The Coming of the Lord
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Good morning, well it has been an interesting few days. We have had alot of things going on. But I am grateful to be in the house of the Lord with His people. I want to make a few statements before we begin. We do not know what the next few weeks will hold, please be patient with us as we seek to be obedient to the Lord and do what is in the best interest of His church here at Union Hill.
There have been alot of questions, that you have asked me and that I have asked myself as we have sought wisdom in this turbulent time. Let me be clear we have a tremendous staff and diligent deacons who have worked along side of me as we tried to determine what our best course of action was.
We should be grateful to them, and as we move forward they are working along side of me and we will do what is best for our church and to the best of our ability we seek to honor the Lord. I do not think we should be afraid, at all, but we should use caution and we will but just know that we are monitoring everything and we will keep everyone in the loop as we find out what the next few weeks has in store.
I was watching two ladies fight in the Sams club the other day because fear had gripped them, people swarmed to the stores because fear had gripped them. Isn’t it nice to know that perfect love casts out all fear.
There is only one perfect love and it is the love that our Lord has for you and for me. When I focus on the love of the Lord I find myself knowing everything is going to be ok, God is still on the throne and all of this has a purpose.
God spoke very clearly to me last night and I began to write down what I felt He wanted me to say to you in this time we have together today.
I’d like to speak with you this morning on this subject Panic or Praise?
Right now as fear and concern grip the hearts of so many, we need to remember the beautiful future that waits for you and me if we are children of God. Jesus our Lord who loves us more than we could ever express speaks to our fears in
A Promise that Calms All Fear
A Promise that Calms All Fear
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
John 14:
In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
He says let not your hearts be troubled....
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
Dont let your heart be waited down, do be afraid.... The Lord Jesus does not desire any of us to be afraid. He is the Soverign Lord of all creation. He says you believe in God believe also in me.
John 14:
This is the most clear picture of Jesus declaring Himself to be equal with God, that there is in the Bible, He says the same way you trust God the same way you place all of your life in Gods hands believe in me the same way.... bc we are one and the same.
Isn’t it nice to know that in a time when so many are clamoring and afraid that you and I dont have to be afraid?
The the Soverign Lord of Heaven is on His throne and He loves you and me and does not want us to be gripped with fear?
Jesus spoke these words to them bc Jesus had just told them that He was going to die and that someone from among them was going to betray Him. They were all feeling the pressure of the days that were coming ahead. Much in the same way people in our day are feeling the pressure of not knowing what tomorrow holds.
Jesus says do not allow your hearts to be gripped with fear, because I am God and I love you!
He proved His love for you, in that while we were still sinners and wanting nothing to do with God Christ died for us.
BUt He also proves His love for us in that even though He died was buried and was raised to life again, He ascended into the Heavens to do what?
to do something for you and me!
I mean we should serve Him, We should love Him but He enters into glory and He begins a building project.
In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if not, I would have told you. I am going away to prepare a place for you.
In God House in Heaven there are many dwelling places, if it were not true I would have told you, but I the Lord Jesus am going to make a place just for you....
Can you imagine with me for just a moment what a house that was built by the Lord of creation even looks like?
The same God who called out into nothing and created universes, the same God who at the word of His mouth created the Earth Moon and stars?
The mountains, the oceans and everything in them, is making a place for you and for me!
I cant even begin to imagine how beautiful and amazing that will be.
BUt if we think about these things it becomes even more amazing to think that the Lord of all creation longs for us to be with Him!
If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come back and receive you to Myself, so that where I am you may be also.
GOD LOVES US HES COMING BACK!!
If these times are any indication we are steadily mocing towards that great and faithful day where the Lord will return for His church!
It is imperative that we make preparations for His coming, that we live everyday in light of His coming.
But He is coming to receive us unto Himself, the Lord loves us and He is coming to get his children! I thought about this after I had spent a week in Birmingham without my kids. I remember longing all day long to see my kids face, to hlad them to hug them, to love on them and hold their face in my hands and tell them how much I have missed them.
I want you to know that is how the Father feels about you and me.
But we must be prepared for His return.
The Promptness of His coming
The Promptness of His coming
Jesus Christ is coming back and He is gonna come back soon, this time He is not coming back as Savior. He did that He is coming back now as King, now theres alot of mystery as to the second coming of Christ. There is alot we dont understand, but we know that He is coming back.
It is going to be swift
For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Matthew 24:
I dont know when the last time you watched as lighting flashes but its quick, almost like blinking the eye.
I want you to know and understand that when Jesus returns it is going to be quick, and i don’t know if any of you have ever tried to out run a lightning flash but it just aint gonna happen.
There are people on this Earth right now that somehow think that they can wait and there will be a chance to get right with the Lord as they get older or someday off in the future but the day to be right with the Lord is today. No man knows the day nor the hour but when the Lord comes there wont be any second chances.
I wanna read something for you that I am sure you have heard but I want to approach the passage from a different vantage point.
For unto us a Child is born,
Unto us a Son is given;
And the government will be upon His shoulder.
And His name will be called
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Now we know that when Jesus came the first time to be born of a virgin, He didnt have a government, He wasn’t a King He was rejected as King. It is the second coming of Christ when this is going to be completely fufilled.
Of the increase of His government and peace
There will be no end,
Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom,
To order it and establish it with judgment and justice
From that time forward, even forever.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
Well a King has to have a kingdom, but that Kingdom has not been established yet on this Earth its coming. God is sending His Son back and the Bible says He is coming with a shout and those who are here will be caught up with Him in the air and will meet the Lord in the air and thats going to be a great and wonderful day.
Within a short period of time, God will begin to judge this Earth for the rejection of His Son and God is going to bring the wrath of His fury against this Earth. We have an opportunity right now to be saved, we can escape if you can be secure if you are willing to confess your sins to God ask Him to save you and recieve His salvation through Jesus Christ, you see there is no other way to God
Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
John 14:
There is no other way to God, there is no other way to escape the judgement that is coming except through Christ He is the only one who can save you.
You have an opportunity today to repent and ask God to forgive you.
Behold, the day of the Lord is coming,
And your spoil will be divided in your midst.
For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem;
The city shall be taken,
The houses rifled,
And the women ravished.
Half of the city shall go into captivity,
But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Then the Lord will go forth
And fight against those nations,
As He fights in the day of battle.
And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives,
Which faces Jerusalem on the east.
And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two,
From east to west,
Making a very large valley;
Half of the mountain shall move toward the north
And half of it toward the south.
The Lord is coming back and on the day of His return He is going to come back as a warrior King to do battle with all those who have come against Israel. The Bible tells us on the day when Christ comes to reign He will bring about peace on Earth.
Zechariah 14:1-4
The Bible says they will beat their spears into pruning hooks, because they will have no need of them. Why?
BEcause there is not going to be any more war, the King of Kings the Lord of Lords The prince of peace is coming to establish peace on this Earth.
God has a plan and our minds cant even begin to concieve all that He has for us because He loves us He redeemed us with His blood we dont know the time or the date but we know it is coming.
ARE WE READY?
If everyone of us lived as though the end of our life could come i think we really would live a little differently.
There are alot of things that rob our time, I find it interesting with all of this virus going around all of the things we waste our time on has been taken away
No sports on tv
No ballgames to go to
no school
No work
Ease and comfort gone
While we were living life as if tomorrow is a given we have been placed in a situation where we truly do not know whats going to happen next.
I think God is SAYING WAKE UP OH SLEEPER WAKE UP
REDEEM THE TIME FOR THE DAYS ARE EVIL
Jesus Christ is coming back
Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one left.
Matthew 24:
Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and one left.
You see the pandimonium taking place in our world over a virus, can you imagine what it will be when they are searching for their loved ones?
When the people who heard the gospel and never responded realize what just happened?
For He says:
“In an acceptable time I have heard you,
And in the day of salvation I have helped you.”
Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
NOW IS THE DAY OF THE