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Waiting for His Return
Now remember, Jesus started teaching at the beginning of verse 12.
This is one long discourse that runs to chapter 13:9.
And He is speaking to disciples.
This message is a call to them to embrace Him as Messiah.
And it has elements that are absolutely important.
If you are going to come into the Kingdom, if you are going to acknowledge the truth, if you're going to see Me as Messiah:
· First of all, verse 1, you must abandon the influence of the Pharisees.
If you're going to come to the truth, you've got to shake the influence of false teaching.
You've got to leave the damning influence of false religion behind you.
You've got to come out of whatever false system you're in.
· Secondly, He says, you have to stop fearing men and being intimated by men and you have to start fearing God who has the authority to throw you into hell, verses 4 and 5.
You then have to confess Jesus Christ as Lord before men...you then, verses 8 and 9, have to trust in the Holy Spirit, verses 10 to 12.
· You then have to avoid the love of money and become rich toward God, verses 15 through 21.
· You then must abandon the anxiety and the worry and the fear that comes from being preoccupied with this world so that you can seek the Kingdom, verse 31.
To put it another way, Jesus says you want to come to Me, you want to come into the Kingdom, false religion, fear of man, love of money, preoccupation with the world has to be set aside.
Those are the kinds of things that prevent the sinner from coming to salvation.
And just to motivate you, I'm coming back and you don't know when.
You can't be indifferent toward the future.
You can't have lethargy toward the future.
You've got to be ready for the future.
And the future that He's talking about is His return in glory.
He was there, He had come, but they knew that this was not the glorious coming of Messiah.
As the disciples said to Him in , “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”
Jesus is saying you...you have to live realizing that the end is near...it can happen at any time.
You want to be in My Kingdom,
· You have to have a heavenly perspective,
· You've got to be more concerned about the fear of God than the fear of man.
· You have to confess Christ, trust in the Holy Spirit,
· You have to be rich toward God,
· You have to seek His Kingdom and look for His coming.
Anticipation of the Second Coming is motivation.
Everything is not just going to go along the way it always has.
There's going to be an invasion of the Lord Jesus Christ in final judgment.
And the Bible describes it in the most horrific terms.
Now Jesus just cracks the door on this great doctrine of the Second Coming which has so much scripture written about it.
And He says just two things that are foundational.
Go to verse 40.
"The Son of Man is coming."
That is an absolute fact.
The Son of Man is coming.
Now if you were a Jew standing there that day, and you heard Him say you would think back to Daniel chapter 7.
They knew that Son of Man was a title; it was a title that belonged to the Messiah who was coming.
"The Son of Man is coming," really is a reiteration of .
Daniel is having visions and in verse 13 he says, 13 “In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, o coming with the clouds of heaven.
He is reiterating the promise of that one day a Son of Man is coming.
He will come with a Kingdom that all the peoples, nations, and men of every language might serve Him, His dominion is an everlasting dominion which will not pass away and His Kingdom is one which will not be destroyed.
This is the reason Jesus wasn’t accepted by many in this day.
They expected the Messiah to come and set up his earthly reign.
They expected a King to lead the people.
But when they had a suffering savior they didn’t quite get it.
So he is basically saying look I came as a Lamb this time, but I will come as the Lion next time.
This is a great Messianic prophecy that all the Jews knew.
They knew then “Son of Man” as a title for Messiah.
Jesus referred to Himself constantly as “Son of Man”, He is drilling in the point that He is the Messiah.
And here then is the reminder, you better be ready for the Son of Man is coming in an hour when you don't expect it.
This is a powerful motivation.
Many people get a little squirmy if you try to use the end times as spiritual motivation, but listen in the Bible time and time again it is motivation!
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“If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
25 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?
Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
27 For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.
You better respond.
You better deny yourself, take up your cross, follow Me.
You better do it now because the Son of Man is going to come and He will repay every man according to his deeds.
When He comes there will be the righteous blessed and there will be the wicked cursed.
That was part of the gospel invitation.
It couldn't be separated.
“26 For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
So, you see, the Lord Himself uses His Second Coming as a motivation for people to respond to the gospel.
“But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.
35 For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36 But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Warning after warning after warning, He's coming, He's coming, He's coming,
Now go back to and the second thing that I want you to see, just briefly, is a certain event at an uncertain time.
"The Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect."
In the disciples said, "When shall these things be?"
And Jesus' answer to them was very straightforward “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.
None of your business.
I don't know when He's coming and neither does anybody else.
"Of that day and hour, no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only."
There are signs, there are warnings that the day is nearing, but we do not know the day or the hour.
· When Harold Camping claims that Jesus will come on May 21, 2011; we know it is against Scripture.
· When Edgar C. Whisenant writes a book “88 reasons why the Rapture will be in 1988,” Christians are not to be caught off guard by it.
· When there is hoopla over December 21, 2012 being the end of the world because of the Mayan calendar, as Christians we know better.
A question that often comes up, ‘well even Paul thought Jesus was coming back soon and that was 2000 years ago…
This is addressed in 2 Peter and I want you to know this scripture so you can use it if you are questioned about Jesus’ timing.
Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
4 They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised?
Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation
8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness.
Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
Let us examine our text now:
35 “Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning, 36 and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks.
37 Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes.
Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them.
38 If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants!
39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into.
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