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The Second Coming
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| You can't speed read through this book. | |
| You have to read every word. | |
| And every word's going to pierce you because Jensen gives you in this book, like you said, you said you felt like he wrote it for you. | |
| I'm like, I'm feeling like he wrote it for me. | |
| Then I'm preaching the book to you last night. | |
| Where I'm like, Jump, and I'm reading and I'm like line by line. | |
| Because you give us solutions to everything that we're walking through. | |
| This is an end times book. | |
| This is for right now. | |
| I mean, one of the things that I wanted to make sure that I did in this book, I felt an urgency about it, is talk about the second coming of Jesus Christ. | |
| And what the times would be like in the end times, what the Bible predicts, and what our response is to be. | |
| Because if you just read the signs of the times and you don't read the instructions Jesus gave during the signs of the times, it is overwhelming. | |
| It is fearful. | |
| It is depressing, you know, and you just kind of lose heart. | |
| And I don't want a generation, a new generation, coming up without a vision. | |
| God still has a plan for the earth. | |
| God's not through with the church. | |
| But we do not need to ignore the signs of the times. | |
| And when I was growing up, one out of three or one out of four sermons that every preacher preached was on the coming of the Lord. | |
| And as a pastor, as a pastor who has, God has given us an amazing church, a leading church in the nation, I felt convicted because I am not hearing preachers, younger preachers that I know I can influence, hopefully, bringing out the coming of the Lord and the book of Revelation and teaching it methodically and powerfully to our people. | |
| I can remember those services. | |
| I can remember those sermons. | |
| And something in me, I'm not a person that lives in the past, but it made us live right. | |
| It made us live holy. | |
| It made us want to be. | |
| It purified us. | |
| It made us want, we were, I can remember my dad would preach on the coming of the Lord so real. | |
| Every once in a while he'd have a flare for the dramatic. | |
| And one time he had a trumpet player behind the curtain. | |
| And when he reached the point, he blew the trumpet and the lights went out and everything. | |
| And it scared us to death. | |
| And first one in the altar was me because I knew I was going to be left behind. | |
| And you know what? | |
| There's nothing wrong with a little godly fear. | |
| You better wear at it. | |
| The first thing loses when sin begins to take over a church and over a person's life. | |
| They lose their fear of God. | |
| That's it. | |
| They lose their ears. | |
| They can't hear. | |
| You can talk to them, but they won't listen. | |
| That's right. | |
| And they lose their tears. | |
| Wow. | |
| And anytime a preacher loses his tears, he never cries. | |
| He never gets broken. | |
| He never gets a burden. | |
| And anytime you lose your ears and you can't hear God anymore, and you lose your fear. | |
| Things that you used not to touch, now you're touching again. | |
| Things that God delivered you from. | |
| Now you're going back to it. | |
| It's true. | |
| Things that you had a strong conviction on that no longer do you take a stand on. | |
| What's going on? | |
| There is a spirit that wants to pull us. | |
| You just drift away. | |
| The Bible said in the last days that the love of many would wax cold. | |
| It's not instant, but it's just a little compromise and a little more and more and more. | |
| And before you know it, you're cold-hearted. | |