter 5 verse 2. 106 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:10,200 By this we know and the importance of being short of 107 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,920 your salvation, not being nervous about well boy, I hope 108 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:15,960 I'm saved. I think I'm saved. 109 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:21,640 You can know that you're saved if this life reflects what he 110 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:25,080 says is true in this first John chapter 5 verse 2. 111 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:28,360 By this we know that we love the children of God. 112 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:30,600 By this we know you could say it this way. 113 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:34,360 We know we're part of the family or we're in the family of God 114 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:37,400 when we love God and keep his commandments. 115 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:40,040 Now, we're a body here today. And if some of us are here today 116 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:43,360 not loving our brothers and sisters here today, which is the 117 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:47,680 first Test of being a true Christian, and we aren't loving 118 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,040 God and keeping his commandments, then we don't 119 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:52,840 know. We're uncertain, we're unsure. 120 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,080 And some of us here today might be in a place in our life where 121 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:58,200 we're wondering, are we really Christians? 122 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,600 Well, you can test yourself. You love the brothers and 123 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:03,960 sisters. Do you love God or you keeping 124 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:06,160 His word? If you are by His grace and by 125 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:10,520 the work of His Holy Spirit in you, you know that you're in His 126 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:12,480 family. You know that you belong to Him. 127 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:16,120 But if you're not doing that, you're not living that way, be 128 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:23,040 concerned, be nervous, be paranoid, be uptight, because 129 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:27,520 your life is weighing in the balance of heaven and hell, and 130 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:30,120 you need to allow the Lord to transform your life. 131 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:31,920 And this is something none of us can do ourselves. 132 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:35,520 We need the work of God's grace and his Holy Spirit to transform 133 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:38,160 us. We can't this well, I'm going to 134 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:40,880 do better this week and I'm going to promise God I'll do 135 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:43,800 this and I'll, you know, you can't do it by the energy of 136 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:46,000 your human ability and your flesh. 137 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:47,760 It's through the power of God's Spirit. 138 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:51,080 And if God's Spirit lives in US, he's the one that enables us to 139 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:53,480 live of the Christian life. Amen. 140 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:56,320 It's God's Spirit. And that's good news because you 141 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:58,200 can't fake it. And if you've been faking it, 142 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,920 get the pressure off yourself and just finally say, God, I 143 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:04,120 can't do this. I need you to be my savior. 144 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:08,440 I need your Holy Spirit to live in me to enable me to keep these 145 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:11,040 commandments that I continually have a tendency to break. 146 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:18,040 For this in verse three of first John 5 is the love of God that 147 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:21,920 we keep his commandments and his commandments are not burden 148 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:26,360 burdensome. They're what enables us to 149 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,960 overcome sin. They live in victory as 150 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:32,440 Christians. They have an overcoming life. 151 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:34,320 It's the work of God's Spirit in us. 152 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:36,280 So you look at the commandments of God. 153 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:38,320 There might have been a time that you looked at in this way. 154 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:40,880 I know I did man those 10 commandments. 155 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:43,960 That's just part of it, you know, and, and I, I break them 156 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:46,400 all, you know, and I, what am I going to do? 157 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:48,960 These are impossible. Did you ever look at those 158 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:51,040 things and be honest with yourself and say these are 159 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:54,760 impossible to follow? Even on your best day, you're 160 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:58,840 not going to get 10 out of 10. You're going to break some of 161 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:01,520 them. Even you and me as Christians, 162 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:03,520 we break them. We break his commandments every 163 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:07,760 day. If we don't have him above every 164 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:11,000 other God, we're committing idolatry. 165 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:14,400 And how often do we allow the things of this world to get in 166 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:18,720 the way of our relationship with God and we've become idolaters. 167 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:23,360 We have to be serious and say, Lord, work on my heart by the 168 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:26,360 power of your spirit that I will not sin against you. 169 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,160 You're worried, Have I hid in my heart that I will not sin 170 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:31,760 against you? And it's awesome when the Holy 171 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:35,200 Spirit works in our lives because we find ourselves like 172 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:38,520 sort of floating in the sense of that we're overcoming things 173 00:09:38,680 --> 00:09:41,440 that in the past we never were able to overcome before. 174 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:43,640 And and you might have a life besetting sin. 175 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:46,640 I know Christians that still struggle with life besetting 176 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:48,880 sins. The book of Hebrews say says we 177 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:52,120 all have them. A sin is so easily besets us, 178 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:55,000 but that doesn't mean just because it's a weakness that God 179 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,720 isn't able to cause us to overcome that sin if we follow 180 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:02,760 Him and obey His Word. So we ask for His mercy and His 181 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:05,920 help, and God is the one who's able, as it says in Jude, to 182 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:10,400 keep us from falling and present us faultless before His glory 183 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:14,320 with exceeding joy. It tells us in verse 15 of 184 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:18,120 Revelation 16 that Jesus is going to come as a thief. 185 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:22,400 A sudden surprising event. It's unexpected. 186 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:25,560 It's an unannounced appearance. Many years ago, when Cindy and I 187 00:10:25,560 --> 00:10:28,640 were first married, we didn't have two cents to rub together, 188 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:31,800 but we had paychecks from Spencer gifts that that week. 189 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:35,280 And so we were so tired and it worked so hard. 190 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:40,160 We were in this like motel room in the winter, they run out and, 191 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:41,960 you know, you're right on the beach. 192 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:45,240 And, and so we, we loved it and we, that's all we had. 193 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:48,160 We they had, it was furnished and all we have is like a couple 194 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:49,760 duffel bags with some clothes in. 195 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:53,760 And we had money that week to actually buy some groceries, you 196 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:57,400 know, so we go to bed and we're tired. 197 00:10:57,440 --> 00:10:59,760 Had one of those Polaroid instant cameras. 198 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:01,520 Remember those old cameras? You take the picture, you put 199 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:04,200 the film in and then you peel it back and the picture comes 200 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:06,280 alive. And, you know, it was like, wow, 201 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:08,680 this is, I think it was one of the first things we got after we 202 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:10,560 got married. But, but anyway, we're asleep 203 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:13,600 and we're tired. And for some reason that night, 204 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:16,160 I, I, I don't remember putting the chain on the door. 205 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:17,720 It was weird. I just turned the lock on the 206 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:19,680 door. So we're sound asleep. 207 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:23,040 All this sudden in the room, I felt God woke me up. 208 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:26,880 The Holy Spirit woke me up and I felt this darkness in the room 209 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:30,560 and, and I and I opened my eyes and I sat up and I saw this guy 210 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:32,400 Crouch down the bottom of my bed. 211 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:34,760 It freaked me out. I mean, just having someone in 212 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:37,480 your room that you weren't expecting to be there, an 213 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:41,360 unannounced guest and someone is visiting, you know, and you 214 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:43,920 weren't inviting them. And our hearts are pounding. 215 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:45,760 And all I know is that I started getting up. 216 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:47,520 I yelled something. I just started getting up. 217 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:51,280 Guy could have had a knife and killed me and raped my wife or 218 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:53,680 whatever, and it could have been horrible. 219 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:57,480 But by the grace of God, that guy took off and I went outside 220 00:11:57,560 --> 00:12:00,280 to see where which way he went and he was completely gone. 221 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:04,520 And I'll tell you, that night was so difficult to go back to 222 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:07,400 sleep because every time we fell back to sleep, we'd wake up, 223 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:10,360 we'd be stirred thinking he's here again, he's here again, 224 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:14,200 he's in the room, he's here. And that's sort of how we have 225 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:16,120 to think about the presence of God. 226 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:20,720 He's here, He's here again, He's in this room, He's with us, He's 227 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:24,560 watching us, He sees us. We have time, guys, to deal with 228 00:12:24,560 --> 00:12:26,680 our hearts. We have time to have our lives 229 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:29,200 change. We have time to forsake sin. 230 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:32,080 He's going to come as a thief in the night. 231 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:39,480 Sudden, surprising, unexpected. And so this is endorsement by 232 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:44,400 God's word that you would keep your heart clean, that you would 233 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:49,400 keep your garments clean through holiness and repentance. 234 00:12:49,680 --> 00:12:52,360 You would be living for God and not living for sin. 235 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:58,720 And when he comes back, we wouldn't be ashamed at what he 236 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:02,880 might find us living for, right? That he would come back and we 237 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:07,960 could smile and say, man, I'm glad you came today because the 238 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:10,920 day's a good day with you, Lord, I'm doing exactly what I'm 239 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:13,160 supposed to be doing. I'm in the place that I'm 240 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:17,080 supposed to be. I'm I had a good devotional day 241 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:21,040 and I had a, a day of maybe I shared my faith or I honored my 242 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:24,800 boss or I love my wife or I love my kids the way the Bible 243 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:27,880 teaches me, or I'm, I'm seeking the things which are above and 244 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:31,600 not the things which are below. And, and, and how awesome will 245 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:36,360 it be when the Lord comes for us in the rapture and for those he 246 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:39,320 comes forth the second coming that have gotten saved in that 247 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:43,840 tribulation period, that he, he finds us doing the things that 248 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:48,760 he told us to do versus finding us doing things that we 249 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:52,760 shouldn't be doing. I mean, if we're saved by God's 250 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:54,320 grace, we're still going to be saved. 251 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:58,920 But I want to be ready, don't you, that He, the Master, finds 252 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:02,400 me doing as a Scripture, say what He told me to do. 253 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:07,880 So just as the first coming of Christ involve many phases over 254 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:11,560 33 year period of Christ's life, from the Annunciation to the 255 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:15,800 ascension of Christ, the second coming of Christ encompasses 256 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:19,680 phases that take place before, during, and beyond the 257 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:22,720 seven-year tribulation. We covered phase one several 258 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:26,520 times in the Book of Revelation and Thessalonians where Christ 259 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:28,480 comes from the church at the rapture. 260 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:31,680 First Thessalonians chapter 4, verse 13 and 18. 261 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:34,680 You can review that and look at that again later. 262 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:39,400 Phase two of this movement of God in these last days was when 263 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:43,360 when Christ comes to judge the rebellious nations remaining on 264 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:44,920 the earth during the Tribulation. 265 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:47,840 And He does that through the seal judgment, through the trump 266 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:50,960 trumpet judgments and the and the bold plagues from Revelation 267 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:53,320 chapter 6 through Revelation chapter 18. 268 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:58,560 Phase 3 is when Christ comes to destroy the Antichrist and his 269 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:01,200 massive armies at Armageddon. And we'll get into that 270 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:05,120 Revelation chapter 1911 and phase 4. 271 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:09,240 The final phase is when Christ comes and establishes on earth 272 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:12,640 the prophecies millennial Kingdom of God and we read about 273 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:15,160 in Matthew 25 and Daniel chapter 2. 274 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:20,040 So we see in verse 15 for all of those who are awaiting this 275 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:23,080 event, whether those of us right now who are waiting for the 276 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:26,000 rapture of the church or those who are living in the time of 277 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:29,080 the tribulation to become Christians that will go through 278 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:32,360 this battle of Armageddon at the end of the tribulation. 279 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:37,080 Verse 16 through 18. And they gathered them together 280 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:39,160 to the place called in Hebrew Armageddon. 281 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:43,160 And the 7th Angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud 282 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:46,840 voice came out of the temple of heaven from the throne saying it 283 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:49,640 is done. And here we have described 284 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:52,640 what's spoken about in the book of Joel chapter 3. 285 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:57,040 The armies of the antichrists are ascending down to Armageddon 286 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:02,720 and in the valley plain of Jordan and that this huge piece 287 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:09,280 of real estate approximately 10 by 40 miles from northwest to 288 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:11,120 southeast, the gateway to Jerusalem. 289 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:14,040 This is where this battle will occur. 290 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:18,080 And we know from Revelation chapter 14, verse 19, it talks 291 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:20,440 about the great winepress of the wrath of God. 292 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:21,800 This is where this is going to happen. 293 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,600 This would be in the most cataclysmic battle in human 294 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:30,160 history on the face of the earth 17 to 21. 295 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:33,960 It speaks now about the 7th Angel pouring out this final 296 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:37,440 bowl into the air and a loud voice came out of the temple of 297 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:39,840 heaven from the throne room saying it is done. 298 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:44,720 So this is the last major horrendous judgement that's 299 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:48,200 coming out from the the throne of God prior to this great 300 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:51,320 battle of Armageddon. He says it is done just like 301 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:53,080 Jesus said. It is finished when he's on the 302 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:55,360 cross. No more wrath of God to be 303 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:57,640 poured out on those who come to Christ. 304 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,920 The wrath of God is only to be poured out on those who reject 305 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:04,440 Jesus Christ. And we see here the 7th bowl is 306 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:07,680 concluding with these cataclysmic events here. 307 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:09,680 It speaks about this in verse 18. 308 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:12,480 Noises and thunderings and lightnings, and great earth 309 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:15,040 earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not 310 00:17:15,079 --> 00:17:17,440 occurred since men were on the face of the earth. 311 00:17:17,839 --> 00:17:20,960 Now the great city was divided into 3 parts, and the cities of 312 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:24,520 the nation fell, and great Babylon was remembered before 313 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:28,000 God to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His 314 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:31,040 wrath. Again speaking about this this 315 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:34,600 judgement of God's wine press. Every island fled away, and the 316 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:38,680 mountains were not found, and great hail from heaven fell upon 317 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:40,720 men. Each hailstone about the weight 318 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:43,080 of a talent approximately 90 pounds. 319 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:46,880 Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, since 320 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:53,040 the plague was exceeding great. And so we see this gigantic 321 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:58,400 hail, worldwide earthquakes, destruction of the Antichrist, 322 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:01,920 his reign and his role. These lightnings and thunders 323 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:05,680 that are spoken about in verse 18 remind us of what we read 324 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:09,600 about in Exodus chapter 19 as Moses began to come down off the 325 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:13,120 mountain and it says the people trembled because of the sound of 326 00:18:13,120 --> 00:18:15,440 the Thunder and the brightness of the lightning. 327 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:18,520 People were aware this was not a normal weather pattern. 328 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:22,160 This was the holiness of God shaking the foundations of the 329 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:24,280 earth and this great earthquakes. 330 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:27,360 All these great scientists in the face of the earth, they're 331 00:18:27,360 --> 00:18:30,080 bright, they're brilliant, they study, they know certain things. 332 00:18:30,360 --> 00:18:33,960 Unfortunately, many of them aren't understanding the signs 333 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:37,040 of the times of the seasons that they don't believe that the 334 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:39,800 Bible is real and they don't believe that Jesus Christ is 335 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:42,080 God. And, and they got a lot of a lot 336 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:45,240 of problems, but nonetheless, this is one thing that many of 337 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:48,080 them agree on. There's this geologic fault line 338 00:18:48,360 --> 00:18:50,800 and it's amazing how far this thing extends. 339 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:55,760 It extends through Palestine, Jordan Valley, down into Africa 340 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:57,640 and through the California coast. 341 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:00,960 I I pity people who are moving to California. 342 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:04,160 I'm glad for people who are moving away from California. 343 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:05,440 I'm just kidding. Randy's here going to 344 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:07,840 California. Gary and Cather are moving from 345 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:10,000 California. You need to talk to us brother 346 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:11,400 about the prophecies that are coming up. 347 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,960 But Calvary Chapel is all through Southern California and 348 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:17,480 will be will be take will be taken out before these things 349 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:19,200 are occurring. Praise God. 350 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:23,920 But the move of God that will give way of what sinners have 351 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:27,320 believed supported them all the all the people on their face of 352 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:29,760 the earth right now. They they ignore God for the 353 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:31,840 most part. They walk around the world like 354 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:33,760 it's their own. They don't understand or 355 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:36,280 acknowledge a creator. They could care less even if 356 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:37,520 there was 1. They're not going to pay 357 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:39,000 attention to them or listen to them. 358 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:41,840 And they're standing on this ground saying this is stable. 359 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:46,400 This I got control. I have, I have energy, I have 360 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,640 wealth, I have materialism, I have great gain. 361 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:55,120 I'm the master of my domain. I'm the king of my household and 362 00:19:55,120 --> 00:19:58,200 nothing's going to change that. I'm in charge when this 363 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:01,240 earthquake begins to occur, the massive earthquake like the 364 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:03,840 world has never known. And I haven't ever been through 365 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,440 an earthquake. But people that have been, they 366 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:09,080 tell you it's like a horror, that you don't want to go 367 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:11,720 through it. It's extremely frightening. 368 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,880 Your whole world begins to fall out from under you. 369 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:18,600 Literally. Those who ignore this at this 370 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:22,600 time will be the ones that will realize that they laughed at us 371 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:25,720 because we have a crutch. They call our faith in Jesus 372 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:27,080 Christ. You guys need it because you're 373 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:28,760 weak. You need a crutch. 374 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:31,680 They're going to wish they could find a crutch during that time 375 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:33,960 of the earthquake because they'll be nothing that will be 376 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:37,080 able to hold them up but the mercy of God. 377 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:40,320 And it seems that the majority of people will still, as we read 378 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:45,480 last week at the end of verse 11, they did not repent of their 379 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,240 deeds. So this great city is divided, 380 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:50,200 it says, into three parts, Babylon. 381 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:54,640 Some people think Babylon's an ancient Rome, the revived Roman 382 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:57,840 Empire. Some people think it's Baghdad. 383 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:02,160 You know, it doesn't really matter where it is or what it 384 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:03,720 is. It is a literal place. 385 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:06,360 And it'll be revealed in the in the last days. 386 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:10,440 But it's also symbolic of the corrupt world system led by the 387 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:12,480 Antichrist. And this earthquake is going to 388 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:16,240 split this city in three parts. And we'll get into that in more 389 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:19,600 detail next week in chapter 17 and 18. 390 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:23,520 In verse 20, it talks about these islands and mountains that 391 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:27,680 are affected by this earthquake. Some people think that this will 392 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:31,640 occur when Jesus comes back and lands literally on earth and his 393 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:36,000 feet touch the Mount of Olives. And this the holiness of God 394 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:39,680 touching this wicked world, that's when everything will 395 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:44,600 begin to just break apart and his Messiah's triumphant 396 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:47,720 millennial reign that will eventually be set up as we read 397 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:52,880 in Psalm chapter 2, the weight of this stone, these hailstones 398 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:58,040 coming out of heaven that says uses this word talent, which is 399 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:01,960 parallel to the the weight measure 95 lbs. 400 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:05,640 So you can imagine something 95 lbs coming down out of the 401 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:07,880 heavens. The damage and the death it'll 402 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:12,040 cause will be incalculable. I don't want to be there and I 403 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:13,960 won't be there. And I pray if you're here today 404 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:17,520 and you're still on the fence about your need of a Savior and 405 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:19,960 salvation, you don't stick around for this. 406 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:22,880 I really believe that these things are sooner than later 407 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:24,800 just because of what's going on in the world. 408 00:22:25,120 --> 00:22:27,800 I mean, there's never it's, you know, people talk about the 409 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:31,760 stars being lined up when when Christ comes back, it seems like 410 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:33,720 everything is just falling into place. 411 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:38,520 And the prophecies, it says in the last days people will be 412 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:41,680 lovers of themselves rather than lovers of God. 413 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,440 That's apparent everywhere. People will go to churches to 414 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:46,200 have their ears tickled. You know, they want to have 415 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,800 things that will tell them how the wonderful they are, make 416 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:52,600 them feel good and know what they would perceive as 417 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:55,440 negativity or, and no down or message. 418 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:58,720 You know this make tell me how great I am and, and make me feel 419 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:01,760 good and comfortable in my sin and what I want to do and, and 420 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,280 don't bother me. Don't don't say anything that 421 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,840 would cause me to be convicted or something. 422 00:23:07,360 --> 00:23:11,080 But God, God, you know, he is so patient and so merciful. 423 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:15,440 It's a wonder he hasn't done this already to everybody. 424 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:21,240 But in his mercy he has a body, a bride, a group of people, the 425 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,720 elect that he loves and he cherishes. 426 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:28,360 And and he's come to this world that has not received him and 427 00:23:28,360 --> 00:23:30,560 rejected him. And he came to his own and his 428 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:33,480 own received him not. And yet he comes with love to 429 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:37,160 save the world from their sin. And very few people and the 430 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:41,040 populace from the beginning of time to the end of time come to 431 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:42,480 him. It's it's a mystery. 432 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,160 And so these people, when all this is happening, Can you 433 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,680 imagine this weight of these hailstones coming down? 434 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,440 There's no place to go, no place to run, no place to hide. 435 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:54,880 And they're still cursing God. They're blaspheming him. 436 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:00,840 Thanks for being with us today here on Living Waters of Grace. 437 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:04,440 We're in the Book of Revelation, and we find it fascinating how 438 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:09,080 influential and involved the angels are in this book. 439 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:13,640 They bring about whatever it is that God has instructed them to 440 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:17,000 do, but it's through their actions that much of the 441 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,880 judgments come on the earth. The angels are in submission to 442 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:25,000 God as their authority, but He utilizes them in unique ways 443 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,440 throughout this book. Like angels have a specific 444 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:32,120 purpose from God, you have a unique purpose and plan too. 445 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:36,360 God wants to use you in your life as a testimony to others 446 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:39,840 and to bring others who are currently lost into the fold of 447 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,520 God. God would love more than 448 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:45,960 anything for all who are willing to come to Him for salvation, 449 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:50,480 but he wants it to be their choice, not a forced situation. 450 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:55,320 This is the way God works, not forcing himself on anyone, but 451 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:59,520 giving each person free will. 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