Gospel—Bob Thonney
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Let's start our meeting tonight with #23 under him sheet.
Behold, behold the Lamb of God.
On the cross for us. He shed his precious blood on the cross.
O hear the overwhelming cry, Eli Lama Sabachthani, draw near and see the Savior die on the cross.
On the cross. On the cross.
And all the graves of light.
That's life of you, Chase all night.
On the Grove. On the cross.
It reigns for you, but that's your call.
Oh my God.
The cross.
What is the time of golden Day?
While Jesus.
Suffered.
On the cross, on the ground.
Let's sing one more song #37 on our hymn sheet.
The gospel of thy grace, my stubborn heart has won.
The Gospel.
Of my.
Hand.
Around the generation, however.
I'm in life Regency in California.
I've made life.
Bring me.
Up to the translator.
And my family and.
So Jesus have gone to cross 1.
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I awful to my heart. I was forever lost.
Lord, for another treasure.
Let's pray.
Our God and our Father, we're so thankful for another time to open Thy word and speak of the gospel, the good news of salvation for a dying, ruined on the way to judgment world, our Father.
We're not sure about everybody here tonight.
There could well be some who have made a profession of faith in the Lord Jesus but are not real, and if the door of salvation swings shut tonight, they would be left behind. Father, it's way too serious, and we ask that Thy Spirit would have liberty to strive with anybody that's in that condition.
We pray for blessing Lord on Thy precious Word wherever it goes out. Give thanks for these moments together in the name of our Lord Jesus, Amen.
A week ago I was in Mexico City.
At a conference down there.
Every year they give the children in those Mexican conferences a chapter to learn by heart. I mean the whole chapter, not just a verse or two. And the chapter this year happened to be John 3. Thrilled me just to sit in the meeting and took most of the Sunday school to listen to the verses because it was about 20 verses each child said. But.
It was a blessing to my soul to listen to them, learn those verses and think that they're stored away in their hearts.
I'd like to speak there in that chapter. John 3:00 tonight.
Because the work of salvation, I'd like to speak of it in two different ways. One, the work of God for us and #2 The work of God in us. God has done a work for us, and he wants to do a work in US. And so in this chapter, we're going to read.
A.
Few verses here and down to verse 21.
I would like to say that I requested a mic where I could walk around.
Because I find we preach the gospel in the prison too, and I have sometimes some of the same problems as I do in a meeting like this where I see young people and others talking away while we're speaking. And if you're going to get the blessing that God wants you to get.
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You've got to listen. It's tough to talk and listen at the same time. In fact, most of the time it doesn't work.
So I like to walk around the room and look at people who are evidently not listening. You know, these big mics here, they're hiding some of those people back there, so.
I might walk around and see if I get your attention. It's important to listen, not so much to me because I'm just another person, but to God. He has something to say to you, and His words are truth and they are life. And so we want to ask you to listen. There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus.
A ruler of the Jews the same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him.
Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher. Come from God for no man.
Can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him? Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. Nicodemus said unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born?
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit.
He cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh.
And that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee.
Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, and can't, but canst not know, canst not tell whence it cometh.
And whither it goeth, so is everyone that is born of the spirit. Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, we speak that we do know and test. Testify that we have seen, and you receive not our witness. If we have told you earthly things, and you believe not, how shall you believe if I tell you of heavenly things, and no man hath ascended up to heaven?
That he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man, which is in heaven.
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, Even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world.
But that the world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light has come into the world. And men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light.
Lest his deeds should be reproved, but he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Like to speak first of all about the work of God for us, because it is extremely important to understand that God takes the question of sin extremely seriously. Maybe you think, well, I'm not that bad of a Sinner.
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It doesn't matter how bad of a Sinner you are if you've only committed one little white lie, a sin that a little white lie, that is enough to keep you out of heaven forever. God takes it extremely serious because sin calls in question God's holy character, and if there is one little sin that he passes over, it would call in question his holy character. Absolutely impossible that that will happen.
Every single sin that has ever been committed by mankind on this planet.
Will receive it's just penalty from the hand of God, no exceptions.
No, God takes in extremely seriously, and so if he's going to work blessing you in your life, He has to have a righteous basis upon which to do it. And that's why when we come to verse 14 of this chapter that the Lord Jesus says as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness.
Even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have.
Eternal life.
Where was the Son of Man lifted up? What is he referring to when he talks about this? He's talking about an event that we call the Cross of Golgotha. It was when God's beloved Son who came into this world, and you all know the story. I believe it's nothing new, but it is important to go over it so that we keep it fresh in our minds.
God sent his Son into this world. He was born into this world through a woman who we know as Mary. She was virgin. She had had no relations with any man. That is important because it was God's Son, not like us who are born, every one of us by a human father and a human mother. Jesus had no human father.
His father was God. He was born miraculously through a virgin and came into this world. And when the Angel announced to the Virgin Mary that she was to be the mother of the Lord Jesus, the Angel said to her, That holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. He was holy.
At His birth you and I are sinners. At our birth we inherit a sin nature, and it's not long before that sin nature starts to develop, evident sometimes in little babies even. They don't get their milk on time. They holler and scream because they don't have it and they want it. Well, the Lord Jesus was completely sinless.
He was holy at his birth, not only because he was God, but because he was holy humanity, tremendous truth, and therefore he could represent us to God as to the question of our sins. And so in time, after 33 1/2 years of life down here in this world, he was condemned.
Unjustly to the Death of the Cross by Pontius Pilate.
And taken outside the city of Jerusalem. And there they stretched out his hands, those hands that have done so many works.
Of mercy.
And blessing to people, they nailed them to the cross, nailed his feet there, and they hung him between heaven and earth. The Lord Jesus was hung on that cross about 9:00 in the morning. The way we count time, He died about 3:00 in the afternoon. For six hours he hung on that cross.
An abject agony. You can imagine what it must be to have nails through your hands and feet.
And hang there hour after hour, not only were the physical sufferings, but there were the sufferings of his soul, he said.
Reproach has broken my heart and I'm full of heaviness and I look for some to take pity. And there was none and for comforters but I found none.
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They said he was the Son of God. If he's the Son of God, let God deliver him, for he's delighted in him. Did God deliver him?
God didn't come down and miraculously deliver him off that cross. Didn't God love his?
Yes, he loved him.
Or then we can never know. But you know what, He left you and me as well. There was only one way that you and I could be saved is that somebody pay the price of our redemption, pay for those sins that we had committed. And so the Lord Jesus suffered that reproach, broke his heart. You know, sometimes a broken heart is harder to take than a.
The physical suffering. But then we want to talk about one other type of suffering that Jesus went through that was very necessary if you and I were to be forgiven our sins. And it was in those sufferings that took place from 12 noon to three in the afternoon when everything got dark on Golgotha's hill outside of Jerusalem and according to Isaiah's prophecy.
Jehovah laid on him the iniquity of us all. If I was going to be forgiven my sins, somebody that God accepts had to pay the price in full. And that's just what happened on that day. God took those filthy sins of mine and laid them.
On Jesus head.
And then the full storm of divine judgment broken all its fury.
On his head for three solid hours the waves and billows of divine judgment rolled over him so that God could have a righteous basis to forgive this guilty Sinner his sins.
You never understand it. How could he have such love for somebody?
That had offended him so much, but that's the truth of the gospel.
God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son.
As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, Even so.
Must the Son of Man be lifted up and Jesus was lifted up there to pay the price in full for three hours? There's no cry recorded on Mount Calvary.
Silence as the waves and billows of divine judgment roll over him.
At the end.
There's an awful cry, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? You know, the Lord Jesus and all his life down here, whenever he spoke to God, he always said Father, because God was his father.
But in this time he did not say, Father said, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? In the book of the Psalms he says, Thou art my God, from my mother's belly. He was the one that had sustained him as a man down here in this world, and now that one turns his face from him and abandons him in the moment of his most awful suffering.
And he says it is finished.
He bows his head and dies. He gave his life. He died.
He pronounced before he died that the work is finished. It was a divine person pronouncing.
That the work was finished.
God accepted his payment because the third day Jesus was raised from the dead. After he died, he was pierced by a Roman soldier and blood flowed out of his sight.
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Because without shedding of blood there is no remission.
And then they took him off that cross and they buried him. The third day, an Angel came down to push the stone away from the mouth of The Cave where he was buried, not to let him out, but to show everybody that he wasn't there any longer. It was risen. God was satisfied, completely satisfied with the payments that Jesus made.
And therefore he raised him from the dead. And Jesus as a man tonight is in the glory of God, sitting there at God's right hand. I say, if God had not been satisfied, if there had been one sin that still remained to be atoned for, God would not have raised him from the dead. But the work was finished, thank God.
And God hasn't set him as his own right hand. I can say to you tonight, the work of redemption that Jesus did for us is complete. There remains nothing more to be done.
What remains now is a work of God in you, and that's what we were reading about at the first part of this chapter. We're talking about Nicodemus.
A ruler of the Jews. A religious man.
And he comes to Jesus by night.
Don't know why he came at night, at least he came. Thank God he came, that's the important thing. But he starts talking to Jesus in a nice way, saying we know that thou art a teacher, come from God, for no man can do these miracles that thou dost except God be with him.
Nice observations, Nicodemus.
But the Lord Jesus responds to him, something that kind of counters everything says Verily, verily, I send to thee, except the man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. In other words, Nicodemus, all your religious experience.
All your position in the Jewish nation has nothing to do to help you to get into the Kingdom of God. If you want to even see the Kingdom of God, you must be born again.
Everyone that's here tonight has been born once. You wouldn't be here if you hadn't been. We're born once, but we're born of the human family.
That is tainted with sin from Adam on. The whole human family is tainted with sin.
And that's why you see Gray hairs on a lot of people's heads, mine and quite a few others. That's why we get sick, that's why we die, is because soon has tainted the human race. This life that I have in my natural body is not going to last very long.
Adam lived to 930 years.
My mother got the 100 years old last year. Missus Thompson is about to get to 100 years, she said next month. I think it was. That's wonderful. But 100 years in comparison to 930? Hey, what happened to the human race?
It's totally degenerated because of sin. We can't hardly make it up to 100, just a very few make it.
But we need a new life, and that's what he's talking about here. Nicodemus found this difficult to understand. How can a man be born again when he is old?
And he entered the second time into his mother's womb and be born. He was thinking of it in the natural way. But the Lord is not talking about a natural birth here. He's talking about a spiritual birth. Notice verse 5.
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Jesus answered, Verily, verily I sent to thee, Except the man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.
Water and the Spirit, What is he talking about?
The water is not baptism. Many people think it's baptism, but it's not what we're talking about here. Let's turn. Don't lose your place there. But to see what the water represents, let's turn to what?
The apostle Peter has to say in first Peter chapter one and verse 23.
He makes it very clear what the water is.
First, Peter 123 Dean, born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away.
The word of the Lord endureth forever, and this is the word.
Which by the gospel is preached unto you. So the water is the word of God.
And that's why we're saying, you young people, you older ones too, listen to the Word of God, how important it is to let that word.
Get right down into your soul. I'd love to see it when people really listen. Seriously listen to the word of God, because the Word of God is.
Living. And as you listen to it, it imparts life to the dead. Lord Jesus says in chapter 5 of John's Gospel, The hour cometh, and now is when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they which here shall live.
Do dead people here?
There's a corpse up here on this platform, and I hollered and hollered and hollered. That dead corpse is not gonna hear me ever.
As long as I'm hollering at it. But we're not talking about a human being. We're talking about the voice of the Son of God. And when the Son of God speaks, the dead here, talking about the spiritually dead. But we know even if I'm physically dead.
The dead here because he cried out, Lazarus come out of his tomb and Lazarus came out, he heard the voice of the Son of God. Oh, how wonderful it is. The water is the word of God. And so he says in verse five of our chapter 3.
Accept a man be born of water and of the Spirit. He cannot enter into the Kingdom of God, so the Spirit of God takes the word of God.
And imparts life to souls that are dead in trespasses and sins. What is your relationship to the Lord Jesus tonight?
Maybe you've been brought up in a Christian home.
But do you have life in Christ?
Or if you just made a profession of faith so serious to think that the Lord comes again, there may be some left behind.
I just cringe when I think about it. Of the Lord's 12 apostles.
One was fake.
Is there a fake here tonight? Where are you?
Where are you?
Come on, you've got to get this thing straightened out before the Lord comes, because you're going to get left behind and there will be no more chance for you.
Oh how important it is to get it straight. One of the 12 apostles was fake. He had all the rest of the apostles fooled and the Lord said one of you is going to betray me. They had no clue who the guy was, who the one was. Judas Iscariot is in hell tonight. Terrible to think about it.
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If one of twelve were unreal, how many are unreal in this room? I say that to make you examine your heart. Sometimes, you know, we take the things of God very superficially, and it's not that way today. You've got to be serious. We're getting down to the time when Jesus is coming again. You've got to be real with God.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit.
It's not a matter of you having to do something to be born again. You can't make yourself be born again.
Then why does the Lord say to him, you must be born again?
Because you must be born again if you're going to enter the Kingdom of God.
None of us.
Have decided to be born the first time into our families. That was our parents decision.
When it comes to being born again, that's not your decision either. Or you say I made a decision to accept the Lord as my Savior. That may be true, but you know why you made that decision? Because what God wanted to have children and He sent His word and the Spirit of God has implied that word. The only question I have for you tonight here.
If you're not real with God, is are you listening to the Word of God? I ask you to let His Word penetrate your heart tonight. It is extremely important to listen because it is that word that He takes to impart new life to.
Those that are spiritually dead.
You know, it's not a matter of trying to clean up your act.
For the people in South America, sometimes they use an illustration.
Say hey, we're going to go out into the countryside.
And out there in the countryside, there's a big.
Mud hole. And in that mud hole, there's a bunch of animals rooting around.
What kind of animals do you think that would be?
It wouldn't be sheep. You know what I think?
Huh. Could be. Huh, could be.
I honestly don't think it could be.
The reason is that sheep don't like mud holes.
But I agree with you. You know, they're pigs. They're pigs.
That's their nature. When a mother pig has its piglets, you don't have to teach them. Hey, go over to the Meadow. They go there by themselves. Why? Because that's their nature. That's what they like.
OK, let's pull a pig out of the mud hole. Let's clean him up, rush him down and tie him up in here so he doesn't get out into the mud again. We change that peg.
We've changed them on the outside, haven't we? But we haven't changed them on the inside. He's got the same desires. And so as soon as he gets loose, he's gonna go right back to the mud hole again. Why? That's his nature.
We all have a thin nature. We sin because we like to sin. Maybe you like a certain kind of sin. I like a different kind of sin. But we sin because we're sinners by nature.
And sometimes people clean up nicely. They put on a nice tie and suit jacket and and they look like a religious person.
But inside they're just the same as they were before.
They're sinners by nature. They need to be born again.
OK, let's take that illustration of the pig and say we're going to do an operation here. This is not possible, but we're going to suppose it is. We're going to put this pig to sleep, we're going to operate on it, and we're going to put into that pig a nature of a sheep. Sheep like nice, clean pasture. That's where they like to graze. Sometimes a sheep might fall into the mud, like you say, but it's not where it likes to be.
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But we're gonna put a sheep nature into this pig now, and OK, we saw him up and wake him up again. Now is he going to go back to the mud hole? Why not?
Because he has a different nature now, doesn't he? And it's not a matter you young people of people, you, you think that your dad and your mom say you can't do this and you can't do that. Look, if you are born again into God's family, you will have a new nature, a nature that wants to please God, a nature that loves to listen to the word of God and nature that wants to pray.
And that's why sometimes when you don't see that in young people who say they're Christians, you wonder.
If they got it straight yet, or if they haven't truly been born again.
Oh, how important it is to be born again. Ye must be born again. Marvel not that I send to you. Ye must be born again.
So that's the work of God in you. There's a work of God for you, and there's a God work of God in you, and God wants to bring you into blessing. Where are you in connection with these things that we've spoken about?
I want to use the rest of the meeting to talk about something I find extremely interesting, and that is where we are living in the present day. What's happening in this world indicates that we are getting close to what Christians call the Lord's Second coming. He came once.
2000 years ago.
He's coming again before he left.
After he died, or I should say it was before he died, he said to his his disciples, He says if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again.
And since that time, He has not come again yet. He is coming again. And you know, the Lord's coming is in two phases. And I want to talk briefly about those two phases because it has to do.
With everybody here in this room, you must meet Jesus. There will be no way to avoid Him.
If you do not accept them as your personal Savior, you will meet Him as your judge. Every human being that has ever lived on the face of this planet will meet up with Jesus sooner or later. And so it is extremely important that you understand where we are. We're getting right down to the end. We live in tremendously solemn times as I travel around and see the changes that are taking place.
I don't know if we're aware of the fact that I really believe that things are going to change dramatically in our world.
In short time can't set dates. There's a man that says saw billboard over Louisville, KY on the way down, says Judgment Day 21St of May 9, 2011.
People take advantage of the fact that it is getting close to the time to do stuff like that.
And it's going to disillusion people. And that's what Satan is in the business of doing, of disillusioning people. Be careful what you believe. Believe God. He cannot lie so you can believe Him. Sometimes we don't understand him real well and that's why we should read and meditate His word. But I would like to go over to 1St Thessalonians chapter 4 to talk about the first part of the.
Lord's second Coming.
It's going to happen.
At one of these least expected moments, Jesus is going to come. And here the apostle Paul received a word from the Lord.
To tell just how it's going to take place verse 15 of first thessalonians 4 this we say unto you, by the word of the Lord, that we.
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Which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent or go before them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God. And the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air.
And so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. This is what we expect at any moment. There is no sign, absolutely no sign to indicate when it will take place.
It could happen at a moment's notice. Says the Lord is going to descend from heaven with a shout, with a voice of the Archangel, with the trump of God.
I understand that where the shout is in military expression in the figure speeches and military commander coming out of his barracks and giving a shout and all the soldiers jumping to attention throughout the barracks.
That's what's going to happen. Jesus is going to come with a shout, and that shout will awake all those who have died in faith in Christ from the beginning of time. They will be raised from their tombs, or wherever they are in the sea, or wherever they've died in their.
Uh, bodies have decayed.
And then says the dead in Christ shall be raised 1St. And so that's what's going to happen. The dead will be raised first, the ones that have died with faith in God from the beginning of time. And then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with the Lord. That word caught up is the word rapture. And it's not in our English Bible and the Spanish. It is in the Bible, but it.
Is the word rapture to be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air? And so shall we ever be with the Lord going to happen?
Ready or not, brethren, it's going to happen one of these moments.
I sometimes think we get so busy with our lives.
And maybe running down the street trying to get that office before it closes.
And we lift our foot up one more time to take another step, and instead of stepping on the street, we step under the cloud to meet the Lord Jesus.
Ready. Oh, how it challenges my heart. I must say that so often I kind of get out of sorts. But when I think that he's coming at any moment, oh brethren, let's be ready.
Let the Lord Jesus is coming.
At the end of the great tribulation with his people.
To reign supreme over this world. And let's just look at a couple of verses in Revelation that indicate this chapter one first of all.
Revelation chapter one and verse 7. Behold, he cometh with clouds.
And every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him, and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so. Amen.
This is what is called the revelation of Jesus Christ. It's when he will be revealed. It's also called the manifestation or the appearing. Those words are used and it takes place at the end of a time of awful judgment that's going to fall in this world that's called the Great Tribulation.
And this part of his second coming is accompanied with many signs.
Numerated in the Old and New Testaments, and some of those signs were beginning to see today. That's why we know it cannot be long before it takes place. Israel surrounded by enemies.
The European Union, sometimes I said this, it's fascinating to me to see what's taking place in Europe because.
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Israel's support has been from the United States, but this president administration is not as friendly toward Israel.
And so they're looking elsewhere for support, and they're going to find their support in Europe, the European Union. Remember when Jesus came the first time?
When he was a baby or a young child.
Herod, an agent of the Roman Empire, tried to kill him. Another agent of the Roman Empire gave the order to crucify him, Pontius Pilate. Now the Lord is getting close to coming back again. And what do we see rising up in Western Europe? That same Roman power. And they are the ones that are going to go first to attack Jesus when he comes out of heaven with his Saints.
Thrills me to think that we are living and we can see these things taking place before our eyes.
Are we asleep? Rather than it's time to wake up, it's time to use the few remaining moments means that God puts in our hands for that eternal day of glory. Lord Jesus is going to reign supreme from sea to sea in this world, but it's going to pre preceded by the most awful, abject, awful judgments this world has ever seen. Lord Jesus himself said there was never a time before.
Nor will there ever be a time after so awful as the time of judgments in the Great Tribulation.
That's the scripture. And yes, this part of his second coming is accompanied with many signs. Many signs.
Are you aware that we're getting close? You young people? Are you ready for the coming of the Lord Jesus? You older ones too? Sometimes I wonders, by the way we react if we're being real with God.
May the Lord help us. Jesus is coming again. Let's read the uh, what Scripture says about is second coming in Revelation 19.
This is the account of when he comes out of heaven.
At the end of the great tribulation period, remember the last time this world saw Jesus, he was hanging dead on a tree. They never saw him in revel in resurrection. Only his people saw him in resurrection, his disciples. But the next time they see Jesus, he's going to be coming out of heaven. And like it says in chapter one where we read every I shall see him.
They will know.
That the time has come when they will not escape any longer. And so here's the account, chapter 19 of Revelation, verse 11.
I saw heaven opened, and behold a White Horse, and he that sat upon him was called.
Faithful and true and in righteousness he doth judge.
And make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire.
And on his head were many crowns, and he had a name written.
That no man knew but he himself, and he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God. No question as to who this person is. The armies which are in heaven followed him upon white horses clothed in fine linen, white and clean. Out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that's with it he should smite the nations.
And he shall rule them with a rod of iron, and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath.
Of Almighty God he hath on his vesture, and on his thy name written.
King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
And I saw an Angel standing in the sun, and he cried with a loud voice, saying To all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, come and gather yourselves together into the supper of the great God, that he may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men both.
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Free and bond, both small and great. I saw the beast that's the political head of Western Europe and the kings of the earth, those that support him and their armies gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse and against his army. Think of it when they see him come out of there, out of heaven.
They're going to get together their powerful armies. They can fire all the missiles they want. It will have absolutely no effect on this army from heaven. The Lord Jesus says in verse 20, the beast was taken and with him the false prophet, that's the Antichrist that wrought miracles before him with which he deceived them, that had received the mark of the beast and that worshipped his image.
These both were cast alive into the lake of fire, burning with brimstone. They're not even given a trial because they're caught in red handed rebellion, fighting against God, and they're taking and throwing directly into the lake of fire. The first two that arrive in the lake of fire, the remnant.
The armies were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse.
Which sword proceedeth out of his mouth, and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
Imagine as Jesus comes out of heaven, that sword he levels one army after another after another after another.
Tremendously tremendous glory that we're going to be witness to those of us who are believers in the Lord Jesus.
People ask me sometimes if I'm into the Holy Land. I say no, I haven't, but I've got plans to go.
And it's true, if you're a believer in the Lord Jesus, you're going when Jesus comes back, his feet are going to touch down on the Mount of Olives. You know where the Mount of Olives is. We have a picture in our home of the taken of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives.
Outside of the Temple Mount there is a valley, Kidron Valley.
And on the other side, to the east, is the Mount of Olives. And that's where Zacharias says that his feet will touch down. That's where he went up from. That's where he's coming back to. Only when he comes back, he's going to be accompanied with his people. Think of the myriads and myriads of the redeemed in that day. Think of the hosts of the angels too, that will be accompanying him. It'll be the grandest display of power and glory this world has ever seen.
You and I are going to be partnered part of it. Oh, it just thrills my heart to think of what's ahead for the believer in the Lord Jesus. I plead with you, if you haven't accepted the Lord Jesus as your Savior, you would do it tonight. Get serious. Don't fake it any longer.
If you have any questions, we're up here. We'd be glad to answer any questions or doubts that you have after the meeting. Let's just pray. Father, bless Thy precious word. We thank you for the reality of these things that we've been talking about. We do pray wherever the message goes out that lost souls would be brought to the Lord Jesus. We ask for help and direction the rest of the day now.
Bless thy precious word, make it a blessing in souls tonight. Here we ask in the name of the Lord Jesus, Amen.