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Pastor Rick Warren shares the hope and encouragement you need to hear everyday. Listen in as he shares biblical truths to help you live the purpose driven life
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0:03 Welcome, thanks for joining Pastor Rick Warren. To hear Pastor Rick's free daily Bible teaching program, download free sermon notes or sign up for his free daily devotional. Visit pastorrick0:16 dot com. Now, let's join Pastor Rick.0:20 You know, in the newspaper business, the largest headline you could possibly use is called Second Coming typefont. For an obvious reason, that it would be used in the SecondThe Second Coming of Jesus 0:32 Coming of Jesus. The most cataclysmic or the most important or the most profound experience in history will be the end of history when Jesus Christ comes back. Every0:44 journalist knows what Second Coming typeface is. In fact, the last time I think it was used was at the end of World War II. And in the San Francisco Chronicle, they used Second Coming type0:55 font on their cover. Here's what it said, Peace. It was 1 big word, but notice that the headline takes up half of the front page. That's Second Coming type font.1:07 Because nothing's bigger. Nothing's bigger. Most people don't know that there's more verses in the Bible about the Second Coming of Jesus when he comes back in the future than1:19 about his First Coming at Christmas 20 19 years ago. Far, far more about the Second Coming than the First Coming. The Second Coming of Jesus is called1:31 the Blessed Hope. And it's called the Blessed Hope because when you really understand it, it gives you comfort, it gives you strength, it gives you confidence to face the future,1:44 it gives you hope, and then you know that no matter what's gonna happen, you've read the final chapter of the book. And I have read the final chapter of the book, we win.1:55 Okay, we win. And He is coming back 1 day. Now, the night before Jesus was crucified, before He went to the cross, He said this to His disciples, here on the screen. John2:07 14, verse 2 and 3. I'm going to Heaven to prepare a place for you. And after I prepare a place for you, I will come back. I'll be back.2:20 I will come back to get you so that where I am, you will also be with me. That's the greatest promise in Scripture. If I go, I2:32 will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there you may be also. If I go, I'm coming back. Did he go? Yeah, he went, after the resurrection. Is he coming back? Absolutely. What I wanna do2:44 this Christmas is show you the differences between the First Coming of Jesus at Christmas, you've been hearing about that for decades, and the Second Coming that2:56 is still to be in the future. What I wanna do is just quickly mention 3 or 4 physical differences between the First and Second Coming and then I want us to look at 3 profoundly3:08 different purposes. What the purpose of Jesus coming at Christmas is very different than the purpose that he's coming back 1 day. So let's first look at some physical differences. If you're takin' notes,3:20 they're on your program. The first time, Jesus' arrival happened slowly. You might write that down. The first time at Christmas, Jesus' arrival happened slowly, why? Because he came into the world3:32 the way we all came into the world, by being born into it. And a pregnancy takes 9 months. Any woman who's been a mother can tell you a pregnancy is a long slow arrival.3:44 It's not instant. It's not like you get pregnant, next day you deliver. It's 9 full months. And so Jesus came into the world slowly, like we all did. By the way, why did he come as a baby?3:56 Because he came to save us, not to scare us and nobody's afraid of a baby. Okay, nobody's afraid of a baby. If Jesus had wanted to communicate to cattle, He would have become a cow. If He wanted to4:08 communicate to ants, He would have become an ant. If God wanted to communicate to birds, He could have become a bird. But He wanted to communicate to human beings, so He became 1 of us. Which means he came into the world4:18 like we all did as a baby. There are a lot of ways God could have come 2000 years ago and scared us all to death, but as I said, he came to save us. Now here's what the Bible says, Luke chapter4:29 1, the angel says to Mary, Mary, you will become pregnant and you'll have a son and you're to name him Jesus. Mary asked, how could this happen since I'm a virgin? Good4:41 question. The angel replied, because nothing is impossible with God. Now even though it's a miraculous birth, it's still a birth and it took a long time slow. Now4:53 let me just take a survey. How many of you know that you came early? You were preemies? Can I see your hands? You know you were preemies, okay. How many know that you were late being arriving? You know you were late.5:04 Alright. How many of you say, I don't know. Yeah, that's right. How many would say, I couldn't care less. Yeah, well you're here, so welcome. Great, you made it. Doesn't matter how long you took,5:16 you're here. But the First Coming of Jesus happened slowly. Next time, write this down, Jesus' arrival will happen instantly. Instantly. The Bible says in 15:28 Corinthians 15 52, it will all happen in the flash as fast as the twinkling of an eye. I mean, that's fast. A twinkle is not5:40 a blink, a blink takes about a tenth of a second. A twinkle is the amount of time it takes light to reflect off the back of your eye and since light travels, you know, a5:52 hundred and 82000 miles a second, that's a whole lot faster. In other words in decimals, a blink is 0.1 seconds. A twinkle would be6:03 0.0000000047 zeros and then a 1. It's really fast. That's how fast it's gonna be when Jesus Christ comes back. Now,6:15 Jesus is not gonna come back instantly, not only instantly, but He's gonna come back, the Bible says, without warning. Notice these verses. 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5 Verse 2 says, The day of the6:27 Lord will come unexpectedly, like a thief in the night. A thief doesn't call you up and warn you. In fact, Jesus said this in Luke Chapter 12, here on the screen, If a homeowner knew exactly6:38 when a burglar was coming to break in, he'd prepare and be ready for it. Likewise, you must be ready all the time, for the Son of Man will return when you least expect6:50 it. Okay? Now, we're talking about the Second Coming today. If any you ever hear anybody says it's gonna happen on this day, somebody tells you that, run. Because the Bible says7:02 no man knows the day nor the hour. Jesus said, no man knows the day or the hour, neither the angels nor the Son, but only the Father which is in Heaven. Jesus said I don't even know when I'm comin' back. So if Jesus7:14 doesn't know, you're not gonna figure it out. It could be tomorrow, it could be in a thousand years, we don't know. We just know that 3 times in the Scripture it says be ready, be ready, be ready. So we're7:26 not on the date and time committee. We're on the welcoming committee. We're on the be ready committee. So he says, you know, if a homeowner knew the exact time of burglar, he'd be ready, but you're not gonna7:38 know. Now at the end, I am gonna talk to you about how to get ready. Now here's the second difference. First difference is it was slow at Christmas, but the second difference is at7:49 Christmas it was quiet. At the first time, Jesus' arrival, it was very very quiet. In fact, almost nobody heard of it. Almost nobody8:01 knew that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Savior of the world had arrived. Most people are oblivious to it. It was a very quiet night. We sing the song Silent night,8:14 holy night. He's born in Bethlehem. Now Bethlehem is not a big metropolis. It's called the town of Bethlehem. Town, it's really a village. There were maybe 300 people living in Bethlehem.8:26 Maybe 300 people. So it's a little quiet bump in the side of the road. And when Jesus came the first time, it was not only slow, it was also8:37 quiet. Okay, very, very quiet. The Bible says in Luke chapter 2, the shepherds were told, Today in the town of David, the8:49 Savior has been born for you. He's Christ the Lord. And you'll find him in Bethlehem as a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger. Now, there's no GPS in those9:01 days, so they have to give him clues and they said, he's gonna be in Bethlehem, he'll be wrapped in cloths and he'll be lying in a manger. Probably not many babies lying in a manger in a town of 3009:13 people. But the point I wanna make is this, at the first arrival of Jesus Christ on Earth, people had to find him. Notice it said, you will find him. You will9:25 find him. He had to be found. It wasn't like a big announcement to everybody, the Son of God has arrived. It didn't happen that way the first time. It was very, very quiet. But next time, write this9:37 down, the entire world will hear. And they're gonna hear about the coming of Jesus Christ back to Earth instantly and it's gonna be loud. The Second9:49 Coming is gonna be very, very loud. It will not be quiet. It will be the greatest celebration in history as history ends. Because history ends with the Second10:00 Coming of Christ. We're moving toward a climax. Here's what the Bible says, 1 Thessalonians, Chapter 4. For the Lord himself, that's Jesus, will descend from Heaven with a10:12 loud command, circle loud, and with the shout of the archangels, circle shout, and with the great sound, circle that, great sound, of the trumpet of God. Now, I don't even know what10:24 all that means. It just means this, it's gonna be loud. It's not gonna be silent night, holy night. It's gonna be loud, shout, great sound. It will be something that everybody in the10:36 world will hear, all right? So it's instant and it's loud. Number 3, third difference. The first time at Christmas, a single star was seen in the sky. Now, you know10:48 this story. A single star was seen in the sky. In Matthew 2, verse 2, the wise men said, We saw His star in the East, and we've come to worship Him. You know the story of the wise men.11:00 They are scholars, they are astronomers, probably from Persia, which is modern day Iran, in the East, they see some star, there's a single star in the sky and that star leads11:12 them to Bethlehem. Now, we don't know what that star was. Some people think it was a comet, some people, nobody really knows, but God could have just created a unique star for that event to11:24 guide the wise men. But it was just 1 star and not everybody saw it. Not everybody paid attention. What's 1 star among the millions or billions of them in the sky?11:36 So, they saw a single star. Now next time, when Jesus comes back second time, Jesus will light up the entire sky. It's not gonna be 1 star. He's going to light11:48 up the entire sky. Let me show you some verses about how brilliant the second coming of Christ is gonna be. It's gonna be a light show in the heavens.12:01 Matthew 2four 27, Jesus says this: For just as lightning flashes light up the entire sky and everyone can see it, they can see those lightning flashes,12:13 so will be the return of the Son of God. Nobody's gonna miss this. If you're standing outside on a dark night and lightning strikes, do you notice? Oh yeah, nobody goes, Missed that12:25 1. Because it, boom, all of a sudden there's a second, a millisecond of brightness. The Bible says that's how bright it's gonna be when Christ comes back. Now, not only is he12:37 gonna bring light when he's coming back, the Bible says he's bringing all his angels with him. Look up here on the screen. Matthew 25, Jesus said, When I come back in all my glory, all the12:49 holy angels will be with me. Hello. That's gonna be impressive. We don't even know how many that is, but all of the holy angels will be with him. Another13:00 verse says this, Revelation 19, The armies of Heaven will be following him. This is gonna be overwhelming. This is gonna be a spectacular13:12 sight in the sky, the armies of Heaven will be following him. 1 Thessalonians Chapter 1 says this, The Lord will appear with burning fire from heaven and his13:24 powerful angels. Now I don't even know, again, what that means, but there's gonna be some kind of brightness, the writer likened it to like a burning fire, it's gonna be so bright, so brilliant, with all the angels, all13:36 the armies that have been coming, nobody's gonna miss this. A lot of people missed Christmas, the first coming of Christ. Nobody's gonna miss the second coming of Christ. The13:48 Bible says in Revelation one:seven, He will come in the clouds and every eye will see Him. Now, everybody's gonna see Him. Now let me give you a fourth14:00 difference. At the first coming of Jesus, at Christmas, only a few people honored Him. Not everybody got to honor Jesus. Just the shepherds14:12 and the wise men, nobody else. Most of the people were totally unaware that the Son of God had come to Earth. Only a few people honored Him. And even when Jesus14:24 grew up and became, you know, the Messiah that He's walking around doing His ministry, people didn't believe him until after the resurrection. They go, oh, he really was14:35 telling the truth. Jesus only had a few followers before the resurrection. After the resurrection, it went to thousands and then millions and then now billions of followers of Christ. Because14:47 the Resurrection made the difference. But before, very few people accepted him before the Resurrection. In fact, the Bible says this in the Book of John, Chapter 1, He came into his own people, but his own14:59 people did not receive him. They didn't receive him, they rejected him. In fact, they put him on a cross. And they killed him. And they didn't believe him until after he came15:11 back to life 3 days later. So the first time only a few people honored Him. The next time, when He comes back Second Coming, everybody will honor Him. Everybody15:24 will honor Him, even atheists. Everybody's gonna honor him. Romans chapter 14, the Bible says this. As surely as I am the living God,15:37 everyone will kneel before me and everyone will confess that I am God. That's a done deal. That means in the second coming of Christ15:49 every celebrity that you can think of will kneel and say Jesus is Lord. Every politician, every global world leader will kneel and say Jesus is Lord, including the16:01 dictators. Every businessman, every businesswoman will kneel and say Jesus is Lord. Every military person will kneel and16:13 say Jesus is Lord. Every pro athlete that you can name will kneel and say Jesus is Lord. Every skeptic, every agnostic, every atheist16:25 will kneel and say Jesus is Lord. Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that I am the Lord, I am God. It's interesting, the difference16:36 between the First and Second Coming. First Coming, remember, there was no room for Jesus. Remember, no room in the end. Second Coming, everybody's gonna make room for Jesus because he's coming back in his16:48 glory with all the angels. It's no small come to a little village and be a baby. He's not coming back as a baby. He's not coming back. So let me just summarize this so far. At the second coming of17:00 Jesus, which, you know, for thousands of years, the first coming of Jesus was predicted. For thousands of years, many, many, many times the Savior's coming, God says I'm sending17:12 you a Messiah to save the world, to die for your sins. And people didn't believe it. It's not gonna happen, not gonna happen, but it did. And now there are even more promises in the Bible that he's17:24 coming back a second time. And just as surely as he came at Christmas, which split history by the way into AD and BC, and even your birth date is determined by the coming of Christ,17:36 because it's the single most important event in history until the Second Coming. Everything is dated by the coming of Christ, A. D. And B. C. And so even people who don't believe17:48 in Christ still use that date for their own birth date. All around the world. Now, let me summarize. When the Second Coming of Christ, it's gonna happen18:00 in an instant, which means no time to switch sides. If you get my drift. It's not like, well, the months he arrives then I'll believe. Wrong18:12 idea. No. You you have to switch sides before. So there's no time to switch sides after he arrives. It will be loud, everybody's gonna hear it. It's gonna be18:23 brilliant. There's gonna be some kind of brilliance, a fire type thing in the sky that everybody's gonna see and it will be undeniable. Everybody on the planet will bow and kneel18:36 and say Jesus was who He said He was. Now, those are physical differences. What I wanna focus on are the 3 different purposes. Because why Jesus came the first time and why he's comingPurpose of Jesus' Comings 18:47 back are completely different. You need to know this, you need to understand this. Number 1, the first time Jesus came, he came to save the world. He's not18:59 comin' back to save the world. But let's focus on this first. Jesus came to save the world. The most famous verse in the Bible is John chapter 3 verse19:11 16. You've seen athletes write it under their eyes on the football field. You've seen it in posters. You've seen it on every In N Out drink cup. John 3 16 is right there at19:23 the bottom. John 3 16 is the most famous verse in the Bible. Literally billions of people have memorized John 3 16 and 17 throughout history. Why, because it's the Bible in a19:35 nutshell. It explains why Jesus came to Earth at Christmas the very first time. There it is on your outline, John 3 16 and 17. For God so loved the world,19:47 everything God does, he does because he loves you. He is a God of love. He created you to love. He created you to be loved and to learn to love him back. For God so loved the world, for God so loved19:59 you, that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. What's20:11 the premise? You gotta believe. What's the promise? Eternal life. Every promise has a premise. So that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God did not20:22 send his Son into the world to condemn it, but to save it. Now, this is why we celebrate Christmas. At the very first Christmas, the angels come and they announce to the shepherds, I20:34 bring you good news, not bad news, 'I bring you good news of great joy, it's gonna make you happy, not sad, 'I bring you good news of great joy. 'Today in the Town of David a Savior for you20:46 has been born.' Now listen, the only way you and I are getting into Heaven is through a Savior. Because Heaven's perfect and we stopped being perfect a long time ago. There's no20:58 way I'm getting into Heaven without a Savior. If God thought that we didn't need a savior, believe me, he wouldn't have wasted the time to send his son and die on the cross. Don't you think if there were any other way21:09 for you to get into Heaven than have somebody die for your sins, God would have done it? There's no way you're getting into Heaven without a savior. You can't save yourself,21:21 shoot, you can't even solve your own problems. Much less save yourself. God is God and you're not. And so a savior's been born for you, that's good news.21:33 That's why He came the first time. He came to save us, so that we could know Him and so that we could live in Him and so we could go to Heaven and be with Him forever. God wants, God created21:45 you, He wants to save you, and He wants you with Him in Heaven. But you have to make that choice. Unfortunately, many people say no thanks God, I don't need a Savior.21:57 I'm just gonna save myself. How's that going for you? I'm just gonna be my own God. I don't need a Savior, I don't need God, no thank you very much. I'm gonna be my own God. You know what keeps people22:09 out of Heaven? Not this sin, that sin, it's pride. Pride is what keeps people out of Heaven. For them to say, I don't need God in my life, I don't need a savior. He sent 1, but I don't need22:21 Him. And because of that, the next time Jesus comes back, He's not coming to save. The people who've been saved will have already been saved because they trusted in him. First time22:33 Jesus came to save the world, next time he's coming to judge the world. He's coming back to say, which of those 2 choices did you make? To trust Me or to not trust22:44 Me? To follow Me or to not follow Me? To love Me or to not love Me? To live for Me or to live for yourself? Which of those 2 choices did you make? You get the choice. When Jesus comes back, He will either22:56 be your Savior or He will be your Judge. It's your choice. God doesn't make that choice, you make that choice. He's coming back to judge the world. Now there are a lot23:08 of people who think they're getting away with stuff because it's a secret. They go, nobody knows what I've done. Don't you think God knows? God knows every breath you've taken, every tear23:20 you've shed. He knows your highs and lows. He knows the good, bad, the ugly. There's nothing in your life that's a secret. And the Bible says 1 day, there is going to be a day of accountability. There's gonna be a day of23:32 judgment. Because God is not just a God of love, he's a God of justice. Which means if something's not fair, He's gonna correct it. And if something's not right, He's gonna punish it. And23:44 if there's evil out there, He's gonna defeat it. Here's what the Bible says on the screen. The Acts chapter 17. God has set a day when the entire human race,23:56 that's all of us, will be judged with justice. If you're taking notes, circle that phrase, judge, judged with justice. God is a fair justice. Humans aren't. Even the courts24:08 sometimes get it wrong, but God is totally impartial. He's totally just. He will judge the entire race, human race, with justice and24:20 set everything right. All the stuff that's wrong, he's gonna set right. And God has already appointed the judge, confirming him before everyone by24:32 raising him from the dead. Who do you think he's talking about? Who's the 1 person who's been raised from the dead? Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is gonna be my Judge and your Judge. Why,24:43 because He was first our Savior, and then He's our Judge to see did you accept my salvation or did you reject it? Were you prideful or were you humble?24:55 Now, God is not just a loving God as that, he's just and fair. That means wrongs must be righted, evil must be punished. Why is there evil in the world? God allows evil in the world25:07 right now to give you a choice. If you had no choice to reject God, then you couldn't say you really loved God. So God is allowing evil to give everybody a choice. Do I25:19 wanna go God's way or I wanna go my own way? Do I wanna go the Devil's way? Do I wanna go the world's way? God gives us a choice, He's not gonna force anybody to love Him. He loves you, but He wants you to choose to25:31 love Him back. And so wrongs have to be righted, evil has to be punished. You've probably noticed by now that life is not fair. Have you figured that 1 out?25:43 I mean, you could have been born in another part of the world where you don't even have clothes to wear and food to eat. It wasn't luck, but life is unfair.25:56 And a lot of times, you'll look at things out there and you'll see that the bad guys often win. And people do wrong things and hurt others and they get away with it. And you look at them and you go, that's not26:08 fair. That's not fair, that's unjust. When you see racism and prejudice and discrimination, that's not fair. Why do you have a sense of justice in you? Because God26:19 made you in his image and God is a just God. That's why you have a sense of justice in you. And you instinctively go, that's not fair. That's not right, that's wrong. Because you're26:31 made in God's image. And God, cows don't have a sense of justice. Birds don't have us, only human beings because we're made in God's image. And so, 126:43 day at his Second Coming, Jesus is gonna come back and he's gonna right all the wrongs. He's gonna right all the wrongs that have been done throughout history. The racism, the bigotry, the betrayal, the26:55 abuses, the unfairness, the evil. In fact, here's what the Bible says, Romans Chapter 2. God, this is when he comes back. God will reward or punish, you're27:07 gonna get to choose whether you get the reward or the punishment. God will reward or punish every person for what that person has done. For those who have lived for God's glory27:19 and honor, God will reward them with life forever, that's in Heaven. But for those who continue to live for themselves and reject the truth27:31 and follow evil instead of obeying God, they'll receive God's anger and punishment. Now that's my choice. It's not anybody else's choice, it's my choice, and it's your27:43 choice. So you get to choose when Christ comes back, will He be your Savior, or will He be your Judge? I know some of you may be thinking, well you know, I'm not sure whether I'm gonna be punished or rewarded. You know,27:54 I've been selfish, I haven't always obeyed God. Well, welcome to the club. That's 100 percent of us. Anybody here ever done everything right in their life? Everybody never had28:06 a bad thought, never done a bad thing, never hurt anybody? No, we all know we're flawed. We all know that we've blown it, we've made mistakes. Honestly, I've never met anybody in my life, and I've been in28:18 164 countries, never met anybody that goes, I'm perfect. I don't measure up to my own standards much less God's. Perfect standard. So you go, Well, I wonder what's gonna28:30 happen to me? Well the good news is you can settle that today. And at the end of this service, you can make Jesus Christ your Savior so that He will not be your judge 128:42 day. So, here's the next 1, number 6, the different purposes. In the First Coming of Jesus, Jesus came to die for our sins. That's why He28:53 came the first time. That's good news. He came to die for our sins so I don't have to die for them, and so you don't have to die for them. That's why He loves you so much, He is29:05 just, I deserve to pay for all the things I've done wrong. You deserve to pay for all things you've done wrong. But God loves you so much He says I'm gonna pay your penalty. I'm gonna pay your29:17 ticket. I'm gonna serve your time. I'm gonna take the penalty for all the things you've done wrong because I love you. Ephesians Chapter 1 in the Bible says this, God's29:28 unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into his own family by sending Jesus Christ to die for us. Now leave that verse up there for a minute. Unchanging29:40 plan, this means before God created the entire universe, God had already thought about you. And God created the universe because he wanted to create Earth so he could sustain human life, create human race29:52 so he could create you so he could love you. God wanted children. God wanted a family. The whole reason the universe exists is God wanted a family. But he wants a family that chooses to love him so he puts us on Earth30:04 and lets us have a choice. Why didn't God just make us and take us to Heaven? Because then we would be automatons or puppets. We human beings have a free choice. And30:16 so, he says God's unchanging plan from the very beginning was to adopt us into his family. Only God's family is gonna be in Heaven, not everybody, only God's family.30:27 So he could adopt us into his family by sending Christ to die for us. Now, if you got that verse on your outline, let's circle 3 words. Circle the word die. Jesus came to die for you, first time. Circle the30:39 word adopt, so he could adopt you. And then circle the word family. He wants you in his family. So the first time Jesus came, he came to die for our sins. He's not coming back30:51 the second time to do that. He's already done that. What's he coming back for the second time? He's coming back to gather his family and take us all to Heaven.31:03 He's coming back to gather his family. The Bible says it like this in Matthew 24. He, Jesus, will send his angels all around the31:15 Earth and they will gather his chosen people, that's his family, from every part of the world. And it's gonna be billions who've put their trust in Christ.31:27 Billions of people will be a part of God's family. Now, who is in God's family? Well, not everybody. Not everybody. Everybody is31:39 created by God. Everybody is loved by God. Doesn't matter who you are, what you've done, or what you believe, you're loved by God. Everybody's created by God, everybody's loved by God, God31:50 has a plan and purpose for everybody's life, but not everybody lives God's plan and purpose for their life. Not everybody accepts his Son as savior. Not everybody turns their life to32:02 him. Not everybody lives in a friendship with God. So everybody's loved and created by God, but not everybody's in the family. The only way you get in the family is by being adopted into it. How? When32:14 you say, Jesus Christ, I accept what you did for me and I wanna be in your family. You don't work for it, you don't earn it, you're never gonna deserve it, it's just a free gift of God's32:26 grace. But you do have to accept it. It's like if you were given a Christmas present and a year from today I said how'd you like the present I gave you? You go well, I'm sure it's great, I just didn't have time to unwrap32:35 it. Well God gave you a Christmas present at Christmas. It's the gift of salvation, freedom, purpose, past forgiven, purpose for living, home in Heaven. But a lot of people never unwrap the32:47 gift. And they're not a part of God's family. Not everybody's a part. Who is God's family anyway? Look at the next verse. First Timothy chapter 3. God's family is the Church33:00 of the living God, the support and foundation of the truth. Jesus said I came to build my church. I came to build my family. God's family is the church. Now, out there may have33:12 all different kinds of names, Methodist, Catholic, Baptist, whatever, Lutheran, but but it doesn't matter the label, it's his family, the people who put their trust in him. Not33:24 in the religion, but in him. And that is God's family. Now, you've heard people go, well, I like Jesus, I just don't need the Church. Oh, how wrong you are. Because33:36 only the Church is going to Heaven. Only God's family is going to Heaven. If you're not in God's family, you're not going to Heaven. Now, we say, well, there are a bunch of hypocrites in the33:47 Church. Well, there are hypocrites everywhere. I just wanna be a saved hypocrite. Okay, you're telling me you always do what you say you'll do? No. The fact33:59 is, the reason we need a savior is because everybody's a hypocrite. You say 1 thing and do another. Fortunately, God saves hypocrites.34:11 And they're all over. I just wanna be with the saved group. Those are the people who admit, there are 2 kinds of people. People admit they don't have it together and admit it and then those who don't have it together and34:22 don't admit it and live in denial. God's family is the Church, you need to be a part of God's family. 1 other thing, the Second Coming difference from the First Coming.34:33 Number 7, the first time Jesus came in humility. The first time when Jesus came at Christmas he came in humility. It's not moreShow more In this video 0:20 The Second Coming of Jesus18:44 Purpose of Jesus' Comings34:36 Living in Expectation
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