WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.800 I am going to try to do this very quickly, but we need to talk about something because social 00:07.800 --> 00:15.340 media is full of this. I've had people asking the question concerning this. Is this week 00:15.340 --> 00:22.300 Monday or Tuesday Feast of Trumpets? It's being predicted again Jesus is coming this week. 00:26.000 --> 00:34.840 And if he comes, I'm leaving. So you know, I don't plan to stick around. But there's many 00:34.840 --> 00:41.740 different avenues that people are reasoning with from one, you know, if you're on social 00:41.740 --> 00:46.960 media, it's just been full of it this week. Dreams and visions and one guy was coming 00:46.960 --> 00:51.420 from the direction of, well, we might even play that clip. I won't explain it. Explain 00:51.420 --> 00:59.400 it. There's many different approaches. Even to one guy did a study on Charlie Kirk's name 00:59.400 --> 01:05.480 and claimed that had to do with he kind of set something in motion that Jesus is going 01:05.480 --> 01:13.400 to come this week. So I don't know, let's give you a couple of insights on this. If 01:13.400 --> 01:16.760 you want to get that first little video ready, we're going to just play a few seconds 01:16.760 --> 01:22.600 of it. It starts at about two minute mark. We'll play about 40 seconds of it. This guy, 01:23.940 --> 01:31.520 everybody seems to point back to this guy. He's an African minister who claims Jesus came 01:31.520 --> 01:40.820 and told him in 2018 that he's coming this week, 22nd, 23rd Feast of Trumpets. He's 01:40.820 --> 01:44.720 returning for his church. So most of them point back to this. So I just wanted to 01:44.720 --> 01:59.890 play this for you in case you hadn't seen it. Are you able to slide that ahead? I'll 01:59.890 --> 02:05.530 tell you when you're there, so we don't have to watch the whole thing. We lost the 02:05.530 --> 02:15.240 time. Just keep going. It'll show up and I'll have you a little further, a little 02:15.240 --> 02:21.280 further. Once... now we're getting close. Okay, right after this, back up just the 02:21.280 --> 02:26.460 hair so we get the beginning of what he's going to say. Right there. You 02:35.100 --> 02:42.180 know, it doesn't want to do that. No, it's playing or just no sound, you know, you 02:42.180 --> 02:46.420 guys are sitting opposite to me. Okay, back it up just the hair so we can, they do 02:46.420 --> 02:51.400 have it so we can read it because we don't understand them. It's amazing to 02:51.400 --> 02:54.000 me. These connections are absolutely astonishing to me. I was led to look 02:54.000 --> 02:59.520 this up this morning. It appears as you know, you guys are sitting opposite 02:59.520 --> 03:07.560 to me. It appears in front of me in a white robe this time. I'm looking at 03:07.560 --> 03:16.580 you and it says these words. It says to me on the 23rd and the 24th of 03:16.580 --> 03:29.840 September, 20, 25, I will come to take my church. The we who are still alive. You 03:29.840 --> 03:34.320 can stop that one and then just queue up the other one. So most of the people 03:34.320 --> 03:40.140 on social media are pointing back to him that Jesus, according to him, Jesus 03:40.140 --> 03:45.520 appeared to him and said that this is what's going to happen and he's going 03:45.520 --> 03:53.560 to come that Tony this week. He's going to come and take his church. So there's 03:53.560 --> 03:58.980 all kinds of stuff going on concerning this. Can you play the next one? It's 03:58.980 --> 04:38.640 about a minute long. Just go ahead and play that one all the way through. Oh yep 04:42.240 --> 04:48.280 happen six times in 2025. It will be the seventh time and after that it will 04:48.280 --> 04:53.060 never happen again in history. The feast of trumpets has always been seen as a 04:53.060 --> 04:56.440 picture of the rapture when the trumpet will sound and the church will be 04:56.440 --> 05:01.360 caught up and Daniel makes it clear the tribulation is a fixed time of 05:01.360 --> 05:07.620 exactly 2,550 days. That means this year's feast of trumpets could 05:07.620 --> 05:12.380 mark the start of everything, the rapture and the countdown to Jesus returning 05:12.380 --> 05:30.890 at the end of the tribulation. So you can stop that one. So there's another 05:30.890 --> 05:34.930 one and they're tying it in two days and I mean some of them get really, 05:35.050 --> 05:40.210 really detailed on how they're figuring this out. So I'm going to, if 05:40.210 --> 05:43.370 you can give me my PowerPoint back, I'm going to explain to you real 05:43.370 --> 05:49.450 briefly why I believe they're wrong. Give you four points. No one knows the day 05:49.450 --> 05:53.130 nor the hour. I'll show you the scripture here in a bit. Not men nor 05:53.130 --> 05:59.430 angels. Well, since 2018, Joseph, whatever his last name is pronounced, 05:59.750 --> 06:05.090 knew the day which would contradict scripture. The scripture says no one 06:05.090 --> 06:11.550 knows the day. Jesus doesn't know the day or the hour. Well, according to 06:11.550 --> 06:17.250 the video, Jesus told him so Jesus would have known and means he would have 06:17.250 --> 06:24.850 known. So the scripture says the father set the day according to what he 06:24.850 --> 06:31.050 sees. We angels, Jesus, nobody knows. Here's one of the scriptures on that. 06:31.170 --> 06:35.290 No one knows about the day or the hour, not even the angels in heaven nor 06:35.290 --> 06:42.770 the son, but only the father. Next underlined part verse 40. And he's 06:42.770 --> 06:46.490 talking about the rapture here because of the way he explains it. Down a couple 06:46.490 --> 06:50.090 verses. Two men will be in the field, won't be taken the other left. Two women 06:50.090 --> 06:53.350 will be grinding at the handmill, won't be taken the other left. Therefore 06:53.350 --> 06:58.470 keep watch because you do not know what day your Lord will come. In Mark, he 06:58.470 --> 07:02.990 says it this way. No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels 07:02.990 --> 07:12.670 in heaven nor the son, but only the father. So nobody knows when this is 07:12.670 --> 07:19.570 going to take place. On that basis, because scripture says nobody knows, I 07:19.570 --> 07:24.350 don't believe what that man saw as God. Okay, so now here's where it gets 07:24.350 --> 07:30.010 difficult. We have to as Christians be willing to call white, white and black 07:30.010 --> 07:40.830 black. If we're here next Sunday, he missed it. I mean, he missed it. You 07:40.830 --> 07:45.590 said, well, what did he see then? I don't know, but it wasn't Jesus. We have 07:45.590 --> 07:51.270 to be that blunt and that honest. We can't just make excuse. Well, maybe 07:51.270 --> 07:57.150 this may... No, there's no maybes about it. Okay, the next reason. Every 07:57.150 --> 08:02.030 ethnos or ethnic group is still not reached. And this one I've talked about 08:02.030 --> 08:07.610 before. I will show you here the scripture on it. Jesus sitting in the 08:07.610 --> 08:11.150 Mount of Olives, disciples came to him, said to him, when will this happen 08:11.150 --> 08:14.650 and what will be the sign of your coming? There's one question and the end of 08:14.650 --> 08:19.150 the age. There's the second question. They're two separate things. Jesus 08:19.150 --> 08:24.730 went into the end of the age answer first and gave all kinds of signs. End 08:24.730 --> 08:29.550 of the age is when he comes back at the Battle of Armageddon, wraps this thing 08:29.550 --> 08:33.530 up and then we move on to the millennium. So, end of the age is what he 08:33.530 --> 08:37.510 answered first. He said, this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the 08:37.510 --> 08:42.370 whole world as a testimony to all nations. That word nations is ethnos 08:42.370 --> 08:46.610 in the Greek. It means race, tribe or nation. It's ethnic groups. And 08:46.610 --> 08:51.150 then the end will come. Well, not the rapture will come. It doesn't 08:51.150 --> 08:56.590 mean the rapture will come. Every nation has to hear before we get to that 08:56.590 --> 09:02.430 battle of Armageddon spot. That's one of the reasons we have 144,000 witnesses 09:03.430 --> 09:08.810 in the tribulation. Now, sometimes people confuse that. Well, with every 09:08.810 --> 09:12.990 nation has to hear before the rapture. No, that's not what it says. It 09:12.990 --> 09:19.570 says before the end will come, before this age wraps up. However, we're a 09:19.570 --> 09:26.390 long ways out from that. Now, it can happen fast, but we're a long ways out 09:26.390 --> 09:34.250 from that. Let me say one thing here before we go to that. We are living 09:34.250 --> 09:39.850 in the nation of the United States of America. That's not the nation he's 09:39.850 --> 09:46.150 referring to here when he says all nations. America needs to hear United 09:46.150 --> 09:52.110 States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, England, all the nations, not what 09:52.110 --> 09:58.430 he's talking about. That's why I wrote it in. Ethnos. Every ethnic group, there 09:58.430 --> 10:06.150 are hundreds, maybe thousands of ethnic groups in this nation. Every nation 10:06.150 --> 10:13.410 around the world has lots of ethnic groups. Every ethnic group has to 10:13.410 --> 10:18.770 have a witness, not just the major nations. So with that in mind, here's where 10:18.770 --> 10:24.530 we're at on that right now. Global missions face urgent tasks, 3.4 10:24.530 --> 10:29.390 billion still unreached by the gospel. Over 6,000 of the unreached groups are 10:29.390 --> 10:35.230 located inside the 1040 window. Everybody knows 1040 window is? A rectangular area 10:35.230 --> 10:40.670 spanning from West Africa to East Asia between 10 degrees and 40 degrees 10:40.670 --> 10:48.510 north latitude. It's estimated that of the little over 8 billion people alive in 10:48.510 --> 10:54.390 the world today, 3.4 billion of them live in unreached people groups, 10:55.170 --> 11:00.090 unreached nations, and they're doing it correctly. It's people groups with 11:00.090 --> 11:06.110 little or no access to the gospel of Jesus Christ, approximately 40% of the 11:06.110 --> 11:10.830 population. They go on and define unreached people groups. There's an 11:10.830 --> 11:16.370 estimated 7,290 unreached people groups, or that would be the nations Jesus 11:16.370 --> 11:22.870 talked about. 7,290 ethnic groups in the world, meaning there are no 11:23.730 --> 11:27.050 unreached people groups in the world, meaning there are no 11:27.790 --> 11:31.390 indigenous Christians living within the community. 11:33.110 --> 11:38.630 So there's over 7,000 communities of people 11:41.940 --> 11:46.740 that have no Christians living in them at all. They have no Christian 11:46.740 --> 11:55.580 witness whatsoever. The 1040 window, again, is where most of these are 11:55.580 --> 12:01.100 located. And the last reason is what I believe Jesus told me is I will not 12:01.100 --> 12:04.760 go on the rapture. I will live a long life, finish my work, and I will die 12:04.760 --> 12:11.840 before the rapture takes place. However, I will say this. If I'm wrong and he 12:11.840 --> 12:19.980 comes this week, I'm leaving. I'll be glad to say I missed it. I'm not 12:19.980 --> 12:22.540 going to get stubborn and go, I didn't think it was going to happen 12:22.540 --> 12:25.580 this soon. I'm staying. No, I'm out. I'm leaving. 12:30.440 --> 12:34.400 So we have to be ready, no matter when it is. Personally, I don't 12:34.400 --> 12:36.800 believe it's going to happen this week. We'll find out by next Sunday. 12:37.440 --> 12:43.140 But we have to be ready. No matter if it happens on Tuesday or Wednesday 12:43.140 --> 12:46.880 this week or if it happens 100 years from now, we have to have the mindset 12:46.880 --> 12:54.320 of being ready. It's kind of sad if it happens this week because we 12:54.320 --> 12:56.180 just spent a bunch of money sealing the parking lot. 12:59.320 --> 13:04.460 And we did some of that stuff. But there's a bright side to that, I suppose. 13:06.280 --> 13:09.780 There will be people who are left behind. They're going to need a good church 13:09.780 --> 13:20.390 to go to. And Pastor Igor will do a wonderful job. I'm going to be gone, but 13:22.170 --> 13:23.670 we're still praying for... 13:30.150 --> 13:35.690 But anyway, we'll find out this week. The big question is, are we living ready? 13:37.290 --> 13:40.950 Acts chapter 1, 6 through 8. I mean, this question has been around since the 13:40.950 --> 13:45.570 beginning. Just for the fun of it, I put it into AI. I put it into 13:45.570 --> 13:51.670 grok and I said, how many times has it been predicted that Jesus would come in history? 13:52.710 --> 13:58.450 And it came back and it said hundreds of times. I'll give you the major ones that had 13:58.450 --> 14:03.130 great influence over people. And it listed off, this will be the 34th time 14:04.350 --> 14:09.550 that it's been predicted that Jesus is coming. Well, at some point, somebody's 14:09.550 --> 14:15.010 going to hit it. You keep saying it's going to snow. Eventually, you're going to hit it. 14:16.690 --> 14:21.290 But the question is not... this question's been around. Acts chapter 1, verse 6. 14:22.010 --> 14:25.850 And when they met together, they asked him, Lord, are you going to restore the kingdom to Israel? 14:25.970 --> 14:30.630 In other words, is this the time you're going to be the Messiah and set everything up? 14:31.430 --> 14:36.430 And he said, it's not for you to know the times or the dates that the father has set by his own 14:36.430 --> 14:39.390 authority. Boy, the church needs to remember that. 14:42.050 --> 14:46.050 It's not for us to know the times or the dates on this. So quit trying to figure it out. 14:47.150 --> 14:52.210 You're wasting your time. Well, what are we supposed to do? Verse 8. 14:52.410 --> 14:56.310 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you and you will be my witnesses in 14:56.310 --> 15:01.950 Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and ends of the earth. The dates are not the issue. Getting 15:01.950 --> 15:07.810 our life right and ministering is the issue. So I'll leave you with these questions as 15:09.390 --> 15:15.110 I'm done with this. He said, it's not for you to know the times and the dates that the 15:15.110 --> 15:20.990 father set by his own authority. Your job is to let the Holy Spirit do in you, 15:21.070 --> 15:25.050 so you can be witnesses and martyrs. And we talked about that. 15:27.170 --> 15:34.010 If we're alive, we're changing. If we're alive spiritually, we're changing. 15:34.950 --> 15:44.310 Living things change. Dead things don't. How have you changed to be more like him in this last year? 15:46.650 --> 15:54.230 What's changed in your life since fall of last year that you can look at and go, oh yeah, 15:54.630 --> 16:01.510 this is definitely a God thing that changed this in me? Because if you can't look at something, 16:01.510 --> 16:07.470 you better really take up some thinking here because you might be closer to spiritually dead 16:07.470 --> 16:16.530 than alive. Because things that are alive change. What has he asked you to stop doing in the last 16:16.530 --> 16:21.910 year that either you're working on or you've accomplished? What has he asked you to do 16:22.430 --> 16:25.610 in the last year that either you're working on or you've accomplished? 16:27.090 --> 16:29.930 See, these are all questions you ask the living 16:32.710 --> 16:39.090 because those things will be happening. Do we hear his voice better than we did a year ago? 16:43.150 --> 16:52.150 If not, that's a concern. Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, we'll enter the kingdom of heaven. 16:52.670 --> 16:53.730 Jesus said that. 16:56.190 --> 17:01.450 Well, I'm a believer. Well, that's how you get in. That's how you get in through the door. 17:02.910 --> 17:06.170 But I mean, scripture flat out says it's not enough to finish the run. 17:09.360 --> 17:17.320 Romans 10, 9, and 10. Believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that he's Lord. 17:17.780 --> 17:23.860 Well, Jesus said out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. So if we're saying 17:23.860 --> 17:31.760 he's Lord, that means we've made him Lord. If we've made him Lord, that means we're the servants. 17:32.900 --> 17:46.570 He's the Lord. That will show up in how we live. If how we live is not changing, 17:47.750 --> 17:55.110 we better get that fixed before Tuesday, just in case. Or you might be here with Igor. 17:59.010 --> 18:10.230 Just having fun, man. But seriously, if we're not changing, if we're not living as his 18:10.230 --> 18:15.910 servants following him in obedience, you say, but I believe, well, so do the devils. 18:17.330 --> 18:21.270 They're not going to heaven with the rapture either. They believe. 18:23.370 --> 18:30.150 Paul said there's more than just, oh, I'm a believer. No, you've got to make him Lord and 18:30.150 --> 18:36.850 start living this thing out of your heart. He's the Lord, we're the servants. How are we serving 18:36.850 --> 18:48.580 him differently than we did a year ago? What changed in our life in the last year that's 18:48.580 --> 18:54.260 more godly now than it was a year ago? See, living things grow, they change, they develop. 18:54.260 --> 18:58.720 If we can look back and say, I don't think much changed my life from the last three years, 19:01.140 --> 19:05.080 that's concerning. You're more spiritually dead than you're alive. 19:06.420 --> 19:09.040 Because living things change, they grow, they develop. 19:11.760 --> 19:16.140 I know people say, well, I'm not one of these people who gets out there and ministers and 19:16.580 --> 19:20.200 does all this kind of stuff. I don't believe it's what I'm supposed to do. Well, that's okay. 19:22.260 --> 19:29.700 But I'm sure you're at least supporting those who feel to do it through your tithes, right? 19:35.910 --> 19:39.230 Since we're, you know, I got to go back to that subject here and finish the topic 19:39.230 --> 19:41.850 a few weeks down the road. Well, next week I start. 19:44.970 --> 19:48.410 Pastor Eager is going to take a little vacation time. Good job. 19:49.490 --> 19:52.070 Then when he comes back, he's going to finish his series. But while he's 19:52.070 --> 19:57.730 gone, I'm going to finish mine on tithing. Tithing is a heart test. It's a love test for God. 19:59.550 --> 20:05.190 Do we love him more than money? That's what that test is. 20:06.670 --> 20:12.670 And the reason is so we can fund those Romans 10 again. How can they go? How can they preach 20:12.670 --> 20:18.910 except they be sent? Not everybody goes, but God expects all of us to send 20:20.030 --> 20:28.630 and to be involved in that. So I'm going to ask you a real hard question. You got to answer it. 20:29.430 --> 20:37.390 How can you reconcile not being part of a church? And this is probably might be to some, 20:37.530 --> 20:43.270 I know some people are part of our church through online. And then some of you just sit home 20:44.010 --> 20:51.450 and do nothing but watch us every week. And that's good. And it's like 20:53.730 --> 20:57.550 okay. And you're local. It's not like you're, I mean, we got some people watch us from other 20:57.550 --> 21:01.370 parts of the nation. You're local. I mean, you could show up here, but you never do. You just 21:01.370 --> 21:08.470 sit home. You never give a dime to what God's trying to do through us. How can you reconcile 21:08.470 --> 21:18.150 that? How can we who are not tithers reconcile? I am hot after God ready to go in the rapture. 21:19.110 --> 21:21.670 And we can't even pass the heart test of giving. 21:23.970 --> 21:28.110 How do you reconcile that? I mean, just something to think about.