Sermon Series: The Beginning and the End

The Beginning and End of the World

Date: January 12th, 1986  |  Scripture: Genesis 1:1  |  Topics: End Times, Eschatology, Last Days, Music, Second Coming, World

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.


The Beginning and the End of Sorrows

Date: January 19th, 1986  |  Scripture: Genesis 3:16-19  |  Topics: Adam, Eve, Sin, Sorrow, Suffering

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth toContinue Reading


The Beginning and the End of Death

Date: January 26th, 1986  |  Scripture: Genesis 3  |  Topics: Adam, Death, Enemy, Eschatology, Sin

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know thaContinue Reading


The Beginning and the End of Satan

Date: February 2nd, 1986  |  Scripture: Isaiah 14  |  Topics: Absalom, Death, Demons, Pride, Rebellion, Satan

For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORContinue Reading


The Beginning and the End of Grace

Date: February 9th, 1986  |  Scripture: Genesis 3:21-24  |  Topics: Absalom, Death, Grace, Grief, MacArthur, Redemption, Sin

Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them. And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned evContinue Reading


The Beginning and End of Dispensations

Date: February 16th, 1986  |  Scripture: Ephesians 3:1-13  |  Topics: Age, Covenant, Dispensations, Grace, Law, Stewardship

For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; That the Gentiles should be fellowheirContinue Reading


The Beginning And The End Of Israel

Date: February 23rd, 1986  |  Scripture: Jeremiah 30:7-11  |  Topics: Arab and Jew, Israel, Jeremiah, Jerusalem

Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him: But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them. Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O IsraeContinue Reading


The Beginning and the End of the Church

Date: March 2nd, 1986  |  Scripture: Ephesians 3:1-6  |  Topics: Age, Bride, Church, Dispensations, Grace, Mystery

For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; That the Gentiles should be fellowheirContinue Reading


The Beginning and the End of the Golden Millennium

Date: March 9th, 1986  |  Scripture: Revelation 20:1-6  |  Topics: End Times, Eschatology, Israel, Millennium, Satan

And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment waContinue Reading