“Now the World…”
(A Message to the Multitude)
(Preached Sunday Evening, June 7, 2020)
“Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.”
(John 12:31-32)
Has this world been judged? Has it’s ruler, the Devil himself, been cast out? Is there really a Savior from all this who has been lifted up above it all? If so, is he really, in fact, right now drawing all men and women unto his holy self; Him, Jesus Christ the Son of God, the Son of Man, the Savior of the World?
Are these questions to great for you? Are you one those? Are you one living only for the here and now? Are you one of those attached to and so very very much a part of this world that only the issues portrayed in the news and on current social media can interest you?
Then, poor (more than broken) poor spiritually dead soul, we give you the World to listen to. Here then these few struggling words rising from the print of your own newspapers and from the online articles existing within the ethereal clouds of what you have fittingly named, the worldwide web.
From the Washington Times; from an article printed, published, and posted in its pages, just five days ago, and rightly entitled, From impeachment, to pandemic, to riots, wildfires and killer hornets, 2020 is proving to be a doozy; hear then their words. Yes, let the world speak to the world. Will you not listen to the sensibly eternal never wrong and yet ever reaching voice of God? Then let him and her that does not have ears to hear God’s word, hear, once again as you so often do, hear rather instead from the Devil’s world all and only what the world can say, as we read to you… this!
“Can 2020 get crazier? You bet. We’re just getting started.
“If you wrote a screenplay of what’s happened so far in 2020 and gave it to Hollywood producers, they’d laugh you right out of the room.
“So, your movie,” they’d say, ‘has the president of the United States being impeached, a pandemic killing more than 100,000 Americans and 375,000 worldwide, race riots and looting in dozens of U.S. cities, a billion animals killed in Australian wildfires, Brexit, royals abdicating, drone strikes whacking terrorists — and a wave of killer hornets to boot? Get out!”
“And here’s the thing: We’re only 155 days into the year. Coming up: The craziest U.S. presidential election in history, with a 72-year-old megalomaniac incumbent and a 77-year-old challenger who can hardly remember where he is.
“But let’s sum up what’s happened so far in 2020…”
(Curl, Joseph. “From Impeachment, to Pandemic, to Riots, Wildfires and Killer Hornets, 2020 Is Proving to Be a Doozy.” The Washington Times, The Washington Times, 2 June 2020, www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/2/from-impeachment-to-pandemic-to-riots-wildfires-an/)
No. No, Joseph Curl, author of this article from the World; let us not have you sum it all up. No. No, world that without God continues to profess that it will, all by itself… cure itself.
O’ God, o’ Lord, Father of the Lord Jesus, Our Father which art in Heaven, hear now our prayer for them and us to be able to hear the words of your Son! …
News from Heaven! News from Heaven! The Lord Jesus has declared that…
I. Now the world is judged!
“Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.” (John 12:31-32)
News from Heaven! News from Heaven! The Lord Jesus has declared that…
II. Now the prince of this world is cast out!
“Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.” (John 12:31-32)
News from Heaven! News from Heaven! The Lord Jesus has declared that…
III. Now the Savior of the World is lifted up from the earth!
“Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.” (John 12:31-32)
News from Heaven! News from Heaven! The Lord Jesus has declared that…
IV. Now Jesus draws all men unto him!
“Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.” (John 12:31-32)
OUTLINE:
“Now the World…”
- Now is the judgement of this world!
- Now shall the prince of this world be cast out!
- Now Jesus is lifted up from the earth!
- Now Jesus draws all men unto him!
“Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.” (John 12:31-32)
HYMN(S):
Onward, Christian Soldiers (438)