THE COMFORT OF HIS COMING
Scripture: ACTS 8:39, I CORINTHIANS 15:51, I THESSALONIANS 4:13, JOHN 6:15, MARK 8:38
The Comfort of His Coming
Adrian Rogers
I Thessalonians 4:13
Turn please to First Thessalonians chapter four. We're in a series of messages on the second coming of Jesus Christ, under the general heading, ''Our Coming King,'' and He is coming. And I praise His name that He is coming. As we have said, we ought to be living as though He died yesterday, rose this morning, and were coming back this afternoon. Well indeed He could come this afternoon. And I hope that the idea of the second coming of Jesus Christ will stir your heart as we're in this series of messages taken from First and Second Thessalonians.
Now let me give you the background for this scripture. In I Thessalonians Chapter four the people at Thessalonica had become confused. The reason they were confused is because the Lord Jesus had promised that he would come again. The Apostle Paul had taught these Christians that Jesus Christ was coming. They were expecting Christ in their life time and they were saying, ''at any moment, our Lord will come.'' In the interval, some in their midst had died. They had laid in the warm earth some of their loved ones. And they said, ''They have missed the second coming of Jesus. They will not be here, they have died.'' They did not understand all of the facts that you and I understand about the second coming of our Lord. Look in verse thirteen of I Thessalonians Chapter four and you will get the idea. ''But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them who are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.'' The word sleep here is the Bible word for the death of a Christian. Because just asleep has it's waking, we have our resurrection.
In verse thirteen you have the three problems that these people in Thessalonica faced and many people today face. What are those three problems? First of all ignorance, secondly sorrow, and thirdly hopelessness. All of those are right there in verse thirt ...
Adrian Rogers
I Thessalonians 4:13
Turn please to First Thessalonians chapter four. We're in a series of messages on the second coming of Jesus Christ, under the general heading, ''Our Coming King,'' and He is coming. And I praise His name that He is coming. As we have said, we ought to be living as though He died yesterday, rose this morning, and were coming back this afternoon. Well indeed He could come this afternoon. And I hope that the idea of the second coming of Jesus Christ will stir your heart as we're in this series of messages taken from First and Second Thessalonians.
Now let me give you the background for this scripture. In I Thessalonians Chapter four the people at Thessalonica had become confused. The reason they were confused is because the Lord Jesus had promised that he would come again. The Apostle Paul had taught these Christians that Jesus Christ was coming. They were expecting Christ in their life time and they were saying, ''at any moment, our Lord will come.'' In the interval, some in their midst had died. They had laid in the warm earth some of their loved ones. And they said, ''They have missed the second coming of Jesus. They will not be here, they have died.'' They did not understand all of the facts that you and I understand about the second coming of our Lord. Look in verse thirteen of I Thessalonians Chapter four and you will get the idea. ''But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them who are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.'' The word sleep here is the Bible word for the death of a Christian. Because just asleep has it's waking, we have our resurrection.
In verse thirteen you have the three problems that these people in Thessalonica faced and many people today face. What are those three problems? First of all ignorance, secondly sorrow, and thirdly hopelessness. All of those are right there in verse thirt ...
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