Part 3 “This Changes Everything”
From 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11
“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.”
What I about will affect how I .
The return of Christ means:
1. We grieve .
📖 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14 (ESV) But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
📖 1 Thessalonians 4:15-16 (ESV) For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
📖 1 Thessalonians 4:17 (ESV) Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
The Christian’s future is not about a … It’s about His .
📖 1 Thessalonians 4:18 (ESV) Therefore encourage one another with these words.
📖 1 Thessalonians 5:1-2 (ESV) Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. 2 For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
The return of Christ means:
2. We with the world .
📖 1 Thessalonians 5:3 (ESV) 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. 4 But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief.
We are either being by the NEWS of or by the GOOD NEWS of the .
📖 1 Thessalonians 5:4 (ESV) But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief.
The return of Christ means:
3. We our lives .
📖 1 Thessalonians 5:6-7 (ESV) So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night.
Expect in your .
📖 Matthew 6:19 (ESV) “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
📖 1 Timothy 6:18-19 (ESV) do good, be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, 19 thus storing up treasure for (yourself) as a good foundation for the future, so that (you) may take hold of that which is truly life.
📖 Matthew 25:21 (ESV) His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
The return of Christ means:
4. We in the .
📖 1 Thessalonians 5:8-10 (ESV) 8 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. 9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him.
I’m in a battle for two things:
a. My
b. My
📖 1 Thessalonians 5:11 (ESV) “Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.”
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