Left Behind Chapters 22–24 KINGDOM COME

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Left Behind Chapters 22–24 KINGDOM COME
The Tribulation Force are together again in the Millennium. The devil remains bound in hell for 1000 years, but people can still choose to sin.

Today Joshua and Caleb are coming to speak to the school of thousands of children that Cameron and Chloe oversee. Ray picks the story up at this point.


Left Behind Chapters 22–24 KINGDOM COME

Left Behind Chapters 22–24 KINGDOM COME

Take Time With God #113 – Trying to stop God"s Word

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Take Time With God #113 – Trying to stop God’s Word

Whether it was the first century people who tried to kill the apostle Paul and his missionary team or whether it is Isis killing Christians in the Middle East, all had one goal. They wanted to stop the Word of God whatever way they could. But trying to stop the Word of God from spreading is like trying to stop a tsunami or Niagara Falls. Ray shares great truths from 1 Thessalonians 2:13-16 right now.

1 Thessalonians 2:13-16 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

¹³ For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe. ¹⁴ For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you also endured the same sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews, ¹⁵ who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and ^[a]drove us out. ^[b]They are not pleasing to God, ^[c]but hostile to all men, ¹⁶ hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved; with the result that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them ^[d]to the utmost.

Footnotes:

1. 1 Thessalonians 2:15 Or persecuted us


2. 1 Thessalonians 2:15 Lit and


3. 1 Thessalonians 2:15 Lit and


4. 1 Thessalonians 2:16 Or forever or altogether; lit to the end

Take Time With God #113 – Trying to stop God’s Word

Take Time With God #113 – Trying to stop God"s Word

13 Inviting people to Heaven

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13 Inviting people to Heaven

I talked with a terribly confused man recently who spends most of his nights in a bar. I asked him if he knew Jesus Christ. He laughed and said “Yeah, I mention Him often. He’s one of my favorite swearwords.”

The man went on to tell me that he didn’t need to receive Jesus Christ as his Savior because he didn’t want to go to Heaven. He said he wanted to go to hell so he could be with all his drinking buddies there. His picture of hell was an eternal party with booze and one night stands with “hot” women. I asked him where he got that idea. He said he grew up believing it and all his drinking buddies believed it too. None of them wanted to die, but in their extremely human imagination they did want to go to their own conjured up pipedream of hell.

When I told him that the Bible describes a very different kind of hell, he said “I don’t believe the Bible. Man wrote it.” I asked him if he’d look up Josh McDowell or Ravi Zacharias on the Internet and just listen to them for awhile. He said he couldn’t be bothered with that. The conversation went a little longer, but I knew that at best I had planted a seed that could still bloom later in his life. What I was doing is called “witnessing for Christ.” Reliable statistics show that it generally takes seven times for various Christians to witness to someone before they wake up and realize they sincerely need to receive Jesus Christ as their Savior.

Join me now on Take Time For God and let’s share a great time together. –Ray


13 Inviting people to Heaven

13 Inviting people to Heaven

Take Time With Christ #1 – Ephesians 1:1–2 - What To Do In Prison - Ray

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It is my prayer that you will join me for a very few minutes each day to take time with Christ. Some Christians would call these “Daily Devotions.” I am going to try to post these every morning at 8 AM Fort Worth, Texas, time. It will be a great way to start every morning. But you can join me at anytime of the day or night to share these few minutes together. God’s Word is powerful 24 hours a day, every day.

It was a great honor to write an entire commentary on the book of Ephesians which was originally breathed by the Holy Spirit through the apostle Paul. You won’t find this online anywhere else or in any bookstore. but you can download it with my love. – Ray

This book bears Paul’s style, is in total agreement with everything else he wrote, and it bore up to the most thorough testings by those who were led of the Spirit to choose the 66 books of the Bible.

The following verses should be studied with your Bible open to them.

 EPHESIANS, CHAPTER ONE

 1-2. How many Christians would heavily question God if they were imprisoned for their faith? John the Baptist did exactly that. But Paul wasted no time at all with self pity or doubt. Instead he lived each day of his Christian life to the fullest. He realized that he was in prison on assignment from and for Christ, not because Christ failed him. Paul spent eight years in prisons during his ministry. He never wasted a moment of them. They became his “rest stops” that gave him more time for talking to Christ (Colossians 2:1-3), hearing Christ respond (John 10:27), witnessing to the prison guards and everyone else (Philippians 1:13),and to write in his own words what the Holy Spirit dictated to him (2 Peter 1:20-21).

Colossians 2:1-3 – For I want you to know how great the struggle I have on your behalf and for those who are at Laodicea, and for all those who have not personally seen my face, that their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love, and attaining to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ Himself in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

John 10:27 – My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

Philippians 1:13 – so that my imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well-known among the whole praterion guard and to everyone else, and that most of the brethren trusting in the Lord because of my imprisonment have far more courage to speak the word of God without fear.

2 Peter 1:20–21 – For He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake of you. 

Take Time With Christ #1 – Ephesians 1:1–2 - What To Do In Prison - Ray

What Should A Church Be Like? Francis Chan

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The word “church” means all kinds of things in most people’s minds. But Francis Chan, the renowned author of “Crazy Love” – a book that has sold more than a million copies  – tells you what it should mean. I totally agree with him.The church that isn’t doing these things is just wasting God’s time and yours. – Ray

 

What Should A Church Be Like? Francis Chan