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Greg Laurie - Israel, The Rapture, And The God Who Keeps His Word

May 24, 2026 | 27:29

Greg Laurie - Israel, The Rapture, And The God Who Keeps His Word
Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Israel, The Rapture, And The God Who Keeps His Word | May 24, 2026
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  • Greg laurie: you that have lost a loved one will know what i'm
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  • Talking about.
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  • Just imagine this for a moment.
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  • You could be going about your business on any given day, and
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  • Suddenly, in a moment so quick you can't even measure it by
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  • Time, you would be catapulted into god's presence, into their
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  • Presence, and you would be together again.
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  • That is a great hope, and that is why we can comfort one
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  • Another with these words.
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins. ♪
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins. ♪♪
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  • Greg: heard this story about a couple that were
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  • Getting married.
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  • So, the groom went to the pastor ahead of time and said, "pastor,
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  • I want to make you a deal.
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  • I'll pay you $100 if you delete that part of my vows where i say
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  • That i'm going to take this woman for the rest of my life
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  • And be faithful to her and only to her.
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  • Just delete that line.
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  • I'll pay you $100."
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  • The pastor agreed, or so the groom thought.
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  • So, when the ceremony began, the pastor locked his eyes on the
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  • Groom and said, "do you promise to obey her every wish, bring
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  • Her breakfast in bed every morning, and ever so much as
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  • Look at another woman as long as you live?"
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  • Well, the groom had to say yes.
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  • He said, "yes."
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  • Afterwards, he goes to the pastor, and he said, "i thought
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  • We made a deal."
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  • The pastor said, "your bride offered me more money."
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  • So that's--promises, easily made, often broken, but the good
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  • News is, god makes promises, and when god makes a promise, you
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  • Can take it to the bank.
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  • Promises are a lot like those gift cards.
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  • I don't know about you, but i have a little collection of gift
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  • Cards that i've never cashed in.
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  • I read that there are around $5.8 billion in gift cards that
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  • Were never claimed, and that's sort of like the promises
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  • Of god.
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  • Someone has said there are 3000 promises in the bible to
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  • The believer.
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  • I've never counted them all.
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  • I know there's a lot, but think of all the promises that god has
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  • Given to us that have gone unclaimed, like those unused
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  • Gift cards.
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  • So, we want to take hold of those promises.
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  • For example, god has promised that he will never leave
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  • Us alone.
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  • We'll never be alone in life.
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  • In isaiah 41, the lord says, "don't be afraid.
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  • I am with you.
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  • Don't be discouraged, for i am your god.
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  • I will strengthen you and help you.
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  • I'll hold you up with my victorious right hand."
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  • And of course, jesus said, "i will never leave you or
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  • Forsake you."
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  • And if you were to do a literal translation, it would go as
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  • Follows: jesus speaking, "i will never, no, never, no, never
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  • Leave you or forsake you."
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  • God has also promised to walk with us through the difficulties
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  • We face in life.
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  • In isaiah 43:2, god says, "when you go through deep waters, i'll
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  • Be with you.
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  • When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown.
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  • When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be
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  • Burned up; and the flames will not consume you."
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  • And of course, psalm 23, where david writes, "yea, though i
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  • Walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no
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  • Evil, for you are with me."
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  • So, no matter what you're going through in life, god is
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  • With you.
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  • God will walk with you through it.
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  • That's why these are called great and precious promises.
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  • Psalm 1:15 says, "this is my comfort in my affliction.
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  • Your promise gives me life."
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  • Here's another promise of jesus.
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  • He promised he will come again.
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  • Jesus said, in john 14, "let not your heart be troubled.
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  • If you believe in god, believe also in me.
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  • I go to prepare a place for you, and if i go and prepare a place
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  • For you, i will come again to receive you unto myself, that
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  • Where i am, you may be also."
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  • Did you know that of the 333 old testament prophecies, 224 still
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  • Await fulfillment for his return.
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  • The new testament mentions the second coming 300 times.
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  • About once in every 30 verses, 23 of its 27 books speak of
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  • His return.
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  • Jesus himself talked about his return at least 21 different
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  • Times, and in every reference to his first coming, there are
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  • Around eight references to his second coming, and we're told
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  • Over 50 times in the bible to be ready.
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  • Do you think god is trying to tell us something?
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  • You know, there are some people, let's just be gracious and say,
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  • They're not very punctual.
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  • You know, they're always late, and it's always the traffic, or
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  • It was this, or it was that, "my alarm clock didn't go off."
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  • Whatever, but somehow they're always late, and there's other
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  • People that, no matter what, are always there on time.
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  • Now, when god makes a promise, he's going to be punctual, he'll
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  • Arrive at the appointed time, and you can count on it.
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  • And there's no better illustration of god keeping his
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  • Promises than with his own people, his chosen people,
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  • The jews.
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  • One thing that is very clear as you read romans 9-11 is that god
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  • Has a special relationship with the jewish people.
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  • He established his first covenant with israel through
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  • Abraham, who was the father of the hebrews, and he said in
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  • Genesis 12, to abraham and his descendants, "i'll make you a
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  • Great nation.
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  • I'll bless you and make you famous, and you'll be a blessing
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  • To others.
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  • I'll bless those that bless you, and i'll curse those that
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  • Curse you."
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  • So much that we have today has come through the jewish people.
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  • Our bible has been handed down to us by the jewish people.
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  • Our messiah was jewish and came to us through the jewish people.
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  • And god has promised that he will keep his promises to them,
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  • And he will also keep his promises to us.
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  • And the bible says, "god is not a man, that he should lie so you
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  • Can trust the promises of god."
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  • My next point is, because god kept his promises to israel, you
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  • Can know he'll keep his promises to us.
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  • See, i'm not jewish, i'm a gentile.
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  • As probably most of you are, but we have been grafted into the
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  • Promises of god.
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  • And going back to romans 11:17, "if some of the branches have
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  • Been broken off," it says, "and you, though, being a wild olive
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  • Shoot, have been grafted among the others, you now share in the
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  • Nourishing sap from the olive root."
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  • And so, i've been grafted into the promises of god, and it's a
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  • Wonderful thing.
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  • And you know, i feel that my role as a gentile, but as a
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  • Christian, more importantly, is to support my jewish friends.
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  • Now, some would say, "well, you only support israel and the
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  • Jewish people because you want armageddon to come."
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  • Give me a break.
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  • Armageddon is going to come when it comes, but what's going to
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  • Happen in the meantime is, we pray for the peace of jerusalem,
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  • And we pray that they can find some solution to what's going on
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  • Over there.
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  • But then the question arises: does that include support for
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  • The modern state of israel?
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  • This promise to bless those that bless us.
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  • Should we support the nation of israel?
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  • I believe we should.
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  • Why?
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  • Because it's the jewish homeland.
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  • You have to understand the reason there is a modern state
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  • Of israel.
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  • The jews fled there after the horrors of the holocaust and
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  • World war ii and built a nation out of the ashes.
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  • And they want to simply live in peace, and raise their families,
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  • And enjoy their lives.
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  • So, when you hear these chants of "from the river to the sea,
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  • Palestine will be free," you need to understand what that
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  • Really means.
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  • The river is the jordan river.
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  • The sea is the mediterranean.
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  • Between the jordan river and the mediterranean sea is a tiny
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  • Sliver of land about the size of new jersey called israel.
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  • When they're saying, "from the river to the sea, palestine will
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  • Be free," they're effectively saying, "we don't want
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  • Jews here.
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  • We don't want a jewish homeland here."
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  • Iran, who is behind pretty much all the terrorist activity
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  • Pointed toward israel, has repeatedly and openly said, "we
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  • Want to wipe them off the face of the map."
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  • And i know that you hear today that the israelis are starving
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  • The people of gaza.
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  • Actually, millions of dollars' worth of humanitarian aid has
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  • Been sent to gaza.
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  • It's intercepted by hamas and sold on the black market for
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  • Hiked-up prices.
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  • But they've been able to have some success more recently,
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  • Getting 100 million meals to the people.
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  • So, i agree with the statement "free palestine."
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  • Free palestine from hamas.
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  • Stop having terrorists represent you.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • My next point is, god uses us to bless the people who have
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  • Blessed us.
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  • Romans 11:14: paul says, "i want you to understand that we are
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  • Here to make the people of israel jealous of what you
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  • Gentiles have that it might save some of them."
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  • Okay, next point.
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  • Israel plays a key role in the last days.
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  • Look at romans 11 again, verse 25.
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  • "i want you to understand," paul writes, "the mystery, dear
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  • Brothers and sisters, so that you do not feel proud
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  • About yourself.
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  • Blindness in part has happened to israel, and will last only
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  • Until the full number of the gentiles come to christ, and so
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  • All israel will be saved."
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  • There is a spiritual blindness, in general, among many jewish
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  • People when it comes to jesus christ.
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  • However, we're beginning to see a dramatic change.
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  • More jewish people are coming to know jesus as the messiah.
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  • God is not done with his chosen people, but there's a problem.
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  • There's a teaching in some churches that is called
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  • Replacement theology.
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  • And replacement theology effectively says that the church
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  • Has taken the place of israel, that we as christians are now
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  • Spiritual israel, and his unique relationship with them is
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  • Over with.
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  • Well, the problem with that is, if god's going to break his
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  • Promises to israel, why would he not break his promises to me?
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  • See, i believe god keeps his promises and his covenants that
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  • He makes, and it's very clear, as you read through romans 11
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  • And 12 and 13, that god is not gonna--really, romans 9, 10, and
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  • 11 is what i should say, that god is not done.
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  • In fact, he writes in romans 11:2, "god has not rejected his
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  • People whom he foreknew," and one of the signs of the times,
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  • According to the bible, is israel would be regathered to
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  • Her homeland.
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  • In ezekiel 37, god told the prophet to go to a valley filled
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  • With bones, effectively a graveyard, and god said, "preach
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  • To the bones."
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  • Now, i've spoken to some dead audiences, but this takes
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  • The cake.
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  • And so, ezekiel begins to preach to this audience, and now god
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  • Tells them what it all means in ezekiel 37, verse 11, "then he
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  • Said to me, 'son of man, these bones represent the people
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  • Of israel.
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  • They are saying, 'we're becoming old dry bones.
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  • All hope is gone.'"
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  • Now give them this message from the lord.
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  • "i will open your graves of exile and cause you to
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  • Rise again.
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  • Then i will bring you back to the land of israel."
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  • A sign of the end times, the return of the jews to
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  • Their homeland.
  • 00:12:27.670 --> 00:12:29.238
  • And on may 14, 1948, a modern-day miracle happened,
  • 00:12:29.238 --> 00:12:34.543
  • Against all odds, and incredible opposition.
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  • Israel declared themselves a nation again, and it set the
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  • Prophetic time clock ticking.
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  • And again, i want to emphasize, this was on the heels of
  • 00:12:45.888 --> 00:12:49.158
  • The holocaust.
  • 00:12:49.158 --> 00:12:50.526
  • Now, some will say, falsely, i might add, that the jews are
  • 00:12:50.526 --> 00:12:53.596
  • Colonizers, taking the land from the indigenous people.
  • 00:12:53.596 --> 00:12:58.767
  • The fact is, the jews are the indigenous people that god gave
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  • The land to in the first place.
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  • They have maintained continued--continuous
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  • Communities in jerusalem for centuries.
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  • They purchased malaria-infested swamps and built modern israel.
  • 00:13:11.614 --> 00:13:16.652
  • Listen to this: israel wasn't stolen.
  • 00:13:16.652 --> 00:13:19.054
  • It was reclaimed, rebuilt, and revived by its
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  • Indigenous people.
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  • God gave them the land.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • But the bible not only predicts the regathering of the jews to
  • 00:13:29.765 --> 00:13:33.202
  • Their homeland as a sign of the end times, but it also predicts
  • 00:13:33.202 --> 00:13:36.705
  • Her isolation from others and the increase of antisemitism,
  • 00:13:36.705 --> 00:13:43.479
  • Which is up 900% around the world.
  • 00:13:43.479 --> 00:13:48.284
  • We've seen it in some of our ivy league universities.
  • 00:13:48.284 --> 00:13:51.787
  • You see these massive protests, and this is what amazes me.
  • 00:13:51.787 --> 00:13:54.823
  • So much of this has accelerated after october 7.
  • 00:13:54.823 --> 00:13:59.094
  • You would have thought,
  • 00:13:59.094 --> 00:14:00.429
  • After that horrible massacre of innocent jewish
  • 00:14:00.429 --> 00:14:03.565
  • People, that there would be an outrage and people would rise up
  • 00:14:03.565 --> 00:14:06.969
  • In favor of their jewish friends and nation israel, and in some
  • 00:14:06.969 --> 00:14:11.040
  • Ways, the opposite has happened.
  • 00:14:11.040 --> 00:14:13.275
  • Because the people are saying, "oh, we're more against israel
  • 00:14:13.275 --> 00:14:16.045
  • Than ever," and this jew hatred is on the rise, but this too is
  • 00:14:16.045 --> 00:14:21.483
  • A fulfillment of bible prophecy.
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  • God says israel, in the last days, would be scattered.
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  • That's happened.
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  • God said they would be regathered.
  • 00:14:28.590 --> 00:14:30.092
  • That too has happened.
  • 00:14:30.092 --> 00:14:32.227
  • God said israel will be regaining jerusalem and be
  • 00:14:32.227 --> 00:14:35.898
  • Isolated, ultimately, and ultimately, that she would
  • 00:14:35.898 --> 00:14:38.634
  • Be attacked.
  • 00:14:38.634 --> 00:14:40.002
  • Now that has happened, but not on the scale it's going
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  • To happen.
  • 00:14:43.405 --> 00:14:45.441
  • Because the bible speaks of a large nation from the north of
  • 00:14:45.441 --> 00:14:48.677
  • Israel that will attack her, and that nation is called magog.
  • 00:14:48.677 --> 00:14:53.515
  • Now, who is magog?
  • 00:14:53.515 --> 00:14:55.284
  • Many experts believe it's modern-day russia.
  • 00:14:55.284 --> 00:14:58.754
  • I happen to agree with that for the most part.
  • 00:14:58.754 --> 00:15:01.056
  • I don't think anyone can say with certainty, but i think it's
  • 00:15:01.056 --> 00:15:04.026
  • Very possible.
  • 00:15:04.026 --> 00:15:05.761
  • But we know this: there's allies that march with magog, and one
  • 00:15:05.761 --> 00:15:09.198
  • Of those allies is called persia.
  • 00:15:09.198 --> 00:15:11.600
  • And persia was the name of iran until they changed it in 1935.
  • 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:16.505
  • In other words, god is saying there would be an alliance
  • 00:15:16.505 --> 00:15:19.008
  • Between magog and persia, or maybe russia and iran.
  • 00:15:19.008 --> 00:15:24.847
  • And so, they attack israel, but when this happens, and it hasn't
  • 00:15:24.847 --> 00:15:28.584
  • Happened yet, god is going to step in and intervene on behalf
  • 00:15:28.584 --> 00:15:33.889
  • Of his people.
  • 00:15:33.889 --> 00:15:35.224
  • Ezekiel 38 says, "when this happens, when gog attacks the
  • 00:15:35.224 --> 00:15:38.627
  • Land of israel, my hot anger will be aroused, declares the
  • 00:15:38.627 --> 00:15:43.399
  • Sovereign lord, and his judgment comes upon magog and her allies,
  • 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:49.438
  • And god pours his spirit out on israel again."
  • 00:15:49.438 --> 00:15:54.643
  • But there's something god is waiting for.
  • 00:15:54.643 --> 00:15:57.012
  • Romans 11:25, again: "some of the jews have hard hearts.
  • 00:15:57.012 --> 00:16:01.550
  • This will last until the complete number of the gentiles
  • 00:16:01.550 --> 00:16:05.988
  • Come to christ."
  • 00:16:05.988 --> 00:16:07.356
  • What does this mean?
  • 00:16:07.356 --> 00:16:08.690
  • It means that god is waiting for the last people to believe for
  • 00:16:08.690 --> 00:16:11.827
  • These events to take place, which would imply to me that
  • 00:16:11.827 --> 00:16:15.664
  • Walking this earth somewhere is perhaps a person that is holding
  • 00:16:15.664 --> 00:16:21.370
  • The whole thing up.
  • 00:16:21.370 --> 00:16:23.939
  • And if that person would just believe, we could all go
  • 00:16:23.939 --> 00:16:26.375
  • To heaven.
  • 00:16:26.375 --> 00:16:27.709
  • Can you imagine if you were sitting next to him at church?
  • 00:16:27.709 --> 00:16:29.945
  • "will you get saved already, dude?
  • 00:16:29.945 --> 00:16:31.713
  • Come on, we're tired of waiting around for you."
  • 00:16:31.713 --> 00:16:35.584
  • But then god will pour his spirit out on israel.
  • 00:16:35.584 --> 00:16:38.854
  • And then another event's gonna happen, that to some is
  • 00:16:38.854 --> 00:16:42.091
  • Controversial, but certainly isn't to me.
  • 00:16:42.091 --> 00:16:44.760
  • I've been talking about it for 50 years, and many before me
  • 00:16:44.760 --> 00:16:47.963
  • Have been talking about it for, well, go back to the
  • 00:16:47.963 --> 00:16:50.866
  • 1st century.
  • 00:16:50.866 --> 00:16:52.234
  • We call it the rapture of the church.
  • 00:16:52.234 --> 00:16:55.838
  • Now, what is the rapture?
  • 00:16:55.838 --> 00:16:58.107
  • The rapture is when christ descends from heaven, and we are
  • 00:16:58.107 --> 00:17:01.243
  • Caught up to meet him to receive our new resurrection bodies, and
  • 00:17:01.243 --> 00:17:06.882
  • We're reunited with loved ones who have died in faith, who have
  • 00:17:06.882 --> 00:17:10.853
  • Preceded us.
  • 00:17:10.853 --> 00:17:12.187
  • Now, some would push back, "well, the word rapture is not
  • 00:17:12.187 --> 00:17:15.090
  • In the bible."
  • 00:17:15.090 --> 00:17:16.425
  • Well, the word bible isn't in the bible.
  • 00:17:16.425 --> 00:17:19.728
  • The word trinity isn't in the bible, and in fact, the word
  • 00:17:19.728 --> 00:17:22.531
  • Rapture is in the bible if you happen to have a latin
  • 00:17:22.531 --> 00:17:26.201
  • Translation, 'cause rapture, from the root word rapturous, is
  • 00:17:26.201 --> 00:17:30.506
  • Simply a translation of the greek word harpazo, which is
  • 00:17:30.506 --> 00:17:35.544
  • Used 13 times in the new testament.
  • 00:17:35.544 --> 00:17:38.814
  • So don't get hung up on the word rapture.
  • 00:17:38.814 --> 00:17:41.583
  • But the harpazo, the great escape, if you will, the
  • 00:17:41.583 --> 00:17:45.954
  • Catching up of believers to see the lord in the air, is spoken
  • 00:17:45.954 --> 00:17:49.525
  • Of many times in the bible.
  • 00:17:49.525 --> 00:17:52.060
  • It means to take forcibly, to snatch, or to catch up.
  • 00:17:52.060 --> 00:17:55.497
  • Some would say, "no, the rapture is a modern invention
  • 00:17:55.497 --> 00:17:59.168
  • Popularized by
  • 00:17:59.168 --> 00:18:00.536
  • J. n. darby, in his dispensational teaching
  • 00:18:00.536 --> 00:18:03.805
  • In the 19th century."
  • 00:18:03.805 --> 00:18:05.207
  • Well, no question, j.n. darby
  • 00:18:05.207 --> 00:18:07.309
  • Helped popularize the teaching of the rapture, but
  • 00:18:07.309 --> 00:18:11.046
  • This teaching preceded him, going back to the apostles.
  • 00:18:11.046 --> 00:18:14.016
  • We're reading about what paul has said about it.
  • 00:18:14.016 --> 00:18:16.585
  • In a moment, we'll read another verse where he addresses it
  • 00:18:16.585 --> 00:18:19.121
  • As well.
  • 00:18:19.121 --> 00:18:20.455
  • James talked about it.
  • 00:18:20.455 --> 00:18:21.823
  • Peter talked about it.
  • 00:18:21.823 --> 00:18:23.258
  • John talked about it, and most importantly, jesus talked
  • 00:18:23.258 --> 00:18:26.528
  • About it.
  • 00:18:26.528 --> 00:18:27.863
  • And we already quoted what he said in john 14 when he said,
  • 00:18:27.863 --> 00:18:30.966
  • "i will come again and receive you unto myself,
  • 00:18:30.966 --> 00:18:34.303
  • That where i am, you may be also."
  • 00:18:34.303 --> 00:18:37.272
  • There's sort of an old testament prototype of the rapture.
  • 00:18:37.272 --> 00:18:41.243
  • Remember the story of enoch?
  • 00:18:41.243 --> 00:18:43.212
  • It says enoch walked with god and was not--for god took him or
  • 00:18:43.212 --> 00:18:47.249
  • Literally translated him.
  • 00:18:47.249 --> 00:18:49.351
  • Enoch sort of had a solo rapture.
  • 00:18:49.351 --> 00:18:53.422
  • So, he would walk with the lord all the time, and they were
  • 00:18:53.422 --> 00:18:55.624
  • Taking one of their walks one day.
  • 00:18:55.624 --> 00:18:57.626
  • Maybe the lord said, "buddy, we're closer to my house
  • 00:18:57.626 --> 00:18:59.995
  • Than yours.
  • 00:18:59.995 --> 00:19:01.330
  • Why don't you come home with me today?"
  • 00:19:01.330 --> 00:19:03.131
  • But he was just caught up to meet the lord in the air, and
  • 00:19:03.131 --> 00:19:05.968
  • That also happened to elijah, who was caught up, remember, to
  • 00:19:05.968 --> 00:19:10.205
  • A chariot of fire.
  • 00:19:10.205 --> 00:19:12.541
  • But early church fathers spoke of it as well.
  • 00:19:12.541 --> 00:19:15.744
  • Irenaeus spoke about it in the 2nd century.
  • 00:19:15.744 --> 00:19:19.748
  • Cyprian of carthage spoke of it in the 3rd century, so this is
  • 00:19:19.748 --> 00:19:24.386
  • Not a new teaching invented by j.n. darby.
  • 00:19:24.386 --> 00:19:28.123
  • It's a biblical teaching that goes back to the apostles and
  • 00:19:28.123 --> 00:19:31.193
  • Christ himself, and i think it's important to talk about it.
  • 00:19:31.193 --> 00:19:35.464
  • You know, we've talked about this a lot in the
  • 00:19:35.464 --> 00:19:37.232
  • Jesus movement.
  • 00:19:37.232 --> 00:19:38.800
  • And we're not talking about it as much today, and i think
  • 00:19:38.800 --> 00:19:41.470
  • That's a mistake, 'cause we're missing out on the blessing of
  • 00:19:41.470 --> 00:19:44.706
  • This teaching.
  • 00:19:44.706 --> 00:19:46.074
  • Why is it important to talk about it?
  • 00:19:46.074 --> 00:19:48.243
  • Because it brings much needed hope.
  • 00:19:48.243 --> 00:19:50.679
  • In fact, the rapture is called the blessed hope, and it
  • 00:19:50.679 --> 00:19:54.950
  • Brings comfort.
  • 00:19:54.950 --> 00:19:56.285
  • Remember, after paul says, "the lord himself will descend from
  • 00:19:56.285 --> 00:19:59.021
  • Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, the
  • 00:19:59.021 --> 00:20:01.623
  • Trump of god, the dead in christ shall rise first, and we'll be
  • 00:20:01.623 --> 00:20:04.526
  • Caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the lord in
  • 00:20:04.526 --> 00:20:07.129
  • The air.
  • 00:20:07.129 --> 00:20:08.497
  • Therefore, comfort one another with these words."
  • 00:20:08.497 --> 00:20:11.867
  • Whenever you see the word "therefore," find out what it's
  • 00:20:11.867 --> 00:20:14.303
  • There for.
  • 00:20:14.303 --> 00:20:16.505
  • Paul's drawing on what he is saying, "hey, we're gonna be
  • 00:20:16.505 --> 00:20:18.607
  • Caught up to meet the lord, so be comforted by this."
  • 00:20:18.607 --> 00:20:21.943
  • Why would i be comforted with this?
  • 00:20:21.943 --> 00:20:24.346
  • Because, he says, "the dead in christ shall rise first."
  • 00:20:24.346 --> 00:20:28.250
  • You that have lost a loved one will know what i'm talking about
  • 00:20:28.250 --> 00:20:31.853
  • When i say, "when someone you care about is suddenly taken
  • 00:20:31.853 --> 00:20:35.524
  • From you through death, it's devastating."
  • 00:20:35.524 --> 00:20:39.394
  • And you miss them, and you think about them constantly.
  • 00:20:39.394 --> 00:20:43.231
  • And you have experiences, and you wish they could be with you
  • 00:20:43.231 --> 00:20:46.134
  • At that moment, having that experience with you.
  • 00:20:46.134 --> 00:20:49.604
  • And just imagine this for a moment.
  • 00:20:49.604 --> 00:20:51.840
  • You could be going about your business on any given day, and
  • 00:20:51.840 --> 00:20:55.677
  • Suddenly, in a moment so quick you can't even measure it by
  • 00:20:55.677 --> 00:20:58.680
  • Time, you would be catapulted into god's presence, into their
  • 00:20:58.680 --> 00:21:03.285
  • Presence, and you would be together again.
  • 00:21:03.285 --> 00:21:06.054
  • That is a great hope, and that is why we can comfort one
  • 00:21:06.054 --> 00:21:10.058
  • Another with these words.
  • 00:21:10.058 --> 00:21:11.860
  • And another reason we should talk about the rapture and the
  • 00:21:11.860 --> 00:21:15.864
  • Imminent return of jesus is that motivates godly living.
  • 00:21:15.864 --> 00:21:21.403
  • So it comforts us, but it motivates godly living.
  • 00:21:21.403 --> 00:21:24.706
  • 1 john 3:3 says, "he that has this hope purifies himself,"
  • 00:21:24.706 --> 00:21:30.245
  • Sort of like when you look in the mirror and you see a spot or
  • 00:21:30.245 --> 00:21:33.982
  • Something else.
  • 00:21:33.982 --> 00:21:35.317
  • "oh no, i better deal with this."
  • 00:21:35.317 --> 00:21:37.185
  • So, it has an effect on you.
  • 00:21:37.185 --> 00:21:39.121
  • It would be like getting a call or a text from your friend.
  • 00:21:39.121 --> 00:21:41.723
  • They say, "hey, i'm in your neighborhood.
  • 00:21:41.723 --> 00:21:43.725
  • I'm gonna drop by your house in 5 minutes."
  • 00:21:43.725 --> 00:21:46.061
  • Now, if you're a guy, you'd be like, "cool, i'll see you then."
  • 00:21:46.061 --> 00:21:48.463
  • If you're a woman, it's a different story.
  • 00:21:48.463 --> 00:21:51.266
  • There's gonna be some serious house cleaning, because you want
  • 00:21:51.266 --> 00:21:54.669
  • Your place to look just right for your friend that's coming by
  • 00:21:54.669 --> 00:21:57.506
  • To visit unexpected.
  • 00:21:57.506 --> 00:22:00.442
  • And so, the idea of this is, if i really believe jesus could
  • 00:22:00.442 --> 00:22:03.945
  • Come back at any moment, i'm going to want to keep my
  • 00:22:03.945 --> 00:22:06.281
  • House clean.
  • 00:22:06.281 --> 00:22:07.616
  • I'm going to want to keep my life clean.
  • 00:22:07.616 --> 00:22:10.419
  • I'm going to want to be walking with him and living in such a
  • 00:22:10.419 --> 00:22:13.321
  • Way where i would not be ashamed of what i am doing if he were
  • 00:22:13.321 --> 00:22:17.459
  • To return.
  • 00:22:17.459 --> 00:22:18.994
  • So, this is the great hope.
  • 00:22:18.994 --> 00:22:20.362
  • C.s. lewis
  • 00:22:20.362 --> 00:22:21.730
  • Put it this way, and i quote, "a continual looking
  • 00:22:21.730 --> 00:22:24.199
  • Forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or
  • 00:22:24.199 --> 00:22:28.737
  • Wishful thinking, but one of the things a christian is meant
  • 00:22:28.737 --> 00:22:32.674
  • To do."
  • 00:22:32.674 --> 00:22:34.042
  • So it's a good thing to do.
  • 00:22:34.042 --> 00:22:35.377
  • Now, that brings us to the question: when is the rapture?
  • 00:22:35.377 --> 00:22:40.649
  • Simple answer, no one knows.
  • 00:22:40.649 --> 00:22:42.317
  • No one knows.
  • 00:22:42.317 --> 00:22:43.685
  • "oh, i know, they'll write a new book."
  • 00:22:43.685 --> 00:22:45.253
  • "oh, i've been looking at the blood moons, and the ashes of
  • 00:22:45.253 --> 00:22:48.657
  • The red heifer, and i've cracked the code and it's going to
  • 00:22:48.657 --> 00:22:52.394
  • Happen at this time."
  • 00:22:52.394 --> 00:22:53.762
  • Nobody knows the day or the hour when christ will come again.
  • 00:22:53.762 --> 00:22:58.166
  • I think one of the reasons we have pushed back against the
  • 00:22:58.166 --> 00:23:01.369
  • Teaching of the rapture is because some in the past have
  • 00:23:01.369 --> 00:23:04.539
  • Engaged in date setting, which is always a big mistake.
  • 00:23:04.539 --> 00:23:09.110
  • Someone actually wrote a book in 1988.
  • 00:23:09.110 --> 00:23:11.379
  • Some of you may remember this, and the title of the book was
  • 00:23:11.379 --> 00:23:14.716
  • "88 reasons why christ will come in 1988."
  • 00:23:14.716 --> 00:23:19.588
  • It was a very popular book in 1988.
  • 00:23:19.588 --> 00:23:23.358
  • Sales kind of dropped off in 1989 because it didn't happen,
  • 00:23:23.358 --> 00:23:29.364
  • And it wasn't true.
  • 00:23:29.364 --> 00:23:30.832
  • So, when is the rapture?
  • 00:23:30.832 --> 00:23:32.200
  • No one knows.
  • 00:23:32.200 --> 00:23:33.535
  • It could be tonight, it could be tomorrow, it could be in one
  • 00:23:33.535 --> 00:23:37.038
  • Week, it could be in a decade, i don't know.
  • 00:23:37.038 --> 00:23:40.108
  • But it will happen quickly.
  • 00:23:40.108 --> 00:23:42.344
  • 1 corinthians 15 says, "behold, i tell you, a mystery.
  • 00:23:42.344 --> 00:23:46.448
  • We shall not all sleep, we will be changed in a moment, in the
  • 00:23:46.448 --> 00:23:50.185
  • Twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
  • 00:23:50.185 --> 00:23:53.755
  • For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised
  • 00:23:53.755 --> 00:23:56.091
  • Incorruptible, and we shall be changed."
  • 00:23:56.091 --> 00:23:58.660
  • Some people might say, "well, i'll just accept christ when the
  • 00:23:58.660 --> 00:24:01.396
  • Rapture happens."
  • 00:24:01.396 --> 00:24:02.898
  • How fast are you?
  • 00:24:02.898 --> 00:24:05.400
  • How long does it take an eye to twinkle?
  • 00:24:05.400 --> 00:24:07.969
  • That's faster than the blinking of an eye.
  • 00:24:07.969 --> 00:24:11.339
  • You can't even measure it in time.
  • 00:24:11.339 --> 00:24:14.242
  • It's faster than a teenager hitting delete history when mom
  • 00:24:14.242 --> 00:24:18.813
  • Grabs his phone.
  • 00:24:18.813 --> 00:24:21.016
  • These are the jokes, people.
  • 00:24:21.016 --> 00:24:22.384
  • What do you want from me?
  • 00:24:22.384 --> 00:24:25.787
  • But it's fast, and that's why we always need to be ready, because
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  • We'll be caught up to meet the lord in the air.
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  • Okay, so in closing, what does this mean to us?
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  • How should this affect us?
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  • If you are a christian, you should be spiritually awake
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  • And alert.
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  • I love what paul says in romans 13:11: "this is all the more
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  • Urgent, for you know how late it is; time is running out.
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  • Wake up, for our salvation is nearer now than when we
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  • First believed.
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  • The night is almost gone; the day of salvation will soon
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  • Be here."
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  • Now paul tells us what to do: "so remove your dark deeds like
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  • Dirty clothes, and put on the shining armor of right living,
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  • For we belong to the day.
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  • So let us live decent lives for all to see.
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  • Don't participate in wild parties and drunkenness, and
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  • Sexual promiscuity, and immoral living, or in quarreling, or
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  • In jealousy.
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  • Instead, clothe yourselves of the presence of christ."
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  • I like how the j.b. phillips
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  • Translation puts this final part, when he says, "let
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  • Us be christ's men from head to foot and give no chances for the
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  • Flesh to have its fling."
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  • Be a godly man.
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  • Be a godly woman.
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  • Jesus is coming.
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  • Let this comfort you.
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  • Let this motivate you.
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  • Let this wake you up.
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  • But one final thought: if you're not a christian, this is kind of
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  • Scary, because some are going to be taken, and others are going
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  • To be left.
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  • Jesus said, "two will be in a field, one will be taken, and
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  • The other left.
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  • Two will be in a bed, one will be taken and the other left.
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  • Watch, therefore, for you do not know what hour your lord
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  • Will come."
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  • There will be people that will be left behind, and you will
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  • Face the tribulation period, and it ain't gonna be pretty, i can
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  • Tell you that.
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  • That's why you want to be right with god and ready
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  • To meet the lord.
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  • Greg: hi, i'm greg laurie.
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  • I've got some good news for you.
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  • God loves you, and god has a plan for your life.
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  • Here's the problem.
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  • We're separated from god by our sin because we've all broken
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  • His commandments.
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  • But the good news is, is 2000 years ago, god sent his son.
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  • Jesus christ, to die on the cross for your sin, and then to
  • 00:26:45.727 --> 00:26:49.364
  • Rise again from the dead.
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  • The same jesus who died and rose is alive and ready to come into
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  • Your life right now.
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  • Would you like your sin forgiven?
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  • Would you like to know that when you die, you will go to heaven?
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  • If so, pray this simple prayer with me right now.
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  • Just say, "lord jesus, i know i'm a sinner, but i believe
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  • You're the savior who died on the cross for my sin.
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  • I turn from my sin now, and i choose to follow you from this
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  • Moment forward."
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  • Did you just pray that prayer with me?
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  • If you did, god in heaven has heard you.
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  • And let me be the first to say to you: congratulations and
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  • Welcome to the family of god.
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