Will Christ return?
1Thessalonians 4:17 NIV: “Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore, encourage one another with these words.”
Rapture story in Hawaii: When I was in the military, I was called away from my family many times, and it could last from a week, to a month or a deployment. Gina had to raise the children she was Mr. Dad raising the kids on her own without me; Roberta (6) Robin (4) and Robert (2). She told me a story that really fits this sermon; It was a school day, so she got the children up to get ready for school, but it was one of those days, where they did not want to get up or even listen to their mom; well this went on for a while, so Gina was so frustrated, she went up stairs to her room and locked herself in the bathroom; eventually the kids made their
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Paul wrote this to the Thessalonians to reassure them about those who had already died and they feared that they would miss the Lord’s return or miss out on the kingdom. Paul expressly wrote this to reassure them that the Lord wouldn’t miss any of His, when He returns; Paul wanted them to “encourage one another with these words” that he wrote.
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1 Thessalonians 4:16: For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise