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Telos- The Believers Great Responsibility until He returns
3 R’s of End Times
Return
Ruin
Revival
3 For the Christian, the return of Christ is not a riddle to be solved or a code to be broken, but rather a day to be anticipated.
Max Lucado
When Christ Comes (1999)
Max Lucado
You become like what you look at!
Inspiration
And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me;
for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”
And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.
But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.
And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel,
who also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.”
Revelation
The Father makes the Call!
“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.
For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.
2. The Believer hastens the Call!
And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
2 Peter 3:9 (NKJV)
The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
Application
Luke 21:34–36 (TPT)
“Be careful that you never allow your hearts to grow cold. Remain passionate and free from anxiety and the worries of this life. Then you will not be caught off guard by what happens. Don’t let me come and find you drunk or careless in living like everyone else.
For that day will come as a shocking surprise to all, like a downpour that drenches everyone, catching many unaware and unprepared.
Keep a constant watch over your soul, and pray for the courage and grace to prevail over these things that are destined to occur and that you will stand before the presence of the Son of Man with a clear conscience.”
How quickly we can be deceive! Facebook, passwords, ss#. Either sounds legit or curiosity
Stay full of Spirit
Stay clean from World (Stay full and you will stay clean)
Stay alert for opportunity. (alert: not if when!)
Stay expectant for His return
Transformation
Witnessing is not something we do; it is something we are.
5790 The baptism of the Holy Ghost makes us witnesses to Jesus, not wonderworkers. The witness is not to what Jesus does, but to what he is.
Oswald Chambers
Anonymous
They are: 1) a witness to who Jesus Christ is; 2) a witness to what he has done; and 3) a witness to how a man or woman can come to know him personally.
James Montgomery Boice
How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?
Who are your they?
Don Richardson (former missionary to New Guinea) believed the Great Commission was intentionally left out of the creeds because of an imperialism mindset.
He believes it should include this:
"On the third day, He rose from the dead
>>>Then, He commissioned His church, beginning with the Apostles
To proclaim repentance and forgiveness of sins to all peoples.(
After that, He ascended into heaven.