1 00:00:07,590 --> 00:00:13,070 Acts chapter 13, please. I know many of you would like a 2 00:00:13,590 --> 00:00:19,110 Bible prophecy message today, but it's no use knowing about 3 00:00:19,110 --> 00:00:22,470 what's going on if you don't know where you're going. 4 00:00:27,390 --> 00:00:32,870 I want to thank the praying people of this fellowship. 5 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:40,200 Had the wonderful privilege of the last weeks to be able to 6 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:50,080 lead two of the members of my family to the Lord and only 7 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:57,240 because of them facing death, one has died. 8 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:04,360 My brother passed and I have a nephew who has three months to 9 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:15,280 live. The church and myself are being 10 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:19,760 shaken. We're getting rid of the dross 11 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:23,880 and the people that are coming to church and now those who 12 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:29,040 really want to know the Lord. The Bible says on the last days 13 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,520 that judgement would begin in the House of the Lord. 14 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:39,240 And the reality of the time in which we live is very strong. 15 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:42,280 Now. If you are hungry for the things 16 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:46,840 of God, it means you are a person of the Lord. 17 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:51,120 You are a child of God. If you're earnest about what's 18 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:55,000 going to happen with the Middle East situation, then you're 19 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,800 aware of the end times prophecies. 20 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:05,320 But in the meantime, in the meantime, you still got to be a 21 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:09,800 good father or a good mother. You still have to work to 22 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:14,240 provide income resources for your home. 23 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:18,960 So we still have those things we need to do. 24 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:24,040 We don't just stop and wait. We're busy about the Lord's 25 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:29,320 business in the book of Acts chapter 13, it's changed. 26 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:32,800 It was all about Peter basically up to 12, the birth of the 27 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:35,840 church. Now from 13 on, it's going to be 28 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:39,240 about Paul. We have a new section in the 29 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:43,000 book of Acts written by Doctor Luke, and it's going to deal 30 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,080 with Saul, who became Paul, a missionary journey. 31 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:48,960 So we've got a lot of texts to get through. 32 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:52,040 And I was thinking, you know, should I just overview, No, this 33 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:53,680 is the church. We need to read the Bible. 34 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:55,720 So we, you're going to follow along with me. 35 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:58,240 Acts chapter 13. Look at verse one. 36 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:01,040 Now in the church there was an anticoque and there's going to 37 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:04,240 be, you'll find 2 Antiochs. There's one in Syria and there's 38 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:08,200 another one in Turkey. This is the one in Syria. 39 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,480 To start with, there were certain prophets and teachers. 40 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:13,920 Barnabas, we've met him. Simeon who was called Niger, 41 00:03:13,920 --> 00:03:17,440 Lucius of Cyrene Minayan who had been brought up with Herod. 42 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:22,240 This is Herod's half brother, foster brother or half brother. 43 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:24,600 He grew up in the House of Herod. 44 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:27,800 Herod was the one who has said it's better to be Herod's pig 45 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:29,960 than to be his wife or his brother or his sister. 46 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:33,880 And he became a Christian, became a believer. 47 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:38,800 So God's gospel, the word of Christ reaches into every area, 48 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:44,280 every area. Renee, who have been brought up 49 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:47,360 with Herod the tetrarch and Saul as they ministered to the Lord 50 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:50,440 and fasted the church usually fasted twice a week. 51 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:54,880 It was a Hebrew thing and the Holy Spirit said now separate to 52 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:57,480 me, Barnabas and Saul for the work which I've called them. 53 00:03:57,720 --> 00:03:59,440 How did the Holy Spirit say this? 54 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:01,600 It wasn't a voice. Remember it. 55 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:06,160 We just read there are prophets there and so someone would have 56 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:10,040 given a prophecy and although all those were there would have 57 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:13,280 said, yeah, this is right on, this is we, we recognise this 58 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:14,680 coming from who it's coming from. 59 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:19,680 And so separate me, Barnamus and Saul for the work which I've 60 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,079 called them. Then having fasted and prayed. 61 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:26,160 So they fasted and prayed about that recognise what God did. 62 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:30,040 Then they laid hands, laying on hands was not to say this is 63 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:32,400 what we're going to do. This is recognising this is what 64 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:35,800 God's going to do where with it they laid hands on after the 65 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,680 then they sent them away. So being out by the holy, being 66 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:42,200 sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia. 67 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:46,080 From there they sailed to Cyprus, the island of Turkey, 68 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:51,400 and they arrived in Salamis, a city in village in Cyprus. 69 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,440 They preached the word of God on the synagogue of the Jews as 70 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:58,160 what they would do. They also had John, this is John 71 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:01,400 Mark as the air assistant. Remember in the Garden of 72 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:05,640 Gethsemane there was a a young child, a kid ran away, he was 73 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:07,640 grabbed and he ran away. His cloak was left. 74 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:11,960 He was in his PJS pretty much. He took off grab. 75 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:15,000 That was John Mark. John Mark's house was where 76 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:18,200 they've been praying. Remember when Peter was in gaol? 77 00:05:18,280 --> 00:05:23,120 So this is that John Mark. He was their assistant. 78 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,000 When they'd gone through the island to pathos, they found a 79 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,520 certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jews name was Bar 80 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:33,320 Jesus, or son of Jesus who was with the proconsul Sergius 81 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:37,560 Paulus, an intelligent man. This man called for Barnabas and 82 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:39,320 Saul and sought to hear the word of God. 83 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:43,480 But Elimus, that's these other name the sorceress was, so his 84 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:46,640 name is translated. We stood them seeking to turn 85 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:48,440 the proconsul away from the faith. 86 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:52,200 Then Saul, and now we're going to see his name change from now 87 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:55,360 on. Who was called Paul, filled with 88 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:59,160 the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him and said all full of 89 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:03,880 deceit and all fraud. You son of the devil, you enemy 90 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:07,760 of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the 91 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:11,920 straight ways of the Lord? And now indeed the hand of the 92 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:17,200 Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for 93 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,680 a time, for a period. Welcome. 94 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:26,120 Immediately a dark mist fell on him, and he went around seeking 95 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:30,760 someone to lead him by the hand. And the proconsul believed when 96 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:35,480 he saw what had been done, being astonished, he believed. 97 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:40,800 But he believed because of the teaching of Paul, not because of 98 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:43,160 the miracle. Miracles follow the teaching 99 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:47,840 because it says astonished that the teaching of the Lord. 100 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,760 Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God because in 101 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:56,480 the last days the false prophet, the right hand henchman of the 102 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,160 Antichrist is going to do a lot of miracles and people go, oh, 103 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:02,000 this is God and they're going to be deceived, greatly deceived. 104 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:06,400 We'll stop there because we're then we're going to get to 105 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:11,920 Paul's first recorded sermon. So if you want to know what did 106 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:14,400 Paul preach? What was his sermon like? 107 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:17,960 Well, if you read from verse 13 on where we're going to deal 108 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,720 with this morning and then compare it to what Peter 109 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:24,280 preached, you'll find out this was the sermon preaching. 110 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:26,840 This is was the teaching of the early church. 111 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:30,480 You know, I want you to compare it today with what's often 112 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:33,160 preached from Bible pulpits today. 113 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:37,560 What did Peter preach? What did Paul preach? 114 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:41,880 And compare with it? Now with what's so called being 115 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:45,000 preached from the pulpits of today, let's let's do a summary 116 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,200 of what we just read. So the church at Antioch, 117 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:50,960 Antioch had prophets and teachers, including Barnabas and 118 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:57,680 Saul, showing us that God works through a praying and a teaching 119 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:00,600 church, our church. We need to pray on Wednesday. 120 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:03,680 So I encourage you. And on Sundays we teach 121 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:07,200 Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Sunday morning, Sunday night. 122 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:11,800 You need the 2. You need the two praying and 123 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:15,680 teaching. Secondly, we saw the call of the 124 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:18,160 Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is running the 125 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:20,400 church. Holy Spirit, I pray, is running 126 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:22,440 this church. While the church was 127 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:25,760 worshipping, it was fasting, it was praying. 128 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,520 The Holy Spirit spoke. That's how God moves through a 129 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,480 church. If a church isn't praying or 130 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:36,640 fasting or teaching, God's not going to be able to get the 131 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:39,360 opportunity to say anything because he's not involved. 132 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:45,600 And so Barnabas and Saul was set apart for the work God had 133 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:47,840 called them to do. This is what God wanted them to 134 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:50,360 do. They didn't have a mission plan. 135 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:51,320 Oh, what are we going to do, guys? 136 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:52,680 Let's have a big meeting in Antioch. 137 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:54,240 Let's work through. So where should we go? 138 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:56,240 What should we do? What's some good ideas? 139 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:57,960 Let's come up with a marketing strategy. 140 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:02,440 No, that's not how church works. The church works by the 141 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:06,040 direction of the Holy Spirit. And so the church sends them out 142 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:12,080 every church mission. It's to be God led and church 143 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:15,080 supported. We have church mission in 144 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:20,520 Israel, church mission in Fiji. We've sent money also to 145 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:25,800 Ukraine, you remember, and our church missions from here are 146 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:29,120 supported financially. But that's, that's, that's just 147 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:31,320 part of it. But we are to support them in 148 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:37,440 prayer and to be helping them in any way possible that we can by 149 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:42,920 visiting with them. Then the ministry moved from 150 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:45,560 Antioch and Syria and open a boat. 151 00:09:45,560 --> 00:09:49,680 They go to Cyprus, the island of Cyprus, southeast of Turkey. 152 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:52,720 Barnabas and Saul was sent by the Holy Spirit. 153 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,280 They travelled from Seleucia to Cyprus. 154 00:09:55,680 --> 00:09:58,760 In Salamis they preach the word of God in the synagogue. 155 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:02,120 That's what the habit was. And John Mark assisted them. 156 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:07,640 Then came opposition from this fellow called Elimus bar Jesus, 157 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:11,880 a sorcerer, a false prophet, and he tried to turn the proconsul 158 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:13,960 away from the faith. He tried to keep him from 159 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:17,720 getting saved. You know, there is always 160 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:21,120 spiritual opposition when the gospel is preached. 161 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:25,920 Don't expect it just to be a, you know, carte blanche or to 162 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:29,720 just have it easy. That's why prayer and fasting 163 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:33,280 opens the door. You can't do anything without 164 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:35,840 the prayer and fasting and the power of the Holy Spirit. 165 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:38,680 If you just go off and try and win your brother or your dad to 166 00:10:38,680 --> 00:10:42,640 Christ, we just just as it is you, you're on your own. 167 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:46,000 We, we, apart from God, we can do what? 168 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:50,720 Nothing. There is always spiritual 169 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:54,920 opposition when the gospel is preached, but now we saw Paul's 170 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:58,640 authority in God's power. Saul is now called Paul. 171 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:01,920 From now on, verse 9, he's filled with the Holy Spirit. 172 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:06,040 Paul rebuked Elimus, Elimus was struck with temporary blindness, 173 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:09,760 and 10 people left the church because they felt Paul was very 174 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:13,600 cruel and unkind to Elimus. How could he say that? 175 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:16,360 That's so rude of him. I'm out of here. 176 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:23,680 I say that with tongue in cheek, but I say it also because people 177 00:11:23,680 --> 00:11:28,920 expect church to be whatever goes, just whatever goes. 178 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:32,720 No, doesn't work that way, doesn't go that way. 179 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:38,080 God's power is greater than deception and false teaching. 180 00:11:39,680 --> 00:11:43,440 The pro consul, he believes, gives his heart to the Lord. 181 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:48,120 He was amazed not just by the miracle, but by the teaching of 182 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:50,440 the Lord. Faith comes by hearing and 183 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:53,560 hearing by the word of God. And so the journey continues. 184 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:58,360 Paul and his companions then sailed to Perga, which is in 185 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:03,640 Pamphilia, which is Turkey where Galatia we in the it's the book 186 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:07,600 of Galatians that area. John Mark leaves them. 187 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:10,000 We don't know why he leave them, but an upset Paul. 188 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:14,880 Paul and Barnabas would later have, you know, discussions and 189 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:18,000 quite a strong disagreement over John Mark. 190 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:24,240 Was it because John Barnabas was John Mark's uncle and he felt 191 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:26,360 that Paul was taking over? We don't know. 192 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:30,400 That's all supposition. Well, they continued and went to 193 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:33,360 the synagogue. And now we come to the first 194 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:37,560 recorded sermon of Paul the Apostle, verse 13 to 25. 195 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:41,760 Then when Paul and his party set sail from Pankhos, they came to 196 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:44,840 Perger in Pamphilia, and John departed from them. 197 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:48,760 John Mark returned to Jerusalem, but when they departed from 198 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:51,320 Perga, they came to Antioch in Presidia. 199 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:54,800 Now this is another Antioch. This is not Antioch. 200 00:12:54,800 --> 00:13:00,520 In Syria there is another Antioch, and this one is in 201 00:13:00,680 --> 00:13:03,920 Turkey, Presidia. That's what it says in Presidia. 202 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:08,320 And went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and sat down and 203 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:11,160 after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the 204 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:14,640 synagogue sent to them saying men and brethren, if you have 205 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:18,280 any word of exhortation for the people say on remember this was 206 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:20,440 happened to Jesus. Remember when he went synagogue. 207 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:21,720 Anyone here got something to say? 208 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:25,360 Rabbi come forward and he he turns to the prophets and he 209 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:29,120 reads out of the prophet. We call it in Luke chapter 4 and 210 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:33,040 he reads out. Then Paul stood up, motioning 211 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:35,320 with his hand. And notice how he starts. 212 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:38,240 He's a Jew, but he's a Christian. 213 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:43,240 He's in a synagogue. Men of Israel, and you who fear 214 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:47,920 God, those so men of Israel, all the Hebrews, you who fear God, 215 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:52,040 are those who are proselytes, Gentiles who now become part of 216 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:56,640 the Jewish faith. Listen, the God of this people, 217 00:13:56,640 --> 00:14:00,480 Israel, chose our fathers and exalted the people when they 218 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:04,040 dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt. 219 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:09,040 Remember that in Egypt, 400 years of slaves LED there under 220 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:14,200 the coverage of Joseph, who was Prime Minister with an uplifted 221 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:15,560 arm. He brought them out. 222 00:14:15,560 --> 00:14:17,600 How did he bring them out? By Moses. 223 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:21,200 This sermon sounds a lot like Stevens, doesn't it? 224 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:24,720 Yes. Now for a time or about 40 225 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:29,040 years, he put up with, he put up with their ways in the 226 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:31,680 wilderness. So they've left Egypt. 227 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:33,080 They're wandering in the wilderness. 228 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:34,680 And what did they do for 40 years? 229 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:37,360 Oh, where wish we were back in Egypt. 230 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:40,480 I, I miss the onions. I miss the leeks. 231 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:43,680 And how come when, when it, why it's always hot out here. 232 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:49,800 What, where we going? They whinged for 40 years, says 233 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:53,160 God put up with. And when he had destroyed seven 234 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:57,560 nations, they arrived in Canaan. He distributed the land to them 235 00:14:57,560 --> 00:15:02,080 by allotment through the tribes. And after that he gave them 236 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:06,400 judges for about 450 years until Samuel the prophet. 237 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:09,880 And afterward they asked for a king, Israel and the king. 238 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:11,480 We want to be like everybody else. 239 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:12,680 We want a king like everyone else. 240 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:16,360 Because up to that point, who was king, God was God was 241 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:18,400 ruling. No, we don't want you anymore. 242 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:20,280 We want to be like everybody else. 243 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:24,360 And so they got Saul, son of Kish, man of the tribe of 244 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:27,600 Benjamin for 40 years. When he had removed him, God 245 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,960 removed him. He raised up for them David, as 246 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:35,360 to whom king who gave testimony and said, I found David the son 247 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:40,240 of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who will do all my will 248 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:45,240 for this man's seed, seed of David, according to the promise. 249 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:48,000 That's the prophecies and the promises all through the Old 250 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,840 Testament. God raised up for Israel a 251 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:54,280 Saviour. You see, Paul is gathering all 252 00:15:54,280 --> 00:16:00,320 this and now he's funnelling it down into through David to Jesus 253 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:02,880 because the message of the Bible is Jesus. 254 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:09,120 The message of the Bible is Jesus after John had first 255 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:11,840 preached. That's John the Baptist before 256 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:14,920 he's coming, the baptism of repentance to all the people of 257 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:18,080 Israel. And as John was finished his 258 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:20,280 course, he said, who do you think I am? 259 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:23,880 I'm not he, I'm not the Messiah. But behold, there comes one 260 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:27,640 after me, the sandals of whose feet I'm not worthy to loose men 261 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:30,880 and brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, He gathers them 262 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:33,960 together. Those among you who fear God 263 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:37,200 proselytes to you. The word of the salvation has 264 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:40,840 been sent. Jesus has come for those who 265 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:43,600 dwell in Jerusalem and their rulers because they did not know 266 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:45,880 him nor even the voices of the prophets. 267 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:48,560 In other words, all the religious leaders that said 268 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:50,280 crucified Jesus, we don't want him. 269 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:54,520 Yes, you know, put him to death. He says, says he's the the 270 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:56,400 Messiah, says he's the Son of God. 271 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:00,120 Even though they were saying all things they didn't know, they 272 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:02,480 were fulfilling prophecies they should have. 273 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:06,839 They were doing exactly what the Bible said was going to happen, 274 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:10,680 which read which are read every Sabbath day. 275 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:15,079 They they would study them every day in church and have fulfilled 276 00:17:15,079 --> 00:17:18,599 them in condemning him. They fulfilled Bible prophecy by 277 00:17:18,599 --> 00:17:22,480 condemning Jesus and though they found no cause for death in him, 278 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:24,040 what was that? He's innocent. 279 00:17:24,839 --> 00:17:26,880 They asked Pilate that he should be put to death. 280 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:30,200 Now when they had fulfilled all that was written concerning him, 281 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:31,840 they took him down from the tree. 282 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:36,200 The cross laid him in a tomb, but God raised him from the 283 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:40,320 dead. He was seen for many days by 284 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:48,520 more than 500 witnesses. For 40 days, 500 people saw 285 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:53,400 Christ for 40 days over a period of 40 days, 500 people. 286 00:17:56,320 --> 00:18:01,880 We are His witnesses to the people and we declare to you 287 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:06,320 good news, the glad tidings, the promise which was made to the 288 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:09,960 fathers about the coming of the Messiah all through the New 289 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:16,360 Testament, the prophecies, God has fulfilled this for us, their 290 00:18:16,360 --> 00:18:20,240 children, in that He has been raised up Jesus. 291 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:24,840 Jesus is the Messiah as it is also written in the second 292 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:28,200 Psalm. Paul quote Psalm 2 you are my 293 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:32,040 son today I have begotten you Now all the cults, the Mormons 294 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:35,480 and the JWS go oh you see begotten so God's you know Jesus 295 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:39,880 created no the the terminology here in the context is you are 296 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:44,000 my son today I have begotten you is when Christ rose from the 297 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:48,680 dead on the third day and then he raised him from the dead no 298 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:52,880 more to return to corruption. He has spoken thus I will give 299 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:56,320 you the sure mercies of David. Therefore he also says in 300 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:59,000 another Psalm, Paul quotes Psalm 16. 301 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:04,040 Now you will not allow your holy one to see corruption for David 302 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:06,920 after he'd served his own generation by the will of God, 303 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:11,200 he died, fell asleep, was buried with his father's and his body 304 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:13,560 corrupted. He went back, you know, went 305 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:19,280 back to the the dust that it was of but Jesus and God raised up 306 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:22,640 so no corruption. He was with his disciples. 307 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,560 He ate he said touch me, feel me, Let's have some fish, let's 308 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:31,120 eat together new body. Therefore, based on all that, 309 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:35,520 let it be known to you, brothers, that through this man, 310 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:40,120 Jesus is preached to you. And here's the answer why Jesus 311 00:19:40,120 --> 00:19:48,480 came, the forgiveness of sins and by him everyone who believes 312 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:53,280 in him is justified from all things which you could not be 313 00:19:53,280 --> 00:20:00,280 justified by the law of Moses, though the law couldn't save you 314 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:06,520 and it couldn't justify you. You had to do it over and over 315 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:08,520 and over again. And we'll stop there. 316 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:14,440 Paul's message, he starts off on the common ground of faith in 317 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:17,720 God. He identifies with him God of 318 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,760 the people of Israel. I'm only talking about the one 319 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:25,440 God, the 17. This immediately demonstrates 320 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:29,640 that he does not represent another God, but is Speaking of 321 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:34,400 the God they all believe in. Chose our fathers. 322 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,280 Note Paul says Our fathers. He's identifying. 323 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:41,480 I'm Hebrew too, Paul says. Now Paul moves to their common 324 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:43,480 history as revealed in the scriptures. 325 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:46,960 He takes them on that journey. God exalted them when they dwelt 326 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:50,600 as strangers in the land of Egypt and with his mighty power 327 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:54,200 brought them out of Egypt, set them free from Pharaoh. 328 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:59,400 This was the birth of the nation of Israel as it left Egypt. 329 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:06,680 God suffered their manners for 40 years in the wilderness, 330 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,840 their constant murmuring and complaining. 331 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:13,720 The Jews were extremely proud of their fathers. 332 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:17,960 And Paul says, hang on a minute. Let me tell you just what we all 333 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:19,600 like. God put up with us. 334 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,240 We're not that good. Matter of fact, we're not good 335 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:25,560 at all. God suffered them. 336 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:29,040 He put up with them, and they rebelled against God. 337 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:32,480 They murmured against him. But still God put up with their 338 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:36,800 manners. For 40 years he went before 339 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:41,440 them, subdued the seven kings in Canaan, then divided the nation 340 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:44,400 to them by casting of lots, splitting up through the 12 341 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:48,080 tribes. After that he gave them judges 342 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:52,120 for the space of approximately, it says 450 years. 343 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:56,320 Now let me break that down for you. 400 years in Egypt, 344 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:02,800 prophesied 40 years in the wilderness, prophesied 10 years. 345 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:08,280 From the moment they crossed over the Jordan until the time 346 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:11,600 of the dividing of the land by lots to the tribes was another 347 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:15,200 10 years after that. He gave them that. 348 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,200 Samuel was the last of the judges. 349 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:20,960 He also was a prophet. And it was at this time they 350 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,960 wanted a king. Give us a king like everyone 351 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:27,320 else. So God gave them Saul for a 352 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:31,360 period of 40 years. After God removed Saul, he gave 353 00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:35,120 the Kingdom to David. And God said of David, I have 354 00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:39,080 found David the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart. 355 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:42,720 And you go, David, Didn't he commit murder, adultery. 356 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:46,440 Yeah, it says God says he's a man after my own heart. 357 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:51,000 Let me explain that David was not a perfect man. 358 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,440 You know why? Because there's no perfect man, 359 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:58,040 only Jesus Christ. But he was a man who sees his 360 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:00,960 sin for what it is, and he repents of it. 361 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:06,760 If you want to be a godly father, when you make a blue say 362 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:10,440 to your friend, you know what? That's blind to your wife. 363 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:15,440 I'm sorry. I need to ask you to forgive me. 364 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:18,040 I'm going to go to the I'm asking God to forgive me. 365 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:23,200 A godly man a man after God's own heart is one who sees sin 366 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,720 and calls it for what it is and repents of it. 367 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:30,120 David's greatest desire. This is why God says a man after 368 00:23:30,120 --> 00:23:37,440 my own heart was that he wanted to do always the will of God, 369 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,040 just God's will. You want to be a godly man. 370 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:42,440 You want to be a man of God, there's your mission. 371 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,480 Just do what God wants you to do. 372 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,760 Do the will of God always in your life. 373 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,320 That's how you become a man after God's own heart, like 374 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:57,360 David. And so we declare to you, get 375 00:23:57,360 --> 00:24:00,480 glad tidings the promise which is made to the fathers. 376 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:04,320 God has fulfilled this, Paul said through the children, and 377 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,600 he has raised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second 378 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:11,040 Psalm. Now Paul leaps forward to the 379 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:16,680 present age, 1000 years after David, to where they were now of 380 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:19,920 this man seed. David's seed, according to his 381 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:26,640 promise, raised to Israel a Saviour who is Jesus. 382 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:32,000 And the Jews were aware that the Messiah was to be from the seed 383 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:36,320 of David that they knew. And he quotes Psalm 2, verse 7. 384 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,120 You are my son today. I have begotten you. 385 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:44,240 Then he quotes Psalm 1610, verse 38. 386 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,640 Therefore, let it be known to you, brethren, that through this 387 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:53,600 man, he says it's preached to you the forgiveness of sins, and 388 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:57,960 by him everyone who believes is justified from all things from 389 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:01,800 which you could not be justified by the law of Moses. 390 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:03,840 The law tells you you're a Sinner. 391 00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:06,240 The 10 commandments. You know what the 10 392 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,040 commandments are? The first one. 393 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:10,920 We can't even get past the first one. 394 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:13,240 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul and 395 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:16,280 strength. How often do we fail that before 396 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:19,960 we even get to the other 9? So the 10 commandments, Paul 397 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:23,520 says later, is a school teacher. It says, you know, you keep 398 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:25,040 breaking the law. Yeah, I know that. 399 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:28,960 I, I, I can't get around it. But the commandments just tell 400 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:30,480 you that you're, you're a Sinner. 401 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,800 They tell you how we should live and we go, we can't live that 402 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:36,840 way. That's why you need a saviour. 403 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:42,600 That's why you needed a saviour. There's three points I want to 404 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,320 look at this morning in Paul's Sermon 1. 405 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:51,560 Bible prophecy is a guarantee of what lays ahead for us today in 406 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:55,960 the time we live .2. Only through the death and 407 00:25:55,960 --> 00:26:04,720 resurrection of Jesus Christ is salvation found .3 God not only 408 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:10,680 forgives us of our sins, but he also removes them completely. 409 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:15,120 So let's look at the first one. God promised the land of Canaan 410 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,520 to Abraham's seed, and he gave it to them. 411 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:22,800 Verses 16 to 19, back in the book of Genesis, Genesis chapter 412 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,400 12, This is what the Lord said to Abraham. 413 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:27,880 Get out of your country, leave where you are. 414 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,360 He was an Iraqi from your family, from your father's 415 00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:36,280 house, go to a land. I'll show you Genesis 13 verse 416 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:39,320 12. It says Abraham lobs in Canaan. 417 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:41,160 Abraham dwelt in the land of Canaan. 418 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:46,160 Then the Lord said to Abraham, after Lot had taken off and 419 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,360 camped towards Sodom and Gomorrah. 420 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:54,080 Abraham, lift your eyes now and from where you look, northward, 421 00:26:54,080 --> 00:27:00,240 southward, eastward, westward, all the land which you can see I 422 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:05,560 give to you and your descendants forever. 423 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:09,080 Whose land is Israel's land? It's Israel's. 424 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:12,920 God gave it to them. Judea, Samaria at the West Bank. 425 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,880 Are they occupying? No, they're not. 426 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:20,520 You see the lies. It's, it's, it's this is God's 427 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:24,160 land. This is given an Abraham accord 428 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,880 with God. God gave all this land is yours, 429 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:29,040 Abraham, to you and to your descendants. 430 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,800 And I'll make your descendants as the dust of the earth, so 431 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,040 that if a man could number the dust of the earth and your 432 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:36,600 descendants also could be numbered. 433 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:42,680 Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I 434 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:50,880 give it to you. King David back previously was 435 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:52,760 in his house. Peace was in the land. 436 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,520 He said, you know, look at my palace, it's pretty flash. 437 00:27:56,120 --> 00:27:58,280 And I see everyone going to the Tabernacle. 438 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:00,200 And the Tabernacle, remember was a tent. 439 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:02,280 They'd go in and out, in and out. 440 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,520 And they'd said, now we are, I got to build God house. 441 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,200 Look, because look, I'm in this place. 442 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:10,080 Look where he is. Nathan said, that sounds a great 443 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:14,400 idea, David, go ahead and do it That night God says to Nathan, 444 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:21,120 Nathan, no, wrong, you blew it. You now got to go back to David 445 00:28:21,120 --> 00:28:23,520 and tell him, no, he can't build me a house. 446 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,800 I don't dwell in a house for one thing, never have, never need 447 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,160 one. Secondly, David can't build it, 448 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:32,520 but I want you to tell David this. 449 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:41,400 I will build him a house. It says in second Samuel Chapter 450 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:47,120 7 verse 12, when when your days are fulfilled and you rest with 451 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:51,080 your father speaking to David, I will set up your seed after you 452 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:56,800 is the promise who will come from your body seed of David. 453 00:28:57,040 --> 00:29:03,040 This is Jesus and I'll establish his Kingdom and he shall build a 454 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:06,680 house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his 455 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:12,840 Kingdom forever and I will be his Father and he will be my 456 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:14,960 son. It's none other than Jesus 457 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:18,440 Christ. Today we find our world. 458 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:20,880 The news. Each morning I watch it before I 459 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:22,720 go to bed, check what's going on. 460 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:28,360 We're heading towards World War 3, Jesus said in Mark chapter 13 461 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,760 verse 7. But when you hear of wars and 462 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:32,760 rumours of wars, do not be troubled. 463 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,400 You go, do not be troubled, man. What are we to do? 464 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,520 Jesus said, for such things must happen. 465 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:44,080 In other words, there's going to be more, but the end is not yet. 466 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,600 You know, in the Book of Revelation, when the seven you 467 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,520 went after the church was raptured and the seven years 468 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:58,280 begin, there are the breaking of the six seals. 469 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:02,560 You know, after the just the 4th seal, we have the four horsemen 470 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,240 of the Apocalypse coming out. You know, just the breaking of 471 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:10,560 the fourth seal already 1/4 of the world's population will be, 472 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:16,920 will be dead, 2 billion people. That's just just the beginning 473 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,000 of the period of the tribulation. 474 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:24,520 That's just the 4th seal by the time we get to the 6th trumpet 475 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:29,240 and there's now the seven balls to come after that judgements by 476 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,560 the time we get to the so 2 billion, there's 8 billion eight 477 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:36,240 people now, so like 1/4 of that. So it's 2 billion. 478 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:41,800 So the 6 billion left, by the time we just get to the 6th 479 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:48,680 trumpet of God judgement in the book of genera Revelation, 1/3 480 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:51,280 of the world's population will be dead. 481 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:55,080 That's another 2 billion. So by the time we get to that 482 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:59,160 half, one and every two of the people existing in this world 483 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:03,160 will be gone, dead, deceased. We're talking about a period 484 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:08,080 coming that we have no comprehension of how how bad 485 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:12,800 it's going to be. I say this to say this about 486 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,760 prophecy. The Bible prophesied and Paul 487 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:21,520 went through all these about the coming of the Lord, the promises 488 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,760 of God. Jesus was born of the seed of 489 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:27,000 the woman, the first prophecy, Genesis 315. 490 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:32,200 He was the virgin born son whose name was Isaiah chapter 714. 491 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:36,480 What was Jesus name to be? God with us, Emmanuel. 492 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:42,440 He was an Isaiah Chapter 9. He would be what unto us? 493 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,320 The Son is given unto us, a child is born. 494 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:50,440 Wonderful counsellor, the mighty God, Isaiah 96, he was to be 495 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:54,360 born in Bethlehem, Micah the prophet Micah said this is where 496 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:56,880 he's going to be born. So they had to have this great 497 00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,520 movement of people. Jesus goes to Bethlehem, we 498 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:04,000 celebrate Christmas, Jesus goes there, born in Bethlehem, Micah 499 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,720 5/2. He was to be a descendant of 500 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:10,400 Abraham. Genesis chapter 12 as we read in 501 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:15,960 the book of Daniel, Isaiah, Zechariah, the Gospels, 502 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:20,280 Thessalonians, Revelation, just an example, all the prophecies 503 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,240 that were fulfilled in the coming of Jesus. 504 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,240 Guess what? All the prophecies that speak of 505 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:30,960 the last days that we are about to face, including the rapture 506 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:35,040 of the church will happen, will happen. 507 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:39,200 People go, well, everything that the Bible said was to happen has 508 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:44,080 happened 100% over and over and over and over. 509 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:47,720 So when you get that little bit around, I mean, the rapture of 510 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:49,160 the church, is that really going to happen? 511 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,160 Will there really be 7 years? Hey, just look at the Middle 512 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:56,240 East. Look what's happening with 513 00:32:56,240 --> 00:33:00,560 Israel and watch all the nations. 514 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:02,760 And what you need to watch at the moment, I put it in the 515 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:06,960 bullets and is that all the nations that are, are, are, are 516 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:11,560 are involved on the outskirts at the moment because the US is not 517 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:13,920 in the last days is it doesn't get a mention. 518 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:20,840 Israel is who's, who's in Ezekiel 3839 Russia. 519 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:25,400 You know who's supplying Iran with the intelligence of where 520 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,640 to send their missiles? Russia. 521 00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,760 And you know who's going to be involved in the, in that great 522 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:37,480 massive army in the Ezekiel 3839 that will come down and attack 523 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:42,440 Israel from the north, Iran, Russia, Libya. 524 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:51,160 It's, it's, it's all, you know, you play chess, you set, you set 525 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:52,800 your pieces out. You know, there are certain 526 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:54,440 moves where you're going to just take the king. 527 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:56,840 All the pieces are being set out. 528 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:05,760 Prophecy is guaranteed. But Paul says the great prophecy 529 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:09,960 is this. Jesus was promised he would come 530 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,320 and he would save us from our sins in the judge and the 531 00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:16,239 judgement of God. Verse 23, because all the things 532 00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:19,480 that are happening in Bible prophecy that we look to are all 533 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:23,440 culminating in the return of Jesus Christ, the second coming 534 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,280 and the judgement of an ungodly world. 535 00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:30,080 The judgement because the church is going to be taken out and the 536 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:35,239 judgement of an ungodly world. So prophecy, everything that's 537 00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:40,000 has happened, everything that's yet to happen is going to 538 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,239 happen. The rapture will occur. 539 00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,639 There will be a Sunday when people will roll up. 540 00:34:45,159 --> 00:34:50,560 Hopefully no one's here. If you're here, you've been a 541 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:55,040 hearer and not a doer. You haven't been the wise man, 542 00:34:55,040 --> 00:35:01,480 you've been the foolish man .2 But only through the death and 543 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:05,640 resurrection of Jesus Christ is salvation found. 544 00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:09,680 We have Islam, Jehovah Witnesses, Mormons, 545 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:14,800 spiritualist, Confucius, all the spiritual churches that are 546 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,200 happening and bumping up now. Jesus said there's going to be 547 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:21,000 more and more of them. Jesus came as he promised. 548 00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:26,800 Though innocent himself, he was tortured, crucified. 549 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,680 As the scripture said, this is what was to happen. 550 00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:36,640 Let us the Lamb, but he rose from the dead on the third day 551 00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:42,160 in verse 34, and that he raised him from the dead. 552 00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:46,040 God raised him from the dead no more to return to corruption. 553 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,720 He has spoken thus. I will give you the sure mercies 554 00:35:49,720 --> 00:35:53,800 of David, the promise of David. Therefore he also says in 555 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:57,360 another Psalm, you will not allow your holy One, Jesus to 556 00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:03,240 see corruption. David's body when he was buried 557 00:36:03,240 --> 00:36:09,960 and you can go to the tomb revisited is just bones, it's 558 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:14,680 decayed. But Jesus, when he rose from the 559 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,560 dead, He was absolutely magnificent. 560 00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:20,800 His body, no decay, no smell, nothing. 561 00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:27,520 It says, therefore let it be known to you brethren, verse 38 562 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,560 that through this man has preached to you the forgiveness 563 00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:34,400 of sins. Now Paul makes notice he's told 564 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,880 them a whole history. He's told them about the 565 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:40,960 promises, the prophecies, He's told him who Jesus is, but now 566 00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:44,280 he makes it to the very person who's sitting in the synagogue, 567 00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:47,120 the man sitting in the synagogue, the woman I ever in a 568 00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:53,640 second part he says now to you, I'm speaking this man who 569 00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:56,920 preached to you, if you receive him, you get the forgiveness of 570 00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:02,440 sins. Paul said faith in Jesus Christ 571 00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:07,440 as the Messiah brought with it 2 wonderful blessings that the law 572 00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:11,160 could never provide. The first being the forgiveness 573 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:14,440 of sins. Hebrews Chapter 9, verse 13, 574 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,720 under the old system, the shedding of the bulls and the 575 00:37:17,720 --> 00:37:20,680 calves, and you know, the the goats and all that, the lambs. 576 00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:24,400 It says under the old system, the blood of goats and bulls in 577 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,200 the ashes of a young cow could cleanse people's bodies from a 578 00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:30,840 ceremonial purity. In other words, it covered them 579 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:34,320 over because next year they had to do it all over again, do it 580 00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:37,560 all over again. You had to continue to go to the 581 00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:44,840 temple in Hebrews 1012. But this man, after he had 582 00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:49,840 offered one sacrifice himself for sins forever, It says this 583 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:54,440 unique statement, it says Jesus sat down at the right hand of 584 00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:56,920 God. Now the priests, when they went 585 00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:01,280 into the the holy place, into the Tabernacle and their bare 586 00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:06,000 feet, they there are no chairs. There's no chairs in the holy 587 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,640 room or in the holy of Holies because they were continually 588 00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:13,080 moving, doing stuff, and they had chains of priests and that 589 00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,080 was their job. Each day your your shift, you 590 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:18,320 come in, you do this, you get the bread and like that candles, 591 00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,080 you get this. Put the stuff down in the 592 00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,040 incense. And that happened over and over 593 00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:24,400 and over. No one sat down. 594 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,680 Had to bring more sacrifice. And then on the Day of 595 00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:31,760 Atonement, more sacrifice. The priest put it on the kill, 596 00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:35,520 the one goat shed the blood and then place the blood over the 597 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:36,480 scapegoat. Take it out. 598 00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:38,600 Had to do it all again next year. 599 00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,560 No sitting down. But when Jesus offered his 600 00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:47,680 sacrifice, he sat down. You know why all that was done 601 00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:51,960 with? It's finished, He said. 602 00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:58,720 It's finished. My blood forgives your sin 603 00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:03,840 forever. That's why the temple's not 604 00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:10,720 needed, that's why Jesus, we're told that now where is the Lord? 605 00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:15,720 The Holy Spirit dwell in us, the Bible declares. 606 00:39:15,720 --> 00:39:24,160 However, Romans 323 all have sinned, fallen short of the 607 00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:29,000 glory of God as is written Romans 310. 608 00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,360 There is none righteous. None of us are good. 609 00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:34,480 There's no good person in the world. 610 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:37,480 He said well, I'm a good person. No, you're not. 611 00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:44,360 The Bible says John 317 for God did not send his Son into the 612 00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:49,360 world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might 613 00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:53,320 be saved. Now then people stop John 316 614 00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:55,040 and don't read on the next two verses. 615 00:39:55,240 --> 00:40:00,680 John 318 then says he who believes in Jesus is not 616 00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:04,160 condemned. But he who does not believe in 617 00:40:04,240 --> 00:40:09,320 Jesus is condemned already because he has not believed in 618 00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,640 the name of the only begotten Son of God. 619 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,960 The law couldn't save the Jew. It just told you how bad you 620 00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:20,360 were. Circumcision didn't say didn't 621 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:22,520 make any difference. Jesus, the Bible says you have 622 00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:28,640 to have a circumcision of the heart being we're of Abraham's 623 00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:30,160 sea, we're the children of Abraham. 624 00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:32,440 Jesus said no you're not, you're children of who? 625 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,720 The devil? He said to the Jews who are 626 00:40:35,720 --> 00:40:38,400 arguing with him, that doesn't save you. 627 00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:42,040 If I was to ask you a question, can you answer it? 628 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:45,760 I want to ask this, what does salvation actually mean? 629 00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:47,640 You know someone says you need to be saved. 630 00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:50,480 What does that actually mean? What is salvation? 631 00:40:50,720 --> 00:40:55,320 Can you explain it? The word salvation has its roots 632 00:40:55,640 --> 00:41:02,600 in the Hebrew word yasa, meaning to be wide or roomy in contrast 633 00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:09,280 to narrow or restricted words like liberation, emancipation, 634 00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:13,360 protection, security grow out of that word. 635 00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,960 Same meaning root word salvation means this. 636 00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:26,520 It means to move from distress to safety by being delivered or 637 00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:31,920 rescued, and that requires an outside party to do it. 638 00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,520 In other words, can't save yourself. 639 00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:40,280 Someone else has to save you to rescue you, to deliver you. 640 00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:43,880 In Exodus chapter 14 verse thirty example. 641 00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:48,200 So the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the 642 00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:51,160 Egyptians. And Israel saw the Egyptians 643 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:55,440 dead on the seashore. They crossed the Red Sea, then 644 00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:58,040 the ocean closed over. The greatest army of the 645 00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:02,240 Egyptians killed them all. And from that moment on, the 646 00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:03,960 Jews are standing on the other side. 647 00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:07,840 Man, we're safe. They can't come across the 648 00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:11,680 ocean. 1 They're all dead. 2 We've we've got on. 649 00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:14,280 We're we're right. That's what that word means. 650 00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:18,680 Rescued. Now most of you know the 651 00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:22,360 Titanic. See the story. 652 00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:35,240 Picture a person on the sinking Titanic is expecting to drown. 653 00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:38,840 It's going down. You're going to die because the 654 00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:43,960 ocean is freezing. But then they say you hop in a 655 00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:47,880 lifeboat, you are rescued. You're lowered down. 656 00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:51,360 You're in the lifeboat now you're you're not going to 657 00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:53,200 drown. You're not going to die in the 658 00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:54,800 ocean. You're rescued. 659 00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:58,880 Now that you're in the lifeboat, you have been removed from 660 00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:02,640 danger and death. That is safe. 661 00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:07,120 You're safe now. Now picture you're in your 662 00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:11,440 lifeboat and a great ocean liner pulls up alongside you, your 663 00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:15,720 lifeboat, and then it lifts you and all its passengers aboard 664 00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:20,280 the ship. Now they have security and 665 00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:24,280 soundness of mine. We're completely safe now. 666 00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:32,080 That's the salvation picture of what happens when Jesus saves 667 00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:36,160 your soul. You are one saved from the death 668 00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:41,280 penalty for sin and declared righteous means right before 669 00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:48,520 God. 2 Now in your present life today, salvation means you are 670 00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:53,480 also being saved from the power of sin over you. 671 00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:56,360 What is that? It's when you get the decision. 672 00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:59,240 At that moment you're about to make a decision. 673 00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:03,040 You're a Christian and you're going to watch a programme, read 674 00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:07,280 a book or do something that you know shouldn't, shouldn't do 675 00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:12,440 this. Before you had no control over 676 00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:15,040 that, you just did it. Now that you're a Christian, 677 00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:19,000 you're at that moment you say, God help me, and God says, OK, 678 00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:21,440 and you got no, I'm not going to do that. 679 00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:26,960 And God gives you the power now to say no to sin. 680 00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:29,120 Before you just went ahead and did it. 681 00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:34,960 And three, you're saved from the presence of sin forever in 682 00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:37,520 heaven. Once we get to heaven, there's 683 00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:39,480 no such thing as sin. It's gone. 684 00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:43,480 It's part, it's done for. That's what salvation means to 685 00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:45,560 you. If you're saved now through 686 00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:50,120 Christ, that's what the Bible calls your salvation. 687 00:44:50,240 --> 00:44:54,720 Hebrews chapter 2, verse 3. How shall we escape if we 688 00:44:54,720 --> 00:45:02,400 neglect so great a salvation which at first began to be 689 00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:05,760 spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who 690 00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:10,320 heard him? But there's one more point, 691 00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:13,680 which is the real point I want to hammer in as we our final 692 00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:19,320 point today that Paul preached in this sermon, Acts 13, verse 693 00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:23,000 39. By him, everyone who believes is 694 00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:30,120 justified from all things from which you could not be justified 695 00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:34,960 by the law of Moses, couldn't be saved by the law of Moses, and 696 00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:37,200 you can't be justified by the law of Moses. 697 00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:39,040 What does that mean? What does it mean to be 698 00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:45,400 justified means this. It means to pronounce a man, 699 00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:50,000 woman, boy or girl, you're perfectly right to stand before 700 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:51,200 God. You're righteous. 701 00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:55,360 It's far more than being pardoned. 702 00:45:56,920 --> 00:46:00,680 And it's 1000 times more than being forgiven. 703 00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:07,240 As good as forgiveness is, You see, you may wrong me and I can 704 00:46:07,240 --> 00:46:09,280 forgive you. Yeah, that's all right. 705 00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:12,040 No worries. But I can never justify you. 706 00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:13,480 I can never say. You know what? 707 00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:18,040 I'll make it so that it wasn't as if you even said that to me. 708 00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:20,400 I can't do that because you've done it. 709 00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:28,640 When God justifies a man, woman, boy, or girl, He says, I 710 00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:31,160 pronounce you a righteous person. 711 00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:37,960 Therefore, from now on, God says, I'm going to treat you as 712 00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:45,560 if you have never, never, never committed any sin. 713 00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:55,000 That's remarkable, any sin, salvation and justification. 714 00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:04,400 Justification means sin is all passed and gone. 715 00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:12,360 It's completely wiped, not merely forgiven, you know, Yeah, 716 00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:13,920 I'll forgive you. But you know, I'll just keep it 717 00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:20,240 in my memory. Not, not merely pardoned as if 718 00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:23,720 it's, but it's as if you had never sinned. 719 00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:27,440 How righteous is it? Does God see you? 720 00:47:27,720 --> 00:47:33,760 He sees you as righteous as the Lord Jesus Christ himself who 721 00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:35,920 had never sinned. That's pretty good, isn't it? 722 00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,800 That's amazing because I think of the things that I've done, 723 00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:44,760 said and the Bible tells me the word of God, which is the truth 724 00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:50,080 tells me, Keith, now I'm saved, but also not only am I saved all 725 00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:56,800 my past, it's gone. It's completely, completely 726 00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:00,280 gone. That's why salvation is so 727 00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:03,160 wonderful. That's why Paul loved to serve 728 00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:04,600 the Lord. He says well unto me is by 729 00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:05,680 preaching on the gospel. Why? 730 00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:11,400 My past life, I killed people, I killed Christians, I had women 731 00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:17,040 and children beaten. God has removed all of that. 732 00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:19,800 That's why salvation is wonderful. 733 00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:24,040 That's why if you truly are saved, if you're forgiven much 734 00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:27,880 as Jesus said to the woman who was crying over his feet and 735 00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:31,920 wiping his feet with her tears and her hair, if you've forgiven 736 00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:34,200 much, you know what you'll love much? 737 00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:38,360 People who just have a casual acquaintance with God, they 738 00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:42,760 don't know what salvation is. They've never really tasted 739 00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:46,000 salvation. They don't know and understand 740 00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:50,520 what justification is. But if you know what salvation 741 00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:56,360 is, and if you know you've been justified, man, you, you have to 742 00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:59,800 be held back from wanting to serve the Lord, wanting to 743 00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:04,960 worship God, wanting to praise his name because you know what's 744 00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:07,680 happened to you. You know what you were and what 745 00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:10,840 God has done. How does God do all this? 746 00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:13,760 Paul said. Through the death and 747 00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,840 resurrection of Jesus Christ and no other. 748 00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:20,000 And how much did it cost you? It's free. 749 00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:24,400 How much does it cost you to be justified? 750 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:28,560 Nothing. How much did it cost Jesus 751 00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:31,400 Christ to justify you? Everything. 752 00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:37,080 Everything. It's free, but it's not cheap. 753 00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:41,880 How was it done? By God's grace through his Son 754 00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:45,400 Jesus Christ. We did not deserve it. 755 00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:48,960 We're all sinners. There's none righteous, no, not 756 00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:53,160 one. We did not earn it, but God went 757 00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:56,000 ahead and did it. We can't understand. 758 00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:01,840 But lastly, Paul issues a warning after the gospel of 759 00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:07,520 Jesus Christ, verse 40. Beware therefore, lest what has 760 00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:09,640 been spoken in the prophets come upon you. 761 00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:12,800 Behold, you despise us, marvel and perish. 762 00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:16,880 For I work a work in your days, and work which you will by no 763 00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:20,720 means believe, though one would to clear it to you. 764 00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:27,280 Paul Enzi's sermon with a quote from Habakkuk, the prophet of 765 00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:29,560 faith. Habakkuk 15. 766 00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:33,600 Look at the nations and watch and be utterly amazed as we 767 00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:37,200 watch the world events now in Israel, in Iran, in the Gulf 768 00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:39,040 there. He says, for I'm going to do 769 00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:42,080 something in your days that you would not believe even if I told 770 00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:45,440 you, well, I don't believe all this Bible stuff. 771 00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:47,360 I don't believe in that prophecy. 772 00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:52,200 That's that's fair. But there's a warning because 773 00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:56,200 the people who didn't believe Habakkuk when he said the 774 00:50:56,200 --> 00:51:01,640 Babylonians are coming, Nebuchadnezzar's coming, you 775 00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:05,040 better get things right. And I said rubbish. 776 00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:10,520 And Babylonians sweep into Israel, tore down the temple, 777 00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:15,520 thousands slaughtered, other thousands were captured and the 778 00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:18,040 city was in ruins. They didn't listen to Habakkuk. 779 00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:31,640 Jesus died my soul to save my lips shall still repeat. 780 00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:36,960 Jesus paid it all, all to him I owe. 781 00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:43,120 Sin had left the Crimson stain, but he washed it white as snow. 782 00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:49,000 Bible prophecy. All the promises of Jesus came 783 00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,120 through. All the promises about the 784 00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:55,040 rapture, the seven year tribulation, the second coming 785 00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:56,560 of Jesus. They're going to happen. 786 00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:58,800 You're going to see them. I pray that you're not going to 787 00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:04,160 see them here. Secondly, you are saved. 788 00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:08,440 Your sins have been forgiven. He died on the cross for you. 789 00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:13,240 But thirdly, you are justified in God's eyes. 790 00:52:13,240 --> 00:52:18,560 He sees you in the wonder and the purity of His Son, Jesus. 791 00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:22,200 Let's pray. Father, we thank you for your 792 00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:25,640 word. We thank you that your word is 793 00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:29,640 true, that we can have faith and trust in it. 794 00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:35,160 All the promises that came through when people thought 795 00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:39,080 things have gone wrong, Even Jesus disciples, when he was 796 00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:42,000 arrested, betrayed and crucified, they thought it was 797 00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:45,480 the end. But your word says no. 798 00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:50,680 Everything's happening to plan. And now as we look at the events 799 00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:56,880 in Iran, the missiles being fired, the massive nations and 800 00:52:56,880 --> 00:53:01,320 warships gathering, and we see the events coming closer and 801 00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:03,360 closer, Lord, we know, we sense this. 802 00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:07,120 Soon you're going to call your church to come home. 803 00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:13,480 Dear Lord, I pray for any here today that have never been 804 00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:18,240 saved, that are not justified, that they heed the warning and 805 00:53:18,240 --> 00:53:21,160 they'll come to know you today. If you're here today, you don't 806 00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:24,720 know Christ and you'd like to become a Christian, see me after 807 00:53:24,720 --> 00:53:28,880 the service and I'll pray with you because the time is short. 808 00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:33,400 The end is coming. Judgement is about to fall on 809 00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:37,560 upon an ungodly world. There's going to be wars and 810 00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:43,200 rumours of of wars, nation against nation, but not the end 811 00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:44,080 just yet.