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Created: Friday, 15 June 2018 15:49
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LUKE 21:25-37
 
 
There are two main conceptions here.
 
(1st) There is the conception of the second coming of Jesus ChristThere has always been much useless argument and speculation about the second coming. When it will be and what it will be like are not ours to know. But the one great truth it enshrines is this-that history is going somewhere. The Stoics regarded history as circular. They held that every three thousand years or so the world was consumed by a great conflagration, (a large fire) then it started all over again, and history repeated itself. That meant that history was going nowhere, and men were tramping around on a kind of eternal treadmill.
The Christian conception of history is that it has a goal, and at that goal, Jesus Christ will be Lord of all. That is all we know and all we need to know.
 
(2nd) There is stressed the need to be upon the watch. The Christian must never come to think that he is living in a settled situation. He must be a man who lives in a permanent state of expectation. We must live forever in the shadow of eternity, in the certainty that we are men who are fitting or unfitting themselves to appear in the presence of God. There can be nothing so thrilling as the Christian life.
 
(3rd) Jesus spent the day in the crowds of the Temple and the night beneath the stars with God, His Father. He won the strength to meet the crowds through His quiet time alone; He could face men because He came to men from God's presence.
 
Life Application: Learn from the model Jesus set. Spend time with your Father, then you can face men, and answer their questions.
 
Praise/Prayer: Hallelujah! Dear Father, I can come into Your presence at any time of night or day. Your door is always open. I am so thankful that I have learned to live in expectation of Your love and one day seeing You. Thank You for the excitement of waiting for the trumpet to sound. I will meet family, friends and those I have worked with. What a day that will be! Amen!
 
 

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