Don Stewart | Bible Prophecy Update | Vertical View | Pastor Joe Pedick & Don Stewart | 2/23/2021

good evening welcome tonight we we call it vertical view we have don stewart with us tonight we're so excited to have him back yeah let's give the lord a hand first having don here with us [Applause] let's open in prayer good to see you guys good to see everybody let's uh open prayer and ask lord just to guide us direct us and truly just bless our time i had a little bit of time with don in the back there just been a blessing just to hear his story what happened and when he was sick and everything in this new season in his life so he's going to share all that and uh he's going to do a prophecy update so we've got a lot of special things going on one other thing just to let you know we're gonna do question and answer q a time and we have 10 books up here uh 10 of don's books so the first 10 people up at the the mic will get the first 10 books so all we have is 10 tonight so sometimes we go a little extra and a little extra and a little bit more a little we can't do that tonight all we have is 10 books so the first 10 people that come on up and ask a question uh we'll give you a free book and i'm sure if you ask real nice donald sign it for you if you'd like so but let's get started let's open in prayer and ask the lord to bless our time let's pray lord god heavenly father daddy god we thank you for tonight we we thank you for don we thank you for his ministry we thank you just lord how you use him in such wonderful ways lord we thank you that he's your servant and we we pray tonight as he speaks that you would speak to us we pray for just the leading the direction of you and your holy spirit god we pray that those that ask questions lord would be a time that would build up the body that through the questions we'd learn of you more of who you are we pray lord for don as he teaches and he admonishes and and all may you just bless him have your way tonight lord direct us lord thank you lord for having joseph hope here we pray a special blessing over them as they lead us in this time of worship and praise to you lord receive our adoration tonight may we all hear and those that are watching online may we realize this is an audience but it's an audience of one it's just you that we worship and praise bless our time together lord bless our children's ministry and be with the teachers us our media our security our ushers everything that we do god we pray in jesus name it would bring glory to you so have your way tonight we pray in jesus name we pray and all god's people said amen god bless you guys a little bit uh welcome church good to have you guys here let's stand and worship [Music] i count on one thing the same god that never fails will not fail me now you won't fail me now in the waiting the same god who's never late is working all things [Music] yes i will bless your name oh yes i will sing for joy but my heart is heavy oh yes i will [Music] i [Music] in the way the same god who's never late is working all things out he's working all things out oh yes i will lift you [Music] my [Music] praise to glorify glorify the name of all names that nothing can stand against i choose to glorify glorify the name of bombings that nothing can stand against oh yes i will lift you [Music] [Applause] [Music] i choose to grace to glorify glorify the name of all things that nothing can stand against i chose [Music] but nothing can stand against oh yes i will lift you high the lowest valley yes i will bless your name oh yes i will oh yes i will for all my days yes [Music] [Music] and walking around these walls i thought by now they fall but you have never failed [Music] and me for change to come [Music] knowing the battle's mind [Music] before you have never failed me [Music] your promise dear stands is your faithfulness faithfulness i'm still in your hands this is my confidence you've never failed me [Applause] [Music] yet [Music] your way will come to pass my heart will see your pace jesus [Music] keep me within your love [Music] your promise still stands great is your faithfulness [Music] faithfulness i'm still in your hands this is my confidence you've never failed your promise still stands great is your faithfulness [Music] faithfulness i'm still in your hands this you is failed me [Music] yet [Music] and i believe i see you do it again [Music] i've seen you move [Music] [Applause] when there was [Music] i [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] still stands great is your faithfulness i'm still in your hands this is promise still stands hands this is [Music] is your faithfulness faithfulness i'm still in your hands this is my confidence you've never failed me [Music] yet at this time you may be seated as we have the ushers come forward to receive this evening's ties and offerings [Music] i cast my mind to calvary where jesus bled and died for me i see his words his hands his feet my savior all that cursed me [Music] his body bound and dredged in tears they laid him down in joseph's tooth the entrance messiah still in all alone oh praise the name of the lord [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] is oh praise the name of the lord our god o praise his name forever lord [Music] foreign oh praise the name of the lord our god [Music] oh [Music] foreign [Music] the blazing sun shall pierce the night and i will rise amongst the seas on jesus praise oh praise his name [Music] forever [Music] hold raise his name [Music] forever [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] if you'll join me in praying over these ties and offerings you may be seated heavenly father we have so many reasons to praise you tonight we thank you lord for don's return we thank you for his life lord we thank you for how you've used him over the many years and we thank you lord that you're not done with him we ask lord for your blessing upon this night be with pastor joe and don as ise they discuss the things lord that are of you i pray lord you would speak through them and i pray lord that this the fruit of of this evening lord would just be a greater knowledge of you we thank you for these ties and offerings and we ask lord that you would bless them and use them for your purposes lord in jesus name we pray amen any remaining youth are dismissed to their classrooms all right good evening everybody what a great time of worship let's give the lord a hand i'll tell you god is god is on the move amen so get on board all right so at this time we'll go ahead and you guys can say hi to the people next to you and remember it's flu season so socially distance wave or whatever you want to do [Applause] all right well good evening everybody welcome to calvary chapel the harbor so blessed to have everyone here tonight what an exciting night we have for you guys um a few announcements so here here's the thing how many here are here for your first time your first time ever showing up okay great all right excellent well welcome welcome um we would love to have you guys stay in touch with us so if you would like to stay in touch with us let me show you how so we have what we call an e-bulletin that we send out every sunday morning if you would like to get one of those let me show you how so there's an extra large qr code if you want to take a picture of that and what you want to do is there's you'll text the word join to 562-393-7579 and that way you can sign up you'll get the e-bulletin on sunday mornings and then also we have uh we're continuing on with our constitution alive course so if you have always been wanting to know what is the history of our country how did we start this where is the constitution um if you all those answers all those questions can be answered if you show up sunday evenings at 6 30 to 8 30 here in the sanctuary or if you can sign up at ccoth.com and you can get all the free materials that are provided as well also we're starting a new ministry for those of you that are between the ages of 18 and 25 so god is doing such an incredible work with our college and career group and so it's just gotten so big so right now we're going to be opening up this for those that are 18 to 25 it'll be on thursdays in the fellowship hall at seven o'clock and it will be beginning on march 4th led by chad williams all right well god bless you guys have a good evening okay i gotta i gotta let you know chad williams is not chad harris okay everybody thinks it's pastor chad harris chad williams is a navy seal so uh he's you might have read his book he's travels all over he talks all over the country he's a well-known speaker he's just an awesome man of god so he'll be heading up those classes so we are excited to have chad williams with us to do that so that's a very exciting thing for us but i want to have don com kind of come on up so we can welcome him up and get started now if you're here sunday we made the announcement that don's coming back and this place erupted just like it did now wonderful wonderful yeah because we just we just miss you i missed you too and we want to know because everybody's asking me they're saying okay pastor joe what's going on with don how is he feeling is he dead where is he at we don't know where he's at i said no he's alive he's alive and he's doing well so we want to hear an update what happened uh why were you out of commission for so long and all those things did you go on in retirement or what happened no no okay first of all i want to say uh happy thanksgiving yeah thank you thank you yeah merry christmas thank you yes happy new year yeah happy valentine's day happy happy groundhog day i think that yeah we missed all those i missed yeah it was like with you it's like the middle of november wasn't it uh yeah i think it was last time it was the last time you were here with us it seems like forever yeah but it's good to have you back nice to be back yeah so walk us through it okay everybody's asking me and i would i'd rather them tell you the story so so what happened yeah well first of all thank you for your prayers i want to thank you so much from the bottom of my heart um and we'll explain a little bit more why later but uh meant so very very much uh in a nutshell what happened the second of well let me take it back though november 29th i was speaking at a church and i get there on sunday morning i won't mention the church the pastor says there won't be be many people here i said really why i said well we've had an outbreak of coven 19. i said really because yeah okay and there weren't many people there and uh you know i didn't think anything of it because i'd gone to a number of churches where they've had problems with that but then it came wednesday december 2nd i'm doing my uh his channel program breaking news and not i'm not feeling real well i'm feeling weak but you know that was that happened from time to time because i was doing six tv programs a week one radio program speaking every weekend and you know and running around so yeah you know i just thought i was a little weak well later that day it's like someone let the air out of the balloon all the strength came out of me and i'm thinking well i'm just working too hard this and that yeah well anyway about five days later when i wasn't getting better i told my wife we gotta we gotta go to the er and so we went to the emergency room it was interesting i waited five hours five hours to see a doctor they told me the day before the wait was 11 hours oh my goodness yeah so i came at the right day anyway i got there's the time that's good i got there and um basically um they saw me i um they gave me some tests they gave me the test for covet 19 they said you got it and they they um dismissed me though about 1 30 in the morning called my wife to pick me up and uh you know they did a test of the you know chest x-ray and some other things gave me some drugs and that and and took some blood tests and so went home well the problem was i would i wasn't getting any better about five days later my they've got these things i got on my apple watch now where it does your blood oxygen level and i didn't know anything about that yeah and it's supposed to be from 95 to 100. well mine was about 90 and it started shrinking and uh make a short story long my wife was very very worried at that time and again one of these divine appointments the doctor just happened to call her and said how's don doing and she said well not real well his blood oxygen level is about 91 90 89 and he said get him right back to the hospital and so she said we got to go back i said i don't want to go back well you got to go back anyway thank god for that um so again i went again to the er waited another five hours um yeah but uh i eventually saw that the person was actually the head of the whole emergency room um he was the head doctor there and he said uh we they did another chest x-ray and said your your chest x-rays worse than it was five days ago i'm gonna have to put you in the hospital okay well anyway i was in the hospital for four nights and four days and this is they did a fabulous job it was kaiser permanente in baldwin park they couldn't have been nicer to me but anyway we get out i get back home and i have to do oxygen 24 7 for about two and a half weeks because my oxygen level was low and i had to give myself a shot in the stomach twice a day for 28 days a blood thinner yeah yeah i'd say let me die yeah yeah yeah you know i was beginning to like it after a while but anyway it was kind of interesting but it was uh and so what was really and here's where it gets really interesting gang i was um after being home for about two or three days my wife read the doctor's notes okay and i'm going to just put it here's the best medical terms i can put it in when i went into hospital i had one foot in the grave and the other on the banana peel that's how bad it was i mean they're talking about organ failure sepsis uh you know uh you know do not resuscitate this and that i said what i'm that bad and yeah and so basically if she hadn't taken me to the hospital the second time i probably wouldn't have made it that's how bad it was yeah yeah because the pneumonia is what kills you and i couldn't breathe the oxygen but anyway yeah and so i'm laying there and after a while you know you look you can't do anything i'm i'm i've gotta you know keep myself quarantined for 15 days number one i couldn't move anyway so i'm looking out the window and i'm saying lord okay you want something from me you want to do something yeah and there's some yeah and then when i realized i was that close to going to dying i said you know there's a couple things i want to do i haven't done yet i got to do them now so later in december i called dennis at his channel and i said i'm not coming back i'm not going to do the program again no more breaking news because i was thinking about it here i'd done something like 10 000 stories over a number of years hundreds of hours of news but then again in three or four days it was gone it was all past absolutely yeah it's totally obsolete i thought nothing to show for it i've got 59 books i've got 61 now i wrote two when i was sick right that month there so i got 61 now and so what i wanted to do is because people been asking me yeah yeah that's four of them is um actually start recording them to make because people ask about audiobooks so right now i've just finished last week my third complete audio book wow uh yeah it's i'll explain a little bit about that later and so i've got now about 20 hours of audio on the website educatingourworld.com i'm working on the fourth and fifth one right now and the goal is to get them all there so people can have something you know to have to listen to a lot of people learn verbally others you know learn you know reading that a little of each so anyway um i'm doing that they've turned out very very well and so we're working on that so about eight hours a day i'm doing that i'm loving it now let me tell you something if you record something the problem isn't in the recording it's in the editing going over and making sure you know everything's set so that takes a lot of time but yeah like i said they've turned out very very well and so there's over a hundred questions right now i've already answered in the three books and now that's what i'm doing full time now so i'm not working at his channel i'm not doing the news anymore i'm done with that and i'm going only going to be doing bible stuff bible prophecy stuff and you know christian theology this and that joe the rest of my life and that's what god's called me to do that's you know the books are on those subjects that's basically in a nutshell i'll tell you sometimes what the enemy means for evil god oh i see it always turns it around for good so i find in my life some of the worst things that ever happened i noticed that god uses it to turn it around for good and constantly that's god that's what god does and so it seems like god allowed that to happen and he'd like to slow you down to show you that he's got a better plan and so yeah and just even talking with you in the back just seeing you you're more relaxed you're more rested good because you're you know yes yeah but it's wonderful to see that because you were just going i mean would you say six six days a week yeah you were driving constantly you were just on the go go go go go and so god slowed you down a little bit and it's just a blessing to see that now god's going to accomplish what he wants to accomplish yeah boy you you took it the hard way though you should have done it well no no well no actually no you know i'm laying there and this is i you know it's going to sound weird but this is one of the best things that ever happened to me because when i started praying and said lord i'm going to take a step of faith i'm going to quit what i'm doing at his channel i'm going to be full-time like in missionary work now and i'm going to start recording books i'm going to write more books this and that and i've never joe and truthful i've never felt the peace of god so much in my life when i made that decision it's like this is the right thing to do and what's so wonderful to feel i mean yeah so so it was uh this last sunday was only the third sunday back speak my voice has only been back about two and a half three weeks believe it or not i was out for 50 days on my back it was 70 days before i spoke again on a sunday morning 77 days before i left my house and went to some church and spoke now i've got i've done three sundays in a row i got the next five booked so i'm busy i'm starting to hit the road again but the good no but the good news is i don't have to drive five days a week uh you know and spend three hours doing a radio a tv program coming back and and that sort of thing so you know doing every sunday's fine didn't bother me in the least and so i'm very excited about and so good to see you and all you people here this is uh i miss this group so much um and and you know i know and this let me tell you this guy here is one of my favorite pastors anywhere you guys are so blessed to have him you know that now right i hope so okay [Applause] i love i'll tell you what i love working with you down i love it just to the ability just we we have one major thing in common obviously our lord jesus christ but the love for his word too amen oh yeah love for god's word yeah and we could talk hours even when we were on his channel you and i are just talking like we're in the living room we're just like we can just talk for hours on the things of the lord and yeah so it's it's it's not no stress it's not we're just up here zero stress just talking about the things of the lord yeah um i was really as we were going back and forth earlier uh last few days or so we're talking about maybe doing like a prophecy update right stuff so um i'm excited to hear what don has to share so he's got a prophecy update for us i'm going to step out of here okay maybe let you come on up over here and then just kind of do a little prophecy update for us then after that we're going to come back over here and we'll do some question q a time okay sound good awesome okay a number of things that um let's see if i get this thing going again all right um that are taking place that i um want to put into perspective here um like i said i did two new books i want to explain what they are one of them is my wife kept telling me you need to put in a book these sermons that you give because they're so good they're so helpful to people so i said okay so one of the books i wrote my 25 favorite messages that i give and so i did a book on that and because of popular demand we're putting that one into print now i've got on the website now 61 different books you can download on educating our world.com for free i've got 31 in print well this will be number 32 my favorite 25 mess my 25 favorite messages that i preach and it's really really turned out well but the one i'm really proud of is i i've been working on it for a year and a half and it fits with everything we've been talking about here uh and last you know time we've been here and it's called ancient mysteries of the bible solved volume one and what it is it's uh i did a couple dvds a couple years ago for his channel looking at ancient mysteries of the bible and here's what we mean by that there's like 12 different areas where the bible talked about something but there was no evidence to back it up one way or another in other words to the last 150 200 years you had to take it by faith that moses existed that abraham and the patriarchs existed that joshua conquered jericho that david and solomon had great kingdoms in that and the whole old testament whole it's old testament specifically so what i did in volume 1 is look at 12 different mysteries of the old testament abraham and the patriarchs moses and the exodus uh the entry into the promised land this and that and i had no idea i did not realize the evidence that's there outside of the bible and records of the egyptians assyrians babylonians having the names of these kings confirming the stories of scripture and so that fits everything we talk about here everything in the past that god tells us in his word is true these people actually existed david and solomon had these great kingdoms and it you know it's amazing to see the evidence so i put that together in a book called ancient mysteries the bible solved you know we're going to print that and we're going to record that one too so it fits with the overall program of what we've talked about before all right i recorded three books number one it's called god wants us to know the future an introduction to bible prophecy all right the god of the bible makes certain claims about himself he knows the future he's in control of the future so we see in this particular and so basically this first book i'll be talking a little bit about some of the contents in a minute this first book basically sets the table what everyone really does need to know about the subject of bible prophecy and again bible prophecy is things that have happened not only in the past but things that are going to happen in the future so we did that the second one is another one of the books we're going to do given away tonight it's called god's work in history 50 biblical prophecies made and fulfilled and so what i did in that i wanted to make it starting with adam and eve going all the way to eternity the various predictions the bible has made actually not eternity that's another book going to at least the prediction of jesus the gospel go through the entire world 50 major predictions in scripture that have all been literally fulfilled so in the first book are the claims that god makes you know about knowing the future the second book basically is you know the evidence for it so we go through and the predictions made all have come to pass now it's not just 50 predictions some of these predictions like the fall of nineveh have 14 different elements that have all been literally fulfilled uh cyrus the persian king who released the jews from captivity allowed them go back and build their temple there's like eight different things under that so there's over a hundred specific things that we see predicted in scripture been literally fulfilled in the past so you put that together with the ancient mystery showing that these were all historical characters there was a david was a solomon was it joshua was a moses was it abraham and what we're seeing now is everything that god says is true in the past and in the present so we we did that now the third one is probably the most in one sense the first part of the most important of all the books i've written it's called what everyone needs to know about the bible because first and foremost as you read the bible you know you have to trust you know you have to believe it is god's word so we spent a whole book you know conte writing on that and we've recorded that one too so those are the three we have right now and so you can go you can listen to it on any device whether it be a a you know a a mobile device whether it be a computer an ipad or something like that in particular if you have a computer one of the nice things you have an apple computer they've got a little program called apple book and you can download the you know go it's download free from educatingourworld.com onto applebook and then it's it's there on the you know this little section of you know books that are audio books on the right hand side they've got these little like three bars that are there you click on it and there's a drop-down list of all the questions so you can you don't have to listen to an order or you can pick up where you left off and so it's all there for you to use well the same thing is true on the computer now what we've done on the computer and on the on the iphones and the other um works like that uh you can uh again click it on and then it'll it it can't click on a particular question but we have a little thing you can see a list of where the questions are in other words if you want to look at question 12 you look at the things well okay after one hour and five minutes question 12 is there and you can move the little bar right there and listen to it so you can go back and forth and do it as much as you want now one of the reasons i'm doing is people keep saying gee i miss you on the radio mission answering questions well you don't have to miss it anymore it's all there for you and like we said we've got about 20 hours right now of that material and so i'm working on recording right now two other books living the christian life and my book 25 signs were near the end now what i'm doing i want to be the you know the paul told the ephesian elders in acts chapter 20 when he thought he was seeing them the last time we need to preach the whole counsel of god and so the books that i've written are 11 different topics god the bible jesus christ the holy spirit christian living the bible and science the afterlife the last days the church humanities sin and salvation holy spirit i think i've thought all of them but the point is it's the totality of what we believe as christians so what my whole thing has always been is to put it in such a way where we understand the whole council of god and that's what paul told the ephesian elders he said make sure you preach the whole council of god in other words let's not just be a one string banjo let's know what the bible says on many many different topics so that's what we're working on so um there's a couple things that have been um really on my heart and on my mind i want to talk about this as we look at issues of the last days some of these things have been circulating on the internet among popular preachers that's very very irresponsible it's absolute nonsense and you got to be very very careful of these sorts of things all right heard people say and this is not well we'll give examples of that in a second this is the rapture generation we're the last generation well we may be but we don't know that it may not be true i remember in 1971 in february my first day at biola university dr richard chase who was the president of the school was talking about the history of biola and he says we live in exciting times and you know the lord's working all these things out but we got to be careful you know to put everything into perspective then he told this story and never forgotten it he said in 1948 when israel became a modern state people were so excited there because biola was a biola bible institute of los angeles there were he said people that actually said look we can't spend money fixing the heaters in the gym because christ is coming back so soon it's in 1948 i don't know how many years those guys froze there all right and so the point is they thought that was it it wasn't to be i remember when i became a christian in 1970 march of 1970 in fact uh next month will be 51 years since i've been a believer and the end of this year will be 50 years which i've been in the ministry i started preaching 50 years ago i think this september of october anyway i was listening this guy on the radio on the on the radio and he was talking about and his whole message was why christ is coming back in 1971 and i got really excited about that but then during the commercial break he started pumping his tour to israel in 1972 and it's like something's not computing here here's the reasons beloved and he did a whole week series why i feel very strongly crisis coming back in 1971 now now make sure next year anyway it was just it didn't make sense okay and then um we yeah i heard one pastor say in 1971 by 1975 all this will happen it didn't happen there was a very popular book in 1988 called 88 reasons why christ is coming in 1988 that has not been reprinted by the way that book i can't imagine why all right so again here's the thing the important thing is we don't merely study the scriptures of bible prophecy and ignore the rest of them we study everything we study the totality of god's word now look christ may come back in this general we don't know he could very well do that but we can't limit him we got to be very careful and here's the reason i say that i remember in 1970 71 if you were back then and became a christian all the excitement of christ coming back and then when he didn't come back right away i think i don't know i think i told the story if i haven't if i have forgive me for telling about tell it again it was in the uh late late 70s think of 78 79 i was speaking at a church i won't mention where it was or what city it was in and it was it was a real weird situation there not weird in a bad way but different because i'm speaking to this church it was a quite a few hour drive away and the pastor said okay we've got a place for you to stay this night there's a a wonderful couple of the church they've got you know big house they got a room for you this and that now by the time you get here they won't be up they'll have a little note on the door where your room is and then you can see them in the morning so that was kind of weird you know they left the door unlocked you know i'm there about midnight going in you know i fumbling my way in the house and getting the room so i met the people the next morning and again i think this is 1979 and uh i was commenting how what a great house this is this wonderful i said do you own this house they said oh no you don't oh no we wouldn't buy a house christ is coming back so soon we don't want to spend the money buying a house again this is 1979. now my favorite story in this or most infamous story was when i was doing a bible study this was in the early 70s i think it was 72 73 this guy comes up to me and he says christ showed me he's coming back soon so what i've done i have built a boat i'm going to sail it here you know this is in you know off the coast here in southern california down i can't marry some place on the coast in mexico and the lord showed me by the time i get to mexico i'm going to stop and preach the gospel christ will have returned okay that's either the slowest boat in the history of the world you know or he got it wrong so the point i'm mentioning we don't want to kill people's enthusiasm but we got to be very very careful of what we say and understand prophecy and put it in its context and so that's why um in the first audio book which introduction to bible prophecy there's many things that people need to know again one of the questions i i recorded question 28 you may want to listen to that it's called basically should we expect to see astronomical signs signs in the heavens before christ comes back and one of the things i did is about 19 minutes long i talked about two of these claims that were made over the last few years about astronomical signs that were supposedly showing portending the coming of christ to the earth and i tried to show from scripture how why it doesn't work because in this age the age of the church we don't see signs in the heavens the signs in the heavens are specifically during the final seven year period the great tribulation they're not for the church age they're for what's going to happen the last seven year period the judgment's there and such but you had the the great sign in heaven revelation chapter 12 september 23 2017 that's the day christ was coming back or it's the rapture of the church because some guy had it figured out this is great astronomical thing is going to take place the i don't know exactly what it all is the moving of the planets and this and that but it's never happened before that's the great sign the bible talks about and so that's actually where jack hibs and i started doing the happening now together because he wanted me to uh you know help him refute that sort of thing so that's one of the issues we deal with in the book and the other is the nonsense about the blood moons in 2015 that that's going to be a poor tent of christ coming back before i've i've sat on stage with prophecy teachers that said all right christ's going to come back in 2019 or 2018 and i look and i said never again am i going to be on the stage with this character but anyway i didn't know he's going to say that at the time but we don't know because the signs aren't there so here's the point i i want to make and here is the thing that is very very important um god wants us to know the whole counsel of god again paul says in acts chapter 20 verse 26 and 27 he says i cl i declare today that i have been faithful if anyone suffers eternal death it's not my fault for i did not shrink from declaring all god wants you to know and then the amplified version says i did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose and plan of god all right too many people have forgotten this the bible has 66 books bible prophecy is a huge subject but again the subject of who god is the bible the holy spirit you know the christian living the afterlife this and that is also part of holy scripture we need to preach the whole council of god now unfortunately there's been so much lunacy that's been said pipe you know by people that have led people astray because they haven't been taught well i'm talking about the people teaching taught the whole counsel of god one of my heroes in the faith uh you might know the story of a man named robert dick wilson who was lived about a hundred years ago from princeton theological seminary one of the greatest minds the world has ever known an old testament scholar who was familiar fluent in 45 languages and dialects so much so had the entire new testament which is written in greek memorized in hebrew and what he would say uh he said one expert is worth a thousand non-experts because he knew what he was talking about and unfortunately a lot of people are you know are telling nonsensical things making these predictions that just shouldn't be so there's a two important things and we'll call joe back that i really want all of us to remember and this is going to be my mantra from now on as i preach in this subject uh first of all in first corinthians 4 6 paul tells us not to go beyond that which is written he says now brothers and sisters i've applied these things to myself and apollos for your benefit so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying nothing beyond what is written in other words the scriptures have revealed to us everything we need to know we don't need to go beyond any look for signs in the heavens signs in the sky or some person with a prophetic word don't go beyond that which is written now we couple that with jude 3. jude 3 says the faith has been once and for all delivered to the saints once and for all delivered god said guys said everything he needed to say he's not saying anything else he's taught us all that we need to know maybe not all that we want to know but everything we need to know so the faith has been once and for all delivered and we don't go beyond that which is written because what we do is stick to the bible now what was really interesting as a recording the other day there was a passage that uh i know i've seen it before but but it just hit me at you know right you know right in the eye you know i'm learning things new every day i still do and we need to read the bible at face value now in second corinthians chapter 1 verse 13 i'm going to read you what the new living translation says he says our letters have been straightforward there is nothing written between the lines and nothing you can't understand nothing written between the lines it's interesting the greek has a word play there between the word to read and the word to know but what paul is saying everything you need to know is there you read it at face value you don't read between the lines in fact the amplified bible like what they did they said for we write to you nothing other than what you need and understand then it says this there is no double meaning in what i say no double meaning in what i say here's here's my worry gang there are people out there that want to be heard that want to be popular so they come up with something new uh someone once said if it's new it's not true if it's true it's not new because god's already revealed everything he needs to right now actually in the world setting the stage for last days bible prophecy being fulfilled but we've got to be careful when someone reads some passage in the bible and for the first time ever in the history of the church they see something that no one else has seen now right away you ought to be suspect about something like that but we're seeing so much of that because we live in a day as i one of my doctor friends told me right after the election he says i've never seen so many people that have high blood pressure now that are you know that are just having all sorts of problems physical and this and that and he said i don't think it's going to get any easier i said no it's not it's going to get worse because of the situation out there but if we know the whole counsel of god if we know what the scriptures say we've been warned about all this in fact i remember dennis from his channel told me once the election was over and all the things were seeing he says don you've been talking about this for five years it's gonna happen yeah and here we are now i've enjoyed doing that i haven't enjoyed what i see but this is not something that should surprise us because in the last days the persecuted people will be christians and jews and again united states people used to argue with me all the time about this united states what do you mean we're not in bible prophecy we're the world superpower so i ask them now do you still think the us isn't going to be in bible prophecy as a world superpower they're not as assured of themselves as they used to be now i say that with a broken heart i'm very sad with all the stuff that's happened but here we are we've got to live right now with what's going on but to me it's the most exciting time ever because if there was ever a time christians need to stand up and be salt and light it's now to have a message of forgiveness have a message of peace have a message of knowing why we're here who we are what's going to happen to us when we die that's the message you and i have to preach to the world and so basically we're living at a time where it's bad but it's going to get worse that's just what the bible says difficult times are going to come but we know how this movie ends right we know the end of the story that we win we're with christ he starts with 100 sheep he's going to end with a hundred sheep so at the end of the day we win you know now how we're going to get there don't know is it going to be difficult yeah is he going to get us through yes supernaturally like i said there were a couple times during this whole covet thing with myself if a couple things hadn't happened when they did happen i wouldn't be here right now god's supernatural hand was on me and he's got me around at least for one more day at least through tonight you know beyond that the bible says you know don't take any thought of tomorrow you know at least we're here for now but the point is we want to make a difference we want to make an impact and what a great impact we can have not because things are easy they're not easy not because things are going so great in a lot of ways they're not going so great but what is going so great is god's plan is moving forward and so here's here's getting us the point i'll call joe out in a second number one don't study the god's word don't go beyond that which is written take it study it know it and learn it then number two don't try and find all these hidden meanings don't try and find all these things that no one else could ever see god plainly communicates to us who he is who we are and what he wants from us so if you take that you're going to be a very you know a person who has at least has peace in their heart now peace isn't the absence of conflict there's going to be conflict on the outside but god promised a supernatural peace that passes all understanding and as we've talked here before to you philippians chapter 4 verses you know verse 6 worry about nothing pray about everything and the peace of god for what passes all understanding will guard your hearts and minds through jesus christ philippians 4 6 and 7. basically don't worry about anything pray about everything and then let the lord guide your life hey he's got it all under control and so that's the message i have now with respect to what's going on in the world we're going to be coming back to you like once a month and i'll start doing some stories on last days bible prophecy just real quickly the one you want to look at right now is one that is well there's many of them but one in particular the one i keep my eyes on now it's what's happening with iran and their jcpoa the joint comprehensive plan of action that was done in 2015 that the obama biden administration put together which has really caused no little problem as far as the world's concerned iran doesn't want to come back to the table they've claimed they want to start enriching uranium to 60 percent that's not far away from being having a nuclear bomb and that's their plan their plan has always been that because they believe they're they're all as representative allah's witness to the world to destroy the big state in the u.s and the little satan israel and so now you've got the bide administration trying to figure out what to do and they were going to have a conference in munich this last week and the iranians won't come to the table they say no no no first of all you've got to uh you know stop the sanctions and then the ayatollah says and we want some payback you've cost us all this money or donald trump did all this money over the years by you know not letting us sell our oil and the guy had the audacity i think you owe us about 1 trillion dollars with the t okay so what's going to happen we don't know but there's story after story after story that uh they're worried the middle east that there may be some type of war going on because of this we don't know a regional war we've mentioned this to be to you before could very well happen before the ezekiel 38 39 battle but or invasion but it's very interesting to see all these things happen and then see this present administration try and negotiate with the iranians and the europeans and that with what's going to happen in the future very very interesting so stay tuned but the good news is we know how all of this ends okay joe come on up i could go on for hours but we need to answer some questions of the people here but a way to sum up we go to the bible for information about the future and in doing so we read it in a straightforward manner no hidden messages no double meanings okay i love it i love it let's give the lord a hand that was awesome let's come on back here yeah if you don't mind we'll come back here i just wanted to to kind of echo what you said do not go beyond what's what's written that's so important uh that's one thing i loved about pastor chuck smith he was he said simply teach the word of god simply we've had someone in our church once they he had a different doctrine a strange doctrine and he was very smart brilliant man and i finally had to ask him i said well what church teaches like this because i was going to say you need to go to that church and he says oh no i don't know any church that teaches this and i was like well you know that should give you a red flag i think so yeah so so yeah we're we have to be careful we have to you know simply teach the word of god simply and uh interpret scripture with scripture yeah and it's it's so important and so wonderful wonderful update wonderful encouragement and all of us need to you know just simply you know read the bible and speak to the lord and let him word speak to us i never liked teaching where sometimes you have teachers that will they they have something they want to communicate so they make the bible say what they wanted to say instead of letting the bible say what it actually says and so we have to be aware of that kind of stuff so i think we're ready for questions now so i thought we had ten but it looks like we have nine did we did so we lose one along the way somebody already take one yeah i think someone grabbed one so you got something there were 10. well maybe wait a second one two three four five six seven eight nine ten ten no okay it's my counting skills i just i don't know what's going on here thank you james so first ten people i would love to have you come on up and you'll get a free book yeah david how are you wonderful don for showing up tonight thanks for having me i just wanted your thoughts about uh biden taking the troops out of europe and germany especially and wanting to shift them to afghanistan when trump wanted to bring them back yeah no that's that's a great question one of the things and joe we've talked about this before there's a scenario the bible gives in the last days where the united states isn't a player you know and they want to move donald trump won't move the troops out um for sooner or later sooner rather than later there won't be any real presence of us in the middle east and so even if they moved him you know let's say out of europe to afghanistan because europe remember europe's got a whole different gig going on the 10 nation confederation the united states will be kind of like the united states of europe at that time that's right so we're going to see what happens i'd like to get your thoughts on this too it's really interesting it's a great question by the way great question well we know that just the greatest thing we know for sure we're not going to be a superpower uh in the end days we're and so that's going to happen we're going to be pulling away we're not going to be so i don't know what's going to happen i always my hope is always that we're going to be raptured out of here that so many christians in the united states will be raptured out then we're going to diminish and then so but uh you know so that i see that taking place for sure we're not going to be a superpower that something could happen with us but uh go ahead i had a two-part question and then a little footnote that i wanted okay i wanted your opinion on you're done because it was important to me i'm taking the the the class even the civics class okay the civics class yeah and so i wanted your opinion on this about the sedition act okay and what that is is it's it's uh basically authorizing fines imprisonment okay to individuals who've issued fake okay uh scandalous and malicious writings against the government or officials such it be congress or the president and that kind of fits the bill with donald trump i mean they they've been saying all this for how many years now yeah now and what you're bringing up is something that a lot of people have said but remember in the last days joe all this this will increase right people won't obey the laws of god or man this is one of the things have been very sad in this country where there are laws we have a constitution but it seems that people don't care about it anymore don't want to obey it don't want to follow it and they don't feel bound or you know to um you know yeah yeah and so so it's there which is wonderful but the problem is is we're nobody's they're not enacting it they're not looking towards it as we should be doing that's what it's there for to protect but that's not what's happening in this country and it's just they look at it this new administration they look at it as an outdated document and they're not really looking to that so that's a huge problem so yeah we have a constitution that should help us protect us but they're not even acknowledging it yeah and that's something we thought we'd never see here in america because most of us grew up in being taught in a civics class these things and this is what make america great different you know we we have a right to free speech we want to hear everybody's side you know uh we we can debate one another but we we wouldn't listen to one another we could shake hands and go away saying okay i don't agree well that's not the way it works anymore there's only one way and that's their way not our way and that again is something we are expecting to happen and unfortunately when you've got the left controlling all of social media all of the press and that uh what what can you who are you going to complain to there's nobody to talk to is there any more not at all and it's uh in one way if we didn't know the lord this would be scary watching our country go down the way it is but we know this is gonna happen so actually it's fulfilling prophecy that this is gonna you know you think of the daniel that how nebuchadnezzar was the head of gold and then it gets it diminishes and then finally it's just the the clay and the iron that are mixed together and so it's it diminishes governments diminish and then they separate and and so we're seeing that right before our eyes here and i never thought as don mentioned i never ever thought we would see what's going on in the united states what's happening right now and it's it's scary if you're not a christian but if you're a christian you know well we know this is going to happen because the ruler is going to come jesus christ will come and set up his kingdom then there'll be righteousness and it will reign and then i wanted to uh end with this and i think this this applies to everybody in the room and it's basically it's a quote from james garfield and it's basically now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of congress okay if that body is ignorant reckless and corrupt it is because the people tolerate ignorance okay recklessness and corruption so if it be intelligent brave and pure it's because people demand these high qualities to represent them in a national legislature okay and so the next centennial generation does not find this us as a great nation it will be because of those that represent us uh this enterprise and the culture and the morality of the nature of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces yeah i'm sending that to chuck schumer who's now the majority yeah yeah mitch mcconnell let us know how that goes yeah yeah yeah yeah congress is only really supposed to manage three areas of that and you know what that is yeah that's the tribes and and the department of defense yeah but unfortunately like joe said they don't believe the constitution is like like the like i said like a document you go to what you do it's it's a living document and each generation can can build on that or change and they you know and so thank you david yeah but uh and so that's all well and good if you believe that but unfortunately they don't believe that anymore do they joe that's the same thing we're moving farther and farther away from it but having said that though the reason why we're having the constitutional the class the civics class and all is to learn with what it says so we can be educated in it so we know and hopefully things will turn around if we know what it says so that's our hopes we will see and now we'll see great question hello hi there getting a sense of the mic uh so something i think is really cool in the bible is the balance of fulfilled prophecy and prophecy yet to come yet something i've encountered when talking to like friends who aren't believers or even people who are who just don't have that much biblical knowledge when i present them hey like look at isaiah talking about this hundreds of years before jesus or daniel talking about all this hundreds of years before the alexander the great and that empire fell and stuff a little bit of rabbit hole there uh something i've come across is they say yeah but how do we know that was actually how it happened how do we know that man didn't just kind of alter it to make it a fulfilled prophecy so essentially what's a good way of talking about biblical inerrancy in a way that is succinct and can kind of not be overwhelming to someone who may not have the time or the established knowledge in that area wonderful question yeah i think you want to i think which book you hand them that's the one you want to give them that's why i did that imagine that yeah okay this is you know great question god's plan in history prophecies made and fulfilled now what we also find too when we get the new testament prophecy is fulfilled after the time of christ that christ made not only in his own life but certain things he predicted in fact we go back to daniel too what's really interesting in daniel chapter 9 joe when we had the prophecy of the 77s of the last days here daniel that the temple in the city have been destroyed he's in babylon they're going to come back and rebuild the temple and know that but it's talking about the temple being destroyed a second time this is 500 years before the time of christ a couple hundred years before it's even rebuilt yet they're talking about a second destruction of the temple how do you know that you know and and again how did jesus know all this stuff jerusalem will be trodden down by the gentiles until until times of the gentiles are fulfilled we're seeing the gathering again of the people there so that and the book 25 signs we deal with all that if people want to know and here's the thing come on this is not something written after the fact the old testament was completed two uh 400 years before the new testament came about there's a translation of it 250 years before the time of the new testament and again this is not something that as you keep looking at over and over again just like in the book i did on ancient mysteries okay you've got all these names and all the things they claim to do all the cities they went to this and that and you think if it weren't true sooner or later you see some mistakes but you start seeing a pattern and this is what blew my mind all these kings of israel kings of judah they're in these records there of the babylonians the assyrians the egyptians really they existed jehu the king of israel they got a picture of him bowing down to the assyrian king at that particular time so much evidence yeah so much evidence if people are willing to look at it but here's the problem are you willing to look at it do you really want to know the truth and i think the best example of that is when jesus raised lazarus from the dead in john chapter 11 after being dead four days john 12 tells us when jesus starts coming into jerusalem many people believed in jesus and in particular because of the story of lazarus because of what happened to him so the religious leaders not only wanted to kill jesus joe they want to kill lazarus also because he's evidence you know of the truth now were these people sincerely kill the evidence the seekers of the truth they want us kill the evidence so you know people can bury their heads in the sand all they want or say this or that but the evidence speaks loud and clear the other way and our responsibility is to know the evidence to share that with them say look this wasn't written after the fact how in the world do we have again a second return of the jews to the promised land isaiah talks about that ace after a second exile there hadn't been the first one yet when he wrote be talking about a second exile so after a while you have to think and that's what i keep saying at the end of these chapters in the ancient mysteries book you think we see a pattern here god says this is going to happen it has happened we see these names dug up one of the interesting things particularly if you read the section on jeremiah the prophet you know jeremiah actually mentioned the name of these throwaway people who had uh were they had their officials in the the kingdom of judah at the time uh not high officials they're mentioned there along with certain babylonian officials that were mentioned you know there's six different names that have been dug up and discovered these people actually existed he was so correct spelling the name correctly these secondary people who were basically non-existent at the time i mean come on if he 2700 years later just shows up uh if if he got that right maybe he got right the rest of the stuff he talked about but anyway um the point is if people want to know they can know but here's the thing though joe if we've seen it over the years people think well because i don't think it's true i'm not responsible god has a different opinion doesn't it absolutely they're very yeah they're responsible for for what they do know yeah and i think that's it they don't want to believe many people they just don't want to believe they don't want to believe that there is a god because as soon as they believe that there is a god then they're responsible and that's why even evolution i call it not evolution but evolution attacks the word of god and it attacks the fact that in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth you look at the messiah it predicted where he would be born in bethlehem how he would die he'd be crucified on and on and on and on there's evidence evidence evidence if you look really look for the evidence it's in the bible it's it's 1 000 not even 100 1 000 accurate so um but they have to be the people you're talking to have to be willing to really have an open mind to to really seek truth good good awesome great question good observation um in light of the fact that uh russia has recently moved troops from iran iran is moving troops into uh not iraq but into syria right um do you foresee this the iranians taking over damascus and fulfilling uh isaiah 17 1 yeah that's a that's a good question um iran is with their conscripts what he's asking about and this is what's real interesting let's back up a little bit uh until isis came around what 2000 was 11 2013 2011 i believe it was uh we had no idea how this prophecy could be fulfilled in ezekiel 38 where the israel israel would be caught unaware they would be kind of sleeping because if you have an army coming from russia one from iran even one from turkey where you've got syria in the way how in the world could they not no exactly well now we know that because if you're there on the golan heights you're as you were there yeah just recently looking over the border what do you see russian sources right russian outposts there so they're already there and so it's just a matter of they're going to be part of the backdrop part of the you know the scenery for a long period of time now the stage is being set again how long it's going to take we just don't know but they are already there they're in place and as the u.s because a couple things still have to happen the us has to move out and we're we're in the process of doing that of the middle east israel has to be kind of caught you know with their guard down they're not living that way right now they're afraid of some type of regional war and then there's other things that still need to go on but basically the stage is being said you're absolutely right with that the question was with damascus being a ruinous heap is that what you i missed i was reading something or is that what the question was yeah isaiah 17 yeah that they would be a rooney's heat the united states has just recently moved troops back into syria at the command of joe right and so the other joe the other joke not that yeah no again again we we don't know how that all is going to happen with damascus and that there's we can speculate it doesn't tell us no we had people during the uh you know the iraq war the weapons of mass destruction were you know one story i heard was supposedly moved to damascus underground there so they could blow the whole city up from that you know and that was going to happen years and years so that's where you got to be careful in the speculation department yeah it's it's going to happen some way somehow how we don't know and when we and when we don't know either i mean there's a lot of predictions that people will say oh it's it must happen before well that's not scriptural we don't we do not know for sure you can't predict that or you can't say that damascus will be a ruinous heap at such and such time before this prophecy before because we really don't know it does not give us a time and so we don't know but we do know for sure it hasn't happened yet and that that that prophecy will be fulfilled in damascus damascus will be a runescape yeah now the book you want to get which one did did you get the timeline or it's 25 which one you get yeah that's the one i was going to do because that's what i deal with that in that book so good yeah look up timeline of 50 last days events we talk about that when it could be fulfilled so you asked the right question and they gave you the right book wow so in relation to isaiah 17 1 where do you see in the sequence of events do you see zechariah 12 again we don't know there's a couple things in the timeline what we say here is the general timeline but i say at the beginning there are certain things that are going to happen whether the sequence is boom boom boom or boom boom boom we don't know they're going to happen yeah exactly yeah yeah yeah so we know we know they're going to happen the one we know is a very well here's the one i know yeah that was a good one kaboom anyway what we know what's going to happen is the last the last of the of the uh 50 things is eternity we know that's last and we know the dead in christ rising first is the next big thing and and we've got us you know sequence like you read the book of revelation that there's with the seals and that there's a question of when you know the chronology there that the timeline yeah the timeline of the of the you know the two witnesses that and so we give some general predictions on that but it gives a basic timeline but some of the things like that we just don't know yeah we just don't know it's like a puzzle kind of i see it like a puzzle and we we put it together and there's been many times i don't know if this is happening where i'm putting the pieces of puzzle together and then all of a sudden i i go ahead and i'm like oh that puzzle that piece i put in here really didn't fit very well so i think we're gonna move that piece over here we really don't know we can only do the best that we can and now with what we have and uh but we we the good thing to to know is that we know for sure isaiah 17 1 has not been fulfilled because it says damascus will become a ruinous heap it has not happened yet the ezekiel 38 prophecy hasn't taken place yet and those things that as we watch what's happening in syria and we're watching these armies all come together we can speculate that it's going to have it could happen very soon because we don't know we don't know when but it's going to happen and uh yeah so yeah so the stage is being set that's the key exactly the precise order in some of these things like again your boom how do you say that again boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom we don't know let's remember that yeah okay okay next time okay next one okay so i'm not trying to scare anyone or be more of it or anything but i've always been curious about the tribulation saints getting their heads chopped off because i always figured it was like a very archaic way of death in our future how we're so like advanced right and so anyway i was just wondering what your take is on the noahide laws and if the 30 000 guillotines that are being stored in georgia have anything to do with that and just like what your thoughts are on that like i know i'm not going to get my head chopped up i've just always been like yeah very interested we're not the true if you're a believer in jesus christ you're not going to be a tribulation that's a tribulation the tribulation saints are the ones that are going to believe right now but see uh executing people by cutting off their heads is something that has been going on that is going on right now islam does that if you've been looking at the wars in the middle east there's various armies you know the question elizabeth yeah yeah and so uh basically it does happen the noahide laws that just getting into that that is where they try and put together um i'm trying to simplify it that there is a a belief and a lot of christians unfortunately make the mistake of holding on to this that jews don't need jesus as their savior there's a laws that god has given if they follow that you know righteously that god will accept them that's kind of in a nutshell and that just doesn't work i'm sorry but you know not not at all but you know here's the thing um this is not something we have to worry about the bible says that you know we believe very strong we're not going to be here for that period of time uh hopefully if you're watching or here today and you're here at that time you haven't trusted christ that is one of the ways people will will be executed but that is you know i know it sounds barbaric but it still happens to this day unfortunately and it will be again instituted yeah good question thank you hi um i went to costa mesa for a long time and so i don't really believe in the modern day prophets but i have a friend that's a good christian woman and she's always sending me these emails about to listen to these prophecies and i did listen to one in its entirety before the election where the guy was saying trump's going to get back in yeah so how do i and she keeps sending me i mentioned that to her how disappointed i was in this guy but she keeps sending me these people that are talking about dreams and visions and trying to sell books and stuff how do i kindly refute all that uh that no that is a great question that's why i said what i said at the beginning two things you don't go beyond that which is written god has said everything he needs to say jude 3 the faith has been once and for all delivered there's no double meaning there's no reading between the lines it's very clear so if you try to add something you try and say this is going to happen or i predict this notice these people are always wrong whenever it asks to make a specific prediction and yet they just keep on going and unfortunately joe they've got followers galore that seem to be mesmerized by the person they just kind of pick up oh well i just you know and don't even mention the fact that they uh they blew it they blew it yeah yeah so i'm very skeptical when it comes to that and we have to be careful uh what would i think what pulls them in sometimes is when something does take place uh and then so then everybody's like oh well what they said here took place and so they start following but usually the ones i've looked at a lot of it like 80 of the things they they say don't take nothing you know nothing that they're saying ever comes to pass and so um yeah so we're i kind of shy away from yeah let me give you an old illustration of that back if you can remember a woman named gene dixon who claimed to have the gift of prophecy became very very popular as one and her claim to fame was she predicted the president of the united states would be assassinated uh you know and this right afterwards john f kennedy was assassinated made november 22 1963 what is not often mentioned she predicted that richard nixon was going to beat john f kennedy in 1960 in the presidential election so she was predicting the assassination of richard nixon not john kennedy but that kind of was overlooked and so nobody knows the future nobody can you know remember what deuteronomy 18 says if someone tries to predict the future and call in the name of other gods first of all it's not going to come to pass but in israel you put that person to death now we don't do that today but we certainly shouldn't give them money or listen to them that was one of the things i was talking about earlier you've got these so-called christian leaders who claim to have this great gift or insight in the future that predicted what's going to happen the election or predicted this and they were wrong okay well they're wrong they don't know nobody knows only god knows the future please let's understand that yeah very good thank you good question hey don i want to thank you because 40 years ago your book authored co-authored with josh mcdowell was one of the first books i read the answers thank you so i've never had the chance to thank you oh thank you for saying that it never gets old hearing that either thank you pretty awesome good stuff thank you thank you um one question maybe a large question and then a smaller question i'll just walk away and you can answer the question it seems like right now in at least america but i think we're seeing it in europe and other places there is a divide that's starting to occur in the body of christ and it i'm wondering if you see a connection between the old seeker-sensitive model then the emergent church that came out of it and now the progressive critical race theory sort of adopting church where you know they're interpreting everything there are no absolutes because it's hilgalian and you got to go all that direction so question number one do you see a connection and do you think ultimately that there will be you know for lack of a better term blood on the altar inside the church yeah no great great question remember what jesus said he's talking about at the time of the end the love of many will grow cold people would turn each other in people you know brother against brother this that no that's exactly what we're seeing and what's really interesting now with what's taking place in the world we see people really make a stand one way and another we've got churches unfortunately that are woke churches that are basically state churches there's no difference in them and what we see in china right now you know the party line they're just promoting that and instead of preaching the gospel instead of standing up again they uh they're rejecting all the absolutes in scripture rejecting what it says and it's really unfortunate to see but yeah i see it everywhere and you're exactly right and it's not surprising at all and because remember what jesus said in luke's gospel when the son of man comes will he find the faith on the earth now by asking the question it kind of answers it doesn't it where is the faith and unfortunately uh charlie kirk did a great job he talks about the three different types of churches you know the ones that don't open up then you got the woke churches that do open up and then attack the ones that are trying to preach the gospel develop that a little bit oh thank you for watching charlie here you can just came back up here uh okay question go ahead okay no you've got what what he was mentioning right now with all the shutdown that's going on basically he put the churches in three categories ones that won't open up yes ones that do but they're woke churches like the state churches are one that open up and do what you're doing here and preach the gospel yeah yeah and it to me it breaks my heart because i i always say to people that jesus christ says i'll open a door for you that no one can shut and i don't think it's it's up to the pastors to shut the doors i think it's only the only god himself that can shut the doors so uh so when i see that if ever we needed churches to be open it's now we need churches open i was talking with somebody i was talking to somebody just recently and i can't even think it was just astronomical the number of teenage kids that are committing suicide right now it's just astronomical the suicide rate is so sky high right now why because people need fellowship isolation is dangerous for people we have to have fellowship we need to be together so yeah it's a shame to see that to see what yeah yeah to it just it breaks my heart and so i have friends of mine that uh i i've talked with i've spoken with regarding that and and there's this you know there's this shaking i believe dom that's going on yeah and it's a shaking that and i've shared this with the congregation before but it's a shaking that i've never seen and done i don't think you've ever seen never never in in our lives in our lifetime is the shaking that's going on but it's everywhere i look not just the church we're seeing it in families we're seeing it in politics we're seeing all over there's a heavy heavy shaking that's taking place right now but it's it's it's like a sifting type of a thing and it's sifting people and i'm seeing the some of these uh pastors that are being sifted in such a way and it's like what what do you mean you're not going to open your doors or what do you mean you're waiting to hear what the government's saying what you can do or cannot do and my response to that is when did we ever become a state-run church and we're not called to be a state-run church um i we have people all through the sanctuary we have loved ones that have committed suicide and i hear it constantly they thank me constantly thank you pastor for having your doors open because we need this fellowship and one other thing i like to say with that is that i was when i was sick here for 10 days and i was out for 10 days i literally when i came back after 10 days being sick and i came back i came in fellowship with with you all and it was here and my heart was just crushed and broken i just started weeping because how much i longed for fellowship and so we need this and so uh yeah so my answer to all that is that that we we have to keep our doors open pastors out there that are watching your people need you uh we've never been so busy ever here in this church why because we're leaving our doors open we're ministering to the people you might say that uh oh your pastor you're not being responsible we're being very responsible we have people sanitize the all the chairs after everybody leaves we sanitize the doors we do whatever we can trust me we're safer here than any costco or any grocery store yeah it's funny nobody gets sick at the at rut at costco though i i've been it you've ever go to like the you go to costco or you go to these different places there's people sneezing back behind you coughing all around you and stuff like this all this is going on you're like really oh but you don't get sick at a costco where you don't get sick at a grocery store only in church they say that you're you can get sick so yep yeah amen no it was it was a great question and that's why i'm thank god what you're doing here joe we need fellowship we need one another like never before and thank god for people like joe others jack hibbs james kades tom hughes tim thompson others that keep the doors open that are preaching the gospel and they're seeing crowds they've never seen before interest that's never been there before i was with dave zamora's church in fontana on sunday and dave says you know we got so many people coming and visiting because we're the only one open in the area they want to go and see human beings you know and they need the fellowship and so it's wonderful for people like that that'll stand up unfortunately too many are not doing that but it's a sign of the last days and it's not surprising it's heartbreaking but it's not surprising anything we're seeing yeah amen uh talking about james cadiz and all these guys we're going to be doing a prophecy conference here at this church in june we'll give you the dates i don't have the dates in front of me if someone can give me those dates i don't have them here but we are going to have don stewart with us we're going to have tom hughes with us james kades listen to this ed heinsohn will be joining us and mark hitchcock so if you guys so we have a great lineup that will be here and so we'll give you the dates does anybody mark or brenda do you know the dates offhand now okay well we'll get that for you we'll be advertising it but we're very excited about having this uh conference somebody knows the last weekend of june that's my wife last weekend june 25th and 26th see you right there conference june 25th 25th and 26th 26th friday and saturday right friday and saturday 25th 26th mark your calendar be there or be square right that's right okay don as we close because it's 8 31 now why don't you maybe share with maybe there's somebody here in the audience here maybe somebody watching online that maybe they don't have a relationship with god and can you maybe talk to them as we close out yeah you know the reason we do this it's only there's only one reason that's because of our relationship that we have with the lord jesus christ and we want you to have it too because all of us were in a position one time in our life we were lost we didn't know who we were we didn't know why we were here we didn't know what was going to happen to us when we died but then someone came along and told us the old story about jesus and we trusted by faith and our lives have been changed ever since and like we've said tonight not only our lives are changed as we look at the facts as we look at the evidence for the lord jesus it's overwhelming that what we're believing is true we're not making this stuff up we're not deluding ourselves we have the answers in god's word the bible and the answer is not only for us it's for you too so i just ask you a simple question if you would die tonight do you know what would happen to you you know where you'd go and if you say no i don't well you can know right now that you're going to heaven by placing your faith in jesus christ jesus talked about being born again or born from above by putting simple faith in him and you just pray something very simple like god if you are god and jesus if you are who you claim to be then the best way i know how i want to trust you as savior and lord i want to believe in you you know it was again next month 51 years ago when i became a christian on a friday night calvary chapel costa mesa i was sitting in the audience like these people i'd never been to a church like this before about three quarters the way through i just looked up and said god whatever they have i want that's how i became a christian i just said i don't know what they have but whatever it is i want it right now and it's been next month me 51 years and believe me it's been worth every moment it's and it's proved itself to be true so again it's something you just to ask god and you know and just in your own words to say god i really want to know you i want to know what's if this is true and he'll answer the question he's done this for all of us and um believe me your life will change jesus said in john 10 10 i've come that you might have life and have it more abundantly and let me tell you when you're a christian there's never a dull moment is there no not at all not at all and it's the most exciting life going so that's the offer that the lord jesus gives and all you have to do is reach out and accept it by faith and you will be born again born from above and become a child of the living god amen amen so if that's [Applause] so if that's you tonight you know one of my favorite verses in the bible is john 3 16 if you're a believer you know it but john 3 16 makes it very clear for god so loved the world that he gave his only son and i always like to make it personal god loves you you see we have a god in heaven who loves us he created us and he loves us and he's constantly wanting us to just turn to him you see if you turn to him and you draw near to him there's a promise in the bible that he will draw near to you all you need to do is draw near just as dawn did he just simply drew near to god through with his voices i want what they have and he was just drawing near to god and so maybe you're watching here tonight maybe here in the audience here if you've not drawn near to god if you've not accepted jesus christ as your personal lord and savior today is the day don't don't waste another day you know the bible says we're not guaranteed tomorrow none of us are guaranteed tomorrow today's the day and i'll tell you what when i gave my life to christ my life was changed radically i had a radical transformation that took place in my life a wonderful transfer i went from a dark dark world to being a child of light but on the other hand my wife her conversion was different she drew near to god and it was a it was a process that she went through but she loves jesus she's on fire for the lord it's just a different process so i just want to say that to all that are in here to keep as a believer keep drawing near to god but if you have not given your life to christ tonight is the night today is the day draw near to him he'll draw near to you those that are watching us online if it's through that camera that camera i'm not too sure right now but either one i'll look at both how about that but i would just encourage you draw near to god he'll draw near to you it's that simple believing that god sent his son jesus christ to die on the cross to know that you're a sinner turn from your sin and ask him to forgive you and ask him to come live inside of you and he will live inside of you by his holy spirit and he'll give you everlasting light today's the day amen amen let's stand up and let's uh let's go ahead and close out in prayer let's let's thank the lord again for don for coming thank you don it's awesome let's just pray lord god heavenly father we thank you for tonight we thank you for our brother in christ don stewart we thank you for the brilliant mind that you've given him god the just the ability to remember so much information lord we pray right now for this new season in his life and lord we're just so grateful lord we're just grateful to see this new season that you have we pray your blessing over him we pray that you would continue to go before him that you would continue to use him to the fullest capacity god i thank you lord i thank you for how you're changing things up in his life god and we pray as you make those changes in him and through him that you would continually be glorified in and through his life thank you lord thank you for don what a blessing he is to all of us lord go before us lord as believers help us to stay in that close place with you and lord i think of that word that it says that for it's god who works in us both to will and to do for your good pleasure lord may you work continually in us and through us for your good pleasure in jesus name we pray amen amen god bless you guys thank you for joining us you

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