Would you join me as we pray? Oh Lord, no matter how we walked in here this morning, some of us defeated, Lord. Some of us maybe have health things going on, family things going on, Lord, work things going on, Lord. Struggling in our walk, in our faith. You are our strength. And we sing out to you this morning in worship and thanksgiving and praise, Lord. Thank you for all that you are, Lord. So thank you for bringing us here this morning. Gathered in your name, would you speak to us in your word, we pray. Oh, how we need you, Lord, how we need you. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. Amen and amen. Good morning, welcome. You can be seated. So glad you're here joining with us. I want to welcome those of you online as well to this, the first of two services on Sunday mornings. which is devoted to Bible prophecy. We've been doing these weekly Bible prophecy updates for quite some time now. Second Sermon, which, Second Service, which is the sermon, which we're currently in the Book of Revelation, is a verse by verse study through the Word of God. And I'm reluctant to show you the title of the sermon, which is why I haven't done it yet. Uh, so the saying don't judge a book by its cover comes to mind. So please don't judge the sermon by its title. I'll give you a moment. I know it's not as bad as you think. Um, for those of you online, it will be live streamed 11 15 a.m. That's Hawaii time. We're going to finish Lord willing chapter six this week. Our text will be verses nine through 17. And the title I chose is Our Christian Lives Only Get Worse, Not Better. Isn't that perky? So it's not what you think. So hopefully you'll still come second service. If nobody comes, we'll just have testimonies. sharing or prayer or whatever. Also, for those of you that are watching by way of YouTube or Facebook, we would encourage you at this time, don't wait because sometimes there's a glitch in making the transition from YouTube or Facebook to the website at JDFarag.org for the uninterrupted, uncensored entirety of the update as we only live stream the first part of the updates for censorship reasons. So after having the better part of the week seeking the Lord concerning today's update, I chose, this is a better title already, yeah? It's a simple title, Back to Bible Prophecy Basics. And this for three reasons. First, I want to equip you with something that may be better received by those who would maybe not otherwise watch a video that's over an hour in length. Wait a minute, Pastor, are you saying it's going to be short today? Yeah. I don't believe it. Believe it. Oh ye of little faith. Second, Bible prophecy by its very nature is complex. Would you agree? Especially now in this very complex time of the end in which we find ourselves living. And I think it warrants a much needed, simple and basic overview of Bible prophecy. In other words, a shorter and simpler Bible prophecy teaching and update may have more of an impact in getting Jesus to people and people to Jesus as many as we can and as fast as we can while we can. Third reason. For those like myself who are students of Bible prophecy and love Bible prophecy, we have to be careful and we have to be prayerful to not get caught up, pun intended by the way, in all the nuances. What do you mean by nuances? By nuances I mean All of the complicated scenarios and possibilities as we watch the swiftness with which Bible prophecy is beginning to come to pass. I hope you don't tire of me saying it, but for lack of a better way of saying it, it's happening so fast. I mean, breakneck speed in real time. And we were told it would be so. In the end, what I'm hoping to accomplish today is to get all of us, not just back to basics. You know, you've heard the expression, we need to get back to basics. Well, I think we need to get back to basics. But more importantly, we need to get back to Jesus, because Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Revelation says. Now, I am keenly aware that I run the risk of coming off as sensational when I say this again, but I, and the Lord knows my heart, I truly believe with all of my heart that the pre-tribulation rapture of the church of Jesus Christ is closer than any of us could possibly even begin to imagine. And it's for this reason that really the Lord's conviction was heavy upon me this last week. To do a video like this, knowing that if we're so much closer to the pre-tribulation rapture, and we are, it can have the effect of drawing all of us so much closer to Jesus, which we need. namely closer in our love for Jesus, in our time with Jesus, so that we might hear the simple, gentle, loving voice and words of Jesus. I mean, how many voices in the world today are clamoring for our attention, competing for our time The best illustration I ever heard was concerning that still small voice of the Holy Spirit is this is how God speaks. He doesn't compete with the voices as loud as they are competing for our time and attention and affection and devotion. No, no. You want to hear the voice of the Lord. You don't have to turn the volume of His voice up. You need to turn the volume of your world down. Then you can hear. I share. I've actually had occasion at a high school reunion to tell my biology teacher, Mr Bowman, that he was a great inspiration of many a sermon. Not a professing Christian. I hope he is now. But he was monotone. You know, you know, monotone people, they, they, they, they, I know this is deeply profound. They speak in monotone, just they speak in one tone, and they speak, you know, they're soft spoken, and they just speak at one level, one tone, one key, one volume. So first in class, here's Mr. Bowman. Comes in, class, take your seats at this time. Here I am, right, small, small class. I'm like, hey, speak up. I can't hear you. To which Mr. Bowman properly responded, and politely, I might add, responded, no, no, no, no. I'm not going to speak up. This is the way I talk. You want to hear Me? You quiet down. I think the volume levels in our lives are too loud. I think we miss much of what the Lord desires to speak into our lives. And that still small voice in His sheep knows voice. It's unmistakable, you know. You know when you're in the Word and God is speaking to you, which is the chief source of how God does speak to us, is in and through His Word, bore witness by the Holy Spirit and the peace of God in our hearts, confirmed by this circumstances providentially. They all work in tandem, one with the other. But you know how it is when you're in the Word, the Word's in you, and There's a part of Scripture you've read it 1000 times before, and it stops you dead in your tracks. And you know that's the voice of the Lord speaking to you, because only Jesus knows that about you. You know His voice. But oftentimes I think that our lives get so complicated. The volume of our lives gets so loud. The busyness of our lives, by the way, unsustainable. You know that, right? And especially here in Hawaii. I know a lot of times it cannot be helped. Just the cost of living here is such that many work so hard, more than one job. I get it. But we have to make time and have time and turn that volume down so we can hear what the Lord would have to say to us what the Spirit is saying to the church today. Well, be that as it may, I'm going to keep the prophecy update, or if you prefer prophecy teaching, take your pick. Simple and to the point. And for those of you that are looking at me like that, I can do that. I just want you to know that. so much so that those who are new believers and or new to Bible prophecy, which, by the way, is wonderful. You're going to be able to see the bigger prophetic picture that God has revealed and unveiled in His Word. Because again, Bible prophecy, as one so aptly said, is not to scare us, but to prepare us. And God is all about wanting to steady us, and ready us, and prepare us, and not scare us for that which is coming. That's really the purpose of Bible prophecy. He wants to ready us. He wants us to be ready. caught off guard. He doesn't want his return in the rapture, the pre-tribulation rapture of the church to be for us as a thief in the night. He wants us watching, expecting. So that's my preface, my introduction. And so I'd like to start with a chart. Yes, I said a chart, but good news. It's a simple and basic chart. And it's one of those charts that is an at a glance look at this aforementioned bigger prophetic picture. Please know that I spent, painstakingly spent time condensing and abbreviating this to only 10. again to keep it simple and not overly and unnecessarily complicated or prolong it. And I will go through them quickly, but I do so with the hope that you will not take my word for it, but take the time in God's word and search the scriptures that I put on this chart for yourself to see if what I'm going to share with you is true. Number one, spiritual deception, powerful delusion and unprecedented confusion. This is one of the most pronounced signs of the time of the end. Number two, and we've talked about this recently, the truth of and the knowledge about Bible prophecy will increase exponentially at the time of the end. This is why it is, by the way, that Bible prophecy has come alive. Things that even 10 years ago prophecy students, prophecy teachers were kind of grappling with. Well, now as we near the time of the end, it's all just opening up exactly as God's Word said it would at the time of the end. Again, another sign that it is the time of the end. Number three, this, by the way, is a biggie. Israel, would be reborn in one day. And it happened in one day, May 14th, 1948, one day. And that's not all. They would return to their land, unheard of, impossible, unthinkable, unprecedented, never happened before. And not only would they be reborn as a nation in one day, return to their land, but so too would God prosper them exceedingly. Number four, allied nations, chiefly led by three nations, all of which are at the ready in Syria today as we speak. Russia, Iran, and Turkey will soon, I believe very soon, and are ready to invade Israel. For what purpose? To take their prosperity. Do you know how prosperous Israel is? They do. And God's Word told us it would be so. Number five, this is an interesting one. Every nation on earth will have this intoxicating obsession with dividing Jerusalem, not Tokyo, not New York. Jerusalem, why Jerusalem? Oh, I'm glad you asked. Because of all the cities, of all the tribes, of all of Israel, God chose Jerusalem to put literally His name apart, His name of ownership. And it, the city, the name is the nature, Yerushalom, Hebrew. In Arabic, we don't, we pronounce the J. So instead of Yeshua, it's Yeshua. We say, Yaru Salem, possession of peace of all the cities in the world today. It could not be said of Jerusalem that it is a city of peace. In fact, it is the antithesis of peace. But we're told in the Bible that at the time of the end, there will be this, they will be obsessed. I mean, you talk about obsession. And they're going to be intoxicated by it, this cup of trembling. And they're going to be obsessed with moving the boundary stones. See, back in that day, that's how they marked off the boundaries, the borders of properties and lands and countries. They would put stones. That's the border between here and here. That's the borderline. So when Zachariah the prophet says that it will become a burdensome stone and all who try to heave it away, give it away, cut it away, I will cut them because it belongs to me. Joel says I'm going to bring them all down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. I'll deal with them there. Anyone who tries to divide my land. Number six, the Antichrist, and we talk about this prophecy often, will make, and I want you to listen, please, better, stronger, greater, echibir in Arabic, same exact word in Hebrew. In other words, he's going to, you know how we say in our day, he's going to sweeten this deal. See, the implication of the prophecy in Daniel 9, 27, that He will enforce or make greater a covenant implies that there's already a covenant on the table. There is. It's called the deal of the century. And it divides Jerusalem. Section 38, I could quote it verbatim and have. The Abraham Accords peace with many. Subsequently, So I wonder, so Daniel 9, 27, this is a key prophecy, because by the way, as we'll see in a moment, this is what starts the seven year tribulation. The rapture, the pre-tribulation rapture does not start the seven year tribulation. Daniel 9, 27's fulfillment starts the seven year tribulation. It's the seven year covenant that he breaks at the midpoint, at the three and a half year mark. But what's so interesting about this particular prophecy is that it implies that the Antichrist will, as we say in our days, sweeten the deal. How's he going to sweeten the deal? Okay, you guys, we have this deal. We need to get this show on the road. I know that you guys want your temple rebuilt more than anything, and they do. So what if we threw in, no extra charge, the rebuilding of your temple. Would you sign the deal? Where do I sign? Where do I sign? Well, why do you say that? Why do you believe that? Because of the seventh one on our list, there has to be a temple rebuilt. during the seven year tribulation, presumably at the beginning of the seven year tribulation, because at the midpoint of the seven year tribulation, the Antichrist causes the abomination that causes an abomination that causes desolation. And he does it, how? Well, Second Thessalonians 2 tells us that he sets himself up in the temple of God. Oh, it has to be already there then, in the Holy of Holies. Some believe He will sacrifice an unclean animal, a pig, sprinkle the blood on the Holy of Holies. That's an abomination. and it will cause desolation, and the Jews will flee as Jesus told them to in Matthew 24, to the place that He's prepared for them for the last three and a half years of the seven year tribulation, where He will take care of them, and the whole house of Israel will be safe and protected from the Antichrist for the last three and a half years, because at the three and a half year mark, they're going to realize that's not our Christ, Our Christ, our true Christ would never do that. This is the false Christ. This is the Antichrist. And they will come to a knowledge of the Antichrist, which will bring them to a true knowledge of their true Christ, their true Messiah. And that's right at the midpoint. But there has to be a temple there because we're told that the Antichrist will set himself up in the Holy of Holies, demanding that he is God, wanting to be worshiped as God. In order for that prophecy to happen there at the 3.5 year mark, that suggests that the temple has to be rebuilt at the very beginning of the seven year tribulation or shortly thereafter. And by the way, for those of you that are students of the temple in particular, you know, they're like maybe 30, 60, some believe as long as 90 days max away from rebuilding their temple. They have everything. And by the way, you know those red heifers we talked about? There's the windows closing because according to Leviticus 19, the red heifer that has to be pure, has to be sacrificed for the ashes of the red heifer for the purification and the cleansing before a certain age. And they're about to have their birthday. The clock is ticking. Well, I don't want to expound too much because it'll lengthen again. So number eight. This will be the clarion call already, as I've been tracking this since the 80s, actually, on into the 90s. While they're saying two specific words, peace and security, Sudden destruction comes upon them as a woman in labor, and they will not escape. You cannot read an article, a newsfeed, watch a video without hearing those two words recorded in 1 Thessalonians 5.3 by the Apostle Paul as a prophetic timestamp. As the time of the end approaches, they will say, and by the way, as a woman in labor, that's birth pains. What do we know to be true about birth pains? They come in greater frequency and intensity. And what are we hearing in greater frequency and intensity? Peace and security. And we're told it's not after they say it, while they're saying it, while the words are coming out of their mouth. peace and security. Asphalia in the Greek translated safety or security, same word. When they're saying those two words, then sudden destruction. You know what the thing is about sudden destruction? We talked about this again. I know it's deeply profound. It's destruction that comes suddenly, sudden destruction upon them, not us. Make that distinction between them and us. We're not them. We're the we. we who were alive and remain and are caught up. Number nine, the fourth and final ruling empire and kingdom, ironically dubbed the fourth industrial revolution by none other than one Klaus Schwab and his protege Yuval Harari out of all places Israel. is already in the process and almost completed with the centralizing of a one-world economy, government, and religion. And number 10, and they kind of go together, a one-world bio-digital pharmaceutical verification system using what's known as blockchain technology and artificial intelligence already in place and use now, will, during the seven-year tribulation, determine whether or not one is able to buy and sell predicated upon one's social and carbon credit scores. It's all digital, programmable, suspendable. I want to talk more about this word centralized. It is key. It is going to be germane to our understanding. I want to explain why, why it has to be centralized. Because see right now, cryptocurrency particularly is decentralized. It's open source. There's no centralized bank that controls it. It's decentralized. But now the demonic agenda, according to Bible prophecy, is that it will be all centralized under one umbrella. Okay, before we go any further, this is probably as good of a time as any to, and I want you to hear me out on this, emphatically state, I don't know how to overstate in the strongest of terms, that all 10 of these prophecies that I put together and abbreviated on this list are, listen, either at the ready to come to pass, beginning already to come to pass, and or already coming to pass. every single one and all the others with them. Now, why do I point that out? Because it reinforces the urgency of this last hour so close to the seven year tribulation I believe in order that people are readied and steadied for the rapture before the seven year tribulation. In other words, I truly again believe with all my heart, and the Lord knows my heart, that there needs to be a video like the one I'm trying to do today for people to see, watch, hear and take to heart, because that's how close we are. We are so close. All of these prophecies simultaneously and precisely. Now with 99.99% accuracy, with 100% accuracy, Jesus said twice, John 13 and John 14, it's recorded. I'm going to tell you what's going to happen before it happens. So when it begins to happen, you will believe that I am He says in Luke 21 28 to the believer, when you see these things begin to come to pass, look up and lift up your heads because your redemption draws nigh. Okay, I'm almost done. You know how I always say, don't look at your watches, look at your watches. But before I close, I think I'd be grossly remiss were I not to expound on a matter. Pardon me. A matter that rises to the level of paramount importance concerning our daily lives in these perilous times. This is real talk now. This is where we live every day. You know, when that alarm clock goes off, pardon me, by the way, this is asthma, not COVID. So this is where we live every day. When that alarm clock goes off tomorrow morning, we wake up to this. This is real talk. And I want to talk real talk with you now. But we're going to end the live stream in order to do that. So Aloha. Again, so as to not make this video unnecessarily long, I am only going to quote one source from a local sister here in our fellowship that she sent me early this last week. It bears the title, and here's that word, decentralized medicine, decentralized medicine, in which Dr. Jack Kruse, a neurosurgeon, speaks about this matter back on May 14th. He boldly, and I apologize in advance for this, he uses colorful language, clearly not a professing Christian, But he discusses his experiences with medicine and technology. Those two together, they're married. They're roommates, if you prefer. Decentralized medicine, decentralized technology. Let's keep it that way. Because they want to centralize it. Why do they want to centralize it? Listen now, don't miss this. because Satan is not omnipresent. He cannot be all places at one time. That's why everything has to be centralized under one location, because Satan can only be one place at one time. So that's why now there's this seismic shift from decentralization, open source, to centralization. So now we have a central government. We have a central economy. We even have a central religion. And again, why? Because Satan has to have it centralized to control it. So he also delves into topics like vaccine safety, autism, and the influence of MK Ultra. By the way, some believe MK is the acronym for Mein Kampf, my struggle, from Hitler's Nazi, Third Reich. By the way, interesting too, Third Reich, Fourth Reich, Fourth Industrial Revolution. Is that too much? He also talks about CIA experiments using the latest in technology. Here's just a handful of quotes from the transcript. He starts off this way, very interesting. A husband and wife got divorced after they had an autistic kid and she wanted to hire me to reverse the kid's autism. She offered me $100 million to build a decentralized hospital, not a centralized hospital. That's what we have now. It's all controlled. by the industry, by Big Pharma, by the insurance companies. She offered me $100 million to build a decentralized hospital, but I told her it couldn't happen in the United States. It's impossible. She wanted to get together and talk about vaccines because she believes that the vaccine schedule in the United States had a big deal to do with her daughter's autism. May I just parenthetically insert what I hope is an appropriate comment here? You will not find a child or an adult with autism that has not been vaccinated, so-called. For those of you who've never heard about Operation Paperclip, you would do well to know a little bit about it. By the way, there are some pretty decent series on these streaming platforms about Operation Paperclip. You know what they did with all of these evil, demon possessed scientists that were conducting human experiments on those Jews in Germany during the Holocaust? They brought him here to the United States, under the auspice of Operation Paperclip. MKUltra's mind control, mind conf. MKUltra, they would, it's too graphic, it's too evil. I don't want to take too long. I'm still quoting him. Let me get back on track here. For those of you who've never heard about Operation Paperclip and MKUltra, you think it's all conspiracy theory. So I'll ask you guys a question. What's the difference between fact and fiction? I'm going to give you a moment. Just think about that question. What's the difference between fact and fiction? Answer, fiction has to make sense. Fact doesn't. Let that sink in. He goes on to explain, in fact, that's why people call the truth conspiracy theory, because no way, it makes no sense at all, until you see all the parts come together. He then goes on to ask another question. How many took the mRNA vaccines? When they came out, I said, make sure that you never take it. And I warned about it back then. We're talking three years ago now. I think it's a pretty good chance that you're going to find out in a messenger RNA vaccine, there are DNA plasmas that are not supposed to be there. Hmm. On July 4th, 2020, I had 100 members at my house. I told them, we're going to talk about two things, decentralized medicine and decentralized money. Stop right there. Again, the two go hand in hand. And this is what is happening now, again, as we speak. They want to centralize money and medicine together so that you, according to the prophecy in Revelation 13, well known prophecy, will not be able to buy or sell because they're going to control your account. So if you've exceeded your allotment of carbon for that week, account suspended. You posted something on social media that goes against the narrative, account suspended. Might as well, why not? Those new cars you're buying, they have to be plugged in. I did that last week. I won't do that to you this week. But they control that too, by the way. They can suspend your car. Where do you think you're going? You were a bad boy last week. They can suspend. You know when you're a bad boy or a bad girl on social media and you post something that, that bad, bad boy, naughty, naughty, naughty boy, Account suspended. You go into, what do they call it? I don't know if they still call it. I don't go on Facebook anymore. Facebook jail or whatever. Or your Twitter. Your Twitter account is suspended for, you know, like 30 days. They're going to punish you and teach you a lesson. You don't post stuff like that, that vaccines cause autism. Suspended! So, That car that you bought, that you plug in and it's charged now, I guess. Hopefully you can go a few miles without having to plug it back in. But there you go, and all of a sudden, here comes this light on the dash. Suspended. And then you go to the menu and you click down, you scroll down, you find out why, oh, why? You go online to buy something, I'll just use Amazon, why not? You know, and then it says the estimated time of arrival will be maybe before the rapture, because we live in Hawaii. And But you go online and you, you know, you add it to your cart and you go to checkout and then you push, you know, complete checkout and buy it. And it says, no can, man, your account has been suspended temporarily because you're not in compliance. That's centralization. And they want to do that with medicine and money. together. Because see, if they don't do that, then they have no control over that. And if they have no control over that, then Revelation 13 shouldn't be in our Bibles. You have to have some sort of a biodigital mark, forehand, forehead, in allegiance and worship of the image of the beast in order to buy and sell. And this is a deliberate thing. You're not going to accidentally, Oh my goodness, I took the mark. What was I thinking? That will not happen. First of all, you won't be here. You better not be here. This is after the rapture. We'll talk more about the second service concerning what are affectionately known as the Tribulation Saints when it comes to this. Well, he ends this way. All I want to say to all of you is do not trust anybody who's centralized. I have an absolute disdain in my heart for centralized medicine and money because I know what they're capable of and you need to realize what they are capable of too. Well, We may know what they are capable of, but do we truly know what God is capable of? You know what God is capable of? Loving us so much that He would send His only begotten Son to die for us instead of us, to save us, who would believe in Him His name, His name is Jesus. And I don't know how else to say it, so I'm just going to say it. He's our only hope. He's our only way out of this. We ain't getting out of this, by the way. He's our only way out. And He promises He would take us out to that place that He prepared for us in His Father's house. And if it were not so, He would not have told us. He's coming to take us out. I can't wait. We call it the blessed hope. That's fine. I think though the The richness of its meaning can be lost because we have this conception of hope as, well, I sure hope. No, my hope is built on nothing less. It's not the blessed hope. It's my only hope. Jesus is my hope. He's my only, I have put all my hope in Him. And the Bible says repeatedly, those who put their trust and their hope in the Lord will never be disappointed, never be disappointed. Can I say one thing? I thought of this too late. I have to say it now. Our victory, our hope was never and will never be on an election Tuesday. Our hope has been and will always be on a resurrection Sunday. Someone needed to say that. I guess it was me. Is that true? Am I right? You put our hope In election Tuesday, I promise you on the authority of God's Word, you will be sorely disappointed. You put your hope in the Christ and resurrection Sunday, you'll never be disappointed. Well, this is how I'm going to bring it to an end. You can look at your watch again if you want. A couple more minutes. I'll explain how childlike simple it is to have the assurance of eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Talk about the basics of Bible prophecy, the simplicity of Bible prophecy. How about the simplicity of the gospel? I'm going to do so quickly with an explanation of salvation by way of what are known as the ABCs of salvation, which we've been doing for many years now, as you know. Again, this is not a formula. It's not a template. It's just a tool to equip you, should God ever profoundly privilege you with the opportunity to share Jesus with somebody who needs Jesus, by the way. And by the way, people need Jesus like never before. And where are they going to find Jesus? You might be the only Jesus they find. Are you ready to give an answer? If they ask you, what's different about you? You have hope. I want what you have. What's the reason for your hope, Jesus? Well, then I need Jesus. Well, it starts with acknowledging your need for Jesus. Because Jesus is the Savior. What's the Savior? Well, the Savior saves. You need to be saved. No, but I'm a good person. You might be a good person. You'd probably be gooder than me. I know gooder is not a word, but you'll never be good enough. There's no one good, no one righteous, not even one. And Romans 3 23 tells us why, it's because all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. We were all born sinners, which is why we must be born again to enter the kingdom of heaven. Here's how it works, Romans 6 23, because we've sinned, and broken God's law and fallen short of God's perfect standard of righteousness. Well, certainly there's going to be a penalty. We've missed the mark, which, by the way, is what the word sin means. It's an archery term. You missed the bullseye. Yeah, but I hit it nine out of 10 times. Doesn't matter. You break one of the 10 commandments, you've broken the whole law. You're a lawbreaker. Now you have to enter the penalty phase in the courtroom of eternity. How do you plead? Guilty. You've been found guilty. What's the sentence? The death sentence. That's the bad news. Here comes the good news. The wages of sin is death, bad news, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Good news. I love the picture. You'll forgive me for repeating it, but I just pictured this courtroom of the universe with the judge of all eternity. on the stand, and you've just been sentenced to death, and they're about to carry you off. And in walks a man, and he's no ordinary man. He's the God man. He's Jesus Christ. And he tells that judge to hold everything and stop. And he says to him, I'll die for him. I'll die for her. I'll die instead of him. Why? Because I love him. Because no greater love hath any man than he laid down his life for another. And the judge looks at you, because again, you know, he's a local judge, right? So you know what he says? He goes, oh, you're free to go. Your debt has been paid. And did you know that that's what the word gospel means? Your debt has been paid. You're free to go. You know that song, wonderfully anointed song. He owed a debt. He paid a debt he did not owe. We owed a debt we could not pay. So He paid our sin debt for us instead of us. What love is this? What love is this that He would love me so much that He would die for me? I love my family. I love you. Not that much though. My family though, I would die for them. I love them that much. Once you've acknowledged, once again, this is how it just kind of goes down, for lack of a better way of saying it. You've acknowledged that you've sinned, you've been sentenced to death. Now you've been offered this gift of eternal life. And then you put your trust in Him for the forgiveness of sins, because He's going to go to the cross and die for you and instead of you. And this is the B, and it's for believing your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord, for God so loved the world that whosoever would believe. And this isn't just, well, I believe in God. No, it's I, I'm putting my trust in Him. I'm putting all of my hope in Him. I believe in Him for the forgiveness of my sins. And then lastly, the C is for call upon the name of the Lord, or as Romans 10, Nine also says, if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will, I love that word, will be saved. Because the jury's not out. The verdict's in. Aren't you glad it doesn't say you might? Pretty good chance. We'll see. Not sure. Let's see how it goes. Oh, you will. Why? Because three words on the cross, last three words Jesus spoke. It is finished. Period. Please, I implore you, don't put a comma there. It is finished if. It is finished however. It is finished but. No, no, no, no. It is finished, done. And then Romans 10, 13 seals the deal. All who call upon the name of the Lord will be saved. Pastor, with all due respect, that is, that is too simple. Aren't you glad it's simple? Could you imagine if it was complicated? Who among us would be saved? What if we had to bring something to the table of our own salvation? I wouldn't be here. I don't think he would be here either. So don't look at me all spiritual like that. If our salvation depended upon us bringing something to the table of salvation, who among us would be saved? We do nothing. He did it all. And it's childlike simple. Lastly, Jesus said, unless you become like this little child, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. I think the thing that keeps people out of the kingdom of heaven is their pride and their unwillingness to humble themselves and become childlike in their trust. in Jesus Christ. I have a but God testimony today I've been really looking forward to sharing. Actually, I've been kind of hanging on to it, sitting on it for a while, for such a time as this, because I think it's going to be so apropos. It comes from Vince San Filippo, who writes, I wanted to forever thank you for your faith in Jesus Christ. I've been following you for many years and Always loved the but God testimonies. Well, now I have one. I recently got ordained in my church, Bible base, where the unapologetic gospel is preached. And towards the last part of my sermon, I used your ABCs. By the way, there's no copyright. I didn't even come up with them. I stole them. I use your ABCs of salvation as you have shared every week for years. And then my niece, who didn't know Jesus Christ, came up crying and gave her life to Jesus. My dear brother again, thank you for saying yes to Jesus Christ. And I know God is continuously blessing you and your beloved church. I too am in agreement. Keep this world. Give me my King so that I may sit and serve our Divine Master. God bless and Aloha always. Vince San Filippo. Come on up Kapona, why don't you stand up. Loving Father in heaven, we are just in awe of You, O God, who is like unto You, O God, there is no other. You alone are worthy of all of our praise. All the glory due Your holy name, O God. Your love for us, Jesus, Your death for us, Your gift to us of eternal life. I mean, where do we even start? What can we even say? Thank You. Lord, I thank you for Bible prophecy because it's a gauge for us. It's a measuring tape. It's a thermometer that tells us the temperature, how hot it's getting, how late it's getting. And as we see what's happening in the world, we know it's getting very late. And your return is very near. And Lord, I don't want anybody that is here in this church I'm so privileged to pastor, or watching online, to not be ready for when that trumpet sounds. So Lord, if they're not right with you, I pray, I ask, I plead with you, Jesus, that today would be the day of their salvation. so that they can know, as the Apostle John said, that they have eternal life. That their life has changed forever, starting today. Their eternal life started today. Our eternal life started the day we were born again. Please, Lord, and for those of us or just hanging on by a thread. I know You'll never let go of that thread. You'll never let us go. Please, Lord, strengthen and encourage those who are downcast. And lastly, Maranatha. Even so, Lord Jesus, come quickly. In Jesus' name, amen.