230517 BITES: The End Revelation 22:12-14

We have work to do while there is time

Opening Question: You have an hour of life with perfect and full mental and bodily functions - what do you do? You absolutely are going to die and you have one hour left to live, what do you do?

Until the end we must focus on the work that God has given us to do

Resolved, never to do anything, which I should be afraid to do, if it were the last hour of my life - Jonathan Edwards (18th Century Pastor and Theologian)

Revelation 22:12-15 ““Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to render to every man according to his work. “I am the Alpha and the Omega, THE FIRST AND THE LAST, the beginning and the end.” Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the authority to the tree of life and may enter by the gates into the city. Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.”

Why must we work

We work because Jesus is coming! (John 14:18, Matt 25.5-6)

Failing to watch and wait is dangerous (Matt 25.5)

We work because He is coming very soon! (Revelation 22.7)

Those who disregard are in danger (2 Peter 3.3-5)

There is danger because we do not know the day or the hour (Matt 25.13)

We work because He rewards those who serve Him faithfully (Matt 25:19-30)

We work for Him because everything else is going to burn (1 Corinthians 3:13–15)

We work for Him because He has told us the truth from the beginning (Revelation 1.8)

He blesses

those who are washed and cleansed (Psalm 51.2, John 13.5)

with restoration to Eden for all who are cleansed (Gen 3.24)

with the remove all sin away from those who are cleansed forever

Romans 10.9-10 “that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, leading to righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, leading to salvation.”