Dr. David Jeremiah: END TIMES - BE THE GOOD NEWS | David Jeremiah Sermons [15:19-20:26]

And it will be the end of the church age one of these days the last person will be saved and the rapture will happen one of these days the last invitation will be given and the rapture will happen. I hope you aren't waiting for a sudden decision when you see everybody else going up you don't want to do that you don't want to take a chance on your eternity because of some silly reason or something somebody has told you if you're not a Christian if you're not saved today is the day of salvation this is the day of opportunity you do not know when the rapture is going to happen or do I but let me tell you something I do know there is nothing that needs to happen before it takes place the rapture is an imminent event that means nothing needs to happen before it happens no one watching Jesus that day on the mount of all of that could have imagined this prediction coming true that the gospel coming from Jesus who was sitting four feet away from them would cover the whole earth. Acts 1A Jesus you shall receive powers the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem in all Judea in Samaria and to the end of the earth. Now do that come true let me do a little arithmetic with you a little math I love the math of the book of Acts because it tells you what happened the day of penny cost happened and Peter preached a great sermon I don't know exactly everything that was in the sermon I know a little bit. But it must have been a good one because 3,000 people got saved at the end of the sermon. And many of them went home from the day of penny cost and they were unable to understand the gospel in their own language it was the miracle of penny cost and soon the number of believers reached 5,000 that's in Acts 4.4. And the disciples began multiplying exponentially and the number of the churches multiplied as well. In fact I love the fact that finally in the book of Acts they don't have any way to describe it any longer so they just say a lot of people got saved. From Antioch the first official church sent missionaries Paul and Barnabas they were commissioned and they organized missions and by the early 300's the Roman Empire had been reshaped by the gospel of Jesus Christ. Nothing was the same the gospel had penetrated every institution every government everything the gospel had literally become wild in its propagation every generation of Christians from that time until this have spread the news to those around them. There have been some people of gigantic stature who have led the way men like Wesley and Terry and Moody and Billy Graham. Most of the work however has been done not by the great people that we know they led the charge they stood in front of us and challenged us. But the world was changed because of men and women we call them laymen people like you and me who have shared the gospel wherever we have gone. And today in this world we have made progress in sending the gospel everywhere. Let me give you a little progress report. There's a group called the Joshua project that keep track of the gospel and how it's doing in penetrating the various people groups around the world. And there are 17,432 people groups in the world and about 10,000 of them have been reached with the gospel. That means there are 7,416 people groups that need the gospel they don't have it. What that means is they don't have the Bible they don't know the gospel they don't have anybody preaching to them there's no missionaries. If you ever go to Washington DC and get a chance to go to the museum of the Bible there's a room there that you can walk into that is overwhelmingly powerful. It has a wall with little boxes that look like a mail room and it shows you all of the people groups of the world and the ones that have been reached are different than the ones that haven't been reached. They literally take donors into that room and show them all the people groups that are yet to be reached and sometimes people who have great resources say my wife and I are going to take that one and they pay whatever costs to get the gospel. You say, well, how do they do that? Well, we're living in this time and in women where it's not as hard as it used to be because of technology. The gospel now can be taken out of our language and into another language much quicker. I wish I could explain to you how this happens, but they find the different sounds and all and they create the gospel in technology. Then they marry the technology with the Word of God and it comes out at the end of the computer a Bible. We are seeing the Bible and the gospel go into languages every year, every month where it has never been before the statistics I have given to you are from 22 but they will be old very soon.