"BE WATCHFUL"

What are you most excited about?

Proposition - This morning we are learn that believers must 1) alert, 2) prepared, and 3) ready for Jesus to come back.

Interrogative question - How do you know if you are ready for Jesus to come back?

1. Be Alert - vs. 42

Matthew 24:42 NASB95

42 “Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.

What is the “therefore” therefore?

Who is Jesus talking too?

What event is Jesus talking about?

How do we know this?

“be on the alert” - (gregoreo) - verb, present, active, imperative, second person, plural - finite verb - be on the alert; be awake

Sense: to be alert - be awake - to beware, conceived of as staying awake

1 Corinthians 16:13 NASB95

13 Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

Colossians 4:2 NASB95

2 Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving;

1 Thessalonians 5:6 NASB95

6 so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober.

1 Peter 5:8 NASB95

8 Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

2. Be Prepared - vs. 43

Matthew 24:43 NASB95

43 “But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

What does the phrase “but be sure of this...” mean?

Describe this verse in your own words?

What is the point of what Jesus is saying?

3. Be Ready - vs. 44

Matthew 24:44 NASB95

44 “For this reason you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.

For what reason is Jesus talking about?

How do you know if you are ready?

What would someone’s life who is ready look like?

What would someone’s life who is not ready look like?

SO WHAT??

Are you ready to meet Jesus?

2 Corinthians 6:1–2 NASB95

1 And working together with Him, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain— 2 for He says, “At the acceptable time I listened to you, And on the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is “the acceptable time,” behold, now is “the day of salvation”—