Jesus Is Coming For Us!
John 14:1-3
John 14:1 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe (Trust) in God, believe (Trust) also in Me.
Proverbs 3:5-6
You believe (Trust) in God, believe (Trust) also in Me!
When troubled…TRUST! Tell Jesus you TRUST Him!
Troubled & Trust are both… MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE!
You can’t do BOTH at the same time!
(Fear & Faith / sidewalk)
You believe in God, believe also in Me.
Claim of EQUALITY with the Father. Deity! (John 5:18)
2 In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
Because they were troubled about His departure Jesus told them where He was going… My Fathers house
He told them this to comfort them. This is who Jesus is He comforts us when we’re troubled!
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
John 16:33 These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer (courageous), I have overcome the world.
2 In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
Jesus has been preparing heaven for His bride now for over 2000 years. (1 Corinthians 2:9)
No matter how hard the journey is… we’re headed home!
Q. Are YOU included in the many here? (Think about that Q.)
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
Our text…is a reference to The Rapture of the church!
The Rapture is Jesus coming for His church taking us to heaven to be with Him.
UNDERSTAND (Handout)
The Rapture is a different event then The 2nd Coming.
The 2nd Coming of Jesus…takes place at the end of the Tribulation when Jesus comes with His church… to judge Christ rejecting planet earth & to establish His kingdom on the earth.
Revelation 19:11 Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. 12 His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except Himself. 13 He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. 14 And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses. 15 Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
2 Thessalonians 1:7 …when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, 8 in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not (1)know God, and on those who (2)do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, 10 when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints
Jude 1:14 Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, 15 to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”
The Rapture…is NOT Jesus coming WITH His saints to establish His kingdom but it’s Jesus coming FOR His saints to take them home to heaven.
John 14:2 In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
Isaiah 26:20 Come, my people, enter your chambers,
And shut your doors behind you; Hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, Until the Lords wrath is past.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-16
1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed – 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
In His final hours Jesus taught us… CENTRAL truths… that we have to come back to over and over again…
- Serve
- Love
- He is coming again for us! (To take us to heaven to be with Him!)
WHY? Because knowing that Jesus is coming for us… AFFECTS the way we live!
- Priorities!
We each have ONE life to live … soon be past..Only what we do for Jesus last. Judgment Seat! Ashamed.
Q. What would you do different if you knew that Jesus was coming this Dec 31?
- Urgency! Urgency to share the gospel! Evolution is a lie! (millions of years nothing changes )
- Purity– Our Blessed Hope / 1 John 3:3
- Endurance
No matter how hard things get! We can endure!
Norwegian Warf Rats.
In 1957 by Professor Curt Richter , psychobiologist and geneticist at Johns Hopkins University (15 min / 72 hours)
Luke 21:34 “But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. 35 For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Q. YOU…Are you going to Escape or be left behind?
Q. Is Jesus coming for YOU? Many mansions? You?
Q. Are you part of the many?