I am well hated these days by many, and there are times it affects me; it's only my emotions, though and quickly relieved by prayer. I will continue to share Jesus with everyone I can as we do indeed see the day approaching. Pastor Mac you are one strong man, and you encourage me. Thank you, and Lord thank you for using this man for our sakes
Hallelujah, Father in heaven, thank you for such a bold serving man such as Pastor Mac to speak your truth through. May we all become bold for you to speak through, just as this great Pastor. Amen.
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ I encourage you to share your faith with all people for Christ is returning soon get ready brothers and sisters in Christ praise God God bless you all in Jesus's name Amen
Oh my, I have never heard that preached before, it is all from the Word of God...and now I have a very different of what is to come after the rapture. Thank you for that truth. Work and responsibility lie ahead.
What a beautiful teaching Pastor Mac...As I followed along with you in scripture the holy spirit really dealt with my heart that I need to take my walk now while I'm still able 100 percent and realize everything we do we give account for whether bad or good....As you finished up telling about how God himself will come with a new heaven and new earth and dwell among us as he dis in the garden of eden....I just cried and cried thinking how wonderful that's going to be...I dont want to ever disappoint him for all the wonderful things he has done for me and is going to do....Thank you so very much.....
Father God,in the Name of Jesus...help me to learn and study these most important areas in Your Word's. Thank you for your help. PRAISE YOUR HOLY NAME JESUS. 🙏AMEN AND AMEN
what an encouraging message this was, as I have discovered it 3 years after the recording. Many thanks, Pastor Mac. God bless and protect you all at Calvary Chapel.
Praying without ceasing for those standing in the gap for His church, teaching tbe truth of the Word. The church has been starved of meat, getting curdled milk gives one a sickness. Praise the Lord forever!
God inspired and needed message. Sometimes I don't take the time to watch the mid-week Bible study. This last week was no different. The title caught my attention and thought I should watch but discarded for lack of time. But I kept feeling a pull, "Watch that Bible study, watch..." So glad I did. So many answers. Truth.
Oh Pastor MAC, you’ve certainly given me food for thought with this sermon, will I be able to sleep 😴 thinking about it ?? Straight and too the point as usual, thank you.
My understanding of these Words of Life, are that Jesus has come to set up His Kingdom in our hearts and He lives and reigns in our hearts NOW and we are experiencing His Life NOW, by His Grace. If we have received the Holy Spirit, hear Him , submit yourselves under the mighty hand of God, walk in Him, adore Him, listen to Him, . He is not just a passenger in your heart to be carried around, while you live your way. He is the almighty God who came to reside in you, to help you live the life pleasing to God and keep you safe from temptation, and also will share the love of God with the lost. The Holy Spirit is not a lesser person than Jesus or the Father, don't take Him for granted . The Holy Spirit is the person of the three in ONE God, and when we invite Him into our heart, He is God with us. Isn't that awesome, God is with us , so speaking to God and listening to Him is perfectly natural to the believer. The word of God is Jesus and the way to hear Him is through the Holy Spirit and if you need wisdom , there is your answer in your heart. Without the Holy Spirit, you cannot hope to understand the written word, the Bible. The Kingdom of God is at hand, because the Holy Spirit, lives and moves and has our being, in other words reigns with us. He will come in and sup with you has real meaning. What ever you are doing, He is there with you always. Do we appreciate the Holy Spirit or just live as though He were not there? Are we mindful of His awesome presence in our daily routines or do we only think of Him at prayer time? At any moment of the day, I can call on Him, and He will be there to answer not just when we face a problem. What a great friend He is, never leaves or forsakes us. Just cannot say enough about our closest and dearest friend.
Whenever any form of the question comes up about why God would let anyone go to hell, the question I ask instead is Why should God allow ANYONE into heaven? We can't possibly be good enough to earn our way there. So why should anyone at all ever get in? Which naturally can lead in to the ABC of salvation.
There is rank & order, it's throughout the Word. Different glorys, the conditions of the 7 churches, all getting very different messages in Rev. and He is dressed as a Judge. Run through those conditions, run to Philadelphia! Just agree, He'll do the work. Judgement must begin at the house of God, first. Behold the Bridegroom cometh, go ye OUT to meet him.
Re: study on Hades, you mentioned 2 compartments--1 for believers and 1 for unbelievers (approximately the 19- to 20-minute marks). I would love for you to teach on that some time soon, God willing. I am concerned for my husband; at this point, he may end up in compartment 1. But God. Thank you for teaching the above. I have been a Christian for almost 40 years and have heard NO-ONE teach on this subject before. I'm so hungry to understand more. Please.
Dear Pastor, I am sorry, but you are incorrect and are teaching inaccuracies. "Paradise", is NOT Heaven. Paradise was the good side of Sheol/Hades. That is the side (or compartment) Lazarus was carried to by the Angels. The rich man was in the torment side, which of course, as Abraham stated, was separated by a great gulf fixed. Your account of Jesus telling the thief "today you will be with Me in paradise" was not correct. Jesus was explaining to the thief that he will be with Him in the Sheol/Hades. While in Hades, Jesus ministered to the old testament saints and those that died in faith. On the third day, He "led captivity captive" and took them to His kingdom, which would be the third Heaven. If, as you stated, "paradise" means "the" Heaven, then that would not make sense and neither would it align up with other scripture. It wouldn't make sense because Jesus Himself states that "as Jonah spent 3 days and 3 nights in the belly of the whale, so shall the Son of Man spend 3 days and 3 nights in the belly of the Earth". So, by your account, Jesus took the thief on the cross to Heaven, then came back down to spend 3 days and 3 nights in Hades, then He led the saints to Heaven. Also, as Jesus was talking to Mary He warned her to not touch Him because He had not yet ascended. So, that would mean if He didn't go to Heaven upon death, then that thief certainly would not have gone. Upon death AFTER Jesus' death and resurrection, believers are translated into what some people believe are temporary bodies and are in the third Heaven (aka, THE heaven). Others believe we will be given our glorified bodies then. However, we will dwell with the Lord in Heaven until the rapture, upon which we will then be given a glorified body like Jesus has (if we weren't already given one). Then, of course, starts the Great Tribulation on Earth and we will be going to the marriage supper with the Lamb in Heaven.
Dear Daniel, I’m sorry but you are incorrect. The word paradise is used 3 times in the New Testament,Luke 23:43, 2 Corinthians 12:4, Revelation 2:7. I believe that you are not realizing that when the Bible speaks of the unseen realms such as hades, it has at least 3 compartments, hades its self, tartaroo, and the abyss. You also are not realizing that The Lord is omnipresent, psalm 139:8 reads “If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.” You also are saying things that pastor Mac did not say in his sermon and are not really listening to what he is saying. Thank you for your comments Peace
@@be.a.berean5820 I have never heard the grave (aka, Sheol/Hades) having 3 compartments. Do you have scripture for that? As for the word "paradise", in Luke 23:43, if Jesus was referring to 'the' Heaven as Paradise, then Jesus is a liar. For, as you say, if He said the thief will be with Him in Paradise, then that would mean as soon as He died on the cross, Jesus ascended into Heaven and the thief went with Him. The problem with that is Matthew 12:40, Jesus proclaims that just like Jonah was 3 days and 3 nights in the whales belly, so shall the Son of Man spend 3 days and 3 nights in the heart of the Earth. If He ascended immediately, when do you suppose He spent those 3 days and 3 nights in the heart of the Earth? Also, if He ascended immediately, in John 20:17, why would Jesus tell Mary "Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to my Father...." Furthermore, Ephesians 4:8-10 talks about Jesus ascending on high but goes on to say that He descended 'FIRST' into the lower parts of the Earth Finally, Acts 2:31, "He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that His soul was not left in hell, neither His flesh did see corruption." If Jesus didn't descend into the grave (what some translations call hell... but we all know is NOT the same as the Lake of Fire), why would it say "...LEFT IN HELL". There are many more scriptures pointing to Jesus' death, burial, DESCENSION, then ASCENSION. Now, as for your other 2 references, 2 Corinthians 2:4 & Revelation 2:7, those specific verses were not being discussed. It is clear that the author was in fact referring to Heaven in those verses. However, once again, I was not including them in my statement about the Bible not referring to Paradise as Heaven. This is why there is the rule that no scripture is up for any private interpretation. You must know and use the entire 66 books to decipher and deduct meaning and to determine if it's literal or prophetic or symbolic. Finally, please do not think I am trying to make myself up as this 'know it all' or authoritative person. I am just a humble servant who is also still learning. Take care
One more thing, while I feel being as accurate as one can is critical (for reasons I would go into if asked), those are generally secondary in comparison with THE main theme and that is ONLY Jesus is the way into Heaven; and only then by repentance and asking for and accepting His salvation. =)
Daniel Neumeyer hi Daniel In Matthew 25:41 Jesus says ““Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels:” I’m of the belief that Jesus is referring to hell or hades or a place we’re these people were to be forever. In Peters second epistle he writes in chapter 2:4 “For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;” This is where the word tartaroos is used for what is translated hell in English. In the book of Revalation chapter 20:3 “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.” The bottomless pit is the abyss. I’m of the belief that when Jesus said “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” Matthew 12:40 NKJV Jesus was speaking of hell being in the center of the earth. I also believe that tartatoos and the abyss is in hades/Sheol which is also in the heart of the earth. That’s what I mean by other compartments.
I am well hated these days by many, and there are times it affects me; it's only my emotions, though and quickly relieved by prayer. I will continue to share Jesus with everyone I can as we do indeed see the day approaching. Pastor Mac you are one strong man, and you encourage me. Thank you, and Lord thank you for using this man for our sakes
Hallelujah, Father in heaven, thank you for such a bold serving man such as Pastor Mac to speak your truth through. May we all become bold for you to speak through, just as this great Pastor. Amen.
Amen!!!
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ I encourage you to share your faith with all people for Christ is returning soon get ready brothers and sisters in Christ praise God God bless you all in Jesus's name Amen
Thank you very much Pastor Mac,for this indepth teaching.May God bless you....Maranatha!
My goodness, been awhile since Ive watched JD Farag and my gosh he has gotten one heck of a tan/so much darker and looks so different!
WarriorOf Christ This is the assistant pastor, Pastor Mac, not Pastor JD. 😉❤️
Oh my, I have never heard that preached before, it is all from the Word of God...and now I have a very different of what is to come after the rapture. Thank you for that truth. Work and responsibility lie ahead.
This is what we need to hear. You are an amazing teacher of The Word of God. Many things are becoming clearer. Thank you precious brother.
Thank you pastor Mac for great message and encouragement....God bless you and yours
Excellent, excellent bible study! Hallelujah to the king! Maranatha!
Good teaching , Thank You ❤️✝️
Yes Lord Jesus an we thank you an thank you Pastor Mac an AMEN...♥️
What a beautiful teaching Pastor Mac...As I followed along with you in scripture the holy spirit really dealt with my heart that I need to take my walk now while I'm still able 100 percent and realize everything we do we give account for whether bad or good....As you finished up telling about how God himself will come with a new heaven and new earth and dwell among us as he dis in the garden of eden....I just cried and cried thinking how wonderful that's going to be...I dont want to ever disappoint him for all the wonderful things he has done for me and is going to do....Thank you so very much.....
Father God,in the Name of Jesus...help me to learn and study these most important areas in Your Word's. Thank you for your help. PRAISE YOUR HOLY NAME JESUS. 🙏AMEN AND AMEN
what an encouraging message this was, as I have discovered it 3 years after the recording. Many thanks, Pastor Mac. God bless and protect you all at Calvary Chapel.
Thank you brother for sharing your insight for His glory...Shalom brother
Praying without ceasing for those standing in the gap for His church, teaching tbe truth of the Word.
The church has been starved of meat, getting curdled milk gives one a sickness.
Praise the Lord forever!
God inspired and needed message. Sometimes I don't take the time to watch the mid-week Bible study. This last week was no different. The title caught my attention and thought I should watch but discarded for lack of time. But I kept feeling a pull, "Watch that Bible study, watch..." So glad I did. So many answers. Truth.
Amen to this message!!
Holy Spirit sanctifying and speaking through a vessel made with God's hands. Thanks Mac -- and most importantly -- Thank you Father God! Hallelujah!
On point Pastor MAC, thank you!
Great message! Thank you!
Love the strength! Inspirational, thank you!
THANK YOU
Thank you and God bless you and yours. What a feeling I get when I hear the true word of God. Bless.
Great teaching 🙏🏽😇💕
God bless you Pastor. we are encouraged by your sermons!
Oh Pastor MAC, you’ve certainly given me food for thought with this sermon, will I be able to sleep 😴 thinking about it ??
Straight and too the point as usual, thank you.
Thankyou Pastor Mac. I love to hear your teaching. This was so good.
God bless you all in Jesus name amen
That was a wunderful spaech,thank you verry mutch.
very good message pastor.much love. i wept at the end
The truth will set you free AMEN!!!! GOD Bless everyone!😍😍😍😍😍
From Fort Worth,thank you so much for this message. Bless you man of God.
Great powerful message pastor Mac🙏. Exactly what my fiancee&i needed to hear at exactly this moment. God bless u😇 Praise the Lord Jesus Christ!!!
Wonderful message Pastor! Thank you very much and God bless you
My understanding of these Words of Life, are that Jesus has come to set up His Kingdom in our hearts and He lives and reigns in our hearts NOW and we are experiencing His Life NOW, by His Grace. If we have received the Holy Spirit, hear Him , submit yourselves under the mighty hand of God, walk in Him, adore Him, listen to Him, . He is not just a passenger in your heart to be carried around, while you live your way. He is the almighty God who came to reside in you, to help you live the life pleasing to God and keep you safe from temptation, and also will share the love of God with the lost. The Holy Spirit is not a lesser person than Jesus or the Father, don't take Him for granted . The Holy Spirit is the person of the three in ONE God, and when we invite Him into our heart, He is God with us. Isn't that awesome, God is with us , so speaking to God and listening to Him is perfectly natural to the believer. The word of God is Jesus and the way to hear Him is through the Holy Spirit and if you need wisdom , there is your answer in your heart. Without the Holy Spirit, you cannot hope to understand the written word, the Bible. The Kingdom of God is at hand, because the Holy Spirit, lives and moves and has our being, in other words reigns with us. He will come in and sup with you has real meaning. What ever you are doing, He is there with you always. Do we appreciate the Holy Spirit or just live as though He were not there? Are we mindful of His awesome presence in our daily routines or do we only think of Him at prayer time? At any moment of the day, I can call on Him, and He will be there to answer not just when we face a problem. What a great friend He is, never leaves or forsakes us. Just cannot say enough about our closest and dearest friend.
Whenever any form of the question comes up about why God would let anyone go to hell, the question I ask instead is Why should God allow ANYONE into heaven? We can't possibly be good enough to earn our way there. So why should anyone at all ever get in? Which naturally can lead in to the ABC of salvation.
There is rank & order, it's throughout the Word. Different glorys, the conditions of the 7 churches, all getting very different messages in Rev. and He is dressed as a Judge. Run through those conditions, run to Philadelphia! Just agree, He'll do the work.
Judgement must begin at the house of God, first.
Behold the Bridegroom cometh, go ye OUT to meet him.
Re: study on Hades, you mentioned 2 compartments--1 for believers and 1 for unbelievers (approximately the 19- to 20-minute marks). I would love for you to teach on that some time soon, God willing. I am concerned for my husband; at this point, he may end up in compartment 1. But God. Thank you for teaching the above. I have been a Christian for almost 40 years and have heard NO-ONE teach on this subject before. I'm so hungry to understand more. Please.
My goodness, been awhile since Ive watched JD Farag and my gosh he has gotten one heck of a tan/so much darker and looks so different!
Dear Pastor, I am sorry, but you are incorrect and are teaching inaccuracies. "Paradise", is NOT Heaven. Paradise was the good side of Sheol/Hades. That is the side (or compartment) Lazarus was carried to by the Angels. The rich man was in the torment side, which of course, as Abraham stated, was separated by a great gulf fixed. Your account of Jesus telling the thief "today you will be with Me in paradise" was not correct. Jesus was explaining to the thief that he will be with Him in the Sheol/Hades. While in Hades, Jesus ministered to the old testament saints and those that died in faith. On the third day, He "led captivity captive" and took them to His kingdom, which would be the third Heaven.
If, as you stated, "paradise" means "the" Heaven, then that would not make sense and neither would it align up with other scripture. It wouldn't make sense because Jesus Himself states that "as Jonah spent 3 days and 3 nights in the belly of the whale, so shall the Son of Man spend 3 days and 3 nights in the belly of the Earth". So, by your account, Jesus took the thief on the cross to Heaven, then came back down to spend 3 days and 3 nights in Hades, then He led the saints to Heaven. Also, as Jesus was talking to Mary He warned her to not touch Him because He had not yet ascended. So, that would mean if He didn't go to Heaven upon death, then that thief certainly would not have gone.
Upon death AFTER Jesus' death and resurrection, believers are translated into what some people believe are temporary bodies and are in the third Heaven (aka, THE heaven). Others believe we will be given our glorified bodies then. However, we will dwell with the Lord in Heaven until the rapture, upon which we will then be given a glorified body like Jesus has (if we weren't already given one). Then, of course, starts the Great Tribulation on Earth and we will be going to the marriage supper with the Lamb in Heaven.
Yes Daniel you are absolutely correct.
Dear Daniel, I’m sorry but you are incorrect. The word paradise is used 3 times in the New Testament,Luke 23:43, 2 Corinthians 12:4, Revelation 2:7. I believe that you are not realizing that when the Bible speaks of the unseen realms such as hades, it has at least 3 compartments, hades its self, tartaroo, and the abyss. You also are not realizing that The Lord is omnipresent, psalm 139:8 reads “If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.”
You also are saying things that pastor Mac did not say in his sermon and are not really listening to what he is saying.
Thank you for your comments
Peace
@@be.a.berean5820
I have never heard the grave (aka, Sheol/Hades) having 3 compartments. Do you have scripture for that?
As for the word "paradise", in Luke 23:43, if Jesus was referring to 'the' Heaven as Paradise, then Jesus is a liar. For, as you say, if He said the thief will be with Him in Paradise, then that would mean as soon as He died on the cross, Jesus ascended into Heaven and the thief went with Him.
The problem with that is Matthew 12:40, Jesus proclaims that just like Jonah was 3 days and 3 nights in the whales belly, so shall the Son of Man spend 3 days and 3 nights in the heart of the Earth.
If He ascended immediately, when do you suppose He spent those 3 days and 3 nights in the heart of the Earth? Also, if He ascended immediately, in John 20:17, why would Jesus tell Mary "Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to my Father...."
Furthermore, Ephesians 4:8-10 talks about Jesus ascending on high but goes on to say that He descended 'FIRST' into the lower parts of the Earth
Finally, Acts 2:31, "He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that His soul was not left in hell, neither His flesh did see corruption."
If Jesus didn't descend into the grave (what some translations call hell... but we all know is NOT the same as the Lake of Fire), why would it say "...LEFT IN HELL".
There are many more scriptures pointing to Jesus' death, burial, DESCENSION, then ASCENSION.
Now, as for your other 2 references, 2 Corinthians 2:4 & Revelation 2:7, those specific verses were not being discussed. It is clear that the author was in fact referring to Heaven in those verses. However, once again, I was not including them in my statement about the Bible not referring to Paradise as Heaven.
This is why there is the rule that no scripture is up for any private interpretation. You must know and use the entire 66 books to decipher and deduct meaning and to determine if it's literal or prophetic or symbolic.
Finally, please do not think I am trying to make myself up as this 'know it all' or authoritative person. I am just a humble servant who is also still learning.
Take care
One more thing, while I feel being as accurate as one can is critical (for reasons I would go into if asked), those are generally secondary in comparison with THE main theme and that is ONLY Jesus is the way into Heaven; and only then by repentance and asking for and accepting His salvation. =)
Daniel Neumeyer hi Daniel
In Matthew 25:41 Jesus says ““Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels:” I’m of the belief that Jesus is referring to hell or hades or a place we’re these people were to be forever. In Peters second epistle he writes in chapter 2:4 “For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;”
This is where the word tartaroos is used for what is translated hell in English.
In the book of Revalation chapter 20:3 “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.”
The bottomless pit is the abyss.
I’m of the belief that when Jesus said “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”
Matthew 12:40 NKJV
Jesus was speaking of hell being in the center of the earth. I also believe that tartatoos and the abyss is in hades/Sheol which is also in the heart of the earth. That’s what I mean by other compartments.