Real Questions

REAL QUESTIONS

INTRODUCTION: THE BOOK OF REVELATION GIVES A PREVIEW OF HOW THIS WORLD AS WE KNOW IT ENDS. THIS IS GOOD NEWS FOR A BORN AGAIN BELIEVER AND CATASTROPHE FOR AN UNBELIEVER. THIS STUDY ADDRESSES THEE, CRITICAL QUESTIONS EVERY BELIEVER MUST CONSIDER.

SPIRITUAL INSIGHT:

ISSUE NUMBER ONE: ARE YOU READY FOR HIS SECOND COMING? THE PARABLE OF TEN VIRGINS ADDRESSES THIS ISSUE (MATTHEW 25: 1-13).

THE WORD TEN IN BIBLICAL NUMEROLOGY SUGGEST TRIAL, TESTING, ACCOUNTABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY. SOME BIBLICAL SCHOLARS THINK THE PARABLE APPLIES TO THE JEWS ONLY. JOHN 3: 16 SPEAKS TO “WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM”, MEANING JEWS AND GENTILES (NON-JEWS).

ISSUE NUMBER TWO: DO YOU ANTICIPATE HIS SECOND RETURN? 2 PETER 3: 10-14

HIS SECOND COMING WILL SURPRISE MANY. HE COMES AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT. MATTHEW 24: 42- 43 (NKJV) WATCH THEREFORE, FOR YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT HOUR YOUR LORD IS COMING. BUT KNOW THIS, THAT IF THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE HAD KNOWN WHAT HOUR THE THIEF WOULD COME; HE WOULD HAVE WATCHED AND NOT ALLOWED HIS HOUSE TO BE BROKEN INTO.

ISSUE NUMBER THREE: ARE YOU ACTIVE IN THE LORD’S WORK? 1 CORINTHIANS 15:58 (NKJV) THEREFORE, MY BELOVED BRETHREN, BE STEADFAST, IMMOVABLE, ALWAYS ABOUNDING IN THE WORK OF THE LORD, KNOWING THAT YOUR LABOR IS NOT IN VAIN IN THE LORD.

BE STEADFAST IN THE LORD; BE ADAMANT, DETERMINED AND UNWAVERING IN GOOD AND DIFFICULT TIMES. ENCOURAGE THOSE WHO ARE NOT SO STEADFAST.

APPLICATION: BE READY, NOT SURPRISED!