‘You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the
time?’ -Luke 12:56
‘You also must be
, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not
.’ -Luke 12:40
Let’s take a
around.
Jesus never promised
.
‘I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were
kindled!’ -Jesus
If you believe and
in Jesus and know His
for your life, Jesus calls for a
to Him that is so
that it makes identification with Him more primary than identification with your own family.
What’s the difference between
and
?
The
we go without Jesus returning, the less people believe He’s going to come back at all, and the more people do what they want without worry about having any
for their actions.
2,000 years and still expectant: ‘We are afflicted in every way, but
; perplexed, but
driven to
; persecuted, but
; struck down, but
…’ (2 Cor. 4:8-9).
‘So we do not lose
…’ (2 Cor. 4:16).
