Introduction:
-We will be noting as we go along:
“VARIOUS ACTS ON THE STAGE OF THIS DIVINE OPERA.”
-The one we are dealing with now begins in REVELATION 12:
a. It begins with a GLORIOUS WOMAN, CLOTHED IN SUN, RADIANT FEET, 12 STARS UPON HER HEAD!
b. And this GLORIOUS WOMAN, is also PREGNANT about to GIVE BIRTH TO A CHILD.
C. And standing in front of her according to Revelation 12:3 is A GREAT RED DRAGON.
Introduction:
-Let’s review a few things this morning that we have seen so far:
1. PRAISE TO GOD STILLS THE ENEMY!
-According to Psalm. 8:1-2, Matthew. 21:15,
“PRAISING GOD WITH OUR MOUTHS SHUTS THE
ENEMIES’ MOUTHS.”
Introduction:
One important fact we must learn at the very beginning of the Christian life is this:
1. Every believer has DEMONS, DEVILS assigned to him, to her! To taunt him with doubts, depression, snares, etc.
2. Every believer, therefore, MUST LEARN HOW TO MAKE THE DEVIL SHUT HIS MOUTH!
3. Every believer must learn:
a. That the way to silence the devil is through PRAISE! All over the church!
b. We recall the POWERFUL TRUTH in Psalm. 8:1-2,
Scripture: Matthew 8:1 – 4 plus others! (Mark 1:40 – 43)
-By way of introduction, I want you to see the TRUE SCENE!
-Wherever Jesus went:
1.) People were literally astonished at Jesus’ teaching!
2.) Jesus taught with a certain authority, that they never heard before!
3.) As a result:
-The vast crowds were following Jesus all over, wherever He went!!
-Pressing in on Jesus from every side to hear more, for they were so taken by Him!
Introduction:
In our day, we have seen some HUGE BIBLICAL PROPHETIC TRUTHS BECOME HISTORICAL REALITY. THE HARBINGERS OF MATTHEW 24 walking on history’s stage 2000 years ago prophesying what is EXACTLY HAPPENING TODAY.
Hear it: “EVEN AS THE THING THAT FULFILLS THE HARBINGER PROVES THE TRUTH OF THE HARBINGER, SO TOO THE HARBINGER MUTUALLY CONFIRMS THE TRUTH OFTHE THING THAT FULFILLS IT.”
INTRODUCTION
First, some introductory comments about Matthew24:1-8.
This passage is really THE PROPHETIC KEY TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE END OF THE AGE – THE END OF THE WORLD. These words came from the LIPS OF JESUS during HIS LAST WEEK, prior to HIS CRUCIFIXION! These words really MAKE UP THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM OF END-TIME PROPHECY! If you’re going to UNDERSTAND END-TIME prophecy, you must understand the words of Jesus in Matthew 24.
Introduction
In preaching on Mark’s version of the Parable of the Sower, Tom Long claimed that Jesus preached in these confusing parables in order to make people deeper thinkers about what the gospel is all about. Jesus did not want to have people grab the gospel too quickly because such a quick grab almost always resulted in bad faith or shallow faith that did not last long (a point made within the Parable of the Sower itself, of course).
In that connection of wanting people to grow deeper, Long told this story:
The great preacher George Buttrick was once flying on an airplane. As he sat there, he had a legal pad out on which he was furiously scribbling some notes for his sermon the coming Sunday. The man next to Buttrick inquired, “Say, what are you working on there, sir.” “My sermon for Sunday–I’m a Christian preacher.” “Oh,” the other man replied. “Well, I don’t like to get caught up in the complexities of religion. I like to keep it simple. You know, ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’ The Golden Rule! That’s my religion!”
When the Holy Spirit is truly moving in the hearts and minds of men, not only do they find their sins to be INTOLERABLE, but they also find the memory of them to be UNBEARABLE. Out of that necessary misery comes the true marvel of salvation in Jesus Christ.
God’s promises never assure us what His Holy Spirit cannot produce for and in us. The apostle Paul declares that we can forget the things that are behind and press on to that which God has laid out before us. We read the divine imperative of Philippians 3:13,
“Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of
it yet: but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind,
and pressing forward to what lies ahead.”
As it is with any river, even so infinitely more with the River of God (Psalm 46:4), the flow was relentless. God’s Spirit was granting us little breathing time. In fact, He was taking our breath away. No sooner was one miracle manifested, but another one quickly began. It was a flow of supernatural blessing upon blessing, without intermission. It truly can be called SPIRIT RIVER REVIVAL.
Though I didn’t realize it, I was spiritually like a man who was receiving money faster than he could count it; my accounts could no longer keep up with my income. The divine deposit that would now follow seemed like it would break the bank. The power of the Holy Spirit River now appeared to swell to such an excess that it became too strong to express it. But please, let me try.
Last days News
Perfect Love Casts Out Fear Pt.1
Read Psalm 56:1-4 and I John 4:18
-Today we are going to be dealing:
1. With perhaps THE NUMBER ONE ENEMY OF OUR CULTURE AND SOCIETY – FEAR!
2. If there is ONE THING THAT IS WARPING THE MIND OF OUR GENERATION – FEAR!
3. Jesus prophesied in Luke 21:26 words that deal with universal man:
“THAT IN THE LAST DAYS MEN’S HEARTS WOULD
FAIL THEM BECAUSE OF FEAR.”
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