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couple of minutes, but before we do
just want to tell you how much we love
and how much we miss you.
Nothing can replace gathering physically,
but we're so thankful for the
opportunity we have together virtually.
You know so many of us have carried so
much through this week.
So many of us come in with heavy hearts,
with frustration,
with fears, with so many things that have
us feeling a little down,
but the hope that we have comes in Jesus.
And so
as we begin our time today, I invite you
to stand to your feet to worship,
right where you are. Because remember we
don't go to church,
we are the church.
We are so grateful to celebrate with the
DC Dream Center.
The three-year anniversary, what an
awesome accomplishment.
God is doing amazing things in the DC
Dream Center,
but we're so grateful and thankful for
even the the generous donations and
gifts that each one of you all have
given.
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from the bottom of our hearts
for everything that you've given to NCC.
You know if you're new to NCC we also
want to give you the opportunity to
engage with us a little more. We want to
get to know you a little bit.
We have the opportunity next week, next
Sunday
at 10:15 to hop on a Zoom call with
Pastor Mark and some of the other
leaders.
So we invite you to join with us so we
can get to know you a little better, but
then also
connect you here at NCC. God bless you!
Enjoy the rest of the service as Pastor
Mark concludes
our series in Daniel.
In the spring of 1992 the capital city
of Bosnia was besieged
by the Yugoslav People’s Army.
On May 27, innocent civilians were
standing in a bread line when a
bombshell exploded. That explosion
would kill 22 people and leave
a crater in the center of Sarajevo.
Moments after the blast, a man by the
name of Vedran Smailovic
instinctively ran to the scene but he
didn't know what to do. He wasn't a medic.
Wasn't a firefighter. Wasn't
a soldier. He was the chief cellist
in the Sarajevo Opera.
What did he do? He did the best he could
with what he had
where he was. The very next day—May 28,
1992—he grabbed his cello, he put on a tuxedo, he climbed into the
crater, he sat
down in a scorched chair, and he started
to play
Adagio in G by Albanoni.
For 22 straight days, one for
each day each one of those
victims.
Vedran Smailovic would
play his cello in
craters, in cemeteries, in the rubble of
bombed out buildings. Why?
Why put your life at risk? And what
difference does it make?
In the words of Vedran Smailovic,
"My weapon is my cello."
Twelve weeks ago, we began a series called
Unshaken. Unshaken is confronting the
brutal facts
with unwavering faith. It is refusing to
compromise your convictions
even if you end up in a fiery furnace or
land
in a lion's den. It's the moral courage
to speak
truth to power and I want to add one
more to the mix.
It's climbing into the craters left by
sin and suffering and turning your cello
into a weapon of faith
and hope and love.
In 606 BC, the city of Jerusalem
was besieged by King Nebuchadnezzar and
the Babylonian Empire.
A teenager named
Daniel was taken from his home, taken
from his family marched
900 miles to
Babylon, where he would live the rest of
his life as
an exile. The odds were against Daniel
but God was for him. The Babylonians
tried to name him,
tried to tame him. Administrations would
come and go.
Nations would rise and fall. But we get to the end of the book of
Daniel and
he is the last man standing.
Daniel gets the last laugh. Daniel gets
the last dance. How? How does a prisoner
of war not only survive
a lion's den, but climb a political
ladder
all the way to the top?
Here's my take. Even when his life was
turned upside down, even when he found
himself
in a crater, Daniel never lost
faith in the end of the story.
Decade after decade he put on
his tuxedo, he climbed into the crater
of that exile, and he had the holy
audacity
to play his cello. What are you talking
about?
Well in Daniel 1, it was a
counter-cultural conviction
that refused to compromise. In Daniel 2,
his weapon is a prophetic imagination. In
Daniel 3,
it's integrity. In Daniel 4, it is the
gifts of the Spirit.
In Daniel 5, it is the moral courage to
speak truth to power.
In Daniel 6, it's the faith to shut the
mouth
of lions. In Daniel 7, it's humility. In
Daniel 8,
it is testimony. In Daniel 9, it is
kneeling
three times a day and praying.
In Daniel 10, his weapon is fasting for
21 days.
In Daniel 11, his weapon is vision.
In Daniel 12, it is long obedience
in the same direction.
We live in a very different
day and age, not much has changed.
All of us born on a battlefield
between good and evil. We live in a
fallen world. We live in a broken world. I
am not telling you anything you do not
know. We've got a COVID crisis that
will not go away.
We've got wildfires ravaging the west
coast. We've got
hurricanes hitting the gulf coast. We've
got
pain and suffering in Kenosha, Wisconsin,
after the shooting of Jacob Blake.
We've got peaceful protests and violent
riots it seems in
every corner of the country. We've got
the president of a Christian university
who makes news
for a sex scandal. And we are politically
polarized after two political
conventions, with an election two months
away.
And that's this week.
Hear me, we are here
for such a time as this. We are here
for such a place as this.
"It's easy to stand around a
bombed out crater," says Sarah Groves, "and talk about the crater—
how it got there, who's to blame for it,
in all its particulars. It is much harder
to step
past the edge of it, down into the middle
of it,
and say or make or do something
generative." In Ezekiel 22,
the prophet is challenging the Jewish
people, who are
exiled in Babylon. He says, stand in
the gap. If not you, who?
Stand in the gap. How?
By climbing into the craters left by sin.
It's
by climbing into these craters of
injustice. By climbing
into the craters left by a cancel
culture. Each one of us are part to play.
Each one of us an agent of the eschaton.
Each one of us has a weapon
and it is not carnal. It has the divine
power to demolish strongholds.
I'm talking about you. Yes, you.
All of us a part to play.
So ready or not, here we go.
The last dance. Daniel 12,
verse 1.
This reference
to the archangel Michael is a
cue and a clue to help us
put together this jigsaw puzzle called
the end times. Yes, we're gonna go there
this weekend.
Now Daniel points to a moment in the far
distant future when this archangel will
arise. And it will happen during a time
of distress that we would call
the tribulation. More on that in a minute.
In Revelation 12,
a battle breaks out in the heavenly
realms
between angels and fallen angels. Now, the
fallen angels they're led
by Michael and the fallen angels they're
led
by the dragon, which is another name
Revelation 12:9,
for the, "age-old serpent who, is called
the Devil or Satan." And by the way, it's
in this very same chapter where he is
called the accuser of the brethren.
Now I'm going to say a lot of things
this weekend that are going to sound
strange and mysterious.
I'm going to tell you why. When you're
talking about things that haven't
happened yet. When you're talking about
supernatural phenomenon, you don't always have words for it.
You don't always have categories for it.
You don't always know
how to name it. All I know is this.
The existence of evil is getting less
and less deniable
and more and more obvious. I think the
enemy is showing
his cards. Now here's some good news.
In the end this Dragon is cast
down. Verse 11, "they triumph over him."
You know how. "By the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of his testimony." Listen,
testimony is prophecy. If God did it
before, He can
do it again. This is one of the most
significant weapons
in your arsenal. It's your testimony and
it's not yours, it's actually God's.
And so there's a stewardship dimension
to it.
When we share our testimony, what we're
doing is we're loaning our
faith to someone else. You know what
I need to borrow? Your faith. And you need
to borrow
mine. And I'm not just talking about the
testimony of miracles. Okay,
I'm talking about some testimonies of
sin and suffering and some of the
craters that we've walked into but we
have walked out
of by the grace
of God. And so this week, an opportunity
is going to present itself.
Would you share that testimony with
someone?
Verse 2.
When you read this you have to remember
that it is written in the 6th century
BC. And so this prophecy predates
the incarnation. Daniel is looking past
the first coming of Christ to the second
coming of Christ. Now, you can read all
about it in Revelation
19. There is a mighty shout
in heaven. And then John sees heaven
opened up and there is one who is called
Faithful and True and he's riding
a white horse. And his eyes are like
flames
of fire and on his head are many crowns.
Very similar imagery to
the book of Daniel. Now 1st
Thessalonians describes
that moment this way. "The Lord Himself
will descend with a
shout, with the voice of the archangel,
with the trumpet call of God.
And the dead in Christ shall rise first.
Then we who are alive
and left will be caught up, caught up
together with them
to meet the Lord in the air." Now that
phrase
caught up is where we get this word
rapture. It's this moment when
Christ returns for His church, returns
for His Bride. Now, most theologians they
fall into three camps—a pre, mid and
post-tribulation
rapture. I have a little different take
on that eschatological timeline.
And I'll explain why. But before I do, let
me say this. As soon as I'm omniscient I
will let you know,
but I would not hold your breath.
What I want to do is just share a
personal
conviction. I feel like I owe it to you
as your pastor to just call it
like i see it. So here goes. I'm gonna
show you a chart
and we'll put it on the screen and
we'll put it back up on the screen.
You've got the church age, which
begins on the day of Pentecost. Now this
church age we don't know how long
it lasts, but it's the church age that
ushers in the eschaton or end times
and Jesus gives us some signs that will
precede
His second coming in the Olivet
Discourse, Matthew chapter 24. 
There will be wars and rumors of wars,
check.
There will be an increase in the
frequency and intensity
of natural disasters, check. There will be
dissensions and divisions,
check. But this is where I want to pop
the periscope, and give us a little
reality check. Now, I am not trying to
minimize the challenges that we face
right now as a nation, but is so critical
that we understand our history both—
American history
and church history. A hundred years ago,
1920, the world is grieving
20 million casualties from the war to
end all wars. 1919,
Spanish Flu claims an estimated
50 million people. 70
million people. And then in 1921,
you've got the Tulsa Massacre, which many
historians
would say is the worst incident
of racial violence in the history of
this nation.
All of that to say this, I mean, it felt
like the world was coming to an end
a hundred years ago.
Alright, let me double back to this
chart. At the end of the church age,
we will enter into a unique period of
history a time of tremendous trial and distress called the
tribulation.
And at some point, Jesus will rapture
His Church. Now the question, of course, is
when?
Now, I have no idea, chronologically. No
one knows
the day or the hour, but I have a pretty
good guess
where it happens biblically. I think the
rapture happens
in Revelation 7, somewhere between
the
sixth and seventh seal.
Now you've got three kinds of judgments
that happen during the tribulation.
You've got the seven seals, the seven
trumpets, and the seven bowls—
in that sequence. And what i'm suggesting
is that the rapture happens between the
sixth
and seventh seal, this first series
of judgments. Verse 9 of chapter 7 says this
And one of the elders asked this
question in verse 13:
"Who are these people clothed in long
white robes? And from where
did they come from?" In other words,
how'd they get here? The answer is verse
14.
All of a sudden, this
multitude appears
in heaven. Even the angels don't know how
they
got there. But the key to me is to back
up the bus
to chapter 6 verse 17.
The first six seals,
in my opinion, are
intensified natural disasters.
And verse 17 says, "that
then it's the great day of wrath." It's
almost like a script
flips right here from judgment to wrath.
Evil
is going to meet its match. I think God
will rapture His church
before he pours out his wrath on
injustice
and unrighteousness. Now listen,
everyone is given an opportunity to
repent.
God is not willing that any should
perish.
But there's an interesting phrase after
some of these
seals and trumpets and bowls. Here's what
it says in Revelation.
"Even then, they did not repent"
Now Daniel 12:10 says it this way, "Many
shall purify themselves, made spotless
and relined, but the wicked
shall do wickedly." Long story short,
I don't think the rapture happens
pre, mid or post.
I think it happens pre-wrath.
And I'll show you that chart one more
time. And I want to say one more thing.
Hundreds of years ago, Rupertus Meldenius
said, "in the essentials, unity.
In the non-essentials, liberty. In all
things,
charity." And so listen, if you hold a
different timeline,
not gonna love you any less.
But one way or the other, sooner or later,
Jesus is going
to rapture His church and it is going to
be
a moment. Okay, I have paraglided over
the sacred valley in Peru. I've climbed a
few
fourteeners. Been at the top of the
Empire State Building. Rode Soarin' at Epcot. Okay, all
of those
are amazing, right? Come on!
It is going to be an epic moment. The
dead in Christ shall rise and then we
who are still alive
will meet the Lord in
the air. I'm praying two prayers a lot,
lately.
Come, Holy Spirit and come,
Lord Jesus.
Is there anything that you long for more
than the second coming of Christ?
2 Timothy 4:8 says that there is a
crown a crown of righteousness,
for those who long for His appearing.
Do you long for His appearing--
to meet your Lord and Savior in the air?
What a moment that's going to be. Now
listen, I have no idea
how the news media is going to handle
this one.
It's funny, this week I just happened
to listen to a podcast about
the lost colony of Roanoke. Okay it's
like this mystery, like
what happened to them and so I have no
idea how Fox and CNN will
will spin this one, the lost colony
of Christians. But I cannot wait. Now, I
know that some of you are listening to
me and
wow this sounds awfully fantastical.
Okay listen, a thousand years ago around
earth sound kind of crazy.
Okay 500 years ago, I think these
invisible things called atoms, like
what what are you talking about. A
hundred years ago, landing a man on the
moon. Are you
kidding? Give it a few years...
Now I'm not making any predictions, not
placing any bets,
but what I do find fascinating is that
we live in a moment of history where
many prophecies are being fulfilled
or are now made possible to be
fulfilled. I'm gonna go quick, but let
me go back to the chart one more time.
Right in the middle there's gonna be an
interesting event that will kind of bisect this this tribulation.
Now week nine, talked a little bit about
Antiochus Epiphanes, 168 BC
invades Jerusalem, desecrates the temple, sets up a statue of Zeus, sacrifices a
pig on the altar makes the Jewish people
eat the unclean
parts, outlaws circumcision, outlaws
Torah and then it happens again
in AD 70. But Scripture seems to
indicate that it will happen
again in the middle of the tribulation.
Now I don't have time to detail this, but
just
news flash none of this was possible
before May 14, 1948.
What are you talking about? Well, I think
we take the nation of Israel
for granted. But what were the chances
of the people of Israel forming a nation
on the heels of a holocaust?
But it's the forming of the nation of
Israel
that makes many of these prophecies
possible
to be literally fulfilled.
So many prophecies would have made no
sense a hundred years ago. Okay,
just kind of a little appetizer
this weekend. In Revelation 11, there are
two witnesses who will be killed
in the streets of Jerusalem. Verse 9 says,
Now, we don't think twice about that but that's not possible
before satellites in orbit. That's not
possible before television.
What I'm saying is technology makes
possible
a literal fulfillment of the entire
world, and by the way those two witnesses
will be resurrected.
Revelation 9:16,
Now, what's amazing about that is this.
In AD 95, most historians don't
think that the population of the world
was even 200 million people. Okay, we're
talking about
at that point an army that was just
inestimable,
that it was impossible to imagine.
Let me just benchmark this. 70 million
soldiers fought
in World War II. We are inching closer
and closer
to a potential fulfillment of that
reality.
Now, for me
the greatest single indicator of the end
times may be something that Daniel said
in verse 4. I want you to look at this,
Now most translations say,
"Knowledge
will increase." There is more information
in a single weekend edition of the New
York Times than the average person
living in the 18th century would
encounter
in a lifetime. We have these devices called
smartphones,
more computing power than the engineers
and the astronauts who landed a man on
the moon. Don't get me started on
AI. I think the digital universe of data
doubles in size every two years and has
now reached
44 zettabytes.
I have no idea what that means, but I
think it spells
information overload. There is this
exponential increase in
knowledge that to me might signal
the beginning of the end times.
Alright, what do we do with all of this?
Verse 12.
At this point, Daniel is in his nineties. In his nineties. That's a lot of trips around
the sun. Again administrations have come
and gone. Nations have
risen and fallen. And Daniel is still
confronting the brutal facts. How?
With unwavering
faith. Don't lose faith in the end of the
story.
Blessed are those who wait expectantly
and earnestly. In other words, get ready.
How do I get ready?
Listen, I think it starts with a
right relationship with God.
Jesus extended an invitation a couple
thousand years ago.
He said, "Follow me." Have you
accepted that invitation? Have you
surrendered your life to the Lordship
of Jesus Christ? If you want to do that
today. You want to take a step of faith.
You're at our online campus, it's a
little button right there.
Would you raise your hand right now?
Would you have the courage to just say
I'm in? I'm going to take a step of faith.
I want to follow
this person named Jesus. And we want to
help you in your spiritual
journey. This week, Josiah and I took a
little hike,
Little Devil's Stairs. I didn't know why
it was called that. Do now,
at least my quads do. And then we got
lost. Okay, so a six mile hike turned into
a 10 mile hike.
And about halfway, we hear a loud
sound kind of up over here,
and I look up and there's a black bear
like
20 yards away, and it shimmies down this
tree like a
fireman's pole. And we don't know if
it's gonna charge us so I just kind of
start
doing one of these little moonwalk
things like this.
I actually pick up some stones. I really
don't know if that's what the bear
protocol
is, but listen adrenaline
is pumping. And
Josiah wanted to go the other direction
that was back up hill. I can't do it, Josiah.
Our lives are on the line, but listen my
quads can't handle it. So we waited about
two minutes. I have never been more hyper
vigilant in my life. I think that's
what's happening right here, waiting
expectantly and earnestly. It's hyper
vigilance. It's
sanctified expectations. It's
watching and praying. It's being
sure of what we hope for and certain of
what we do
not see. Then it says this,
"Go your way until the end." And I love
this promise, "you shall
The day is gonna come. I'm going to scan
the horizons as I'm kind of going
vertical. My vertical leap takes off in
that rapture. Where's Daniel? Where is he?
That's going to be a moment to see some
of these saints, who have gone
before us, raptured
with us. Let me try to land this plane.
Now I wear a ring. I think you know this,
with
infrared sensors
and these infrared sensors they
measure different vital signs and so
heart rate, respiration
rate, body temperature, deep sleep.
And every day, this ring on my finger
it gives me a readiness score.
What's your readiness score for the
second coming of Christ?
Three things real quick. If you want to
be ready-
Number one, stay grounded in
God's word. My most prized possession
is a 1934 Thompson Chain Reference Bible
that belonged to my grandfather,
Elmer Johnson. Man,
he didn't just read it. It read him. I
have never seen a Bible more marked up
than my grandfather's Bible.
And here's the thing I love. His
favorite book of the Bible,
Daniel. That had a little something to do
with
this series that we're doing right now.
Sometimes I love reading that Bible and
seeing what he wrote
in the margins. He would sit around a
table,
with his cousins, with his family members
and they'd talk prophecy for hours
on end. He loved the Lord and he was
longing for His return. There are parts
of his Bible that are literally taped
together because they're worn
so thin. Charles Spurgeon said this, "A
Bible that is falling apart
usually belongs to someone who
isn't." This is a moment
for us to stay grounded. Grounded
in God's word. Two-
pray the news, don't just watch it. Pray
it.
Now listen, I think one of the challenges
we face, again
anxiety, depression about a third of us.
71%
angry, 66% fearful.
We have all of these stirring emotions
right now.
I think part of it is I don't know that
we were designed to have
a live news feed two
feet from us through social media every
moment of every day. It's like
overload. How do you handle all of that?
Lora and I had to do something this
summer. We had to do day off, phone off.
Cause we just needed to unplug a little
bit. Now having said that, I want to say
this.
I believe we watch the news,
but we also pray it. Karl Barth said, "take
your Bible and take your newspaper,
and read both. But interpret the
newspaper through your Bible.
One of two things is going to happen.
Either your reality is going to conform
to your theology or your theology is
going to conform to your
reality. Which is it?
We got to make sure that our reality is
conforming to
our theology. I want to just say this
and get ready because there's more where
this is coming from. We're going to talk
some political theology as we begin
our next series. I just think it's so
critical.
Our primary citizenship, if the book of
Daniel teaches us anything
is that our primary citizenship
is in heaven, is in this thing called the
Kingdom of God.
And here's the problem, I think a lot of
us find more of our identity
in our political ideology than our
theology.
And that's when your ideology becomes
idolatry.
And now we're in trouble because
hashtags aren't going to get us where we
need to go.
Politics isn't going to get us, now we
honor it, we're in it.
We're in it to win it. And
it's so critical that we are exercising
our civic
rights and responsibilities right now. Can I
get a little amen wherever you are,
but our primary identity, our primary
loyalty
is to the Lord Jesus Christ. Come on, the
day is coming.
It's coming when the kingdoms of this
world will become the kingdom of our
Lord
and Christ. And until that day comes,
we pray the news. we pray the news. Number
three-
Play the long game. Daniel,
long obedience in the same direction. I
think we're in a season
where God is shifting us from a weekly
mindset to a daily rhythm.
What are you talking about? Well we can't
gather on the weekend right now.
And you know what, I can't wait until we
can.
But here's the challenge, if we aren't
careful we go to church, we check a box,
and we check out Monday to Friday.
It's not going to get us where we need
to go. And so,
what I want to challenge us to do is
daily church,
okay. To make sure that we are
practicing daily spiritual disciplines.
The only ceiling on our intimacy with
God and our impact on the world is
daily spiritual disciplines. Daniel
models this three times a day, kneels next to his bed.
He's a student of God, he's
grounded in God's word,
and so I'm so excited about this. We'll
talk more about it next week, but
September 7 happens to be Labor Day.
As we begin a series on the book of
Ephesians, Heaven on
Earth, we're going to kick off daily
church Monday to Friday.
Listen, it's only going to be about five
minutes. It's not this like major major
message, okay. But it's about us fine
growing
every single day, every single day
in our relationship. If we seek first His
Kingdom,
all these other things are gonna be
added to a spirit-filled, spirit-led
every single day. And if we do that,
if we do the right thing day in and day
out, God is going to show up
and show off. And so I'm going to
challenge you even this week. NCC.RE/DAILY. Would you sign up? Because if you
don't,
we always give ourselves kind of that
opt out. And so
I'm so excited we're going to
overestimate what we can do a year or
two,
but we're going to underestimate what
God can do in 10 or 20 or
70 years. Like Daniel, I've gotta close.
I'm gonna invite our worship team. Get
ready to come.
And I'll close with this. On the
evening of January 30, 1956, Dr martin Luther King Jr.
speaking at First Baptist Church in
Montgomery, Alabama.
In the middle of the message, he's
informed that his house
has been bombed. It was intended to
intimidate.
Had the opposite effect. Dr. King went
home that night. He was sitting
at his kitchen table and he said he
heard the still small voice of the Holy
Spirit.
Martin, "Do not be
afraid." He lived
unshaken, didn't he?
I'll let Dr. King have the last word. He
said, "You may be
38 years old, as I happen to be. And one
day,
some great opportunity stands before you
and
calls you to stand up for some great
principle, some great issue, some great
cause and you refuse to do it because
you're afraid.
You refuse to do it because you want to
live longer.
You're afraid that you will lose your
job or lose your popularity
or you're you're afraid that someone
will stab you, or
shoot at you, or bomb your house. So you
refuse
to take your stand. Well,
you may go on and live until you're 90,
but you're just as dead at 38 as you
would be at 90. And the cessation of
breathing in your life is but the
belated announcement
of an earlier death of the spirit.
Quit living as if the purpose of life is
to arrive safely
at death, live unshaken.
Do not lose faith in the end of the
story. God's got this. God's got you. May
His Kingdom come. May his will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
If you believe it would you say
amen and amen?
Whatever you're facing today.
Whatever stands in your way.
He's near.
He's here.
Cause I called
and you came to my rescue.
wanna be where you are, Lord.
We wanna be where you are.
Will you take your place, cause it's a rightful place.
Where you are, in your own words, with
your own song,
with your own sounds. We praise Him because he is worthy. Yes, He is worthy.
We climb into the craters of life. Some
of you right now, your life
has been cratered. What do we do? We climb
into the crater and we give God
the sacrifice of praise. And
as we do, we are mirroring what is
happening in heaven right now, every
nation, every tribe, every people
every language surrounding the throne.
Worthy,
worthy God, worthy to receive
glory and honor and power and praise.
Would you break through right now and
give Him the praise?
And God will break through. Heaven will
begin to invade
earth. Oh God, right now, we believe for
healing.
Would you do it Lord? Would you give us
another testimony?
God, right now, we believe for deliverance.
We're just sang it. I called and you
answered. God is calling some of you
right now.
You feel this stirring in your spirit.
What is this?
It's the Holy Spirit saying, Come,
I want relation. You are beloved by God.
Would you step into that relationship
today? Would you raise
that hand if you need prayer right now?
Our prayer team wants to agree with you.
Sometimes we get to the end of a series
and it's so hard to end.
I just I love what the Lord
is doing in us.
It has been a challenging challenging
season.
Listen, I've never felt more
uncertainty.
I've probably never felt more insecurity,
moments of doubt, moments of fear.
All of us are human, but we live unshaken
because of what Christ has accomplished
for us.
And I love where the Lord's taking us.
As much as I love this Unshaken series,
Heaven on Earth,
listen, the book of Ephesians we're going
to spend
twelve weeks verse by verse.
And we're not just going to get into it,
it's going to get into
us. God's going to take you, God's going
to take us
to a whole new place in our walk with
Him.
My faith is on fire. I can't wait to see
what the Lord's going to do.
So I want to say thank you for joining
us
online. Would you invite a friend? There's
a friend who needs to experience what
you just experienced.
Would you invite them next week?
live.national.cc
It's pretty simple. You just send them a
link and NCC anywhere and NCC Daily
coming your way. We're going to
keep on
keeping on. Now to Him who is able to do
immeasurably more than all we can ask or
imagine, according to His power, His
power that is at work within
us. To Him be glory.
We give you glory God, in the church
and throughout all generations forever
and ever. Amen.
