When Christ Returns in Glory

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Introduction: This morning’s sermon could not be more straightforward. What I will declare today, almost all of you will have heard before. What I will declare today is not arresting because it’s something new to us. It’s not arresting because I’m taking an approach to this text that is creative. What I declare today is arresting for one reason. IT’S ARRESTING BECAUSE IT’S TRUE. These verses speak of something that we only know about because God revealed it. They speak of something we can only imagine; we’ve never seen anything like it before. They speak of a hope that we have that is entirely by faith. These events will certainly come to pass. And, if you believe that they are certain to come to pass, then your life will be changed. You can’t believe these verses and remain the same. You can’t believe these verses — really believe these verses — and waste your life. What is described here is as certain to take place as it is certain that Jesus is Lord. Because Jesus is the one telling us what will happen. If this doesn’t happen, then Jesus was a fraud, and Jesus was no fraud. And so as certain as you were that when you opened your eyes this morning the sun would be in the sky, MORE CERTAIN THAN THAT (heaven and earth will pass away before His words pass away), is the fact that what Jesus describes here will one day be reality. These things are not hard to understand. But they are things that men do not believe in as they should. They are things that the natural man wants to deny or ignore. They are things that a lukewarm church, a sleepy church, turns a deaf ear to. Truths that the professing church has become numb to. Because, if we really believe these things, then how should we live? Jesus was asked about His coming kingdom. “When will these things be, and what will be the sign when all these things are about to be accomplished? (Mark 13:1-4)” Matthew makes clear what these disciples were thinking. ESV Matthew 24:3 As he sat on athe Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him bprivately, saying, "Tell us, cwhen will these things be, and what will be the sign of your dcoming and of ethe end of the age?" They are asking about the end of the end. They are asking about Christ coming in glory and ushering in His kingdom and about the everlasting age that will follow. THEY DO NOT ENVISION TWO ADVENTS.

Topics

• Worship
• Jesus Christ