Hope Amidst Chaos: The Victory of Christ

The world is as it is tonight because it is being controlled by the powers of evil. That's the explanation. I have referred to this several Sunday nights more in detail and more in the personal aspect. I want you to look at it more in general this evening. [00:25:13]

The world is as it is tonight because there is an evil power in control of it. I know this sounds fatuous and utterly ridiculous to the modern men. That doesn't surprise me. Look at his behavior. He can't think straightly. That's his whole trouble, and he's blind at the most important point of all in the spiritual sense. [00:25:37]

Wars come because a Mussolini arose, because a Hitler arose, or because a Kaiser had Arisen in the first world war. That's why wars come, and we explained the whole thing. Of course, these clever people say it's politics, politicians. But then I ask my question: why did Hitler behave as he did? [00:28:01]

Nations are just the individual writ large. What does the individual do? What's the outlook of the individual? The outlook of the individual is this, isn't it? I first always. It's what I want that matters, and if another man has got what I want, I must have it. My desires, my lusts, my passions. [00:29:32]

Men, as the result of sin and the fall, is under the dominion of sin and of Satan, and it is dominion. Not only is this true according to this teaching, the whole universe has suffered as the result of men's sin. Now, this is a thing we don't remember as we should. [00:31:20]

He conquered evil. He conquered the devil. Look at all your great men in the Old Testament, your patriarchs, your great saints. Every one of them sinned. Every one of them was defeated by the devil. Every single one of them. The devil is the god of this world. He gets everybody down. [00:37:20]

The resurrection is the pronouncement and proclamation of the final defeat of the devil and all his forces. The last enemy has been conquered. My dear friends, your humanist can't tell you anything about death. He doesn't know. He's got to die himself. He doesn't know what's going to happen. [00:40:40]

All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth, and that is the truth. That is his position. God raised him from the dead, says Paul to the Ephesians, and set him high in the heavenly places, far above all authority and dominion and might and power and every name that is named. [00:42:23]

He's going to come again. This is the blessed hope. You know, were it not for this, I would have no hope whatsoever. But here is the hope. All authority is in his hands. The world is his. I don't understand why he permits things to happen, but he does. [00:43:52]

He will destroy all evil. He will destroy the devil and all his forces. He's already defeated them. He will destroy them finally and all who belong to them. Let there be no mistake about this. Whosoever follows the devil and the way of the world and rejects Christ and his message will go to eternal perdition. [00:44:39]

There is going to be a new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. This is the only hope, not as the result of political action, not as the result of good resolutions on the part of men or of parliaments or of nations. No, no. The coming again of the Son of God. [00:46:36]

The whole creation says Paul at the present time is groaning and traveling in pain together until now. But you know, the very creature, the creation is also going to be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. This is what is coming. [00:49:10]