Into The Unknown

This Is The Year That God Did It
“Into The Unknown”
12/28/25
Pastor Mark England

We celebrate New Year’s because it gives the illusion of a .

The illusion of a fresh start can only become a reality when you are intentional about and keeping in front of you.

Proverbs 29:18 (ESV) Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint but blessed is he who keeps the law.

If we catch up to , we stop .
must stay in front of us.

Isaiah 43:18-19 (CSB) “Do not remember the past events; pay no attention to things of old. ¹⁹ Look, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.

Why don’t we like the unknown?

It’s .

Psalm 23:1-6 (CSB) The Lord is my shepherd; I have what I need.
² He lets me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside quiet waters.
³ He renews my life; he leads me along the right paths for his name’s sake. ⁴ Even when I go through the darkest valley, I fear no danger, for you are with me; your rod and your staff—they comfort me. ⁵ You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ⁶ Only goodness and faithful love will pursue me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord as long as I live.

The unknown may be unclear, but we have a who leads, protects, and pushes us forward.

It’s .

Revelation 5:1-5 (CSB) Then I saw in the right hand of the one seated on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides, sealed with seven seals. ² I also saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?” ³ But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or even to look in it. ⁴ I wept and wept because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or even to look in it. ⁵ Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. Look, the Lion from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered so that he is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.”

John was unsettled because no one was worthy to open the scroll.

The principle of not being unsettled with the unknown in front of you is trusting the only one worthy to lead you into it… .

It’s .

2 Timothy 3:1-14 (CSB) But know this: Hard times will come in the last days. ² For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, demeaning, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³ unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good, ⁴ traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, ⁵ holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people. ⁶ For among them are those who worm their way into households and deceive gullible women overwhelmed by sins and led astray by a variety of passions, ⁷ always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth… …¹⁰ But you have followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, and endurance, ¹¹ along with the persecutions and sufferings that came to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured—and yet the Lord rescued me from them all. ¹² In fact, all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. ¹³ Evil people and impostors will become worse, deceiving and being deceived. ¹⁴ But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed. You know those who taught you.

Acts 20:22 (CSB) “And now I am on my way to Jerusalem, compelled by the Spirit, not knowing what I will encounter there…”

Into the unknown we know…

1. God is .
If I have , I have enough!

Bible Math
Me + = Always Enough
Me + = Never Enough

Romans 8:31 (CSB) What, then, are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

Romans 8:35, 37-39 (CSB) Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?… …No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, ³⁹ nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2. Anything is .

Mark 9:21-23 (CSB) “How long has this been happening to him?” Jesus asked his father. “From childhood,” he said. ²² “And many times it has thrown him into fire or water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.” ²³ Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’? Everything is possible for the one who believes.”

In 2025…
salvations decisions
rededications
baptisms
marriages restored & healed
Diversity Kids began new curriculum: saved
babies were born
Diversity Church grew in every month!
Launched “”
Diversity Church purchased in full a home for Pastor Mark’s family.

In 2026…
We are believing for more decisions.
More .
More healed and restored.
babies will be born. (.)
Launching (January 25^th)
(February 14^th)

a part of something very special that is anointed, ordained, and sanctified by God.

3. is the time.

Hebrews 11:8 (CSB) By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and set out for a place that he was going to receive as an inheritance. He went out, even though he did not know where he was going.

He left the .
He discovered his .
He could have .