The Revelation Of Jesus Christ
Final Words
December 13, 2020 • Pastor Chad Thompson
Bottom line: Jesus' final words are His promise to fulfill our most hope-filled prayer. His final words - Surely, I come quickly. Our hope-filled prayer is that of John - Even so, come Lord Jesus. Revelation 22:6-21 gives us a series of last sayings: the final words of Jesus in Revelation, the final invitations in Revelation, and the final warning in Revelation.
Home Sweet Home
December 6, 2020 • Pastor Chad Thompson
Bottom line: Every believer will be a victor who lives in home sweet home. Our new home will be in the New Jerusalem. It will be home sweet home in the new heaven and new earth. It will come with new experiences that we will enjoy to the full like no sorrow, our purpose fulfilled, an ultimate intimacy with God, and the purity and security of New Jerusalem - home sweet home.
Hope For Something New
November 15, 2020 • Pastor Chad Thompson
Bottom line: How we experience life in the present is determined by our hope for the future based on our faith in Jesus’ death and resurrection. We are hope shaped creatures. What we hope for in the future makes all the difference in the NOW! Our NOW experience is controlled by our belief about the future. Our hope is that one day we will live with God in a new heaven and new earth. Knowing this is our future we can make it through any trouble and adversity in our present.
The Rebellious Finals
November 8, 2020 • Pastor Chad Thompson
Bottom line: Final judgment isn't the decision regarding entrance into heaven of hell. It is the decision regarding the eternal sentence of the unbelieving rebel in hell. In the concluding verses of Rev. 20 we see a series of three different finalities: a final deception, a final beat down, and a final judgment. These finals determine who the losers are once and for all and for all eternity - Satan and every rejecter of God's grace and mercy.
The King's Kingdom
November 1, 2020 • Pastor Chad Thompson
Bottom line: Our deepest longings and desires (for this world and in this world) will be fulfilled in the millennial kingdom of Jesus Christ. The King's Kingdom is coming. It will be a kingdom of peace, justice, joy, security, no sickness, no curse, etc. It will fulfill our deepest longings and desires of our hearts. At Christ's return His enemies will destroyed (Babylon), defeated (Antichrist, False Prophet, and enemy armies), or detained (Satan in the bottomless pit), and He will establish His kingdom rule upon this earth for 1000 years. The kingdom must come in order to fulfill God's purpose and plan, fulfill 1800 prophecies concerning the kingdom, and fulfill the covenants God has made (Abrahamic, Davidic, and New Covenants).
The King!
October 25, 2020 • Pastor Chad Thompson
Bottom line: Jesus' victory determines your victory or defeat. Chapter 19 documents the second return of Jesus to this earth to fight the battle of Armageddon and to establish His millennial reign. It is the climax of the book and of all history. Jesus' second return will be a triumphal entry, and His entry alone will announce - The King! Every eye will see Him on that day as He comes in clouds of glory.
The Marriage Of The Lamb
October 18, 2020 • Pastor Chad Thompson
Bottom line: The marriage supper of the Lamb is the great celebration of life and victory for Jesus and His followers. One day and for all eternity the followers of Christ will experience the oneness we have with Him. Our relationship with Jesus will grow deeper and go deeper eternally. The purpose of the Marriage of the Lamb is the experiential fulfillment through eternity of the positional oneness we now have in Christ.
Like A Sinking Stone
October 11, 2020 • Pastor Chad Thompson
Bottom line: Greed for temporary valuables can lead you to lose what has eternal value. Babylon the Great in Chapter 18 is a symbol for both a system and a city. It is symbolic of the political, economic, and financial system of the Antichrist's empire the will be seated in a capital city ("that great city"). Babylon is filled with sin and will ultimately be judged by God. Her judgment is likened unto a stone being cast into the sea and sinking never to be seen again.
The Duper Gets Dumped
September 27, 2020 • Pastor Chad Thompson
Bottom line: When we take our eyes off Jesus, we can be duped by the deception of false religion. Babylon the Harlot is a symbol for false religion. False religion has been made drunk with the blood of prophets and saints for 1000's of years and she will continue to be into the Tribulation. She serves a very intoxicating drink. Her desire is to dupe people into rejecting the promises of God, rebelling against the commands of God, and refusing the grace God.
Coming Attractions
September 20, 2020 • Pastor Chad Thompson
Bottom line - Because I know what is coming, I can prepare for it. In chapter 14 verses 6-20 we find a series of vignettes that play out like movie trailers advertising coming attractions. We see a trio of angels foretelling of coming judgment. We hear a voice from heaven speak of a coming rest for tribulation martyrs. And then we see the second coming of Jesus and judgment of the Battle of Armageddon.
The Lamb And The Redeemed
September 13, 2020 • Pastor Chad Thompson • Revelation 14:1–5
Bottom line: For those who will sing a new song one day, the time to live faithfully for Jesus is today. What the tribulation saints will be in the future is what we as believers should be in the now: faithful witnesses, spiritually pure, faithful to Jesus, obedient to follow the Lamb wherever He leads.
The Two Martyrs
November 17, 2019 • Pastor Chad Thompson
Bottom line: Every person will give glory to God either at a distance separated from God by fear or through love as he or she comes near. The two witnesses (martyrs) of chapter 11 will have a team preaching ministry that powerfully demonstrates and communicates God's power and promise of the coming kingdom.
Bitter Judgment! Sweet Hope!
November 10, 2019 • Pastor Chad Thompson
Bottom line: Jesus is setting all things right which means He is judging all things wrong. Chapter 10 is within a parenthesis between the 6th and 7th trumpet judgments. It is written to encourage the readers that the final judgments are coming and coming soon. The mighty angel takes an oath and swears that "there shall be delay no longer." There will come an appointed time when God will delay His judgment no longer, but until then He does delay. He is not willing that any should perish but that all should come unto repentance. (cf. 2 Pet. 3:9) While we live the delay may we faithfully share the sweet hope there is in for all who accept and receive Christ as Savior and the bitter judgment that is coming for all those who reject and refuse Christ as Savior.
Come Up Here!
November 3, 2019 • Pastor Chad Thompson
Bottom line: One day believers in Christ will rise in the rapture; but until that day, let us rise to the rapture's challenge. The rapture is going to happen. We have the Lord's word on it. We cannot be dogmatic on the timing of it, but we can rest assured that Jesus is coming again. In light of the fact that Jesus is coming again, we are challenged to be faithful to God and our church, to be loving to one another and others, to preach God's Word and share the gospel, to comfort the bereaved, and to focus on eternal things.
War Horse
October 27, 2019 • Pastor Chad Thompson
Bottom line: God's question to us: Is it Me or him? The question that faces every lost person: Is it ME or him? God or someone else? Christ or a false Christ? A Savior or no savior? The question that faces every believer in the moment of temptation: Is it Me or him? God or the enemy? God brings us to a point of decision. Choose God. Choose Christ.