WE BELIEVE IN THE SECOND COMING (9 OF 9)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: 2 Peter 3:1-18
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We Believe in the Second Coming (9 of 9)
Series: Creed: 9 Essentials to the Christian Faith
Scott Maze
2 Peter 3:1-18
We conclude this sermon series entitled Creed by examining the Bible's teaching of the Second Coming of Jesus. If you were to travel to Rome to see Michelangelo's fresco in the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican City, you would no doubt gaze at the iconic and best-known picture of the Sistine Chapel - the creation of man as it pictures God and Adam reaching toward one another. There you would see the artist's creative genius and artistic expression. Yet, you would also want to turn your attention to see the massive painting that spanned the entire wall behind the altar of the Chapel itself. The painting that took Michelangelo four years to complete as he began the work some twenty years later after the more well-known portions of the Sistine Chapel is known as The Last Judgment. Michelangelo was nearly sixty years old when he began the work and it represents some of the Bible's main teachings concerning Christ's Second Coming. And at the center of the painting is Christ Himself overseeing the judgment of all humanity. Surrounding Christ in the painting are numerous bodies (too many to readily count). To Christ's left are those who He has condemned to hell itself. And to His right are those citizens of heaven alongside the angels.
The Second Coming of Jesus is no afterthought to the basic message of the Gospel. It cannot be relegated to the margins of our thinking or our living. For the Second Coming gives shape and balance to the Bible's teaching of what the Gospel truly is. The Gospel has a beginning, a middle, and an end. If the Bible were not to teach the Second Coming of Christ, then you would be left with a potentially endless cycle where things would simply go round and round. This would mean that mean that same things happened again and again. Your view of the end of time can have a profound effect on how you live your life in the p ...
Series: Creed: 9 Essentials to the Christian Faith
Scott Maze
2 Peter 3:1-18
We conclude this sermon series entitled Creed by examining the Bible's teaching of the Second Coming of Jesus. If you were to travel to Rome to see Michelangelo's fresco in the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican City, you would no doubt gaze at the iconic and best-known picture of the Sistine Chapel - the creation of man as it pictures God and Adam reaching toward one another. There you would see the artist's creative genius and artistic expression. Yet, you would also want to turn your attention to see the massive painting that spanned the entire wall behind the altar of the Chapel itself. The painting that took Michelangelo four years to complete as he began the work some twenty years later after the more well-known portions of the Sistine Chapel is known as The Last Judgment. Michelangelo was nearly sixty years old when he began the work and it represents some of the Bible's main teachings concerning Christ's Second Coming. And at the center of the painting is Christ Himself overseeing the judgment of all humanity. Surrounding Christ in the painting are numerous bodies (too many to readily count). To Christ's left are those who He has condemned to hell itself. And to His right are those citizens of heaven alongside the angels.
The Second Coming of Jesus is no afterthought to the basic message of the Gospel. It cannot be relegated to the margins of our thinking or our living. For the Second Coming gives shape and balance to the Bible's teaching of what the Gospel truly is. The Gospel has a beginning, a middle, and an end. If the Bible were not to teach the Second Coming of Christ, then you would be left with a potentially endless cycle where things would simply go round and round. This would mean that mean that same things happened again and again. Your view of the end of time can have a profound effect on how you live your life in the p ...
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