As I said this morning and again this evening, we will
be looking at second coming of Christ. Our
principal text, the place we'll be looking both times, is here
in Matthew 24. And I want you to read with me,
beginning with verse 36, Matthew 24. Jesus Christ is talking. He says,
verse 36, Of that day and hour knoweth no man. No, not the angels
of heaven, but my Father only." He's talking about when he comes
again, the second coming, verse 37. But as the days of Noah were,
so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be. As in the days
that were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying
and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into
the ark and knew not until the flood came and took them all
away, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be." Now, he's
not condemning eating and drinking or marrying. What he's saying
here is that people are going to be taken up with these things
as they are now, as they always have been, wholly given to these
things and these things only. not thinking about God, had their
minds, their affection, their lives, their pursuits set upon
this world, this planet, and not on God. And they didn't expect
it to rain. They were too busy. Nevertheless,
it rained. I was sitting there thinking,
I was thinking while we were praying together, how unbelievably
absurd it is that we would sit and we would
meet together at a time like this, supposedly to worship God,
to look into this book. My, what a gift this book is.
And I was thinking how absurd it is for us to be thinking about
or concerned with a piece of dead cow in the oven than the living God whom we're
going to stand before and face someday in the judgment. Or a
hunk of metal sitting out in the parking lot that I've got
to wash or wax or whatever needs detention. How absurd that we
can't for sixty minutes 45 minutes, think about the God
before whom we will stand for an eternity. Well, Christ said
this is what it's going to be like in the days of his second
coming, as it was in the days of Noah. They heard Noah. They heard Noah preach, and everybody
heard him. He preached for 120 years, I
guarantee you. The story was told all over the world. There's
a man out, he says, judgments are coming, he's building a boat
on dry land, says it's going to rain. Everybody heard that. But they went on their merry
way, eating and drinking and merry and merry. But he says here, they didn't
know until the flood came and took them all away, so shall
also the coming of the Son of Man be. People won't know it.
Some people will, by God's grace, because they're watching. But
then shall two be in the field, verse 40, the one shall be taken,
the other left. Two women shall be grinding at
the mill, one shall be taken, the other left. Watch therefore,
you know not what hour your Lord doth come. It doesn't say may
come, doth come. Now, it's not my desire this
morning, it's not beneficial to talk about the rapture, verse
40 and 41. I don't want to talk about that. It's not my desire to argue or
go into great detail with you concerning the different views
of the millennium. It wouldn't profit us one bit, I don't believe. But the thing I do want to declare
unto you this morning is not when Christ is coming, but the
fact that he is coming. And I don't want us to be so
taken up with the things, the signs of his coming, but rather
I want us to see who it is that is coming. Because like the quote in our
bulletin says, it won't do you any good to know when he's coming
if you don't know him who is coming. If you don't know the
one who came the first time and why, you better hope he doesn't
come a second time. The only people who are really
looking for him to come, anyway, that saves people are those who
will be found waiting. It says here that these were
not waiting. They didn't know. Even though
it had been told them, right? They were willingly ignorant.
Peter said in 2 Peter 3, willingly ignorant. And Paul said in Romans 1, all
men are without excuse. Everybody's heard that someone
named Jesus Christ is coming back again. But people continue
to eat and drink and devote themselves entirely to this world, their
families and their pursuits, their jobs and so forth, until
he comes. Until the day that he comes. And he tells us, watch. And that's
the only people who are really saved. The only people who really
know Christ are the people who are waiting and watching and
looking forward to it. Now, they're not looking forward
in the near future. Now, again, let me remind you,
this is going to be a very brief and general overview. The second coming of Christ.
Paul said in 1 Thessalonians not to despise prophesying. Chapter
5 verse 20 says, despise not prophesying. And we've let these
people let us shy away from prophesying. You know, we've gone to the other
extreme. We say, I'm just not going to be taking up prophecy
at all because these people, that's what they're taking up
with. No, he says don't despise prophesying. What he's saying
is not to be enamored with it and taken up with it, with prophesying,
and leave off the gospel. Don't do that. There are many
people who are looking for signs and wonders and prophesying and
so forth that don't even know the Christ who's coming. A lot
of people are being taken up with the coming of Christ, but
not the Christ who's coming. Some of you know what I'm trying
to say there. In other words, you can be taken up with the
coming of Christ. All the events and the happenings
and so forth, that's interesting. Ooh, really, there's going to
be war here, there's going to be this and that and the other. You can
be taken up with all of those things and not be taken up with
Christ. And when he does come, you're going to be like the rest. Somebody said, Joe Terrell it
was that said this. Did you know that the spirit
of Antichrist is leading the search for the Antichrist? Yeah,
they are. They're writing books on the
Antichrist. The spirit of Antichrist does now already work. Spirit
of iniquity. There are many Antichrists out
there. Anybody who's not preaching Christ is Antichrist. I mean
Christ. Every time. All the time. He's
Antichrist. Even though he's talking about
the coming of Christ, leading the search for the Antichrist,
he himself is the Antichrist. Preacher and people alike. So
what this tells me, people, is that our great need is to know
Christ, right? Not know the Antichrist. Know the Christ. Because I could have the spirit
of Antichrist. So my great need, our great need is to know the
Christ. Not when he's coming, but to know him who comes. It's
life and death, I'm not splitting hairs here. Look at chapter 24,
look at verse 1, beginning with verse 1 with me. Now, Jesus went
out and departed from the temple. And his disciples came to him,
for to show him the buildings of the temple." Now, they were
impressed, too. And they were going to take the
Lord on a tour here. My soul, he who made the heavens, he's
going to be impressed. People are doing that today,
aren't they? Let's show the Lord. Give Jesus a big hand. You mean
to tell me, him whom angels praise? It's going to get a thrill out
of us clapping our hands. Not loud enough. Let's hear it.
Let him hear it. I'll tell you a better way to
praise him. Be still and know that he's God. Let every mouth
be stopped. Right? Well, they came to show
him the buildings of the temple, and Jesus said unto them, See
ye, do you see these things? Verily I say unto you, there
shall not be left here one stone upon another that shall not be
thrown down." And so he left, and went out
to the Mount of Olives, and disciples came unto him privately, saying
unto him, now they were, obviously he foretold just now that this
thing, the world was coming to an end. And they understood that's
what he was saying, that the temples were false. And they
came to him privately, and they said, Tell us, verse three, When
shall these things be? What shall be the sign of thy
coming, of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto
them. And he talked for a while then. Now, who is this talking here? Jesus? Now, I've got a real problem.
I've got a real problem with people who are always referring
to Jesus. I've got a real problem with
people who are all the time saying, Jesus this, or Jesus that, or
Jesus said this, especially preachers who are supposed to know better.
Jesus loves you. They've got their bumper stickers,
little signs here and there and everywhere. If people only know
this one here as Jesus, they're dead in their sins. Isn't that what he said in John
8? If you believe not that I am, you're going to die in your sins.
And if you just refer to this one as Jesus lived, you don't
know him. You don't know him. I'll say
that to anybody. This is the coming king. Did you read with me in Revelation
19? John, he's not Jesus anymore. He's the Lord, God, omnipotent,
who reigneth, and on his vesture is written a name. King of kings
and Lord of lords. Do you see anywhere, Henry, in
the book of Revelation where the people fell down and said,
Blessed is Jesus? Now, men were ignorant back then
of who he was. They were ignorant the first
time he came, weren't they? They were ignorant of who this
was. He was veiled in a body. He was hidden from human view,
and they called him Jesus. That was his name as a man. But
he was more than Jesus the first time. And he's more than Jesus
now. They called him Jesus. Didn't
they say that? It's not this Joseph's son, the carpenter's
son? Isn't that Jesus? Mary, his mother? We know his
brothers and sisters. Isn't that just Jesus there?
And they called him Jesus. But I'm here to tell you this
morning. The one who came the first time was not just a man
named Jesus. Like I said, that was the name
of a child who was born, right? To distinguish him from the one
who sat on the throne. As a baby that's going to be
born, you call the name of that baby Jesus. Call the name of
that man's body Jesus. But on the inside. And when he
veils this body, when he puts away this body, he's no longer
just a man. He's not just a man. He's not
just Jesus. That's the name of his humiliation,
the name of his earthly body. He's got three names. The Lord
Jesus Christ. Three names. The Lord God Almighty,
which I is and was and art to come. And we don't call him by
his first name. Besides, Jesus is not his first
name. He has a full name. Three names. And you address him as such if
you know him. Right? I instruct and teach my
daughter, as well as every other parent ought to do theirs, to
have respect for elders. Right? God commands it, that's
why. He said in 2 Timothy chapter
3 that these perilous times will come when children will be disobedient
to parents, despisers of that which are good, despising dominion
and authority. Answering anybody, an adult,
preacher, whoever it may be, yeah, huh, what? I teach mine differently, and
I suggest you do the same thing with yours. Call adults by sir,
ma'am, yes sir, yes ma'am, no sir, no ma'am. Why? God says so. Thou shalt respect thy elders.
Honor thy father and thy mother. Honor. That's what the scripture
says. It's good advice. It will reap
benefits down through the rest of their lives. And in Mexico, what I'm trying
to say here is we don't call, we don't call God Jesus. We call him, Sir. Right? Yes, Jesus. No, Jesus. Me and Jesus. You
don't do that. You say, Sir. You say, Lord,
if thou wilt. Down in Mexico, you know how
they refer to God? You know the name they use for
God? They don't have a name, necessarily even a word. You
hear them pray and they'll say, Señor. Señor. I mean, Sir. Your Honor. Your Majesty. Sir. You don't call the Lord
of Glory, Jesus. Is that clear? It ought to be. He is Senior. He is Sir. He is Lord. Lord. And all true worshipers and disciples
call him Lord. Now, you get this straight. Let
everybody get this straight. Nowhere in the Scriptures will
you ever find the disciples one single time calling him Jesus. Never. In the narrations of the
gospel, that is the Holy Spirit talking and distinguishing between
the God who is right there on the throne and the man walking
the planet named Jesus. But when the disciples addressed
him, how did they address him? Lord, every time. That is the
name, that is the title used more than any other throughout
the scriptures. Lord, all thy children shall
be taught What are they taught? First thing,
every tongue shall confess that he is what? Lord! That man, that body, was just
a plain brown robber. And inside that body was the
crowned jewels of heaven. Inside that plain brown package
was the crown jewels of heaven, upon whose name we read it in
Revelation 19. He's not a baby in a manger anymore, is he, Terry?
He's not a seemingly helpless man hanging on a cross anymore,
is he? He's a Lord sitting on a throne. And when he comes back,
we're not going to say, There's Jesus. Every time, we're going
to say, There's the Lord. And every tongue that knows him
now is saying that now. You see, back then, when Christ
was here the first time, every now and then, he would
like peeling off a mask. He wore this body. He looked,
Isaiah 53 says, he's going to look just like a man like everybody
else. And when we see him, we're going to say, well, he looks
just like a man. I don't see any, there's no beauty in him
that we should desire him. Show up. They were all trying
to say, do something. We want to see something. You
don't look like much. Well, every now and then, every
now and then, like he would like opening the curtain. While he
walked this planet, every now and then it would be like peeling
back a mask. He'd show his glory. Just a brief instant while he
walked this planet. One time, the men were out fishing,
Peter and the boys, out doing a little fishing, John. They
were down at Philpot Lake, doing a little fishing in Peter's boat.
And they'd fished all night and hadn't caught a thing. And they
were good fishermen. And they were coming in all dog-dead
tired, you know, and they came in the next morning, Christ was
there, standing on the shore. And they pulled out and he got
in. What were we doing? Let's go out here, we're going
to do a little fishing. Master, this is when they said,
now teacher, preacher, now you might be able to preach, but
you can't fish. Now, we're fishermen. We know
this business. My daddy taught me this business.
I grew up fishing. And you just stay on it. Let's go out here a little bit
now. All right. So they cast out on
the shore a little bit. He said, they rode along a little
way. And he said, right here, stop.
Right here. Catch your net right there. Oh, we've already fished that
spot. Put the net in the water. And
they cast that net in the water. And in a few minutes, whales
started jumping in that net. Ever fishing. And they couldn't. They called another boat. Joe,
Joe, hurry, bring your nets. And they started bringing them.
And the nets were filling up. You see what Christ had said
to Himself. They didn't hear it. Fish get
in the net. And they got in the net. You
see, because everything in heaven and things in earth and things
under the earth know that he's Lord, even the fish take their
orders from him. He said, fish, get in the net.
He didn't need bait. Fish, get in the net. And they
got in the net. What did Peter do when he saw
all this? He saw whose presence he was in. Not Jesus, the teacher. Not Jesus, the preacher. What
did he say? He fell down on his knees and
said, Lord, I'm in the presence of God here. Lord! And he knew that if he could
tell fish what to do, that he was reading his thoughts. He
said, oh, I'm a sinful man. You're bound to be reading my
mind right now. Another time, another time, he was asleep back
in the back of the boat. Remember that? Sleeping back
in the back of the boat. And a big storm arose. A sea
was tossing. to and fro, and these disciples
feared for their lives. These were fishing men. These
were seafaring men. They'd been in a few storms before,
and this was a dandy. I mean, it must have been ten,
twelve-foot waves, gale forces crashing over that boat. And
they ran down, Lord, Lord, don't you care if we perish? Woke him
up, and he walked out on the bow of that ship, wiped the sleep
out of his eyes. and said to the ocean, the raging
billows, and hushed her down, sit down, be still, and walked
back to the back of that boat. And those disciples, who is this? That's more than
Jesus, isn't it? Huh? That's the Lord. That's the Lord of glory. And the scripture says, Whosoever
shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Am I splitting hairs this morning?
Oh, this is life or death. If you only know this man as
Jesus, you don't know him. Whosoever shall call upon the
name of Jesus? No. Whosoever shall call upon
the name of the Lord? shall be saved." And then Paul
goes on to say, well, how are they going to call on him whom
they do not believe? Now, listen to this verse of
Scripture, 1 Corinthians 12, verse 3, says this, No man, no
man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Spirit. Right? No man can say that Jesus is
Lord but by the Holy Spirit. So this reveals to me the state
of a man's heart if he calls the Lord of glory Jesus all the
time. I'm sorry, folks. I'm not sorry. Why do I say such a thing? How
do I apologize? He's the Lord. He's the Lord. And the Holy Spirit, that's the
first thing he teaches everybody. I don't care what Charles Spurgeon
said. I don't care how these men preached back then. I don't
care how they referred to him through their writings and through
their preaching. I don't care. No man can say
that Jesus is Lord but by the Holy Spirit. And the disciples
called him Lord. And every child of the Father
calls him Sir. And I hear a generation of people
calling on Jesus, and here's the difference. You think I'm
splitting hairs here? I hear a generation of people
calling on Jesus, the healer. Right? Let Jesus heal you. Give Jesus a big hand for healing
this woman's knees, or this man, for slaying this woman. He's
laying on the floor acting like an animal. That's of God. Well, let's give Jesus a big
hand. Call on Jesus, the miracle worker, because I can babble
like an idiot. Jesus did that. I hear people
calling on the breadwinner, Jesus, you know, for loaves and fishes.
Jesus, now he'll give you, he'll make you rich. Send me, make
me rich first, Jesus will make you rich in turn. I hear them
calling on Jesus this, Jesus that, the belly filler, you see?
This world's God is their belly. And they call on Jesus who filled
bellies, right? Right? Well, yeah. They did it
back then, they're doing it now. Christ turned and said to them,
you know, you follow me because you got your belly full. I don't hear very many people
crying out, Lord, save us or we perish. I hear Jesus fill
my belly. Jesus heal my arthritis. Jesus
do this. I don't hear very many people
say, Lord, forgive me of my sins. Have mercy on me, O God, according
to thy lovingkindness, according to the multitude of thy tendermercy.
Blood out my transgression. Do you hear that? Our man hasn't changed one bit. A
few people have blessed eyes and ears. He said, even in another
place, he said, not everyone that even says, Lord, Lord, is going to enter the kingdom of
heaven. Because, and I hear this all
the time, I hear them call him Lord every now and then, you
know, Kenneth Copeland, is that his name? I can't hardly take
that name in my lips. It brings up bowels out of my
stomach. But I hear him say at the end,
you know, Jesus is Lord, you know how he does it. Shucks. These people draw near to me
with their lips, Christ said, but their heart is far from me.
And old Kenneth says, you're as much the Lord as he is. Isn't
it? Isn't that what he said in that book, Ed? You're just as
much God as Christ is. That's exactly it. You're just
as much a son of God as a son of God is. That's what Kenneth
Copeland said, Kenneth Hagin. They draw near. Not everyone
that says, Lord, Lord, is going to enter the kingdom of heaven
either. But he that doeth the will of my heavenly Father. Now,
what's the will of the heavenly Father? That every knee shall
bow and every tongue confess that he's Lord to the glory of
the Father, not to the glory of my ministry. Right? To the glory of God the Father,
bowing, confessing, preaching the Lordship of Christ. And it's
not just a debate today. Some of these fellows talking
about the Lordship of Christ debate today. They're not calling
him Lord. I'm not going to go into that. But you see, some
people will have him Lord over creation, even. They'll talk
about him as Lord. The Lord did that. You know,
a little thunder in the heaven. Bang! The Lord did that. The
Lord over creation. The Lord made a lot of creation
believers. You know, good fundamental Baptists,
they believe that God created the world. They believe that.
The Lord over creation and providence, they believe. Everybody believes
the Lord. Good fundamentals do. that God gave us our food and
our clothes? Yeah, the Lord did that. Not
many people believe that the Lord is the one who not only
heals, but wounds. Right? They'll believe in the Lord,
all right, but not one who wounds as well as heals, not one who
kills. as well as rich, Deuteronomy
32, 39, Isaiah 45, 7. Not many people believe in a
Lord like that, do they? Not many people believe in a
Lord who casteth down as well as raises up. Right? Now, many
call him Savior, too. Savior. Jesus is my Savior. Many people call him Savior,
but only a few select, chosen individuals call him a just God
and a Savior. Right? That he is sovereign,
holy, just. He's God who will by no means
clear the guilty and will have mercy. A lot of
people call on Jesus for mercy or grace or this and that. Very
few people believe in the Lord who will have mercy, on whom
he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. Is that what the Scripture says?
Now that's the Lord. That's the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's the one who came the first time. They didn't see it. Men didn't like it. And they
sought to kill him. We don't like this. And he was
actually there. God, Sovereign, the man who reigned
over them, was actually there in person, and they could get
their hands on him then. If men could now, they'd do the
same thing. But they got their hands on him
and said, You say you're God. We're not going to have that
now. We'll have you heal us. We'll have you feed us. We'll
have you work miracles. But you are not going to reign
over us. We're not going to bow our knee
to you. We've got a free will. And I'll
have you know, my mother was a good mother." See, what's that
got to do with anything? She said, when I came, they had
no excuse for their sin. Christ came, he revealed the
state of every man's heart, including their mother's. If that good,
moral, upright Pharisee was a sinner and a wretch, so was his mother.
And they said, We will not have this man. And they killed him. Didn't they? Now, wait a minute. The Scripture says that they
did what God had determined before to be done. Many times they tried
to kill him and couldn't. Why? He's the Lord. You don't
kill God. God kills you. Right? He said, I'm the Lord, I kill,
I make a life. You don't kill God. He does kill. And he said,
nobody's going to kill me unless I kill myself. So one day he
finally submitted himself into their hands and said, OK, we'll
use you to kill me. OK, now I'm yours. Your hour
has come. Do what you will. And they killed
him. But they did what God determined
before to be done. Why? He had to die. If anybody's going to be saved,
they're going to have to be saved by blood, by sacrifice. That's what the whole Old Testament
talks about, blood, bloody sacrifice. Why? Because God's just. He says,
you sin, you're going to die. And so we all got to die, unless
somebody dies for us. And Christ came down here for
a particular people and died to pay for their sin and lived
to make a righteousness that God can give these people and
receive into his sight. But they took this one and killed
him and put him in a grave and rolled a stone over the door
and thought they were through with him, didn't they? But he rose again. He rose from
the grave. He rose from the grave, went
back to heaven to finish the sacrifice that he started on
the earth, to go back there and pour that blood, whatever he
did, Terry, into the Holy of Holies in heaven. He entered
in once into the holy place, not made with hands, having obtained
eternal redemption, to make that sacrifice for us. And he sat
down, all right? He sat down for a while. He's seated right now. But the book says he's not going
to stay seated. I was talking to Brother Todd on
the phone about this, about Christ coming. He said, I just get excited
talking about it, hearing you say it. He said, Arthur, wouldn't
you love for him to come right now? You see, that's salvation. I
believe that man knows God. He wants him to come. But this one, who is Lord over
all, is seated on a throne, and he said himself in a parable,
he said, once the master of the house is risen up, that's all
she wrote. He's coming again. The Lord of
glory. The Lord of glory. And the scripture
says, every eye shall behold him. We read it there in Matthew
24, it says, the people of the earth shall moan and bewail because
of him. Why? Because they're going to
see him as he is. Not a blue-eyed, red-haired,
Caucasian who looks like Buffalo Bill. Not a baby in a manger, not a
man hanging on a cross with a poor pitiful look in his eye, not
one sitting in the arms of a woman, the Madonna. But we're going
to see him, every eye is going to see him as he is, not was,
is. And we read it, eyes as a flame
of Out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, his face as the sun that
shineth in all the strength. A vesture dipped in blood, red
dripping with blood, a sword in his hand. King of
kings, Lord of lords. Does that scare you? Hey, the
fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Ain't nobody fear
Jesus, do they? The fear of the Lord, that's
who's coming, folks. And He said, at a time when you
think not in a moment in the twinkling of an eye, Eating and drinking, giving and
marrying, marrying and marrying, giving and marrying. He said,
I come. Three times in Revelation 22,
he says, I'm coming quickly. Three times. Behold, he said,
behold, I come quickly. Three times. Behold, I come quickly. Behold, I come quickly," and
you know what the last verse says? It says God's people are
going to say, even so, come, Lord Jesus. Lord Jesus, come. We're ready. We're waiting. You see, we're bowing to you
now as Lord. We love you now as Lord. We're
worshiping you now as Lord. We're seeking you now as Lord.
We're calling upon you now as Lord, save me, or I perish."
Not then. Everybody's going to call upon
him then to save us. Oh, it struck me like a ton of
bricks in Matthew 25 while we were reading that. It said over
on the other page, verse 11, it says, afterwards, the other
virgins, that is, the one who didn't have oil, didn't have
real work of the Holy Spirit in them, they said, Lord, Lord.
That's like that was a neon sign jumping out at me. Everybody's
going to call upon him then. Lord, save us or we perish. Too late. Call upon now. Now is the day
of salvation, the scripture says. Doesn't it? Today, he said that
three times in Hebrew. Today, if you'll hear his voice. Whose voice? The Lord. And he
says, bow. He says, confess. He says, call
upon him, your sinner. in need of mercy, under the wrath
and condemnation of God. Call upon him. How? What do you mean, how? Call upon
him. Lord, save me, or I perish, for
the rest of this world is perished. The Lord of glory. And I tell
you what, when John saw that vision, We read about John fell
on his face as a dead man, and so do everybody else who see
him now. Everybody who sees him now, they
fall on their face before him and say, I'm dead in trespasses
and sins. Lord, have mercy upon my sinful
soul. If you've never done that, you've
never seen him. And you continue to do that from that day forward.
You never get off your face. Mary didn't, did she? She never
left his feet. All of his feet in worship. So this is what I'm saying here.
That's what I'm trying to get at in the course of this message.
The first thing we need to consider, the first thing we need to know
about the second coming of Christ, is who's coming. Not when. Not all the signs that
lead up to it. Who's coming? Who's coming? The
Lord. And why he came the first time?
We've got to know why he came the first time. For the second
time, he won't come for you. He that came for you the first
time in salvation is coming for you the second time in judgment. He came the first time to glorify
the Father, to live a life as a man, to establish a righteousness. We've got to have it, right? We've got to be perfect, and
God won't have us. Christ lived that life to give
it to some people. Who? Whoever asked for it. And
die a death that we deserve, who did He do that for? Whoever
asked for it. And then go back to the Father
and sit down and await all his people to hear this gospel. And
he's coming back again. But the next time, it's not going to be an open
door of salvation, Terry. No. He's coming again will be
the door closed. He said, you're trying to scare
me. Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord," Paul said, we beseech
you, be reconciled, call upon the
Lord while he may be found. He may be found right now. Today
is a day of salvation. Don't put it off, my soul. No
promise of when he's coming. I mean, the exact hour, maybe
tomorrow. I believe, I believe, folks, I believe he's coming real soon. Real soon. You don't have to
take my word for it either. You come back tonight and I'm going
to show you from God's Word. We're going to look tonight at
signs of his coming. Now, don't come out just for
interest's sake. You go home first and get in your closet
and pray that the Lord will reveal the one who is coming first.
If he does that, then you can rightly look at signs of his
coming. Okay, stand with me. Let's pray together. Great God of all glory, Lord God, may you impress upon
us our desperate need of Christ,
to know Him, to know Him, and to bow to Him, and believe Him,
trust Him, rest in Him, seek Him, follow Him. We're either
following him or we're following the world. Can't serve two masters.
Christ said that. He said that. And Lord God, we
want to know Christ. We want to follow Christ. In
the midst of this perverse generation, would you save us from this untoward
generation? The world is headed the wrong
way. They're headed toward hell. It's an untoward generation.
We want to head toward Christ, toward glory. Call us by your grace. Enable us to call upon you by
your grace for salvation. In Christ's name we pray. Amen.