Part 3 | Empowered for the Last Days.
SERIES THEME: We know about His first arrival, but are we ready for His second coming? The Lord told us to be fully aware of what will happen toward the end of the age. And on the heels of Easter weekend, we can’t think of a better topic that the return of Jesus Christ. But what is going to be happening around His return? Are we seeing the last days right now? How should we live? What should I know as a Christ-follower to be ready? Find the answers and be at peace with the “Last Days”.
From Matthew 25
📖 Matthew 25:1 (ESV) Then the kingdom of heaven will be like...
What does a last days church look like?
ANSWER #1: .
📖 Matthew 25:1 (ESV) Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.
📖 Matthew 25:2-4 (ESV) Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. 3 For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, 4 but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps.
For the Last Days Church:
1. It doesn’t matter how you on the , it matters what’s .
📖 1 Samuel 16:6–7 (ESV) When they came, he looked on Eliab and thought, “Surely the Lord’s anointed is before him.” 7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
For the Last Days Church:
2. It doesn’t matter what of you, it matters what you inside .
📖 Matthew 25:2 (ESV) Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.
📖 Matthew 7:26 (ESV) And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
📖 Romans 1:21 (ESV) For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
📖 Proverbs 1:7 (ESV) The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
The first was .
📖 Genesis 3:1 (ESV) Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”
📖 Ephesians 4:18–21 (ESV) They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. 19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. 20 But that is not the way you learned Christ!— 21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus…
📖 Matthew 25:5-6 (ESV) As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. 6 But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’
For the Last Days Church:
3. It doesn’t matter who , it only matters you.
📖 Matthew 25:8 (ESV) And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ 9 But the wise answered, saying, ‘Since there will not be enough for us and for you, go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.’
📖 Acts 2:39 (ESV) For the promise (of the Holy Spirit’s fullness) is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.
I have a encounter with the .
📖 Luke 11:11–13 (ESV) What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; 12 or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!
📖 Matthew 25:10-13 (ESV) And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. 11 Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’ 12 But he answered, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.’ 13 Watch, therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.
Sermon in a sentence
A Last Days Church is the the , of God’s Word and walking with the .
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