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restlessA. The Sign of the Coming of the Son:
1. Teaching of the Pharisees & Sadducees: Demand for a sign from God to prove the authority of Jesus, apart from the cross.
2. The sign Jesus would give: The cross.
B. The sign Jesus commands his followers to take upon themselves to prove their discipleship: the cross.
C. What then is the Sign that Jesus will soon come again?
1. Signposts:
a. Israel's regathering: Israel became a state over a generation ago & is well established.
b. The increase of knowledge: education flourishes like never before!
c. The increase of travel: not only within regions, around the globe & beyond!
d. Natural disasters: 200,000+ people dying in the latest tsunami is among the world's largest ever, and perhaps in the top 50 natural disasters of all time.
e. Wars: There is actually a decrease in actual #'s dying this way lately, but the past 100 years have seen some astronomical genocides & conflicts resulting in the deaths of tens of millions.
2. THE SIGN: Just as a sign is hung on a signpost, so all these are simply means to the end. The sign of the Lord's second coming is that the body of Christ will again have united to take up the cross.
a. All nations will hate the followers of Jesus.
b. All nations will hear of Jesus.
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??Questions to prepare for the final testing:
Do you love the Lord?
Do you tell others about him?
Do you suffer for His name?
Lighthouse:
The light that shines furthest, shines brightest at home.
The light that shines furthest also burnes hottest.
Can you live with the continual burning?
I must confess, I find it difficult to.
That is why we need one another: a fire last longer when the logs are together.
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