What If The Charismatic YouTubers Get It Right?

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Amen. How many of you like the old

Helm, Holy, holy, holy? Well, three of you like it and

the rest of you, you're going to find it very interesting when

you get to heaven and you see that the heavenly hosts are day

and night declaring holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty

who was and is and is to come every time that I have the

opportunity. Thank you, Casey, for doing that

song. Every time that I have the

opportunity to ponder those things, that one day because of

Christ, because of the grace of God, because of the sacrifice

that the Lord made at Calvary on my behalf and on behalf of all

those who would trust in Him, I can confidently say that one day

I will gather before the throne with the heavenly host and I

will sing Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of God Almighty who was

and is and is to come. What a privilege that He has

given us to allow us to approach his throne of grace to, to bow

before him even now symbolically and spiritually, to bow before

him and to declare that He is thrice holy, holy, holy, holy.

What a privilege, privilege it is to partake in that.

That's why I love the Lord's Day services where we gather

together, we get to get a little glimpse into what heaven is

going to be like. And I'm thankful that those of

you who are in Christ, we will forever, I do mean forever.

And I want you to really contemplate that forever.

Praise and worship the Lord together as we're doing here

this morning. Well, I begin the last sermon in

2025 with letting you know that there is something that is

probably the most annoying thing that I see throughout the year

already happening to me. There is nothing more annoying

in all the world at this point in my life than a charismatic

YouTube. Who's continually searching for

some hidden code or some unveiled secret message?

To. Determine that this year coming

up is in fact the year that the Lord is going to return.

The reason that it annoys me is because since YouTube has been

in existence and I don't know know how long that actually has

been. Some of you probably know.

I don't know. I'm pretty sure it was in

existence probably several years before I even knew about it, but

it seems like every year they've come up with some new formula to

figure out that this is the year of the Lord's return.

Now I've seen year after year after year as these

self-proclaimed prophets have attempted to uncover all the

numerical hidden Bible codes that have been hidden for

centuries. For millennials, I've seen them

discover hidden messages that we never knew were there.

I actually remember right Y2K when because of the Mayans.

What a world superpower. The Mayan counter didn't go any

farther, so this has got to be the end.

Some of you remember that. Some of you sadly built a bunker

and prepared for it. There's nothing more annoying

than this time of year for me, right?

The beginning of a new year. It's annoying because there's

always those people. We've got it figured out.

The only problem with that is this.

Matthew, chapter 24. I want you to turn there with me

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as we see what the Lord actually teaches on this subject, the

subject of His return. We're going to see that very

quickly. These social media prophets

contradict that even that which Jesus himself taught.

When you get there, verse 36, He begins and he says this.

He says no one knows about the day or hour, not even the angels

in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of

the Son of Man. From the days before the flood,

people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage

up to the day Noah entered the ark.

What is he saying? Life is going on.

His life is normally gone on. They're eating, they're

drinking, they're having marriage ceremonies.

Life is just happening, he says, and they knew nothing about what

would happen until the flood came and took them all away.

That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

Two men will be in the field, one will be taken in the other

left. Two women will be grinding with

a hand mill, One will be taken to the other left.

Therefore, he says, keep watch, because you do not know on what

day your Lord will come. But understand this.

He says you can't. Predict this.

But here's some things you do need to understand.

But understand this, if the owner of the house had known at

what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept

watching, would would not have let his house be broken into.

So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come

at an hour when you do not expect him.

Let's pray together. Father, in the name of Jesus, we

come to you, thanking you for your word, thanking you that

Your word is true in our opinions.

Don't matter. God, I pray today as we look at

your word in regard to your second coming, to your return.

God, I pray that you give us clarity.

I pray that you bring us conviction.

I pray that we see the seriousness of this.

I pray that we see the fact. That it is imminent.

It is at the door that it could happen at any moment.

Lord, I pray that we prepare ourselves in case these

charismatic YouTube prophets get things right this time.

May we find ourselves prepared as You've commanded us to do,

being watchful, being ready since we do not know the hour,

but we do know the reality. We know that You've promised a

return and we know that that will return will come to pass

just as You promised. May we weighed an eager

expectation and service to You as we long to see Christ face to

face. Teach us from Your word today.

Prepare us. We pray these things in Christ's

name, Amen. And so Jesus very quickly

stamping out the idea that many of these gurus on social media

have, right? They've tried to figure it out

every year and every year Jesus words still stand.

You can't figure this out. And these self-proclaimed

YouTube prophets have missed it over and over and over again.

The very problem with that is this.

If this was the Old Testament, they would have only had the

opportunity to miss one before they would have been stoned to

death. But they have missed multiple

occasions. In fact, every year they're

looking for that one little clue they missed so that this could

be the year. Let me just make this very

clear, no matter what eschatological viewpoint you

have, if it's a biblical viewpoint, I don't care if

you're pre meal, post meal, all meal, as long as you believe in

the fact that Jesus Christ is going to return to this.

Earth. I pray that we all understand

this, that today we put all of our eschatological views aside

to say this. He's going to return.

And the reason that I want us to entertain that thought is this.

You're not going to find me saying this very often.

It's because one day the charismatics are going to be

right. If they keep predicting it every

single year, one year it's going to happen because isn't it true

that there will be the last year, there will be the last

hour, there will be the last moment, there will be the last

everything before the return of Christ And what Jesus is telling

us here in Matthew chapter 24, He's telling us very plainly,

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stop trying to make all these predictions and just know this.

Then I'm going to come like a thief and when I come, the best

thing for all of you to do is to be ready.

So what I want to do today, I want us to talk about that for

just a moment. Now what I don't want to talk to

you about is your eschatological viewpoint, whether you're pre

meal, post meal or whether you're on meal, whether you're

pre Trib, mid Trib, post Trib, those things don't matter to me

right now. We can talk about those things

at another time. Now please don't do this.

Please don't send me a bunch of emails this week trying to

convince me to be your. Viewpoint.

It's not going to work. The emphasis here is not your

viewpoint on the end times. The emphasis here is the return

of Christ, because all non heretical viewpoints and

orthodox Christianity about eschatology will all agree

Christ will return. And if it's an eschatology that

doesn't include the return of Christ, it's heretical and we

don't even entertain it at all. That would be like those in

Thessalonica who were being thrown into confusion by people

telling them that the return had already happened.

The return has not happened. No matter how you want to slice

it and dice it and define it, it has not happened.

Now that's whether you believe in a rapture where Christ comes

to the clouds and the church meets them in the air and then

you're taken off to enjoy that place that he has prepared for

you as John says that he won. Whether you believe that we're

just going to, as Christians here on this earth, continue to

live and to exercise the Kingdom of God and we're actually going

to usher in the return of Christ, that would be some type

of post MIL ideology, whether you have some.

Other distinctly different viewpoint.

As long as you believe this and Christ is going to return and

when He returns, it's going to happen just as He said it was

going to happen. If you want to know what I feel

about that, just stick around a little while.

You'll learn. I've taught it many times.

That's not what I intend to do today.

What I intend to do today is this.

I intend to get you to think just a little bit.

And as much as I hate to admit it, I have to admit this.

One day the charismatics are going to be right.

One day they are going, if they keep doing it every year and

nail the year of Christ's return.

And I hope it's this year. In fact, I hope it's 2025 before

we get to 2026. That'd be a good way to close

out. But I don't know that you don't

know that. And these people on social media

don't know that. But one thing we can all agree

on if we're going to be Orthodox in our last days thinking it is

imminent, it is near, and it is inevitable.

What I mean by that is the return of Christ has always been

eminent every generation since the apostles.

They knew that at any time the Lord could return and they lived

like He was going to. And I think that's the key that

we always miss because even these Youtubers that I have

mentioned, and yes, I have mentioned them in a very

sarcastic manner, many of you don't know this about me, but I

do have the spiritual gift of sarcasm.

I pray today that you can overlook that sarcasm and see

the truth that we're going to examine from Scripture one day.

These guys are going to be right.

And if they are, and just in case it's this year, Are you

ready? Are you ready for the return of

Christ? Are you ready for the judgement

that will follow? Are you ready for the wrath of

God to be poured out on the unbelieving, unrepentant

sinners? Because according to the Word of

God, that is how all. Of this will transpire

ultimately, Are you ready? So it brings us to a place of

question, ways of us asking ourselves questions to find out

if we are truly ready like Jesus just said in Matthew 24 to be

ready because we don't know the day or the hour, but we do know

there will be one. There will be a day and there

will be an hour. And so we must contemplate the

question if these YouTube charismatic prophets all right,

Are you ready? What is ready look like first, I

want you to see this. If these charismatic Youtubers

get it right this time, you have to ask yourself this first.

Question Are you ready? Write it down.

Are you saved positively? Do you know that you truly have

been born again? Are you positive in this?

Do you know that you are saved? Are you?

I'm not asking you. Is there a time where you walked

an aisle and you prayed a little prayer and parroted something

after someone else? I'm not asking you.

Did you go to a Fellowship of Christian Athletes rally at some

point when you're a teenager and they gave you some emotional

plea and you ran forward and you prayed a prayer and you never

changed? I'm not talking about that.

I'm talking about a life changing encounter with the Lord

Jesus Christ. Have you truly been saved?

And if you truly been saved, you'll see this, that you will

be trusting in Jesus as Lord and Savior.

Are you, are you trusting in Jesus as Lord and Savior?

I'm not talking again about that one time thing you did.

I went to this youth rally and I trusted in Him that day.

My next question to you will always be this are you still

trusting in Him? Because a person who's truly

saved will trust in the Lord Jesus Christ all.

Of their days, the faith that has saved them will hold on to

them and they will persevere and trusting in the one and only

true Savior, the Lord of Jesus Christ.

So are you trusting in Jesus as Lord and Savior, as the only

Lord and Savior? There are many people who think

that they can get saved some other way, right?

Doing good things, doing good deeds, having wholesome or even

holy works in your life. Those things don't save.

They can't save. Is only through the precious

blood of Jesus Christ and any of us are saved.

It is only through faith in Him, in him alone.

Acts 412. It says salvation is found in no

one else. There's no other name under

heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.

If your savior is not named Jesus, you're not saved.

If your savior is your church attendance won't save you.

If your savior is your baptism won't save you.

If your savior is, reading your Bible won't save you.

The only one who can save you is Christ Himself.

Have you been truly saved by Christ?

Because he's the only savior. He's the only one who can save

you from the wrath and the penalty of your sin.

He's the only one who can grant to you eternal life.

He is the only one who can grant to you forgiveness from God in

cleansing from all of your infirmities.

And all of your wickedness, have you trusted in Christ?

John says this in first John five.

He says in verse 11, and this is the testimony God has given us

eternal life. If we want to know where this

eternal life comes from, let's pay close attention to what John

says. And this is in his Son.

Whoever has the Son has life. Whoever does not have the Son of

God does not have life. You are not saved apart from

Jesus Christ. And so I want you to ask

yourself that question today. Are you saved positively?

Have you bowed the knee to the Lord Jesus Christ, the knee of

your life and the knee of your heart?

Have you surrendered to Him completely as the only One who

can save you? Are you saved positively,

trusting in this Jesus who came to offer Himself on a cross to

rescue all who would believe and trust in Him?

Are you saved positively, not just trusting in Jesus as Lord

and Savior, but turning from sin and unbelief?

This is where many people have it confused, right?

They leave out true repentance. Let me make this clear once and

for all. There is no true saving faith

without true repentance, because a person who comes to faith in

Christ turns from their unbelief by the power of God, who opens

their eyes to see the truth and their need for a Savior.

And he gives them the power to turn from their unbelief and to

turn to belief in Christ for the very first time.

And so you can't have true saving faith without true

repentance. Is your life marked with true

repentance? Is it marked with turning from

sin and unbelief? I Again, I'm not talking about a

one time event, though we know that this begins at a one time

event. Can you look at your life now

and see that God has been molding and shaping you and

conforming you to Christ, and your life has just been a

continual cycle since you came to know Christ, of turning from

your old nature, turning from your old sin, and turning to

Christ? Is a true Christian won't just

see repentance at salvation. In fact, they will see

repentance and the fruit of repentance, their entire walk

upon this earth. Is it present in your life?

This is something that we have to consider.

This is something that we have to ask ourselves in light of

this question today. What if the charismatic

Youtubers get this right? What if 2026 is the real deal?

Because I can tell you this, you can get on your Google machine

right now. Please don't right now.

But you could and you could Google it.

Is 2026 the year that the Lord's going to return?

And you will find false prophet after false prophet after false

prophet claiming to know that it is.

What if it is? Are you saved positively?

Do you truly know Christ as your Lord and Savior?

Have you truly repented as evidence to your claim of faith?

It is our repentance that gives authentication to our faith.

We often see people claiming to have faith.

But it's not authentic because there is no repentance that

accompanies our faith. They never turn from their own

life. They never turn from their old

habits. They never turn from their old

sin. They never turn from their

unbelief. They just want Jesus out of get

as a get out of hell. Free card and he's so much more

than that. Have you trusted in Him as your

Lord and Savior, turning from your sin and your unbelief and

true repentance? Luke chapter 13 verse 3.

Luke 13:3

Lord himself says, unless you repent.

You too will perish. Even Jesus preached the gospel

of repentance and to preach the gospel that leaves out

repentance just to not preach A biblical gospel.

In fact, Jesus, while he preached in Mark chapter one

verse 14 says this. After John was put in prison,

Jesus went into Galilee proclaiming the good news of

God. The time has come, he said.

The Kingdom of God has come near.

Why He was standing before them in his first advent.

He was standing before them again as the King of Kings and

Lord of Lords. He said the time has come.

He said the Kingdom of God has come near.

Repent and believe the good news.

What was happening there? Faith and repentance coupled

together. Working together.

The opposite sides of the same coin.

You can't have true saving faith without true biblical

repentance. It's impossible.

So if you want to answer this question today, are you saved

positively? Look at your life.

Are you trusting in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior by

faith? And is that evidenced by a life

that has turned from unbelief and sin and turned to Christ and

Christ alone as the only hope that you have of ever being

saved? You have that in your life

because if the charismatics are right and you're not saved,

you're clinging to some false assurance because somebody told

you to pray a little prayer after them and that made you

feel warm in your heart. You don't have true, authentic

saving faith. And the charismatics are right

this year. This will be a year of eternal

tragedy for you. This will be the year that you

walk off into hell, never to have opportunity to receive the

grace and the mercy of God again.

Unbeliever, one day you will run out of time.

What if the charismatics are right?

What if it's now? Are you saved positively?

Oh, look inside yourself. Don't look at your husband.

Don't look at your wife. Don't look at your children.

Look at your own life. Have you truly surrendered to

Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, as the only hope of

forgiveness and eternal life? Have you trusted in Him and Him

alone? And do you see the evidence of

that in your life? True faith and true repentance?

Is your life marked by the fact that you truly have been saved?

Are you saved positively? Let me tell you this, if the

charismatic Youtubers get it right this year, I don't have a

worry. Just like I didn't have a worry

last year and the year before that, and the year before that

and the year before that. Why did I not have a worry?

Because my faith is in Christ and Christ alone.

His atoning work on the cross, His substitutionary sacrifice

that saved sinners from their sin.

My my hope rests in Him and Him alone.

My hope rests in the fact that He has changed me and He has

caused me to repent and turn from my old life and to

continually turn to life in. Him and him alone.

I have evidence of that in my life.

I am assured that I am saved. I am saved positively.

Are you? Because it's a very scary thing

to think that these self-proclaimed prophets might

be right and you're not right with God.

Because when eternity begins for the unbeliever, it will be

eternal damnation, it will be eternal death, it will be a lake

of fire for all the unbelieving. I don't say that to make you

uncomfortable. I don't say that.

To make you upset or angry. I simply say that so that you

will look into your own soul and ask yourself it's most important

question, are you truly saved? Secondly, if these charismatic

YouTube profits get it right this year, are you serving

properly? Are you serving properly?

The Lord is giving instructions here in Matthew chapter 24 about

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what we're to do. How are we to serve properly?

You are always to be ready. You're to be ready as if it was

going to be today. Are you ready?

What does that look like? Here's some quick advice for you

if you want to know. Are you serving properly?

Watch this. Are you submitting to the

Master's instructions? Did Jesus himself say this?

If you love me, you'll keep my command.

Do you think that the Lord meant that?

Of course He meant that. And you think that your love for

Him is obvious by your obedience to Him?

Of course it is. That's exactly what the Lord

said when He said that in John 14.

So are you submitting to the Master's instruction?

Are you obeying the? Lord as if he could return at

any moment. John in first.

John 2/28 says, and in this he says, and now, dear children,

continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and

honest shame before him at his coming.

Can you say that confidently today that I'm confident that

when the Lord returns I am doing exactly what he has left me to

do? Can you say that with

confidence? Can you say that with no shame?

Well, you have to be honest. There's some things that you're

hoping that maybe he doesn't know.

He know. Perhaps there are those things

that you've been convicted about even for years, that you have

not released and turned over to the Lord.

He already knows about them. Stop playing with death.

Stop dabbling in filth. Release those things.

Confess your sins. He's faithful and just to

forgive your sins and to cleanse you from all unrighteousness.

But true confession will always release that sin.

Are you ready or when he returns?

Will you be found dabbling in your little pet sin that you've

kept hidden away so nicely for you?

Oh, how embarrassing that will be for the believer who's doing

what he knows he ought not do. And if he's doing something that

he ought not do, James says it is a sin.

For he who knows to do right yet chooses to do wrong, to him it

is a sin. What a sad day that will be for

the true believer who finds himself sinning, actively

involved, and disobedience to the Lord when he does return.

There's also another side to this that Jesus unveils for us

later on in the 24th chapter of Matthew.

He says in verse 45. Now let me remind you of this.

He's talking about his return. That is still the context of

this. He says this.

Who then is the faithful and wise servant whom the master has

put in charge of the servant servants in his household to

give them their food at the proper time?

It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so

when he returns. Truly, I tell you, He will put

him in charge of all his possessions.

But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, my

master is staying away a long time.

This is for all the people who claim to be believers who say,

you know what, he's delayed long enough.

I still have a little time to play around.

I'm going to actually dabble in my sin.

Very dangerous ground, as you will see, he says in verse 49.

And then this man begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat

and drink with drunker drunkards.

The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not

expect him, and at an hour he is not aware of, and he will cut

him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where

there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

You know what the danger of dabbling in your sin and

professing to be a believer is? It might be a false profession.

You might be like that wicked servant who was no servant at

all. If you're constantly playing

around with the world and hoping that the Lord just won't find

out about it. Yes, I will agree with you.

You might be a believer who has gone wayward, but you'll know

it. Conviction will not let you

rest, and you will repent, and you will bow the knee in

humility to Christ and admit your sin.

But if you can continue just to hide it.

Jesus himself said there's a pretty good chance you're not a

real servant at all, that you're really wicked, and you will be

assigned a place with the hypocrites where there will be

weeping and gnashing of teeth. I'll make you contemplate that

this morning. Are you serving properly,

submitting to the instructions of the master?

Are you using your time, your talents, your gifts, your

abilities for the Lord, or are you being like that wicked

servant who says he's delayed his coming?

He's he's already not come back to this amount of time.

I might as well go on and live it up a little while I'm here.

Sounds like the American church, doesn't it?

And I can promise you right now, most of the American church is

not talking about the return of Christ.

That would cramp people's lifestyle, wouldn't it?

No, most of them are talking about turning over a new leaf

for the new year. What a good resolution it is

that you need to make. No, what you need to do is you

need to make yourself prepared for the return of Christ,

because if these charismatics get it right, and again one day

they will, will you be caught off guard, unashamed?

That's a very dangerous place because you might be caught

unashamed because you're not a believer at all.

You're just playing a part. So are you serving?

Properly. Are you submitting to the

Master's instructions? Let me help you.

Serving properly is not coming into a worship service and

setting on a padded chair in an air conditioning building,

listening to a preacher on a nice sound system.

It's not serving the Lord. If this is the extent of your

so-called service because you come to church on a Sunday

morning, you are sadly mistaken. When Christ does return, you are

going to be embarrassed. He did not suffered the agony

that he suffered and died the death that he died so that we

can just go through the motion. He saved us so that we can serve

him wholeheartedly, just as he served others wholeheartedly.

Are you serving him properly? Are you submitting to his

instructions? You learn something in regard to

this from a man named Jonathan Edwards.

Some of you are familiar with Jonathan Edwards because of the

Great Awakening. Jonathan Edwards lived by a

code, and this code was called his resolutions.

He took his resolutions from scriptures.

All of the principles and all the ideas came from the Word of

God. And Jonathan Edwards was big in

his resolutions. If you have ever been around me

very long, I will usually at some point in time talk about

these things because He's given me an example in my life of a

person who was very disciplined for the Lord and.

We know we need that. Don't we?

You're one of our older adults. You had the privilege not too

long ago in your luncheon to actually go through the

resolutions of Jonathan Edwards. And again, I apologize for the

lengthiness of that, but there was a lot to cover.

And I hope you gathered something from.

And one of the things that I hope that you gathered was the

life of Edwards, because he spoke of making the most of his

time in many of these resolutions, using it wisely,

using it as if it was his last moment on earth.

He talked about. Walking in obedience to the Lord

and His Word as if it was His last day in this world.

What a lesson for us. What a lesson for us, just in

case these charismatic Youtubers get it right this time to find

ourselves serving the Lord and living for the Lord, utilizing

our time. Not for us, not for our

entertainment, not for our own earthly pleasures, but utilizing

our time for the Kingdom of God. For his purpose, oh, what

happened if the church really came alive to that fact.

So we must take any consideration, men like Edwards,

and ask ourselves this question, Am I living a life that if this

was my last day and I met God face to face, what face to face?

Whether that was death, whether that was through the return of

Christ, Could I say that I'm unashamed about where I am in

this life? Oh, these are real questions.

These are real questions that we need to ask.

Why? Because Jesus tells us that our

life needs to be in order. When the Master come, is your

life in order? Are you serving properly,

submitting to the Master's instructions?

But also, we have to include this.

Are you spurring other believers?

Because part of doing what God wants us to do on this earth as

we wait for Christ is to spur other believers along.

Are you encouraging others? Are you lifting others up?

Are you discipling others? Are you sharpening iron as one

man sharpens another? You said Kirk, yes, I know those

things are biblical and those are things that we ought to do.

But what in the world does this have to do with the return of

Christ? Has everything to do with the

return of Christ? Watch Hebrews chapter 10.

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What the author of Hebrews so plainly says.

He says this in verse 24. Let us consider how we may spur

one another on to love and good deeds.

Right there in chapter 10, verse 24, verse 25, he says not giving

up, getting together a summer in the habit of doing, but

encouraging one another. And all the more as you see the

day approaching. What day do you think he's

talking about? Do you think that he's talking

about Groundhog Day? You think he's talking about the

spring equinox. You think he's talking about

daylight savings time. No, when they talked about it in

the New Testament, they always talked about this day as the day

of the Lord, when the Lord returns.

And he says you ought to be people who are spurring each

other along while you wait for the Lord to return.

And he includes in that to forsake not the assembly of the

believers. We ought to come together.

And this ought to be a time where we charge one another's

batteries, we encourage one another, when we pray for one

another, when we love one another, and then we go back in

this Dark World. And we represent Christ until He

come. Are you doing that?

Are you serving him properly, spurring others along,

encouraging them to continue and to press on in the faith?

When you see a brother who struggles or a sister who

struggles, do you come alongside of them and do you pick them up

and do you encourage them? Do you share with them your

vulnerability and your weakness? Do you point them to Christ, the

author and the perfector of our faith?

That's what we're to do if we're serving properly.

So if these Youtubers finally get it right, are you doing

that? When Christ returns, will He

find you submitting to your Master, loving the Lord your God

with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and loving your

neighbor as yourself, Spurring them along, pushing them closer

to Christ, Teaching them the truths of Scripture, walking the

road with them, hurting with them, grieving with them, but

also rejoicing with them? Did you know that's what the

church is supposed to do? Remember back in the church when

they used to talk about the return?

Of Christ. We ought to encourage one

another with that. You remember that they taught

it. We ought to encourage one

another with that. We ought to preach it from the

pulpit. We ought to teach it from the

Sunday school classes. And let's be honest, some of you

from are from other churches and you can probably think back to

your last church and you'll probably have to say this,

unless I'm just totally incorrect, I'm just going on my

own experience. You'd have to say this.

I haven't heard many. Sermons or any lessons or even

any thought provoking ideas concerning the return of Christ.

They've really just attempted to make me have a better life here

on this earth for some odd reason.

When the Bible is very clear that if we love this world, the

love of the Father is not in US, we see how backward we have

gotten it. We don't have to stay there, do

we? And we don't have to stay there.

Are you serving properly? If you're not pen of that, I'm

just in case these YouTube guru prophets are right.

You know, on your knees and say, Lord, forgive me, forgive me for

not doing that which you've gifted me and equipped me,

equipped me to do in the power of the Holy Spirit.

God, point me in the direction that I need to go to bring you

glory with my life. I know that you have recreated

me in Christ to do that, and I am not doing that, but the

desire of my heart is to do that, put people in my life who

will spur me along, who will teach me to do that, and then do

it. That you'll be serving Him

properly so that you'll be serving him properly on that day

that they do get it right, because again, one day they

will. Are you serving properly?

Thirdly, what if the charismatic YouTube profits get the

prediction of the Lord's return right this time?

Thirdly, I want you to ask yourself this question.

Are you speaking passionately? Oh, this is going to be a

difficult one. Go ahead and buckle your seat

belt. This will be.

Rather in your face, and I don't apologize for that.

I myself appreciate an in your face approach.

I like the truth. I don't want the truth to be

shaded. Because you know what?

The people who are willing to tell me the truth, I've found

this out in my life. They're the ones who love me the

most. So let's look at truth here.

Are you speaking passionately? Do your words reflect that you

really believe in Christ's imminent return?

Are you speaking passionately like you believe this?

What I mean by that? Are you speaking to others

concerning the Savior's redemption?

Are you sharing the gospel with other people?

Because I have a hard time believing that someone really

believes in the imminent return of Christ and sharing the gospel

is not important to them. I'll say that again in case you

missed it. I had a hard time believing that

someone really believes in the imminent return of Christ if

they're not sharing the gospel, because we really believe that

Christ could return at any moment.

What should be our ultimate motivation in life?

That is the passion. We share the gospel with those

that are lost, those who are in need, those who need God's

forgiveness and His salvation and His eternal life.

Those are wrapped. Up in their sin and in their

addiction and who need to hear the truth.

Are you passionately speaking the gospel to others because you

really believe in the return of Christ?

Are you speaking concerning the Savior's redemption just as the

apostles were instructed to do? Turn it to Acts chapter 1.

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And let's look at this for a second, because a lot of times

it's not put in its context, unfortunately so.

Acts chapter one verse 7, this is Jesus ascension in case you

missed that. He says in verse 7 He said to

them, it's not for you to know the times or the dates the

Father has set by his own authority, but you will receive

power when the Holy Spirit comes on you and you will be my

witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the

ends of the earth. Why did he say this?

Well, in the verses prior to this, you know what the

disciples were asking. At this time, are you going to

restore the Kingdom? At this time, is everything

going to come to pass? That has been promised?

And you know what the Lord says? Don't worry about that.

It's not for you to know those times.

He's very consistent in His eschatology, isn't He?

It's not for you to know those times or days.

The Father sent by his own authority, He said, but here's

one thing you can know. You will receive power from the

Holy Spirit, and when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, you will

be My witnesses in Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria and to the

ends of the earth. He said, the Holy Spirit's going

to come on you and the Holy Spirit's going to come on you

with power. And you're not going to be able

to predict the exact day that the kingdom's going to be

restored, but you can know this. I will give you power from my

Spirit. To go out and to share the

gospel as a bold witness and a bold testimony of who I am, what

I came to do says in verse 9. And after he said this, he was

taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their

sight. I call that the rapture of

Jesus. Other theologians want to argue

he was taken from them. It says in verse 10, they were

looking intently up into the sky as he was going when suddenly

two men dressed in white stood beside them.

Men of Galilee, they said, why do you stand here looking into

the sky? So picture this with me.

These men want to talk end times, right?

Is this when you're going to restore the Kingdom and the Lord

says the Holy Spirit's going to come on you because you can't

know the day or the time that the Father has established, but

the Holy Spirit's going to come upon you with power, and He's

going to give you the power to be my witness to preach the

gospel. To the ends of the earth, that's

what you need to worry about. They're still standing there

looking captivated by the sign. The Angel says, Men of Galilee,

why do you stand here looking into the sky?

The same Jesus has been taken from you into heaven will come

back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.

He says he's going to return just like he left.

What? Was the Angel saying, get busy?

Get busy doing what? Exactly what Jesus told you His

last request that he made before he ascended all the way into

heaven. He said you'll receive power,

now go be a witness. Share the gospel.

But isn't it interesting? Most of the church will proclaim

that I believe in the return of Christ, your lost neighbor who's

destined for hell. Lest God intervene with the

gospel message, you won't even walk across the street to share

the good news of the Lord Jesus Christ with them.

You don't believe in the return of Christ.

Eminently you believe that after you get done playing with all

the toys of this world then God will spare you.

And thankfully, Oh yes, I'm so important and the rest of the

world can go to hell for. All that you care, you say.

Well, I would never say that. No, not with your mouth, but

often times we say it with our lives.

I told you that this was going to be difficult because how can

we say this? How can we say that?

We believe in the imminent return of Christ, but we are not

passionately sharing the gospel with those who are lost.

We ought to be proclaiming the gospel as if it is our last

moment. 1 great preacher said that I preach as a dying man.

The dying man we don't know when our last opportunity to share

our God, to share the gospel with our neighbor is we don't

know. The last opportunity to share

the gospel with our family member is We don't know.

The last opportunity to share the gospel with our family

member is We don't know the last opportunity.

To share the gospel with our Co worker is and if you really

believe that these charismatics could one day be right, that

Jesus really meant what he said and that he's going to return,

you can't live your life in a cubicle next to a lost person

and not share the gospel with them.

How could a Christian do that? Well, that would grieve your

soul every single day to know that they are lost, they are on

their way to hell and you've said nothing to them about the

only one who can save them. That's a different thing.

If you share the gospel with them and they reject the gospel,

that's not on you, is it? Absolutely not.

Are you speaking passionately about the gospel of Jesus

Christ? Mark 8 verse 38 says, if anyone

Mark 8:38

is ashamed of me in my words, in this adulterous and sinful

generation, Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in

his Father's glory with the holy angels.

You say, well, what does that have to do with the gospel and

end times? The gospel is His word, and if

you're not sharing His word, it reveals that you are ashamed of

His word. And He's letting you know if

you're living a life ashamed of His word, know this.

He will return, and He will return with His holy angels.

And if you are ashamed of Him and His words while you were

here on this earth, He will be ashamed of you before His Father

in heaven. And I can't rewrite the

scriptures to make your life comfortable in light of that.

It says what it says. And so I asked you, are you

speaking passionately concerning the Savior's redemption just in

case the Lord will return soon? Are you speaking passionately,

secondly, concerning the Savior's return?

Are you telling people that He's going to return again?

We have lost the sight of that in the church.

You know why we've lost sight of it in the church?

Because I believe this. I believe that we think if we

ignore it, it will just go away. And if it goes away, we can hold

on to all the treasures that we have down here that we love so

much, all the kingdoms that we've built.

But it's not going to go away, is it?

And you know how I'm not. I know that it's not going to go

away because Jesus has promised and everything that he says is

true. And so are you passionately

speaking this proclaiming this to others that Christ is going

to return? Are you proclaiming with that

message that there will be a day of judgment and wrath for the

unbelieving and the unrepentant sinners?

Have you noticed the trend in America where we leave that out

of the gospel, right? We tell people to get saved, but

we don't tell them what to get saved from.

In fact, many of the people in the American church who would

claim to be saved, when you asked them what did you get

saved from, they have no idea. And you know what you got saved

from? You got saved from the justice

and the wrath of God that you deserve.

That's what you got saved from. And you know where that wrath

and justice was poured out? It was poured out on the back of

Jesus Christ on a cross 2000 years ago, where He bore the

punishment and the wrath that belonged to you and belonged to

me. And so you can't leave that out

of the message, can you? If you are, you're preaching an

incomplete gospel. That's what the American church

likes to do, right? Preach the gospel where God's

all love, God's all forgiveness, God's all grace.

But they forget to tell you that those who don't trust in His

mercy and His grace and His forgiveness, all they have left

to look forward to is the fearful expectation of fiery

judgement in hell. Now, I don't say that to just be

a mean guy because I promised you, if you would even take a

moment to get to know me, I'm not that mean of a guy.

I say that because I love you. I say that because I care about

your soul. I warn you about the impending

judgement of God that will come after the return of Christ.

Know that this is certain in any eschatological calendar that you

look at, there will be a judgement for unbelieving

sinners. Are you warning the unbelieving

about this? You say, well, Kirk, I don't

like to do that because that kind of scares them and I don't

want to scare them. I'm so thankful that someone was

willing to scare me with the truth because I knew that I

deserved judgment. I knew that I deserved the wrath

of God. I knew every sin that I had ever

committed, every evil thought that I had ever had.

I knew how in need of God's mercy and forgiveness I was in.

I'm thankful that someone warned me to flee the coming wrath.

I am thankful. That God sent as he sent

evangelists there in the Pilgrims Progress to warn

Pilgrim there in the City of Destruction to flee to the

Celestial City to focus on Christ.

I'm thankful someone came and they warned me, showing that

they truly did love me enough. To risk telling me the truth.

You love others enough to tell them the truth.

Or if you take Christ's return seriously, you will, because you

will really believe what will happen after Christ returns,

that there will one day be a judgment.

There will be an account for sin given for all the unbelieving

and the wicked sinners who did not turn to Christ.

They will be judged for their sin by a thrice holy God.

They will then be sentenced to the eternal lake of fire, where

they will experience eternal death.

But we had rather have friends keep everything light and the

risk that friendship by telling them the truth.

Can I just pose a question for you?

Is there any parents in the room?

Any parents here today raise your hand?

Any of you have young children still?

OK, so let's ask this question. Scenario number one.

You see some parents and they're out in the yard.

They're having a nice weekend in the front yard, playing with

their family on a busy St. Some point in time, one of their

young children decides that a good idea is to walk out into

the road and play amidst a car. And that child started walking

toward that busy street where cars are going way too fast for

kids to even begin to enter into the road or begin to even think

about it. And that child begins to

approach the road. And that parents sit there just

calmly on their lawn chair and said, now little Johnny, now

he's already had it to the street.

Now, little Johnny, it's going to be a good idea if you just

come back over here by mommy and daddy, chill for a little while

and not go toward the busy. Road or we have the second

scenario, family. There's parents, there's kids,

they're out in the yard, they're playing.

Little Johnny does the same thing.

He heads towards the busy St. and dad jumps up and says Johnny

no. And he runs as fast as he can

and he grabs Johnny by the back of his shirt and just in the

nick of time he grabs him before he steps out into the busy

traffic and he saves him from lasting and hitting head on with

a car. Which parent loves her child

more? Which parent is more concerned?

That'd be easy for you in that scenario to go well.

Of course, the parent who did everything that he had to do to

rescue his child proved that he loved them more.

Are you doing everything under your control to rescue those who

need the message of crime? To tell him the truth, that you

are headed toward judgement? You're going out into a busy St.

and you will not prevail against the car when he hits a human

head on. You will not prevail against the

judgement of God. When He judges, He speaks truth

and He is right. He is not right some of the

time. He is right all of the time.

And you were all transgressors, and you are all destined for

judgement, lest Christ intervene and passionately save you.

Unless we as the Church passionately speak the truth to

these people, warning them of the impending judgement and the

imminent return of Christ. You take Christ's return

seriously. Are you unafraid?

Are you unashamed to warn others of the truth that the Lord will

return and He will return to judge the living and the dead?

Second Thessalonians chapter 1 says in verse 6 says they tell

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how you turn to God from idols to serve the living and true

God. Paul getting a report about the

Thessalonians that they were doing what they were supposed to

do turning from idols, turning to the one true God and he says

and to wait for his son from heaven whom he raised from the

dead Jesus who rescues us from the coming wrath.

Paul reminding those in Thessalonica first, commending

them. I've heard about your reputation

that you have turned from idols, you've turned to God and you are

longing for the appearing of the Savior, the Lord Jesus, and you

know that he is the one who is going to rescue you from the

coming wrath. There's a wrath that is coming.

Are you preaching that? Are you teaching that?

Are you afraid? Are you ashamed?

The second Timothy chapter 4 Paul talking to Timothy.

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Often times we think of this as his charge before Paul left the

earth, but watch what he tells him in the presence of God.

Chapter 4 verse one end of Christ Jesus, who will judge the

living and the dead and in view. Of his appearing and His Kingdom

in view of what he says in light of the return of Christ.

Here's what I want you to do, Timothy, in light of the return

of Christ. Preach the Word, be prepared in

season and out of season, correct rebuke and encourage

with great patience and careful instruction.

For the time will come when men will not put up with sound

doctrine. Instead, to suit their own

desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers

to say what they're itching ears want to hear.

Paul even using the return of Christ to motivate young Timothy

to preach the Word, to preach the Word passionately, to speak

passionately about the Lord Jesus Christ because his return

is imminent and His judgment is inevitable.

Are you speaking that to others? He loved them enough to tell

them that unless they flee the city of destruction, unless they

flee from their sin and turn to Christ, there is no hope of

their rescue. They only have the judgment of

God to look forward to for all eternity.

You share that truth with them. Isn't it funny how the liberals

have made us afraid to share that truth?

If you share the truth of God's wrath and judgment, Kirk, you're

probably only gonna push people away.

They're condemned already. John chapter 3 tells us that

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because they have not believed in Christ, how am I going to

push them any farther away? They're already destined for the

depths of hell. I can't push them any farther.

But what I can is I can tell them the truth, that God through

Jesus Christ, will forgive the most vile and wicked Sinner.

If they would just turn to Christ and call on His name, He

will save them. Too preach the gospel, tell them

that the only way that they are ever going to avoid the just

wrath and judgment of God is to be wrapped in the righteousness

of Jesus Christ, to be cleansed by his sacrifice, to be saved in

him and Him alone. So if these charismatic YouTube

prophets get it right, are you speaking passionately?

Are you? So what would happen if the

church really mobilized? I mean, if we really mobilize

that everywhere you went became a mission field for the gospel.

And every day of your job was not just that mundane.

I got to get up and go to work. I get to go to the mission

field. There are others there who were

who were hurting just like I was once hurting because of my sin,

who have no hope of eternal life, have no hope in this life.

And I have the gospel that I have been entrusted with to give

to them. I have the message in the words

of life. Oh, wouldn't our whole

perspective change? Are you speaking passionately?

Lastly, lastly, are you staying prepared?

Verse 42, Jesus made it obviously clear.

He says, therefore keep watch because you do not know on what

day your Lord will come. He says be prepared.

And so I ask you all boldly, are you prepared?

Are you prepared if they get it right?

Are you prepared if it is 2026? Better put, are you prepared if

it's tomorrow, just before the service ends today?

What a joy that would be. I told someone earlier there'd

be no greater joy than the Lord to return mid sermon.

Are you ready? I know a question that it's not

being asked anymore. Are you ready for the return of

Christ? We, we have preachers who spend

all their time trying to teach you how to live your best life

now, how to enjoy this life, how to overcome your obstacles.

You can't overcome your obstacles.

Your biggest obstacle is you. You were overcome by sin.

And the only one who's overcame sin is Christ.

And if you're in Christ, you've overcame sin without.

Christ, you have no hope, and so you might as well prepare.

If you're in Christ, are you? Are you awake and longing for

Christ? Oh, I don't.

Mean to pick on the American church so much.

It just is what it is, isn't it? Lazy, apathetic sleep.

And so I encourage this body of believers because that's my duty

and that is my role as your pastor, to wake up from your

slumber and long for Christ. Let this be the first time in

your Christian life that you wake up every day and with

anticipation. Lord, please let this be the

day. Please let this be the day that

you rescue me from this field. Please let this be the day that

you make all things right, that you restore your Kingdom as it

once was before sin. Lord, let this be today, even

now. Come, Lord Jesus, come.

Let that be our heart. Just be awake and longing for

Christ, not afraid of his return, thinking of all the

things that we might miss out on if he returns today.

Think about the things that we'll gain because of the

promises that He's made. Romans 13 Paul says to the

church at Romans verse 11 and do this understanding the present

time. The hour has already come for

you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation

is nearer now than when we first believed.

Of course it is. The night is nearly over.

The day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of

darkness and put on the armor of light.

Let us behave decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and

drunkenness and sexual immorality and debauchery, not

in dissensions and jealousy. Rather, clothe yourselves with

the Lord Jesus Christ and do not think about how to gratify the

desires of your flesh. That's what it looks like to be

awake, spiritually awake and longing for Christ, not

gratifying my flesh anymore, but longing for the day that Christ

rescues me. Peter says in first Peter

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chapter 1, something along the similar lines there in verse 13.

Therefore, with minds that are alert and so and fully sober,

set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ

is revealed at his coming. He's telling the believer, set

your mind on the return of Christ.

Set your mind on that. I'm not going to ask you, so

don't worry. But wouldn't it be disappointing

if we were to ask when's the last time you talked about or

thought about the return of Christ?

When Peter tells the church, set your mind on it every night

before you go to bed. Lord, if you return before I

awake, I long for you when you wake up in the morning.

Lord, thank you for another sunrise.

Lord, May today be the day that you come and you set the record

straight. You redeem your people once and

for all. Are you staying prepared?

Are you awake and longing for Christ?

Are you like the five wise virgins there in Matthew 25?

In that parable they brought a little extra oil in case the

Lord delayed. And we know theologically there

is no delay. There's an appointed in set

time. It only seems like a delay for

us. But are you prepared in case but

YouTube prophets get it wrong again in 2026.

Perhaps it's 2027. It will be next year if they

missed it this year. I've seen the batter.

But are you prepared either way? The way you can long for Christ

like those believers in Thessalonica who are longing for

Jesus to rescue them from the wrath that is the calm Paul

speaks of them. First Thessalonians chapter 1 As

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we saw a moment ago, Are you awake and longing for Christ?

Are you aware and looking for Christ?

Isn't it interesting that we as Christians would say that we're

waiting the return of Christ, but none of us are looking for

Him? None of us are really

anticipating His return, Aware and looking for Christ.

This is going to be displayed in how you.

Live. Does your life show that you are

really aware and looking for Christ?

Titus chapter 2 verse 11. It says for the grace of God has

Titus 2:11

appeared that offers salvation to all people.

It teaches us to say no to ungodliness and worldly passions

and to live self controlled, upright and godly lives in this

present age. Watch verse 13 while we wait for

the blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God

and Savior Jesus Christ. Are you longing and looking for

Christ? To where and looking for Him?

Are you studying the Word of God with great anticipation in your

heart for that day? Are you longing for that greater

home in that greater country with that greater King that he

has promised? Are you like Paul writing to the

Philippians chapter 3? It says in verse 20, But our

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citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from

there. There he is again talking about

the return of Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ by the power.

That enables Him to bring everything under His control,

will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like His

glorious body. Are you longing and looking for

that? Are you?

Are you aware of that? Has anybody taught you that?

That one day all the elements of this world, the death of this

world, the sickness of this world, the pain of this world,

it will all be taken away and you will receive a glorified

body where you will worship the Lord in that state for all

eternity. Are you longing for that?

Are you spending endless amounts of time and money trying to make

yourself look young? Here, let me tell you, it's not

working. You're never going to glorify

yourself. You will be glorified when

Christ returns. Are you looking forward to that?

Do you wake up every morning in pain because you did stupid

things when you were young, as I did?

Do you gripe and do you complain about that or does it cause you

to truly be aware that Christ has promised that He is going to

free us from the agony of all the pains of this earth?

Where looking to Christ the day's coming.

You have to ask yourself, will you be unashamed on that day?

Will you Revelation 1615, John says, records the words of the

Lord here says in verse 15, Look, I come like a thief.

Blessed is the one who stays awake and remains clothed so as

not to go naked and to be shamefully exposed.

The Lord himself encouraging us to do what?

Stay awake, stay aware, stay prepared just as he did there in

Matthew chapter 24 verse 42 aware looking for Christ day's

Matthew 24:42

coming. Are you ready?

Are you watchful as he's commanded us to be watchful

waiting Luke chapter 12 and Luke's account he says this

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verse 35 be dressed ready for service.

Keep your lamps burning like servants waiting for their

master to return from a wedding banquet so that when he comes

and knocks, they can immediately open the door for Him.

It will be good for those servants whose master finds them

watching when he comes. Truly, I tell you, He will dress

himself to service, to serve. Christ is going to serve those

who are watching for Him. He will have them recline at the

table and will come and wait on them, just as He did in John

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chapter 13. This is disciples while He was

here on this earth, verse 38. And it would be good for those

servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the

middle of the night or toward Daybreak.

But understand this, that the owner of the house had known it

what hour the thief was coming. He would not have let his house

be broken into. You also must be ready, because

the Son of Man will come in an hour when you do not expect Him.

So what if the charismatics get it right?

Are you staying prepared? Are you speaking passionately?

Are you serving properly? Are you saved positively?

I'll leave you with this believer.

If the social media YouTube profits get it right, can you

answer all those questions in the affirmative?

Yes, I am saved positively. Yes, I am serving properly.

Yes, I am speaking passionately. Yes, I am staying prepared.

I pray that if you can't answer that in the affirmative today,

you would do what the Word of God has commanded us to do as

conviction sets upon our hearts. As believers, we are to confess

our sins and He's faithful and just, to forgive us our sins and

to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Would you be honest with God about that today?

God forgive me that I haven't been living my life serving You

properly and speaking and sharing the gospel passionately.

I haven't even given one single thought about being prepared or

empower me by Your Spirit. Teach me by Your Word.

And I can't answer all these in the affirmative.

And be very confident He is able to do just that.

He is able to finish the work that he has started in you.

And he will submit to the spirit that yield to him.

To the unbeliever, I boldly say this to you, you're not ready.

You're not ready, just as I was once not ready.

I was not ready to meet my Maker, because if I would have

met my Maker in the condition that I was in, I would have met

my Maker not as a child of God, but as an enemy because of my

own sin. And I would have been judged for

every thought and every deed and every evil word that came from

this evil tongue. And I would have spent an

eternity in hell, and rightfully so, with no argument against

anything that would have been brought against my charge.

I wasn't ready. And I'm thankful for His grace

and His mercy that has made me ready in Christ Jesus.

I'm thankful that when I wasn't ready, He came.

And through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, He made me ready.

Can I tell you this? He'll do the same for you today.

Repent of your sin. Turn to Jesus Christ as your

Lord and Savior. Cry out to Him in desperation.

You desperately need Him to save you.

Why do you need Him to save you? Because one day these prophets

are going to be right for the very first.

Time and I will be thankful on that day.

I will tip my hat to the YouTube charismatic prophet when he

finally gets it right. Thank you that you finally got

it right. When He does, Are you ready?

You have not surrendered to Christ as Lord and Savior.

You're not ready. Repent of your sin today.

Trust in Jesus Christ as the only hope of forgiveness and

eternal life before it is everlastingly too late.

Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

That is a desperate call. Know this.

The return of the Lord is imminent.

His judgment is impending, and the only one who can save you

from that judgment and wrath is Christ.

Turn to Christ today and be saved.

Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for Your word.

We thank You that it is true. We thank You that it has gone

forth, and it will accomplish that which you've set out for it

to accomplish. But I pray if there be any soul

here today who does not know Christ as Lord and Savior, I

pray today that Your mercy will be showered upon them.

That you would as only you could do, draw them out of darkness

and into light to receive forgiveness and eternal life.

That you would give them faith to believe, power to repent,

That you would regenerate them to new and everlasting life here

today. God, we thank you for the work

that you're going to do as the Word has gone forth.

God, I pray for the believers who are here today.

Perhaps they examine their life and they see a deficiency.

God, I pray that they would run to you in their deficiency and

cry out to you who is sufficient, meet all of our

needs, that they would be honest, that they would confess

their sin, that they would trust in your grace evermore.

Today we'll give you all the glory for it in Jesus.

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