Watch: Be Ready for Rapture and Return

Do you think it might be because he wants you to live every day as though this is the day? Do you think perhaps while you're even sitting here right now, he wants you to think that before we conclude today's service, he could come to gather his bride together. You know, this is how the apostle Paul lived his life and the disciples and many since then. They lived their life as though Jesus could come back at any moment. So they went through all the world. [01:15:31] (30 seconds)  #LiveReadyToday

But when the magnet goes over the iron, the iron will shoot up skyward and connect itself immediately to that magnet. And the question is, why does the magnet only take the iron? It's because only the iron has the same nature as the magnet. The church, the bride of Christ, is made up of those who through faith have been united to Jesus Christ. And God is now molding them into the image of his son. [01:20:32] (33 seconds)  #UnitedToChrist

And then the bible says, all of us who remain, who are still living and we remain, we will be caught up together with them, and we're gonna be changed from this corruptible body into an incorruptible body. And the bible says that we are going to be all reunited with Jesus in the sky, and the bible says, and so we shall always be with the Lord. Amen. Amen. That's our ending as the church, and the ending is actually eternity with Christ. Amen. [00:41:34] (33 seconds)  #EternityWithChrist

And in case you're not aware of these things, let me tell you what it is we believe from scripture. Number one, the very next event that's going to happen between God and the church is what's called the rapture of the church. Paul called it the blessed hope of the church. It literally means a snatching away, a gathering together. The next thing that's going to happen is the rapture. And in that moment, Paul says it's gonna happen even quicker than the blink of an eye. [00:40:46] (31 seconds)  #BlessedHope

Not a moment, not an ounce of the wrath of God can be poured out until we escape this world out of this city and into his city. Then the tribulation will begin. Amen. This is why when Jesus returns at the second coming, after the rapture, the tribulation, and then he comes back again into this world onto the earth. This is why when he comes again, that second coming, he's not coming for his church. He's coming with his church. Amen? [01:12:40] (32 seconds)  #ComingWithHisChurch

But as labor pangs, they become increasingly intense and increasingly frequent until a baby is born. Well, according to Jesus, all these things must happen. They're going to increase in frequency and intensity until a child is born, And that child is going to be the rapture of the church, the tribulation, and the second coming. Jesus also said, there will be persecution for those who live for him. For those disciples and beyond, for all who follow Christ, there will be persecution. [00:57:01] (38 seconds)  #EndTimesIntensity

Jesus says, when all these things are happening, do not be troubled. Don't be worried. In other words, don't ever think God has lost control. Don't ever think something happened without God's approval or his say so. Don't ever think that somehow God stepped off of his throne and went on vacation and stopped watching. Do not be troubled. Jesus says, this is just the beginning of sorrows. And the word sorrows means labor pangs. [00:55:25] (32 seconds)  #DoNotBeTroubled

If you're dressed in white, you're probably not worried about soiling your clothing or getting any blood on your hands. No. There's one champion. There's one conqueror. And the bible says he just speaks a word and it's over. We are the safest army in the world when we come with Jesus. Amen. Jesus, the bible says, is the one who saves us from the wrath to come. As he said to the church in Philadelphia, the faithful church. [01:13:26] (26 seconds)  #SavedFromWrath