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JACK: Don't be surprised if you do not feel God brush up
against you or pinch your little arm to let you know he
is there. He doesn't do that stuff. Well, you said that
you'd never leave me or forsake me. That's right, but I
don't feel it. I didn't say you would feel it. Did he? He
didn't say you'd feel it. I didn't say you'd feel it.
Yeah, but I need your strength. You've got it. I need your
wisdom. Right in front of you. I need you to get me through
this. I will. The results you got to leave with God.
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JACK: Well listen, have you ever heard about this? Being
pregnant with expectation? We know about pregnancy, we
know what it means, but can a believer be pregnant
with expectation? The answer to that question is yes,
thank God, yes. God wants us plump. He wants us full
with faith and hope enjoying what God has given for us
and to us. And so we are as believers called to love
other people and we are to love them. Listen with the
gospel truth as a believer, you and I are pregnant with truth to
give out to a world that's in need that people might hear and
think about the gospel and gospel truth, but when they hear
it, they're often offended. Why would they be offended? Because
the gospel truth is we all need salvation that is brought to us
by our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. Why do you think he died
on the cross for our sins and rose again from the dead? You
see, that is the gospel truth, but that causes people to be
offended because it implies that we need a savior and yes we do.
So listen, grab your bibles. Let's dive into this and I hope
the message encourages you about being pregnant with expectation
because there's no greater excitement than to have the
hope, the assurance, and the guarantee of eternal life in you
because listen, it doesn't stay inside you for long. It's got to
come out that hope has got to be birthed and given to those that
live around you. And you and I are the very vehicles
by which we are to speak the gospel truth to
them. So let's find out how we do that.
JACK: Titus chapter 2 verse 13 says, looking for the
blessed hope. That's that pregnant expectancy of us
being transformed and going into his presence, looking
for the blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our
great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. And the words
by the way and the actions of the believer ought to define
a great expectation in our lives. Why? Paul did this
old, aged, scarred, imprisoned in Rome in a Roman sewer, the
Mamertine Prison. I've been there, maybe you've been there
as well. It's a tourist site where you go in Rome and he was
in the belly of Rome underground and in that sewage canal and he
wrote this. One of his last few words, by the way. 2 Timothy 4
verse 8. Finally, listen to this man. He's looking down the
barrel of Nero's judgment. He's going to have his head cut off.
Finally, there's laid up for me the crown of righteousness,
which the Lord, the righteous judge will give to me on that
day, and not to me only, but to all those who have loved his
appearing. Do you love the fact that Christ could appear at any
moment? There's a crown of righteousness that awaits you,
you and I should be pregnant with this expectancy? Colossians
3 verse 4 says, when Christ who is our life appears, suddenly
appears without warning, by the way, this is not the second
coming he's talking about this is the rapture of the church,
very different, the appearance of Christ. Then you also will
appear with him in glory. 1 Thessalonians, this is how it's
going to happen. If any of you're technical here, you're
going to want to write this down. See, what's the mechanics
of that? I don't understand the physics of that. Well, God knew
you were going to ask that question, so he gave you this
one. 1 Thessalonians 4 verse 13 starts by saying, but I do not
want you to be ignorant brethren, the word ignorant
here, the Greek word is do not be uninformed. It means it's
information you can have, so don't avoid it. Get it.
Concerning those who have fallen asleep or died in Jesus,
believers are referred to as that they fell asleep in Christ
speaking of the body, lest you sorrows others who have no hope
for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God
will bring with him those who died in Jesus. Verse 15, for
this we say to you by the word of the Lord that we who are
alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no
means precede those who are dead. In other words, their dead
body is going to pop out of the ground in the resurrection, just
nanoseconds before. If you are living in that generation,
you're walking down the street, it'd be awesome if you're, I've
told you guys before, I want to be doing a funeral that day at
Forest Lawn. Wouldn't it be great? And now we put you know
Brother Mike's body in the ground. Mike's not here, Mike's
with the Lord and wait, can you imagine? We just put the body
down and then the body's going to come up in resurrection and
the Bible says, we'll read here in a second, is that Mike is
going to mean his body in the atmosphere. Those who are alive
at that moment, not dead but alive will be metamorphis. That
stuff, listen, it's that thing that you see in the movies. You
know the left behind movies you ever seen those movies? Left
mind? That's what they're talking about. The pilot's
flying the plane and then he is gone or somebody. Okay, that,
listen, when that happens, only God knows when it's going to
happen. Don't think it's not going to happen because it
hasn't happened. Hello? It means we're 2000 years closer to it
happening. That makes this a very, very good day today. I'm
ready. I hope you're ready too. God's good and where was I?
Anybody remember? Verse 16 from the Lord himself will descend
from heaven with a shout. That's John 14:1, with the voice of the
archangel with the trumpet of God and the dead in Christ will
rise first and we who are alive and remain shall be caught up.
That's the word in Latin, rapture or the Greek is harpazo,
caught up, violently removed, picked up quickly together with
them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and thus we
shall always be with the Lord. Verse 18, therefore comfort one
another with these words and you say, well, I needed a little bit
more technical instruction on that. Well look at 1 Corinthians
15:50. Now this I say brethren that flesh and blood cannot
inherit the kingdom of God. You want to know why? This is so
cool we're going Christian. We're going to an atmosphere
where this skin cannot survive. Okay, if you and I went down to
the beach right now and we started diving down deep, even
with scuba gear on, we can only stay down for so long and we got
to come up real slow, right? Why? Because we were not built
for that environment. Okay, we're built for here and we're
not even technically built all that well to go too high because
after about 10,000/11,000 feet, you start to get a headache
walking in an atmosphere so thin of O2. Are you hearing me? That
you're not built for that either. You and I have been
built for this earth and that is a scientific and a spiritual
fact, but what if we're going to go to heaven? Oh, God's got that
covered. He's going to take your resurrected body, he's going to
rearrange, which I really appreciate this. He's going to
rearrange the molecules. That's why we believe in resurrection.
The Bible teaches resurrection, not reincarnation, not
resuscitation. He's going to take, and if those of you who've
had even basic physics, he's going to take for example your
cells and he's going to keep you you, but he's going to rearrange
them ever so slightly and he can change the entire environment or
the theater in which you live. He can do that. He's the great
physicist. It's remarkable because we cannot in this body,
we've got to be changed. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption.
That's another topic for another day, but it's beautiful. Verse
51, behold I tell you a mystery, the word mysterion in Greek
means it's something that has always been, but it has not been
revealed. It's not like a mystery like I'm going to tell
you a trick. It means this is eternal truth that has always
been, but now is the time that God has revealed it. Oh yeah.
Well, what is that? We shall not all die, but we shall be
changed. And in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, 18 to 25th
of a second, they debate about a twinkling of an eye. The point
is it's going to be fast at the last trumpet. For the trumpet
will sound, the dead will be raised incorruptible and we
shall be changed for this corruption must put on
incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality. Church,
family, I just got my social security thing from the IRS. Is
that who it is? About? You know you're this age now you got to
plan for your welfare, whatever the thing is called. I look at
all this stuff and it's so technical and it's like, what?
It makes you want to like die. It's like really? Wait, if I
have this and then that and a portion 3% of this on top of
this, 21% of that, and then you can only see that doctor for a
certain amount of time, then you got to go to and it's like, no,
this is killing me. It's all complicated and you're going to
get you know a $1.50 a month after inflation and all this
stuff. It's like, oh boy. Hallelujah, our retirement
program, according to God, he said it is immortality with him.
Verses 19 to 21 is the fact that we're looking at a hope that is
increasing. And again, we touched on that as well for a
moment and that was we are experiencing a hope that is not
a wishful hope. It's a knowing hope. It's a hope. The hope is a
tough word for us to unpack as Western earth when we hope, it's
like, oh, I hope. I hope the sun comes out today. You know we've
had two days of clouds here in California. It's like what do we
do? What do we do? When summer coming back? So weather people,
they say something and then you hope or somebody goes somewhere
and they hope that they get a room or you hope they reserved
your car or whatever it is. No, this is the word for hope is not
that word. The word for hope, the hope that God gives is we
you know we would say it in our modern tongue is a hope that you
can take to the bank. It's a hope that when God says it, you
can grab onto it and say, God, you said it. So? And by the way,
that's true faith. God, you said it in your Bible. You said you
love me. I don't feel very loved. This is happening. That's
happening. This marital issue, this relational issue, this
family or corporate problem. God, I don't feel your nearness.
God, listen, don't be surprised if you do not feel God brush up
against you or pinch your little arm to let you know you're here.
He's there. He doesn't do that stuff. What he does is, he'll
remind you in your head, what did I tell you? What did I say
to you? Well, you said that you'd never leave me or forsake
me. That's right, but I don't feel it. I didn't say you would
feel it. Did he? He didn't say you'd feel it. I didn't say
you'd feel it. Yeah, but I need your strength. You've got it. I
need your wisdom. Right in front of you. I need you to get me
through this. I will. The results you got to leave with
God, the results we leave with him knowing that even nature
itself is waiting for the redemption of man. Look at verse
19. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits.
It's kind of an interesting thing for the revealing of the
sons of God. That's us, children of God. It doesn't personify
nature. Nature's not a person. Nature is not Gaia, right? It's
not a God. Nature is God's creation. What the Bible is
announcing is that nature suffers because man sinned in
the garden and ever since then the world has suffered and I
think you know that just by observation and you even feel
that. You look around in this world and you realize, wow,
things are wrong and I'm not talking about politics or social
cultural things. Just naturally you'd be looking outside like my
backyard, my backyard's like a zoo. That's not true. That's not
true. No animals are in a cage. It's like Jurassic Park. You
look out in the backyard and you go, look at that beautiful
squirrel. It's so beautiful and then a red tail hawk. It's like,
okay, kids look over there. Isn't that a nice snail? And
there's all kinds of things happening, and if I had the
time, I could have showed you my backyard. It was early on a
Sunday morning and I heard something out back and I looked
out the window and there was a cat, somebody's cat just frozen
because a skunk was walking right by him. This is right
outside my door and while that was going on, out in the yard
was a possum eating an orange and it was like, we should sell
tickets, it could subsidized the ministry, it'd be amazing.
Nature though dies. Nature gets hit by cars. Nature is subject
to all the things that plunge it into destruction, and the Bible
says that is a result of Adam and Eve and sin, and we'll get
more into this, but it was almost like an epicenter
happened and a shockwave went throughout all of God's
creation. We saw in verse 20 that knowing that a plan is
unfolding by the beautiful power of God to redeem, so here it is.
We look at verse 21 and it's this, that we know that there's
an ultimate makeover that is coming to this world. This is in
verse 21 because the creation itself also will be delivered
from the bondage of corruption. This is good news for everybody.
Just be a believer. Enjoy this will you, don't miss this. In
the glorious liberty of the children of God, he's talking
about the end game. This might come as a shock to some of you,
but when you read in the English Bible that when God comes back
and judges the world that he's going to implement his kingdom
and part of the kingdom is that which follows the reign of
Christ on earth, the Bible says first that Jesus will
politically rule from Jerusalem. It's called the millennium.
You've heard this before. You've read about it. It's one of the
most documented things in the entire Bible that finally the
world is going to get a political leader that is just,
holy and pure and it's going to take none other than the son of
God himself. Okay? It's not going to happen in Sacramento.
It's not going to happen in Washington or at the Hague. It's
not going to happen in the EU. It's going to happen by God in
Jerusalem. He talks about that, the millennial reign of Christ.
That's where you've read the hallmark cards and stuff where
it says the lion will lay down with the lamb, right? That's
right out of the Bible. You think Hallmark making that up?
They stole that. It's plagiarism. They took it from
the scriptures. God's going to restore things and what you
might find shocking is the Bible says, behold, I saw a new
heavens. Space, and a new earth. That's how you read it in
English, both in the Greek and Hebrew. God is not going to make
a brand new heavens and a brand new earth. He's going to take
the heavens that have been tainted by sin and the earth
that has been ravaged by sin and he's going to restore or
recreate. You know this from the great flood of Noah. The Bible
says, Noah, get in the boat. I'm going to destroy the world. Did
God destroy the world or did he scrub the world? He scrubbed it.
He said, Noah, I'll never flood the earth again. Next time I'll
burn it. That's what he said. I won't flood it anymore. Next
time I'll fry it because it needs to be purged. It needs to
be cleansed. Medical people in here, God's going to autoclave
the earth. He's going to purge it from all poisons, diseases,
and he's gonna, he's going to recreate. He's going to restore
forests and rivers and lakes and mountains and animals and it's
going to be amazing. I love reading the Bible. There's so
much hope, but the Bible tells us, and we must agree that
nature itself looks forward to that day. It's remarkable. Also,
we know this as well, is that when God does this beautiful
work, it's so much like our nature. Listen, remember, we've
been creating the image of God. Now, you and I, you go to church
all the time, you take that for granted, but you know how many
little kids are growing up in this world today that do not
know that. They're being told that they are nothing. They're
an evolutionary byproduct. Hey, Junior, guess what? You can do
anything you want to do because you're not responsible for
anything, because you are just a result of primordial goop.
You've evolved to this point and you know eventually will evolve
into something else. You're just an animal, but you're at the top
of the food chain and that's not exactly true by the way, we're
the apex of evolution. Really? Why don't you go to Catalina and
swim around the island and see if you're at the top of the apex
of. Some of the biggest great whites in the world are on the
east or the west coast of Catalina Island, you're going to
go and they'll say, oh, excuse me, I'm the evolutionary apex
and that shark's going to say what? No, you're not. Evolution
is a religion. It's not backed up by science. It's what people
clinging to when they don't want to believe in God. I get it.
It's convenient, but the fact of the matter is God said, I make
creation and I'm going to fix it, and part of God listen you
down deep inside the little effervescent that's left over
from us being created in the image of God. Don't you like to
restore things to some degree? I mean, some of us just like to
just get it over with and buy a new one, but some of you are
amazing. Some of you get a piece of junk car and you actually
look for it. I want the biggest piece of junk I can find. What
are you thinking? I'm going to restore it. Why? Because you get
such a deep satisfaction of taking something from
destruction and putting it back to its former glory. You know
God's going to do the same thing? He's going to take what
we crashed, right? So to speak, and he finds it in the junk heap
of the universe and he's going to restore it to its former
glory, and a little bit of him is in us that way.
JACK: So pregnant with expectation. Here's what
I, and I hope you are pregnant with this truth is that
we as believers, that as we who trust the Lord Jesus
Christ for all that he said and all that he did and does
that we are actually according to the Bible citizens of
heaven and yet you and I live obviously here on
earth. In fact, that's one of the great things that you can be
rest assured of, to find out or to know for sure am I really a
follower of Jesus? Here's how you can know you'll be pregnant
with expectation, with the hope of eternal life, with the hope
of heaven. I don't know why we don't talk about heaven more.
It's where we're going. I mean, think about the ultimate
vacation. You can't wait for it to arrive. You're getting
dressed for it. You're ready for it. You can't wait for it to
happen. Well, friends, we're going to go to heaven and we are
pregnant with that hope, with that expectation, and so listen,
we possess eternal life. Now, the Bible's very clear. If you
and I die right now trusting Christ, we are with the Lord
immediately, but we are living out in these days this eternal
life in our earthly bodies and sometimes friends you know have
an earthly body like I do. Sometimes we need medication. We
need muscle rub you know ointment on this or that. Why?
What's going on? The outward part of us, our bodies, they are
dying. They need to be redeemed in resurrection and that's
coming, but the inside of you is being renewed daily. We are
children of the living God, but our bodies suffer In this world.
Our joints are stiff and aching and so you know that's why I'm
big fans of some you know pill that might make me get out of
bed and feel better. You know I need to take my
anti-inflammatory or eat something different. Why?
Because the inside of me is rejoicing about the expectation
of heaven and eternal life. The outward man is perishing, my
body, but the great news is this Jesus Christ died and rose again
from the dead. That's the glorious liberty for us. So
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Christ. God bless you. Until next time.
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