Sermon Tone Analysis

I’ll Fly Away

Let me say this starting out: I believe too many people that call themselves followers of Jesus, love this world too much, because of a spiritual complacency.

There’s not an urgency for us to do what Christ has commanded us to do.

We are more concerned with what others think about them instead of what God thinks.

We are more passionate about our own comfort than we are about God’s calling.

We are more concerned about what we have than who we are becoming for the glory of God.

This morning I want to talk about the lyrics to the song I’ll Fly Away.

This song has been called the most recorded gospel album in the world.

There are over 5000 different recorded versions o this song.

It was written by a man named Albert Brumley in the early 1900’s.

Albert grew up in Spiro Oklahoma, and was raised in a very impoverished family.

As a little child in order to help pay the bills he along with his siblings worked picking cotton.

When Albert was five his older brother died of typhoid fever, so he was very aware of grief and poverty.

He wrote the lyrics while he was in college but said they were actually born in his heart as a young child,.

He was longing not for the blessings of earth but for the glory of heaven.

Some bright morning when this life is over

I'll fly away

To that home on God's celestial shore

I'll fly away

I'll fly away, oh glory

I'll fly away in the morning

When I die, Hallelujah by and by

I'll fly away

When the shadows of this life have gone

I'll fly away

Like a bird from these prison walls I'll fly

I'll fly away

Just a few more weary days and then,

I'll fly away;

To a land where joy shall never end,

I'll fly away

As Christians we have the Eternal Hope that One Day we will be with Christ

So this morning i want to talk about the return of Christ.

The Eternal Hope we as Christians

So a little insight about the Bible really quick: Some people think the Bible is one book, but it is actually a collection of 66 different books, written by 40 different authors over a period of 1500 years.

The Bible contains a lot of what we call prophecy.

What is prophecy?

Prophecy is the prediction of something that is to come.

Of the 66 books in the what we now call the Bible only four of the books do not contain teachings of prophecy.

What is the second coming?

The second coming is a prophetic teaching written about in God’s word to predict events that would happen in the future.

Just for example the O.T. written by many different authors over span of many different years, hundreds of years before the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Christ, there were many different authors who prophesied what would happen in the life of Jesus which were fulfilled and documented in the New Testament gospels.

There are five times as many prophecies about Jesus second coming, about his return as there are His first.

So lets talk about the return, the rapture, and the reunion.

The Return: Christ is Coming Again

2. The Rapture: Living Christians are Taken Away

2. The Rapture: Living Christians are Taken Away

Matthew

3. The Reunion: Christians Will Be With God Forever

1 Corinthians 15:

Because time is short - I won’t leave:

Words unsaid

Deeds undone

Hope unshared

Hymn # 506 I’d Rather Have Jesus

Prayers of the People

Closing #513 Thank You Lord

Charge -

Go and be blessed.