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So even though right now you may be troubled, right now you might need to stop being afraid. But what does Jesus do? He gets them to focus upon the future. He said, in my father’s house, or many mansions, but you’re not going yet. You may be afraid now, but that’s not where we live. We don’t just always live here in the presence. We live in the future based upon the Word of God. We can see things that other people can’t see.

We have hope that they do not have. There ought to be a difference in a believer’s life. And look what he says, if it were not so, I would have told you, I go to prepare a place for you. So in other words, the things that’s causing you, the fear is still here. He doesn’t remove all these things in this life. We’re living in a sinful, wicked world. Let me just mention something to you. I wrote this down because one of my favorite Psalms is the 23rd Psalm.

And in the 23rd Psalm that makes this statement in verse one, the Lord is my shepherd, is means now. The Lord is now my shepherd. That means he is leading and guiding me. All I’m supposed to do is follow him. And it’s a wonderful Psalm, so you get a chance, you read the whole 23rd Psalm. And in this Psalm, he says, I walk to the valley of the shadow of death, though I walk. That’s now. You see, he is my shepherd.

And though I walk, I’m following the shepherd. He says, I will fear, no. What does it say? Evil. I will fear, no evil. Why? Because thou art with me. There’s a reason. Now, if the Lord is not with you, you have all the reasons the world be scared to death. But those who know Christ is saved and know the Holy Spirit indwells us. And we do not need to be afraid.” Another verse that he gives us here. He says in verse 3 of John 14, and if I go and prepare a place for you, what does he say?

I will come again. Because he’s going to come and take us out of this world there’s nothing but heartache and sorrow. And he’s gonna take us out of this world. So the peace that you can have here and now is because you know how it’s going to be. And you don’t have to worry and be afraid. God says he came into the world and paid for our sins on the cross that he might deliver us from the fear of death.

Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. See, in this world, in these bodies that we have, We’re always having that element of fear of death. But you see, you don’t have to fear death. So if you don’t fear death, you don’t have to fear any virus. Though we don’t want to hasten that moment, we want to be wise and not tempt the Lord thy God. We want to be as safe as we possibly can be.

Just because I know I’m going to heaven doesn’t mean that I have a desire to run in front of a Mack truck. I do have a great burning desire to want to live to a ripe old age. And 78 is not a ripe old age in my mind. I feel like I need about another 15, 20 years, and then I’ll be ready to go. And I told the people in our church this, I don’t want to live forever. I just want to live long enough to bury everybody else and then I’ll be ready to go.

So that may be today, maybe tomorrow, I don’t know when it’s going to be, but I am looking for the Lord because He said He’s coming back to get me. And I don’t have to be afraid because anything in this world, remember, Everybody has to die of something. You can’t get out of here alive unless the Lord comes back in the rapture, and we are all looking for that moment. So, the Bible says, praise the Lord. Now, I can’t see you right now, but you can see me.

Smile. Be happy. Don’t worry. You got it? Trust the Lord. Fear not. Be not afraid. That’s what the word of God says. Let me give you another scripture here. Because he says this in chapter 14. He says, I am here, I am with you. He says, I’m gonna be leaving. And when I leave, he says, I’m gonna send somebody else. So he says in verse 25, these things have I spoken under you being yet present with you. I’m present with, he’s right here with his disciples.

Then in verse 26, but the comforter, which is the Holy Ghost whom the Father will send in my name. He shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance. What’s the reward I’ve said unto you? The Holy Spirit was going to come to every believer. And is it amazing that the Holy Spirit is called the Comperter? You see, He is a great Comperter for those who trust what He says. And the Holy Spirit is the author of the Word of God and teaches us the Word of God.

And so through the scriptures that we read, the Holy Spirit wants to comfort you with these verses. God does not remove the problems of life. He gives us the strength and grace that we need to go through them. And remember another thing. When he talks about the love of God been shed abroad in our heart by the Holy Spirit. And he talks about in the book of Galatians, chapter 5, verse 22 and 20, about the fruit of the Holy Spirit.

Love, joy, peace and so on, you know. Did you know that when you trusted Christ as your Savior, when He gave you the Holy Spirit? He says, He gave us His peace. My peace I give unto you. My peace I leave with you. of this peace is the Holy Spirit. See, the Holy Spirit is God’s love, and the Holy Spirit is God’s peace, and all these wonderful nine things that he mentions in the book of Galatians, that’s the fruit of the Holy Spirit.

God gave us these things. So he says in verse 27, “‘Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you, Not as the world give it. Give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled. Neither let it be afraid. Why does he have to tell us this? Because we are troubled and we are afraid. So he said, I’m gonna give you the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is my peace. It’s my love. It’s my joy. God says, I wanna give this to you.

And it wouldn’t it be a shame for us to say, Lord, I don’t want your peace. I don’t want your love. I just don’t care Lord. And you were just like the world does. We don’t have the same look on life as the people of the world. We have a divine perspective. And we see things the way that God wants to see them. Another scripture is important because the times that we’re living in are opportunities that could further the gospel.

Let me give you a couple examples. You see in the book of 2 Timothy, and chapter 2 and verse 9, it makes a statement. The apostle Paul, and right into young Timothy says, wherein I suffer trouble. So I ask God to take away all my sufferings, no. Take away all my troubles, no. He says, I suffer trouble as an evil door. And if there’s anybody who knew the Lord and loved the Lord and had all the Christian characters, that was the apostle Paul.

But notice what he says. Even under bonds, I mean, he was in chains, but the word of God is not chained. You see, we may not be able to meet together as a congregation. So is the word of God bound? Is it isolated and we can’t get the gospel out? No, we still have opportunities. And seed that has been sown is still sown. and it can brainforth the fruit and accomplish that which God has purposed it. So, Paul says, the Word of God is not bound.

Even though he was in chains in prison, but he says, they chain me, but not the gospel. And Philippians 1 and verse 12 and 13, he says, but I would, you should understand brethren, so he’s right into believers. He wants them to understand because they’ve heard what they’ve done to Him. He says, now let me help you to understand something. That the things which happened to me, and Paul had a lot of things happening to him. You see, they had famines in those days.

He had 40 people take out a, you know, decree. They were all going to kill the apostle Paul. He had all these things that happened. You ought to read the 11th chapter of the book of 2 Corinthians, and you’ll see some of the things that Paul went through in his life. God did not stop all those things from happening to Paul. God is not going to stop the problems of this life from happening to his children whom he loves and don’t mistake and question the love of God.

Because these are things that happens to us. Because we live in a sinful world, we’re in sinful bodies, people have sinful minds, and like he told Israel when they brought him out of Egypt. He says, if you all love me and honor me and serve me, I’ll put none of these diseases upon you, best health insurance you could have ever had. But God’s people don’t always do right. The world doesn’t do right. We have many viruses of all kinds.

And over the centuries they’ve taken many people’s lives. And if you read the book of Revelation, they’re going to be taking a whole lot more. It’s going to get bad. The tribulation is just that. It’s the tribulation. It’s the worst part of time that the world’s ever known. It’s right ahead of us. But that’s why we know that those who trusted Christ is Savior and are alive when Christ comes back in the air will be changed in a moment, the twinkling of our eye and caught up to meet the Lord in the air.

And so shall we ever be with the Lord. And that’s something that we should all be thankful for. And we can praise the Lord now for something that’s going to happen later. The next thing I want you to see when He says, which have happened unto me. Get this, have fallen out rather, unto the furtherance of the gospel. You see, all these things that are going on can give us greater opportunities to talk to people. And the other day we had a big old truck that came pulling in here.

And I walked down and I said, can I help you? They said, yes, we came to get the voting machines out of our gymnasium. But they didn’t know where the gym was. They parked out here in the front and they can’t see it from the front of the church. So I got them on back to the back and then I was going to go into the gym and I couldn’t get into the gym because the gym was locked. And I thought, who locks the gym?

But the gym was locked and I had a key but I went through those keys about three or four times. Finally, I jiggled it one way and the door unlocked and I was able to get in. I was glad and I opened the door so that guys could come in. And when they came in and they’re getting ready to move this machine to take it out of here, I said, can I ask you a question? I said, sure. I said, give me a minute now.

I said, it’s taking me longer than that to open up the door. You can wait a minute. Just pretend I haven’t got it open yet. I said, I got to ask you a question. I said, are you a hundred percent sure if this virus was to get you? you’re 100% sure you’re going to heaven, or maybe you’re only 50% sure. What percentage are you? He says, well, I never thought about it before. I said, don’t you think it’s time to think about it?

Sure is. I’m asked says, because of the virus, a lot of people are scared to death. Now, I’m not scared to death because I know I’m going to heaven when I die. The best thing that can happen to me is to drop dead. I just don’t want to cause 20 other people to die because of me wanting to go. But anyway, when I explained the gospel to them, I said, does that make sense? And both of them said, yes, it does.

They trusted Christ as their Savior. Now, they left happier than when they came. They all of a sudden had a place reserved for them in heaven. Their sins had been paid for it. They’re now God’s children. They have eternal life and just a split moment. So can God use whatever’s going on for His honor and glory? Yes, He can. for the furtherance of the gospel. So he also makes this statement. He says in verse 13, so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace.

In other words, everybody knew Paul’s in prison, but also the word spread in all other places. And so he says the gospel is not bound because he told this one that told this one that told this one that told this. In other words, Paul created a virus. He had a virus effect because it spread. And years and years ago in my life, about 55, 56 years ago, after I trusted Christ as a Savior, I found out about a guy named Ray Stanford.

Who founded the Florida Bible College. I went there and I got totally infected with the Gospel virus. And the Gospel virus spread among that student body and they went throughout the world and they have affected many people all over the world with the Gospel virus. Now that’s a better virus than the coronavirus. But it’s a virus because did you know that you can also spread the virus of fear? Your fear can be projected into the lives of your whole family, to your neighbors, just because you’re worried and scared to death, you can cause that to spread like a virus.

This is why we’re so concerned about what our leaders tell us. And we want to know, are you telling us the truth? Because of the spread of that information goes across our country and around the world. Now, keep this in mind. A verse that I really love is found in the book of Psalms in chapter 27 and verse 1. Years ago, I remember listening to Bob Brooks sing this song. The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?

Or you could put down there, what shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life is, that means now, of whom shall I be afraid or of what shall I be afraid? Now, is being quarantined in the Bible? Well, let me just mention this to you, so that you get the impact of this. Did you know this is not a time to be squirming, timid, apologetic, or afraid, but straightforward and with the truth. This is not a time for preachers to play games, to beat around the bush or jerk our responsibility.

We want people when they tell us in these briefings that they have at the White House to tell us the truth. It’s not really a big time for a lot of jokes and laughter. we want them to be serious, to be sober, to tell us what we need to know and do. Well, understand this. God also wants to tell us the truth. And so this is a story that Jesus told. Jesus said this. Now, understand there is a place called heaven.

It is a perfect place. Everything and everybody else has been quarantined to planet Earth. You see, God says we’ve all been infected with the sin of virus. The sin virus is a hundred percent fatal. Everyone who gets this virus dies, and it is sure. There’s only been one person in all of human history ever been born into this world without getting the sin virus. That was Jesus Christ. Because the Bible says, in Him is no sin, which is found in the book 1 John chapter 3, verse 5, and you know that He was manifested to take away our sins.

In other words, He could take away the virus and all the symptoms of the virus. So when you read the book of Romans in chapter 3, it will tell you what the symptoms are. You read the book of Galatians in chapter 5 and it will give you the works of the flesh. These are the consequences of this virus, the sinful nature that you and I were born with. My wife and I, we’ve been privileged to bring three children into this world.

Good news. In the bad news, they had the virus and they’re all going to die. My son’s already in heaven. My wife and I get cold, but we know that one of these days, because of this OSIN virus we have, we’re going to die. You would think more people would be more concerned about how to solve this problem than the other viruses that hits our world. The coronavirus is nothing compared because many people can get that virus and not die.

But everyone who is born into this world has the sin virus and they’re going to die 100%. That’s why Jesus Christ was born into this world without the virus, without that sinful nature. And so the Bible says He came into the world to remove the fear that all of us have because Because of the sin virus, because the wages of sin is what? Death. We’re all going to die. So Christ died in our place. He took our sins. He took all of the viruses.

And He paid for all of it on the cross. And He came back again from the dead. And says everyone that would believe in Him would get a new birth. Without the virus. I did that 60 years ago in September. That was the best decision I ever made. You see, he is the only, I guess you could say, vaccine. I got my shot. And I know a lot of people. You see, that’s why I preach every Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night.

Wednesday night and every weekend because I’m giving shots. This is the only vaccine that will work. And I want to give it to everybody I can find because they’re all going to die. And I don’t want them to be quarantined for eternity. See, if you die with this virus and you didn’t take the only cure that was made possible for you, you’ll spend an eternity quarantining in a literal fire burning hell forever and ever and ever. And that’s why he says in the book of Luke, and beside all of this between us and you, there is a great golf fixed.

There’s a wall of separation, they’re quarantined so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot, neither can they pass to us that would come from there. In other words, you can’t, you’re quarantined. Kind of like what they’re trying to do today, keeping people apart so that they don’t get the virus. Then he says, I pray they therefore Father that thou would have send him to my father’s house, for I have five brothers that he may testify to them lest they come also into this place of torment.

He doesn’t want you there. Therefore he says, talk to my brothers. So the most important thing you and I can ever do is to accept Jesus Christ as our Savior. You are infected. See, how do I know I’m infected? The Bible says in the book of Revelation 21, 27, there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defile of work of the abomination, not even make a lie shall enter. You cannot enter this perfect place if you have any symptoms whatsoever.

Have you ever had an evil thought? Have you ever done an evil deed? Do you really love the Lord thy God, will all thy heart, mind, body, soul, and strength in your neighbors yourself? Really? Have you ever done anything wrong? You see, you have the virus. Because when Jesus was here, He did no sin. And that’s why I made the statement in verse five of 1 John 3, he says, and in Him is no sin, no virus. He did not have to die.

He chose to die. And when He died, He died for us. So Christ is the only known antidote to cure us. If we fail to take Him, we will be quarantined for all eternity. God did not do this to us. It was the sin virus for which there was a cure. Look up here. This is so important. I’m believing in trusting that there’s more people watching today than they would have been last week. And I hope that you’ll understand.

This is the most important thing I’ve got to say. Letting this hand represent you and me. And let the wallet represent sin. We all have sin on us. That means all of us were born with a sin virus. We’re born with a sinful nature. conclud Therefore we are manifesting all the symptoms of this deadly virus. That’s 100%. But God says he loves us. But we can’t go to heaven with this virus. God doesn’t want it up there. So God has quarantined everybody and the only ones who gets to go into this place that He has made for us is those who have a new birth without us in nature.

And the only way you can get dad is to believe what He said and what He did. Now, God says you cannot save yourself. You cannot heal yourself. This hand represents Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord God in the flesh. Came into the world because He loves us. He hates our sin because our sin separates us from Him. So Jesus Christ who had no sin did not have to die. But because He loved us and He hated our sin, He took the sin and paid for it on the cross.

He came back from the dead and said the only thing that we have to do now to go to heaven is to believe that He did that for us. So when you believe He did this for you, He puts this payment to your account, and He paid for everything you’ve ever done. And you can know that you’re going to have Him because He gives you a new birth. Without a sinful nature, it’s called being born again, born from above.

You see, this birth was born of a corruptible seed from our parents. When you trusted Christ as your Savior, you were born from the incorruptible seed, the Word of God. Corruptible, incorruptible. So when you trust Christ as your Savior, He gives you this free gift of eternal life. You become His child, His child forever. And He’ll never cast you out and never lose you. So friend, there’s a lot of people right now that have a lot of questions and doubts about what’s going on and how to face these things.

I pray that the message today was a help and a blessing to you. Please share it with somebody else. Tell them to go to the YouTube channel. It’ll be put up there. It’s also on our church channel, right where you are. And it’s on our DVD. And they can play it over and over and over again. But give somebody the link. Because let God use you. You see, this can be for His honor and for His glory. I want people to come to know Christ as their Savior.

I want them to know they have eternal life. You see, you might get healed from a physical virus. You still got to die. Someday, somehow, some way, why not solve that problem? This is a bigger issue. And I pray that what I’ve said made sense to you. So if you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, right where you are, I can’t see you, but I’m taken by faith, you can see me. Would you right now, just between you and the Lord and your own mind, say, Lord, I don’t understand at all, but I know my center, friend, we all are.

And I believe that when Christ died, I believe He died for me. And I’m gonna trust Him right now as my Savior. Friend, if you’ll trust Him right now, He said He would save you right now and give you the free gift of eternal life right now. And when we go off the air, you can say, I’m going to heaven, because today I trusted Christ as my Savior. Not the church, not the preacher, not the medicine, not the White House, nobody, but Jesus.

He’s the one that loves you, died for you. Would you trust him? I pray that you will. Would you join me in prayer? Father, we thank you again for your blessings. Thank you for this time together with people who are watching from who knows where. But Father, I pray that you would be real to them and that you put your arms about them and let them know that they are loved, that you care for them. And Father, I pray that You would help them to have the comfort that they need, the peace that You give because of who they are and their future.

That we can focus upon that to what You have prepared for us. And this life is short, it’s temporary. And the Father, we need not be afraid. Thank You so much for this time together. Bless each one in Christ and we pray. Amen. Men reserved the last Saturday of the month for the Iron Sharpen’s Iron Men’s Bible Study and Breakfast at Calvary Community Church. Join us at 730 for a home-cooked breakfast. Then at 8am, the featured speaker of the month will present a one-hour classroom style men’s Bible Study in a relaxed atmosphere where questions and dialogue are welcomed.

The Scripture tells us that iron sharpens iron, and this men’s Bible study is open to those of all levels, whether new believers or mature Christians. The iron sharpens iron men’s Bible study and breakfast. Don’t miss this monthly opportunity for fellowship and the study of God’s Word. Thanks for joining us on Bibleline. If you are in the area, we welcome you to visit us. The address for Calvary Community Church is 4811 George Road, Tampa, Florida, 33634. And now a closing thought from Pastor Arnold.

Friend, one day it will happen. The trumpet will sound, and we will be changed. Caught up to meet the Lord in the air. So live today and every day. Believing that the Lord is coming soon, just keep looking up.