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Good morning and welcome to our Sunday morning service. We have two services on Sunday morning, the first of which is our Bible Prophecy Update that we do weekly, and then Second Service is the sermon, which is the verse-by-verse study through the word of God. We're currently in the Book of Hebrews. And today we're going to look at how it is that God will always have the final word in our lives, especially concerning the global crisis that we find ourselves in today. That will be live streamed today at 11:15 a. m. Hawaii time. We'd certainly encourage you to join with us. Also, for those of you that are on YouTube or Facebook, we would want to invite you at this time to go directly to jdfarag.org for the uncensored, uninterrupted entirety of today's update, and that's for those that are on YouTube or Facebook.
One more thing before we get started. I'm going to be taking the next two weeks, starting with next Sunday, and just take them off. I'm not going anywhere. I'm not sick, I'm fine. I mean, I know I don't look like that, but I’m just going to go to the throne and spend some alone time with the Lord. So, in my place, I'm going to have my assistant pastor, Pastor Mac, he'll be teaching next Sunday, the 10th, the following Thursday, the 14th, then that Sunday, the 17th, and then the following Thursday, the 21st. Then Lord willing, I’ll be back in the pulpit on Sunday, the 24th.
Please know that this time is, first of all, it's much needed. But I’m going to regroup and spend some much needed alone time seeking the Lord concerning all that is happening now. And there are just too many unknowns. And when we don't know, we go to the one Who does know, and that's what I'm going to do. It's just going to be me and Jesus. So, I would just humbly ask that you pray for me, I know many of you do. And please know that those who do, it just means a lot to me. So thank you in advance for that.
I will be here Tuesday for the prayer meeting and then this Thursday as well, which is our mid-week Bible study. And then also, it's going to be our communion service this Thursday as well, so hopefully you're able to come both Tuesday and Thursday. All right, let's get started. For today's update, I want to talk with you about how it is that we can actually and truly not fret or become angry because of evil doers and their wicked schemes. Doubtless, you already know the psalm from which I've titled today's Update, which is a psalm of David recorded as Psalm 37. If I could have you join me here, I'll begin reading verse 1-15, then also verses 23-25.
I truly believe with all my heart that the Lord has a word for us today, and this is what the Spirit would say to us His church. Lord, give us ears to hear. We want to have ears to hear. We want to have hearts to receive. We want to have eyes to see that which you desire to show us in our time together today, we pray in Jesus name. Amen. A Psalm of David, one of my favorite psalms. I know I say that about all the psalms, but this one in particular. "Do not fret. "These first three words in this first verse we will read again no less than three times. And I need to point something out concerning the word fret, because we are prone to understand it as don't worry, don't, you know, get anxious, don't, you know, be concerned, but really in the original it carries with it the idea of becoming hot, angry.
We have that saying, "hot under the collar. "That's kind of what this word means. "Don't get angry because of evil doers, nor be envious of the workers of iniquity. For [verse 2] they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. " Can't wait. Verse 3, sounds like you can't wait either. That's OK. Verse 3, now we're turning a corner here and I want to draw your attention to that which David, by the Holy Spirit encourages us to do - "Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land, and feed on his faithfulness. " I like that. Feed to the full on his faithfulness. Verse 4, "Delight
yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. "I'm sure many of you know this verse, very well known. Maybe what's not so well known is that it's God who first puts that desire in your heart and then gives you the delight. Did you know that? He gives us that desire in our heart, the desire of our heart, and then it becomes a delight. We delight ourselves also in the Lord and then he gives us that which we delight in, the desires of our heart. Verse 5, "Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. [Verse 6] He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday. "Verse 7. . . Are you? You need to make a list here.
We got quite a few things here, right? Trust, delight, wait, commit. And now verse 7, this is hard for some of us; oh, rest. "Rest in the Lord, and wait[Do you hate to wait?]Wait patiently for Him. [And here it is again. ]Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass. Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Do not fret-it only causes harm. For evildoers shall be cut off. But those who wait on the Lord, they shall inherit the earth. For yet a little while[verse 10] and the wicked shall be no more. Indeed, you will look carefully for his place, but it shall be no more. But [verse 11] the meek shall inherit the earth. "You might want to tell them that because they think they are. That's what this is all about. "And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth. The Lord [verse 13] laughs at him, for He sees that his day is coming. The wicked have drawn the [Syringe, I'm sorry. ] sword and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to slay those who are of upright conduct.
Their sword shall enter their own heart, and their bows shall be broken. [Verse 23]The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and He delights in his way. Though he falls [verse 24]he shall not be utterly cast down, for the Lord upholds him with His hand. "And I want you to listen very carefully to verse 25. This is David from the heart of David, who had a heart after God's own heart.
The sweet psalmists of Israel, at the time that he writes this song, pens these words to this song, he's now older, up there in years. He says, "I have been young, and now am old. Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his descendants begging bread. "I think that's a word from the Lord for us today. Would you agree? We see all that's happening in the world and certainly, we are all prone to give in to this fear and this fretting and this anger. I wanted to start out this way for a number of reasons, chief of which is that we must hang on to these promises if we're to have any hope; if we're to hold on to any hope.
This because of the evil doers who are perpetrating wicked schemes, the likes of which we've never seen nor arguably will ever see again. Thankfully, Psalm 37 and many passages like it are much needed reminders that God restrains the evil and sustains the righteous. And it's evidenced in the powerful but God testimonies we’ve been sharing over the last couple of weeks. Oh, how I wish you could have read all of these as I did. I do want to share some more of them today at the end. By the way, please know that just because your but God testimony wasn’t shared doesn't mean it wasn't read. Not only were they read, some are being prayed for as well.
Now, why do I mention this? Because testimonies are powerful, in fact, of the Revelation Saints, as we affectionately refer to them, in Revelation Chapter 12, verse 11, we're told, "And they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony, and [listen] they did not love their lives to the death. "We need to talk about this last part of the verse, if you don't mind. They didn't love their life to the death? Yeah. That’s how they overcame? Yeah. By the word of their testimony
and the blood of the lamb and not loving their life even unto death? Yeah. You know, as I've
reflected on the last year and a half, I sense that the Lord is doing a profoundly deep work in the lives of His people. Specifically that of loosening our ever tightening grip on this world, not our home, and the things of this world. And the Lord in His love for us does this to ready us for the rapture, which is imminent.
Listen to what the Apostle John wrote in his first epistle Chapter 2, I'll begin reading in verse 15. He says, By the Holy Spirit, "Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world-the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life-is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, "
dying. When our daughter was dying, we said of her, she's passing away, and when she died, she passed away. That's what John is saying. The world is dying. "And the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides forever. Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. "
If you will kindly allow me to, I'd like to share with you reasons as to why there is absolutely no doubt that we are literally in the last hour as we know it. In order to do that we’re going to go ahead at this time and end the livestream on YouTube and Facebook and direct you to jdfarag. org. You'll forgive me for the bluntness with which I say this, but the evil satanic plan to destroy man is not only afoot and gaining much in the way of traction, but it is swiftly reaching its intended end. And I'll begin with what's being dubbed 'The Spartacus Letter' that a number of people sent me last week. We've included a link to the 48 page PDF file. You can download it, it's on our website. I would encourage you to read it; don't be discouraged when you do.
The writer obviously clearly has a firm grasp on medical terminology. It's very technical and it's obviously written by somebody who knows what he's talking about. So what I did was prayerfully and carefully, as I read through it and then reread it and just prayed and asked the Lord to give me wisdom and discernment from above to know what to share with you from this. So what follows are excerpts in no particular order from this must-read letter. Here's the first one. "If this evil plan is allowed to continue, it will spell the end of humanity as we know it. " By the way, nowhere in this letter is there any indication that the writer is a professing Christian.
Here's another one. And this comes on the heels of a very detailed explanation of the current technology available, some of which we've talked about in prior updates. "If the vaccine is a method to surreptitiously introduce an injectable BCI, (which is a Brain Computer Interface) into millions of people without their knowledge or consent, then what we are witnessing is the rise of a tyrannical regime unlike anything ever seen before on the face of this planet, one that fully intends to strip every man, woman, and child of our free will. "Parenthetically, let me say that this comports with Bible prophecy, specifically in the Book of Daniel, Chapter 2, concerning the final kingdom on Earth.
Daniel writes Like none of the kingdoms before it, nor after it. Iron mixed with clay. I'll leave it there.
Here's the next one. "The vaccines for COVID-19 are not sterilizing and do not prevent infection or transmission. They are "leaky" vaccines. This means they remove the evolutionary pressure on the virus to become less lethal. It also means that the vaccinated are perfect carriers. In other words, those who are vaccinated are a threat to the unvaccinated, not the other way around. "Here's another quote, and I think I might have mentioned this in passing last week. This is a quote. "Make no mistake, intubation will kill people who have COVID-19. "Here's another one. "Gain of
function/gain-of-threat research, a. k. a. "Dual-Use Research of Concern, "or DURC, [D, U, R, C]is
bioweapon research by another, friendlier-sounding name, simply to avoid the taboo of calling it what it actually is. It has always been bioweapon research. "Last quote. "It’s an excuse to coerce people into accepting an injected poison which may be a depopulation agent, a mind
control/pacification agent in the form of injectable “smart dust", or both in one.
They believe they can get away with this by weaponizing the social stigma of vaccine refusal. . . . The aim now is to exert total, full-spectrum physical, mental and financial control over humanity before we realize just how badly we’ve been extorted. . . "Might I add that this letter in its entirety is almost verbatim what we're told in Bible prophecy will happen at the time of the end.
The second one is a video of a doctor, Pierre Gilbert, 26 years ago, back in the year 1995, and it further reinforces this affirmation letter. I want to quote this. It's in French. We do have all the links.
By the way, if we link to a YouTube channel we are not in any way endorsing the YouTube channel that we're linking to. But it's in French with English subtitles, and this is a quote. "In the biological destruction there are the organized tempests on the magnetic fields. What will follow is a
contamination of the bloodstreams of mankind, creating intentional infections.
This will be enforced via laws that will make vaccination mandatory. [26 years ago! Still quoting] And these vaccines will make it possible to control people. The vaccines will have liquid crystals that will become hosted in the brain cells, which will become micro-receivers of electromagnetic fields where waves of very low frequencies will be sent. And through these low frequency waves people will be unable to think, you'll be turned into a zombie. Don't think of this as a hypothesis. This has been done.
"The third is another video. This one is one hour and seven minutes in length and it is from Israel. The title of it is "The testimonies project the movie. "It's in Hebrew with English subtitles and has
harrowing testimonies from people who are experiencing adverse events and even death as a result of the jab. While I would recommend you view it, I do have to warn you that it is heartbreaking to watch. I had to walk away from it more than once. The reason I even mention this is because one would be hard pressed to hear any of these reports coming from Israel-and not be alarmed knowing the prophetic significance of Israel. If you're anything like me and I suspect that you are, it is suspect at best, is it not? That Israel would be the one nation to be the recipients of the most vaccination?
Dare I say and really, I’ve been saying this for quite some time now.
What we're witnessing today, while eerily similar to the Holocaust, is now on a global scale in this the last hour of human history as we know it. But God. This is meant for evil, but God means this for good, for the salvation of many this day and ultimately in the end. And by the way, we're going to talk about this today in our study in Hebrews, about how God always has the final word as one so aptly said it-God rules over all and overrules all. This might be the Holy Spirit prompting me to say this, it's not in my notes, but maybe for somebody today, Psalm 73. Easy way to remember- 37, 73.
In your time in God's word, I would really encourage you to spend some time in Psalm 73.
And here's why by the way, the psalmist is having, I mean, to say a crisis of faith would be an understatement in all respects. I mean, it's so bad that he doesn’t even want to talk to his brethren because he's afraid that he'll stumble them. What's going on? Oh, he's like looking around at how evil seems to be prospering with impunity and God seems to be silent, doing nothing about it.
Everything the evil and the wicked do prospers! And then he even says, it's like I’ve cleansed my hands and purified my heart and my life in vain. My life is riddled with nothing but adversity and
hardship and difficulty, and I'm looking at my neighbor and he's prospering! What’s up with that God? It doesn't make any sense. Why are you letting them get away with it?
That’s why I like Psalm 37, because David is very careful with the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to let us know that God’s not letting them get away with it. He's actually kind of laughing. [laughter] Just wait, you'll see. You're not going to get away with it. And the psalmist at the end of Psalm 73, he finally comes to his senses, and you know what it took for him to come to his senses? He went into the sanctuary of the Lord. That's a good thing to do; find sanctuary with the Lord. And he said, when I entered the sanctuary of the Lord, I saw their end.
It was like, Oh! And it's almost like he went from being angry with them to now feeling sorry for them, because in the end God’s going to have the final word. And I think maybe, maybe I’ll just speak for myself, this is me, I'm just as prone as the next guy to get angry, hot under the collar, heated, yell at the TV. I don't do that anymore, by the way, I'm walking in victory in that area. It took my daughter; out of the mouth of babes. Right? She starts yelling at the TV. and I thought, what have I done to my daughter? So I stopped in that moment and I don't yell at the. . . Doesn't mean I still don't get angry.
Maybe this is the Holy Spirit as well, I'm just going to share it, maybe it’s for somebody that needs to hear this. Do you know why it is that Jesus in Matthew Chapter 5 is recorded for us? He says, pray for your enemies and those who speak evil of you and despitefully use you. Pray for them. How's that working out for you? No, I've tried and at first it’s really bumpy. It's like, OK, I’m going to pray for my enemies-'Father in heaven. 'Yeah, come on, you do the same thing. But as you begin to pray for them, your heart changes toward them.
And that's the whole point, because you cannot stay angry with or become bitter against someone for whom you are praying, not for very long you can't, because once you start praying for them, you have a vested interest in God blessing them and answering your prayer for them. You know that proverb that says heap burning coals on your?. . . When I was a young believer, I thought, yeah, burn them man! Burning coals! It's not what it means. Nice try. In that day, if your neighbor, because you had to have burning coals to heat and warm and cook, and if that fire went out, you would take your burning calls and keep them on your neighbor.
Oh, right? How about this one? The rain falls on the just and the unjust! Yes, get them God! Wait a minute. Rain's a good thing. I mean, I've got crops that need rain. In other words, God’s good to the just and the unjust too. Oh, man, at every turn I’m just being met with total failure in my attempt to get God to kill them. That's my prayer, right, When you start off? So you start praying for your enemies, those who do evil, the evil doers, and all of a sudden your heart changes towards them. Try this, by the way.
You know how they say don’t try this at home, no, try this at home. So the next time that person comes on the television screen and you know who I'm talking about, because they just came to mind when I said that. And you wince like, grr!I know this is over the top, out of the box, but have you ever just thought about praying for their salvation? It’ll just. . . You know they should have a warning label on that. Be very careful, because once you start praying for them, your heart will change because they're a person for whom Jesus died too.
I know this may come as a shock, but Jesus loves them, too. Jesus died for them, too. And they need Jesus, too. This brings me to a few of the ‘but God testimonies ‘I’d like to share with you for the
remainder of our time together today, if you don't mind. I just again hope that there will be an encouragement to you as they have been to me. This first one is from Daneil Hoover. "Hello. Here is my 'but God' story. In Colorado, the governor mandated the jab for health care workers. I'm a maintenance person, so fell under the order. I asked for an exemption from you and turned it in as soon as the company asked for it. I was approved with no questions in just a couple of days. I give God all the glory for this. I thank you for following the Holy Spirit and making the exemptions available.
[And then she says this] I pray all those at work who reviewed the exemption come to know Jesus before the end of the age. [That's the right heart. That's the right heart. ] Thank you, families, so much for your help. Love ya. “
"Hi Pastor JD, I'd like to keep my name anonymous due to the fact that this letter is about my
daughter, who works for the federal government. She's been very anti Covid vaccine. Praise the Lord!
She told me one day, 'Mom, something is just not right about the vaccine. 'I was thinking really? lol.
'and I'm not taking it. and the more they push, the more I’m going to push back.
I had been encouraging her to watch your prophecy updates and directed her to your website to request a religious exemption letter in which she did. And I thank you so much for your willingness to do that for so many people. She said that she has shared it with coworkers who are doing the same.
She asked me how to become a member. I said, um, watch the videos! “By the way, we get a lot of people asking us, how can I become an online member? You are! For those of you here locally, we have no membership. You're here, you're a member; whether you like it or not, I guess. I don't know. It's like, yeah, praise the Lord, right?
We’re all members of the body of Christ! She goes on. "One of her coworkers wrote an 11 page memorandum for a religious reasonable accommodation and he didn't leave a stone unturned. He covered it all and backed everything with scripture. It was very impressive. God is working powerfully on behalf of his children, working for the federal government! My daughter informed me yesterday she has joined a class action lawsuit over this illegal vaccine mandate. And so far, [get this] there are over 2,500 Department of Homeland Security employees signed on to fight for all the federal
employees!
[Applause] [So, yeah, praise the Lord] I just wanted to write to you and your church to give you a peek into some happenings in Washington, D. C. , [who knew?] and ask for you and your
congregation to lift this matter up in prayer on behalf of my daughter and all of the federal employees. We know God is sovereign and He is working and I'm just praying and waiting for the final ‘but God' part of this story. God bless you Pastor.
"This is from Bevon Jacobs. Hey there Pastor. What a blessing your sermons have been. I live in Auckland, New Zealand. I was contemplating taking the vaccine but had such a moral struggle to do it. I then woke up one morning in September, very early to pray for wisdom that day and ask God to guide me because I just could not find anything substantial that also covers Bible prophecy to confirm my gut feeling. But God, when I finish praying, I open my phone and saw a message from a very good Christian friend in South Africa who I asked his opinion earlier in the week, and his message was the link to your sermon, 'Can't See The Forest From The Trees.’
'Powerful! God is faithful and thank you for your work. I live in quite a liberal country and have been asleep for so long, but God woke me up. I have seen in such a short space of time [And I want you to
listen to this part] how many people are open to listening to the Gospel. It sure is time for the late harvest. "Man means it for evil, but God means it for the salvation; the harvest is ready, the harvest is white, ripe! I need to share this just real quick, if you don't mind. What are you going to say, I mind?
Well, so I grew up in a very small farm town, Teco Washington. Just to give you an idea, put it into perspective how small the town is, my graduating class was 16. Just 1, 6. No zero on the end of that.
And as a farm town, everything revolved around getting the wheat harvest in before school started.
Now, if we had one of those late summers and lots of rain, they would actually delay school, which was a bummer because we ended up having to school that many more days into the summer that year. But all of the high school students, of which I was one at the time, would actually work on the farm because there was such a small window of opportunity.
Because if you don't harvest that wheat, you'll lose it. If you don't get it harvested, you lose it because there's only a small window of time when the harvest is white, when the heads of the wheat are white. It's time now, cannot wait; the urgency of it. In fact, is so urgent that we're not going to have school until we get them in. That's what Jesus is saying when He says that, "pray to the Lord of the harvest for laborers". Truck drivers, combined drivers, grain elevator operators and everyone in between, because the harvest is ripe and it's ready and the time is now.
This is from David Folsom. "JD, I've been wanting to share with you something the Lord put on my heart to do. After seeing the success of those who put the ABCs of salvation on billboards, the Lord put the thought into my mind of putting them on the tailgate of my pickup truck. It would be a moving billboard and serve to put the thought of the gospel into anyone who would travel behind me. I went to a local wrap ad company and had them professionally design a laminate to adhere to my tailgate. They did an outstanding job and once done I consecrated the message, the means and the method to God asking that it would serve to get Jesus to people and people to Jesus.
God answered my prayers this week when I stopped at a convenience store to get a soda, and a young man approached me about the message on my tailgate. We talked for some time as he seemed to not want to leave. When I was done sharing the Romans Road, as outlined in the ABCs of Salvation, I asked if he had ever surrendered his life to Christ. He said no, but I would like to. Oh.
And I then prayed with him to receive Christ as his savior.
I've asked God for 40, 000 more tailgates across our great country, laminated with the ABCs of salvation. And here it is again. Do you see this common theme? People are hurting and hungry for truth, even if they find it on the tailgate of a pickup truck. Your brother in Christ, David Folsom, Bozeman, Montana.
"This is from Amanda Baker. "Hello Pastor. My name is Amanda. I am in Ontario, Canada. So I wanted to say thank you and share with you how your videos have brought me back to the Lord. I was baptized Anglican as a child, my stepfather's faith. My mother is Catholic. We were not a family that went to church, but I was raised to believe in God. Fast forward to now. Several months ago, I came across one of your videos. Normally I would have passed right by something like that, but I felt compelled to watch it. Needless to say, I've been watching the weekly services as well as binge watching, listening to your others.
I am also reading the Bible for the first time in my 42 years. From the very beginning of this Covid scam-demic, I've felt it in my soul that something was terribly off. I have now come to know that the
warning I received was given to me by the Holy Spirit. I took your advice and repented for my sins and asked the Lord for forgiveness.
The more that I read His word and watch your services, the closer I feel to the Lord. I live in a very small community, and although we have several churches, none are accepting of our unvaccinated status. I just wanted to thank you for giving me my first church and for being my first pastor. [What a privilege that is] Through your video I have been saved and have turned back to the Lord. I am proof that it is never too late. I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for allowing my family to be a part of your church.
Although we are watching your service from our home, I feel that we belong to a church
nonetheless. [Praise the Lord for that. ]I wanted to let you know that through you, four souls have been saved myself, my husband and two children. Thank you Pastor. "
I'll tell you that's why we do this every week. That's also why we end with the Gospel and a simple explanation of salvation by way of the ABCs of salvation. What is the Gospel? The Gospel is good news. That's what the word Gospel means, Good news. Your debt has been paid, you're free to go.
The Apostle Paul writing to the Corinthian Church in his first epistle, Chapter 15, the first four verses says, the gospel is that Jesus came, He was crucified, He was buried, and He rose again on the third day. And when he in his very first ever epistle that he ever wrote, which, by the way, was to the Thessalonians, 1 Thessalonians, the first time the Gospel is mentioned in one of the Apostle Paul’s letters is to the Thessalonians, and it's in the context of the rapture. And he says, the Gospel is that Jesus died, He was buried, He rose again on the third day, and He’s coming back again one day soon and very soon. That's the good news.
What are the ABCs of salvation? Just a simple way to share the Gospel with someone. It's actually even simpler than ABC, it's actually as simple as B. Just believe. The A is what leads to the B, and the Cis the expression of the B. ABC simple. What's the A? The A is for Admit or acknowledge that you've sinned. See, until and unless you acknowledge that you're a sinner, you're not interested in the savior. You don't need a savior if you're not a sinner. Right? Romans 3:10 says, "there is no one righteous, not even one. "You ask anyone when you’re sharing the Gospel with them, if they think they're a good person, they will always say yes, I'm a good person. In fact, they will even proceed to tell you that that's why they think they're going to go to heaven is because they're a good person.
And usually it sounds something like this: 'Yeah, I haven't murdered anybody. 'Oh, so you think that good people are in heaven and bad people are in hell? Actually, it's the other way around. There's going to be a lot of very bad people, in fact, everyone in heaven is bad. I'll be at the front of that line and don't look at me all spiritual, you'll be right behind me. There's going to be a lot of good people in hell, because the basis upon which we are allowed entrance into heaven is not predicated upon whether we're good or not.
You cannot be good enough, there is no one righteous enough. And Romans 3:23 tells us why, it's because "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." We were all born sinners, which is why we must all be born again, Jesus said, in order to enter the kingdom of heaven. Now Romans 6:23 is very interesting. I really like it because it sort of packages the bad news first with the good news. And I know this is not proper English, but the badder the bad news is, the gooder the good news will be.
What's the bad news? Oh, there's a penalty for your sin and it's the death penalty. "For the wages of sin is death. "That's the bad news. You know when somebody comes to you and says, hey, I've got
good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear first? I say, I don't want to hear the bad news, I just want to hear the good news so just tell me the good news. No, the bad news first. The bad news is, is that we've all sinned and we're all under this death penalty. We've all been sentenced to death because of that sin. That's the bad news.
And then the good news is, "the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus, our Lord. "How does that work? Well, this is the Gospel and here's how it works. So you've been sentenced to death because you've sinned, you've transgressed God's perfect standard of righteousness, God's law. And because you've broken God’s law and sinned and now have been sentenced to death, and that's the bad news, here comes Jesus who says, I will pay your penalty in your stead and I will purchase in full and give to you this gift that I paid for because it's finished. It's paid for in full because see, that's what a gift is, right? If I pay for it, it's not a gift, it's a purchase. No, it's a gift, He paid for it and it cost Him His life. It costs Him everything because of His love for us, He paid in full for all of our sins. And that's the good news and He offers this gift for the receiving. It's a gift that He gives to us. Have you received that gift?
The B is for believe in your heart, and again, this is central, the centrality of believing in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord. And as Romans 10:9-10 says, "if you believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, [listened to the definite specificity of this] you will be saved. "The jury's not out, the verdict is in. It is finished. Period. Not comma. It's not, it is finished however. It is finished if.
No. It is finished. You will be saved.
And then the C, lastly, is for call upon the name of the Lord. Or as Romans 10:9-10 also says, "if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. [And here's why]For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. "And lastly, Romans 10:13, this seals the deal. I did this going on almost 40 years ago. It says all Romans 10:13 who call. . . I'm an all, are you in all?
You’re an all, just. . . "all who call upon the name of the Lord will be saved. "It's that simple.
Aren’t you glad it's simple? Not complicated. Man, if it were complicated I have no hope. It's that simple. If you're here today or watching online and you've never called upon the name of the Lord, I implore you today, because today is the day of salvation. Would you please stand? We’ll have the worship team come up. I have to say that I’ve never in my life had such a sense of urgency as I do now. Please, if I could just ask that nobody leave or. . . just give me another maybe 30 seconds.
This is not a matter of life and death, it is a matter of life and death for eternity. And the rapture of the Church of Jesus Christ can happen at any time. That trumpet is going to sound, it's imminent, and there will be those that will be caught up to be meet the Lord in the air and there will be those that will be left behind to enter into the last seven years of unspeakable horror during the seven year tribulation. And you can make that decision today, now, before you leave this church. If you have never made the most important decision of your life for eternal life, I am pleading with you. Today is the day. Please, please. Father in heaven, I thank You for the simplicity of the gospel. I thank you for Bible prophecy.
I thank you for telling us what the world's going to look like at the time of the end so that we could be readied and steadied, watching for Your return, Lord Jesus. Please, for anyone who has never called upon You believing in their heart, I. . . Please Lord. Please Lord. Please Please Lord, please I
pray Lord, that today would be the day of their salvation. Jesus come quickly. Maranatha. In Jesus name. Amen.
