2819 Church - ENTRY & END TIMES | The Second Coming | Matthew 24:29-31 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
Episode Date: July 28, 2025In this urgent installment of sermon series ENTRY & END TIMES, Philip Anthony Mitchell walked us through Matthew 24:29–31, calling us to live with readiness, reverence, and expectancy for the re...turn of our King.THE SECOND COMING is approaching—may our lives reflect it even now.
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You could be seated.
Family at the end of the end of proclamation.
We normally leave and go out to the park alone, but starting today,
I want to ask everybody after proclamation is over to sit still.
And we're going to sing over you one stanza so that the word of God can just soak in your heart.
Because we realize you hear proclamation, you leave and the enemy comes and try to snatch that word from you.
So starting today every Sunday, I'm going to ask that we do something different.
That when proclamation has come to an end, that we don't try to.
try to beat each other to the parking lot, we're all going to get out.
But that you sit there or you stand there and let us sing over you, the word of the Lord.
That we can wash your soul one last time and water that seed that's been poured out in your heart.
And then after we have sang over you and watered that seed, we'll pray and we'll let you go.
Can we do that as a family?
We thank God for the proclamation of his word that is not chained to my mouth.
We thank him for faithful gospel communicators like Elder Eric and Lonnell Williams.
We thank you for the proclamation of God's word.
We honor these men that are proclaiming God's word.
And today I've returned to you as we're in the final chapters.
the final sessions of our series
called entry and end times
so if you are guest to 2819
we welcome you and to all of our digital disciples
watching live right now across the nation
and around the world
we welcome you to 2819
where we are serious about the spread of the gospel
and the multiplying of disciples
we know that time is running out
and we want to be a church on mission
for the Lord Jesus Christ
and if you are not a follow of Christ
sitting in this room in the overflow watching across this camera our prayers that you would hear
the call of god you would hear the spirit of god wooing you to himself and that you would come
into this family not just 2018 but the family of god globally before time has run out
today our text is coming from matthew chapter 24 just three verses 29 at 31
We title this message, the second coming.
Spirit of the living God.
We feel your presence in this room and across that camera.
We don't know how much time we have left.
And Lord, I'm crying out to you in private and in public for a mass awakening in our church in this nation and around the world.
I'm crying out to you, Lord, for revival, for turning away of men from the ways of the world towards the ways of the kingdom.
We are fighting God on every front to prepare.
a generation for your coming.
I pray that this word would not fall on deaf ears,
but it would fall, God Lord, on listening ears and good ground and bear fruit.
30, 60 and 100 fold.
Help me in my weakness.
Exalt, lift up the Savior, and proclaim this word.
Give us stamina for teaching.
reaching, move on our hearts, trouble the atheists, and awaken the son and daughter.
We ask in the mighty and the majestic and the matchless name of our soon-coming king, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen. And amen. And amen.
family on Wednesday of this week
I was aboard a eight-hour flight
returning home from doing the Lord's work in London
and reading the words of Christ
that we approach today in this passage
I put my head down on that little fall-down tray
and I just burst into tears as I was reading this passage on the plane.
And I wept bitterly on that plane as I considered this passage as I thought about
all of the vain activity of the church in the UK and the church in the United States of America
and the church around the world that's disconnected from this text that we're going to read today.
I wept bitterly on that plane as I thought about
all of the activities of believers in the U.S. and in the U.K. and all across the world
that are living lives disconnected from what we're going to read today in this text.
I thought about all of our motions and all of our ministry
and all of our Sunday morning gatherings and all of our Christian living
that's disconnected from the consciousness of this day we're going to
read about right here in this text. And I thought about all of the millions and millions of people
who I left in the UK and here in the United States and around the world. That's going to be
swept away in eternal wrath and judgment, not prepared for the day we're going to read about
in this text like those who get caught in a flood and was not expecting that flood. I'm talking
about that day, that great second day, that great second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ,
that prophetic warning to all human beings that the Lord is going to return. I'm talking about
the day that's going to bring life as we know it to an end. I'm talking about the day when
the Lord will come and settle the account of every single person. I'm talking about the day
when all of our deeds will be brought into the light. I'm talking about the day when all of our deeds will be
brought into the light. I'm talking about the day when everything will change for humanity forever.
Hear me, I'm talking about that day that is not that far away right now. I'm talking about a day
that I believe we may see in our lifetime. Now, it's not uncommon for us to prepare for special
days, right? You think about graduation and you prepare for it. You think about your wedding day
and you prepare for it
but for whatever reason
in this era we have people
called Christians who live lives
and act like this day is not
coming and so our
preaching is not preparing us for this day
our churches
are not preparing us for this day
your little whack devotionals
are not preparing you for this day
your little whack podcast
are not preparing you for this day
you're not listening to biblical teachers
that are preparing you for this day
we're not listening to people that's setting our affections on Christ and preparing us for this day.
And yet it is in this text right now, we approach one of the most important and significant prophetic events on God's table.
A day that nobody's going to escape.
A day that it is coming.
You remember the setting how Christ was in the final days of his earthly life.
that by the time we come to this text,
he is only a few days away
of being nailed to a cross for your sins and for mine.
It is his followers who are concerned about the end times
come to him and ask him questions about the end times
and the end of the age and the sign of his coming.
And it was Christ not wanting them and you to be unprepared
or to be ignorant of that time.
he begins to prophesy to them about the future atmosphere of the world
just before he put in his appearance the very last time.
He talked to them about wars and rumors of wars.
He talked to them about famines and pestilence and earthquakes in various places.
He talked to them that in the time before he came, hear me,
there will be a rise of false prophets.
and false teachers and false Christ and false messias.
He talked about there will be a rise of hostility towards Christianity and the believers.
He talked about global proclamation.
He said all these signs will come to pass before the end.
And then in this text we approach the very last sign that humanity will receive
just before that great second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It was Matthew, the eyewitness of the ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ,
who recorded for us the ending of those signs,
who were standing there on that day,
listening to Christ, prophesied these future events.
These events hear me that I think we are very close to in our lifetime.
It's why I cry all around the nation for us to be awakened,
because time is running out on us.
Matthew records the prophetic words of Christ
about the final sign that men will receive in these last days
before his return.
In Matthew chapter 24 and beginning in verse 29,
Matthew recorded these prophetic words of Christ.
He said, immediately after the tribulation of those days,
the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light and the stars will fall from heaven
and the powers plural of the heavens plural will be shaken so although we do not know the exact day
and time that christ will appear he from his own mouth punctuates the time in which he will return back to the earth
He said he will return, watch this word, immediately after the great tribulation period.
What tribulation is he talking about?
What days is he talking about?
He's talking about everything he prophesied from verse 4 through verse 28.
Hear me that the Lord did prophesy in the first century,
that a time is coming and I believe in our lifetime in which the church, the American church,
the global church, will be raptured out.
of the world. And then after we're raptured out, according to Thessalonians, the man of sin will be
revealed the Antichrist. The scripture tells us he will sign a seven-year peace treaty with the
nation of Israel to protect them from their enemies. In the middle of that seven-year treaty,
at the three-and-a-half-year mark, he will break that peace treaty. He will move to Jerusalem.
he will go into the rebuilt temple he will set up an idol unto himself it will be a talking idol perhaps
AI technology and he will cause the whole world to worship him as God it is called the abomination
of desolation he will desecrate the temple and at that point in time he will then unleash his fury to
kill all the Jews and all the people who worship God in those last days God at that point
because of that event will then execute the full wrath and its force from heaven pouring out on the earth
what the writer of Revelation called bulls and woes and vials and trumpets and there will be great
natural disasters in the earth mighty earthquakes meteorite strike in the earth water turn into
blood people dying by the billions men suffering so bad
The scripture says they will cry out for death and not find death.
And those of us right now who are alive, playing church, playing conference.
Man, if the rapture happens, husband will be here, wife will be left.
Children will be here, parents will be left.
For those who are playing with Christ now, reject Christ now, should the rapture happen in a lifetime,
they will enter into that seven-year tribulation.
That God says he was going to spear.
us from that wrath to come. Now, the Lord said, watch the text. Immediately after that seven years,
as soon as it has come to an end, he will appear. Watch. And at his glorious coming, look at what
happens in the earth. He said, the sun will go dark. Pause. This mighty gas giant that lights
not only the earth, but the entire solar system, he said the entire
sun will go black. The molecules and the heat boiling in the sun that gives you light when
you get outside in the parking lot will go completely black. The power of Christ is so strong
he'll turn off the sun like a nightlight. The sun will go black. When the sun go black,
temperature will change. People will be running for fear. People will be in the dark. There will be a
thick darkness that covers the earth because the moon is only a reflector of the sun just like you are only a
reflector of the sun right the moon will not give its light then he said the stars will fall from
heaven pay attention to the text the stars that we look at are gas giants and some of them are planets
like venus the only planet we can see in our solar system everybody watch your text he said when he
comes, the stars will fall from heaven, i.e., right now, everything is being held together by
the power of Christ, right? You only know the sun is going to rise tomorrow because of the power
of Christ. You know the moon is going to come out tonight because the power of Christ.
We can predict solar system and eclipse because of the order in the solar system only because
of the power of Christ. Christ is so powerful, he holds all things together. The writer to
Galasha says, in him all things consist.
Watch. But when
Christ comes, he will display such
power. Watch. He will loosen
his grip from the universe.
And then the universe will be in complete
chaos. Planets will
begin to move out of its orbit.
Giant lights will go
off in the dark. Stars
will be flying through the solar system.
There will be crashes in the solar
system. Watch. It will be blackness
on the earth. Men will be
tired. Men will be
weary, men will be dying,
men will be afraid,
there will be great cataclysmic,
cosmic signs
in the sky and
in the earth.
Luke, the Gentile
doctor, writing the parallel
text about the second coming of
Christ, he tells us the condition
of men's heart when this day
comes. This
one day that scientists will
not be able to explain.
Luke tells us, and Luke
chapter 21 and beginning in verse 25 and there will be signs in the sun and the moon and the stars
and on the earth what will be on the earth watch the word distress of what america no of the u.k no of
what nations will be in distress and there will be perplexity because of the roaring of the sea
that will no longer stay in place and the waves that will no longer stay in place watch verse
26. People fainting with fear. You know what that is? People dying from fear. When the sun goes black
and the moon goes black and the stars are flying through the galaxy and the waves are out of
control and every nation is dealing with global blackness, Luke tells us in that day men will be
so afraid they will die. Not from some asteroid. Fear would cause
their heart to stop.
That day will be so dreadful, so terrifying that some people will actually drop dead because of
fear.
Cardiac arrest from the terror of knowing something is happening in the sky that they cannot
explain.
They will die from foreboding of what is coming.
They will sense something that's coming out the sky and some people will just drop dead
from fear.
They will drop dead not knowing what's happening.
watch and in that day everybody watch all of the nations of the world their eyes are going to be
fixed on the sky every nation on the planet world governments are going to be trying to figure out
what's happening and in that day everybody's eyes will be glued to the sky this is not uncommon
for humanity for every time we tell humanity there is an eclipse coming you go buy your little
glasses. Come on. You go buy your little glasses and at the same time and we all be gazing at the
stars. And in this day, everybody watch, all of humanity will be staring at the sky. And then now
that God has everyone's attention in the darkness, God, this is so powerful. Now that the world
is black and God has every man and woman's attention, then the next verse,
will prophetically happen on that day.
Verse 30, then will appear in heaven the sign.
Some light would appear in heaven, and everybody will see it.
Some glorious cosmic something will appear in the sky, and every person will see it.
In America, we'll see it.
In South America, we'll see it.
In Europe, they'll see it.
in the far east is in Russia, they'll see it.
And everybody will be gazing in the blackness
at this brilliant light in the sky.
And what is the sign that the whole world is going to see
on this dreadful and glorious day?
Jesus tells us so you don't have to figure it out.
They will see the sign of the son of man.
Oh, my God.
God. Watch this. Coming on the clouds the same way he left. For the scripture says he will return the same way he left. Acts 1, he leaves in the clouds. Jesus prophesies he will return on the clouds. And then all the tribes of the earth will mourn and they will see the son of man coming on the clouds.
of heaven with what? With power.
Jesus. And great
glory. Watch. The Lord
will prepare every human to see
this last solar eclipse. But it
will not be a planet. It will not be
a star. It will be the S-O-N.
who turned off the S-U-N
and caused the whole world
to fix their gaze above
and he will break the sky
he will return with power
and glory
it will be thunder
it will be lightning
it will be visible
it will be audible
it would be dreadful
and the scripture says
all of the tribes of the earth
they will mourn. Why? Because on that day, there will be no more arguments about theology.
Man, y'all don't want me to go there. We're arguing right now. It's Jesus God. It's Muhammad God. It's Buddha God.
Listen, I'm telling you right now, I don't care what nobody say. On that day, we will be an agreement in our theology.
on that day
we will be in perfect agreement
about our theology
for the Muslim will know
that Jesus was the son of God
the atheists will know
that Jesus was the son of God
the Buddhists will know
that Jesus is the son of God
the Hindu will know that Jesus
is the son of God and everybody that rejected him played church played conference ran to some other
religion following a false Messiah they're going to know that Jesus is the son of God we can
argue right now about theology will be no arguments on that day on that day we will know
that Christ
was the son of God
is the son of God
the coming son of God
the reigning son of God
the glorious son of God
the powerful son of God
watch this word
the only
the only
somebody shout only
somebody shout only
Holy Son of God.
Watch.
And the tribes of the earth, they're going to mourn.
Why?
The scripture tells us the people who pierced him in the first century, they're going
to see him.
The Jews that rejected him, they're going to see him.
The people living right now doing church and not save, they're going to see him.
All of y'all run into conferences and not saved, you're going to see him.
All of y'all reading your little whack devotions, but you don't read the Bible
are not saved, you're going to see him.
All of those who think, I got time to get right,
they're going to seek him.
People who died thinking they were stugged out,
thinking they're going to have enough ice
to keep them warm in the afterlife.
They're going to seek him.
People who think they're gangster now,
and think they're thugged out now,
and think they're stronger than Christ now.
They're going to see him.
Everybody that said, later for Christ,
I get right next year and die in their sin.
On that day, hear me that I think what happened in our lifetime.
There's going to be great, watch this word, mourning.
No, that is, watch this word, sorrow.
Watch this word, late repentance.
There will be no second chance on that day.
For when Christ cracks the sky, watch this, everyone's fate will be sealed.
He will separate real believers from fake believers.
Matthew 25, I'm coming for you in a couple weeks.
He will separate those who was doing this for real and those who is not doing this for real.
He will separate husbands and wives.
He will separate siblings.
He will separate nations.
He's going to put his true children on the right.
the hand of favor and there's fake people on the left those who will be damned it will be glorious
I feel this in my spirit it will be powerful I feel this in my spirit it will be dreadful
but for those who get saved during the tribulation watch for them it will be glorious right
they're going to see Christ come in and watch this they're going to feel like their redemption is nigh
They're going to see Christ coming.
They're going to say, yes, we're about to be rescued.
They would have been in the tribulation.
They would have heard the gospel from the 144,000 Jewish evangelists from the everlasting angel.
They're going to see Christ coming.
They're going to come out of hiding.
They're going to say, yes.
They're going to want to go meet him.
They're going to be like, yes, he's coming.
Watch.
And for you and I, who would have been raptured, I believe, you're saying like, man, we're going to miss the party.
we're going to miss the show i hear you i want to see his coming too family isn't the bible your scriptures
that says for the believer watch it to be absent from the body is to be present with the lord right
so if the scriptures don't lie anybody that dies in christ now or will be raptured then will we not
be present with the lord that wherever he is will we not be
Watch.
So if I believe the rapture happens before the tribulation, watch.
And the tribulation lasts seven years.
Watch.
We will be what the scripture calls at the marriage supper of the lamb.
Watch culture.
The Jewish wedding lasted seven days.
The tribulation will last seven years.
We will be at that table eating wine and grapes and figs, receiving our rewards.
and then the Lord was said, it's time to roll.
Now, if to be absent from the body
is to be present with the Lord,
then wherever the Lord is,
you must be there also.
So if he's coming on the clouds
and to be absent with the body is to be present with the Lord,
that means you must be there also.
Is there any biblical evidence for that?
Paul, John.
Paul writes Colossians chapter 3, verse 4, watch the text.
When Christ, who is your life, what's the word, appears?
Oh, my God.
I feel heat in the room.
When Christ, who is your life, what's this word, appears?
Watch.
Then you also will appear.
With him.
Where?
In glory.
He's coming from glory.
You will be with him coming from glory.
That sounds crazy.
John wrote.
revelation chapter 19 about the same day verse 11 this is heat then i saw heaven open
and behold a white horse and the one sitting on it is called faithful and truth
and in righteousness he judges and he makes war man i said that on an interview and some punk said
man, that preach you don't read his Bible.
Jesus is coming back to make love.
No, you don't read your Bible.
The scripture says he's coming back to make war.
He's going to be in the war of Armageddon.
He's going to destroy the armies that come against Israel.
Now watch.
His eyes are like a flame of fire.
And on his head on many diademes, which is crowns.
And he has a name that is written that no one knows.
Watch this. He is clothed in a robe, dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is the Word of God.
He is the Word of God. I can't hear Jesus. Read. I can't hear God. Read. I want a prophetic word. Read. I want to know the Lord's voice.
read read read read read read that's why you love prophets because you don't read
I want to hear Jesus for myself read he is called what the word of God
now watch this next part and the armies of heaven arrayed in fine linen white he
talking about you and pure were following him on white horses family angels don't wear white linen
who's coming out of heaven with Christ you are all those who was raptured before the
tribulation man with Christ is going to ride out on his horse and right behind him you're
going to ride out on your horse right now
You're going to ride out, right behind the Lord Jesus.
We're going to be coming from glory with the Lord Jesus.
Lace up your bootstraps.
Get your backpack on.
It's time to ride.
Ride, ride, ride.
In white linen, we go right out behind Christ.
Somebody giving praise in this house.
Ride, ride, ride, ride, ride.
Somebody shout ride.
we're going right out behind the armies of heaven did he not call you an army on the earth
did not pull right to Timothy and said no person enlisted in the army and
and warfare engages themselves and tangles themselves with the affairs of this life you know how powerful's
going to be after you finish all of your holy bread and sip your holy wine the lord gets on his horse
and said the father has said now and you hop on your horse and we know he's coming to set up his
eternal kingdom for a thousand years and he's going to rain and we're going to rain with
him and you're going to be on your horse riding out from heaven coming from above down
looking at the earth that is begging for Christ to return in linen white and pure
for where he is you will be also what you're going to know what you're going to
name your horse I'm gonna name my horse onyx somebody gonna name their horse glory you're gonna name
your horse mercy I'm gonna name my horse redeemed I'm gonna name my horse saved I'm gonna name my
horse justified I'm a name my horse sanctified I'm a name my horse rescued I'm a name my horse rescued
I'm going to name my horse, glory!
I'm going to name my horse, hallelujah!
Somebody giving praise in this house right now!
Woo!
Are you worried about a car?
Come on a car?
You got a heavenly horse with your name on it.
And when the Lord comes in power,
and great glory.
They will see Christ.
They will see you.
They will see me.
I can't speak for all of y'all because some of y'all play in church.
But I'm going to be there.
Watch.
When he found me, he said, follow me.
And when he rides up from heaven, I'll be following him.
Last verse.
And when he returns, who will be his priority?
What will be his priority?
Verse 31.
And he will send out his angels.
This is so powerful to me with a loud trumpet,
which is the Jewish sound to give.
Get ready.
His return will be visible.
His return will be audible.
His return will be dreadful.
His return will be glorious.
And he will send out his angels, his gatherers with a trumpet call.
And they will gather his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other.
look watch there will be people who will be saved during the tribulation i'm about to shut it down
they would have survived the antichrist persecution and death and when the lord comes he's going to
deal with his enemies straightway but then he will see his sons and daughters all around the
world hiding and looking and waiting.
And in this moment, watch, everybody will know who was the real Christ, right?
So this is a prophetic warning for everyone alive right now who call himself Christ.
Because Christ is not on the earth, he will come from the sky.
This is a prophetic warning for everybody following in a cult of false Christ, for he is not
on the earth, he will come from the sky.
This is a prophetic warning for everybody who don't want nothing to do with Christ.
This is a prophetic warning for everybody that don't want nothing to do with the gospel.
This is a prophetic warning for everybody who rejects God.
He's going to come and watch, watch, watch, watch, watch.
This is a prophetic warning.
Look at me.
For everybody who preached the false doctrine of inclusion that says everybody will be saved.
The devil is a lie.
Hear me.
I said it today.
Everybody will not be saved.
There will be billions of people who thought they were Christians in damnation.
sitting in churches right now playing church far away from God will be in hell
he is not coming for everyone the doctrine of inclusion is a lie and a heresy
he's only coming for who his elect the redeemed those who are saved by faith and grace alone
now look at me in light of all i just read look right at me in light of all i just read look right at me in view
of everything i just read to you look at me not the words of philip anthony mitchell stop that nonsense
we worship one man and one man only
these are the words look at me
of the one you call
Lord and Savior
therefore since he cannot lie
we know that this
prophecy will
come to pass
hear me and I believe
it is right around the corner
now here is the question
for everyone under my sound of my voice.
How should you respond in view of the fact that this day is coming?
Because the scripture teaches us to set our affections on things above.
The scripture teaches us to live with the consciousness of this day.
It is, listen, it is crazy Christianity to be doing this life and not thinking about this day.
Let me help you.
Do you know when you understand the end, it changes the way you live right now?
When a person knows they're going to die, they get their house in order.
And when you know Christ is going to come back, you get your life in order.
So I close with a question.
In view of the prophetic words I just read to you, look at me.
How should you respond?
Watch this.
Don't take my words for it, because my words are not eternal, but in here are words that are eternal.
So take Peter's words.
Second Peter, chapter three, listen to these five verses.
Verse one, Peter writing to Jews and Christian.
scattered, persecuted, suffering under Nero in the first century,
2,000 years ago, this is now the second letter I am writing to you.
Beloved, there is Elder Eric's language.
And both of them, watch this word.
This is what the Spirit of God is trying to do right now in this moment.
Stirring up your secure mind, stirring up your sincere mind.
He's trying to stir you up.
up in your sincere mind by way of reminder that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets.
Did you see that?
Peter said, watch, remember biblical prophecy.
Man, man, Lord help the church today.
Remember biblical prophecy.
Remember biblical prophecy.
Live with the consciousness of biblical prophecy.
20% of the Bible is prophecy.
The words are read to you a prophecy from Christ himself.
That is, remember his words.
Of the holy prophets and the commandments of the Lord.
Remember the commandments of the Lord.
And Savior through the Lord.
and Savior through the apostles
knowing this first of all
that the scoffers will come
in the last days with scoffing
following their own sinful desires
that is people will rise up and try to
make you feel like a fool for following
the scriptures let them scoff they won't
be laughing when that day comes
listen you can spend
all your time making videos about me all you want
won't be laughing when that day comes
I ain't got time to be worried about you
I'm too busy trying to prepare
a generation for the coming of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Ain't nobody thinking about you.
Waste all your time you want.
Ain't afraid of you. Ain't thinking about you.
I'm preparing the army for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Remember the prophetic words of Christ and the apostles.
Now watch verse 11 very carefully.
I close with these two verses.
Verse 11 and verse 12.
No, verse 10 through 12.
But the day of the Lord, verse 10, will come like a thief.
Dang it.
And then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly body, stars, and planets will be what?
Burned up and watch this word, dissolved.
Did you see that?
Everybody look at me.
He said, everything will be dissolved.
Everything?
Watch this word.
Everything will be dissolved.
Your Instagram following, dissolved.
2819 dissolved your podcast dissolved your marriage dissolved your business dissolved your 401k
dissolved your wrath r a disoff everything you clamoring for right now is going to be dissolved that is
nothing you're fighting for in this life is going to last and we spend so much time being tethered
to these things that you live like this is all god created for you when peter is trying to encourage
people don't let your heart be so anchored to the things of this life they are temporary they are
temporary family come on man the lord has increased my favor that's going to dissolve he's increased
my platform that's going to dissolve he's open up doors for me that's going to dissolve all these things
we're trying to put our stock in all of it is going to dissolve that's why i keep encouraging you man
you need to be most satisfied in christ because everything you're fighting for
It's going to dissolve.
You know what he's trying to tell you?
Look at me.
Stop living in this life like this is all God created for you.
Live like these things are temporary.
Set your mind on things that are above.
Look at the rest of the text.
Look like he finished.
And since this day is coming, what sort of people ought you to be?
Since this day is coming, Christians, what type of man and woman and child should you be?
That is, how should you live in view of the prophetic word of Christ?
He tells you, with holiness and what?
godliness doing what waiting for what and hastening the what the coming day of god there it is he says since
you know this day is coming stop being ratchet since you know this day is coming live holy
and i'm not just talking about sexual chastity i'm talking about holy means to be set apart
Since you know Christ is coming, live set apart.
Be different.
Be holy.
Read the scriptures.
Pray different.
War, different.
Do marriage different.
Disciple your children, different.
Be different on the job.
Different on campus.
Different on social media.
Since you know this day is coming,
live godly, live holy, live set apart.
And since you know this day is coming,
and since the rapture can happen at any moment,
since the tribulation can happen,
what are you praying about?
Look at me, man.
What are you fighting for?
how are you being a husband how are you being a good wife how are you discipling your children what are you praying for
are you praying your kingdom coming your will be done or are you just begging god for stuff why are you not praying for the loss
why are you not praying for your lost family members and friends why are you not praying for the lost people on your job
why are you not about your father's business is the activities of your life and you are not about your life
flowing like tributaries into the stream of the great commission where is your money going where is your prayers going what are your activities about if we know the end is coming our lives should be marked by a type of consciousness that this is temporary so my prayers are different and my movements are different and the way I do marriage is different and when I teach my children is different
and how I show up on a job is different
and how I talk on my podcast is different
and how I preach is different.
You don't have, watch this word,
time to waste.
Christ, your example,
came, he knew he had 33 years
and every day he lived like a missionary.
His life had purpose and meaning,
even the fun that he had,
had purpose and meeting he's at weddings he's hanging out with sinners and prostitutes he's healing he's preaching he's teaching
his days had meaning and he was living like a man knowing he was going to leave you should be living like
men and women knowing you're going to leave you should be living like men and women that are sojourners you should
stop being so tethered in the heart to the things of this life i preach like a man who knows that the end is coming
I live like a man who knows the end is coming.
I text Elena yesterday saying,
I'm falling more in love with you.
I'm in my prayer time asking God to help me love this woman.
Help me adore this woman.
If there's resentment in my heart, take it out.
Lord, help me have eyes for this woman.
There's lust in my heart, take it out.
Lord, I've messed up with my own children.
Teach me to disciple these children in the ways of your kingdom.
Lord, I've hurt a lot of people.
Teach me to live in such a way that the only people that get hurt from my life are those who don't like the gospel.
I'm fighting for purity and holiness on the inside.
I'm fighting to be different on the outside.
What are you fighting for?
What are you praying about?
What are you spending your money on?
It ain't going into the gospel.
It's in your bundles.
It's in your car.
It's in everything except winning souls.
You're fighting people all the time.
You caught up with all these ancillary things that seem noble but are a waste of time.
I don't know what else to say.
The end is coming.
Live like it.
Father in the name of Jesus
I pray
over everyone under the sound of my voice
sit still
I pray there will be an awakening
right now
I pray you will stir us
in our heart right now. I pray you will help us to remember the prophetic words of our Savior
who said he is coming. I pray it would change our prayers. It would change our marriage. It would
change our discipleship. It would change how we spend our money. I pray we would live like believers on
mission. Awaken the sons and daughters in America, in the UK and around the world. Put us on
mission help us to remember time is running out set our mouths and our hearts on fire let our days
have meaning let us walk into atmospheres and care about the loss i pray something which shift
in our house and across the globe in jesus mighty name i pray let us sing over you amen
Thank you.