09/15/2021 | Midweek Prayer & LifeGroups

[Music] so [Music] [Music] praise the lord everybody i want us to stand together and um pray for a really uh very specific need that we have brother um steve gayley who's been in our church for a number of years he's one of our board members and he's been battling brain cancer got a a report from the cancer center in tampa that he's been going to moffat and the cancer has advanced to stage four and he's he's not able to do any more treatment so he's in the hands of the lord if god doesn't heal him then he'll take him but i want you to pray for sister judy galey and lisa and james and that family just pray that god would just give them peace about it i talked with steve today and he said you know i feel like i have peace about it whatever happens happens it's you know every day is is in god's control either way so you know it's hard to sometimes come to grips with your own mortality but i'm thankful for the faith of the hope that we have as christians that as paul said for me to live is christ for me to die is gain i'm going to win either way so i just ask that you would pray for brother steve and you know the bible says whose report will you believe and sometimes we have to take away all the options because then god does it you know it's god that did it so that that uh like for us to pray for his healing first and foremost and then also pray that god would strengthen the family would you help me pray about that right now lord in the name of jesus we come before you tonight we ask you lord that you would touch by the steve gailey right now in the name of jesus lord i pray that you would heal him when man cannot do anything it's not the end of the road for you you you're just starting you have all power where man stops you begin where medicine stops you begin your healing virtue goes beyond anything we can do and lord an impossible situation is not impossible to you lord i pray that you would heal him right now in the name of jesus take this cancer out of his brain right now eradicate it with the power of the holy ghost and lord if you choose not to heal him i pray that you would comfort this family i pray that you would give them peace and strength pray that you'd wrap your arms of love around them oh lord we walk by faith not by sight we trust in you lord above everything else and we ask you lord that you would have your way in the name of jesus your word says we can come before the throne of grace and find help in a time of need we need your help oh god we need your help oh lord we need your healing power in the name of jesus in the name of jesus do the work god that only you can do by the anointing of the holy ghost in the name of jesus hallelujah to god be the glory we thank you for it lord amen i do want to remind you for those that were not here last night or last wednesday night that we have entered into our better together life groups for the fall semester and we have all these different classes around the campus that are available to you it's going to be similar to how we did in the spring we'll run these series of classes for six weeks and then we'll run it for another six weeks so if you take one class for the full six weeks now you'll be able to do it again um for the next you can bring you can do another class is i guess what i'm trying to say i think it's six weeks are we running where's does anybody know if it's six or four weeks it is six okay i was just starting to question myself there so it'll run for six weeks and then we'll run it another six weeks you can take another class if you want to these little cards are in the foyers in the information booth they got big charts little charts there's a big one up here you can take a little small one with you it's got the maps you could go around and figure out where everything's at make sure that you're part of that and uh don't forget to for all of our new members the next steps class is continuing in the multi-purpose room and that's under letter a so pick up a little chart in the foyer and bishop myers will be teaching in in the auditorium tonight as usual and uh i know that you'll be blessed god bless you in jesus name you're dismissed to your classes i don't need a mic jump on me someone had a timeout praise the lord everyone you should be getting your handouts right now and uh praise god all right god bless you happy for all of you that are here with us here in this class and uh when you get your notes there you'll see that our subject today is the message in the rainbow the message in the rainbow and i want to talk to you about something god's put on my heart here to speak on here today wrong thing or is it the wrong one and we'll bring that in a little bit all right the message in the rainbow everybody say praise the lord god bless you we're happy for all of you that are here with us this morning this evening and uh i want to start out by showing you where this all began in the bible if you if you have your bibles and we'll turn with us to genesis chapter 9 and then we'll read verses 8 through 17. this is about the rainbow that the lord originally created now before this event that we're looking at here in genesis 9 before that there were no rainbows there were no rainbows god made the rainbow to appear at that time i'm not sure that they even had rain because the bible says that the ground the dew would come up from the ground and water the plants before the flood this is the way it was done and there was a lot of things that were much different for instance animals did not eat animals animals all all animals ate grass or ate uh corn or whatever vegetation um man did not eat animal life he ate corn and so forth i won't get into all that that's a bible study within itself but there's a lot of scripture that supports all of it and in a thousand years of peace to revert back to that animals will not eat animals the ox and the lion and the sheep will all lay down together the bible teaches that but so before the flood here the lord told noah i'm going to send a flood i'm going to flood the earth cover the earth with water and anybody wants to be safe can get in the ark and noah and his three sons and their wives four wives all got in the ark eight people all together and they were in the ark and then the animals that the lord laid upon there in their hearts to go in two by two male female of all the species of animals went into the ark some people said how in the world did did the ark be able to feed them and all that well they probably went into a hibernation ivan that slept a lot so forth they were in that ark for about a year and they were probably in some kind of hibernation mode whatever it was and i don't try to work it all out i just know it's in the bible and i believe the bible is in the word and the lord made that ark had noah built the ark and it was a huge boat it was a big one so i'm not gonna get into the details on it only just pick up here chapter nine verse eight if you will pick up with that verse of scripture with us and god speak unto noah and to his sons with him saying now his sons before i go any further his sons were ham shem and japheth he had three sons and the bible talks about them over in verse 18. if you want to jump to 18 very quickly here and the sons of noah that went forth of the ark were sham ham and japheth and ham is the father of canaan these are the three sons of noah and of them was the whole earth overspread so all the human race today on the face of the earth has come from these three sons hamsham and japheth basically if i can say this shame is the father of the asiatic japheth is the father of the european and ham is the father of the african and then there is the mixture the melting pot area such as the middle east the middle east was a melting pot area so it was australia so it was south america north america and so forth mixed mix of different uh of these different three suns so i'm just trying to point out to you here that this is though where it all started so i'm going to pick up here then in verse 9. and i beheld i stepped and behold i established my covenant this is god speaking now i established my covenant with you and with your seed after you that's those three sons and every living creature that is with you in other words this is my covenant that i make with you all the human race and all the living creatures of the fowl of the and of the cattle and of every beast and of the earth of the earth with you from all that go out of the ark and i will establish my covenant verse 11 with you neither shall all flesh be cut off anymore by the waters of a flood now the lord is promising them that so he said there never be another flood again that will cover the earth that will destroy the human race it goes on to say that in the rest of that 11th verse neither shall there be any more a flood to destroy the earth and verse 12 and god said this is the token of the covenant which i make between me and you and every living creature that is with you for perpetual generations i do set my bow in the cloud now the bow here is the rainbow in the old testament it's always referred to as a bow in the new testament is referred to as the rainbow so uh we'll i just want you to know that the word bow here is referring to the rainbow i set my bow in the cloud and it shall be a foretoken of a covenant between me and the earth and it shall come to pass that when i bring a cloud over the earth that the bowl shall be seen in the cloud and i will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh and the water shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh and the bow shall be in the cloud and i will look upon it that i may remember the everlasting covenant between god and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth and god said unto noah this is the token of the covenant which i have established between me and all flesh upon the earth and so forth so i'm just pointing out to you here that the lord originally put the rainbow the rainbow in the heavens and in the sky that we might look upon it and remember that the lord has made a promise and he will never destroy the earth again no water now all through the bible there's places where god reestablishes that rainbow to mean that he will always keep his promise he will never fail on his covenant now what we're reading here in the ninth chapter of the book of genesis but right after the flood is where god said i put the rainbow in the clouds and in the sky and you can see those and you'll know that i'll never destroy the earth again by water now can i just say this to all of us here god still shows us the rainbow the rainbow is still with us and every time we see the rainbow you have to remember god is keeping his promise and it's a reminder that god will keep his promise on every and anything he ever promises god is a keeper of promises and so when we see the rainbow it is a reminder that god has not forgotten what he has promised that he will do not forgotten praise the lord i'll get more back to you and i and how that fits in with us a little bit later on i want to go to number a here god's covenant to never destroy the earth and water again this is what we just talked about be this covenant from god was to all mankind and animals and animal life and i just got through reading that from verses 10 through from 9 through 10 all the animal life as well would not be destroyed by water this is that god says i'm making this a covenant and a promise that he would never do this this rainbow is in the cloud notice that now i'm going to read a couple of verses here to you the rainbow is in the cloud look at 13 again i'm just rereading what i read while ago i do set my bowl in the cloud it shall be for a token for a covenant between me and the earth look also in 14 14 and it shall come to pass when i bring a cloud over the earth that the bow shall be seen in the cloud and then also he repeats that down in verse 16 where he says and the bow shall be in the cloud now the reason i'm emphasizing that folks is because the cloud is always that area where it looks like it's not going to be a pretty day or fair day or it's going to be drab and it's dark and you know the bright sunshine is always sort of uplifting to the spirit but a a cloudy day can be negative and the lord said but it's in the cloud that i'm going to put the rainbow so when you go through areas and times whenever you feel down and you feel negative and you feel like things are not going so well praise the lord just remember the rainbow is in the cloud praise the lord god wants you to know he hasn't forgotten you he hasn't forgotten where you are he hasn't forgotten what you're going through he hasn't forgotten all these things that he's promised praise the lord and he will keep them and he puts them in the cloud not in the sunshine but in the cloud he said i put the rainbow that you might understand that when the cloud can be heavy and dark and scary looking praise the lord i've also put the rainbow there to remind you that i'm still keeping my promise and i will never fail and the fact that he has made this covenant many many thousands of years ago and he's still keeping it if he will do that for the rainbow about the flood that came upon the earth he will do that for all the promises and commitments and all the things that he said that he would do that he would do for us if we walk with him and serve him and live for him praise the lord i'm going to move on here a little a little bit further because i want to go into the book of ezekiel if you look at number two here number two ezekiel ezekiel's experience ezekiel's experience i want you to go with me to ezekiel chapter 1 and this was an interesting time for israel when is when ezekiel wrote his book i'm going to tell you a little bit about him ezekiel was of the priesthood of israel and he had been in israel and israel had begun to sin and they began to commit sins and they began to commit transgressions and things began to happen to israel and israel went into captivity and the lord had israel the northern kingdom went into captivity that the southern kingdom of judah went into captivity daniel was taken in that captivity taken over to babylon a king by the name of nebuchadnezzar king of babylon came over and he conquered israel and he said to the king he said now look you pay your taxes and your your your i'm going to tax you you pay your taxes to me all will be well you just run this country just like i want you to run it and uh and he took back with him ten thousand choice young people back to babylon with him daniel was one shadrach meshach bendigo we call them the three hebrew children they were not really children were teenagers and they later became adults and lived to be old men and they went also back to babylon they were the three that were thrown in the fiery furnace later on in babylon if you recall so i'm just saying that they are an example those four daniel and three and those three hebrew children so-called and also ezekiel was one ezekiel was one ezekiel was of the priesthood where daniel was of the kingship he was a descendant of royalty so they put him in the king's palace and he worked with the king and so forth in the palace and so forth ezekiel though was put out in the country and while he was there ezekiel was troubled because he knew that everything was not going well in israel why had god forsaken israel and god gave him a vision and i want you to look at this for a moment this is ezekiel chapter 1 verse 4. i'm going to read this verse of scripture to you ezekiel 1 4 right here he says and i looked and behold a whirlwind came out of the north a great cloud and a fire enfolding itself and a brightness was about it and out of the midst thereof was the color of amber and out of the midst of it was fire now i'm not going to read on and on because it goes on to describe how he saw this vision and what he actually saw was the throne of god and the presence of god in babylon which was a little bit confusing to ezekiel because because jerusalem and the temple was where the presence of god was and that's where the presence of god would come out from the temple he being a priest he believed in that follow that understood that but now he's seeing god over here in babylon it was a little bit confusing to him now i'm going to jump and go to verse 26 to get to my point about the rainbow and above the firmament that he described now all this up in the air this stuff he saw in the air the uh the the chariot of fire and all the wheel in the middle of the wheel i won't get into all the description of that he says in verse 26 and above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne he said in that vision in this whirlwind was the throne as the appearance of a sapphire stone this is now like the throne of god uh upon this likeness of a throne was appearance of a let me let me back up here and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above it and i saw as the color of amber as the appearance of fire round about within and the appearance of his loins even upwards from the appearance of his loins even downward and i saw as it were the appearance of fire and it had brightness round about it he's describing this thing in a supernatural natural pattern he's seeing the throne of god over in babylon and it's a little bit confusing to ezekiel because god's presence is over in jerusalem the temple is still there and he's seeing all this now look at verse as the appearance of the bowl that is in the cloud notice that now this bow here is the rainbow now he's seeing all of this vision here of the of the uh the appearance of this uh the the the hebrew word for it is merkava nakava he saw the makava uh which was this throne that was coming across the sky and it had in and in that throne and above the throne as the appearance of the bow a rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain so was the appearance of the brightness round about this was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the lord and when i saw it i fell upon my face and i heard a voice of one that spake now i won't go into detail here about ezekiel's continuation of his vision but the rainbow represented in this vision that god is going to keep his promise praise the lord in other words i know i brought you over here i know you're in captivity i know i let israel go into captivity i know i know you did but remember the rainbow i keep my promises now i'm going to show you what god's promise was to israel i'm going to go over to the book of deuteronomy here do the book of deuteronomy and i'm going to read a look at verse 28 chapter 28 brother deuteronomy chapter 28 and this is uh just below the ones on ezekiel there deuteronomy 28 1-2 praise god it shall come to pass if thou shall hearken diligently unto the voice of the lord thy god to observe and to do all his commandments which i command to be this day that the lord thy god will set thee on high above all nations of the earth now god goes on to say i won't read all of them but from there on down for the next down through verse 6 he talks about his blessings being upon them i'll bless you here i'll bless you there i bless you when you go here i bless you when you do that i bless i'll bless you i bless you and he names off here about six blessings or seven blessings that he names that he would bless israel if they would just keep his commandments and walk with him now he spells all that out in the first part of this chapter in deuteronomy 28 you will be so blessed uh that you you it'll be overwhelming but is what he says in verse 15 i'm going to 15 now deuteronomy and this is verse 15 but it shall come to pass if thou will not hearken unto the voice of the lord thy god to observe to do all his commandments and statutes which i command thee that all these curses shall come upon thee and then he names off these curses begin to name them and he goes on and on and on talk about all the things that would happen to israel if they did not live for god they did not keep his commandments and they did not walk with the lord i want to jump way ahead over here in that same chapter that verse 47. look at verse 47 very quickly this is getting to my point he says because thou service not the lord thy god with joyfulness and with the gladness of heart for the abundance of things verse 49 the lord shall bring a nation against thee from far and from the end of the earth as swift as the eagles wing a nation whose tongue thou shall not understand you won't even know what they're saying a nation of fierce countenance and everything will not guard the person of the old nor the person of faith and he goes on to say verse 64. i'll jump way over there very quickly 64 right here and the lord shall scatter thee among all people from the one end of the earth even unto the other the lord is saying this is what i'll do if you don't keep my words so when israel failed god and they began to slip away the lord did exactly what he said in deuteronomy he would do he said i will bring upon you your judgment and that's what he was showing ezekiel he was showing ezekiel you know the judgment you're suffering from the judgment you've seen now israel scattered over there but then god made some other promises also i'm jumping very head ahead here deuteronomy chapter 30 deuteronomy 30 and 1. if you'll just turn over to the next chapter two chapters here's what it says in 30 and verse 1. everybody with me this is uh deuteronomy 30. it shall come to pass when all these things are come upon thee he's talking about in the blessings and the cursings on him the blessings and the curse which i have set before thee and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations whether the lord thy god has driven thee if you're off with all thine heart and with all thy soul in other words return to me and keep my word that then the lord thy god will turn thy captivity and have compassion upon thee and will return and gather thee from all the nations whether the lord thy god hath scattered thee now i've read all of that to show you here that the lord promised them not only will you go into captivity if you don't keep my words but also i'm going to bring you back again and this is why when ezekiel had this experience god showed him that throne and he let him know that even though over in jerusalem it all had gone south now they were in babylon but god was still with them and that he would one day bring them back again praise the lord it was a promise of god so when he saw the throne the lord said i'm going to also remind you something else he put the rainbow over that throne so that he would remember yes the rainbow is that god keeps his promise and ezekiel then way back then knew that the rainbow had been around for a long long time many hundreds of years and and when he saw that rainbow on the throne he said yes this is god's sake i'm telling you what i'm going to do and i'll tell you what i have done and i'm going to tell you what you're going to go through but i'm also going to tell you i'm going to keep my promise and keep my word now folks there's a powerful message in there for all of us and that is that god will never fail in anything what god says he will do he will keep his word and keep his promise praise the lord and he was showing that to ezekiel ezekiel was concerned about israel and he had seen the destructions and the devastation in jerusalem and all of a sudden now he sees this he sees this this this uh macabre kaaba and that's the the jews have named to take that over and over in israel they name a tank that which means a chariot of fire he saw that chariot of fire and uh when he was over in israel several years ago and they were talking about this these tanks that these jews had that israel has and how powerful they were and i said is this the macarva tank he said yes the guy said yes that's exactly what it is it's the makava and that's what and it comes from ezekiel here the chair of the fire but the rainbow was there to remind him i haven't forgotten you i haven't forgotten you now i want to get a little bit further into this because god gives us more on this but uh the rainbow to ezekiel was an assurance that god had not forgotten her and i'm going to go a little bit further here because this also applies to the church folks let me just say this god keeps his promises he keeps his word and when you feel like that all has failed and that's way ezekiel felt all has failed everything is failing god says he showed up he said what's all of this about and then he saw that rainbow on top of that figure the throne and everything and all the everything has a symbolic meaning but that rainbow meant i'm going to keep my promises and one day i'm going to restore israel and return it now to give you a short version of this very quickly god showed ezekiel many things but israel was restored they were restored some 70 years later the lord allowed the children of israel that were in captivity in babylon and all around those other countries to go back into palestine to rebuild their nation and they were there for 400 years and then came christ in christ jesus now after christ they were scattered again just like there and they were scattered throughout now the whole world now let me have you go to revelations chapter 4. this is revelations 4. i want to get more into the my subject matter here right now look at revelations chapter 4. praise god this is john the revelator talking he said after this i looked and behold a door was opened in heaven and the first voice which i heard was as it were a trumpet talking with me which said come up hither and i will show thee things which must be hereafter now this is john on the isle of patmos the lord appeared unto him and the lord was speaking to him now what john had just seen was the seven churches of asia in seven candlesticks seven churches of asia he told about their good points he told about their bad points their faults and their failures every one of all the way through i think the church of philadelphia that's where the name philadelphia this our city in america that's where they came from out of the bible here because the church of philadelphia among those seven churches was the only church that did not have any faults that the lord found fault with though it was a it's a brotherly love and anyhow in those chapters two and three he talks about those seven churches when you come to chapter four now john's caught up into heaven in a vision and or however it was and he says after this i looked and behold a door was opened in heaven and the first voice which i heard was as they were a trumpet talking with me and said come up here then i will show thee things which must be hereafter now things after the church age you understand because the seven churches were literal churches that existed in that time and they were all in what is today western turkey they all existed they were in different towns but they also represented the church age itself from the beginning to the end i won't get into details that's a that's a series of bible studies that's a very interesting subject now he goes on to say here come up here then i will show thee things which must be hereafter and immediately i was in the spirit and behold a throne was set in heaven everybody say a throne a throne was set in heaven and one sat on the throne and he that set was to look upon like jasper and a sardine stone and there was a rainbow round about the throne notice that a rainbow about the throne in sight like unto an emerald now why did god show john hear this throne in heaven with this rainbow on it he let him know that i don't care what we go through and what the church may go through god will always bring her out folks god will never fail the church remember that the church will never fail praise the lord and he was saying here that he saw this rainbow and it was god saying again to john remember john wrote the book of revelation 96 a.d 96 a.d revelation the book of revelation was given to him he wrote it and that's way back in that first century still and it was to be for the next what is it 1900 years now but what i'm pointing out to you here is that the lord was letting john know whatever the church goes through i have never forgotten my promises that i've made to the church now let me just talk to all of us here a little bit god keeps his word he keeps his promises let me move on here a bit i'm going to talk to you about some things he said wherever the church goes whatever the church goes through god will always be there he will never fail the church now go to matthew 16 18 for a moment matthew 16 18. i want to talk about us a little bit here this is the lord speaking i say unto thee thou art peter and upon this rock not speaking about peter but because rock peter means stone like a stone upside your fist a stone not a rock i said to thee that they are peter and upon this rock speaking of himself and the relationship of christ with his people upon upon this rock i will build my church notice that jesus is saying that here in his earthly ministry and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it now the lord has stated that isn't that there if you've got your bible you've got a pen put a good strong line under that the gates of hell shall not prevail against it that's a promise from god that's a promise from jesus the gates of hell shall not prevail against it praise the lord now let me give you another verse of scripture here that we can look at as well look at matthew 28 19 28 19 go ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost teaching them to observe all things whatsoever i have commanded you and lo i am with you alway notice that i'm with you always even unto the end of the world now that's a promise that jesus gave before i go any further here let me just say one word here in case if anybody here doesn't understand it verse 19 go into all the world and teach all nations baptizing them in the name name singular one name in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost that name is jesus jesus is the name praise the lord fellow one time told me he said brother myers right there is proof that there's three in the godhead he was a trinitarian he said right there is proof that there's three in the godhead and he said there's god the father god the son and god the holy ghost co-equal co-eternal coexistence uh they were you know they are equal in all things uh they're equal in power they're equal in presence it can exist everything's co-equally three equal co-equal persons in the godhead that's what he said i said is that what that verse is telling us is that what you're saying yeah i said look at verse 18. now everybody go back to verse 18. this is not in our text today but this is for free verse 18 jesus came and speaking of them saying all power jesus said this all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth i said now you tell me how that jesus can have all power in heaven and earth and yet there is two others that's got equal power as it doesn't mean jesus got all the power there's none left for anybody else which tells me jesus is the father son of the holy ghost he's everything if you got jesus folks you've got it all amen i won't i won't go any further than that but anyhow uh this is just to say here that he said i am with you always even and always even unto the end of the world let me give you one other verse of scripture along to go along with that i'm just giving you a scripture this is in hebrews 13 5. these are the verses that i'm giving you here this is one we just quoted this is hebrews 13 5 right here hebrews 13 5 let your conversation be without covetousness and be content with such things as you have for he hath said this is talking about jesus now the lord god almighty i will never leave thee nor forsake thee so there's good there's three scriptures right here you know uh i'm with the church uh i go you know lo i'm with you always these two verses here and this one here uh that the church uh upon this rock i'll build my church in the gates of hell shall not prevail against now the reason i'm saying all of that folks is because god wants us to remember when he showed john in this uh book of revelation chapter 4 he showed john that throne it had a rainbow on it and it said don't forget john i keep all of my promises and all of my word and i keep all of my promises to the church folks let me say here today god has given us some wonderful promises he's given us some wonderful truths in the bible don't ever let them slip from your hands don't let them fall praise the lord keep the rainbow keep that rainbow in your mind jesus said i'll never leave you nor forsake you i'll always be with you and sometimes we go through some trials and tests sometimes we go through some difficulties praise the lord i remember years ago if i remember this correctly i think my son your pastor was a little boy if i remember the story right he was a little boy and we stopped at a gas station to get gas one time and he was stomping in some water a little mud puddle stomping in it and my wife said to him don't do that you get your shoes and your clothes wet what are you doing and he says i'm stepping on a rainbow a fallen rainbow and uh oh come on coin she rushed around got him in the car and everything i don't know if he remembers this he was a very little little attack and i remember hearing him say that and i walked past the puddle and i thought i don't know what he's doing there's some little kids do things you know i walked past that puddle and i saw a rainbow there across the water across a mud puddle and i said what were you doing and he said i was stepping on a fallen rainbow shoe man that went all through me a fallen rainbow a promise of god that had fallen and i thought how many people have had that rainbow in their lives but they've let it fall let it fall let it fall you know you see the rainbow in a lot of strange places i even saw the end of it one time on the hood of my car driving down wickham road up here turning coming from going east and then turning south and that rainbow the end of the rainbow was up in the sky then it was down on the highway ahead of me the next thing i know it was on the hood of my car i mean it's funny how it can appear like that but here it appeared in that and i saw that both my own eyes i saw it in that just for a moment i saw that color across that mud puddle the way the sun hit everything and everything and he said a fallen rainbow and i thought jesus don't let us have a fallen rainbow remember this the rainbow is to remind us god never forgets and he will keep his promise folks he's coming back again he'll never leave us nor forsake us praise the lord i know that we have desires and we have wishes and things and god sometimes will keep them and sometimes he will not he will not do everything that we always want him to do but he has promised us some things that is that he'll never leave us nor forsake us and if you walk with god and you serve the lord you will go through trials and tests along the way but god will always keep his hand on you and one day you'll see jesus and walk streets of gold i'm telling you we may live to see the rapture we may not but we'll walk streets of gold praise the lord the dead in christ shall rise first then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up praise the lord paul when he said that said then we which are alive he was assuming he'd be one of the alive but paul would be one of those dead in christ he'll rise first i'm just trying to say here today folks that the rainbow praise the lord is a reminder that god will keep his promise many years ago my daughter who was a principal was a principal of school back then she had a teacher that had a cottage or a big house actually up uh on a lake up in north carolina that's a second home she lived down here and her and her husband had a nice sort of a second home up there and so one day she told my daughter she says if you know anyone who would like to go there and stay in the cottage she says you know if it's somebody that you know and everything uh they can do it for half price won't be very expensive and so my daughter told me about it and i said yes we'll do that we'll plan a vacation on that so we did and in making that making that decision to do that i called a friend of mine up north i won't say anything about his name or where he lived or anything but he lived up north and i knew that he was going through a trial and a test a real serious trial and test so i thought maybe just coming down this cottage and hanging out with us there for a week just not no worrying about anything else would maybe lift his spirit some and so forth so i called him i said meet me there you come from north i'll come from the south and we'll meet there and i gave him the location everything and we did we met there and we got there and we did spend a week and had a very nice enjoyable time and fellowship together and our families were together and so forth uh but the second day we were there there was a rain cloud came up and we went out on the front porch a big long porch rocking chairs on it went on that porch who sat there and was sitting in a parking chair folks and the most beautiful rainbow i've ever seen in my life went across that sky that cloud was over there and it was must've been looking toward the east it was in the afternoon and that rainbow appeared a rainbow appeared and that brother was sitting in the rocking chair next to me and i said to him brother so and so look at the rainbow and he looked at that rainbow and he said oh my lord jesus you have given that to me you have given that to me for me i know and he started he started weeping and tears running down his cheeks he raised his hand i raised my hand we sat there on that front porch and just worshiped god looking at that rainbow and then it went into a double rainbow you know just so powerful powerful colors and we sat there i mean for half an hour and just looked at that rainbow and it was just like it was a picture there and i knew that god had done it for him to let him know i haven't forgotten you i haven't forgotten you i know where you are i know what you're going through i know the tests and trials you're going through and i'm here with you and folks all of us have times like that and we have times whenever it seems like i don't know if i'm going to make it or not i don't know i don't know if i'm going to make it through this financial crisis i don't know if i'm going to make it through this family crisis i don't know if i'm going to make it with this situation going on in my life my job you know get a pink slip that you let you've been let go on your job whatever i'm just trying to tell you here that all of these things can come at us in all kinds of ways but that rainbow is to remind us that god will never fail us i'll never fail you i'll never you can always depend on me i'm always here you can trust me for all things and i thank god for that and when i think about the fallen rainbow somebody at one time said i give up i'm not going to trust god anymore the lord just doesn't see me through and they walk away from god don't ever do it don't ever do it praise the lord because god will keep his word the rainbow is a sign of it and the next time you see one just remind yourself god's reminding me again that he keeps his promises amen because the rainbow is still there amen can you say praise the lord god never fails he never fails i'm going to move on here i want to show you something else here look at revelations 10 we were in revelations chapter 4 there look at revelations 10 and uh i'm going to read verses 1 and i saw another mighty angel come down from heaven clothed with a cloud notice the cloud and a rainbow was upon his head notice that and his face was as it were the sun and his feet as the pillows of fire now this rainbow here was to remind john that god will keep his promise to israel this is all about israel from this point on is about the lord restoring israel because in 70 a.d the lord because they rejected jesus christ the lord allowed the roman the roman armies to come in there and conquer jerusalem and conquer the jews tear down their temple tear down their city and scatter the jews all over the world that's why there are jews all over the world today now i know many jews have gone back to palestine i say many uh the land there is only got so many but there's more jews out in the world than there is in palestine right now you know that and they call them themselves israelis everything they're a nation but they are not complete yet because god has not completed the work but here in revelations he's going to complete it he's going to complete it now stay with me on this praise the lord and it says the rainbows of the cloud i want you to jump down to verse seven ver with me very quickly here look at revelations 10 7 the mystery of god but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel when he shall begin to sound we're still in this 10th chapter now when he shall begin to sound the mystery of god should be finished as he hath declared to his servants the prophets now what is the mystery of god that he's talking about here well we're going to cut to the chase real quickly here we're going to show you what it is i want you to go to ephesians 3 3 real quick ephesians 3 3 praise god and uh this is paul writing he says how that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery as i wrote a forward a few words how about whereby when ye read you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of christ which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the spirit that and this is the mystery that the gentiles should be fellow heirs and of the same body and partakers of his promise in christ by the gospel this was the mystery that he understood that the gentiles with the jews would be of the same body of christ through jesus christ and that's called the church and that's what we have today of course the jew israel as a nation excuse me rejected jesus christ and rejected that but that's the way it has been this has been the mystery now when you read over here in revelations in this 10th chapter then he says that the seventh verse but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel when he shall begin to sound that mystery the mystery of god should be finished that is the jews and gentiles alike as a church as a body and that's you and i so folks what we have today and we are in and know of as the church will one day come to its end how is it going to come to us then the dead in christ shall rise first we which are alive and remain shall be called up together to meet the lord in the air so shall we ever be with the lord and the church will be taken out of here be taken out of this world and then god's going to let go of let things come on the earth the judgments and so forth that will come praise the lord now i'm jumping here into chapter 11 real quickly here 11 1. look at this bear with me very quickly and there was given unto me a reed like unto a rod and the angel stood saying rise and measure the temple of god and the altar and them that worship therein but the court which is without the temple leave out and measure it not for it is given unto the gentiles in other words the gentiles are out and this is what that paul understood that has come in in his ministry and it will one day go out when the rapture takes place for it's given unto the gentiles and the holy city shall they tread under foot fort in two months and i will give power unto my two witnesses and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and three score days excuse me these two witnesses as verse six these have power to shut the heavens that it rained not in the days of their prophecy and have power over waters to turn them to blood and to smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will this is moses and elijah moses and elijah and this is talking about the lord saying that he was going to bring them back now let me give you one verse here in the old testament in malachi 4 5. behold i will send you elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the lord we get too much into it because i know my time is getting away it's about gone only to say that god is going to restore israel back to where they were and uh during the tribulation period god's going to bring israel back in his favor he's going to restore them i won't get all the details there but israel praise the lord will be god's people on this earth for a thousand years called the millennial period of a thousand years of peace you and i will be with jesus and we'll be in the holy city praise the lord that's our hope praise the lord so while the rainbow represents israel being restored to god there it represents the church that god will never fail us and he will always keep us and he'll keep his hand and his promise upon us till jesus comes now i've got just a few minutes and i'm going to wrap this up by saying just as god has promised that he would restore israel that he will rapture the church away and we can keep and hold fast to that promise and folks don't let the devil trick you out of that don't let somebody talk you out of walking with god live for the lord be a be a righteous man and woman hold fast to these promises and the lord will be faithful the lord will be faithful and one day we'll walk streets of gold praise the lord hallelujah i get excited every time i think about it but i want you to know that one day the lord is and we'll see each other praise the lord we'll the bible say you'll know as you're known and i'm just saying that it's going to be a wonderful thing but we can't fail god here in this life be faithful walk with god now i'm going to go to this part the judgments of god are commanded to the wicked and i'm going to read isaiah very quickly here this is negative but this is what will happen after the tribulation period and when god has turned israel back to him he'll bring judgment upon the world look at 24 1. behold the lord maketh the earth empty and maketh that waste and turneth it upside down and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof this is way over in isaiah god was promised prophesying this would all happen one day to the gentile world verse 3 the land shall be utterly emptied and utterly spoiled for the lord has spoken this word the earth mourneth and fadeth away the world languisheth and fadeth away the haughty people of the earth do languish verse 5 the earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof because they have transgressed the laws changed the ordinances broken the everlasting covenant the everlasting covenant i could go back and talk to you about because that's what over in genesis chapter 9 when we first started out the lord said i've given you an everlasting covenant praise the lord that's to be righteous walk with god serve him keep his promises verse 6 therefore hath the curse devoured the earth they that dwell therein are desolate therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned and few men left i'm just telling you what's coming on the earth here that tribulation appeared before the thousand years of peace and when that comes of course it'll all be a peaceful time here on the face of the earth but before that god's going and that's what revelation the book of revelation is all about the judgments of god i can show you from chapter six to chapter nine and there was where there's going to be great wars great wars did you see in the news today where that or yesterday was it that north korea sent off some missiles they went off out and they hit not too far from south korea to show their power you know what south korea did they sent off two missiles south korea they sent off two missiles to show north korea we got power now too and what's been happening is that there's a lot of power that's being shifted to south korea where the u.s has stood in the gap u.s is shifting more and more power to south korea and it went on to say that they that south korea now has it and it was a surprise to everybody they didn't know south korea had the ability to send you know rockets way up in outer space and down into wherever they want to put it and they pinpoint it they said they pinpointed right where they wanted it to fall it fail in the ocean now i'm telling you that zen has said in the news that now south korea is the seventh seventh nation in the world to have this power the seventh so the seven nations that have the ability to fire these these rockets in the air and way over across halfway around the world folks and drop nuclear bombs i'm telling the world is getting in a very dangerous situation and position it's time for revival it's time to reach the lost it's time to to reach everybody you can you're going to see the world get more wicked the bible says where uh where grace about the where sin abounds the grace of god death much more abound and as sin abounds in these last days god's going to keep on saving people right on up to the 11th hour when the rapture take place so i just want to tell you here today keep walking with god keep serving god let's keep winning people to the lord let's keep telling them about jesus because jesus is coming back and he will keep his word if you don't ever believe it take another look at the rainbow the next time there's a cloud in the sky and there's a rainbow appeared just look at it and said that's right god keeps his word he's kept it that long he'll always keep it i didn't read until you the last one second second peter but in ii peter it simply says that the lord amen kept his promise has kept his promise about the flood all these days but the next time he would destroy the earth with fire aren't you glad we know the lord aren't you glad we can serve god keep his promises keep his word and walk with him let's stand together and give god the praise and the glory let's just thank him right now praise you jesus thank you lord god you're such a good god to us lord jesus we love you thank you jesus for saving us thank you for the church thank you for the body of christ thank you for your promises thank you for the hope that we have lord bless us this evening god go with us at this time and meet back with us at the appointed time in jesus name we pray amen god bless you you're dismissed in jesus name praise god you

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Published: Wed Sep 15 2021