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The best is yet to come." In what America? Listen, "America,
its greatest days are ahead." Have you read your Bible? We
kick God in the teeth. We throw Him out in the street, we
replace Him with other gods, and then we have
the audacity to say the best is yet to come.
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JACK: Listen, friends, so many people talk about the good old
days, or we hear this a lot. "The best is yet to come." Well,
it depends on what you're talking about. But when God says
in His Word that there is a heaven and that there is a
forever, then truly for those of us who believe in the Lord Jesus
Christ, then the best is yet to come. But do you know that?
Listen, God is so very good. In fact, we're going to be learning
today about the sovereignty of God. God's good, good
sovereignty, if I can put it that way. Why is that important?
Well, God's good sovereignty is rooted in His character. Listen,
He's got a character that is anchored in justice, and He is
got a character that establishes His purposes. And He reveals
them to us in the Bible. In fact, Revelation chapter 19 is
where we're going to be verses 6 to 16. That'd be our main focus
today. And what is that? Well, you need to get ready to receive
what God's Word has to say to you, regarding this awesome
truth. The best is yet to come, it's called forever. It's called
heaven, and it is a world that exists just beyond our life.
It's true life on the other side, and the Lord is waiting to
hear from you today. So in the meantime, let's hear from Him.
Let's grab the Bible. Let's get in and
let's take some notes. The best is yet to come.
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JACK: John said, "I heard and as it were, the voice of a great
multitude as the sound of many waters and the sound of mighty
thunderings saying Hallelujah for the Lord God omnipotent
reigns. Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory for
the marriage of the lamb." Who's the lamb? Jesus. "Has come and
His wife," who's his wife? The church, "His wife has made
herself ready, And to her it was granted to be a raid," in mark
it down, "Fine linen, clean and bright." Listen, Old Testament
saints, they get a white robe, the Bible tells us. The
tribulation saints during the seven year tribulation period,
that's yet coming, they get white robes. There's only one
group of God's saints who get fine linen, clean and bright.
It's the church, the bride of Christ, the wife of the lamb.
That's pretty fun stuff. That's pretty cool, watch this. She's
made herself ready verse 8, "And to her it was granted to be
arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright for the fine linen is the
righteous acts of the saints." Verse 9, "Then He said to me,
Write: Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of
the lamb." These are going to be the Old Testament saints. These
are going to be the tribulation saints. Right now the Bible
says Jesus is preparing for us a house for His bride. It's been
2000 years and He's a carpenter. It's going to be amazing. The
Bible here says, ''And He said to me, these are the true
sayings of God." Next verse, "And I fell at his feet to
worship him, but he said to me, see that you do not do that. I'm
your fellow servant and of your brethren who have the testimony
of Jesus." This is a guy that's been, we don't know who he is,
but he's been redeemed with us as well. "Worship God: For the
testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." John says, "Now, I
saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on
him was called Faithful and True and in," listen and "In
righteousness, He judges and makes war." Ooh, you mean like
the fierceness of the wrath, the rope that is stained. Oh, watch
verse 12, "His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on his head
were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except
Himself. He's clothed with a robe dipped in blood and His
name is called the Word of God and the armies," remember, you
read the word "Sabaoth" here in Romans 9. That's what the word
means, Sabaoth, not Sabbath. Sabaoth, is the Lord of
heaven's armies. Wow. "Clothed in fine linen." There you go
again, there she is. "White and clean. Followed Him on white
horses. Now out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it
He should strike the nations. He Himself will rule them with a
rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the
fierceness and," what? Wrath. "Wrath of Almighty God, and He
has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS
AND," What? "LORD OF LORDS," Who is that? It's Jesus. Here's
what's fun, please write this down. It's not in the notes.
This should blow your mind. The second coming, you look at
Isaiah 63, Revelation chapter 19 and the marriage supper of the
lamb and all of that stuff. Jesus is splattered in blood,
but He is also at His wedding. What's going on here? Isaiah 26
verses 19 to 21. Write it down. It's not on the screen. Isaiah
26:19 to 21. The Bible tells us that God will say, "Come up
here, come to me and hide yourself as it were for a little
moment. Enter into the chambers of marriage, the chambers, the
honeymoon suites, and close the doors behind you, for I will
come out of my place to punish all the inhabitants of the earth
for their sins." Where were your sins punished? On the cross.
Notice the timing of that. Come up here. Hide yourself just a
little bit like this. Come up here. Go freshen up in the
wedding chamber, you who wear fine line and clean and bright.
I'll be right back. And Jesus the Bible says "Will go," Listen
"He will go and fight for Israel during that seven year
tribulation period. He will go and fight for them as God fought
in the day of battle." That is awesome. Think of that. What a
powerful, all consuming, amazing God that we know. Also this His
salvation is exclusive regarding His awesome glory. And verse 24,
the Bible says, "Even us who he called not of the Jews only, but
also of the Gentiles." Just exclusively this. What does this
mean? It doesn't sound exclusive, you just said Jews
and Gentiles. Oh, no, no, no. It's exclusive because Christ is
the salvation. He is the Messiah. Notice this, I love
this. It says here in verse 24 that what's exclusive is that
the salvation belongs to those who believe. You want to ride a
horse with Jesus, coming out of heaven, with fine white linen,
in an army. That's wild. Warrior princess for sure, and He
strikes the earth with His judgment. Well, the Bible here
says in verse 24, "He will save both Jew and Gentile," In this
room right here, just last service, I met some Jews who
have come to Messiah, Jesus, Yeshua as savior. By the way,
that's happening more and more since October 7th. More and more
Jews are coming to Christ, at least in California, but I've
heard all over the world. Why? God's getting ready to start to
fulfill His Word with His people. Anybody who teaches
replacement theology should be marked as a heretic. Get out of
there, get away from them. Oh, no, no. There is no Israel. The
church is Israel. Run, for your spiritual life. God's kept His
promises to Israel and He will. And now the globe is churning
with anti-semitic belief. Why? It's demonic. It's exactly how
it's supposed to go according to God's plan. The world will turn
its back on Israel. Did you not know that in the last days
antisemitism will rise, hatred, Jesus warned both the church and
the Jew who believes in Him. There'll be those who will seek
to kill you and they think they're doing God a service.
We're living in times like that. The hatred of Christianity's
rising rapidly, in our world. All this stuff was prophesied in
scripture. Don't panic. Just know this, man this Word is
true. I'm going to get behind this Word. I'm going to get into
this Word. And this Word is the Word of God Himself. Remarkable.
The Bible tells us in Galatians chapter 3:26, Galatians 3:26,
the Bible says, "For you are all sons of God." Well, that appears
in Romans 9, "Through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you
as were baptized into Christ," that as you entered into Him,
not water into Him "Have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor
Greek. There is neither slave nor free. There is neither male
nor female. There is neither for all are one in Christ Jesus."
One. Isn't that amazing? The Jew and the Gentiles in Christ are
one. That's exclusive. Number 5, we're going to go quick. Verses
26 to 27 is the evidence that has gone out, about God's good,
good sovereignty. And the first thing is, as we mentioned
earlier, look at this evidence of His invitation verse 25, and
"He says also in Hosea," the prophet Hosea, "I will
call them my people who were not my people and her beloved who
was not beloved." What does this mean? Let me tell you and then
we'll move on. It's beautiful. God is speaking through the
prophet Hosea to the Jewish people and He's saying, "You're
my people." And then when they rebelled, He said, "You're not
my people." And then when they repented, He said, "You're my
people." Listen Logic course 101. If He says to them
initially "You are my people" and then insisted them later,
"You're not my people," and then to the same people, He said,
"You're not, you are my people." Then we wind up learning
something about the full counsel of God. God chose Israel and the
Jews to be His people. And He says to them, "I have these
everlasting promises that I've given, but when you don't walk
with me, you're not my people. My people walk this way. When
you rebel and go the other way, just want you to know you're not
my people." They are His people because he's going to have them
experience a return. But He's basically saying what you say in
a family, listen, "You're not even acting like you belong to
this family. What's wrong with you?" Now, does the kid belong
to the family? Yes. Is he acting like he belongs to the family?
No. This is a promise of God. He's not changing His mind. He's
basically saying this, "When you walk with me, I'll bless you
When you walk away from me, I'm not going to bless you." And
that's true by the way, for the Jewish believer and the Gentile
believer. Nonetheless, true. And then this goes on verses 25 to
26, The evidence of His generosity, "I will call them my
people who were not My people and her beloved, who was not
beloved and it shall come to pass in the place where it was
said to them, you are not My people. There they shall be
called the sons of the living God." Look at that, quoting
Hosea and book of Romans speaking about both areas or
both peoples to be saved, the Gentile world and the Jewish
world, at the center is Christ. "I'll save the Jew," He says,
and "I'll save the Gentile. Jew, turn around, walk with me in
obedience to my Word. Believe on me. Gentile, you never had a
God, you've never worshiped me, and I'm calling you to come and
be my people also." And it's beautiful. He says, "I'll call
you sons of God, children of God." What an amazing God we
have. Tremendous. Here we end with this. Number 6 is verses 27
to 28, and that is His gathering, a gathering of a
people for Himself. Verse 27 says this, that He has been
gathering this to me is kind of fun. "Isaiah also cries out
concerning Israel: Though the number of the children of Israel
be as the sand of the sea, The remnant will be saved." A small
amount of them will turn to me. It's going to happen. It's not a
lot, but God says "It's going to happen." Gathering to Himself of
people. He always has been gathering Himself of people.
Instead of what I said earlier, Adam and Eve being thrown in the
trash heap, did He not start to gather of people by redeeming
them, by offering up an animal? He did. The second thing is
this, is He not gathering now? God's gathering people now. He's
extending the offer of salvation today. He always has been. He is
today. When the Bible says in verse 28, this is a remarkable
verse, "For He will finish the work and cut it short in
righteousness." What does that mean? That means He's going to
finish it in righteousness, but it's going to be a short work.
Something's going to happen that it's going to bring it to its
rapid conclusion, because the Lord will make a short work upon
the earth. I know it sounds crazy, but you and I have been
here 2000 years after the cross, several thousand years before
the cross, for thousands of years since Adam and Eve has
fallen, and God says, "I'm going to do a short work on the
earth." Friends cheer up. What does the Bible say? "A thousand
years with God is as though it's one day." Right now you and I
are like, "Oh man, come on this drive me crazy." Put that up
against eternity, friends where you and I are going in Christ
Jesus. The Bible says, "This lifespan will be but a vapor
that dissipates like that." Aren't you glad? Think about
that. What a beautiful wakeup call that is. This is not it.
This is not all there is. The Bible says in Matthew 28:19,
we're all familiar with this. This might come as a shock to
you. I don't mean to hurt anybody's feelings. Exactly, but
do we teach evangelism courses here? Absolutely. And you should
attend. They're fantastic. Do you know why we teach you
evangelism courses? Well rephrase. Do you know
why I as pastor see to it that we offer
evangelism courses? Anybody know? You're quiet.
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JACK: Okay, that's good. Yes. You might be shocked to find out
that my job is not, my job, as a pastor teacher is not to
evangelize. My job is to teach you the Word of God so that you
go and evangelize. "Well, don't we hire people to evangelize?"
No. This is how it works. Ready? "Go therefore and make disciples
of all the nations. Teach them how to be a Christ follower,
baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy
Spirit. Teaching them to observe all things that I command you.
And lo or behold, I'm with you always, even to the end of the
age," Amen, Jesus said. Listen, we go through the Bible to get
the Bible in you, so that the Bible, because it's pretty
amazing, the Bible gets inside of you and then stand back.
Somebody get a fire extinguisher because that person's going to
start blowing up with the Bible. They're just going to start
percolating. It's just going to start happening and they're
going to tell people. If we make disciples, evangelism will
happen. And I'm not knocking it. You can host crusades all day
long, but you got to make disciples out of those who get
saved. They've got to get into the doctrines. Why? Because they
go out and they'll eventually reach more people than any
crusade could ever. Making disciples, knowing how to follow
Jesus. To this, we end. He will be gathering people Verse 29.
"And as Isaiah said before, 'Unless the Lord of Sabaoth,"
the Lord of heaven's armies, "Had left us a seed," a little
fragment of believers, "We would've become likened to Sodom
and we would've been likened unto Gomorrah," meaning we
would've been toast by the wrath of God. But God, left a remnant.
Friends He will be gathering. Imagine, when it comes to
salvation, and what this world is going to experience, I can
honestly say almost sounds like a political, what do you call
it? Slogan. I can't stand when people say, "The best is still
to come. The best is yet to come." In what? America...
Listen, "America, its greatest days are ahead." Have you read
your Bible? We kick God in the teeth. We throw Him out in the
street, we replace Him with other gods, and then we have the
audacity to say, "The best is yet to come." Really? I don't
think so. You can't do that to Him. He's actually real. No, but
I can tell you the church, the best is yet to come. Where you
and I are going forever and ever and ever and ever and ever is so
amazing and so beautiful, that you look at a day like this,
stormy, rainy skies, clouds part, sun comes out, snow on the
mountains, hills are green, flowers in bloom, birds singing.
Yes, but when will the message be over? Right now. Right now.
God is so good. He's so beautiful.
He's so wonderful. You need to know Him.
JACK: Well, listen, isn't it amazing that from Genesis to
Revelation, there is an overriding theme of the Bible.
Obviously there are many themes that are specific to certain
books of the Bible. There are certain highlights. There are
certain biblical characters that present certain issues and
moments in history. Well, the fact of the matter is my
friends, this is the overriding doctrine of the Bible and it is
salvation. That should lighten your heart. Salvation comes to
all those who believe in Him. Now, God paid the price on the
cross for all of our sins. The Bible tells us that, "Jesus died
on the cross for the sins of the whole world," but the whole
world doesn't benefit from that. How do we know that? Because
once the price was paid, the Bible says, "It is a gift." And
when Christ rose again from the dead, that profound announcement
to the world guaranteed for you and I, our forgiveness of sins,
and our salvation in Jesus. But here's the deal. "For God so
loved the world that He gifted his only begotten son, that
whosoever would believe on Him, would not perish but have
everlasting life." So friends, listen, here's the thing, the
price was paid. He extends it. That's called a gift. But you've
got to receive Him, and I'm going to ask you right now, if
you would receive Him, it would require this of you. "Dear God,
I come to you naked in my morality. I come to you naked of
any good works. I come to you Lord with sin in hand. I'm
guilty. And I know that you died on the cross for me, and I want
to know you personally Lord Jesus. I want to know as you are
God, and the Bible declares the existence of God, then God live
in my life. Holy Spirit come into my life." And if you've
prayed that prayer, friends Christ has heard you, and God
has answered your prayer. And in a few moments you're going to
experience a newness of life, God's going to start speaking to
you. So listen, if you've made that prayer before God, we want
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with Jesus Christ through the Bible, God's Word. Friends,
until next time, may God richly bless you.
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leadership that apply to every area of life. Through compelling
storytelling. Dr. Leman shares seven powerful secrets, that
will help you lead like the Good Shepherd does, including
understanding the people you lead, assessing their strengths,
building trust, ensuring safety, providing direction,
implementing correction, leading with compassion. Personally
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