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JACK: 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 in your
future, the prophetic nature of our God
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JACK: Friends, your prophetic future, that is the title of our
message today and frankly, everyone should listen up. You
might find great hope in knowing that Jesus Christ himself said
that you and I need to be of good cheer in this world because
He has overcome the world, in the world. You and I will have
tribulation that is difficulty. Thank God He didn't say In this
world you'll have the great tribulation, but tribulation are
the troubles of life, and that is a great prophetic statement
that Christ gives us. You're going to have troubles in
turbulent times in this world being a believer. That's true
since the beginning of time shouldn't surprise us, but know
this, that God has announced in advance, that's Bible prophecy,
that we are going to have tough days in this world even more so
as we get closer to the end. Today, you and I are talking
about equipping, one another in the Word of God and embracing
the promises of God. So let's grab our Bibles, and dive into a
message. Listen, specifically titled for you and I Today Your
prophetic Future because friend, if you know the Lord Jesus
Christ, your future is prophetic. You have absolute
hope, absolute assurance, God will not abandon you.
So get your notes. Let's get ready. Let's dive
in and listen to what God has to say to us today.
JACK: We will see the opposition. Look at verse 31
says, if God is for us, who can be against us? The first time I
ever read that in the Bible, this is how I heard it, church,
if God is for us, who can be against us? I can tell you
that's exactly how I took it
today in our western world, we
read it like this in the church. If God is for us, I guess nobody
can be against me. That's not true. That's what he's saying.
Well, if God is for us and I'm a Christian, everyone's going to
love me. You got that wrong. It's upside down. Flip it
around. If God is for us, it means the world is against you.
You understand that? Well, can't I be a Christian mind my own
business and just be quiet about it and be undercover and then
wind up just waking up in heaven someday? I'm not sure. I don't
know about that. I'd have to speculate because I know this,
the spirit of God who's inside the believer is stirring the
believer up. Christian, listen, I need you to be strengthened,
understanding where you and I live out in this world,
understanding that I have a biblical worldview, that you
have a biblical worldview about all things. Joshua chapter 1,
Joshua chapter 1, verse 5 says, no man shall be able to stand
before you all the days of your life. Listen, who did God say
this to? Excuse me. Who? Joshua. So my question to you is this.
If God said this to Joshua, did he say it to anybody else? Well,
as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. Okay? Now we've got
God saying it to who? Moses and Joshua. If God can say it to
Moses and Joshua, then that means God can say it to me. Do
you see that? Can you grab the Bible and make it your own? When
he says, I will not leave you or forsake you. I believe that
friends, He will never leave me or forsake me, and if I think
he's left me and forsaken me because I'm in the deep dark of
despair, He hasn't, you can remind me if that time comes
into my life, you can play this message over in my ears, but if
you ever sunk down solo that you can't even get air into your
lungs so to speak, your chest is being so crushed by the pressure
and drama, the finances, the health issues, the demands that
you can't even breathe, and God says, wait a minute, I will
never leave you or forsake you. What an awesome God. Be strong
and of good courage for to this people. You shall divide as an
inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers to give
them. Verse 7, only be strong and very courageous. God says,
look at verse 9. Have I not commanded you? Be strong of good
courage. Do not be afraid nor be dismayed for the Lord. Your God
is with you wherever you go and all God's people said,
absolutely. Do you believe that? Yes, I believe that. I live by
this. I have to. Jeremiah chapter 1 verse 19 the prophetic
Word of God found right here in the book of Romans, chapter 8,
Jeremiah 1:19, they will fight against you but they shall not
prevail against you. For I am with you, says the Lord to
deliver you Song of Solomon, beautiful song of Solomon. Jews
are not allowed to read Song of Solomon until they're 30 years
of age because it's too sensual. It's about married life. Did you
know that? Now all of you're going to go home today and read
it. Song is Solomon. You have set me as a seal upon your
heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death.
God's love for you is, not only as strong as death. The word
means final. Death is final. God's love for you is final.
Death is final in this world, God's love is final forever. For
you. He loves you. When you get married. By the way, when you
get married, okay, we're going to get married, so you're going
to make me the happiest guy in the world, right? Have you ever
heard this stuff? You've seen this in movies? Oh, watch out
when somebody says, I just can't live without you. Really? That's
a lot of Pressure. God brings you together as a couple to make
you an incredible holy instrument in His hands. Well, I
thought it was about happiness. Where'd you get that idea from?
Listen, you want to hear about happiness has nothing to do with
the Bible study right now. Now we're in the dangerous territory
here. You want to be happy in the marriage in any
relationship, you want to be happy. God invented
relationships. Here's the key to being happy. Serve the other
one. You were designed. You and I were designed. We get greatest
joy out of doing. That's why God gave you hands, to do stuff. The
greatest joy in the world comes from serving your husband or
your wife, and when that happens, God makes you more like
Him in service. Didn't Jesus say that, but we don't want to hear
it. Think of it. You want to be happy? Yes, I do. Then be a
super blessing to your wife or to your husband, and blessed is
the marriage when both of the people are committed to Christ,
where they, both embark upon the same pursuit ,to obey God and to
bless God, I'll be blessing my spouse. Oh, pastor ordained me
or send me or pay the way, to some place in South America
where I can preach the gospel where no man has ever been
before. Give me a hatchet, machete and a Bible and I'll
canteen and I'm going to preach Christ, if you pay for it.
What's your wife think about this? She doesn't know yet.
God's not calling you if she doesn't know. Every man knows
this and all the women remind us, God didn't tell me that.
Listen, when you're married, God's going to speak to both of
you. What if He's not? You're just going to wait because you
can't out wait, God, you're just going to wait until you're both
on the same page. That's free. 2nd Kings chapter 6, 2nd Kings
chapter 6, verse 16. So He answered, do not fear for those
who are with us are more than those who are with them. God
shows in the invisible realm, the powers that are at your
disposal and your defense as a Christian. Don't raise your
hand, but are you a follower of Christ? Have you been born again
by the Spirit of God? If you say yes, then know this. There's an
invisible army that cannot be numbered, that is at the
dispatch of God for your protection. No matter who is
surrounding you, no matter what's going on in your life.
Psalm 1:18 verse 6, Psalm 1:18 verse 6 tells us, the Lord is on
my side. I will not fear what can man do to me? You let that
sink in for a moment. And then third and final point is this,
verse 32, we will know His favor. The prophetic truth of
God's glorification of our lives is this. We're going to know his
favor. Verse 32 says, and this is a tough one by the way, you
guys want to follow me with this. This is very, very
important stuff. Watch this. It's broken up in sections. He
who did not spare His own son, that's one part but freely
delivered him up for us all. That's the second part. Third
part is, how shall he not with Him freely give us all things.
Let me read it again. Keep your eyes on the screen. God, the
Father who did not spare His son, God the son, but delivered
up God the Son for us all, how shall God the Father, not with
God the Son. Notice, unified also will freely give us all
things. So what does that mean? Some people have taken this,
there's modern day quote theologians who are an absolute
train wreck, but they write books. Do you know what? They
use this verse. This is what they say about this verse. That
verse proves that God abused his son. He who spared not his own
son. Listen, His son, listen. If His son was to be spared you and
I would be lost in hell forever. Jesus and the Father were in
full agreement regarding His atonement at the cross. It's not
a surprise. The Bible says in the book of Ephesians, it was an
eternal plan of God. Jesus was 100% God and 100% man in the
flesh. When that baby was born in Bethlehem, He was God and yet
his flesh, imagine His flesh, everything that you and I
experienced, He had to experience to be our mediator.
The plan of God, watch this. The Bible announces to us that God
delivered Him up for us all. Did you know that the Bible teaches
that Jesus took His flesh and brought it under subjection to
the will of His father? You say, wait a minute. I thought he was
God. The whole act, you're thinking the whole act, right?
The beating, the crucifying, the spitting upon, I mean that's
just like it was like a movie, right? It was makeup because
He's the son of God. It was just kind of baked into the cake. It
was easy for Him, because he's God. Opposite, because He's God,
He's absolutely pure and feels everything. Because He's God, He
thinks and feels everything that you and I, feel and things that
you and I are spared from feeling. He wasn't spared from
anything. Watch, Jesus takes the disciples into the garden of
Gethsemane and He says, stay right here. I'm going to go and
pray over here. You guys pray, I'll be right back. And He goes
to pray, and the Bible tells us that He prayed and He sweat as
it were, great drops of blood. He went back. How many times did
he go back to see how they were doing? Three times. But, before
that last time came, do you remember in the gospels, Jesus
is praying, He's praying, and what does He pray? Father, if
it's possible, remove this cup from me. Who was crying out in
that moment? 100%, His humanity was crying out. Father, I see
what's ahead. How do you see what's ahead? I'm God. I know
what's coming. I'm the Word. I know what's up next and my flesh
is screaming. I want out of this. Imagine this moment.
Father, if there's any other way, this cup can pass from me,
the cup of salvation, the cup of suffering for humanity. Listen
my friend, if you think you're going to go to heaven by being
some legalistic nincompoop, or some super saint, or some, oh,
aren't you wonderful? You are a disgrace and an embarrassment to
the efforts of Jesus Christ Himself because, He's the one
that said, if there's any other way for man to get to heaven,
let's see it. And heaven was silent. You know what? You want
to know why he's silent? You know Father never answered Him
because the Father had already given Him the answer 30 years
ago when He came into this world, Jesus knew the
scriptures, and the heaven was silent. An angel was dispatched
to strengthen Him. This moment I love. Listen, I personally
believe our salvation was not decided at the cross. I don't
believe it. I believe our salvation was purchased at the
cross. I believe our salvation was decided in the garden of
Gethsemane, when Jesus then stood up, woke the disciples up
and He said, come on, let's go. And He walked right in, to what
humans thought were a trap. Jesus walked right into it, and
what did he do? He surrendered himself up. And He was in
control the entire time. Wasn't He? After the garden, nothing
but boldness and strength. His spirit was in command of His
flesh and He laid down His life, that you and I might have His
favor. He who did not spare His own son but delivered an up for
us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all
things. How much does it cost? Freely. And so I leave you with
this thought. Romans 8 28, you remember it. All things work
together for good. To those who are called, was Jesus' life
called?All things worked together for good to those who
love God, did Jesus love God? All things worked together for
good to those who have purpose. Did Jesus have purpose? Then the
eternal truth that was revealed by Paul the Apostle in the book
of Romans chapter 8, verse 28 and forward, of course, all of
it, but 28 onward, it's God's eternal truth. You understand
that? Don't you think for a moment that that eternal truth
is exactly what Jesus depended upon when He was in the flesh
like you and I are now? Don't you think that Jesus concluded
what you and I are taught to believe, and that is all things
work together? Can you imagine the Father saying to Jesus, all
things, son, all things are going to work together for good
because you love me. You're called according to my purpose.
And Jesus goes to the cross, as victorious as Christ was, so you
will be. It's His work. Jesus gives us a warning in Luke 12
and He says, you got to watch out, in life you can, as you get
older in life, and as you experience more of life, you
also learn from that. You learn what not to do and you learn
what to do and in life by nature, it's a rule of God.
You'll start to acquire things. You just do. I'm not talking
about hoarding. I'm talking about, you're smarter this time,
so you don't make that mistake again. You make sure you do it
right and listen, wisdom God blesses, and obedience God
blesses. So the Bible, Jesus warns that there's a man who was
blessed by God, and, he had all of these goods, and the man
said, you know what? I've got so much stuff. I'm so rich, I got
to tear down the barn that I've got all my stuff in and I got to
build a bigger barn, maybe a couple of them. I'll get some
hangers, down at the airport to put all my stuff in. And Jesus
said, that man's a fool. He had no idea that while he was
considering and carrying out these plans, that his soul would
be required of him that night. Of course, Jesus announces layup
for yourselves treasures in heaven, right? I want to ask you
this question. How rich are you? Well, what do you mean pastor on
paper or what do you mean like now? Or when I die? Stocks or
bonds? Real estate or commodities? Be more specific.
Oh, yeah. Well, here's what I'm talking about. How wealthy are
you? How rich are you? This is what I mean. How rich are you in
forgiveness? How much grace is in your account today? How much
mercy have you deposited, in the bank lately? How are you
building? What about love? How rich are you in the area of
love? Are you wealthy, as a lover of God, as a lover of
other people? We go to great lengths in this world to make
sure that the portfolio is well balanced and this and that,
avoid this. The other thing. And people miss the life of the
spirit, not knowing that there's an eternal dividend paid to
those who put their treasures in heaven. If you have treasures on
earth, God bless you. That's from God. Use them to his glory.
But if you have no physical wealth at all or all the
physical wealth you can imagine. It's irrelevant compared to
where we're going when it comes to this. How rich and wealthy
are you in the area of mercy and grace and love? And forgiveness
and patience? Compassion and truth?
JACK: Your prophetic future? So I want to ask you this question.
Are you willing to make a
deposit, in the bank of God?
Listen, a lot of uncertainty among the world markets today
and currencies and stocks and all that stuff, but listen, God
doesn't want you and I to be penniless when it comes to
investing in heaven. Now, listen, you can't buy your way
into heaven. God does not need your money. God does not want
your money. He wants you to make a deposit into His bank account,
as it were, with your soul. Jesus died for you on the cross
and He purchased salvation for you, but it requires you
investing in what He is done. You say, what does that mean?
What do I need to do? Simply this, put your faith in Christ.
Christ was rich, but the Bible says for our sake, He became
poor. He came to this world to take on our poverty, that we
might receive His riches that were purchased by His own blood
friends. Listen, your legalism will not get you to heaven. Your
morality, will not get you to heaven. The Bible makes it very
clear that if those things matter to God, then Christ died
in vain, but thank God he didn't. You see what you and I
need to do today is bring our lives to Him because He is the
prophetic God. He's the God of the future. Here's the thing. He
wants you in the future with Him, but you've got to choose.
He won't bend your arm. He won't make you say yes, you've got to
make a choice. That's how real love is, is to choose to love
God. Will you choose that today? If you're willing to do that?
How about this? Dear Lord Jesus, you would say, I am praying in
your name right now because I today proclaim that you did die
on the cross for my sins that you did resurrect from the dead
and leave an empty tomb in Jerusalem, that the Bible is
true, that you died in my place, you rose again for my
justification. And so I trust you Christ. I trust you Jesus,
and I'm going to give my life to you now and live for you. If
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insights about the next event. On the prophetic calendar, Dr.
Ryrie makes it easy to understand how these prophecies
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