Welcome to the City Sanctuary 9:30AM Service

[Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] bless the lord this morning city sanctuary it's fitting and right for us to stand before the holy god who's worthy to be praised who's worthy to be exalted for there is no one greater as we gather into this place today let this be the day that we release our thanksgiving our adoration and our praise to the lord if you're thankful to be in the house of the lord then open up your mouth and just tell him today how much you're grateful father we bless you this morning we give you glory and praise for you are the joy that we desire and we just thank you right now for moving in the midst of your people this is the day that you've created that we open up our hearts to say thank you thank you for your loving kindness for your joy it's our strength for your joy it's our peace your fruitless spirit lord god let them flow through our lives that this may be a tabernacle set for you in jesus name we give you praise and glory every worshiper just give the lord a thanksgiving often right now [Music] we release the sound of thanksgiving there's beauty in my brokenness i've got true love instead of pain there's freedom though you cause i've got joy [Music] boy [Music] deep in my soul down deep in my sword down deep in my soul down deep in my soul there's beautiful [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] deep in my soul oh [Music] tell me [Music] i've never been more secure [Music] [Music] [Music] i've never been free [Music] me [Music] i've never been more secure [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] tell me he's worthy to be blessed amen blessed be the name of the lord jesus bless your name jesus it's not a mountain too tall there's not a problem so small that jesus can't resolve cause in time he'll get involved with our god he cares about us so we'll wait on the lord [Music] your strengths there's not a night too dark [Music] a journey too long to embark jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] this morning [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh here's the good news [Music] [Applause] is [Music] [Music] [Applause] you've got a way [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] is [Music] i'm gonna wait on you jesus i'm gonna wait on you jesus i'm gonna wait on you jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] i'm not turning back [Music] i [Music] somebody [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] questions [Applause] [Music] [Music] i'm i'm gonna wait on youtube i'm turning back oh [Applause] on you oh we will wait on you jesus [Music] praise god only in the bible is waiting an aggressive stance [Music] because in the bible waiting means to wait expectantly it's kind of like what paul said in ephesians 6 he said having done all to stand stand therefore that is that we're not giving up any ground right the song says i'm not turning back now we're not giving up any ground but we're going to take more ground waiting in the bible is isaiah 40 31 that even though people will faint in difficult times they that wait upon the lord will renew their strength they will mount up again with the wings like eagles run and not grow weary walk and not faint hallelujah yes we declare that prophetic reality that we are waiting on you jesus but we're waiting in faith we're not just hoping things get better we are expecting things to get better come on somebody give a little praise if you believe that today hallelujah hallelujah amen praise god this remains standing for prayer that's a prophetic song for this hour coronavirus elections in a few days all the things that could happen after those elections so i get an amen somewhere today but i'm i i am not reacting to the world i'm responding to the father and what he said i'm going to wait on you jesus in that prophetic i'm going to wait on you jesus i'm going to expect the lord to order my steps i'm going to expect the lord's will to be done in this nation i'm going to expect that god is going to work all things together for good because i'm not going to react to the devil in this world i'm responding to the father and this is our greatest hour this we are the church and the gates of hell will not prevent us [Music] well praise god i'm going to wait on you jesus amen amen there's several that need our special prayer today brenda durden has a very important surgery tomorrow uh please pray first sue cruz i don't know if you know sue cruz the great lady of the lord uh this is um dole dykes rose woman and if you don't know that story you need to hear it she's having surgery right now as we speak at deland hospital so remember sue cruz today in your prayers as well again there are so many that we want to remember louise gibson of course is very special need of our prayer today uh again lillian perez's granddaughter there's there's many i guess i can go through the list jesse dobbs and bonita taner and all these others that need prayer and i'm going to wait on the lord i'm going to expect god to not only meet their need for the good pam errington right there love you pam amen god bless pam arita amen god healed pam i'm believing for you it's time for us to release our faith are you are you expecting god thank you high five expecting god to do great and mighty things would you join me in praying to the god who can do anything the impossible father we give you praise come on everyone pray we thank you lord that you're in control of this nation and control the nations of the world father as you channel the king's heart so you can channel and direct a nation lord we pray for your will to be done in this election lord not just in the presidential election but in the congress and senate elections and the governors and lord also the mayors and all the all the magistrates that god you would appoint righteous judges in every city father your will be done lord according to as it is in heaven let it be done on earth we pray also lord over our church today we pray over these that we've made mention of and these we've called by name father we expecting you to hear our prayer today we stand in the gap for them and in jesus name lord we bind illness we bind all these negative things of of infirmity and we drive them out in the name and for the purpose of jesus christ so be gone we drive them out in jesus name and we pray lord that you loose the heal we loose your healing covenant we loose your miracle power we loose our faith we say those that are sick be raised up that the prayer of faith raise you up in the name of jesus may you take up your bed and walk in the name of jesus get up and go in the name of jesus be healed today we release and loose the healing covenant and the power of the son of god into your body into your life father we pray in every way for every need that's represented online and in-house today at this service we pray lord there's no one listening online by mistake but by divine appointment father we pray for isaiah 54 anyone that feels barren lord that person should rejoice because they've been hoping for something for a while but you say now lengthen your cord stretch out your curtain and lengthen those cords because the lord is going to give you a great great bounty lord we receive it in jesus name it's the lord today we rebuke barrenness in the name of the lord we rebuke baroness and we speak plenty we speak provision we speak fulfillment we declare the fulfillment of god in the lives of the righteous oh yes those that delight themselves and lord you will give us the desires of our heart so we receive that in jesus name prayers answer loved ones save the people delivered god financial provision brought in the name of jesus christ for we expect him to do great and mighty things for there is nothing too hard for him to do and lord today we give you our praise in the name of jesus today give him a praise clap one more time hallelujah thank you for provision lord thank you for healing give some money away before you're seated today give somebody a wave just turn around and wave to somebody before you're receded give me a wave i'm a wave give away give away [Music] god bless you today we're so blessed in every way ephesians 1 3 we're blessed with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places so just tell yourself you're blessed amen confess i am blessed amen and highly favored praise god we this is the time we try to connect online and uh we also ask you that are in-house to pull out your phones and and put in the city sanctuary app and hit the connect tab and then hit the check in tab that's where you can leave your praise reports and your prayer requests so if you would help us out with that this is also a time to worship in giving and we thank god for how he's blessed you and he has supplied your need and how that you've been faithful to god we just give praise and thanks to god for his goodness to us is anybody thankful today for god's provision in the midst of a corona the midst of a coronavirus i thank god for that and we pray for america that god will restore every every person to the job and provision as he uh rebuilds this nation we pray that in every way every need will be met and so we pray over you today as we worship and giving let's pray father we thank you for your promises and lord you give us the ability to gain wealth and so the lord give us the ability to gain the jobs sometimes even two jobs or the right job and the right pay the right hours the right environment the right purpose god i pray that you would give the right employment or the right uh provision for your people lord and in every way lord we ask you to bless your righteous ones as they tithe and give lord rebuke the devourer from them in the name of jesus we rebuke the devourer and lord we pray you bless their household appliances you bless their homes we bless their vehicles lord bless their clothing every material need that they have lord provide according to riches and glory father may you also give them lord in abundance and overflow they have enough to meet their needs and to give to every good work god may you use us to build up your kingdom tear down the devil's kingdom and lord for that we'll give you praise in jesus name amen god bless you as you can hey good morning city sanctuary family let's take a couple of minutes to make sure you're staying connected this week make plans to join us this wednesday evening we have a ministry for all age groups our adults will meet in the main sanctuary for the continued series by pastor mark called how to get through what you're going through our ignite student ministries middle school and high school will meet 7 p.m right in the student center and our children will have their awareness clubs all of that kicks off right at 7 pm this wednesday so make plans to attend a few weeks ago some of our volunteers helped out at the hunger fight packing event here's a short recap video to show you a little bit of what they accomplished [Music] so [Music] last week we had an incredible time at candyland 2020 even though it looked a little different [Music] last week we had an incredible time at candyland 2020 even though it looked a little different we still were able to reach many of our community over a thousand came out to be a part and over 150 gave their lives to jesus christ last week take a look at this recap video to give you a little insight to what happened here at candyland last week [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hey man wow what this is the first time that i've got jennifer lodholtz in the sanctuary since candyland jennifer thank you for coordinating again another tremendous candy land would you give jennifer and all the volunteers a big bless awesome job we have the date set for next year already the third weekend of october so mark your calendars we're coming back again to reach our community with the good news of jesus christ well we are in the second message of the end times series that we started a couple weeks ago again we enjoyed coach ritter last week tremendously fantastic reception with the deland high school basketball team in the choir room after the service and the second service and he encouraged those deland high basketball players to excel it was a great time with them as well if you're visiting today from candyland we bless you and we welcome you if you're online visiting from candyland or anyone else we welcome you as well we're just delighted that we got to host the community and so many people talked so positively about joining us so god bless you if you have and if you are going to again the lord bless you we have a a message slide up there 2 12 end time boiling point how many of you know what 212 degrees will get you boiling water right well in case you didn't know that came for science lesson today that's what 212 degrees will get you and uh the lord just laid a simple thought on my heart and that is that there are certain things that are going to boil come to a boil in the last days and on the on the side of evil as well as on the side of faith and so he just wanted me to highlight the three areas the boiling points that he laid in my heart nothing rocket science about it some of you can say well i knew that well then good maybe god just wants to remind you about it so we're going to look at second thessalonians chapter 2 verses 7 and 8. for the mystery of lawlessness is already at work only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way then that lawless one speaking about the antichrist will be revealed whom the lord will slay with the breath out of his mouth and bring an end by the appearance of his coming father we just commit this time to you and we thank you that lord we are waiting on the lord expectantly today we're praising you on the edge of all that's going on we expect you to do away with the coronavirus we expect you to give us your will in the election we expect you god to give healing to our land and we expect you god to order the steps of the righteous amen and to delight in our path today lord enable me to show your people how you want to shepherd them through this time and we'll give you praise for that in jesus name and everybody said amen amen amen and god bless you today we want to make mention of the 2004 tsunami that took place it was the i guess the greatest earthquake on record uh in 2004 underneath the indian ocean as you recall it was on december 26 2004 that a hundred foot waves came crashing on three thousand miles of coastline those waves came at over 500 miles an hour and in the wake of all that uh tragically not only destroyed billions of dollars of property but also 288 000 people perished but there was one group of people that did not perish one group of people that lived over there that not one died in all of that devastation in their coastline the moken tribe did not die the mokens live in the the 800 or so islands that are around that uh sea area in the area of the of the tsunami and they are seafaring people most of the time they live on boats on the sea they learn to swim as a child before they learn to walk and why did they not perish because they knew the sea and when they saw that the sea was was uh uh returning out that the waves of the tide was going out in such an odd and severe manner they knew that there was a tsunami coming so what did they do they those that were on the shore went higher they went as high as they could to avoid the devastation and those that were on their uh ships uh their boats i would better better characterize it as they went deeper out to sea so that the waves that were coming would not be as severe the deeper that they went i want to tell you today that in the times and the evil tsunami that's on its way and already here but going to increase that you're going to have to go higher with god and you're going to have to go deeper with him to survive this is a call to the church it's a wake-up call that that the things that you have seen and the things that the bible predicts are going to be such evil and they can be so frightening that men's hearts women's hearts will fail them because of fear of what is coming upon the earth when we look at the first thing that he talks about in this passage of scripture is that the apostle paul is talking to them in context about how to survive the evil tsunami that's coming he had written first thessalonians to them and told them about the rapture in chapter four but there were some that were still thinking that they may have missed the coming of the lord and so he writes 2 thessalonians to largely deal with the signs and to know what was going to take place before the lord's return to earth as well so he begins to talk to them about the coming apostasy verse 3 he says that first there's going to be a great falling away apostasy is the compound greek word which means to stand away from that is that in the last days people who have been a part of the faith or people who haven't both are going to stand away from it in larger numbers than ever before there's going to be a great falling away much like there was in the time of noah when again noah was the righteous seed but yet the world had become so corrupt that now uh every imagination that they had was evil so he talks about that and we know from statistics that 23 percent of americans polled say that they don't want to have anything to do with religion 60 million americans classify themselves as nuns that is when they ask for religious classification or affiliation they say i have none what we're seeing in our area in our our world right our nation is we're seeing what's happened around the world that there has been a a falling away from god you can look at europe which used to be a bastion of of things like the reformation so many moves of god and the revivals but again moving away from god we also can see that there is going to be a uh moral moving away from god this is what we find in second timothy chapter three verses 1 through 5 when he talks about know this that in the last days that some will fall away from the faith now again we're talking about this because you need to guard yourself you need to guard yourself that the evil in this world and the hatred and and and the hypocrisy doesn't make you fall away because the bible predicts that many people's love is going to grow cold and they're they're going to fall away from the faith so please garner yourself garner your family and understand that this is coming but it's an inside job it's first going to happen from with inside of people that we're going to fall away and then the the actual leaving the church is just a symptom of what has already occurred inside of the person what is that first of all the exaltation of self that there's going to be people will be lovers of themselves right we have 93 million selfies taken around the world every day right people people are in love with themselves used to be when you you watch football that you know no you it was illegal to make a celebration now there's a there's a whole choreographed dance routine in the in the end zones when people make a a celebration it's all about themself right and so we look at the exaltation of self and it says that this man the antichrist is going to exalt himself one time to be again uh the the god in in in the in the millennial temple uh pre-millennial temple and that tribulation temple i should say he's going to exalt himself so we're seeing that people will become conceited in this these verses also the rejection of authority that they will be disobedient to parents well we're seeing that then we're also seeing disobedient to police we we see disobedient to teachers we see disobedience to civil authorities and laws there is a large rebellion against anyone who's in authority but let me remind you that in romans 13 god is the one who set up all authority he set up authority so you were rebelling his authority rebellion against god said there would be a rejection of moral authority that is that people in the last days and these verses would be without restraint they would be unholy uh the alpha clause the a ah non all the in the greek who talked about ungodly unholy all the uns in scripture that what we were created to be is going to be undone that people are going to be opposite the vicious and unloving the people will be without natural affection the bible says they will be unloving they will be slanderous they will be brutal they will uh be irreconcilable they will not have the love of god in their heart and then also a form of godliness and it is that they will have a form of godliness but deny the power they're uh we look at the presbyterian usa we look at uh the evangelical lutheran we look look at uh even the pope francis has come out endorsing same-sex marriage here recently what we're finding is that that religious organizations having a form of godliness but denying the power he talks about violence also happening violence is something that we can see from the days of noah that it's going to be like the days of noah right and we can see that violence is going to increase here in this passage it talks about the man of lawlessness occurs 13 times lawlessness in the new testament it's talking about a nomas it is that no law that that they are not under any law they're a law unto themselves this is the whole relative moral movement that ev everything moral is relative to me and how i feel like it is like you know we don't have relativism when it comes to science or when it comes to engineering i mean you can't go down the lows and ask for a two by four and the guy says well you know i feel like a two by four is maybe three and a half by seven and a half no no there's an international uh bureau of weights and measures that says this is what it is this is what a two by four is two inches by four inches right so when we look at when you don't have the law of god you don't have truth you don't have a center an international center then what's going to happen you're going to have again a violence what we see in our land is of course uh recently lots of bonds we know that this prophecy was not just about america we know that there is all kinds of violence and and the middle east was one of the is one of the hot spots of violence right so violence will increase also sexual immorality the global distribution of pornography is is astronomical more more pornography stores than there are mcdonald's restaurants there's all kinds of uh proliferation and if a young man spends four hours watching r-rated sexual movies it will distort his view of women and sex it is again research studies that could go on and on and on about how pornography is destroying uh marriage is destroying people's view of what god created when we look at virtual and robotic sex this is again where uh the stats are ugly and just because of the decency of this setting we're not going to go through some of those things but just know that there is perversions that are abounding with sex robots with virtual and there's uh by the millions there is uh again trafficking in this area transsexuality this is the caitlyn jenner uh example of of transsexuality that is now beginning to to grow where people say that i want a gender reassignment and i don't uh want to be what i was born to be i want to change my gender and and do that by hormones and by operations and so forth and so on did you know that that among those people that do that there is a high rate of suicide because you really can't fix an inside problem with a with an outside surgery you really have to have the brokenness in our lives really healed by a higher power you have to have the wonderful counselor begin to heal the things that are inside of us in order for there to be the outward acceptance of reality pansexuality is again miley cyrus it's all about the uh uh you know sex with whoever and whatever i feel like it men women uh whatever it might be this is the new thing among uh teenagers and high schools and college campuses uh pansexuality these are all signs of the times and then he goes on to talk about in verse six as well that that he's going to end up this is a a picture of the ancient statue of antiochus epiphanes who went into the jewish temple and then he offered a pig on the altar and then put up a statue of zeus this this was the abomination of desolation what is abomination abomination is a setting up of an idol or worshiping something other than god it is the most heinous of sins right what is the desolation the desolation means that when it happens in jerusalem as it as it did there it happens in jerusalem it's supposed to spread throughout the rest of the earth and so it is that desolation is that when you worship idols that there's going to be judgment and when you started in jerusalem that there's going to be the widespread worship of the antichrist that he is going to proclaim himself to be god in the middle of the tribulation period and as such it says here in this very chapter that there's going to be strong delusion that many will believe the lie what is the lie that he is god that he's divine he is trying to replace jesus christ this is the antichrist he's trying to set himself up to be the jewish messiah but when the jews see this they are going to flee and they are going to run to the mountains right they are going to get out of there and then he's going to persecute them because they won't worship him what is the boiling point when you look at what the boiling point is we know that a boiling point is when the vapor that surrounds the the liquid becomes the same temperature and then it begins to boil and what does that vapor begin to do it begins as you see on the screen it begins to form vapor bubbles and it begins to rise to the top when we look at the symbolism what i feel like the lord has told me and showed me it is this it is that the world is the is the surface the world is is that sea uh as we know from revelation 13 out of the sea means humanity it is that sea that is boiling that there are things that i just mentioned from violence immorality to apostasy the various things that are coming to boiling points that these things are getting worse and worse and worse would anybody agree with that and as they are boiling and going toward that real boiling point then there is also needing to be an equal response from the body of christ that we also who again vapor would my my analogy would represent the holy spirit with inside of us that the holy spirit with inside of us would begin to heat us up we begin to make us begin to boil and therefore rise to the top uh rise to the top of all that's going on in our world and rise to the top with a response you see what's happened in this scene that they're referring to about the antichrist coming in to declare himself to be god is only after there is a resurgence of worship and the first boiling point for the body is worship you see the resurgence of worship starts as you know from from luke chapter 21 24 about when the times the gentiles cease in 1967 when when israel jerusalem was taken back by the jews that that's when the messianic jewish movement began the charismatic movement began and so there was a great and there has been now a tremendous move of god saving the jewish people and a great charismatic move of god as well but then also what we're seeing in in this time of the tribulation period is that god is going to take that even further because he's going to appoint two witnesses enoch and elijah who are going to come and they're going to oversee the rebuilding of the new temple they're going to oversee the rebuilding of the what is called the tribulation temple now again you see in revelation 11. read it they're measuring it and they're doing this doesn't have the gentile court because there's obviously gentiles that are still around in there the antichrist is going to make sure that but they get to build this temple i don't have time to tell you how why that could be done but they are going to oversee it in fact these two witnesses have the power to call down plagues and call down fire and nobody can touch them nobody can keep them and they're there as god's enforcers to rebuild the temple they're there to make sure that temple this goes back to zechariah yeah the the two olive trees of zechariah and joshua it goes back to all that they're anointed by god and they have power if anybody gets near them they can call down a judgment on them and and the world is afraid of them the world hates them because what's going on is that there is a revival of jewish worship going on praise god and that revival of jewish worship uh yes there's going to be sacrifices which the world's going to go crazy with their our animal sacrifices again right and so the world's going to hate that and going to hate them and that's why they're going to rejoice when the antichrist finally kills them and they lay dead on the street for three days but then they're going to be on on all the satellite networks are going to be shown to come back from the dead and then to be raptured up to heaven and so all of that is to do what before the antichrist comes in with his boiling point to say i'm god i'm taking the place of your messiah worship me before that the boiling point is god is going to take all that he's done since 67 among the jews and of course among the gentiles you know that now today it's not about performance music in the christian world that is the big seller it's all about worship music that's the big seller it started back in the 80s and 90s integrity music and all this and now we have all the the biggest sales all over our worship recordings right why is that anybody notice that the why is that that worship music and worship recordings are the biggest selling item among uh christian music because god is getting us to a boiling point of worship he's trying to bring us to the place where we understand that we are presence driven not church driven we're presence driven amen oh man if we were church driven you can have victory on monday when you're on i-4 but when you're presence-driven you can get in the car and start singing hallelujah i'm going to raise a hallelujah on i-4 monday morning traffic right you can start praising god and so it is that he gives them a great worship revival oh when those jews see that there's a temple built there's going to be great revival because the persecution is coming let me tell you don't ever drop your worship let me tell you it's not just something you do when you come to church worship is what god is bringing to a boiling point he wants us to understand that he is the he is rebuilding the tabernacle of david which is 24 7 worship which is without walls worship is inviting everybody in we're not just singing songs when we come together we are declaring the victories of jesus we're declaring the word of god we're declaring and the bible says that he inhabits the praises of his people it's time to bring his presence down to earth in a greater way than it's ever been brought before and it's going to come when we get our hearts into worship it's going to come when we spend time in the presence of god it's going to say oh god revive us again that we can worship you in spirit and truth and see the kingdom of god come in all of its glory and all of its power amen and amen i've got to move on let's say three parallels then number two of the days of noah and lot he said that second coming will be as these days of noah and lod of course we went over these things already immorality and violence righteous remnant which is us the sudden removal of the righteous uh when the door was shut remember that god brought the righteous into the ark and the door was shut and then the judgment came these are views of what paul was saying in first first thessalonians chapter 4. in first thessalonians chapter 4 he's beginning to tell them about how that there is going to be the rapture at the last trump and again there we'll talk about the rapture in just a minute but the thing that we want to point out first is the removal of the restrainer you see in second thessalonians our text verses six and eight he talked about the he which was restrained will be taken out of the way because the man of lawlessness the antichrist cannot be fully revealed and unrestrained until he which restrains is taken out of the way so what does that mean in the end times economy what does that say to me well first of all let's understand the passage the holy spirit is referred to as the he again we know pneuma in the greek is the greek word for spirit it's neuter but yet when it's referred to the holy spirit as a as a personal pro pronoun it's it's in the masculine as he read john chapter 14 through 16 jesus refers to he talking about the holy spirit secondly we know that it's the holy spirit because he was the restraining force in the days of noah read chapter 6 of genesis verse 3 that he will not always strive with man right he was striving and trying to convict and trying to trying to restrain the evil in the days of noah so shall it be in the days of noah as the s is when the son of man comes again so the holy spirit is restraining the evil now it's it's going to get much worse than it is now but then also the church as many believe is represented here the church is supposed to be the salt and not the slat but the salt and the light of the world and so when we look at uh what does salt do it preserves right and and uh so we are known as the restraining force and the preservation force in the world as well this is what leads many scholars to believe that the rapture of the church when that takes place that there will be the catching away of the church which largely uh again is embodying the power and spirit-filled life that god intended upon the earth that is restraining the evil that is going on in the world we look at types and shadows of of the rapture we know that there was a rapture of enoch there was a rapture and all these are from paul's word in first thessalonians harpazzo in the greek when he says that that the trump of god and we shall be caught up that is the greek word harpazo these are examples where harpazzo is also used so again it was used about the catching up of enoch and he was raptured the rapture of elijah he was raptured also uh likened to the days of noah when noah got into the ark and also lot was able to get out of the city before judgment came there was the escape so it is in the rapture of philip harpazzo is used there where he was lifted up and transported to another area 20 miles from where he was then there is a rapture of paul harpazzo is used there that paul says that i was caught up to the third heaven and there saw things that was too wonderful for me to describe when we look at the the rapture we don't have time to go through all the teaching on the rapture but just know that paul was teaching most likely on that in first thessalonians first thessalonians and he's now teaching in second thessalonians on the second coming but when we look at the rapture when will the rapture occur this is what paul was teaching in first thessalonians he was teaching that it will happen at the last trump now if you're a good jew you would know exactly what the last trump was again on the day of the feast of trump was there were two days of the feast of trump's first day uh first of all in the whole feast you had to blow the trumpet a hundred times he blew it 99 times on the first day and then the second day he blew it once that was the last trump so when we look at then paul making the analogy about a catching away he he puts it in jewish feast terminology now again if you understand the signs that god created uh in genesis chapter one the sun moon the stars it's moed signs of the seasons when you look at the feast that god ordained it's it's moab again it is signs that god gave the signs like they go by a lunar calendar and those are signs for the feast and on and on we could go into deep hebrew uh i guess uh foreshadowing but let us look first here at the feast of of israel if we look at what's happened already in the first four feasts in the spring we've already prophetically seen these come to pass passover is what passover is the the sacrificial lamb right started back in exodus chapter 12. but if you look at when jesus was crucified he was crucified on passover if you look at the next feast of unleavened bread jesus was buried on the feast of unleavened bread unleavened means without sin and so do to put the cleanse from sin he he died and was buried on the feast of unleavened bread and then he was raised resurrected on the feast of first fruits and so again we know that he's the first fruits of being resurrected from the dead and we know that as we believe we will follow after that and then pentecost which is the two eleven loaves the only time you lose eleven uh the two loaves of the jews and the gentiles and the and eleven means the the fullness and freedom fullness and freedom of the spirit-filled life and so again it was on pentecost that we see on the feast of pentecost that we had the giving of the holy spirit so things that have happened already in salvation history have happened on jewish feast seasons so if we were looking we can't set any dates and we don't know the day or the hour the bible clearly says but if we're looking at seasons the bible says we can know the seasons we can know the times and we can know the seasons so we look at the seasons there are three in the fall left yet to be fulfilled in a salvation history the first one is the feast of trumpets and many believe that this would be when the rapture takes place and again there's different views of the rapture the pre-tribulation rapture at the beginning of the tribulation period then some people believe in the pre-tribulation rapture just for overcomers and then there is those who believe in the mid-tribulation rapture which there will be one of martyrs so forth but they believe that everybody's in that mid-trib then some believe in a post-trib uh rapture at the end before the battle of armageddon so there are different teachings i want you to study be like those in berea study these things to see what you think add up but if we look at these particular feasts this thing about the last trump uh again makes uh makes uh prophetic sense that on that last trump would be the rapture of the church this goes back to uh revelation chapter four verse one that there was a door open and a voice like a trumpet uh said come up hither and uh again he's talking about the church jesus is in chapters two and three but you don't hear or read about the church from chapters 4 through chapter 18. it's all about what's going on the earth but in chapter 19 then you read about the church again coming back so it seems like this trump is the rapture of the church and then you go on to atonement this is when many believe the second coming will take place and then you go on to the tabernacles this is the millennial reign that christ will rule and reign for a thousand years so excuse me these three are yet to be fulfilled now what do we say we're saying here as we are just glazed over like a like a cow staring at a new gate right now right like what's going on you know who's on first what's on second we're trying to talk about the second boiling point the second boiling point is restraining restraining evil that right now that we are restraining and the holy spirit is restraining the evil that is going to be unleashed through the man of lawlessness the antichrist and through all that the world is going to suffer in tremendous ways right so when we look at our role as restraining we have to understand what did abraham do he said that my coming will be like the days of noah and lot when abraham was in a time where there was this unrighteous cities of sodom and gomorrah what did he do but his boiling point was that of intercession his his boiling point was that of prayer that is that he began remember the negotiations that he did with the lord about where you spare the city for 50 for 45 and he went down all the way to 10 right and so it was a time of intercession that that he wanted to pray for the sparing this is the restraining abraham was was in the restraining part of god's wrath he was in the restraining part of god's judgment upon sodom and gomorrah and through his prayers of course the angels eventually showed up and rescued lot and tried to rescue all of his family of course his wife turned back and all that we know about but what is our role our role in this time is also to know that as the world gets more evil then our role is not to try to hide in our basement hide in our churches hide somewhere in our our role is to boil up ourselves our our role is to begin to intercede and to pray and to restrain the evil that is coming not just the bullying up of worship but did you know that prayer has been boiling up in our world for a long time prayer movements have been moving and 24 7 prayer agencies are now 10 000 strong around the world that in all places around the world nearly all places you're finding prayer movements like never before soul korea right has the largest prayer mountain the largest praying place and they also have the largest church in the world right but there's no coincidence there is a coincidence with that it's called that god is going to bless those areas and those people that are boiling up into the kingdom agenda that he has for these last days i'm here to tell you that god is blessing the emergence of prayer like never before it's not time for you to pray less it's time for you to pray more i pray god will call intercessors across this church and call it across this county and god will raise us up that we're not just wasting our time with laying me down to sleep prayers but no we see ourselves as standing in the gap we are restraining evil we are not just complaining about the television news we are doing something about it by praying to the god who can restrain it the god who can change it that god who wants to move in a great and a mighty way lord add his blessing to his word as i brother james come the piano please the last boiling point don't have time to preach all this but this suffice it to say the first spiritual boiling point is worship the second one's prayer and the third one's faith because we look at the technology he talks about that there's going to be in daniel 12 and 3 there's going to be knowledge that's going to increase and again we can talk about i don't have time to give you the stats about how the knowledge doubles and now now every 12 hours knowledge all knowledge doubles every 12 hours i don't have time to go through all the stuff let me just say this what is that what is what does that make any difference to me why did daniel even mention that because this is the old pursuit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that people are going to and fro throughout the earth looking for the future looking for knowledge that will exalt them against the knowledge of god so knowledge is increasing because people are getting fallen away from god and they're trying to be god themself how do you see that you see that in engineering of humans engineering of humans and again we don't have time to go through all the all the things that we had prepared to say but let's let me tell you that make a long story short that whether it's whether it's a germline uh modification in your in your biology that you can do designer babies whether it's chimeras where they're already combining human uh and animal seed together to try to reproduce um organs for uh for surgeries again the great britain has over 250 chimeras that have human seed and animal uh seed together to form these organs uh there is elon musk who's experimenting with putting chips uh in in and now in rats and in in pigs but he's trying to put chips in brains and again china and russia are already working on uh these hybrids human hybrids in fact the micros or the google uh chief engineer said that by 2030 that that humans will become hybrids and if you're not a hybrid have some kind of augmentation biologically or the chip in your brain that you will be behind what we're seeing is that in revelation chapter 16 18 there's going to be there's going to be men men every now that are going to come in that 2 million man army from the east and no doubt there may be some hybrids and all that this is this the crazy stuff that is going on what's the point pastor what's the point if it says in the days of noah what do we find we find that there were there was an agreement of 200 fallen angels that said they wanted to to uh to create another sea another line with with women and so there was this the nephilim the giants were born all to corrupt the seed of god the corrupted seed of the messiah the perfect man and so it is in these last days we are seeing that you know the devil says hey god you made him six feet tall i'm going to make him 10 feet tall all through the bible you're going gonna find giants that they were facing giants right so it is in the last days that yes we're gonna they're like saying we're gonna spit in your face god we can do a better human than you can all this is coming to pass as we sit here today and this is the ultimate boiling point when people come to such such a rejection of god that they say we can do it better than you god that we're going to make man in our image according to our likeness we're going to do it that way when it comes to that that's when god says the boiling point has finally reached its father i'm coming back i'm coming back with the perfect human god man jesus christ i'm coming back to again ruling reign on this earth i'm coming back and what i'm looking for is people that have faith i'm looking for people who says the antichrist and this these verses will do signs and wonders or he'll do false signs and wonders i'm here to tell you there's one man who's already defeated the devil there's one man who did signs and wonders and it's time for us to realize that the boiling point is the old jesus oh jesus would you please grant us the faith and the power through the holy spirit to do mighty signs and wonders we have no options we must but speak this we must but do the works of god we have got to have revival in our lives revival in our churches oh jesus this world is seeking this time may you stretch forth your hand to heal may you do signs and wonders true signs and wonders may again your spirit be poured out upon all flesh so that there is a life change that nobody can dispute i'm talking about this is the boiling point for us the boiling point is oh god may this be the greatest spiritual time of my life may i have the greatest power of the spirit may i have the greatest faith that i've ever had may i do signs and wonders in your name lord jesus may i see revival come through me lord may it happen in my life in my day and time i'm praying in the name of the lord jesus christ amen come on let's stand together give to god praise amen let's stand together let's give god to praise one more time amen let's praise him together hallelujah hallelujah altar workers if you please come your average tap water is 68 degrees it's a long way from 212. what if you could up it one degree two degrees what if you could raise the level of your passion raise the level of your bible study raise the level of your prayer raise the level of your good works what if you could just raise it some degrees you see the bible tells us about lukewarm believers that we're not hot and we're not cold we're tap water i'm going to tell you that god is saying these are the last days and i'm looking for you to come to the boiling point of passion [Music] i'm looking for a bride that will worship me that will intercede for me and that will have faith to do great and mighty mighty things for me hallelujah do you buy your head with me for prayer if you're online or here and you don't know the lord this is the day of salvation don't wait until the tribulation period comes because you may have to give your life to be saved if you're here today this is the age of grace you say pastor i'm not sure if i would die today go to heaven but i want to know jesus i want to be saved i don't want to go through the tribulation period i don't have to give my life even though it would be worth it if you do but say i want to accept him if that's you want you to lift up your hand let me see i won't accept jesus today i want to accept christ today anybody here that raises your hand if you're online we want to give you that invitation as well because the days will get more evil secondly here today i want to just pray with you and say that the altar is open but right now i want to engage you in your praise your prayer and your faith would any of you here join me today and say oh god may you grant me the passion to praise worship and pray and to have greater faith than ever before in these last days that's your prayer today i want you to join me in this final prayer and then we're going to open the altar for anybody as they worship hallelujah oh there's a heaviness i feel also a slumber that i'm fighting i'm i'm crying out lord but i pray there would be open ears not deaf ears i'm praying to you that he that has an ear will come to you he that has an ear will will worship you like never before he that has an ear will pray and stand in the gap with greater fervor than ever that he or she that has an ear will step up with greater faith than they've ever walked in before lord we know that you've saved the best for last lord we know that you always save the best for last oh who knows the end of a matter but the lord saves the best for last so lord today we do wait on the lord we do expect you to give us the best at the last of the times that we live in nor there may be asteroids coming our way and other things wormwood all the things that are predicted that lord even nasa knows about even now god there may be different things that that lord you predicted that are coming to pass but we're seeing it before our very eyes jesus oh jesus lord we confess our sin repent and we ask you to forgive us for slumber and sleep we awake out of our sleep god give us light give us revelation that today we begin to praise you and we begin to declare in this place that i will see greater things from god i will be involved in greater acts of god i will have greater worship of god i will i will respond to greater prayers for god that yes i step up i i heat up lord i go to the 212 i go to the place to boil i go to the place oh god where the spirit of god and the passion of god will match the world's evil and will overcome the world's evil oh god i praise you that we are not defeated we are overcomers today so in the name of jesus we declare your overcoming power greater are you that's in us than he that's in the world so lord let the power of the spirit let the power of faith lord fill us and lord may we leave this place let me leave this place with the power of your spirit and the expectation of faith that god is going to do great things through us and in us in these last days for that we give you our praise we give you our thanks in jesus name everybody said amen give the lord praise with me one more time if you would praise be to god amen and amen as they sing you're welcome to come for prayer of any sign any kind prayers open god's open for 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