What Happens Next?

i'm going to ask you to stand right now if you would and now it's time for bible study but you needed to know that as unpopular and as not happy feeling that that makes just be wise we are continuing today really our second study in our series that we've just embarked upon entitled futures we're going to be looking at the major bible prophetic doctrines of the bible last week was our foundations class and today we start with the one that is perhaps for us in real life in real time most important and today we're looking at a message titled what happens next what happens next and i don't know why i'm glad to be a third service not because the day is almost over but because i hope that you guys are way different as you normally are than first and second services first and second don't tell anybody but first and second services it was like it was like licking a rock now maybe it's me but man it was tough going why is that though because so many people who attend this church have come from churches that don't know anything about bible prophecy they think they've been told all kinds of crazy things and i think that's why the plowing is getting rough is because some people like i'm quoting i've never heard this before well you need to know your bible we're gonna you're gonna know a lot more as we go through this series but what happens next i hope happens today and if you turn in your bibles the first thessalonians 4 verses 13 through 18. we're going to be looking at a fast pace a lot of data a lot of verses study regarding what god's speaking to us about what could happen next i will read the odd-numbered verses beginning in verse 13. if you pick it up in verse 14 we'll go down odd and even down to verse 18. so i'll take 13 you begin in 14 and here we go paul says to them paul the apostle but i do not want you to be ignorant brethren concerning those who have fallen asleep that's the christian the believer when they die lest you sorrow as others who have no hope for this we say to you by the word of the lord that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the lord will by no means precede those who are asleep [Music] verse 17 then we who are listen to this then we who are alive and remain that's like now today 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 verse 18. verse 18 says comfort one another man i heard a song the other day on coast i think it's coast fm they're playing all christmas songs and the song was uh all i want for christmas is my two front teeth all i want for christmas is for this study to be a reality i want the lord to come back for this christmas that would be pretty awesome father we pray that you would anoint the going forth of your word to us today we ask god now that you'd instruct this out of it and we thank you father that your word gives light in jesus name and all god's people said amen you can be seated there is a book if this topic interests you there's a book one book you can buy it can save you an entire library that's written by dr john wolvrid genius book brilliant theologian you gotta buy it uh here's the reason why christian listen if you're a christian you believe in the rapture but dependent upon what denominational influences have been upon your life you and i may differ as to when the rapture happens there is not one christian on the planet that says there's no rapture the question is when is it is it pre-tribulational mid is it post-tribulational this book the rapture question by dr john woolfried covers all views that are out there today and to his credit dr john wolfrad has been blessed by his uh opponents i'll i'll put it that way those who have a different view and they say of him he argues each view so good that he does it better than we do ourselves that's how good he argues all the different views of what is the rapture when will it happen what are the characteristics how listen how is it different than the second coming of christ the rapture one is an appearing the other one is a physical arrival one is an atmospheric manifestation for the church only the other is a physical literally physical return of christ to not only the world but a very specific spot jerusalem in fact even the mount of olives then jerusalem then the temple mount for a thousand years it's very serious but a lot of people today don't understand and don't know why is that the case why are we a church gathering of i mean obviously thousands and thousands of people today and people having so many different views it all comes down to the fact that they we have been brought up thinking a certain way by whatever influences have been placed upon us we're going to run through six things today we'll do it as fast as we can i have 45 minutes to do this and so we're going to go quick i'm going to ask you to write write small in your notes so you can get all of these because my hope is to get you to be thinking about what happens next and why answering that question is very important here we go number one number one regarding the passage of scripture we just read we're talking about the rapture the rapture of the church and you might say uh and ask the question what is it and that is number one what is the rapture why would you ask that question let's be honest because the word rapture doesn't appear in the english bible that's a good start i don't believe the rapture because it's not in my bible well first of all neither is the word bible in your bible neither is the word trinity in your bible but the doctrine of the trinities in your bible isn't it the doctrine of the bible is in the bible isn't it and the doctrine of the rapture is in the bible because of for this reason rapture if you read latin today the word rapture is in your bible that criticism i don't believe it because it's not in the bible it's kind of an embarrassment don't use it anymore if that's you don't say it anymore i'm trying to protect you here don't say it anymore because you might be thinking the god speaks english and he wrote the bible in english no he didn't he wrote the bible in a little bit of aramaic a lot of hebrew and greek and the word for rapture in greek is harpazzo almost sounds italian i'd like to have a calzone and two arpazos it means to be violently removed for good not bad it's not a bad removal it's to be snatched away like it were you're being pulled from a train track and an oncoming train you're pulled into safety harpazzo rapture or in the english it's two words caught up and you read that a moment ago but you're going to see it more what is the rapture it says right here in verse 13. notice this i'm going to say this a lot verse 13. i'm going to drill it into you paul told the thessalonican believers do i do not want you to be ignorant or uninformed untaught brethren concerning and we'll pause right there and look at verse 17. drop down to verse 17. i don't want you to be uninformed or ignorant about this verse 17 then we who are alive and remain shall be raptured caught up together with them you're going to know the difference today about who we are and who them are in the clouds to meet the lord in the air atmosphere by the way it's not celestial universe it's not starry sky it's atmospheric if you're into science that's from zero elevation to about 126 000 feet that's pretty amazing the bible says you someday are going to meet jesus in the atmospheric sky wow and thus we shall always be with the lord say amen isn't that what you're living for to be with him so number one mark it down if you would it's a promised event what do we know about the rapture it's a promised event promise to us beginning with none other than jesus christ himself in john 14 verse 1 2 and 3 john 14. this is this is an amazing uh passage and if you don't believe in the rapture then you've got bigger problems than that but the the issue is why not believe in what jesus says i do believe in what jesus said okay we'll start here in john 14 1 jesus says let not your heart be troubled you believe in god believe also in me in my father's house are many mansions many dwelling places beautiful places to live in if it were not so i would have told you so he's not joking i go to prepare a place for you church did jesus leave earth 2000 years ago he left earth 2000 years ago and he said i'm gonna go away i'm gonna prepare a place for you okay he made the worlds in the universes in six days he's been gone for 2000 years and he said i'm preparing a place for you i think it's gonna be pretty amazing plus he's not only a shepherd he's a carpenter so it's a slam dunk for him and if i go did he go oh he went and prepare a place for you here it is hang on here comes i will come again and receive you to myself if it ended right there we could argue about this forever but it doesn't he tells us exactly where he's going to take us that where i am there you may be also what does that mean friends listen there is this is not even open for a debate i'm going he says to go prepare a place for you up where my father's dwelling is i'm going to be doing it and when i'm done i'll come get you yeah i know it's been 2 000 years i'm still working on it but when it's done i'm going to come get you and just to make sure you're not confused about where that's going to be i'm going to be preparing it i'll come get you and i'm going to take you where i've been i'm gonna show you this question to you just let it soak in your head how do you get there how do you fulfill what jesus just promised the vehicle the doctrine is called rapture to be caught up off of this globe out of this world which incorporates the living and the dead in christ and deposits you not instantly in heaven mind you but first instantly in the atmosphere christ collects his people both the dead and the living and from there he takes them us into his presence in heaven above that has to happen for a lot of reasons but that is thrilling news it's a promised event given by jesus himself i love this look at first thessalonians 4 starting at verse 15. look at your bible get ready to market here's some more promises for this we say to you number one by the word of the lord that's a new testament equivalent to the old testament thus saith the lord paul said when i'm speaking to you this is not paul speaking this is none other than the lord giving you this doctrine that's a promise look at verse 16 for the lord himself would descend from heaven that's a promise look at the third promise verse 17 to meet the lord in the air that's a promise i don't like promises unless jesus gives them by the way amen promises people give they used to get me excited now i'd rather not hear them are you with me you know that i promise you you know young love i promise to love you forever and ever when yes okay you grow up and it's like sure now i go to the promise keeper it's jesus and the fourth one is in verse 17 and thus we shall always hallelujah right always be with the lord the promises it's a promised events number two it's sudden oh it's a sudden event this is fun i should have brought out an umbrella for a prop i told you guys this before but it's really good imagine an umbrella and i'm holding the handle and the umbrella is over my head and on the outside of the umbrella over the ribbing it says the second coming of christ but on one side from the handle over to one side of that canopy is the rapture and on the other side of the handle on this side is the second coming now collectively it's called the second coming but the second coming is broken up into two manifestations as i said a moment ago one is an appearance in the atmosphere and the other one the second coming is a physical return to jerusalem by the way how do you listen if you don't believe this how do you know the jesus that you claim to know is the right jesus because the jesus of the bible has to physically return to jerusalem that's why jerusalem's in the news all the time that's why everybody fights over jerusalem it's a spiritual issue who cares who cares about jerusalem it's not such a big deal if you don't know the bible it's like why vacation here i'm serious there's no river there's no oil there's no skein there's no waterfalls there's nothing there except it's the place that god said this is where my name dwells the ancient hebrew scholars believe that when god spoke the physical universe into existence jerusalem was under his feet when it formed there's no natural reason why you should like jerusalem god says i love it and look if god would have picked chino hills chino hills would be the big news topic of the world because it would be a spiritual event no it's because god moves in the realm of the spirit it's remarkable and awesome but the bible tells us it's sudden it's a sudden event the rapture is sudden listen everybody mark this down there is no prophetic precursors are requirements for the rapture to take place there's not one thing that triggers the rapture to be next nothing it's without warning the second coming there's nearly 280 prophecies that have to be fulfilled before the second coming can happen think of it one is predominantly by far gentile in nature the other one is absolutely jewish by nature when jesus comes in the rapture he comes to collect those that believe him from the globe both living and the dead their bodies think of that when he comes back regarding the second coming it's specifically to finish his covenantal promises that were given to israel regarding their relationship with him it's remarkable it's a sudden event verse 17 says then we who are alive and remain that's paul's statement by the way bible scholars in here write it down they are known as the five we statements of paul five times in this chapter paul says we who are living when he comes we will be caught up we will meet the dead in the resurrection we will meet the lord in there paul included himself as being in that generation that would see the lord and he didn't give up on that until second timothy chapter four when he concedes and says i'm going to be dying now and i have loved his appearing and he's beheaded but all his life he lived by the way christian every generation from this book we know every generation of believers is to expect the imminent return of christ in their lifetime did you know that every generation from the beginning the disciples believed christ would return before they all died it even says it in the gospels isn't that interesting the question is do you are you living for your pastor jack people my grandmother said jesus was coming back okay so listen your grandmother was ready what about you and here's the other thing if your grandmother said it how much closer are we just because she said it then doesn't mean it's not going to happen wake up it means we're that much closer oh it's going to happen god said it's going to happen it's a sudden event first corinthians 15 51 this is fun watch this first corinthians 15 51 says behold i tell you a mystery the word in greek is mysterion it's a very cool word it means something that has always existed it's always been there it's always true it's always been real it's just that there's been no reason to to unveil it because it didn't matter it's god's eternal truth there was no reason for the mysterion with what he's about to say to be given in the old testament so it's not because god's truth's eternal are you with me so when paul says here behold i tell you a mysterion i'm telling you something that has always been god's truth but it's not needed to be revealed until now why because the church age of believers are to be ready to meet christ it just so happens you and i are now 21 centuries out how close are we look what he says we shall not all sleep the word sleep is referring to the believer's body appearance not your soul some of you have been taught soul sleep that's a cult view when people misunderstand scripture oh sleep does that mean when you die as a believer you just kind of you just wait or you sleep and then someday wake up nope the bible says to be absent from this body is to be present with the lord think of that no it's always referring to the body you look a christian a believer you look when you're sleeping you look like you're dead so you know some of you sleep is he breathing wake him up is he dead he's sleeping in the lord he looks bad the church the doctrines were used the word sleep but we shall be changed in a moment in a twinkling of an eye some argue back and forth 18 to 22 thousandths of a second who cares it's fast at the last trumpet for the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible and we shall notice there he goes again paul we shall be changed i want you guys to look at this word go ahead and put them on the screen it's first corinthians 15 51 again watch this everybody this is fun read your bible carefully for the trumpet will sound or excuse me at the last trumpet for the trumpet will sound and what are we talking about the dead will be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed he's talking about the event you just read in first thessalonians 4. are you with me are you tracking here's what's cool there are those who have been taught oh you see the word last trumpet oh i was getting excited but now i know for sure the rapture is at the end of the tribulation period because that must refer to the seven trumpet judgment of the book of revelation so there you go there you wrong has nothing to do with that the listen the reason why there's a last trumpet is because there's a first trumpet and it goes back listen the whole context is gathering god's people together do you agree do you see that it's gathering god's people together god told moses i want you to build two trumpets made out of silver for the gathering together of my people moses says okay he builds two trumpets every time moses gathered god's people together the jewish people he would blow a trumpet and to this day the jews will say but what's the other trumpet for why too and some will say it's a backup it's case the other one breaks it's a mystery the first trumpet calls the jews together god's been calling the jews together for but certainly since 1948 back into their own land he called them together for battle he called them together for convocations he called them together for announcements but the second drug the last trumpet's never been blown that last trumpet is to gather another group of god's people together you it's the last trumpet the first one gathers israel the last one gathers the church and to prove the context it demands that the dead are raised incorruptible this means the bodies of the believers come out of the ground oh wouldn't you love to be at a driving through forest lawn when that happens and as soon as you say look at that can you imagine and now we lay our brother down [Applause] anyway look the context is amazing the dead will be raised in corruptville and we the church living at that time shall be metamorpho or transformed transfigured we will be molecularly changed is that amazing changed our molecules are going to change we're christians we believe in resurrection that means this flesh is going to be re-positioned god's going to take the molecule structure the molecular structure of our flesh and just tweak it and when he tweaks it it will be in its glorified state it's the words he uses absolutely awesome i'm so excited i'm losing control of myself over this thirdly under this point it's required you gotta have it the rapture is not only found in the bible it has to happen we need it it's part of god's redemptive process just know that it's going to happen it's required in the scripture to happen because our series will eventually cover elements of this i want to move forward but before i do i just want to say something about this in second peter 3 verse 3 you should jot this down because you're living in it right now this is our age in second peter 3 3 remember this is written 2000 years ago peter warned know this first priority one can you imagine peter's got his clipboard all right first things first that scoffers will come in the last days walking according to their own lust this is what they're going to say where is the promise of his coming is that amazing i said my goodness pastor jack i talked to somebody yesterday about that did you get a picture with him you should take a picture with him get a selfie with him shake their hand tell them oh my gosh can you wait for a minute i want to read you second peter 3 verses 3 through 4. you are a walking bible prophecy fulfillment you said jesus isn't coming back stand still look at you wow the bible said there'd be people like you you're scoffers you're a scoffer and that's one of the that's how i know we're getting close to the last days even though there's no prerequisite oy vey you're a scoffer his coming's close and listen the closer watch listen everybody the closer we get to his coming we know something there will be more and more people not believing it there will be more and more people departing from the faith more and more people will give up in believing that's one of the indicators although there are no prerequisites paul says we will know the times and the seasons we'll have a general feel what a remarkable warning watch out for liberal theologians in this day and age that say well it's just a it's a symbol it's symbolism it really means this and it really means that it's typological no no no no whenever the bible is typological it says so did you know that and i'll prove it to you you already know this when jesus was baptized by john the baptist the bible says jesus went into the water john the baptist baptized him and the bible says that jesus came up out of the water and what happened oh this you guys are smart were you at first and second service see i'm telling those people first and second they all said a dove landed on him now this we know for sure we know absolutely for sure in fact the chances of an eagle landing on him or turkey would have been higher than a dove and i'll prove it to you the bible says jesus was baptized and he came up out of the water and the spirit of god descended upon jesus like a dove that means in theology it means it wasn't a dove are you with me it automatically means this we know for sure it's not a dove why because it says it was like a dove which excludes all dubs [Applause] it does but i saw the movie the dove landed on them doesn't count the spirit of god came upon jesus like a dove would land on your head when the bible speaks symbol it says so and there was a great dragon as it were that rose up out of the sea having seven heads and ten horns so you're thinking oh my goodness we've they i think they found they think they got pictures of a dragon in the north atlantic living at like 20 000 feet below the sea that's how close we are to the end where do you get that from the bible says in the last days like like a dragon coming out of the water no the governments of the world to come and the one world order will be like a dragon rising up it's simple if we just slow down and read it watch out number two church it's this what happens next who's involved in the rapture who's involved in it first thessalonians again look at verse 14 it says for if we believe that jesus died and rose again so god will bring with those who sleep in jesus number one mark it down those who are involved in the rapture are the dead the believing dead technically the previous dead because at the moment of the rapture this is amazing if i died right now my body would go fall down because my spirit's gone in a sense think of it this way so man you know the guy was dead before he hit the ground well it just simply means my soul my spirit was gone before i hit the ground when this thing hits the ground you know you oh peas your drag let's pray let's pray leave me alone who asked you just bury me somewhere i don't care where put me in your garden i don't care i'm not going to stay there i'm gone my my soul my the me that i am and you that you are you immediately go to the presence of jesus it's like you go like when you lay down to sleep and you go into dreamland you're like this your body looks dead you're all over the place in your dreams think of that in reality you're going to be with him your body's going to be here your body's going to be put in the ground or you're going to be cremated it doesn't matter doesn't change the molecules at all it just reduces them down in size it doesn't change them think of it and for those those that are going to come out of the ground the bible says and the dead in christ will rise first all that means is that according to order it doesn't mean that they rise first and seven years later we oh no it's probably nano seconds of time but they have first privilege their body comes up and the scripture tells us that he brings with them he brings with him those that died in christ you understand that's their spirit and souls in heaven their bodies here on earth or under the earth technically somewhere in the earth number two who was involved in the rapture all of us who are currently can i put it this way yeah i could have put all of us who are currently living but that's obvious the christian right now we are grieving as we live you know that you really do know that you just haven't thought about it we all kind of walk in a fog of grief somebody's sick someone died this is an injustice this was terrible the this the other are you with me fill it in if that doesn't affect you turn on a nature program and you're looking oh my goodness those look how beautiful look how beautiful that gazelle is going across the the african plain and then it's eaten up by this lion and you go oh gosh turn the channel turn the channel the kids are watching [Applause] what happened the bible says all of nature is groaning because of the sin of man adam and eve plunged this world into sin and death came the bible says death so god made it man blew it up messed it up we need to understand that but currently you and i grieve over that we really do we see things that are you know animals that are born or children born with defects or whatever and your heart just wrenches or you see someone suffering human suffering like never before in my lifetime and as a believer i'm grieved it's like lord thank you this is not my home thank you god we're getting out of here thank you jesus this was not your will this is not your plan this is not what you did but we're grieved when we groan the bible tells us in the book of romans that we groan you get young people like i don't get it you're going to get it as you get older you're going to start groaning back's going to hurt you're getting sore isn't that you know us older people are more mature people we get we have to be careful because i have found a little bit of a glee when i see some young person finally wind up saying oh man just oh i sat in that spot and i'm going [Applause] that too is sin and it needs to be repented of [Music] but here the bible tells us that we do not sorrow like those who have no hope you know we all have put the body buried the body of a loved one and we cry and we miss but not without hope because i think of my mom my goodness my sister my dad we put them we put their body in the ground but because they had accepted christ they immediately went to heaven but there's going to be a day when they will be resurrected and that body will be reconstituted new and they're going to meet up with the their consciousness the real person of who they are in the atmosphere and we'll be there to see it you're going to be there to see it it's like oh my gosh this is first thessalonians 4. happening here folks and then thirdly who's involved is all we are united in christ jesus it's called the church people the church has been given to given promises and and and things that no other group in the bible have been allowed we're favored did you know that it's amazing look at us black white every color in between whatever social structure whatever economic structure whatever continent whatever nationality isn't it beautiful whatever pigmentation and language every country tribe tongue and nation jesus says that's my church isn't she beautiful he loves that what a neat thing that is number three in our study number three it's this when will the rapture happen that's why you came today you want me to tell you when it's going to happen i'm writing a book right now and i'm getting just joking exactly nobody knows the day of the hour there ain't no way if somebody wrote a book telling you when jesus is coming back don't buy the book no one's going to know when will the rapture happen the bible tells us in verse 16 of first thessalonians 4 for the lord himself will descend from heaven watch this three things with a shout with the voice of the archangel and the trumpet of god three things so listen up jesus christ is coming back the rapture will be on the day when jesus shouts that's the answer the day jesus shouts that's the day we're going to get raptured the bible tells us he's going to come out of his heaven man if you get a chance watch the documentary before the wrath he comes out of his heaven to pick up his bride the word shout here is the word it's an amazing word it means to incite now when you hear the word insight what do you think about we've been conditioned to think negative haven't we that incited a riot that that's that's a form of incitement like it's always negative god uses the word for his son jesus when he shouts it's going to incite and what is inside ted is first of all in order the bodies of the dead i like this this is amazing he's going to shout and when that happens the dead can you imagine the dust is going to start assembling the dust dust thou art and dust thou shalt return right so scripture we're dust and god god is able to do that see i got my arm cut off you bit off and on the north shore my arm got chewed off by a shark and what happens when the rapture takes place am i going to have one arm in the rapture no you know stonewall jackson had his arm blown off you know who's still injecting this civil war general no anyway forget it yeah i mean you got to know who he is he got his arm blown off he's a christian so when they buried him uh when he died he died years later but when he died they wound up digging up his arm and they wound up putting his arm in his casket and buried him with his arm because they didn't want him to be resurrected without an arm believe me god can work all that stuff out yeah but a shark bit this guy in indonesia and he's from new york and what's going to happen in the resurrection this is the part of you that's wet that's all it's an ocean it's still dust but it's wet he'll assemble it together it's nothing for a scientist like god the listen the structure the molecules are there is that amazing he's going to shout number two the archangel is going to herald the words herald the word we look at the word it's the word phone by the way just like you know it to be spelled but the greek word is phone or phoney and it means to communicate language so what is the angel going to say we don't know he's going to say something he's going to communicate when the angel voices the church is going to hear something so jesus is going to shout wow something communicated linguistically is going to come from an archangel i wonder who it is which one is it listen we got gabriel in the bible michael and lucifer archangels i don't expect to hear anything from lucifer at that moment and gabriel is all gabriel's throughout the bible old and new testament gabriel's amazing he's archangel he shows up gabriel he's the guy he he's if i can say this respectfully he's like he's like the white caller harvard graduate archangel he's got like a clipboard he makes announcements mary blessed art thou among women you're gonna have a baby merry christmas mary gabe gabriel gives announcements he makes announcements every time he shows up in the bible excuse me he makes an announcement he's like the pr department of heaven announcement michael michael's terrifying michael shows up michael doesn't talk much when you see michael in the bible michael michael shows up and he's your mom you want me to do these two over here i can do it michael's always fighting he's fighting listen in the book of revelation michael will fight against lucifer in the atmosphere michael in the old testament boom boom fight fight in the old testament he's warring he's a warrior listen daniel saw angels and he became sick for many days he couldn't eat and he couldn't even get out of bed daniel saw an angel freaked him out we need to we need to that's amazing and every time i think of archangel you know you my mom had these little cherub these cherubim what are those there's the cherubim and they're little chubby naked babies with wings with it with an arrow over our bathroom it's like what is this they're nothing like that at all thirdly when we're all gathered together it says thirdly with the trumpet of god the trumpet of god the word trumpet here revelry it means to blow the bugle the trumpet blast it means to do that with intent to rally the forces or to rally the troops together that is the absolute amazing event you're looking at it's going to be nothing like that imagine if you came back today would you be going up what if that were for real are you going up woo number four where does the rapture occur where does it occur this is a you might say this is a trick question you just said it's going to be the atmosphere technically watch this the rapture is going to number one occur underground or beneath subterranean the dust is going to arise the bodies are going to come together the rapture begins there secondly we know that he's going to bring those that died in christ with him into the earth's atmosphere first thessalonians 4 13 13-18 he brings with them to be reunited with their glorified bodies then we were alive this is the third location us here and now if we're that generation living we are going to experience the rapture will take place subterranean it will take place simultaneously in heaven above and it will take place with you and i walking around if we're that generation what an amazing powerful truth that is what a great great release that is so you guys if you're writing down points it would be in the grave beneath you can mark that down in heaven above as he brings the saints that died in christ in previous times before the rapture and then thirdly it'd be in the moment that's us right here if it were to happen like that little fake horn happened but the bible tells us when that happens we'll be changed in the moment now we shouldn't be surprised about the power of god although it is austin book of matthew matthew's gospel chapter 27 verses 50 to 53 tells us we often forget this is in the bible when jesus was on the cross and he was dying when he was finished paying the price for your sins and mine he said it's finished and then he says that he dismisses his spirit amazing jesus says i'm i'm leaving now i'm leaving my body and he died the bible says when he died the earth began to quake and then it says rocks began to split open which is amazing scientifically you can do that with rocks with sound the moment something reaches its um i'm live lost the term what's resonant what is it it's resonant natural or resonance frequency which is the frequency that can dismantle you've seen the commercial where the woman singing and the glass breaks that's a scientific fact you have rocks can be completely broken if the vibration is at a certain decibel and wavelength level so the ground shakes rocks break open and the bible says grave stones open up and the believing dead at the crucifixion in jerusalem came out of their tombs and walked into jerusalem both then it says in matthew 27 and after the resurrection of christ from the dead three days later he imagined ground shakes and people got up people came they were and it says they were also they were all believers in christ it says it right there matthew 27. is that amazing so that's too fantastic get used to it number five how does the rapture happen how does it happen well first of all it happens by the will of the father by the word of the father god has given us his word this is a doctrine of the bible and god the father will see to it that it happens i tell you what if it doesn't happen you can throw your bible away that's how serious this is if god breaks his promise in one area then he cannot be faithful in any that's how beautifully sure secondly it's going to be by the power of the holy spirit the bible tells us in romans chapter 8 listen to this romans 8 verse 10 says and if christ is in you the body is dead because of sin in other words i have to fight my thoughts i have to fight my desires i have to fight my passions just like you do but we fight but the spirit is life because of righteousness but if the spirit of him who raised jesus from the dead dwells in you he who raised christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his spirit who dwells in you you know what that means if you're a christian the holy spirit lives inside of you and he can't go anywhere without you did you know that he has been see the whole your life has been sealed by the power of the holy spirit until the day of redemption it's his job it's the holy spirit's job to give you to jesus at the rapture or when you die you ever seen a baton being passed in a race think of the holy spirit being the one that passes you over to jesus that's the holy spirit's job he's been doing it since the day of pentecost god's going to see to this then thirdly it's going to be to the glory of jesus christ himself ephesians 5 tells us that marriage between a man and a woman is a picture model of christ's love and devotion to the church the bride of christ isn't that amazing the bible refers to you the church as the bride of christ it's to his glory okay now this kind of i don't know i'm going to share this with you we'll see if this works or not i it's an original thought if it's good it's from god if it stinks then it's from me but when you look at the doctrine of the rapture in the bible about what it does it takes un it takes the dead it takes the body of the bodies of the dead and it takes the bodies of the living and it transforms them both but at the same time it takes the living believer at the moment of the rapture and it takes their the the departed souls and spirits of those who have died in christ and it unites all of us in the atmosphere above with christ and the bible says that when when that happens uh that we we look forward to this glory that's to be revealed church listen i don't know of any other way in the bible where the church is united and enters heaven i need you to think and study that on your own i don't see any other doctrine where the church is universally united and goes into heaven and it's there forever with christ there's no other vehicle i'm talking body soul and spirit the totality of you without the rapture you ain't got that going on isn't that kind of cool so why didn't the church i went to why didn't they tell me this i don't know a lot of people said we're not going to talk about that in our church it's controversial truth is controversial that's right and listen satan doesn't want you to have any hope the bible tells us that all of us who have this hope we purify ourselves wasn't it it means we get serious with god every day why because he could come back then and i want to i want to meet him on good terms and i want to i want to know i want to do what he wants me to do today think of it it's a good thing the number six we'll be all done why do we need the rapture well it's kind of what i said a moment ago number one is to get the church into heaven there's no other way in the book of revelation jesus is talking to the church until revelation chapter 4 verse 1 he's done talking to the church no more talking to the church did you know that revelation 4 verse 1 jesus is done talking to the church he doesn't you don't even see the church hear the church hear anything said about the church you don't know nothing about the church from revelation 5 all the way to revelation mid chapter 19. the next time you see the church she's in heaven quite a gal i might add she's on a white horse she has a wedding gown on and i think because she's the church right she's got the the implements of warfare because it says that she comes with jesus is in front of us writing first point horse right and he says that it says that out of his mouth jesus strikes the nations with the rod of his mouth which is the word of god and with him it says the armies of heaven follow and you look close and you read it and it's the church she's got a wedding gown on helmet hand grenades on her hips bouquet sword quite quite a woman question is how did she get there you gotta you gotta you gotta you gotta get the church into heaven somehow in chapter 19 she's there how'd she get there you know how she got there i find it fantastic and awesome that the heavenly scene and the earthly judgments cannot continue until the church is coming out of heaven with christ secondly the rapture triggers the beginning of the end the church is removed from earth the bible tells us that the spirit of god hindering and while he does hinder he hinders until he steps out of the way and then the wicked one will be revealed the son of perdition we know him as the antichrist the world governing leader is coming remarkable awesome and then finally and i'm skipping tons of verses you can go online and get all the notes in detail there's a lot of verses i'm leaving off because of time i love this last one the best what happens next why do we need the rapture to fill us with an increasing expectation i love this i mean it you guys sometimes things are just so wacky crazy and he just and i know you're thinking about other things i'm thinking about finding out this person sleeping with that person this guy is doing drugs this one's cheating on his wife this woman's beating her kids and and they go to church on sunday and as a pastor i mean to tell you it's like you know just sometimes i'm up here just biting my lip and i'm totally with the person that says by the way me rolling down my sleeves has nothing to do with us rumbling i'm just hot but you know when some when somebody says i'm not gonna go to church it's full of hypocrites i understand that that's how they get it just know this jesus knows the difference okay and when i think about his coming the question to you to us does it excite us about his coming let that percolate in you because listen if you're living lifestyles that are offensive to god and you think what he's just going to overlook you you go what are you going to grade on a curve no i do that it causes me sometimes to just get up and keep doing what i'm doing it's enough to know jesus could come back at any moment because you wonder if anything that you're doing matters you ever feel like that have you ever been a parent i feel like a gigantic parent and you wonder are they listening if then why are they doing that floor are you with me it's like get over here you know and then i'm reminded jack you'll answer to me you're not gonna you are not gonna answer to me you can answer to him and my desire you can all stand my desire is that these series of teachings will excite you and test your heart make sure you know bible doctrine i told you guys before we started this series part of the design of it is to bring you into the full counsel of god's word because many of you are new and then i also said if you remember in doing that it might cause some of you to go away charles spurgeon said when that happens if you teach the gospel clear and the word of god true that people who leave he said don't ever run after them because he said those are god's blessed subtractions part of the age in which you and i are living in with covet and all this the worst it's koba it's not the worst thing it's the politicians that are the worst things that they're more dangerous to you than when the co-worker is uh is that god's been purifying his church all over the world right now i want to leave you this picture so i was driving yesterday and it pulled up to a stoplight and i'm sure it was because of this message that there's a really cool they're not a tow truck but you know those really cool trucks where a car's on the back end whatever that thing's called flatbed black transporters chrome rims amazing and i thought that i thought the transporter was awesome and wow that's such a great looking truck and then i looked on the flatbed and there's a ferrari red ferrari beautiful and i'm looking at it and we pulled away we're driving and i'm thinking wow that's the ferrari in the back of that truck that's nice i wouldn't want to own one but i'd like to drive one yeah just you know just for a few hours and then it dawned on me what's it doing on the back of the truck yeah because this is where my mind goes what's up why is it about why is it on the back of the truck what's wrong with it maybe it doesn't have an engine i can't tell it's beautiful looks like it should get up and go maybe it doesn't have any gas maybe something's broken well it's certainly not well or does it be on the road it's on the back of that truck and it hit me churches are like that oh that's a good looking church oh beautiful steeple my my you have the best steeple in town and look at that paint job how fast can you go you just sit there something's broke best stained glass you can even have super duper worship you can even have fantastic message but there's something wrong not the full doctrine of god the spirit of god's not exactly moving there something's wrong you look like you could go but you ain't going anywhere in fact that thing didn't go over 40 miles an hour because on the back of that truck the whole time if i would have walked up to you and said hey whenever riding a ferrari who would nobody would say no to that the details are yeah climb up on the back of this truck you can sit down can you imagine going around town and you're on the back of a truck i'm in a ferrari not exactly no power no fuel no change no excitement no thrill no pushing it to the limit and i want you to know that if you believe jesus christ is coming back soon your christianity your faith will be put to the limit you will listen you'll push every corner and every curve because you're trying to get as much out of this for jesus in your body in your life as you possibly can i don't care about a pretty church i don't care about anything oh look at that listen can you get in it and can you go can you go all the way to heaven that's based upon the doctrine and the teachings father we trust you we love you we ask you lord that you'd even come today and if there's a man or woman boy or girl right now that's very uncomfortable with that idea they wake up right here and now to the reality that your holy spirit is saying except my son jesus right now as lord and savior that he died on the cross for you and rose again from the dead and you would ask him to forgive you of your sins and that you'd determine today to walk with god for the rest of your life watch what he does i tell you what he'll put fuel in your tank he'll start your engine he'll get you on the track and he'll see to it that you'll finish the course that's what he does faithful is he who has called you we ask this in jesus name and all god's people said amen well hey thanks for listening and we appreciate you and of course we do in this time and in this age us being together and linking up together to get the word of god out is actually ministry being fulfilled and in fact if you would like to subscribe please do so hit the subscribe button tell your friends about us and listen if you'd like to help us get this out on a broader scale you can support us by hitting on the give now button and look we're going to continue on with or without you we're inviting you to join us no pressure but if you'd like to link arms in this venture you'd be greatly appreciated so listen keep praying for us we're praying for you god bless you and we'll see you back here real soon

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Published: Sun Nov 29 2020