Promises, Pledges, and Paradise

[Music][Music]Z I think you're wrong you doingthat right Zach's just going to come andshare a little bithelloeveryone so I'm Zach and I'm going to bedoing a little talk on youth rush todayso youth Rush is an Outreach Ministrywhere young people like me go out on thedoors and we sell books and I cannotstress how important it is for us youngpeople to be out on the doors gettingthat real experience doing what we needto do and so when I'm out there I'mselling books and I have to rely on Godcuz if I don't then whoopy woo I failand so when we're there I'm not reallygoing to share a story tonight but I'mgoing to share what it's done for mepersonally so when I first startedcoming to youth rush I've been broughtup in the church and so I've got a verywhat is it not a personal connection Iknow all what's right and what's wrongand I can give you a debate on differenttopics but doesn't mean anything didn'treally mean anything to me when I did itand when I came to youth Rush I startedlearning a bit more about what Godreally does to someone when you when hechanges them and when you knock onsomeone's door and you have a prayer forthey break down crying saying you'veministered to them then you start to seeGod in a real tangible way when yourmission work and so the friends that youbuild there the close connections withother people who are doing God's work isreally amazing and so that is my littleshort testimony[Applause]today uh praise the Lord Zack um we'regoing to be blessed with a specialitem Ithink good evening church family Ishould probably come over here so youcan hear me a littlebit um so I'd like you to put your handup if you had a roadblock put in yourway to come here for the for theweek yep how many people had aroadblock I'll start my story and I'mnot going to be very long but I'd liketo take you back to the 20th ofDecember on the 20th of December I hadmy houserobbed on Christmas Day I totaled up thedamage I started a spreadsheet and thatdamage at so far comes to$38,000 do I care no I don't carebecause I know that Jesus Christ is myrock and mysalvation y so I went to Big camp and onThursday of big Camp I was haed away byanambulance and right now I have thecatheter room it's not verycomfortable but Satan doesn't want us tobe here right because heknows he knows full well that when wecome here we get good foodso I hope I hope you've been blessed umI'd like to read your quick text andthen I'm going to sing asong oh so from Ephesians 2 and startingat verse 4 but God being rich in Mercybecause of his great love with which heloved us even when we were dead in ourtransgressions made us alive togetherwith Christ by grace you have beensaved and raised us up with him andseated us with him in the Heavenlyplaces in ChristJesus so that in the ages to come hemight show The surpassing Riches of hisgrace in kindness towards us in ChristJesus for by Grace you have been savedthrough faith and that not of yourselvesit is the gift of God not a result as aresult ofworks so that no one mayboast so this is a little bitunpracticed but um be blessed[Music]time measured out my[Music]days life carriedmealone in my soul Iear to followGod but you I'dnever be sostrong I looked out at thisworld to learn howHeaven could beG just to end where Ibegan where humaneffort is allinvain where it not forGrace I can tell youwhere i'be wandering down somepointless road toNorway with myselfup to me I know how that wouldgo the battles I would[Music][Applause]faceforever running but losing therace were it not for oh[Music]Grace so here is all my[Music]praise expressed withall of myheart offered to theprince who took myplace and and theca I could notstart and when he saw infor just how much his love wouldcost he still went the finalmile between me and heaven so I wouldnot be lwere it not forgraise I can tell youwhere i'be wandering down somepointless road to noway with mysalvation up to me and I know how thatwouldgo the battles I wouldfaceforeverrunning but losing thatrace were it not forgrace forforeverrunning but losing therace were it not for Grace[Music]Our Father in heaven we thank you forthe freedom that is still ours at thistime to come together to worship aswe've done so today thank you for theblessing of the speakers throughout theweek and that Pastor gine can be here toopen to us the bread of life thisevening as he does so may you pour outyour Holy Spirit upon them please dearLord and open up our hearts and Minds tohear Thy word to hear thee speaking toour hearts and then father with thathelp us to follow the truth as it'sabout to come to our hearts tonight wepray in jesus' name amen amenall right good evening everybody evenit's a pleasure to be with you here thisevening and uh I've hear the noises thevolume is going up as I speak that's agood sign so it's a pleasure to sharethis sabbath day with you and thewonderful camp meeting yes it's been ablessing and uh tomorrow we all head offto our various homes and next chapter oflife but today we just want to close outthe Sabbath and I want as I was thinkingabout what we're going to close out theSabbath with from my side I thought Iwould talk about um what the hope thatwe have as Adventists you know sometimeswhen I spoke about things like sexualBrokenness a few days ago and those werekind of hard topics tocover and some people sat and there waslike I saw there was a few tears in thecongregation as I was speaking on thattopic but as I was thinking what wouldbe the last thing to talk about Ithought I'd talk about the hope that wehave in Jesus Christ and the promisethat one day all things will be made newagain and so I've entitled our talk thisevening promise is pledges and Paradiseand I wrote this in just recently in thecontext of the US elections and you'llsee very clearly where I'm going withthis particular talk um but as we beginlet's bow our heads once again andinvite the presence of the Holy SpiritHeavenly Father we thank you for theprivilege and the blessing of sharingthis sabbath with each other and withyou father I thank you for the foodwe've received the physical food and forthe spiritual food and father I praythat with the nourishment this has givenus both physical and spiritual that wewill be able to run the race that is setbefore us that we can keep the faith wemake fight the good fights of faith Ipray Lord that we will indeed be umPillars of Strength for your kingdomgoing forward I pray Lord that the uhthe food we've received will not juststop with us but in the strength itgives us that we will bring honor andglory to you so Lord tonight is in yourhands speak through me and for me mayyour spirit go before me sanctify mylips and my heart and may all that issaid and done bring honor and glory toour coming Savior Jesus Christ in Hisholy name we prayamen all right so I would suggest youtonight that elections haveconsequences elections have profoundconsequences and uh coming from the uswe've just gone through an extremelyconsequential election and election thathad two radically different visions ofAmerica up for the electors to choosebetween and these elections haveconsequences because it's not just whothe president is for four years butsometimes the president gets a pick onthe Supreme Court and those picks on theSupreme Court will influence America forthe next 30 or 40 years depending on howyoung those justices happen to be and sowhen you're electing a president you'renot just electing somebody for 4 yearsyou're electing somebody who maypotentially influence your life and yourchildren's life for the next 20 to 40years these elections have consequencesand in the last election in America justa few months ago we were asked to choosebetween two radically differentworldviews and Visions what Americashould be on the one side you had aglobalist and a cultural Marxist versionof America an atheist and a secularversion of America that cloaks itself insecular humanism and on the other sideyou had a nationalist and a populistversion of America that cloaks itself inin a false version ofChristianity we have these two optionsbefore us in the American election andthis morning I showed you this slideupon the screen um the two competingworldviews or sorry this is our journeytoday we're going to go through thecoming King we're going to look at thereducing the cost of living massdeportations of illegal aliens drainingthe swamp protecting Medicare Medicaidand Social Security before we come toour conclusions and those were some ofthe key pledges of the winning candidateand but there is a spiritual parallel tothese so um as we look um in in thesetwo parallel worldviews in our WesternSociety or at least in the states fornow um you have a version ofChristianity which is not biblicalChristianity it's kind of a shudoChristianity they still believe increation fall and redemption in in aversion of that and then you have thecultural Marxist worldview that you seeon the screen there where we haveEvolution and the fall represented bythe instruction of private property andthen the evolution of a classlesssociety and actually both of those viewviews of America are intent on buildingyou might say heaven onEarth a Marxist state on Earth or anationalist state on Earth and that'skind of the the vision for both of thecandidates in the last two elections andthe voters were asked to choose betweentwo very differentcandidates both were extremely imperfecthuman beings and they were asking us totrust our futures for the next fouryears and Beyond into their hands andfor some reason we don't appear to havethe best candidates bubbling to thesurface you have interesting candidatesbubbling to thesurface eachcandidate asked us to trustthem for the next four years and if theygot those picks on the Supreme Court totrust us with policies that may affectour children and our children's childrenif Jesus doesn't come back and so it wasinteresting to watch the election inprogress because um every four yearspeoples T to gather energy and supportfor an Earthly Messiah figure and peoplewere passionate about their particularchosen candidate and some people woretheir red Maga hats around and um thatstands for make adventism great again noit doesn't um there was the magotBrigade and then there was the othergroup of people with whatever they wereit's was hard to remember what they woreat all um other than um septum RS intheir noses maybe the most identifiablefeature of one of Cala Harris's votersbut the the voters the supporters ofeach candidate were very public theyvery um open they very loud about theirsupport of their candidate and it'sfascinating to watch people gettingpassionate about this candidate or thiscandidate and it's just for four yearsand if the midterms don't go well thenthey really only have power for twoyears if they lose the midterms in twoyears time and crowds gathered to meettheir preferred candidates um whenPresident Trump would come to town orpresident Trump elect if he was comingto a town in Michigan um they wouldannounce it 24 hours in advance and hewas going to go to a stadium abasketball stadium for 15,000 people andthere would be 100,000 people lining thestreets 24 hours in advance and sothey'd find a bigger Stadium then abigger Stadium then a bigger stadium andthey kept getting bigger and biggerstadiums and the crowds kept gettinglarger and larger and larger and peoplewould queue for 24 hours 48 hours in therain in the snow in the bad weather theyjust wanted to get a glimpse of theircandidate it was an amazing thing to seeand um people wore their regalia theywore their hats they had their slogansthey put the slogans on the back oftheir cars and this was happening onboth sides of theequation when the election was completethere were two radically differentresponses and there are some picturesfrom America that the woman on the rightthere I I think she should copyright HerImage because that picture there on theright it goes back to the election of2016 actually that is shown all over theworld of a woman after Trump's firstinauguration she gathered with someother ladies in Washington to scream herrage at the sky and that picture has haskind of gone viral on the top left thereyou get some cheering Trump supportersat a rally um where they're expectinghim to win but when the election wasover there were radically differentresponses on the one side there was agroup who responded with emotionalmeltdowns online for the entire universto see and maybe you saw some of thosevideos on Tik Tok or SnapChat orFacebook or YouTube you saw peoplenashing their teeth Shak shaving offtheir hair shaking their fists hurlingabusers piercing their noses mourningthe anticipation of lost rights anddemonizing the other side but nobodyrepented of their decision and on theother side of the equation the otherside resp responds with unrestricted joyand happiness like they've just woneternal life there was deep satisfactionmingled with relief and joy that thewhole election cycle was finally overand if you live in America during anelection cycle it's almost a completeyear before the election takes place youjust have to keep your head down becausethere's so much garbage out there youfeel dirty by the end of the wholeprocess from the side that respondedwith joy hands were raised in In Praiseheads were clothed in red YMCA was sungwere made for the future and as with theother side nobody repented of theirdecision and what was the manifesto ofthe incoming president well he had manypromises but maybe four of the mostpowerful promises were these four thingshere reduce the cost ofliving mass deportations of illegalaliens by the millions draining theswamp and protecting Medicaid Medicareand Social Security Now Medicaid isemergency government Medical PA for thepoor Medicare is is what happens tosenior citizens the medical care theyget in retirement and Social Security ispeople's pensions and so these weremaybe the top four promises that thewinning candidate made in theelection other promises were made suchas finishing the wall and energyIndependence and um blowing up anybodywe don't like but this was really thiswas really the top four promises made inthatelection and so the world waits for thiscoming week weend this coming week as wespeak Adventists are flocking toWashington DC to give out tens ofthousands of copies of great controversyby the tens of thousands because therewill be an enormous crowd on the mall tocelebrate the inauguration of the newpresident people are watching either andwaiting with eager anticipation or withprofounddread we will all be impacted by thatelection one way or the other for goodor for bad we're all in this together nomatter what country the world we live inthere is no escaping the consequences ofthis particular election but asChristians we celebrate not the comingpresident but the comingKing and as Christians we watch and waitnot just for the coming president butfor the coming king of kings and Lord oflords and not just any king of kings andLord of lords but my king and your kingand my Lord and your lord and that isJesus Christ himself Jesus described hiscoming in this way he said let yourheart not be troubled you believe in Godbelieve also in me in my father's houseare many mansions if it were not so Iwould have told you I go to prepare aplace for you and if I go and prepare aplace for you I will come again andreceive you unto myself that where I amthere you may be also famous words yesso who did Jesus speak these wordstoo his disciples and if you open yourBible to John 14 I'd invite you to itright now when John wrote his gospelthere was no John 14 1-3 there was justthetext and so Jesus is giving thisdiscourse here and it's in the upperroom and it's important to realize whoJesus was speaking to when he said thesewords because when we read this promiseof Jesus that let not your heart betroubled you believe in God believe alsoin me um who was he speaking this towell if you go back to John 13the last couple of verses in verse36 um Jesus Simon Peter says there John13:36 Simon Peter said unto him Lordwhere with goest thou and Jesus answeredhim whether I go thou CST not follow menow but Thou shalt follow me afterwardsPeter said unto him verse 37 Lord whycannot I follow thee now I will lay downmy life for thy sake and Jesus answeredhim verse 38 wilt thou lay down thy lifefor my sake verily verily I say unto youthe shall not Crow till thou Hastdenied meThrice so Jesus is speaking to Peterwho's just said Lord I'll go whereveryou want me to go I will follow youwherever yougo and Jesus says to Peter Peter beforethe crows twice tonight you'regoing to deny me three times but let notyour heart betroubled you believe in God believe alsoin me so Jesus is saying this thisbeautiful promise of his second comingand he's making home in Heaven above todisciples who make who sometimes denyhim and make terrible boasts about theirwalk with him that they cannot back upwith their way of living to discipleswho will deny him in public discipleswho will flee from him in the moments ofTruth when the soldiers arrest him inthe Garden of Gethsemane Jesus givesthis promise not to perfect disciplesbut to disciples who fail every singleday in fact you can look through thegospels and nowhere did Jesus fire asingle disciple despite desite all theirfailures despite all their argumentsabout who is the greatest in the kingdomof God despite their debates aboutwhether they should ban these otherexorcists or not in Mark 9 and they sayLord we told this man to stop castingout demons in your name because he wasnot one of us as if somehow thedisciples have intrinsic authority overdemons and so In this passage here thispromise you see on the screen Jesusspoke this to disciples who are about togo through the biggest crisis of theirlives their world would fall apart somewould betray him some would flee fromhim some would p face persecutionbecause of him some would loseeverything because of him and Jesuspointed them and he points us to the endof thestory that beyond ourfailures beyond ourmistakes beyond our betrayals beyond ourfleeing beyond our not speaking up whenit was time to speak up Beyond thoseopportunities when we shifted theconversation when it should have gone ina spiritual direction to how bad theweather is Jesus points our eyes beyondour failures to the promise that he whathe is doing for his disciples we aretruly saved as the song said were it notfor Grace where would we betoday this is a story of Grace and sothis Jesus goes on we saw this versethis morning so Christ was once offeredto Bear the sins of many and unto themthat look for him shall he appear thesecond time without sin unsalvation and so let's ask ourselvestonight what pledges and Promises hasthe coming King of Kings made for thosewho are eagerly waiting for him who areyearning not just for four more yearsbut to a yearning for eternity whatpromises has the coming King made for usand these promises I think should fillour hearts with joy and with hopebecause Jesus speaks these promises todisciples who fail disciples who stumbledisciples who betray him from time totime disciples who deny knowing him fromtime to time Jesus points our to the endof the story and says I know that you'regoing to make mistakes I know you'regoing to deny me I know you're going tostumble but I've still got something instore foryou so these promises are not forperfectdisciples they're for real humandisciples and we're all in that group sothe first promise that was made in thelast election was to reduce the cost ofliving and in America we've had massiveinflation in the last four years thegovernment has printed trillions ofdollars out of thin airand the prices have risenaccordingly and this is a real problemyou know I I was I went the other day tobuy some eggs and it was I think $8 fortwo dozen eggs I was stunnedlike that's 12 Canadiandollars that's expens oh that's cheap isit all rightokay well we live in a bigger market soprices should come down um rents havegone up dramaticallypeople are struggling to find a place tolive because the rents are sohigh and uh the cost of gasoline hasrisen dramatically now you may not thinkso in New Zealand coming from Englandwhere it's about $10 usar a gallon inAmerica it's it's about it Rose to4 us agallon and that was just like horrifyingbecause normally when Trump left officeit was $1.79 agallon now part of the differencebetween say New Zealand and America isthat our sense of distance is just sodifferentso in England when I lived in England Icommuted from Watford to new ballCollege every day 50 miles each way andpeople thought I was nuts like why wouldyou ever commute 50miles now if I want to visit my son inin in southern from Michigan it's a 650M Trek each way and you don't thinkanything of it you jump in your car andoff you go and 10 hours later you'rethere and so our sense of distance is somuch different in America because it'ssuch a spread out country and becauseeverything is trucked everywhere andthere's not good public public transporteverybody relies on on cars to geteverywhere so the cost of gasoline has abig impact on the whole nation and thecoming president promised that he wasgoing to reduce dramatically the cost ofliving so let's go back to what Jesus ispromising when it comes to the cost ofliving in the Garden of Eden there wasno cost ofliving death disease and suffering wereas yetunknown but with the fall we'veexperienced the entrance of sin and allof human ity ever since then hasexperienced a profoundly painful cost ofliving over the Millennia since that dayevery aspect of our human experience atthe individual level the family levelthe community or national level has beennegatively impacted by a cost of livingfrom which there is no political cure ata personal level we all experience deaththis is the most significant cost ofliving that the coming King of Kings ispromising to deal with wherefore as byone man sin entered into to the worldand death by sin and so death passedupon all men for that all have sinned sodeath is our Universal experience it isa universal cost of living and noearthly president can deal with thatcost of living but the king of comingKing of Kings has promised to take awaythis cost of living for all of humanityall the killer diseases cancer CardiacArrest Cher or covid represents the costof living every chronic disease likediabetes depression dermatitis Dementiaor degenerative dis disease representsthe cost of living every road accidentevery accidental death every still birthmiscarriage and abortion represents thecost of living at the family leveldisfunction and breakdown represent thecost of living disputes vendettas cyclesof Revenge marital dysfunction andbreakdown female genital mutilationspouse or child abuse all of thisrepresents the cost of living at ourcommunity levels the cost of living isManifest in racial Prejudice ethnichatred tribalism class division all ofthis represents the cost of living at anational level the horrors of Warthroughout the ages grinding poverty theinstitution of slavery over 6,000 yearshuman and organ trafficking the sextrade genocide ethnic cleansing tribalconflicts Mass deportations Wars ofConquest greed an empire building withall their attendant Horrors all of theserepresent the cost of Living ForHumanity and what is the coming Kingpromising when it comes to this cost ofliving he's not talking about the costof gasoline or the cost of eggs he'stalking about the real cost of living acost that we all bear in our own liveswell I love these promises of thescripture behold he says I will tell youa mystery 1 Corinthians 15:51 through 57we shall not all sleep but we shall allbe changed in a moment in the twinklingof an eye at the last Trump for thetrumpet shall sound and the dead inChrist or the dead shall be raisedIncorruptible and we shall be praychanged can you say Amen to that weshall be changed for this corruptiblemust put on incorruption this Mortalmust put on immortality so when thiscorruptible shall have puton incorruption this Mortal shall put onimmortality then shall be brought topass past the saying that is writtendeath is swallowed up in Victory ohdeath where is thy sting oh great whereis thy Victory The Sting of death is sinand the strength of sin is the law butthanks be to God which giveth us thevictory over this terrible cost ofliving through Jesus Christ Our Lordamen and so Jesus promises as the comingking of kings and Lord of lords toeliminate not just high gas prices he'scoming to eliminate the true cost ofliving that we all experience around theworld he goes on to say inspired inRevelation 21: 1-4 then I saw a newHeaven and a new Earthfor the first Heaven and the first Earthwere passed away and there was no moresea and I John saw the holy city the NewJerusalem coming down from God out ofHeaven prepared as a bride Adorn for herhusband I heard a great voice out ofHeaven saying behold the Tabernacle ofGod is with men and he will dwell withthem and they shall be his people andGod himself shall be with them and betheir God and God shall wipe away alltears from their eyes and there shall beno more death neither sorrow nor cryingnor neither shall there be any pain forthe former things the cost of living haspassed away and so the coming King onewho asks for your vote tonight anelection for him promises to eliminateonce and for all the cost of living forall of humanity not just for theAmerican population not just for thepopulation of New Zealand he promises toeliminate the cost of living for allpeople and this is his gift to those whochoose him those who vote for him forthe wages of sin is death that's if saveif you accept the slavery to sin wespoke about two days ago but the gift ofGod is eternal life through Jesus ChristOur Lord it's a gift to those who choosefor him that the cost of living will beforever removed from all of humanity andthere'll be no hint of it in the life tocome and we've all experienced that costof living yes we've all stood by thegrave of a loved one some of us have umhave buried our parents some of us haveburied our children some of us haveburied our dreams when we saw ourmarriage fall apart some of us have uhseen our bodies being ravaged byterrible diseases some of us look backat the energy and and the Vigor of Youthand we wonder what happened to ourbodies it's the cost ofliving and it affects us all in interrible and V and diverse ways and thecoming king of kings and Lord of lordshe says that if you vote for me if yourelection is for me I will eliminate onceand for all all cost of living for youit's a beautiful promise from the comingking of kings and Lord of lords the nextpromise made by the incoming presidentis the mass deportation of illegalaliens and there was a Hispanicgentleman who took to Tik Tock and hewas crying because president Trump wonthe election and he said he was he wascrying he said he said I I'm so sorry hesaid he said that I'm really worriedthat President Trump is going to deportmy mother-in-lawhe says and I I I'm just so worriedbecause she lives at 106 East Street umin thiscity and she said she says it's a doorwith a yellow it's a house with a yellowdoor and she's only home between 4:00and 6:00p.m. well um it was a jokeobviously but in all honesty um the massdeportation of illegal aliens for rightor for wrong will involve a mass massivehuman cost of separated families amongotherthings and what does the coming King ofKings promise in his Manifesto in termsof the mass deportation of illegalaliens well the first thing we're goingto say is this Philippians 320 says forour conversation is in heaven fromwhence also we look for the Savior theLord Jesus Christ and that wordconversation um poluma is generallytranslated as citizenship orCommonwealththat when we are when we enter into thekingdom of God our citizenship nowbelongs to a HeavenlyKingdom that as far as God is concernednobody need be an illegalalien everybody is welcome into thecitizenship of the kingdom of God andthat citizenship is in heaven above fromwhere we're expecting Our Savioreverybody regardless of their Earthlycitizenship or personal history orinvolvement in sin tonight may enter thekingdom of God and be adopted into thefamily of Godso the coming King of Kings doesn't justsay I'm going to deport all IL legalaliens he says I want as many people aspossible in my kingdom and I have madeprovision for you to be in my kingdom sothat nobody need be deported John 1:112-13 says this but as many as receivedhim to them gave he power to become thesons of God even to them that believe onhis name which were born not of bloodnor of the will of the flesh nor of thewill of man but ofGod as many as received himyou can be a citizen of God's kingdomand so the promise of the deportation ofillegal aliens doesn't apply to you fromGod's kingdom if you accept hiscitizenship offer tonight John 5:28-29Jesus goes on to explain this bit morehe says Marvel not at this for the houris coming in the and in which all thatare in the grave shall hear his voiceand shall come forth they they have donegood unto the resurrection of life andthey that have done evil unto theresurrection of damnation and so thereare going to be two groups of peoplewhen Christ comes again the wicked andthe righteous and all must choose whichgroup they're going to be a part of andChrist does not restrict anybody fromentering the group of the righteous ifthey turn to him in faith all may enterGod's kingdom all may be adopted intothe family of God all may be forgivenfor their past sins all may receive thatpassport called justification declaredinnocent and a member of my kingdomthrough faith in Jesus Christ and so Goddoes not bar us from being counted ascitizens of his kingdom our choice ofcitizenship in the Kingdom of Heaven ismade on a dailybasis we're not once saved always savedwe are once saved and daily saved and wechoose every morning whose kingdom we'rea partof and so Jesus speaks about this in aWedding Banquet the parable of Matthew221-4 and that text is kind of small thereI'm just going to um well we'll read itthrough here just some of you aren'tfamiliar with this text it says Jesusanswered and spake unto them by Parablesand said the Kingdom of Heaven is likeunto a certain King which made amarriage for his son and sent forth hisservants to call them that were biddento the wedding and they would not comeagain he sent forth other servantssaying tell them which are bidden beholdI prepared my dinner my oxen and myfatlings are killed and all things areready come unto the marriage but theymade light of it and went there ways oneto his farm another to his merchandiseand the remnant took his servants andentreated them spitefully and slew thembut when the king heard thereof he waswroth and he sent forth his armies anddestroyed those murderers and burnt uptheir City then he said to his servantsthe wedding is ready but they which werebidden were not worthy go you thereforeinto the highways and as many as youshall find bids to the marriage so thoseservants went out into the highways andgathered together as many as they foundboth good and bad and the wedding wasfurnished with guests and when the kingcame in to see the guests he saw there aman which had not on a wedding garmentand he said unto him friend how camestthou hether not having a wedding garmentand he was speechless then the king saidto the servants bind him hands and footand take him away and cast him intoouter Darkness there shall be weepingand nashing of teeth for many are calledbut few arechosen it's kind of like the lastelectionweeping and nashing ofteeth over a 4E ofchoice can you imagine the Weeping andnashing of teeth when people realizethey've losteternity with zero cost of living canyou imagine that that the sorrow amongthe lost that when they've lost TheGreatest Prize of humanity which iseternal life and In this passage hereJesus makes it clear that he wants asmany as possible to be in his kingdomand when they come in this Parable whenthey come to the wedding Feast the kingwill provide them with a robe becausemany of the guests are poor and theyneed to look and let nice in the king'spresence so the king provides them arobe so they can stand with honor in hispresence and this man comes to thewedding and he says well actually my mywork clothes are okay for this weddingFeast I don't need the robe that's beingfreely offered to me and the King looksaround he looks around in the room andhe scans everybody everybody's wearingthat robe that robe of righteousness andhe comes to the one guywho won't accept that free robe fromChrist and he says how did you get inhere and the man wasspeechless and this is the massdeportation of illegal aliens righthere for those who refuse Christ's robeof righteousness that is freely offeredto all of humanity will be rejected fromhis Everlasting Kingdom all areinvited all can enter God's kingdom allcan enter paradParadise every person can be naturalizedas a citizen of God's Kingdom in Heavena robe of righteousness was prepared forall Humanity on calvary's Cross there isonly one condition to citizenship inGod's kingdom to accept therighteousness of Our Savior by faiththose who seek to par enter Paradisewithout Christ's righteousness areremoved forever as illegal aliens wherethere will be weeping and nashing ofteeth and the online meltdowns of theover the last um few weeks from the USelections which were kind of very sad tosee they will be as nothing compared tothe Weeping and wailing and nashing ofteeth when the weep lost in the finaljudgment over the Lost gift ofEternity so we all have a choice to maketoday you make you make your electionsure there is a coming King he'spromising to eliminate the cost ofliving not just reduce it he's going toeliminate it completely there's going tobe Mass deportation of illegal aliensbut he's made it possible for everybodyto be a citizen in his kingdom so nobodyneed be deported the next promise thatum the incoming president has made is todrain theswamp now do you have the expression theswamp here in NewZealand All right so Washington isviewed as the Swamp it's the permanentpolitical class it's the couple ofmillion of bureaucrats who are neverelected who Implement government policyand nobody really has any control overthem it's the security agency the 17intelligence agencies the NSA the CIAthe FBI etc etc that have a profoundimpact on what happens all around theworld and they're basically accountableto nobody and the swamp are thepermanent political class that rule inWashington Washington for their ownbenefit not for the benefit of thepeople and their goal is to keep thepeople subjugated to the powers of thepermanent political class and that'swhat we call the swamp in America andthe incoming president has promised todrain the swamp which means he's goingto war with Washington he's going to warwith the intelligence agencies he'sgoing to war with the bureaucrats by thehundreds and thousands that's what he'spromising to do and what does JesusChrist promise to do in terms ofdraining the swamp because the swamprepresents not just the permanentpolitical class in America it representsthose spiritual forces of evil whoUnited in their hatred of the comingKing who dominate and oppress the thosewho are waiting for the coming King andhis kingdom in spiritual terms the swampmeans Satan his demons and theoppressive Earthly Powers rulersspiritual forces and rulers whopersecute the saints of God when Jesuspromises to drain the swamp he'spromising to eliminate once and for allall the forces of evil physical andspiritual who oppress his childrenthat's an incredible promise that Jesusis making he's eliminating the cost ofliving he's going to remove those whodon't accept the robe of right but allare freely invited to receive it andhe's promising us that he's going todestroy all forces of evil that plagueustoday it's an incredible promiseEphesians 6:12 says this you you'refamiliar with this passage for wewrestle not against flesh and blood butagainst principalities against Powersagainst the rulers of the darkness ofthis world against spiritual wickednessin highplaces and so our struggle is notagainst Trump or um Harris our struggleis not against aern or whoever yourcurrent prime minister is our struggleis not against Earthly politicians it'sagainst Satan and his fallen angels andonce we understand that and we alsorealize that God is not willing that anyshould perish but that all should haveeternal life then there is no place fordemonizing other people on politicalgrounds anymore because God is notwilling that Harris or Trump shouldperish he's not willing that a her oryour current prime minister shouldperish and if God wants them to be savedtherefore what should our attitude be tothese Earthlyrulers one of Mercy one of being God'sblessing to them no matter what you maythink about them we're still Christ'sambassadors to these fallen and lostsouls but in this passage here we aretold that our struggle is ultimately notagainst enemies of flesh and blood butit's against principalities and powersand the rulers of the darkness of thisworld now the word ruler is AR we getthe word Archbishop from that or amonarch as a sole ruler of a nation andthe word Authority isexusia and these two words are used bythe Apostle Paul in about six otherplaces in the New Testament to refer toFallenAngels we're going to take a look atsome of those verses right now but thispassage tells us that our lives areplagued by attacks from Satan and hisdemons either directly or via Earthlyactors who are impowered and controlledby Satan himself satanic harassmentoppression and possession will be doneaway with with when Jesus comes once andfor all there are differentmanifestations across different culturesof what this looks like but everysociety experiences this and Satan wasangry with the woman and went off tomake what with the remnant of herchildren so if you believe that you arebe by virtue of being a member of God'sRemnant movement you are immune fromSatan's attacks you need to wake up andsmell the rosestoday because you are the specificobject of Satan'sattacks the aost Peter put it this wayhe spoke about Jesus Christ in 1 Peter3:22 he spoke of Jesus he said who hasgone into heaven and is at the righthand of God with angels those areunfallen angels authorities and Powersthose are the Fallen Angels made subjectto him what this passage tells us isthat before the coming King actuallyarrives he already has authority overthe fallenangels that there is a limit Beyondwhich evil cannotgo that he knows when his Sparrow fallsto the ground he knows the hairs on yourhead and we are not to worry so muchabout the Earthly things of life but weto seek first the kingdom and hisrighteousness and God takes care of theEarthly worries that each one of uscarries from day to day this passagehere in 1 Peter 3 tells us that Christhas ultimate authority over Satan andhis demons there is a limit Beyond whichevil cannot pass and so Jesus taught usthat while we wait for the coming Kingof Kings to arrive and to deliver usonce and for all from Satan we are topray the Lord Lord's Prayer and theLord's Prayer says and lead us not intotemptation but Deliver Us from what eviland that's not evil in terms of rign onyour wedding day that's not the kind ofEvil Jesus is talking the literaltranslation is from the evil one who isthe evil one Satan all right so howoften are we supposed to pray the Lord'sPrayer every day why because we say giveus this day our daily bread andtherefore as we pray every day for physphysical sustenance as we appreciatethat we also pray every day that ourheavenly father will Deliver Us from theattacks of Satan why does Jesus feelthat we should put this into why weshould pray this because he knows thatwe're under daily attack from Satan andthat is why when the coming King ofKings promises to drain the swamp heknows that the biggest curse in ourlives is the action of Satan and hisdemons he's going to take care of OnceIn A all when he comes again it's abeautiful promise of Jesus and soMatthew 8:29 the demons know about thispromise of the coming King of KingsMatthew 8:29 these are the demonsspeaking to Jesus says and behold theycried out saying what have we to do withthee Jesus thou Son of God Art Thou comehither to torment us before the whatbefore the time so the demons know thereis a time appointed when they're goingto face judgment and destruction andwhen we preach about the second comingof Jesus because we're proclaiming theirdestruction as well and so theproclamation of the coming of JesusChrist is that actually like a challengeto the demons like your end issure that your reign of terror is comingto an end and that you will and thephrase of President Trump burn baby burnyou will burn in that Lake of Fire youroutcome is predetermined and there'snothing you can do about it at thisstage and so the demons are never happywhen people talk about the second comingof Jesus Revelation 12: 12 the secondver part of that verse it says this woto the inhabitants of the earth and ofthe sea for the devil has come down untoyou having great wrath or wroth becausehe knoweth that he hath but a shorttime Satan knows that his time is shorthe knows his destruction is sure so dothe demons they believe in God andaccording to the the the um writings ofthe James they believe in God and theytremble and so the demons know that theswamp will be drained do we know that dowe have that sense of hope that one daythese forces of evil will be done awaywith once and for all and will neveragain blight our homes or our familiesit's a beautiful promise that Jesus hasgiven us the Book of Revelationdescribes it in a bit more detail sayswhen the thousand years are expiredSatan shall be loosed out of his prisonthis the end of the Millennium in heavenand shall go out to deceive the Nationswhich are in the four quarters of theearth Gog and Magog to gather themtogether to battle the number of whom isas the sand of the sea that's a terribleverse that the Lost are like the sand ofthe sea despite the coming King and hispromises to eliminate the cost of livingand to deal with sin once and for alldespite his promises the Lost are stillas numerous as the sand of the Sea andthe lost it says they went up on thebreadth of the earth and compassed thecamp of the Saints about that's NewJerusalem and the Beloved City and firecame down from heaven and devoured themand the devil that deceived them wascast into lake of fire and brimstonesomebody should say Amen to that amenamen that the source of all evil will bedestroyed once and for all hallelujahhallelujah yes that Satan will bedestroyed together with his uh hisprincipalities of evil the rulers theauthorities the the Paul writes aboutearly we've read in Ephesians chapter 6they will all be destroyed once and forall when Jesus comes again again I saypraise the Lord for that then cometh theend 1 Corinthians 15:24 Now 1Corinthians 15 is a verse it's a chapterthat we always talk about we've alreadyread the verse actually about when whenChrist shall come the Trump of God shallsound and that that that which iscorruptible becomes Incorruptible mortalputs on immortality and so forth wefocus on 1 Corinthians 15 because ittalks aboutus but earlier in the chapter in 1Corinthians 24 it talks about the factthat then cometh the end when he that isChrist shall have delivered up thekingdom to God even the father when heshall have put down all Rule and allauthority and all power and those wordsonce again the same as Ephesians 6:12 inthe Greek that is Christ will have putdown all spiritual forces ofevil and so the second coming of Christis not just that we get translated andgo to heaven is that the demons aregoing to be destroyed once and for allthis is what it means to drain the swampand there is only one can drain thatswamp and it is Jesus Christ amen and soas Adventist we proclaim the coming ofJesus and by implication we'reproclaiming the destruction of Satan andhis demons and when we proclaim thedestruction of Satan and his demons asyou were saying earlier on when you sangthe song brother how many people hadroadblocks coming here to this campmeeting when you start doing Biblestudies with somebody do you know howoften Satan runs interference on you ifyou're going to do Bible study withsomeone at 7:00 on every Tuesday nightwithout fail the first Tuesday they calland they say my dog died I can't youcan't come around on the second Tuesdaythey say I've got to I've got a workassignment I can't you can't come aroundtonight and the third Tuesday they calland say oh there's a broken pipe in myroof I'm trying to fix it and if youever study with someone this is whathappens Satan runs interference on youand after two or three weeks you realaha this is Satan running interferencethe solution is not to fix the pipes orget a new puppy is to get down on yourknees and say Lord protect this time andGod protects that time it's like a VPNthrough time and he protects that littletunnel so you can go and meet with thatperson and stud study with them and leadthem to Jesus Christ and so this passagehere that Jesus will put down all rulersall Rule and all authority and all poweris truly a blessed verse and Jesus saysto us in this passage now on thescreen that while we're waiting for himto come and deliver on thispromise when the dra the SW when theswamp will be drained for alltime until that Glorious Day the swampcan never separate us from the love ofGodJesus the Apostle Paul says this for Iam persuaded that neither death nor lifenor angels nor principalities nor powersit's the same words from Ephesians 6:12these are fallen angels that neitherlife nor death nor angels norprincipalities nor powers nor thingspresent nor things to come nor heightnor depth nor any other creature shallbe able to separate us from the love ofGod which is in Christ Jesus our lordamen and amen that while we wait for thecoming King to come and make good on hispromisehe's promised that that though nothingwill separate us from his love includingwhatever Satan may do to you in theinterim no matter how much interferenceSatan runs in your life from this momentuntil the coming of Jesus Christ do notbe discouraged because nothing canseparate you from the love of God wesing about it in the song oh love thatwill not let me go that no matter whatSatan does to us no matter how much hetries to PRI us from faith in ourheavenly father and separate us from thekingdom of God there is a love that willnot let us go and God has affirmed herethat FallenAngels cannot separate us from the loveofGod and so while we're waiting for Jesusto come and destroy those demons we havethe assurance that today he's alreadyacting on our behalf and he's limitingwhat those demons can do and there'snothing can separate us from his love sowhen Satan attacks you with false guiltor true guilt and throws your past inyour face and says could God ever Lovsomebody like you could God ever forgivesomebody like you you're so rotten Godcan forgive everybody else but he can'tforgive that particular sin of yourlife remind yourself say this verse outloud nothing will separate us from thelove of God nothing including FallenAngels Satan and his insinuations andThe Temptations and the lies he putsinto our minds so the coming King ofKings is promising to eliminate not justreduce the cost of living and I say Amento that the coming King of Kings ispromising the mass deportation of legalaliens by what he really means is thathis kingdom is open to all who willaccept him today all the coming King ofKings is promising to drain the swampthat is he's going to fight the battlesfor us we can we can never fight forourselves and he's going to take care ofthose forces of evil those spiritualforces that Dominate and Destroy and uhtake away anything that is good andhonorable and pure in our lives he'sgoing to destroy those forces once andfor all and then the final promise ofour incoming presidence of United Stateswas to protect Medicare Medicaid andSocial SecurityI'm not sure how that's going to bepossible um when we avoiding you knowMcDonald's every day it's kind of hardto run a health care System keeps us allhealthy isn'tit but what is the promise of the comingKing of Kings when it comes to thisparticular issue here because Medicareand Medicaid represent physical wellnessfor many people it represents going to ahospital and having the government payfor those costs if you're in a certainclass ofsociety um what does Jesus promise whenit comes to this it's the promise thathe's going to bring in healing for allbroken relationships and all brokenbodies and this healing is Manifest intwo phases in the New Testament there'sthe kingdom of Grace today and there'sthe kingdom of Glory tomorrow we've beentalking with our morning devotionalsabout the kingdom of God have we not andthe kingdom of God has twomanifestations today we live in theKingdom of Grace and we look forward oneday to the kingdom of Glory and eventhough today the kingdom of Glory hasnot yet arrived we can still live in theKingdom of Grace because the King ofKings is Lord of our lives today evenbefore he arrives in the Clouds Of Gloryand so in the Kingdom of glor in theKingdom of Grace this is how we are tolive says our coming King of Kings hesays by this shall all men know that youare my disciples if you have what to oneto another love self-sacrificing love isthe distinguishing sign of the Disciplesof Jesus Christ not doctrinal Purityimportant though that may be but it's asacrificial love one for another and youknow when you're loved and you know whenyou're not loved when I broke my leg in2017 um it was I was lying in bed oneday with my leg up high in the air andum I was surprised there was a knock atthe door and an elderly couple werethere they had two five gallon bucketsand it was uh I was waiting for thesurgery because uh it was a long storybut anyway they couldn't operate to mecuz my was swollen up and uh so thisthis dear couple came and knocked on thedoor and they said we hear that youcan't have surgery cuz your leg is tooswollen so he said we're here to giveyou hot and coldtreatment and I thought no no no no Ijust won't leave my leg sitting up inthe air cuz my wife had put thiscompression sock on me and just puttingthat compression sock on a millimeter ata time with multiple brakes around theankle it's extremely painful I wasn'tquite sure whether her tears were of Joyor of sadness so she she slowly pushedit on I hope it was of sorrow but anywaythe this dear couple came to and andthey knocked on the door and they saidwe want to put your legs in boiling hotwater then freezing coldwater I said I can I I'm just happy justresting like that for the next 3 daysand saw my surgery and hopefully theswelling will go down they said no thiswill help the swelling go down so that'swhat they did and I sat at the side ofthe bed and I lifted my leg up you knowwhen your leg is like that and you needto go to the restroom this is like amajor Expeditionyou know it's like because every timeyou hop the shudder goes through yourlegs you know it's painful and so doinganything when your leg is in thatcondition it's like you know kissing outfor an Antarctica Expedition but I satthere and I lifted my leg up and I putit into the bucket of cold water firstcoldwater and it was really reallycold and then they put it into thisalmost boiling water and I felt that andthey said Conor this is good for youyeah I know it isyeah and so you take your leg out andyou put it in the icy cold water ohthat's a that's a blessed relief andthey let and they let you cool down justfor a few seconds then you're back intothe boiling hot water and they did thatfor the next twodays and when I went to the surgery onthe Thurs day of that week my leg wasback to almost a normalsize and by this shall all men know thatyou are mydisciples if you have love one toanother I never asked them to do thatbut I remember that as one of thehighlights of my broken legexperience because I received a tangibleexpression of love from brothers andsisters and from that moment on betweennow and then I have nothing but love inmy heart for that elderly couple whenyou minister to somebody's physicalneeds it changes their relationship withyou forever more I was once in Laos andI discovered um I think you've seen thisone of my sermons I turned 40 years ofage and I was in LA and I got up and Iswung out to the bed and I put my footdown it felt like I was standing on anail around the just the heel it was sopainful some of you know what I'mtalking about it's called plantfasciitis it's exceedingly painful and Igot up and I kind of hopped to therestroom which turned out to be anothermajor Expedition and and I sat there inthere and I got my phone out I typedlike stabbing pain in the right heel andI want to self diagnose and it said ohpanta fasciitis okay that's what it isand it says this strikes men aged 40 andabove as that's kind ofprecise it's my 40thbirthday so I started doing Googlesearch is what hits me when I'm 50 whathits me when I'm 60 because I want toknow in advance what's coming my waywell one of our student missionaries wasa was a physical therapist and shenoticed I was kind of hobbling around uhwhere we were working in thatcountry and she con she says uh what'swrong with your heel and I explained toher she said you just sit down there soI sat down and she pulled out somemedical tape and she say I'm going toput some tape from the back of your footunder the heel to the big toe then I'mgoing to tie it around the foot likethat hold the arch up she says now youcan walk I said no no no no she saidyeah yeah try it and there was nopain and I never had it ever again andit was a simple two-minute fix and Ihave nothing but just gratitude in myheart for what that physical therapistdid for me she saw her physical need Iwasn't really her patient but she said Ican fix thatwhen you experience the Practical loveof God from somebody else it changesforever your relationship with thatperson so if we're going to experiencethe kingdom of Gracetoday it means that we live in ourchurches looking for how we can be ablessing to those aroundus we're not just coming to church toreceive a blessing we're coming tochurch with the intent that Lord help mebe a blessing to somebody today there'sa single mom who can't pay herrent there's a family whose kid isdealing with drugs and they don't knowwhat to do about it but maybe your kidwent through that Journey there's afamily who are their marriage is incrisis and he or she needs a place tostay for a few nights there's somebodythat can't pay their bills this month beon the lookout for somebody tobless and people will know that Christis in your midst by the love you haveone for another this so the coming Kingof Kings he says while you're waitingfor me to come if you show the same lovefor each other as I have for you newCommandments I give you that you loveone another as I have loved you if welive in that Kingdom of Grace today andwe manifest the love of Jesus one toanother we're already alleviating thephysical struggles oflife and so sisterwhite puts it this way steps to Christpage 77 she says when the love of Christis enshrined in the heart like sweetfragrance it cannot be hidden its holyinfluence will be felt by all with whomwe we come into contact the spirit ofChrist in the heart is like a spring inthe desert flowing to refresh o andmaking those who are ready to perisheager to drink of the Water ofLife love to Jesus will be manifest in adesire to work as he worked for theblessing and uplifting of humanity itwill lead to love tenderness andsympathy toward all the creatures of ourHeavenly father's careamen so when the coming King of Kingspromises to elim to save Medicaid andMedicare he's going to heal brokenbodies and broken relationships we havea part to play in that and to the extentthat we love one another as Christ hasfirst loved us we experience this kindof love in ourchurches so next time you go tochurch be praying when you go Lord whocan I be a blessing to today it may bethat you see someone who's discouragedyou write them a little card and put itin the mail to them or you realize thatsomebody's shut in at home and you makea visit on Sabbath afternoon and praywith themmaybe that someone their car is brokenthey can't do the weekly groceryshopping they need some help littlethings like this people remember for therest of their lives it changesrelationships forever a simple act ofkindness and this is what Jesus asks ofus that we love one another as he hasfirst loved us and that way that's theway that is the means by which we livein the Kingdom of Grace today sisterwhite put it also in God's Amazing Gracepage 237 she says in the heart renewedby divine grace Grace love is theprinciple loving ruling principle ofaction it modifies the character governsthe impulses controls the passions andennobles the affections this lovecherished in the soul sweetens the lifeand sheds a a refining influence on allaround and this is what Christ wants forustoday to love one another as he hasfirst L us this involves peacemakingamongChristians and the Apostle Pauldescribes how Christ made peace for ushe says but now in Christ Jesus ye whosometimes were far off are made nigh bythe blood of Christ for he is our peacewho hath made both one and who hath madeboth one have broken down the middlewall of partition between us havingabolished in his flesh the enmity eventhe law of Commandments contains inordinances for to make in himself ofTwain one new man so making peaceand that he might reconcile both untoGod in one body by the cross havingslain the enmity thereby and came andpreached peace to you which were far offunto them that were nigh for through himwe both have access by one Spirit untothe father so how do you go aboutpeacemaking because peacemaking is anessential part of experiencing thekingdom of Grace today when my motherwould my my brother and I would fight alot and she'd say to us boys who startedthis well you knowit all started moment when he hit meback that's a good standardanswer um we had to learn as boys whatit meant to be peacemakers because it'snot easy to be a peacemaker when you'rereally competitive with your twinbrother but when normally when we makepeace in the modern world if I have anargument with you and we make peace theideal outcome is everybody knows I was100% innocent and you were 100% guiltyand I need to come out smelling of roseand everybody knows needs to know what amiserable wretch you really are andeverybody needs to know the forbearanceand the patience and the grace I'veshown you through this terriblestruggle that's how we like to makepeace as human beings it's all his orherfault and this passage on the screendescri describes how Christ made peacethere's this dividingwall and the Jews had the temple andthere was a court of the Israelitesthere was a colonade there and is mencould come there and around that wasanother Court the courts of theIsraelite women that's where theIsraelite women could come but theycouldn't come into the inner sanctum andbetween the Israelite women and thecourt of the Gentiles was a dividingwall and on the outside of that dividingwall people at the Ethiopian Unit wereallowed toworship and on the outside of thatdividing wall was where the moneychangers and the animal um um tradeTraders did theirbusiness when Passover came and you'dhave about two to three million pilgrimsin the temple in Jerusalem for Passoveron average let's say one lamb for every10 people the animals were slaingenerally in the court of theGentiles so you come as the Ethiopianunic months on the road to Jerusalem youcome to the court of the Gentiles andall around you hundreds of thousands oflambs are having their throats slit infront of you the blood the stench themess ishorrendous that's why Jesus drives themout and says you know you made it a ofrobbers but my God intended this to be ahouse of prayer for people of allNations and he drives out these moneychangers and these sellers of animalsand that dividing wall between Gentilesand Jews is what Paul is referring tohere because he's talking to GentileChristians and he's talking how God hasbrought you into the kingdom of God andUnited you with the original JewishBelievers and he says that Christ brokedown that dividing wall and he's madepeace in his body which meanspeacemaking is as far as Jesus isconcerned is Jesus said I'm the innocentparty in this struggle that you guys arefighting out amongst yourselves Jews andGentiles but I'm willing to sacrifice mybody and my reputation in order that youtwo might be reconciled and find peacethat's a whole new way of peacemakingthat's not a human way ofpeacemaking and this is the peacemakingthat Jesus modeled for us today that ifwe are to experience the kingdom of Godand the healing of broken relationshipsit cannot be on my termsI must be seeking the greater good forthe whole body of Christ I don't Icannot just be seeking to come outsmelling of roses I must be willing attimes to sacrifice myself in order thatother Waring parties might find peaceandReconciliation and so today Jesuspromises us if we live in this kind ofatmosphere of Grace and Christian lovehe promises to those who wait for himwho've chosen for him who've elected himwho voted for him a joyous adoption intothe family of God we are joint teirswith Christ of the promises of Salvationwith an eternal inheritance we areexchanging condemnation for peace withour heavenly father such a community isManifest by the overflowing of God'slove through us to our brothers and toour sisters it is a communitycharacterized by the presence of thepeace and love of God in whichhostilities are replaced for the peacethat Jesus Christ can bring it is acommunity of deliberate willfulforgiveness that intentionally seeksreconciliation as if you vote for methat's the kind of Kingdom you can livein today if you love each other as Ihave loved you and tomorrow in theKingdom ofGlory we've heard this we read thispassage already a great voice out ofHeaven saying behold the Tabernacle ofGod is with men and he will dwell withthem and they shall be his people andGod himself shall be with them and betheirGod and God shall wipe away all tearsfrom their eyes and there shall be nomore death neither sorrow nor cryingneither shall there be any more pain forthe former thing things are passed awayand so when Jesus comes again mortalityturns to immortality perishability turnsto imperishability corruptibility turnsto incorruptibility death disease andsorrow will be no more and every tearwill be wiped away it's a beautifulpromise there there is no there's no umthere's no caveats tothis it doesn't matter what life you'velived in this world no matter how muchyou've abused your body there's apromise that all things will be madenew uh the in the re Riv the uh NewJerusalem where we get to live inrevelation 22 says he showed me a pureRiver of Water of Life clear as Crystalproceeding out of the Throne of God andof the lamb in the midst of the streetof it and on either side of the riverwas the Tree of Life which be 12 mannerof fruits and yielded her fruit everymonth and the leaves of the tree werefor the what the healing of the Nationsand so in the kingdom of God the thecoming King of Kings promises not justhealed bodies and healed relationshipwith my brothers and sisters but he'spromises that among the the the groupsof humanity you might say the differentethnic groups who wared against eachother and hated each other and lookeddown upon each other God is going tobring about healing for all ofhumanity and the racial Division and theethnic hatred and the Prejudice andbigotry that exists in our world todayhe's going to deal with that problemonce and for all and this passage hereis quoting from Ezekiel 47 which saystalks about the tree of life and thefruit thereof shall be for meat or forfood and the leaf thereof formedicine and so God understands that weneed not just healing within our bodieswe know we don't just need healing withour spouses well our spouse hopefullyand and our children he understands weneed healing not just within ourcommunities of Faith but he understandsthat we need healing acrossHumanity that black and white and brownand everything inbetween thousands of years of hatred andbigotry and Prejudice God has to takecare of that problem aswell and this is his promiseto those who accept entry into hiskingdom today and so the promise goes onthe wolf shall live with thelamb and the leopard shall lie down withthe kid and the Cal and the Young Lionand the fatling together and littlechild shall lead them and the cow andthe bear shall feed their young on shalllie down together and the lion shall eatstraw like the ox they shall not hurtnor destroy in all my Holy Mountain forthe Earth shall be full of the knowledgeof the Lord as the waters cover theSeas you know what an amazing promisethat they shall not hurt or destroy inall my HolyMountain so if there was no threat everof physical violence how would you liveyour lifedifferently I read a website once wherewomen were posting how they changedtheir lives to avoid sexualassault there were hundreds and hundredsand hundreds of suggestions for howwomen change their daily routines toavoid sexual assaultI'm not a guy so so I am aguy that's going to go on the internetallright you know you misspeak and that'sgoing to be quoted on some SnapChatthingsomewhere still suffering from yeah I'msuffering from jetl here I am a guy forpurposes ofclarification at least I think I am whenI look in the mirrorbut um in all seriousnesshow many of us alter Our Lives becauseof fear of physical or sexualassault particularly youngladies where sexual assault is epidemiclevels across thewest but imagine a society the societythat Jesus promises that they shallneither hurt nor destroy in all my HolyMountain no more violence no moreassault not even the possibility ofviolence imagine what kind offlourishing the God has intent for hispeople when there is not even thepossibility of the possibility of thethreat of violence ever again beingperpetrated on the children of God ifyou have a daughter this means a lot toyou if you're a young woman this means alot to you if you've been the victim ofsexual assault this means a lot to youas well the coming King of Kings ispromising to do something that noearthly president can do the summarizesat this way says and the ransoms of theLord shall return and come to Zion withsongs and everlasting Joy upon theirheads they shall obtain joy and gladnessand sorrow and sighing shall flee awayit will flee away I love that that umEverlasting Joy shall be upon theirheads and so when when the coming Kingof Kings he talks about his promises forus and elections have consequences he'spromising not just to reduce the cost ofliving he's promising to eliminate thecost of living once and for all he'spromising to u to deportation of mass ofillegal aliens by which he means all arewelcome into his kingdom if they dochoose for him today and they have thepromise of receiving a robe ofrighteousness and entry into God'sEternal Kingdom he's promised also to umwhat was the third thing I promised letme just take a look here drain the swampyes drain the swamp he's promising to doaway with with the source of all evilonce and for all so that he and hisminions can never trouble us again andhe's promised to save Medicare andMedicaid and Social Security which meanshe's promised that our bodies will beperfect forever more and he's offeringus a kingdom of Grace today and akingdom of Glory tomorrow where there ishealing for all the relationships thatare important to us no other comingpresident can make such promises butthose are the promises of the comingking of kings and Lord of lords so whatdo we say in conclusion tonightelections haveconsequences they really do the USelections for good or for for for betterfor worse will have direct conconsequences for everybody globally forthe next four years and Beyond we can'tescape the consequences of theseelections either positive or negativeand there will be some positive andthere will be some negative but beyondthe coming president there is a comingKing and his term of office is not justfor four years it's for eternity Danieldescribes it thus he says I saw in thenight visions and behold one like theson of man came with the clouds ofheaven and came to the Ancient of Daysand they brought him near before for himand there was given him dominion andglory in a kingdom that all peopleNations and languages should serve himhis Dominion is an everlasting Dominionwhich shall not pass away and hiskingdom that which shall not bedestroyed his term of office is not fouryears there's no midterm elections he'snot standing for reelection he has aneverlasting Dominion that shall neverpass away it's a Dominion where everytear will be wiped away in the last uselections only 151 million people votedat least that's what we thinkvoted as we say in America all his lifehe voted Republican and ever since hedied he's always voted Democrat it'shard to know exactly how many peoplevoted in these elections but about 150millionpeople but today 8.1 billion people canvote for the comingKing not just 150 million voters in inAmerica but 8.1 billion people every manwoman and child on planet Earth can makea choice for the coming King you cancast your vote for him today and hispromises are for you from this dayforward the Apostle Peter described itthus he says his divine power soaccording to his divine power has givenunto us all things that pertain untolife and godliness through the knowledgeof him that has called us to glory andvirtue whereby are given unto ussucceeding and great promises those thepromises of our coming King that bythese you might be partakers of thedivine nature having escaped thecorruption that is in the world throughlust and besides this giving alldiligence add to your faith virtue andto Virtue knowledge and to knowledgeTemperance and to Temperance patienceand to patience godliness and toGodliness brotherly kindness and tobrotherly kindness charity for if thesethings be in you and abound that is inthe Kingdom of Grace today they make youthat you shall neither be Barren norunfruitful in the knowledge of our LordJesus Christ but the he that lackeththese things is blind and cannot see afar off and have forgotten that he waspurged from his old sins wherefore therather Brethren give diligence to makeyour calling and watch your yourelection your election for Jesus Christfor if you do these things you shallnever fall for so an entrance shall beministered unto you abundantly into theEverlasting Kingdom of our Lord andSavior Jesus Christ the Apostle PaulPeter challenges us to confirmourelection it's not for an Earthlypresident it's for the coming king ofkings and Lord of lords and when youchoose for that coming king of kings andLord of lords you will be a beneficiaryfrom today of all thosepromises and when you live with thepromise that one day those pledges willcome true in your life it transforms howyou live your life today if you knowthat one day all tears will be wipedaway that helps you get through thetears oftoday if you believe that one day thedead in Christ will rise first it helpsyou at the grave of yourparents if you believe that you're undersatanic attack today it gives you hopeand comfort to know that Satan will oneday burn in that Lake ofFire if you're struggling say with adisease in your body it gives you hopethat one day Jesus is going to give youa whole new body a transformed bodywhere nothing more will ever go wrongwith your thyroid or your lungs or yourheart or your brain these are thepromises that we can claim todayif we make our election sure and wechoose for JesusChrist so I want to challenge you todaywho are you votingfor who are you votingfor with every politician it's an act offaith if you vote for Trump or Harrisit's an Act of Faith In The Ballot Boxyou're trusting they're going to followthrough on what they've said but thedifference in this election is thatChrist was on Earth 2100 years ago weknow what he was like we know how heministered to people we know he canraise the dead we know he can cast outdemons we know he can feed the 5,000 heknow he can make the lepers whole andcleanse them of their disease we know hecan do all of these things so we don'tneed as much Faith to believe in him aswe as we need to believe in a PR USpresidential election because he'salready walked the walk and talk thetalk so choose JesusChrist choose him vote for him in yourlifelet the world know that you are asupporter of JesusChrist if you're a Maga supporter youwear a red hat if you are a follower ofJesus Christ let people know by thepurity of your speech the nobility ofyour character the topic of yourconversation how you treat those nearestand dearest to you and whether you canlove your enemies or not let the worldknow that you're voting for JesusChrist and when Jesus comes againthere's going to be no regrets as in thelast us election there's going to be noregrets when we walk on the streets ofgold choose Jesus Christ let the worldknow that is your choice and when hecomes again he's coming for you let'sclose with a word of prayer heavenlyfather I want to thank you that in aworld of Fallen politicians and brokenpromises there is a king of kings andLord oflords who's already walked the walk andtalked the talkwho has demonstrated his love for usthat while we were yet sinners he diedforus who's proven that great love hath noman than this that he should lay downhis life for his brother even a brotherwho would spit in hisface I thank you Father that in thefirst coming of Jesus you demonstratedus to us the love of your of our fatheryou demonstrated the true character ofGod and you proved to us that thepromises of Jesus are sure and we canbuild our lives upon them and so fathertonight we choose for Jesus Christ Ourvote our election is forhim I ask father that as we choose forhim and he gives us the promise of hisholy spirit as the Seal of ourRedemption I pray that people will seein each one of us a transformed holy andgod-honoringlife father I pray you bring healing forour bodies healing for our minds healingin ourrelationships I pray that people willknow that we spent time with a Man fromNazareth because of the love we have oneforanother I pray father that we will livein that Kingdom of Grace today secure inthe knowledge that one day when thekingdom of Glory comes our passports andour citizenship is sure and we will oneday walk those streets of gold whereevery tear is wiped away so father untilthat time may we be found faithfulfaithful our Walk With Jesus faithful inour loyalty to 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