End Times In Church

Spirit, one God, Amen. We thank our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ always and forevermore for his infinite love, mercy, and kindness for giving us always the opportunity to be with you, our beloved, for another Bible Preach session. And I pray that all those who are watching us through live streaming, I pray that you are always in good health and in good spirit.

If I could ask everyone to stand for the Lord's Prayer. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one God, Amen. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us today our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgave our debtors, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.

Psalm 91. He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress, my God in him I will trust.

Surely he shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the perilous pestilence. He shall cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you shall take refuge. His truth shall be your shield and buckler.

You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day, nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday. A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand, but it shall not come near you. Only with your eyes you shall look and see the reward of the wicked, because you have made the Lord who is my refuge, even the Most High, your dwelling place.

No evil shall befall you, nor shall any plague come near your dwelling, for he shall give his angels charge over you to keep you in all your ways. In their hands they shall bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone. You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra, the young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot, because he has set his love upon me.

Therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him.

I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.

Amen. Please be seated. Our topic of this evening, the end times church, we're going to read from the book of Revelation chapter 3 verses 14 to 22.

Again the book of Revelation chapter 3 verses 14 to 22, and we will see what kind of of a church are we living in in the end of times. What has become of the church of Christ in the end of times? I wonder what has become of it. Revelation 3 14 to 22.

And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans writes, these things says the amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God. I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.

I could wish you were cold or hot. So then because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of my mouth. Because you say, I am rich, have become wealthy, and I have need of nothing, and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.

I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich and white garment, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed. And anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten.

Therefore be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with me.

To him who overcomes, I will grant to sit with me on my throne, as I also overcame and sat down with my father on his throne. He who has ear, he who has an ear, let him hear what the spirit says to the churches. In the book of Revelation, which is so relevant for the 21st century, our time and age, my beloveds, in the book of Revelation, when you read in chapter 2 and 3, you will see there are seven churches being mentioned in these two chapters, 2 and 3. However, the Lord Jesus, his church is one, and we believe in one, holy, apostolic, universal church.

One, because the church is the body of Christ. She is the bride of the groom of the heavenly groom, Christ the king. So the Lord has only one church, but how come he is mentioning seven? John the Beloved, in the book of Revelation, is telling us that the only church of Christ, the only bride of Christ, is going to go through seven different stages from the beginning of her birth until the end, the second coming of the Lord, where he will take his bride, the church, without a blame, without a blemish, perfect, and bring her into the father's house, where we will live with our God, Jesus Christ, our groom, our heavenly groom, for eternities to come.

Seven stages. All the names are of Greek descent. The words are, they come from a Greek language.

It begins with Ephesus and it ends with Laodicea. Ephesus means the beloved. Laodicea, it is a compounded word, two words in one.

Laos means nation. Dykia, veered off the road. In the beginning, the Lord Jesus says, my church is my beloved.

In the end, my church has veered off the road, denied Jesus, denied Jesus. And this is the cry in the wilderness of this world. Where is the church of Christ? Where are the leaders? Well, in these verses, we see why the church is so weak.

You only live once, my dear friend, and I choose not to die a coward. I choose not to die a coward, because my God, my Savior, my Redeemer is Jesus Christ, the sovereign authority over every king and ruler of the world. You can kill the flesh, but you cannot touch the spirit.

The Lord Jesus, when he was hanging on the cross, he said, father, into your hand, I commit my spirit. Where did the Lord place his spirit? Into the hand of his heavenly father. And the Lord Jesus said it, no one can take anything away from my father's hand.

And then the following verse, he says, I and the father are one, meaning he is God. And no one can snatch nothing out of the hand of God. In the hand of Jesus Christ, I commit my spirit.

The church of Laodicea, the nation who has veered off the road and walked away. Why have we veered off the road, my beloved? I'll tell you, I wish I had more time. I wish.

But God willing, we'll continue next time, if we can't finish it in this evening. If I ask any one of us, if I ask any one of us, what is the definition of God? Well, God is way, way beyond our intellectual capacity. God is way, way beyond our entire wisdom put together.

God is the infinite wisdom, the infinite source of light, the infinite love, the infinite mercy. He cannot fully be comprehended. It is impossible.

However, to come down to my, you know, my new intellectual capacity and my weak human level, I will say the following definition. God is love and humility. God is love and humility.

God is love and humility. Love is to do with knowledge. Humility is to do with wisdom.

You see, what leads to love is knowledge. I cannot claim that I love someone I do not know. I can only love someone that I know.

I get to know the person, then I am able to love the person. What leads to love is knowledge, but what leads to wisdom is humility, my beloveds. And that is why, when you read in the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of John, the Lord Jesus, when he's talking about the church, the house, in the Gospel of Matthew, in the Gospel of John, he says, my father's house is a house of prayer, but you have turned it into a marketplace, buying and selling.

In the Gospel of John chapter 2, he says, my father's house is a house of prayer, but you, who is you? The church leaders. That's what he's referring to, the church leaders, but you have turned it into a marketplace, buying and selling. And then in the Gospel of Matthew, the Lord Jesus says, my house, not the father's, my house is the house of prayer, but you, again, church leaders, have turned it, not a marketplace, a den of thieves.

You have turned it into a den of thieves. In the Gospel of John, my father's house is the house of prayer, but you've turned it into a marketplace, buying and selling. And in the Gospel of Matthew, my house, I, Jesus Christ, my house is the house of prayer, but you have turned it into a den of thieves.

Now, a den, my beloved, is a place where lions live, and lion in the Holy Bible, in the epistle of Saint Peter, refers to Satan. Lion devours and kills. It is a den of thieves.

My father's house is to do with love. My house, I, Jesus Christ, is to do with glory. What is in the father's house? What should be vividly present in the church of Christ? Two things, love and glory.

They should be present at all times in the church of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Love, father's house. Glory, Christ's house.

Love, knowledge, glory. What is the glory of Christ? Well, the mother of the sons of Zebedee, James and John, she came to the Lord Jesus when the Lord was talking to them, and he said, very soon I'll be handed over to authorities. I'll be persecuted and prosecuted, and I'll be sentenced to death.

I'll be crucified. I will die, but I will rise from the dead on the third day, because it is written about me. She, the mother, out of love and concern for her children, like every mother out there, is concerned for the well-being of her children.

She came to the Lord Jesus begging him. She said, Lord, before you go, please, can you guarantee my two sons a position in your kingdom? Can you put my two sons, one on either side of you, right and left, in your glory? Can you put my sons on either side of you in your glory? The mother, poor mother, she was not fathoming what she was really saying, but the Lord looked at her heart and saw she meant well. Her intention was good.

A good mother caring and worrying about her kids. He said, women, and he turned to the disciples. He said, can you, can you be baptized with the baptism of mine, and can you drink the cup that I am about to drink? All of them, they said yes.

He said, my baptism you shall take on you, and the cup that I'm about to drink, you will drink also, but to put you on either side of me in my glory, it is, it is not mine, but the father who has sent me, but my father who has sent me. What is the glory of Jesus Christ? The cross, my beloved, the cross, that is his glory. So he was literally saying to that woman, a mother, a concerned mother, he said, women, if I grant you your wish, then your sons will have to be crucified on either side of me.

I won't let that happen. I'll do it my way, not your way, but I will give you your wish, but my way, Jesus, and the reason I'm going to give it my way, because I saw there was love in your heart, woman, for your children, and truly Jesus did it, because he is God, never fails, and he put number one was James. He was the first martyr to be beheaded in Jerusalem for the name of Jesus Christ, and John the beloved, the gospel writer, the epistle, and the revelation writer.

He was sentenced in exile to an island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea in Greece called Petmos, and he died a natural death there. James the first to go, and John the last to leave out of the 12 apostles. He put James and John on either side of him, but his way, not the way the woman was thinking the glory of Jesus Christ, otherwise they would have been crucified and counted as thieves and robbers on either side of the Lord.

So what is the glory of Jesus? The cross, and what is the father's house? Love. Why? When it comes to love, the Lord Jesus said, you have made it, you have made my father's house a place of, a marketplace, buying and selling. Very simple, because you do not buy something you do not love.

You will only buy what you love, isn't it my beloved? So when it comes to love, there is buying and selling, because why would I buy something I don't love? And when you're buying something, you are dealing with money. You're what? Dealing with money. Revelation 3 17.

No wonder the church is so weak. No wonder the church is so weak. Revelation 3 17.

Look what the Lord is talking, is saying to the shepherd of Laodicea church. He's not talking to the sheep, he's talking to the shepherd. The Lord Jesus deals with the shepherds, not the sheep.

But unfortunately, the shepherds of the end of time church are weak. Revelation 3 17. Because you say, the Lord is talking here to the to the shepherd of the church of Laodicea, because you say, I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.

Who is talking? God is talking to the shepherds of the end of time church. You guys are saying to me that you are rich, and you've become wealthy, and you are in need of no one. Of course, because Caiaphas once again has come alive in the end of times, and said, we don't want Jesus Christ of Nazareth to be king over us.

We want Caesar, Satan to be king over us. No wonder the Holy Spirit has been handcuffed, and is not able to work in such a rebellious church. A church that has sold Jesus Christ for 30 pieces of silver.

Judas Iscariot is among us in the hundreds and the thousands, but I will not be sold, and I will not be bought, Jesus says. The Lord of lords, and the King of kings, and I'm not talking about every leader. Everyone knows themselves very well, but above all, Jesus Christ knows us more than anyone else, including ourselves.

There are some great leaders still in the church, priests, bishops, cardinals, and great leaders, but unfortunately, they have been suppressed, they have been ridiculed, they have been persecuted, and they have been deposed from the church, the moment they speak the truth. I fear nothing, and fear no one. The church in the end of time, it is le'odikia, we are living in the end of times, and what we are seeing around us on a global level, it is nothing short, but evil in its core.

So-called pandemics, repent before it is too late. A day is coming, every human being on the face of this planet, regardless your race, regardless your color, regardless your ethnicity, regardless of your religious background, every human being, a day will come, you will have to face your creator, and give an account to everything you've done and said, and what have you done for him, when he calls you and say, give me an account of what I've given to you, I've made you a steward, and I've given you my property, my possession, and I said, look after it, what have you done with what I have entrusted you with, where is it? What are we gonna say? I just wonder, what are we gonna say? There is one true divine God, that has created everything that is visible and invisible, and this God, for me, is no one but Jesus Christ of Nazareth, all glory, and worship, and hallelujah to his holy name. The church in the end of times, their God became money.

The love that has to be one pillar on this side in the church of God, that love is supposed to be given to God, no one else, but we have given that love back to people, the creation, and we've forgotten the creator. So, we loved and worshipped our leaders, and we said, it is them and no one else, we forgot that Jesus Christ is the only one that is worthy of worship, and glory, and thanksgiving. We started worshipping people, not God.

We started loving leaders, not Jesus Christ, who is God in the flesh. No wonder the church is in ruin, and turmoil, and division. The love has to be given to God, the father, not to us, and not to no one else.

No matter how high or low they are, how big or small, how powerful or weak they are, the love is supposed to be given to God, the father. We started buying and selling in the name of God. We turned the house of Jesus' father into a marketplace, and what did the Lord Jesus do? He overturned all their tables, and he said, out of my father's house, for my father's house is a house of prayer, but you have turned it into a marketplace.

Back then, my beloveds, when they used to bring a sheep to offer it as a to Yahweh, the God of the Israelites people, poor people, that sheep, same sheep. You see, the temple had its own sheep. They had their own shepherds.

Those shepherds who were minding the sheep, when you read in the gospel of Luke and others, you know, those shepherds who were minding their sheep at night time, they were the shepherds minding the sheep of the temple. So someone is not very rich. Give us our daily bread on a day-by-day basis.

I can't, I don't have much money in my pocket. So if you bought exactly the same sheep outside, probably you would have bought it. I'm just giving an example.

Probably, let's say you would have bought it for one shekel or that currency of the time, shekel or one denarii. But if you buy the sheep from the temple that belongs to the temple, you'll have to pay 10 shekels. Why? Because the high priest prayed over it.

This is holy. This sheep is blessed, my friend. This sheep is blessed because so-and-so, this leader and that leader have prayed on the sheep.

It is worth 10 shekels. When you slain the sheep, which Caiaphas prayed over, God will forgive all your sins. Are you joking or are you joking? Which one is it? So this poor guy knows nothing.

Well, when a church leader says something, of course, I'm going to obey because the sheep cannot do nothing but follow the shepherd. In fact, my beloved, I'll give you a piece of information. A sheep has no sense of direction.

So when a sheep gets lost, cannot find its way back. But sorry to say this, but I don't mean it in any way wrong or bad. But when a dog loses its way, it can find it back again.

The dog sniffs and goes back where it came from. But a sheep cannot find its way once it's lost. That's why the Lord Jesus gave us the parable in the gospel of Luke chapter 15 and said, the good shepherd went out searching for the lost sheep in the wilderness.

Why? Because the sheep has no sense of direction. So the sheep got lost in the desert, could not find its way back. And another thing, the sheep, the moment hears the sound of the wolf, it freezes in its place and becomes like a statue out of fear.

The sheep, the moment hears the sound of the wolf, becomes a statue out of fear. Tells the wolf, come and eat me and devour me. Can't move anymore.

A sheep without the shepherd is lost and dead. But the Lord Jesus said it, my beloved, when the multitudes gathered around him and he was preaching to them for three days. And after three days, he realized they were hungry.

And he said to his disciples, you know, and he said, I need to release them because they are hungry. But the reason why I came and preached to you for three days nonstop, because I showed compassion toward you, my sheep, since I put shepherds to shepherd you. But those shepherds turned out to be hirelings.

They were there for wages. They were not there for my sheep since I put shepherd. But they came to be false shepherds.

Then I, Jesus Christ, the good shepherd, came and looked after you myself. Today exactly it is happening in our time and age. The very shepherds which the Lord Jesus has placed in his church have falsified the truth and have drifted away from the truth.

Because they said, now we are rich. We became wealthy and we are not in need of no one, including God. We are God on earth.

And that is why the sheep are hungry and lost. There is only one that is the head of the church, Jesus Christ. All of us are hopeless servants.

It is out of the mercy out of the love and the compassion of our Lord Jesus Christ that he placed someone like me and called me a shepherd. But this shepherd, when Jesus put me here, that does not mean I can do whatever I want. No.

I can only do what my Jesus tells me to do. The moment I walk away from the Lord, I have destroyed the flock and I have brought turmoil and division and chaos into the church of Christ. We are all followers.

Christianity is about followers, not leadership. There is only one leader, Jesus. And all of us, from the highest rank to the lowest, are nothing but followers of the only good shepherd, who is the head and the only head of the church.

My beloveds, that love, that divine love, which we were supposed to give it back to God the Father, we gave it. And we made people to give it to us as leaders. Don't worry, my dear friend.

The Lord Jesus gave me the keys and he said, whatever you loosen on earth, it is loosened on in heaven. And whatever you tie on earth, it is loosened, it is tied in heaven. Excuse me.

But based on what the Lord Jesus said it, based on him, on his word, which is the truth, the Holy Bible, any shepherd that loses and ties things outside the word of Christ is a false leader. He's not telling you the truth. He's lying to you.

When did the Lord Jesus give the keys to Simon Peter? We need to read the Holy Bible, my beloveds. When the Lord Jesus was with the 12 apostles in the last supper, the Passover, where the Lord got up in that night and he said, this bread is truly my body and this wine is truly my blood. And he said to them, it is written about me that the shepherd shall be striked and the sheep will be scattered.

It is written about me, the Lord is referring to the Old Testament. He is referring to the prophecies of the Old Testament. And what is the prophecy? It is the word of God.

God cannot lie, my beloveds. So the Lord said, it is written about me. It is prophesied.

It is the word of God that is written in the Old Testament that I, the shepherd, the good shepherd shall be striked. I'll be crucified. And you sheep, you, my apostles, you'll be scattered out of fear.

Simon got up and said, Lord, if all of these, meaning his brothers, the other apostles, if all of them deny you, I will not deny you. The Lord, you know, in a nice way said, Simon, you're talking too big of a word. It is bigger than you.

You can't handle what you're saying, my dear Simon. Relax. Take it easy, brother.

Yo, bro. Take it easy. Simon didn't get it.

He gave Jesus our Lord no choice but to say to him, Simon, you've pushed your luck, my dear friend. I'm telling you tonight before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times. And Simon did.

When the Lord rose from the dead, he called Simon Peter. He said, Simon, son of Jonah, come here. I'm wondering what was Simon thinking? He said, Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me? Simon got the shock of his life.

He was thinking that now, since Jesus is calling me to him, he is gonna wipe the floor with me. He's gonna chop me to smithereens. He's gonna put me to shame in front of everyone because he's gonna remind me what I said a couple of days ago at the last supper.

I promised Jesus that I'm with you till death and I failed. I denied him not before a Roman soldier. I denied him before a woman.

And I denied his divinity and humanity. And I swore I do not know this man. Yet in Matthew 16, he said, you are Jesus Christ, son of the living God.

He denied, he acknowledged in Matthew 16, Jesus Christ, both his divinity and humanity. And before a woman, he denied his divinity and humanity. Where is your promise? So when Simon heard from the Lord Jesus saying to him, Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me? He was shocked, totally unexpected.

He said, Lord, I thought you were gonna put me to shame. I thought you were gonna judge me. I thought you were gonna chop me.

Do I love you? Lord, you know that I love you. The Lord repeated it three times. And three times Simon said, Lord, you know that I love you.

In the last supper, my beloved, Simon said, I am with you, Lord. In the last supper, Simon put himself before the Lord. And anyone, any church leader, and any government, and any human being that put themselves before God, they have to fall and must fall.

Because no one comes before God, no one. No one has, no one will ever be able to. And anyone who tries to be before God, that being must fall.

Satan was an angel in heaven. He tried to put himself before God. He failed and fell from the highest level to the lowest level, from a beautiful angel to an ugly, foul spirit.

So Simon in the last supper said, I, then Jesus. And when anyone put themselves before the Lord, they must be put to shame and fall. Simon learned the lesson.

After resurrection, Simon come here. Do you love me? Simon said, hang on. In the last supper, I said, I am with you.

I was afraid and denied you before a woman, not a Roman soldier. I learned my lesson, Lord. Lord, you know that I love you.

The cycle was reversed. Now it is you first. I learned my lesson, Lord.

But I learned it the hard way, but it doesn't matter. As long as I've learned it, it is okay. Lord, you know that I love you.

Then Jesus gave the keys to Simon. Because a shepherd, a leader in the church that put himself before Jesus Christ must fall and destroys the sheep. But a true shepherd is the one who puts Christ first, then him.

Because I only get my strength. I only get my wisdom. I only get my energy.

I only get my food. I only get my life and my glory and everything from Jesus Christ of Nazareth. No one else.