WORLD’S WORST TOUR GUIDE

•    tour guides tendency usually emphasizes full effect of attraction
•    beautifully-adorned temple would one day be thrown down
•    Jesus’ view long-range: beyond destruction by Romans AD 70

A-PART: WHERE THE WORLD IS FALLING

•    bad news in our present age
•    demolition: no tower tall enough
•    deception: a long line of gullibles
•    revolution: bullying to get my way
•    destruction: earthquakes, famines, pestilences - typhoons, epidemics
•    opposition: persecuted by authorities, relatives - terrorist groups

OUR PART: GET GROUNDED DEEP

•    resolution: set your hearts not to worry
•    foundation: stand firm in Christ’s work; endure when life threatened

HIS PART: JESUS PROMISES TO BRING US THROUGH

•    Provision: irresistible words and wisdom
•    Invincible position: opponents left with nothing to say
•    Preservation: will gain your souls - not a hair perish (apart from God’s sovereignty)
•    “the right to sit with Me on My throne”