THE TRUTH ABOUT THE SECOND COMING (1 OF 3)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: 2 Peter 3:1-15
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The Truth About the Second Coming (1 of 3)
Series: The Second Coming
Jeff Strite
2 Peter 3:1-15
OPEN: The church was packed and the preacher was wound up to a fever pitch speaking on the 2nd coming of Jesus. Quoting Jesus' promise, he shouted out ''I am coming soon!'''He preached some more and said even more loudly ''I am coming soon!!''He preached a little longer and threw his arms up in the air and cried out ''I am coming soon!''At this point, he lost his balance and tumbled off the stage into the lap of a gentleman in the 1st row. The preacher got up and apologized to the man, but the man replied: ''Oh, that's ok, you warned me three times.''
FOLLOWUP: 2Peter 3:10. ''But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.''
ILLUS: Back in May of 1969 a national magazine told the story of Port Royal, Jamaica…. ''Cities have been smothered with volcanic ash, leveled by hurricanes, shaken apart by earthquakes. But no disaster quite matches the one that struck Port Royal, Jamaica, at 11:43 a.m., on June 7, 1692. In the space of less then 10 minutes, the thriving pirate port, reputedly the wickedest city on earth, sank convulsively into the Caribbean. An eyewitness described the scene: ''The earth heaved and swelled like the rolling billows, and in many places the earth crack'd open - open'd and shut - with a motion quick and fast. In some of these people were swallowed up, in others they were caught by the middle, and pressed to death. The whole was attended with the noise of falling mountains at a distance, while the sky was turned dull and reddish, like a glowing oven.''Upward of 2000 people perished in the chaos. Even today, many Jamaicans believe that Port Royal's destruction was the price exacted by an angry God for its sins.
APPLICATION: Peter tells us that God's judgment is coming. It's coming upon our world in a bre ...
Series: The Second Coming
Jeff Strite
2 Peter 3:1-15
OPEN: The church was packed and the preacher was wound up to a fever pitch speaking on the 2nd coming of Jesus. Quoting Jesus' promise, he shouted out ''I am coming soon!'''He preached some more and said even more loudly ''I am coming soon!!''He preached a little longer and threw his arms up in the air and cried out ''I am coming soon!''At this point, he lost his balance and tumbled off the stage into the lap of a gentleman in the 1st row. The preacher got up and apologized to the man, but the man replied: ''Oh, that's ok, you warned me three times.''
FOLLOWUP: 2Peter 3:10. ''But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.''
ILLUS: Back in May of 1969 a national magazine told the story of Port Royal, Jamaica…. ''Cities have been smothered with volcanic ash, leveled by hurricanes, shaken apart by earthquakes. But no disaster quite matches the one that struck Port Royal, Jamaica, at 11:43 a.m., on June 7, 1692. In the space of less then 10 minutes, the thriving pirate port, reputedly the wickedest city on earth, sank convulsively into the Caribbean. An eyewitness described the scene: ''The earth heaved and swelled like the rolling billows, and in many places the earth crack'd open - open'd and shut - with a motion quick and fast. In some of these people were swallowed up, in others they were caught by the middle, and pressed to death. The whole was attended with the noise of falling mountains at a distance, while the sky was turned dull and reddish, like a glowing oven.''Upward of 2000 people perished in the chaos. Even today, many Jamaicans believe that Port Royal's destruction was the price exacted by an angry God for its sins.
APPLICATION: Peter tells us that God's judgment is coming. It's coming upon our world in a bre ...
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