Boldness in the Last Days

Carter Conlon from the historic Times Square Church in New York City say this is the boldness I'm focusing on in the last days and not focusing on the boldness of the sinner sinners will do what sinners always do their forming a parade in hell has open wide. Its mouth for the whole lot joined in hand, but I still can, with boldness worn even the deepest center that there's room in heaven. There can be a reason and a purpose to live. You can find something in Christ is no amount or measure of sin every foot into your life.

That's Carter, from Times Square Church in New York City with an insight into today's message taken from Isaiah chapter 3.

Here, the prophet foretells the desolation's that were coming upon Judah and Jerusalem for their sins, which they boldly boasted about they called good evil called evil good, but Carter will also teach us about another group of people found in the Scriptures you have another type of boldness to display the one only God can give. Here's Carter with today's message. Father, I thank you for the anointing of the Holy Spirit, God, I thank you Lord that when you move in conjunction with your word. We need to move God is something that has to happen in the hearts of your people. People that are listing has to happen in my heart. Nobody escapes this dog you don't move apart from your people and from apart from moving within the hearts and lives of your people. So Lord as it was in the beginning you spoke in the spirit moved, and things are created we ask again, God, that you would speak to us from your word and your Holy Spirit would move upon us Lord would be taken out of weakness into strength out of confusion and into clear thinking auto purposelessness into the divine purpose that you have for each of our lives at this time on the earth, God, thank you for the touch of heaven. As we pray as we open your word, give me the ability to speak. This the way that you would have it to be spoken and give our hearts the ability to receive it in the way that you would have us to receive and let none of us escape your great grace and we ask it in Jesus name, amen.

Isaiah chapter 3 is where I'm going to start going to second Timothy chapter 3 shortly after that and I want to talk about boldness in the last days as a chapter 3, beginning at verse eight. Four. Jerusalem stumbled, and Judah is fallen, because the tongue and the doings are against the Lord's think about this in a society that is in its speech and in the arrogance of its heart turning against God. Not realizing that they are bringing about their own destruction and their own downfall. In doing so, somehow, boldly believing that though they say things that are against the revealed word in the revealed will of God. But somehow there are no consequences that are going to be incurred because of this, but the tongue of the doings are against the Lord to provoke the eyes of his glory look on their countenance witnesses against them. They declare their sin is sought. Another words they are involved in sin that the Bible calls evil and not only do they boast of it, but they actually paraded in the streets of Sodom wants to do not hide it wool to their soul, for they have brought evil upon themselves but verse 10 says say to the righteous that it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their doing so were talking about the last days the last days when sinners are going to become exceedingly bold in the Senate. The going to stand against the the ways in the word of God and the going to declare their sin publicly. The going to have pride in their sin as it is the going to stand against everything good godly and holing in the going to do it as if they're standing on the side of virtue and truth. You know the word of God clearly warns that even though hand jointed hand, it actually says in the Proverbs, even though hand joined in hand. Hell has open wide.

Its mouth to receive them. There is only one righteousness. There is only one way to eternal life is only one name given to men, whereby we might be saved is only one pathway to follow the Jesus will lead us on if we will allow him to do so in second Timothy chapter 3, Paul talks about the powerlessness of the last days talks about mending love is of themselves, lovers of money, bolsters proud blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful and holy. In other words there. There, standing boldly with a false assurance in a false confidence against all that God's word warns them about their unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, despises of good traders had strong coffee lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God having a form of godliness but denying its power. Always learning, never able to come to the knowledge of the truth and then verse eight talks about a false ministry that will boldly misrepresent the ministry of Christ in the last days it will stand and actually resist the ministry that was represented by Moses. When God sent them into Egypt to bring the people of God out of captivity and into a place of liberty and freedom were Christ or God himself would become their God and they would become his people, so there will be a ministry that actually resist this freedom and they they propagate another gospel would propagate some other forms of truth. They stand, Paul warns Timothy is as true sorcerers actually wants to who had some kind of a foal spirituality and they were they were drawn to power and they wanted access to power.

They wanted access to admiration. The People's being spoken relevant in front of the people. But when a man shows up with his brother to bring the people and the freedom they likely resisted the resist the true gospel of Jesus Christ and I put it that way and they propagate another gospel in the earth, as Paul says earlier with a form of godliness but the real purpose and power of God is is denied by them in course that purpose we know is to bring men, women and children out of the darkness of sin and into eternal life through Jesus Christ and to have the purpose of God for their lives out laid before them so that they might grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ because of Christ in them become everything that God intended them to be bringing the name of Christ to reputation in the earth and ultimately bringing other people into freedom through the propagation of the gospel of Jesus Christ and the ministry of the cross. Now this is an era were living in today where that boldness is on full display. They display their sin aside and they boast of their evil they call evil good, and the call good evil, the people of God are now being vilified as haters and dividers and and it's it's getting more that the vitriol against God's people is getting more severe all the time and and we know historically where that could lead in it could become a very, very difficult time for many of the people of God who want to stand up and look for truth, that not going along with this evil agenda. We will be called dividers and haters and ultimately considered unworthy of even being partakers of this new formed and new found world order.

But Hebrews chapter 4 tells us there be another group of people that have another type of boldness in this last day. That's really what I want to focus on.

We know the wicked are bold, but I want to say to you that it's time for the people of God to become bold is time for you and I is time to knock in this time to seek is time to ask. It's time to drop all timidity and going to the presence of God. For whatever it is that we need. If it's freedom if it's as Paul once said to Timothy because not given us a spirit of fear but of power love and a sound mind. Whatever it is that we need the time for boldness and the people got it. We can't just let the evil parade there.

Boldness is time for the people of God to ask God to give me a holy boldness give me the ability of Scripture says that to go boldly into the throne of grace to find help in my time of need. In spite of my struggles in spite of my trial to get out of our seats and go to that altar of grace and if our prayer is just only God help me then let that be our prayer because God will answer that prayer. And then God use me and then God take me and then God make me in a God send me and then got empowerment in the God-given everything I need to bring your name to reputation. It can be just the evil that are parading in the streets. There has to be a people through whom the glory of God is made known in the earth one more time. The people are not exists an argument about the existence of God having knowledge but denying the power is false is that people know the power of God a people can say to this generation. Let me tell you what God has done for me, a people stand not in the strength of their natural abilities or cower under the voices of those who are parading their sins with the people stand up in the strength of God and even though they might be facing tremendous opposition. Remember the Scripture records when Stevens good on that day and gave defense for what he believed just before his life was going to be taken. It's as even the sinners. There they beheld his face as if it looked like an angel. The glory of God was upon him, and I have to believe because there was a young man there called Saul was holding holding the coats of those who are about to kill Stephen. I have to believe that was the moment work wear them the products of God that the conscience of God began to touch him, because later on the Damascus Road. The Lord said to him after he had begin to speak to him as it is hard for you to do push against. These prods of God that are trying to move you in a different direction and I believe that seeing the countenance of Stephen was that maybe the first pang of conscience in this and range lunatic. That was out to kill everything else unlike him in his worldview that he possessed at the time Hebrews chapter 4 verse 14 says sing, then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the son of God, let us hold fast our confession, for we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are yet without sin. Therefore, let us come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Let us come boldly to the throne of grace I see in this last hour of time.

There were now living in I see the addicted. I see the afflicted. I see them marginalize the depressed, the nobodies and nothings of the society suddenly rising up and boldly coming into the throne of grace, not not groveling not coming in with our heads hanging down in shame, but coming into the throne of grace is in invited sons and daughters of God. That's where the boldness comes from wheat we are family. We are called children of God we have the right to go to the throne of God. Jesus committed it really in first coming into the throne of grace with confidence in our heart that this coming to a God who wants to bless us and wants to enable us and wants to empower us as as as Isaiah one set of the Lord said through Isaiah, mahi Lane, you may become the blind, and by milking lineman sustenance without money and without price. Don't stop trying to procure your own future in your own strength come to me and I will give you the things that you need and you require to live for me in this and every other generation come boldly to the throne of grace.

I want to challenge those that are living for God is not just the marginalize the addicted, but those that are already living for God, it would be a fallacy to say we've we've come as far as we can go there.

There's no limit to what God can do through my life or your life and the only limit is the limit we choose to place on God or the limit we we put in our hearts, and that part of the boldness to say God used said that the latter part of our lives should be greater than the former you you you showed us in Scripture that whatever we ask for believing we shall receive. You put an age limit on moving mountains and seeing them cast into the sea. You told us we could tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing would by Ms. Hart us was little Asterix at the bottom of the page is that I'm only speaking to people between the ages of 18 and 49 you didn't do that this and whosoever well it's a whosoever will call to this or any other generation. So God I'm asking you for the courage to come boldly to the throne of grace. I'm asking you to make me more than I am today.

I'm asking you to make me far more than I could ever be in any amount of my own strength. Give me more words than I have a known vocabulary gently thoughts that I've never thought about thinking before God and do things in my life is so far beyond me but when I get to the end of the race.

I could only call you do is jump up and down as God could have done this could've done this via voice that stands out in this confused marketplace for the wicked are boasted of their wickedness to stand up and say what God has done in my life likely to who God is. Tell you what God could do for you in the book of acts when threats were being made against the this early church. They got together in the began to pray with the Lord now consider their threatenings and grant to us that with all boldness, we may speak your word by stretching out your hand to heal and that signs and wonders may be done in the name of your holy child Jesus.

The Scripture says when they prayed when they finished, Frank, the place where they were gathered was shaken. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and the began to speak the word of God with boldness doesn't mean arrogance. It doesn't mean being argumentative. It means confidence. They spoke the word with confidence to give you an example what that looks like Jesus can set you free. That speaking with boldness.

Jesus will set you free. If you will turn to him, he will save you. They will give you his Holy Spirit.

He will form your life, you will become a new creation.

Your life will have meaning and value and purpose so far beyond anything you could ever imagine it could be that's called speaking the word of God with boldness and open declaration of who God is and what God does remember one time I was coming home.

I had taken my middle son to a hockey game or tournament. I forget what it wasn't was coming home with a couple other players in the car. Back in those days we you know there was a small church small salary small car. The whole thing is a miracle we could fit all four of these guys in the car and were heading home and we stopped at a hamburger place and everybody at this were in line at Burger King or whatever it wasn't. Everybody's counting their pennies and my son Jared was. I was in the back of the line he was in the front and he turns around to his friends insist put your money where you guys. My dad will pay. That was a boldness. There was a confidence in it. I wish he would talk to me before about it before.

He said it, but I would not dream.

I would not dream of embarrassing. My son I don't care for six weeks. Gas money I did I didn't matter what I had to pull will where I had to find the money in court was going to come from or what budget it was good be taken from I would not dream of embarrassing my son in front of his friends how much more when we stand. He stood with confidence.

My dad will pay it was that it was in a fait accompli. Is this in French it was done it was going to happen and I did and knew all these hockey players suddenly were super sizing everything in one hamburger turned into two or three and it was just like it took everything I had, but I would never have dreamed of embarrassing. My son, how much more when we stand with confidence and we just tell somebody. Jesus will save you Jesus will change it. Jesus will give you a reason to live. Jesus will heal your family, Jesus will restore your marriage.

Jesus will give you a sound mind.

We stand with confidence.

See, this is the boldness I'm focusing on in the last days and not focusing on the boldness of the sinner sinners will do what sinners always do their forming a parade and hell has opened wide.

Its mouth for the whole lot. The hand joined in hand, but I still can, with boldness worn even the deepest sinner that there is room in heaven. There's room at the cross. There's mercy with God, there can be a reason and a purpose to live in. You can find something in Christ is no amount or measure of sin will ever put into your life. Thank you Lord, so we may boldly say Hebrews 13, six the Lord is my helper, I will not fear what can man do to me that we can boldly say so I want to challenge anybody.

This listing online and everybody that's here in the main sanctuary. Be bold in this generation. Be bold with God that that means confidence come into the presence of God with confidence commended the presence of God, knowing we have a high priest was charged with our weaknesses. He struggled with the things that we struggle with yet Scripture says he was tested or tried with them but yet without sin. He understands our struggles and needs touch with the feelings of our weaknesses and invites us to come in with confidence is coming to me. I'll help you come to me you labor and are heavy laden, and I give you rest, and learn of me am meek and lowly in heart, you shall find rest for your souls, and find the strength you need to be the person that God is calling you to be.

Find the healing for your mind. The healing for your body. The healing for your marriage. The healing for your children. Healing for your family. The strength of the everything that God called you to be. Father I pray I pray for those that are listening every man, every woman, every child every age, every background, every situation in Jesus name. Father, I ask you to go and invade whatever place everyone is in and touch every heart and touch of her life and raise men and women and children up out of the place of weakness and into your strength.

I'm asking you Jesus to be glorified to be glorified. Let faith arise in every heart. Let every man, every woman in every situation. Just say God I men I'm yours.

Jesus, I belong to do with me whatever you choose to do. I will not put limitations on you. You can use me. You can take me through any door you want to take me through. You can use my life for any purpose. I will not say no to you. I will go as they used to say in the church. Years and years ago where you lead me I will follow God. I want to thank you in Jesus name for what you're doing now everyone online. Pray this simple prayer with me and everyone.

This room would you pray with me please as well. Lord Jesus Christ, I trust you. I believe you I believe that you can use my life for your glory that you can do something to me so much bigger than anything that I could think about for my own life and so I yield to you. I'm asking you list the out of where I am and take me where you want me to go and give me a message for other people use my life in such a way that I will shout glory to you everywhere that I go, I thank you for hearing me you're going to take me out of my present weakness and into your strength.

In Jesus name, amen.

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The message today has been brought to you by Carter Conlon from Times Square church. For more information log onto TSC.NYC TSC.NYC plan to be with us next week for a call to the nation with Carter,