HEAVEN AND EARTH SHALL PASS AWAY BUT MY WORDS SHALL NOT PASS AWAY John F. MacArthur | Carter Conlon (2023)

Introduction

THE KINGDOM IS NEAR

Speaker: John F. MacArthur, Carter Conlon

Matthew 24:35
“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.”

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I was just working on a multi-million dollar lawsuit that damn cnn, trying to get me scared about something theology has to stand the text test.

It has to survive every passage in the scripture intact to be validated, because all of scripture has one author that is god who never contradicts himself.

I also want you to understand that eschatology.

And what the scripture says about the end times is not hard to understand that's.

Why revelation starts out by saying, blessed is the one who reads this and understands the prophecies are very very clear when it comes to the return of christ, the believers who are alive when he returns will be ushered into his glorious kingdom in which all the promises of the old testament to israel will be fulfilled.

And all the kingdom promises repeated in the new testament will be fulfilled, and the lord will be king over the whole earth.

This is our hope.

This is the blessed hope of every believer.

We are looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our great god and savior, jesus christ.

What will be the sign of your coming and the end of the age he describes history up till now and including now he said before I come the world will be characterized by religious deception, massive religious deception.

It will secondly, be characterized by massive disasters, wars, rumors of wars earthquakes.

And if you put them all together, famines plagues all kinds of what we call natural disasters, and it will also be human history will characterized by the relentless persecution of believers by jews, first by gentiles also.

And even in your families history tells us he was exactly right exactly right that is the story of human history.

It is a relentless time of religious deception, religious deception today, proliferates, maybe like it never has in the history of the world.

We haven't had any improvement on our susceptibility as a human race to lies from the enemy.

The king of hell himself.

They seem to be increasing, even in our very time today and by natural disasters, which seem to be getting worse and worse.

How do you know you're in it verse 14 when you see the abomination of desolation, when that event happens, you know, you're in the tribulation because verse 19 says, those days will be a time of tribulation such as has not occurred since the beginning of the creation, which god created until now never will it'll be worse than any other time, more deadly more disastrous more horrific and it's described in its detail by daniel and particularly by john in the visions of revelation from chapter 6 to chapter 19 in detail.

And there is a future generation that is going to see his coming going to see his coming and they're going to know it's near because they see the events of the tribulation happening all around them that generation needs to be on the alert that's.

What he's saying now learn the parable from the fig tree when its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves.

You know, the summer is near even so you two when you see these things happening recognize that he is near right at the door, truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place, heaven and earth will pass away.

But my words will not pass away, but of that day or hour.

No one knows not even the angels in heaven nor the son, but the father alone, take heed keep on the alert for you do not know when the appointed time will come.

No believer needs to be in the dark on these matters.

Any more than any other matters revealed in scripture.

The birth pains, the birth pains of anticipation leading up to the return of christ.

All the final extreme severe, rapid fire, labor pains, all the signs prior to the final sign, which is christ coming out of heaven in blazing glory.

Whoever is alive to see these things happening should know that the coming of christ is near right at the door.

So if you're alive in the future in that generation, and you see the abomination of desolation and all the rest of the things that begin to happen when the antichrist establishes the worship of himself and you're told to run and flee for your life as we read earlier, when you see the rest of what's going to happen, you know that he is near the kingdom is near the king is near the glory is near.

He is right at the door at the rapture the church meets christ in the air at the second coming christ returns to earth with the church at the rapture mount of olives is untouched at the second coming.

It is split at the rapture the earth remains the same at the second coming.

The earth is transformed at the rapture living saints are translated at the second coming.

No saints are translated they're simply taken into the kingdom alive in their human form at the rapture.

The world is not judged and sin gets worse at the second coming sin is judged.

And the world is far better at the rapture.

The reign of antichrist is triggered at the second coming.

The reign of christ is triggered at the rapture.

The body goes to heaven at the second coming.

It comes to earth.

The rapture is imminent signless.

The second coming has distinct signs.

The rapture concerns only the saved the second coming the saved and the unsaved when satan came down into the garden of eden, he sowed something into the human race that was going to bring the human kind into its own destruction.

The thought the theology as as it is that without god and without the borders of god and without heeding, the word of god, we can become as god is in ourselves, that's the sin that was sown that was the nature of the devil himself that was sown into humanity.

We don't need god.

We can do this our own way we can come up with our own standards of right and wrong.

And somehow through it all still reach some kind of a utopian end that is the sin of humankind, the thought of the devil that he could possess fully the earth, its direction.

Its future.

We are that people by the grace of god that have access to the throne of god.

I hope you realize the power that god has put into the hands of you.

And I as believers in jesus christ, we are not just bystanders watching the devil destroy a whole generation.

We have access to the throne of god it's, not in might it's, not in power that this battle is going to be won.

But it is won by the spirit of god.

It is one by the strength of god.

It is won by the power of god, the plan of god.

And part of that plan is you.

And I approaching his throne and petitioning him to move his hand on behalf of those who have nobody to call out for them in the earth for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, not natural not made by human hands, not enacted by human strategy.

The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty in god for pulling down strongholds casting down arguments.

And every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of god, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of christ would be to god.

We could understand our position in the church of jesus christ.

Again would be the god we would find again, the source of our power would be to god that we would have the courage to put away all of our powerless programs and powerless strategies and powerless services.

And we would go back into the prayer closet, where the true source of our power really is, we have been invited by god to come before his throne to find grace to help in time of need.

And at that throne the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they are mighty in god, pulling down ideas that the devil sows in society, pulling down this demonic onslaught that wants to call evil, good and good evil that wants to marginalize and oppress and captivate, the testimony of god from generation to generation.

But I remind you that all throughout biblical history, when there has been somebody who called out to god, a marvelous deliverance came that the god of our lord jesus christ, the father of glory may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him that you may fully understand paul is saying who he is what he has done.

And what our part is in the overthrow of the evil that wants to swallow every generation, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.

And what is the exceeding greatness of his power towards us who believe according to the working of his mighty power, which he worked in christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places far above all principality power and might and dominion and every name that is named not only in this age, but also in that, which is to come and he's, put all things where under his feet.

Remember the prophecy in the garden of eden he's, put all things under his feet and gave him to be head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all in christ.

Captivity was taken captive a victory was won over the devil himself.

And a weight of freedom was made christ himself crushed this head of the devil as it is, but he has a church in the earth that he gave power to he sits at the right hand of god with all power, all dominion all authority over every name that is named not only now.

But in the ages to come, he is the head, and we are his body upon the earth.

We are invited into the throne of god and there's, an exceeding great power that is available to the church of jesus christ.

Not in human effort, not in human strategy.

The power of the church of jesus christ is found in the prayer meeting.

And nowhere else that's where the power of god is while this march of hell goes through our streets, threatening to devour everything in its path and destroy everything that we know is true and godly and good we're, not relegated to the sidelines.

We have much more power than they do.

Do you understand that when god's people begin to pray.

You see examples of this all throughout scripture in second kings.

Chapter 6, we see an enemy of the people of god, attempting to conquer a city.

When we pray, we have power to bring the enemies of god when the attempt to conquer our cities to an awareness of god's power and to a moment of conscience, the king of syria, surrounded the city where the people of god were suddenly in the morning, there was a mighty army to the point where a servant of the man of god elisha got up and looked over the wall of the city and said, oh, my goodness.

What are we going to do? We don't have the resources inside the city to fight with this there's, more of them than there are of us and they're mightier in the natural than we are and that's, always the initial response of many.

Oh god.

What are we going to do? There seems to be such an organized assault against godliness in this generation.

So what power do we have in contrast to this, which comes against us? It was going to be one praying man in that city, just one praying man that was going to make the difference.

Just one just one man who knew the power of god.

Just one man who had spiritual vision was going to make the difference and secure a victory that can't be won in the natural.

It can only be won by god that it's not by might nor by power.

But by your spirit, oh god, would you help us to see again, christ in absolute victory at the right hand of god with all power all dominion all authority? Would you would you help your people to see again, there's a spiritual awakening in the nation we're talking about a sudden awareness that can come into the heart of any society, any town any city any block any borough any place to anybody it's called spiritual awakening, there's, a power that only emanates and only comes from god when we begin to pray, we have power to free those who are captivated by deceptive and powerless religion.

One of the things that the devil will do to captivate a generation, and he will offer an alternative to christ and it's called religion.

Only god can give a covering only god can produce fruit from a life that has yielded to him bring your servant out of captivity set him.

Free remember casting down imaginations, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of christ.

The weapons of our warfare are not carnal.

But mighty god opened the eyes of servants that they may see.