Eternal Hope: Trusting God Through Life and Death
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"Paul made it clear that to be absent from the body means to be present with the Lord second Corinthians 5 8. so I that's that's pretty clear as soon as we're absent from the body in some way or fashion we are present with the Lord there's no like medium spot where you're just you know floating over Jupiter for a while, awaiting there's a there's that immediate, and me thank God for that." [00:30:05]
"The verb translated caught up means to seize or to carry off by force there's this notion of a a a sudden taking away I usually by force again this passage is the basis for the New Testament doctrine of the Rapture the catching away of Believers to be with Jesus the word rapture is not in the ancient Greek like I told you before it comes from the Latin Vulgate which translates into the phrase caught up with rapturous so that's where we get our word rapture from." [00:30:33]
"There is no fear on The Winning Side there you don't have to have Rapture anxiety unless you're on the wrong side how do I know do you have a lot of anxiety about it do you not know where you might be going do you not know if you really have a genuine relationship with Jesus and we see this a lot see in the American church is different than the underground Church in China or in the Middle East." [00:31:28]
"Trust God regardless of the outcome, trust God regardless of the outcome boy I didn't know it was going to work out like this, I remember in the 1980s I think 90s when I came back to the Lord late like 1999 you know the big thing was you don't hear too much about it could be true the revived Roman Empire and and they think the one world religion could be Roman Catholicism but then that was challenged by it could be you know Jihad Muslim because beheading." [00:36:58]
"Trust God regardless of the outcome knowing that we don't see things clearly we don't know how it's all going to work out at all and there's another position out there where they actually believe that things are getting better and we will Usher in the millennial reign of Christ as things get better and that we're actually in the millennial now all millennialism it's not doesn't mean there's no Millennium it means we're in it now." [00:37:22]
"Be open teachable and humble when it comes to end times theology you have to to stay in this this this spot of of being teachable and humble and especially as more things begin to develop and I think the next slide we have up there Thessalonians 2 but it was going to start getting a little confusing it wasn't really applicable right now and so I'm gonna I'm gonna fast forward if you can a few slides over to the one title The Throne Room of Heaven." [00:38:41]
"Is God distant then press in is your life falling apart then pursue him there's always an invitation come up here if you want this to change in your life come up here make this decision make this change humble yourself and repent do something about it be have to have some practical application in this and again I just talked about what must take place after this how long is after this." [00:43:03]
"Walking in the spirit it's walking in the spirit and it produces the Fruit of the Spirit so we can have something happen let's say I'm on my way home flat tire oh Lord maybe you want me to meet somebody maybe you need me to do something I just want the joy and love and non-profen I don't get a flat tire this is this this is a good example a good analogy for all of you right." [00:46:29]
"Basically the strength on the inside is greater than the pressure on the outside we have a perfect example of this in the news recently don't we that's what happened with that submarine the strength on the inside was not greater than the pressure on the outside and it imploded and that's what a Believer has to have in these times you're seeing it you're seeing things many of you know if you've been a Believer for a while these are some the last you know five years has has been pretty significant." [00:48:07]
"Do you have that fire this morning because that's how the pressure on the outside is not going to consume you the fire of the spirit that's that's holding you together and holding everything together inside of you and this is the seven spirits of God as I talked about before God doesn't have the Bible doesn't teach seven different spirits one spirit of God but seven is that number of completion that number of wholeness." [00:52:06]
"Holiness is an incredible and it doesn't it's not how you look I I see sometimes you know the most holy Reverend of the some denomination with this this hat on you know the spike the big hat and the purple purple robe and oh he is the most holy he is the Reverend such and such that's not Holiness that's weird that's that's that's bizarre that's that's not holy Holiness is an internal movement of the heart set Ablaze for the on with the fire of God that's holiness." [00:56:10]
"Prayer is not an exercise it is life this was a breakthrough for me when I realized prayer is not like a um just a discipline a habit an exercise it's what we do it is my life it is my heartbeat like Ian bound said when Faith ceases to pray your faith actually ceases to live when your heart lacks oxygen you have a heart attack when you're when your life as a Believer lacks prayer you have a spiritual heart attack and you begin to die spiritually." [01:06:17]
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"The verb translated caught up means to seize or to carry off by force there's this notion of a a a sudden taking away I usually by force again this passage is the basis for the New Testament doctrine of the Rapture the catching away of Believers to be with Jesus the word rapture is not in the ancient Greek like I told you before it comes from the Latin Vulgate which translates into the phrase caught up with rapturous so that's where we get our word rapture from." [00:30:33]
"There is no fear on The Winning Side there you don't have to have Rapture anxiety unless you're on the wrong side how do I know do you have a lot of anxiety about it do you not know where you might be going do you not know if you really have a genuine relationship with Jesus and we see this a lot see in the American church is different than the underground Church in China or in the Middle East." [00:31:28]
"Trust God regardless of the outcome, trust God regardless of the outcome boy I didn't know it was going to work out like this, I remember in the 1980s I think 90s when I came back to the Lord late like 1999 you know the big thing was you don't hear too much about it could be true the revived Roman Empire and and they think the one world religion could be Roman Catholicism but then that was challenged by it could be you know Jihad Muslim because beheading." [00:36:58]
"Trust God regardless of the outcome knowing that we don't see things clearly we don't know how it's all going to work out at all and there's another position out there where they actually believe that things are getting better and we will Usher in the millennial reign of Christ as things get better and that we're actually in the millennial now all millennialism it's not doesn't mean there's no Millennium it means we're in it now." [00:37:22]
"Be open teachable and humble when it comes to end times theology you have to to stay in this this this spot of of being teachable and humble and especially as more things begin to develop and I think the next slide we have up there Thessalonians 2 but it was going to start getting a little confusing it wasn't really applicable right now and so I'm gonna I'm gonna fast forward if you can a few slides over to the one title The Throne Room of Heaven." [00:38:41]
"Is God distant then press in is your life falling apart then pursue him there's always an invitation come up here if you want this to change in your life come up here make this decision make this change humble yourself and repent do something about it be have to have some practical application in this and again I just talked about what must take place after this how long is after this." [00:43:03]
"Walking in the spirit it's walking in the spirit and it produces the Fruit of the Spirit so we can have something happen let's say I'm on my way home flat tire oh Lord maybe you want me to meet somebody maybe you need me to do something I just want the joy and love and non-profen I don't get a flat tire this is this this is a good example a good analogy for all of you right." [00:46:29]
"Basically the strength on the inside is greater than the pressure on the outside we have a perfect example of this in the news recently don't we that's what happened with that submarine the strength on the inside was not greater than the pressure on the outside and it imploded and that's what a Believer has to have in these times you're seeing it you're seeing things many of you know if you've been a Believer for a while these are some the last you know five years has has been pretty significant." [00:48:07]
"Do you have that fire this morning because that's how the pressure on the outside is not going to consume you the fire of the spirit that's that's holding you together and holding everything together inside of you and this is the seven spirits of God as I talked about before God doesn't have the Bible doesn't teach seven different spirits one spirit of God but seven is that number of completion that number of wholeness." [00:52:06]
"Holiness is an incredible and it doesn't it's not how you look I I see sometimes you know the most holy Reverend of the some denomination with this this hat on you know the spike the big hat and the purple purple robe and oh he is the most holy he is the Reverend such and such that's not Holiness that's weird that's that's that's bizarre that's that's not holy Holiness is an internal movement of the heart set Ablaze for the on with the fire of God that's holiness." [00:56:10]
"Prayer is not an exercise it is life this was a breakthrough for me when I realized prayer is not like a um just a discipline a habit an exercise it's what we do it is my life it is my heartbeat like Ian bound said when Faith ceases to pray your faith actually ceases to live when your heart lacks oxygen you have a heart attack when you're when your life as a Believer lacks prayer you have a spiritual heart attack and you begin to die spiritually." [01:06:17]
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