Celebration Church Nashville with Ray McCollum

And they said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name; lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."Genesis 11:4Nimrod, the wicked great grandson of Noah, set up a city that offered men a way to heaven without God. In such a system, the state sees itself as God; and to those foolish enough to fall for it, the government becomes God. Don't think it can't happen here.“The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on earth. We must therefore worship the State as the manifestation of the Divine on earth; the State is God, marching through the world.”Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel(1770-1831)We hope you enjoy Part 2 of Pastor Ray's message: “Nimrod and the Tower of Babel”

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....And Cush begot Nimrod. And he began to be a mighty one on the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord." And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel.Genesis 10:8-9Nimrod, the wicked great-grandson of Noah, and Babylon, the kingdom he created, provide us with a prototype and a preview of the spirit of antichrist and the kind of government he always seeks to install—dangers are still with us to this very day."Nimrod", in Hebrew, means "the Rebel,” one of the titles given the Antichrist in 2 Thessalonians 2:8—where he is called "The Lawless One". The form of Nimrod's rebellion was to head up a great confederacy in open revolt against God.Arthur W. PinkWe hope you enjoy Part 11 of our Bible studies in “Genesis: The Book of Beginnings”, “Nimrod and the Tower of Babel”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....So Noah went out of the Ark, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him. Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying: "And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you...”Genesis 8:18; 9:8-9Upon exiting the Ark, God entered into a covenant with Noah that affects us all to this very day. You may be amazed to learn all it contains.“God's covenant with Noah is unconditional and based on God's faithfulness. It establishes the sanctity of life as humans made in God's image, the institution of capital punishment for murder, and the regularity of the seasons, all symbolized by the rainbow as a perpetual sign between God and the man.”J. Sidlow Baxter, “Explore the Book”We hope you enjoy Part 10 of our Bible Study of Genesis: The Book of Beginnings”, “The Noahic Covenant”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household...Hebrews 11:6Too many of God's people have never explored the prophetic implications in the Genesis account of Noah and the Ark. It's not just about a man and a boat. It concerns our salvation in Christ!We hope you enjoy this fresh look at the faith of Noah and...“The Ark of Our Salvation”

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....Now Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.Genesis 4:8The perpetual war between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman, prophesied by God in Genesis 3, finds its first fulfilment in Genesis 4, when Adam's eldest son kills his younger brother. The prophetic implications of the first murder in human history must not be missed!“Cain and Abel stand as representatives of two great classes of people. They typify respectively, the lost and the saved; the self-righteous and the broken spirited; the formal professor and the genuine believer; those who rely upon their own works and those who rest upon the finished work of Christ; those who insist upon salvation by human merits and those who are willing to be saved by Divine grace; those who are rejected by God and those who are accepted and blessed.”Arthur Pink, “Gleanings in Genesis”We hope you enjoy Part 2 of Pastor Ray's teaching on...“The War Between Two Seeds”

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....And the Lord God said to the serpent...there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her Seed: by Him will your head be crushed and by you His foot will be wounded.Genesis 3:15 (BBE)We cannot properly interpret the present without a biblical understanding of the past. The conflict between good and evil in our day is a continuation of God's decree in the Garden of Eden. A war between the seed of the serpent and the Seed of the woman.“In these two seeds we see the history of mankind, for everything recorded in the Bible, and in the annals of humanity, can ultimately be traced back to what happened in the Garden. Everything, and I mean everything, goes back to these two seeds.”Bill Cloud, “The Enmity Between the Seeds”We hope you can be with us this weekend as Pastor Ray continues our studies in “Genesis: The Book of Beginnings” with a message on: “The War Between Two Seeds”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....“Echoes of Eden”: a study of how all the events of human history are ‘echoes' of mankind's fall into sin as described in Genesis 3. In Part 1, we presented the ‘mechanics' of the Fall; in Part 2, we looked at the ‘effects' of the Fall. This week we will consider how, in the midst of God's judgments upon the serpent, the woman, and the man, He predicted the coming of a Savior!

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings. And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, "Where are you?" So he said, "I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself."Genesis 3:7-10The 4 effects of man's fall into sin, recorded in Genesis 3, have been repeated in human behavior for over 6,000 years. Do you know what they are?“How evident it is that we all shared in the first sin and died in Adam. The first man stood in a federal position; and the fact that he acted in a representative capacity is seen by the fact that all his children share his nature and perpetuate his transgression.”Arthur W. PinkWe hope you enjoy Part 2 of Pastor Ray's teaching on “Echoes of Eden”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God actually said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?"Genesis 3:1Mankind's first encounter with Satan, described in Genesis 3, established a tragic pattern of behavior that has echoed down through human history and even to our present day. We cannot understand our present predicament apart from our past. Or, as one said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” We can fix this.“The third chapter of Genesis is one of the most important chapters in all the Word of God. What has often been said of Genesis as a whole is particularly true of this chapter: it is the seed plot of the Bible. Here we find the Divine explanation of the present fallen and ruined condition of our race. Here we learn the subtle devices of our enemy, the Devil.”A.W. PinkWe hope you enjoy Part 4 of Pastor Ray' teaching series on “Genesis: The Book of Beginnings”: “Echoes of Eden”

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.Genesis 1:1And God saw everything He had made, and indeed, it was very good. Genesis 1:31Reading the first and last verses of the first chapter in the Bible raises a question: “If God is good, and everything He created was very good, where did evil come from?” You might point to the original sin of Adam and Eve in Genesis 3. But you'd be mistaken...The origin of evil was in heaven, not on earth.We hope you enjoy Part 3 of our Bible study series in...“Genesis: The Book of Beginnings.”

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.Genesis 1:1The first book of the Bible is the most important book in the Bible. Because God has given us, within its pages, the seminal seeds of all the truth He intends to fully reveal.“Genesis has been called the ‘seed plot' of the Bible for in it we have, in germ form, almost all of the great doctrines which are fully developed in the books of scripture that follow.”A.W. PinkWe hope you enjoy this second study in our teaching series on the Book of Genesis: “Genesis: The Seed Plot of the Bible”...To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville...."Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord God, “that I will send a famine on the land; not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.”Amos 8:11"All the research indicates that biblical literacy in America is at an all time low.”Dr. Kenneth Berding, Talbot School of TheologyThe rising rate of biblical illiteracy among Christians is contributing to the increasing corruption of American culture. We have to get back to the Bible! The question is, where do we begin? The answer is, begin with the beginning!We hope you can be with us this weekend for Pastor Ray's new series of studies on the most important book in the Bible: “Genesis: The Book of Beginnings”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'Acts 26:14Saul of Tarsus, in his encounter with the risen Christ, was given the parable of the ox goad as a reminder of the self-inflicted pain that comes upon men and nations that kick back against the will of God. Saul surrendered and became Paul the Apostle. Could we see something similar happen in America today?“The ox kicks against the goad to spite the husbandman for having goaded him onward; but instead of hurting the husbandman it hurts itself. If you think, O man, that you can stop the progress of Christ's Church, you might as well bid the universe to stand still!”Charles SpurgeonWe hope you enjoy Pastor Ray's message, “Kicking Against the Goads”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....“Do you think that I came to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.”Jesus, in Luke 12:51There is a ‘Christianity Lite' version of the Gospel that craves unity at all cost. We must ‘be nice'. Compromise is ‘king'. But there is a polarizing power in the true gospel that is exposing good and evil, separating light and darkness, and dividing those who truly believe from those who do not. Sometime, division is a good thing. We hope you can be with us this weekend for Part 2 of Pastor Ray's message, “Christianity Lite: Tastes Great-Less Filling”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville...."You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet.Matthew 5:13 (ESV)A new brand is sweeping the land offering all the benefits (“Tastes Great!”) and none of the drawbacks (“Less Filling!”) of the old brand. But this time it's not a new brand of beer; it's a new kind of Christianity. And it could lead to the death of Democracy.“The chief danger that confronts the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, heaven without hell.”General William Booth, Founder of the Salvation ArmyWe hope you can be with us this weekend for Pastor Ray's message, “Christianity Lite: Tastes Great! Less Filling”. 

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....Truly, you are a God who hides yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior.Isaiah 45:14 (ESV)Isaiah's insight into the mystery of the God who hides Himself is given in the middle of a prophecy concerning Cyrus the Great, the pagan king God would use to allow His people to return to their homeland after 70 years of political captivity. The prophecy came to pass. Might God be doing it again?“God is in total control. He makes that very clear in the Bible where he tells us that he raises up kings and destroys kingdoms. He even calls the pagan king Cyrus His ‘anointed'; His servant to do the things that He wants him to do.” Ken HammWe hope you enjoy Part 3 of our teaching series, “Jesus Incognito”, a fascinating message entitled... “Cyrus the Great, Donald J. Trump and the God Who Hides Himself”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....Now behold, two of them were traveling that same day (Resurrection Sunday) to a village called Emmaus... So it was, while they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus Himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know Him.Luke 24:13-16Throughout the Bible, God hid Himself when He came among His people—'incognito'—disguised and mostly unrecognized. Even on the day of His resurrection, Mary mistook Him for a gardener, and the disciples on the Emmaus Road walked with Him but knew Him not. The question for us is, “Can WE recognize the risen Christ among us today?”We hope you can be with us this weekend for Part 2 of our Bible Study of “Jesus Incognito”...“The Road to Emmaus: How We Can Recognize the Risen Christ”

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....Truly you are God who hides Himself, O God and Savior of Israel.Isaiah 45:15One of the greatest mysteries of God is how He hides Himself in plain sight. He reveals Himself yet remains hidden, and remains hidden even as He reveals Himself. Like the disciples on the road to Emmaus, He walks with us, yet we recognize Him not.“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. But He walks everywhere incognito. And the incognito is not always easy to penetrate. Where is God found in our world today? Are we awake enough to notice?”C.S. LewisPastor Ray begins a new series of Bible studies...“Jesus Incognito”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....But Mary was standing outside the tomb weeping; and so, as she wept, she turned around, and beheld Jesus standing there, but did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?" Supposing Him to be the gardener, she said to Him, "Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where you have laid Him, and I will take Him away."John 12:11, 14-15Why is it significant that the first person to encounter the risen Christ was a woman? How was it that she would mistake Him for a gardener? And what message might all this mean related to the modern American church?“Think of the Church as a garden and the risen Christ as the gardener. Then imagine what it would be like were it to be so.” Charles SpurgeonWe hope you enjoy Pastor Ray's special Resurrection Day message, “Supposing Him to be the Gardener”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....When they (Paul and Barnabas) had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch, strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying, “We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God."Acts 14:21-22A thoughtful reading of these 2 verses should make one wonder... “How far have we fallen away from the biblical model of how to encourage the saints?” The modern American church does it by promising people an easy pathway to Paradise. But the Apostles had a different message!"It is necessary to pass through many troubles on our way into the kingdom of God."Acts 14:22 (HCSB)“If you find it easy to be a Christian, you probably aren't one.”Matt WalshWe hope you enjoy this weekend's Bible study, “Blessing and Testing”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....Now He spoke another parable, because He was near Jerusalem and because they thought the kingdom of God would appear immediately. Therefore He said: "A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return. So he called ten of his servants, delivered to them ten minas, and said to them, 'Do business till I come.'Luke 19:11-14The genius of Jesus is on full display in this parable, where He (1) corrects false conceptions about the coming of the Kingdom, (2) makes the case that God's economy is capitalist not socialist, and (3) warns of the fearful judgment that will fall upon the lazy and the fearful. And doesn't this all this sound like a much-needed message for the modern American church?We hope you enjoy our study on the “Mysteries of the Kingdom of God” in... “The Parable of the Ten Minas”

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville...."For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard...”Matthew 20:1 Jesus used parables, (earthly stories with a heavenly meaning), to teach His disciples the ‘mysteries of the Kingdom of God' (Matthew 13:10-11) “A biblical ‘mystery' is some spiritual truth that was obscure or totally hidden under the old covenant but now has been fully revealed in the new.”John MacArthur This week we will look at one of the most misunderstood and often overlooked parables; the one Jesus employed to reveal the mystery of God's sovereign grace....At the end of one particular parable, Jesus pronounced a judgment upon the Jewish nation that was the heaviest that could happen to any people."Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it.” Now when the chief priests and Pharisees heard His parables, they understood that He was speaking of them.Matthew 21:43,45The mindset of the modern American church regarding the nation of Israel has motivated many ministers to avoid the parable of the wicked vinedressers altogether.The subject of Israel has become somewhat of a ‘sacred cow' in circles where the errors of dispensational theology dictate doctrinal correctness. But this honest, accurate commentary from 17th century Bible scholar Matthew Henry proves this was not always the case.“This parable plainly sets forth the sin and ruin of the Jewish nation; they and their leaders were the wicked vinedressers; and the judgment spoken against them is a caution to all that enjoy the privileges of the visible church, not to be high-minded, but fear.”Matthew Henry (1662-1714)We hope you enjoy Pastor Ray's provocative message on “The Parable of the Wicked Vinedressers”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville...."For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard...”Matthew 20:1 Jesus used parables, (earthly stories with a heavenly meaning), to teach His disciples the ‘mysteries of the Kingdom of God' (Matthew 13:10-11) “A biblical ‘mystery' is some spiritual truth that was obscure or totally hidden under the old covenant but now has been fully revealed in the new.”John MacArthur This week we will look at one of the most misunderstood and often overlooked parables; the one Jesus employed to reveal the mystery of God's sovereign grace.

A new bible study platform, available to all.To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville...."Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.”Matthew 13:44"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.”Matthew 13:45-46“Both of these parables are concerned with the issue of ‘values': our subjective appraisal of what something is worth to us. God has a value system, and we have a value system—and ours does not always agree with His.”R.C. SproulHow highly do you value the Kingdom of God? What price are you willing to pay to obtain it? Why do your answers matter so much?We hope you enjoy Pastor Ray's message on “The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl of Great Price”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....Another parable He put forth to them, saying: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field...Matthew 13:31Another parable He spoke to them: "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal...Matthew 13:33Jesus used parables, (simple stories that illustrate great spiritual principles), to make known the ‘mysteries of the Kingdom of God' to His people. This weekend we will look at the meaning of 2 of our Lord's briefest, yet most powerful parables: “The Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Leaven”

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....Another parable He put forth to them, saying: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. So the servants of the owner came and said to him, 'Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?'Matthew 13:24-27Why does God allow evil to continue in the world? How long must we endure this dreadful co-mingling of good and evil, right and wrong, ‘wheat' and ‘tares'? Jesus gave us the answers.We hope you can be with us this weekend as Pastor Ray continues his teaching on “The Kingdom Parables” with a message that reveals the mystery of “The Wheat and the Tares”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....And the disciples came and said to Him, "Why do You speak to them in parables?" He answered and said to them,"Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.”Matthew 13:10-11We must constantly bear in mind that the parables of Christ teach certain great principles of the Savior's divine kingdom, of the kingdom of God, when that kingdom comes into contact with the human heart.McClintock and Strong EncyclopediaJesus explained the most complex mysteries of His kingdom and of how to live the Christian life using simple stories called parables. We need to know what they mean!Please be with us this weekend as Pastor Ray begins to take a life changing look at “The Parables of the Kingdom”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. (NKJV)-Seek the Kingdom of God above all else... (NLT)Jesus in Matthew 6:33“The seeking of the Kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.”Jonathan EdwardsSome very critical questions confront any Christian who truly desires to obey this commandment of Christ: What is the ‘Kingdom of God'? What is ‘His righteousness'? How do we ‘seek it first'? Every Christian needs to know the right answer to these 3 fundamental questions. Do you?We hope you can be with us this weekend for Part 2 of Pastor Ray's message, “Seek First the Kingdom”

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you.Matthew 6:33The religious Jews of Jesus' day did not recognize their King or His Kingdom when it was all standing right in front of them. The same problem applies to much of the modern American Church when it comes to Christ's command to seek the Kingdom. You cannot successfully seek something if you don't know what it is or what it looks like.“If you don't know what it is you're looking for you are NEVER going to find it. You have to be clear on what it is you are seeking.”Germany Kent, Christian journalist-We hope you can be with us this weekend for Part 3 of Pastor Ray's teaching series on “The Mysteries of the Kingdom”... “Seek First the Kingdom”

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.Matthew 24:14“The gospel of the kingdom is the declaration of Christ's providential government and His intention to renew the entire creation.”R.J. RushdoonyThe man-centered, entertainment-oriented gospel being preached in many modern American churches is not the gospel of the Kingdom. We must not continue to make the mistake of limiting God's redemptive mission to the salvation of individual souls!“God's objective, His mission is not merely to save sinners but to redeem all of life, society, and culture—the entire world. The goal of the Gospel is to bring the world under the authority of Jesus Christ and to redeem all that is sinful.”P. Andrew SandlinWe hope you enjoy part 2 of Pastor Ray's new series on “The Mysteries of the Kingdom of God”: “The Mission of God”

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....And Jesus said to them, "It has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.”Matthew 13:11Here is what the Spirit is shouting to the Body of Christ in this nation – “The Church has lost the Kingdom of God Message that Jesus preached.”Pastor Glynn AdamsJesus referred to the ‘Kingdom' 126 times in the Gospels; He only mentioned the ‘Church' twice. But today, you are likely to 126 sermons on the subject of the church before you hear 2 teachings concerning the Kingdom. Something has gone terribly wrong.“The world is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity. It's waiting for a new demonstration of true Christianity. In the First Century, while He was on this earth, Jesus cleansed the temple; if He came back today, He would cleanse most of America's pulpits from their religious humanism.”Leonard RavenhillWe hope you can be with us this weekend as we introduce our major new teaching series on “The Mysteries of the Kingdom of God”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.John 1:14“The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation—that God became man—a strategic, divine invasion into the created order, an invasion with the intent of complete conquest and occupation.”C.S. LewisThe incarnation of Christ lies at the very core of the Christian faith. We must never minimize its meaning!We hope you can be with us for Pastor Ray's final message of year 2024, “The Word Became Flesh”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....“It is good Donald Trump was elected President. But our problems are spiritual good versus evil—not political. Donald Trump can surely help us with government protection and resources, but it is the Pastors and the Body of Christ that must engage the demonic strongholds in our nation.”Pastor Glynn WilliamsThe American church, spiritually speaking, is in a situation similar to that of Israel in the Old Testament. God had guaranteed His people possession of the Promised Land, upon the condition of their total obedience to His command to dispossess all the idolaters and destroy every remnant of their demonic religion. But then God warned them against the peril of a partial obedience.“But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those whom you let remain shall be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land where you dwell. Moreover, I will do to you as I thought to do to them.”Numbers 33:55-56Unlike Israel, our enemies are not flesh and blood; but the principle still applies: there can be no compromise in our conflict with wickedness. Whatever evil we allow to live among us today will become a thorn in our side tomorrow.We hope you can be with us this weekend for Pastor Ray's message,“The Peril of Partial Obedience”

...Unthankfulness is common. So common we don't really pay it much attention, which is why it is considered a ‘respectable' sin, and one we must deal with.ChristianityMatters.comSo Jesus answered and said, "Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine? Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?"Luke 17:17-18Ingratitude is a huge problem in American culture, inside and outside the Church. But in the Bible, thanksgiving is not a holiday—it is a command—and it brings a blessing!We hope you can be with us this weekend for Pastor Ray's special holiday message, “Unthankfulness: The Respectable Sin”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville...Now the Lord said to Samuel, "How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided Myself a king among his sons."1 Samuel 16:1The transfer of the Kingdom from Saul to David contains some powerful prophetic parallels to our own recent election. And the Good News is, a new day is dawning!“God had permitted the people to have the king of their choice. Now that that king and their mistake in choosing him had been clearly manifested, God proved the superiority of His own wisdom in raising up a king who would come in fulfillment of His perfect will.”The Bible Knowledge CommentaryWe hope you can be with us this weekend as Pastor Ray presents some powerful “Prophetic Lessons From The U.S. Election”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville...“For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another, if you do not shed innocent blood in this place...and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm, then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.”Jeremiah 7:5-7This week's election results are a sure sign that God is graciously giving us another opportunity to truly turn the hearts of our nation back to Him. Christians cannot count on political saviors. But the Lord has truly set the stage for the real work to begin!We hope you can be with us this weekend for Pastor Ray's special post-election message, “Liberty and Justice For All”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville...“America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.”Alexis de Tocqueville (1835)America did not lose her greatness because we elected bad political leaders. We elected bad political leaders because we lost our goodness. The secret of America's greatness never came primarily from its politics; that's why politics alone can never really restore it. Making America truly great again will require much more than winning an election.Proverbs 14:34Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.We hope you can be with us this weekend for Pastor Ray's special pre-election message, “Make America Great Again: What Will It Really Require?”...

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville...Isaiah 5:20Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil; that put darkness for light and light for darkness.“The Democratic Party is a demonic death cult under the power and influence of Satan. To vote for the Democrats is to vote for those building their platform on everything God hates.”Pastor Jonny Ardavanis“There is no reason to believe anyone can be both a faithful Christian and a devoted Democrat at the same time.”Parker Miller, The Washington Examiner.We hope you enjoy Part 2 of Pastor Ray's message, “20 Biblical Reasons Why Christians Cannot Vote for Democrats”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville...For the Lord brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had encouraged moral decline in Judah and had been continually unfaithful to the Lord.2 Chronicles 28:19 God has brought America low because in 2020 we put a political party in power that, like King Ahaz in Judah, has encouraged moral decline while being continually unfaithful to the Lord. They must not be re-elected!“The Democratic Party is a demonic death cult under the power and influence of Satan. To vote for the Democrats is to vote for those building their platform on everything God hates.”Pastor Jonny Ardavanis“Real Christians cannot vote Democrat.”Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA-We hope you enjoy Part 2 of Pastor Ray's series, “Seeing the Election Through God's Eyes”. This week's message is “20 Biblical Reasons Why Christians Cannot Vote Democrat”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville...When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when a wicked man rules, the people groan.Proverbs 29:2Elections have consequences! We are weeks away from the most consequential election of our lifetime, yet the latest Barna Research poll indicates that only 51% of the ‘people of faith' plan to vote! Perhaps they are not ‘groaning' enough. Yet.We hope you enjoy this 1st message in Pastor Ray's new series, “Seeing the Election Through God's Eyes”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville...Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice; at the head of the noisy streets she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks: "How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge? If you turn at my reproof, behold, I will pour out my Spirit to you.Proverbs 1:20-23“The voice of wisdom is everywhere heard: In public, in private, and in the streets. Common sense, universal experience, and the law of justice written on the human heart, all testify against evil and wrong of every kind.”Adam ClarkeAs we head into the political election of a lifetime, one must wonder whatever happened to wisdom. How is it that so many Americans have abandoned common sense and universal truths in favor of evil ideas that can only lead to destruction? Thank God the voice of wisdom is still crying in the streets!We hope you enjoy Pastor Ray's timely message, “Wisdom Cries Aloud in the Streets”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville...And he (the Beast) causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Revelation 13:16-17The modern-day prophecy preacher's sensationalized predictions about the meaning of the ‘mark of the beast' have left many Christians fearful and confused. Is the ‘mark' a tattoo? A social security number? A credit card? A COVID shot? An embedded microchip? Just what is the truth?Gary DeMar“In the popular explanations of the ‘mark of the beast' and ‘buying and selling' mentioned in Revelation 13, sensationalizing teachers rely on fear and current events to sell books and fill conferences with people ready to hear the latest ‘end-times' theory? But what does the Bible say?”We hope you enjoy Pastor Ray's message on the meaning of “The Mark of the Beast”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville...And every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.1 John 4:3The ‘antichrist' mentioned in the New Testament is not a evil, all-powerful personality who will one day come to take over the world; no; the biblical ‘antichrist' was a spirit that had already come into the world.-“The early church had heard Antichrist was coming—but John says ‘now' it is already in the world. Antichrist had arrived. It is inappropriate and unbiblical to look for a rising political leader and describe him as the ‘Antichrist'. Such a designation cannot be supported from scripture.”Gary DeMar-We hope you enjoy Pastor Ray's provocative message

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville...Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. So, you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near — at the doors! Truly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away until all these things take place. Matthew 24:32-34Somehow, back in the 70's, many popular prophecy preachers equated the blooming of the fig tree in Matthew 24 with the re-formation of Israel as a nation in 1948. From there, they calculated the rapture of the church would take place around 1988 (figuring 40 years as a ‘generation'). When that didn't happen, they recalculated the rapture to occur by 2018 (figuring 70 years as a ‘generation').When that didn't happen…No wonder multitudes of American Christians are muddled in ‘Last Days Madness'!We hope you can be with us this weekend as Pastor Ray clears up the confusion about “The Fig Tree Generation”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville...Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?" And Jesus said to them…“Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place.”Matthew 24:3,34Many American Christians believe we are living in the ‘last days' before Christ will come to save us from tribulation. But the early Christians believed they were living in the ‘last days' before Christ would come to pour out judgment on Jerusalem. Can you guess who's got it right? “The expression ‘last days' is used in the Bible not to refer to the end of the physical world, but to the last days of the nation of Israel, the ‘last days' that ended with the destruction of the temple in 70 A.D.”David ChiltonWe hope you can be with us this weekend for Part 2 of Pastor Ray's provocative answer to the prophetic question… “Are We Living in the Last Days?”

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville...God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things…Hebrews 1:1-2“Prior to the coming of Jesus, God spoke one way. The coming of Jesus was a new way of God speaking in the last days. The last days were in operation in the first century. The Christians who read this letter were to understand that they were living in the last days of an important era that was about to end.”Gary DeMarMany professing American Christians believe we are living in the “last days” before the coming of Christ. But the early Christians believed they were living in the “last days” leading up to Christ's judgment on Jerusalem. Isn't it time to get back to a biblical view of the “last days”?We hope you can be with us this weekend for Part 3 of Pastor Ray's series “Last Days Madness”: “Are We Living in the Last Days?”

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville...For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect's sake those days will be shortened... Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will boy no means pass away till all these things take place. Matthew 24:21-22,34.Many of our modern prophecy preachers foresee the ‘great tribulation' as a fearful future event that we can only escape by being included in the rapture of the church. They completely ignore the fact that all of Jesus' prophecies in Matthew 24 were fulfilled 2000 years ago!“One reason there is so much speculation and error about when the end might be stands above them all: Fulfilled prophecy is being interpreted as unfulfilled prophecy.”Gary DeMarWe hope you enjoy Part 2 of Pastor Ray's series, “Last Days Madness: What You Believe About the Future Can Hurt You”.

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville...Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?" And Jesus answered and said to them: "Take heed that no one deceives you…”Matthew 24:3-4What we believe about the future determines how we live in the present. The failure of the modern American church to Christianize the culture comes from a false view of the future, the end-times, and the 2nd Coming of Christ. It is time to correct that.“Today's speculative madness related to repeated failed attempts at predicting the end must be attributed to a gross misunderstanding of biblical prophecy.”Gary DeMarIn this new series, Pastor Ray will be teaching on topics that are often misunderstood, including: the Rapture, the Great Tribulation, the Antichrist, the ‘mark of the beast', and the Book of Revelation. We hope you can be with us. And bring a friend!

To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville...Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent.Acts 17:30Repentance is so much more than being sorry for our sins! We cannot be saved without it. We cannot grow spiritually without it. It is the key to acquiring a Christian worldview. And yet it is one of the most neglected subjects in the modern American church.-“Lack of repentance is the root cause of powerlessness in the church, in this materialistic, self-indulgent age. There can be no spiritual power in an impenitent church.”Dietrich Bonhoeffer-We hope you enjoy Pastor Ray's message on “The Importance of Repentance”.