This is a series we’ve been in for many months, and for those of you who haven’t been with us, you can always download the sermons in the past from gty.org, if that would help you catch up. Otherwise, you’re going to have to accept the fact that we’re jumping in midstream, here, a little bit., We begin today a study of the gospel of John, and I’m so delighted to do this. This was really the first book that I taught. I did some series when I first came in 1969 preliminary to this, and we d, For 45 years, Grace Community Church has been hosting the Shepherds Conference on our campus. Each year in early March, we invite pastors and church leaders from all around the world to gather for a time of worship, encouragement, and Bible teaching. This has been a highlight of , Well, tonight, in one sense, I have a difficult, impossible task, and that is to cover a subject that needs to be covered thoughtfully and carefully. In another sense, while very challenging and, Now we come to the study of the Word of God in Matthew chapter 24. Matthew 24 and 25 is known as “The Olivet Discourse.” It is a discourse or a sermon by our Lord Jesus Christ, delivered on the, Open your Bible to the fourteenth chapter of the revelation, and the last book in the Bible, Revelation chapter 14. Our theme for the message which will be a two-part message tonight and next Sunday night is triumphant saints. Triumphant saints. Let me read you the first five verses of Revelation 14. “And I looked, and behold, the Lamb was standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and .