As Lighting Comes | Ps Graeme Politanski

Hey, welcome to the City Point Church podcast.

Thanks for joining us. Every day is an opportunity to

take hold of. So we hope this message inspires

you and builds your faith that it helps you have more of a God

perspective for your day. Enjoy you're.

Ready to receive something and lean in?

Would you confess out loud tonight?

My heart is open. My ears are alert to grow and

change and never be the same. Full stop.

Please be seated As lightning comes.

Do we know what verse that's from As lightning comes?

Matthew 24 verse 27, it says for as the lightning comes from the

Matthew 24:27

east and flashes to the West, that's pretty quick.

So also will the coming of the Son of Man, Jesus Christ be.

You know what that's telling you and I it's going to happen real

fast and it's going to be sudden.

Who's ever been outside and you've heard a clap of lightning

just happen and sometimes you even look up and you can't even

see the clouds, but sometimes you can't see the clouds.

So what is it? Is it going to rain?

Is it not going to rain? Is it going to come today or is

it going to come tomorrow? Well, the church has always

believed that he's coming right now.

And I, I think, and I know in my life, I have to live my life

with an urgency that Jesus is going to come back right now.

And when we lose that urgency, we lose effectiveness.

When the church starts forgetting about the return of

Jesus and he's just all concentrated on the blessings of

God, we lose an urgency and we lose effectiveness.

He is a God blessing. He is someone who's interested

in your every moment and everything and every thought and

every situation. But the reality is, is we have a

mission you and I have been called to.

When you give your life to Jesus, you enter into a realm of

mission. You are a missionary.

We have a purpose. We have a mandate on our lives.

And it's to see heaven come to earth and earth go to heaven,

whatever that looks like. Yeah, we can get into a theology

class, but we're not doing that here tonight.

The day or the hour of Jesus coming back for his people, we

do not know. But the season in which he comes

back, we do know. And Church, lean in.

Just lean forward for a bit. Can we all lean forward for a

bit? Listen to this.

We're in the season, We're in the season.

So there's no waiting. There's no tomorrow's.

There's no I'll sort it out tomorrow or just one more time

and I'll deal with it tomorrow. This is the time you wanted me

to prove it to you tonight from the word of God.

I'll do that anyway, whether you wanted me to or not.

It's just part of my message. It's it's what I got.

And so the season in which he comes back, we do not know, but

we are in the season as lightning comes and goes.

We never know it's coming, but the signs are there.

We have to be careful. Listen, that we do not explain

away the current science. We need to make sure that we are

truly seeing what's happening in the world around us.

Listen, you don't have to understand.

You just have to know what's happening.

You don't have to have the correct doctrine.

He that's not the the way we get into heaven.

The correct theology is not your passport into heaven, but

knowing He is coming and being prepared for His coming is how

you'll find yourself going to heaven.

And dare I say I'm preaching to the church right now.

Are you ready, Church? Now that's a question for the

church. We're going to see it in a

moment because there is the church that isn't ready as well.

And so I wonder who you are tonight.

We're ready. You're ready.

We got one down here. Do I have another couple of 100

in the room? I don't want to pass through an

unready church. I need people ready that are

with me. We're going somewhere, we're

doing something, we're reaching people because Jesus might come

back before you put your head on your pillow tonight, a man, you

might think, well, we don't know.

But this we are in the science, we are in the season, we are

seeing it. It's all around us.

And like lightning flashes, the word of God says will be the

return of Jesus. Now the return, we don't know

really what that looks like. You know, Pastor John will have

a better idea, but it will be wrong anyway, right?

And he'll tell you that it's all of and everything.

That's our answer. It's the theologians answer,

we're all right and we're all wrong at the same time, but

let's just wait and see what happens.

Just make sure you're ready because if you're waiting but

you're not ready, we're going to see in the Scriptures you will

miss out coming to church. That's not how you get to

heaven, saying I love you and I believe in you.

Jesus. Belief doesn't get you into

heaven. Faith does, but faith without

works is dead also. So that means following Jesus is

how you get into heaven because the devil has faith.

But we're not going to. He's not going to be my next

door neighbor. No way, No way.

He's got a mansion prepared for us in heaven.

Amen. We know that, right?

And the devil's not your next door neighbor, but he, he knows

God is real, but he wasn't ready.

He was deceived. So as lightning comes, we never

know, but the signs are here. So the question is, is are you

seeing the signs? I recommend that everyone

listening to this here tonight opens up the book of Matthew

this week and just reads chapter 24 and 25 and start to read that

and just go, OK, God, speak to me here because I am ready.

Nothing's going to stop me from being ready.

There are discussions around how it is that Jesus is going to

return. Will followers of Jesus go

through the tribulation or not? Will we simply go up in the sky

like the scriptures say that two are in the field and one just

disappears? I don't know who that is.

I would it's it's not me or my wife.

So we're both going so, but here's the greater issue.

Here's the better question for for us here tonight.

It's not pre Trib, mid Trib, post Trib.

Just forget it. It's not it's not, you know, I'm

saying this way or just forget it.

Just forget it all for a moment. Here's the question.

Are you ready? Because you can add the theology

and you're going to miss it. It's not about all of that that

is in the word of God to keep us straight and to keep us fearful

of our Lord and Savior. It's it's to constantly remind

us things are going to happen and they're going to be crazy.

And there's many signs in the word that will give us a guide

of what the seasons we're in and and we are in the season.

Preachers all around the world right now are declaring it.

We are in the season. But is the season a minute long

or a minute longer, I should say, or is the season a year or

ten years or our lifetime? I don't know.

None of us do. But we're in the season and

that's all we get from the word of God.

So the better question tonight is, Are you ready?

Matthew 25 one 213. Can I read a bit of the Bible?

Once you open your scriptures if you got your Bible with us or

your phone, New King James Version to stay up.

If you don't just look at the screen.

Matthew 25 verses 1 to 13. Then the Kingdom of heaven shall

Matthew 25:1–13

be likening to 10 virgins who took their lamps and went out to

meet the bridegroom. Now five of them were wise and

five were foolish. All were Christians.

Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with

them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

Verse 5 But while the bridegroom was delayed, he's been delayed

2000 years so far. While the bridegroom was

delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

Listen, the whole church slumbered and slept.

Verse 6. And at midnight a cry was heard.

Behold, the bridegroom is coming, go out and meet him.

Then all those versions arose, and trim their lamps.

And the foolish said to the wise, Give us some of your oil,

for our lamps are going out. But the wise answered, saying,

No, lest there should not be enough for us, and you, but go

rather to those who are selling, and buy for yourself.

Verse 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, Jesus

came, and those who were ready went in with him and to the

wedding, and the door was shut. Now we've heard this scripture

coming up. Afterwards the other virgins

came also, saying, Lord, Lord open to us.

And he answered and said, assuredly, I say to you, I do

not know you. Watch therefore, for you know

neither the day nor the hour in which Jesus is coming that wakes

us up in the morning. Massive that Scripture.

Surely I say to you, I do not know you.

I pondered on that and I thought, God, how could you say

that? The whole church worships all 10

virgins. They were there for him.

See, what it's not saying is he doesn't know you by name.

He doesn't. He's not saying I don't know who

you are, but he is saying the door has been shut because you

weren't prepared for me, because you didn't really know me.

You knew one day I'd come. You were there in the ready for

the moment. You came to church every single

Sunday, but you weren't really ready.

You didn't have oil in your lamp.

If you knew me, church, This is why I'm preaching this tonight.

If you knew me knew, you would have known that when I come, I

come and that's it. See, when he comes, the moment

is and then the moment isn't. Does that make sense?

If someone rocks up to your house, there's only one moment

in in which they rock up to your house.

If someone knocks on your door, there's only one moment in which

the knock happens. And so God is saying to us,

while you're here on earth, there is a mission.

Jesus has given us a mission to preach to the world, to let the

world know of their Saviour that loves them because he's

returning one day. We live in mission, but we are

never not ready. We live with an urgency inside

of us because as lightning comes just as fast as it comes, it

also goes as the door shuts. The moment the lock is in, the

lock is in. There's no kind of shut, there's

no half shuts. Does this make sense?

But the world we live in is so vague.

The well, well, your truth is truth.

It's what's your thinking is fine if it's fine with you.

Well, it's it's only a sinful way of living if it's hurting

people and it's all this vague, it's all of this, you know,

lukewarm stuff. But my scriptures say lukewarm

doesn't cut it. The scripture says he'll

actually spew you out of his mouth.

In other words, the door will be shut on a lukewarm person.

I need someone with some oil in them.

I need someone with Holy Spirit in them.

You know what Holy Spirit does? Holy Spirit brings urgent fire

inside of us. That's why we always relate Holy

Spirit to fire. That's a biblical theological

concept, but the reason why is because when we have the Holy

Spirit, what it means is it's evidence through an urgent

living, a urgent lifestyle. And so the world can tell if

you've got the Spirit of God in them because you live with

certainty and you live with urgency.

That's a living Christian. And so we have this.

And so I'm calling us tonight and I'm saying as the, as the,

the fire started to get low, is the oil running out?

Do we need a top up Church of Holy Spirit relationship?

Do we need a moment in our lives again church where we, we, we

don't just come to God, but we surrender before God.

Do we need a moment where we don't just come to church, but

when we do, we we open up our lives and we say, here I am God,

my life is yours. We live in life focused on our

circumstance or our lack past the Surya, our lack, when he's a

God of abundance and victory and more and overflow.

See, when we live in the Holy Spirit, you know, the oil flows

out of us. In other words, the Spirit of

God flows out of us. In other words, the fire in US

is contagious and it jumps to the next person.

See, a Bush fire is only a Bush fire because a spark jumped from

one place to another. And this is the Church of Life,

you know, before me, I'm seeing hundreds of people.

And the reality is there's hundreds of sparks, but we can't

let a spark get water on it. We have to get the spark and

say, Holy Spirit, breathe upon me and fire me up so I can spark

someone else's life. And then we make a commitment to

that and we say, Holy Spirit, if I'm still living tomorrow

morning, tomorrow I am going to bring the spark, the fire that's

in me and I'm going to breathe it into someone else's life.

I'm going to pray for someone. I'm going to see a miracle for

someone. I'm going to stand with someone.

I'm going to encourage someone, and I'm going to shed the love

of Jesus Christ to someone. We've got church.

If God doesn't come back tonight, you wake up with a

mission tomorrow. And if He doesn't come back

tomorrow, which He should by the way, but if he doesn't come back

tomorrow, you wake up the next day with a mission upon you.

Amen. You receive that tonight.

Firstly, I've got 2 sets of three and we got time.

Oh man, we got lots of time. I'm really going to go tonight.

This is good. I always run out of time.

Firstly, the virgins represent followers of Jesus Christ.

The 10 virgins generally represent those who profess to

be followers of Christ, the professing church waiting for

the second coming of Jesus. And then, while all 10 appeared

outwardly similar, the parable distinguishes between those who

are truly prepared, the wise, and those who are not truly

prepared, the foolish. Not all churchgoers are the

same. Some live really following

Jesus, pursuing him. Others live believing but not

following. Also in this passage the

bridegroom is Jesus Christ. Secondly, verse 5 it says but

while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and

slept. Yes, we have all been waiting

for Jesus for a really long time, generations.

But we can't afford to experience spiritual fatigue or

spiritual complacency, falling into the state of slumber while

waiting. The slumber emphasizes that even

the faithful can lose focus. We must church.

We must remain focused. We must stay on the mission of

others. That's the mission others.

We must stay on the mission of continually pursuing Jesus with

our lives. Knowing that you are a child of

God isn't enough. We have to pursue him fiercely.

Pursue him fiercely. Pray.

Get up every day and look at your prayer routine every day.

Just look at it. Can I extend it by one minute

today? You know, all yesterday was I

half sleeping while I was praying.

Just look at it. Because we fiercely need to be

pursuing the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

Not complacency, but rather curiosity.

Not complacency, but rather I wonder if I pray for this person

if they'll get healed today. Not complacency.

Oh, is there a leader around? Could they?

Could they run this group? No, I wonder what would happen

through my life if I started to Curiosity.

Not well, I grew up like this, so it's just the way we are, but

rather curiosity. I wonder if these scriptures

really do mean that I should have too much.

I wonder if he really was serious about it.

You know? I pressed down, shaken together

and running over. I wonder if that's legit

curiosity. OK, God, I'm going to give out

of my lack. I'm going to see if you will

turn my lack into more because he says we can test him in this.

Have you ever tested God in that one?

In the financial side? Because I have in a returned,

fulfilled listen, the church has never been called to not be able

to meet the needs of society. Never.

That is not biblical. That means one thing.

The church has to have so much blessing that we can't contain

it. I just set a scripture.

It means that your world needs to get to a point where you have

so much blessing. It's embarrassing to the old

you. I've been there, I've been

there. I remember through COVID, I said

to Mel. I actually said to God,

actually, but I told Mel. Well, I said to God, and I

shouldn't have. I should have told Mel first

because she would have stopped me telling that to God.

But I told God to stop because I was getting embarrassed.

See, that's me falling back into the old man.

And I caught myself about a year ago saying, hey, God, you can

take off the pause because I want to be ridiculously blessed.

I want so much money. It's ridiculous because it's

only when I'm in that situation that I can be the answer to that

situation. I don't want the money for me.

You know what, we just live on one car at the moment, one car

and a house and you know, the, the comforts of life.

It's good to have air conditioning.

That's, that's all I really want.

Like at the depths of who I am, you know, my, my dream for my

dream car. I have a cap on the financial

amount I'm prepared to spend. Now I'm talking about the dream,

right? We all got dreams, right?

Because at the end of the day, more than that, I could change

someone's life forever, you know what I mean?

Because we got a mission, but the mission doesn't mean we have

to live in poverty. Because then the church is in a

weak state and it can't be an answer to the world around it.

Who wants to be an answer to your next door neighbor?

Who wants to be an answer for your own children?

Who wants to be an answer to the community?

Like, why do we have every community program struggling for

finance when the church, there's churches all around Caboolture,

there's a ridiculous amount of churches and we want more of

them. But the reality is when the

church steps into understanding what it's meant to be walking

in, then we walk into an overflow.

This is the whole reason why the church is no longer called upon

by government. Did you know this?

I've thought about this, God, why has government left the

churches? What?

There was a time in history where the government went to the

church leaders for advice on legislation, but that is no

longer. In fact, the western world's

can't even call ourselves Christian nations, but it's

because we have no overflow anymore.

We forgot who we are. But this is a call this year

through faith of hope to say to you and to say to me, we can't

be satisfied with not enough because we have a world that we

must reach. Why?

Because Jesus might come back tomorrow and we've got to shed a

light. When darkness comes, the light

gets brighter. So don't worry about all the

stuff happening in the world. Worry about Are you ready?

Worry about that. And then worry about is your

life influencing someone else's life.

When the world gets darker, God just gets more pure in us.

We, we make some serious decisions.

We get ourselves into alignment with His church, with his

policies in the Word of God, with His standard of living and

everything. Like, did you know there's more

Scripture? I'm going to preach this.

This is not my preach, but I'll just give you a teaser.

There is more scriptures about money than there is about faith.

Did you know that yet? We're happy to talk faith every

single time we get together, and we shy away from talking about

money. Do you know why money is the

biggest subject in the word of God?

Because money is the biggest God that is going to take the church

out if the church doesn't get itself into alignment.

Money is the God of this world. Take money away and you and I

can't get this week to function. Take money away.

Our kids don't go to school this week.

You'll get phone calls by the end of the week.

You'll get a couple of months before you get, you know, tax

things and and rates and you know, electricity is not paid.

The world needs money. Money is the biggest commodity,

commodity tree, whatever that word is.

I need my wife up here in in on planet earth.

But God called you and I to have dominion over the earth.

Money. We should never be a slave to

it. It should be our slave.

And we use it for the goodness of God.

It should be our slave. We should have all the money in

the world. And I'm not talking about, oh,

yeah, the church. I'm talking about the church.

The church. Amen.

And if we can let this sink into us this year, I reckon we'll get

to Christmas time and you'll be emailing me.

Pastor Gray. I'm not sure what to do.

I bought a car, we got updated the house you like, send my kids

to a Christian School. Now we've done all this and I

still have too much. I heard I'm getting the check

coming in in a couple of months time.

You know, it's not lottery stuff, we don't do that, but the

blessing of God, it's too much for me to handle.

Pastor Grey, I'm submitting to you and I'll go Sweets.

There's a mission that Pastor Mel and I have been thinking

about. We can go over to Vanuatu now

with force and with power and help Jay and Lucy and over

there, you know, we can do these things with she Rescue Home.

We can start new churches. Instead of closing down Sunday

services. We'll be open in an abundance.

This is the reality. See, God has no full stop to his

possibility, but we put full stops to his possibilities.

And the full stop is only ever a lack of expansion of our own

minds. But we don't live from our

minds. We live from our spirit man and

the faith that God places in US. Is this OK?

And I'm going to get back to my message because I'm preaching

another one right now, but I'm a bit excited.

I had a bit of time just to go a little bit that way.

So certainly people in the church will miss out, not

because God's nasty, not because God's nasty, but simply because

they're not ready, they're not prepared.

Listen, if you don't have fire in your life, you're lacking

Holy Spirit in your life. If you don't have fire in your

life, it's a sign. It's a I'm not prepared sign

because the lamps needed oil. The sign, this passage of

scripture is telling us where the five virgins weren't

prepared. It was they weren't prepared

because of the lack of oil. And so if you're here tonight

and you're going past the grey, you're a bit crazy on the

platform. But I, I want that sort of

passion. You don't, you don't have to

show it the same way off the platform.

I'm not like this, just like this because of the Holy Spirit.

It's the, it's my gifting and I'm just operating in that.

But the reality is, is the fire is still burning.

You know, I often say if if you come to me for a conversation,

you're going to get Scripture back because I don't play around

with my life. I only get it once.

So I figure I should just use it as good as I can, right?

And so the passion, the fire is a sign of Holy Spirit.

It's a sign of oil and it's a sign of readiness, which means

the opposite to be true. Does this make sense?

And so just maybe I'm calling some of us here tonight back to

Holy Spirit encounter. I was just working out how to

word that the best I could. It's a call back to Holy Spirit.

I know that I needed you to place my faith in Jesus for

salvation. I know that.

I know that you have brought revelation to me, so you're

there with me. But Holy Spirit knowing doesn't

get me to heaven. I've got to be prepared with an

oil. Listen, biblical here, oil that

overflows. There's a reason why you're a

vessel. And the oil gets poured into a

new vessel, a new believer, someone who gives their life to

Jesus. But the whole idea in the Word

of God is your feeling is for the result of overflow.

And if it wasn't at salvation, you would go to heaven.

But the reason why the Holy Spirit in you must bring

overflow out of you is because God uses us to reach the World,

and you can't reach the World in and of your own doing, your own

strength, your own doctrine. It must always and only ever be

the strength of God, the overflowing empowering of the

Holy Spirit and Spirit led which is the Word of God, His

doctrine. Does this make sense?

And sometimes because I grew up in a church, you know, soca

moments and you know which you just walk in on Sundays and the

music starts and just lay on the ground, you know, and it was the

soca moments. But the reality is, is when you

get up off the floor, is the Holy Spirit oozing out?

Is the oil running out? Come on, get a sewing machine.

And if the needle starts laboring, you need to get some

oil and put it on there. And when the the needle starts

to when your life starts to work properly, then what happens is

you sew when you stitch into the Kingdom of God and you touch

people's lives. Does this make sense?

Church. We are a passionate church.

We are a spirit filled church. We are a lively.

We're just the best church ever. We are.

This is amazing, the experience that we all have on Sundays and

all that. It's all amazing, but we need to

walk out of the buildings wet and dripping with the presence

of God and oil on our lives. As we walk down the streets,

there should be a trail of the anointing and the Holy Spirit.

And if you think that's crazy, just read the New Testament

where Peter just walked in the anointing, oil flowed out of his

life, and miracles happen. Come on.

It's not in the Word of God that story because the church isn't

to go back to that. It's in there to remind us that

when we walk in our everyday life, even in the natural realm,

like with Peter, that the oil of the Holy Spirit is flowing out

of us. But you don't get that without

pursuing God with all your heart, full stop.

And so that's the call here tonight.

I've got another three points coming up, so I feel like I've

got Luke 1240. You also must be ready for the

Son of Man is coming out of now. You don't know Hebrews 11/7 by

faith. Noah man I want I nearly

preached just on Noah tonight, being warned by God concerning

events yet to come, and unseen ever in reverent fear

constructed an ark for the saving of his household.

By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the

righteousness that comes by faith.

No one in history knew that God could make the whole world

float. Never done before.

And as I was thinking on those words, I felt like God said to

me, Gray, you have no idea what I'm going to do.

Listen, because it's never been done before.

So I actually can't even think about it.

I have sees a creative God. He can do things that have never

been done before just blow our minds right And when I was

thinking about this in the end times, I'm just like I just felt

like him to say in Gray. No one has ever seen water come

out of the earth like that and rain come down.

Imagine so He's this weirdo guy building an ark, the biggest

boat ever built in history, and all the wicked people are

watching, seeing God's providing for him ideas they've never seen

before. How to make it waterproof.

Never, never done before. God's downloading all these

ideas to Noah, and people are just looking on.

Wasn't anyone curious? Well, the Bible tells us no,

they were all rebellious. You know what that means?

They were all swept up with just what's happening in the world.

The church can be like this, too.

We get all swept up on all the things we see on YouTube and

Facebook, all these, you know, prophets coming out of

everywhere. And I love it all.

But the real question is, Are you ready?

That's the real question as lightning comes.

And here's three points for consideration.

And then I'll finish #1 comfort and convenience over

watchfulness. Comfort and convenience over

watchfulness. Life is built around the ease,

technology, fast access, and minimum minimizing discomfort.

While those things aren't wrong, they can dull our spiritual

alertness. And more than they can they do.

The wise virgins lived with an awareness that the bridegroom

could come at any time. You know what they weren't

interested in? The new LED lamps.

I got one thumbs up. That's good.

Thank you, Sir. They weren't caught shopping

always for the right lamp for one day.

Do you know what I'm saying? Do you see what I'm saying?

They weren't caught up in the latest fats and they were found

ready. And you know what happened is

the fads come and the fads go. 100 years comes 100 years goes,

a generation comes a generation goes 1000 years comes thousand

years grow. The politicians come.

Maybe the politicians go who know what happens, right?

And the all this stuff's rolling along and the world's getting

swept up with all the latest and all.

But if it comes right now, are you found ready?

Because as lightning comes spiritually, that can look like

neglecting prayer because it feels fine in your world.

Who prays when everything's good?

Don't put your end on. It's a weird question.

Thanks for right drifting instead of intentionally

pursuing God, assuming there will always be more time later.

Comfort can quietly replace urgency.

Without urgency, readiness fades away #2 individualism without

responsibility. Culture strongly emphasizes

personal freedom and the independence.

Not all bad, but it can distort how we view accountability.

Before Gods, the wise virgins could not share their oil.

Have you ever read that? Read that and went, are you

serious? Could you not give them half

your oil just to be there? When Jesus comes back, you're

not getting my oil. I love you, but when Jesus get

you know I'm not sharing my oil because I am urgent.

I have a thing in me. You will never find me missing

out on being ready for Jesus Christ.

The wise virgins couldn't share their oil.

That's a confronting truth. Some aspects of spiritual

readiness can't be borrowed. The readiness is your

responsibility. It's my responsibility.

If you want to get out of a world of lack, only you can do

that. You have to join us every prayer

over the next two months, change our mindset.

Start applying the Word of God. You know if Pastor Soraya

doesn't, it doesn't work for you.

It works for her and her family. We have to make these decisions

and we have to be part of it. Today it's easier to rely on

someone else's faith, especially pastors, leaders, church

attendance instead of personal devotion, cultural Christianity

rather than lived conviction. Individualism says I choose my

path, but the Kingdom says I am responsible for my readiness.

When responsibility is avoided, preparation is neglected.

As lightning comes #3 destruction and noise over

devotion. Men, this is something for me.

Distractions and noise over devotion.

Western life is saturated with constant input.

Phones, streaming, social media, work demands, silence and

stillness have become rare. But oil is cultivated in hidden

places. Oil is cultivated with time,

with God, reflection and repentance.

Listening, not just consuming. You can listen to 300 podcasts a

week, but if you're not listening to what the Lord is

saying to you, one podcast would have done that.

Distraction doesn't usually destroy faith overnight, It

dilutes it slowly. I don't need to go to church.

Our kids have sport. See, We don't notice the oil

running low because life is so full of noise.

And I believe that this is the enemy's plan is it gets us so

busy, so much noise, so much information that we lose focus.

But we don't realize what's actually happening in here.

Prayer hasn't happened for a week.

We're reading the Bible or a devotion hasn't happened for a

couple of weeks, but I'll get to there tomorrow.

But what if Jesus comes today? And I'm not saying all those

things send you to hell or anything like that, but I'm

trying to bring a ready a message of readiness to us

tonight. None of these things comfort

independence, Oregon activity are inherently evil.

The danger is is when they become ultimate rather than

submitted. I said in our Bribie location

today you don't read anything in the word of God where God isn't

victor. So for you and I every season of

our life needs to finish in victory.

Now the season might be the worst season of your life and

you got constant moments of God. Where are you?

But as we continue to press in, as we continue to lean forward,

as we continue to read, as we continue to ready our spirits

and our soul and submit the flesh to the Spirit of God in

US, oil Holy Spirit in US. And as we continue to do that,

we will come through the other side and find our victory every

time. Because God is a God of victory.

He's not a God of enough. He's a God of more than enough.

The enemy doesn't always pull people away through obvious

rebellions. Often it's through subtle

delays, quiet distractions, misplaced priorities in our

lives. The call of Matthew 25 isn't

fear. It's preparedness, not panic,

but intentional living. As lightning comes, so will

Jesus Christ. So the question tonight is, are

you prepared?