The Final Prophecy – The Triumph of the Gospel | Colossians

Where do we go from here? Even in these Last Days, we can have unwavering joy because the Gospel is triumphant, and Jesus is victorious. As this series concludes, Dr. David Jeremiah points to the Gospel of Jesus Christ as the message that will triumph in this critical hour.

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Despite the signs of our time heralding the last days, the gospel alone can triumph over the many challenges we are facing and the power of Christ will continue to do so even to the end of time.
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And now here is Dr Jeremiah with his message, the triumph of the gospel, the final prophecy for over 70 years for seven decades, Billy Graham preached during times of war, he preached during times of peace.
He preached during times of racial unrest. He preached when our nation was going through a serious financial crisis.
He preached in the aftermath of the assassination of President Kennedy.
And when we landed our astronauts on the moon, he preached through the administrations of 12 United States presidents.
He preached during the terrible days that surrounded 9 11.
He preached when his Children were growing up and when his wife died, no matter what was happening in our world or in his world.
Billy Graham preached. But I tell you about how long he preached because I want to remind you about the subject that he preached.
In spite of the myriad of issues that confronted him, he confronted them all with one thing, the gospel of Jesus Christ, he never wavered, he never changed, he never apologized.
He seemed to get stronger and better as he got older. As I have listened to him.
I have found myself thinking of the words that Paul wrote to the Corinthians when he said, I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
I believe that it is the gospel alone that can triumph over the many challenges we are facing in our culture at this hour.
So I want to talk with you.
First of all about what this means in that respect, Billy Graham followed the great apostle Paul who according to Romans chapter one was a servant of the gospel in the book of Acts that gives the history of Paul’s preaching.
And in his many epistles that contain the content of his preaching. It is the cross and the resurrection.
It is the gospel that is at the center of it. All.
One of the best illustrations of Paul’s focus on the gospel is found in his letter to the Colossians in Colossians.
He defined the gospel like this.
He said, God has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the son of His love in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins.
That’s the gospel. That’s what he preached. That’s what the world needs without Christ. We’re still in Satan’s grip.
But because of God’s great love for us, his only son, Jesus shed his blood to redeem us from our sins and give us full forgiveness.
He rose from the dead. He ascended to heaven. He resumed his position of supreme authority.
And when we believe and receive his good news, he instantly conveys unto us his family and takes us into his kingdom.
That is the triumph of the gospel, the victory of Jesus on our behalf.
As we survey the book of Colossians, there are several truths about the gospel that jump out at us.
First of all, the message of the gospel is transforming.
I have a friend as many of you know, who is the pastor of the largest church, maybe in the world.
I think it is but he pastors the Calgary church in Hyderabad, India. Every time he preaches he does this.
He holds up his Bible and he says all books are informational, but this book alone is transformational and he does it in his slow dramatic Indian way.
That is the truth. That’s the difference in the gospel. The gospel changes things.
I’ve had the joy of being a pastor of this church for 40 years and for 12 years before that, a pastor in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
So I have had a chance to watch what the gospel does generationally.
And I’ve seen how the gospel changes people’s lives and changes spouses lives and changes children’s lives and changes grandchildren’s and changes whole families changes everything.
Paul told the Colossians, we give thanks to the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ praying always for you since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of your love for all the saints because of the hope, which is laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel.
What an incredible thing. The gospel is, it is the number one change engine in all of the universe.
Nothing can change people or personalities, individuals, or families like the gospel. The message of the gospel is transforming.
Here’s the second thing, the work of the gospel is expanding.
Paul went on to say the gospel has come to you as it also has in all the world and it brings forth fruit.
Even in Paul’s day, he saw the gospel spreading and expanding like concentric circles throughout the entire known world.
Jesus said, and this gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations and then the end will come.
I don’t know how you feel about what’s happening to the gospel.
There’s some discouraging things that we could discuss but giving everything that’s going on and taking a global perspective.
A 30,000 ft. Look at the Gospel, from my experience, I can tell you, I’ve never seen a moment in my lifetime in which we are reaching more people witnessing more conversions touching more nations than now.
So the message of the gospel is transforming and the work of the gospel is expanding and the followers of the gospel are maturing.
The apostle Paul told the Colossians that he was praying.
This is one of the best prayers in the New Testament that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding and that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God strengthened with all might according to his glorious power, for all patience and long suffering with joy.
Paul prayed for the cola believers, not just that they would become Christians, but they become mature Christians and he used these wonderful words, might and power and patience and long suffering and joy.
How many of us need a lot more of those qualities in our lives.
Paul asked God to strengthen the Colossians and we need that and God is doing that while the world is worsening, the Lord’s servants are increasing and his churches are advancing.
When I look at the students and young adults in this church and in our schools, I’m not discouraged.
I’m encouraged. We have a young generation whose growth in zeal and godliness surely will be tested, but which will triumph in the years ahead.
Despite all of the anguish and the abuse of our age, the gospel is going to triumph through the church as we mature in Christ and bear fruit in every good work.
So the message of the gospel is transforming and the work of the gospel is expanding and the followers of the gospel are maturing and the author of the gospel.
Oh, the author of the gospel is preeminent.
One more thing we must remember and that the author of the gospel is our Lord Jesus Christ.
Listen to Colossians. One. He is the image of the invisible God. The first born over all creation.
For by him, all things were created and he is before all things and in him, all things consist and he is the head of the body.
The church who is the beginning, the first born from the dead. That in all things.
He might have the preeminence. As we see Jesus more clearly, men and women.
The gospel gets bigger and bigger in our hearts. His death becomes more wonderful.
His resurrection becomes more astonishing sin becomes more disgusting and the devil seems more evil.
The restoring work of the spirit gets mightier.
The global extent of the gospel becomes more important and the connection between everything in the Bible becomes clearer.
Our yearning for eternity becomes greater and the love of God becomes more delightful in our lives.
When you put Jesus, number one, everything else starts to get in.
It’s right place is Jesus truly preeminent in your life. Is he number one?
If he’s a good two or three, there will be nothing victorious about your experience.
Someone said a long time ago, only in the Christian life does surrender, bring victory.
So surrender your life to Christ.
Make sure he’s number one that’s going to be more important as we move through these days that are in front of us.
And then the theme of the gospel is energizing. Another triumphal note in Colossians.
Sounds like a blast from the trumpet. Here it is Colossians 1 27 Christ in you. The hope of glory.
What a slogan. What a motto taken together.
This is the triumph of the Gospel and you can make it your own Christ in me, the hope of glory.
The moment we put Christ as our savior, he comes through his spirit to live and reign within us.
And one day we’re going to see him face to face.
One day soon, we’ll literally walk and talk with him as the disciples did.
Long ago, we will share his glory and have a part in his inheritance raiding with him over the new heavens and the new earth.
The new living translation says it this way and this is the secret Christ lives in you.
This gives you assurance of sharing his glory. So what does this mean?
And where do we go from here?
What do we take away from this that we can unpack in our lives every day?
Well, first of all, let me suggest that we preach the gospel with our lips.
We must keep preaching Christ, we must keep holding the cross up.
Colossians 1 28 and 29 says him, we preach warning every man teaching every man in all wisdom that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.
To this end. I labor said, Paul striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
I don’t know if you know this, but Paul was a renaissance man in many respects.
There wasn’t anything that Paul couldn’t do. He was a great student, he was a writer, he was a theologian.
He’s the one that basically started all the churches that you read about in The New Testament.
He wrote uh 12 or 13 of the letters in The New Testament scripture.
He was very, very gifted in many areas.
But I know this, if you ask Paul Paul, what do you do for a living?
He would say I preach, I’m a preacher.
And if you go through his writings, you can pick that up in First Corinthians 1 23.
He said, we preach Christ crucified in First Corinthians 9 16.
If I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of Second Corinthians 45, we do not preach ourselves, but we preach Jesus Christ, the Lord Philippians 1 18.
What then only then in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached and in this, I rejoice.
Well, you say Doctor Jeremiah, that’s great for you because you’re a preacher.
Not everybody is called to be a vocational preacher, but everybody is called to be a preacher.
Did you know that we are all called to preach or tell the good news of the gospel?
Everyone listening to this message, wherever you may be, we all can have a part in preaching the gospel.
We can do what God has equipped us to do.
He’s given us all these various wonderful gifts, whatever it is that God has equipped you to do that helps move the gospel forward.
That’s what it means to preach the gospel. So preach the gospel with your lips.
Here’s the second one picture the gospel with your life in verses six and seven of chapter two in Colossians, we read as you therefore have received Christ Jesus, the Lord walk at him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith as you have been taught, abounding in it with Thanksgiving.
Paul said, ok, you’re all Christians now live like Christians walk like Christians.
Don’t just be Christians in name, be Christians all the way through to the bone.
Be Christians in all that you do. Oh How we need that today?
One of the great rips on Christianity is that so many people who claim to be Christians don’t live any differently than the people in the world.
And we don’t have to be a bunch of weirdos and cranks and all the kind of things that people think that we are.
But there should be a qualitative difference in our lives.
If Jesus Christ is who we say he is, walk is a term that is often used to describe the Christian life.
The word is in the present tense and it means continually walking.
Someone once told me that the hardest thing about being a Christian is that it’s so daily.
Isn’t that the truth?
It’s so daily every day, you got to get up and do it over again. But here’s the good news.
It’s daily. But the eternal spirit of God lives within your heart and he enables you to do what you couldn’t do.
We preach the gospel with our lips, but we picture the gospel with our lives.
People need to see Jesus Christ in us. What’s in our heart needs to get translated to our faces.
That doesn’t mean we walk around all giddy all the time.
But when Christians are walking with the Lord, as Paul has instructed us here in Colossians, there’s a quality difference in how we live.
We are to walk in the Lord as we have received him, were to preach the gospel with our lips and picture the gospel with our life and practice the gospel with our love.
He says in verse 14 of chapter three in Colossians.
But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.
You know, one of the things it says about Jesus was that he was filled with grace and truth.
And it seems to me as you look out at the Christian world today, we have a lot of people who are on either side of it and not as many people who have joined the two together.
Jesus said, we’re to be filled with truth and love and especially for those of us who are Christians.
There are many other instructions for us.
But I want to end with a strange little verse at the end of the book.
We’re to love and we’re never to stop loving. Here.
It is Colossians 4 17 Paul said, say to Arch, take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord that you may fulfill it.
Now, that sounds like an extraneous version. What’s that in their form? Who in the world is Arch?
I never heard of him. Well, first of all, Arch was the son of, I know that Paul called him a fellow soldier.
So he had to be a Christian worker of some sort. But that’s all we know.
We don’t know very much about him.
But Paul cared enough about this man that he sent this instruction to him in the letter that he wrote to the Colossians.
And here was the instruction, make sure that by the end of your life, you have come to the end of your list, do everything that you were assigned to do.
What a word that is today. We believe Arc Capus lived his life that way. But Paul encouraged him.
I don’t want to get off on this.
This is one of my pet peeves that so many of God’s people have bought in to the idea that at a certain time in life, usually about 65 you check out and vegetate for the rest of the time you’re on this earth.
I hope you’re not among that.
I’ve already proven to you that I’m not and I don’t intend to be.
But listen to me, there’s so much that needs to be done and I’ll be one to tell you there’s a lot of things that I used to do that I can’t do, but a lot of things that I can do better because I’ve learned how to do them over a time.
And oftentimes what I’ve noticed in the church is that just when people have the giftedness that will make them so effective, they decide it’s time for them to go do something else.
You know, people ask me why I keep doing what I’m doing.
And I said, you know, when I was 54 I got cancer and it was pretty serious.
It was stage four large cell, non hodgkin’s lymphoma by all of the measures of life, I shouldn’t be here.
But God brought me through that and I got a uh mm and he gave me a new vision for my life.
And people ask me, why do you do what you do?
And I say when God brought me through cancer, he didn’t do it so I could go sit on a beach somewhere.
He did it so I could serve him with my life. And I’ve had so much joy doing that.
You know, I don’t know if this is true for everybody, but it seems like that God has saved the best to last for me every day.
I get up. There’s something new and exciting that he’s doing that I never dreamed would ever happen.
I’m glad he let me stay around for all this because it’s really fun.
I just want you to see if you wouldn’t put your name in this verse.
Say to David Jeremiah, take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord that you may fulfill it, put your name in there and ask God to help you to finish what you have started.
Do you know that Jesus said, one of the earliest things that we read about him in the Bible is when he went to the temple with his parents, his parents left him one of the most human quintessential things that ever happened in his life.
And Jesus as a young boy said, I must be about my Father’s business.
In other words, I have a job to do.
And at the end of his natural life on this earth, this is what Jesus said.
Father, I have glorified you on earth. I have finished the work which you have given me to do.
Now watch what he said and what he didn’t say, he didn’t say I have finished all the work there is to do.
Some people try to do that and they burn out and they don’t have anything left.
He didn’t say that no. He said I finished the work that you have given me to do.
God gives each of us something to do.
If we want to know what that is, we can ask him and he will tell us and we will know what we’re supposed to do and he’s giving you certain gifts for his glory and certain tasks for his kingdom.
Make sure you complete them. You don’t have to get out of this world alive, but you do have to complete the work that God assigned you.
And if we do that, we will see a resurgence of service among the more senior people in our churches.
That will be a glory to the church and such a blessing to the younger folks who are coming up and trying to figure out what this is all about.
Why should we make them learn all the hard lessons that we’ve learned? Let’s help them with that.
Let’s lead them. The Bible is full of instructions that were to do that.
The Apostle Paul said this about his life.
He said, but my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for the finishing of the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus.
The work of telling others the good news about the wonderful grace of God.
So friends, the Gospel is what God has given us. It’s this commodity that we have.
It’s the blessing of being a Christian. We have this wonderful thing called the Gospel.
The gospel is the only beam of light shining in this dark world but its megawatts are unlimited.
The gospel can brighten any life dispel every shadow. We are not beaten down people, we’re not on the ropes.
We are not an endangered species as Christians. We are not a people worried about where we go from here.
We know where we’re going because of the Gospel.
We know Him who has prepared the way because of the gospel.
We are more than conquerors through our Lord Jesus Christ, because of the gospel, the triumph of the gospel.
And I hope you’ve discovered it for yourself. Whatever you’re facing the gospel because it’s Jesus Christ is your victory.
Wherever you’re going, he’s your guide.
However you’re feeling he’s your soul and solid hope, whatever you’re worried about by the falling fragments of our collapsing planet, you can look up to heaven and see him who came down to earth for you.
He’s right now seated at the right hand of the father making intercession for us and waiting for when we come through the door to say to us, welcome home, good and faithful servant.
May that be our hope? Doctor Jeremiah will return with one more inspirational word to close today’s program right after this.
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And now with one last word for today’s program here is Dr Jeremiah.
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The gospel of Jesus Christ. The gospel has been and remains God’s lifeline to humanity.
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Next time on turning point, I have it straight from the word of God on the authority of the word of God that Jesus Christ is at the right hand of the father and he is in control.
Hallelujah. Thank you for being with us today.
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