Second Street PCA

The heavenly perspective of the church. Times maybe difficult circumstances can be hard but we need to see through eyes of faith. The church will sing the new song, the Victory Song! The songs we sing at church end at Christmas are humans and preludes to the singing of the redeemed of all the earth.

Bob Hammond brings the Word from Second Street's pulpit this morning. God is light, Jesus is the light. The light has come into the world, this is good news. All are called to receive Him and live by and in His light.

The second beast rises up out of the earth. The first beast rose up out of the sea. The dragon stood on the seashore and called them forth. The Bible tells us that the dragon is Satan, we can clearly infer that the first beast is demonized a power and the second beast, we are told in later chapters, is the false prophet. We are told that the state and the false prophet work together. The false prophet only has power in the presence of the state, the The false prophet, in turn, causes all the nonbelieving world to worship the state. In this sermon, we look at what all this means and what do we see going on in our world today.

11/7/21

Satan has been defeated and cast out of Heaven. 

However, he has been cast down to Earth. His attention is now completely focused on the church. His attempts to destroy her are thwarted, the church dwells secure in the wilderness nourished by God. 

Satan then turns his attention on individual churches and Christians. His wrath is great because he knows his time is short. 

What is the Christian to do?

As Jesus gives His life on the cross, there is warfare in heaven. As Jesus lies in the tomb, there is warfare in heaven. As Jesus ascends into heaven, the enemies of God in the heavenlies have been disarmed. The Devil and his angels are cast out and there is now now means if condemnation for God's people.

This sermon, as an exposition of Rev. 12:1-6, is about the spiritual warfare in which the church has engaged ever since the garden (I'm using the word church to prefer to God's people related to Him by faith throughout time). In this text the church is seen as a woman about to give birth, and then does give birth to Jesus Christ and the New testament church, but is assailed by the dragon. God is greater than all and protects and nourishes the church.

In this sermon we look at the seventh trumpet, the end of the world. It is the third great woe of the series of trumpet judgments. It is a time of the coming of the kingdom of God and the rewarding of the believers, but the time for judgment of the world and destruction of the destroyers of the world. In the meantime, what are we to be doing? What is God doing behind the scenes?

A sermon preached at Second Street Presbyterian Church in Albemarle, NC. www.secondstpres.org

This sermon is about the witness of the church in the world. We see the first mentioning of the Beast of Revelation (demonically inspired government persecuting the church). The witness of the church is what Satan desires to destroy. He has successes. But the church survives in resurrected glory. The church is to continue its witness to the end of the age.