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Beware and Prepare
Beware and Prepare
Big Picture:
A Call for Expectancy: “Watch!”
Tricks: Watch out that nobody tricks you
Fear: Don’t be afraid of the wars and earthquakes
Hates-Fills: Christians will be hated and persecuted. People will be ashamed. “And because of the multiplication of a unique lawlessness, the love of the great majority will freeze.” Bruner
The Great Deception and Tribulation (tricks and fears) (vv.4-8)
The Great Apostasy and Mission (Hates-falls’ and Missions) (9-14)
Wedding Day
Anxiety Dreams
Preparation for what’s to come creates more anxiety than what was. It’s easier to look back on events then to recall the anxiety and frustration that led up to that!
Christmas Sentimentality can be evil!
A Call to Watch:
‘What is the ‘Therefore’ there for?
Preparation Analogies:
Sermon Prep
Paining Preparation
Paining Preparation
Snowmobiling: Check the oil, gas, trail permit, license.
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How do we prepare for Jesus to come back?
Preparation is looking back at his first coming as a way to launch us for his second.
Building a home: Takes forever, always takes longer than you think.
On a practical level:
What are you doing?
Sermon Movements:
What will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?
Watch out for deceivers!
Wars and rumors of wars- don’t be alarmed!
Nation will rise against nation, famines, earthquakes.
Persecution, death, and hatred against Christians.
Many will leave the faith, but those who stick are saved.
Unequaled distress (vs.21).
False Messiahs
People will be snatched away (36-41)
Prepare without Knowing the End is hard!
Therefore! Keep watch because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.
Owner would have stood watch if he knew at what time the thief was coming.
He would have kept watch!
So you also must be read, because the Son of Man will come at any hour when you do not expect him.
How to keep your eyes fixed on Jesus
How do we prepare?
We look back to prepare us moving forward.
How to be read?
See imperatives above:
Sentimentality and cozy feelings. Read Christmas cards?
“Watch out that nobody tricks you!” and “Don’t you be terrified!”- intends more to deliver sober help than sensational sings.”
“Look! I myself am right there with you all the days, right into the end of the world”.
Mandate and promises in vvs.13 and 14- to ‘stick’ with Jesus to the end and that, as we do, myseriously, God will see to it that ‘this tetimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.” This is not ‘prophecy belief’ to help Christians mentally ‘discern the biblical puzzle of the end times.’ It is Good News for the moral road ahead.”
Sentimentality and cozy feelings. Read Christmas cards?
Sermon Outline:
Introduction to the Series:
How do we keep our eyes on Jesus?
We need to look back
But we also need to look forward!
Looking back only keeps us in the world of sentimentality.
Looking only to the future distracts us from the truth.
How do we prepare well for Christ’s coming again? No one knew when Jesus was coming the first time around, and no one when Jesus comes again. But we can be better prepared at least! We can be on the look out. But what does this looking out look like practically?
Talk about this parable and where it fits into the sermon
What will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?
What will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?
The Great Deception and Tribulation (tricks and fears) (vv.4-8)
Don’t be alarmed!
Wars and rumors of wars
Sermon Movements:
What will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?
Watch out for deceivers!
Wars and rumors of wars- don’t be alarmed!
Nation will rise against nation, famines, earthquakes.
Persecution, death, and hatred against Christians.
Many will leave the faith, but those who stick are saved.
Unequaled distress (vs.21).
False Messiahs
People will be snatched away (36-41)
Nation will rise against nation, famines, earthquakes.
The Great Deception and Tribulation (tricks and fears) (vv.4-8)
Persecution, death, and hatred against Christians.
Many will leave the faith, but those who stick are saved.
The Great Apostasy and Mission (Persecution and Missions) (9-14)
Unequaled distress (vs.21).
False Messiahs
Wanting the end without the preparation
Dietrich Bonhoffer
“We have become so accustomed to divine love and of God’s coming at Christmas that we no longer feel the shiver of fear that God’s coming should arouse in us. We are indifferent to the message, taking only the pleasant and agreeable out of it and forgetting the serious aspect, that the God of the world draws near to the people of our little earth and lays claim to us.”
People will be snatched away (36-41)