“PASTOR ROGERS, DO YOU THINK
THERE’S GOING TO BE HERE UPON THIS GLOBE AGAIN THE LITERAL
REIGN AND RULE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST?” YES I DO. AND YOU OUGHT
TO. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU PRAYED THIS PRAYER, “THY KINGDOM
COME, THY WILL BE DONE,” WHERE? “ON EARTH! AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.”
HAS IT YET BEEN DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN? NO. WILL IT BE?
YES! WHY? BECAUSE JESUS TAUGHT US TO PRAY THAT. WOULD JESUS
EVER TEACH US TO PRAY SOMETHING THAT’S OUTSIDE THE WILL OF GOD?
“THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN
HEAVEN.” FOR OVER 50 YEARS, PASTOR, TEACHER AND AUTHOR
ADRIAN ROGERS IMPACTED UNTOLD NUMBERS OF LIVES AROUND THE
WORLD BY PRESENTING PROFOUND TRUTH, SIMPLY STATED AND
PRESENTED A CLEAR INVITATION TO FOLLOW JESUS AT EVERY
OPPORTUNITY. TODAY, YOU’LL HEAR THAT TRUTH AND THAT INVITATION
AS WE CONTINUE OUR SERIES ON BIBLICAL PROPHECY, “THE TRIUMPH
OF THE LAMB.” HAVE YOUR BIBLES OPEN TO THE BOOK OF REVELATION
AND JOIN US FOR TODAY’S STUDY OR FOLLOW ALONG WITH PASTOR ROGERS’
OUTLINE, NOTES OR A COMPLETE TRANSCRIPT OF TODAY’S MESSAGE,
ALL AVAILABLE AT LWF.ORG. NOW, LET’S JOIN ADRAIN ROGERS. TAKE GOD’S PRECIOUS WORD AND
FIND REVELATION CHAPTER 20, IF YOU WILL. WE’RE GONNA BEGIN IN
THE FIRST VERSE IN JUST A MOMENT. BUT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT
THE MILLENNIUM, THE GOLDEN AGE. DID YOU KNOW THERE’S COMING A
DAY RIGHT HERE ON PLANET EARTH WHEN THE GARDEN OF EDEN WILL BE
RESTORED? WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS THIS, THAT THE ENTIRE EARTH WILL
BLOSSOM AS THE ROSE. CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT EDEN MUST HAVE BEEN
LIKE? THEY TELL A STORY OF, AH, CAIN AND ABEL ONE DAY AFTER ADAM
HAD BEEN EXPUL, EXPELLED FROM THE GARDEN. THAT THEY FOUND THIS
WALL AND THEY CLIMBED UP AND LOOKED OVER AND SAW EDEN AND
THEY WENT BACK TO THEIR FATHER, ADAM, AND SAID, “DADDY, YOU’LL
NEVER BELIEVE WHAT WE SAW.” AND THEY DESCRIBED THE GARDEN OF
EDEN, ITS LUXURY, ITS FRUIT, ITS BLOSSOMS, ALL OF THE WONDERFUL,
GLORIOUS THINGS THERE IN EDEN. AND THEY SAID, “DADDY, DO YOU
THINK WE COULD EVER LIVE IN A PLACE LIKE THAT?” AND ADAM SAID,
“WE DID ONCE BOYS BEFORE YOUR MOTHER ATE US OUT OF HOUSE AND
HOME.” [AUDIENCE LAUGHTER] HUH, HUH, HUH, HUH, HUH, HUH. WELL,
WE CAN’T BLAME EVE ANY MORE THAN WE CAN BLAME ADAM. BUT I WANT TO
TELL YOU, FRIEND, THERE IS A TIME WHEN WE WILL LIVE IN A
PLACE LIKE THAT. THERE IS COMING A GOLDEN AGE. CAN YOU IMAGINE A
TIME WHEN THERE WILL BE NO MORE POVERTY? EVERY MAN WILL HAVE ALL
THAT HIS HEART WOULD DESIRE? THERE’LL BE NO PRISONS. THERE’LL
BE NO HOSPITALS. THERE’LL BE NO MENTAL INSTITUTIONS. THERE’LL BE
NO ARMY BASES. THERE’LL BE NO GAMBLING DENS. THERE’LL BE NO
HOUSES OF PROSTITUTION. THE BLOOM OF YOUTH WILL BE ON
EVERYONE’S CHEEK. THE WOLF AND THE LAMB, THE CALF AND THE LION,
AND THE LITTLE CHILD AND THE SERPENT WILL ALL PLAY TOGETHER.
THE IMPLEMENTS OF WAR WILL BE A RELIC OF THE PAST. ISRAEL WILL
BE RESTORED TO HER LAND. JERUSALEM WILL BE THE WORLD’S
CAPITAL. THE SAINTS RESURRECTED WILL RULE AND REIGN WITH THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST. THE DESERT WILL BLOSSOM AS A ROSE AND THE
EARTH SHALL BE FILLED WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE GLORY OF THE
LORD AS WATERS THAT COVER THE SEA. WE CALL THAT; THE
MILLENNIUM. THE WORD MILLENNIUM MEANS THOUSAND YEARS. MILLE
MEANS THOUSAND, ANUM MEANS YEAR. WE SPEAK OF SOMETHING BEING
ANNUAL; WE SPEAK OF IT BEING YEARLY. LOOK IF YOU WILL IN
REVELATION 20 AND THE LAST PART OF VERSE TWO, “A THOUSAND
YEARS.” LOOK IN VERSE THREE, THE LAST PART OF VERSE THREE, “THE
THOUSAND YEARS.” LOOK IN THE LAST PART OF VERSE FOUR, “A
THOUSAND YEARS.” LOOK IN THE FIRST PART OF VERSE FIVE, “UNTIL
THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED.” LOOK IN THE LAST PART
OF VERSE SIX, “REIGN WITH HIM A THOUSAND YEARS.” LOOK IN THE
FIRST PART OF VERSE SEVEN, “WHEN THE THOUSAND YEARS ARE EXPIRED.”
A THOUSAND YEARS, A THOUSAND YEARS, A THOUSAND YEARS, TEN
TIMES TEN TIMES TEN, A THOUSAND YEARS. MILLE-ANNUM, THE
MILLENNIUM, THAT’S WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT NOW, AND THAT AGE
IS A GOLDEN AGE. NOW ACTUALLY, THEOLOGIANS HAVE DIVIDED THEIR
THOUGHTS ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM INTO THREE BASIC SCHOOLS. AND
I’LL GET A LITTLE TEDIOUS HERE, BUT YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS. AH,
ONE SCHOOL IS CALLED AMILLENNIALISM. THE SECOND
SCHOOL IS CALLED POST-MILLENNIALISM. AND THE
THIRD SCHOOL IS CALLED PREMILLENNIALISM. NOW, LET’S,
LET’S JUST THINK JUST A MOMENT ABOUT THIS. WHAT DOES AN
AMILLENNIALIST BELIEVE? HE ACTUALLY BELIEVES THERE IS NO
MILLENNIUM. NOW, AH, THE MORE MODERATE THEOLOGIANS GENERALLY
ARE AMILLENNIALISTS. NOT ALL. SOME REAL, TRUE BIBLE BELIEVERS
ARE AMILLENNIALISTS. BUT IF YOU PUT THE ALPHA PREFIX IN FRONT OF
A WORD, IT JUST REMOVES THE WORD. AMILLENNIAL, MEANS
LITERALLY NO MILLENNIUM. LET’S TAKE OUR WORD AMUSE. DO YOU KNOW
WHAT AMUSE MEANS? IT MEANS NOT TO THINK. AMUSE. IF YOU WANT TO
THINK, YOU GO TO A MUSEUM. IF YOU WANT TO AMUSE, YOU TURN ON
THE TELEVISION. HEH, HEH. [AUDIENCE LAUGHTER] UH, AMUSE.
AND YOU WATCH TELEVISION TILL YOUR EYES GET BIG AS COCONUTS
AND YOUR BRAIN THE SIDE, SIZE OF A PEA. [AUDIENCE LAUGHTER] AND,
AND WE HAVE, WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE AMUSING THEMSELVES INTO
HELL. WELL, AMILLENNIAL MEANS, NO MILLENNIUM. WHAT THESE PEOPLE
HAVE DONE IS THEY’VE TAKEN ALL OF THE PROPHECIES THAT DEAL WITH
THE MILLENNIUM, AND THEY HAVE SPIRITUALIZED THEM AWAY OR
ALLEGORIZED THEM. AND THEY DO NOT LOOK FOR THE LITERAL
FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY THAT SPEAKS OF JESUS RULING AND
REIGNING HERE ON EARTH. THEY DO NOT BELIEVE THAT GOD IS GOING TO
FULFILL HIS PROMISES CONCERNING ISRAEL TO ISRAEL AS SUCH. AS A
MATTER OF FACT, AH, THEY HAVE TAKEN THE PROMISES THAT GOD HAS
GIVEN TO ISRAEL AS A NATION AND A PEOPLE AND THEY HAVE APPLIED
THEM TO THE CHURCH. IT’S A PRETTY SLICK THING THAT THEY’VE
DONE. THEY’VE TAKEN ALL THE BLESSINGS AND GIVEN THEM TO THE
CHURCH AND TAKEN ALL THE CURSES AND GIVE, GIVEN THEM TO ISRAEL.
AND THAT’S, THAT’S AMILLENNIALISM. AH, THEY DON’T,
THEY BELIEVE THAT THE MILLENNIUM IS JUST AN ALLEGORY FOR JESUS
RULING AND REIGNING, AH, THROUGH THE CHURCH. THAT’S
AMILLENNIALISM. OBVIOUSLY, I AM NOT AN AMILLENNIALIST. THEN
THERE ARE POST-MILLENNIALISTS. THE WORD POST MEANS APT, AFTER.
THEY’RE PEOPLE THAT BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST IS COMING AFTER THE
MILLENNIUM. THAT IS, AH, THERE MUST BE ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF
PEACE ON EARTH BEFORE JESUS CHRIST CAN COME BACK. THEY THINK
THAT THE CHURCH HAS BEEN ASSIGNED TO CHRISTIANIZE THE
WORLD, AND AFTER WE BRING IN THE GOLDEN AGE BY THE PREACHING OF
THE GOSPEL, THEN JESUS WILL COME AGAIN. IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND
NINETEENTH CENTURY, THAT WAS SOMEWHAT POPULAR, UH, HUH, HUH,
BUT YOU WON’T FIND MANY POST-MILLEN, MILLENNIALISTS
AROUND TODAY BECAUSE, AH, RATHER THAN THEIR THEORY THE WORLD
GETTING BETTER AND BETTER, THE WORLD IS GETTING, LIKE THE BIBLE
TEACHES, WORSE AND WORSE. AND WE’RE GOING DEEPER AND DEEPER
INTO SIN. THE BIBLE DOESN’T TEACH THAT SOMEDAY SOME GOLDEN
AGE WILL COME AND THAT WE, AS CHRISTIANS, ARE TO CHRISTIANIZE
THE WORLD AND TO CHANGE SOCIETY BY THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL
OF JESUS CHRIST. IF I WERE A POST-MILLENNIALIST, I WOULD BE A
VERY DISCOURAGED MAN AFTER WORLD WAR I, WORLD WAR II, THE COLD
WAR, AND NOW THE TERRORISM THAT IS SWEEPING THE WORLD. THE WORLD
IS NOT GETTING BETTER AND BETTER. THE WORLD IS GETTING
WORSE AND WORSE. AND IF YOU MAKE THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL THAT
WHICH IS GOING TO BRING IN THE KINGDOM, YOU’RE GOING TO BE A
PESSIMIST. AND IF YOU MAKE THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL THAT
WHICH IS GOING TO BRING IN THE KINGDOM AS SUCH, YOU’RE GOING TO
ASSIGN TO THE GOSPEL A TASK THAT GOD NEVER ASSIGNED TO THE
GOSPEL. GOD NEVER SAID THAT THE GOSPEL WAS GOING TO BRING IN THE
KINGDOM, AS SUCH. NOW, WHAT IS THE GOSPEL? THE GOSPEL IS NOT
SOMETHING TO SAVE CIVILIZATION FROM WRECKAGE. THE GOSPEL IS
GOD’S PLAN TO SAVE MEN FROM THE WRECKAGE OF CIVILIZATION. AND
SO, YOU’RE NOT NECESSARILY, AH, BRINGING IN THE KINGDOM, AH, BY,
AH, PREACHING THE GOSPEL. YOU’RE SAVING MEN AND GETTING MEN READY
FOR THE KINGDOM THAT WILL APPEAR WHEN JESUS COMES AGAIN. NOW, IF
YOU BELIEVE, IF YOU’RE A POST-MILLENNIALIST, HUH, HUH,
THEN YOU’VE DONE AWAY COMPLETELY WITH THE IMMINENCY OF THE RETURN
OF JESUS. I PERSONALLY AM EXPECTING JESUS TO COME AT ANY
MOMENT. BUT IF I WERE A POST-MILLENNIALIST, I’D HAVE TO
WAIT A THOUSAND YEARS, EVEN IF THE MILLENNIUM BEGAN TODAY, FOR
JESUS TO COME AGAIN. SO THERE ARE AMILLENNIALISTS. I’M NOT ONE
OF THOSE. THERE ARE POST-MILLENNIALISTS. I’M NOT ONE
OF THOSE. NOW, I AM A PREMILLENNIALIST, AND THAT’S
WHAT I HOPE YOU ARE OR WILL BE BEFORE I FINISH THIS MESSAGE.
WHAT IS, WHAT IS PREMILLENNIALSM?
PREMILLENNIALISM BELIEVES THAT JESUS MUST COME BEFORE WE CAN
HAVE A THOUSAND YEARS OF PEACE HERE ON THIS EARTH. AH, THAT,
AH, JESUS IS GOING TO COME IN POWER AND GREAT GLORY, AND HE’S
GOING TO RULE AND REIGN FROM JERUSALEM. AND OUR MAJOR
RESPONSIBILITY IN THIS DAY AND IN THIS AGE IS TO GET MEN READY
FOR THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST BY THE PREACHING OF THE
GOSPEL OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. HAVING SAID THAT,
LET’S LOOK INTO OUR SCRIPTURE TODAY, AND I WANT TO LAY FOUR
BASIC THINGS ON YOUR HEART ABOUT THE GOLDEN AGE THAT IS GOING TO
COME, THE MILLENNIUM, THE RULE AND REIGN OF JESUS CHRIST HERE
ON EARTH. THE FIRST FACTOR I WANT YOU TO SEE IS WHAT I’M
GOING TO CALL THE FORCEFUL, FORCEFUL RESTRAINT OF SATAN.
LOOK IF YOU WILL IN, AH, VERSE ONE, “AND I SAW AN ANGEL.” NOW
THIS IS JOHN SPEAKING; JOHN IS HAVING A REVELATION. “I SAW AN
ANGEL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN, HAVING THE KEY OF THE BOTTOMLESS
PIT AND A GREAT CHAIN IN HIS HAND. AND HE LAID HOLD ON THE
DRAGON, THAT OLD SERPENT, WHICH IS THE DEVIL, AND SATAN, AND
BOUND HIM A THOUSAND YEARS.” AND, AH, THEN WE’RE GOING TO SEE
THAT IN VERSE THREE, “HE CAST HIM INTO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT, AND
SHUT HIM UP, AND SET A SEAL UPON HIM, THAT HE SHOULD DECEIVE THE
NATIONS NO MORE, TILL THE THOUSAND YEARS SHOULD BE
FULFILLED, AND AFTER THAT HE MUST BE LOOSED A LITTLE SEASON.”
IN THE GOLDEN AGE, THE MILLENNIUM, SATAN WILL BE BOUND.
NOW TODAY, HE’S GOING ABOUT AS A ROARING LION. PUT IN YOUR
MARGIN, FIRST PETER CHAPTER FIVE AND VERSE EIGHT, “BE SOBER, BE
VIGILANT, BECAUSE YOUR ADVERSARY THE DEVIL, AS A ROARING LION,
WALKETH ABOUT, SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR.” NOW, IF YOU KNEW
THAT IN OUR CITY THERE WAS A LION ON THE LOOSE, AND HE WAS
VERY HUNGRY AND VERY RAVENOUS, HUH, HUH, YOU’D LOOK AROUND AS
YOU WALKED. YOU WOULD BE CAREFUL. YOU WOULD BE SOBER. YOU
WOULD BE VIGILANT. BUT THERE’S COMING A TIME WHEN THIS ROARING
LION WILL BE CHAINED, AND HE WILL BE CAST INTO PRISON. THE
COURT HAS MET. THE GAVEL HAS FALLEN. THE ARCH CRIMINAL,
SATAN, HAS BEEN PRONOUNCED GUILTY AND HE RECEIVES THE
LONGEST PRISON SENTENCE IN HISTORY, ONE THOUSAND YEARS. AND
THE PLACE OF HIS CONFINEMENT IS A PRISON HOUSE KNOWN AS, “THE
BOTTOMLESS PIT.” THAT’S NOT HIS FINAL DESTINATION AS WE ARE
GOING TO SEE. IT’S A HOLDING TANK UNTIL HE IS FINALLY CAST
INTO THE LIQUID LAKE OF FIRE. NOW WHY IS HE DONE, WHY IS HE SO
ADJUDICATED GUILTY? WHAT IS THE INDICTMENT AGAINST HIM? WELL
LOOK IN VERSE TWO. LOOK AT THE NAMES THAT ARE GIVEN TO HIM, AND
IN HIS NAMES YOU’LL SEE HIS WICKED CHARACTER. FOR EXAMPLE,
HE’S CALLED A DRAGON. A DRAGON IS FEROCIOUS. A DRAGON IS
MURDEROUS. AND SATAN IS A MURDERER. JOHN CHAPTER EIGHT AND
VERSE 44; SEE WHAT JESUS SAID, “YE ARE OF YOUR FATHER,” TALKING
TO THE UNSAVED, “YOU ARE OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL, AND THE LUSTS
OF YOUR FATHER YE WILL DO, HE WAS A MURDERER FROM THE
BEGINNING.” SATAN IS CHARGED WITH MURDER. HE BRINGS DEATH TO
YOUTH, DEATH TO HAPPINESS, DEATH TO PURITY, DEATH TO HOLINESS,
SPIRITUAL DEATH, PHYSICAL DEATH, ETERNAL DEATH; HE IS A KILLER.
THE THIEF COMES BUT TO KILL AND TO STEAL AND TO DESTROY. SO HE’S
CHARGED WITH THAT CRIME. NOW NOT ONLY IS HE CALLED A DRAGON, HE
IS CALLED, IN THIS PASSAGE, VERSE TWO, A SERPENT. THE WORD
SERPENT IN THE BIBLE, AH, SPEAKS OF DECEPTION. AH, “THE SERPENT
THAT DECEIVES THE WHOLE WORLD.” AND SO WE CHARGE HIM WITH
EXTORTION. HE IS A DECEIVER. WE CHARGE HIM WITH PERJURY. WE
CHARGE HIM WITH DECEPTION. BUT NOW NOT ONLY THAT, HE’S ALSO
CALLED THE DEVIL. THE WORD DEVIL MEANS ACCUSER. AND SATAN IS
CHARGED WITH SLANDER. HE’S CHARGED WITH LIABLE. HE’S
CHARGED WITH DEFAMATION. HE IS CHARGED WITH BLASPHEMY BECAUSE
HE IS THE SLANDERER. HE SLANDERS GOD BEFORE MEN AND MEN BEFORE
GOD AND THEREFORE HE IS ADJUDICATED GUILTY. ALSO, HE IS
CALLED SATAN. THE WORD SATAN MEANS ADVERSARY. THAT’S WHAT THE
WORD LITERALLY MEANS. AND THIS IS ANOTHER CHARGE AGAINST HIM.
HE IS CHARGED AS BEING THE ADVERSARY OF GOD. SATAN IS
CHARGED WITH HIGH TREASON AGAINST HEAVEN’S KING. AND THE
GAVEL HAS FALLEN AND SATAN IS GUILTY. BEHIND EVERY JAIL,
BEHIND EVERY HOSPITAL, BEHIND EVERY ASYLUM, BEHIND EVERY CHILD
MOLESTATION, BEHIND EVERY RAPE, BE, BEHIND ALL PILLAGE, ALL
ARSON, ALL HATEFULNESS, ALL HELLISHNESS, IS SATAN. HE IS AN
ACCOMPLICE TO EVERY CRIME, HIGH CRIME AGAINST GOD, AND HE IS NOW
ADJUDICATED GUILTY AND CAST INTO PRISON. NOW THERE’S AN ANGEL
THAT HAS A KEY TO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT, THE ABYSS. THIS IS THE
PRISON HOUSE WHERE SATAN IS INCARCERATED. AT ONE TIME IN OUR
STUDY WE SAW THAT SATAN HAD THAT KEY. SATAN OPENED THE BOTTOMLESS
PIT AND LOOSED A DEMON HORDE UPON THE EARTH. BUT NOW AN ANGEL
HAS THAT KEY AND SATAN HIMSELF IS CAST INTO THAT BOTTOMLESS
PIT. ONE DAY WE WILL SEE HIM THERE. I WANT YOU, IF YOU WOULD,
WOULD, TO TURN TO ISAIAH 14. PUT A BOOKMARK IN REVELATION 20 AND
TURN TO ISAIAH CHAPTER 14. AND THERE YOU’RE GOING TO SEE A, A
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF SATAN. LOOK, IF YOU WILL, IN VERSE 12, “HOW
ART THOU FALLEN FROM HEAVEN, O LUCIFER, SON OF THE MORNING!”
THE WORD LUCIFER MEANS LIGHT BEARER. HE WAS SON OF THE
MORNING WHEN, IN HIS GLORIOUS STATE BEFORE HE FELL. “HOW ARE
THOU CUT DOWN TO THE GROUND, WHICH DIDST WEAKEN THE NATIONS!
FOR THOU HAS SAID IN THINE HEART, ‘I WILL ASCEND INTO
HEAVEN, I WILL EXALT MY THRONE ABOVE THE STARS OF GOD, I WILL
SIT ALSO UPON THE MOUNT OF THE CONGREGATION, IN THE SIDES OF
THE NORTH, I WILL ASCEND ABOVE THE HEIGHTS OF THE CLOUDS; I
WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH.’” DO YOU HEAR HIS ARROGANCE? I WILL,
I WILL, I WILL, I WILL. I’LL BE LIKE GOD. “I’LL BE LIKE THE MOST
HIGH.” VERSE 15, “YET THOU SHALT BE BROUGHT DOWN TO HELL, TO THE
SIDES OF THE PIT,” THIS IS THE PIT WE‘VE BEEN STUDYING ABOUT IN
REVELATION, “TO THE SIDES OF THE PIT. AND THEY THAT SEE THEE
SHALL NARROWLY LOOK UPON THEE, AND CONSIDER THEE, SAYING, ‘IS
THIS THE MAN THAT MADE THE EARTH TO TREMBLE, THAT DID SHAKE
KINGDOMS, THAT MADE THE WORLD AS A WILDERNESS, AND DESTROYED THE
CITIES THEREOF; THAT OPENED NOT THE HOUSE OF HIS PRISONERS?’” IS
THIS THE ONE? NOW THE BIBLE SAYS, “THEY THAT SEE THEE,”
THERE HE IS DOWN IN THE PIT, “SHALL LOOK NARROWLY UPON THEE.”
NOW WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, “TO LOOK NARROWLY UPON THEE?”
THEY’RE GOING TO HAVE TO SQUINT TO SEE HIM. YOU MEAN THAT’S HIM?
THAT WORM? THAT IS THE ONE WHO IS GOING TO EXALT HIMSELF ABOVE
GOD? THE LOWEST OF THE LOW IN A PIT SO LOW IT DOESN’T EVEN HAVE
A BOTTOM. YOU HAVE TO SQUINT TO SEE HIM. YOU SAY, “OH, THAT WAS
THE GUY, THE ONE WHO WAS LIVING SO BIG, HIGH, AND HANDSOME.” NO,
SATAN IS GOING TO BE PUT INTO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT. SATAN IS NOT
CHAINED NOW. THE AMILLENNIALISTS WILL TELL US THAT SATAN IS
CHAINED NOW. IF HE’S CHAINED NOW, HE’S GOT AN AWFUL LONG
CHAIN ON HIM. HE’S NOT CHAINED NOW, BUT HE WILL BE CHAINED AND
HE’LL BE CAST INTO, HEADLONG INTO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT. SO
THAT’S THE FIRST THING I WANT YOU TO SEE, THE, THE FORCEFUL
RESTRAINT OF SATAN. SECOND THING I WANT YOU TO SEE IS THE FUTURE
REIGN OF THE SAVIOR, THE FUTURE REIGN OF THE SAVIOR. LOOK NOW
BEGINNING IN VERSE FOUR, “AND I SAW THRONES, AND THEY SAT UPON
THEM, AND JUDGMENT WAS GIVEN UNTO THEM, AND I SAW THE SOULS
OF THEM THAT WERE BEHEADED FOR THE WITNESS OF JESUS.” THAT’S
MANY WHO WILL DIE BY THE GUILLOTINE IN THE GREAT
TRIBULATION. “AND FOR THE WORD OF GOD, WHICH HAD NOT WORSHIPPED
THE BEAST, NEITHER HIS IMAGE, NEITHER HAD RECEIVED HIS MARK
UPON THEIR FOREHEADS, OR IN THEIR HANDS; AND THEY LIVED AND
REIGNED WITH CHRIST,” UNDERSCORE THAT, “THEY LIVED AND THEY
REIGNED WITH CHRIST A THOUSAND YEARS. BUT THE REST OF THE DEAD
LIVED NOT AGAIN UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED.
THIS IS THE FIRST RESURRECTION.” ON SUCH, AH, “BLESSED AND HOLY
IS HE THAT HATH PART IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION, ON SUCH THE
SECOND DEATH HATH NO POWER, BUT THEY SHALL BE PRIESTS OF GOD AND
OF CHRIST, AND SHALL REIGN WITH HIM A THOUSAND YEARS.” NOW
DURING THE MILLENNIUM, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WILL REIGN ON
EARTH, AND THE SAINTS WILL REIGN AND RULE WITH HIM. DO YOU SAY,
“PASTOR ROGERS, DO YOU THINK THERE’S GOING TO BE HERE UPON
THIS GLOBE AGAIN THE LITERAL REIGN AND RULE OF THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST?” YES I DO. AND YOU OUGHT TO. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU
PRAYED THIS PRAYER, “THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE,” WHERE?
“ON EARTH! AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.” HAS IT YET BEEN DONE ON EARTH AS
IT IS IN HEAVEN? NO. WILL IT BE? YES! WHY? BECAUSE JESUS TAUGHT
US TO PRAY THAT. WOULD JESUS EVER TEACH US TO PRAY SOMETHING
THAT’S OUTSIDE THE WILL OF GOD? “THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE
DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.” AT THAT TIME, WHEN
JESUS RULES AND REIGNS, HUMAN KINGDOMS WILL BE CHANGED. PUT IN
YOUR MARGIN ISAIAH TWO. ISAIAH, THE PRINCE OF THE PROPHETS,
VERSES TWO THROUGH FOUR, “AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THE LAST
DAYS, THAT THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD’S HOUSE SHALL BE
ESTABLISHED IN THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAINS, AND SHALL BE EXALTED
ABOVE THE HILLS, AND ALL NATIONS SHALL FLOW INTO IT. AND MANY
PEOPLE SHALL GO AND SAY, ‘COME YE, LET US GO UP INTO THE
MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD TO THE HOUSE OF THE GOD OF JACOB; AND
HE WILL TEACH US OF HIS WAYS, AND WE WILL WALK IN HIS PATHS.’
FOR OUT OF ZION SHALL GO FORTH THE LAW, AND THE WORD OF THE
LORD FROM JERUSALEM. AND HE SHALL JUDGE AMONG THE NATIONS,
AND SHALL REBUKE MANY PEOPLE, AND THEY SHALL BEAT THEIR SWORDS
INTO PLOWSHARES, AND THEIR SPEARS INTO PRUNING HOOKS,
NATION SHALL NOT LIFT UP SWORD AGAINST NATION, NEITHER SHALL
THEY LEARN WAR ANY MORE.” HUMAN KINGDOMS WILL BE CHANGED. THE
ANIMAL KINGDOM WILL BE CHANGED. PUT IN YOUR MARGIN ISAIAH 11
VERSES SIX THROUGH NINE, “THE WOLF ALSO SHALL DWELL WITH THE
LAMB, AND THE LEOPARD SHALL LIE DOWN WITH THE KID; AND THE CALF
AND THE YOUNG LION AND THE FATLING TOGETHER; AND A LITTLE
CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM. AND THE COW AND THE BEAR SHALL FEED;
THEIR YOUNG ONES SHALL LIE DOWN TOGETHER, THE LION SHALL EAT
STRAW LIKE THE OX. AND THE SUCKLING CHILD SHALL PLAY ON THE
HOLE OF THE ASP,” THAT MEANS THE VIPER, “AND THE WEANED CHILD
SHALL PUT HIS HAND ON THE COCKATRICE DEN. THEY SHALL NOT
HURT NOR DESTROY IN ALL MY HOLY MOUNTAIN, FOR THE EARTH SHALL BE
FILLED WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD, AS WATERS THAT COVER THE
SEA.” THE ANIMAL KINGDOM WILL BE CHANGED. THE MINERAL KINGDOM
WILL BE CHANGED. PUT IN YOUR MARGIN ISAIAH 35 VERSE ONE, “THE
WILDERNESS AND THE SOLITARY PLACE SHALL BE GLAD FOR THEM;
AND THE DESERT SHALL REJOICE, AND BLOSSOM AS THE ROSE.” SAHARA
WILL BE A VERITABLE GARDEN, AND WE WHO ARE SAINTS ARE GOING TO
RULE AND REIGN WITH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. THE BIBLE SAYS IN
THIS PASSAGE WE’RE GOING TO BE IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION.
THERE’S NOT A GENERAL RESURRECTION. THERE IS A FIRST
AND A SECOND RESURRECTION. THOSE WHO ARE IN THE FIRST
RESURRECTION ARE THOSE WHO ARE BLESSED AND HOLY. “BLESSED AND
HOLY ARE THOSE WHO HAVE PART IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION.” NOW,
THE FIRST RESURRECTION IS A COMPOSITE OF THREE GENERAL
ASPECTS. YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SPEAKS IN THE FIRST CORINTHIANS
15 ABOUT CHRIST BEING THE FIRSTFRUITS, “AND AFTERWARD THEY
THAT ARE CHRIST’S AT HIS COMING.” SO THE ANALOGY IS THAT
THE RESURRECTION, THE FIRST RESURRECTION, IS LIKE A HARVEST.
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, THE HARVEST WAS DIVIDED INTO THREE
PARTS. FIRST OF ALL, THERE WERE THE FIRSTFRUITS. WHEN THE
HARVEST WAS RIPENING, THE PRIEST WOULD GO INTO THE FIELD AND GET
SOME OF THAT FIRST RIPENED GRAIN, TAKE A SHEATH OF THAT,
BRING IT INTO THE TEMPLE AND WAVE IT BEFORE THE LORD. IT’S
CALLED A WAVE OFFERING. IT’S THE FIRSTFRUITS, SAYING, “LORD,
THANK YOU FOR THIS SHAFT, THIS SHEATH OF WHEAT. LORD, IT’S A
PROMISE OF THE HARVEST THAT IS TO COME.” CHRIST IS CALLED, “THE
FIRST-FRUITS.” WHEN JESUS CAME OUT OF THAT GRAVE, HE WAS THE
FIRST-FRUITS. HE’S SHOWING THE HARVEST THAT’S GOING TO COME. AS
A MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU WILL READ THE SCRIPTURES CAREFULLY,
YOU’LL FIND OUT THAT WHEN JESUS CAME OUT OF THAT GRAVE, THERE
WERE A NUMBER OF SAINTS THAT WERE RESURRECTED AT THAT TIME.
SOME PEOPLE MISS THAT, A, A HANDFUL OF SAINTS, THESE ARE THE
FIRSTFRUITS. CHRIST AND THOSE WHO WERE RAISED WITH HIM. THAT’S
THE FIRSTFRUITS. NOW, NEXT COMES THE GENERAL HARVEST; THE GENERAL
INGATHERING. WHEN IS THAT? AT THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH! NOW
CHRIST HAS DIED AND HE’S GONE TO GLORY. WHEN HE COMES AGAIN
THERE’S COMING, AH, THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH AND THAT IS THE
GENERAL HARVEST. THAT COULD COME AT ANY MOMENT, “WHEN THE DEAD IN
CHRIST SHALL RISE AND WE, WE WHO ARE REMAIN OR ALIVE WILL BE
CAUGHT UP WITH THEM TO MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR.” BUT THEN
DURING THE GREAT TRIBULATION, THERE’RE GOING TO BE SSS, PEOPLE
WHO ARE SAVED DURING THE GREAT TRIBULATION. READ REVELATION
CHAPTER SEVEN. AND SO, YOU HAVE THE FIRSTFRUITS, YOU HAVE THE
HARVEST, AND NOW YOU HAVE THE GLEANINGS. YOU HAVE THE
GLEANINGS. THESE ARE THE, THE RESURRECTION, AH, AH, THIS IS
THE RESURRECTION OF THE TRIBULATION SAINTS, BECAUSE THEY
TOO, THO, THOSE WHO WERE BEHEADED FOR CHRIST, THEY’RE
GOING TO HAVE TO BE RAISED. AND SO THAT, ALL OF THAT, AH, THE,
THE FIRSTFRUITS, AH, THE GENERAL INGATHERING AND THE GLEANINGS,
THAT’S THE FIRST RESURRECTION. AND WE’RE GOING TO BE RAISED TO
RULE AND TO REIGN WITH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. WHO IS GOING TO
RULE OTHER THAN THE LORD JESUS DURING THE MILLENNIUM? NOT
ANGELS. PUT THIS DOWN, HEBREWS TWO VERSE FIVE, “FOR UNTO THE
ANGELS HATH HE NOT PUT IN SUBJECTION THE WORLD TO COME,
WHEREOF WE SPEAK.” THERE IS A WORLD TO COME BUT THE ANGELS ARE
NOT IN CHARGE OF IT. FIRST CORINTHIANS SIX, I HOPE YOU’RE
JOTTING THESE DOWN, VERSES TWO AND THREE, “KNOW YE NOT THAT THE
SAINTS SHALL JUDGE THE WORLD? AND IF THE WORLD SHALL BE JUDGED
BY YOU, ARE YE UNWORTHY TO JUDGE THE SMALLEST MATTERS? KNOW YE
NOT THAT WE SHALL JUDGE ANGELS?” HUH, HUH. WE, I MEAN, FOLKS LIKE
US, WE SHALL JUDGE ANGELS. “HOW MUCH MORE THE THINGS THAT
PERTAIN TO THIS LIFE.” WHAT HE’S SAYING IS, IF ONE OF THESE DAYS
YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF JUDGING
ANGELS, CAN’T YOU TAKE CARE OF THE LITTLE PETTY PROBLEMS THAT
YOU HAVE IN THE CHURCH TODAY? AND ROMANS 16 VERSE 20, “AND THE
GOD OF PEACE SHALL BRUISE SATAN UNDER YOUR FEET SHORTLY.” UNDER
YOUR FEET, MY FEET, OUR FEET, THE CHURCH! NO FRIEND, WE ARE
GOING TO REIGN WITH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. AND THAT IS, AH,
THE REIGN OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. WON’T THAT BE A
WONDERFUL DAY? WHEN THE CRIMINAL IS IN PRISON, WHEN ISRAEL IS
BACK IN HER LAND, WHEN THE BRIDE IS WITH THE BRIDEGROOM AND THE
KING IS ON HIS THRONE. THAT, MY FRIEND, IS THE MILLENNIUM. THAT
IS THE GOLDEN AGE. THAT IS THE DAY THAT’S GOING TO COME. NOW
HERE’S THE THIRD THING. THERE’S GOING TO COME THE FINAL
REBELLION OF SINNERS. SOMETIMES WE THINK EVERYTHING IS ALL
READY, IT’S ALL DONE, SATAN IS LOCKED AWAY AND THEN WE SAY, “OH
NO, HE’S BACK! HE’S BACK.” LOOK IF YOU WILL, “AND WHEN THE
THOUSAND YEARS ARE EXPIRED, SATAN SHALL BE LOOSED OUT OF HIS
PRISON, AND SHALL GO OUT TO DECEIVE THE NATIONS WHICH ARE IN
THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH, GOG AND MAGOG, TO GATHER THEM
TOGETHER TO BATTLE, THE NUMBER OF WHOM IS AS THE SAND OF THE
SEA. AND THEY WENT UP ON THE BREADTH OF THE EARTH, AND
COMPASSED THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS ABOUT, AND THE BELOVED CITY,”
THAT’S JERUSALEM, “AND FIRE CAME DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, AND
DEVOURED THEM.” NOW JUST WHEN WE THINK SATAN IS GONE; HE’S
CHAINED, PUT IN THE BOTTOMLESS PIT, HE COMES FORTH AGAIN, NOT
BY HIS OWN POWER; IT’S NOT A JAILBREAK. HE’S RELEASED. GOD,
WHO IS ALWAYS SOVEREIGN, ALLOWS SATAN TO HAVE ONE FINAL FLING.
WHY IS THIS? IT IS GOD’S FINAL TESTIMONY TO THE WICKEDNESS OF
THE HUMAN HEART. IT IS MANKIND’S FINAL TEST. NOW THERE’RE GOING
TO BE SOME PEO, WHO ARE THESE WHO ARE GOING TO REBEL WITH
SATAN ANYWAY? SAY, “PASTOR ROGERS, I THOUGHT EVERYBODY
WOULD BE SAVED DURING THE MILLENNIUM.” NO, THEY WILL NOT
BE. AH, PEOPLE WILL HAVE CHILDREN DURING THE MILLENNIUM.
AND WHEN THEY HAVE CHILDREN, MANY OF THESE CHILDREN WILL NOT
HAVE RECEIVED JESUS CHRIST AS THEIR PERSONAL SAVIOR AND LORD.
JESUS WILL RULE THE NATIONS WITH A ROD OF IRON. THERE’LL BE NO
UPRISING. AH, THERE WILL BE NO SATAN LEADING IN REBELLION. BUT
DOWN IN THE HUMAN HEART, LATENT IN THE HUMAN HEART, WILL STILL
BE SIN, IF IT’S NOT WASHED BY THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF THE LORD
JESUS CHRIST. NOW, LISTEN TO ME. IT’S A VERY IMPORTANT LESSON.
GOD HAS MILLIONS OF CHILDREN BUT HE HAS NOT ONE GRANDCHILD.
[AUDIENCE: THAT’S RIGHT] HMM. JUST BECAUSE YOUR PARENTS ARE
CHRISTIANS, THAT DOESN’T MEAN THAT YOU’RE GOING TO BE A
CHRISTIAN. [AUDIENCE: THAT’S [RIGHT] I WAS SPEAKING TO MAN. HE
SAID, “PASTOR, I HEARD YOU SAY THAT ONE TIME IN CHURCH. MY
FATHER IS A MINISTER, LOVES GOD AND I WAS COUNTING AS A PK THAT
THAT WAS GOING TO GET ME TO HEAVEN. AND GOD SMOTE ME WITH
THAT STATEMENT, ‘GOD HAS NO GRANDCHILDREN.’” NOW IN THE
MILLENNIUM, THERE WILL BE GOD’S CHILDREN BUT THERE WILL BE THOSE
WHO ARE CHILDREN OF GOD’S CHILDREN WHO’VE NEVER BEEN
SAVED, WHO, IN THE MILLENNIUM, AFTER A THOUSAND YEARS, ARE
GOING TO REBEL AGAINST GOD WHEN SATAN IS LET LOOSE. GOD IS
DEMONSTRATING TO THE WORLD TWO GREAT PRINCIPLES WHEN HE DOES
THIS. NUMBER ONE, PUNISHMENT IS NOT THE FINAL ANSWER. SATAN HAS
BEEN IN THE PRISON HOUSE DOING HARD TIME FOR ONE THOUSAND
YEARS! AND HE COMES BACK TO REBEL ONE MORE TIME. PUNISHMENT
IS NOT THE ANSWER. NOW I BELIEVE PRISONS ARE NECESSARY, BUT
THEY’RE NOT THE FINAL ANSWER. I’LL TELL YOU SOMETHING ELSE.
ENVIRONMENT IS NOT THE FINAL ANSWER. MAKE YOUR ENVIRONMENT AS
GOOD AS YOU CAN, BUT AFTER ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF PEACE AND
RIGHTEOUSNESS, DOWN IN THE HUMAN HEART THIS LATENT SIN, LATENT
SIN BUBBLES FORTH. AND SO MANY PEOPLE THINK, “IF WE COULD JUST
CHANGE THE ENVIRONMENT, WE CAN CHANGE THE NATURE OF MEN.” DO
YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT? IF YOU DO, LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING,
IT WAS IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN THAT MAN GOT INTO TROUBLE IN THE
FIRST PLACE, WAS IT NOT? WHERE’RE YOU GOING TO GET A, A
MORE, A MORE PERFECT ENVIRONMENT THAN THE GARDEN OF EDEN? NO, I’M
TELLING YOU FRIEND THAT PUNISHMENT IS NOT THE ANSWER.
AND I’M TELLING YOU THAT ENVIRONMENT IS NOT THE ANSWER.
THE CRIMINOLOGIST AND HIS PRISONS ARE NOT THE ANSWER. THE
SOCIOLOGIST AND HIS PROGRAMS ARE NOT THE ANSWER. THE EDUCATOR AND
HIS PHILOSOPHIES ARE NOT THE ANSWER. THE STATESMAN AND HIS
POLITICS ARE NOT THE ANSWER. ONLY JESUS IS THE ANSWER.
[AUDIENCE: AMEN] AND, ONE MORE TIME AT, AT THE FINAL FILTER,
THE FINAL TEST, JUST LET SATAN OUT OF HIS PRISON HOUSE AND HERE
PEOPLE GO WITH THAT SIN THAT’S LATENT IN THEIR HEART. I READ
SOMETHING ONE DAY YEARS AGO, I WISH I COULD GIVE YOU THE EXACT
REFERENCE WHERE I READ IT, BUT I WAS ASTOUNDED BY IT. WHEN THEY
OPENED THE TOMB OF ONE OF THE OLD PHARAOHS, COULD’VE BEEN THE
KI, THE, THE TOMB OF OLD KING TUT, THIS PHARAOH HAD BEEN DEAD
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, AND THEY FOUND BURIED WITH THE PHARAOH
SOME, SOME GRAIN, SOME WHEAT. THEY TOOK THOSE GRAINS OF WHEAT,
PUT THEM IN THE RIGHT ENVIRONMENT WITH MOISTURE AND
WARM SUN AND THOSE GRAINS OF WHEAT THAT HAD LAIN THERE FOR
MILLENNIUMS BEGAN TO GERMINATE AND TO SPROUT. ISN’T THAT AN
AMAZING THING? THOUSANDS OF YEARS! THAT’S THE WAY IT IS WITH
SIN IN THE HUMAN HEART. THERE IS ONLY ONE ANSWER TO SIN AND IT IS
THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF LORD JESUS CHRIST. AND SO YOU SEE HERE THE
FINAL REBELLION OF SINNERS. NOW, FOURTH AND FINALLY, I WANT YOU
TO SEE THE FIXED RESOLUTION OF SIN. “PASTOR, WHEN, WHEN, WHEN
WILL WE BE DONE WITH SIN?” RIGHT HERE, VERSES NINE AND 10, NOW
THESE REBELS, IT SAYS OF THEM, “AND THEY WENT UP ON THE BREADTH
OF THE EARTH, AND COMPASSED THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS ABOUT, AND
THE BELOVED CITY, AND FIRE CAME DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, AND
DEVOURED THEM. AND THE DEVIL THAT DECEIVED THEM WAS CAST INTO
THE LAKE OF FIRE AND BRIMSTONE, WHERE THE BEAST AND THE FALSE
PROPHET ARE.” AND, BY THE WAY, THE BEAST AND FALSE PROPHET HAVE
BEEN THERE FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS. DON’T YOU EVER GET THE
IDEA THAT HELL IS TEMPORARY! “WHERE THE BEAST AND THE FALSE
PROPHET ARE, AND SHALL BE TORMENTED DAY AND NIGHT FOR EVER
AND EVER.” SATAN IS FINALLY CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE! THE
BOTTOMLESS PIT IS LIKE THE COUNTY JAIL WHERE THE PRISONER
IS HELD UNTIL HE BRINGS HIS, COMES INTO COURT, IS ADJUDICATED
GUILTY, AND THEN HE IS CAST INTO THE PENITENTIARY, WHICH IS THE
LAKE OF FIRE. WILL THERE EVER BE A TIME WHEN SIN IS FINISHED? AH,
WILL THE PROBLEM OF SIN BE FIXED FOREVER? CAN WE EVER SAY GOODBYE
TO SIN, FAREWELL? YES. THESE REBELS WILL EXPERIENCE A, A
FIERY DEATH. THIS IS NOT ARMAGEDDON. GOD WILL BLOW HIS
BREATH ON THEM, AND ALL THAT’S LEFT IS A PILE OF ASHES. AND,
AH, THEIR SOUL WILL BE FLUNG INTO ETERNITY, AND THE DEVIL
THAT DECEIVED THEM IS CAST HEADLONG INTO HELL. FOR THE
BIBLE SAYS, “HELL IS PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS.”
AND IF YOU FOLLOW SATAN, I WANT TO SAY IT KINDLY BUT FORCEFULLY,
THAT’S WHERE YOU ARE GOING TO END UP. WHY FOLLOW A LOSER? AH,
THIS IS THE FINAL RESOLUTION OF SIN. WHEN I STUDIED THIS, THIS
VERSE OF SCRIPTURE CAME TO MY MIND, FIRST CORINTHIANS 15
VERSES 24 AND 25, “THEN COMETH THE END, WHEN HE,” JESUS, “SHALL
HAVE DELIVERED UP THE KINGDOM TO GOD, EVEN THE FATHER; WHEN HE
SHALL HAVE PUT DOWN ALL RULE, AND ALL AUTHORITY AND POWER. FOR
HE MUST REIGN, UNTIL HE HATH PUT ALL ENEMIES UNDER HIS FEET.”
FRIEND, WHAT A DAY THAT WILL BE. AMEN? WHAT A DAY WHEN WE HAVE
THE FINAL RESOLUTION OF SIN. NOW NOTICE WHAT I’VE SAID. SATAN IS
GOING TO BE BOUND. JESUS IS GOING TO REIGN. THE ANIMAL
KINGDOM, THE MINERAL KINGDOM, AND THE KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD
WILL BE CHANGED. THEN THERE’S COMING A FINAL, A FINAL
REBELLION. OUR LORD WILL PUT THAT DOWN AND HE’LL SAY,
“FATHER, HERE IS THE KINGDOM. I NOW DELIVER IT UP TO YOU.” NOW
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO YOU? LOOK AT ME RIGHT NOW, EVERYBODY LOOK
AT ME. LET ME TELL YOU WHAT IT MEANS TO ME. FIRST OF ALL, IT
MEANS ENCOURAGEMENT, ENCOURAGEMENT. DON’T GET THE
IDEA THAT THE GOSPEL HAS FAILED. IT HAS NOT FAILED. WE ARE NOT
POST-MILLENNIALISTS. WE’RE NOT TRYING TO MAKE THE WORLD BETTER
AND BETTER SO JESUS CAN COME. WE ARE WAITING FOR JESUS CHRIST TO
COME, AND WE’RE NOT REARRANGING THE DECK CHAIRS ON THE TITANIC.
WHAT WE’RE GOING IS TELLING PEOPLE OF THE LIFEBOAT, WHOSE
NAME IS JESUS. [AUDIENCE: AMEN] OKAY? NOW THAT, IT, IT’S A GREAT
ENCOURAGEMENT TO ME.SECOND THING, SECOND WORD IS
ANTICIPATION. I BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST CAN COME AT ANY
MOMENT. “IN SUCH AN HOUR AS YE THINK NOT, THE SON OF MAN
COMETH.” OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN THE BIBLE, WE’RE BEING
TOLD OF THE IMMINENT RETURN OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. THE THIRD
WORD IS EVANGELISM. WE NEED TO BE TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT JESUS.
LISTEN, THE GREAT PROOF THAT YOU BELIEVE WHAT I’VE SAID THIS
MORNING IS NOT DID YOU GET IT IN YOUR NOTEBOOK. DID YOU GET IT IN
YOUR HEART? AND IS THERE A PASSION [THUMP] IN YOUR [THUMP]
HEART TO BRING PEOPLE TO JESUS CHRIST, [AUDIENCE: AMEN] THAT
PEOPLE MIGHT BE SAVED. DO YOU HAVE A SOUL-WINNER’S HEART? IF
NOT, ASK GOD TO GIVE YOU ONE. THE LAST WORD IS EXAMINATION.
ARE YOU SAVED? AFTER THE MILLENNIUM, PEOPLE, WHO LIVING
IN A GODLY ENVIRONMENT, REBELLED AGAINST GOD. DO YOU KNOW THAT
YOU KNOW THAT YOU’RE SAVED? ARE YOU SURE YOU’RE SAVED? ARE YOU
SURE THAT YOU’RE SURE? YOUR SOUL IS TOO PRECIOUS FOR YOU TO PLAY
LOOSELY WITH IT. “WELL PASTOR, I’M NOT REALLY SURE, TO TELL YOU
THE TRUTH, THAT I’M SAVED.” WELL, I’VE GOT SOME GOOD NEWS
FOR YOU. AND THE GOSPEL IS GOOD NEWS. YOU CAN BE SAVED TODAY.
THERE’S NOTHING TO BUY. IT’S A GIFT. NOTHING TO EARN. IT’S A
GIFT. LISTEN TO THIS SCRIPTURE, “FOR BY GRACE ARE YOU SAVED
THROUGH FAITH.” GRACE IS GOD’S LOVE FOR YOU, THROUGH FAITH.
GRACE IS GOD IN LOVE REACHING DOWN TO YOU AND SAYING, “I LOVE
YOU. I SENT MY SON TO DIE FOR YOU. I WANT TO SAVE YOU.” HERE’S
MY HAND OF GRACE REACHING DOWN TO YOU.” FAITH IS YOUR HAND
REACHING UP TO GOD. “FOR BY GRACE ARE YOU SAVED THROUGH
FAITH.” WHEN YOU PUT YOUR HAND OF FAITH IN GOD’S HAND OF GRACE,
THAT’S SALVATION. THAT’S WHEN YOU’RE SAVED. WHEN YOU SAY,
“LORD, I KNOW THAT YOU LOVE ME AND I KNOW THAT YOU WANT TO SAVE
ME. AND NOW LORD JESUS, BY FAITH, BY FAITH, I RECEIVE YOU.
[THUMP] COME INTO MY HEART. FORGIVE MY SIN. SAVE ME, LORD
JESUS.” BOW YOUR HEADS IN PRAYER. HEADS ARE BOWED AND EYES
ARE CLOSED, AND IF YOU ALREADY KNOW THE LORD JESUS, WOULD YOU
BEGIN TO PRAY FOR THOSE ROUND ABOUT YOU WHO MAY NOT KNOW HIM?
AND IF YOU’RE NOT CERTAIN THAT YOU KNOW HIM OR CERTAIN THAT YOU
DON’T KNOW HIM, MAY I GUIDE YOU IN A PRAYER? WOULD YOU PRAY LIKE
THIS? “OH GOD, THANK YOU FOR LOVING ME. LORD JESUS, THANK YOU
FOR DYING FOR ME. THANK YOU FOR SHEDDING YOUR BLOOD ON THE CROSS
FOR ME. I BELIEVE YOU’RE THE SON OF GOD. I BELIEVE YOU WERE
RAISED FROM THE DEAD, AND NOW BY FAITH I TRUST YOU. I PUT MY HAND
OF FAITH IN YOUR HAND OF GRACE. I RECEIVE YOU, LORD JESUS, AS MY
PERSONAL LORD AND SAVIOR. FORGIVE MY SIN. CLEANSE ME. SAVE
ME, JESUS.” PRAY IT AND MEAN IT. “SAVE ME, JESUS.” DID YOU ASK
HIM? ASK HIM, “SAVE ME JESUS. SAVE ME.” ASK HIM. DID YOU ASK
HIM? THEN THANK HIM. “THANK YOU FOR DOING IT. I DON’T ASK FOR A
SIGN OR A FEELING. I STAND ON YOUR WORD. AND I WILL MAKE IT
PUBLIC. I WILL NOT BE ASHAMED OF YOU. IN YOUR NAME I PRAY. AMEN.” FRIEND LET ME TALK TO YOU FOR
JUST ANOTHER MOMENT. FRIENDS ALL AROUND ME ARE TRYING TO FIND
WHAT THE HEART YEARNS FOR, BY SIN UNDERMINED. I HAVE THE
SECRET, I KNOW WHERE TIS FOUND, TRUE CONTENTMENT IS FOUND IN THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST. DO YOU KNOW HIM AS YOUR PERSONAL LORD AND
SAVIOR? YOUR HEART WILL BE EMPTY AND VACANT AND HUNGRY UNTIL YOU
KNOW JESUS; NO MATTER WHAT ELSE YOU DO, YOU WILL NEVER FILL THAT
GOD-SHAPED VOID IN YOUR HEART AND IN YOUR LIFE AND IN YOUR
HOME WITHOUT JESUS. WOULD YOU PRAY, “LORD JESUS, COME INTO MY
HEART, INTO MY LIFE; FORGIVE MY SIN, CLEANSE ME, SAVE ME, BEGIN
TO MAKE ME THE PERSON YOU WANT ME TO BE.” IF YOU CAN’T REMEMBER
ALL OF THAT, JUST BELIEVE IT ALL AND SAY, “LORD JESUS, SAVE ME.”
AND HE WILL DO JUST THAT. AND IF YOU DO THAT, WOULD YOU WRITE TO
US AND LET US KNOW THAT YOU’VE DONE IT SO WE CAN REJOICE. AND
WE WILL SEND YOU, ABSOLUTELY FREE, SOME LITERATURE TO HELP
YOU GET STARTED IN YOUR CHRISTIAN WALK. WE’LL WAIT TO
HEAR FROM YOU. AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU WITH THE DEEPEST CONTENTMENT
THAT’S FOUND ONLY IN JESUS CHRIST. WE HOPE THAT TODAY’S
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