Living Waters of Grace, March 20th, 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.

All those scoffers, all those who are arrogant, all those who

don't believe what you and I believe will one day give an

account and be on their face before God that they cursed and

refused to believe in. And they'll have to give an

account, and they'll have to confess when it's too late that

truly you are the Christ. They won't want to, but they'll

be forced to do that out of the authority and the sovereignty of

a holy God. Watching the news or opening up

any social media app is one of the single most discouraging

things you can do these days. The headlines are littered with

anti God sentiment. It hurts.

It hurts to see the Holy name of Jesus dragged through the mud.

Pastor Clark said a few moments ago that there's coming a time

when that won't be the case. All the anti God talk will stop

in an instant. Every knee will bow and every

tongue will declare that Jesus is God.

The goal is for as many people as possible to make that

declaration before they're forced to do so.

Now here's Pastor Clark in the Book of Revelation Chapter 7

Revelation 7 · chapter mention

with today's edition of Living Waters of Grace.

OK, I'm going to continue a little bit right near the end of

Chapter 6 before we go into Chapter 7.

In chapter 6, we will finish up there on verse 12 it says I look

when he opened the 6th seal. And behold, there was a great

earthquake. And the sun became black as

sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood.

And the stars of heaven fell to the earth as a fig tree drops

its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind.

Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up.

And every mountain an island was moved out of its place.

And the kings of the earth are great men, the rich men, the

commanders, the mighty men, every slave, every freeman hid

themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, and

said to the mountains. And the rocks fall on us, and

hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the

wrath of the Lamb. For the great day of his wrath

has come, and who is able to stand as you live your life, and

I live mine every day. We are confronted, all of us

with our own lives and the people that we come in contact

with. And it says in the last days

there will be No Fear of God in the land.

And it isn't only the world that we live in that lacks the fear

of God. It is the very Church of Jesus

Christ. It seems to has lost its bearing

in regard to understanding of what it means to fear the Lord.

The Bible says the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord,

and they depart from evil. God's wrath is about to be

poured out upon this world, and those of us who know Christ will

be taken on in the rapture prior to this cataclysmic event that

we're reading about in chapter 6.

What would be the strongest influence in this world today in

regard to people understanding that we are moving to God's

judgment? And I was thinking that as I was

sitting there, that it's our very lives, isn't it?

As we walk with the Lord, as we fear the Lord, as we are living

in repentance, as we're living as though we could meet the Lord

any moment. People sense that spirit in us,

a spirit of sobriety and a spirit of joy at the same time

that they see your character and they see your walk, and they

know without you saying a word, there's something different

about your presence, your countenance when you're in the

midst of other people. They just know you're different

and they begin to find out that you fear God, that you walk with

him. As we said in Corinthians last

week, that the fragrance of God in your life and mine.

When we're walking with the Lord, there's a fragrance of

life unto life unto those who are being saved, and there's a

fragrance of death and judgment unto those who are lost.

And so this, your very life, as you walk with the Lord, your

life is having a spiritual influence on people.

And many times you don't have the opportunity to give them the

Full disclosure of everything that we're studying about in

Revelation. But it's enough just to

encourage you today as you walk with the Lord and seek Him with

all your heart and love Him with all your heart, soul, and mind.

Love your neighbors, yourself. That has a very, very powerful

influence on people and it draws them to the one who lives within

you. Remember, it's the goodness of

God that leads us to repentance. Sometimes people think we go out

with signs and you talk about God's wrath and his anger and

Hellfire. That's all true, obviously.

But you know, for me, and I'm sure if you think about your own

life, what drew me to Christ was His love and His mercy and His

goodness. It was clear the way I lived for

a period of time. I was on my way to hell, but I

wasn't focusing on hell, that I needed to get saved, to leave

hell. I needed someone who loved me,

someone who could forgive me and be merciful to me, and that's

what brought me to Christ personally.

So as we read about this situation at the end of chapter

6, it's a very, very difficult time.

And God's wrath will come upon all these great people, the

kings of the earth, the great men.

I think of all the famous people in sports, in Hollywood that

live arrogantly, independent of God and don't acknowledge him

for their gifts and talents. The rich men, the commanders,

the mighty men, every slave, every freeman, will at that

point in time hide themselves and ask for protection, not for

mercy, but for protection from the wrath of God.

And it reminds me of what it says in Philippians regarding

our Savior. It says, Therefore God also hath

highly exalted Him, and given them the name which is above

every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow of

those in heaven, and those on earth, and to those under the

earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ

is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Amen. Every knee, every tongue will

confess the truth. So all the scoffers, all those

who are arrogant, all those who don't believe what you and I

believe, will one day give an account and be on their face

before God that they cursed and refused to believe in.

And they'll have to give an account and they'll have to

confess when it's too late that truly you are the Christ.

They won't want to, but they'll be forced to do that out of the

authority and the sovereignty of a holy God.

So don't get too enamored by those who've become successful

in this world apart from Christ. Don't be idol worshippers of

people with fame and fortune and sports and celebrity.

You can enjoy them and appreciate their skills, but

realize what they're facing. What should a profit a person if

they gain the whole world right and lose their own soul?

What would a profit a person if they win the Grammy or the

Academy Award or the Super Bowl team or to win the the Pennant,

you know, or the Stanley Cup? All those great athletes will

have to face this holy God. It's a sobering thing to think

about. South John's having this

revelation and he's got this impression on his heart of the

things that the Holy Spirit has given him the right.

In Chapter 7, he says after these things, now we're going to

have a little window here between the bowls of of God's

trumpet judgments being poured out and the last seal, the 7th

seal, which will be the prelude to the trumpet judgments.

We'll pick that up in Chapter 8 next week.

So this is sort of a interim situation here we're going to be

discussing today. And he says, after these things,

I saw 4 angels standing at the four corners of the earth,

holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not

blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree.

This is his next vision. After you read chapter 6, you

wonder how in the world can anybody have even survived what

we just read about in chapter 6. Yet there'll be many, many

people still alive in the face of the earth.

And yet, as we study this chapter, there's two multitudes

during the tribulation that are going to have an opportunity to

be saved. It'll be the elect 144,000 Jews

that will come to know Christ during this tribulation period.

And then nine through 17, it refers to those out of all the

nations, that's the Gentiles, people from every tongue, tribe,

kindred, a nation will have an opportunity to be saved.

And how will they be saved? How will this occur as we think

about the time that Christ will eventually gather everyone at

the end of this tribulation period, at the second coming

prior before His millennial Kingdom, this is how this will

occur. This is how people will come to

know Christ during this time. Flip over to Matthew chapter 25,

Matthew 25 · chapter mention

Matthew 25 and 31 and 32. The Son of Man comes in glory,

and all the holy angels with him.

Then He will sit on the throne of His glory, and all the

nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them

one from another as a shepherd divides his sheep from the

goats, so that the time of the tribulation period is an

opportunity for many people to still come to Christ.

It will be a very difficult time because of those who decide to

stand for the truth during that time and refuse to take the mark

of the beast, which is the mark that those who are unbelievers

will receive in order to do commerce, to buy and sell, and

to be able to do business and live like everybody lives right

now. It'll be a special code that

they'll have to have, and if they don't have it, it means

they're injecting the Antichrist and there will be many, many

people that would be martyred during that time.

We'll pick that up in a minute. But what's interesting, in verse

one of Revelation Chapter 7, it talks about this issue of wind.

Revelation 7 · chapter mention

And you know, as I study these things, it's easy just to pass

through this stuff and say, OK, well, that's interesting.

What does that mean? But when you look at wind, can

anybody actually see wind itself?

We see the results of wind when there's a storm.

You see the trees blowing or we had that microburst a couple

weeks ago. There's a bunch of branches and

debris laying everywhere. It was obvious that there was a

powerful windstorm that came through this particular part of

the country at the time. But you you can't personally see

the wind in itself. And it's a independent entity of

the the manifestation of what it causes after it blows.

Jesus says to Nicodemus, Nicodemus in John chapter 3, can

John 3 · chapter mention

anybody tell which direction the wind's coming from?

He says so is the work of God's Spirit.

That which is born of flesh is flesh, that which is born of

spirit is spirit. And he says you must be born

again to enter into the Kingdom of heaven.

I was talking to my boss this week about an individual that

has come to work in our company as a sales manager.

I'm just thanking God. I'm not under the authority of

this person because they are totally, totally lost.

They have no love for people. It's all bottom line.

It's all focused on results. It's all focused on adding

value, perceived value, but not having any value for the

individual that works in the company.

And the several people who are under the authority of this

person, their lives are really, really in, in difficult turmoil

right now. And I pray for them every day.

So I was confronting my boss. He's a Christian about, you

know, are we just going to do what the corporate world says or

are we going to stand up for what's right?

Are we going to quench a spirit in our company?

And as soon as I say quench a spirit, I got his attention.

Just So what do you, what do you mean by that man?

You know, I said, well, that's what I sense we're doing right

now. Light and darkness can't walk

together. And that's a real tough

situation when you're in the business world, isn't it?

Because many of us have to do commerce and business and many

times trying to be pushed to do things that we know aren't

ethical or aren't Christ like. And we have to decide whether

we're going to stand on the truth or we're going to stand on

our potential promotion and looking good in the eyes of of

man. But this person was saying,

well, she's a she's a good Catholic woman.

I said, well, she's not born again.

You got to be born again to enter into the Kingdom of

heaven. It's not about being a good

Protestant or a good Catholic person.

It's about are you in Christ and do you have a spirit in you?

And if you have the spirit of Christ in you, how you treat

people in your business is going to be completely different than

someone who's in the world that knows nothing about Christ.

It's like the picture of a David and Goliath.

You know, you look and say, how in the world can anything be

done? But David was a man of faith and

he was able to see by the Spirit of God the mighty power of this

great giant fall to the ground, be humbled.

But when we look at this wind and no one can actually see the

wind, but we see its effects, it's interesting.

Some science here for you guys, and I'm just going to read this.

I wouldn't attempt to try to impress you thinking I

understand all this stuff. But the sun has very, very

intense heat. We're all aware of that.

The laws of heat transfer and the shape and the rotation of

the Earth are the chief cause of the winds.

I never knew that. I looked out the window during

science, you know, thinking when I could play baseball later or

something if I were to listen. Maybe maybe some of the younger

people say, oh, Clark, that's that's obvious and what's wrong

with you. But but the wind is caused by

the uneven heating of the atmosphere, meaning the air

around the Earth by the sun. Now science has unchangeable

laws and scientists understand this that I'm talking about

here. But we see it as miracle of God

and how he's orchestrated the universe and how every little

thing happens, how everything flows is from His creative hand.

Now when you get near the equator, the heat or the air

rises to about 60,000 feet straight up.

Yet there's no prevailing winds near the equator and up to about

700 miles on either side of the equator.

What happens is there because the air rises vertically, there

is instead of moving horizontally across the Earth,

there's this calming effect which is called the doldrums.

So we look here, this this miracle in in the verse 1 of

Chapter 7 as a this is prior to God's judgment.

There's going to be an awesome silence, a deadly calm before

this huge storm that's going to be poured out when the trumpet

judgments begin to occur. Isn't that fascinating?

I mean, we just take it for granted.

You know, the wind comes and God knows how to cool the earth and

how to make the wind happen at the right time to keep

everything in balance. But with his hand and his

authority, he will stop the wind.

The angels will be holding the four corners of the earth, and

there won't be any wind blowing any earth on the sea or on any

tree. Everything will be dead silent.

The calm before the storm. I guess that's sort of what it's

like in the midst. I've never been in a tornado,

the eye of the tornado. But they say that's what it's

like prior to the what happens in the beginning.

And at the end of that, everything is just an eerie

calmness. And so he says, I see another

Angel in verse 2 ascending from the east, having the seal the

living God. And he cry with a loud voice to

the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and

the sea, saying, do not harm the earth, the sea or the trees till

we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.

So again, God's authority in control, this judgment, it's

going to come out. It's not out of control, it's

just not occurring as it wants to.

But God has complete control when the time of these things

will come to pass. But there's something that has

to occur prior to this going on. And he's talking about sealing

these 144,000 believers with the power of the Holy Spirit.

Now whenever we come to Christ and we have faith in Christ, we

are born by God into the body of Christ.

The Bible says in Romans 8-9. For any man have not the spirit

of Christ, he is none of his. So you can't be a believer

without the Holy Spirit. Some people teach that you

receive the Holy Spirit after you get saved.

What's impossible to get saved without the Holy Spirit?

The Holy Spirit comes in dwell us at the moment of our

conversion or our faith in Christ.

OK, now there's different manifestations of the Spirit

that can occur and will occur and many of our lives

subsequently to our conversion. But what happens when we

believe? You can see this in Ephesians

Ephesians 1 · chapter mention

chapter 1 if you flip over there for a minute, Ephesians chapter

Ephesians 1:13

1 verse 13 and 14 it says in him you also trusted.

This is regarding him, Jesus Christ and him you also trusted

after you heard the word of truth, the gospel, your

salvation, whom also having believed says you were sealed

with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is a guarantee of our

inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession to

the praise of his glory. So the Holy Spirit comes to

dwell in us. We're sealed by the power of God

through the person of the Holy Spirit, and it's the evidence

that we belong to God without the Holy Spirit.

You aren't a Christian, and you should know if you have the Holy

Spirit because whenever you have the Holy Spirit, your life has

changed, your desires have changed, your interests, your

motivation. You have conviction now about

sin in a way that you didn't have it whenever you didn't have

the Holy Spirit and it says in first Corinthians 12/13 for by 1

Spirit are we all baptized into the body of Christ.

The baptism of the Holy Spirit placing us from one place

outside of the Kingdom of God and then doing a work by his

Spirit and placing us into a new family by his Spirit and Spirit

baptism. And if you study the ancient

foundational documents like the Nicene Creed or some of these

things that fought out the truths of historic Christianity

in the beginning, because of all the heresies, says there's one

Lord. And Ephesians says there's one

Lord, 1 faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who's

above all and in all and through us all.

And so we're sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise.

And it tells us in chapter 4, verse 30 of Ephesians, it says,

and do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God by whom you were

sealed for the day of redemption.

How do you grieve the Holy Spirit?

It says, let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and

evil speaking be put away from you with all malice and be kind

to one one another, tender hearted, forgiving one another,

even as God and grace forgave you.

If we hold bitterness and anger and any kind of attitude in our

heart toward anybody, toward God, toward any kind of

situation, it says we grieve the Holy Spirit, we hurt the Holy

Spirit, we wound the Holy Spirit.

And the Holy Spirit can't just say I'm out of here.

I don't like dealing with Clark right now.

He's just like making me miser, you know, He just makes me feel

like I don't want to be in him anymore.

With the beauty of the Holy Spirit is he doesn't depart in

the new covenant. He dwells in US forever.

We're in the Old Testament, remember, David prayed in Psalm

51. Take not your Holy Spirit from

me. That was his biggest fear

because the indwelling, the permanent of the indwelling of

the Holy Spirit didn't occur until Pentecost.

And so these things are important.

But in Revelation 7, this is what he's going to do for these

144,000. He's going to mark them with the

seal, the Holy Spirit and the ceiling is something it's done

and seen by God. I don't see a physical mark on

you or you don't see one on me. But it's evident by how we live

and how we treat each other if we are in Christ.

But Jesus says by this shall people know you're my disciples

by the love you have for one another.

And so in this sense of what God is doing in verse 2, he is

making this mark visible though to the spirit world and all the

demons of hell and the person, the Antichrist.

They're going to know for sure that these people have been set

apart by God and there will be a certain protection given to them

in the midst of all these cataclysmic events during this

time in order for them to do what it is God's called them to

do during this tribulation. All those from the ends of the

earth, the other nations, the other people groups will be

directly impacted by the evangelistic methodology of

these 144,000 during this time of tribulation.

And so in in verse 3, it says do not harm the earth and the sea

or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on our

forehead. So this command is given to the

angels and these angels are the very ones that will sound the

trumpet judgments as we get into chapter 8 next week.

This won't start again until these servants of God are sealed

and protected by the Lord God. So how are people going to get

saved during this time? When you think about it, I mean,

with the Antichrist ruling and hassling people and persecuting

Christians, how are people going to be saved?

Well, we'll study later on about the two witnesses that were

eventually martyred that God will raise up.

But there's going to be such powerful testimony during this

time of tribulation, in the midst of the chaos, in the midst

of the trials and the tribulations that are going to

come upon the world. It's going to cause people to do

one of two things. They're going to move away

farther and farther from God and curse him, or they're going to

move closer to him and say, there's got to be an answer to

this. I don't want to have to deal

with this. I need mercy.

I need grace. And many of those people will

remember the things that you and I had told them while we were

alive, prior to us being caught up in the air.

I don't know about you, but as a unbeliever prior to coming to

Christ, what drew me to Christ was trials and tribulation.

It was the lifestyle I was living.

It was the condemnation and the guilt and the darkness.

It was all about me from my drug induced hippie stage.

And I, I just, I cried out to God I didn't know existed and I

asked for His help and I asked him if he was real that he would

reveal himself to me and show me who He was.

And he did. And it put me on the beginning

path of my salvation. I look at people in life and I

know that God uses trials for both groups.

He uses trials and believers lives to cause us to get on our

face and say Lord I want to move towards you, not away from you.

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

judgments 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

in 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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