1. Where are we going… where have we been?

2. -“Growing Out and Growing Up” -“Bearing and Baring” - “Right Rave and Left Love” - “Hype and Hypocrisy”

3. Application : Historical Devotional (Inspirational) Doctrinal (Prophetical)

4. “History and His Story” Where are we going … where have we been?

6. What Christianity today THINKS it SEES: What God SEES and says is REAL:

7. “These days are great!”

8. These times are PERILOUS! 2nd Timothy 3:1 – “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.” “These days are GREAT!”

9. What God SEES and says is REAL: “These are times of GREAT FAITH!”

10. These are times when men are DEPARTING from THE FAITH! 1 Timothy 4:1 – “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, …” “These are times of GREAT FAITH!”

11. What God SEES and says is REAL: These are times when there is a GREAT move of the SPIRIT!

12. These are times when there is a great move of the SEDUCING SPIRITS! 1 Timothy 4:1 – “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; These are times when there is a GREAT move of the SPIRIT!

13. What God SEES and says is REAL: These are times when Jesus’ prayer for UNITY in John 17 is being answered!

14. These are times when SATAN is bringing “christianity” together to put his false Christ on the throne over a ANTI-CHRIST church! These are times when Jesus’ prayer for UNITY in John 17 is being answered!

15. What God SEES and says is REAL: These are times when men need to set DOCTRINE ASIDE, and emphasize “UNITY”!

16. These are times when men will NOT ENDURE SOUND DOCTRINE! 2 Timothy 4:3 (a)- “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine;…” These are times when men need to set DOCTRINE ASIDE, and emphasize “UNITY”!

17. What God SEES and says is REAL: These are times when more biblical TRUTH is known than any other time”!

18. These are times when men are EVER LEARNING and never able to come to the knowledge of the TRUTH! 2 Timothy 3:1 – “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come…. These are times when more biblical TRUTH is known than any other time”!

19. These are times when men are EVER LEARNING and never able to come to the knowledge of the TRUTH! 2 nd Timothy 3:2 - “For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers,.. These are times when more biblical TRUTH is known than any other time”!

20. These are times when men are EVER LEARNING and never able to come to the knowledge of the TRUTH! 2 Timothy 3:7 – “Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” These are times when more biblical TRUTH is known than any other time”!

21. 3 Levels of Spiritual Growth “little children”- verse 12“little children”- verse 12 “YOUNG M E N”-“YOUNG M E N”- verse 13 (b) verse 13 (b) “fathers”- verses- 13, 14“fathers”- verses- 13, 14

25. “If you can separate people from their history, you can convince them of anything”.

26. Georg Hegel “The only thing that men learn from history is that men never learn from history”.

27.  There is no greater treasure for the modern man than to know his past well as a basis for assessing and understanding the future. – (Archaeologist Patrick Mbunwe-Samba)

28.  Dealing with the past is not dwelling in the past- it is part of the promise of the future. (Alex Boraine)

29.  God has a plan and so does the devil.

30.  God has a plan: For the universe.For the universe. Hebrews 1:2 – “Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;”

31.  God has a plan: For the universe.For the universe. For the earth.For the earth.

32.  God has a plan: For the universe.For the universe. For the earth.For the earth. For you.For you. Jeremiah 29:11 – “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”

33.  Satan has a plan: To counter.To counter.

34.  Satan has a plan: To counter.To counter. To counterfeit.To counterfeit. Isaiah 14:13-14 – “For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.”

35.  Satan has a plan: To counter.To counter. To counterfeit.To counterfeit. To confound.To confound.

36.  Church history is nothing more than the movement of God through the course of time, nations, and people to accomplish His three-fold plan for the universe, the earth, and your life… AND it is the movement of the devil through the course of time, nations, and our lives to counter, counterfeit, and/or confound God’s three-fold plan.

38.  God has a plan and so does the devil.

39.  The God of the Bible is the God of History.

40. “History and His Story” Where are we going … where have we been?

41.  The God of the Bible is the God of History.

42.  God has a plan and so does the devil.  The God of the Bible is the God of History.

43.  The devil does not want you to identify him in history.

46. Psalms 32:8 - “I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.”

47. Hebrews 4:12-13 – “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.”

48.  God has a plan and so does the devil.  The God of the Bible is the God of History.  The devil does not want you to identify him in history.

49.  History repeats itself.

50. “History and His Story” Where are we going … where have we been?

51.  God has a plan and so does the devil.  The God of the Bible is the God of History.  The devil does not want you to identify him in history.  History repeats itself.

52.  Don’t remove the ancient landmark.

54.  God has a plan and so does the devil.  The God of the Bible is the God of History.  The devil does not want you to identify him in history.  History repeats itself.  Don’t remove the ancient landmark.

55. “History and His Story” Where are we going … where have we been?