matthew 24:42-44. 1. you will see him & hear him! –“come in like manner as you saw him”...
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1. YOU will see Him & hear Him!– “Come in like manner as you saw Him” – Acts
1:11– “Behold…every eye will see Him” – Rev. 1:7– “When He is revealed…we shall see Him as He
is” – 1 John 3:2– “Looking for the…glorious appearing” – Titus
2:13– “Descend from heaven with a shout” – 1 Thess.
4:16– “…with the voice of an archangel” – 1 Thess. 4:16– “…with the trumpet of God” – 1 Thess. 4:16– “All…will hear His voice” – John 5:28
2. YOU will be raised!– “The dead will be raised” – 1 Cor. 15:52– “All in the graves will…come forth” – John
5:28-29– “…those who have done good” – John 5:29– “…and those who have done evil” – John 5:29– “Then we who are alive and remain shall be
caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.” – 1 Thess. 4:17
– This world is not my home!
3. YOU will be changed!– “…We shall all be changed” – 1 Cor. 15:51-52– “…Corruption [cannot] inherit incorruption” –
1 Cor. 15:50– He “will transform our lowly body” – Phil 3:21– “…be conformed to His glorious body” – Phil
3:21– “We shall be like Him” – 1 John 3:2– So much emphasis put on our physical bodies
God wants us to focus on “the hidden person of the heart” – 1 Peter 3:4
“For man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” – 1 Samuel 16:7
4. YOUR every possession will be burned up!– “Heaven and earth will pass away” – Matt. 24:35 – “Will pass away with a great noise” – 2 Pet. 3:10– “Will melt with fervent heat” – 2 Pet. 3:10, 12– “Will be burned up” – 2 Pet. 3:10– “All these things will be dissolved” – 2 Pet. 3:11– “Being on fire” – 2 Pet. 3:12– We put so much emphasis on our stuff!
“One’s life does not consist in the abundance…” – Luke 12:15 “Then whose will those things be?” – 12:20 “For what profit if he gains the whole world, and loses his own
soul?” – Matt. 16:26
5. YOU will stand before Christ to be judged!– “It is appointed…the judgment” – Heb. 9:27– Jesus “will sit on the throne” – Matt. 25:31– “All the nations will be gathered” – Matt.
25:32– “We shall all stand” – Rom. 14:10– “We must all appear” – 2 Cor. 5:10– “Judge the living and the dead” – 2 Tim. 4:1– “The dead, small and great” – Rev. 20:12
6. YOU will bow & confess!– “…Every knee should bow…and that every
tongue should confess” – Phil. 2:10-11– “Every knee shall bow to Me, and every
tongue shall confess to God.” – Rom. 14:11
7. YOU will give account of yourself to God!– “…Standing before God, and books were
opened” – Rev. 20:12– “Judged according to their works” – Rev. 20:12– “By the things written in the books” – Rev. 20:12– “The word that I have spoken will judge” – John
12:48– “Each of us shall give account” – Rom. 14:12– “…That each one may receive the things done in
the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad” – 2 Cor. 5:10
– “God will judge the secrets of men” – Rom. 2:16
8. YOU will be sentenced for eternity!– “Receive the things done in the body” – 2 Cor. 5:10– Jesus “will separate” – Matt. 25:32– To the righteous, “an entrance will be supplied…into
the everlasting kingdom” – 2 Pet. 1:11 “Well done…Enter into the joy of your Lord” – Matt.
25:23 “Come…inherit the kingdom prepared for you…” – Matt.
25:34– To the unrighteous, “in flaming fire taking
vengeance…shall be punished” – 2 Thess. 1:8-9 “You wicked and lazy servant…” – Matt. 25:26, 30 “I never knew you; depart from Me…!” – Matt. 7:23 “…You cursed, into the everlasting fire…” – Matt. 25:41
– “Anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire” – Rev. 20:15
9. YOU will enter eternity, never to leave!– “These will go away into everlasting
punishment, but the righteous into eternal life” – Matt. 25:46
– “There is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us” – Luke 16:26
– Those in Christ “shall always be with the Lord” – 1 Thess. 4:17
– Those who do not obey the gospel “shall be punished with everlasting destruction away from the presence of the Lord” – 2 Thess. 1:8-9
• YOU must believe Jesus is God’s Son – John 3:16
• YOU must repent of your sins – Acts 17:30
• YOU must confess your faith in Jesus – Mt. 10:32
• YOU must be immersed in water – Acts 2:38
– Sins are forgiven – Acts 22:16
– Added to His church – Acts 2:47
– Registered in heaven – Hebrews 12:23
• YOU must live ready to see Him – Matt. 24:42-44