Part 1 “Gut Punch”

From Matthew 24:1-14

“Jesus is Coming” Message Series: “It’s time to panic. The news is telling us everything is at stake. The day is approaching. The time is at hand. Whatever you do, do not be ignorant of this moment. It all comes down to one day – November 3rd. Do not be led astray by heightened rhetoric which suggests the future of our world is in any one man’s hand. God is on the Throne, Jesus has overcome, He is and always has been the focus of Earth’s next chapter. JESUS IS COMING.”

📖 Matthew 24:1 (ESV) Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple.

📖 Matthew 24:2 (ESV) But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”

📖 Matthew 24:3 (ESV) As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”

📖 Matthew 24:4 (ESV) And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray.

Jesus’ return is not something I should just be for, it’s something I should be for.

COMMAND #1: Do NOT be .

📖 Matthew 24:4 (ESV) And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray.

📖 Matthew 24:5 (ESV) For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray.

📖 Matthew 24:11 (ESV) And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.

Mark #1 of the End Times: “Great “

COMMAND #2: Do NOT be .

📖 Matthew 24:6 (ESV) And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.

Mark #2 of the End Times: “Great “

📖 Matthew 24:7 (ESV) For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom…

Mark #3 of the End Times: “Great “

📖 Matthew 24:7 (ESV) ….and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

📖 John 14:27 (ESV) Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

📖 Romans 5:1 (ESV) Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

COMMAND #3: Do NOT be .

📖 Matthew 24:9 (ESV) “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake.

📖 Matthew 24:12 (ESV) And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.

Mark #4 of the End Times: of Christians

Mark #5 of the End Times: of Society

will be , and will be .

COMMAND #4: Do NOT stop the .

📖 Matthew 24:14 (ESV) And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

📖 2 Peter 3:11-13 (ESV) Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, 12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! 13 But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.