Sermon Tone Analysis

!!! “god’s wakeup call”

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Where sin is acceptable

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What kind of servant are you?

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Do what God wants?

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Gather the Children.

Today:   Watching, Waiting, Preparing

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*Matthew 24:3-8 (NKJV) * 

Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be?

And what /will be/ the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?" 4And Jesus answered and said to them: "Take heed that no one deceives you.

5For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many.

6And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars.

See that you are not troubled; for all /these things/ must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

7For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.

8All these /are/ the beginning of sorrows.

Take heed that no one deceives you.

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#. *If Jesus warned us of being deceived then there is a possibility that you could be deceived.

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*2 John 1:7 (NKJV) * 

For many *deceivers* have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ /as/ coming in the flesh.

This is a *deceiver* and an antichrist.

*Revelation 12:9 (NKJV) * 

So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who *deceives* the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

*Revelation 13:14 (NKJV) * 

And he *deceives* those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived.

*Revelation 19:20 (NKJV) * 

Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he *deceived* those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image.

These two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone.

*Revelation 20:3 (NKJV) * 

and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should *deceive* the nations no more till the thousand years were finished.

But after these things he must be released for a little while.

*Revelation 20:8 (NKJV) * 

and will go out to *deceive* the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number /is/ as the sand of the sea.

*Revelation 20:10 (NKJV) * 

The devil, who *deceived *them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet /are./

And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

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#. *Deceive** – to cause to accept as true or valid what is false or invalid.

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The theory of evolution.

*Romans 7:11 (NKJV) * 

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed /me.

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*1 Corinthians 6:9-12 (NIV) * 

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

11And that is what some of you were.

But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

12"Everything is permissible for me"--but not everything is beneficial.

"Everything is permissible for me"--but I will not be mastered by anything.

*1 Corinthians 6:12 (NKJV) * 

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful.

All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

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#. *Sin** is what conditions us to be deceived.

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*Matthew 24:10-14 (NKJV) * 

And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another.

11Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.

12And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.

13But he who endures to the end shall be saved.

14And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.

People are going to be offended in this end-time message.

Because of lawlessness and deception the love of many will grow cold.

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#. *Lawlessness** and deception will cause the love of many to grow cold.

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Listen to Jesus’ warning

*Matthew 24:30-35 (NKJV) * 

Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

31And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

32"Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer /is/ near.

33So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near--at the doors!

34Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place.

35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.

May 14, 1948 Israel became a nation.

Last Thursday Israel celebrated its 61st birthday.

If the oldest person living today is 119, then we could say that theoretically that this generation will not go past the year of 2060.

*Matthew 24:36-44 (NKJV) * 

36"But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.

37But as the days of Noah /were,/ so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

38For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

40Then two /men/ will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left.

41Two /women will be/ grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left.

42Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.

43But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.

44Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

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The world is being deceived.

*Listen to this video clip*.

This last week I read because of certain unruly fans of soccer that they will now undergo implants to prevent them from attending soccer games.

We are being conditioned to receive the mark.

1)       evolution taught in our schools.

2)       Christians are just a bunch of radicals and are on the same level as the terrorist

3)       To prevent terrorism something must be done

4)       To prevent illegal immigration something must be done

5)       To prevent child abductions something must be done

6)       We are now accepting homosexuality as an alternative lifestyle

7)       We are now accepting sex outside of marriage as okay

8)       We are now accepting marriage of individuals of the same sex.

9)       The resurgence of body piercing and tattooing is conditioning a generation to accept the mark of the beast as no big deal.

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#. *This **generation** is being prepared to receive the antichrist and the mark of the beast.*

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*Luke 17:22-36 (NKJV) * 

Then He said to the disciples, "The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see /it.

/23And they will say to you, 'Look here!' or 'Look there!' Do not go after /them/ or follow /them.

/24For as the lightning that flashes out of one /part/ under heaven shines to the other /part/ under heaven, so also the Son of Man will be in His day.

25But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

26And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

28Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed /them/ all.