The Rise of Self-Love | Pastor Daniel Batarseh

If you have your Bibles this morning, please meet me in the

second letter to Timothy in chapter 3.

Beginning in verse 1. Second Timothy chapter 3

2 Timothy 3 · chapter mention

beginning in verse 1. We read here.

But understand this, that in the last days, there will come times

of difficulty for people. Will be lovers of self.

Lovers of money proud, arrogant, abusive disobedient to their

parents ungrateful, Unholy heartless, unappeasable

slanderous without self-control brutal.

Not loving good. Treacherous.

Reckless Swollen with conceit lovers of pleasure rather than

lovers of God having the appearance of godliness.

But denying its power avoid such people, let's pray, Lord, we

thank you for this afternoon again.

And now Lord, as we open your word, your word, which stands

forever your word, though, the grass May wither.

And though, the flower May Fail, your word will endure.

Forever. And we come to receive what you

have to say. And we ask for the spirit of

wisdom and Revelation to assist the ministry of the word.

This afternoon, Lord, we ask that our hearts would be open

that our minds like the disciples would have the

understanding to comprehend the mind of Christ.

And so, Lord, in this moment, we pray, Let Your Presence be known

that your word be received and let it melt into our character

for your glory. In Jesus name, we pray.

Amen. I trust this afternoon that you

are fully convinced about the character of God, and every way

that the scripture describes him and especially in his deep

compassion, The Compassion of God, who Longs for those who

have been separated from him because of sin to be reconciled

back to him, And so great, is this compassion that stirs in

the heart of God that it is not limited to those who are merely

in sin, it is even extended to those who deliberately teach

falsehood. That may sound shocking to us

who believe that those who are deceivers, are not worthy of

Grace, but last week's message was a testament to that truth.

That God, in fact Longs for those who are even in falsehood

and are propagating deception to come to the knowledge of Truth

and be liberated from the grip of Satan.

And this passion is so great in the heart of God, that he even

instructs us as the redeemed of how to be conned.

It's so that we can offer that opportunity to those who are in

that deception to come to Salvation in Jesus Christ.

And that's what he taught Timothy about how to be a soul

winner, and the versus last week, we're also means to

encourage the faithful Soul winner to stir your heart with

with trust that it's possible for even the most unlikely and

undeserving to actually be saved to actually come to Christ and

be transformed. Even those who are doing damage

to the kingdom of God, who are trying to relinquish the

Christian message even there. Like Paul can come to saving

faith. And now we read after Paul aims

to awaken this righteous optimism in Timothy, he also

wants to bring a balance and he wants to bring another word.

Another word that would prepare him as a soul winner, as a

pastor of a church of the difficult times that lie ahead

for the world. and for Christians, And the subject was

so important for Paul the subject of the end times was so

crucial for this apostle that he designates a portion of his

final letter to expound on it. Why is it that Timothy needs to

know what he just said? Why is it that the believer must

know what times will be headed towards?

What kind of implications is that carry for us even now?

Well, there are many, but for the sake of the context, let us

consider a few number. 1, Timothy would have to understand

that, although, he would have a hope for people to come to

Christ this endeavor to preach. The gospel will not be void of

great opposition. Will not be void of difficult

times. Secondly, Timothy would also

need to regain a fresh passion for defending the truth, because

he would Now find out and learn the demoralizing effects of

false teaching and vein ideologies.

And so as a pastor by hearing what, we just read this morning,

he would find this strength and this motivation to be even more

serious about truth preaching. It proving it defending it.

And lastly, those three last words of our designated taxed,

Paul says, you need to avoid such people in other words,

after he describes, the people that the attitudes, the

characters that will characterize the final days

before the return of Christ. Timothy and Believers today,

would need to make an extra effort to make sure that they

are not contaminated by this crowd.

And so he says understand this, you need to understand this and

here's the question. What was it that led Paul to

transition in this thought, how did he go from what we've been

covering the past few weeks, to now offer a sudden introducing a

subject concerning the latter times?

What's not? Because he just merely bringing

up something fresh in his letter, it's because there is a

connection to what Paul has been teaching and to what he is

warning about here, remember you?

And I over the past few weeks I've been hearing about things

such as the dangers of false teaching the necessity to

rightly handle the word of Truth.

The corruption that can come from irreverent Babble.

And even last week, the Rope of hope that we should extend to

those who are in the pit of And the overarching theme is the

necessity to be in truth. The necessity to avoid falsehood

and all for sudden. Now he comes in, he speaks about

the end times, he speaks about not just the end times but he

speaks about the people that will pollute the generations

before the return of Christ. And the reason why this is a

connection is because the times of difficulties will stem from

what he has been saying over the past few weeks accelerating.

Abandonment and rejection of the truth.

The reason why X will be Wicked and pervert and difficult is

because there will be a rejection of the gospel and an

alarming rate and the scriptures testify this elsewhere.

If you turn to First Timothy 4:1, your read that Paul appeals

1 Timothy 4:1

to the spirit and he says that the spirit testifies of the

later times and it says here in verse One of chapter 4.

Now the spirit expressly says that in later times some will

depart from the Faith by devoting themselves to deceitful

spirits and teachings of demons. So he's saying, even hear what

the scripture says from cover to cover that there is a strong

relationship. There is a marriage between

false teaching and ungodliness Jesus himself in his own

discourse about the end time says that there will be many

false prophets will arise and Lead.

Many astray only to follow that statement by saying and because

lawlessness will increase False prophets will arise.

And because false prophets will arise.

So, we'll lawlessness. And this helps us understand

this list of Unholy characteristics in our text this

morning that will Define the last days.

It is because it will stem from a growing desertion from True

Doctrine and a growing appetite. For vein ideologies, that will

be found within and outside of the church.

If the pure truth sanctifies man then it is a distortion of

truth, that warps him. That is what we are going to

see. But I can imagine after reading

this that there might be some skepticism.

There might be some honest doubt because we look at this and we

read understand this that in the last days there will come times

of difficulty. But you're fully aware that the

Earth is not unfamiliar with grief and toil.

So, what's so prophetic about this?

What's so profound about? The thought that in the last

days, there will come times of difficulty.

We've seen times with our history, books testified that

ever since the Rebellion at the Garden, we have seen craziness

and Rebellion. It's later on in this chapter

that we see the uniqueness of this Revelation.

So you're there in Chapter 3 of second Timothy, scroll down to

verse 13 and then we will understand what Paul is saying

verse 13 says, while evil people, and Impostors Will Go On

from bad to worse. Deceiving and being deceived

there. It is from bad to worse.

Meaning, as we approach the culmination of the age, there

will be an escalation and amplification of ungodliness.

It's not that Paul is saying these things have never been, so

he's not saying that the world hasn't seen these things that he

just described what he's saying is is that it will intensify.

It will come to a point where it will drown a generation and what

is good will be evil and what is evil be known as good.

In fact, I was reading Romans this week and I saw an

interesting phrase of Paul separate list of ungodly

characteristics and he says something about the people who

have abandoned God and what society looks like, because of

that abandonment and he says people will be and he lists

different things and there is something that stood out to me

and it was this, they will be Enters of evil.

They will be creative and finding new ways. of

entertaining their sin, there will be greater thoughts about

Unholy unspeakable, unfathomable filth, That will dominate our

world and so keep this in mind as you read these list.

Paul is speaking about a strengthening and a spreading of

a level of degradation that we've never seen before.

And so, then people will not just be lovers of money.

They're going to be more in love with money than ever before.

People will not just be arrogant, they're going to be

more arrogant than ever before. People will not just be

disobedient to their parents. They will be more disobedient

than you can even imagine. The way we're going to handle

this subject today is to lightly touch on each of these signs and

perhaps we won't even get past the first one.

Just Like A Flat Rock. Skipping over a flatbed of

water, we're just going to kiss each of these things if time

permits and see how these things that will dominate our world are

in direct opposition to the world that God Longs for and the

world that Christ will bring in an usher.

And when he establishes his kingdom at his second

retirement, Turn and here's the application.

If you need one in light of this text, that if it is told to us

that there will be an increase among the unregenerate in their

darkness and under despicable practices, then by the grace of

God, may we match that Darkness with a greater light. it may be

by the power of the Holy Spirit overwhelm, whatever part that

God has given us in our neighborhoods, in our workplaces

and our families to outshine the darkness And so we read here,

understand this that in the last days there will come times of

difficulty and inverse to the first thing that Paul lists is

that they will be lovers of self.

Lovers of self. This is by Divine Design for

Paul by the spirit to include this.

As the first thing on the list implies something very, very

crucial. Concerning what it means to be a

lover of self. He places this first because

South love is the swamp that every other feature of sin swims

in it is the foundation that many iniquities are built on.

In fact, Christ himself knew this And because she knew this,

he attacked this human disposition as the basic

condition for discipleship when he said, deny yourself deny

yourself. Because he knew that everything

flows from the sewage of loving self.

Self-love is not equal to self-respect is self-love is not

equal to self-care self-love is about the elevation of one's

own, desires, and wants as a supreme motivation in one's

life. Self-love is the frame of mind.

That places me at the center me is the main concern in my

decisions and in my desires, even to the point of dismissing,

the rights of my fellow, man and diminishing the rightful place

of God as a Supreme object of my affection and devotion.

If self-denial is the basis. For righteousness, and Holiness

to flourish in a way that would bless others.

Then surely self-love breeds a series of corrupting sins.

That brings so much pain in so many ways.

I want you to see an example of that from the Old Testament,

meet me in the book of second. Samuel chapter, 16, scuse me,

23:16 second Samuel, 23:16. Here is a interesting snippet in

David's life, David is here in a cave.

He's hiding and he has a band of Mighty Men by his side.

And in this chapter, we get a description of not just those 30

Mighty Men, but even among the 30, there was three special

Elite officers and the Holy Spirit makes a distinction about

why these three men were the three Mighty Men, among the 330,

Mighty Men and David at one point.

He expresses a desire. He begins to feel homesick.

He gets nostalgic. He says, oh that I would have a

drink from the well that is at Bethlehem.

He didn't make it a command, he didn't ask the Mighty Men to go.

Bethlehem was under siege Bethlehem, there was a Garrison

of the Philistines. There are troops of the enemy

that were there, but David offers sudden, just peeped out

this longing to have a cold glass of water.

Perhaps remembering when he was a Shepherd boy, he would scoop

he would scoop from that. Well when he was thirsty, as he

served his father's Farm, The three hear it.

They don't even ask. They go undercover.

They go in stealth mode and they begin to.

Now, travel to Bethlehem and who knows how they did it, but they

grabbed water in a jar and they come back to David.

And there's David probably sitting there reminiscing about

all the memories of those innocent days.

As a Shepherd boy and the three Mighty Men approached him and

they say, here's your water. And he shocked.

And he's there in verse 16, then the three Mighty Men broke

through the camp of the Philistines and Drew water out

of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and carried it

and brought it to David, but he would not drink of it.

Perhaps they're ready to put it at his mouth, he stops himself,

but he would not drink of it. He poured it out to the Lord.

And said, in verse 17, far be it from me.

Oh, Lord. That I should do this.

Shall I drink the blood of the men who went at risk of their

lives. Therefore, he would not drink

it. These things, the three Mighty

Men did. It's an example of David who's a

picture of Christ and what makes a Mighty, Man, a mighty man of

God, is that he's willing to do the little things.

Christ, he's willing to serve not just like the 30 mighty man

might have done defeating great armies and Giants know even when

the King asks for a glass of water you're willing to risk

your life to give him a glass of water.

But notice what David does here, what a picture of selflessness,

what a picture of consideration, what a picture of self-denial.

This man here could have simply drank the water.

Gulped it down and extended his gratitude to these others who

have risked their lives for him to be satisfied in this way.

But right here, we read that after he had realized how they

have jeopardized their lives for the sake of him, fulfilling the

small desire, he would not dare quench his nostalgia.

Jake Hart at their expense. David at this moment was more

concerned about their well-being than about his wish being

satisfied and he refused to drink it.

That's a picture of what self-denial looks like.

It does not put others at risk of harm of danger of pain to

gratify yourself self-denial. Looks like when you have desires

and plans and even when you were experiencing, these wishes, you

are able to manage all things because you are mindful of all

people. You're not thinking about me,

you're thinking about those are who are affected by your

decisions, those who might be robbed of their rights.

Do you want to satisfy your own? And somebody made a brilliant

observation in light of this text.

And here it is. If only David had applied the

same principle that we just read here when he was consumed with

longing for Bathsheba. if only he had applied the same

conviction years before when he was on that rooftop, And his

heart began to thirst for a woman that did not belong to

him. and it was in that time, if this is a picture of

self-denial, David on that rooftop is a picture of

self-love, because in that moment, he did not think about

Uriah He did not say to himself, Uriah will be hurt by this.

My reputation as a king, as a righteous man, as a psalmist,

will be affected by this. All he wanted in that moment was

to quench that list. And so great.

Was that self-love that he was willing to even step on Uriah To

cover his sin because that's what self-love looks like.

I have to kill this man, because my reputation is more important

than his life. all David, if only you had applied that same

principle with that glass of water, when you were faced with

that, lust that try to consume you.

That is just one illustration of what it's going to look like.

In the last days when Paul says that they will be lovers of

self. That is just the foundation and

you can imagine what will Spring forth.

Let me say it this way. You're going to see much more

adultery than we've ever seen. You're going to see much more

murder lying cheating corruption hypocrisy.

Because self-love is the mother that births and nurtures.

All these other vices and there is no doubt that the prediction

of people being lovers of self is not far-fetched from our

experience today in society, Self-love is on the rise.

It's on the rise and it's everywhere.

You look everything from the seemingly.

Innocent selfie culture that has given every human being an

invitation to have a platform for everybody to praise you and

adore you To the humanistic ideologies that are being taught

in our schools that life revolves around you that there

isn't a creator that you're held accountable to but your cousin

is a monkey and you're just the outcome of some explosion and

some happenstance and so survival of the fittest go out

there and do what you desire and live according to your impulses.

Unfortunately, this idea of self love is not only practice and

praise. It is considered as a virtue.

It's about you. It's about you.

In fact, even in modern psychology and counseling, when

people come to receive some kind of clarity about their

behavioral patterns and their habits, most psychologists will

blame everything around you and not you.

It's about the way you grew up. It's about the trauma.

And though, that might play a part in it.

It's amazing. How we don't even want to, pin

any responsibility on the individual anymore.

Why? Because we want to make sure

that people have self esteem. And self-worth.

And self-love. This is in direct opposition to

the message of the cross. Die to yourself, crucify.

Your flesh. Take responsibility for your

actions. Because if you blame everybody

else for your sins, God can't forgive you.

He'll forgive them if they repent.

But he'll forgive you, once you acknowledge that, you played a

part in whatever sin you think is caused by something or

someone else. Here's the problem.

This perverted view of self-love is having its way and christened

them. I challenge you to just make a

simple search of the most popular sermons today and read

the titles alone and you will get an idea of what I am

speaking about. It's a majority about winning

the most views and attendances because they are all self-help.

Concepts that provide motivation for the moment, but no

transforming power from Christ. If the CERN correctly, if you

really listen carefully, these talks are nothing more than

skewed insights about how God is on your side to fulfill your

dreams and your desires doesn't matter if they have to do with

his kingdom. As long as it's yours, he will

help you while totally neglecting the Declarations of

the glories of Christ that compel us to submit to his

lordship and live according to his His rule.

Christ is a mentioned. If he's mentioned it's a

footnote. And if he's mentioned there,

it's for him to help you make more money, be more beautiful,

be more successful. And just because people here

versus or because there's a cross in the background, that's

enough for them to eat it all up, not knowing that they are

actually strengthening the self. Love that Christ wants to kill.

In fact, you read this list here and it's amazing that Paul

brings another listen, Romans 1, and I want you to turn there

because I want you to see this afternoon.

How morally shattering it is when Society whether it is

secular or whether it is religious, how shattering it is

when we place man in the place of God, When we make man, the

center and said of God being the center and in Romans 1 29 to 31,

we read in another list. That's very similar to what we

have this morning in second. Timothy 3, Romans 129, they were

filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil

covetousness, malice, they are full of Envy murder Strife,

deceit, maliciousness they are gossips slanderers haters of

God. Insolent haughty, boastful,

inventors of evil disobedient to parents, foolish faithless,

heartless ruthless. It's very similar to what we

read this morning and inverted verse 32.

He adds although they knew God's righteous decrees.

That those who do such things deserve to die.

They not only practice some, but give approval to those who do

him. It's another disturbing

commentary about the corruption of mankind, but there's a flow

of thought that led Paul to this text.

There's a flow of thought that led him to list these things.

And the idea is well, how is it that that man has steep to such

Shameless sin? How is that man can come solo to

accepting and praising things? That just 50 years ago, would be

labeled as insanity. Do you know where it begins?

Do you know where it all started?

According to Romans 14, the to be unnatural relations between,

man, and man, woman and woman for there to be debased Minds

for there to be all these ugly things that we just read to be

common and known and praised. Go back to verse 21 of the same

chapter in Romans 1. This is where it all starts.

This is where all starts for the individual.

This is where all starts for a city is where all starts for a

nation. This is where all starts for,

although they knew God, They did not honor him as God.

Or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking

and their foolish Hearts were darkened.

You understand what Paul is saying here, the two means the

very two stumbling blocks that were the cause to all the things

that you just heard plaguing. The general population is number

one that there was a refusal to honor God as god notice.

It says though they knew God. Though they knew God, there was

an absence of belief in God. In fact, the verses before says

that the glory of God, the Eternal power of God is made

known through his creation. So God is there people.

It's very difficult for you to deny that there is a God based

on creational. Nevermind, special Revelation

from his word creation itself, testifies of the glories of God.

And though they knew God, though, their minds their

conscious, their Inner, Man, They realize that there is a

moral compass in my heart that there is intelligent design,

though they knew God. It's not that the lack of the

knowledge of God, cause these things, they knew him but they

refused to honor him as God. They refused to play some where

he belongs, where he is glorified, a magnified, and

extolled, and adored and praised and given credit.

For all these things that we enjoy and see on a daily basis.

They refused to honor him as God.

So, guess what? This morning?

If you know that, there's a God, you can still be a vile sinner.

You can have a knowledge that there is a God and you can even

have verses that you would agree with my Bible tells me although

they knew God. It's not the knowledge of God

necessary that's where it begins.

Its what you do with that knowledge.

So eat up all the sermons you want, you can still live in

adultery, you can still be an unrepentant homosexual, you can

still be a thief, you can still be given over to murderous anger

though. You know, that there is a God,

the differentiating factor is that they did not honor him as

God and not just honor him as God.

Secondly, they reserve the recognition of him being the

provider of all good. Things they did not give, thanks

to God. Would it stir you for me to tell

you that all those things that you read that we often go to

when we tried to describe God's passive wrath with all the

debauchery and the filth and the sexual looseness.

Would you believe this morning that it all stems from a lack of

Thanksgiving? Of course, it does because

there's a refusal acknowledging him and just because there is a

people who refuse to worship God and place him at his rightful

place does not mean that they're not worshipping something else

because they are you read in the same chapter that we read that

they exchanged, the glory of God for the glory of creation and

they worshiped images of beasts. And man just because you're not

worshipping. God doesn't mean you're not a

worshiper. My friend.

You might be worshipping yourself this morning.

When the heart does not have God, as the center of its

worship, when the heart does not have God as the object of its

deepest, gratitude, then that heart as we just read in verse

21 will be darkened by futility and foolishness.

That's the law. People are not out there because

they have reached some intellectual Peak and they think

that believing in God is just barbaric and ancient.

No. It's because they did not honor

God as God. They refused to honor him and

they refused to give thanks them.

And that's why they are swimming in their own sin and are

drowning in it. I've talked to many atheist.

I've lost count, and I've said this before, maybe somebody

needs to hear this morning and I can tell you this, that 99% of

the time, after all the debates about dinosaurs and the Bible

written by man. Where did it all start from?

Why is that all these things? I just said look, why don't we

just save ourselves two hours. And let's get just straight to

the heart of the matter. What do you need to see to

believe? Come on.

What do you need to see to believe?

You know what I found in my years of speaking with atheist,

I found that as much as they think that they are smart and

Superior intellectually. When I asked him that question,

they seemed to stumble over the words.

Well, I don't need to see anything and they scratch their

heads and sometimes they're paralyzed with their thoughts,

and I look at them, and I said, let me finish your sentence for

you. You don't want there to be a

god. Because, you know, the moment

that you acknowledge that there is a God that you will be held

morally accountable. So believe all the foolishness

that you want and try to convince yourself and others.

It's because you've reached and you believe in science and you

reach some kind of understanding that we don't have you love your

sin. Only a few times I've met

somebody says, well I just need to see this and I knew they were

genuine. They refused to honor him as

God. They refused to give, thanks to

him. And then from that funnel, all

of those things that we just read our reality in an outcome

of that heart posture. And we know this to be true for

an unbelieving world. But let me shocked you even more

today that is not just reserved for an unbelieving population

that when a church a Ministry fails to keep honoring Christ.

And Placing him at the center and when that church does not

continue to recognize him as the main mission and purpose.

It will invite unholiness in the midst of no time.

Keep Christ in the center and you will draw in a holy people

move Christ from the center. And that list that I just read,

never mind the world, it will be here.

In the last days, there will be times of difficulty because

people will be lovers of self. That's going to be the

atmosphere and we're already seeing it.

We're already feeling it. But have you ever wondered this

morning Have you ever wondered today?

What is it going to be? Like when Christ comes to rule

and Reign? What will be the atmosphere?

What will be in the air? What will we see in every

direction? Oh and the Bible invites, you to

study the word of God because it's sprinkled and different

portions of our text and you see in one place where it says that

Jerusalem, where Christ will come physically to rule and

Reign Jerusalem will be a joy and the people will be a

gladness and then we read them. Famous text in Isaiah that he

will come with his government and to that government, there

will be no end and no end of Peace either.

And another place we read that during that rain when Jesus

comes and he plants those pierced feet on the Mount of

Olives and he comes to have the pierced hand with a rule of an

iron scepter. There will be what no sound of

weeping or cry of distress and that, that should cause us to

say, Maranatha, come Lord, Jesus, and have your way.

And I'm telling you this that as we approach the end of times as

we see these things amplify and magnify, so will that cry in our

souls, be more desperate than ever?

Has that been your crying? The past year and a half?

As I've been your crying the past two years with all the

craziness, one little invisible virus, cause the world to shut

down and we think we're sovereign.

Maranatha. Come what will make it so

contrasting to this that in the last days there will be times of

difficulty. Why?

Why the difference? And I'm sure, you know, the

answer because Jesus Christ himself will come and Usher in

his government. Free from corruption, free from

pollution free from hypocrisy and we say, Amen to that, but

There will also be something else that will contribute to it.

There will be a collective effort by those who will be

living during that time when Jesus Will Rule and Reign for a

thousand years that will cause them to do something will cause

them as they're compelled by his wisdom and his unfiltered power,

and his might and his Justice. To make him be absolute focus of

absolutely everything. And I want you to see that to be

true, as a prophecy is given by the prophet Zechariah, and the

last chapter, you have to see this for yourself.

Zechariah 14, verse 20. After describing the second

Zechariah 14:20

coming of Jesus Christ in such a way that you would think that.

It's it's in the Book of Revelation, the harmony of

scripture is Supernatural. We come to an interesting couple

of verses that will give us a snapshot of what life will look

like. When the last days come to an

end and Jesus comes to put it to an end by ruling and reigning

for a thousand years before the Eternal age comes.

And look at the description, you thought you were just going to

float in a cloud for all eternity, right?

And it's going to be foggy and you're gonna hear some music?

No, no, no. Zechariah 14, verse 20, we read.

Zechariah 14:20

Now, remember, this is not speaking about heaven.

Let me just pause here. This is not speaking about

heaven, okay, we're right now in the church age, we are still as

a church winning and bringing in a harvest by the power of the

spirit through the gospel, then the tribulation period is going

to kick off for seven years. And at the end of Seven years

Christ, will return. And that's not When Heaven

comes. That's when he rules and Reigns

physically on the earth to fulfill his promises to David

and Israel. Not because she favors a man or

a nation from all other nations because he's a promise, keeping

God and he made certain promises and they have yet to come to

pass and because he wants to declare his faithfulness to a

generation, he will make them come to pass.

If that offends, you deal with it with him when he comes

Zechariah 14, 20 we read. What the world will look like

when Jesus Christ establishes his government on the earth and

on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the

horses. Holy to the Lord, pause there.

Scripture uses horses as a clear illustration and image of War.

You use horses to go to war when a king would ride into a place

on a horse. And wore when he came on a

donkey meant peace, but here on the millennial Reign, the horses

will but will not be used for war.

They will actually be instruments of worship.

So these vehicles that were used to be lined up, to have Nation

against Nation, will actually have bells on them.

So every time you hear the horses galloping, and you're

going to look out, and you see that on those bells, those those

horses are actually part of the worship team.

And they themselves are singing unto God with those bells as

they Gallop along and the atmosphere of the glory of

Christ on Earth. And the pots in the house of the

Lord shall be as the Bulls before the altar.

Now, look at this in verse 21 and every pot in Jerusalem and

Judah shall be holy to the Lord of hosts.

So that all who sacrifice may come and take of them and boil,

the meat of the sacrifice in them.

And there shall no longer be a traitor or Canaanite in the

house of the Lord of hosts on that day.

There's a phrase that when I read this, it's so ministered to

my heart because in verse 20, we read that as we read in the Old

Testament, there are vessels and instruments used for the worship

in the house of God, but when Christ comes to rule and Reign,

he's not only going to sanctify specific vessels, in the house

of worship. We read in verse 21 and every

pot. In Jerusalem and Judah shall be

holy to the Lord of hosts. What does that mean that when

Jesus comes to rule and Reign, there will be no separation

between secular and sacred. When Jesus Christ comes to rule

and Reign, even the most common thing will be Sanctified for

worship. Even something as insignificant

as your pot, as your glasses of water as your forks, and your

knives will be dedicated unto God and will be set apart for

his glory. In other words, if the last days

according to S to me, three will be smeared with self-love

self-focused self attention self-praise.

When Jesus Christ comes to rule and Reign everywhere you look,

you're going to see Jesus Christ.

When you go do the dishes, Jesus Christ.

When you go fill up your car with gas.

Jesus Christ. When you get dressed, everything

will have the imprint of God on it.

So that wherever you look, you will see his Beauty.

And you will see that he is Sovereign over everything.

When he comes to rule and Reign, he will claim everything.

Even your pots. Because all things have been

created through him and for him. And although this world is

trying to clutch onto land and buildings and names, and bank

accounts and weapons. When Christ comes, he will strip

them out of their hands like taking a toy out of a baby's

grip. And he will say it, belongs to

me. I noticed this.

What's the connection? Make it a study of yours to see

what your home is going to look like, what the world is going to

look like when Jesus Christ returns, Joy righteousness,

peace so much, peace, that the world isn't going to know what

to do with their weapons. You say, we got to turn this to

farming equipment, we're not using our tanks, we're not using

our AR-15s, we don't need this anymore.

And the question is, how, how is the world going to be like that

one? Yes, Jesus Christ is going to

rule and Reign, but two, because everybody will Jesus, the focus.

And we think this is a future reality and it is, but I've been

taught and you've been taught to pray.

Let Your Kingdom. Come On Earth, as it is in

heaven. In other words, you and I should

ask God to make what that Kingdom will look like a

present-day reality as much as possible.

Do you want to know how you can have joy?

Peace, no Wars and your family. You want to know how you can

have Harmony order Purity in our church.

Do what Zechariah says will be done, make everything about

Christ sanctify, everything unto Christ realize that your body

doesn't belong to you, realize that your money doesn't belong

to you. Realize that He is the center.

He is the one that we worship and adore and serve.

And when you do that, it's very difficult to have War.

It's very difficult to see self-love.

So you and I have to understand that, although the kingdom of

God, is a future reality, there is a present application,

because we have the kingdom of God raining in our hearts Christ

is King today. Not just when he returns, So,

what does that mean for you and me as the world increases in

self love you. And I must say, Lord, I sanctify

all things unto you, and I say it's wholly for you, it's

separated unto you my tongue, my thoughts, my hands, my feet, my

clothes, my resources, all yours.

And as the world is being eaten up by corruption because of

that, self-love, the church will grow, and greater power, and joy

in the Holy Spirit, and Harmony and unity, because we are

walking in the opposite spirit. That's the invitation today and

what a beautiful way to transition as we come to break

bread together. Declaring that Jesus Christ is

King declaring that with this one loaf, we are indeed one

declaring that. Yes.

His body has come and that there was a prepared frame for him so

that God would find the suitable sacrifice for our substitution.

But at the same time, we are one body.

We do not live according to self-love.

We let the love of Christ, compels us.

And when it compels us, each of us, then we will see the fruit

of the kingdom of God in our midst, even now, can we prepare

our hearts to Feast together? And when it compels us, each of

us, then we will see the fruit of the kingdom of God in our

midst, even now, can we prepare our hearts to Feast together?