It sure would be convenient if I didn’t have to go through difficult times in this life. After all, I’m a child of God! Shouldn’t I have some sort of a badge I can flash whenever things get tough, so that the Lord’s enemies know to back off? Well, Pastor Jeff teaches us today that things don’t exactly work like that. Sometimes, God allows us to go through trials so that we can learn and grow from the struggle. He will still deliver us, but He wants to build a strong character within us so that we grow stronger.

What would you think if you paid to go on a tour of Paris, only to find out your tour guide had never been to Paris before and thought that the official language of France was Spanish? Your guide should have a deep understanding of the place they are giving you a tour of. Pastor Jeff wants to remind you today that the tough experiences he has faced in his own life allow him to empathize with your situation! He has learned to rely on God’s grace and will teach you how to do the same.

When I started seeing a new counselor, one of the first things that stood out to me was the different certificates he had on his wall. Not only did he have his college degrees displayed, but he also had other certifications that demonstrated his experience with various issues. Pastor Jeff wants to teach us today that Jesus has the ultimate certification to be our high priest. He mended the gap between God and man by taking on the sins of the world and dying on the cross. That certificate is written in His own blood!

The Lord has a habit of using the enemy’s own plans against him. In today’s message, we learn about the heavenly witnesses who will testify in Jerusalem during the Antichrist’s reign. Pastor Jeff teaches us that these witnesses will be under the Lord’s supernatural protection, and so even though they face violent attacks from those who hate the Lord, His name will still be glorified! Pastor Jeff wants us to recognize that even the Antichrist’s evil reign is part of God’s plan to restore order to the world.

One of the reasons we can trust in God’s Word to be true is that it predicted events before they happened! In today’s message, we’ll learn about the four beasts rising out of the sea in Daniel’s vision. These beasts correspond to the four kingdoms we learned about earlier in the book of Daniel, and Pastor Jeff wants to point out to us how some of the details about the beasts were prophecies of how the world’s kingdoms would rise and fall. Reading the book of Daniel is like reading a world history book!

Every cartoon hero needs their cartoon villain; someone so obviously evil that you can’t help but cheer for the hero to beat them every single time! Well, even though the Antichrist is as close to pure evil as a man will ever get, he is no cartoon villain! Pastor Jeff wants to remind you today that the Antichrist will be a real person, not some government entity or fantasy monster. If you understand the threat the Antichrist poses to the world, you’ll understand how important it is to warn people about him!

Many of us have felt a moment where we’re singing a song of worship to God, and the words of the song start to seem repetitive and stale. Well, we won’t have to worry about that in Heaven! Pastor Jeff wants us to know today that while we will be worshipping the Lord forever in Heaven, our song won’t get boring or worn out. Instead, that song will be constantly refreshed, because only in the Father’s presence will we realize that a thousand years of praise is not enough for our Creator!

When you start taking antibiotics to fight an infection, you don’t get to see results right away. In fact, you may even get sicker before things start to turn around! In today’s message, Pastor Jeff wants to remind you that even though the world around us is lost in darkness and getting darker by the minute, that doesn’t mean that things are on that trajectory forever. The divide between good and evil will grow wider and wider as we approach the Last Days, but the Lord will still have the final victory.