Sermon Tone Analysis

*WHEN WILL CHRIST COME**?*

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This question was first asked by the disciples within forty days after Christ’s resurrection and it has been repeatedly asked for some 2000 years.

Generally, Christians want to know when Christ is coming again to take us to be with Him at what we call the Rapture of the church.

A more important question for us to answer is when Christ will come to the earth to establish His kingdom, His rule and reign on this earth for a thousand years and then forever in the new heavens and earth.

*Chart:** Mediatorial Kingdom*

 

When we lose sight of the 2nd Advent of Christ, we lose purpose for our existence on earth as a Christian.

We are to make disciples for the King is coming to rule and reign.

God’s purpose will be complete in the Millennial Kingdom for as His perfect will is done in heaven so it will be done on earth.

*1 Peter 2:9-10** \\ 9 **But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for /God’s /own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;** 10 **for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.*

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This subject of the Kingdom being established was very much on the minds of the disciples especially after the resurrection of Christ.

*Acts 1:6-8** \\ 6 **So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, “Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?”** 7 **He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority;** 8 **but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”*

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The kingdom that the disciples were so concerned about came from their understanding of Jesus’ teachings about establishing the kingdom to Israel.

*Matthew 4:17** \\ 17 **From that time Jesus began to preach and say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”*

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*Matthew 6:9-10** \\ 9 **“Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.** 10 **‘Your kingdom come.

Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.*

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This kingdom was so ready to be established that they were looking into the very face of the King.

In light of the evidence of the King’s resurrection, surely the Jewish nation would now accept the King’s offer if they another chance.

Let’s see if the nation of Israel would accept the King if offered to them.

Before the offer can be made, there must be a means of calling a mass of people together to hear the reoffering of the kingdom.

God uses the healing of a man who had never walked and did not need to learn to walk.

The crowd has gathered and Peter gives the message of reoffering the kingdom to Israel.

*Video Clip:**  Pause video at 3:11*

 

*Kingdom Re-offered to Israel – 12,13, 25*

 

*Acts 3:12-13**, 25** \\ 12 **But when Peter saw /this/, he replied to the people, “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this, or why do you gaze at us, as if by our own power or piety we had made him walk?** 13 **“The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus, /the one /whom you delivered and disowned in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release Him.*

*….25 **“It is you who are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’*

*Kingdom Re-Offer Evidenced by the Miracle – 14-16*

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*Acts 3:14-16** \\ 14 **“But you disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,** 15 **but put to death the Prince of life, /the one /whom God raised from the dead, /a fact /to which we are witnesses.**

16 **“And on the basis of faith in His name, /it is /the name of Jesus which has strengthened this man whom you see and know; and the faith which /comes// /through Him has given him this perfect health in the presence of you all.*

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*Kingdom Offer Conditioned On Spiritual Decisions – 17-21*

 

*Acts 3:17-21** \\ 17 **“And now, brethren, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers did also.**

18 **“But the things which God announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.**

19 (*/personal responsibility/*) **“Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing (*/the kingdom offered/) *may come from the presence of the Lord;** 20 **and that He may send Jesus, the Christ appointed for you,** 21 **whom heaven must receive until /the/ period of restoration of all things about which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time.*

*When will Christ come?**  *

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When Israel repents of her sins

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Kingdom will come (times of refreshing)

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*Zechariah 12:10** \\ 10 **“I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.*

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*Zechariah 14:4** \\ 4 **In that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley, so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south.*

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*Zechariah 14:9** \\ 9 **And the Lord will be king over all the earth; in that day the Lord will be /the only /one, and His name /the only /one.*

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*Video**: *Start video by clicking the fast arrow to 4:13 and pause at 4:31

 

As disciples of Christ, what are we to be doing until Israel repents and Christ establishes His kingdom on earth?

It’s been 2000 years!

What are we to be doing until He comes?

*When Will Christ Come?*

 

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Make disciples who are members of the royal family and are destined to rule with Christ in the Mediatorial Kingdom

 

 

*Challenge:**                      *

        by proclaiming the gospel

        by proclaiming the exclusiveness of Jesus

        by proclaiming truth with boldness