Churches in North Lauderdale

“Do you believe that? I don't mean just theologically. I mean emotionally. Do you truly believe God loves you the way he loves Jesus? Because if you don't believe it, you know what happens? Your spirituality becomes performance. You start living with this orphan spirit where you're trying to achieve something that God has already settled in Christ Jesus.”

“Put them right in between the fleas. It's a new translation. Alright? But do something to them. Sanctify by your truth. Let truth find such opportunity in their lives that it will build an immune system within them that when they enter into the world, they will not be affected by the world, but they will affect their world.”

“Christianity, folks, is not an evacuation plan. It's a sending program. Sent, not escaping. Sent. We are not just rescued from the world, we are sent to this world. And so as Jesus is praying, listen to what he prays in his prayer in John 17 and we go to verse 15 to 18. Listen to how he prays.”

“They are not of this world even as I am not of it. No. I have to just stop here and say, you know, I grew up in the church. This was one of my favorite scriptures. I am not of this world. How many of you are glad that you're not of this world? Right? That's a good thing. You're not of this world. But here's the thing you need to hear. You that are not of this world, you are sent to the world.”

“"We remain ready by investing in what's eternal around us think about what's eternal friends you're eternal you're gonna live forever make sure that you're right with jesus christ the people around you are gonna live forever invest in their lives the bible that you hold this word is eternal give yourself to reading and understanding it that's one way that we make ourselves ready by investing in what's eternal and then we also live faithful in our present moment as we've discussed before but we also live with a sense of urgency for our own personal holiness and our evangelism most of all we make ourselves ready for the second coming of jesus by receiving everything he is and everything he did for us in his first coming as i told before just a few days after jesus spoke these words to his disciples on the mount of olives he went to the cross he offered himself as a sacrifice for sin for everybody who would trust him he said put upon me all their guilt all their shame i'll bear it in myself that's what jesus did in his first coming and then after dying that sacrificial death on the cross he rose again from the dead to give resurrection life newness of life to all those who would repent and believe upon him friends receiving jesus in everything he was everything he taught and everything he did at his first coming that's how you remain ready for his second coming"”

“"Friends be ready live your life in readiness for the return of jesus christ that's number one but then jesus also told a parable about two servants one of them was faithful and one of them was evil and the application is clear be a faithful servant unto the lord that's how you're ready for his return friends be faithful be faithful in your family be faithful in your neighborhood be faithful in your community be faithful at your church do whatever god has put in front of you being faithful to the end you see as christians we live with this strange dichotomy on the one hand we live with the readiness that jesus christ could return today thank the lord for that but on the other hand we live in utter faithfulness to god so that if he would not return for another 200 years we would be faithful right with what he's given us in the moment and faithful to the very end we don't live lives of foolishness saying oh who cares about the future jesus is coming back no that's not being faithful we live wisely and faithfully in the moment friends that's how jesus wants us to live"”

“"You and i we need to take seriously that jesus christ is coming soon and understand that the stage is set for the very last days just the way the bible has described it politically culturally economically spiritually on every level we have reason to believe that the time is close and we need to be ready for the end look don't take my word for it look at what jesus said in verse 35 did you notice that look carefully with me again at verse 35 jesus said this he said heaven and earth will pass away but my words will by no means pass away friends can i just ask you a question who says that did any of the other authors in the bible speak like that no no no isaiah would say things like this isaiah would say the grass withers the flower fades but the word of the lord endures forever well praise the lord for that but did you know what isaiah did not say was my words will not pass away no jesus is making a dramatic and beautiful claim once again to be god right here he speaks words that will last forever and heaven and earth everything you see around you will pass away before the words of jesus pass away because he speaks the words of eternal life to that"”

“"There are two significant aspects to the second coming of jesus christ this shouldn't surprise us because there were several significant aspects of the first coming of jesus you could say that jesus in his first coming came when he was conceived in mary's womb you could say that he came when he was born in bethlehem you could say that he came when he returned from egypt after his family fled there when he was a child you could say that he came when he initiated his ministry at his baptism and you could say that jesus came to israel at the triumphal entry you could mark at least five different comings of jesus in his first coming so it would not surprise us that there's two significant aspects to the second coming of jesus"”

“"Friends it's possible for people to be irresponsible in their understanding of end times things that's why jesus says if you notice that phrase right there in verse 4 take heed that no one deceives you so understanding that we understand that there may be announcements of false messiahs there may be wars and rumors of wars but don't be troubled those things will come to pass but they are not yet the sign now look at verse 7 with me jesus said for nation will rise against nations and kingdom against kingdom and there will be famines pestilences and earthquakes in various places all these are the beginnings of sorrows jesus said yes these sort of catastrophes and problems will come and go but none of them specifically are the sign of the end that jesus wanted to call attention to"”

“"One of the important and glorious truths of the christian faith is that jesus christ is coming again amen to that and i want you to know that through the centuries christians have had different understandings about the nature of jesus's return the nature of his kingdom when he comes how these things should be understood and interpreted now i'm going to give you the best explanation i can give you from matthew chapter 24 about this but i want to acknowledge that there's good brothers and sisters who have had different perspectives on this glorious truth jesus christ is coming again and his people should be ready for it matter of fact if you don't remember a single other thing that i tell you here this morning please remember that jesus christ is coming again and his people should be ready for him"”