Who is the most dangerous person you will ever encounter? Now the greatest enemy you will ever encounter is not human. So I want to be very honest with you, speak to you from the Word of God, as a messenger from the Lord, and I want to pose a question: “What do you fear most? What do you fear most?” And I want to add another question: “What should you fear most?” Or to put it another way, “What is the greatest threat to your life? At what point should you do whatever can be done to secure yourself from that greatest of all threats? What is your greatest threat?” Or to put it another way, “Who is your greatest enemy?” It’s also true because we’re not sure, in many cases, what lies ahead. And that’s normal, because life if full and rich with meaningful relationships for most of us, and we want to hang on. We worry about life to the point that we’re circumspect about what we eat and concerned about supplements and nutritious aspects of food that can maybe lengthen our life and add greater physical endurance because we basically have a fear of death. We actually feel overexposed to things that we can see and things that we can’t see that can take away our lives. We worry about all kinds of things because death can come in so many ways. We are not forgetful of terrorists, criminals that could do damage to us, and regularly do across the world. We are not forgetful of all kinds of diseases, all kinds of potential corruptions, pollutions, toxins. Our society is very aware of that danger and many, many other dangers that pervade our lives. That’s a sobering thought for the preacher to understand the responsibility that lies at his feet, to speak in a way that, perhaps, will make this particular message exactly the clear truth that could capture the hearts of some who don’t know the Savior.Īs a society globally we are living through a kind of dangerous threat that has come upon us with a virus. And the Word of God is being translated into multiple languages, including American Sign Language, and we are receiving responses from around the world. Incalculable numbers of people joined us each time we’ve done this and that would be true again tonight. Last Sunday there were people who were part of our service from eighty-five nations. Again this evening, as we have for the last few Sundays, we come to the Word of God and have the opportunity to proclaim this glorious revelation, not to the normal congregation in the church, but to a congregation spread all over the globe.
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