What happens when your dream comes true but then turns into a nightmare? Jesus experienced that in His life. He entered Jerusalem in triumph, but that fame soon turned to tragedy.

Jesus teaches us how to live a faithful life for God and how not to be seduced by cries of the world. This lifestyle comes from knowing Jesus and knowing who we are in Christ.

Just as Jesus was secure in knowing His Father, we can have that same security and trust that will see us through the nightmares of life.

God created us for greatness in this life and in the next one. But what is genuine greatness as compared to what the world defines as greatness? Jesus tells us greatness comes from having the heart of a servant in His kingdom.

Let us define what this greatness is through the teachings of Jesus. Knowing these truths and then living them out will transform your life and give you a new vision for living. In knowing Jesus we can have a vision for greatness!

All of us hunger for success in life. We want to provide for our families and give them the best we can. But what is true success in this life and what is it we should pray to give to our families?

The key to success as Jesus taught in this life is living in oneness of Jesus and His Father. Success is having a love relationship with Jesus and living out His truth and way of life as He taught it.

Let us see if we can define this way of life from the teachings of Jesus.

Jesus continues His teachings on our most important issues in life. After He shares on marriage, He demonstrates how we are to bless our children, which is the fruit of marriage and has the highest of values in our family.

I will talk about blessings our children and also the battle for the soul of our nation in the war on our children concerning abortion. These are all tied to the meaning of eternal life and the new birth Jesus died to give us.

The greatest treasure and joy in this world is eternal life. It is all centered in Jesus's love for you!

Jesus on His way to Jerusalem continues to give us insight in how to live with hope and victory in life. He teaches us about marriage and divorce, celibacy, how to have the faith of a child, and how to have eternal life.

I will go into greater depth on how to have a successful marriage full of life and how to prevent divorce. Marriage is at the heart of understanding our covenant with God in Jesus Christ and what it means to live a holy life.

While there are many questions and mysteries yet to be answered about the meaning of the Book of Revelation, we can agree on four prophetic promises that summarize the hope and comfort Revelation is meant to give us.

We can understand our world today if we know what these promises from Jesus are. They will inspire us in our life for today and our hope for the future. They will spur us to action as we prepare the way for Jesus to return.

We live our lives according to chronological time. Our age is counted in birthday time. Our most precious memories in anniversary time. Everyday our schedules are set by time. We treasure our time together. We lament our hard times. When I was a kid I anxiously awaited the arrival of my cousins at Christmas time. I wished time would go faster. On my honeymoon I hoped time to stand still.

God's gift to us is time. The sun and moon were placed in orbit for us to measure solar and lunar years. He gave us the seasons of the year to measure on how we are to plan our lives. Time is our friend, but sometimes we feel enslaved to time by payments we owe or in the toil of our work schedules.

However, there is a time that transcends our physical measure of time. God's time determines our history and destiny. The Greeks called kairos God's time and kronos humanity's time. Our Creator uses kairos to set in motion the salvation of our souls. Galatians 4:4-5, "But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons."

When God's time enters our time prophetic words are fulfilled. God does for us what we could not do in our own time. He saves us from sin and death to a new life in Jesus Christ. Paul continued to write in this passage that the bondage we were under to Satan was broken in God's time. We were set free to love God, to love ourselves, and to love others.

The mystery of life often plagues us and confuses us with its darkness. Jesus gives us clarity into the meaning and purpose of life, which inspires us in how we should live. The first purpose is eternal life in His kingdom. The next is how we should live together in His kingdom.

We should do all to heal and mend relationships. How we should act with a brother who sins against us. How this is so important to live healthy lives, because we do sin against one another. How we can forgive those who have hurt us terribly.

I will share an amazing story of how one family forgave the murderer of their son.

Who will be with Jesus in heaven for eternity? The words of Jesus and His prophecies teach us about the Jews and Gentiles and our destiny. Revelation and Romans explore the mystery of what will happen to the chosen people of God, Israel and the Jewish people.

You may be surprised what John and Paul write about the Jews as inspired by the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ and His blood are at the center of their focus. Where will the Jews spend eternity? The answer may surprise you as it did me.

The promise of utopia where humanity somehow establishes a city, nation or world where all the trauma and oppression, and inequality of life is wiped away has been the bane of our global community. Somehow these fairy tales and attempts to create a new world order end in failure and death.

The communists killed and murdered tens of millions of people in the 20th century to bring about their perfect society. It ended in shambles and revolution. Today secular humanism, of which communism was one of its expressions, seeks to rid us of all the evils we have created, only to deliver war, oppression, and the silencing of any voice that tries to debate its inability to save us.

I find the only hope for our future is in Jesus Christ. God alone can deliver us from our woes and wars upon one another. Let us look to what Jesus will do as He will return to us to make all things new.

When I read Revelation 21, I am so awed by its glory, wonder and promise, I realize my words will fail to capture what Jesus is saying to us. We live in a world of sin, death, and suffering. Jesus is declaring to us a new world order far beyond what humanity can promise or deliver.