Does Anyone Know When?
Romans 12:3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not
Matthew 24:32-51
Introduction
It will be a day that catches the WORLD off guard, but not believers.
1Thessalonians 5:1-4 Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers,
you have no need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves are
fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While
people are saying, "There is peace and security," then sudden destruction
will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they
will not escape. But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to
surprise you like a thief.
It will be a day of separation
Matthew 25:31-33 "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the
angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be
gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a
shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on
his right, but the goats on the left.
Three reasons why the day of Christ return is the best kept secret in the
universe........
To Keep Us Humble
Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways
higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Phlilippians 2:5-8 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in
Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality
with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form
of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human
form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even
death on a cross.
to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with
sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has
assigned.
Gal atian 6:3 For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he
deceives himself.
To Keep us Alert and Ready
1Peter 3:20 because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience
waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a
few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.
2Peter 2:5 if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a
herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon
the world of the ungodly;
Mark 13:35 Therefore stay awake--for you do not know when the master of
the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster
crows, or in the morning
1Thessalonians 5:6 So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep
awake and be sober.
“Sadly many professing Christians live their lives without ever giving a
thought to the possibility that they could find themselves in the presence of
Christ at any moment. That sort of apathy makes us dull and spiritually
sluggish”
John Macarthur
2Corinthians 6:2 For he says, "In a favorable time I listened to you, and in
a day of salvation I have helped you." Behold, now is the favorable time;
behold, now is the day of salvation.
Keep us Faithful
James 1:22-25 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving
yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a
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man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at
himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one
who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no
hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

Closing

No man knows the day or the hour. God has chosen in His wisdom to keep
Coming
this information from us in order to keep us humble, ready, and faithful until
He returns.

How to have Eternal Life

Part 6
John 1:11-13 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right
to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of

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the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

all scriptures taken from the English Standard Version (ESV)

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February 6, 2011