The Sermon Jesus Is Coming by David McGee
Jun 01, 2014
Jesus Is Coming (30:19)
Referenced Scriptures: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 2 Corinthians 5:6-8
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1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
13) But we don‘t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don‘t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
14) For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so those who have fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15) For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.
16) For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God‘s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
17) then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.
18) Therefore comfort one another with these words.
2 Corinthians 5:6-8
6) Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;
7) for we walk by faith, not by sight.
8) We are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
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Jesus is coming again. Jesus is coming again Lorraine and first Thessalonians chapter four, beginning at verse thirteen through two verse eighteen and, while the sly want to do this is what the Nazarenes and this is from the message Bible and regarding the question friends that has come up about what happens to those already dead and buried. We don't want you to be in the dark any longer. First off you must not carry on over them like people have nothing to look forward to as if the grave or the last word since Jesus died and broke loose from the grave, God will most certainly bring back to life those who died in Jesus, so the foundation of our faith in eternal life is the part of the word of the word of God, and what we recognize and what we understand of the teachings of Jesus and of Paul and the other apostles, and what's written in the Scriptures. So the first. Sometimes the first question you know what happens to those who die now. First of all, it says that we're going to be risen from the dead, and that's what we see here in this and will go on and in verse fifteen and then this way can tell you with complete confidence. We have the Masters word on it that when the master comes again to get us those of us who are still alive will not get a jump on the dead and leave them behind. In actual fact, they'll be ahead of us. The master himself will give the command, the Archangel thunder gods trumpet blasts took him down from heaven and the dead in Christ will rise and elbow first, then the rest of us who are still alive at the time will be caught up with them into the clouds to meet the master, although will be walking on air and then there will be one huge family reunion with the master so ran ashore one another with these words thought we had this understanding, the number one Jesus is going to come back. I doubt whether we die or whether we are alive when Jesus returns, it's all okay when Jesus Christ returns the trump of God 's ultimate and that the King James version were more impressed more familiar with that one. The trump of God shall sound, the dead in Christ shall rise, and we which are alive and remain be, shall be caught up to meet him in the air. So, when God 's trumpet sounds that that is the resurrection that is going to take place. Our Scripture tells us that we are to take comfort in these words take comfort. No whenever we die. Some people wonder what what happens when we die Welt, but start the Scriptures and in second Corinthians chapter five verses six and eight in Mrs. Irene from the NIV and I give that the NIV version. Okay therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the war. While we are at home in the body. Now there is a distinction going on here that everything home life of office is in-home in the body. We know we can separate it out, take it on a on in the movies you can do this. You think the body out that the person out and set them over here to bodies over here. They do all that kind of stuff, but everything of life in us is in this Temple is this is this temple is referred to as a tent. Now some of us have larger tents than others, but some of us him or beautiful tense than others. Again, but this is the tenth. This is the place that houses. This is the clay pitcher picture. Element that holds nobody the life excuse me, the life that is in us that therefore we are always confident, knowing while we are at home in the body. Your home in your body again birthday. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Paul is telling us that everything that is life and honest lives on. You are going to live for an eternity. Now your body going to get left behind that happens now if we live long enough we don't live anymore, but not a house this tabernacle doesn't live on, but it died than the other goes to be in a place in the ground now. Our present life here. This is now living life that we are in Paul's speech of the comforting unbelievers in this state that we are in that we are at ease. We are at peace with the idea that we are eternal and that we will live forever down with in the Garden of Eden when God breathed into Adam and and Eve gave them the breath of life and man became a living soul thing we are a living soul death cannot stop life, death cannot stop life. Nothing can eradicate dismiss blowout life John is going to be internal and will live forever. So when life is here. Life is created like this that you just can't stop it. It's a little lamb on to live on for an eternity. The body doesn't make it go in the body gets tired wore out a man hard times. These of you have a hard time did not. After nailing down. Now my back your back. I got your back there wears out the body doesn't work so well. It wears out and it doesn't function so well known in on the most they know what one person said that the most thing I miss about the greatest thing I miss about growing old is my mind and out you don't mind, it don't matter so and this whole idea is as aging and things take over the body doesn't function as it used to, but your I think this is just a day media policies apophysis, the gas off is that we have this like my mother. I have a room for a living, and my mother. She loves you said you know when I look in the mirror and yet she had a hard time seeing his I don't recognize that person in the mirror. She's on a recognizer is not the person that I see in my mind, no, that's been my interpretation of this is that we are aware they were to live in this body changes, but the light that is in us doesn't it doesn't change, and in a sense that it doesn't roll because it is living it will continue to live long after the body is gone. We know that there are experiences as a movie out about this. The boy died and went to heaven and Joan King came back to life, and he talked about being things like that. There's all days in front entrances that go on around us about life being more than just the physical presence of the body it out if you break an arm, but that doesn't mean the body. The life in us, so it is not into the life minutes the life in the house is eternal, it cannot blowout extinguish the light. The life of me as a person. So we are pilgrims. The Bible talks about that we are pilgrims we are strangers in this world we are camping where camping, and this body and this life is a tent. It's a temporary dwelling units with the Bibles and when inferring whenever speaks about those, and that this temporary dwelling that we are occupying is our body. Now our relationship with God is not all that it can be verse seven, chapter five, we cannot see the face of God. We walk by faith and not by sight at five percent. Faith is for this world site is reserved for the next one. We walk by faith and not by sight. We shall see him and know we shall behold him, we shall see him as he is a link heaven is real. Jesus says so. No member last week. What is faith is a good sermon. I like the sure and certain faith is sure and certain sure is that God is who he says he is an certain he will do what he says he will do so. We are, we have faith, we are certain we are sure of what God has promised us and the life that he has given us is eternal so we have faith in this world. We have sites in the next. So we live by faith and not by sight, for we are here in this world until one we die or to Jesus returns we are here in this world, living in the influence of God 's word under the umbrella of God 's Word and God 's Spirit and God 's empowering in our lives. We are living under that umbrella. We're living under living in that presence and when we die or when Jesus returns and did a return of Jesus Christ. It can happen at any time without knowing Jesus coming back to complete no way this afternoon, but in your lap. I got I got stuff this afternoon to make it tomorrow if now he doesn't listen to us that way and Jesus will return. Are we ready to see him face-to-face. And the reason we are not afraid to meet Jesus face-to-face is because of what we just celebrated here, not it isn't the taking of the grape juice, and that the wafer. It's what Jesus did for us on the cross. Whenever we become always remember this thing. Always remember with this! to this when you or anyone else may be frightened of dying. We stopped we ask God to forgive us and live within our hearts. The only thing we need to fear if we need to we don't even need to fear because God removes it. These that RCN would stand between us and God. If we confess our sins, he is Johnson for this is the person cleanse us from all unrighteousness grade in me a clean heart, O God, renew a right spirit within me. We meet we stopped only path and that the love of God casts out all fear. So whenever we are experiencing forgiveness we are experiencing the love of God, and when the love of God occupies our heart. Fear cannot have a place we do not. We never need to fear anything that's related to God. Anything that's related to God. We never are to fear. Amen. Thank you so we are never to be afraid of anything. This related to our faith. Seeing God is exactly what he has made for us about the wearer creative for was to be with God, and to see God, and to walk with him as a friend is your best friend. God is your best friend. He's never had one bad thought about you. He's never been critical of you. He's never try to put you down or put you in your place. He's always wanted to lead us in the paths of righteousness. He's always wanted to bestow his gifts and his blessings upon us. He's always wanted to be an phrase always meeting us and he's each costly payment of their note, I'll be back there daydreaming, now don't I get it. Did your development. Follow me make you fishermen, I'll change your life. I think you let the things of your dreams. We fulfill absent from the body life leaves the body. When life leaves the body. It doesn't hang around in limbo. There is not people living in houses that they occupied no hundred years ago. They're not there while people see people talk their talking and dealing with imposters. They're not talking with the person, the person leaves the body goes to heaven, one of two places that I hang around the what you know what's going on with her life so the Scripture says absent from the body present with the Lord in not hanging around the beverage or remember what happened in the garden of Eden men died spiritually man died physically. Jesus died on the cross and what did he doubt he paid the price so that we could spiritually be reunited with God, and he broke the powers of death, so that our bodies would be resurrected from the dead. Everything that we lost in the garden was regained the cross. Everything we lost in the garden was regained across and because I celebrate remember do this in remembrance of me. I am renewing and talking about refocusing again that I am forgiven of my sins in my life is eternal Jesus on the cross page for the price. Jesus risen from the dead, because he lives I shall live also. And at the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwell in you, he will quicken your mortal bodies. The same spirit, the quick and the body of Jesus in the grave is the same spirit, the quickens our body is alive within us. Amen. Thank you and then burst of St. Paul states, and this one here is a really unique thing because nowhere in Scripture is it stated that Jesus said this, but Paul says in verse fifteen, that what Jesus himself said Paul had this will make many call that whenever Paul after he got knocked up, knock, knock off his horse and went on the road and whether the horse was walking 's underground see that this revelation sees Jesus and then after that experience, he goes away for three years to learn at the feet of Jesus and he comes back and starts his teachings and what Jesus what Paul talks about is not things that he said that what the disciples I used to read some of Paul's writings, music, well he probably said that with the other disciples and talk things over what what did Jesus do here what he do there, what Paul had another he had a revelation of what Jesus had done and he understood what God had said he understood the word of God. He understood how replied in a knowledge of their lives, and change in an he didn't get his teachings from the disciples, he received it from the spirit. Paul says we have his word on it. We have complete confidence, sure and certain in our faith pulses is sure and certain that he will do a sulfate, then, as we read these things. Faith comes by hearing the word of God, and what is Paul writing that is from Jesus when the master comes again to get us win the master returns to pick us up and take us home. Jesus is coming again. So the master comes in. Those of us who are still alive will not get a jump on the deck okay well this will happen. People are dead in the raiment of the dead two thousand years. I single be easier for God to transform this body into an eternal body and searching for those people been dead for two thousand years for the law together again, the general one if you don't think you have sent over thinking about all the stuff we hear her sing and in a just kidding. But God will have no problem putting together bodies of men assimilated into the world into the dirt and how each minute and an efficient the stadium, no problem bringing them back together. In fact, it will happen in the twinkling of an do at the twinkling of an eye has when your brain sends the signal to your eyelid to blink before you begin the blink, God will be here and gone by so quick. You can be changed when I was quick to adopt under Rhonda Rachel Rachels one ago Rachel was a good-sized quickchange for you. She's never ready on time and that when God changes Austin God, that transformation takes place to never fear anything that is with God never, never fear anything that God has for your life, you may not understand it, that's okay. You don't need to be afraid of because God loves us more than we could ever imagine eternity is our home. We don't need to worry about dying. We don't need to worry about living. We don't need to worry about the economy. We don't need to worry about was to happen next year next month once that happened, Middle East and the we our jobs and we pray about these things, but we don't worry about them. We pray that God would have his way. We pray for those who are in the military. Those are in harms way with Freddie God would protect and watch over them. If you're says the master himself will give the command, Jesus himself is to give the command, these elegant command to Michael the Archangel and the arch and the Archangel funders trumpet of God and God 's trumpet blasts don't come down from heaven and the dead in Christ will rise no gophers and the rest of us who are still alive at the time will be caught up with them into the clouds to meet him in the air and will be walking on air now there was a song walking on sunshine wonders of walking on air when a right to heaven. It's okay. So Jesus is coming, and this life is not our home. We are just passing through death cannot stop my visitors. This is temporary and the challenges to comfort and encourage one another comfort and encourage you see, when we love somebody and they die. We hurt why because we missed that relationship, but we comfort knowing that we will see them again. When people you love and things you're expecting and parts of your life who you are as gone. It hurts. There's no way around it, but the comforting presence of God as we will see them again. Then we have to we do walk through the grieving process. We do all those things, but always with the awareness that I'm going to see them again. So all this happens because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The resurrection is a pivotal point of the Christian faith. If Christ be not risen all these things are just smoke and mirrors Bible calls it. If Jesus is arisen from the dead doesn't not of works, but if Christ be risen from the dead, we are sure and we are certain because he lives we shall live also. Because he lives on. I will live also in his strength that I need to live this life isn't depended on the eye can't be a Christian without God 's help, you and I we can't. We can't survive without God 's help we need his help. And so that's why we pray to be over comers and we know that we don't give into temptation and things like that so that God will sound the learned and try blow the trumpet, the title, and all believers will all the laborers in history will be risen from the dead moments all go to take place the body and soul are reunited absent from the body means everything in his life must goes to heaven. But when the trump of God sounds by the soul that is in heaven in the body that was in the dirt will be reunited. So shall we ever be with the Lord, because when Sue came into the had a mini sand. The body died physically and we die spiritually. When Jesus died, rose in the dead. Our spirit is alive forever and guarantees the life, the resurrection of the body, but everything is Thomas is when we die to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. There's a song that I heard this week and its colonists from the group, called the old path, and it's called. It's called Long live the King José to plan, but it talks about the crucifixion talks about them, mocking Jesus talks about the judgment of sin and most importantly, talks about the return of Christ. I I just I plate is about twenty times last night, so this is one of the things opposing and I him a him him him him. Now make they can do much better than I can think of that is going as long is everlasting. Last lets us were to live forever and we are alive for evermore, Christ has forgiven us of our sins, we have a new life in revenue, hoping surely stumble and fall. That's not the point. We get up again in Christ is there with us, and he's coming back, and whether we go to the grave doesn't matter were bundled to heaven or whether Jesus the Trump sounds away her chains were going to heaven in a way were going to heaven. Amen. Let stand as long is everlasting, last payment down was expecting just all stand up with a digital. Now I almost does it all just moves me to tears. The think that a man father, we thank you. We are so grateful for the hope that is in our hearts were so grateful for the life that you give us the breath of life that is eternal God, we're so proud or so so blessed to know you as our Savior God, there's so many things we don't understand it isn't those help us to believe the things that we no help us to understand those truths that we know from there. Oh God, you will build your kingdom in us through us and around us, we pray in Jesus name amen. Amen. Long is everlasting. Lastly, thenJesus is coming again. Jesus is coming again Lorraine and first Thessalonians chapter four, beginning at verse thirteen through two verse eighteen and, while the sly want to do this is what the Nazarenes and this is from the message Bible and regarding the question friends that has come up about what happens to those already dead and buried. We don't want you to be in the dark any longer. First off you must not carry on over them like people have nothing to look forward to as if the grave or the last word since Jesus died and broke loose from the grave, God will most certainly bring back to life those who died in Jesus, so the foundation of our faith in eternal life is the part of the word of the word of God, and what we recognize and what we understand of the teachings of Jesus and of Paul and the other apostles, and what's written in the Scriptures. So the first. Sometimes the first question you know what happens to those who die now. First of all, it says that we're going to be risen from the dead, and that's what we see here in this and will go on and in verse fifteen and then this way can tell you with complete confidence. We have the Masters word on it that when the master comes again to get us those of us who are still alive will not get a jump on the dead and leave them behind. In actual fact, they'll be ahead of us. The master himself will give the command, the Archangel thunder gods trumpet blasts took him down from heaven and the dead in Christ will rise and elbow first, then the rest of us who are still alive at the time will be caught up with them into the clouds to meet the master, although will be walking on air and then there will be one huge family reunion with the master so ran ashore one another with these words thought we had this understanding, the number one Jesus is going to come back. I doubt whether we die or whether we are alive when Jesus returns, it's all okay when Jesus Christ returns the trump of God 's ultimate and that the King James version were more impressed more familiar with that one. The trump of God shall sound, the dead in Christ shall rise, and we which are alive and remain be, shall be caught up to meet him in the air. So, when God 's trumpet sounds that that is the resurrection that is going to take place. Our Scripture tells us that we are to take comfort in these words take comfort. No whenever we die. Some people wonder what what happens when we die Welt, but start the Scriptures and in second Corinthians chapter five verses six and eight in Mrs. Irene from the NIV and I give that the NIV version. Okay therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the war. While we are at home in the body. Now there is a distinction going on here that everything home life of office is in-home in the body. We know we can separate it out, take it on a on in the movies you can do this. You think the body out that the person out and set them over here to bodies over here. They do all that kind of stuff, but everything of life in us is in this Temple is this is this temple is referred to as a tent. Now some of us have larger tents than others, but some of us him or beautiful tense than others. Again, but this is the tenth. This is the place that houses. This is the clay pitcher picture. Element that holds nobody the life excuse me, the life that is in us that therefore we are always confident, knowing while we are at home in the body. Your home in your body again birthday. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Paul is telling us that everything that is life and honest lives on. You are going to live for an eternity. Now your body going to get left behind that happens now if we live long enough we don't live anymore, but not a house this tabernacle doesn't live on, but it died than the other goes to be in a place in the ground now. Our present life here. This is now living life that we are in Paul's speech of the comforting unbelievers in this state that we are in that we are at ease. We are at peace with the idea that we are eternal and that we will live forever down with in the Garden of Eden when God breathed into Adam and and Eve gave them the breath of life and man became a living soul thing we are a living soul death cannot stop life, death cannot stop life. Nothing can eradicate dismiss blowout life John is going to be internal and will live forever. So when life is here. Life is created like this that you just can't stop it. It's a little lamb on to live on for an eternity. The body doesn't make it go in the body gets tired wore out a man hard times. These of you have a hard time did not. After nailing down. Now my back your back. I got your back there wears out the body doesn't work so well. It wears out and it doesn't function so well known in on the most they know what one person said that the most thing I miss about the greatest thing I miss about growing old is my mind and out you don't mind, it don't matter so and this whole idea is as aging and things take over the body doesn't function as it used to, but your I think this is just a day media policies apophysis, the gas off is that we have this like my mother. I have a room for a living, and my mother. She loves you said you know when I look in the mirror and yet she had a hard time seeing his I don't recognize that person in the mirror. She's on a recognizer is not the person that I see in my mind, no, that's been my interpretation of this is that we are aware they were to live in this body changes, but the light that is in us doesn't it doesn't change, and in a sense that it doesn't roll because it is living it will continue to live long after the body is gone. We know that there are experiences as a movie out about this. The boy died and went to heaven and Joan King came back to life, and he talked about being things like that. There's all days in front entrances that go on around us about life being more than just the physical presence of the body it out if you break an arm, but that doesn't mean the body. The life in us, so it is not into the life minutes the life in the house is eternal, it cannot blowout extinguish the light. The life of me as a person. So we are pilgrims. The Bible talks about that we are pilgrims we are strangers in this world we are camping where camping, and this body and this life is a tent. It's a temporary dwelling units with the Bibles and when inferring whenever speaks about those, and that this temporary dwelling that we are occupying is our body. Now our relationship with God is not all that it can be verse seven, chapter five, we cannot see the face of God. We walk by faith and not by sight at five percent. Faith is for this world site is reserved for the next one. We walk by faith and not by sight. We shall see him and know we shall behold him, we shall see him as he is a link heaven is real. Jesus says so. No member last week. What is faith is a good sermon. I like the sure and certain faith is sure and certain sure is that God is who he says he is an certain he will do what he says he will do so. We are, we have faith, we are certain we are sure of what God has promised us and the life that he has given us is eternal so we have faith in this world. We have sites in the next. So we live by faith and not by sight, for we are here in this world until one we die or to Jesus returns we are here in this world, living in the influence of God 's word under the umbrella of God 's Word and God 's Spirit and God 's empowering in our lives. We are living under that umbrella. We're living under living in that presence and when we die or when Jesus returns and did a return of Jesus Christ. It can happen at any time without knowing Jesus coming back to complete no way this afternoon, but in your lap. I got I got stuff this afternoon to make it tomorrow if now he doesn't listen to us that way and Jesus will return. Are we ready to see him face-to-face. And the reason we are not afraid to meet Jesus face-to-face is because of what we just celebrated here, not it isn't the taking of the grape juice, and that the wafer. It's what Jesus did for us on the cross. Whenever we become always remember this thing. Always remember with this! to this when you or anyone else may be frightened of dying. We stopped we ask God to forgive us and live within our hearts. The only thing we need to fear if we need to we don't even need to fear because God removes it. These that RCN would stand between us and God. If we confess our sins, he is Johnson for this is the person cleanse us from all unrighteousness grade in me a clean heart, O God, renew a right spirit within me. We meet we stopped only path and that the love of God casts out all fear. So whenever we are experiencing forgiveness we are experiencing the love of God, and when the love of God occupies our heart. Fear cannot have a place we do not. We never need to fear anything that's related to God. Anything that's related to God. We never are to fear. Amen. Thank you so we are never to be afraid of anything. This related to our faith. Seeing God is exactly what he has made for us about the wearer creative for was to be with God, and to see God, and to walk with him as a friend is your best friend. God is your best friend. He's never had one bad thought about you. He's never been critical of you. He's never try to put you down or put you in your place. He's always wanted to lead us in the paths of righteousness. He's always wanted to bestow his gifts and his blessings upon us. He's always wanted to be an phrase always meeting us and he's each costly payment of their note, I'll be back there daydreaming, now don't I get it. Did your development. Follow me make you fishermen, I'll change your life. I think you let the things of your dreams. We fulfill absent from the body life leaves the body. When life leaves the body. It doesn't hang around in limbo. There is not people living in houses that they occupied no hundred years ago. They're not there while people see people talk their talking and dealing with imposters. They're not talking with the person, the person leaves the body goes to heaven, one of two places that I hang around the what you know what's going on with her life so the Scripture says absent from the body present with the Lord in not hanging around the beverage or remember what happened in the garden of Eden men died spiritually man died physically. Jesus died on the cross and what did he doubt he paid the price so that we could spiritually be reunited with God, and he broke the powers of death, so that our bodies would be resurrected from the dead. Everything that we lost in the garden was regained the cross. Everything we lost in the garden was regained across and because I celebrate remember do this in remembrance of me. I am renewing and talking about refocusing again that I am forgiven of my sins in my life is eternal Jesus on the cross page for the price. Jesus risen from the dead, because he lives I shall live also. And at the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwell in you, he will quicken your mortal bodies. The same spirit, the quick and the body of Jesus in the grave is the same spirit, the quickens our body is alive within us. Amen. Thank you and then burst of St. Paul states, and this one here is a really unique thing because nowhere in Scripture is it stated that Jesus said this, but Paul says in verse fifteen, that what Jesus himself said Paul had this will make many call that whenever Paul after he got knocked up, knock, knock off his horse and went on the road and whether the horse was walking 's underground see that this revelation sees Jesus and then after that experience, he goes away for three years to learn at the feet of Jesus and he comes back and starts his teachings and what Jesus what Paul talks about is not things that he said that what the disciples I used to read some of Paul's writings, music, well he probably said that with the other disciples and talk things over what what did Jesus do here what he do there, what Paul had another he had a revelation of what Jesus had done and he understood what God had said he understood the word of God. He understood how replied in a knowledge of their lives, and change in an he didn't get his teachings from the disciples, he received it from the spirit. Paul says we have his word on it. We have complete confidence, sure and certain in our faith pulses is sure and certain that he will do a sulfate, then, as we read these things. Faith comes by hearing the word of God, and what is Paul writing that is from Jesus when the master comes again to get us win the master returns to pick us up and take us home. Jesus is coming again. So the master comes in. Those of us who are still alive will not get a jump on the deck okay well this will happen. People are dead in the raiment of the dead two thousand years. I single be easier for God to transform this body into an eternal body and searching for those people been dead for two thousand years for the law together again, the general one if you don't think you have sent over thinking about all the stuff we hear her sing and in a just kidding. But God will have no problem putting together bodies of men assimilated into the world into the dirt and how each minute and an efficient the stadium, no problem bringing them back together. In fact, it will happen in the twinkling of an do at the twinkling of an eye has when your brain sends the signal to your eyelid to blink before you begin the blink, God will be here and gone by so quick. You can be changed when I was quick to adopt under Rhonda Rachel Rachels one ago Rachel was a good-sized quickchange for you. She's never ready on time and that when God changes Austin God, that transformation takes place to never fear anything that is with God never, never fear anything that God has for your life, you may not understand it, that's okay. You don't need to be afraid of because God loves us more than we could ever imagine eternity is our home. We don't need to worry about dying. We don't need to worry about living. We don't need to worry about the economy. We don't need to worry about was to happen next year next month once that happened, Middle East and the we our jobs and we pray about these things, but we don't worry about them. We pray that God would have his way. We pray for those who are in the military. Those are in harms way with Freddie God would protect and watch over them. If you're says the master himself will give the command, Jesus himself is to give the command, these elegant command to Michael the Archangel and the arch and the Archangel funders trumpet of God and God 's trumpet blasts don't come down from heaven and the dead in Christ will rise no gophers and the rest of us who are still alive at the time will be caught up with them into the clouds to meet him in the air and will be walking on air now there was a song walking on sunshine wonders of walking on air when a right to heaven. It's okay. So Jesus is coming, and this life is not our home. We are just passing through death cannot stop my visitors. This is temporary and the challenges to comfort and encourage one another comfort and encourage you see, when we love somebody and they die. We hurt why because we missed that relationship, but we comfort knowing that we will see them again. When people you love and things you're expecting and parts of your life who you are as gone. It hurts. There's no way around it, but the comforting presence of God as we will see them again. Then we have to we do walk through the grieving process. We do all those things, but always with the awareness that I'm going to see them again. So all this happens because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The resurrection is a pivotal point of the Christian faith. If Christ be not risen all these things are just smoke and mirrors Bible calls it. If Jesus is arisen from the dead doesn't not of works, but if Christ be risen from the dead, we are sure and we are certain because he lives we shall live also. Because he lives on. I will live also in his strength that I need to live this life isn't depended on the eye can't be a Christian without God 's help, you and I we can't. We can't survive without God 's help we need his help. And so that's why we pray to be over comers and we know that we don't give into temptation and things like that so that God will sound the learned and try blow the trumpet, the title, and all believers will all the laborers in history will be risen from the dead moments all go to take place the body and soul are reunited absent from the body means everything in his life must goes to heaven. But when the trump of God sounds by the soul that is in heaven in the body that was in the dirt will be reunited. So shall we ever be with the Lord, because when Sue came into the had a mini sand. The body died physically and we die spiritually. When Jesus died, rose in the dead. Our spirit is alive forever and guarantees the life, the resurrection of the body, but everything is Thomas is when we die to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. There's a song that I heard this week and its colonists from the group, called the old path, and it's called. It's called Long live the King José to plan, but it talks about the crucifixion talks about them, mocking Jesus talks about the judgment of sin and most importantly, talks about the return of Christ. I I just I plate is about twenty times last night, so this is one of the things opposing and I him a him him him him. Now make they can do much better than I can think of that is going as long is everlasting. Last lets us were to live forever and we are alive for evermore, Christ has forgiven us of our sins, we have a new life in revenue, hoping surely stumble and fall. That's not the point. We get up again in Christ is there with us, and he's coming back, and whether we go to the grave doesn't matter were bundled to heaven or whether Jesus the Trump sounds away her chains were going to heaven in a way were going to heaven. Amen. Let stand as long is everlasting, last payment down was expecting just all stand up with a digital. Now I almost does it all just moves me to tears. The think that a man father, we thank you. We are so grateful for the hope that is in our hearts were so grateful for the life that you give us the breath of life that is eternal God, we're so proud or so so blessed to know you as our Savior God, there's so many things we don't understand it isn't those help us to believe the things that we no help us to understand those truths that we know from there. Oh God, you will build your kingdom in us through us and around us, we pray in Jesus name amen. Amen. Long is everlasting. Lastly, then