ARE YOU READY FOR THE END? (3 OF 6)
by Jim Perdue
Scripture: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12
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Are You Ready for the End? (3 of 6)
Series: 2 Thessalonians
Jim Perdue
2 Thessalonians 2:1-12
Intro/Attention
Tonight, we continue our series in 2 entitled, The Church of Irresistible Influence. Find 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 as we study this sermon subject, Are You Ready for the End? READ TEXT - PRAY
*A marathon, for most runners, seems long. But it is always 26.2 miles. Always. Except for the Lakeshore Marathon held in Chicago on Memorial Day weekend, 2005. That day the 529 runners who finished actually ran 27.2 miles, one mile more than they were supposed to, only nobody told them so at the time. The organizers simply miscalculated where the finish line should be. The whole race was a mess, with missing mile markers and confused directions. One woman who had been leading early on got completely turned around. ''I was so confused,'' she said, ''I wanted to cry.'' The organizer, a man named Mark Cihlar, issued an apology-kind of-on a website. ''[Last-minute changes] caused us to miscalculate and we foolishly added an extra mile-how terrible!''*
Maybe life has been like that for you this week. It's tough enough to get through a week, and then someone threw you a curve-or added an extra mile. An impossible deadline. Another sick child. An overdue notice on a bill. A letter from the I.R.S. When you feel like you've been forced to run a different course than you expected or farther than you expected it can lead to frustration, confusion, discouragement, and utter exhaustion.
That is the way the Christians in Thessalonica were feeling. They felt they had missed some signs or been misled and had to run farther and longer than they thought down the road toward Christ's second coming than expected. The truth is they felt they had missed a turn and wound up in the middle of the great tribulation.
Someone had deceived the believers into thinking they were already living in ''the Day of the Lord.'' The believers were instantly shaken by this teaching, ...
Series: 2 Thessalonians
Jim Perdue
2 Thessalonians 2:1-12
Intro/Attention
Tonight, we continue our series in 2 entitled, The Church of Irresistible Influence. Find 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 as we study this sermon subject, Are You Ready for the End? READ TEXT - PRAY
*A marathon, for most runners, seems long. But it is always 26.2 miles. Always. Except for the Lakeshore Marathon held in Chicago on Memorial Day weekend, 2005. That day the 529 runners who finished actually ran 27.2 miles, one mile more than they were supposed to, only nobody told them so at the time. The organizers simply miscalculated where the finish line should be. The whole race was a mess, with missing mile markers and confused directions. One woman who had been leading early on got completely turned around. ''I was so confused,'' she said, ''I wanted to cry.'' The organizer, a man named Mark Cihlar, issued an apology-kind of-on a website. ''[Last-minute changes] caused us to miscalculate and we foolishly added an extra mile-how terrible!''*
Maybe life has been like that for you this week. It's tough enough to get through a week, and then someone threw you a curve-or added an extra mile. An impossible deadline. Another sick child. An overdue notice on a bill. A letter from the I.R.S. When you feel like you've been forced to run a different course than you expected or farther than you expected it can lead to frustration, confusion, discouragement, and utter exhaustion.
That is the way the Christians in Thessalonica were feeling. They felt they had missed some signs or been misled and had to run farther and longer than they thought down the road toward Christ's second coming than expected. The truth is they felt they had missed a turn and wound up in the middle of the great tribulation.
Someone had deceived the believers into thinking they were already living in ''the Day of the Lord.'' The believers were instantly shaken by this teaching, ...
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