07/12/26 – Harrisonburg campus: FaceTime Part 6: No One Knows the Day or Hour – Pastor Kevin Griffin

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07/12/26 – Harrisonburg campus: FaceTime Part 6: No One Knows the Day or Hour – Pastor Kevin Griffin
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FACE TIME

  • ALL OF SCRIPTURE MATTERS
  • HIS WORDS MATTER MORE- WHO IS JESUS- TO ME?

SUMMER AT MENS BIBLE STUDY- SCRIPTURE-UNPACK IT 

JIM HARRISON

  • SOME OF YOU KNOW THIS MAN
  • VERY MISGUIDED IN HIS FOOTBALL LOYALTY
  • SPENT TIME WITH HIM HE TALKS FEW THINGS
  • ALABAMA FOOTBALL- HORSES- DOGS
  • FAMILY     JESUS

JIM PREACHING

  • DONE REVIEWING SCRIPTURE
  • I TALKED ABOUT IMPACT OF JIM SPEAKING
  • YOU CAN’T CONVERSE- SCRIPTURE COMES OUT.

AUBREY

PART OF CHURCH- ASKS MOM TO LIMIT SCREEN TIME

ON WAY TO VBS- READING GODS WORD- HOW ABOUT US?

QUOTE- DAVID GUZIK                                      

   “SOME PEOPLE HAVE THE IDEA, “WE DON’T KNOW WHEN JESUS IS COMING, SO IT REALLY DOESN’T MATTER. “WE DON’T KNOW WHEN JESUS IS COMING, SO WE HAVE TO FIND OUT AND SET A DATE.” THE RIGHT RESPONSE IS, “WE DON’T KNOW WHEN JESUS IS COMING SO I HAVE TO BE ALERT, EAGER, AND READY FOR HIS COMING.”

  • ITS WEDNESDAY OF PASSION WEEK

 SCRIPTURE MARK 13:1                                 

  1. “AS JESUS WAS LEAVING THE TEMPLE, ONE OF HIS DISCIPLES SAID TO HIM, “LOOK TEACHER! WHAT MASSIVE STONES! WHAT MAGNIFICENT BUILDINGS!”

SCRIPTURE MARK 13:2

  • “DO YOU SEE ALL THESE GREAT BUILDINGS?” REPLIED JESUS. “NOT ONE STONE HERE WILL BE LEFT ON ANOTHER, EVERY ONE WILL BE THROWN DOWN.”

TEMPLE COMPLEX- 35 ACRES

HOW MANY FOOTBALL FIELDS FIT INSIDE THAT?        27

PERSON AT STONES

  • PERSON HERE STANDING SIZE OF STONES
  • HEAVIEST STONES IN PYRAMIDS WEIGHED 2.5 TONS

THESE STONES WEIGHED 100 TONS OR MORE-200K LBS

    DISCIPLES CONNECTED THE KINGDOM TO TEMPLE

    SO IS HE SAYING HE IS GONNA BUILD A NEW TEMPLE?

    THEY JUST CANNOT FATHOM THIS BE DESTROYED?

SCRIPTURE MARK 13:3

  • AS JESUS WAS SITTING ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES OPPOSITE THE TEMPLE, PETER, JAMES, JOHN AND ANDREW ASKED HIM PRIVATELY, (OLIVET DISCOURSE

SCRIPTURE MARK 13:4

  • “TELL US, WHEN WILL THESE THINGS HAPPEN? AND WHAT WILL BE THE SIGN THAT THEY ARE ALL ABOUT TO BE FULFILLED?”

PICTURE OF LADY

  • EVER SEEN A PICTURE LIKE THIS?
  • 1 PICTURE- 2 DIFFERENT WOMEN SAME PIC
  • 1ST-OLD LADY- BIG NOSE-POINT CHIN-MOUTH

2ND IS YOUNG LADY -HEAD SIDEWAYS

NOSE-EYE LASH.  CHIN- HAIR-EAR

SOMETIMES WE READ PASSAGES LIKE THIS-MORE THAN ONE THING HAPPENING- MORE THAN 1 MEANING

  • DON’T LOSE FOCUS ON ONE MAIN CENTRAL POINT

SCRIPTURE MARK 13:5-6

  • JESUS SAID TO THEM: “WATCH OUT THAT NO ONE DECEIVES YOU. MANY WILL COME IN MY NAME, CLAIMING, “I AM HE, “AND WILL DECEIVE MANY.

INRI CRISTO-(BRASIL)1948 BELIEVES HE IS JESUS

DAVID SHAYLER- UK -1965- STARTED OWN CHURCH

ALAN JOHN MILLER– DIVINE TRUTH MOVEMENT

SLIDE 14: SCRIPTURE MARK 13:7

WHEN YOU HEAR WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS, DO NOT BE ALARMED. SUCH THINGS MUST HAPPEN, BUT THE END IS STILL TO COME.

SCRIPTURE MARK 13:8                                  

    8. NATION WILL RISE AGAINST NATION, AND KINGDOM AGAINST KINGDOM. THERE WILL BE EARTHQUAKES IN VARIOUS PLACES, AND FAMINES. THESE ARE THE BEGINNING OF BIRTH PAINS.

YOU MUST BE ON YOUR GUARD

  • PEOPLE THINK THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER
  • EDUCATION/TECHNOLOGY/AI/MACHINER
  • WE HAVE MADE SOME STRIDES SOCIALLY
  • LOT GOING ON IN MARK 13.                           
  • YOU CAN GET LOST/DISTRACTED- CONFUSED

VIDEOAMAZING HOW MUCH EFFORT WE PUT INTO A TEMPORARY TRIP- WHAT ABOUT BEING READY FOR DAY THAT MATTERS MOST?

 GET READY- BE READY– RUTH HAVING BABY

 SCRIPTURE MARK 13:14

  14. “WHEN YOU SEE THE ABOMINATION THAT CAUSES DESOLATION STANDING WHERE IT DOES NOT BELONG- LET THE READER UNDERSTAND-THEN LET THOSE WHO ARE IN JUDEA FLEE TO THE MOUNTAINS.

  • WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE
  • REFERENCE TO ANTIOCHES – 167 BC
  • MANY THINK 70 AD TEMPLE WAS DESTROYED

HE DOESN’T STAY LONG HERE- HE MOVES ON QUICKLY

VERSE 17: HOW DREADFUL IT WILL BE FOR PREGNANT WOMEN AND NURSING MOTHERS!

  • JESUS IN THIS APOCOLYPTIC SHARING
  • INCLUDES WOMEN- EVEN CHILDREN- CULTURALLY
  • HE HAD JUST LEFT THEM IN CHAPTER 12
  • WIDOW WITH 2 MITES (ANOTHER WOMAN)

VERSE 21– LOOK THERE IS THE MESSIAH- OR NO HE’S OVER THERE- DON’T BELIEVE IT. (MATT 24 LIGHTING)

VERSE 23– BE ON YOUR GUARD

SUN DARKENED- MOON WON’T GIVE LIGHT- STARS WILL FALL

VERSE 28– NOW LEARN THIS LESSON FROM THE FIG TREE

    ITS SPRING- THEY WOULD BE SEEING THEM

    MOVES -APOCOLYPTIC INFO TO PRACTICAL/PARABLE

SCRIPTURE MARK 13:32                                  

  32. “BUT ABOUT THAT DAY OR HOUR NO ONE KNOWS, NOT EVEN THE ANGELS IN HEAVEN, NOR THE SON, BUT ONLY THE FATHER.

 SCRIPTURE MARK 13:33

  33. BE ON GUARD! BE ALERT! YOU DO NOT KNOW WHEN THAT TIME WILL COME.

  • MAIN POINT- CONFUSION/DOUBLE MEANING
  • YOU MUST BE PREPARED- HE SAYS IT REPEATEDLY

 SCRIPTURE MARK 13:34

  34. IT’S LIKE A MAN GOING AWAY; HE LEAVES HIS HOUSE AND PUTS HIS SERVANTS IN CHARGE WITH THEIR ASSIGNED TASK, AND TELLS THE ONE AT THE DOOR TO KEEP WATCH.

SCRIPTURE MARK 13:35

  35. “THEREFORE KEEP WATCH BECAUSE YOU DO NOT KNOW WHEN THE OWNER OF THE HOUSE WILL COME BACK-WETHER IN THE EVENING OR AT MIDNIGHT OR WHEN THE ROOSTER CROWS, AT DAWN.

SCRIPTURE MARK 13:36-37

  36. IF HE COMES SUDDENLY, DO NOT LET HM

HIM FIND YOU SLEEPNG. WHAT I SAY TO YOU, I SAY TO EVERYONE; WATCH!”

THE CHOSEN                                    

   WATCH OUT – BE ON YOUR GUARD-BE ON YOUR GUARD-

BE ON YOUR GUARD- BE ALERT-KEEP WATCH- WATCH!

SCRIPTURE PSALM 63:1–    SURVEY RESULTS

  1. “YOU, GOD,  ARE MY GOD EARNESTLY I SEEK YOU;I THIRST FOR YOU, MY WHOLE BEING LONGS FOR YOU, IN A DRY AND PARCHED LAND WHERE THERE IS NO WATER”   ( A PRAYER OF MINE-CREATE HUNGER IN ME

 SCRIPTURE JEREMIAH 29:13

  13. “YOU WILL SEEK ME AND FIND ME WHEN YOU SEEK ME WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART.”

   WHEN WE SEEK HIM- WE WILL SEEK HIM MORE

   HE USES OUR SEEKING TO EMPOWER US TO DO MORE SEEKING

PURSUING CHRIST

   MUSIC: EVERY SECULAR SONG LISTEN WORSHIP SONG

   READING 2 BOOKS, HAVE ONE BE ABOUT JESUS/FAITH

   PRAY AS YOU ENTER EVERY NEW ROOM

    (MALL/GYM/HOME) ASK JESUS TO USE YOU

 PURSUING CHRIST

   INTENTIONALLY SEEK THE LORD IN YOUR WORK

   EVERY 5 CASUAL CONVERTIONS LIFE/ 1 BE ABOUT JESUS

EACH PURCHASE-HAVE EVERY 5TH BE FOR SOMEONE ELSE

PURSUING CHRIST

  SPEND 5 MINUTES READING JESUS WORDS

 WATCH 2 FAITH BASED FILMS THIS YEAR

 SERVE 2 TIMES THIS YEAR- ANYWHERE- DOESN’T

DAILY MOMENT BY MOMENT BREATH PRAYERS TO JESUS

  • MOST ARE MORE INTERESTED IN HOW AND WHEN INSTEAD OF THE FACT THAT THERE WILL BE A SECOND COMING D MARTIN LOLYD JONES

ROPE- ETERNITY

TAPE REPRESENTS YOUR LIFE- HOW MUCH OF THIS PART ARE YOU SPENDING ON GETTING READY TO BE READY?