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JACK: What are you going to do about Bible prophecy? Some
people say, I don't want anything to do about Bible
prophecy. Bible prophecy scares me, some people say. Maybe some
churches never teach it. Maybe you're not aware or maybe you're
asking the question, wow, in light of all that's going on in
the world around us, I want to know what's next. Good for you.
Listen, God commends the heart that is wanting to know and to
look into the future. Why? Because the future belongs to
the Lord. And so I'm often asked the question, where will we be
when Christ returns, when He returns? Do I believe that
believers go up in the rapture or do they go through the
tribulation? Who's the antichrist? And people have a
tendency to get anxious? Well, listen, Bible prophecy wasn't
given to us to scare us, but to prepare us. And so in the
passage that we're going to be looking at today, I believe
right here in Romans chapter 8, verses 31 to 39, you should be
comforted by Bible prophecy, especially more than ever as we
are in the official last days that the Bible speaks about
Bible prophecy should bring to you comfort and regarding the
church and your life, the tribulation and the antichrist,
God has laid it out so that you might be sure, calm,
comfortable, and knowing what you should do as a believer. So
this is an amazing time to hear a message that I hope and pray
will affect you greatly. So my question to you is what are you
going to do about Bible prophecy? A lot of people today
are avoiding it. A lot of people today are staying away from it.
Friends, listen, that should be an indicator to you. If people
would have you avoid it if your church won't speak about it. Did
you know the Bible says in the last days that people will be
ignorant about the scriptures concerning the last days and
Bible prophecy. What a wonderful warning that is a prophetic
warning. So listen, grab your Bibles, get your notes out and
let's dive into the message. What are
you going to do about Bible prophecy?
JACK: Revelation 19 verse 10, mark it down in your note taking
for this chapter of Romans 8. John says, I fell at His feet to
worship Him, but He said to me, see that you do not do that. I
am your fellow servant and of your brethren who had the
testimony of Jesus. This is a vision of heaven. John is seen
heaven. He's talking to a brother. We don't know who it is
in heaven. And the answer is worship God for the testimony of
Jesus is the spirit of prophecy, the utterance of God's Word and
it also means the future telling of God's Word of what is to
pass. John 16, verse 33, Jesus said, and these things I have
spoken unto you that in me you may have peace in the world, you
will have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the
world. That's a prophetic statement, church family. You
and I need to know this now because our need for this verse
is going to increase. So what should you know and how does
Bible prophecy apply to your life? It is equipping you to
embrace the promises of God. Listen, promises are prophetic.
When God says, I promise, that means He's going to fulfill
something and your future, the prophetic nature of our God.
Revelation chapter 3, verse 7, starting there and to the angel
of the church at Philadelphia, the church, we all want to be
like. Verse 8, I know your works. Look, I have set before
you an open door and no one can shut it because you have a
little strength and you've kept my Word. It's the first
criteria. And number two, you've not denied my name. Verse 10
says, because you have kept my command to persevere, watch
this. I also will keep you from the hour. That word implies that
things are going to get rougher, but right when you think it
can't get any more rougher, He says, I'm going to keep you from
that hour of trial, which shall come upon the whole world to
test those who dwell on the earth. What a promise. Isaiah
chapter 42, verse 9, behold God says, the former things have
come to pass and new things I declare before they spring
forth, I tell you of them, that's the God you worked. We
were singing a moment ago, who were you singing to? Who were
you worshiping? The God of the Bible who says right here,
things have come to pass that I've spoken of, and oh by the
way, things that have not yet happened. I'm telling you about
'em now. What a great and awesome God. The Bible tells us
in Luke chapter 21 verse 34, Luke 21:34, Jesus says, be
careful for your hearts could be weighed down with dissipation.
That is your faith and your commitment starts to leak out,
starts to grow low, drunkenness and the anxieties of this life
and that day come and will close in on you unexpectedly like a
trap that is His return for it will come upon all those who
live on the face of the whole earth. Be always on the watch
and pray that you may escape all that is about to happen. Oh,
that's good news. Can someone say amen to that? I'm all for
that. Oh, you guys just want to escape all the bad stuff. Uh,
Yeah. Why? Jesus said so Luke 21:36, that you may be able to
stand before the son of man. Get ready now. Still foundational.
Philippians chapter 3, verse 20, for our citizenship is in
heaven. I should pause right here for a moment at that comma.
See the word citizenship? It's the Greek word politics. Yep.
Our politics is where? In heaven. If the politics of
heaven will someday come in Christ Jesus to this world,
that's going to be a good day. The government of God is someday
coming, but it will not come. It will not come until Christ
physically returns to earth. You're not going to bring it in.
We're not going to usher it in. We don't know. We know this. No
political person is going to usher in the kingdom of God. We
do our best. We pray, we get involved. We engage. Why?
Because you and I are called by God to represent the politics of
heaven here and now knowing this, we ain't home yet. We are
not home yet. Thank God because our citizenship is in heaven
from which we also eagerly wait for the savior, the Lord Jesus
Christ, who will transform our vile body that it may be
conformed to His glorious body, the power of the Word of God.
Matthew chapter 16 verse 1, by introduction announces then the
Pharisees and Sadducees teamed up together and came testing
Jesus asked that He would show them a sign from heaven. Here
you go. And He answered and said to them, when it is evening, you
say it will be fair weather for the sky is red, nice sunset, and
the morning it will be foul weather today because or for the
sky is red and threatening hypocrites. Isn't that great?
How subtle Jesus is. The word hypocrite means you have two
faces. You ever heard somebody say you're two-faced? That's
called hypocrete. That's why Hollywood and the screen actor's
guild has the hypocrete as a logo. Did you know that? The one
face smiling, the one face frowning and it's got the little
strings that you tie it on. The actor wore or had the
opportunity to wear one in the front and one in the back. Jesus
called them, you two faced people you, you know how to
discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of
the times. A wicked and adulterous generation seeks
after a sign and no sign shall be given to it except the sign
of the prophet Jonah. That's what Jesus said to their
question. You say you believe in Jonah. Yes I do. I've never met
him. I will someday. But you know why I believe in Jonah?
Because not only is he in the Bible and he was a real guy, but
Jesus said he was, and that's enough for me. Jesus said The
sign's going to be given to you as it was with Jonah. Jonah was
three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish. So
the son of man, Jesus must have pointed to Himself will be three
days and three nights in the heart of the earth. So church,
here we go. It's your one and only argument today in our
point. What are you going to do about Bible prophecy? Well,
listen, the fact is you glorification is coming. It's
coming. Have you ever checked Amazon on your number to see
what time the package is coming? It should have been here by now.
You're looking go. Did you go check the door? We're so
amazing. We have an app and it's like ding, it dings. Oh, it
should be there. Check the front door and we trust them. Let's go
see. We're following this plastic piece of junk and we
open the door. Oh, it's not here. Call them. Call them. Find
an out. What do we do? Listen, I was going to say on scout's,
honor, on the basis of the Word of God, the Bible announces to
all of God's children. The ultimate act of His redemptive
work in your life is your eternal glorification, which
happens at the moment of your death and or resurrection in the
coming of Christ for the church. You will be transformed. The
Bible says, and you'll be glorified. Oh, pastor, I just
want to be in heaven. I don't need all that fancy stuff. You
have to have the fancy stuff. You want to know why you're
robbing Christ from what He purchased for you. He's going to
clothe you in His own righteousness. The Bible says it
looks like a white gown, beautiful, clean and bright, the
Bible says. He purchased for you absolute, listen, forgiveness of
sins and the giving of a clear conscience and of a sound mind.
He's purchased for you. Absolute peace with God. No more warring.
God's your friend and you're a child of God and there's a love
relationship. Jesus did that. Are any of you enjoying that
today? Do you think about God? Do you love God? Do you wonder
and imagine and you can't wait to get there. And truly we are
admitting that our politic is in heaven. Why is that true? Jesus
did that for you and we don't thank God enough for that. Your
whole life is prophetic. We're not stuck here right now. It
happens to be today. I can't wait for today to be over
because listen, tomorrow is either a brand new day to live
for Him yet again or we're one day closer to meeting Christ.
One thing is sure, even if Jesus doesn't come back for the next
50 years, I'm going to be meeting Him, so will you. But
what a tremendous thing that it's God's desire that you and I
experience His glorification and we go around life do we not?
Look honestly new pants. Thank you. Costco. Dirt cheap. Shirt
is old, but I ironed it this morning. Why did I even iron it?
Think about it. Why did I iron it? Cause I didn't want to look
like a bum in front of you. And then, you know, if Lisa, if she
would've seen me, you are standing in front of those
people with a shirt that's not ironed. It makes me look bad.
Why? Both on Lisa's part and on my part, we do what we do
because there's a sense of, you know, I'm clean, Washed. No, I
didn't say didn't shave today, but you know what I mean.
Everything else is in order. What's the deal? Imagine there's
a sense where can you hang my picture on the wall? Where's my
trophy? Self glorification, It's in human nature. We're trying to
accomplish by human effort. What God said can only be done
through the work of Jesus Christ of the cross and His
glorification is holy. Our deification of ourselves is a
joke, but God is holy and pure and remarkable. And so we look
at it this way. Verse 31 is the fact that regarding the future
in Bible prophecy and you and I being glorified is the fact that
we will learn the truth on this. We're studying it now in our
Bibles. We're Christians and until we meet Jesus, we're
learning the truth. And it's glorious is it not? When you
pick up your Bible and you read daily, daily, I'm not saying you
have to do it to go to heaven, but people who don't read their
bibles and they're going to be weak, you're not going to know
what's going on. You're easily led astray. You're real
honestly, we love you, but in church you're a real pain
because everybody else is 10 miles ahead of you and we're
trying to teach you how to get the training wheels off still
when you should be advancing with the rest of the team. So
think about that for a moment. You don't have to read the Bible
exactly right to go to church, but you got to know what God's
love letter says to you. But when you read it, it's amazing
because the words jump off and speak to you and we learn the
truth every time we open up the Word of God. So know this. When
he says, what then shall we say to these things? You can almost
hear the Jewishness of Paul. He's answering a question with a
question. What do we say to these things? It'd go like this.
So what do we say to these things? There's a beautiful
sanctified sarcasm in the question. Everything we just
read, read all things work together for good to those who
love God, to those who are called according to His purposes
to those He called, He justified. He just- all based on
His for- and he's going this incredible crescendo of last
week's Bible study. And then Paul throws his arms up and he
says, what do we say to these things? What is the answer? And
he answers the question with questions. It's brilliant and
you and I learn by them. These things scholars will tell you
and their right, they'll say, these things pertain to the
first 30 verses of Romans 8. That is true. Then some scholars
will tell you it pertains to the whole book of the book of Romans
itself, chapter 1 verse 1. That is true. Somebody might say it
reveals the entire Word of God being these things. What shall
we say to these things? All of the above, the greatness of God
and it's absolutely spectacular and that Bible tells us of us.
And then John chapter 10 tells us of us that you and I are one
with Christ. Did you know that? We don't understand it. We just
know the Bible teaches us that we're one with Christ when the
Bible tells us that He's called us out of this world and made us
one with this son, Christ Jesus. This is why somebody and many
people have spoken one with God is a majority. I mean that
sounds, we get it as Christians, but it sounds insane to the
world. Don't say that to non-Christians. They'll think
you're weird but Christians, we get it. God is never in on the
numbers, you know that, have you noticed that by now in the
Bible? God has never said, okay, David, wait right here. I got to
get more men so we can fight this battle against the Hittites
or whatever it is. You think about the ratio of size between
David and Goliath. God's never into big numbers. Listen,
churches today, this is considered a mega church. I hate
that term. It's, people put that label on us and a mega church is
supposed to be a church that's over 2000 people. Okay, so
listen, there's over 2000 people just sitting here by far, and
there's people all over the campus sitting down. There's
people in overflow rooms. This is second service. The exact
same thing was going on at first service and it's going to happen
again at third service. God's not impressed by that. God
doesn't stand there in heaven and go, oh, whoa, look at that's
going on down there. Did you know, listen, prophetically
speaking, Jesus says that in the last days the church, it's going
to get pretty dicey. He said it's going to be like a mustard
seed that's planted and it grows into a great tree. Now, we don't
know about mustard seeds, but it's like, I mean, I'm talking
like the mustard seed is like the size of a grain of pepper.
The grain of pepper in your shaker, not the pepper, not the
pepper that's on the trees out there. I'm talking about, you
know what I'm talking ground pepper. That's the word. Mustard
seed, it's so tiny. But when Jesus said it's going to grow
into a big tree, every Jew went like this. Say what? What's He
talking about? Mustard seed growing at its best miracle,
grow perfect fertilizer never gets that big. This is like a
bush. What's He talking about? Jesus was talking about a
mustard seed grows into a nice healthy bush and that's really
great, but it doesn't stop there. It keeps growing to the
point where it becomes odd and watch, He says, the birds of the
air come and lodge within its branches. That's not a good
thing. When God cares about something, He will always
address it specifically. This is good stuff for you to know. You
guys awake, you need to know this. You ought write this down.
It's going to take you would cost you a lot of money in Bible
school to get to this. When God speaks generically of birds,
birds of the air, it's not good. When He speaks specifically,
that's okay. Your Father, if one sparrow falls to the ground, He
knows of it and He cares. But Jesus says, for example, in
Armageddon, the birds of the air will come and devour the flesh
of the dead. When Jesus says the birds of the air lodge in the
branches of what the church starts out to be and grows into
this anomaly, mischief is in the ranks. You don't walk by a bush
and care about covering your head, for example, if there's
birds in the bush, but if you walk under a tree that's full of
birds, you better have an umbrella. You get the drift? And
listen, just this service could be like that. Not everybody here
is a Christian right now. I'm not dumb. There's people that
come here, they have a religious hankering in their heart to just
go do some religious thing. There's some people here for
mischief. There's some people here that follow you to your car
and try to invite them to their church or their cult. We know
this. We have people out here that are trying to find these
people because it's happening. Did you know that They're like
wolves. You leave the sanctuary and there's people following you
and they look normal, but they're from cults. Hey, what do
you think about what he said about you want to come to my
Bible study and it's a hook into an established cult? Things like
that. You want to be careful. Jesus said, if you know the
truth, the truth will set you free. You'll be protected.
JACK: Well, the question is, what are you personally going to
do about Bible prophecy? Again, Bible prophecy is God's awesome
ability to tell the future in advance. He wrote it down in the
Bible so that you and I could know it. And the greatest thing
that you and I could do is to embrace God's promises.
Understanding and interpreting the Bible is the key. You don't
have to make stuff up. God's Word speaks and let God's word
speak to you from itself. It's alive. And I pray. Listen, I
pray that the Bible does come alive to you as you read it. I
know it has for those who have picked it up with hearts open to
receive His truth. So this is so vitally important and I want to
make sure right now before we let you go for today, that is
that you know Jesus personally, friends, you can know all about
Bible prophecy and not know who Christ is. So listen, the same
God that prophesied these last days is the same God who said
that Christ would come, that He would die in the cross, that He
would be resurrected from the dead, and that He is the one and
only Lord and Savior, the alpha, the omega, the beginning, the
end, the first and the last. The one who is, the one who was, the
one who is to come, the Almighty. That was God. God the
Son on the cross for you and I, trust Him. Trust no one else,
trust nothing else but Him. Listen, father, we pray in
Jesus' name that right now we would give our hearts to you and
trust we'd open up the Bible and we'd get away from all the
falsehood and the lies and all of the fog of the day, and we
would get truth from the scripture and follow you. And
Lord, we confess faith in Jesus Christ as resurrected Lord and
Savior and we prayed in Jesus' name. Friends, to help you
continue on now, go to JackHibbs.com for
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to grow. God bless you until next time
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simple terms, clearing up myths and giving clear scriptural
insights about the next event on the prophetic calendar. Dr.
Ryrie makes it easy to understand how these prophecies
relate to current events and America's role in them. Get your
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