Living Waters of Grace for May 14th, 2026

This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark

Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland,

County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he

continues teaching through God's Word.

Consequences of believing a lie. That's why the apostle Paul

every time we take the Lord's Supper, he says to examine

yourself, whether you're in the faith every time that supper

goes around, would the God, if any of us here are posers and

we're not Christians, that we would take that we would examine

ourselves and we'd hear the Spirit of God say you're still

lost, you're phony, you need to get saved.

And if you hear that, be thankful that he's shown you

that you are in delusion. It's not enough to speak

spiritually or to fill your head with knowledge of the Lord and

just His Word. Being a believer, true in faith

is something that we feel in our hearts.

It's the difference between merely performing outward

displays of what we think a Christian should look like and

walking in close, continual relationship with the Lord.

Today, Pastor Clark teaches us that true faith is what changes

us from the inside out, molding us and shaping us into the

people God intended us to be. Now here's Pastor Clark in

Revelation Chapter 19 with today's edition of Living Waters

Revelation 19 · chapter mention

of Grace. Revelation 19, Verse 11.

Revelation 19:11

Now I saw heaven opened, and behold a White Horse.

And he who sat on him was called faithful and true, and in

righteousness he judges and makes war.

His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on his head were many

crowns. He had a name written that no

one knew except himself. He was clothed with a robe

dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God.

And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and

clean, followed him on white horses.

Now out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he

should strike the nations, and he himself will roll them with

the rod of iron. He himself treads the winepress

of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God, And he has on his

robe and on his sigh a name written King of kings and Lord

of Lords. Now if you look in Revelation

Revelation 19 · chapter mention

chapter 19 and you see in verse 8, and this is referring to the

marriage supper of the Lamb that we studied about several weeks

ago. And This Is Us who are in heaven

at this particular time, the wonderful time where he says I

so long to eat of this bread and drink this cup, but I won't do

it again until we're all together in heaven.

And so the celebration of the marriage supper of the Lamb is

the first time in history after Christ's ascension that he'll

partake of this supper with his bride.

What a glorious day that'll be. We're all going to have that

privilege to be there if we're believers and celebrate that

time. And not only will we have this

privilege of celebrating this wonderful, glorious supper, but

he says it'll be granted to us. It will be arrayed in fine

linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts

of the Saints. And so the Lord will cover us

with his glory, with his brightness, with his

righteousness. And we'll all be sitting around

white as snow, pure, no sin, no problems anymore, no difficulty

with struggles in this world because we'll be in His

presence. And the righteousness that we

have is this righteousness of Jesus Christ, because none of us

are righteous in and of ourselves, are we?

We can't stand before God and this act like we have it

together, because we don't. We only have it together because

of what Jesus has done for us. And so he allows us to wear

these robes of righteousness, these pure white robes and the

robes tied together in the fact that it says these righteous

acts of his Saints. Now everything we do in this

earth in the name of Jesus and by His Spirit is recorded in a

book. And when God opens those books

at the judgement seat of Christ for the body, for the believers,

for the church, he'll judge out of that book the things we did

in the body, whether they're good or evil.

And I would trust that you and myself, we want to have as much

possible written in that book that is good.

Amen. Not evil, because what is

goodwill come out as gold, silver, and precious stone.

What is evil will be burned and it'll be destroyed in the fire.

So keep in mind that we're saved by grace through faith in Christ

alone. But at the same time there is

this responsibility for us to do the things that He told us to

do. For it says in Ephesians 210 For

we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus.

Unto what good works which God hath before ordained, that we

should walk in them. And at that final day, the Lord

says, Well, why call you me Lord, Lord, and do not the

things which I say. So the Lord ties a very strong

emphasis on the fact that if we have true faith, it's going to

be seen by what we do right. It's going to be seen by how we

live, how we follow his word, how we listen to what he says.

Now when we look at 19, it says about the Lord Himself when he's

coming with us in 13, it says he's clothed with a robe dipped

in blood, and his name is called the word of God in 14.

And the armies in heaven clothed in fine linen.

That's the same group that we just looked at in verse 8.

That's us. The armies clothed in fine

linen, white and clean, followed him on white horses.

So we see the distinction here between, as I read earlier, the

rapture of the Church one event, and the second coming of Christ,

which occurs at the end of the tribulation.

Now I'm going to give you a couple parallels here so you can

keep in your mind the distinction between the rapture

and the second coming of Christ. First of all, as I said, the

rapture is the catching away of all believers, those who are

presently alive on the earth at the time of the trumpet sound,

and those who are in the graves, their bodies will be actually

literally resurrected out of the graves, and their spirits who

are with the Lord will meet together with the body.

And then the Lord will give us these new bodies which are going

to be glorious without corruption in the second coming.

There is no lifting up of believers from the face of the

earth to meet the Lord. We're coming back with the Lord,

right? It's a separate event #2 the

raptured Saints. We go to be with the Lord, the

second coming. We're coming back, as I said, to

the earth. Now in the rapture, the earth is

not judged yet, but in the second coming of Christ, the

earth will be judged. The rapture is imminent.

As I said earlier, any moment it could happen.

Today I was watching a video, pretty cool, this pastors

preaching about the rapture and people were sitting out there

with their Bibles and all this. And he said, and it could happen

right now. And all of a sudden, like

there's all these people disappear and then there's like

a few people sitting there looking around like what

happened? You know, what about me, you

know? And they realized they weren't

true believers. They saw on the ground and got

on their knees. Now the good news is even after

the rapture, people will still have an opportunity to get

saved. The Lord will still be saving

people, but they'll have to go through the tribulation.

The second coming of Christ follows definite predicted signs

that we see throughout the tribulation.

And 1st Thessalonians chapter 5 talks about the Day of the Lord,

which is a period of time from the beginning of the rapture,

when we're taken out to the end of time, through the Millennium,

through the tribulation, to the end of time when the Lord

creates the new heavens and the new earth.

So it's a completely different time segment.

The rapture effects believers only.

The second coming effects all people.

Those of us who come back with Christ to the earth and all

those who are in the earth will start to battle against the Lord

and His army. The rapture happens before the

tribulation, before God's wrath. The second coming concludes at

the end of the tribulation in regard to Satan.

When the rapture occurs, there's no reference to what happens to

Satan at the second coming of Christ.

We see that Christ binds Satan for 1000 years during the

millennial reign. The rapture Christ comes for his

own and the second coming. Christ is coming with his own

and the rapture. Christ comes in the air.

In the second coming He comes to the earth and the rapture Christ

claims His bride. In the second coming He comes to

the earth with his bride in the rapture.

Only his own will see him in the second coming.

The Bible says every eye shall see him in the rapture.

The tribulation begins right after we are taken out, and the

millennial Kingdom begins at the second coming.

There's enough information in the scriptures to make it clear

that the raptures are quite different event than the second

coming of Jesus Christ. And the reason I bring this up,

there's a lot of confusion regarding these things in the

body of Christ today. You have people who are pre

Trib, mid Trib, post Trib, all millennial, post millennial, all

these different end time views, eschatological end time views.

We Calvary Chapel are historic pre mill, pre Trib in the sense

of our eschatology and we're not alone.

Good Bible teachers that you listen to in a radio like John

MacArthur or Charles Lindahl, Charles Stanley, a lot of you

guys listen, I know to some of these people there, they take

the same position we do. So we're in good company with

credible Bible scholars. However, I said this isn't

anything to divide on with people who have different

positions. The good news is whenever the

Lord comes back to all realize we're right and they were wrong,

but if they're in Christ, we're all going to love each other

anyway and it's not going to matter.

But it is important in regard to how we're preparing for the

Lord's return and how we live in light of that return.

So let's look at the section that we're going to spend some

time on Revelation chapter 19. As we see in verse 11, the

Revelation 19 · chapter mention

heaven is open and behold a White Horse, a physical animal,

a horse. We're all going to be riding

horses when we come back with the Lord at the second coming.

Now I don't like riding horses. I'm afraid of getting on them

because they can go out of control, you know, and unless

you're are really trained to tell it what to do, it just has

a mind of its own. But the good news is when we

come back with the Lord, don't worry about that.

We're going to get on the horse. The horse is going to know

exactly where it's going, what it's supposed to do.

We're just going to have to hold on.

That's all we're going to have to do.

But Christ is going to come back on this beautiful White Horse

and we're all going to ride with him.

And it says he who sat on him was called faithful and true

capital F capital T in your Bibles and righteousness.

He judges and makes war. Now, this is a time that I think

every one of us should be looking forward to.

I was thinking about the world the way it is today and the

complete ignorance that it has toward the things of God, this

independence of a Creator. Sometimes you wish you had this

power in you, and we do. We have the Holy Spirit's power

in us, but we don't have the power to bring forth judgment,

do we? Only Christ has that power and

authority. Sometimes you just long for

certain people you know that will realize that God is the

Lord. Amen.

People that scoff and ridicule and laugh at you and reject you

and think you're nuts. You just can't wait for the day

that they realize how real God is and how holy is and how just

and how glorious he is. But this is the day that we have

to wait for when Christ comes and the liberal thought the day

is I'm not a Sinner. Why would he be talking about

sin? I'm a good person and how

there's no such place as hell. I would not even acknowledge

that a place like that exists, some might say.

Someone told me recently that a relative went to a neighbor and

was telling the neighbor boy about the importance of knowing

Jesus Christ and accepting Him as your Savior.

Because if you don't have him as your Savior and you're Lord,

you'll suffer the consequences one day of eternal hell.

And the mother came over very angry and very disturbed that

this young man had told her son about hell.

And she said, we don't believe in such a place.

That's morbid. We would never accept anything

like that. Well, her authority certainly

isn't the word of God, is it? And sometimes it's difficult for

us because if we are Christians, we have to proclaim everything

that this Bible teaches, even when it makes people disturbed

and when it makes them uncomfortable.

And that's the difference between churches in these last

days that are proclaiming the truth and churches that are

proclaiming the lie. But there is this liberal

thought today. There is no place in this world

today for any idea of judgment. There's no consequences for sin.

We make up God in our own image and and how we want to think

about him. That's what's called

universalism. This pretense and delusion today

that people have will one day be very, very costly.

If you look at Matthew Chapter 7 for a moment, the slip in your

Matthew 7 · chapter mention

Bible over to the left Matthew Chapter 7, it says in verse 21

Matthew 7 · chapter mention

of Matthew 7, not everyone who says to me Lord, Lord shall

enter into the Kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will

of my Father in heaven. You want to underline it in your

Bible. It isn't enough this to say you

believe in Christ, but you need to be doing his will like Jesus

when he was on earth. He's perfect God, perfect man.

He says my will is to do the will of the Father and if we're

his offspring, then we should have the same desire in our

hearts to do the will of the Father.

He said, many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we

not prophesized in your name, cast out demons in your name and

done many wonders in your name? And then I will declare to them,

I never knew you. Depart from me, you who practice

lawlessness. And won't that be a shock to

your whole life, thinking you're on the right track and you're

doing the right things? But meanwhile, your heart is

just not pure because you haven't allowed Christ to save

you. And so you're trying to be a

religious person. I think of all the institutions

on the face of the earth today, many churches are very

religious. They have statues, they have

crosses, they have icons, They have all kind of spiritual

atmosphere. And yet Jesus would say many

times he could say to us today, just because we have a dove that

represents the Holy Spirit of the cross here, He could say

these people worship me with their lips, but their heart is

far from me. And so the consequences of

believing a lie. That's why the apostle Paul

every time we take the Lord's Supper, he says to examine

yourself, whether you're in the faith every time that supper

goes around. Would the God, if any of us here

are posers and we're not Christians that we would take

that we would examine ourselves and we'd hear the Spirit of God

say you're still lost, you're phony, you need to get saved.

And if you hear that, be thankful that he's shown you

that you are in delusion. But if we can take that supper

and we allow the Spirit to examine us and we have that

assurance, blessed assurance, Jesus is mine.

Oh, by the foretaste of glory, define air salvation purchased

of blood, born of his Spirit, washed in his blood.

We can know that for sure, can't we?

We have that assurance in us or our heart does not condemn us.

God, the Lord Jesus Christ comes with crowns of triumph and glory

and deity as we see here in this section of Revelation.

He's all knowing. He has flaming eyes.

His eyes and verse 12 are like a flame of fire, a holy judgement.

Christ, as He looks upon you and me.

His Word, the Word of God, is the instrument of His righteous

judgement. Look at Hebrews chapter 4.

Hebrews 4 · chapter mention

Just move over to the left there a little bit a few books.

Hebrews chapter 4 verse 11 through 13.

Hebrews 4:11–13

It says. Let us therefore be diligent to

enter that rest lest anyone fall according to the same example of

disobedience. For the word of God and the

Bible declares Christ as the Word.

In the beginning was the Word and the word was with God and

the Word was God. John chapter one verse one.

Not like the Jehovah witnesses would say in the beginning was

the Word and the word was with God and the Word was a God.

No, Jesus Christ is God, not a created being.

He's the second person of the Trinity, God the Father, God the

Son, God the Holy Spirit, self existent, always existing of 1

essence with the Father. It says the word of God is

living and powerful and sharper than any 2 edged sword, piercing

even the division of soul and spirit and of joints and marrow.

And as a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the

heart. You know, when we sit here and

we examine ourselves in the Lord's Supper, I can just

picture like the sword picking away at my heart, pulling stuff

back. Clark, I want you to see this.

I want you to acknowledge this. I want you to recognize this.

I want you to let this go. Let me purify you, let me

carterize these places of bankruptcy in your heart, and

let my spirit make your heart dislike mine.

He's a discerner. He knows every thought and

intent of our heart. He knows every motive.

And verse 13, it says there's no creature hidden from his sight.

God sees the whole earth. He sees the whole world.

He sees every human being, all things are naked and open to the

eyes of him with whom we must give an account.

There's nothing I can hide. I can hide things from you, You

can hide things from me, but we can't hide anything from the

Lord God. In verse 13, it says he was

clothed with a robe dipped in blood and his name is called the

Word of God, the judgement that confronts God's enemies in

Isaiah chapter 63. If you flip over there in the

Isaiah 63 · chapter mention

Old Testament, Isaiah chapter 63, this talks about this

Isaiah 63 · chapter mention

Armageddon, this final battle, one day that will come upon this

earth and his second coming, the consequences of those who are

going to fight against the Lord. Who is this who comes from Edom

with dyed garments from Borzraw? This one who is glorious in his

apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength?

And this is what we see depicted in Revelation 19.

I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.

Why is your apparel read in your garments?

Like one who treads in the winepress?

Again, the same verbiage that's used in Revelation.

I've trodden the winepress alone and from the people.

No one was with me, for I've trodden them in my anger, and I

trampled them in my fury. Their blood is sprinkled upon my

garments. So what we see represented by

Christ is this battle that will ensue when He comes back.

For the day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my

redeem has come. I look, but there was no one to

help, and I wondered that there was no one to uphold.

Therefore my arm brought salvation for me and my own

fury. It sustained me.

I've trodden down the people in my anger, made them drunk in my

fury, and brought down their strength to the earth.

His name is called the Word of God.

Jesus is a visible word of the unseen God.

I love what it says in Hebrews regarding Christ himself.

In Hebrews chapter one verse 3, Hebrews chapter one verse 3, it

says about Christ, who being the brightness of his glory in the

express image of His person, on upholding all things by the word

of his power. When he sat down by himself, He

purged or cleanse us from our sins.

He sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high, sat down on

the right hand of the Father. He's the express image of his

Father. And so as we look at this

section of revelation, we understand that we're going to

be with the Lord when he comes back.

And as I described the difference between the rapture

of the church and the second coming Christ, when he comes

back and the second coming, his role will be absolute and

authoritative. It'll be seen as an iron roll,

invincible in this world. When he's rolling and reigning

on this earth, there will be no more corrupt governments.

There will be no immorality rolling and raging on the

televisions and on the Internet, in the airwaves.

It'll be a time of purity and righteousness, and nothing will

be dealt with like it has been in that time compared to the way

it is right now. Sometimes we wonder, why do the

wicked rage, as the psalmist said, and the people imagine a

vain thing? Why is it that people refuse to

see their need of a Savior? Why is it that they refuse to

repent? Christ has given Himself

everything on behalf of the human race upon the lost, upon

the Sinner, and the world keeps pushing their hands away from

Him. During this time in the

millennial Kingdom, when Christ rules with an iron hand for 1000

years, there'll still be people born on the face of the earth.

During that thousand years, there'll be sinners that will be

born that will one day once again rise up at the end of that

thousand years in anarchy, at the final battle of Gog and

Magog. And that's right prior to the

destruction of the earth, when the Bible says there will be a

new heaven and a new earth that will be created.

So his role will be unlike anything that we're experiencing

today. Now, we have to keep in mind

though, that God's hand is still on the universe.

That never was off of it. Sometimes we wonder though,

don't we, God, how could you let this happen?

Why did this go on? There's a purpose and a reason

for everything that happens in human history.

God's never sleeping. He's never ignoring the

heartache and the pain of his people.

Israel had to cry out for many hundreds of years before God

sent a deliverer, didn't they? Before God sent Moses to pull

them out of the bondage and horror?

Living under Pharaoh's regime, I think about the Jews and the

Holocaust and those who cried out for help and for mercy.

God was not silent in that time where He had many Christians

helping the Jews find a place of safety and to get out of the

country. So they weren't killed in the

ovens, but many were. But God was there, as He will be

even during the Tribulation when people were going through

tremendous horror and heartache and heartbreak.

And yet he'll have still on the earth a remnant, 144,000 people

who will be going around sharing the good news of Jesus Christ,

saying it isn't too late. Repent.

Thanks for being with us today here on Living Waters of Grace.

We're in the Book of Revelation, and we find it fascinating how

influential and involved the angels are in this book.

They bring about whatever it is that God has instructed them to

do, but it's through their actions that much of the

judgements come on the earth. The angels are in submission to

God as their authority, but He utilizes them in unique ways

throughout this book. Like angels have a specific

purpose from God, you have a unique purpose and plan too.

God wants to use you in your life as a testimony to others

and to bring others who are currently lost into the fold of

God. God would love more than

anything for all who are willing to come to Him for salvation,

but He wants it to be their choice, not a forced situation.

This is the way God works, not forcing himself on anyone, but

giving each person free will. If you're interested in learning

about this choice that's free and that it's a gift, go to

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We'd love to hear from you. That's all for today's edition

and Revelation, but there's much more that Pastor Clark plans to

share with us from this culminating book of the Bible.

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