But in verses 13 to 21, you have the Lord's final call, you have the pleading, urging invitation,

begging people to come to Jesus Christ and receive the gift of eternal life before it is forever too late.

This is God's final plea. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

Well here we are the last week of

2023 and so perhaps it's only appropriate that today we would consider the

last words of Christ recorded in scripture.

It's a compelling study from revelation titled Final Call, God's Last Invitation.

And we'll get to the lesson in just a minute.

But first John, with Christmas now behind behind us we have reached that time of

year that arguably has a building sense of anticipation for a lot of people a

feeling that we're getting closer to some big or dramatic event as we step into the new year.

And of course that could be more true than most people actually realize.

Yeah, I was asked a question by someone yesterday and the question I get asked

this quite a bit was, do you think Christ is coming soon? Well, he's always been coming

soon in God's timeless world because the day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day.

But then the question was posed to me, This was from a lady who's 106 years old.

Wow. And we were visiting her. Patricia and I were visiting her and

she's the alert as she can be and she says, you know, I've been here 106 years, please tell me Jesus is coming.

And I said, well, he's coming and she said, wouldn't it be wonderful?

This is really sweet.

He said, wouldn't it be wonderful?

If we're just sitting here, he came and took us all to glory.

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