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The Gospel of Matthew

The End Is Not Yet

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October 4, 2026
Matthew 24:1-14
Steven Lee
Pastor for Preaching & Vision

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0:17Well, good morning and welcome. We're glad you're here with us as we continue our series in Matthew's Gospel. Would you join me as I pray and ask the Lord for help? Father, that's our prayer this morning. We want to be those Psalm 1 men and women who are planted by streams of water, and whose leaves do not wither. In all that we do, we would prosper because our trust is in the Lord Jesus Christ. We thank you that you were that Psalm 1 man, and that we would be those Psalm 1 people this morning. Now, as we look at your Word, give us hope. We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.

1:08Humans have always sought to predict the future. We've always sought to predict the future. Some of you are as old as me and you remember "The Jetsons." Predicted flying cars and robot maids, right? We'll have to settle for the Roomba and full self-driving, I guess. Or "Back to the Future," predicted hoverboards and self-lacing shoes. Or "Star Trek" foretold space travel and those replicators that would make any food that you could possibly want. Elon Musk says that we're going to become a multi-planetary species, and some of us will be living on Mars in the near future. Maybe one of us will plant a church there. Who knows?

1:57But not all predictions of the future are so bright, are they? Almost regularly in the news, we hear of climate catastrophe and nuclear holocaust and the AI apocalypse. This is true in the church as well. Some of you may remember this, some of you are old enough to remember this. In the 1980s, there was a former NASA rocket engineer who wrote a booklet. His name was Edgar Whisenant, and he wrote a booklet called "88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988." How many of you remember that? Oh, a good number of hands. They mailed out 300,000 copies to pastors, and they sold 4.5 million copies. It was a bestseller. Just in case you didn't know, he was wrong.

2:54But both before and after him, many have tried to predict the end of the world, the return of Christ, or the end of civilization, or some asteroid impact, or some global extinction event. We have this insatiable curiosity about the future, and the disciples are no different. What we see in our text this morning is that the disciples ask Jesus about what is coming and when is it going to happen. And Jesus doesn't give them just a date that they can mark on their calendars, but Jesus teaches his disciples, more importantly, this is how you are to live in the meantime. He doesn't want them looking out to a future date and say, "Mark that moment," but what he says is, "This is how you are to live."

3:46Now, Matthew 24 and 25 are called the Olivet Discourse. It's the fifth and final discourse in Matthew's Gospel, and it's called that because Jesus gives it from the Mount of Olives. You can see that in verse three. And many would say Matthew 24 is probably the most difficult section in all of Matthew's Gospel because it uses prophetic and apocalyptic words and phrases, and we're trying to figure out, is he talking about the past? Is he talking about the future? And we'll take more time next week outlining sort of the various views, but this week, I think our text is rather clear. Jesus does not give his disciples a detailed timeline, or a chart, or any codes to sort of decode when he's coming, but rather, the main point is that the end is not yet, but the end will come.

4:44The end is not yet, but the end will come. You can actually see that directly in our passage this morning. Verse six, right at the end there, "The end is not yet," and then verse 14, right at the end of verse 14, "And then the end will come." So Jesus is trying to prepare his disciples for hardship and suffering and trials and tribulations. Things are going to get worse, and Jesus is going to be seated on his throne, unfolding his glorious plan for redemption, and then the end will come. He instills in them hope for the future as well. And so this passage aims to encourage us this morning, encourage us to endure suffering and to proclaim the gospel to the very ends of the earth. We are being sent by the Lord Jesus Christ on mission.

5:43If you skip all the way ahead to the end of Matthew's Gospel, what does he say? He sends them out on the Great Commission. So we're going to walk through our passage and see the three major things that are coming. Three major things that are coming. And we're going to see that temple destruction is coming in verses one and two. We're going to see false messiahs and global disasters are coming in verses three to eight, and then we're going to see tribulations and triumph are coming in verses nine through 14. So first, the temple's destruction is coming. Look with me at verses one and two. This kind of is the bridge between the previous chapters of 21 to 23, and then 24 and 25. Look with me at verse one there.

6:29"Jesus left the temple and was going away when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, 'You see all these, don't you? Do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.'" Now, do you remember how Matthew chapter 23 ended? 23:38, he says, "Your house is going to be left desolate." It's going to be abandoned. And so the disciples, I think, are wondering, Jesus, why would you possibly abandon such a beautiful temple? All of 22 and 23 probably have taken place in the temple, and as they walked away from the temple, the disciples were remarking how beautiful and glorious this temple is.

7:25In Mark 13:1, they say, "Teacher, what wonderful stones and wonderful buildings that we see." And the disciples were not wrong. An ancient historian, Josephus, called the temple "the most marvelous edifice which we have ever seen or heard of, whether we consider its structure, its magnitude, the richness of every detail, or the reputation of its holy places." It was made of these massive marble stones and covered in gold ornamentation so that when the sun shone on it, it would just reflect and just be brilliant like a lighthouse. And the Temple Mount was 36 acres, so it's hard to imagine a structure like this. But if you take the US Capitol Building, and then the Lincoln Memorial, and then the National Mall, and we kind of all wrap that into one, we begin to get a sense of sort of the glory and splendor of this temple. One commentator described it as the most awesome building in the ancient world. But it wasn't just its beauty, but rather what it represented.

8:36This was the center of Israel's national, religious, and political life. It was a place of worship. It was a symbol of their identity. It's where they went to meet with God. And several times a year, all Jewish males would make a pilgrimage to this temple. So Jesus' reply is shocking. Look with me at verse two. "There will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down." Jesus predicts the destruction of something that looks indestructible. Jesus has already said that the temple is passing away. Back in Matthew 12:6, he said, "Something greater than the temple is here." Or if we look at John's Gospel, Jesus says, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." And he wasn't speaking about the building, but the temple of his own body.

9:35And so Jesus is saying that the temple is passing away for something greater. And so Jesus predicts the temple's destruction 40 years before it happens. But he is also revealing that Israel's relationship to God would no longer be bound up in a building, but rather in a person. He's removing the scribes and the Pharisees and those seven woes, but now he's also saying that there is a new and better temple, a new and better sacrificial system. He will come as the great high priest and the sacrificial lamb. And if you know your history, you know that the temple was destroyed in AD 70. Rome burned the temple, razed it to the ground, and even dug up its foundations. And I think that destruction in AD 70 will feature prominently in the rest of this chapter.

10:32So Jesus' prediction is like an exclamation mark on 21 to 23. Not only are the scribes and Pharisees being removed, Jesus is saying the temple is going away and giving way to something better. Now, this gives rise to the disciples' question in verse three. Look with me there. Here we come now to the false messiahs and global disasters that are coming. Verse three, "As Jesus sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately saying, 'Tell us, when will these things be? What will be the sign of your coming and the end of the age?'" So the disciples ask two main questions. When will these things be?

11:19And then what is the sign of your coming, and what's the sign of the end of the age? And just their very questions reveal how they view these events. I think they think all of this is going to happen around the same time, the temple's destruction, the Messiah's return, the end of the age. They're thinking all of it is linked or perhaps even simultaneous events. The phrase the end of the age generally refers to the final judgment or the consummation of all things or what we would say, the end of the world as we know it. And in reply to their very first question, when will these things be, Jesus essentially says, "You're on a need to know basis, and you don't need to know."

12:05That's essentially what he says. Look with me at verse 36. Skip ahead with me, 36, "But concerning the day and hour, no one knows." And then look at verse 42, "Stay awake for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming." And then verse 44, "You also must be ready for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect." So Jesus does not give them an exact moment that they can mark on their calendars and say, "This is when all these things are going to happen." That's not what's most important. Well, what is most important? What's most important is how we live while we wait. Look with me at verse four and verse six.

12:52We get two commands in verses four to 14, two imperatives in this text, and the first one comes in verse four. Right at the end there, it says, "See that no one leads you astray." In other words, don't be deceived. Don't get tricked. And then verse six, here's the second imperative, "See that you are not alarmed." So don't be fearful. So don't be tricked into thinking that the end of the world is sort of here, and don't be alarmed when all these things begin to happen. If we wanted to state those two imperatives positively, we would say be discerning and steadfast, be calm and unshakable. We could maybe quote 1 Corinthians 15:58, "Be steadfast and immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord." So don't be alarmed.

13:42So Jesus is basically saying trials and tribulations and sufferings and persecutions are on the horizon, and yet don't be afraid. Don't be alarmed. Don't be tricked into somehow thinking that the end is here or that the end has passed. Now, it's a little bit like an oncologist that prepares a patient for chemotherapy, and he says to the patient, "You are going to feel fairly normal after the first treatment or so, but then, we're looking at 20 treatments, and as they begin to build on one another, you're going to feel worse and worse. Your fatigue levels are going to increase. You're going to maybe feel nauseous.

14:33And at some point, you're going to feel like something is going terribly wrong." And the doctor says to the patient, "And when you feel that way, don't worry. That's normal. That's the way it's going to be. We're going to help you through it. Don't be alarmed." That's essentially what Jesus is doing in our text this morning. He's preparing his disciples for suffering so that they will be ready and that they won't be caught off guard. It's a little bit like John 16:1. He says, "I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away." Now, look with me at verse five. What does verse five say?

15:15"For many will come in my name saying, 'I am the Christ,' and they will lead many astray." In other words, they're going to have many false prophets, false teachers, false messiahs, people who actually claim to be the Christ or to be sent by God. And you don't have to look far to see some of that, actually. In Acts 5, Gamaliel is addressing the chief priests, and they're trying to figure out what to do with James, John, and Peter, and Jesus. And he says this, "For before these days..." This is Acts 5:36. "For before these days Theudus rose up, claiming to be somebody, and a number of men, about 400, joined him." So someone was coming, claiming to be perhaps the Messiah, and 400 men followed this individual.

16:07And then he says in verse 37, "And after him, Judas the Galilean rose up in the days of the census and drew away some of the people after him. He too perished, and all who followed him were scattered." So all these so-called messiahs, small M, were popping up, telling people, "I'm the one sent by God." And all these people were following them, and then they died, and then it became nothing. And we see that again in Acts 21:38. Paul is questioned at the tribunal, and they say, "Are you not the Egyptian who recently stirred up a revolt and led the 4,000 men of the assassins out into the wilderness?" So again, there's been all of these sort of so-called false messiahs who have come. The Apostle John, in his epistle, says, "As you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come."

17:02So there's going to be an abundance of false teachers, both after Jesus, and this pattern is going to continue on and on until Christ returns. Do you know of any false messiahs today? Muhammad claimed to be God's final prophet and messenger, has led many astray with Islam. Joseph Smith of the Mormon faith claimed to be a prophet with special revelation and has led many astray into heresy. Or Sun Myung Moon of the Unification Church in Korea claimed to be the second coming of the Messiah. All of these individuals claim to be special messengers from God, but Jesus warns, "Don't be duped by these false messiahs." So very simply, if anyone you know that you hear of claims to be the Messiah, run far, far away. If you ever hear that in the pulpit, find yourself a new church.

18:08Now look with me at verses six and seven. "Next there will be wars and rumors of war. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes." So in other words, Jesus is saying, "Don't be alarmed by global disasters that are coming." And in their day, they would've very easily interpreted some of these kind of acts of God, if you will, famines, earthquakes, as God's judgment. But what does he tell them? "The end is not yet." So don't see this primarily or solely as divine judgment as though the end were here. Jesus tells them, and he tells us, that all of these things are going to continue for the rest of history. And we know that this was a problem because in 2 Thessalonians, some were telling others that the resurrection had already come, and we missed it. And he says, "Don't be deceived by that." And so in the same way, if nuclear war breaks out in our lifetime, don't be afraid. If World War III begins, or if America fails as a nation, or if famines break out and earthquakes increase, he tells us in verse eight, "This is just the beginning of the birth pains." It's just the beginning.

19:34The end is not yet. So in other words, the fall of the temple, false messiahs, wars, and famines and earthquakes do not mean that the end of the world has arrived. And the effect that this would've had for the disciples is that it would've been amazing and great comfort to them. Because in 40 years, they would hear of wars and rumors of wars and invasions, and there would be the Jewish war against Rome, and then the temple would be destroyed, and they're thinking, "This could be the end of the world." And then they remember, "No, no, no. Jesus told us about this. It's not the end of the world." It's a little bit like those posters that were made in the UK during World War II. Maybe you've seen them.

20:20They say, "Keep calm and carry on." You guys know what I'm talking about? In a sense, that's what Jesus is telling his disciples, "Keep calm." But he tells us more than just carry on. He says, "I have said these things to you, that in me you might have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But be of good cheer; I have overcome the world," John 16:33. Now let me just give a word on timelines. When Jesus was giving this instruction, the fall of Jerusalem hadn't happened yet, but as we read this today, those events have happened. But the second coming has not yet happened, and so we might be wondering, well, is Jesus talking about those past events, or is he talking about future events that we should be anticipating? And we'll get more into this next week, but I think we could say confidently that Jesus is describing both.

21:17Things that have taken place in the past that would've encouraged the disciples prior to the destruction of the temple, and these things are still relevant for us as we await the second coming of Jesus. You could say that Matthew 24 contains a single prophecy with two fulfillments. A single prophecy with two fulfillments, and we'll see more of that next week. So we've seen that the temple's destruction is coming, false messiahs and global disaster is coming, and now third, tribulations and triumph are coming. Look with me at verses nine to 14. "Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake. And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another, and many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.

22:12And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come." So Jesus, in a sense, narrows the funnel from these massive global disasters to now internal and personal troubles that Christians will experience, suffering and distress. Some are going to be betrayed, some are going to be put to death. And Jesus has been teaching this throughout his ministry, hasn't he? Trials and tribulations will be experienced by his disciples.

23:01Suffering and persecution will be experienced by all those who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus. And so that's why he tells the parable of the soils. Some will receive the seed, pop up with joy, and yet when the cares of life, the thorns, come, it chokes out that seed. Notice the hatred will come in verse nine, "From all nations for my name's sake." This assumes or presupposes that the Great Commission is going to bring the gospel around the world to all nations. So opposition doesn't negate or undermine the mission. Just because some don't respond to the gospel and some actually hate us doesn't mean that we stop sharing the love and good news of Jesus.

23:55What he's saying is that even in the midst of great opposition and persecution and suffering, the gospel marches on. Now look with me at verses 11 and 12. "And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray, because lawlessness will be increased, and the love of many will grow cold." And so again, we see false prophets who will lead many astray. We see lawlessness and lovelessness, and I think he's suggesting that this is going to be even within the church. And again, this should be no surprise. If you've been a Christian for any amount of time, you've seen people fall away. You've seen people betray, and there are wolves among the sheep and weeds among the wheat.

24:47I remember back when I was in college, we had a college fellowship, and all the seniors got together, and we used to say, "How many of us will still be following Jesus 10 years from now?" And the statistics were that one in 10 of us would continue to have an active faith. So Jesus is saying, "Don't be surprised when people love themselves, love the world, and they grow cold." Lawlessness increases. Paul, the Apostle Paul in 2 Timothy 3, he describes what's going on in the last days, which is what we're living in right now. We are living in those last days. And he says this is what's going to happen.

25:28People will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. Anything in that list surprise you? No. That's just a normal Tuesday.

25:58Jesus reminds us, "Don't lose heart when you see those things at work in our world because God is still on his throne." Look with me at verse 13. "The one who endures to the end will be saved." In other words, endure, withstand this opposition. Keep going. Don't give up. In this context, what Jesus is saying is, "Hold fast to the things that I have spoken to you. Hold fast to the gospel. Just because the world around us at times will look like it's completely falling apart, it does not mean that the end has come, but rather keep your eyes fixed on me." 2 Timothy 2:12, "If we endure, we will also reign with Christ." Or Paul in Romans 5 says, "Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope." In other words, Jesus is saying that suffering is going to come in this world, in this life, so that true faith will be ultimately revealed.

27:09All of us are going to need to endure. The Christian life is not a walk in the park, but it's worthwhile. Suffering is not an anomaly, but it's something we must walk through in order to obtain salvation. So if any of you are suffering today, whether that's physical ailments or hatred from family, or ostracization from your workplace, or whatever it may be, you're not to see that hatred, that animosity, that suffering, that persecution as somehow, "I must be outside of the will of God." But rather you are precisely where he has placed you because that is evidence that you truly bear the name of Christ.

27:57Look with me at verse 14. Here's the second glimpse of triumph that we get. "And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come." Again, we're getting the sneak peek of the Great Commission that Jesus will give in Matthew 28, that with the rejection of Israel, it will launch the Gentile Mission, and what it portrays is gospel advance, proclamation of the gospel despite great persecution. And so the emphasis is clear. Don't worry about the specific timelines or dates. Stop trying to figure out when I'm coming back or what's going to happen, but rather you have been sent on a mission.

28:46Even as the world looks more and more hostile, Christians have been sent by the Lord Jesus Christ to go out, share the gospel, and make much of Jesus in the meantime. You have a mission this morning, and it's not just, "Well, let me just hunker down, wait till Jesus comes back so I get to escape all of this persecution." But rather we have been sent by the Lord Jesus Christ. You have marching orders this morning. Do you live with that reality in view? Jesus will say in Matthew 18 to 20, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded."

29:42And so Jesus commands us this morning to go and to make disciples. And so this is a good lead in for the next several weeks that we'll have with global focus, isn't it? Now, you could say verse 14 has this dual fulfillment in view, such that there's a near and far fulfillment. We could say that the gospel was proclaimed throughout the known world, the Roman Empire at the time, which is how Paul speaks. In Colossians 1:5, he says, "The gospel which has come to you, as indeed the whole world, is bearing fruit and increasing." And so the gospel was proclaimed throughout the known world, and then the end, meaning the destruction of the temple, came. And it's going to be proclaimed to the very ends of the earth, so that there will be some from every tribe, language, tongue, and nation gathered around the throne in that final day.

30:36And so the gospel is still going forth to every nation, and then the end will come. So despite tribulations, God and Christ's kingdom will triumph in the end. And so Jesus prepares his disciples for trials and tribulations and suffering by instilling in them hope for the future. So I want to draw out three applications from this text for us this morning. The first is don't believe that the sky is falling. There will be Chicken Littles in your life that will tell you the sky is falling. Buy those gold bars or sell all your whatever and get that bunker in South Dakota or somewhere else rural. Don't listen to the doom and gloom.

31:26The end of the world as we know it is not around every corner, and if it were, we could not stop it. The AI apocalypse will not be all that it's predicted to be. Global warming or climate change or environmental catastrophe will not end the world unless you're talking about fire. A nuclear holocaust will not usher in Christ's kingdom. And while we want to be good stewards of technology and of the Earth and of weapons, we don't need to live in constant fear of it all. You have been given a mission by the Lord Jesus Christ. You have been told how to live in the meantime. Our God is in control. Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father right now, and he looks down on his children and he says, "Don't be afraid.

32:21Don't be alarmed." Second application. Endure for the sake of Christ. Endure for the sake of Christ. You don't need to look far today to see persecution. I used to read a passage, all those who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. And I used to think, "Am I really a Christian? I haven't experienced that. I don't see any of that in America. Are we somehow missing the boat?" I think less and less of us feel that way today. We see persecution and suffering all around us. There's cultural and political hostility against Christianity. We've seen medical mandates that trample on religious convictions.

33:05We've seen non-discrimination protections for sexual orientation and gender identity that are used to discriminate against Christians. We've seen COVID era mandates that ignored religious exemptions. We've had local governments insist that Christian-owned businesses celebrate explicitly what the Bible condemns. You can think of the Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado or Hobby Lobby. And while these are worth fighting in the courts, what Jesus wants us to remember is don't be alarmed. Don't be afraid. Endure. James tells us, James 1:12, "Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life." So press on.

34:01Don't grow discouraged this morning, brothers and sisters. Don't sit in your bunker wringing your hands, "Oh, what is going to happen?" The Lord Jesus rules and reigns. Third application. Proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ. The good news is that Jesus came into the world to save sinners. We get rescued through Jesus. And so no matter how you may be struggling, whatever persecutions or sufferings you're facing, whatever global calamity is out there, whatever local issues are bubbling up, trials and tribulations are not the final word. Suffering cannot decisively destroy us. The Gospel of Jesus Christ reminds us that in him, if we have died to ourselves, we've been raised with Christ, we are his holy and beloved ones.

35:05And nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus. Not tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword, but rather we are protected and kept by the Lord Jesus Christ. So Jesus will keep us and keep us from stumbling and hold us fast until the very end. And so this morning, we're invited to continue to be those who have the gospel on our lips, love for the nations, love for neighbor, love for God, and speak of the good news to a watching world in great need. God's word does the work of saving sinners and drawing people to himself. If you've not shared the gospel with anybody in the last year, the last 12 months, I would encourage you to do so. Not out of guilt, but I think there's nothing more exciting than sharing the good news of how Jesus saves sinners with people who have no hope and have no future.

36:17There's nothing more exhilarating in all the world I wanna point your attention to one thing I skipped earlier. Look at verse 8. "All these are but the beginning of the birth pains." Jesus tells us that our earthly sufferings are merely the beginning of birth pains, and I think that communicates two things. The first is that this is not meaningless suffering. How many of the mothers in the room would trade their child for the excruciating pain of labor? Well, none. The labor, the birth pains were worth it because of what it produced. And in the same way, the trials, the sufferings, the tribulations that Christians experience are producing something in us this morning.

37:16You're not just to grin and bear it, but they're producing a greater holiness, a greater longing for the kingdom, a greater love for Jesus, a greater love for each other, that we get to support each other in this. Not that our love would grow cold, but that we would love one another all the more when we see a fellow brother walking through some of these trials and tribulations. It means that every day that you endure, you're getting one day closer to seeing Jesus face to face. So hang in there. You can do it. And the second thing is, I was talking to my wife, and she has given birth to all five of our children, and she did four without any pain medication.

38:03And this will be relevant in just a moment. But when we gave birth to our very first one, we met with this doula beforehand, and she had never been through birth. I had never been through birth, though my part's a little bit easier than hers. And we met with this doula, and the doula said something that stuck with her. She said, "As you're going through labor, you're going to feel like at some point you're not going to be able to do it anymore, and that you're going to die. And just take a deep breath, and then you're going to get through the next contraction, and then eventually you're going to give birth to a baby." And sure enough, in giving birth to our first, we're down at HCMC in Downtown Minneapolis, and it was a long time we were there. And labor is building, and she gets to a point where she's like, "I can't do this anymore.

38:53I can't do it." And the doula's like, "No, no, no, just get through the next contraction. Just get through the next contraction." And then, sure enough, we have our children. And Jesus says that to us this morning. As you're going through the birth pains, the contractions of this world, the pains and sufferings that feel so painful and overwhelming that you're thinking, "I don't know if I can do this anymore. Life is just hitting me from all sides, from health issues to family issues to business issues, and it's just battering me." Jesus Christ looks out on his people and he says, "Fear not, for I am with you. Do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, and I will help you, and I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

39:50And he's seated on the throne, and he says, "Hang in there. It's all going to be okay." So keep your eyes fixed on Jesus, and he will hold you fast. Let's pray. Father, oh, we need that reminder this morning. I need that reminder this morning. No matter the turmoil of our world and the tribulations that we face, you are in control. You are still God, and you are ruling and reigning on high, and you are with us. And you have promised that you will never leave us, nor will you forsake us. So instill in us hope, and courage, and boldness today. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

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