Part 1 | Wisdom In A World Gone Mad
From Luke 17
📖 Luke 17:20-22 ESV Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming in ways that can be observed, nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.” And he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.
The Wrong Approaches to the .
A. .
📖 Matthew 24:36, 42 ESV “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.” 42 Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.
B. .
📖 2 Thessalonians 2:2 ESV Don’t be so easily shaken or alarmed by those who say that the day of the Lord has already begun. Don’t believe them, even if they claim to have had a spiritual vision, a revelation, or a letter supposedly from us.
C. .
📖 2 Peter 3:3-4 ESV knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. 4 They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”
How to long for His return in the .
1. Don’t be .
📖 Luke 17:23 ESV And they will say to you, ‘Look, there!’ or ‘Look, here!’ Do not go out or follow them.
📖 Hebrews 13:7 ESV Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.
📖 Matthew 24:45 ESV “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? 46 Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.”
📖 Luke 17:24 ESV For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.
2. Don’t get in this .
📖 Luke 17:26-28 ESV Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. 27 They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark… 28 Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,
You’re for the of the Lord when this world’s don’t you anymore.
📖 Luke 17:31-32 ESV On that day, let the one who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away, and likewise let the one who is in the field not turn back. 32 Remember Lot’s wife.
3. Don’t God’s for your life.
📖 Luke 17:33 ESV Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it.
Sermon in a Sentence:
If God has your life, He will , it, and you.
