Eternal Rewards Pt. 7

This is Ronald Hopkins, and thank you for joining the Life Center Church.

Now, over the last several weeks, we've been talking about the eternal rewards.

Living for eternity.

And well, before I do that, let's go to our text.

Colossians chapter 3.

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Colossians chapter 3, verse number 2 from the King James, it says, set your affection on things that are above, not on the things on the earth.

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The Amplifier says, set your mind and keep focus habitually on the things above.

The heavenly things, not on the things that are on the earth, which have only temporary value.

So on last week we talked about the rapture or the catching away of the church.

And when we were talking about the rapture or the catching away of the church, there were some statements that were said.

Number one, we shouldn't just be physically alive, which is stay on fire for God.

Because you've got to understand that being a lukewarm believer is not popular with God.

He said, I'd rather you be on fire or cold, not in between.

He says, and for that individual, I'm going to spit you out of my mouth.

One thing we have to understand that right now Jesus is the slain lamb.

When he comes back, he's not coming back as the lamb.

And this is what the body of Christ has to understand.

Right now, he is compassionate, he is loving, he is merciful.

But when he comes back, he's not coming back like that.

You have to understand that there is grace that is available right now.

There is mercy that is available right now.

There is love that's available right now.

But once the church is raptured up, then the wrath of God is gonna go forth.

This is Bible, folks, not somebody's opinion.

Not what you think.

So last week I gave you or I mentioned something, and I said I would give you the formula today.

So go back to 2 Peter chapter 3.

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Because we were talking about time, and God's idea of time is not the same as our idea of time.

So 2 Peter chapter 3, verse number 8, it says, but beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day, one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

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So here is the scriptural reference that the way the Lord sees time is one day equals a thousand years.

And we talked about that there are people in the Old Testament that didn't even live one day.

Because one day equals a thousand years.

So Tina, I believe, yeah, there we go.

So one thousand human years is one day with the Lord.

My God.

So I'm an hour old.

So let me convert that for you.

So I'm 55.

Yes, you are.

So 55 divided by 1000 equals 0.005 days.

If you convert that into hours, so you take the 0.005 and you multiply that by 24, you will get 1.3 hours.

So if you convert that into minutes, I've literally, according to the timetable of God, I've only been on the earth one hour and 19 minutes.

Come on.

So we have a misconception of time because when our focus is not on eternal things, then we'll think natural.

70 years, 80 years, 90 years is a long time.

Not in the mind of God.

You barely have been on the earth two hours.

That's why it's important that we set our affection on heavenly things and we work for the king because he's soon to return.

He's not slack concerning his promise.

So he's giving people the opportunity to get in and to stay in.

Because when that door closes, as we saw on last week, and when he comes through the cloud with the shout, only those that belong to him are the only people that's going up.

Then the wrath of God will begin to manifest on the earth.

Now, let's go to Revelation chapter 1.

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So good.

You better live like he's coming back today.

Hello.

Not try to get ready.

You should be ready.

Look at your neighbor and say, you better get ready.

So I want to start here today, Revelation chapter 1, with verse number 3.

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I'm going to read it from the New Living Translation.

And this is about the book or the revelation of Jesus.

Because many of God's people are afraid or they misunderstand the revelation of Jesus because it's been taught wrong.

It's been taught for you to fear the things that are happening or the things that are to come.

Watch verse number three.

God blesses the one who reads the words of this prophecy to the church.

And he blesses all who listens to his message, and so it's not just you listening to the message.

There has to be some obedience to what you hear.

For the time is near, for his return is near.

Now, point number one today.

Are you paying attention to what's happening?

And that.

Or are you just kind of going through life-to-life routine and not really staying sensitive to what's happening to this world and what's happening to the church?

Last week I showed you there's a difference between people falling away and people just stumbling.

There is, as the Bible says, apostasy where you have believers who once believe and no longer believe.

Are you paying attention to what's happening?

You had believers who once were on fire for God but no longer think about God.

Believers who, I remember back in the day when the doors of the church were open, you couldn't wait to get in.

At least for me.

Now you have people that are comfortable being at home chilling when they're able to come to the house of God.

Are you paying attention to what's happening?

Well, you have churches in America that are literally closing because of the people.

But then you go overseas and you have people on fire for God.

That they're building bigger and bigger and bigger because the people are hungry.

Are you paying attention?

Let's go to 2 Timothy chapter 3.

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2 Timothy chapter 3, verse number one, says, you should know this, Timothy.

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Remember, he is the pastor of the church of Ephesus.

So Holy Spirit is reminding Timothy to remind the people that you should know this.

You should pay attention to this.

He says that in the last days there will be very difficult times.

For people will love only themselves.

That's what it says right there.

It said right there.

How do you know that?

Pay attention to what happens during offering.

I'm not giving.

That's not your money.

But guess what?

When it's all said and done, you're gonna stand before him.

He says, for people will only love themselves and their money.

They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents.

We can see this with the teen takeovers.

And ungrateful.

They will consider nothing sacred.

Burning down churches, robbing churches, don't value marriage any longer.

They will be unloving and unforgiving.

They will slander others and have no self-control.

Just eating anything, just watching anything, just going wherever you feel like going.

They will be cruel and hate what is good.

They will betray their friends, be reckless, be pumped up with pride, and love pleasure rather than God.

They will, this is interesting.

You don't act religious.

Act like you actually have a relationship with God.

Act like you praying, but you don't pray.

Come to church once a year.

Come to church on Easter, Christmas, and Thanksgiving.

Religious.

But they will reject the power that could make them godly.

Notice the warning.

Stay away from folks like this.

Notice I didn't write this.

Stay away from people like that.

Paul by Holy Ghost said that there will be recognizable traits that we would see happening in the body of Christ in the end of days.

And we're seeing it right now.

Society has gotten off track.

And society and even the church has agreed and is setting the door and opening the door to lawlessness.

We can see from this, people have become self-centered.

They think about pleasure more than God.

And in fact, they are resisting God.

Now, something happens when society no longer decides to live according to the standard or the standards of the Word of God.

Go to Isaiah chapter 5.

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Isaiah chapter 5, verse number 20.

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It says, Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil.

So this word lawlessness doesn't mean we don't have laws.

Because there are all kinds of laws.

There are traffic laws.

There are civil laws.

There are all different kinds of laws you can think of.

That's not what lawlessness means.

Lawlessness is when God's laws are no longer the standard in a person's life.

That you have made a decision to no longer follow the standards and the laws and the principles that God has outlined in his word.

And since we're in this time that Paul talked about that there are no more standards, then that simply means there will be no boundaries where you can just feel like doing something, and then you just gonna do it.

Because everybody else is doing wrong, then everybody else just decides it's acceptable, so I'm getting ready to do it.

You have to understand what this is actually setting up and who it's making a stage for.

Go to Second Thessalonians, it's creating an environment for the lawlessness one.

Thessalonians chapter two, watch verse number three.

We've been talking about this.

Let no man deceive you by any means.

For that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first.

You weren't here last week, you want to go back and listen to that.

And the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.

Last week we talked about what happens when the church is raptured up.

Today we're gonna talk about what happens on the earth because the church is no longer here.

Woo! Come on, sir.

You need to know, although you won't be here.

Thank you.

Thank the Lord.

That's why it should be a sense of urgency to be a fisher of men, to fish for people so that God's creation won't experience this.

Evangelism is vitally important.

Did you tell somebody about the love of God, the love of Jesus, that his salvation is at hand and salvation is available today?

Bible says the man of sin shall be revealed when the church is gone.

I need you to understand how important this living organism is that God ordained, that God created and God established.

It is the only institution as powerful as several institutions may seem to be.

They're powerless compared to God.

They're powerless compared to the church.

Want you to know what you should be a part of.

A local body that is holding back the Antichrist.

God didn't write letters in the Revelation to Amazon.

He didn't write letters to your company.

He wrote letters to the churches.

So that the churches can get right.

Now it says the man of sin.

So this man of sin will have no allegiance or loyalty to God's word.

So he will deceive.

That's why you gotta know the word.

He will not practice the word or be a doer of the word, but he will practice being lawless.

He will not submit to God's authority, so he will exalt himself.

Well, he won't worship God.

He's gonna demand that other people worship him.

So the Bible says that he's called the son of perdition.

This word perdition means destruction and ruin.

Destruction and ruin.

So his ultimate goal is to ruin people's lives and to destroy their lives.

I need you to understand this is his goal, this is his responsibility to cause destruction and ruin.

Remember, the church has been raptured up.

The church has been caught up.

Then he's going to be revealed.

Now, go to 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 and let's back up to verse number 6.

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Help us learn, help us grow.

Verse 6 says, and you know what is holding him back.

For he can be revealed only when his time comes.

So the only way that he can show up is that we have to be removed.

But he has a specific time.

For lawlessness is already at work secretly.

And it will remain secret until the one who is holding it back steps out of the way.

This is referring to the church, the church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We are the ones that when we pray, God shows up.

We are the ones that when we minister salvation, people get saved.

It is us that is holding him back.

I want you to understand how important your role is, your assignment is, your responsibility is.

Because when we are out of here, his job is to ruin and destroy.

Okay.

So what happens when the church is taken up or snatched away or raptured up?

Because we just saw that deception is already here.

It's already here.

But when we're gone, it's gonna enter in with no resistance at all.

Because we are the one that's holding it back.

Why?

Because we are the light, we are the truth.

But when there's no truth that's here, come on.

No resistance that's here, no one to enforce God's laws, you think that it's bad now.

When we're out of here, there will be no resistance to anything.

Why?

Because he is the man of lawlessness.

So the question now bears, why would the world follow the man of sin?

Who is called the Antichrist?

Because when you think about there are no laws or no one is following God's laws, then all chaos and all for lack of better terms, all hell is breaking loose.

People that are here are going to look for solutions.

They're going to look for peace.

They're going to look for financial security.

Go to Daniel chapter 9.

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This is part of the eternal reward system, so you understand.

What makes deception so dangerous is deception comes like a solution.

But I want you to know he's not the solution.

He's the problem.

But he's going to come like he'll have the solution to peace.

But he's going to cause chaos.

In fact, before you go there, let's go to John 16.

Let me set this up more.

Because you have heard people and you hear people say that we're in the tribulation.

If you're in the tribulation.

It's the tribulation, not tribulation.

You'll get this in a minute.

John 16.

Jesus says, These things have I spoken unto you that in me you might have peace.

In the world, you shall have tribulation.

But be of good cheer.

I've already overcome the world.

So tribulation means tests, trials, temptations, hardships.

But he says that you can be victorious over tests, trials, temptations, hardships as long as you stay in him.

Because in him he's already overcome tests, trials, temptations, and hardships.

Once the tribulation begins, the revelation of Jesus now shows us a series of judgments that will become more severe than the next one.

So it will be harsh, then it will get harsher, then it will get harsher than that.

It will be so difficult for people, then they won't have any relief.

Go to Matthew chapter 24.

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Let me show it to you.

Jesus says in verse number 21, for then shall be great tribulation, great tribulation, great tribulation.

Such was not since the beginning of the world to this time.

No, never ever shall be.

So when the tribulation begins, it will be worse than the Holocaust.

It will be worse than World War One, World War II, any famine, any COVID, anything, the Great Depression, the bubonic plague.

It will be worse than anything that anybody has seen in history.

Now go to Daniel chapter 9.

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And let's have an understanding of this.

Because remember, a church isn't here.

And that's why I mentioned on last week, you should be mindful to say who's in hell.

You don't know that.

Only God knows that.

Be mindful of who who you think that had repented before God.

And you pass in judgment.

Yeah, that's yeah, you should worry about you.

Because when Jesus was hanging on the cross, there were two thieves on the side of him.

And they did wrong their entire lives in that one second.

When nobody heard them but God and Jesus, he got in.

So who are you to say who's getting in or who's not getting in?

And what we're getting ready to read about the tribulation, God wouldn't want anybody who's following him to experience this.

Now, Daniel chapter nine, verse number twenty five.

Well, let's start at let's start at twenty-five.

Daniel at this time is praying and standing in the gap for Israel.

And God begins to answer his prayer by showing him a prophetic timeline because Israel had turned their back on God, turned their back on Jesus.

And God gives him a prophetic timeline, a 490-year prophetic timeline concerning Israel and Jerusalem.

And in this 490-year timeline, it shows how Israel rejected Jesus.

And at the same time, when they rejected Jesus in God's prophetic timeline, it's important that I say this, in his timeline, he created the church.

And when he created the church, both the Jews and the Gentiles would then come into one body, which is the church.

And after this seven-week period, when the church is raptured up, God will then turn his heart right back to Israel.

Learn us.

And three score and two weeks, the street shall be built again in the wall, even in troubless times.

Verse number 26 says, And after three score and two weeks shall the Messiah be cut off, but not for himself, and for the people of the prince shall come, shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, and the end thereof shall be with the flood, and unto the end of the war, desolations I'll determine.

Verse 27.

And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week.

And in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblivion to cease.

And for the overspreading of the abominations he shall make desolate even the consummation and that determined.

Now, put this graphic up because this will explain everything that happens.

So when the church is raptured up, as we've seen scriptures for this, there will be a seven-year time frame in which the tribulation will happen.

The first three and a half years, the Antichrist will make a covenant with Israel.

He will then break that covenant.

He'll make a peace treaty.

Deception will become worse, not just for Israel, but deception will become worse for the world.

Because remember, the church is not here.

I'll give you a scripture reference for that.

2 Thessalonians chapter 2, verse number 9.

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It says, This man will come to do the work of Satan.

So he will be empowered by Satan.

The Antichrist will.

So he will be empowered by Satan.

Watch this.

With counterfeit power.

And signs.

And miracles.

Remember, lawlessness is already in the earth.

People are going to be looking for answers.

So Satan will empower the Antichrist because remember, there's nobody holding him back.

The church is gone.

So Satan will empower him to do counterfeit signs and wonders and miracles.

He will use every kind of evil deception to fool those on their way to destruction.

Because they refuse to love and accept the truth that would save them.

So God will cause them to be greatly deceived.

And they will believe these lies.

Then they will be condemned for enjoying the evil rather than believing the truth.

So, as people believe these lies, miracles, signs, and wonders, they will then pledge allegiance to him.

Now remember, the church is no longer here.

So all this deception is happening in and throughout the world.

And while all this deception is happening in the world, we, those who have been caught up, are standing before God receiving our heavenly rewards.

But also, let me show you what else is happening.

Because we looked at this in the Revelation chapter 5, that the Lamb is now opening up the scrolls.

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So on top of all this deception that's happening, if that's not enough, and people are pledging allegiance to the Antichrist, if that's not enough, then let me show you what's also that's happening.

Because there's a whole time line of things that are going to happen in this seven-year period.

Go to Revelation chapter six.

I'll show it.

Revelation chapter six.

Once again, you gotta listen to all this together.

Because we talked about Revelation chapter five already, but watch Revelation chapter six.

And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder.

One of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

And again, this is John.

He says, And I saw and behold a white horse.

He that sat on him had a bow.

And a crown was given unto him, and he went forth conquering to conquer.

So, Tina, let's put that first graphic up.

Many Bible scholars have studied and said that this first writer on the horse is actually the Antichrist.

He, as we just saw in multiple scriptures, he will deceive many, many, many, many cities, states, nations.

And his job is to create destruction and ruin.

But he didn't show up like that in the beginning.

He showed up as a nice guy.

And what you will find happening after three and a half years, then he's gonna actually show who he actually is.

Verse 3 says, and when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.

And there went out another horse that was red.

And power was given to him that sat thereupon to take peace from the earth.

Want you to see the next part.

That they should kill one another.

And there was given unto him a great sword.

Put that second graphic up.

Notice his responsibility.

I want you to really consider this.

There's no peace.

They should start killing each other.

Remember, they're not following the laws of God.

There's nobody here to enforce it.

The church is no longer here.

The light is no longer here.

All that's here is darkness.

Verse 5 says, and when it opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see.

And behold, a black horse.

And he that sat on it had a pair of ballastes in his hand.

Put that graphic up.

See, you gotta understand, once again, we're reading the wrath of God.

When you think about this black horse, let me read the rest of it.

Because you will see that this is the rider of famine.

So no longer, no longer is there peace.

People are murdering each other.

People will then begin to fight over food.

Right now, if you think about what we do, we help children with food insecurity.

That means they don't have access to food.

When this time comes, food will be scarce.

And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts, a measure of wheat for for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny, and see that thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

And he had opened the fourth seal, and I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.

And I looked and behold, a pale horse, and his name that sat on it was death.

And hail followed him.

And power was given unto them over a fourth part of the earth.

To kill with the sword, hunger, death, and with the four beasts of the earth.

Show that next graphic.

My prayer is that this becomes sobering to all of us because remember who's opening up these seals?

It's the Lamb of God.

Everybody on the face of the earth has an opportunity to get born again.

Why do you think that there was an awesome price that he paid to redeem us?

To save us from the wrath to come.

And what's interesting about this is because God is still loving and still gracious and still merciful, even in the midst of people still rejected him.

People, when we are gone, they're still gonna get saved.

They still gonna have the opportunity.

And what you will find when we read this, that people, although God's still showing grace, still showing mercy, still showing love, people will still reject him.

In the midst of all of this foolishness, they still will have a prideful attitude, think that they can have and pay their way out of this, buy their way out of this, be in relationships with people that they can get them out.

There is no hookup if you don't hook up with the one who has the ultimate hookup.

Somebody gotta tell the truth, and not my opinion.

See, what's what's happening, what's happening in the body.

Of Christ is people are giving their opinion and they're taking things out of context that are not biblical.

And because it sounds like the truth, people are making their decisions in life based off a person's conviction that's not even scriptural.

Verse number nine says, and when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God.

And for the testimony which they held.

And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

And white robes were given unto every one of them, and it was said unto them that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also and their brethren, watch this, should be killed as they were.

So there will be individuals that are in the tribulation who will not take allegiance to the Antichrist that will be killed because they wouldn't back down from Jesus.

Read the Bible.

God is so merciful.

So you tell me, then how and why would God take away somebody's salvation?

After all this, and he's still, he's still chasing after us.

Even during the tribulation.

Because Holy Spirit will start to move, and angels will begin to minister the gospel.

In the midst of all hell breaking loose, all because God is in love with his creation.

Verse number twelve.

In fact, show that graphic, Tina, of those that were slain that are before the throne of God.

Martyred for what you believe.

Verse number twelve says, and I beheld, when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was a great earthquake.

And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood.

Now remember, the Antichrist is here.

Murder is happening, famine is happening, all different kinds of things that are happening on the earth.

The four riders are in one fourth of the earth, causing all kind of chaos and havoc.

And I want you to realize they're doing this for seven years.

On top of that, the sixth seal was open, then there's an earthquake.

And the sun became black.

And the moon became as blood.

Now, Tina, show this graphic because I want you to understand what would happen if there was no sunlight.

If there was no sun, although it's far away from us, do you realize that the climate will begin to change?

It would totally change the climate and the atmosphere.

And if the climate began to change, what do you think would happen to trees?

Crops.

On top of those writers are here destroying certain things.

People will begin to get cold.

Remember, there is no law.

So people are looting.

They're stealing, they're robbing.

All these things are happening.

What's happening in these next couple of seals, you will see that the creation that we know of is being shaken.

Verse number 13 says, and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth.

Even as a fig tree casteth her timely, untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

So John, what he's seeing, he's seeing stars or meteorites come to the earth.

Can you imagine what can happen if you have stars or meteorites falling to the earth?

It will cause earthquakes, tsunamis, fires, explosions.

And if there are explosions, if you could just imagine that, if something is coming from the sky and it hits in the middle of somebody's driving, you got accidents, you have people who can't see, it changes everything.

I believe I have a graphic for that one as well.

Remember, this is the wrath of God.

This is the judgment of God.

Verse 14.

It says, and the heaven departed.

The heaven.

Remember, we talked about the different kinds of heaven.

This is not the heaven where God is at.

This is the atmosphere.

So the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together.

And every mountain and island will move out of their place.

See what will happen during that time is all the people that are on the earth will realize that God is more powerful.

They are going to see how powerful God actually is.

And the earth that we know it, they will realize that this thing is not as permanent as we think it is.

Because the very earth that we're on today will be transformed.

Creation is yelling that something is happening.

Verse 15 says, And the kings of the earth.

And people you thought was great.

People you looked up to.

And rich men.

All these folks who got all these resources that refuse to accept Jesus.

And the chief captains.

And the mighty men and every bond man and every free man.

It'll be so bad they'll begin to hide themselves.

Money won't save you.

You can create all kind of underground safeguards, safe houses.

None of those things will save people from the wrath to come.

The only saving grace that people will have is that you must come to the conclusion that Jesus must be Lord over your life.

They will realize that there is someone greater than them.

And remember, in the book of Philippians, the Bible says every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord.

I would rather bow down voluntarily.

Watch verse number 18.

And they begin to cry out, and they start saying, To the mountains and to the rocks.

Because there's so much evil and so much death and no peace.

Notice what they are going to say.

Fall on us.

Hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne.

And from the wrath of the Lamb.

Now I wrote this down.

I believe you'll have this, Tina.

They recognize the Lamb, but instead of running to him for salvation, they're trying to hide from the Lamb in judgment.

Interesting that they hide and don't repent.

Verse 17 says, For that great day of his wrath is come.

And who shall be able to stand?

That day is coming.

There is a specific time frame that God has ordained for this to happen.

And when this happens, all of the judgments will begin, and God will then turn his heart back to Israel.

And that's why the Bible says it'll be just like the days of Noah.

And then as we get more into this, you will see that this Babylonian system, the system that we get caught up in, the world system, it is going to collapse.

You all gun-ho about AI and cloud and clog and all of this stuff, it is going to fall.

Now let's go back to Colossians chapter three and then we'll close here.

Can you all see why I didn't rush this?

Thank you, Pastor.

Because remember, these judgments will begin to increase.

So they're going to increase after what I just showed you.

Because the Antichrist, in three and a half years, he's going to break his treaty with Israel.

Then after all of that, you're going to have the beast show up.

Then that's when people are going to start taking the mark of the beast.

All this is being set up right now.

Taking implants in your hand and cashless society.

It's setting everything up.

Wake up.

That's why Colossians chapter 3 is so important that you set your affection on things that are above.

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Thank you, Jesus.

Because wait until we start talking about these bold judgments.

And really show you how Babylon is gonna fall.

After reading this, do you really think that God wants his children to experience this?

No.

My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge.

Learn something.

Not forgiving people.

This is bigger than all of this because the reality is when we are raptured up, when we are transformed, we will stand before him on that Bima seat before the Marit Supper of the Lamb, and we will be rewarded for what we have done for Him.

That's why your prayer life is important.

That's why quick to forgive is important.

That's why serving Him is important.

Because when we get over into us coming back down here in the New Jerusalem, your position for your rulership is not whether or not you are the president of your company.

Because there'll be some that will rule over planets.

There'll be others who will rule over the animal kingdoms.

And it's all based upon how faithful, how committed, how dedicated you are to him while you're here on this earth.

So if I'm you, while I have the time, I'm building up my eternal rewards.

For three hours.

Okay, we're just out of time.

We'll pick back up here on next week.

Every head is bowed and every eye is closed.

This is not a shouting message.

This is to inform you so you are equipped about the things that are going to happen.

So that in your heart there has to be a sense of urgency to tell people about Jesus so that they can escape the wrath to come.

If you're in here today and you're not born again, you're not sure that you're born again.

Paul says, I beseech you.

I beg of you.

If that's you, you're not born again, lift your hand in the air.

We'll pray with and for you.

So that heaven would be your home.

And you will begin to walk every single day in communion with him.

Because that starts eternal life.

Maybe you're in here and you say, Pastor, yes, I'm born again.

I'm in right standing with God.

But I'm struggling.

God did not save us for us to struggle.

He's given us everything that we need to live victorious.

He's given us the word, he's given us the blood, and he's given us Holy Spirit.

And part of the ministry of Holy Spirit is that you have access to power.

We've seen already that when we are raptured up, Holy Spirit will be before the throne.

Then he'll come back to the earth.

So you won't need Holy Spirit when you get to heaven.

You only need him while you're here in the earth.

There's power available.

So if you're in here today, you've never received your personal prayer language.

Today is your day.

If that's you, lift your hand in the air.

Okay.

I trust everybody's heart and life is right with God.

Are you all?