1 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:05,960 Welcome to the Liberty Baptist Sermon Archives. 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,040 The message you're about to hear was preached at Liberty Baptist 3 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:13,040 Church in Easton, MA. You can find out more about us 4 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:17,120 or contact us at mylibertybaptist.org or just 5 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:19,760 look us up on Facebook. And now we hope that this 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,000 message from God's word will be a blessing to you. 7 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:27,320 Let. Me ask you a question in the 8 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:31,040 solitary peace of your heart. Have you ever wondered this 9 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:33,960 question? When's Jesus coming back? 10 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:38,480 You know, I I mean, no, we, we, we, we understand theologically 11 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:42,080 that the Bible teaches us that Jesus is going to return. 12 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:44,720 Amen. That He is going to return for 13 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:47,960 believers in what the Bible calls the rapture or what we 14 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:51,480 call the rapture weather, but being caught up together in the 15 00:00:51,480 --> 00:00:54,440 air with Jesus and that seven years after that, after a 16 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:57,880 tribulation period, that Jesus is going to come back and to 17 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:00,920 rule and reign for 1000 years here on this earth. 18 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:03,960 That yes, Jesus is coming back for believers and then he is 19 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:07,760 going to have second coming. Listen, however you want to say 20 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:10,560 it, we can put it this way, Jesus is coming back. 21 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:11,960 But that's not what I asked, was it? 22 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:16,520 I said, do you ever wonder in the peace of your heart when 23 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:18,840 things are still? Yeah. 24 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,360 But is he coming back? And maybe it's something like 25 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:22,960 this. Why is he come back yet? 26 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:26,760 If you've asked yourself that question before, I would tell 27 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:28,760 you this. You are not unique. 28 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:32,120 First of all, you are not the first one in this building who's 29 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:33,360 probably ever thought that question. 30 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:36,360 In fact, the reaction I just received a few moments ago tells 31 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:38,360 me that you are not the first one who has ever thought that 32 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:40,360 question before. But you know, it's been a 33 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:43,720 question that's been pondered for about, well, 2000 years. 34 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:47,480 In fact, ever since he left, people been asking when's he 35 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:50,080 going to come back. In fact, he was ascending into 36 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:52,800 the clouds in Acts chapter 1. And they're they're looking, 37 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:56,400 they're saying, well, what now? When's he coming back? 38 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:00,160 And many believe that he would come back in their lifetime 39 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:03,280 after he ascended into heaven. And then he didn't. 40 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:06,440 And there were questions and it was kind of, well, messy. 41 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:11,920 So if you've ever wondered that here before, well, you're in 42 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:14,720 good company. But yet Peter here as we're 43 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:19,400 starting to get close to the end of these two epistles, first and 44 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:23,840 second Peter and Peter's now in the final chapter of the words 45 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,560 that he is left with us inspired by the Holy Ghost, meaning this, 46 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:29,520 we're reading the last chapter of the Bible that he has 47 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:31,920 written. And so there's some things that 48 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:33,240 he wants to get across to us and. 49 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:35,320 One of them. Has to do with this issue of 50 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:38,880 Jesus and his return. And according to what we learned 51 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:42,240 from the beginning of chapter 3, it's clear that the signs of 52 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:46,560 Christ's return are everywhere if you're willing to look in the 53 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,360 right place. The signs of Christ's return are 54 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:52,240 everywhere, but you got to be willing to look in the right 55 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:53,720 place. Would you stand, please, for the 56 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:56,480 reading of God's Word? We're in second Peter chapter #3 57 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:00,480 we're going to read 8 verses. I know that's a larger section 58 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:02,840 for us on a Sunday morning. We're used to going like 3 words 59 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:05,600 at a time, right? So 8 verses, that's like a large 60 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:07,400 chunk. And yes, that's a theological 61 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,440 word chunk, a large chunk of Scripture right here. 62 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:12,920 So let's read these first 8 verses together, shall we? 63 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:16,400 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you, and both 64 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:21,760 which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance, that you 65 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:24,880 may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the 66 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:29,480 holy prophets of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord 67 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:31,520 and Savior. Knowing this first, that there 68 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:34,840 shall come in the last days scoffers walking after their own 69 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:37,560 lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? 70 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,360 For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as 71 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:42,400 they were from the beginning of the creation. 72 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,800 For this day, willingly or ignorant of that by the Word of 73 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:48,520 God, the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of 74 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:53,160 the water and in the water, whereby the world that then was 75 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:55,160 being overflowed with water perished. 76 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:59,160 But the heavens and the earth, which are now by the same word 77 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,920 are kept in store, reserved under fire against the day of 78 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,040 judgment and perdition of ungodly men. 79 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:08,640 But beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing that one day is 80 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:13,600 with the Lord is 1000 years and 1000 years as one day. 81 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:18,279 You know, verse 8 tells us right off the bat that God's timetable 82 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:23,920 is not your timetable that when we think He should come back is 83 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:25,360 not necessarily when he's going to come back. 84 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:28,000 And so we're going to look more at this issue here in second 85 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,440 Peter chapter 3 by the grace of God this morning, why don't you 86 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:32,920 be seated as we pray together. The title of my message is this 87 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:38,120 don't worry, he's not late. Don't worry, he's not late. 88 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:40,560 Heavenly Father, I do pray that you be with us here this 89 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:42,640 morning. Help us to be able to be 90 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:45,800 encouraged by your word today. I, I just, I do feel just the 91 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:50,000 heaviness this morning of some who are here that are carrying 92 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:51,600 burdens. And I know that's true every 93 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:54,360 week, but. I do maybe sense that there's a 94 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:55,960 greater amount of that here today. 95 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:58,640 And so I just pray that there will be encouragement that comes 96 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:02,120 from your word for the fact that Jesus is coming back. 97 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:05,920 And Lord, may we. Believe light of heart, still 98 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:08,760 with the burdens of life, but yet lighter in our spirit 99 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:12,800 because of this wonderful truth. And we do ask it in Jesus name, 100 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:16,680 Amen. When someone gives their final 101 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,840 words, they're typically the closest words to their heart, 102 00:05:19,840 --> 00:05:21,240 aren't they? You know, that's why we use the 103 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:24,320 term last will and testament because someone is trying to get 104 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:27,720 across the last few items before they pass on. 105 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:29,760 For Moses, that was a whole book. 106 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:32,760 He retold the law in the book of Deuteronomy. 107 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:36,320 He wanted after 40 years, a new generation needed to know one 108 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:39,000 more time the difference between right and wrong. 109 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:41,760 And so that's why we have that retelling of the law in the book 110 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:46,640 of Deuteronomy for Joshua. To me, one of the greatest final 111 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:50,800 sermons or speeches in the Word of God, choose you this day whom 112 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,640 you will serve. He had seen Israel go back and 113 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:56,520 forth and back and forth, not just the 40 years in the desert, 114 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:59,520 but also during the campaign in the Promised Land as well. 115 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:01,640 And he had one last shot to talk to them. 116 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,240 And he says, choose this day whom you will serve, whether it 117 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:06,480 was the gods that your father served on the other side of the 118 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:08,960 flood or the gods of the Amorites and whose land you 119 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:10,400 dwell. But he says this. 120 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:14,920 But As for me, in my house, we will serve the Lord of Jesus 121 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:16,360 Christ. Of course, greatest of all, 122 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:18,920 because he is God. But what was the last thing that 123 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:21,520 he got across at the end of the Gospels, whether it was Matthew, 124 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:24,240 Mark, Luke, John, and even at the beginning of Acts, he gave 125 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:25,960 us the Great Commission. Why? 126 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:30,000 Because souls were always on his mind, because souls were the 127 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,240 reason that he came. Souls were the reason that he 128 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:36,640 bled and died and rose again so that we could be saved. 129 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:38,960 And so what's the last thing that we have recorded? 130 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:42,520 All the gospels, the first thing recorded at the end as he's 131 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:46,960 ascending into heaven. This souls matter and reach 132 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:50,040 souls of the gospel. Even Paul at second Timothy 133 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:55,400 chapter #4 he says this preach the word, be instant in season, 134 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:59,120 out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering. 135 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:01,040 And doctor, for Paul it was all about this. 136 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:03,320 You got to preach the word because that's what he did his 137 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:07,680 whole life, didn't he? So Peter is at the same junction 138 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:11,480 here in his life. He's in the final chapter. 139 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:13,960 Now, I don't imagine by the inspiration of the Spirit that 140 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:16,320 he knew this is the final chapter because remember, he 141 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:19,600 didn't write the letter and then say chapter 3, you know, he 142 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:21,120 didn't write that. He wasn't writing the verse 143 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:23,880 numbers in as he went along. We've supplied those later. 144 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:26,960 But I have to wonder because he had this insight of the Holy 145 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:30,240 Ghost that there was something upon his heart that he knew that 146 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:33,120 these were the last words that he would write inspired by the 147 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:37,000 Holy Spirit. And if Paul was, or rather Peter 148 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:41,040 was going to write something of that importance, knowing it's at 149 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:44,200 the end, I mean, what would you think Peter would write about? 150 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:46,640 Maybe about, like, not putting your foot in your mouth. 151 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:48,560 That might be a good thing for Peter to talk about. 152 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,200 You know, don't get in a sword fight because you might cut off 153 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:52,480 someone's ear. You know, that might be 154 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:58,120 something he would talk about. But instead he talks about the 155 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:01,280 end times. In fact, he addresses this issue 156 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:05,160 about some who are scoffing about the fact whether Jesus 157 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:08,280 would come back or not. So it begs the question, why 158 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:10,400 would he do this? Why would this be the converse? 159 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:14,440 Why would he commit these last words to the subject? 160 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:16,680 And if it was important enough for him, it ought to be 161 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,480 important enough for us to kind of figure out why that would be. 162 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:21,280 Well, I think there's several reasons. 163 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:23,800 I think first of all, it was already becoming a point of 164 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:26,200 contention. The fact that Peter and Paul 165 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:29,440 both had to, in several epistles, address this issue of 166 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:32,440 the return of Christ tells me that it had already become a 167 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:35,760 point of contention among believers about when Jesus 168 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:40,159 Christ would be coming back. Well, people were discouraged, I 169 00:08:40,159 --> 00:08:42,280 imagine as well, not only because of the fact he hadn't 170 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:45,880 come back yet, but because it seemed like the gloom of the 171 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:49,840 Roman Empire was overshadowing much of what they were doing. 172 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:52,720 Remember, we're talking about the Emperor Nero, and you don't 173 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:56,280 have to know a lot about history to know that Nero was a very bad 174 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:59,400 dude, and he was a man who had no regard for Christians. 175 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,440 In fact, history tells us that he had the greatest of the 176 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:06,120 persecutions of Christians up to that point, that he turned 177 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:09,560 Christians into martyrs, that it was said that Rome was lit by 178 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:12,560 the light of Christians who burned, slicked with oil and 179 00:09:12,560 --> 00:09:16,520 burned on posts, that Nero did that and called it amusement and 180 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:20,040 sport. And so Christians are seeing 181 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:23,040 this, and perhaps they're getting discouraged. 182 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,680 Why hasn't Jesus come back? Why doesn't he save us from 183 00:09:26,680 --> 00:09:29,160 this? One historian said the early 184 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:32,120 Christians lived in a world where hope was in short supply. 185 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:35,560 The Roman Empire's oppression with its political and economic 186 00:09:35,560 --> 00:09:40,320 pressures made many feel that God's promises were delayed and 187 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:43,000 had on top of that, not just the contention and perhaps even the 188 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:47,080 fact that there was this gloom over spreading because of the 189 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:49,000 Roman Empire. You had to the fact that there 190 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,680 were some that were a little confused their theology and some 191 00:09:51,680 --> 00:09:55,480 were wondering if Jesus had come back already, or maybe if he'd 192 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:59,040 come back and they missed it. 2nd Thessalonians talks about 193 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:03,040 that in verses #1 and 2 of chapter 2, where it says, Now we 194 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:06,400 beseech you brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, 195 00:10:06,680 --> 00:10:10,120 by our gathering together unto him, that she be not soon shaken 196 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:13,600 in mind or be troubled, neither by spirit nor by word nor by 197 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:17,800 letter is from us as that the day of Christ is at hand. 198 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:20,160 You see, some of them thought the day had come or that it 199 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:22,440 already passed. He says don't be troubled. 200 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:26,120 I want to encourage you, I want to write to you about this issue 201 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:28,240 of Jesus Christ and his appearing. 202 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:31,600 So these are questions that were being asked 2000 years ago. 203 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:34,160 But here's the thing, we're still asking the questions 204 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:36,400 today. Those questions have not 205 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:39,240 dissipated over time. No, no, they've only amplified 206 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:43,200 over time, haven't they? Because it's been 2000 years and 207 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:45,760 he hasn't come back yet. And people are still asking the 208 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:51,760 question, where is Jesus? Now, The, there's some issues I 209 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:55,480 think that are presented here in second Peter chapter #3 that 210 00:10:55,480 --> 00:11:00,720 will help us in our understanding of those who mock 211 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:02,680 the fact that Jesus has not returned. 212 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:07,880 But then also the fact of where we can look for the signs that 213 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:10,680 Jesus Christ will return. And so the first thing I want 214 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:13,480 you to see this morning is this, that really when it comes down 215 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:16,880 to this issue of where is Jesus? Number one, this is an issue 216 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:19,720 about the scoffers. This is an issue about the 217 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:21,960 scoffers. There were a whole lot of 218 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:26,480 scoffers that laughed at the idea of Jesus Christ return. 219 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:30,120 Go back to verses #3 and four. It says this knowing this first, 220 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:34,120 that there shall come in the last days, scoffers walking 221 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:37,200 after their own lusts and saying, where is the promise of 222 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:39,400 his coming? For since the fathers fell 223 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:43,000 asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of 224 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,640 the creation. In their mind, the best way to 225 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:49,400 minimize Christianity was to mock the return of Christ. 226 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:53,240 They they wanted to make little of Christianity and the best way 227 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:55,200 to do so was to make little of Christ. 228 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:57,360 Well, where is he? He said he was going to come 229 00:11:57,360 --> 00:11:59,360 back and he hasn't come back yet. 230 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:02,680 And may I remind you that we're looking at probably a about 40 231 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:05,760 years after Jesus Christ ascended into heaven. 232 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:08,440 We're not talking about a very long period of time, but the 233 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:11,360 scoffers are already out. And by the way, scoffers always 234 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:14,480 find a way, don't they? They're everywhere in all walks 235 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:17,240 of life, don't they? They, They're everywhere like 236 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:19,120 leeches. They seem to find a way to suck 237 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:21,360 the joy and suck the life out of things. 238 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:24,160 And here's these, these scoffers, these leeches that are 239 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:26,000 saying what? Well, where is he? 240 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:29,200 We're looking for him. And are they really looking for 241 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:30,440 him? No, they're just trying to make 242 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:33,720 light of the fact that he has not returned. 243 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:38,000 Jude verse 18 says how that they told you there should be mockers 244 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:42,560 in the last time who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. 245 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:46,000 Now let's be clear that those people who are asking those 246 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,200 questions, those scoffers that are mocking the fact that Jesus 247 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:51,640 hasn't returned, they're still out there today. 248 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:56,640 Different names, different faces, same exact message. 249 00:12:57,080 --> 00:13:00,080 For instance, there's a professor at the University of 250 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:03,040 North Carolina, the Department of Religious Studies, his name 251 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:05,480 is Bart Ehrman, and he said this. 252 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:08,920 The failure of Jesus to return and the failure of the Kingdom 253 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:12,280 to appear seems to have been the crisis that define Christianity 254 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:16,240 and made of it what it is today, what it was forced to become if 255 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:22,960 it was going to survive at all. Patrick Yuga, the author of 256 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:25,120 indisputable evidence that Jesus is not coming back. 257 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:29,160 But what a title for a book. Indisputable evidence that Jesus 258 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:31,640 is not coming back. He said this, that Jesus Christ 259 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:34,200 is not coming back and the world is not ending have been 260 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:36,760 discussed by some leading Christian scholars as far back 261 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:39,640 as 50 years ago. At least I'm thinking 50 years 262 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:40,560 ago. Where are you getting your 263 00:13:40,560 --> 00:13:43,440 information from? Because it seems like we've got 264 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:46,880 that whole issue right here. But he goes on and says this. 265 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:50,040 What is baffling is why pastors and preachers of today still 266 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:53,800 claim the world will end in spite of overwhelming evidence 267 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:55,800 in the Bible that it shows otherwise. 268 00:13:57,280 --> 00:14:00,240 The atheist Christopher Hitchens, who wrote the book God 269 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:03,960 Is Not Great, said the belief that Jesus will come back soon 270 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:06,480 as a delusion that has kept Christians waiting for two 271 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:10,600 millennia with nothing to show but endless deferrals and 272 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:13,520 rationalizations. Another atheist, Richard 273 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:16,960 Dawkins, the book that God Delusions, says the promise of 274 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:20,560 Jesus's imminent return has been dangled before believers for 275 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:24,400 2000 years, a carrot that never materializes. 276 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:30,040 Voltaire, the famous French philosopher from the 1800s, said 277 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:33,480 the Christians have been waiting for their return or for their 278 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:37,400 Messiah to return for centuries, yet the heavens remain silent. 279 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:42,520 What is all this but a hope built on air? 280 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:47,560 But I will say Voltaire brings up an interesting point. 281 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:52,840 These scoffers point to the lack of Christ's appearing as proof 282 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:56,680 positive that He won't appear. What is their evidence that He 283 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:59,120 won't appear? It's just this He hasn't 284 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:02,400 appeared yet. And this is a line of thinking 285 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:07,160 that again is not unique to these so-called scholars that 286 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:10,160 would mock the fact that God is not real. 287 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:14,440 No, go back to verse #4 it says and saying, where's the promise 288 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:16,760 of His coming? For since the fathers fell 289 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:20,520 asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of 290 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:24,400 creation. The idea here is that, well, 291 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:26,920 well, there has been this conversation, there has been 292 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:30,360 this talk all the way back into the Old Testament, the fathers. 293 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:33,240 So all of those who existed before that, they had this 294 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:35,840 promise that there was going to be this day of the Lord. 295 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:39,200 And, and this is spoken of quite a bit in the Old Testament, that 296 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,800 there would be a day of the Lord where there would be judgement. 297 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:46,000 Joel 314 and 15 says Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of 298 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,440 decision. For the day of the Lord is near. 299 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:51,040 In the valley of decision the sun and the moon shall be 300 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:53,520 darkened, the stars shall withdraw their signing. 301 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:58,000 Malachi chapter 4, verse one. For behold, the day cometh that 302 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,760 shall burn is an oven, and all the proud, all that do wickedly 303 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:05,040 shall be stubble, and the day that cometh shall burn them up. 304 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:08,440 Say at the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root 305 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:11,640 nor branch. Daniel chapter 12, verses one 306 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:13,800 and two. And at that time shall Michael 307 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:17,200 stand up, the great Prince which standeth for the children of thy 308 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:18,960 people. And there shall be a time of 309 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:22,920 trouble such as never was, since there was a nation even to that 310 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:25,600 same time. And at that time thy people 311 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:27,840 shall be delivered. Everyone that shall be found 312 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:30,600 written in the book, and many of them that sleep in the dust of 313 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:33,800 the earth, shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to 314 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:37,880 everlasting shame and contempt. You know, here's what the 315 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:41,520 scoffers are saying here in verse #4 they said these old 316 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:44,600 timers, if you will, these ones who lived in the Old Testament, 317 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:46,720 they were preaching and prophesying. 318 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:48,720 There would be this great judgement and there would be a 319 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:51,320 day of the Lord and all of these things would happen. 320 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:54,680 But they are dead. They were gone, and life goes 321 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:56,480 on. And the rhythm of life has been 322 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:59,240 the same for decades and for centuries. 323 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:03,240 People come and people go. Kingdoms come and kingdoms go, 324 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:08,680 people and times and eons or rather ages seem to just and 325 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:11,440 continue over and over in this never ending cycle. 326 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:16,480 And in all of this, nothing that was said has taken place and so 327 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:19,000 they say. So why should we believe? 328 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:23,800 That Jesus is coming back. And that may be an. 329 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:26,040 Old. Argument but it's really just 330 00:17:26,599 --> 00:17:32,160 been reskinned and represented now 2000 years later of people 331 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:35,160 saying this Jesus is coming back. 332 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:38,280 Oh, you must be so simple minded. 333 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:43,320 Jesus is coming back. Oh, your church has you fooled 334 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:47,120 Jesus coming back. Oh, that's that's just organized 335 00:17:47,120 --> 00:17:48,960 religion trying to keep you down. 336 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:54,800 And they laugh and they mock and I think that we're crazy for 337 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:59,000 believing in Jesus at all, let alone that he would come back. 338 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:02,520 Now, why do they go to such great lengths to discredit 339 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:06,040 Jesus? Why do they go to such great 340 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:10,200 lengths to prove that which they don't believe in the 1st place? 341 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:13,800 Listen, if you don't believe in something, then why would you go 342 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:16,120 to such great lengths to try to convince other people not to 343 00:18:16,120 --> 00:18:19,960 believe in it? But it's not just about them not 344 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:22,040 believing, it's about making sure that other people don't 345 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:25,040 believe either. But I think the answer is at the 346 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:27,280 end of verse #3 let's read the whole verse again. 347 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:30,480 But notice the last phrase. Knowing this first, that there 348 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:33,320 shall come in the last day scoffers walking after. 349 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:35,760 What are those last three words? Their own lusts. 350 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:39,560 What do these scoffers do? They, these Christ deniers, 351 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:43,360 worship their own lusts instead of worshipping the King of 352 00:18:43,360 --> 00:18:45,560 Kings. And as such, they have to find a 353 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:49,120 way to make Christ irrelevant, and making a mockery of his 354 00:18:49,120 --> 00:18:51,520 return is their attempt to do so. 355 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:54,360 Where is this Jesus? Listen, they want nothing to do 356 00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:57,880 with Jesus, and so they want to remove any type of a thought of 357 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:00,440 accountability from their own life, and perhaps any type of 358 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,520 guilt within their own life. And So what do they do? 359 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:06,560 They try to unlock others who believe that Jesus Christ is 360 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:07,320 they come. Why? 361 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:09,400 Because they don't worship the King of kings. 362 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:13,080 They worship their own lusts. They worship what they see and 363 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:17,240 what they feel, not worshiping the one who cannot be seen and 364 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:20,600 cannot be felt in this life. Because, listen, that's faith. 365 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:24,680 Faith is the subjects of things hoped for, the evidence of 366 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:28,760 things not seen. We do not see yet we believe. 367 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:35,120 They do not see, so they scoff. So these scoffers ask the 368 00:19:35,120 --> 00:19:36,080 question. Where is he? 369 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:39,400 Is he ever going to come? Is he delayed? 370 00:19:41,120 --> 00:19:43,280 Is is he he just going to come later? 371 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:45,360 Or are you just, have you been a hoodwinked? 372 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:51,000 But remember, the issue is this. The signs of Christ's return are 373 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:54,000 everywhere if you're willing to look in the right place. 374 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:58,840 And I think this is where it's so vitally important that we can 375 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:02,800 be encouraged this morning, even though he hasn't come back yet. 376 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:05,240 If we look for the answers in the right place. 377 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:08,240 And where is the answers found? Well, Pastor, you got to look at 378 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:11,160 the signs out around us. And I will say that there are 379 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:14,720 certain things in the world that give us pause to realize that 380 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:18,080 Jesus could be coming back soon because, well, the world's not 381 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:20,840 getting better and better. It's getting worse and worse, 382 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:22,000 isn't it? That was prophesied. 383 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,680 We were told that that was going to happen in these last days, 384 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:28,760 that perilous times would come. Of course we were told that, but 385 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:32,560 we're not believing that Jesus Christ is coming just because we 386 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:34,680 see certain signs that are out there. 387 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,280 See, the issue is not about the scoffers. 388 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:40,480 The issue is really about the scriptures. 389 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:43,840 How do we know that Jesus Christ is coming back? 390 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:48,400 Because the Bible tells us so. It's really an issue of the 391 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:50,960 Scriptures. Go back to verse #1 it says 392 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:55,480 this. It says this second epistle, 393 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:59,360 beloved, I now write unto you in both, which I stir up your pure 394 00:20:59,360 --> 00:21:02,640 mind by way of remembrance. Now this idea of remembrance, 395 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:04,640 Peter talks about it a lot in second. 396 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:08,600 Peter mentions it in chapter 1, verses 12 and 13 and 15. 397 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:11,160 It's mentioned again here in chapter #3 You know, there's 398 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,280 just sometimes we need to be reminded about things. 399 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:17,600 Hey fellas, your wife ever need to remind you about something? 400 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:21,000 Don't answer that because she's probably sitting right next to 401 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,400 you. All right, but mind just looking 402 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:24,000 at me right now, Wonder why I'm going to say next. 403 00:21:24,360 --> 00:21:26,680 But sometimes we need a reminder, don't we? 404 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,440 Well, I, I thought you knew that already. 405 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:31,840 Well, why would you think that? I've forgotten a whole bunch of 406 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:33,200 other stuff I couldn't even remember. 407 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,680 I was holding the clicker this morning for the Sunday school. 408 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,240 We need to be reminded. Of some things, well. 409 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:41,520 When's Jesus coming back? Well. 410 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:43,080 There's some things we need to be reminded of. 411 00:21:44,120 --> 00:21:46,040 We need to be stirred up about it a little bit. 412 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:49,480 Look at verse #2 that ye may be mindful of the words which were 413 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:53,320 spoken by the holy Prophets, and of the commandment of us, the 414 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:55,280 apostles. Of the Lord. 415 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,600 And Savior, what do we need to be reminded of? 416 00:21:58,000 --> 00:21:59,960 Do we need to be reminded of the scoffers? 417 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:01,560 No. Do we need to be reminded of the 418 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:02,520 signs? No. 419 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:03,920 What do we need to be reminded of? 420 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,960 What the Scriptures say, in fact, the way it's presented by 421 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:10,320 the prophets and by the apostles. 422 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:12,800 So what does that mean? He says, Peter says, I got to 423 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:16,440 remind you some things that were said in the Old Testament as we 424 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:18,440 would say it today. And I want to remind you some 425 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:20,840 things that are being said in the New Testament. 426 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:22,960 That's the way we would say it today. 427 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:24,840 They wouldn't have called them the Old and New Testaments, but 428 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,440 but we do. And so Peter says this. 429 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,360 You want to, you have some questions about this issue. 430 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:32,440 You have some wonderances about when Jesus is going to return. 431 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:34,600 You want to find the answers to this. 432 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:37,600 You want to know more, not the answers in the sense of a date 433 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:39,400 and a time, because. No man knoweth. 434 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:41,440 The day of the hour, listen, if there's a pastor that tells you 435 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:46,880 he knows when Jesus is coming back, run and don't stop because 436 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:52,880 that's false teaching. But how do we know that he's 437 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,320 coming back? The Bible tells us so. 438 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,120 So that's really simple. Yeah. 439 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:00,520 We're the ones that make it complicated. 440 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:05,680 You know, children sing songs about, you know, Jesus loves me. 441 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:07,560 This I know. For the Bible tells me so. 442 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,560 And they just accept that Jesus is coming. 443 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:15,800 Back for the Bible tells me so now go back to verse #5 says 444 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,760 this for they willingly or ignorant of that by the what's 445 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:20,960 what's that next phrase, the word of God. 446 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,760 The heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water, 447 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:28,400 and in the water whereby the world that then was being 448 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,400 overturned with water perished, and the heavens and the earth 449 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:36,000 which are now by the same word, are kept in store, reserved unto 450 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,960 the fire of the day of judgement and perdition of ungodly men. 451 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,600 By the Word of God, the world was created. 452 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:45,960 By the Word of God, the universe was created. 453 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,800 By the way, This is why it's so important that we believe in a 454 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:53,240 literal creation, a literal 6 day creation without any type of 455 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,520 evolutionary theology whatsoever. 456 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:56,920 Why? Because this is what the Bible 457 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,560 teaches us. It's the very foundation, it's 458 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:01,560 very underpinning of that which we believe. 459 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:04,760 Throughout the rest of the Bible, the creation affirmed by 460 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:08,240 none other than Jesus Christ. We can't just wash that away. 461 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,920 If Jesus Christ was mistaken about creation, then he was 462 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:16,960 mistaken about everything. He couldn't be a savior if he 463 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,480 couldn't understand something so fundamental as creation. 464 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:21,880 But he understood something so fundamental about creation 465 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,880 because he wasn't there. Creation was created. 466 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:30,200 He was one of the creators because before creation was, God 467 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,040 was. So when did God get created? 468 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:33,760 He didn't. How long has he been around? 469 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:38,120 He has been for how long, right, He said. 470 00:24:38,120 --> 00:24:39,560 What kind of answer is that? I don't know. 471 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:44,720 It just is what the Bible says. He has been and has always been 472 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,760 a pre-existing God who needed no creator. 473 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:51,360 So we see all of that and it says this. 474 00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:53,160 But be ignorant. Don't be ignorant of this one 475 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,840 thing. Day with the Lord is like 1000 476 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:59,080 years. Thousand years is 1 day. 477 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:07,160 What's time to God? I'm not saying time's not real, 478 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:11,960 but time is as created as everything else that we see and 479 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:15,680 we don't see. So this to God, what's a few 480 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,200 thousand years? Nothing. 481 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:22,000 Thousand years is 1 day. A day is like 1000 years. 482 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,360 That God's timeline, if you will, is not our timeline. 483 00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:30,280 Can I remind you that one of the reasons you're saved because 484 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:35,880 Jesus hadn't come back yet. If he'd come back in the year 485 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:41,160 1900, most of us know all of us wouldn't be here. 486 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:47,120 Wouldn't even exist it even the fact that Jesus has tarried his 487 00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:51,200 return is an act of benevolence that more would be able to come 488 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,360 to him in salvation, including you and including me. 489 00:25:54,360 --> 00:25:57,080 Because if he came back in the year 1500, we wouldn't even have 490 00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:01,800 been. But in his wisdom and his grand 491 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:05,800 plan of which I don't understand, but if I can even 492 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,200 just grasp the hem of the garment of his plan, which I 493 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:09,320 don't even know if I can do that. 494 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:13,600 But according to his word, it's only by his grace and mercy that 495 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:19,240 we are here and that we can be saved Days like 1000 years, 496 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,480 1000. He's not here yet. 497 00:26:22,360 --> 00:26:28,840 You think that means he's late. Of course not the signs of. 498 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,720 Christ's return are everywhere if you're willing to look in the 499 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:33,880 right place. You won't find them, though, in 500 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:37,040 the scoffers taunts and the false prophets lies, the 501 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,280 skeptics doubts or the ignorant denials. 502 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:43,320 You won't find them from the atheist, the agnostic, from the 503 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:47,320 liberal Christian who denies the accuracy and inerrancy of the 504 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:49,400 scriptures. You know, from the preachers who 505 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,320 have their eschatology wrong. And eschatology just means this, 506 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,960 the study of the end times. And yes, what we believe about 507 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:58,040 the end times matters. Now you might think, well, who 508 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:00,400 cares what happens the end times because I won't be around. 509 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,160 Well, because what you believe about the end times determines 510 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,120 how you will live your life and act in this life right now. 511 00:27:06,120 --> 00:27:07,760 So yes, it does matter quite a bit. 512 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,640 So what does the Bible say about the return of Christ? 513 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,920 Well, the Bible says that there will be a pre tribulational 514 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:18,560 rapture, meaning this. That before Jesus Christ, before 515 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:21,120 the seven-year period of judgement unfolds that we find 516 00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:23,920 in the Book of Revelation that Jesus Christ is going to come 517 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,680 back for his own. That that we were going to meet 518 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,160 the Lord in the air. And the Bible says that forever 519 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:32,160 we will be with the Lord. The dead in Christ shall rise 520 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,400 first. And then those will follow after 521 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:38,000 that are still alive and remain. There'll be a premillennial 522 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,560 return of Christ that at the end of that seven-year period that 523 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:45,320 Jesus will actually touchdown here on earth and that he will 524 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:48,960 walk into Jerusalem. And, and that as he does so that 525 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:50,520 he will set up his earthly Kingdom. 526 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,440 That that same earthly Kingdom that the were expecting him to 527 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,720 set up during his earthly ministry. 528 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,160 And during those those three-year period where he was 529 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,720 teaching and preaching that he will come back and he will set 530 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:02,960 that up. But yes, it hasn't happened yet, 531 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:04,880 but that doesn't mean it's not going to happen. 532 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:10,760 It's still future. The pre tribulational view holds 533 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,400 that believers will be raptured as it says caught up in First 534 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,120 Thessalonians to meet Christ before the seven-year 535 00:28:16,120 --> 00:28:18,920 tribulation begins. Believers are spared from the 536 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,960 wrath and judgment that will come upon the earth during this 537 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,680 period. After the rapture, the 538 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,600 tribulation unfolds, followed by Christ's second coming and the 539 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:29,560 establishment of His millennial reign. 540 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,360 Then after that, as it says here, that there will be a 541 00:28:32,360 --> 00:28:37,320 judgment not just upon this world, but upon the inhabitants 542 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:40,760 of this world as well, that there'll be a great white throne 543 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:44,000 judgment that those who have never accepted Jesus Christ 544 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,560 their Savior will have to answer for their deeds in this life. 545 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,600 And the Bible says that there will be a reckoning that takes 546 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,920 place and that those who have rejected Christ will have to 547 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:56,200 save themselves to their own merit and to their own works. 548 00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:58,720 And the books of their life will be opened. 549 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,720 The record, the accounting of their life will be opened. 550 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,960 And if there's found just one sin inside, and they would be 551 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:07,840 damned for all eternity in the lake of fire. 552 00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:10,280 Why? Because they've rejected the 553 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:14,360 free gift of salvation. Say what God would. 554 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,240 Send. Somebody there, Well, God sends 555 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:20,960 no one there that people choose to be able to with reject the 556 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,320 love of Jesus Christ. No, the Bible says that Jesus 557 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:27,080 Christ came to save sinners. The Bible says that Jesus Christ 558 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,920 came to seek and to save. That which was lost, that that 559 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:33,880 was his desire. But yet there are many who say 560 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,960 no to the love of God and that they He will not force his love 561 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:41,000 upon anyone. Forced love isn't really love, 562 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,440 is it? You know, our son loves his 563 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,640 cats, Callie and Toby. Anybody heard of those cats? 564 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,400 It's amazing that he'll go up to one of them and he will just 565 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,360 grab it and. Squeeze that cat. 566 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:57,080 And Callie is very mild mannered and you will just take it for at 567 00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,680 least a minute and then run away and Toby will try to bat him in 568 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:04,080 the face. You know why? 569 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:10,160 Because he can't force his love upon those cats now, How much 570 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:14,360 more so with the things that really matter in this life? 571 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,040 How good would God be? You know how? 572 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,960 Righteous would he be if he forced us to love Him? 573 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:25,040 Forced love isn't really love, is it? 574 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:31,240 No, God gave us his very best. What's his best? 575 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:37,560 Jesus Christ, who's coming back. And he gave us his very best for 576 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:42,720 this purpose so that we could accept that love, recognizing 577 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,600 that we're a Sinner and that only Jesus Christ can save us, 578 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:50,120 and that his love was shed upon the cross in the form of his 579 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:53,040 blood, and that through him we might be saved. 580 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,640 You know, Christ is going to return. 581 00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:02,200 His return is imminent. Say, pastor, today it could be 582 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,200 today. We could be on the next load. 583 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,320 I might not have to worry about grilling out after church or if 584 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:07,800 it's raining outside because we could be going. 585 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,200 But listen, we say he's coming anytime, but we don't. 586 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:14,240 Believe he's coming anytime? Well, that got really quiet. 587 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,680 All right, listen, do we really believe that he's coming 588 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:21,920 anytime? I mean, theologically, I think 589 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:26,160 we believe it, but in practicality, we don't live like 590 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:29,600 it because when you know someone's coming back, it 591 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,920 changes the way you act. When my wife goes away, let me 592 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:37,040 tell you, the way our house is, the way our house looks, where 593 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:41,000 our house is cleaned or not cleaned is different. 594 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,520 We'll put it that way. But when I know she's coming 595 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:49,720 back, revival breaks out within the four walls of our apartment. 596 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:53,640 Soap comes out, the the the the mop comes out. 597 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:57,440 The broom comes out all of a sudden, cobwebs are swept away. 598 00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,120 Things are made new again. Why? 599 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,240 Because I know she's coming back, but I don't want to 600 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:07,000 disappoint her. Oh really? 601 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:09,800 Been gone for a week and this is what it looks like now. 602 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:11,800 She. Wouldn't say that, but she's not 603 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,720 going to say it because I know she's coming and it changes the 604 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:17,160 way I act. If I would. 605 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:21,560 Submit to you that if we knew that Christ was coming back in 606 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,760 the sense that he could come anytime we don't know the date 607 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:27,000 or the hour that's again that's it's unbiblical for anyone to 608 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:31,000 try to preach that they do. But if we believed he could come 609 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:35,400 back today it would change how we clean say what pass like the 610 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:39,080 cleaning schedule our house. No, no, how we keep ourselves 611 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:43,480 clean our souls. We'll keep short accounts. 612 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:47,000 His return is imminent, and this is what I mean by that. 613 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:53,040 The next event on God's calendar is the rapture. 614 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:55,840 Say, pastor. What needs to be fulfilled for 615 00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:57,360 that to happen? Nothing. 616 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,480 It's next. It could happen at any moment. 617 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:03,720 The Bible teaches that very clearly. 618 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,840 Titus chapter 2, verse 13. Looking for that blessed hope 619 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,640 and the glorious appearing of our great God and our Savior 620 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,720 Jesus Christ. First Thessalonians 413 through 621 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:14,880 18. I don't have time to read it 622 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,840 all, but it talks about that fact that we're going to be able 623 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,440 to be raptured up to meet Him in the clouds. 624 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,800 And then it ends with this. Wherefore comfort one another 625 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:27,440 with these words. There's not one bit of prophecy 626 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,720 that must be fulfilled for Christ to return. 627 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:34,000 This is the next. Event And may I remind you, 628 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:39,200 God's time's not our time. Verse #8 It could happen any 629 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:41,440 second. Well, I don't know if I want it 630 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:42,760 to happen yet. There's a lot of things I want 631 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:43,680 to do. Hold on a second. 632 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,640 I can't imagine anyone being in the presence of Jesus saying, 633 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:53,920 but I wanted more time. When we see Him for who He is 634 00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:59,840 and we realize that we're in His presence, all the things of this 635 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:05,360 earth will fade away. He is coming back, the scoffers 636 00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:10,239 say when, but the Scriptures say He is. 637 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,960 The issue is not when. The issue is He will. 638 00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:19,199 And in fact, according to God's timetable, he's not late. 639 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,520 He's right on time. Even when God's late, He is on 640 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,639 time. Say, well, that sounds like an 641 00:34:26,639 --> 00:34:28,840 oxymoron. Well, you remember when Jesus 642 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:33,520 was supposed to go heal Lazarus and he waited four days and 643 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,480 Lazarus died. He may have been four days late, 644 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,360 but he was on time. Why? 645 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:44,159 Because the miracle of him resurrecting Lazarus was what 646 00:34:44,159 --> 00:34:47,880 was needed for the hour. Is he when? 647 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,440 When, When God does things, He doesn't consult with what you 648 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,560 think the right time should be or what I think the right time 649 00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:55,719 should be. It's all about this. 650 00:34:56,040 --> 00:35:00,240 God's time is on his time, so he's not late. 651 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:03,800 The signs of His return are everywhere, but you just got to 652 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:04,960 be willing to look at the right place. 653 00:35:07,240 --> 00:35:10,640 I will ask you this today as we get ready to close. 654 00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,240 The fact that He could come at any moment does beg a few 655 00:35:15,240 --> 00:35:18,840 questions, and the first one is this. 656 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,760 If He was to come today, where would you spend eternity? 657 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,040 The Bible says there's only two places where one can spend 658 00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,440 eternity. Purgatory is not an option. 659 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,520 The Bible does not speak of purgatory in one iota. 660 00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,720 There's only two places where people could spend eternity, 661 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:39,800 heaven or the lake of fire. Bible says the lake of fire was 662 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:41,640 prepared for the devil and for his angels. 663 00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:45,200 That was its preparation. But yet there are some who will 664 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,800 willingly choose to spend the eternity there instead of 665 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:53,800 accepting the gospel message. If he was to come back today, do 666 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:55,080 you know you'd spend an eternity with him? 667 00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,800 The blessed news about all of that is you don't have to jump 668 00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,480 through hoops to be saved. You don't have to do enough good 669 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,560 works. You don't have to put enough in 670 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,000 the offering plate. You don't have to do well. 671 00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:11,080 You don't have to do anything other than accept the gift 672 00:36:11,720 --> 00:36:14,600 because the work was already done and the work was done by 673 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,320 Jesus Christ. That gift is being held out to 674 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:19,640 you today. All you have to do is to be able 675 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:23,920 to receive it. Will you receive the free gift 676 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,400 of salvation today knowing that you can't save yourself from 677 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,320 your sins, but only Jesus Christ can save you? 678 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,920 You need a Savior today. His name is Jesus. 679 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:34,840 There is no another that can save you. 680 00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,080 There is no other thought process that can save you. 681 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:38,920 There is no other philosophy that can save you. 682 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:41,360 There is no other God who can save you. 683 00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:46,520 It is Christ, and Christ alone say well. 684 00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:48,920 You mentioned that, that, that tribulation period that there's 685 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,520 going to be 7 years and, and I'll tell you this. 686 00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,480 If the Christians all disappear, I'll believe after that. 687 00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:59,320 And my answer is this. You probably won't. 2nd 688 00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:03,120 Thessalonians 2 verses 11 through 12 say this, and for 689 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,640 this, 'cause God shall send them a strong delusion that they 690 00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,760 should believe a lie, that they all might be damned who believe 691 00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:12,400 not the truth, but had pleasure and unrighteousness, say, Well, 692 00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,640 if I saw that. How could I believe? 693 00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:17,400 Anything else? Well, because the Holy Spirit's 694 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,240 ministry will change during the Tribulation period. 695 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,240 It's not that the Holy Spirit will be removed because, well, 696 00:37:23,240 --> 00:37:27,120 God will not remove himself from His creation, but His ministry 697 00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:31,240 will be different and there will be such a strong delusion from 698 00:37:31,240 --> 00:37:34,480 the Antichrist that people will be so afraid that they will 699 00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:38,080 gravitate to Him and they will put all reason off to the side. 700 00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,920 What I'm saying is this, don't wait for something else. 701 00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:46,640 Accept the gift of salvation today. 702 00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,720 But I'd ask you this, if you're a believer today, if Christ 703 00:37:51,720 --> 00:37:54,800 returned, would you be ready? Would you still need to do a 704 00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:58,560 clean up on aisle 5? Would there be some things that 705 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,400 you would wish that you had gotten right before He came? 706 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:04,640 Now listen, we're all in the process of our growth as 707 00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:07,520 Christians, aren't we? You haven't arrived till you're 708 00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:09,560 with him. And if you think you arrived, 709 00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:11,040 you're farther away than you thought you were. 710 00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:16,280 But I will say this. If he came back today, would you 711 00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:20,360 say I wished that I'd gotten this right before I met him? 712 00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:24,760 I wish that I confessed my sin before him. 713 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:28,600 I wish not for salvation, but the idea that I my relationship 714 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,760 isn't right with him because I've held on to these things I 715 00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:37,160 know I shouldn't hold on to. When I meet him, I I want to be 716 00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:40,640 ready. I sure don't want the last few 717 00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:42,680 words that's come out of my mouth to be curse words. 718 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,080 I don't want him to find me watching a television show I 719 00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:51,200 shouldn't be watching. I don't want him to find me 720 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,120 looking at things on my phone I ought not to be looking at. 721 00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,560 I don't want him to find me being lost in my own thoughts 722 00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:02,080 and fantasizing about things I ought not to be thinking about. 723 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,760 I don't want him to find me away from him. 724 00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:14,240 I want it to just be. My mind and my heart is already 725 00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,000 wanting to follow him. And there he is. 726 00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:19,560 And the fellowship will be sweet. 727 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,880 Titus 211 through 13 says, For the grace of God that brings 728 00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,880 salvation at the period unto all men, teaching us that denying 729 00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,560 ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, 730 00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:33,360 righteously, and godly in this present world, looking for that 731 00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:37,000 blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and 732 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:41,280 our Savior Jesus Christ. First John 228 and now little 733 00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:44,880 children abide in him, that when He shall appear we may have 734 00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:47,800 confidence, and not be ashamed before Him. 735 00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:50,840 At his coming, you know, this isn't just my conjecture about 736 00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,360 these things. The word of God says you want to 737 00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:56,280 be ready. You want to be ready. 738 00:39:58,240 --> 00:39:59,800 You say, well, I'm still going to heaven. 739 00:39:59,960 --> 00:40:03,560 Well, that's your attitude when you see Jesus, shouldn't it be? 740 00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:06,400 I want to be ready to meet my Savior. 741 00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:11,080 I want my heart to be right. And by the way, that hope, it 742 00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:13,320 says, purifies us even as we are pure. 743 00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:16,400 The idea meaning this, that that hope looking forward, that he 744 00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:19,360 could be coming soon means this. That we're better Christians in 745 00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:21,960 the here and now. That we're better husbands. 746 00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:24,200 That you're a better wife. That you're a better parent. 747 00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:25,480 That you're a better grandparent. 748 00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:26,800 That you're a better church member. 749 00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,240 That you're a better boss. That you're a better employee. 750 00:40:29,240 --> 00:40:31,960 That you're a better student. That you're a better teacher, no 751 00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:34,400 matter what you are. That that hope makes you live 752 00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:37,800 this life in the way that God wants you to live because you're 753 00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:39,520 looking forward to the life to come. 754 00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,360 You see, being heavenly minded actually makes you more. 755 00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:47,920 Earthly good because it allows you to live life in the way that 756 00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:51,840 God desires you to live. I just read a book, finished it 757 00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,960 just a few days ago, about Stonewall Jackson, great 758 00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:57,800 Confederate general. And one of the things I found 759 00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:01,800 very interesting about the book was the fact that when the Civil 760 00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:06,120 War started, North and South soldiers on both sides believe 761 00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:08,880 this is going to be a very short war, that they were going to go 762 00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:10,760 out. They're going to go out on the 763 00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:15,160 parade grounds and maybe shoot a few rounds from their guns and 764 00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:17,200 then it will all be done. They'd all go home. 765 00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:20,320 One side we have glorious victory and then it would just 766 00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:24,640 be all over Well, as you know, that war turned into four years 767 00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:28,440 and it was anything but when soldiers started both noses 768 00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:30,320 north and. South, they started with a lot 769 00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:33,200 of sin and vice, if we could put it that way. 770 00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:37,680 But one of the most remarkable parts of the Civil War from 771 00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,200 historical accounts of both the North and the South, was this. 772 00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:45,400 That as men went on and they saw the gruesomeness of war and they 773 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:51,960 saw their friends, their buddies cut down, that great revivals 774 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:56,280 took place on both sides. That chaplain started to preach 775 00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,280 the Word of God. Tabernacles were erected so that 776 00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:02,320 people would go and to be able to hear the word of God taught 777 00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:04,560 and preached. And the Bible, or rather the 778 00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:09,600 history, tells us that there could have been anywhere and 779 00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:14,520 just on the Union side between 100,000 to 200,000 conversions 780 00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:16,560 to Christ. Which would have been anywhere 781 00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:18,720 from 5 to 10% of the Union troops. 782 00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:24,680 The great revival of 1683 and 1684 says Confederate Army 7000 783 00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:28,600 soldiers converted. In the Army of Northern Virginia 784 00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:32,960 alone, 15 chapels were built. Union camps, like the Army of 785 00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:34,720 the Potomac, saw nightly meetings in tents. 786 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,800 Soldiers formed Bible clubs, abandoned vices, held continuous 787 00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:40,440 prayer meetings, often driven by grassroots faith. 788 00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:44,080 Why would that become such a priority? 789 00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:48,240 But when you realize you're about to possibly go see Jesus, 790 00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:51,760 you want to get some things right in your life, don't you? 791 00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:57,000 Now, we live in relative peace and safety here in the United 792 00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:58,320 States. They don't we, and I'm thankful 793 00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:00,480 for it. But I will tell you this. 794 00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:04,440 The fact that Jesus could come back in any moment ought to make 795 00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:09,760 us react in the exact same way He could come in any moment. 796 00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:13,080 Are you ready? Do you know Him as your Savior? 797 00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:16,400 Do you know where you spend eternity and if he is your 798 00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:21,120 Savior, if you are saved, are you living a life that would 799 00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:23,800 cause embarrassment and shame when he comes to see you? 800 00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:29,920 Or one that would make you say, Lord, I'm ready, Take Me Home. 801 00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:34,320 So this week, as we add to our faith, let's allow the return of 802 00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:38,840 Christ in the future to change the way we Live Today. 803 00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:42,640 Thank you for listening to the sermon from the pulpit of 804 00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,520 Liberty Baptist Church. If this message was a blessing 805 00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:49,000 to you, or if there's any way we can serve you, please let us 806 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:53,600 know by contacting us at info@mylibertybaptist.org. 807 00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:58,440 Or you can visit us this Sunday at 800 Washington St. in Easton, 808 00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:01,240 MA. May the Lord bless you as you 809 00:44:01,240 --> 00:44:02,440 grow in His Word.