Until He Comes Podcast

To succeed at anything in this world, we must learn to harness our attention and focus on the task at hand. The spiritual walk requires no less. If we aim to finish the race set before us, and please Christ with the way we live and the work we do, we must learn to remain spiritually focused. And when that focus is broken—and it will be at times—we must know how to quickly refocus, and then press on with what really counts: seeking Christ and His will for our life. Using the gospel account of Peter’s famous walk atop stormy Lake Galilee in Matthew 14:22-33, Greg explains why Peter sank and how we may avoid repeating his error and set an example that will inspire others to rise and overcome their stormy tests of faith and endurance . . . by maintaining their spiritual focus.

The Bible repeatedly calls us to humble ourselves. Are we responding? Do we realize just how much God despises pride? Do we know why He does so? Well, this episode discloses these vital truths and many more – and gives us clear, practical instructions as to how we may deal with our pride and grow in Christlike humility. In the Q & A segment, Greg answers a very timely question posed concerning events in the Middle East and how we should see them in light of God’s promises and prophecies to the Jewish people.

When Christ opens “doors of utterance,” or other opportunities for service, before you spontaneously, do you recognize them and respond promptly, taking full advantage of them for His pleasure and kingdom? When He closes doors, and you recognize that He has done so, do you respond positively by submissively standing down and faithfully pursuing the duties He has already given you, knowing that they also are important. And have you learned that when He closes one door, it’s only because he has another, often better, door waiting for you? In the Q & A segment, Greg answers a series of probing questions about a most important and timely subject: the rapture!

In this final episode of “New Jerusalem: Our Dream City,” Greg describes New Jerusalem’s saturation with light, residents, main activities, authority, holiness, transparency, and wealth, and, applying the universal principles of 1 Samuel 2:30 and Galatians 6:7, draws analogies between these physical features of the capital of the new world and how we should be living in this world. He also urges us—by overcoming, being faithful, and worshiping and serving God—to make it our life’s quest to have the great privilege of residing inside this eternal city of God rather than elsewhere on the massive new earth. In the Q & A segment, Greg discusses the relationship between our personal faith and God’s overarching sovereignty and how this relates to Christians’ prayers for physical healing.

Greg describes the glorious eternal city’s physical features on the new earth - its dual divine purpose, extreme elevation, and colossal dimensions - and then opens their figurative applications to our lives. That is, what they teach us about how we should be living now on this earth. In the Q & A segment, he defines what hell and the lake of fire are, why they exist, and who will and will not spend eternity there. And, in doing so, Greg draws definitive conclusions about Annihilationism and Universalism.

Greg finishes his expositional reading of Revelation 22:1-6, explains why God has named His eternal capital New “Jerusalem,” defines and defies Supersessionism (Replacement or Fulfillment Theology), explains why God and Satan “mark” their respective servants, and identifies which “country” we should, and should not, glory in. Also, in the Q & A segment, Greg addresses Jesus’ cryptic statement in John 20:23, and opens what it does, and does not, mean to us today.

Greg continues this illuminating series that unpacks verse-by-verse the unimaginable wonders of the eternal city of God described by John in Revelation 21 and 22. This episode describes the supernatural light source in New Jerusalem,  its absence of temples or shrines, its most unusual “lamp,” the unnamed “kings” who will reign the redeemed nations under the Father and the Lamb, and God’s three emphatic exclusion statements—New Jerusalem’s immigration policy—which make it abundantly clear that anyone who practices sin will not live in this God-indwelt eternal city. This may come as a shock to many today who have been fed a steady diet of hyper-grace heresy. But better to be shocked now than shocked eternally.

Greg begins a new series taking you on a fascinating journey through Revelation 21 and 22, describing in verse-by-verse detail Our Dream City: New Jerusalem! The facts revealed in this episode alone are stunning – this old cosmos burnt up, a new one replacing it fresh from the Creator’s hand, all previous ages terminated, a born-again creation prepared for a born-again people, the Shekinah-filled, crystal-clear, jewel-encrusted city in which God will reside with the redeemed of Israel and the church forever. And ever. And ever. And much more.
 

Greg continues discussing the most vital issue of obeying God. He describes how every act of obedience sends God a fourfold message: we believe Him, submit to His lordship, fear Him, and love Him. In this episode we discuss in detail how obedience shows God we fear Him – or stand in awe of His awesomeness; and love Him – in the truest, surest way possible. Without obedience, our worship, praise, and service is rendered meaningless – empty religious hypocrisy. We learn also of the disease of religious compensation: service, worship, or sacrifice offered God in hopes of compensating Him for our not doing what He asked of us. And we identify its simple but effective antidote. It is Mary’s wisdom: “Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it” (John 2:5).

Greg examines numerous biblical texts that reveal the vital importance of obedience. Our obedience is the manifest response of our entire being to God. More than anything else, it reveals the true inward state of our souls. And it sends Christ a multi-layered message: we believe Him; we have submitted to His Lordship; we fear (stand in awe of) Him; and we love Him. Additionally, not our religious talk but our actual walk – our real life-actions – are being placed on the scales of God’s eternal judgment daily and will one day determine our eternal rewards, or loss of rewards, at the Judgment Seat of Christ.