21 September 2014 - We Are In God's Third Day - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon NotesThe Church was a mystery that God hid and now it is revealed. There will be two 'Comings' of Jesus Christ - First, the Rapture, where all believers will be transformed and caught up to meet Jesus in the air. Then the Second Coming of Jesus Christ will take place 7 years later after the Great Tribulation and Jesus's feet will touch the Mount of Olives and the mountain will split in two. Jesus will slay the Antichrist with the breath of His mouth. As believers, we are not awaiting death, but are awaiting the coming of The Lord to enrapture us to be with Him forever. Many people feel heavily invested in the things of this world and don't look forward to the Rapture, but those who love The Lord and what He does for them will fondly look forward to His coming. All believers will stand before the "Bema Seat" of Christ to give an account of their lives and to receive their appropriate rewards from God. The unbelievers will go through the Great White Throne Judgement and they will be lost forever and have their wrongdoings stacked up against them. A true believer will never be lost! We as believers are like the 300 men of Gideon who scoop the water to drink it but are looking around and aware of their surroundings. The world does not control them. 2 Peter 3:3-9 - God already anticipated the words that scoffers will use today because they don't see any signs of Jesus's coming. But God is delaying Jesus's coming because He is not willing for anyone to perish. This shows His heart of love towards us. "knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance."" (II Peter 3:3-9 NKJV) There is a hell and it was designed for the devil and his angels, not for man. However when man first sinned, we were destined for hell, but through Jesus's sacrifice at the cross, all believers have complete forgiveness and received His righteousness. If you honor Christ's sacrifice, come boldly to the throne of grace to receive what you need. We have access to God because of that sacrifice. Jesus preached more on hell (the place of eternal torment where there is both darkness and fire) than any other preacher. It is because He loves us so much that He wants to save us from that terrible fate.
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