Now in interpreting Matthew 24 there’s a key word and it is the word "then". It occurs nine times in Matthew 24 and a further nine times in Matthew 25. In other words, eighteen times in the total discourse. And that key word [...]

Then He warns them a second time against wars and commotions, or troubles. Verse 6. Incidentally, I see most of you have got your Bibles open. We’re going to go systematically through this chapter so it helps to have the chapter in front of you. [...]

Now we’ll go back to Matthew 24 and consider the second question which was, "What will be the sign of Your coming and of the end of the age"? I want you to notice they didn’t say the signs, they said the sign of your coming. Jesus answered [...]

"And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nation and then the end will come". Yesterday I spoke about how to approach biblical prophecy. Today I’m going to try to apply what I was teaching [...]

"And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nation and then the end will come". Yesterday I spoke about how to approach biblical prophecy. Today I’m going to try to apply what I was teaching [...]

This excerpt is from: How to Approach Biblical Prophecy So, if corruption is progressive and irreversible what is God going to do about it? Well, praise God, He has an answer. You’ll find it in 2 Corinthians 5:17: Therefore, if anyone is in Christ [...]

This excerpt is from: How to Approach Biblical Prophecy Now, concerning these people that demonstrate all these sins Paul says something truly amazing in verse 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Now he’s given this list. and then [...]

This excerpt is from: How to Approach Biblical Prophecy So now we’ve seen from 2 Timothy chapter 3 that thins are not going to get better they’re going to get worse. It’s not so much things, it’s people. People are not going to get better they’re [...]

This excerpt is from: How to Approach Biblical Prophecy Then you go a little further down here in 2 Timothy 3:13: But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse deceiving and being deceived. You see, that’s the progress of corruption. They’ll [...]

This excerpt is from: How to Approach Biblical Prophecy So, what is the end? The end is monarchy. One man. Jesus who will be King who will lead a righteous rule who will share His authority with those whom He has trained through suffering through [...]

This excerpt is from: How to Approach Biblical Prophecy So those are the seven principles that I want to put before you as we begin to approach biblical prophecy. Number one, there are secret and revealed things. Don’t waste time trying to find out [...]

This excerpt is from: How to Approach Biblical Prophecy Number five is in a different category. You find the principle in Revelation 19:10. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. We’re not talking about just the words of prophecy [...]

This excerpt is from: How to Approach Biblical Prophecy The next principle is that many prophecies are given for a specific time and situation and until we come to that time and situation we will not be able to understand the prophecy. So, in [...]

This excerpt is from: How to Approach Biblical Prophecy Then it says there are revealed things. Thank God there are revealed things. But it says about them "that we may do them." The purpos of Biblical prophecy is not to make you wiser [...]

This excerpt is from: How to Approach Biblical Prophecy Now, I’m going to give you seven suggested principles for approaching the prophetic word of God. I didn’t originally have seven, I had five, but the Lord added two more recently and I’m not [...]

This excerpt is from: How to Approach Biblical Prophecy One of the essential requirements for being able to receive biblical prophecy is a right appreciation of the sovereignty and the majesty and the justice of God. God is always just. He never [...]

One of the essential requirements for being able to receive biblical prophecy is a right appreciation of the sovereignty and the majesty and the justice of God. God is always just. He never makes mistakes. Everything He does is right. Some of you [...]

This excerpt is from: How Should We Prepare For His Appearing? Now, to close this I’m going to challenge you in a way. Because I’m going to give you very briefly and outline of how Ruth and I are trying to do what I’ve been preaching. You [...]

This excerpt is from: How Should We Prepare For His Appearing? So let me try and wrap this up. I’m going to come back to what I believe are our responsibilities if we claim that we are awaiting eagerly the return of the Lord, if we're longing [...]

This excerpt is from: How Should We Prepare For His Appearing? Let’s look at the second of these two related requirements. And that is what God has planned for Israel. We’ll look in Romans 11 for a moment. Just two verses, verses 25–26. For I do [...]

This excerpt is from: How Should We Prepare For His Appearing? Now we come to the fourth requirement. I’m not suggesting that these are exhaustive. But I’m suggesting they are main requirements of Scripture. Which is to speed or hasten the coming [...]

This excerpt is from: How Should We Prepare For His Appearing? All right, the third requirement. Or I would say, the third indication that we’re really anticipating the Lord’s return, is continuing prayer. I’ll just read one passage from Luke 21. [...]

This excerpt is from: How Should We Prepare For His Appearing? The second thing that I believe we need to be doing if we’re preparing for the return of the Lord is we need to complete our assigned task. Look, first of all, in Ephesians 2:10. [...]

This excerpt is from: How Should We Prepare For His Appearing? And then in 1 Thessalonians 3. Paul says this, it’s one of his prayers, one of his many prayers for the people he writes to. 1 Thessalonians 3:12-13: May the Lord make you increase and [...]

This excerpt is from: How Should We Prepare For His Appearing? I want to recapitulate briefly what I said last night, because I want to build on that for tonight’s message. Those of you who hear my radio teaching regularly will have noticed that [...]

I want to recapitulate briefly what I said last night, because I want to build on that for tonight’s message. Those of you who hear my radio teaching regularly will have noticed that recapitulation is part of my teaching. My aim is to teach, you [...]

This is an excerpt from: Why Should We Be Longing for Jesus' Appearing? Now I just want to read a couple of passages from the psalms to close tonight, trying to show you that if you’re not excited, nature is. From Psalm 96 first and then from [...]

This is an excerpt from: Why Should We Be Longing for Jesus' Appearing? One more reason why we should be longing for the Lord’s appearing. This is going a little bit beyond our personal situations. Which is embarrassing for most Christians [...]

This is an excerpt from: Why Should We Be Longing for Jesus' Appearing? I’d like to also just look at a passage in the book of Daniel which describes, I believe, the setting up of Christ’s kingdom. You may remember that in Daniel 2 king [...]

This is an excerpt from: Why Should We Be Longing for Jesus' Appearing? All right, moving on. The third reason why I believe all Christians should long for the return of the Lord, the appearing of the Lord, is that it’s the only hope for [...]

This is an excerpt from: Why Should We Be Longing for Jesus' Appearing? Not only will the coming of the Lord mark the consummation of our union with Him. It will also mark the consummation of our union with one another. If you turn to 1 [...]

This is an excerpt from: Why Should We Be Longing for Jesus' Appearing? The second reason why all Christians should be longing for the Lord’s appearing is that it will mark the consummation of our union, two ways. First of all, with Christ [...]

This is an excerpt from: Why Should We Be Longing for Jesus' Appearing? Colossians chapter 3 and 4. Paul says to the believers: For you died – that’s important. I think the Old King James says you are dead, if I’m not mistaken. But really, [...]

This is an excerpt from: Why Should We Be Longing for Jesus' Appearing? Now, for the rest of this evening I’m going to offer you some Scriptural reasons why all Christians should be longing for Christ’s appearing. I have four main reasons. The [...]

This is an excerpt from: Why Should We Be Longing for Jesus' Appearing? There’s much in the New Testament about our attitude toward the return of the Lord Jesus Christ in His glory. I want to just put side by side with what I’ve read, a couple [...]

This is an excerpt from: Why Should We Be Longing for Jesus' Appearing? A theme which has become very important to me. It’s one which God impressed upon me, sometime in the latter part of last year. And it’s kind of lingered in my mind. It’s [...]

A theme which has become very important to me. It’s one which God impressed upon me, sometime in the latter part of last year. And it’s kind of lingered in my mind. It’s been the subject of meditation. A subject of study from the Scripture. And it [...]

This is excerpt from: The Power Of Proclamation All right, now we're going to do in closing some things that relate to the Middle East, which is one of the areas that we pray most about. You might not have the same burden, but you can take the [...]

This is excerpt from: The Power Of Proclamation Now we're coming into a more aggressive area. We're going to talk about intervention in national and international affairs. Ruth and I spend a lot of time praying outside our own needs [...]

This is excerpt from: The Power Of Proclamation And then suppose that you're challenged with something that you can't do, it's too much. You're not capable, you don't have the education you don't have the strength; it [...]

This is excerpt from: The Power Of Proclamation Now we're going to take some pattern proclamations. But first of all remember it must be the breath with the Word. In other words, it has to be the Holy Spirit. And secondly what we do - a very [...]

This is excerpt from: The Power Of Proclamation So I'm going to take now a whole number of potential situations beginning with those that are personal and going on to those that are national and international and I'm simply going to show [...]

This is excerpt from: The Power Of Proclamation Now, that's trembling at the Word. That's the first thing that happened with Moses. He suddenly realized the power that was in his rod and he ran from it. He was overawed. The second thing [...]

This is excerpt from: The Power Of Proclamation Now I want to parallel with Moses' experience the way that we can make the Word of God effective by proclaiming it. Proclaiming it is releasing it into a situation. It takes confidence. It takes [...]

This is excerpt from: The Power Of Proclamation I want to take an example now from Moses when God called him to go back and be the deliverer of Israel out of Egypt. You remember God appeared to him in the burning bush. Then God said to him in [...]

This is excerpt from: The Power Of Proclamation Ruth and I, when I'm ministering, we always begin this way. God has taught us this and we've discovered that proclaiming the Word in faith at the beginning of a meeting makes a tremendous [...]

Ruth and I, when I'm ministering, we always begin this way. God has taught us this and we've discovered that proclaiming the Word in faith at the beginning of a meeting makes a tremendous difference to the atmosphere in the meeting and to [...]

This excerpt is from: Thanksgiving, Praise and Worship Now let's turn to the words of Jesus about worship in the New Testament. John 4, these are familiar words to Bible readers, John 4. Jesus is talking to the Samaritan woman at Jacob's [...]

This excerpt is from: Thanksgiving, Praise and Worship Now, there's a beautiful passage in Psalm 95, which I believe beautifully depicts the progress into worship. Psalm 95, the first two verses depict loud, jubilant praise. A lot louder than [...]

This excerpt is from: Thanksgiving, Praise and Worship I'd like to turn to an example of heavenly worship, which I believe gives us some really important principles, which is found in Isaiah 6:1-3. And in this scene here, Isaiah has a vision [...]