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JACK: You want to hear something awesome. The Bible by its very
structure is prophetic. That means it has a window into the
future, and it's not just any window. It is actually God's
authoritative word that brings us mere little humans, into his
glorious word to allow us to see into the future that he wants us
to know about. This is an incredible thing. It's called
eschatology, but don't let that big word scare you. The Bible
tells us that regarding God's prophetic word, that there's
nothing that can separate you and I from the love of God. You
might say, well, Jack, isn't it in the book of Romans? That's
not a prophetic book. Listen, it doesn't have to be a prophetic
book. That statement God says regarding you, now in the
future, that there is nothing that can separate you from the
love of God. That's awesome, nor height, nor depth, nor any other
creative thing He went on to say. We are more than conquerors
in Christ. The book of Romans, as I said, is not normally known
as a prophetic book, but today I want you to look at it and
consider it to be your hope and, your future. And you, listen,
you can't read these things and not be challenged to be more
like Jesus. It is thrilling to be a believer at a time like
this. Message is a declaration to us of what God wants for your
soul's existence between now and when we meet Him. Christian, get
ready. Christ is coming back and in the meantime, you and I are
to be busy about our father's business like never before.
Honestly, I wouldn't pick any other time to be alive, so get
ready. The Word of God gets us ready as we study it. So grab a
pen, get a notebook as God speaks to you, write it down and
open your Bibles and let's dive into our study today. The word
of God is prophetic. Prophetic indeed.
JACK: So church, mark this down if you would. It is this, that
the fact is that God will be our defense and He does it in a way
that is most unique and mark it down if you would. It's this is
that His innocence is now our innocence. You might see, well,
Jack, what in the world? How in the world does innocence have
anything to do about me being protected by God? It has
everything to do. The innocence of Jesus Christ. Listen to this.
The innocence of Christ speaks about his purity. Jesus Christ
is not weak. We think of innocence and we think of a cute
little puppy or a kitty or some maybe figurine. The innocence of
God is holy. It is pure and it is powerful. We don't often
connect innocence and power together, but we don't often
also put meekness and God together, do we? The Bible tells
us that Jesus Christ is meek, and yet the Bible tells us that
from his face, the heavens flee from his presence. The Bible
tells us that Christ, when He opens His mouth in the coming
future, the earth will tremble. But the Bible says He is meek
and He's innocent, pure, and in that purity, the Bible tells us
that those of us who trust Christ, His innocence, His
righteousness, His very nature of salvation has been imparted
to us that when God looks at you as a believer right now, see,
you and I are very mindful of our past, aren't we? It comes up
too often, doesn't it? Did you know? Listen, when our minds pop
up thinking about our past, we are to wrestle that thought down
with scripture and we keep moving on. Why? Because you and
I watch you and I have been positionally in heaven declared
innocent by the blood of Christ, but the problem is you and I
know you and I. And we are our problem. You regarding our
salvation. Listen, regarding our salvation, God is not worrying
about it. He's not biting His nails. He's not wondering
exactly how it's going to work out. Oh my goodness. How's it
going to go for Jack? He's not thinking about it. Did you know
that? It's done. To God, it is done. He not only did it at the
cross who you're going to see today that your salvation and my
salvation was in His heart and mind and accomplished
positionally in Christ before the world was ever created. Only
God can do. That is your God that big? The God of the Bible
is. But in the meantime, you and I are in route. This is called
sanctification. It's kind of painful, and that is you and I
live with you and I. And I am my biggest problem. I'm convinced
of this from scripture. Michael, the Archangel. he can deal with
Satan. I can't. Satan's too strong for me. I have the name
of Jesus and I've been purchased by the blood of Christ. Thus I
am safe. Nothing can come to me unless it gets approved by the
Father first. But as I am in this flesh, I can't take on
Satan. He's an incredibly powerful demonic satanic entity.
He's for real. I don't have to. All I have to do is do what
every 3-year-old knows what to do, and that is get behind their
dad's kneecap. Have you ever seen a little kid when they're
scared, they just go right behind their parents' kneecap
and then they peek out from time to time to see how it's all
going, and make sure everything's going right. They
go right by. We are his children. He didn't tell us, you
know what? You got to get out there and fight your fight.
Maybe you'll make it. No, we fight the fight because He's the
one that's clothed us in the armor of God and He's the one
that has already told us the victory has already been taken
care of. Go out there and stand. I got you covered on this.
You're not on your own. Who shall bring a charge against
God's elect? It is God who justifies. We're going to run
through a few words right here, and it's the word who, look at
the word who A by the way, I'm probably pronouncing it wrong,
but the Greek word is, pou. Doesn't that sound like a who in
a moment? The kind of who's we're talking about here is,
pou. Well, what kind of, who's are they? Any a certain one?
Kind of who? That's who. Someone who, anyone in a generic sense,
which encompasses all any one or the many, A mob, a group
translation. Everybody, everybody, anybody. So watch
this. Everybody, anybody. The mob shall bring a charge against
me, against us, against God's elect. It's not going to work.
Now you know this. People will attack you. Have you not caught
onto this yet? People will attack you. People will say
things about you. Doesn't have to be true. People will say
things about you. Listen, just make sure that the things they
say about you aren't true. I had one pastor in my life. I don't
have a pastor anymore. My pastor died and people said, what are
you going to do? Pastor Chuck died. You need a new pastor? Not
possible. I've got Jesus. I'm waiting. I'm going to go see
Pastor Chuck later, but he's the only pastor I've ever known
who's going to replace him? I learned so much from him. One of
the things I learned from him was this, don't ever defend
yourself. I was under attack one time, totally unjustified. There
were some guys, so to speak, beating up on me and I asked
him, what do I do? And he said, read the book of Nehemiah. Have
a sword in one hand and a trow on the other. Stay at the work.
Don't come down, but you're going to have to defend yourself
with The Word of God. And I said, okay, how do I do that?
And he goes, just have the word of God. Have it. It will defend
you. He said, the moment you go to defend yourself, when people
attack you. God will let you defend yourself, and when that
happens, you're going to lose. Now, this is going to be true in
your heart as soon as I put it this way, if somebody says
something and you know it's not true, well guess what? God knows
it's not true. But if you run around or you answer back or you
tweet or you Facebook or you jump into that thing and you
respond, you've opened yourself up to Pandora's box and it's so
destructive, better to be silent and let God be your defense. I'm
telling you right now, that was some of the greatest advice I've
ever been given in life because the response emotionally is,
will I better set that record straight. You'll never set it
straight when you're trying to talk to lunatics, they can't be
set straight. The truth is this, whoever's attacking you, you
just need to say this. Father, what they're saying is not true.
Can you deal with that Father? And zip your lip. No more
talking about it. No matter what they're saying, let God be your
defense, because the moment you step up, God will let you and
that's not a good day. He doesn't need you to step in to
defend yourself because we are His children. Has He given us
the armament? Yes. To advance the gospel and to go into a dark
world? Yes. But God is our defense. And then the word bring
the word, bring means to bring infliction or to bring
harassment. Who's going to bring this against us? Listen, these
generic entities will bring harassment, will bring
pronouncements against us. And then the word charge. The word
charge a banking term meaning to call the loan. See, this is kind
of a weird word, isn't it? It means to demand sudden payment
for a debt. That's a powerful word. The world. Are you guys
listening? The world is out to intimidate us. When He says, who
shall bring a charge against God's elect? Notice it's them up
against Him. It's not them against us. They are the ones
that are attacking God. How is that true? Because I'm God's kid
and God is my Father. He's my defender. So when this loan call
comes up, what do you mean by that? Do you remember when you
bought a car or a house or I don't know, something? Fill in
the blank. If you signed the contract and you borrowed money
to do that, you never took, you know what? The fine print that's
like 17 pages that you assumed was okay and you signed it. Did
you know what you signed? You signed a document there that
said that you give the bank rights. Who loaned you the
money? You have given the bank rights to call that loan anytime
they want to. See what that mean. It means you've got 30
days to come up with all the money you owe the bank for your
home or they can get you out. If your home is not paid for.
That's what you and I are in right now. Pretty scary, right?
The world says this, we're calling the loan on you, meaning
we're calling you to account. Give an answer. This is the
accusation. Come back. Make your defense. We're giving you a few
moments to do it. The world will pressure you. This is happening
to students, it's happening to teachers, it's happening to
police officers, it's happening to nurses and to doctors, and
you fill in the blank. You'll do this in this world or, does this
not happen to God's kids? Is it not happening now? And God says,
I know this. You hear them. God would say, Jack, you hear them
speaking, but I'm listening. The innocence of God is our very
defense, and then that word elect simply means favored ones
chosen, ones the ones that God has selected. We studied this a
few weeks ago that God selects His children. Does that bother
you? The sovereign God. Some people will say, well, you know
what? I'm a Calvinist or I'm a hyper Calvinist, or I'm a 4.3 or
a 4.9er or a 3.7 Calvinist. Listen all this stuff, wait,
wait. Just calm down. Listen, here's the deal. God says, I
based on my foreknowledge predestined my children to be
mine. Based on foreknowledge. You want to unpack that. You
want to wrestle with it. Why would you want to wrestle with
that? I love it. If today you are saying to yourself, I want
to know Jesus, God's calling you. God's inviting you into His
kingdom. If you're saying, today I want to have a new conscience,
I want to be free from guilt and shame and I want to know I want
to live with God and I want to know that when I die, I'm going
to go see Him in heaven. God is calling you. And He calls those
based on his foreknowledge because God lives listen. He
lives in eternity. Nothing's going to happen for God. Things
are going to happen for us, but God lives in eternity. Isn't it
amazing? He lives in what we would say is the eternal now.
It's always now with God. There's no time where He is.
Eternal. But God knows throughout all of human time and
beyond of course, that in His foreknowledge, He predestined us
to be His children, and I revel in it. People want to argue
about it. We want to debate you on this. What? That some people
are chosen and some are not. Why would I debate you on this? God
says, based on His foreknowledge, He selects his
own. There's no problem there. If your god's really big,
there's no problem. Do you have free moral agency of choice? You
sure do. God gave that to you, but God also knew before the
universe was ever created, what kind of decision you would make
when the gospels presented to you. He doesn't learn anything,
but He sees all. He gets all the credit. He provides salvation.
His presence is heaven, and because of Satan and sin,
there's a hell. And hell is for a place that people do not want
God. They got to go somewhere in eternity. Those are the two
options. Smoking or non-smoking. That's your choice. The elect of
God. I want to read this to you, the elect of God. This gets kind
of fun. Get your pen out. This is kind of cool. The elect of
God are all those either Jew or Gentile having come to Christ.
And whom God is predestined to salvation based upon His eternal
foreknowledge. They are called the elect because the word
denotes having been determined beforehand or ordained. That is
God. Listen, having knowledge from eternity past or previously
or ahead of the physical universe or time. The elect.
Watch everybody. You have to watch my hands. This is the only
way I can do it. We'll go from right to left or left or right.
I should say all testament, if God's children or His elect.
Remember, God's doctrines never change. He never changes, so if
God's doctrine of elect is unchangeable, then let's look at
the Old Testament where the Old Testament believers called
saints. The answer is yes. Where the Old Testament believers
called the elect? The answer is yes. Noah, Daniel, Moses. How
about this? Two sets of brothers regarding God's elect. You ever
heard of Cain and Abel? Didn't God tell Cain if you just do
good, everything's going to be fine? Cain did wrong. Cain
murdered his brother. Have you ever heard of Jacob and Esau?
They're called Saints. Book of Daniel chapter 7 and chapter 9
talks about saints. Friends, I hate to burst your bubble for
some of you, but saints are not made in Rome and they're not
decided on by cardinals and popes. There's none of that in
the Bible. Sorry. A man, a human cannot do that. Only God makes
sinners, saints and He does it by the power of his spirit and
by His atonement. Now, watch right now today our day and age,
this is called the church age. For the last 2000 years, the
church age or the bride of Christ. Are we not called
saints? To the saints that are at Philippi, to the saints that
are at Rome, to the saints that are at Corinth. We are called
saints. Are we sinless? No, no. Saints are. What makes someone a
saint is the object to which they have placed their trust for
redemption. That's Christ. Saints of the Old Testament
saints. Presently, you and I are there saints in the tribulation
period, absolutely tribulation saints, did you know that? In
fact, the tribulation saints, the Bible tells us that Satan
will exercise his power over the saints of God in that seven year
tribulation period of time, and he will kill them. He will kill
the saints of God. The Bible tells us during the tribulation
period. Here's what's amazing, the Old Testament, are you guys
still tracking? Yes. The Old Testament saints like David for
example, they're given an eternity. White robes. Did you
know David's going to wear a white robe in eternity? Did you
know the tribulation? Saints? The Bible says they have to be
faithful into death and they will be, those that are His and
upon their death they're given white robes. Did you know that
there's a group of saints. There's only one group of saints
that do not get robes. It's the bride of Christ, the church. She
gets fine linen, clean and bright. It's a wedding gown,
completely different. According to the Bible, you and I are
engaged to Christ. Here's the beautiful thing about this.
God's elections based upon God's own nature, if you have an
understanding a little bit of God's nature, you'll have no
problem with having God do what he does based on foreign
knowledge because God is love. The Bible says. He's love. The
Bible doesn't say that God loves. Of course he loves, but
His actual nature is defined. For example, God is holy, God is
light and God is love. He loves.
JACK: Well, listen, God is holy. God is light and God is love.
This is what the Bible says of what and who His nature is just
like you have a particular personality, God's personality
is holy. It is light and it is love. Those are things that you
and I must have, and what more do you want? Think about it. All
the things of this world are starting to evaporate. Would you
not agree? The stocks, the value, the dreams of this or
that of the world, it's evaporating. That's okay. Don't
panic. There is nothing. Remember nothing that can
separate you and I from the love of God. That is a promise that
God gave you, gave me. We didn't make it up. So how awesome our
God is to say such things. Though you and I live in a world
of hate and anger, we see war and pain and rioting taking
place. Listen, you cannot hear or read these things and not be
challenged by the very love and light and holiness of God to
live out our life like Jesus lived. If you're an unbeliever
today, that is, if you're not trusting in Christ, listen. If
you don't have peace for your eternity, you cannot hear these
things and say that God does not care and God does not love and
God is not holy. You cannot say that after now knowing this, I
encourage you to give your heart to Christ right now, right where
you're at. It's a very simple prayer like this, Lord Jesus, I
believe from what I've read and what I've heard, that you are
the Lord who died on the cross for me, wasn't a good man. It
was the God man, the son of God, and then He rose again from the
dead for my justification. Christ not only died for me and
paid the dead of my sin, my adultery or violence or anger or
bank robbery or meanness, lying, cheating, stealing, but He rose
again from the dead to guarantee eternity for me, and I receive
you as my Lord and Savior forgive you of my sins. I
receive your forgiveness. Lord Jesus. If you've prayed that
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myths and giving clear scriptural insights about the
next event. On the prophetic calendar, Dr. Ryrie makes it
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