Jack Sterling Ward's Sermons

It’s not good math but it’s correct theologically. Evolutionists use even worse math. They believe nothing plus nothing equals everything! Faith plus nothing equals Everything! Jesus came and lived and died and rose again for our salvation. All we have to do is believe it by placing our faith and trust in Jesus Christ. That’s all we have to do to be saved! But many in the world cannot accept this. They want a part of the process. They want to do something in order to earn God’s favor. The Galatians were falling to this as we see in our text today.

Daniel 7:1-10 Daniel has a dream of four creatures and ten kings. The four creatures are the Babylon, Medio-Persia, Greece and Roman empires. The ten kings are ten elites, or nations or power groups that will arise in the last days. One of the kings will start out small but rule the others eventually. This is the beast, the Anti-Christ, the man of sin who will rule the world during the seven years of tribulation.

The Bible is about the redemption of man by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ. The Bible explains how we got to this point of salvation by grace alone through faith alone. God created the world. He created a people to introduce Himself to the world. He sent a Savior to save the world. And when the fullness of time is come….He is coming back to rule the world. Mankind sinned. So we can never be good enough to save ourselves from our sin problem predicament. We need to become sinless and holy. Impossible!! But with God all things are possible!

Revelation 21 More on the New Jerusalem. Also the wall and the gates of the New Jerusalem. What do they mean?

Revelation 21:1-4 There is a New Jerusalem that is in heaven right now and one day it will come down to earth and be inhabited by the redeemed forever and ever! God will dwell with us there. A city so marvelous that even the Bible which gives explicit details does not have the words to fully describe it wonder!

1. The Rapture of The Church 2. The Rise of the Anti-Christ 3. Battle of Gog and Magog 4. The Tribulation 5. Abomination of Deslolation 6. Battle of Armegeddon 7. Judgment of The nations 8. Binding of Satan 9. The Millennial Kingdom 10. Last Battle (Gog-Magog 2) 11. The Great White Throne Judgments 12. New Heaven and New Earth

There is no fence sitting anymore. You are either for the truth or against the truth. As we end 2021 where will you stand in 2022? Will you stand for the truth of God or the lies of the devil. No middle ground on Jesus. You are either for Him or against Him. To ignore Him is to be against Him. To follow Him is to adore Him. The last two years we have seen some things we never thought we would see and do. I’m not going to rehash the last two years, you’ve been here you know what’s going on. Will it get better in 2022? Maybe. Probably not. The Bible says that evil men shall wax worse and worse. People will be buying and selling and marrying and giving in marriage in 2022. No one will expect it when the Lord comes for us. Is that because times are so good or that no one is looking for the rapture anymore? I’m beginning to think that no one is looking for Jesus. No one wants to know Biblical truth anymore especially pastors and preachers. Are you turning away from or turning to truth?

Israel has been freed from 70 years of Babylonian captivity. The Medes and Persians have defeated the Babylonian empire. Nehemiah and Ezra later are leading the return and rebuilding of Israel. Nehemiah will build the wall and Ezra will lead the rebuilding of the city and the temple. They had opposition from many. Anytime people want to glorify God, and lift up His name they will have opposition. The opposition is cruel, wicked, resourceful and they never quit. So we have to be determined, confident in our God, and willing to sacrifice even our lives to the glory of God. But we know one thing…..we cannot lose! And they cannot win!

what was your favorite Christmas gift? What was your least favorite? I have no idea on either of these. I never got something I didn’t like in some way or another. I guess my favorites that I remember were a toy submarine and I remember a Wolf Man figurine. As an adult I was always working for the Postal Service I was just glad to get it over with. Anything was great! God has given us a gift that is beyond belief and believe it or not the vast majority of people have never bothered to claim it.

: The most important invention in world history is the printing press. Built in 1436 by Johannes Gutenberg. With the newfound ability to inexpensively mass-produce books ideas and knowledge was placed in the hands of every literate person in the world. It helped pull the world out of the dark ages. The first book printed was the Bible. The Gutenberg Bible as it was called. The world’s greatest invention led to the word of God being placed in the hands of millions of people down through the years since. In a sense the most important invention shed light on the world and made Christianity the most important movement in the history of the world. Why is Christianity so important? Why are you as a Christian so important?

Let’s make a deal a game show that aired for many years had contestants choose door number one, two or three for great prizes. One door had gag prizes. One door had pretty good stuff. One door contained a brand new car! YOU had to choose which door. Well the world today has to choose from only one door and that is Jesus! But they turn Him away and would rather choose a thief and a hireling. Jesus offers us much more than a new car! He gives us a new life and the promise of heaven and all it’s glory! Yet people choose the thief and the hireling. How to find the Door.

Players, coaches and managers get kicked out of games all the time. The reason they get kicked out is that they have crossed the lines established by acceptable behavior principles. Leviticus chapter 18 contains a list of sexual sins. Sexual sins are especially heinous because they take something that God uses to procreate humanity, a good thing, a holy thing and perverts it. The land itself suffers from our sins. God raises up nations and put nations down. Always because of their sin. A sinful nation cannot continue to sin because they spread their filth to the whole world. So God has always checked those nations by bringing them down and replacing them with another. I believe this is happening to America today. God is kicking us out of America for crossing the lines He has established of acceptable behavior.

Dictionary definition of Pestilence: A Fatal epidemic disease especially bubonic or black plague. Pestilence in the Bible…means a deadly and overwhelming disease that affects an entire community. The Black Plague, a disease killed over thirty percent of Europe’s population, was certainly a pestilence. Spanish flu in 1918 killed 33 percent of the world’s population. Pestilence many believe is one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse in the book of Revelation. Revelation 6:8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. I believe this includes all pestilences since Jesus ascended into heaven through the tribulation period. The word Pestilence is mentioned 48 times in the Old Testament and only twice in the King James New Testament. Biblical Pestilence is deadly and devastating to a people group.

Wokeness: This word was added to the dictionary in 2017. It means "well informed, up to date, alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice." Being "woke" means being aware....knowing what's going on in the community related to racism and social injustice. But...are they really "woke?" What does the Bible say about being "woke?"

2 Corinthians 2:14-17 We have so much to be thankful for. Yes we are losing a lot of things we hold dear. We are losing our constitutional republic. We are losing our God given liberty in America. But we will never lose Jesus Christ! He is the same yesterday, today and forever! For that we should be truly thankful!

Christmas album recorded live November 2021 twelve of your favorite Christmas classics Recorded and performed by Jack Sterling Ward

Salvation was bound up in the temple, even if in a preliminary and anticipatory way. For even as its altar and priests were a figure that pointed forward to Christ's sacrifice on the cross, so the structure itself was a type, a material prophecy of that day when the Word of God would become flesh and "tabernacle" among us (cf. Jn 1:14). Still today it serves as a type of that future glorification that awaits us in the heavenly presence of God himself

2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day (day of the Lord begins with the rapture of the church)….shall not come, except there come a falling away first (Greek words mean moving away, or taking away) and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition. It appears from scripture that the church is going to be taken away BEFORE the tribulation begins. Here are some points to consider as proof……

Obadiah 1:15 For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen….. For the [judgment] day of the Lord draws near on all the nations. The day is near when I, the Lord, will judge all nations. Zechariah 14:1 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. The phrase “day of the Lord” usually identifies events that take place at the end of history and is often closely associated with the phrase “that day.” One key to understanding these phrases is to note that they always identify a span of time during which God personally intervenes in history, directly or indirectly, to accomplish some specific aspect of His plan.

The world today loves their little “g” gods. Many gods exist today. Some real, some imagined. The problems is that they all have a little “g.” that is, they can be called gods but they are not the real, the only, the unique, the creator, the sustainer, the saving, the prophecy fulfilling, the only truth, the God of the Bible. And that leaves the rest of them as only pretenders. There is only one contender, and that is the God of the Bible. Eliohim, the great “I am.” The Lord Jesus Christ

Most in not all people think they are going to heaven. Most think they can go to heaven by NOT being a Christian. In other words you don’t need the Christian faith, you don’t need Jesus to go to heaven. In fact most think they can go to heaven without Jesus Christ. Just be sincere in what you believe, be a fairly good person and do some good things, be religious and be true to yourself or some other mantra like that. They are not remotely close to going to heaven. The fact is that only Christians go to heaven because only Christ claimed to be the only way to heaven and IS the only way to heaven. So If this is so important how can we know we are saved? How can we know we are a Christian?

Covid, Same sex marriage, Abortion, Transgenderism, Islam, the Pope, Covid, Vaccine mandates, all this stuff is just war against God and His creation. Man is trying to make man in His image. Should I say the devil is trying again to remake man into his image with MRNA vaccines, and DNA altering shots that will kill millions and those that survive (the devil doesn’t want every human to survive just a select few that he can breed a new mankind) will be made in the devil’s image. God is going to stop this as He did in the days of Noah. Why do men seem to hate God and resist God? It’s his fallen nature to resist God. Man has as wicked heart that resists God. But God loves us and we can have and must have a new heart, a forgiven and cleansed heart from the penalty of our sin and rebellion.

Is James crazy to tell when everything is going wrong we should rejoice? No he is absolutely correct. How can that be? Why would we be happy when everything goes wrong? Not only is it possible but that is the way every Christian should look at every trial and every trouble!

Grace is God’s riches at Christ’s expense. Grace is the greatest word in the human language. It’s greater than love. What? Yes. Without grace we would be lost in sin even though God loves us. Grace is God giving us His salvation paid for by the blood of Jesus Christ. Yes love did it but without grace there is no salvation. When the Bible mentions grace it’s always about Jesus. Jesus is grace. Grace equals Jesus. How can we be strong in grace?

Are churches today looking for Jesus? 1 Thessalonians 1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. 2 Timothy 4:8enceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. I love talking about the rapture. I still believe in it. I still look for Him everyday! This could be the day! I’ve done this since 1970. 51 years of watching for Him. Don’t you get discouraged? I must admit I didn’t think it would get this bad. “What did you think the last days would look like” says a famous Bible prophecy teacher. He’s right. Did we think we weren’t going to suffer any? There are birth pangs mentioned in the Olivet discourse. We are in the middle of them right now! I must admit that sometimes I wonder if maybe the preterists were right that the church will go through the tribulation and then Jesus will come. But then I read The passages I’m giving to you today and quickly I regain my confidence that Jesus is indeed going to rapture the church!