God's Last Call: Urgency, Judgment, and Redemption

Even though this is it. This is right before the judgment day. This is right before the final judgment. I want you there. And that God never, He never gives up on anybody. He does whatever he takes, whether it's, you know, whether it's a nice offer that he had, or he uses judgment to try to draw people to him. [00:01:20]

And I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire, and also those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name, standing beside the sea of glass with harps in their hands. And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God, the Almighty. [00:02:11]

And so many times in churches throughout the centuries, our people have misunderstood the word, what we do as conquering as Christians. I bring up the example this week. I listen to history podcasts for fun. Yes, I am that nerdy. But I was listening, too, to one about Charlemagne. And Charlemagne, when he became the head of the Holy Roman Empire, he was excited, and he was going to go convert people. So he took his army, and he would surround a village, and he would say, do you want to accept Jesus? And they said, no, he'd kill him. And then he'd go to the next village. [00:04:24]

That we are faithful and true until the end. That's how we conquer. And you say, that doesn't sound very conquering. Well, we just took communion, right? How did Jesus conquer sin? How did Jesus conquer death? How did Jesus conquer all this? He conquered it by his own death, by becoming a servant. And he conquered the enemy by doing this. [00:05:19]

You were taken out of slavery and you were going to the promised land. I mean, you go from completely under the authority of somebody that's killing your, wants to kill all of your babies, literally. You are freed from that. You are set free by God. You are no longer slaves. And on top of that, the mightiest army in the world decides that he's gonna take on God and God drowns them all. [00:06:32]

The song of Moses that rose up from this because they are now set free from slavery they are set free from all of these things pharaoh no longer has control over them and he he can't come after them because he has been utterly and totally defeated but it says that song does not finish until it becomes the song of the lamb which is jesus who sets us free from sin he sets us free from death he sets us free from punishment and he sets us free far beyond anything that happened in the song of moses [00:06:58]

He sent his son when we don't deserve it. So, when we talk about the justice of God, and the wrath of God, and the judgment of God, we have to understand that he is perfectly just in what he does, but he's also willing to say, I will send my son to take the punishment that you justly deserve. [00:10:51]

And so we see that it says that all nations, that people from all nations, this is one thing that just rises up and throughout the book of Revelation. There is no concept, and Martin Luther King loved the book of Revelation for this too, is there's no concept of separation. There's no concept of different races not working together. There's no concept of people being different. There's a concept that we are all one in Christ. [00:11:34]

And behold, I am coming like a thief, blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed. And they assembled them at the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon. The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came from the temple from the throne, saying, It is done. And there were flashes of lightning, rumbles, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake such as there had never been since man was on the earth. So great was that earthquake. [00:14:56]

And basically, and they cursed God, for the plague of the hail. Even at the very end, the fact that you have to add this tells you that people still had a decision to make at this very end. God had not given up on them. Yes, I am bringing judgment, but just so you know, you thought everything was so great. You thought the great city of Babylon was great. Fine, I'll split it in three. [00:21:17]

We deserve like blood for blood. We deserve the son. We deserve all of these things. But God has taken them all on his son, Jesus Christ, for us. Today is the day to accept him. And if you're here today also, and if you just need someone to pray with you because something's going on in your life, understand this, God is God Almighty. No one is greater. No one is holier. No one is more just. No one is more true. [00:38:27]

Lord, we come before you today and we ask you, Lord, to help us understand that you are worthy of our praise. You are worthy, God. There's no one greater than you. There's no one mightier than you, God. There's no power in this world. And we conquer God by following after you. The enemy is going to come. It's going to come at us with lies. It's going to come at us with attacks. But God, when all the nations rise up against you, you simply just take them out. [00:38:57]