1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,200 Luke chapter 21 is where we begin today, but before we begin, I want to ask the question, 2 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:11,040 how many of you today saw the brand new parking lot of Southern Hills? How many of you saw it out 3 00:00:11,040 --> 00:00:17,200 there? Amen? Pretty exciting, right? Anybody park in the new parking lot? The one without stripes? 4 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:21,280 How many of you parked in that? Raise your hand. How many of you parked in there? Okay, all right, 5 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:27,200 very good. It's kind of exciting. It's happening. Like we've been waiting for this to take place, 6 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:30,640 and one of the first pieces is already put in place. Obviously, they have more to do with the 7 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:36,080 parking lot, as you know, but that is kicking off the building project, our brand new auditorium. 8 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:44,080 I want you to imagine with me, the brand new auditorium is finished. We're nine months from now, 9 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:50,080 and we're walking into that new auditorium, and we start, we have an opportunity of inviting one 10 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:55,840 of your friends. This is one of the things I'm excited for most whenever we actually open up the 11 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:03,360 facility, being able to go in and tour people around before grand opening. Like a special behind 12 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:09,520 the scenes pass, you know what I mean? So imagine with me, I mean, how many of you know Leon and 13 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:13,840 Sandy Stevens in our church? We know Leon and Sandy, if you know them, give them a round of 14 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:18,800 applause. We know them, and Leon is one of the ministers here, and they've served in our church 15 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:23,040 for many years. He actually serves as a care shepherd in praise for the needs of the flock. 16 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:28,480 Imagine with me, the building opens, and before it's officially opened, I say, 17 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:33,680 Leon and Sandy, I want to take you through and give you a private tour of the, and we do. 18 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:38,720 Yeah, there we go. And they say, okay, come with me, and I take them by the hand, we open up, 19 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:46,720 and we see the beautiful new foyer, and the shiny concrete, the beautiful walls, the freshly painted, 20 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:53,280 it has that new church smell, you know what I mean? You're like, no, I don't know what you mean by that. 21 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:58,560 And then we walk into the brand new auditorium, 1300 seat auditorium, we see the beautiful new 22 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:04,480 chairs, their theater style seating, and we only sit down and they beautifully design dark, 23 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:09,760 and gray, and black, and beautiful design pattern. We walk up to the platform, we look out 24 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:14,880 on the congregation or where they'll sit. We walk behind the stage and see all the view, 25 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:19,600 and I'm pointing out this element, and that element, this idea, and that idea, and as I do, 26 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:28,160 Leon looks at me and says, it's great, but Josh, Pastor, you got to know something, 27 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:41,040 it's all going to be destroyed. And he says that to me, and I'm going to lose my mind on Leon Stevens. 28 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:46,880 Sandy's going to be like, stop, what are you saying? And Leon's going to look like, no, 29 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:53,120 it's going to all be destroyed. Not one piece of timber will be left upon another, not one stone, 30 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:58,880 it's all going to be destroyed during the apocalypse. How would you respond to that? Well, 31 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:04,400 that's exactly the scenario that we're looking at in Luke chapter 21. You see, Jesus was getting a 32 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:10,480 tour of the giant temple. He had just ended a discussion with all of the religious leaders. 33 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:15,360 We just went through that sermon series over the last four Sundays. And now as Jesus was walking 34 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:20,400 through the temple, they spent some time at the treasury, and now Jesus' disciples started walking 35 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:24,720 him around the temple. Hey, look how beautiful the temple is over here. And did you see this 36 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:30,560 aspect of the temple and that aspect of the temple, and how beautiful it is, the white marble, 37 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:36,400 and it shines in the sunlight, and the eastern side of the temple was actually draped in gold. 38 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:41,760 It was gold-plated sheets of metal that were placed on the front, so as the sun rose in the 39 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:47,680 east, it glimmed and shined out into the valley. And so as they're walking around with Jesus and 40 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:56,320 saying, how beautiful is this temple? Jesus looks at them and says, it's all going to be destroyed. 41 00:03:56,320 --> 00:04:07,200 In a few years, there's not one stone that will be left upon another. And that's where we pick up 42 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:16,400 the text in Luke chapter 21 in verse number five. Then as some spoke of the temple, how it was adorned 43 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:24,000 and beautified with stones and donations, Jesus said, these things which you see, the days will come 44 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:32,000 in which not one stone shall be left upon another that shall not be thrown down. So they asked Jesus 45 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:40,080 saying, teacher, but when will these things be? And what will be the sign when these things are 46 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:50,320 about to take place? And so Jesus pauses and he leads his disciples out of the temple down the 47 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:59,280 Kidron Valley across a small brook of water and up another mountain side, a hillside, called the 48 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:05,280 Mount of Olives. Most likely they went into the Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus would often go 49 00:05:05,280 --> 00:05:10,800 and pray and teach his disciples privately. And there sitting on that mountain side of the Mount 50 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:18,720 of Olives, Jesus looked across with his disciples at the giant temple mount and he gave one of his 51 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:30,400 most terrifying sermons he gave in all of his ministry. It's found right here. And over these 52 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:37,120 next two weeks, we're going to study that terrifying sermon, a sermon about the end of the world. 53 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:42,880 Now you say, well, I'm not sure that I'm into knowing about the end of the world and all of 54 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:48,160 these things. I'm not sure. Here's what I'll say. There's one thought that you need to keep in mind 55 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:53,600 while we go through today's sermon and next sermon. It's the proposition statement for the 56 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:58,720 entire series. And the one thought you must keep in mind throughout this entire sermon series, 57 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:08,720 these two weeks, is this. It might feel like the end of the world, but God's got a plan. 58 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:16,240 It might feel like the end of the world, but God's got a plan. How many of you believe in God, 59 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:21,840 if you're believing God today, would you say amen? I hope so. You're a church people. You're 60 00:06:21,840 --> 00:06:25,600 a church. You might be here, you're like, I'm not a church person, but I'm here. But you've got to 61 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:32,560 believe in God while you're here. Okay, that's the rule. Amen? All right. And if there is a God, 62 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:41,600 the God of the Bible is that God, the question is, does he know what he's doing? I don't know about 63 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:50,800 you, but I often, though I say I believe in God, and though I often say I know he knows what he's 64 00:06:50,800 --> 00:07:03,200 doing, I often question whether or not he has a plan. And the thought that you must think through 65 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:09,040 for yourself and through this sermon series is this. It may feel like it's the end of the world, 66 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:13,040 but God's got a plan. Here's the question that we wrestle with. The question that we're looking at 67 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:18,160 today is, what can we learn from Jesus' end of the world sermon? He gives a lot of sermons in the 68 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:23,040 Bible. This is the end of the world sermon that he gives. What can we learn from it? And I believe 69 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:27,680 we can learn a lot. And the way the structure of this sermon is going to go is this way. I'm going 70 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:32,480 to walk you through half of the sermon. I'm going to teach you what it says. And then at the end of 71 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:36,560 that, after I'm done teaching, it'll be about halfway through the sermon, then what I'm going to do 72 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:43,200 is I'm going to give you two thoughts to think about. It's a very simple sermon. How to view 73 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:49,840 and what to do. So I'm going to walk through the passage and teach it. Then we're going to talk about 74 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:57,280 how to view Jesus' sermon on the Mount of Olives and what to do with it. If you're ready to study 75 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:04,720 this very fascinating passage, give me an amen. All right. Now, okay, I got to warn you. I got to 76 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:12,000 warn you. It's not only terrifying, it's also rich and deep. So you need to be thinking through 77 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:17,680 what I have to say. There's not a person in this room who cannot grasp the truths of this passage, 78 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:22,560 but you've got to follow along because it gets deep here. If you're ready, give me an amen. Look 79 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:27,600 at what it says in verse number eight. And Jesus said, take heed, picture them. They're sitting on 80 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:31,760 the Mount of Olives in the Garden of Gethsemane looking over the Temple Mount. And Jesus says, 81 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:40,000 let me tell you, beware, take heed that you be not deceived. For many will come in my name saying, 82 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:46,000 I am He and the time is drawing near. Their question was, when will we know about the end of 83 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:51,200 everything? And Jesus says, here's how you know, be careful, because in that time, there will be a 84 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:56,160 lot of people who say they are me or from me, but they are not me and they are not from me. 85 00:08:58,560 --> 00:09:05,120 There will also be a lot of people who say the time is near, the time is near, the end of the 86 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:10,560 world, any moment, by the way, that happens all of the time. And if you're here at today's sermon 87 00:09:10,560 --> 00:09:14,560 series and you're thinking, I'm going to be one of those guys, look at the moon and the blood and 88 00:09:14,560 --> 00:09:18,560 look at all the things and the signs and it's going to happen tomorrow, you're at the wrong church. 89 00:09:20,560 --> 00:09:23,120 There's a lot, Jesus said, a lot of people are going to say they're from me, they're not from me, 90 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:28,960 a lot of people are going to say the time is now, it's not now. Therefore, do not give, go after 91 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:34,400 them. Verse nine. But when you hear, here's when you know it's the end of the world. 92 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:44,960 When you hear of wars and commotions, do not be terrified. For these things must come to pass 93 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:52,720 first, but the end will not come immediately. Then he said to them, nation will rise against nation 94 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:58,880 and kingdom will fight against kingdom. He's talking about wars and world wars and there will be 95 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:05,040 great earthquakes in various places and famines and pestilences. He's talking about plagues, 96 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:09,520 he's talking about viruses, he's talking about worldwide calamity. This is what it's going to 97 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:14,560 look like and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven. People will look up into 98 00:10:14,560 --> 00:10:20,080 the sky and they're going to see things that are absolutely astounding and difficult to understand. 99 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:28,960 But before all of those things happen, they, the enemy, specifically the Romans, they will lay their 100 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:37,120 hands on you and persecute you and deliver you up to the synagogues and the prisons. Now, let me stop 101 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:42,320 in the middle of Jesus' sermon and ask this question. To whom is Jesus talking right now in 102 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:47,840 this sermon? Who is his audience? If you know it, say it out. Who is he talking to? His disciples. 103 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:53,840 His disciples, the twelve disciples, the men and women that have been following Jesus, all of these 104 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:59,600 people are following Jesus and listening to Jesus. I'm going to say who is he talking to? You say 105 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:10,800 his disciples. Who is he talking to? What did the disciples sign up for? Have you ever been 106 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:16,560 disillusioned with God? Now you say, I'm not me pastor because I'm in church and I love everything 107 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:27,600 God's ever done. Have you ever been disappointed in Jesus' plan? I'll be blunt. I have many times, 108 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:38,240 actually. The disciples of Jesus followed Jesus because there was a guy up in Galilee who said, 109 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:43,040 behold, the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world. And all of them were like, cool, 110 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:48,880 you're the Messiah? Yes, I'm the Messiah. And then Jesus began to say, the kingdom of God is at hand. 111 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:53,920 And so they're like, the kingdom's here? Yes, the kingdom is here. And then they followed Jesus 112 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:58,160 believing the kingdom was going to be established. Multiple times they come to Jesus and say, hey, 113 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:03,120 hey, I know the kingdom's about to be here. Where do I sit? Like, where's my throne? This is going to 114 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:08,880 be great. I'm so excited. The kingdom of God is here. And now, two days before they kill Jesus, 115 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:12,400 Jesus pulls them aside and says, let me tell you what's going to happen. The Romans are going to 116 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:17,440 destroy Jerusalem. You're going to be persecuted, thrown into prison, and some of you are going to die. 117 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:21,680 So thank you for following me. 118 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:33,200 If you have ever been disillusioned and disappointed with God's plan for your life, 119 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:46,480 you're probably a disciple of Jesus. But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you 120 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:50,720 and persecute you and deliver you up to the synagogues and the prisons. You will be brought 121 00:12:50,720 --> 00:13:03,680 before kings and rulers for my namesake. But it will turn out as an occasion for testimony. Now, 122 00:13:03,680 --> 00:13:07,360 that's interesting. Jesus says a lot of you disciples are going to be brought to prison, 123 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,800 and you're going to be thrown in prison, and you're going to be taken before religious elites 124 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:15,280 and government officials, and you're going to be in trouble and persecuted. But, oh, but, 125 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:19,120 but there's a good thing that's going to happen. Yes, it's good because you get to tell more people 126 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:34,240 about me. What is the part where I get the gold mansion? Look, it goes on. You will be brought 127 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:37,920 before kings and rulers for my namesake, but it will turn out for the occasion for testimony. 128 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:42,480 Therefore settle it in your hearts, not to meditate beforehand on what you will answer for in that very 129 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:47,920 moment, I will give in your mouth the wisdom that your adversaries need to hear and will not be able 130 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:56,560 to contradict or resist what you have to say. You will be betrayed by your parents. Some of you, 131 00:13:56,560 --> 00:14:02,240 your brothers and your relatives and your friends will turn you into the authorities, and then some 132 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:10,880 of you will even be put to death. Become a follower of Jesus, be put to death. That should be the 133 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:23,120 banner for our new church sign. But that's what he's saying. Not only that, you'll be hated 134 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:31,600 by all for my namesake. Anybody here, anybody, anybody, anybody here that's like Josh, anybody 135 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:40,240 here, I'm a people pleaser. I like to people please the people. I like to think that all people are 136 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:46,720 in love with me, and if I know you are, I know you love me. That's what I tell them. And if you 137 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:55,120 don't love me, I delete you from my mind. This is really hard for people pleasers to be a follower 138 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:59,120 of Jesus, because Jesus says, if you want to follow me, guess what? I love you, but most people are 139 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:06,240 going to hate you for being a follower of me. They will hate you for following Jesus. 140 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:14,640 And then he says in verse 19, this is so odd, but don't worry, not a hair of your head will be lost. 141 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:22,000 What? Can you answer a question to me? Here's a good riddle. How do you, how is it possible to lose 142 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:31,520 your head but not your hair? Jesus said, some of you are going to be persecuted, you're going to die, 143 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:36,800 you're going to go into prison, they're going to kill you, but don't worry, your hair will be fine. 144 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:39,840 Some of you are like me, you're like, okay, as long as my hair is good, then that's, 145 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:47,520 what, how is that possible? Some of you know the Bible, some of you know exactly how it's possible, 146 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:53,200 because even though you may give up your life for Christ, God has a life for you that he's always 147 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:58,880 intended. It's the eternal kingdom of God, where everything that you've always been intended to be 148 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:03,440 will come to pass. You won't lose a hair of your head, though you go through the persecution, 149 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:10,240 that's what he's saying to his disciples. But your patience, uh-oh, uh-oh, verse 19, big point, 150 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:18,480 later in the sermon, but your patience possesses your souls. What? By your patience you will win 151 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:27,520 your own soul. Huh, what's that mean? Verse 20. But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, 152 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:33,600 then you know its desolation is near. Now this is so weird, because Jesus is talking about 35 153 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:39,200 years later, when the Romans will literally surround Jerusalem. But later on, he's going to be talking 154 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:42,240 about how the sun, moons, and stars, and the stars are going to fall from heaven, and there's going 155 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:46,160 to be signs and wonders in the sky. And you're like, okay, so is he talking about Rome, or is he talking 156 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:49,840 about like the tribulation period and the end times? Like, like, which is he talking about? 157 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:56,240 Hmm, very weird. Verse 21. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 158 00:16:56,240 --> 00:17:01,680 Let those who are in the midst of her depart, and let not those be in the country enter her. 159 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:09,520 For in Jerusalem, these are the days of vengeance, that all things which were written may be fulfilled, 160 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:15,760 but woe to those who are pregnant in those days, who are nursing babies in those days, 161 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:20,480 for there will be great distress in the land, and wrath upon all of this people. 162 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:26,160 And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and they will be let away captive into all other nations, 163 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:32,560 and Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles until the time of the Gentiles is finished. 164 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:39,840 There will be strange signs in the sky, in the sun, in the moon, and the stars, 165 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:47,200 and here on earth, the nations will be in turmoil, there will be perplexed. All the nations of the 166 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:53,200 world will be perplexed. It's like a, like, world war in turmoil, perplexed in the roaring of seas, 167 00:17:53,200 --> 00:18:00,160 and strange tides. People will be terrified at what they see coming upon the earth, 168 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:10,080 for the powers in the heavens will be shaken. And then, when it's all done, 169 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:19,360 when it's all done, everyone will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with power and great glory. 170 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:28,320 So when all these things begin to happen, when you see all of these things begin to happen, 171 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:44,800 stand and look up for your salvation, it's near. That is, honestly, the weirdest sermon that Jesus 172 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:54,000 gives, in my opinion. It's strange, it's odd, it's scary, it's terrifying, it's fascinating, it's 173 00:18:54,000 --> 00:19:02,240 interesting, and I have two things for you to think about. Number one, how to view, number two, 174 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:10,000 what to do. The first part, how to view. How do I view this sermon, pastor? How am I supposed to 175 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:15,680 look at this sermon? And the best way to understand how to really view this sermon is to understand 176 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:19,840 that this is a prophetic sermon. I'm going to say what kind of sermon, you say prophetic sermon. 177 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:28,880 What kind of sermon? Three of you. Okay, very good. What kind of sermon is this? Okay, prophetic means 178 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:36,640 Jesus is telling the future. He's being a prophet here. Jesus is a prophet, priest, and king. And 179 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:42,400 in this role, he is speaking as a prophet, he's telling the future. And he's telling the future 180 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:48,240 the same way all the Old Testaments told the future. But you have to understand how to interpret 181 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:53,360 prophetic literature to really understand how this sermon is different from other Jesus sermons. 182 00:19:53,360 --> 00:19:59,120 Say, well, how did prophets view the future? Very good question. They viewed the future like this, 183 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:09,840 mountains. Say, what do you mean, mountains? How many of you are like me? You grew up out west, 184 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:13,840 where mountain ranges are normal. How many of you grew up, I grew up in Vegas. How many 185 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:16,640 you grew up, and this is normal. Do you raise your hand? How many of you? All right, very good. 186 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:20,720 How many of you grew up out east, where you did not see mountains, you saw trees everywhere? How 187 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:25,920 many of you saw trees? Raise your hand? Very good. So I grew up here when I went to Florida for college, 188 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:32,400 trees everywhere. Like I got off the plane, and you could only see like 50 feet away forever, 189 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:37,680 always. It was always in my mind. It was odd to me. I felt claustrophobic, because you can't see 190 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:42,400 miles away. I grew up where you could go outside, and you could always see for miles. There you 191 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:48,720 could only see for yards, and it drove me nuts. But growing up in Nevada, I know this about mountain 192 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:54,800 ranges, that if I were going to go here, and start walking toward those mountains, I know, 193 00:20:54,800 --> 00:21:00,240 because I've grown up here, I know if I start walking toward that mountain range, it's not one 194 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:09,360 mountain range. There's actually multiple mountain ranges, hills and valleys, hills and valleys. 195 00:21:09,360 --> 00:21:13,440 As I got closer, the very first ones we would see is that little rock, and then beyond that, 196 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:17,680 we would go up mountains, and then down mountains, and then up mountains, and then down mountains. 197 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:23,360 It's not one mountain range. It is multiple mountain ranges, but from my perspective, 198 00:21:23,360 --> 00:21:28,640 it looks like all one mountain range. Do you know how prophets work? Prophets work exactly the same 199 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:35,120 way. They're given a message by God, but from their perspective, it all looks like one future event, 200 00:21:35,120 --> 00:21:42,640 not many future events. If you've ever wanted to see how Pastor Josh draws a picture, this is my 201 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:48,560 artist work right here. This is, this is, it's really pathetic. No, I stole this off the internet, 202 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:52,720 but it's true. All right, let's look at it. See, what do you mean Pastor Josh? This is how a prophet 203 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:57,760 sees. To understand prophetic literature in the Bible, you need to understand how a prophet sees 204 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:05,280 his message from God. There is the prophet's situation that he finds himself in. There is the 205 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:10,640 first coming of Jesus Christ, and there is the second coming of Jesus Christ. But from where 206 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:19,440 the prophet sits, all he can see is one message. If you've ever studied the book of Isaiah, for 207 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:25,680 example, or Ezekiel, or Jeremiah, for that matter, oftentimes the prophet will be speaking, and as 208 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:31,360 you read his prophecy, you're like, I think he's talking about the Babylonians coming in. He is. 209 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:38,800 But he's also talking about Jesus coming as a baby. And then he's also talking about Jesus 210 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:44,720 coming on a big white horse and killing everybody. And as you read his message, you're like, 211 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:49,040 wait a second, which part of Jesus' message, and the answer is from the prophet's point of view, 212 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:54,880 it's all the same. His situation, Jesus is coming, and eventually he's going to take care of everything. 213 00:22:54,880 --> 00:23:01,040 Isaiah exactly the same way. Ezekiel exactly the same way. All of the prophets, their current 214 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:05,840 situation, Jesus is coming again, coming once, and then Jesus is going to come again. But there are 215 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:11,520 big valleys between these. Does this make sense to you? Yes or no? Four of you, I'm glad I made 216 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:19,520 progress today. Very good. All right. Jesus is doing exactly the same thing. He's playing the 217 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:25,360 same thing. He's playing the role of a prophet. So as he preaches this prophetic message, people ask 218 00:23:25,360 --> 00:23:33,440 this question. So is this talking about Rome taking over Jerusalem in 35 years? Or is this talking about 219 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:38,560 the end of the world during the tribulation period? Or is this talking about the situation that I'm 220 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:42,160 in right now? And the answer to that question, what do you think the answer to that question is? 221 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:48,960 Yes. As you read through this sermon and study it further, there are aspects you're like, oh, 222 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:53,680 that's clearly what happens when Rome comes in and takes over Israel. That's why there are many 223 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:59,280 people who view this passage only as historic events. And there are other people who see this 224 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:02,960 reflected in the book of Revelation. There are multiple things that take place in this story 225 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:07,040 that have not yet taken place during the time of Rome, like the sun, moon, and stars, and the entirety 226 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,960 of the nations, and the earthquakes happening all over. They're like, that's clearly the future. 227 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:16,000 And so a futurist will only see the tribulation period here, and they won't see Rome. The 228 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:21,520 historist will only see Rome, and they won't see the future. And in reality, there are three ways 229 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:26,960 to view this passage. All of them correct. Number one, the historic. The historic reality that 230 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:31,680 Jesus is walking through is that 30 years after the death of Jesus Christ, the Romans would come in 231 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:38,640 and utterly destroy everything that Israel had built. The temple that Jesus was talking about 232 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:47,520 specifically, it was a beautiful temple. Did you know it took them over 54 years to build the temple? 233 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,920 How many of you are thankful our church building is not taking 54 years to complete? 234 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:59,120 Some of us are like, man, this is taking forever. The temple took 54 years, and at great cost. 235 00:24:59,120 --> 00:25:03,840 Herod the Great was the guy in charge. He was a very, very important man during that time, 236 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:09,200 and it not only took 50 years for it to be completed, the way they built it was just astounding. 237 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:14,240 In fact, here's a photograph of a model that you can see in Jerusalem. And if you come to Jerusalem 238 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:18,640 with us, we've got a meeting tonight at four o'clock for those who are coming, I think it's 239 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:22,880 four o'clock, is that right? Four o'clock for those who are coming to the Israel trip in March. 240 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:26,480 If you're interested, come to the meeting at four o'clock today. We're going to see this model 241 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:30,640 there. But you can see with the model itself, this is the way the temple looked during the time 242 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:36,720 of Jesus Christ. Now, as you'll see, we call it the temple mount. Why? Because it was built 243 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:41,680 on a mountain. Do you know what they did? Do you know what Herod and his construction workers did? 244 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:49,840 They literally chopped the top of the mountain off of the mountain. 2000 years ago, they did this 245 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:57,600 without any giant bulldozers. And then they quarried out giant stone rocks from a quarry 246 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:03,120 far away away. They brought those stones in. Those stones are not the size of a person. They're the 247 00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:11,280 size of rail cars. Literally, a current stone would be about from where I am to where the piano is, 248 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:17,840 and about from here to here. That's how big those stones are that are building at the bottom base 249 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:23,040 of what you see here. They're all massive. You can see them to this day. When you stand at the 250 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:27,760 western wall in Jerusalem and you put little prayers inside of the cracks, those are the giant 251 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:32,880 stones that Herod had in place, and his stamp and signature are still on some of those stones. 252 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:40,400 Amazing. It was a beautiful temple. Like I said before, it was covered in marble. So you had the 253 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:44,880 stone, and then you had white gleaming marble. Go to the next picture. It kind of shows the way it 254 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:51,040 would have looked on the front of the temple itself that faced the eastern side. It was covered in 255 00:26:51,040 --> 00:27:00,240 plates of gold so that when the sun rose in the east over the mountain ranges, it would reflect 256 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:06,160 off of the front of the temple and would shine brightly so that miles and miles and miles people 257 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:14,640 could see where they could come and find God. The disciples were in the temple talking with Jesus 258 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:18,720 about this, and they said, hey, when is all this going to happen? So now Jesus is talking to His 259 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:23,440 disciples, and He's like, well, before the end of the world, all of you are going to be persecuted 260 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:31,840 and you're going to die. And historically, that's exactly what happened. Historically, when you look 261 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:36,160 at the story of the twelve disciples, of course, Judas betrayed Jesus and then hanged himself, 262 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:40,720 but the rest of the disciples, they were speared to death, crucified upside down. They were stoned 263 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:45,920 to death. They were beheaded. They were boiled in oil. Every single one ends up following exactly 264 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:51,040 what Jesus says in this passage. Historically, that's exactly what happened. Jesus' message 265 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:58,960 is historically accurate. The Romans did surround Jerusalem. When the Romans surrounded Jerusalem, 266 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:05,120 they utterly destroyed Jerusalem. They killed every single person they possibly could get their hands 267 00:28:05,120 --> 00:28:12,400 on, and then they pillaged the entire city and plundered the entire temple. When they burnt the 268 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:18,400 temple itself, as they burned, all that gold began to seep into the stones. So the soldiers, as they 269 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:23,200 did, they would go in and they would tear the stones apart to get the gold, bring back to their 270 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:28,400 families, which soldiers would do. Now, one stone was left upon another. Don't trust my history of 271 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:33,760 it. Trust the secular historian Josephus, who said this about the raiding of the temple. Now, 272 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:38,960 as soon as the army had no more people to slay or to plunder, because they remained none to be objects 273 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:43,040 of their fury, the reason they could kill no more is because there were no more to kill. 274 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:50,880 Jesus is literally looking over a valley of people saying, you don't understand, 275 00:28:50,880 --> 00:29:00,240 in 35 years, the Romans kill everybody. Caesar gave orders that they should now demolish the entire 276 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:05,280 city and the temple. The wall surrounding Jerusalem, it was so thoroughly laid waste 277 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:09,360 that even to the ground that those who dug it up to the foundation that there was not left 278 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:14,800 nothing to make those that came thither believe that Jerusalem had ever even been inhabited. 279 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:19,440 The point is, historians looked at Jerusalem after the Romans were done and they said to themselves, 280 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:22,240 did anybody ever live here? 281 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:34,080 And then for the next 1900 years, the Jewish people disbanded. 282 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:42,240 The dysphoria of the Jews, the disbanding of the people all over the world. 283 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,360 This happened before, yes, during the exile of the Babylonian days 284 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:53,360 and the Assyrian captivity. This happened during the Hellenistic reign of the Greeks 285 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:58,320 when Alexander the Great came through and now during the Romans, they all head up into the 286 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:03,200 peninsula of the Italian peninsula down into North Africa and then eventually they begin 287 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:09,760 to migrate all throughout Eastern Europe. And for the next 1900 years, the history of what Jesus 288 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:23,120 said would take place did take place until 1948. And in 1948, Israel was reestablished as a nation 289 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:28,640 under the United Nations and the Jewish people began to come back to their homeland and rebuild. 290 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:36,000 And for the last 70 years now, the people of Israel are in the land of Israel. 291 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:43,360 That's why people like you and I can go and visit to this day. So when you view the sermon of Jesus, 292 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:51,040 you have to view it in three ways. Number one, historic, but number two, prophetic. 293 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:58,720 The prophetic view is that Jesus is not just talking about history in Romans. He's talking 294 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:04,480 about the end of the world. Notice in the sermon, Jesus talks about wars and world wars, 295 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:10,240 where the nations of the world are overwhelmed by what is happening. Well, that didn't happen back 296 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:17,920 in the early days in 70 AD. But since then, we've seen wars, world wars, where all the nations of 297 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:24,640 the world have gathered together, caused problems. We've seen signs and wonders even recently with 298 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:31,360 World War I and World War II, the development of weapons of mass destruction that we've been made 299 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:40,160 aware of even recently through the movie theater. The idea of utter destruction and utter global 300 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:47,280 devastation has been made even more clear to us. And whenever you look at Jesus' sermon, it's very 301 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:52,560 obvious that he is not just talking about what is happening with Rome. He's pointing to a future 302 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:58,480 event, another mountain range beyond that, where there will be boils and rivers of blood and the 303 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:05,280 heat and excessive darkness. Until finally at the end, Jesus says of himself, it is at the very end 304 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:14,560 when people will say, look up, because Jesus is coming again. And so as you view this sermon, 305 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:23,440 to view it, you must see it as historic, prophetic. Jesus is coming again, but I also want you to see 306 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:31,040 immediate. Say what do you mean the immediate? While the historic and the prophetic perspectives 307 00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:38,560 are certainly fascinating, for some of you, your world is falling apart right now. 308 00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:45,040 Some of you are sitting back and you're like, historically, that's fascinating. I love Rome 309 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:49,120 and Empire. I like think about the Roman Empire. I like Rome. For some of you, you like prophecy. 310 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:52,640 Tell us more about the tribulation and the mark of the beast. Some of you love to think about the 311 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:56,640 past. Some of you love to think about the future, but here's the reality. Some of you, your lives 312 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:05,600 right now are falling apart. And so I wanted to see how to view number two. Anybody remember what 313 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:12,560 the second part is? What to do? What do I do with this sermon, pastor? What do I do? In this sermon, 314 00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:18,640 you're going to find it fascinating. There are three phrases by Jesus that are perfectly applicable 315 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:25,920 to anyone in this room who feels like their world is coming to an end. The overarching principle 316 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:29,920 that I gave at the beginning is utterly important at this moment. It may feel like it's the end of 317 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:37,280 the world, but God has a plan. And what you must do, this is what you must do. Say, pastor, what do 318 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:42,080 I do? I want you to say to me, what do I do? Say, what do I do? Here's what you do. Number one, you must 319 00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:54,480 do not be terrified. I don't know what you're facing. The disciples were facing persecution, 320 00:33:54,480 --> 00:34:00,960 Roman empire, and death. And Jesus says, do not be terrified. During the tribulation period, people 321 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:05,280 are going to experience all sorts of natural disasters. Jesus says, don't be terrified. And 322 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:13,680 Jesus says to you in the midst of your tribulation, don't be terrified. Look at what he says in verse 323 00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:25,520 nine, and when you hear of wars and commotions, do not be terrified. Do you scare easily? 324 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:32,720 I would love to tell you I do not scare easily, but I have somebody in my home 325 00:34:32,720 --> 00:34:46,160 who thinks it's very funny to hide behind doors. Does anybody in your home is an evil person, 326 00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:52,880 like the person in my home? Anybody live with an evil person who loves to jump out and get you? 327 00:34:52,880 --> 00:35:06,080 And then you're like, yeah. Who is the evil one? How many of you are the evil one? Raise your 328 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:10,480 hand, confess it, you're in church. Tell God it's you. How many of you are the evil one? I know 329 00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:16,000 there's more of you. Yeah, I know. I see you. How many of you live with an evil one? How many of 330 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:23,600 you have somebody like that? Yeah, all right, we know. It's shocking, it's disturbing, it's 331 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:29,840 terrifying in the moment. I was with my family driving. We like to do every summer, we'll do 332 00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:40,720 a week or two of a car trip. What's it called? Road trip. I talk for a living. 333 00:35:40,720 --> 00:35:48,160 We're doing a road trip up in Northwest US and I'd never been up there and so we're just going 334 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:54,480 from town to town. We're in Idaho. We were visiting the National Museum of, can anybody guess, 335 00:35:55,600 --> 00:36:03,840 potatoes. It's real, it's there. My three teenagers loved it. 336 00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:11,120 And we got this little Airbnb like in the middle of this tiny town, all farm community and as I 337 00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:14,960 pulled in that night, I was like, man, it's going to be nice. I'm going to wake up and go jogging. 338 00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:19,120 Like I've always thought that would be great to go jogging like in farming community like this is 339 00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:26,400 awesome. And the reason I think that is because I'm from the city and I have this idealistic idea 340 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:31,520 of like running through farms. I don't know. So I'm like, I'm going to get up and go jogging. So 341 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:36,720 I wake up early in the morning, put my hat on. I got my teenage, my Nike's all laced up. I'm like, 342 00:36:36,720 --> 00:36:41,680 let's go jogging in the farms, baby. And I did. I went out there. I headed down the little main 343 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:45,680 street or went out into the community and I'm jogging and I've got my earbuds in and I'm just 344 00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:50,160 ear pods in and I'm just running down the road and having a great time and I'm seeing it and I'm 345 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:57,600 kind of dancing like a city freak, I guess. I don't know. And all of a sudden from behind, 346 00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:03,440 a giant like like like truck, like, you know, like a man would drive, 347 00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:21,760 pulls up behind me and honks and I swear to you, I lost it. I was so, I fell on the ground and rolled 348 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:29,840 into the, into the gutter. But I looked up and there was a man, clearly a man, like a farm man, 349 00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:39,200 you know, doing farm man stuff. And he rolled down the window and he said, he said, go back to 350 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:51,840 California hippie. I'm like, that's it. I wish that was that was the greatest moment of my life. 351 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:58,080 That was, that was so good. I want to be like Las Vegas, but thank you very much. I don't like 352 00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:06,800 California either, actually. We have that in common. So why was I terrified? Because there was a 353 00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:11,040 sudden shift and a change from what I was expecting to happen. 354 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:17,680 All of a sudden I was thrown a curveball I was not going to, I was not seeing. 355 00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:24,160 Do you know why it is we get terrified? The disciples thought they were following Jesus 356 00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:31,040 to a throne and they were following Jesus to a crown, a crown of thorns, death. 357 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:35,440 And Jesus says, do not be terrified. This is part of the plan. 358 00:38:38,720 --> 00:38:42,640 Do you know why it is that some of you are genuinely terrified right now? It's because you've 359 00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:50,160 been thrown a curveball because somebody came behind you and it's God and he honked and you 360 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:57,520 were not expecting it. You're like, what is happening right now? And the answer is, it's all part of 361 00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:06,320 the plan. Do not be terrified. Listen, either we believe that God knows what he's doing or we don't. 362 00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:14,720 Do not be terrified. Number two, what else does Jesus say to them and us? Number two, 363 00:39:14,720 --> 00:39:31,520 patiently stand firm. Patiently stand firm. Do not be afraid and stand up and wait upon God. 364 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:39,760 He says it specifically in verse 19, but your patience possesses your souls. It's such an 365 00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:45,120 awkward phrasing, isn't it? So I looked it up in all the versions and you know which version 366 00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:53,760 says it best? They're all equally awkwardly worded. All of them, it's weird. What does it mean? 367 00:39:55,520 --> 00:40:00,080 So I hate when pastors do this, but I'm going to do what I hate pastors doing, okay? I'm going to 368 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:07,600 reference the original language that the Bible was written in, Greek. The word patience needs to be 369 00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:20,880 understood, what he's meant, meaning by that. Upomane is the word. It means to hold up under the 370 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:28,800 pressure. Our word patience. I think of patients that I'm like at a microwave and I'm like, when's 371 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:38,720 my burrito done? What they mean by it is this, you need to hold up under the pressure and in doing 372 00:40:38,720 --> 00:40:45,600 so, it'll save your life. Jesus is not saying to the disciples, don't worry, it's not going to be 373 00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:50,240 filled with pressure. He's saying there will be so much pressure pulled up under that pressure. 374 00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:55,360 He's saying to the tribulation saints, it's not going to be that big of a deal, just hide out for 375 00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:59,760 a couple years. No, he's saying, here's going to be a lot of pressure. Hold up under that pressure 376 00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:06,000 and it'll save your life. And he's saying to you, in your end of the world scenario, hold up. 377 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:14,960 He's, here's the point. The pressure is there and he knows it and he's not letting up. You need to 378 00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:26,240 hold up. Church Hill was really concerned about how he was going to explain to Londoners that 379 00:41:26,240 --> 00:41:33,520 they're getting bombed every night by Hitler. Every night the bombers would come in and they would 380 00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:39,440 release their payloads over the city where children were sleeping. And so we sat down with a bunch of 381 00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:43,680 advertisers and marketers like, what are we going to do to tell them? And they created a plan where 382 00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:47,520 they had posters put all over the city. Do you remember what those posters said? Anybody know 383 00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:59,920 what those posters said? Anybody know? Keep calm and carry on. Keep calm and carry on. Same message 384 00:41:59,920 --> 00:42:08,800 that Jesus is giving you in the midst of your tribulation. Keep calm, carry on. Why? Because 385 00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:15,120 the raiding of Hitler would eventually end. The tribulation period is only seven years long. 386 00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:23,200 Rome will only sack Jerusalem for a certain amount of time and your situation, it will end. Hold up! 387 00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:33,440 Stay strong under that pressure. God knows it's there. You'll get through it. The last thing 388 00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:39,840 that you can learn from this story from Jesus. Do not be terrified. Patiently stand firm lastly. 389 00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:46,880 Look for your salvation. At the very end of the first part of his sermon he says, 390 00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:53,360 so when all of these things begin to happen, stand and look up for your salvation. It's close, 391 00:42:53,360 --> 00:43:03,840 it's near. Jesus is going to bring salvation. He said, well, can he bring it now? 392 00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:08,240 Do you ever feel like God is late? 393 00:43:08,240 --> 00:43:24,000 I cannot tell you how many times I thought, God, what is, like, are you even aware? Let's go! 394 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:29,920 Here's what I've learned about God. He's always on time. 395 00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:35,600 The solution is coming. Bear up! 396 00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:42,320 Anybody here ever travel with children on airplanes? 397 00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:45,520 Why do you laugh? 398 00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:52,560 How many of you have ever traveled with children on airplanes? Like, it's your child, right? You're 399 00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:57,120 not the one hating, you're the one being hated. How many of you have had a child on the, raise 400 00:43:57,120 --> 00:44:00,720 your hand, how many of you, oh my, you're too tired to raise your hand, right? It's like, it's 401 00:44:00,720 --> 00:44:07,280 exhausting. You ever travel with a six-year-old? If you ever go to an airport with a six-year-old, 402 00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:10,160 they're watching everything, they're looking at everything. I remember traveling on an airplane 403 00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:15,200 with my six-year-olds, and there's always six, probably in your seven as well, they watch everything, 404 00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:18,720 and I'll never forget, you take up the kids and you put your credit card in the machine and it 405 00:44:18,720 --> 00:44:26,400 spits out your ticket. Ticket number one, ticket number two, and they're watching. Is that my ticket? 406 00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:32,880 You're like, that's your ticket? Can I have it? 407 00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:41,600 And the correct answer to that question is no. And then they're gonna answer back. What are 408 00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:50,240 they gonna answer back? Why? See, you know you've been there. Do you know why they ask why? Because 409 00:44:50,240 --> 00:44:54,960 they're six, and they don't know what you know. And the answer is if you give them that ticket, 410 00:44:54,960 --> 00:45:01,360 they're not getting on the plane, because it's gonna be gone, right? So when do you give them the 411 00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:07,920 ticket? So for us, we would go in, we'd grab a drink, you know, a Starbucks, and then get in line, 412 00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:11,920 and sit there, wait for everything, you know, wait for the last flight attendant to show up, and then 413 00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:17,600 then everybody lines up, and then you go in. We're always Southwest, so we're like C28 and 29 and 30, 414 00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:24,000 you know? And then as we finally get up there with our plane tickets, I'll take the ticket, 415 00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:30,240 and I give it to the six-year-old, and then the six-year-old will have the lady scan it. 416 00:45:30,240 --> 00:45:41,680 I give my child exactly what the child needs exactly when the child needs it, not a minute before. 417 00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:48,640 If I'm a good dad, what makes you think the Heavenly Father is a worse father than me? 418 00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:55,920 Your solution and your answer is coming, but it's coming exactly when you need it. 419 00:45:55,920 --> 00:46:01,840 I know you feel like the world is falling apart, and honestly, it might be, 420 00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:24,480 but even if it is, do not be terrified. Patiently stand firm, and look for your salvation.