The Final Hour: Where to Find Hope In The Last Days

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You know, the Bible says in Romans 8, who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword, as it is written, for your sake we are killed all the day long. We are counted as sheep for the slaughter. Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord. It is God who justifies. And we know that we do not deserve that. We do not walk in this world as if we are kings and queens and you know, uh expecting all manner of uh comfort and uh wealth, and we don't demand and we don't demand signs and wonders, we don't uh expect to be spoilt. We walk this life as you walk in this world, Jesus. We walk as servants of the Most High God in heaven, the Almighty God who will have the last say, who we can trust with this plan that is playing out across the world, even though it seems confusing at times, even though we can't understand and explain all his ways, but we know one thing that he is holy and he is good. And everything that happens in this world is for the good of those that love you and are called according to your purpose, to his purpose. We know that we can trust him. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, our true Father in heaven. We know that he is light and in him dwells no darkness. We know that he has everything under control, even though we see all this political stuff and the you know the truth movement talking about the elite, and it's all the elite doing that, it's all it's all the elites felt. It's not it is all in God's plan, folks. The whole Bible is a revelation of Jesus Christ. The whole Bible, the whole plan, the whole of prophecy, everything that's happening, the the cycle of events, there's nothing new under the sun, it is all in God's purpose, he knows what he's doing, and we can trust him and glorify him, that he is the Almighty Father in heaven, that he knows all things, that he understands all things better than we do, even as we see corrupt men doing things in this world, and it's good to understand the deception that's in this world, but the Bible says the Lord laughed. The Lord laughed at their plans because all of this is part of his purpose, to the revealing of the sons of God, to the liberation of creation, for a millennial reign, for an eternity with Christ, for a new heavens and a new earth, that sin has to play its time out, that yes, we it's a it's difficult in this time we're in, and we will face struggles and we will face uh persecutions and we will face tribulation. But it's not for nothing, that this is all part of the plan, and we should glorify God from the bottom of our hearts because we know that his grace gave us unmerited salvation, that his grace gave us a hope for the future, that because he lives and ever intercedes for us at the right hand of God, that we know that we are in safe hands, that even though the world falls away, even though everything descends into chaos and confusion in society, that is just highlighting that society needs Christ, that society will never work, that kings and queens and presidents and prime ministers and rulers, they will always fall short, because the one that needs to come to this earth to reign in a righteous and just kingdom is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and He will sit enthroned in Jerusalem and He will reign and He will return. He is alive, He hears our prayers, He ever liveth and maketh intercession for the saints, and uh I just you know, all those that have been born again by His Spirit and have received His eternal life and have laid their lives down in repentance and to come to Him, to believe on Him. It is our faith that justifies, it is our faith in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ, that His death and resurrection is enough, Christ is enough.

SPEAKER_07 6:19

You're listening to Rise Radio, Lord I feel heavy, it is hard to find the words to say my heart feels empty, I am weary, and it's hard to pray, but even in the silence you stand in me, for you are my certainty in you.

SPEAKER_06 7:18

Your love me a climb in you storms crash around me, but I will look to you enough awakes, your love surrounds me, and your presence always holds me safe through hills and valleys you are my place.

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So I'm holding all it's you that I like I'm clinging to promises. Your word is my confidence. You are my hope for sure in every season. You may not feel good enough as a Christian, which there's many times I don't feel good enough.

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But we have to remember that that's the whole point is that we're not good enough, that we are saved by grace through faith alone, and that is the amazing gift, free gift of God. Every day sometimes I feel just this battle that goes on between our flesh and our spirit. I want to encourage you today, if you're feeling like that, that know that there's no condemnation for those who are in Christ, and that God's amazing gift of grace is so life-changing, and that as a response to that, our life changes. Since we're born again, we grow in more and more into the likeness of Christ through our lives, through these times of chastisement and learning and growing. Listen to this. But for us also to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered for our offenses. I mean, just the picture of that verse. He was delivered for our offenses.

SPEAKER_05 11:20

No one takes my life away from me. I give it up of my own free will. I have the right to give it up, and I have the right to take it back.

SPEAKER_00 11:30

Jesus was delivered unto death to take down our offenses with him to the grave, and this was a free gift. So all those who believe on him, their sin. And death itself was destroyed when Jesus went for us to the grave, and then was raised again for our justification, that we may be justified through him, through what he did. And my friends, that we cannot be saved by our own works. It's actually making a mockery of what he did for us to then try and take back the reins and say that we have to earn our way there. We are saved through our faith, and if you believe in Jesus Christ to confess him as Lord, then that gift is imparted unto you that your sin, all the things that you've done wrong in your life, have been taken to the grave by the Lord Jesus Christ and destroyed. Then it says, Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through Jesus Christ, we have peace with God. We are no longer the children of wrath, we are no longer under condemnation, we've been given the gift of life, and this is great news, this is amazing news that we have peace with our Creator, even though we've messed up so much, and we still do, we still struggle, we still mess up. Yet, because of that gift, we are free and we have peace with our Creator, not only in this life, but through death. When we die in this mortal body, that is not the end, we'll be raised to life because of what Jesus Christ is. Uh we're justified through our faith in Jesus Christ's work, and then as a result, our life is changed. No, how can our life ever be the same after seeing and experiencing true grace and salvation and redemption and free, true, free love and peace? How can our life ever be what it used to be? And so we are changed by the Holy Spirit, sanctified through our life, and then one day we'll be glorified to be with Him. So therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom also we have access by faith into this grace, wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only so but we glory in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience and experience hope, and hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly, he died for the ungodly, he died for failures, he died for people who are not good enough. He died for sinners, for drug addicts, for sex addicts, he died for liars, for gossips, for thieves. Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die, yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more than being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And the message, this is the message, the powerful message of the gospel, that it is a free gift that we cannot earn, but yet God did that for us. He sent the free gift to save us as we confess and lose our pride and accept Jesus to be our Savior, that our sins were paid for, through Him who was delivered for our offenses and was raised again for our justification. Through Christ alone, Christ alone, Christ is the center, Christ alone, cornerstone, weak made strong in the Savior's love. God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you that way. You cannot earn this yourself, is by faith alone. And let's allow God to change our lives through his grace and this amazing, powerful message of true love in the gospel. God bless you.

SPEAKER_02 17:31

There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God, they are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable, there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

SPEAKER_03 17:55

We have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on Hidden the iniquity of us all.

SPEAKER_01 18:15

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out. Everyone which seeth the sun and believeth on him may have everlasting life.

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And lo, a voice from heaven saying, This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.

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I am the good shepherd, as the father knows me, and I know the father. In the same way I know my sheep, and they know me, and I am willing to die for them.

SPEAKER_03 19:28

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.