Worship Service Livestream


July 19, 2026
  • Welcome and Announcements
  • You Are Good
  • Prayer of Invocation
  • Forever Reign
  • Good, Good Father
  • Scripture Reading - Matthew 24:1-8
  • Goodness of God
  • Pastor's Message -- What Next?
  • God You're So Good


Matthew 24:1-8
1 Jesus came out from the temple and was going away when His disciples came up to point out the temple buildings to Him.
2 And He said to them, "Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, not one stone here will be left upon another, which will not be torn down."
3 As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?"
4 And Jesus answered and said to them, "See to it that no one misleads you.
5 For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will mislead many.
6 You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end.
7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes.
8 But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.


SERMON NOTES - What Next?

  • The first six chapters of Daniel are mostly narrative. They give us information about Daniel, and three of his friends who, along with others, were taken from their homeland and deported to a foreign country as a result of the Babylonian captivity under the rule of the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar.
  • God's sovereignty in the first six chapters is intensely personal in that He is sovereign over individual people. And if God governed the outcome of Daniel's life, it gives us hope; an assurance that He is sovereign over our lives as well.
  • The next six chapters of Daniel are mostly prophetic in that they describe Gentile kings and kingdoms that would rule over Israel beginning with Babylon followed by Medio-Persia, Greece, and Rome.
  • There are five major visions in the book of Daniel. The last one is in chapters 9-12, which form a prophetic framework covering world history from Daniel's time to the final establishment of God's eternal kingdom.
  • The book of Daniel is historical, prophetic and eschatological.
  • Eschatology is the doctrine of last things, and the Book of Daniel's eschatology teaches three things:
    • There is a final world leader who will emerge in the end time who is described as the little horn (Daniel 7), the prince who destroys the city (Daniel 9:27), and the king who will do as he pleases (11:36). He is also called, the man of sin or lawlessness (2 Thessalonians 2:3), the beast (Revelation 13), and the antichrist (1 John 2:18.). He is the global leader who rises from the nations, dominates geopolitics, persecutes God's people, desecrates the sanctuary, exalts himself above all gods, and is destroyed by God at the end. He is the leader of the final week of Daniel's seventy weeks.
    • A seven year period of God's judgment on the earth is coming. This is the 7th week of Daniel 9. It is also called the Tribulation, a future period of intense suffering and distress that will occur before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. This period is characterized by divine judgments, widespread chaos, and persecution, particularly targeting believers.
    • At the end of the seven year period, Jesus returns to earth and establishes His messianic kingdom on earth.
  • If you look at the headlines today, you see a world of instability - wars and rumors of wars, economic instability, political division, cultural confusion, technological disruption, natural disasters, fear, anger, and uncertainty. The book of Daniel teaches us that God is sovereign even when the headlines scream chaos.
  • It shows us how to live faithfully in a world that feels out of control.
  • It shows us that God rules over every kingdom because behind everything - war, inflation, elections, disasters - stands a sovereign God.
  • Daniel shows us that evil has limits and God has a timeline. Even when headlines feel overwhelming, evil cannot exceed the limits God sets.
  • Daniel shows us that God purifies his people through pressure.
  • Daniel points us to the final hope beyond every headline.
  • The headlines of today are temporary. The kingdom of God is eternal. Daniel watched empires roar like beasts, kings rise in pride, and God's people pressed to the edge of their strength. Yet through every chapter, one truth thundered above the noise of history: God rules over every kingdom, every king, every moment of history. Empires rise, empires fall, but the Ancient of Days remains on the throne.