The Day is Coming!
1 Thes. 5:1-11
- Acts 2:17 “we are in the end days”; its been really really long last days (past 2000 years), but the Day of the Lord is coming
Two BIGHOPE Builders…
- the Day of the Lord will come and they will not escape (v3)
- Jesus tells us “chronos kairos” (time & kind of time)…Day of the Lord is not for us to know
- calendar/news watching is not meaningful because beginning of end is a surprise
- if you know a thief is coming, you’d probably live differently (locks, motion lights everywhere)
- the fantasy of security will be brought down by DESTRUCTION (loss of everything that matters)
- the skeptics/scoffers/etc against God will have the destruction and wrath of God brought upon them
- Isa 13:9-11
- Isa 14:1-3; wake up call of Israel on Day of Lor
- Rom 11:11-?; JEALOUSY (the called/chosen nation will be jealous for the Gentiles)
- God’s promises are irrevocable
- You are children of the Lord’s Day and you will be saved (v4-11)
- unbelievers in spiritual stupor; asleep
- v10
- our look (tribal look of faith & love); faith guards our heart, like a breastplate protecting the lungs, which help with breathing, and prayer = breathing
- helmet of salvation (our thoughts, imagination)
- for we are no longer under His wrath
- John 2:2; when you came to Christ & Christ in you fullness of wrath placed upon Jesus; those yet to be saved will face full wrath of Day of Lord
- live like people in day
- sometime BEFORE anybody suspects something cosmic is up & beginning of wrath, you will be rescued