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00:00:00 today's scripture reading is taken from Matthew 23:37 to Matthew CH 24 verse 31 Jerusalem Jerusalem you who killed the prophets and stoned those sent to you how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hand gathers her cheeks under her wings and you were not willing look your house is Left To You desolate for I tell you you will not see me again until you say blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to its
00:00:46 buildings do you see all these things he asked truly I tell you not one stone here will be left on another everyone will be thrown down as Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives the disciples came to him privately tell us they said when will this happen and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age Jesus answered watch out that no one deceives you for many will come in my name claiming I am the Messiah and will deceive many you will hear of wars and rumors of wars but see to it that you
00:01:29 are not alarmed such things must happen but the end is still to come Nation will rise against nation and Kingdom against Kingdom there will be famines and earthquakes in various places all these are the beginning of birth pains then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death and you will be hated by All Nations because of me at that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people because of the increase of wickedness the love
00:02:10 of most will grow cold but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved and this Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to All Nations and then the end will come so when you see standing in the Holy place the Abomination that causes desolation spoken of through the Prophet Daniel let the reader understand then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains let no one on the housetop go down to take anything out of the house let no one in the field go back to get
00:02:51 their cloak how Dreadful it would be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers pray that your flight will will not take place in Winter or on the Sabbath for then there will be great distress unequal from the beginning of the world until now and never to be equaled again if those days had not been cut short no one would survive but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened at that time if anyone says to you look here is the Messiah or there he is do not not believe it for false
00:03:32 Messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive if possible even the elect see I have told you ahead of time so if anyone tells you there he is out in the wilderness do not go out or here he is in the inner rooms do not believe it for as lightning that comes from the East is visible even in the west so will be the coming of the son of man Whenever there is a carcass there the vultures will gather immediately after this the distress of those days the sun will be
00:04:16 darken and the moon will not give its light the Stars will fall from the sky and the heavenly bodies will be shaken then will appear the sign of the son of man in heaven and then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the son of man coming on the Clouds Of Heaven with power and great glory and he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call and they will gather his elect from the Four Winds from one end of the Heavens to the other God bless the reading of his word good morning church right so this announcement to uh
00:05:04 get over before we move on so next week's sermon will be by Elder Arnold Lim on the church and the family lessons from the love story of Isaac and Rebecca it's a love story so make sure you don't miss it then will be the last judgment uh Alex Tan and following that on August the 21st will be the anointing of Jesus by Elder Leen now we will tell you ahead of time so that you can read the passages beforehand and if you forget you can go back to our church website look under sermons and you click the
00:05:41 tentative Pulpit program for the rest of the year it's all there all right so let's start with word of prayers father Lord we ask that you be with us this morning let it be a sober morning as we are looking at a very sober topic about that inevitable event that will impact every single one of us there's not a single person will not be impacted so I pray a l your Holy Spirit Will convict our hearts move us to live in a manner that is consistent with the Judgment that is to come we ask this for Jesus sake
00:06:27 amen so this is not a very um palatable topic very few churches will start to preach about this is fire and brimstone uh and the passage here is unavoidable it's actually a very difficult passage where lots of controversy um goes on in how you actually interpret this particular passage but we will do our best um the Judgment of God they're basically three points we want to make here the judgment is say certainty already foretold by science judgment is a function of God's love not his wrath in the sense uh
00:07:10 judgment calls for endurance the fear of God and hope so let's start off with judgment is certainty already for told by science if this is part of the um Sermon on the Mount of Olives the Olivette discourse which is basically one of the largest longest topics or discussions that Jesus ever had prophetic discourses it's different from The Sermon on the Mount where he talks about the uh a new dispensation how the New Covenant works with the go people of God blessed are they here and there but here he's
00:07:44 talking about the end time so today we're going to be talking about end times he's speaking on the olive at this C which actually looks directly onto the temple all right so Jesus left the temple he was going away this deciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple so the whole Focus actually is them looking at the temple building itself okay now um if you're standing there in modern day Israel you're looking across this mountain to the Mount Moriah where the Temple Mount is where there used to be a temple now
00:08:20 there is a mosque this is where we're looking at and this is the context of the particular sermon now I want you to look at the temple because they're referring to the temple this is herod's Temple which was in existence at that particular time it is a huge edifice if you can see it takes up 35 acres of land you can look at all the walls they're actually laid with gold so if you look from Mount Olivette you can actually see gold shining from the walls of Jerusalem there nothing like it before this is the
00:08:58 priest's Courtyard where the priests are allowed to enter and perform sacrifices then this is the temple proper itself the holy place where have you got the show bread the altars and then the holy holies with a veil it's huge a little bit bigger than a mega mall uh but you have to understand the why I show this video is that it is the biggest building of the entire land testing one right it is the pride of the nation all right everybody goes to Jerusalem to actually worship there all right so all hopes is placed
00:10:20 on Jerusalem Jerusalem Temple there is a vision at the End of Time the Nations will stream to Jerusalem they will stream to this Temple where where God will actually rule and the time is exciting because John the Baptist supposed to be like Elijah has already come and we know Elijah will come before the last judgment when Messiah comes and Jesus makes a triumphal Messianic entry into Jerusalem right so the stage is set everybody's waiting for the Messiah to come and now Jesus left the temple and
00:10:55 was going away disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the Temple Temple and he answered them you see all these which means he's actually pointing to the temple do you not truly I say to you there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down and he sat on the Mount of Olives the disciples came to him privately asking hey tell us when will these things be which they're referring to what they're referring to the destruction of the temple what will be the sign of your coming and the end of
00:11:29 of the age look very carefully there so apparently this is not one question you know it is three questions the three questions are when will these things be which means the temple being destroyed number two what will be the sign of your coming again and number three and of the End of the Age there actually three questions or some people argue is two questions because the coming of Jesus is associated with the end of the age it's actually two questions and the background is Zechariah 14 Zechariah 14 is a is a end time prophecy
00:12:08 right and it tells that one day the Nations will surround Jerusalem they will take Jerusalem half the population will be dragged away half the population will be left and then at that time the Messiah will come on the Mount of Olives exactly the same spot where Jesus is giving this sermon and the mount Alis will split into two and the times will come and God will rule forever so for them it is not two three events it's actually one event one event that's going to come and they're interested in finding out where
00:12:43 this happens now there are various views on this particular passage we need to go through first is the preacher view which views that this is already occurred which means the fall of Jerusalem is entirely what Matthew chap 24 is all about it's all Cal not very relevant for us all the things that Jesus said has only to do with the fall of Jerusalem and we are now at the last days before the second coming uh and this has got nothing to do with the second coming but the problem if you look here uh the
00:13:15 question is what will be the sign of your coming and the end of age if Jesus answering this question he will also talk about the second coming so I don't think this would be a very accurate view uh if you look here verse 13 to 31 then will appear in heaven a sign of the son of man and all the tribes of Earth will mourn and they will see the son of man coming in the Clouds Of Heaven with power and great Glory which is reminiscent of the Daniel passage of the son of man coming to receive Glory right
00:13:46 the other one uh two views are basically the futurist view where we look at everything in this passage has yet to come all right which means it's going to be here it there's nothing about the fall of Jerusalem that Jesus is talking about there will come the Rapture tribulation all this is all about that but the problem with this particular view is that uh verse 34 truly I say to you this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place Heaven Earth will not pass away but my
00:14:20 words will not will pass away but my words will not so there is temporal relevance of this particular passage he's talking to disciples at this time so you can't escape any view that says this has not taken place it will take place in the future so uh the majority of um uh uh Scholars actually believed it actually involves two things the fall of Jerusalem which is very clearly prophesied here as well as the Great Tribulation the second coming in future basically there're when they're asking these three questions they're actually
00:14:58 talking about two events one when will these things be the fall of Jerusalem which is temporal judgment the other one is the second coming of Jesus the sign of your coming at the End of the Age so are two events and that is relev and then in between where they intersect is warning signs you find this applies to them and this applies to us and the warning signs are where they intersect and they're relevant to both them and us if you look at the Matthew 24: 15-6 so when you see the abomination of desolation which is like the
00:15:37 Antichrist figure spoken of in by Prophet Daniel Daniel chapter 7 standing the holy place let the reader understand which is Temple then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountain so obviously there is a time when an antichrist type figure comes and he's standing in the Holy place which is the temple itself and then when that actually happens those are to flee to the mountains which means it's very local it's a temporal reference which means this refers to the fall of Jerusalem and uh let the one who is on
00:16:09 the housetop not go down to take what is in his house let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak atas for the women who are pregnant and those who are nursing infants in those days pray that your flight may not be in winter or in on a Sabbath because Sabbath they can't run so they they're praying oh God don't send the Judgment at a particular so this is relevant to a local temporal fall of Jerusalem right Luke gives you a better idea here when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies
00:16:41 then know that it is Desolation has has come near then let the one who is in Judea flee to the mountains let those who are inside the city depart let not one those let not those who are out out of the country enter it so here Luke gives you a better idea that so Jerusalem will be surrounded by armies and when that time comes you better run so it's a local event okay and it's a historical fact uus the church historian actually writes but the people of the Church of Jerusalem had been commanded by a revelation vouch safe to approve
00:17:17 men there before the war to leave the city and to dwell in a certain town of Pera called P so at that time historically 070 the church many of the Christians left Judea and went to pah and then they were saved now how do they actually leave the story is very interesting there was a general Sanchez Gallow he went and attacked Jerusalem 866 onwards right um this Jewish Wars and that time he was attacking it and they were just about to overtake the city and suddenly of all things he stopped and flavus Josephus who is the
00:18:00 historian at that time wrote and so he recalled soldiers from the place by despairing of any expectation of taking it without having received any disgrace he retired from the city without any reason in the world it's like Vladimir Putin halfway winning the war suddenly says all soldiers go back because he didn't think he could take Ukraine and this happened they were losing the people of Jews in Jerusalem were about to be over overtaken and suddenly he withdrew for no reason at all and this may uh explain how the
00:18:35 warnings were taken in consideration give they give time for the people to go away we believe that this prophecy is a double reference prophecy a near event serves as partial fulfillment and a symbol for far events which means the fall of Jerusalem is a temporal judgment which serves an example to us of what the final judgment will be about because all the signs that predated are similar to ones we actually have today there are warning signs and there are dangers it's like the canary in the cold mine so for the first
00:19:13 century disciples there's a warnings of rumors of wars Wars famines earthquake persecution false teaches apostasy lawlessness lovelessness false Messiahs and they're exactly replicated in today there's no fall of Jerusalem but is the fall of the world as it were you the fall of Jerusalem was documented by Josephus today's disciples John ad90 after the fall of Jerusalem speaks of the second coming and before that there are four horsemen white for war red for civil unrest black for economic collapse and pale for death
00:19:54 they call it the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse often made into movies but it is a serious matter so when you see the abomination of desolation which is relevant for the fall of 870 Jerusalem John says this is the last hour as you have heard that Antichrist is coming and many Antichrist have come this applies to us and Revelations 13 talks about the beasts coming again and since then there have been false Messiah at that time people whom the populist Place their Hope on false Messiah tudas the Egyptian Simon
00:20:37 B today we have false Messiah plenty of them INRI from Brazil vieron the Christ of Siberia a huge number with hundreds of people following him he looks like Christ doesn't he then the black ones here the Africa Jesus of kitwe of Zambia theyve got even Japanese ones Jesus of matayoshi in Japan every age every culture there's somebody leading people astray then there'll be great suffering for there will be Great Tribulation such as not been from the beginning of the world until now and no never will be and those
00:21:15 days had not be cut off no human being would be saved for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short and in fact uh The Siege was actually cut short at that time to five months there were actually they had enough they actually had enough grain in Jerusalem to last for several years for a prolonged Siege but there were three local armies of Jews and they fought each other and destroyed the vein the the grain so that they all starved there were 600,000 people in Jews in Jerusalem time actually died of famine the famine was
00:21:52 so bad that one woman called Mary of alaza was so hungry she took her baby baby and she roasted the baby and she ate half the baby and kept your half in storage and then Marauders came to the house and she offered that baby to them Marauders would come into people's house three times a day they will take everything they will even eat the leather Souls of their feet and of Cruelty is CNN reported today how terrible things are in you Ukraine where they actually had Russian soldiers castrate a Ukrainian Soldier and kill
00:22:34 him that's nothing compared to what they did in Jerusalem at that time they crucified people they tortured them there was a rumor sent that when the Jews were leaving the city they would swallow their gold so the Romans actually crabbed everybody and slid them from here to here and rumag around their stomach to look for the gold people were tortured mercilessly 1.1 million deaths you know up that time you don't have a single event where there's 1.1 million deaths more than the catastrophe of the
00:23:07 chis and uh uh Rwanda in Rwanda and 97,000 sold as slaves this is the Judgment of God and Josephus writes accordingly the multitude of those that therein P perish exceeded all the destructions that either man or God ever brought upon the world it was a terrible event let's move on the judgment is a function of God's love you might think we're talking about a very nasty thing called the Judgment of God but actually it's a function of God's love here we have in chapter 23 Jesus lenting the coming disaster oh Jerusalem
00:23:50 Jerusalem the city that kills prophets and Stones those who are sent to it this is the occasion he's lamenting over over the evil of the people he's actually crying and yet how often would I have gathered your children under together as a hand gathers The Brood under her wing and you are not willing see your house is Left To You desolate here we're talking about judgment but judgment in the context of the tenderness of Jesus wanting to bring all the residents of Jerusalem under his wing in tender loving
00:24:29 care so judgment is actually not purely God's Wrath it's God's reaction in the face of evil if you look very far back to Genesis chapter 6 Before the Flood the Lord saw that the weakness of man and was great on the world and every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually what was his response his response was the Lord regretted that he had made man on Earth and he grieved him to his heart this is anthropomorphic language where the author actually uses human language to describe a Divine
00:25:09 emotion it's not that God is so frustrated and he really regretted it's a way of casting God because we don't have any other terms in which to cast God's emotion but it tells us that it brings God grief when he actually punishes if you look at the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse guess who is the one that caused the catastrophe of War civil unrest economic collapse and death and when I saw the lamb is the one who opened the Seven Seals it is the Lamb judgment comes from God and behold the White Horse and his rider had a bow and
00:25:49 a crown was given to him it is does not Escape God's sovereignty God brings about judgment so we have a question we got a problem here is God actually loving if God is loving why is he going to T us like that we we all struggle with this we we don't think it's compatible for us to have a loving God and a wrathful god at the same time we we try to rationalize we try to think we have difficulties simply because you know Mark Twain said God made Man In His Image and man very quickly returned the favor so we make God in our image and so
00:26:31 therefore we have all these depictions Leonardo D Vinci God you've got Greek gods Chinese gods Indian gods all sorts of gods and they all look very ugly they all look very wrathful doesn't it because we put upon God our image of what wrath actually is we personally influenced by our concept of Wrath which is uncontrolled unpredictable capricious which means any time can come out volatile vindictive that is our concept of what wrath is when you talk to a non-Christian about the wrath of God the Judgment of God that's what he's the
00:27:09 first thing that comes to his mind y why your God so terrible isn't it that's because we make God in our own image talk to Asians and Caucasians you will have different reaction talking to Asians they have no problem with the wrath of God brought up in strict confusious Society but they are problem with the love of God that allows Sinners to escape through the cross talk to a Westerner they got big problems they have no problem with the love of God but a problem with the wrath of God how can a god like this go and punish people you
00:27:41 see our idea of love and wrath are culturally determined you look at screen of gry Aleppo Mario pole and we look at R the picture of Wrath and the picture of Wrath is this man anger Pride hateful rattling the nucleus uh saber even righteous wrath if you look at Rambo he's strangling this bad guy right look at him really bad very aggressive uh Marion was one of the first false teachers and he believed uh you know believe that the New Testament God delivers people from the Old Testament God the Old Testament God is
00:28:21 fierce uh capricious volatile so in his new testament God he says Uh there's no anger no hatred no dis pleasure simply goodness no punishment commandment but no penalty it's a sentimentalized version of God we are trying to recreate him uh Charles Harold DOD is a new testament scholar sometime ago and he proposed this idea that God's Wrath is an impersonal process of cause and effect the inevitable result of sin not willed by God which means God's anger or wrath or judgment is actually impersonal
00:28:57 not nothing personal uh it's like a child putting his hands in fire get burned not because the fire hates him but because it's an impersonal Force absolutely you know nothing to do I remember a friend of mine telling me uh in Australia there was a surgeon who operated on a patient very good surgeon and uh as a result of that there was a injury to his bow duct so he leaked bow from his right side for a long time and if you look at it very carefully there's no fault of the surgeon because one in 200 when you do gall's bladder
00:29:32 surgery there may be a duck that could be leaking right actually no fault but the patient actually won this lawsuit later on the patient came back again and he had a hernia and guess who he saw he didn't see another surgeon he same the same surgeon that actually caused the complication and he wanted him to operate and the surgeon looked hey I thought you suit me why you asking me to operate and you again he said that one is nothing personal it's business so they're thinking God's Wrath is like that nothing personal just
00:30:09 business right um so therefore God is an impersonal wrath impersonal Force just like you jump from the building not your fault I mean not God's fault you you went and jump off right so it's like gravity that actually uh uh affects you so it's depersonalized but if you look in the Old Testament the wrath of God is mentioned 38 times and whenever it is mentioned it speaks of God's love when it speak whenever it speak God's love his wrath is always in the background let's look at Exodus chapter 34 the Lord
00:30:40 the Lord the god of mercy and graciousness slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness keeping steadfast love for thousands forgiving iniquity transgression and sin but who will by no means clear the guilty visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and fourth generation the two are put side by side so God's Wrath what is it it's the displeasure and venting of it I mean explosion of God's displeasure and people like uh do actually ignores
00:31:18 passages in Luke 21 as alas for the women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days for there will be great distress upon the Earth and Wrath upon these people he ignores the idea of Wrath so wrath of God is Not Human anger which is volatile and capricious when we think about God's rest we cannot equate that it is not an impersonal force it is God's personal vigorous opposition to both evil and evil people it is a steady unrelenting antagonism that arises from God's very nature his
00:31:56 Holiness it's that which we must understand and uh if you look in the new new Old Testament why Marion found the difference is because the wrath of God is expressed differently in the Old Testament and the New Testament in the Old Testament the Wrath is expressed in temporal terms famine plagues Siege war and Slaughter in New Testament terms it expressed in Eternal terms Eternal fire suffering intensified if you look at Matthew 18 itself in his anger the master delivered him to the jailers until he should pay all his debt 22 the
00:32:34 king said to the attendant bind him hand and foot cast him to Outer darkness in that place there will be weeping and nashing of teeth and then you've got Matthew 24 I will cut him to pieces and put him with the Hypocrites in that place there will be weeping and nashing of teeth this is not nice this is Judgment Revelations 14 is the small most horrific description of God's judgment his wrath on unbelievers where he uses the imagery of a wine press where people step step step step all the juice will come out the bottom and he
00:33:10 says when the final judgment come the world will undergo The Wine Press of God's Fury it be so bad they'll fill up thousands of miles with blood up to the horses nose so it is not true that the Old Testament depicts a Wrath God in the New Testament depicts a nice God they are both the same God Mahatma Gandhi actually put this Words which some people some of you believe hate The Sinner and love hate the sin and love The Sinner how many of you agree one oh okay two two brave people well another way of doing this is
00:33:54 to redirect God's Wrath I'm not a bad guy you love the sin all I did was I'm a sum total of bad decisions I've got sin is a sickness so you need to hate the sin hate the sickness hate the bad decisions but I'm actually not a bad guy right uh in fact they've actually described these are a whole bunch of pictures of you know who they are they're not the best people in the world they are serial mass shooting killers and they actually describe a syndrome e where all of these people have similar characteristics they think it's
00:34:35 abnormality the front of the brain which gets hyperaroused and then inhibit the mag amydala of the brain so that they don't have much emotion or compassion and if any of you sitting here have any of these uh traits compulsive repetitive violence obsessive beliefs please come and see me afterwards I promise not to send you to the police so here we're talking about we're trying to blame our constitution we're not Sinners but if you look at what scripture says 14 times in the first 50 Psalms alone you will
00:35:07 have verses like the boast fool shall not stand before your eyes you hate didn't hate the sin no you hate all evildoers you destroy those who speak lies the Lord uphor the blood thirsty and the deceitful man Psalm 11:5 Lord tests the righteous but his soul hates the Wicked the ones who love love violence whoever believes in the Son of God the son has eternal life whoever does not obey the son shall not see life but the wrath of God remains on him so God hates Sinners so there's a misunderstanding
00:35:43 not only of Wrath but also misunderstanding of love you know failure to hate evil implies a deficiency of love how could you have a child to be sexually abused in a family and you you tell me you love the child the mother will protect the husband and not do anything and you'll tell me she loves the child Romans chapter 12 verse 9 let love be genuine uphall what is evil hold fast to what is good you see if love is genuine you would hate evil and you hold fast to good there is no love where there's no
00:36:22 response to evil so how do we simultaneously uh balance these two the boastful shall not stand before your eyes you hate all evildoers on the other hand Paul writes for God so love show his love for us that while we were yet sinners whom he hates right Christ died for us so we have a problem in our minds especially when you talk about how can God simultaneously hate Sinners and also love Sinners at the same time this is schizophrenic isn't it it's our understanding of what love is Imagine you look at Mother Teresa would you
00:37:00 imagine her as angry and punishing people most of us won't right if you look at uh justice pow would you imagine him as benevolent feeding the poor tending to the sick no you would think Mother Teresa will do that right now if you look at uh Einstein do you think he would be associated with the world record in bench pressing 100 kilogram just like Brandon sha no right you look at Brandon sh you don't think about mathematics you look at ARA do you think he'll be associated with uh eal mc² that the problem with us is that we
00:37:42 have a unid dimensional view of people everybody supposed to be kind or brilliant or full of muscles or or full of Justice we don't conceive of people in multi-dimensional forms and therefore we import this into our idea of God and and Revelations tell us this here's a description of Jesus Christ one of the elders came to see to me weep no more Behold The Lion of Judah the root of the he described Lion of Judah Victorious figure then I saw the lamb standing as though it had been slain why how can you
00:38:19 have lion and they say lamb at the same time this called mixed metaphor because we need to understand that God's entire character encompasses all these things your character cannot his character can right and if you look at this is a graph from da Carson's book on on love and he breaks down love of God into different categories there a love of God that's intr trinitarian which is perfect within the father Son and Holy Spirit that's a girl love of God which is providential to the world that provides us the Sun
00:38:57 the rain and and keeps us from dying from covid every day there's a love of God that's salivic which is basically that he wants people to be saved there's a love of God which is a special love of God for his church which is different from the love with the rest of the people and there's also the love of God for the church which is obedient rather than disobedient so there are different dimensions of even God's love and you look here as God having all these characteristics with good loving holy merciful righteous omnicient forg for
00:39:28 them to all cohere in a manner which is rational they cannot contradict each other so when we talk about the wrath of God right you need to have the wrath of God together with all these characteristics see the wrath of God is actually a secondary characteristic you don't see wrath of God as a primary characteristic right it's a secondary characteristic because it's a response of love for example if you've got if there's no wrath right then how can God be good how can God be loving let all the children
00:40:07 get molested and destroyed how can God be just how can God be righteous how can God be holy you can't right what's the difference between an ape and a woman the ape gives birth to a child and promptly eats him up no jail sentence no judgment a woman does the same thing but she has logic morality compassion rationality free will the difference is she's made in the image of God the only people on the world that gets judgment are those who are supposed to reflect the image of God and who don't and basically Freedom
00:40:49 requires consequence this is Jimmy savil famous British Entertainer for children for years later on they they found that he actually abused and sexually molested many many children and the director of the Child prot Protection Agency actually wrote these words he is without doubt one of the most prolific sex offenders ever come across and every number represents a victim that will never get Justice and now that he's dead here's a man director of Char's protection Protection Services actually said there's no justice why died already
00:41:29 too bad if there's no judgment life becomes meaningless some time ago there's a publication in Sun 2012 about the massacre of 500,000 Indonesians when the time asuko came into power and uh they actually killed 500,000 people and they actually got away with it and this is a interview of one of those people his name is Adi zuk calri we're allowed to do it the proof is we murdered people we were allowed to do it war crimes are defined by the winners I'm a winner so I can make my own definition not everything
00:42:09 true should be made public even God has Secrets guy escaped without judgment we would live in a merciless world without any rules and people will go on sinning and destroying each other so judgment is actually a function of God's love it makes life meaningful take judgment out and there is no justice there's no rationality in this particular World lastly to take home judgment calls for endurance the fear of God and hope how shall we live well how we live is a matter of perspective isn't it there was a joke told some time go about
00:42:58 uh George Bush um Vladimir Putin and Bill Gates they were all called by God and God told them I'm going to destroy this world in judge this world in three days and depends on perspective George Bush came out and said you know tell all his people I've got good news and bad news the good news is that there is a God the bad news is that he's going to judge you and Destroy everybody in three days Vladimir Putin comes out and says oh there's bad news and bad news bad news is there is a God made mistake shouldn't
00:43:34 have invaded uh the bad news is that you know there's judgment in three days and Bill Gates come out and he's the one of the cleverest man in the world there's good news and good news the good news is that I'm the only one or three people when God spoke to me just now fantastic and then the good news is that you don't have to prepare Windows 12 all the bugs don't have to bother about that anymore so how you take judgment now is your perspective isn't it it's how you look at it and how you cast it
00:44:10 and and for some how shall we live we sensationalize we talk about the rapture we talk about all the clothes Left Behind who's going to drive the bus when somebody gets raptured or or we marginalize people who talk about the the Judgment the last days all we have absolute apathy as Matthew describes like a day of Noah people be giving and eating in uh giving in marriage eating and drinking right uh first lesson those who endure to the end will be saved that is the important thing see all the dangers that described are
00:44:43 described very aptly as birth pangs ask any woman here who have gone through the pain of birth pains it's a necessary pain completely different from kidney stone pain ask the woman who has got kidney stone pain versus the woman who's got the childbirth pain the woman with the child birth pain has no problem with the pain because at the end of the pain there will be a baby the kidney stone pain the end of that will be a huge bill from subang Medical Center that's pointless pain and so therefore the woman with the birth pain
00:45:25 will endure the other one will declare Bank Cy you see that there's a difference and so therefore prophecy given to us in order for us to understand this is plan this within the purview of God's sovereignty the lamb is the one who says open the seal the lamb is the one who calls forward the four horsemen so we need to understand we will be saved if we endure then the second thing is the fear of God then will appear in heaven the sign of the son of man man then all the tribes of Earth will mourn they will see
00:46:01 the son of man coming on the Clouds Of Heaven with power and great Glory so one day when Jesus comes it will be absolutely unmistakable he won't be a Japanese man on top of a bus talking about being Jesus that won't happen when he comes the whole world will see that as he comes in power and Glory how do we respond Luke 12 gives us an enigmatic passage it says I tell you my friends do not fear Those Who Kill the body and after that have nothing more they can do I warn you whom to fear fear Him who
00:46:41 after he has killed has the authority to cast into hell yes I tell you fear Him are not five sparrows sold for two pennies are not one of them forgotten before God why even the hairs on your head are all numbered fear not for you are more value Than The Sparrows so you have a contradiction isn't it first of all he tell you the fear second of all I tell you not to fear what's God talking about well the fear of God is that awe and respect of the majesty and power and enormity and glory of God that's number one he's not just
00:47:23 your friend you can friend him on Facebook or you can unfriend him you know some people's idea of God is like any other person saying that Jesus is my friend no you are Jesus friend but he is not your you are he is not your friend as if you friend him on Facebook he is the almighty God creator of universe he is someone whom you fear so much that you're willing to submit and rest on his promises here is someone that not you see when David went into the valley to fight Goliath here is a man is a giant
00:47:57 8T tall and he a scrawny little kid you know what made him walk down the valley to attack to to to fight this man because David had fear in his heart you know what is fear of fear of God if you have the fear of God that will overcome all fears that the world can throw at you fearing nothing in the world when you got a fear of God fear of God is a radical God centeredness that shapes everything in your life that you're building your life life around God fear of God is not a it's a fear or anxiety
00:48:34 of offending the one you actually love you know Martin Luther describes the fear of God in two ways one is a servile fear of a servant to a master who is abusive that's not Christian fear the other one is a filial fear fear of a son to the almighty righteous father whom you want to please all the time and yet this God is fearful Hebrews chapter 10 the Lord will judge his people that means every single one of us it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a loving God reflect when you see God the first
00:49:16 thing you're going to reflect is like Isaiah wo is me I'm a man of unclean lips and yet yet when you see a God you got two response you either run away from him or you run towards him there's two response there's no other response in the world the fear has another dimension fear not for you are more valued than Sparrow how do I know that because Jesus Christ laid on the cross hung on the cross Jesus Christ looks at us and how he wish he would put his arms around us his feathers around us like a chicken mother
00:50:06 chicken over The Brood to protect us and that's possible because of the gospel and lastly hope and he will send forth his angels with a loud trumpet and they will gather his elect from Four Winds from one end of the heaven to another as we live not only do we have a sober fear of God's judgment on whatever we do we also live with hope and hope is extremely important hope that there are two Dimensions to Hope one is the understanding that hope involves a lack of something and the other one is the
00:50:45 Fulfillment of that something in the future so one John uh 3 says beloved we are God's children now and what we will be has not yet appeared you see we have a destiny we have a future to be truly the image of God and every time we fail every time you lie every time you fail to help someone in need every time you cheat which all of us do with sinfulness we actually know what's missing in our lives and you wish one day I'm going to be better than this one day I'm not going to be settled with this sin one day I'm not going to fail
00:51:30 anymore and so therefore we are God's children what we will be has not yet appeared so we know what's missing but we know that when he appears we shall be like him because we shall see him as he is there is a future that one day we will be perfect standing in the glory of his light and everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure so if we live with this hope of what is missing and what's to come it will really transform Our Lives if you stand on a Temple Mount today and you look you don't see a
00:52:13 temple anymore you know what you see a mosque and a lot of Jews formed the temple movement in 1987 and their goal is to rebuild the Third Temple and that will Usher in the coming of the Messiah so they're hanging on to the Past you know there's a reason why God destroyed the temple because there's a new Temple and the new Temple is what Jesus said destroy this in three days I will raise it and he means this but the one who endures to the end will be saved and this is the gospel of the Kingdom will
00:52:52 be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to All Nations and then the end will come there is nothing more important in the hopes and dreams of this world than this new Temple this new Temple that is in our hearts the hope is therefore reflected in our ministry we live in a world where 40% of ethnic groups are unreached the population who have not heard Jesus Christ is just 20 6% and in 25% of ethnic groups in the world there are no Bible translations and that's 7.9 billion people do we live in
00:53:38 endurance do we live and have the fear of God permeate every decision you make and we' live in Hope because the only hope for a Dying World you think judgment is bad the Judgment in Jerusalem was bad it was awful the final judgment will even be worse if we love our friends our relatives our families we will take God's word to our hearts this day we will repent of our apathy our distraction with the things this world focusing on things that really do not matter focus on people people are made in the image of God focus on the
00:54:21 fact that one day when the sun comes in the clouds he will gather from the Four Corners Earth all of his elect black yellow white male female everyone that is how we should live each day let's pray father Lord we come before you with a sobering realization that judgment is inevitable we see see it in temporal events whether it was a fall of Jerusalem or the fall of Ukraine or the second world war or even the third world war it doesn't matter the catastrophe is the same the signs are the same but the
00:55:15 end will always be there father Lord we pray that you help us as your people to endure to not be led astray by false Messiah and false false teaching let us not be apathetic and keep focusing on our tiny irrelevant Ambitions help us each day to repent and see you for who you really are and step back into awe and admiration in fear of you that the fear of God so pervade our souls it will determine what we do what we eat and how we live and let's live each day with hope looking longingly for your return we ask
00:56:02 this for jesus' sake amen as see as we wait for his return let us respond together by declaring that he is worthy shall we sing this last song together [Music] maybe you can start again you can start [Music] again here the thousands of thousand sing s singing prises to the Lamb of [Music] God he is worthy he is worthy for his glory he has purchased us with BL all his people joined from every tribe and [Music] town he is [Music] worthy he is worthy Jesus [Music] Jesus the lamb upon the throne see the
00:57:51 tri of our King Jesus all praise to you alone you the worthy worthy one come Lord Jesus how we long to see your [Music] face where a morning turns to songs of endless praise you are worthy you are [Music] worthy oh Jesus the lamb upon the throne to the tri of our King [Music] Jesus all praise to you Al Lord You're the worthy worthy [Music] one sing all bless oh bless all [Music] on Oh Glory mind and strength oh power Dominion to the L for S again blessing oh bless Oh Oh Glory might and strength oh
01:00:16 power and to the lamb for sers yeah Jesus [Music] Jesus the lamb upon the throne see the tri of our K Jesus of praise to you alone you're the Worthy [Music] worthy was in your worthy you're the worthy [Music] worthy I have a benediction and be right after the service if any of you are wanting to to come and have one of the elders or pastors or leaders pray for you please come judgment is terrible thing but Jesus loves us Jesus wants to put his arms around us Jesus wants to protect us from the coming
01:01:46 disaster the Bible says today if you hear his voice do not Harden your hearts do not block out the one who's knocking on the door of your heart who says I want to come in I want to be real to you I want to fill your life not only with the fear of who I am but the power of who I am and the love of who I am then come forward and let us pray with you and walk with you that your life will be filled with the fullness of God now B the God of Peace who through the blood of the Eternal Covenant brought back
01:02:30 from the dead our lord Jesus that great Shepherd of the sheep equip you with everything good for doing his will and may he work in us what is pleasing to him through Jesus Christ to whom be glory forever and ever amen you may be seated after a moment of silent meditation you are dismissed
