Joni Mannell – Class 7: The day of the Lord will come like a thief

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I don’t know if you’ve had much
experience with of Thieves,

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we’re going to save thieving
little hope.

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That’s much less experience of
that.

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One of my earliest Recollections
of having been exposed to a

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thief was when I guess I was
probably about seven or eight

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years old and my grandma paid
for us to go on holiday to Wales

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for a few days.
I say she paid for us because my

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dad didn’t have any money so if
we got a holiday then she paid

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it makes you got to come with
us.

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So, my grandma paid and we
stayed a little hotel in Wales.

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It was a bit Fawlty Towers as I
recall and it had a very odd Key

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System.
When you left your room and lock

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your room, there was a board on
the hallway where you would hang

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your key as you left the room.
I mean I’ve never came a Janelle

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looking back and more ridiculous
security system on the planet.

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Anyway, one evening, we all went
down for dinner and my dad who

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was a rule follower hung the key
against the number of the room.

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So there was a big board with
all the rumors and you would

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hang your key on the way down.
I mean, it’s inevitable what’s

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going to happen, right?
And we went, we went down for

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dinner while Evening and we seem
to little shops I recall as we

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got back after dinner in the
room, have been completely

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ransacked and I do recall even
as a child, I think saying to

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Dad we did give them the key and
there’s no better way to know

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when a thief is coming.
The when you hang your room of

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it Ki upon, as you leave the
room right to say I’m not there,

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please.
Please go on ahead.

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And anyway, the room got
ransacked and I remember it

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quite vividly recollection for
Will be more for the Fawlty

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Towers asked experience that it
was.

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But what about the other abiding
thing that I recall about it was

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my dad’s philosophy was and in
fact if anything I think he felt

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a bit sorry for them because
despite the fact that he runs

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like the room there was nothing
to take we had nothing of any

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value to a thief and it’s one of
the things I loved about my dad

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because my dad had no desire or
appeal for anything of any value

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and so we never had any such
thing.

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So I think it was almost
inclined to leave a note and

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apologize that it had been a
freak with still a fruitless

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experience for them and there
was nothing worth taking. and

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this is an important issue isn’t
it now for aspirin sisters,

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because When the thief comes,
the question is, is there

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something for him to take, you
only feel a sense of loss,

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right?
If something is taken from you,

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that you regret losing, that’s
the challenge for us, isn’t it?

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And what we just want to think
about for a few moments?

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Now, before we finish is the
thief who is coming, is the Lord

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Jesus Christ.
He’s the thief only six times.

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This little metaphor is used in
scripture and they come in three

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pairs.
I don’t even notice that there’s

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one in Matthew 24, which is part
of the Olivet prophecy which is,

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which is a fundamental It’s
really possible in this

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particular in this last couple
of chapters Thessalonians.

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There’s an almost identical
version in Luke’s gospel

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accounts as well.
So there the two occasions when

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it comes directly from the mouth
of the Lord, Jesus Peter repeats

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it for you.
Remember, in his letter, Paul

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repeats it here, in 1
Thessalonians 5.

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So you’ve to in the gospels to
in the letters and then the last

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two of course can be revelation.
And we just read one of them

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there in the letter to Sardis
and by the time you get to

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River, but in the gospels in the
letters, it’s a little bit

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oblique, isn’t it?
The day of the Lord is coming

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like a thief.
By the time you get to the

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record of Revelation, bring
sisters.

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There’s no question who the
thief is.

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I am coming as a thief and it’s
Jesus speaking in the first

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person twice.
He says it in the letter to

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Sardis that we read in chapter
16 and verse 15 of Revelation.

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I am coming as a thief and the
thing that’s most in fear of

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being lost, is your garments on
both occasions.

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Blessed, is he we read in
Sardis?

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Who here?
Overcomes will walk with me in

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white garments and he revelation
16, if you remember it says

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blessed is he who keeps his
garments so that they do not see

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his shame.
So, the thing we’re in most in

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fear of losing friends sisters,
as our garments, with all of

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that metaphor, that it means in
Scripture.

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But it’s worth thinking for a
couple of moments.

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When this is about, we know a
couple of Thieves in the Bible,

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don’t we?
We’re introduced to a couple of

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Thieves Judas were told.
Was a thief.

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And it, I don’t even remember
the moment when John tells us,

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that Judas was a thief.
Japan, it was.

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It was in it was at that meal.
The resurrection meal that we

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were looking at yesterday to
remember Lazarus come forth And

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subsequently that evening.
Jesus sat down for a meal with a

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man who been raised from the
dead and the following day.

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These two great companies would
come out to meet the Lord,

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waving their palm branches and
crying out, Hosanna blessed, is

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he who comes in the name of the
Lord?

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And that evening, there was a
woman who broke a very expensive

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box of spite yard.
I never even done that.

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Who wanted that box?
He said it would have been

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better if we’d have sold this
and giving the proceeds to the

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poor and John said Judas said
that not because he cared for

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the poor.
But because he was a thief.

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And that was on the day of the
Lord the when Jesus had come and

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cried Lazarus come forth.
And there was a man there brand

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sisters, who was a thief and you
know, the result of being in

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that house that night for that
Thief was he went away

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empty-handed.
He did not get what he wanted

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that night, because the Lord was
there and remember the Lord’s

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answer.
He said to Judas, and the

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disciples who were stood around,
what this woman has done.

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She did, he said for my burial,
And there was no way the Lord

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was going to allow that which
that woman had prepared to be

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taken by the thief.
And he left that night,

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princesses empty-handed and he
went and covenanted to try and

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get some money somewhere else as
you recall.

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But in fact, it was only a
couple of days later as Jesus

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made his way into Jerusalem that
we meet the next group of

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Thieves.
Drummer has the Lord Jesus

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walked into the temple precincts
there on his last trip into

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Jerusalem and he’s done it.
Yeah, a couple of years before

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had me when he first arrived in
his ministry and he cleared out

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the Temple of those that bought
and sold in the temple courts

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there and he arrived at the
temple for one last time.

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And in those three and a half
years, when sisters nothing had

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changed.
And he took the whips if you

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remember and he turned out those
who were buying and selling in

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the temple and he said to them
this this house was supposed to

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be called by all nations are
House of Prayer and you have

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turned it.
He said into a den of Thieves

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And again it was in that moment
as he rode into Jerusalem, the

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day of the Lord came like a
thief and and there was a great

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Irony Brothers, sisters the
thieves who made a practice of

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thieving discovered that they
were the ones who are being

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theft from.
I’m not even sure that’s the

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word.
They were the ones who were

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being robbed and stolen because
the Lord Jesus Christ came to

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take away from them.
The things that they regarded as

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valuable the Commerce and and
their, their their status, and

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there, there there.
Lively hoods that were being

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made out of the practice of what
should have been a Divine, and a

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holy thing.
And the Lord Jesus Christ came

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and he took it and he stole it
and they came running after him.

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By what Authority do you do
these things, right?

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And that’s, that will be a great
challenge for us for the

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Sisters, won’t it on the day.
When the Lord Jesus comes,

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whether we’ve got so many things
in our life that so valuable to

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us, we don’t want to see them
lost or whether in actual fact,

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the things that are of the most
value to us of the things that

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Jesus will bring with him.
Blessed, is he who overcomes?

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And he will walk in in new white
garments.

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They are the things that Jesus
will bring with him, right.

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And all those garments that
we’ve been wearing for all, this

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time will be will suddenly be of
no value and they’ll be gone.

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And that’s the that’s the sense
of the loss and their risk here.

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When you want us alone against
five here, the Apostle Paul very

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carefully picks up on this.
Parable from, from the the

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Olivet prophecy.
We just turn week to meet with

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me to it’s in Matthew 24.
I wanted to I only had one slide

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for you.
I didn’t notice to get my slides

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at yesterday.
I’m not going to manage today

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because it’s still not working.
Does that sound like how

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carefully plan?
This was the only have one slide

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here today, which was just to
show you the number of

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references.
There are between Paul’s letter

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to the Thessalonians and this
this sort of that prophecy and

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the other screen for more than
three.

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So I’m sure you can download it
later and to be honest I ain’t

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got time to take you through it
anyway and I we’ve only got

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digressed on it, but it worth
just going through with your

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with your pain and making out of
all the Mistakable illusions

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that the Apostle Paul makes
there in 1 Thessalonians 4 and

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5.
Particularly, if you accept that

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the Olivet prophecy extends
beyond the end of Matthew

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chapter 24, and in to Matthew
chapter 25, and we’ll just look

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at couple in a minute, but
you’ll, you’ll have to do the

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homework.
You sell yourself on afraid to,

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to pick them up.
But of course, we’ve noticed

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before, ready this weekend at
the the Thessalonian motifs are

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here.
Aren’t they?

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The the Lord coming in?
The Clouds of Steven has shared

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with us with the sound of the
Trumpet verse 31, and sending

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his angels to gather his elect
from the Four Winds, from one

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end of Heaven to the other.
And Jesus begins a couple of

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Parables.
One of which included here is

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the thief.
As you come towards the end of

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this chapter verse, 43 know
this, that if the Goodman of the

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house had known in, what watch
the thief would come, he would

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have watched and not suffered
his house to be broken up.

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Can you imagine how surprised
the thief would have been run

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sisters in my hotel in Wales?
Having taken the key off the

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hook and walked in the room.
I was sat there waiting for him,

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right?
Wouldn’t that be amazing?

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If when the Lord comes because
this is a matter of perspective,

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isn’t it?
It depends on how you see it.

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The Lord is not a thief for
those who have nothing to take

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away, is he?
And if he comes and finds a sat

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there as Stephen described, this
morning’s at ready and waiting,

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I’m here, good to go, then
there’s no thieving to be done,

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right?
No loss to be enjoyed, only gain

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to be had not many.
The thieves come and give you

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gifts, right?
They normally take the Lord will

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come with dual aspect and it
depends on your perspective,

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doesn’t it?
And maybe even sisters for us.

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And that’s the point of that the
Apostle Paul makes there in 1

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Thessalonians. 5:4 us, that he
does not come as a thief.

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That will not be.
How you will experience as the

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Apostle Paul the coming of the
Lord Jesus Christ. but just look

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at the next Parable, that occurs
here in Matthew chapter 24,

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Verse 44 BCE also ready for in
such an hour as ye think.

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Not the son of man comes, who
then is a faithful and wise

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servant.
Whom his Lord has made ruler

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over his household to give them
meat in due season blessed, is

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that servant whom his Lord?
When he comes, will find.

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So doing verily, verily, I say
to you, he will make him ruler

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over all his Goods, so this is
the jewel perception Now, isn’t

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it?
This is what will happen to

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those who are ready and waiting.
When, when the Lord comes But

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verse 48, if that evil servant
will say in his heart, my Lord,

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delays his coming.
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phrase foreign sisters because
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Where was Jesus?
Taking this Parable from my

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Lord, delays his coming because
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made this statement brothers and
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And it’s in Exodus chapter 32,
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last time this weekend to these
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I In the record of Exodus.
My Lord, delays his coming.

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And I believe Jesus picked up
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Exodus, 32 and you’ll spot it
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Moses being up in the mountain
for 40 days and he’s going to

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return to the Wilderness floor
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just wave a Dorito slowly.
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when the people saw that Moses
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mountain.
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in his heart, my Lord, delays
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I believe in.
I’ll show you why in a second.

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And I told you this morning, you
haven’t heard the shout yet, we

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heard the voice of the Archangel
and we heard the first trumpet

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in a moment.
You’re going to hear the shouts,

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which completes Paul’s Trilogy
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And the thing that was going to
precipitate it rinses was there

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was a generation of people here
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heard the trumpet, they heard
the voice of the Angel, speaking

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out of the midst of the fire and
when they saw Moses disappear up

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into that cloud you know and you
can see all the images now can’t

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you.
This is what the Lord descending

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for the first time, a Steve’s
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and their conclusion after six
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coming and the direct effect,
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Season of my Lord delays his
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Let’s let’s check our stuff in
the fire and make us Gods which

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will take us back to Egypt.
That was the outcome of that

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belief.
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Now just come back.
A couple of pages to to Exodus

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chapter 24.
Just just listen to the very

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last thing that Moses said to
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them into the cloud.
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You remember this extraordinary
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It’s almost as if Moses conducts
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memorial service here in Exodus
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X 12 pillars around an altar
with the oxygen in the bullets

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and he offers the the the burnt
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and he has everybody a watching
and he takes the blood and he

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sprinkles it.
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used in Hebrews, aren’t they?
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New Covenant.
These are the words that Jesus

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himself used here.
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The Last Supper, this is my
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is poured out for you.
And he picks those words right

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out of Exodus 24.
This this memorial service that

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Moses holes here on the
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all the people.
And at the end of that Moses in

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verse 13 Rises up on his
Minister Joshua and Moses went

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up into the Mountain of God and
these were the last words, Moses

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said to the elders as he left
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I Verse 14, Terry here for us.
Until we come again unto you.

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And in verse 15 Moses went up
into the mount and a cloud,

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covered them out and the glory
of the Lord Abode upon Mount

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Sinai I can you see this lovely
image that’s being played out

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here.
This is the Ascension of the

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Lord Jesus Christ, isn’t it?
Wait for me are the same Jesus

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whom you saw taking it from.
You will so come in like manner

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as you saw him go and what was
Moses going up to receive what

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what what Phil’s Exodus chapters
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Way through to Exodus 31, it’s
the receipt of the Tabernacle,

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isn’t it?
I’m going to prepare a place for

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you.
I’m going to prepare a place in

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the father’s house and that’s
why God repeatedly.

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And those chapters said to
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make it exactly.
According to the pattern, in my

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father’s house are many mansions
as I will come and receive you

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unto myself, and they’re very
method of the Bringing Down the

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pattern of the Tabernacle for
from Moses, it in papal, type

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was so that God could build a
sanctuary for him and Is people

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to be together there?
That’s what mostly got up to

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receive.
And he came down with all of

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that pattern in his head.
Didn’t he carrying the tables of

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the testimony?
Anemic chapter 32 and verse 1.

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When the people saw that Moses
delayed my Lord, delays his

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coming during what Jesus turned
that into in this, Parable, in

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Matthew 24, if that evil servant
will say in his heart, my Lord

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delays his coming and he says
that they end up getting drunk

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and beating each other up and
doing the very opposite of

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building one.
Another up, they beat one

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another and as Moses climbs
down, Mount Sinai here, of

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course, he he Witnesses the
things that are going on here on

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Wilderness floor.
And now you need to hear the

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shout. and you know it, you know
it ever so well when Moses saw

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the dancing and the calf, it
said his anger, waxed hot, and

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he broke the tablets and he
stood up in the camp and he

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cried So we’ve heard the sound
of the trumpet, the voice of the

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Archangel.
Now you’re going to hear the

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shout.
Who is on the Lord’s Side?

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That was the shout that Israel
heard from sisters when the Lord

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came and the Lord whom you seek
will suddenly come.

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And he came and he came with
vengeance who is on the Lord’s

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Side and it wasn’t everybody
that came was it runs?

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This is when that shout was
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It didn’t penetrate.
The years of everybody did it

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who was it?
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Can you remember it was the
Levites and on that very day

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burn sisters.
When the Levites came to be with

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Moses?
God said, I will make a covenant

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with you.
That will be in Lasting

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governance of priesthood and
they got it burn sisters because

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when they heard the shout of the
coming Lord, they responded and

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they came and they made
themselves available.

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And the next thing knows he said
was good.

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Yeah.
Every man, his sword by his side

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and take Vengeance on your
brethren and put out this evil

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from the camp.
I mean, you can’t miss that the

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magic of the this unfolding
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Can you hear it?
In This Moment.

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Well, come with me, finding them
back to the New Testament, back

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to the Olivet prophecy in
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As I believe Matthew the Lord,
Jesus story continues his

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discourse of them.
Of the Olivet prophecy into

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Matthew 25.
And we said this morning, we’ve

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heard the two of the three
motifs in Matthew 24.

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You’ve got the sound of the
trumpet.

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You’ve got the Angels Gathering,
the elect, from the Four Winds

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of Heaven.
What about the shout then in the

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Olivet prophecy?
Where was the Apostle Paul

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taking that from?
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think brothers sisters, and
again, you know, whatever.

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So well because it’s buried in a
little, another little parable,

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Verse 1 of Matthew 25.
The kingdom of heaven will be

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likened unto ten virgins, which
took their lamps and went forth

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to meet the bridegroom.
Isn’t that lovely?

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That’s the words of the Apostle
Paul isn’t in 1 Thessalonians 4

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that with that.
When the bridegroom comes they

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will go out to meet him.
That’s what we’ve been talking

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about.
All weekend, isn’t it?

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That’s what they were waiting
for these these these virgins.

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They were waiting for the
bridegroom to arrive and he was

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late.
Different in eastern culture,

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normal.
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Lord delayed his coming or so
they thought, And you notice

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what happened.
Do you remember what happened to

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those virgins burn sisters?
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bridegroom tarried, they all
slumbered and slept and this is

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the metaphor now of 1
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But at a very specific time at
midnight, there was a cry and it

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woke every single one of those
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Nobody, nobody missed the cry.
They didn’t all of oil in their

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lamps but none of them, none of
them missed the sound of the

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shout at midnight verse 6.
There was a cry made and here he

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comes.
This was the cry.

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This was the shout that the
Apostle Paul I think was

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referring to and here it comes.
Behold the bridegroom cometh.

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Go ye out to meet him.
That’s 1 Thessalonians 4, isn’t

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it Go ye out to meet him and
only half of them brothers

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sisters made it into that
marriage Feast.

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When the bridegroom came Well,
our weekend reaches, its end

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then will you just end with me
and Luke’s account of this same

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account just in Luke’s gospel?
Because as we leave this weekend

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run sisters, we just have to get
our perspectives in check, don’t

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we?
As we leave this place and as

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you face your life and I face
mind tomorrow, it’s about our

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perspective isn’t it as to how
we see the Lord coming.

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Whether we see him coming to
give us salvation and

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Redemption.
You know, whether we hear the

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joyful sound of the trumpet call
or whether we see a thief coming

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and we’re fearful of those
things, he will take from us

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when he comes and we hear the
Air Raids.

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Byron, you know, that’s the
choice.

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We’ve got to make and only we
can make that choice.

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Come with.
Okay.

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Only.
We can know that the priorities

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that we’ve made in our lives and
the dedication of our hearts and

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Minds is sufficient to a degree
that we can rely enough on the

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grace of God.
That when we hear that shouts

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and where we hear that trumpet,
it will fill us with joy.

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And I want you to notice the
pronouns that Luke uses, Luke

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chapter 21 and verse 25.
And I think I used to To panic

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as a child.
Again, this was a common Sunday

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evening lecture chapter when I
was a kid about men’s Hearts,

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failing them for fear.
And I remember thinking, oh boy,

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I maybe I need to be maybe I
need to be in that boat, you

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know, when the Lord comes, I
need to be absolutely trembling

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in my boots.
That’s that’s how it ought to

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be.
But when you read carefully, the

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pronouns he ever anticipate
course.

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That’s not how it ought to be.
There will be signs verse 25 in

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the Sun, and in the moon, and in
the stars and upon the Earth

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distress of nations with
perplexity, the Sea, and the

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waves roaring, roaring men’s
Hearts, failing them for fear,

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men’s Hearts, not yours, men’s
Hearts, failing them for fear,

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for those things, which are
coming on the earth for the

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powers of Heaven shall be
shaken.

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And then, shall they see the son
of man coming?

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A cloud with power and great
Glory.

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That’s what they will see. but
when these things begin to come

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to pass, Look up and lift up
your heads for your Redemption

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draweth nigh.
Verse 34, take heed to

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yourselves lest at any time,
your hearts, be overcharged with

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surfeiting and drunkenness and
the cares of this life, here it

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comes.
And so that day come upon you,

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unawares for as a snare shall
it?

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Come on, all them that dwell on
the face of the whole earth on

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them.
There’s a very big distinction

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in these postures.
Princess is between they and you

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they and you and they will
respond very differently to you

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and I burn sisters.
When we hear that voice.

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And so our final words, then of
these Brands sisters verse 36,

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What’d you do that for?
And pray, always.

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That you may be accounted.
Worthy to escape, all these

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things that will come to pass
and to stand before the son of

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man.
That you may be accounted.

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Worthy to escape, all these
things that will come to pass

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and to stand before the son of
man.