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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Jesus: The Subject of Prophecy | March 3, 2025
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- ♪♪♪
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- Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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- Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory" with
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- Dr. robert jeffress.
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- Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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- Again to "pathway to victory."
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- When most people think about jesus, they picture him as he
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- Appeared in his first coming, a gentle teacher, a compassionate
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- Healer, and a loving savior.
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- But the bible tells us there's much more to the story.
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- Today we're beginning a fascinating new study on the end
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- Times that reveals the complete picture of jesus christ and his
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- Triumphant return in the last days.
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- My message is titled, "jesus: the subject of prophecy,"
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- On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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- ♪ all the colors of the rainbow, ♪
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- ♪ all the voices of the wind, ♪
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- ♪ every dream that reaches out, ♪
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- ♪ that reaches out to find where love begins, ♪
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- ♪ every word of every story, ♪
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- ♪ every star in every sky, ♪
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- ♪ every corner of creation lives to testify. ♪
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- ♪ for as long as i shall live, ♪
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- ♪ i will testify to love. ♪
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- ♪ i'll be a witness in the silences ♪
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- ♪ when words are not enough. ♪
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- ♪ with every breath i take, ♪
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- ♪ i will give thanks to god above. ♪
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- ♪ for as long as i shall live, ♪
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- ♪ i will testify to love. ♪
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- ♪ from the mountains to the valleys, ♪
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- ♪ from the rivers to the sea ♪
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- ♪ every hand that reaches out, ♪
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- ♪ every hand that reaches out to offer peace ♪
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- ♪ every simple act of mercy, ♪
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- ♪ every step to kingdom come, ♪
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- ♪ all the hope in every heart ♪
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- ♪ will speak what love has done. ♪
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- ♪ for as long as i shall live, ♪
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- ♪ i will testify to love. ♪
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- ♪ i'll be a witness in the silences ♪
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- ♪ when words are not enough. ♪
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- ♪ with every breath i take, ♪
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- ♪ i will give thanks to god above. ♪
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- ♪ for as long as i shall live, ♪
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- ♪ i will testify to love. ♪
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪ i'll testify, testify for as long as i shall live. ♪
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- ♪ testify, testify. ♪
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- ♪ i just can't help but testify, ♪
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- ♪ testify, testify. ♪
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- ♪ all of creation, testify ♪
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- ♪ for as long as i shall live, ♪
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- ♪ i will testify to love. ♪
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- ♪ i'll be a witness in the silences ♪
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- ♪ with every breath i take, ♪
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- ♪ i will give thanks to god above. ♪
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- ♪ for as long as i shall live, ♪
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- ♪ i will testify to love. ♪
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- ♪ for as long as i shall live, ♪
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- ♪ i will testify to love. ♪
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- ♪ i'll be a witness in the silences ♪
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- ♪ when words are not enough. ♪
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- ♪ with every breath i take, ♪
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- ♪ i will give thanks to god above. ♪
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- ♪ for as long as i shall live, ♪
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- ♪ i will testify to love. ♪
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- ♪ testify, testify, ♪
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- ♪ for as long as i shall live. ♪♪
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- Female: whoo!
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- [congregation applauding]
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- Announcer: jesus is the most talked about person in human
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- History, but we can't fully grasp who jesus is until we
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- Understand both his first and his second coming.
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- In his powerful new book, "jesus revealed in the end times,"
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- Dr. robert jeffress unveils the glorious return of our savior.
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- Learn what his triumphant return means for your life today.
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- Request your copy of "jesus revealed in the end times" when
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- You give a generous gift to support the ministry of "pathway
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- To victory."
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- Jeffress: what comes to your mind when you hear the name
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- "jesus christ"?
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- For millions of americans, they think of the face of
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- Jonathan roumie.
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- Now let's be clear, jonathan roumie did not come from heaven
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- To earth.
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- He came from hell to earth.
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- Well, to be more specific, hell's kitchen, new york, where
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- He was born in 1974.
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- As a young man, he wanted nothing more than to be
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- A well-known actor.
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- As a young adult, he went to hollywood, had little
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- Success there.
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- When he was down to his last $20 he knelt down and prayed that
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- God would miraculously intervene in his life.
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- Two months later, he was selected to play the lead
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- Character, jesus christ, in the hit series, "the chosen."
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- People think about jonathan roumie when they think
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- About jesus.
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- Roumie said about his character, "jesus is the only character who
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- I would hope to stay in character as all the time."
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- He said he had some challenges, though, playing jesus.
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- He said people come up to meet him and are expecting
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- A spiritual encounter.
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- He said, "that can be hard to live up to.
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- I am not jesus."
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- Jesus is the most portrayed person in human history.
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- There is absolutely no way to calculate all the books that
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- Have been written about him, the paintings that have tried to
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- Depict him, the actors who have portrayed him.
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- And yet what all of these depictions about jesus have in
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- Common is they all seem to center on the first coming
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- Of jesus.
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- Jesus as he appeared when he was here on earth.
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- But what about now?
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- What does jesus look like as he sits at the right hand of god
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- The father?
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- What will jesus be like in the end-times?
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- The fact is you can't understand the totality of who jesus is
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- Until you understand both his first and his second comings.
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- And when you understand who jesus will be when he comes in
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- The end, that is the answer to the most basic questions we have
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- In life.
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- Questions like: what is my purpose?
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- How can i have a relationship with god?
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- And what does the future hold for me?
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- It's that last question that is perhaps the most relevant to
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- People here and are watching this broadcast.
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- What is the future for me?
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- The world begins and ends with jesus christ, and so do
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- You and i.
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- And that leads to the first truth i want us to understand as
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- We begin this series, "jesus revealed in the end times."
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- The first truth is this: the focus of prophecy is a person
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- Rather than an event.
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- The focus of prophecy is a person rather than event.
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- You know, that can bring relief to us when we understand who
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- Jesus really is.
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- Remember, in his first coming, the majority of people rejected
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- Him because he didn't meet their expectations of what they were
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- Looking for in a messiah.
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- And so the average israelite was confused about who jesus was.
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- The religious leaders took advantage of that.
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- They rejected jesus and said, "if you really want to know god,
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- Keep our laws, keep our endless list of rules and regulations."
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- And to those people, listen to what jesus said, familiar words
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- From matthew 11:28 to 30: "come to me, all who are weary and
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- Heavy laden, and i will give you rest.
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- Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for i am gentle and
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- Humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
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- For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."
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- He said, "if you want rest, if you are weary, you're crushed
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- Down with burdens, come to me.
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- I--understand who i am."
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- There is rest in knowing who jesus is, and that leads to
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- A second truth: the purpose of prophecy.
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- What is the purpose?
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- Why does god spend so much time talking about prophecy?
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- You know, i think about 1 thessalonians 4, verse 13.
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- Paul is introducing the subject of the rapture, and he said to
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- The thessalonians: "for we do not want you to be ignorant,"
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- Unaware, "about those who sleep in christ," those who have died
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- Before the rapture or the return.
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- There's no premium on being ignorant about the end-times,
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- You know.
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- There's some people who say, "well, i don't bother about
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- The end-times.
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- I just leave all that to god, you know, i'm not premillennial
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- Or postmillennial.
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- I'm just panmillennial.
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- I believe it will all pan out in the end."
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- Well, that's real cute, but it's really ignorant, and there's no
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- Premium on ignorance in the bible.
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- God did want us--does want us to understand the end-times.
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- That's why he gives so much space to it, but it's more than
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- Something to fill our heads.
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- It needs to fill our heart.
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- Understanding the end-times ought to change the way we live.
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- And that leads to the purpose of bible prophecy.
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- There are two things that should fill our hearts because of our
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- Understanding of jesus in the end-times.
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- First of all, our hearts ought to be overflowing with hope.
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- God gave us this truth to give us hope.
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- Somebody has said man can go 40 days without food.
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- He can go 8 days without water.
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- He can go 4 minutes without oxygen, but he will only last
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- A few seconds without hope.
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- We all need hope, and hope is in short supply these days.
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- We need hope.
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- Hope, what is it?
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- It's a desire for something we don't already have.
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- In romans 8, verses 24 and 25, paul writes: "who hopes for what
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- He already has?
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- But if we hope for what we do not have, we wait for
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- It patiently."
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- God wants to fill us with hope, and we don't find hope just in
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- Events, but in the person who controlled those events,
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- Jesus christ.
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- Secondly, a study of prophecy and jesus in the end-times
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- Should fill our hearts with a desire for holiness.
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- Holiness.
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- The fact that jesus is coming back again ought to fill us with
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- A desire to obey god, to please god, to follow him in every part
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- Of our life.
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- Quick 60-second review.
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- Remember the bible uses two phrases to describe the end
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- Of time.
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- There is the phrase, "the last days."
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- The last days.
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- The bible talks about the last days, and technically, the last
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- Days are that time between christ's first coming and his
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- Second coming.
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- Ever since jesus ascended back into heaven more than 2,000
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- Years ago, we have been living in the last days, anticipating
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- His second coming.
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- The bible uses that term in several places: acts 2:17,
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- On the day of pentecost when the followers of jesus had been
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- Baptized with the holy spirit, remember, peter preached to the
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- Crowd on the southern steps of jerusalem and said, "this is
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- An anticipation.
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- This is a fulfillment of what the bible says."
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- And he quotes an old testament verse that says: "and it shall
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- Be in the last days that i will pour out my spirit on
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- All mankind."
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- The second phrase, "the end times," that's the other phrase
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- Used to describe the last period on earth, the end-times.
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- You find it in matthew 24, verse 3.
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- Remember, jesus was on the
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- Mount of olives with his disciples, and as he was sitting
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- There, the disciples came to him saying, "lord, tell us, when
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- Will these things happen?
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- And what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of
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- The age?"
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- Jesus skipped over answering the when.
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- He would say later in matthew 24:36: "it's not for you to know
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- The time or the epics.
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- You're not in that business."
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- But he did say, "you need to understand the events."
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- And jesus began his description of the end-times, starting with
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- The tribulation, and going through the second coming and
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- Ending with the millennial kingdom, the establishment of
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- Christ's kingdom on earth.
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- So let's look at some of the roles that we're going to
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- Examine and study in depth that the end-times reveal
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- About jesus.
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- First of all, jesus as messiah.
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- In the end-times, we see jesus as messiah.
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- Now we refer to jesus as jesus christ.
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- It's funny how many people think jesus is his first name and
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- Christ is his last name.
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- No, that's not it.
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- Christ, christos, means messiah, the anointed one.
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- And jesus, when he came the first time, he was the
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- Long-awaited messiah.
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- He was born in human form, he grew up, he taught many things,
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- He was followed by some, rejected by most, he was
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- Betrayed, crucified, risen from the dead, and he ascended back
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- Into heaven.
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- That was all in his first coming.
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- When jesus came the first time, most people rejected him, but
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- When he comes the second time, all will follow him.
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- We're living in that time between the first and the
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- Second coming of christ.
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- It's a period of time that paul referred to in romans 11:25.
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- He said, "for i do not want you--" he was talking to
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- Jews here.
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- "i don't want you to be uninformed of this mystery--so
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- That you will not be wise in your own estimation--that
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- A partial hardening has come to israel until the fullness of the
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- Gentiles has come in."
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- Because israel rejected christ at his first coming, god
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- Temporarily put israel on the shelf.
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- They are still his chosen people.
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- Will god desert his people?
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- Never.
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- As we watch the unfolding chaos in the middle east, we need to
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- Remember that to be on israel's side is to be on the right side
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- Of history and the right side of god.
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- Nevertheless, god has temporarily set aside israel and
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- Opened this time for gentiles to participate in the abrahamic
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- Covenant in a different way, but to participate in it.
- 00:15:52.841 --> 00:15:56.445
- We call this age the age of the church.
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- The age of the church will end with the rapture of the church,
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- And the final 7 years of god's dealing with israel will
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- Commence, and they will eventually see jesus as
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- The messiah.
- 00:16:11.794 --> 00:16:13.395
- Secondly, we'll look at jesus as prophet.
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- Jesus also made many prophecies about the future.
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- Some of them have been fulfilled, some are yet
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- To be fulfilled.
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- But because of all of the amazing things that have already
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- Come true that jesus prophesied, we can have confidence that
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- Those things that haven't come true will come true.
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- That's what we're gonna look at in this message about what has
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- Come true that jesus prophesied, what is yet to be fulfilled.
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- Thirdly, we're going to look at jesus as a lamb.
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- It's a constant image in both the old and new testaments.
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- Remember in the old testament under the sacrificial system,
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- Lambs were stand-in sacrifices.
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- There was nothing about the blood of a lamb that could wash
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- Away sins, but it all pointed to the true lamb of god,
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- Jesus christ, who would come.
- 00:17:02.678 --> 00:17:04.480
- Remember in john 1:29 when john the baptizer saw jesus for the
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- First time, he said, "behold the lamb of god who takes away the
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- Sins of the earth."
- 00:17:14.156 --> 00:17:16.058
- It took a perfect lamb, jesus himself, to take away our sins.
- 00:17:16.058 --> 00:17:21.163
- Interestingly, another john, john the apostle, also uses the
- 00:17:21.163 --> 00:17:25.934
- Image of a lamb in the last book of the bible, the book
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- Of revelation.
- 00:17:28.971 --> 00:17:30.339
- Fourth, we'll look at jesus as conqueror.
- 00:17:30.339 --> 00:17:33.342
- You know, the reason so many people missed jesus at his first
- 00:17:33.342 --> 00:17:37.479
- Coming is he didn't check all the boxes.
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- They wanted a conquering messiah who would overthrow whom they
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- Thought was their greatest enemy: rome.
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- And when he didn't overthrow the roman empire, they were
- 00:17:47.990 --> 00:17:51.059
- Disappointed and rejected him.
- 00:17:51.059 --> 00:17:53.529
- What they missed was when jesus came the first time he conquered
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- Our greatest enemies, sin and death, by his death on the cross
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- And his resurrection from the dead.
- 00:18:03.038 --> 00:18:05.474
- But jesus still has some unfinished business on
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- Planet earth.
- 00:18:08.243 --> 00:18:09.611
- When he comes again as conqueror, he will come as the
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- One who conquer satan.
- 00:18:12.447 --> 00:18:14.183
- We have the victory.
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- It's already been accomplished through jesus christ.
- 00:18:15.551 --> 00:18:18.487
- We'll look at jesus as conqueror.
- 00:18:18.487 --> 00:18:21.190
- And that leads to his other role to talk about, and that is jesus
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- As king.
- 00:18:25.194 --> 00:18:26.562
- After the battle of armageddon, jesus will come to earth to set
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- Up that literal kingdom on earth with its seat in jerusalem, and
- 00:18:29.698 --> 00:18:34.503
- God will fulfill all of his promises to believing israel and
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- To the church as well.
- 00:18:38.740 --> 00:18:40.742
- Interestingly, during that perfect time when satan is bound
- 00:18:40.742 --> 00:18:45.781
- For 1,000 years, people are enjoying the just and perfect
- 00:18:45.781 --> 00:18:49.685
- Reign of jesus, not everybody born during that time will
- 00:18:49.685 --> 00:18:53.055
- Pledge allegiance to king jesus.
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- Some will actually choose to rebel against jesus.
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- And that will mean the end of the world because it will be too
- 00:19:00.095 --> 00:19:04.299
- Late and that leads to the role of jesus as judge.
- 00:19:04.299 --> 00:19:08.604
- Jesus as judge.
- 00:19:08.604 --> 00:19:09.972
- We don't like to think of jesus as a judge in our culture today.
- 00:19:09.972 --> 00:19:14.109
- Do you know the most popular verse on the internet right now?
- 00:19:14.109 --> 00:19:19.481
- It's not john 3:16, that used to be the most popular verse
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- Of the bible.
- 00:19:23.118 --> 00:19:24.453
- Now it's matthew 7:1: "judge not, lest ye be judged."
- 00:19:24.453 --> 00:19:29.324
- Unbelievers and misguided christians love to use that
- 00:19:29.324 --> 00:19:32.928
- Verse as a way to justify any evil they want to commit.
- 00:19:32.928 --> 00:19:37.699
- No, god does judge us.
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- Jesus is coming as a judge.
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- In 1--or 2 timothy chapter 4, a chapter i read every saturday
- 00:19:41.670 --> 00:19:46.174
- Night to get ready to preach on sunday, paul tells timothy to
- 00:19:46.174 --> 00:19:51.079
- Preach the word in season and out of season because jesus is
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- Coming to judge the living and the dead.
- 00:19:56.251 --> 00:20:00.956
- And that leads to jesus as lord.
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- Jesus as lord.
- 00:20:04.259 --> 00:20:05.994
- After the last echo of the gavel has sounded and everyone has
- 00:20:05.994 --> 00:20:11.366
- Received their rewards or just punishment, jesus will reign
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- Over a new heaven and a new earth.
- 00:20:16.371 --> 00:20:19.541
- "i saw a new heaven and a new earth," john said, "for the
- 00:20:19.541 --> 00:20:23.011
- First heaven and earth will have passed away, and god will wipe
- 00:20:23.011 --> 00:20:27.316
- Away every tear from their eyes; and there shall no longer be any
- 00:20:27.316 --> 00:20:30.952
- Death, or mourning, or crying, or pain; for the first things
- 00:20:30.952 --> 00:20:34.790
- Will have passed away."
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- There's one other role that, frankly, i've never seen anybody
- 00:20:36.958 --> 00:20:41.029
- Cover before, but i think we need to talk about, and that is
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- Jesus as a friend.
- 00:20:45.867 --> 00:20:48.370
- Jesus as our friend.
- 00:20:48.370 --> 00:20:52.174
- You remember back in 2008, it seems so long ago, when sarah
- 00:20:52.174 --> 00:20:59.014
- Palin, the governor of alaska, was running for vice president,
- 00:20:59.014 --> 00:21:03.185
- And "saturday night live" loved to do these parodies of her, and
- 00:21:03.185 --> 00:21:06.922
- In one skit they had tina fey, who was playing sarah palin,
- 00:21:06.922 --> 00:21:11.827
- Saying supposedly, "i can see russia from my house."
- 00:21:11.827 --> 00:21:16.631
- And she didn't actually say that in real life, but it was
- 00:21:16.631 --> 00:21:19.501
- Close enough.
- 00:21:19.501 --> 00:21:20.836
- "i can see russia from my house," so everybody laughed
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- About that.
- 00:21:22.938 --> 00:21:24.272
- And the fact is you could not see russia from alaska without
- 00:21:24.272 --> 00:21:27.809
- Some very powerful binoculars.
- 00:21:27.809 --> 00:21:31.179
- You know, god has given us a powerful set of
- 00:21:31.179 --> 00:21:36.251
- Spiritual binoculars.
- 00:21:36.251 --> 00:21:38.086
- It's called the bible.
- 00:21:38.086 --> 00:21:40.122
- Think of all you can see through the bible.
- 00:21:40.122 --> 00:21:42.023
- You can look through your spiritual binoculars and you can
- 00:21:42.023 --> 00:21:45.494
- See the future.
- 00:21:45.494 --> 00:21:47.062
- You can see the rapture, the second coming, the millennium,
- 00:21:47.062 --> 00:21:49.998
- The new heaven, the new earth, and in those binoculars, you
- 00:21:49.998 --> 00:21:53.001
- Can't tell how far they may be away or how close they may be,
- 00:21:53.001 --> 00:21:57.038
- But you can see all of those events.
- 00:21:57.038 --> 00:21:59.875
- But looming over those events in the forefront, is the person of
- 00:21:59.875 --> 00:22:04.679
- Jesus christ, the one who says, "i am the alpha and the omega,
- 00:22:04.679 --> 00:22:09.851
- I'm the beginning and the end.
- 00:22:09.851 --> 00:22:12.687
- I'm the one who holds your past, your present, and your future in
- 00:22:12.687 --> 00:22:17.726
- My hands."
- 00:22:17.726 --> 00:22:19.494
- And that realization that jesus who knows the future has planned
- 00:22:19.494 --> 00:22:24.833
- The future, that realization of who jesus is, ought to fill our
- 00:22:24.833 --> 00:22:29.938
- Hearts with unending hope, and an unending desire for holiness,
- 00:22:29.938 --> 00:22:37.546
- As we prepare to enter into the end-times.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Jeffress: the bible's teaching about christ's return should
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- Fill us with hope and anticipation, not fear, and i
- 00:22:48.990 --> 00:22:52.694
- Pray today's message has encouraged you to live with your
- 00:22:52.694 --> 00:22:55.464
- Eyes focused on jesus, the one who holds our future.
- 00:22:55.464 --> 00:23:00.569
- Now before we wrap up today's program, i wanna share
- 00:23:00.569 --> 00:23:03.338
- A touching note i received from shannon.
- 00:23:03.338 --> 00:23:05.507
- Shannon writes, "i listen to your message every morning on
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- The radio.
- 00:23:09.377 --> 00:23:10.712
- I'm so grateful i learn so much more from listening and hearing
- 00:23:10.712 --> 00:23:14.149
- Your message.
- 00:23:14.149 --> 00:23:15.484
- The way you preach just opens so much to knowing more
- 00:23:15.484 --> 00:23:18.386
- About jesus."
- 00:23:18.386 --> 00:23:19.888
- Well, thank you, shannon, for those kind and
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- Encouraging words.
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- Light of god's word.
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- Now stay right there.
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- I'll be back with more in just a moment.
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- Announcer: most teachings about bible prophecy focus on wars,
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- Jeffress: jesus didn't spend a lot of time on the cross.
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- He rose again on the third day.
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- He ascended into heaven and guess what?
- 00:26:04.686 --> 00:26:06.688
- He's coming back again one day.
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- And that's why, quite frankly, you could have an image of jesus
- 00:26:09.858 --> 00:26:14.396
- Wearing a crown that would have just as been as accurate as
- 00:26:14.396 --> 00:26:17.932
- Jesus on a cross.
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