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ENTRY & END TIMES | The Second Coming | Matthew 24:29-31 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
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You could be seated. Family. At the end of proclamation, we normally leave and go out to the parking lot. But starting today, I want to ask everybody, after proclamation is over, to sit still. And we're gonna sing over you one stanza so that the word of God can just soak in your heart. Because we realize you hear proclamation, you leave and the enemy comes and try to snatch that word from you. So starting today, every Sunday, I'm going to ask that we do something different. That when proclamation has come to an end, that we don't try to beat each other to the parking lot, we all going to get out, but that you sit there or you stand there and let us sing over you the word of the Lord, that we can wash your soul one last time and water that seed that's been poured out in your heart. And then after we have sang over you and watered that seed, we'll pray and we'll let you go. Can we do that as a family? We thank God for the proclamation of his word that is not chained to my mouth. We thank him for faithful gospel communicators like Elder Eric and Lynell Williams. We thank you for the proclamation of God's word. We honor these men that are proclaiming God's word. And today I've returned to you as we're in the final chapters, the final sessions of our series called Entry and End Times. So if you are guest to 2819, we welcome you and to all of our digital disciples watching live right now across the nation and around the world, we welcome you to 2819 where we are serious about the spread of the gospel and the multiplying of disciples. We know that time is running out and we want to be a church on mission for the Lord Jesus Christ. And if you are not a follower of Christ, sitting in this room in the overflow, watching across this camera, our prayers that you would hear the call of God, you would hear the spirit of God wooing you to himself, and that you would come into this family, not just 2819, but the family of God globally, before time has run out. Today our text is coming From Matthew, chapter 24, 3, verses 29 and 31. We title this message the Second Coming Spirit of the Living God. We feel your presence in this room and across that camera. We don't know how much time we have left. And Lord, I'm crying out to you in private and in public for a mass awakening in our church in this nation and around the world. I'm crying out to you, Lord, for revival, turning away of men from the ways of the world towards the ways of the kingdom. We are fighting God on every front to prepare a generation for your coming. I pray that this word would not fall on deaf ears, but it would fall God Lord, on listening ears and good ground and bear fruit thirty, sixty and a hundredfold. Help me in my weakness exalt, lift up the Savior, proclaim this Word, give us stamina for teaching, move on our hearts, Trouble the atheists and awaken the Son and daughter. We ask in the mighty and the majestic and the matchless name of our soon coming King, the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and Amen. And Amen. Family On Wednesday of this week I was aboard an eight hour flight returning home from doing the Lord's work in London and reading the words of Christ that we approach today. In this passage I put my head down on that little fold down tray and I just burst into tears as I was reading this passage on the plane. And I wept bitterly on that plane as I considered this passage. As I thought about all of the vain activity of the church in the UK and the church in the United States of America and the church around the world that's disconnected from this text that we're going to read today. I wept bitterly on that plane as I thought about all of the activities of believers in the US and in the UK and all across the world that are living lives disconnected from what we're going to read today in this text. I thought about all of our motions and all of our ministry and all of our Sunday morning gatherings and all of our Christian living that's disconnected from the consciousness of this day we're going to read about right here in this text. And I thought about all of the millions and millions of people who I left in the UK and here in the United States and around the world that's going to be swept away in eternal wrath and judgment, not prepared for the day we're going to read about in this text like those who get caught in a flood and was not expecting that flood. I'm talking about that day, that great second day, that great second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, that prophetic warning to all human beings that the Lord is going to return. I'm talking about the day that's going to bring life as we know it to an end. I'm talking about the day when the Lord will come and settle the account of every single person. I'm talking about the day when when all of our deeds will be brought into the light. I'm talking about the day when everything will change for humanity forever. Hear me, I'm talking about that day that is not that far away right now. I'm talking about a day that I believe we may see in our lifetime. Now, it's not uncommon for us to prepare for special days, right? You think about graduation and you prepare for it. You think about your wedding day and you prepare for it. But for whatever reason, in this era, we have people called Christians who live lives and act like this day is not coming. And so our preaching is not preparing us for this day. Our churches are not preparing us for this day. Your little whack devotionals are not preparing you for this day. Your little whack podcasts are not preparing you for this day. You're not listening to biblical teachers that are preparing you for this day. We're not listening to people that setting our affections on Christ and preparing us for this day. And yet it is in this text right now, we approach one of the most important and significant prophetic events on God's table. A day that nobody's going to escape. A day that it is coming. You remember the setting, how Christ was in the final days of his earthly life, that by the time we come to this text, he is only a few days away of being nailed to a cross for your sins and for mine. It is his followers who are concerned about the end times. Come to him and ask him questions about the end times and the end of the age and the sign of his coming. And it was Christ not wanting them and you to be unprepared or to be ignorant of that time. He begins to prophesy to them about the future atmosphere of the world. Just before he put in his appearance the very last time. He talked to them about wars and rumors of wars. He talked to them about famines and, and pestilence and earthquakes in various places. He talked to them that in the time before he came, hear me, there will be a rise of false prophets and false teachers and false Christs and false messiahs. He talked about there will be a rise of hostility towards Christianity and the believers. He talked about global proclamation. He said all these signs will come to pass before the end. And then in this text, we approach the very last sign that humanity will receive just before that great second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. It was Matthew, the eyewitness of the ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ, who recorded for us the ending of those signs. Who was standing there on that day listening to Christ prophesy these future events, These events. Hear me that I think we are very close to in our lifetime. It's why I cry all around the nation for us to be awakened, because time is running out on us. Matthew records the prophetic words of Christ about the final sign that men will receive in these last days before his return. In Matthew chapter 24 and beginning in verse 29, Matthew recorded these prophetic words of Christ. He said, immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven and the powers plural of the heavens plural will be shaken. So although we do not know the exact day and time that Christ will appear, he from his own mouth punctuates the time in which he will return back to the earth. He said he will return. Watch this word immediately after the great tribulation period. What tribulation is he talking about? What days is he talking about? He's talking about everything he prophesied from verse 4 through verse 28. Hear me that the Lord did prophesy in the first century that a time is coming and I believe in our lifetime in which the church, the American church, the global church, will be raptured out of the world. And then after we're raptured out, according to Thessalonians, the man of sin will be revealed in the Antichrist. The scripture tells us he will sign a seven year peace treaty with the nation of Israel to protect them from their enemies. In the middle of that seven year treaty, at the three and a half year mark, he will break that peace treaty. He will move to Jerusalem. He will go into the rebuilt temple. He will set up an idol unto himself. It will be a talking idol, perhaps AI technology. And he will cause the whole world to worship him as God. It is called the abomination of desolation. He will desecrate the temple and at that point in time, he will then unleash his fury to kill all the Jews and all the people who worship God in those last days. God at that point, because of that event, will then execute the full wrath and his force from heaven pouring out on the earth what the writer of Revelation called bows and woes and vials and trumpets. And there will be great natural disasters in the earth. Mighty earthquakes, meteorites striking the earth, water turn into blood, people dying by the billions, men suffering so bad, the scripture says they will cry out for death and not find death. And those of us right now who are live playing church, playing conference man if the rapture happens, husband will be here, wife will be Left. Children will be here. Parents will be left. For those who are playing with Christ now, reject Christ now. Should the Rapture happen in a lifetime, they will enter into that seven year tribulation that God says he was going to spare us from that wrath to come. Now, the Lord said, watch the text. Immediately after that seven years, as soon as it has come to an end, he will appear. Watch. And at his glorious coming. Look at what happens in the earth. He said the sun will go dark. Pause. This mighty gas giant that lights not only the Earth, but the entire solar system. He said the entire sun will go black. The molecules and the heat boiling in the sun that gives you light when you get outside in the parking lot will go completely black. The power of Christ is so strong, he'll turn off the sun like a night light. The sun will go black. When the sun go black, temperature will change. People will be running for fear. People will be in the dark. There will be a thick darkness that covers the Earth. Because the moon is only a reflector of the sun. Just like you are only a reflector of the sun. Right? The moon will not give its light. Then he said, the stars will fall from heaven. Pay attention to the text. The stars that we look at are gas giants. And some of them are planets like Venus, the only planet we can see in our solar system. Everybody watch your text. He said when he comes, the stars will fall from heaven. That is right. Now everything is being held together by the power of Christ. Right. You only know the sun is going to rise tomorrow because of the power of Christ. You know the moon is going to come out tonight because the power of Christ. We could protect solar system and eclipse because of the order in the solar system. Only because of the power of Christ. Christ is so powerful, he holds all things together. The writer to Colossians says in him all things consist. Watch. But when Christ comes, he will display such power. Watch. He will loosen his grip from the universe. And then the universe will be in complete chaos. Planets will begin to move out of its orbit. Giant lights will go off in the dark. Stars will be flying through the solar system. There will be crashes in the solar system. Watch. It will be blackness on the earth. Men will be tired. Men will be weary. Men will be dying. Men will be afraid. There will be great cataclysmic cosmic signs in the sky and in the earth. Luke the gentile doctor writing the parallel text about the second coming of Christ. He tells us the condition of men's heart when this day comes, this one day that scientists will not be able to explain. Luke tells us in Luke chapter 21 and beginning in verse 25. And there will be signs in the sun and the moon and the stars and on the earth. What will be on the Earth? Watch the word distress. Of what America know of the uk? No, of what nations will be in distress. And there will be perplexity because of the roaring of the sea that will no longer stay in place and the waves that will no longer stay in place. Watch. Verse 26. People fainting with fear. You know what that is? People dying from fear. When the sun goes black, the moon goes black, and the stars are flying through the galaxy and the waves are out of control and every nation is dealing with global blackness. Luke tells us, in that day, men will be so afraid they will die. Not from some asteroid. Fear will cause their heart to stop. That day will be so dreadful, so terrifying that some people will actually drop dead because of fear. Cardiac arrest from the terror of knowing something is happening in the sky that they cannot explain. They will die from foreboding of what is coming. They will sense something is coming out the sky. And some people will just drop dead from fear. They will drop dead not knowing what's happening. Watch. And in that day, everybody watch. All of the nations of the world, their eyes are going to be fixed on the sky. Every nation on the planet, world governments are going to be trying to figure out what's happening. And in that day, everybody's eyes will be glued to the sky. This is not uncommon for humanity. For every time we tell humanity there is an eclipse coming, you go buy your little glasses, come on, you go buy your little glasses and at the same time we all be gazing at the stars. And in this day, everybody watch. All of humanity will be staring at the sky. And then now that God has everyone's attention in the darkness, God, this is so powerful. Now that the world is black and God has every man and woman's attention, then the next verse will prophetically happen on that day. Verse 30 then will appear in heaven the sign some light would appear in heaven and everybody will see it. Some glorious cosmic something will appear in the sky and every person will see it. In America, we'll see it. In South America, we'll see it. In Europe, they'll see it. In the Far east, in Russia they'll see it. And everybody will be gazing in a blackness at this brilliant light in the sky. And what is the sign that the whole world is going to see on this dreadful and glorious day? Jesus tells us so you don't have to figure it out. They will see the sign of the Son of Man. Watch this coming on the clouds the same way he left. For the scripture says he will return the same way he left Acts one He leaves in the clouds. Jesus prophesies he will return on the clouds and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven. With what? With power, Jesus and great glory. Watch. The Lord will prepare every human to see the this last solar eclipse. But it will not be a planet, it will not be a star. It will be the S O N who turned off the S U N and caused the whole world to fix their gaze above. And he will break the sky. He will return with power and glory. It will be thunder, it will be lightning. It will be visible, it will be audible. It will be dreadful. And the scripture says all of the tribes of the earth, they will mourn. Why? Because on that day there will be no more arguments about theology. Y' all don't want me to go there. We arguing right now. Is Jesus God? Is Muhammad God? Is Buddha God? Listen, I'm telling you right now, I don't care what nobody say, on that day we will be in agreement in our theology. On that day, we will be in perfect agreement about our theology. For the Muslim will know that Jesus was the son of God. The atheists will know that Jesus was the Son of God. The Buddhists will know that Jesus is the son of God. The Hindu will know that Jesus is the son of God. And everybody that rejected him played church, played conference, ran to some other religion following a false Messiah, they're going to know that Jesus is the Son of God. We can argue right now about theology. Will be no arguments on that day. On that day we will know that Christ was the son of God. Is the Son of God. The coming Son of God. The reigning Son of God. The glorious Son of God. The powerful Son of God. Watch this word. The only. The only. Somebody shout. Only the only Son of God. Watch. And the tribes of the earth are going to mourn. Why? The scripture tells us the people who pierced him in the first century, they're going to see him. The Jews that rejected him, they're going to see him. The people living right now doing church and not saved, they're going to see him. All of y' all running to conferences and not saved. You're going to see him. All of y' all reading your little whack devotions, but you don't read the Bible and are not saved. You're going to see him. All of those who think I got time to get right, they're going to seek him. People who died thinking they were stuck out, thinking they're going to have enough ice to keep them warm in the afterlife, they're going to seek him. People who think they gangster now and think they thugged out now and think they're stronger than Christ now, they're going to see him. Everybody that said later for Christ, I get right next year and die in their sin on that day. Hear me? That I think will happen in our lifetime. There's going to be great. Watch this word mourning. You know what that is? Watch this word sorrow. Watch this word late repentance. Watch out. There will be no second chance on that day. For when Christ cracks the sky. Watch this. Everyone's fate will be sealed. He will separate real believers from fake believers. Matthew 25, I'm coming for you in a couple weeks. He will separate those who who was doing this for real and those who was not doing this for real. He will separate husbands and wives. He will separate siblings. He will separate nations. He's going to put his true children on the right, the hand of favor and his fake people on the left. Those who will be damned. It will be glorious. I feel this in my spirit. It will be powerful. I feel this in my spirit. It will be dreadful. But for those who get saved during the tribulation, watch for them, it will be glorious. They're going to see Christ coming. And watch this. They're going to feel like their redemption is nigh. They're going to see Christ coming. They're going to say, yes, we're about to be rescued. They would have been in the tribulation. They would have heard the gospel from the 144,000 Jewish evangelists, from the everlasting Angel. They're going to see Christ coming. They're going to come out of hiding. They're going to say yes. They're going to want to go meet him. They're going to be like, yes, he's coming. Watch. And for you and I, who would have been raptured, I believe you're sitting like man. We're going to miss the party. We're going to miss the show. I hear you. I want to see his coming too. Family, isn't the Bible your scriptures that says for the believer watch it. To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord, right? So if the scriptures don't lie, anybody that dies in Christ now or will be raptured, then will we not be present with the Lord that wherever he is, will we not be? Watch. So if I believe the rapture happens before the tribulation, Watch. And the tribulation lasts seven years. Watch. We will be what the scripture calls at the marriage supper of the Lamb. Watch. Culture. The Jewish wedding lasted seven days. The tribulation will last seven years. We will be at that table eating wine and grapes and figs, receiving our rewards. And then the Lord will say, it's time to row. Now, if to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord, watch. Watch. Then wherever the Lord is, you must be there also. So if he's coming on the clouds and to be absent with the bodies to be present with the Lord, that means you must be there also. Is there any biblical evidence for that? Paul. John. Paul writes Colossians, chapter three, verse four. Watch the text. When Christ, who is your life, what's the word? Appears. Oh, my God, I feel heat in the room. When Christ, who is your life, watch. This word appears. Watch. Then you also will appear with him. Where? In glory. He's coming from glory. You will be with him coming from glory. Preacher, that sounds crazy. John wrote Revelation chapter 19 about the same day. Verse 11. This is heat. Then I saw heaven open and behold a white horse. And the one sitting on it is called Faithful and True. And in righteousness he judges and he makes war. Man, I said that on an interview. And some punk said, man, that preacher don't read his Bible. Jesus is coming back to make love. No, you don't read your Bible. The scripture says he's coming back to make war. He's going to be in the war of Armageddon. He's going to destroy the armies that come against Israel. Now watch. His eyes are like a flame of fire. And on his head are many diadems, which is crowns. And he has a name that is written that no one knows. Watch this. He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood. And the name by which he is called is the Word of God. He is the Word of God. I can't hear Jesus. Read. I can't hear God. Read. I want a prophetic word. Read. I want to know the Lord's voice. Read, Read, read, read. That's why you love prophets, because you don't read. I want to hear Jesus for myself. Read. He is called what? The Word of God. Now watch this next part. And the armies of heaven arrayed in fine linen white. He's talking about you. And pure were following him on white horses. Family angels don't wear white linen. Who's coming out of heaven with Christ? You are all those who was raptured by before the tribulation, man. When Christ is going to ride out on his horse and ride behind him, you're going to ride out on your horse, right, whoa. You going to ride out right behind the Lord Jesus. You're going to be coming from glory with the Lord Jesus. Lace up your bootstraps, get your backpack on. It's time to ride, ride, ride, ride. In white linen. We go right out behind Christ. Somebody give him praise in this house. Ride, ride, ride, ride. Somebody shout, right, whoa. We go ride out behind Christ. The armies of heaven, did he not call you an army on the earth? Did not Paul write to Timothy and said, no person enlisted in the army in warfare engages themselves, entangles themselves with the affairs of this life. You know how powerful it's going to be after you finish all of your holy bread and sip your holy wine. The Lord gets on his horse and said, the Father has said now. And you hop on your horse and we know he's coming to set up his eternal kingdom for a thousand years. And he's going to reign, and we're going to reign with him. And you're going to be on your horse, riding out from heaven, coming from above, down, looking at the earth that is begging for Christ to return in linen, white and pure. For where he is, you will be also. What you gonna name your horse? I'm gonna name my horse Onyx. Somebody gonna name their horse Glory. You're gonna name your horse Mercy. I'm gonna name my horse Redeemed. I'm gonna name my horse Saved. I'm gonna name my horse Justified. I'm gonna name my horse Sanctified. I' ma name my horse Rescued. I'm gonna name my horse Glory. I'm gonna name my horse Hallelujah. Somebody give him praise in this house right now. Wow. My God. Are you worried about a car? You got a heavenly horse with your name on it. That when the Lord comes in power and great glory, they will see Christ, they will see you, they will see me. I can't speak for all y' all because some of y' all play in church, but I'm going to be there. Watch. When he found me, he said, follow me. And when he rise up from heaven, I'll be following him. Last verse. And when he returns, who will be his priority? What will be his priority? Verse 31. And he will send out his angels this is so powerful to me. With a loud trumpet, which is the Jewish sound to get ready. His. His return will be visible. His return will be audible. His return will be dreadful. His return will be glorious. And he will send out his angels, his gatherers, with a trumpet call. And they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Look. Watch. There will be people who will be saved during the tribulation. I'm about to shut it down. They would have survived the Antichrist persecution and death. And when the Lord comes, he's going to deal with his enemies straightway. But then he will see his sons and daughters all around the world hiding and looking and waiting. And in this moment, watch. Everybody will know who was the real Christ. Right? So this is a prophetic warning for everyone alive right now who call themselves Christ Christ. Because Christ is not on the earth. He will come from the sky. This is a prophetic warning for everybody following in a cult of false Christ. For he is not on the earth. He will come from the sky. This is a prophetic warning for everybody who don't want nothing to do with Christ. This is a prophetic warning for everybody that don't want nothing to do with the Gospel. This is a prophetic warning for everybody who rejects God. He's going to come and watch. Watch, Watch, watch, watch. This is the prophetic warning. Look at me. For everybody who preached a false doctrine of inclusion that says everybody will be saved. The devil is a lie. Hear me. I said it today. Everybody will not be saved. There will be billions of people who thought they were Christians in damnation sitting in churches right now playing church. Far away from God will be in hell. He is not coming for everyone. The doctrine of inclusion is a lie and a heresy. He's only coming for who? His elect, the redeemed, Those who were saved by faith and grace alone. Now look at me in light of all I just read. Look right at me in view of everything I just read to you. Look at me. Not the words of Philip Anthony Mitchell. Stop that nonsense. We worship one man and one man only. These are the words. Look at me. Of the one you call Lord and Savior. Therefore, since he cannot lie, we know that this prophecy will come to pass. Hear me. And I believe it is right around the corner. Now here is the question for everyone under my sound of my voice. How should you respond in view of the fact that this day is coming? Because the Scripture teaches us to set our affections on things above the Scripture teaches us to live with a Consciousness of this day. It is. Listen, it is crazy Christianity to be doing this life and not thinking about this day. Let me help you. Do you know when you understand the end, it changes the way you live right now. When a person knows they're gonna die, they get their house in order. And when you know Christ is gonna come back, you get your life in order. So I close with a question. In view of the prophetic words I just read to you, look at me. How should you respond? Watch this. Don't take my words for it, because my words are not eternal, but in here are words that are eternal. So take Peter's words, second Peter, chapter three. Listen to these five verses, verse one. Peter writing to Jews and Christians, scattered, persecuted, suffering under nero in the first century, 2,000 years ago. This is now the second letter. I am writing to you. Beloved, there is Elder Eric's language and both of them. Watch this word. This is what the Spirit of God is trying to do right now in this moment. Stirring up your secure mind. Stirring up your sincere mind. He's trying to stir you up in your sincere mind by way of reminder that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets. Did you see that? Peter said. Watch. Remember biblical prophecy, man. Lord, help the church today. Remember biblical prophecy. Remember biblical prophecy. Live with a consciousness of biblical prophecy. 20% of the Bible is is prophecy. The words I read to you are prophecy from Christ himself. That is, remember his words of the holy prophets and the commandments of the Lord. Remember the commandments of the Lord and Savior through the apostles. Knowing this first of all, that the scoffers will come. And in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires, that is, people will rise up and try to make you feel like a fool for following the Scriptures. Let them scoff. They won't be laughing when that day comes. Listen, you can spend all your time making videos about me all you want. Won't be laughing when that day comes. I ain't got time to be worried about you. I'm too busy trying to prepare a generation for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Ain't nobody thinking about you. Waste all your time you want. Ain't afraid of you. Ain't thinking about you. I'm preparing an army for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Remember the prophetic words of Christ and the apostles. Now watch verse 11 very carefully. I close with these two verses. Verse 11 and verse 12. No, verse 10 through 12. But the day of the Lord. Verse 10 will come like a thief. Dang it. And then the heavens will pass away with a roar. And the heavenly bodies, stars and planets will be what, Burned up. And watch this word dissolved. Did you see that? Everybody look at me. He said everything will be dissolved. Everything. Watch this word. Everything will be dissolved. You, your Instagram following, dissolved. 28:19 dissolved. Your podcast, dissolved. Your marriage, dissolved. Your business, dissolved. Your 401k dissolved. Your Roth Ra dissolved. Everything you clamoring for right now is going to be dissolved. That is nothing you're fighting for in this life is going to last. And we spend so much time being tethered to these things that you live like this is all God created for you. When Peter is trying to encourage people, don't let your heart be so anchored to the things of this life. They are temporary. They are temporary family. Come on, man. The Lord has increased my favor. That's going to dissolve. He's increased my platform. That's going to dissolve. He's opened up doors for me. That's going to dissolve. All these things we trying to put our stock in, all of it is going to dissolve. That's why I keep encouraging you, man. You need to be most satisfied in Christ because everything you're fighting for is going to dissolve. You know what he's trying to tell you? Look at me. Stop living in this life like this is all God created for you. Live like these things are temporary. Set your mind on things that are above. Look at the rest of the text. Look how he finished. And since this day is coming, what sort of people ought you to be? Since this day is coming, Christians, what type of man and woman and. And child should you be? That is, how should you live in view of the prophetic word of Christ? He tells you with holiness and what? Godliness? Doing what? Waiting for what? And hastening the what? The coming day. God, There it is. He says, since you know this day is coming, stop being ratchet. Since you know this day is coming, live holy. And I'm not just talking about sexual chastity. I'm talking about holy means to be set apart. Since you know Christ is coming. Live, set apart, Be different. Be holy. Read the scriptures, pray. Different war, different do marriage, different disciple your children, different. Be different on the job, different on campus, different on social media. Since you know this day is coming, live godly, live holy. Live set apart. And since you know this day is coming, and since the rapture can happen at any moment, since the tribulation can happen, what are you praying about? Look at me, man. What are you fighting for? How are you Being a husband, how are you being a good wife? How are you discipling your children? What are you praying for? Are you praying your kingdom coming, your will be done, or are you just begging God for stuff? Why are you not praying for the lost? Why are you not praying for your lost family members and friends? Why are you not praying for the lost people in your job? Why are you not about your father's business? Is the activities of your life flowing like tributaries into the stream of the Great Commission? Where is your money going? Where is your prayers going? What are your activities about? If we know the end is coming, our lives should be marked by a type of consciousness that this is temporary. So my prayers are different and my movements are different and the way I do marriage is different, and what I teach my children is different, and how I show up on a job is different, and how I talk on my podcast is different and how I preach is different. You don't have, watch this word time to waste. Christ, your example came. He knew he had three 33 years, and every day he lived like a missionary. His life had purpose and meaning. Even the fun that he had had purpose and meaning. He's at weddings, he's hanging out with sinners and prostitutes. He's healing, he's preaching, he's teaching. His days had meaning, and he was living like a man, knowing he was gonna leave. You should be living like men and women, knowing you're gonna leave. You should be living like men and women that are sojourners. You should stop being so tethered in the heart to the things of this life. I preach like a man who knows that the end is coming. I live like a man who knows the end is coming. I text Lena yesterday saying, I'm falling more in love with you. I'm in my prayer time asking God to help me love this woman. Help me adore this woman. If there's resentment in my heart, take it out, Lord. Help me have eyes for this woman when there's lust in my heart, take it out. Lord, I've messed up with my own children. Teach me to disciple these children in the ways of your kingdom. Lord, I've hurt a lot of people. Teach me to live in such a way that the only people that get hurt from my life are those who don't like the gospel. I'm fighting for purity and holiness on the inside. I'm fighting to be different on the outside. What are you fighting for? What are you praying about? What are you spending your money on? It ain't going into the gospel. It's in your bundles, it's in your car. It's in everything except winning souls. You fighting people all the time. You caught up with all these ancillary things that seem noble but are a waste of time. I don't know what else to say. The end is coming. Live like it. Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray over everyone under the sound of my voice. Sit still. I pray there will be an awakening right now. I pray you will stir us in our heart right now. I pray you will help us to remember the prophetic words of our Savior who said he is coming. I pray it would change our prayers. It will change our marriage. It will change our discipleship. It will change how we spend our money. I pray we would live like believers on mission. Awaken the sons and daughters in America, in the UK and around the world. Put us on mission. Help us to remember time is running out. Set our mouths and our hearts on fire. Let our days have meaning. Let us walk into atmospheres and care about the loss. I pray something would shift in our house and across the globe. In Jesus mighty name I pray. Let us sing over you. Amen.