Truth at a Tipping Point // Jimmy Evans

good morning everybody it was good to see you this morning and it's good to be back bet good morning good morning well you know this August I started on staff here in August of August first of 1982 so this is my 32nd anniversary I'm being on staff here and that great first pastor John love is John love here this morning or where's John stand up John so I can see you there there you go where's John love there he is right back there what hey John John how many years have you been on staff 20 20 27 in change okay I hired John he worked at Boys Ranch John and Kathy love were in the original group that the first service of Trinity John and Kathy were there and John has has had different capacities he's now our pastor over pastoral care but I'll tell you one of the best hires have ever made in my life is John Levin he's retiring we're giving him a little party would you honor John love please John thank you for your service here thank you god bless you John and thank you for all your years of faithful service he's just done a fantastic job and his wife Cathy is one of our pastors over prayer but a wonderful man if you have your Bibles there turn to second Thessalonians I'm going to start a series of five week series called tipping point and this is on Bible prophecy it's on what's happening in the world today and I want to talk about some of our current events that are happening and what the Bible says about them but the the phrase tipping point by the way the subtitle of this series is the imminent prophetic events that trigger the end of the age I believe that we're into the in the end of the age the end of the end times and I believe that what we're seeing in the world right now are events that are trigger points they're tipping points so the phrase tipping point means the critical point in a situation process or system beyond which is significant and often unstoppable effects changes change but it takes place in other words if something tips so far you just fault you can't get it back and and I want to say something and I hope this comforts you because it comforts me and that is the world is not going to continue as it is for very much longer and I have five grandchildren we have twins that are 12 granddaughter that's 7 a grandson that's two and a half and a grandson this time months old I don't want them living in this world 20 years from now when you see the moral demise that is happening in the world and you fast forward that 20 years it's hard to imagine with what's happened in the last 10 years what the world is going to look like then and I've got some good news for you Jesus is coming he is coming and there's a word that I use when I teach on Bible prophecy is the word empirical and that means hard facts empirical means measurable and tangible I don't want this to be subjective I don't want it to be something that just rises an emotion in you but there's really nothing to it I want to talk to you about the facts of what is happening in the world today this message today is called the truth at a tipping point truth at a tipping point we are now at a place where truth just battles of the Bible is under attack Christianity is under attack truth is under attack all over the world and I'm going to show you what the Bible says about it but next week is on Israel the next week is called Israel at a tipping point and what's happening in Israel and not just in Israel but with the Jewish people worldwide is a major prophetic sign of the end of the age and so we're going to talk about that we're going to talk about morality we're going to talk about America we're going to talk about different things that are happening and what the Bible is saying about it but you when you look at Russia you look at China you look at the moral disintegration of the world the Middle East worldwide terrorism America's 17 trillion dollars in debt and all the other things that are going on it just can't keep going on forever the world is racing toward judgment and the world is racing toward a tipping point where something's going to happen and you can't get it back and I want to talk in this message about something that's about to happen and the world will forever be changed by one event and I want to begin in 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2 and the Apostle Paul he's talking now about the end times he's talking actually about the coming of Jesus this is 2nd Thessalonians 2 verse 1 now brethren concerning the law the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him the rapture we ask you not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled either by spirit or by word or by letter as if from us as though the day of the Lord had come let no one deceive you by any means for that day capital D will not come unless the falling away comes first and the man of sin is revealed the son of perdition who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or aural that is worshipped so that he sits as God in the temple of God showing himself that He is God and so the Apostle Paul first the book of first Thessalonians the the coming of Jesus is referenced in every chapter in the book of first Thessalonians it's about the coming of Jesus and the most graphic scripture about the rapture of the church is in 1st Thessalonians Chapter four well Paul wrote the book of her sessile onehans and right after writing that book there was a rumor going around in the churches of Thessalonica that the rapture had happened and they got left behind and so several weeks after writing the book of first Thessalonians Paul writes the book of second Thessalonians to comfort them and to let them know the rapture hasn't happened and here's how you will know the rapture is about to happen so what he is saying here is that before Jesus comes I want you to know Jesus hasn't come yet but before Jesus comes here's what's gonna happen and so he gives us this panoramic view of the end times and what it will look at what the world will look like at the very end we're gonna talk about three scenes that he shows us from second Thessalonians scene one is a world and rebellion to God with a man of sin that's what he calls him ready to lead them this is the Antichrist okay and here's here's what he says he says concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ our gathering together we to him we ask you not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled either by spirit or by letter as if from us that the day of Christ to come let no one deceive you that day will not come until the falling away comes first and the man of sin is revealed listen though the word falling away there is the word apostasy a' apostasy and it means a worldwide rejection of truth a mass rejection of truth something that you once held to now you're rejecting and now what we're seeing in the world today I believe is the fulfillment of that scripture right there let me just kind of talk for just a minute about what's happening in society let me use homosexuality as an example in 1996 Congress passed and President Bill Clinton signed into law the Defense of Marriage Act designed to protect States from having to recognize gay marriage it was wildly popular this bill was that was against gay marriage that was protecting States wildly popular passed by the House passed by the Senate and immediately signed by President Bill Clinton the Defense of Marriage Act and then in 2011 okay 1996 it was passed very popular but in 2011 led by President Obama they tried to repeal it and they failed but in 2008 presidents presidential candidate Obama said he was against gay marriage because the majority of people were at that point in time in 2008 most people were against it but then he got elected and he changed his mind or he was lying I don't know which but he you know no president has ever done for homosexuality and gay marriage what Barack Obama has done okay he has been in that regard the most Pro homosexual and gay marriage president ever now when it comes to politics I keep politics out of this pulpit so that I'm not talking politics I'm talking morality I am a moral and spiritual leader and I'm saying the world has dramatically changed just ten years ago the overwhelming sentiment in our nation was against homosexuality and gay marriage in 1997 when Ellen DeGeneres came out as gay it was a scandal and sponsor stopped supporting her in 99 think of how much has changed since 1997 and so there this is how much things have changed since 1997 this art this is this morning I print this off the Christian Post is the website that I got it off of and I'm just going to read you what this article says the headline says courts in Arizona and California recognize transient transgender marriages it says courts in Arizona and California have delivered rulings in two separate divorce cases legally recognizing transgender marriages including that of the world's first pregnant man first pregnant men well I want to say some things and I'm going to stake home while I Sam and the first is we don't have the world's first pregnant man we have the first group of people dumb enough to believe that because men can't get pregnant and I want to say one other thing a doctor can't change a man from a woman or a woman from a man all they can do is mutilate them and that's what they do and according to one study that I read lists what I'm about to say 31% of men who go through transsexual surgery commit suicide I'm not trying to saying attempt suicide 31% of men who go through that sexual reassignment surgery it is not sexual reassignment surgery it is sexual destruction surgery you're not a man or a woman when you get finished you are dead sexually and when they wake up and realize what has been perpetrated upon them 31% about 1/3 kill themselves and you tell me that a doctor with any integrity knowing that he's going to do a surgical procedure on a person and they have a 31 percent chance of committing suicide that person is a quack and they're in it for the money I'm telling you that right now what what what are we doing what were we saying in the California this is an example this time last year in August of 2013 Governor Jerry Brown signed to the California Legislature passed and Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that allows children any age child kindergarten to high school to go into school and to declare their gender they cannot be challenged by an adult but they walk into school and a boy can say he's a girl and a girl can say that she's a boy and they then have access to the restrooms and locker rooms of the opposite sex and they can play on whatever sports teams they want to play on and that means the high school boy can walk into school say no I'm really a girl and going to the locker rooms and things like that and so I just want to say something for just a minute you keep thinking how much further can it go it can go much further and if you believe it stops with gay marriage you're wrong if you believe it stops with transsexual marriage you're wrong if you believe it stops with this gender confusion stuff and by the way it is now politically incorrect for a teacher to say boys and girls because there's boys and girls and those that don't know which one they are and they don't want to offend those that don't know they are let me say this God creates us in our mother's womb and he doesn't make mistakes and boys and boys or boys and girls or girls and that's the way that it is and the reason that I said I wasn't gonna upset but I lied let me say this so let me say this though okay this is the truth this is truth right here and anyone who agrees with this is telling you the truth anyone that doesn't agree with this is telling you a lie this is it's a simple simple thing it used to be simple in our world today you know people are kind of taking this and leaving it and it's under attack and all that but here's what the Apostle Paul says to the church in Thessalonica he says you have not been left behind the day of the Lord has not come and it will not come until there's a great worldwide apostasy it doesn't mean that Christians renounce Christ necessarily Katy Perry who is a very popular singer these days her parents are evangelicals she's always been a Christian as far as anyone knew until recently when she says she wasn't and that's kind of popular these days is for you know well-known people and celebrities to distance themselves from Christianity but what I'm telling you right now is that we're seeing a mass rejection of truth that is leading to the Antichrist I believe the Antichrist is alive I believe the Antichrist is an adult ready to take the world scene and I don't know I don't think that we will know who the Antichrist is because the rapture happens and then the Antichrist comes and by the way this is this is the second scene to scene one is a rebellion against truth and the Antichrist is ready to come on the world stage scene 2 is the tipping point and here it is 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2 Paul graphically describes the tipping point that's about to happen do not do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things and now you know what is restraining that he may be revealed in his own time talking about the Antichrist for the mystery of lawlessness is already at only he who now restrains will do so until he has taken out of the way heat capital H wolf restrains will do so until he's taken now the way then the lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will consume with the breath of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming and so the Antichrist the world is now in rebellion to truth worldwide the world is in rebellion to traditional moral truth okay and so the Antichrist is ready to come why isn't he coming because there's a restrainer who's the restrainer the holy spirit in the church the holy spirit in us we are there was the restrainer we talked about marriage as an example marriage today goes all over the world upholding a standard of marriage you know why we do that when I woke up on the first night that God woke me up and gave me the vision for marriage today the scripture that was in my mind was Isaiah 59 19 when the enemy comes in like a flood the Spirit of the Lord will lift a standard against him the church is the only group of people on the earth restraining divorce and the moral collapse of society we're the only people restraining what the Antichrist is trying to do but we are here temporarily and then all of a sudden Jesus comes and raptures us out and the Antichrist has free reign there's nothing to restrain the Antichrist at that point and I want to show you a scripture here a couple of scriptures of what Jesus said and this is John 17 Jesus gave two examples of what the world would be like when he came in rapture us in fact he's going to describe the rapture in detail right here Luke 17 as it was in the days of Noah this is Jesus speaking so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man they ate they drank they married wives they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered the Ark and the flood came and destroyed them all likewise as it was also in the days of what they ate they drank they bought they sold they planted they built but on the day that lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven to destroyed them all even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed in that day he was on the housetop and his Goods are in the house let not him come down to take them away and likewise the one who is in the field well he not turned back remember Lot's wife whoever seeks to save his life will lose it and whoever loses his life will preserve it I tell you in that night there will be two people in one bed the one will be taken the other will be left he's describing the rapture two women will be grinding together the one will be taken the other left two men will be in the field one will be taken the other left and they answered and said to him where Lord so he said to them wherever the body is there the Eagles will be gathered together okay so Jesus Jesus says let me tell you what the world is going to be like when I come and rapture you out when I rapture my people out it will be just like the days of Noah and just like the days of wot and here are the four parallels between no a lot in our generation first an immoral and violent world in rebellion to God do we have that today in the days of Noah in the days of lot they were immoral and violent just like today number two a righteous remnant living for God the vast majority of people are not Christian so there's a remnant us the church and we're living for God number three the sudden removal of the righteous remnant jesus said on the day that lot went out on the day that Noah went out let me tell you what it's going to be like buying selling business as usual everyone acting like nothing's different even though the world has fallen into violence and immorality but there's a righteous remnant living for me and I take you out I'm not going to judge you along with the rest I'm gonna take you out and number four is catastrophic world judgment catastrophic world judgment that that's the parent of Jesus said it's going to be just like that when I come again I'm telling you right now that everything jesus said would happen is happening right before our eyes and the rapture is imminent it could happen at any moment and the signs of the times I'm going to take five weeks to tell you all the things that are happening in the world that the Bible says would happen the apostasy is happening right before our eyes and the tipping point comes when the church leaves the world there's nothing then to restrain the Antichrist and the world changes forever and by the way Jesus talks about a selective rapture he said two people in one bed one taken one left behind two women grinding one taken one left behind two men in a field one taken one left behind the moral that story is Jesus Christ knows who belongs to him he knows who we are he knows our hearts and whenever you know Christ you're gonna be taken you're not going to be judged along with the world but if you don't know Christ you'll be left on the earth during the reign of the most evil man in the history of the world and through judgments that are horrific and that's that's what's about to happen any day now that's what's about to happen I believe that we're at that tipping point and then at the end of Jesus discourse here when he's talking he says two men will be taken one were you know one taken one left behind and the disciples said where where are they taken two and here's what Jesus says for the Eagles fly that's where all gathering or the Eagles flying this is first Thessalonians 4 and this is the Apostle Paul describing the rapture here it is then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up that is the Latin word repair a where we get a word rapture we here alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the lord in the air and thus we shall always be with the Lord comfort each other with these words we will be caught up we will be raptured they said Jesus where are they gonna be taken he said where the Eagles go and the Apostle Paul says we will be caught away in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air we will be instantly the Bible says 1st Corinthians 15 and the twinkling of an eye as 140th of a second that's faster than you can think instantly we will be taken into a judgment of rewards not a judgment of punishments and from that day forward we will live in the presence of Jesus but for seven years after that we will be at the Mary supper of the lamb and the world will go into catastrophic judgment that's what's happening that's what your Bible says if you believe the Bible that's what's about to happen here's Jesus and he said remember Lot's wife Lot's wife turned back she was told to leave sawed him and not look back but she looked back in longing over Sodom and she became a pillar of salt and here's what Jesus said in Luke 21 take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing drunkenness and the cares of this life and that day just like the Apostle Paul said come on you and expectedly it will come listlessness statement it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth a snare as an animal trap and jesus said the rapture the end the world is going to be going buying and selling marrying and giving in marriage and it will happen just like that on every person dwelling on the face of the whole earth they will be instantly affected by this event this is the next sentence very important sentence watch therefore and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that come to pass and to stand before the Son of man I want to give you a very comforting word and I hope you this comforts you you will not go through the judgments of the end time if you're a Christian and that I hope that comforts you the Apostle Paul says comfort each other with these words I'm telling you the world cannot keep going the way it's going right now you can't keep spending money the way we're spending money you can't keep your racing morality the way we're erasing morality you can't continue the rebellion and the anarchy against God and government and parents the way we're doing you cannot continue the violence the way that the world is doing right now it can't keep going this way there has to come a tipping point and I'm telling you according to the authority of Scripture that tipping point is the rapture of the church when we go we go to be with Jesus we're with Jesus from that point forward and the world goes into a final judgment that's what's about to happen according to your Bible that's what's about to happen scene 3 final scene total world deception total world deception under the Antichrist this is a continuation of what we just read the coming of the lawless one by the way the the the Antichrist has really never called Antichrist in the book of first John he refers to him there an antichrist spirit or Antichrist the Antichrist has many labels Old Testament New Testament but the lawless one he's a rebel against God the coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan with all power signs and lying wonders and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish because they did not receive the love of the truth that they might be saved and for this reason God will send them strong delusion that they should believe the lie not a lie the lie that they may all be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness and we hear these very troubling words the restrainer is going to restrain until he's taken out of the way and then the Antichrist is going to come with all power signs and lying wonders literally Satan incarnate on this world that's not the worst part here's the worst part it says because they did not receive the love of the truth jesus said in John 17 father sanctify them with truth Your Word is truth ladies and gentlemen this is the truth it's the truth they did not receive the agape of the truth agape is the highest form of love it is a committed love not out of your emotions but out of your will Jesus God had God pays us regardless of how he feels he's totally committed to us they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved they they were more concerned about what people thought than what God thought they wanted to be popular rather than godly and it says listen what I'm saying and because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved God will give them strong delusion it's one thing for the devil to see be another thing for God to give you over to delusion it means you can't believe and here's the other thing that means you're gonna believe the lie you're gonna believe everything the Antichrist says hook line and sinker you're gonna be his little chief and you won't know the difference because you rejected this this this is the judgment part of the judgment of the tribulation is people who rejected Jesus and people who rejected the truth God is going to give them over to strong delusion that they should believe the light well what is the line well most most theologians believe the lie is that the Antichrist is God remember he sits in a temple of God showing himself that He is God okay this is the abomination of desolation Jesus talks about it that Daniel talks about it the Antichrist in the middle of the tribulation sits in a rebuilt temple in Israel I'll talk about that next week he'll sit in a rebuilt temple in Israel proclaiming himself as God and that begins the Great Tribulation which is the last three and a half years of human history okay the lie and there will be people who have rejected this and they're going to believe that the Antichrist is God the light could be something else it could be on the day of the rapture that there are UFOs floating around and the people that come out of the UFOs who are not extraterrestrials or demons but they come out and say that the world could not go into a greater enlightenment until all the Christians left who were restraining you know the the Enlightenment and the aliens put us here and they're coming to help us to evolve or whatever like that and that's far-fetched but more people in the UK believe in aliens than believe in God and there is a lot of people saying I don't know what the lie is the only thing I know is if you reject this you're gonna believe it because God's going to give you over to delusion I don't want to be deluded I don't want to be on this earth when the tribulation comes I want to go with Jesus and I want to know the truth and we have now have today we have an opportunity to accept this today we have an opportunity to receive Jesus today we have an opportunity to stand up and live for Jesus and not deny his word we had that opportunity today but there will come a tipping point and in an instant we've already been warned everything that Jesus said would happen preceding the rapture is happening right now and the apostasy the worldwide rejection of baurel standards is happening before our eyes the way the Apostle Paul says I'm telling you Jesus is coming Jesus is coming he's coming soon and he knows who belongs to him he's not fooled by what we say he knows our lives he knows our hearts I want you to bow your heads with me if you would this is an important day things are happening that we need to take note of the world is racing toward judgment and the world is rejecting the truth of God's Word but we are not of the world we belong to God Almighty and if you're a believer in Christ I'm comforting you by telling you there's a tipping point coming very soon your children grandchildren aren't going to have to live in this wicked world and rebellion to God for very much longer Jesus is coming if you don't know Jesus this is the most important day and all of your eternity right now because you have an opportunity to receive Jesus Christ I don't know if you'll have another one before that day comes but you have this one and though the world is in rebellion to God and we see the apostasy taking place before our eyes the Bible says if you'll confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus Lord means boss Lord means master Lord means I submit I surrender if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you will be saved God raising him from the dead means he's the only one who can truly save you Mohammed Buddha all of those her bones are still in the grave because they weren't the saviors but Jesus was resurrected because he is the only Savior of the world God accepted the blood of Jesus is the payment for our sins and so by grace freely undeserving lees we can be forgiven of all of our sins and be given the gift of eternal life and Jesus will come into our hearts to live there to fill that void in our lives and it all begins as we surrender it all begins as we bow before God and say Jesus I believe in you I believe that you died for my sins I believe that you love me and I'm ready to make you the Lord of my life and when you make him Lord your eternity changes you submit you submit your life to God in the authority of his word you don't have to be perfect but you have to be sincere bow your head close your eyes no one looking around if you don't know Jesus if you know Jesus and you're not living seriously for him and standing for his word I'm challenging you to get serious about God I'm challenging you to stand up for God in a gracious godly way stop being ashamed of Jesus and stop compromising to be popular stand up for God but if you're hearing you don't know Jesus as your Lord and Savior nobody looking around now I'm looking around nobody looking around and you would say Jimmy I believe in Jesus and I'm ready for him to come into my heart I'm ready to make him Lord of my life if that's you would you raise your hand right now until I can see raise your hand real high god bless you god bless you all over in here down in here god bless you all down in here I see your hands up in here god bless you up here you bet right over here I see you right over here honey I see you down here all over the auditorium hands are going up I just want you to keep your hand up for a second if you would I'm looking I'm looking I'm looking god bless you god bless you up here right at the very top I see you right up there god bless you down here sir all all in here all this section god bless you you bet many many hands up god bless you I see you guys right back here mm-hmm and all up here in the balconies god bless you guys Yeah right down here I done here right back here mm-hmm right down here you bet I'll see you guys all of you right down here whole bunch of you right here together god bless you right here I see you right back there you bet right over here carnation would you stand with me I don't know how many hands just went up but probably over a hundred hands just went up somebody say praise the Lord for that most important decision you will ever make and I want our our ultra ministers to come down very quickly and they're coming down to Minister if you just received Jesus we have a free gift for you it's actually a bundle a book that I wrote called 10 steps toward Christ to help you in your new walk with Christ we'll give this to you as a gift if you come down if you just raise your hand they'll say a short prayer with you give you this book this this helps you to know the next steps to take and your Christian walk with the Lord but if you're here and you're sick in your body we want to join our faith with yours for you to be healed if you're here you're struggling financially you're struggling in your marriage or something like that don't don't hurt there by yourself let our leaders pray with you they're prayed up they're anointed and they're ready to pray with you if you just receive Christ if you want to come receive Christ you don't have to come by yourself you can bring a friend or a family member but we want to pray with you let's pray real quickly father in Jesus name we believe that you are the way the truth and the life in Jesus we are not ashamed of you we are proud of you we are proud of your word we believe you regardless of what men say we believe God and we believe your word and what Lord we rejoice with these people who have received Christ this morning and we just receive them into our family the body of Christ and we pray blessing on them that you will keep them that you will grow them in God and that they will become mighty believers to fulfill your purpose for their lives anoint our altar el God and every one of our leaders praying at the altar rail right now let healing and power and deliverance and wisdom and blessing and life flow from their hands as they pray for everyone who comes down in Jesus name let's worship the Lord come for ministry if you need ministry this morning

Channel: Revived Life

Views: 40,487

Rating: 4.8533502 out of 5

Keywords: jimmy evans, israel, prophecy, end times, revelation, book, bible, jesus, god, holy spirit, sermon, message, fulfilled, rapture, tfc, trinity, fellowship, gateway, robert morris, jewish, jews, olive tree, branch, throne, david, ezekiel, daniel

Id: ejCwWA-wGHg

Length: 34min 44sec (2084 seconds)

Published: Wed May 03 2017