Happily Ever After Series

WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS : HAPPILY EVER AFTER

FEBRUARY 20,2022, 11:15AM

ED YOUNG

Welcome everyone to Fellowship Church. If you're watching online, how's it going? Make sure if you can make it, make it next week, because I'm teaming up with the Tom Brady of prophecy, Jimmy Evans. We're going to have a great time as we discuss the end times. I like that, great time as we talk about the end times. I want to say Hi to all of our different campuses and locations. Thank you so much for joining us. Is today beautiful or what? I almost didn't show up, but Lisa reminded me you're the pastor. Okay, I'll show up.

I like how we love a happily ever after ending. Have you noticed that we grow up as children reading these books and they lived happily ever after. I love that. Ladies, you pick a movie, romantic comedy. Ladies always pick the movies you know that you know that. We love those movies that have a happily ever after ending. Even we watch sports guys, we want our team to win and to kind of live happily ever after. We're just made for that, aren't we? To live happily ever after why? I'm a “why” guy? Why are we made that way? Because we're made in the image of God who is a forever being, we are hardwired it's his will for all of us to live together forever with him. But we chose to do our own thing. Sin entered the world. So, we find ourselves either on the right side or the wrong side of the levy.

I love that song. “When the levy breaks”, how many people in here have ever heard of the band Led Zeppelin? Okay. Here's my best Robert Plant imitation. “When the levy breaks You going to…” He's a unique character. The Levy's going to break. It really is.

I think about 2005 Katrina when it roared and exploded and caused enormous damage in New Orleans. All the feds and people in local government, “Oh, it'll never happen. Our levies are fine. There's a 99.5% chance it'll never, ever occur.” What happened? Katrina hit and in 50 places, the levies broke. And once they're broken, I mean what do you do?

The Bible says from cover to cover the Levy's going to break. It says that. The Bible says from cover to cover that Jesus is coming back. The Bible tells us in the book of Ecclesiastics 3:11 (BSB), “…He has also set eternity in the hearts of men.” We're just fascinated with forever.

I think about those Ever-Ready batteries. I like that name “Ever-Ready”. Are you ever ready for the ever after? Are you ever ready? Are you forever ready? Because of us when we think about the end times, we get so focused on the minutia, on the data that doesn't matter that we miss the “what” and the “why” and the “who” and what we're supposed to do. I sound like a hip hop artist. We do though, as believers have this eternity chip embedded in our soul.

As you see your see the message map (HANDOUT). You can hopefully use that to fill in the blanks. You can use pen, pencil, lipstick, eyebrow pencil, whatever you need to write. Thoughts disentangle themselves when they pass through someone's lips, and through your fingertips, and the dullest pencil is better than the sharpest mind.

As I go through this, as we focus on forever, I want this to be, and I know Jimmy does too as we've been talking about this series, I want this to be practical. I want this to be something that you can utilize where you are.

I love Asian food. Love it. One time I ate at a Japanese restaurant and the whole menu is in Japanese. So, I'd ask the server to interpret what kind of sushi that we were getting ready to eat. I love sushi. I think it makes me a better fisherman too. I just love it. Well, I would rather go to a Japanese restaurant, and I don't mind if the menu is in Japanese, but please put English underneath the Japanese. I could talk Japanese to all of you here. I could talk over your heads about this stuff easily, but what good would that do? Just like you could talk over my head about your area of expertise or your area of knowledge.

I want to serve the food where you can understand it, see it and eat it. Today is going to be an experience where we feed on the word of God and prayerfully, hopefully this will be an encouragement to you.

This is very encouraging because when you sum up all of prophecy, all of the end of times, I can sum it up in two words, we win. Let me say that again. We win. Because of all this we have a FOCUS on FOREVER.