Are You Ready?
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· 1 viewJesus tells his disciples that his return will be at a time when the world will not expect it. Everyone will be going about their regular business and lives only to be surprised by his coming. Jesus urges us to be ready at any moment for his return. No one knows the hour or day. It will be a sudden coming. Are we prepared at any moment for him to call his people to himself?
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36 “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. 37 For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, 39 and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left. 41 Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left. 42 Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. 43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
1. The task of the church is to always be ready. (vs. 36)
1. The task of the church is to always be ready. (vs. 36)
7 He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.
2. The church must always be about the mission of Jesus. (vs. 37-41)
2. The church must always be about the mission of Jesus. (vs. 37-41)
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
3. The church must keep watch for Christ’s coming again. (vs. 42-44)
3. The church must keep watch for Christ’s coming again. (vs. 42-44)
10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.