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0:00 Wisdom in a world gone mad, and the world has gone mad. And we need to be wise, as Jesus said, wise as serpents and innocent as doves. We need to know what's going0:12 on. We need to be aware that we've been given a heads up. I don't know about you, but I love a heads up. Anybody ever give you a heads up? Heads up? That turn on 45, that's a that's a tough0:24 turn. Heads up. You know the teachers matter you heads up. Right. I love I love heads up. Jesus gave us a heads up as to what we are seeing in the world today.0:36 So we are not people who throw up our hands in exasperation and fear. We are people who lift up our eyes for our redemption draws nigh. That's who we are. So0:49 I wanna start today with a story that is funny, and it kinda like is gonna help open the subject up for us. Because we know something is up. We know1:00 something's up. The story goes of a woman who went to the pet store to get cat food. And she, walked into the store. There's a parrot in a cage in the front entrance of the store, and the parrot looked at the1:12 woman and said, you are the ugliest woman I have ever seen. And she was a bit bothered, but she thought, okay, this is 1 and done. So she went about her day and shopped in the store and walked by the pigeon again in the1:23 front of the store, and the the pig not the pigeon. The parrot. The parrot said, you are the ugliest woman I've ever seen. She was now officially insulted. She called the1:35 manager. She said, this parrot has called me the ugliest woman he's ever seen. And the manager said, oh, he does stuff like that all the time. So he took the parrot out of the cage, brought it to the back, slapped it
1:45 around a little bit, brought it back out. So I put it back into the cage, and the parrot was sitting there. And the woman went and bought her stuff and was exiting the pet store. And as she exited the pet store, she
1:53 passed by the parrot 1 last time and looked at him. And the parrot looked at her, and she said, what? And he said, you know.
2:06 We know. We know something is up. Joe Rogan is scared. Joe Rogan is officially freaked out. On his podcast this
2:18 week, he said, this Israel thing, it scares the bleep out of me. There's no clear way this resolves peacefully. This is bad. This is really bad. Israel's going to go into Palestine. They've already started bombing. And
2:29 if there's retaliation for that, and who knows what happens if other countries get involved. And it puts into perspective that there's some bleep going on that you're not thinking about because it's not in your life. So
2:38 if you're a guy like me, and you're a comedian like me, and you're hanging out at the comedy club, and you're doing podcasts, that's our world. Our world is being around people and telling jokes and being funny. Our
2:48 world is hanging around friends and doing shows. Their world is killing people, end quote. The world has gone mad. And I got good news for you this
3:00 morning, that for the next few weeks I'm gonna walk you through what we're seeing right now. I find it ironic that for the first, you know, 17 years of me pastoring this church 16 years of me
3:12 pastoring the church, we're almost 20 years old, that I didn't really preach on the end times that much. I really didn't. And now here we are in 20 23. In the last 3 years, I've had to preach 3
3:24 series on the end times, and this is the third 1. Something's up. We've gotta pay attention to what we are seeing. Jesus told us to watch.
3:36 Keep awake. Don't fall asleep. And so I'm thinking about our age in which we live and how modern world is primed for the things to come to
3:48 pass that the scriptures told us would happen. Like in Revelation chapter 1, this is not in your notes, but in Revelation chapter 1 verse 7, it says, behold, he is coming. And then and and every eye somebody
4:00 say every eye. Every eye will see him. How does every eye on the planet see Jesus at the same time? Earlier generations didn't have
4:12 this technology. Israel gets bombed Saturday morning their time. I'm waking up to watching it in real time. This is the world that we're living in. Previous generations could
4:23 never have understood how could that passage come to pass. Luke chapter 21 25 when Jesus describes the condition of men's souls. He says, there's signs in the sun, moon, stars, and earth, distress of nations, and
4:35 perplexity, confusion. There's a lot of confusion right now. There's a lot of confusion amongst our young and listen parents and and grandparents in the faith. You've got a
4:47 job to do. You have gotta instruct your children on the true history of this land. Not this land, their land. You've gotta know it. You
4:59 can't afford to be ignorant. And you've gotta speak up because the colleges of this country are pulling the wool over the eyes of the next generation. And if you're not paying attention
5:11 to that, you need to. What's happening in college campuses? We are seeing the exposure of the indoctrination of of progressive secularization for generations into the young
5:22 people of this country. I am astonished. I am appalled at what I'm seeing at Harvard University, at Yale University, and Stanford
5:34 University, the the University of Wisconsin. It is shocking and appalling to see kids protesting in favor of rampant terrorism in
5:46 Israel. All in the name of quote unquote civil rights, and they have not a clue what they're talking about. Now here's my commitment to you. On Sunday morning for the next few weeks, we're gonna talk through this with
5:57 the gospel in our mouth and with Jesus Christ in our eyes. But on Tuesday night, will continue to give you information as we gather it on my show. And and I want you to pay attention now more than ever before.
6:09 In fact, this past week's episode is the most watched episode we've ever had on the deep end. Thanks for tuning in. But I'm doing that because you need to know the facts. I don't
6:19 do that to
6:20 get paid. I do that because I I can't help not doing it. It's gotta be done. So there's perplexity. There's confusion. That's that's what we're seeing right now. Then he says there's gonna be fainting with fear.
6:32 And And there's gonna be foreboding of what's coming on the world. That's right now. I had a grandfather who was a Pentecostal preacher for 30 years. And he used to tell us about the end times. And we used to say, yeah,
6:42 yeah, yeah. We know it's gonna happen. And the secretly, were like, it's not gonna happen. Now I'm seeing it happen. That's where we are. Or Daniel's prophecy in Daniel chapter 12 verse 4. Look at this passage. It says,
6:54 you, Daniel, shut up the words of the book until the time of the end. But he says this, many will run to and fro. What does that mean? There will be mass travel in the earth. There'll be people flying all over the place.
7:05 Think about this was written while people were still riding horses, and most people were walking. In fact, in the ancient world, usually you live your whole life without traveling more than 30 miles away from home.
7:17 Today, people go around the world in a second in a day. He says, and knowledge shall increase. Again, the Internet, and not to mention AI. What AI which is exponentially growing in influence in our
7:29 country right now. My son my my my 11 year old son, Jake, gets it even better than I do. I kid you not. We were talking about a toy that he wanted. He wanted a toy, and he's telling me about this toy. And he
7:40 said, dad, I wanna show you something. You don't even have to you don't have to shop for the toy. I said, what do you mean? He said, let me show you. And he held up his iPad. He took his iPad. Said, and he's measured the
7:50 toy. Blah blah blah blah. He measured the toy. Just talked about it. Then he said, okay. Now watch. Open the iPad. I open the iPad. He goes, go to Facebook. Go to Facebook. There it is. Boom. An advertisement for the toy
7:59 he just mentioned. This is what's happening in our real time with AI, with intern with with the algorithms of computer systems. And and who knows if the
8:11 dictator piece isn't just 1 giant computer somewhere leading the world into oblivion. So don't let me freak you out because there's hope here. Just 6
8:23 verses later in Daniel chapter 12, what does Daniel say? Through the word of the Holy Spirit, many will purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined. Somebody say refined. I don't
8:35 know about you, but that's what I want right now. I want God to refine me and make me white and prepared for what's coming upon the world. And then he says, but the wicked shall act wickedly, and none of the wicked
8:46 shall understand. But those who are wise, those who are what? Wise. They shall what? Understand. If you make yourself white. If you
8:58 look at what's happening in the world,
9:00 and this is
9:00 my aim for you for the next few weeks. If we look at what's happening in the world and we take careful attention, we will purify ourselves, we will ready ourselves, and we will have hearts not bound up in fear and
9:10 foreboding, but we will have hearts and minds full of faith and say, come Lord Jesus. We are ready for you to show up in this world. In the word
9:22 Maranatha, you might not know, and I don't even have a place for you to fill it in, but you can write somewhere maybe above the word. It just means come, Lord Jesus. That's what it means. I want Jesus to come. And it
9:31 gets it gets more and more that that way for me, the the the more that I see happening in the world. So let's stand together and look about what Jesus said concerning the times we're living in from Luke
9:43 chapter 17 verse 20. He says this. It says this. Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, the kingdom of God is not coming in ways that can be observed. Nor will they say, look
9:54 there or hear, for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you. And then he said to his disciples, the days are coming when you will desire somebody just say that word
10:06 desire. Desire. You will desire to see 1 of the days of the son of man, and you will not see it. And they will say to you, while you're looking for the days of the son
10:18 of man, they will say to you, look there or look here. Do not go out or follow them. For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from 1 side to the other, so will the son of man be in his day.
10:30 But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. Just as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the son of man. They were eating. They were drinking. They were marrying. They
10:40 were being being given in marriage until the day when Noah entered the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise, just as in the days of Lot, they were eating and drinking and buying and selling and
10:49 planting and building. But on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all. So it will be on the day when the son of man returns. On that day, let the 1 who is on the
11:00 housetop with his goods in the house not come down to take them away. And likewise, let the 1 who is in the field not turn back. Remember Lot's wife. Whoever
11:12 seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it. I tell you in that night, will be 2 in 1 bed, 1 taking the other left. There'll be 2 grinding grain women grinding grain together. 1 will
11:23 be taken, the other left. And they said to him, where, Lord? And he said to them, where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather. This is God's word. Let's pray together. Heavenly father,
11:36 speak. We need you. I need to say what you wanna say to your people and guard my mouth from saying anything that you
11:48 don't want me to say. We humble ourselves before your word, and we ask that we have hearts that are filled with hope and faith and minds that are filled with wisdom and understanding. And
12:00 help us to see Jesus. In his name we pray, and everybody said, amen. God bless you. Have a seat at every location. So Jesus is doing what Jesus
12:11 does. He's having an interesting conversation with people. Jesus always had strange conversations Because he's God the son,
12:23 and he doesn't talk to us the way we talk to us. Jesus doesn't say things we expect. Jesus says what we don't expect. That's kinda what makes me
12:35 know he's talking to me. When when I hear God say something that I don't want to hear, come on somebody that tells me a little bit. That might be God.
12:47 I get a kick out of people who say God told me. And when I tell me what God told them, it's always something that I would expect them to say to themselves. Because sometimes we we just we just slap the God told me tag on
12:58 what we want. God told me that I'll be married by the end of the year. I've seen guys do this in the church. I've seen I've seen ugly dudes do this in
13:10 the church. They walk up to a beautiful young lady and say, God told me you're gonna be my wife. And the poor girl's like, does God hate me?
13:24 When you're having a conversation with God and God tells you what you don't expect, you know, that that just might be God. The Pharisees come to Jesus in verse 20. They wanna know when's the kingdom of God coming. Now
13:35 the amazing thing is that Jesus has been talking about the kingdom of God. And John the Baptist first says that the kingdom of God is near. Jesus shows up that kingdom of God is here. Repent to believe. Then he starts
13:44 doing the works of the kingdom of God, casting out demons, healing the sick, preaching the gospel. The signs of the kingdom are starting to show up. The Pharisees are not really
13:56 interested in what Jesus has to offer. They want a physical material kingdom. They want the glory days of David back. David brought Israel to the pinnacle of
14:08 success. They were the superpower of the world around 900 BC. Solomon, his son brings incredible wealth and prosperity to the nation. And it's all downhill from there because no nation in
14:20 history has handled success and wealth well. Case in point America right now. And so they want that back. They want the glory days back. When's the
14:32 kingdom of God coming? And Jesus responds and he says, the kingdom is not coming in that way. It's not gonna be a political movement. It's not gonna be a governmental solution. It's not gonna be people
14:43 ruling over all the people. The kingdom of God is not observable with your eye, but it will dwell in the midst of you. He says in the next verse, you don't say, look, there it is or or there it is. This
14:55 building is not the kingdom of God. Okay. Churches are not the kingdom of God. Rome is not the kingdom of God. Waters Church is not the kingdom. The kingdom of God
15:07 is where God rules and reigns. And he rules and reigns in hearts that are surrendered to him. That's the kingdom of God.
15:20 It is an unseen reality, but it is real and it is present. And so he tells this to the Pharisees. And I'm sure I am I'm positive that they're they're
15:31 discouraged by his answer. They're they're disappointed. They wanted political revolution. And he says, no, that's not what I've come for. I've come to work in the hearts and minds of those whom I have called to myself.
15:43 That's the kingdom of God. Then look at verse, 22. Because it says, he said to the he said to the disciples. Now this is what Jesus always does, and this is why I
15:55 love Jesus. Because critics came with a question, and he answered their question, and then he took the opportunity of that critical moment to turn to his disciples and then teach them. I love that. He never
16:06 wasted an opportunity to teach his people. And and and that's just like, for your own sake, if you're a follower of Jesus and you're a disciple of Jesus, can I tell you, he wants to teach you in the midst of the crisis,
16:19 in the midst of the conflict, in the midst of the confusion? So he turns to the disciples. He says, this is a good this is a good chance to tell my followers some things that they gotta be ready for. He says, look, the
16:31 days are coming when you, the followers of Jesus, will desire, you'll long, you'll want, you'll hope for, you'll you'll be you'll be anxious for. You'll be longing for. 1 of the days that we're
16:43 living in right now. Jesus was walking the earth and healing the sick and raising the dead and and casting out demons and and walking on water and feeding the thousands with bread. And he's doing miracles and he's
16:51 protecting the disciples from from the onslaught of critics, and he's setting them out with power and authority. All these amazing miracles happen. In fact, so many miracles happen with Jesus that John the apostle says
17:00 that the whole world couldn't contain the books of records of what Jesus did. He says this this is gonna come a time where you're gonna hope for that. You're gonna long for that. But look what he says at the end, and you
17:10 won't see it. There's gonna be times when you hope that I come back and I won't come back. And that's kind of where we are right now. That's kind of where I am right now. Like, Jesus, come.
17:22 I find myself saying this on a regular basis. Maybe you can join me with that idea. Maybe you maybe you join me in this idea. You don't have to say it after me. But I just kind of find myself saying, Lord Jesus, how bad
17:32 does it have to get? How how much worse does the world have to get? Since the past 4 years, it's in the absolute chaos. And in all the while our governmental leaders kept telling
17:44 us, I can't keep telling us everything is awesome. It's like the Lego movie. You can't afford eggs, but everything is awesome. 2 wars are broken out in 2 different
17:56 countries, but everything is awesome. Like enough of the propaganda and lies and manipulation. The world is is chaotic in a mess. Up is down. Left
18:08 is right. Isaiah said, well, to the people that call evil good. And that's what's happening right now. Evil is good. Sexual confusion is good. A man can become pregnant
18:20 according to the experts. And don't get me started on the experts. The experts are a bunch of fools. They've got just so much schooling their brains fell out.
18:32 They've overused them. The stem has been broken between their their brain and their body. I'm just amazed that we lived through a global pandemic of a disease of a disease so
18:43 terrible, so life threatening that you had to get tested to see if you had it. And a vaccine so
18:55 effective that you had to be forced to take it. Bizarro world is here. Bizarro world where everything is upside down.
19:08 I wanna see Jesus show up and set everything right side up again. We that's what we need. That's what we're looking for. That's the cry of the person who's hoping that a new politician will fix
19:20 everything. I need the world to be made right. I need things to make sense again. I live in a conversation last night before service with 1 of our band members. I won't tell you who. He works in the public
19:32 school system. He says, it's crazier than ever before. It's nuts. And I don't know what to say. I said, gotta speak up. You have to say something. Because the nonsense is not getting the
19:43 spigot has been wide open for years now. And the flood of confusion has come into the ears of our young people. So in the midst of that longing,
19:55 and in the midst of that hoping that Jesus would come back, a couple of warnings about about what not to do. 3 wrong approaches to the end times. Write these down. 3 wrong approaches. This is what you don't do.
20:07 Okay? Wrong approaches to the end times. Number 1 or letter letter a prediction. We don't make predictions, and you don't listen. Listen very carefully
20:19 to people who make predictions. Here's what Jesus said. In Matthew chapter 24, he says, but concerning the day or the hour, no 1 knows. The angels of heaven don't know. He says, I don't
20:31 even know. Only the father knows. Now right now, of you are saying, well, how can the father and the son be 1, and the father knows something that the son doesn't know? I don't know.
20:43 That's above my pay grade. I am commanded to tell you what Jesus tells me clearly to tell you. The rest I leave in God's hands. Deuteronomy 29 29. Some of you gotta go read that verse someday. It says that the
20:55 secret things belong to the Lord, but the revealed things belong to us and to our children forever. There are some things that God says, I'm not telling you. And we have to live in the mystery.
21:07 Because a God that you can completely understand is a God of your own making. I can't understand everything about this God. But I do know this. He told me no 1 knows. No 1 knows.
21:19 He says in verse 42, that same chapter, he says, therefore, awake. Somebody say, stay awake. Stay awake. Just tap your neighbor and say, stay awake. Stay awake. He's just getting started. He's got about 30 minutes more
21:27 preaching. Just stay awake. You don't know the day he's coming. The day the Lord's coming. Letter b, panic. We don't panic. We don't we don't freak out. We don't throw up our hands in exasperation. We lift up our eyes
21:39 in expectation. We don't panic, but we do prepare. We don't get worried, but but we get washed. Amen. Paul
21:51 says to the Thessalonians, because this is nothing new by the way. Predictions and and scaring people. He says, don't be easily shaken. Second Thessalonians 2 2. Don't be easily shaken. Oh, I wish some Christians would
22:02 get that into their hearts. Some of you are so easily shaken. You're so easily stirred up. I'm I'm not afraid this morning. I am excited this morning to teach you these things so that you have wisdom for the end of
22:14 the world. It's not fear that drives me. It's compassion and pastoral care. But don't be easily shaken. Don't be alarmed by those who say the day of Lord has begun. Don't believe them. And then look at this. Even if
22:26 they claim, oh, would you pay attention TPN watchers. Pay attention here. TPN people, don't listen to them even if they say they've had a special vision. Or
22:38 a revelation or a letter from us. And then letter c, disregard. At the same time, don't wanna panic. You also don't wanna disregard this. Over and over and over again, we're told
22:50 about what to expect so that we know when it shows up, there it is. But Peter says there's gonna come a time where half the church will be, you know, just kinda like, yeah. It it says this in second Peter
23:01 chapter 2 verse 3 or 3 verse 3. It says that in the last days, there'll be coming people, and they'll say they'll say, they'll be scoffers, and they'll be following their own evil desires. And they'll say, where is the
23:13 promise of his coming? Verse 4. And ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things can, continue as they are from the beginning. Now when he says that they're gonna say the fathers fell asleep, these are people who are
23:22 confessing Christians. These are these are not listen to me very carefully about this passage. It's so important that you Peter is not describing unbelievers here. He's describing confessing Christians. And
23:33 Jesus backs this up. Well, Jesus is the 1 who instigated the idea. Jesus tells us that in the last days, before the Son of Man comes, the church would be like 10 virgins. 5 will be foolish and 5 will be wise.
23:46 And the foolish ones won't have oil. That's a symbol of the Holy Spirit. They'll reject the work of the Holy Spirit. Some of you came from a church where they reject the work of the Holy Spirit. And you look back on that
23:57 church today, and it's a dead dying church. That's why we preach the Holy Spirit. That's why we ask for the baptism in the Holy Spirit. That's why we invite you to first Tuesday so that you can experience the Holy Spirit
24:08 power in your life. Because if you don't have the holy spirit, you are not gonna be ready when Jesus comes. And that foolish church, which there are some churches, they believe the trinity is
24:20 the father, the son, and the holy scriptures. That's what some churches believe. They just ignore the holy spirit. We don't ignore the holy spirit. We welcome the holy spirit. We hunger for the
24:32 holy spirit. We want the fullness of the holy spirit in our bodies, in our lives. You know what you need right now? You need the Holy Spirit. You don't need me. You need the Holy Spirit.
24:45 He says and and and Jesus says, so they're gonna fall asleep because they don't have oil in their lamps. And the bridegroom's gonna show up, they're gonna say, give us oil. And it's too late. Jesus is describing the
24:56 church. The church. Half the church is going to be sleeping when Jesus returns. That's the warnings. So in this passage,
25:08 now we have the instruction, and I wanna talk to you on how to long for his return the right way. And and they're kind of parallel, but they're a little bit different with the first 3 things that I just shared with you.
25:20 Here's number 1. Don't be gullible. Wisdom will lead to discernment. Discernment protects you from lies
25:33 that the gullible fall for. This is the heart of listen to the heart of your savior. Don't listen to me. I want you to listen to the heart of your savior. This is your shepherd, Jesus.
25:45 He says in verse 23, and when you're longing because remember in verse 22, says, the days are coming when you're gonna long for me to return. But when that happens, and you're saying to yourself, oh, I wish Jesus would
25:55 just show up. Okay. Remember this. They will say to you, look there or look here. And I love this line from Jesus. Don't go out or
26:07 follow them. In modern social media vernacular, unfollow them and block them. Well, who well, who are you talking about?
26:18 I'm talking about any self professed prophet who thinks he knows. Enough. What would you do? It's it's football season. And I'm not talking about anybody particularly on the
26:30 football field today. So please understand that. What would you do with a quarterback who could never connect with a receiver? Cut them. It's baseball playoff season. What
26:42 would you do with a baseball player who has never gotten on base 1 single time? Cut them. Yeah. This basketball is about to start. What would you do with a basketball player who though he shoots 1000 shots, he
26:54 misses the rim every single time? Cut him. Okay. 2000 years of church history. Thousands of predictions and self proclaimed
27:06 prophets and date setters about the return of Christ. And their batting average is exactly 0. They have never hit the rim. They have never connected on a pass.
27:18 They have lost every single time. So as this comes about right now, please don't be gullible and follow people, because there's a lot of
27:30 money to be made on your fears. In 19 87, I can remember this because I was around. 19 87, there was a guy named Edgar
27:41 Wissenhunt. He was a NASA former NASA engineer, and he wrote a book, 88 reasons why Jesus Christ would return in 19 88. He sent 3300 thousand copies to pastors around the country. He that was a marketing campaign because
27:53 he knew if he could get the pastor to read it, the people would buy it. 4500000.0 copies were were sold. The guy became a millionaire. And in case you were wondering, Jesus did not return in 19 88.
28:05 Not to be dissuaded, he wrote another book in 19 89 called Rapture Report 19 89. And I am a I wanna know who bought the second book. Where are these morons? Please show them to
28:17 me. Heaven have mercy. What are you nuts? And he wrote 2 more books out of that. He died in 2001. He's a liar, and he
28:28 profiteered on people's gullibility. Now I never mention names of current pastors and prophets, very rarely from the stage, but I'm gonna break my rule today
28:40 because there's a small sliver of you. And none of you are not gonna even know who I'm talking about, but there's a small sliver of every of Waters Church that listens to this person. His name is Benny Hinn. And 2 weeks
28:51 ago, Benny Hinn, and you can go watch the video yourself. It's on YouTube. It's still there. I'm amazed it's still there. 2 weeks ago, he was on his channel saying, I believe that in 2 weeks, there will be peace between
28:59 Israel and the Palestinians. Okay. Enough is enough? Enough is enough, hidites. Stop. You know
29:11 what the Old Testament said about a prophet who makes predictions and then it doesn't come true? You know what it said? Stone them. Put them to death. Now we don't do that anymore, but we should cut them
29:23 off. Cut them out of our life. Yes. Enough. By the way, the next week he was on the stage asking for 10000 dollar donations from people. This is this is what the church has devolved to because people don't
29:35 have wisdom for the end of the world. They don't have they don't listen to what Jesus said to listen to. Who do we listen to? Who who? Pastor, who do I listen to? Me. I don't say that to
29:46 brag. I say that because scripture says this. Hebrews chapter 13 says, remember your leaders. Well, who what leaders? Those who spoke to you the word of God.
29:58 Consider the outcome of their life and imitate their faith. I'm just sharing you with you the Bible. I am not propping myself up. I am not telling you that I am perfect. I'm not telling you that I'm the IG. I'm not a
30:10 self proclaimed prophet. I'm a pastor, and I have a duty to to rightly divide the word of God according to first Timothy, and make sure that I've studied to show myself approved, and then to give you the word of God as
30:22 the Lord has revealed it in holy scripture. That's my job. By the way, have other pastors. We have other leaders in this church. I'm so excited about these these men. These are mighty men of God in every location that
30:33 the Lord has raised up for your health and your faith. Listen to them. You say, well, I don't like that 1. Well, then use the other 1. There's there's several
30:45 pastors. You don't have to like all of them. Okay. And I don't even like some of them. I won't tell you who. But then, you know what I'm saying? No. I do like I like them all. But you know what I'm saying? He's like,
30:56 everybody should have you know, we gotta have somebody that you listen to that's in your local assembly. Local people. We have pastor Shane and pastor Chris and pastor Jody here in North Attleboro. And we pastor Tom in
31:08 in Apollo Beach, and pastor Jim in Woonsock, and pastor Mehdi in South Coast, pastor Josh down in Travelers Rest, and and pastor Brandon who was here last week did such a wonderful job. We have wonderful fantastic
31:19 pastors at Water Church. Amen, somebody. Matthew chapter 24. Jesus said, who's the wise and faithful servant whom his master has set over his household? Now that church is the household of God, and Jesus says
31:31 wise and faithful servants over the household. And here's their job, to give them, underline this, to give them their food at the proper time. Why are we talking about end times? Because of what happened this past week.
31:43 So we have to give you food that is commensurate with what's happening in the world. What's happening now? Well, me address that from a biblical perspective. Blessed is that servant whom the master finds doing so when he
31:54 comes. We have a brand new ministry at Waters Church. It's called Waters Church Helps. Starting it right now. We have a website devoted to helping you. Go to waterschurch dot org slash
32:06 waterschurch dot org slash help. We'll put this picture up on the screen. It's a brand new website. We have a marriage and family pastor, Jody Bowden. Pastor Jody has moved from Waters kids into marriage and family
32:18 pastoring. He's getting a counseling, certificate. Other pastors are getting counseling certificates so that we can counsel you in the word of God. We don't do counseling. We do biblical
32:29 counseling. Biblical cal and there is a big difference. Okay? So if you are and and by the way, there's a whole section there on mental health.
32:41 Because I know it's something that everybody says, mental health, mental health, mental health, mental health. Okay. Wonderful. Let's talk about mental health from a biblical perspective. Because because because this is
32:51 gonna wreck some of you, these times that we live in. And we have a heart for you, and we wanna give you their we wanna give you your food at the proper time. So if you have any need whatsoever in in every location,
33:02 watershed dot org slash help. Jesus says to the disciples, look, you don't follow people because here's what's gonna happen in verse 20 as lightning flashes up the sky. That's how it's gonna be when
33:14 his when the son of man comes. So you've got to be ready. Number 2, don't get caught up in the world. Don't be don't be gullible, and don't get caught up in the world and it's nonsense.
33:27 And and and I think that this is more important than anything. Because the world will get his tentacles in you. It will wrap the it will wrap your heart up in the cares of this world.
33:40 And Jesus talks about that. He'll talk about the dissipation and the and the cares of this world that that will bring some people away from the kingdom. He says in verse 26, as it was in
33:52 the days of Noah. And then he says in verse 28, as it was in the days of Lot. Now, I've read about these days. They're in the first book of your Bible, the book of Genesis. They're in Genesis chapter 6 and Genesis
34:02 chapter 19 respectively. And they are 2 different ages, the days of Noah, and then a couple of hundred years later, the days of Lot. And these were bad times, in case you haven't read the stories.
34:14 The bible says in Genesis chapter 6 that the heart of man was so wicked that every inclination of the thought of his heart was only evil all the time. That's Genesis chapter 6 5. And the days of Lot
34:26 were filled with violence, were filled with rampant homosexuality, and inhospitality, and and a neglect of the poor. Isaiah talks about the inhospitable
34:38 the inhospitableness of the Sodomites and the disregard for the poor. And Genesis talks about the homosexuals coming and banging on lock's door to have sex with the angels. In fact, it was so unsafe.
34:50 It was so unsafe in Sodom that when the angels first show up you you know the story. They they show up, and they're just gonna spend the night in downtown Sodom.
35:02 And Lot sees them and knows that they're angels, and he says, you can't stay here. They said, no. No. We're fine. He said, no. You're not. You need to come and stay with me. The downtown area
35:15 of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were filled with crime. Hello, somebody. As it was in the days of Lot,
35:27 as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the son of man. Our cities are unsafe. This this is what's happened now.
35:39 Now the amazing thing is the next the next descriptor that Jesus gives us in verse 27. Look what he says. They were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in redefined
35:51 marriage as well. You can read about that on your own. They were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered the ark. It also
36:03 says this about the days of Lot. It says, in the days of Lot, they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. Now put it together. The days of Lot and the days of
36:15 Noah were very dark, evil days. Cities were unsafe. Rampant sexual immorality was propagated and celebrated in the
36:26 culture. And yet Jesus says that the people had in those days and will have in the days of his return. The people will have a la dee da
36:38 attitude about it all. They'd just be going on through life. They said, well, it's just the way the world now. It's just how it's going. That's just how it is now. Well, that's just the way we gotta get with the times.
36:50 Because la dee da, la dee da, la dee da until doom. That's what happened. They were going about their lives regularly in heinous,
37:02 evil, wicked times. Now I say all that to say this. That's the descriptor for the end times. Some people don't get it. They're not gonna get it. They're never gonna get it, and they're just gonna go la
37:14 dee da and tiptoe through the roses as literal hell comes upon their civilizations. And when you see that happen, lift up your eyes
37:25 for your redemption draws nigh. On the flip side, write this down. It's gonna pinch a little bit. You are not ready for the return of the Lord when this world's ways don't bother you anymore.
37:37 Some of you Christians, listen up. You're playing with the devil. You're playing with this world, and it's gonna cost
37:48 you. It's gonna cost you your children. It's gonna cost you your fair family. It's gonna cost you your marriage. You need to wash yourself. You need to get right with God. You need to repent. You need to turn. You needShow more
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