1 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:11,640 Would you please open your Bibles to the Book of Revelation 2 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:19,840 chapter 10 please? The title of this morning's 3 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:23,600 message is A Bittersweet Message from God. 4 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:28,240 A bittersweet message from God in our journey through the Book 5 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:36,520 of Revelation, we come to, we've had the 7th seals, we're in the 6 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:43,400 trumpets now we come to a particular passage where there's 7 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:45,840 three messages we're going to look at this morning. 3 8 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:51,000 messages, a message from God to John the Apostle. 9 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:55,520 John is on the island of Patmos. He's in his late 90s, nineties. 10 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:59,720 He's caught up on the Lord's Day, has his vision, and he 11 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:02,800 begins writing down all the things that he sees. 12 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:06,760 And this is what we're reading today, the vision that God 13 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:10,760 revealed to him. And then we'll see that God has 14 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:15,960 a bittersweet message for the world during the Tribulation 15 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:19,240 period. And that is a world that is 16 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:24,640 against God, rejecting God, a world that is going through the 17 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:29,200 judgement of God. Cataclysmic events are falling 18 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:34,480 upon the planet. Half of the population is now 19 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:41,040 gone, leaving around 4 billion people only and less. 20 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:49,200 And then there is a message to you and I third part, final 21 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:52,520 message, a bittersweet message to you and I this morning, 22 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:56,040 August 2025 here in Secret Harbour. 23 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:00,880 Throughout the Book of Revelation, angels are spoken of 24 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:06,080 more than 70 times. Angels are God's messengers. 25 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:10,039 And this morning we're introduced to another mighty 26 00:02:10,039 --> 00:02:12,800 Angel. It says coming down from heaven. 27 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:16,960 Let's look at verse one. I saw still another mighty 28 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:19,800 Angel. So notice the the description of 29 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:23,160 this Angel. This is no ordinary Angel coming 30 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:25,800 down from heaven clothed with a cloud. 31 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:30,160 A rainbow was on his head, his face. 32 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:33,360 John is describing him. His face is like the sun. 33 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:37,240 It's so bright. Brightness because he's been 34 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,480 before the throne of God, like Moses. 35 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:43,520 When Moses went up and met God, Moses came down and put a veil 36 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:47,000 over his face, not because it was too bright, but because the 37 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,520 the brightness was fading away. His face was glowing. 38 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:54,080 The Angel, the here, this mighty Angel, his face is glowing 39 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:58,200 because he's been in the presence of God and his feet 40 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:02,480 like pillars of fire. And he had a little book open in 41 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:06,040 his hand. This is how big he is. 42 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:08,000 And he set his right foot on the sea. 43 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:13,200 This is a very large Angel and he's left foot on the land, so 44 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:17,880 he's huge. And he cried with a loud voice. 45 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:21,320 How loud, Just like a lion roars. 46 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:26,120 It's loud like a Ryan, a lion. And when he cried out, seven 47 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:30,720 thunders uttered their voices. Now when the seven thunders 48 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:33,600 uttered their voices, I was about to write down. 49 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:37,120 John is about to write down what he's hearing and what he's 50 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:39,680 seeing. But then I heard a voice from 51 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:43,520 heaven, from the throne of God, saying to me, seal up the things 52 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:46,640 which the seven thunders uttered, the things that the 53 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,360 Angel and the seven thunders uttered. 54 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,880 Don't write them down. Don't write them down. 55 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:56,400 This mighty Angel has a little book in his hands. 56 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:01,320 I believe it's still a scroll, but the scroll is smaller now 57 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:04,080 because the we've had the seven seals. 58 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:06,120 We're nearly through the seven trumpets. 59 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:07,960 The seven balls are starting to come. 60 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:12,520 So it's getting smaller. He has a loud voices when a lion 61 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:14,720 roars. Now Helen and I had an 62 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:16,320 experience which was frightening. 63 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:19,360 We went to Singapore quite a number of years ago. 64 00:04:19,959 --> 00:04:23,200 And at night we went through the Singapore Zoo and you hop on a 65 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:25,440 little train sort of thing and go around the zoo. 66 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,440 And we stopped where the lion was king of the jungle. 67 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:32,680 And there's no fence. It's just like a a bit of a gap. 68 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:36,000 And the lions kind of like where that doorway is. 69 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:39,080 And it was at night. And the lion roared. 70 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:44,120 And I thought it was terrifying. It was the loudest terrifying 71 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:46,120 thing I ever heard. And I thought, he can jump. 72 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:49,640 That's not very far. And I felt like a sardine in a 73 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:52,960 can. So I pushed Helen over there and 74 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:56,000 said, Helen, you need to pray now. 75 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,160 Seriously. It was the loudest. 76 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:02,000 It it was terrifying. So this is what John's hearing 77 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:08,520 the mind of this this this Angel crying out, is this the Lord 78 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:10,480 Jesus? Some Bible commentators say it 79 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:13,280 is. I disagree. 80 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:15,400 I believe the Bible tells us it's not. 81 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:21,560 Jesus Christ is not anywhere described as an Angel in the 82 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:26,880 Book of Revelation. He is Lord of the angels, using 83 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:30,800 them to execute his judgement and purposes on the earth. 84 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:35,800 Also, this Angel, you'll note it describes in the context and 85 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:38,240 that's what we need to see. What does the text tell us? 86 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:44,160 What is the truth of the text? It says he's described as 87 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:47,720 another mighty Angel. It's pretty clear then, which 88 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:51,280 means he is another of the same kind of the Angel, the seven 89 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:53,920 trumpets, 7 angels that were given the seven trumpets. 90 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:58,600 So he's he's another Angel. We're told that this mighty 91 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:02,240 Angel has 1 foot on the sea and these other on the land, 92 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:07,720 picturing the sovereignty of God's authority over all that is 93 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:10,600 on the land. He has gone as control of the 94 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:16,000 oceans, which covers 3/4 of the earth and over the and all over 95 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:20,880 the land pieces, the seal judgements have taken place 96 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:22,360 beginning with the four horsemen. 97 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:27,840 And here we have come to another interlude, a a pause during the 98 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:31,440 judgments. And this scroll contains the 99 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:35,680 remaining judgments still yet to fall upon the earth because 100 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:38,880 remember, John is now describing, he's caught up into 101 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,240 heaven. Chapter 4 describes the throne 102 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:45,040 of God, Chapter 5 where they're with them praising the Lord. 103 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:47,720 And now so he's looking down upon the earth. 104 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:50,240 The judgments that are coming down upon the earth. 105 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:53,720 He's not looking up and describing the judgments. 106 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:56,800 So these are the judgments yet to fall upon the earth. 107 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:01,120 And a voice from heaven, from the throne of God is heard by 108 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:06,880 both John and the mighty Angel as John is about to write down 109 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:11,120 what he heard the seven thunders say and what he's seeing before 110 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:12,760 him. So that's the first point of 111 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:15,360 taking notes. It's a message for John. 112 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:19,800 He says, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven 113 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:22,000 saying to me, Seal up the things. 114 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,040 Don't write them which the seven thunders uttered. 115 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:29,600 Do not write them, John. Don't write down the things 116 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:33,880 which you just heard, which the seven thunders uttered. 117 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:38,880 Instead seal them up. These are the only words in the 118 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:41,640 Book of Revelation, we are told that are sealed. 119 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:45,840 What was spoken, what was said, we have no idea. 120 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:51,520 Don't guess I hate Bible studies and people gathering. 121 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:55,680 So what do you think the seven thunders were the 7th seals. 122 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:59,680 I think they were talking about the Wallabies finally winning 123 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:01,960 against the British Lions. You could be right. 124 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:04,840 Don't go when the Bible is silent. 125 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:08,960 Be silent. Don't get into a habit or to a 126 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:12,480 spin a thon. What do we think it says? 127 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:14,480 What It doesn't matter what you think it says. 128 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:17,400 It doesn't say anything. So we're not told they're sealed 129 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:19,240 up. Don't bother with that. 130 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:23,000 The message in verse 4 is for John only. 131 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:28,160 Then verse 5, the Angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on 132 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:34,960 the land, raised up his hand to heaven, swore by him who lives 133 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:38,960 forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are 134 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:41,400 in it. That's the Lord, the earth and 135 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:44,000 the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are 136 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,760 in it that there should be. Here's the message. 137 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:52,440 The lie no longer. The the lie no longer. 138 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:59,600 It's time. Now he's swearing by heaven, the 139 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:02,720 mighty Angel. This mighty Angel raises his 140 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:06,200 hand to heaven. It's believed the practise of 141 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:11,600 swearing on the Bible in a court of law to speak the truth comes 142 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:13,360 from this very passage of Scripture. 143 00:09:14,680 --> 00:09:20,920 The Angel swears by the Creator, emphasising God's authority 144 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:24,400 behind what is about to take place. 145 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:28,640 God will not lie. God is not a man that he should 146 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:31,080 lie. The Bible says the end is 147 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:34,280 coming. We're part way through the 148 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:38,240 tribulation period. Then lie no longer. 149 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:44,520 You know, all of human history operates according to divine 150 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:49,920 plan. In Psalm 135, verse 6, the Bible 151 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:54,600 says whatever the Lord pleases, He does in heaven and in earth, 152 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,680 in the seas, and in all deep places. 153 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:02,760 Now, up to this point, and we're in the Tribulation period, the 154 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:05,680 church has been raptured, judgements have fallen. 155 00:10:05,680 --> 00:10:10,920 We've had the seven seals. The Antichrist is there, yet the 156 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:13,800 world is still not repenting of their sins. 157 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:20,080 It's still living in rebellion. But up to this time, God has 158 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:25,200 been very patient. He's been long suffering. 159 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:28,400 What does that mean? Suffering long with what's going 160 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:32,400 on in the earth to a lost world at this time in the Tribulation 161 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:35,640 period. You know that patience, which is 162 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:40,040 a fruit, part of the fruit of the Spirit is also part of the 163 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:42,600 character of God. It's who he is, what he, what's 164 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:45,880 he's made up of. In the book of Nehemiah, Chapter 165 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:52,800 9, verse 17, Nehemiah writes, but you are God ready to pardon. 166 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:56,880 You know that God is always ready for you to repent. 167 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:00,480 I believe that last song that we sang this morning, that the 168 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:04,320 words of that song, the impact of that song was for some of you 169 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:08,120 here this morning, you've lived dangerously. 170 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:10,880 You've been doing things that you shouldn't be doing. 171 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:18,160 And God in that last song, and you know it by the Holy Spirit 172 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:22,960 was convicting you and saying, I know about you, I know what 173 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:26,800 you've done, but I love you. But you need to repent, not 174 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:29,280 tomorrow, right now where you are. 175 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:32,240 You need to repent right now of what the things that you've 176 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:34,640 said, the things that you've done, the things that you've 177 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:39,200 sought not to leave it after, not to put it behind and then go 178 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:42,280 away. Now, as we sang that song, I was 179 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:47,680 moved while the Holy Spirit to say what I'm saying now, that 180 00:11:47,680 --> 00:11:49,840 repentance is what you need to do. 181 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:53,760 Now the Bible tells us that repentance is not just how we 182 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:59,680 get saved, but in one, John 19 and 10, it tells us that 183 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:03,600 repentance is also for you and I as believers, you know, we can 184 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:07,840 wander off, we can stumble, we can sin before God. 185 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:10,800 We can say the wrong thing. We can be a horrible husband, a 186 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:14,680 horrible wife, a terrible father, a terrible mother, a 187 00:12:14,680 --> 00:12:20,280 disappointing son or a daughter. We can do those things, but the 188 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:25,080 beauty of God and his grace to a believer is that if you would 189 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:28,960 just repent right now and believe and ask Jesus Christ to 190 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:32,880 forgive you right now of what you've done and don't cover it 191 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:34,840 up. Don't snow job it don't go well. 192 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:36,880 I was a bit angry. I said things that I shouldn't 193 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:42,160 have said No, say it like it is God. 194 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:50,320 I I said wicked things. I did some wicked acts, say it 195 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:52,320 like it is because that's the reality of it. 196 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:57,200 But as you do that, the Bible says in one John 9 and 10, He is 197 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:01,120 faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us of all our 198 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:04,960 unrighteousness. Right this moment where you are, 199 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:09,160 you can come in with a load of sin and you can cast it away 200 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:12,480 right this moment if you'll do what the Holy Spirit ask you to 201 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:18,400 do. And so God is always ready to to 202 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:22,120 pardon. Nehemiah 917 but you are God 203 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:27,000 ready to pardon Now it says of God, this is his character, 204 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:36,640 gracious, merciful, slow to anger, abundant in kindness, and 205 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:41,960 did not forsake them. And he was speaking specifically 206 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:48,120 there to the nation of Israel. In Psalm 103, verse 8, the 207 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:52,760 psalmist writes the Lord is and it's the description of God, His 208 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:56,120 character, the Lord is merciful. What is mercy? 209 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:01,240 Not getting judgement, getting what you don't deserve. 210 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:07,840 The Lord is merciful and gracious, gracious, slow to 211 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:12,640 anger, abounding in mercy, abounding in mercy. 212 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:17,160 But Psalm always says, Psalmist always says, right, that God's 213 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:20,800 mercy is what new every morning it's fresh, it's waiting for 214 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:24,080 you. Psalm 145 verse 8 says the Lord 215 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:28,080 is gracious, gracious and full of compassion. 216 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:32,040 When Jesus saw the crowd coming towards him, thousands and 217 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:35,400 thousands and they hadn't eaten, it says his stomach ache. 218 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:37,880 He went, oh, look at these poor people, sheep without a 219 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:40,000 shepherd. We got to feed them, we got to 220 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,200 care for them. That's the God that you worship. 221 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:50,800 Slow to anger, great mercy. Now, many people have a twisted 222 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:56,720 mindset of what God is like. People who have an incorrect 223 00:14:56,720 --> 00:15:02,160 mindset of what God is like. This only comes from an 224 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:05,720 ignorance of the Bible. When I hear people speak to me 225 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:08,920 about what they believe God is like or they say something, they 226 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:11,120 might even go to church a lot, but they're not reading the 227 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:14,120 Bible. The only church doesn't make you 228 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:16,320 a Christian. No, no more than going to 229 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:23,360 McDonald's. Make sure a big whopper having a 230 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:27,120 twisted mindset of what God is like comes from and ignorance of 231 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:29,800 the Bible. When I began to read the Bible, 232 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:33,480 and I mean seriously read it, Not just a bit here and a bit 233 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:36,760 there, spin the wheel bit there, bit there, but read through it 234 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:41,960 book by book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse, I found 235 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:45,720 out that God is always saying His grace, His mercy. 236 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:48,840 It starts in Genesis and goes all the way through the 237 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:52,840 revelation, grace and mercy. I find out that there's very 238 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:56,440 little that I have to do, that all I have to do is accept God's 239 00:15:56,440 --> 00:16:00,320 graciousness and His love and that the Bible is 99.9 240 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:03,560 recurring, telling me what God has done for me. 241 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:09,560 And so people who have a twisted mindset of what God is like are 242 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:12,720 people who are ignorant of God's word, never read God's word, 243 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:17,560 because as you read the Bible, you can't have that mindset. 244 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:21,080 People think that he is just waiting to judge us all. 245 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:23,600 God's, you know, if I go to church, the walls are falling. 246 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:28,760 No, but he doesn't want us to enjoy life. 247 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:31,800 He just wants me to, you know, be boring and dull. 248 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:34,880 And that's what church is about. Now, if that's what church is 249 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:37,360 about for you, you're not, you're not born again. 250 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:42,040 You don't know the Spirit of God because Jesus has come to give 251 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:47,800 you life and that abundantly. But this could not be further 252 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:53,480 from the truth, especially if you look at the life of Jesus 253 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:55,920 Christ, how he lived. What is God like? 254 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:59,880 Philip says Jesus, can you just give us a snapshot, do a 255 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:04,319 drawing, pull out a, you know, have you got a camera shot or a 256 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:08,720 photo of what the Father's like? Philip, have I been so long with 257 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:12,480 you? If you've seen me, you've seen 258 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:14,720 the Father. So what is God like? 259 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:21,520 Read the Gospels. How did Jesus live, how he 260 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:23,160 loved? Who did He love? 261 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:28,359 He loved everyone else, everyone that everyone else rejected, and 262 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:32,960 how he died. How did he die as a suffering 263 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:38,160 servant, sacrificing, not thinking of himself, but 264 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:40,520 obedient unto the Father, even unto death? 265 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:50,960 The cross of Calvary speaks loudly of God's love for you and 266 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:54,560 his desire that you have life abundantly. 267 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:57,600 You see, if you think well, you know, but for getting into 268 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:00,200 church too much, for being reading the Bible too much, you 269 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:03,400 know, my life is just. I got, I got life. 270 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:07,320 Now you're missing the point. You don't know God, you don't 271 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:09,280 know the Bible, you don't know the truth. 272 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:14,960 The cross of Calvary speaks loudly of God's love for you, 273 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:18,800 and God's desire is that you have life abundantly. 274 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:21,680 You think you've got a good now? No, you don't. 275 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:26,200 If you don't know Christ, you don't have life like you think 276 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:30,360 you can have. We settle for what we think is 277 00:18:30,360 --> 00:18:36,320 good. God has a life that will blow 278 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:41,440 your mind when you give your life to Him and allow Him to 279 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:46,640 guide you and to use you. He wants to give you eternal 280 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:52,000 life, that life forever if you'll receive it. 281 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:56,240 But there comes a time, and this is happening in the period of 282 00:18:56,240 --> 00:19:00,560 the tribulation where we're at now, when a person's rebellion 283 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:09,000 against the Lord and their constant, constant refusal to 284 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:13,600 repent of their sins eventually brings judgement upon 285 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:16,720 themselves. They bring judgement upon 286 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:20,680 themselves. In Genesis chapter 6, verse 3, 287 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:26,480 prior to the flood, it says, and the Lord said, My Spirit shall 288 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:30,360 not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh. 289 00:19:30,360 --> 00:19:35,120 In other words, you can't just go on living in sin and God just 290 00:19:35,120 --> 00:19:36,760 go, I'm not going to do anything. 291 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:41,400 It says. Then the Lord saw that the 292 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:45,480 wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent 293 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:48,600 of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 294 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:51,800 And the Lord was sorry in the old king Jimmy, it says, 295 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:57,440 repented, was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and God 296 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:00,400 was grieved in his heart. He's a loving father. 297 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,200 So the Lord said, I'll destroy man whom I've created from the 298 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:09,520 face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping things, birds of 299 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:13,160 the air, for I am sorry that I've made them. 300 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:18,800 In the book of Romans, chapter one, verse 22, it speaks of the 301 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:22,480 world today. That is, we see it in mass 302 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:29,520 protests, protesting for a terrorist group called Hamas. 303 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:33,840 Can't fathom that. Who's been to the Holocaust 304 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:39,360 Museum here, arms up next to a group that's going to Israel. 305 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:45,240 We're going there. How could this ever happen 306 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:50,560 again? How could such vile venomous 307 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:54,920 hatred be against the people of Israel? 308 00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:01,680 How could the Holocaust it could happen once again. 309 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:07,160 How could this stirring be about because there's a spiritual war 310 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:14,200 going on in Romans chapter one verse 22, people professing to 311 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:19,200 be wise. It says they became fools and 312 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:23,640 change the glory of the incorruptible God into an image 313 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:28,440 made like corruptible man and they began to worship the birds, 314 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:33,920 4 footed animals, creeping things and Mother Nature. 315 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:40,360 It says in Romans one verse 24, because of the repressing of the 316 00:21:40,360 --> 00:21:44,640 truth, I don't want God, I'll worship my God my way. 317 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:49,680 Because of that God says OK verse 24. 318 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:54,720 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness. 319 00:21:54,960 --> 00:22:00,040 You want to live that way is the worst thing that can happen that 320 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:05,640 God allows you to live that way that you you feel no conscience 321 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:07,920 anymore. Your conscience is seared. 322 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:11,320 You don't care about your immorality. 323 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:14,160 You don't care about what you put into your body. 324 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:21,200 Then it says in verse 26, for this reason again, God gave them 325 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:24,240 up to vile passions. People think, well look, on the 326 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:27,680 way that I'm living, if God was real, he would strike me down. 327 00:22:32,360 --> 00:22:36,280 How foolish that is. When men and women persistently 328 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:43,200 abandoned God, Eventually there is a line God will abandoned 329 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,840 them. When God abandons men and women 330 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:53,520 to their own devices, His protection is withdrawn, His 331 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:58,360 restraining and protective hand upon their lives is withdrawn, 332 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:04,680 and then allows the consequences of their sin to take their 333 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:09,440 inevitable destructive course. What's the consequences of sin? 334 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:15,360 The wages of sin is death. Wherever sin is operating in 335 00:23:15,360 --> 00:23:20,800 your life, whenever you're operating in that area, it's 336 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:22,600 going to die. It's going to rot. 337 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:30,680 Sin degrades man. It devices the image of God who 338 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:32,800 you made it. It strips. 339 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:38,280 Man, woman, of their dignity. It removes. 340 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:43,320 Any Peace of Mind? And you have no clear. 341 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:47,520 Conscience. It says God gave. 342 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:49,280 Over. That's the Greek word 343 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:52,640 parodynamo. It's an intense. 344 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,520 Verb. The word is used in. 345 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:59,600 The New Testament of giving one's body to be burned totally 346 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:04,800 it's the same word Paul used in one Corinthians 13 three it says 347 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:08,120 and though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I 348 00:24:08,120 --> 00:24:14,760 give my body an intense. To be burned, but I have not 349 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:16,560 loved. It profits me nothing. 350 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:21,520 It's the same word used also in a judicial sense. 351 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:24,680 Of a man. Being committed to prison 352 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:28,200 judgement. Mark 1/14. 353 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:33,800 Now, after John was put in prison, given over, Jesus came 354 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:38,920 to Galilee. So that's the message to John. 355 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:41,320 Don't write these things down, John. 356 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:46,040 And now there's a message to the world, to the fallen world, a 357 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:49,520 Christ rejecting world. How bad is this world? 358 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,560 Let's go back. Just remind us of who this 359 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:56,880 message is to back in Chapter 9. Look with me to verse 20. 360 00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:00,040 Read along. But the rest of mankind, and 361 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,880 that is after all the judgments that occurred, the demonic 362 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:05,680 beings had come out. The rest of mankind who were not 363 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,200 killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their 364 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,560 hands, that they should not worship demons and idols of God, 365 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,840 silver, brass, and stone and wood, which can neither see nor 366 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:19,080 hear nor walk. And they did not repent of their 367 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:23,040 murders or their sorceries member Pharmakia, their drug 368 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:28,840 abuse or their sexual immorality or their thefts, stealing. 369 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,280 They didn't repent. These are people on the earth at 370 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:35,480 this moment. They don't care what God does. 371 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,120 They're not quitting living an evil life. 372 00:25:41,360 --> 00:25:45,120 So now this message, the Angel has this for these people. 373 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:49,080 The 7th trumpet is about to sound. 374 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,720 The final judgments are about to unfold. 375 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:58,800 No more delay. This at this point is. 376 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:03,240 God's message to a rebellious hearted world it says in verse 377 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:05,840 7. But in the days of the sounding 378 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:10,200 of the 7th Angel, when he is about to sound, the mystery of 379 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:14,160 God would be finished, as He declared to His servants and the 380 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:17,400 prophets. Therefore, the mystery. 381 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:18,840 Of God would be finished, we'll go. 382 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:22,000 What is that? Now in the Old Testament. 383 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:27,120 The word mystery often referred to Old Testament plans and 384 00:26:27,120 --> 00:26:33,120 purposes not previously understood but are explained in 385 00:26:33,120 --> 00:26:36,640 the New Testament. For example, the church is not 386 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:38,880 in the Old Testament. It was a mystery. 387 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,560 The prophets didn't see you and I. 388 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,360 The church was a mystery revealed in the New Testament. 389 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:50,600 Another example was God's plan of salvation to include 390 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:52,480 Gentiles, people who weren't Jewish. 391 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:58,000 But it was not understood how Gentiles, non Jewish, not part 392 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,240 of God's chosen people, Israel, could be saved. 393 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,800 How is that possible? But now in the. 394 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,720 New Testament. We know now that Christ's death 395 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,680 and resurrection provided forgiveness. 396 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:17,200 The vile was torn open, the temple came destroyed later, and 397 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,800 the door was open for all to come to Christ, To come to the 398 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:25,320 Father through Christ, through the forgiveness of sins, 399 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:30,120 salvation to all hell because of your birthright. 400 00:27:30,120 --> 00:27:32,400 I'm Jewish. No, had nothing to do with that. 401 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,000 Paul talked to that all throughout his letters, 402 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,400 particularly in Romans. Whether Jew or Gentile, that 403 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:47,290 doesn't count anymore. The Book of Acts chapter. 10 our 404 00:27:47,290 --> 00:27:51,810 first port of call on our tour. We leave where we're staying. 405 00:27:51,810 --> 00:27:55,680 We head straight to Caesarea. Caesarea was where the Roman 406 00:27:55,680 --> 00:28:02,160 soldiers lived and the Roman heads, captains, etcetera, lived 407 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,840 in Caesarea. We head up from Joppa from where 408 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,680 we are, head up to Caesarea. And as we come to Caesarea, it's 409 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:14,840 the location of Acts chapter 10. In Acts chapter 10 verse 34, you 410 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:20,600 remember Peter down in Joppa, He's he's having a snooze on the 411 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:24,520 top of Simon the tennis house. We go to Simon the tennis house 412 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:26,640 in Joppa. How do we know it's Simon the 413 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,000 tennis house? Because it's the only house in 414 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,920 Joppa which is looks a lot like the Fremantle Fish Markets 415 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,480 Joppa. It's the only house that has its 416 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:39,360 own well and you need water to do tanning. 417 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:43,360 So Peter is on the top of Simon the Tanner's house having a 418 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:47,440 snooze and memory sees that blanket come down, take, eat, 419 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:48,600 and there's all the stuff on there. 420 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,160 And he says I'm not eating that, I can't eat that. 421 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:54,320 And eventually God tells me, no, no, what I call clean don't you 422 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:57,000 call unclean. Then someone knocks on the door. 423 00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,440 Hey, come with us. Peter heads up. 424 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:04,760 The Joppa comes to Caesarea. And then Peter arrives and he 425 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:10,040 comes to a Roman Cornelius of the Italian band, Roman Soldier. 426 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,760 Peter's there. He's LED because God's told him 427 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:17,160 to go there. And it says in verse 34 and 428 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:20,320 Peter opened his mouth and said in truth, I perceive that God 429 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,800 shows no partiality. In other words, salvation has 430 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:28,200 gone beyond the Jews, but in every nation, whoever, whoever 431 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,040 fears God and works righteousness is accepted by 432 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,560 him. The Word which God sent to the 433 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,960 children of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ. 434 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:42,320 He is Lord of all. While Peter was still speaking 435 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:46,320 these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who had 436 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,920 gathered to hear the word in Caesarea. 437 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:53,880 Those of the circumcision Jews who believed were astonished, as 438 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:58,160 many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had 439 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:02,840 been poured out on the Gentiles. And for they heard them. 440 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:04,920 Speak with tongues and magnify God. 441 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,480 And Peter answered, can anyone forbid water that these should 442 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:13,200 be baptised who have received the Holy Spirit just as us, and 443 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,840 he commanded them to be baptised in the name of the Lord. 444 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,320 So that's the mystery wasn't told in the Old Testament. 445 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:24,600 This mystery, the mystery here in the Book of Revelation refers 446 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:29,400 to the last days, the second coming of Jesus Christ and the 447 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,720 establishment of God's Kingdom on the earth, the thousand year 448 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:37,000 reign which will occur when Jesus returns his second coming. 449 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:42,240 Revelation chapter 19. Now the tribulation is often 450 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,480 called and referred to in the Old Testament as the day of the 451 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:47,000 Lord, the day of Jacob's trouble. 452 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:51,120 It's spoken of in the Old Testament, whereas the rapture 453 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:54,280 of the church it's not spoken in the Old Testament. 454 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:59,360 But as a mystery. Revealed in the New Testament, 455 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:04,840 as Paul tells us in one Corinthians 1551 behold, I tell 456 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:11,000 you a mystery, something new. We shall not all sleep and. 457 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,760 Sleep is only. Mentioned to believers. 458 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,280 It's never mentioned of non believers. 459 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,720 Sleep. We shall not all sleep talking 460 00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:24,120 to Christians, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the 461 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,400 twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. 462 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,080 For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised 463 00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:31,400 incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 464 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:36,280 So the message we've had to John and a message to the world. 465 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:41,240 The delay is. Over and now the message to us. 466 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:44,240 Then the voice which I heard from heaven spoke to me again, 467 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:48,400 and said, Go and take the little book, which is open in the hand 468 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,800 of the Angel who stands on the sea and on the earth. 469 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:54,120 So I went to the Angel, This is John speaking, and said to him, 470 00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:59,600 Give me the little book. And he said to me, Take, eat it. 471 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:04,560 It will make your stomach. Bitter, but it will be sweet as 472 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,840 honey in your mouth, so. I took the little book. 473 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:12,360 Out of the angel's hand. And I ate it and it was sweet as 474 00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:17,200 honey in my mouth, yes, but when I had eaten it in my stomach it 475 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,840 became bitter. And he said to me, You must 476 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:26,240 prophecy again about many peoples, nations, tongues, and 477 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:31,080 kings. In Psalm 119, verse 103, David 478 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:34,120 writes, How sweet are your words to my taste? 479 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:39,560 Sweeter than honey to my mouth. You must prophecy. 480 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:46,160 Again, it's the same word. The word must hear is the Greek 481 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:50,680 word and it's pronounced die, just like die D i.e., but it's, 482 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:56,840 it's spelled DEI, die. It's, it's a necessity, it's a 483 00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:58,320 duty. You've got to do this. 484 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:03,960 You must prophecy. The voice from heaven, the voice 485 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:07,040 of God now instructs John, take the book. 486 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:10,640 The Angel tells John to eat it. John eats it. 487 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:15,400 Initially it tastes sweet, but then as it hits his stomach and 488 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,480 overwhelming bitterness strikes John. 489 00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:22,160 As you and I are. Ingesting this morning the Book 490 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:27,280 of Revelation ourselves today in our hearts and in our minds. 491 00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,280 It's having the very same effect the word of God. 492 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,560 It's sweet in our mouths. Keith how how do you mean that 493 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,400 as we read, we grow excited don't in the Book of Revelation, 494 00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:41,240 you know what's going to happen. Christ soon coming. 495 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:46,960 Maranatha, we so want the Lord to return to come back, don't 496 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:48,760 we? We still want him to come back. 497 00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:54,080 We want him to judge the evil. I mean, that judge of the 498 00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:58,920 Supreme Court of Australia that allowed the protest to go ahead 499 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:02,720 today, She's going to be judged. She's going to stand before the 500 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:06,480 judge of judges and she'll be judged on that decision that 501 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:10,159 she's allowed the Sydney Harbour Bridge to be closed and people 502 00:34:10,159 --> 00:34:12,600 to protest. Hamas a must. 503 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:16,679 Supporting people to March across the Sydney Bridge, Sydney 504 00:34:16,679 --> 00:34:21,520 Harbour Bridge in protest. I can't fathom that. 505 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:26,880 We want God to judge the evil of this world. 506 00:34:27,199 --> 00:34:31,719 We want God to get his hand on Satan and cast him down into the 507 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,639 lake of fire. We want all the wrongs to be 508 00:34:34,639 --> 00:34:38,960 made right, don't we? But, and there's a big but. 509 00:34:40,639 --> 00:34:44,080 As we. Consume as we ponder, as we 510 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:48,520 meditate, as we chew over and reflect upon the words of this 511 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:53,440 prophetic book and the growing reality of the time in which we 512 00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:56,480 live. Never has Israel occupied the 513 00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:59,680 focus of the world. Even Australia now, I mean 514 00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:05,000 Starmer PM of England has said by September I'll recognise 515 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,240 Palestine. Palestine doesn't exist. 516 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,400 There's no such people as Palestinians. 517 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:14,120 They're refugees from. All different nations. 518 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:19,800 There's no Palestinian history, no Palestinian nation. 519 00:35:21,720 --> 00:35:26,000 Yet this is the plan of Satan and God's allowing it at this 520 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,960 time. And as we we look at this and we 521 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:32,600 see these events happening, the growing reality of the time in 522 00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:35,720 which we live, it's we're living in the last days. 523 00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:39,720 Things begin to grow bitter in our stomachs too, don't they? 524 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,040 How? Because as we each personally 525 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:47,880 realise that Christ returned, the rapture is at any moment 526 00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:51,920 there is no prophetic event that needs to occur. 527 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:56,520 The Bible tells us before the rapture is to occur, the rapture 528 00:35:56,600 --> 00:36:00,520 is on hold. It's going to happen. 529 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:03,400 At any moment, at the hour that God says now. 530 00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:15,040 The Great. Suffering unknown to our world 531 00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,360 like never before. Jesus says you have no idea 532 00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:20,920 what's going to hit. This world is about to fall upon 533 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:24,720 the unsaved. Family members. 534 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:31,080 We have don't know the Lord friends that we play sport with 535 00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:38,960 or or know across neighbourhood. Don't know the Lord, Classmates, 536 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:44,560 work colleagues, sporting partners. 537 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:49,400 The sweet truths. Begin to turn bitter in our 538 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,600 stomachs because they don't know Christ. 539 00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:55,760 The judgments that are laid out here are going to fall upon 540 00:36:55,760 --> 00:37:00,680 those who. Do not know the Lord, but 541 00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:03,760 there's another reason. Also, why This is God's message 542 00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:07,800 for each of us gathered here this morning and those watching 543 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,560 online. Verse 11. 544 00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:20,040 The Angel said to me, You must prophecy again about many 545 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:22,160 peoples, nations, tongues, and kings. 546 00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:27,360 This is a reminder. To preachers and every believer, 547 00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:31,000 every born again believer that believes in the promises on the 548 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:36,520 Word of God, we cannot compromise God's Word. 549 00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,280 God's word must be. Proclaimed. 550 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:45,560 And here's the deal, No matter how it affects or. 551 00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:47,760 Offends people. I. 552 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:51,280 Know people have come. Here and have been been offended 553 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:58,720 upon me, but by the words of God you watch soon as we continue 554 00:37:58,720 --> 00:38:01,880 down that path. It happened to Israel Folau. 555 00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,200 It'll happen to every preacher who preaches the word of God. 556 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:09,200 Should the Lord Tarry will be identified as those giving off 557 00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:10,920 hate speech. You know what hate speech is? 558 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:13,840 Speaking the truth, that. People hate. 559 00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:23,360 John, you must prophecy. Again, we cannot compromise. 560 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:32,000 We cannot be concerned about how it affects or offends people. 561 00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:38,280 Yes, however, we should always speak God's truth in love. 562 00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:43,040 Bible tells us that, of course. But there is too. 563 00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:47,760 Much compromise in too many pulpits of our churches across 564 00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:51,200 the Nation Today. John needed to. 565 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:56,360 Complete his Commission from the Lord to record all the events 566 00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,800 destined for the last days. John did it. 567 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:05,040 We have this in our hands today, the Book of Revelation as an. 568 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:09,000 Exile. And Patmos John had no immediate 569 00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:16,760 opportunity to preach to all nations, but he was to write the 570 00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:23,200 prophecies and distribute them so as to warn all people of the. 571 00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:26,640 Bitterness of the. Judgments to come, and of death 572 00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,800 and hell. Have you ever mentioned hell? 573 00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:34,680 To a relative I. Don't want him to go. 574 00:39:34,720 --> 00:39:39,240 There, you know Jesus spoke more on hell than he did on heaven. 575 00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:46,600 Sinners everywhere. May know because John recorded 576 00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:50,320 these prophecies that whilst judgement is presently 577 00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:58,560 restrained. 2nd Thessalonians. Until the church is raptured, a 578 00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:02,280 future day is coming. When the 7th Angel. 579 00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:07,000 Will sound his trumpet. No more delay as commanded by 580 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:12,320 the voice in heaven and sins. Dominion will be broken, the 581 00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:17,040 freedom of Satan and his demons will come to an end, and godless 582 00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:21,400 men will be judged and believers will be glorified so. 583 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,640 Where does that leave you? And I 2025 August. 584 00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:29,760 You and I must. Remain faithful. 585 00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:33,760 To the proclamation. Of the good news on the 586 00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:35,840 surfboard, there is the Great Commission. 587 00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:40,480 Each and every one of us have been commanded by our Lord Jesus 588 00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:44,520 Christ to go into the world. That's the command to each and 589 00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:46,080 every one of us. Every one of us. 590 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:51,520 And proclaim the gospel. To every creature. 591 00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:57,760 But you know, proclaiming the good news is also proclaiming 592 00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:02,880 the bad news of the gospel that if you reject Christ, do you 593 00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:07,760 know what will happen to you? It's a 2 edged sword, the word 594 00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:10,280 of God. We must. 595 00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:16,240 Include the bitter truths. Too many people come to church 596 00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:19,000 and they've never heard the word repentance or the need to 597 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:23,760 repent. It's fascinating as you read the 598 00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:26,240 gospels as Jesus started his ministry. 599 00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:30,000 You know what his message was? Repent and believe. 600 00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:32,440 You know what he told his disciples to preach? 601 00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:35,400 Repent and believe. You know, it hasn't changed. 602 00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:37,320 You know, that's still the Great Commission. 603 00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:41,240 But to go into the world and tell people to repent and 604 00:41:41,240 --> 00:41:47,120 believe. It says, as written by John, 605 00:41:47,720 --> 00:41:50,080 that these words are for all people. 606 00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:54,240 Nations tongues. And kings all positions. 607 00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:58,960 That means every person, saved and unsaved, the gospel of Jesus 608 00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:02,600 Christ. Is very great. 609 00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:05,600 And it is good news. That's what the word gospel 610 00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,240 means. It's good news indeed to the 611 00:42:08,240 --> 00:42:13,760 person who receives it, repents and believes and surrenders 612 00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:18,120 their life to Jesus Christ. But it is also. 613 00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:24,880 The Book of Revelation. It's terrifying bad news. 614 00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:29,640 For the person. Who refuses to receive God's 615 00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:33,800 forgiveness and the sacrifice of his Son Jesus Christ. 616 00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:38,120 It's terrifying. Those who reject. 617 00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:43,200 The conviction of the Holy Spirit, and in doing so you 618 00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:49,120 commit the unforgivable sin. But Revelation? 619 00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:52,040 10. Tells us we have a. 620 00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:54,760 Responsibility you must prophecy. 621 00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:59,880 To tell people that God. Does love them and that this is 622 00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:03,400 the truth of the matter. John 316 For God so loved the 623 00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:06,480 world, He doesn't want anyone to go into the Tribulation period. 624 00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,480 He would have all people. Come to knowledge of the of of 625 00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:14,320 the gospel of Christ. He finds. 626 00:43:14,720 --> 00:43:18,520 No death and no joy in the death of the wicked. 627 00:43:19,240 --> 00:43:22,880 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, 628 00:43:23,240 --> 00:43:26,120 that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have 629 00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:29,720 everlasting life. Today there are far. 630 00:43:29,720 --> 00:43:35,000 Too many pulpits in our land and churches that are telling people 631 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:39,480 that God loves them and that that's great, that's good, we 632 00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:42,600 know that's true. But they are not telling people 633 00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:45,320 they are sinners in need of a Saviour. 634 00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:51,320 As I reflect upon. This and I close this think 635 00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:55,240 about this. It is. 636 00:43:55,400 --> 00:44:03,800 Cruel and unloving, to allow sinners we know and careful. 637 00:44:05,240 --> 00:44:09,120 Not to know that each. One of us must repent and fall 638 00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:12,440 on our knees before God and seek His forgiveness. 639 00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:19,320 How could I do that? To remain quiet, To keep silent, 640 00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:25,120 to ignore, to share the gift of the good news of the Gospel to 641 00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:28,240 someone, when you think about it, is unthinkable. 642 00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:31,000 When we put it into. Perspective. 643 00:44:32,720 --> 00:44:38,280 Why? Would we not tell them because 644 00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,640 we know we've been there? Those of you have received 645 00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,920 Christ each Sinner, What do they do? 646 00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:53,480 They sit alone, broken, lost. And I don't know that. 647 00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:59,560 Jesus Christ died for them. It's the Great Commission. 648 00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:05,000 Just like the Apostle. John, as you and I consume the 649 00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:14,240 Word of God, we must speak the complete word, a truth that is 650 00:45:14,240 --> 00:45:17,280 bittersweet. Maybe you say, well, Keith, if I 651 00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:20,080 ever said that to my dad, to my mom, to my brother, to my 652 00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:24,760 sister, do this. Pray. 653 00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:31,880 Pray with all your heart. God give me an opportunity and 654 00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:37,840 then work out. To say it in love, I wrote my 655 00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:41,840 dad a. Letter in love I've spoken to my 656 00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:46,760 my brothers are older than I. They're in their 80s. 657 00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:50,640 And I've spoken to both of them in love. 658 00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:58,480 It's it's how you say it. It's how you wrap. 659 00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:03,120 It. And you share. 660 00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:12,880 Your heart, the heart of God. With them I cannot, cannot not 661 00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:17,040 say anything. How could? 662 00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:25,760 We and you know, it's interesting, you can't say them. 663 00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:30,240 And here's the deal. God wants them saved. 664 00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:36,720 Your vest, you're the vessel. It's the holy. 665 00:46:36,720 --> 00:46:38,960 Spirit that works upon their heart. 666 00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:44,360 It's not up to. Us in that sense, oh, you know, 667 00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:49,560 I've got to do this. It's you being open and being 668 00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:53,400 used by God. That's the Great Commission. 669 00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:58,960 Say it and love. Say it. 670 00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:05,840 Say it. We. 671 00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:10,440 Live in a. Time you can build memories. 672 00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:15,360 Don't build regrets. How often have you had God open 673 00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:16,960 the door for you with someone? You've gone. 674 00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:21,520 I didn't. God give me the courage. 675 00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:30,560 Let's exchange that. God increase my love for them to 676 00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:34,200 share the gospel. That is good news.