I Am Coming Soon/Facing God
Preaching
Life Everlasting
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Object:
The angel said to me, "These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants the things that must soon take place."
"Behold, I am coming soon! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy in this book."
If you want to be bold you might use this text to talk about Jesus coming soon. What that "soon" means in terms of an actual historical date is hard to speculate upon. But dates are not what we want to focus on here. Our emphasis ought to be on the fact that few, if any, of us know at what hour we shall have to face our maker. It is coming! Soon! Maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe a few decades into the future, but we don't know and so we ought not to put off the truly important things in life. There is no more important thing in life than trying to come to grips with our relationship to the one who made us. This passage could be used at the death of one who died suddenly. That suddenness might act as a catalyst for some to be thinking of their eternal destinies.
"Behold, I am coming soon! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy in this book."
If you want to be bold you might use this text to talk about Jesus coming soon. What that "soon" means in terms of an actual historical date is hard to speculate upon. But dates are not what we want to focus on here. Our emphasis ought to be on the fact that few, if any, of us know at what hour we shall have to face our maker. It is coming! Soon! Maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe a few decades into the future, but we don't know and so we ought not to put off the truly important things in life. There is no more important thing in life than trying to come to grips with our relationship to the one who made us. This passage could be used at the death of one who died suddenly. That suddenness might act as a catalyst for some to be thinking of their eternal destinies.