Wednesday, April 29, 2020

How will Jesus Return?

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1 Thessalonians  5:1-3
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.

1 Thessalonians  5:4-11
But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief.  For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.  So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.  For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night.  But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

 For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,  who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him.  Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

Thought 

. Frequently we pray that God would not forsake us in the hour of trial and temptation, but we too much forget that we have need to use this prayer at all times.  There is no moment of our life, however holy, in which we can do without His constant upholding.  Whether in light or in darkness, in communion or in temptation, we alike need the prayer, “Forsake me not, O Lord.”  Hold Thou me up, and I shall be safe.” - C. H. Spurgeon

After God’s Silence – What?

John 11:6
So, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.

The Sphere of Exaltation

Mark 9:2
And he said to them, “Elijah does come first to restore all things. And how is it written of the Son of Man that he should suffer many things and be treated with contempt?

[Message No: 7661

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