Jesus' Offensive Plan

Waiting on Jesus in Overwhelming Need (25 mins)

There is a destruction happening to the earth. the answer is counter-intuitive, but clear in the Bible. What the earth needs is people to love God extravagantly so His presence overflows to the need, not be God to others in need. it's a risky plan...it's a hated plan....but it's also the only true plan to help address the overwhelming needs all around us.

Increasing Offense is Proof of the Great Tribulation (27 mins)

Jesus is the rock of offense. I can choose to fall on Him and let Him break me of pride, or I can try to resist Him and get ensnared by the enemy. Offense is one of the main markers of the beginning of the Great Tribulation! Isaiah 8:13The LORD of hosts, Him you shall hallow; Let Him be your fear, And let Him be your dread. 14He will be as a sanctuary, But a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense To both the houses of Israel, As a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15And many among them shall stumble; They shall fall and be broken, Be snared and taken.”

The Danger of Cross-less Christianity

The End Time River and John the Baptist (Released 12.27.2015)

Saints Releasing Judgment "Part 2" (1 Hour)

This is "Part 2" of a message I gave at Church yesterday.  If you are interested in the first part, you can find it here:
http://lighthop.podbean.com/e/saints-releasing-judgment-tom-stolz-1162016/
If you are interested in this idea, there are other messages on this site.  Look for the category "Agreeing With the Lord's Judgments" and "Jesus' Offensive Plan"

The Danger of Lawlessness as Jesus Returns (48 min)

The return of Jesus is promised to
offend many...just like Jesus offended many in Israel the first time He came.
 Offense will cause many to cast off Jesus' leadership at the worst
time!...just as He is coming to be the one world leader forever.  This is
a trap and a promise.  It is easy to avoid this trap with humility and
talking to Jesus. 
2 Thessalonians 2:7-11  For the
mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so
until He is taken out of the way.  8  And then the lawless one will
be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy
with the brightness of His coming.  9  The coming of the lawless one
is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,
 10  and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish,
because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
 11  And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that
they should believe the lie,
 
John 16:1-4  "These things I
have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble.  2  They
will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills
you will think that he offers God service.  3  And these things they
will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me.  4  But
these things I have told you, that when the time comes, you may remember that I
told you of them. "And these things I did not say to you at the beginning,
because I was with you.
 
Matthew 7:21-23  "Not
everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but
he who does the will of My Father in heaven.  22  Many will say to Me
in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons
in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?'  23  And then I
will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'

The End Time Promise of Delusion (40 mins)

Many believe God would never let them be deceived.  Rather than respond in faith, they simply
wait in presumption.  God not only will
let believers be deceived, He warned over and over about it:
Matthew 24:24  For false messiahs and
false prophets will rise up and perform great signs and wonders so as to
deceive, if possible, even God's chosen ones.
 
Romans 16:18  Such people are not
serving Christ our Lord; they are serving their own personal interests. By
smooth talk and glowing words they deceive innocent people.
 
1 John 3:7  Dear children, don't
let anyone deceive you about this: When people do what is right, it shows that
they are righteous, even as Christ is righteous.
 
2 Thessalonians 2:1-3  Now,
brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering
together to Him, we ask you,  2  not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled,
either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ
had come.  3  Let no one deceive you by any means; for that
Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is
revealed, the son of perdition,
 
Galatians 1:6-8  I am shocked
that you are turning away so soon from God, who called you to Himself through
the loving mercy of Christ. You are following a different way that pretends to
be the Good News  7  but is not the Good News at all. You are
being fooled by those who deliberately twist the truth concerning Christ.  8  Let
God's curse fall on anyone, including us or even an angel from heaven, who
preaches a different kind of Good News than the one we preached to you.
 
2 Peter 2:1-3  But there were
also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers
among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the
Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.  2  And
many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will
be blasphemed.  3  By covetousness they will exploit you with
deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their
destruction does not slumber.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:1-6  But
concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should
write to you.  2  For you yourselves know perfectly that the
day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.  3  For
when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction comes upon
them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.  4  But
you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a
thief.  5 
You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night
nor of darkness.  6  Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but
let us watch and be sober.
 
2 Thessalonians 2:9-11  The
coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power,
signs, and lying wonders,  10  and with all unrighteous deception among
those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they
might be saved.  11  And for this reason God will send them strong
delusion, that they should believe the lie,

Offense in the End Times (36 min)

Jesus has a plan for unity by division, based on a loyalty to truth.  This is going to cause offense.  It is important to understand this dynamic.