Stephen Whitehouse – Class 6: Exhortation – Caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord

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Well good morning brothers and
sisters and young people as a

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family.
We come together to remember our

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absent.
Lord, now we’re looking in the

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adult section session.
We’re looking at the Lord Jesus

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Christ coming in clouds and that
conjures up, all kinds of images

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in our minds.
Doesn’t it that there’s a sum

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certain Grandeur and Beauty
about that phrase?

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Majesty comes to mind, it also
conveys.

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It also expresses that the
swiftness and the visibility of

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the return of the Lord Jesus
Christ.

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And the way that he establishes
God’s kingdom and it’s going to

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be remarkable.
It’s going to be a truly

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earth-shattering moment.
When the Lord Jesus Christ does

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return in the kingdom of God, is
established that the world will

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look upon in awe and amazement
Well, over the course of the

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weekend.
We considering how ugly these

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extraordinary meetings of the
Lord Jesus Christ in clouds and

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it seems that a long time ago
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But we started off yesterday
morning, thinking about the

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Lord, Jesus ascending into
heaven, and that remarkable

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moment when he meets his his
father in Heaven, for the first

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time.
And then we thought a little bit

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didn’t worry about the Lord.
Jesus Christ coming back and

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reveal himself to his brethren
in Judah and then displaying

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himself in all glory to the
world.

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I just we’ve been looking at
these meetings, these crucial

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meetings of the Lord.
Jesus Christ says, there’s been

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one big meeting hasn’t there
that we’ve not really thought

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about.
Yes.

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And that’s the meeting that you
and I have with the Lord Jesus,

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that’s what we want to look at
in our excitation this morning.

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So we begin our excitation by
asking you this question.

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Have you ever really imagined
coming face to face with the

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Lord Jesus Christ?
And we come this morning, don’t

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way to remember our absent Lord
in the bread and in the wine.

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And we know that when the Lord
Jesus Christ does return, he’s

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going to be the judge of the
earth.

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Perhaps some of us feel a little
fearful.

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Of that moment.
Fear not little flock.

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For it is your father’s, good.
Pleasure to give you the

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kingdom.
Yes, of course, the Lord.

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Jesus Christ is going to be the
judge of the earth and he’s

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going to rain supremely in
Jerusalem.

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For brothers and sisters in
young people.

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He also died for you and me.
And in the Kingdom, he still

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going to Bear the marks in his
hands and his side.

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And he’s going to be this
eternal display of his

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sacrifice.
He sacrificial, love for you.

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And for me, and in that image
that I’m trying to paint in your

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mind, we begin our excitation
this morning by knowing that

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there is nothing nothing to
fear.

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Well, let’s open up our Bibles
then and we’ve had that short

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passage read together.
In the first of Thessalonians,

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in chapter 4, what I want to do,
then I want to live and breathe

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that moment.
I want us to think about meeting

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the Lord Jesus Christ.
I want us to anticipate that

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time.
I want us to prepare ourselves

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for the coming of the Lord.
So we read these words, then in

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chapter 4, the first epistle,
Verse 16.

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For the Lord himself shall
descend from heaven with a shout

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with a voice of the Archangel
with the Trump of God words that

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we’ve been looking at with
brother Johnny and the dead in

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Christ shall rise first.
Then we which are alive and

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remain shall be caught up
together with them in the

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clouds, to meet the Lord in the
air.

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And so, shall we ever be with
the Lord?

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Wherefore Comfort.
One another, with these words?

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Well, the first question is, did
you spot it?

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Did you spot where we are?
Well, of course you did.

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It’s there in. 17 then we which
are alive and remain and the

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idea of that expression is, is
the idea that we are tiny in

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comparison with those that sleep
in Christ, we are an

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insignificant, we are a
minuscule fraction of the men

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and women who have obeyed God’s
word and are awaiting the return

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of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And that’s a, that’s an awesome

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thing to think about, isn’t it?
It.

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We represent the minority in
such a big way.

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It’s almost as if. in picture
form that you can see a jar and

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the jar is full and the jar has
a sticker on and it says the

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kingdom of God and it’s full Yet
a full yet though, it’s full of

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few, more grains have been
found.

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And somehow God can ensure that
those extra grains.

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Can get sealed up in the jar and
only God can do it to the

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visible eye.
It’s impossible, but all things

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are possible with God, and
that’s the picture that’s being

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painted there and that’s an
incredible privilege that we

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have, isn’t it?
Brothers and sisters, young

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people that we are the minority.
The vast majority are now

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sleeping in Christ.
Waiting for the return of the

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master.
But it tells us here, doesn’t it

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about the timing?
The timing of the return of the

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Lord Jesus.
It says they’re the living in

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verse 15 shall not prevent or
come before them, which are

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asleep.
If you got another Translation

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your read, those words or come
before.

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So in other words, then we’re
being told very plainly that the

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dead in Christ will know.
First that the Lord Jesus Christ

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has returned.
And they will know.

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They will become acutely aware,
they will be conscious that the

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Lord Jesus Christ has returned
through their physical bodily,

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Resurrection.
And it is the book of Isaiah

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that paints a picture for us
that we just share these words

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with you.
And just think about these words

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in the context of what Paul is
writing here.

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He says, thy dead men shall live
together with my dead body,

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shall they arise awake and sing?
Ye that dwell in the dust for

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thy Jew is as the Jew of hers
and the Earth shall cast out the

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dead.
So my question is, what is the

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first thing that the dead in
Christ will do in acknowledgment

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that the Lord Jesus Christ has
returned.

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As they stand at the side of
their graves.

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Isaiah tells us that they Sing.
They will sing in Praise knowing

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that the Lord has returned.
That they’re their bodies and

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their limbs will be
reconstituted and strengthen

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their memories restored, and
they will be living and

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breathing creatures.
And what a miracle that will be.

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And so many we looked at Daniel
chapter 7 and so many men and

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women of ancient years.
They died a natural death.

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Certainly they died in the
Arenas.

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They were consumed by lions or
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So how are they restored?
It requires a creative person.

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And so what we’re seeing here is
the power of the Creator and it

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says there in verse 16, the dead
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So there’s an emphasis there, we
need to really think about that.

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There’s a, there’s a wonderful
blessing for those who sleep in

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Christ.
Let’s not think that they are

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disadvantaged in any way.
We talk a lot about being alive

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at the return of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and it is an awesome

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privilege.
To see chop, Jesus Christ

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return.
But it does also, this this

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wonderful blessing that rests
with those that sleep. there’s a

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there’s a day of reunions fast
approaching a day when husband

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and wives mothers and daughters
Fathers and Sons friends and

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family will be reunited, it will
be a glorious moment.

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A morning that is unheralded.
When there is so much

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celebration.
That they have been restored.

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and for many of us here, if not
all of us, well, we find it

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difficult to remember faces and
voices of long gone in our

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memories.
Those people will be restored.

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They were once again walk this
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They were live.
They will breathe.

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And they will sink.
They will sing, brothers and

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systems and it is a breathtaking
moment in history.

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And then we read in verse 17,
then we which are alive and

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remain shall be caught up
together with them in the

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clouds.
Now, what I want to do, I just

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want to draw your attention to a
Greek word here and you’ll find

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it helpful.
I’m sure I certainly found it

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helpful.
We are going to be caught up

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together.
You see that?

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That that Greek word.
They’re caught up is the Greek

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word.
Hot Paisa.

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And you may have in your
translations there, something

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that expresses the idea to seize
or to capture to snatch away.

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So what we’re being told here by
Paul, is that those who are

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living something, is going to
take them away, I want you to

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try and imagine that picture
that we are going to be taken.

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We are going to be removed now.
Perhaps that causes us a little

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bit of concern, and what I want
to do, I want to provide a

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helpful application that have a
look at Acts chapter 8.

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And you’ll know the same.
Well, this is Philip and the

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Ethiopian eunuch and this is
where the word is used.

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And if you’re not seeing this
before, it’s just with putting a

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little Bible reference in your
margin so that you can remember.

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This is a good example and Acts
chapter 8, then we see there in

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verse 39, having baptized the
Yuna, we read these words And

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when they were come out of the
water, the spirit of the lord

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caught away filler that the
eunuch saw him, no more.

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And he went on his way
rejoicing, but Philip was

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founded as at us and passing
through, he preached in all the

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cities.
So he came to caesarea and that

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phrase they’re caught away is
the same way as caught up the

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same Greek word as quarter in 1
Thessalonians chapter 4.

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Now, just think about this.
What’s going on?

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That was Philip an Ethiopian
eunuch.

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They were in Jerusalem, and they
end up, or Paul ends up in a so

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ptosis, which is Ash David.
As a tosses, the Greek of the

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word ashdod, and it’s about 30
miles away from Jerusalem.

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If you, you know, the land is
between Java and and Gaza.

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And we see here in these words
that he’s instantly taken.

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That the force is Swift.
It’s irresistible, and it’s

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overpowering.
And this is the, the means of

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our transportation of saints
being taken to meet the Lord.

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Jesus Christ.
That’s a wonderful thing.

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Isn’t it?
As Paul was taken, he continued

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with his preaching, he was
instantly taken and it didn’t

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affect him in any way.
Not this, another usage of this

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word here.
It’s found in John chapter 10

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and here.
The Lord Jesus Christ is talking

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about the Good Shepherd.
And he’s talking about himself.

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And perhaps this is a negative
way in which this word is used.

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I think there’s a positive
message exhortation that comes

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out of it.
John chapter 10?

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John 10 and verse 11, I am the
Good Shepherd, the Good

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Shepherd, giveth his life for
the Sheep, but he, that is a

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hireling and not the shepherd,
whose own the Sheep are not

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seeth.
The wolf coming, he leave with

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the sheep and flees and the Wolf
catches them and scattereth the

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Sheep.
It might be difficult to spot

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that were but it’s the word
catches there and here, it’s

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illustrating that the strength
That a wolf has over a sheep.

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It’s overpowering isn’t so.
In other words relating that to

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how we’re going to be taken,
we’re going to be taken in such

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a way that the power of God is
going to be overwhelming.

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We will not be able to challenge
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There’s no power to resist.
We’re going and for us young

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people and we are looking at the
ten virgins this morning there

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will be an opportunity to say
Let’s just wait a little bit.

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Please, I’ve got things to do
when it comes.

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When the Call Comes brothers and
sisters.

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In young people, we’re on our
way.

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We’re on our way now.
Perhaps, by looking at that

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example, it’s not particularly
helpful in the sense of it’s a

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negative example isn’t over.
I’ve evolved over of sheep and

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we’ll come to a positive example
in a moment.

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But I just want to think for a
moment about being prepared

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being prepared and I hope my mom
doesn’t mind me sharing this

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story, but it’s something
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my mind and it’s something I’ve
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Something tells me that when she
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our own mother mine and every
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bed.
She put her Bible at a side. she

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gets her best clothes are fine
issues and they’d all be placed

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neatly at the side of her bed,
with the view that if the angel

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came that night, She was
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I just think about that.
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or anything like that, but the
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powerful example, to me and
throughout my life, is that that

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person made Jesus Christ a
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Every day.
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christadelphians used to do.
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Faith used to do.
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visible in their lives.
They made the Unseen God seeing

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in daily life.
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Potiphar’s wife?
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And scene.
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So Joseph made an unseen God
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And there was this, as a young
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he’s talked a little bit about
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An interesting thing, isn’t it?
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lives, and we are followers of
the Lord Jesus Christ, and we

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know that one day, he’s going to
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But the question I challenge all
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many of us have made Jesus king
in our lives today?

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How many of us can honestly say
that Jesus governs the reality

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of our life?
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time when the Lord Jesus Christ
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the Unseen becomes seen.
The hidden becomes disclosed.

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Something that we are waiting
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Surely God wants to see us as
men and women of faith that make

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the kingdom of God, our reality
in our lives, that governs, our

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day-to-day decisions.
That’s what God wants to see.

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He wants us to make the Unseen
future and ever seeing reality

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today.
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all have, isn’t it?
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Hall Pacer, because I left you
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And it is a little worried.
When you think about here in

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John chapter 10 of a war, taking
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And many of us here this
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thinking.
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for the court.
I’ve just simply not good enough

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for God’s Kingdom.
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Well, the final statement is
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here this morning.
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we’re going to be taken, it’s
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we’re going to be prepared for
the might and the power of

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almighty God.
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just look down and look at how
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chapter 10 in the chapter of the
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So there’s a good shepherd and
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so that the wolf catching a
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for you, you are not allowed
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By a wolf.
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and verse 27.
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My sheep hear my voice and I
know them and they follow me and

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I give unto them eternal life
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Neither shall any man, pluck
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which gave them me is greater
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And no man is able to pluck them
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I and my father are one now.
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attention to is that word there.
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fuckin gay and who pays it.
We’ve got a repeat there and

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Jesus is saying I am the Good
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to happen to my sheep.
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He’s telling us.
That even death.

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Won’t be Eternal death.
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Lord Jesus Christ.
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taken so quickly.
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We’re being snatched away from
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We want to leave this world.
Let’s not moan about the speed

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at which we are taken.
We want to go.

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We want to leave.
Perhaps a way of looking at this

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is the speed at which we are
taken, and the might have God

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that’s expressed in that moment
is a measure of how desperate

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Jesus is to see you and me.
Don’t you think that the way

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that these words are being used,
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that’s being conveyed, that
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going to stop him from being
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Yes, but we don’t have to embark
on a personal Journey.

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We don’t have to make any
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Jesus is taking control of the
situation and he wants us with

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him.
He’s telling us that there is

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nothing to fear because he loves
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Well thinking about 1
Thessalonians chapter 4, there

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is a sequence, isn’t it?
Though the dead in Christ shall

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rise first and then those little
I will be caught up in the air

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to be with Christ.
Have you ever wondered how your

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going to be told a Jesus Christ
returns because the dead in

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Christ shall rise first.
Perhaps someone that, you know,

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comes and tells you in a form to
perhaps someone who, you know,

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has died.
A family member a brother or

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sister in Europe, Leisure.
Perhaps it’s someone that you

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see in a grave that you were at
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You actually saw with your own
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lowered into the ground.
And there that person is with a

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warm and radiant and
all-embracing smile and said

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hurry, we’re going to meet Jesus
together.

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That’s the We go together with
the Lord and how powerful that

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message would be.
A personal message or perhaps?

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Our Guardian Angels suddenly
reveals himself to us and takes

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us Court surface to meet the
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Jesus Christ, an Angel that’s
been watching over us throughout

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our lives.
That knows ourselves better than

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we do.
And prepares us for coming face

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to face with the Lord Jesus
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Either way, it’s tremendously
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It’s interesting, isn’t it that
it says there that we’re going

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to be caught up with them in the
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It’s slightly different to the
thing that we’re looking at this

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weekend, remember the theme
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but these words don’t quite
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because this is us in clouds
what we’re thinking about Jesus

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coming in clouds.
But here we’re reading about

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being taken in clouds.
Is this the same thing?

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Let’s look at Matthew chapter,
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helpful words here to his
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And here Jesus.
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appearance when he returns to
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very dramatic words.
As you would expect picking up

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in verse 27, for the son of man.
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right away for the son of man
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father, with his angels, That’s
interesting for those of us in

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the adult session.
That’s not with the Saints, is

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it?
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This is with the angels and then
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Every man according to his work
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verily, I say unto you there be
some standing here which shall

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not taste of death, till they
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kingdom.
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final verse as Preparing them
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Peter, James, and John would be
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They would see Jesus in all his
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And in a way, they were seeing
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because there was a cloud upon
the mount and a voice that went

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Hear ye him.
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was transfigured in Matthew 17
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verse 27, the son of man shall
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So I want your sister to think
about that that the Practical

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reality, that Jesus Christ is
going to return to the Earth

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with angel wings.
And we need to be very practical

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about that.
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in time when the final Embrace
between Father and Son takes

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place in heaven.
And the final words are shared

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between the father and son and
then Jesus is on his way, it’s

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going to be like that.
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going to be asked, or did we
read in verse 27, with a host of

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angel?
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little earlier, our host of
angels, took him up into heaven

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in Acts chapter 1, perhaps it’s
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years later that come with him
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Is that love?
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Reward.
Every man according to his

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works.
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having here is Jesus Christ
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perhaps the same angels that he
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those angels are sent around the
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Together at the same as to take
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So that immortality can be
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And in that Gathering, it’s both
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We’re just read about in 1
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want you just to Picture This.
I asked you the question is this

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the same theme Jesus Christ in
clouds and he’s isn’t it?

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Because these angels as they
take the Saints to be with the

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Lord Jesus Christ, they are
taking these Saints as it were

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in clouds.
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clouds that take and transport
the Saints men and women like

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you and I to meet with the Lord
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Is that a lovely picture?
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you’ll be like the harp a so you
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See the clouds in the sky.
They’re going to be instantly

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taken but figuratively.
You’ve got a heaven full of

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these clowns.
Covering the four corners of the

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Earth or heading to the nation
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Can you visualize?
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Exciting and there’s another
lovely connection.

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Because remember, it was the
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promised land where God,
resided, and similarly, you’ve

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got this cloud of angels, taking
newest rail to be with the Son

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of God in the lamb.
So there’s some lovely lovely

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connections there.
So, just stand and and gaze at

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those clouds, being transported
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I think a little bit about that,
the Angels, taking the Saints to

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be with the Lord Jesus Christ as
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Haven’t we seen that a little
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But why did the Angels take
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Well, there’s there’s a number
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But we know concerning Jacob’s
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It was the angels that knew
where God lived where Heaven was

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Jesus hadn’t been there, the
Angels needed to take the Lord

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Jesus Christ and they they were
delighted and they celebrated

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the fact that they could take
someone for the first time in

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all history, back to heaven.
But that acts 1 then becomes a

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pattern of blueprint.
Jesus was taken by angels to a

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place that he didn’t know to be
in the presence of God.

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I’m way too will be taken in a
cloud of angels so a place that

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we don’t know, we might have our
suspicions where the Judgment

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seat is going to take place, but
none of us now, we too will be

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taken in a cloud of angel.
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Of the Lord.
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Isn’t that lovely?
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er, a template of greater things
to come, and it’s quite a

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thought, isn’t it?
The living in the Dead all going

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together, so as you look around
today, we’re all going together,

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he thought about that.
It’s not just a swannack

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weekend, we’re going to share
together, we’re going to be

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transported together.
But but not only us but all the

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brothers and sisters today who
come together and remember the

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absolute Lord.
They too are going on a journey

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with us and not only them, but
all the faithful Bible

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characters have faith.
They too will be on the journey,

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Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and
the prophets, the disciples, the

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apostles, John the Baptist he
ever thought about that.

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We’re all be taken together, so
be with the Lord Jesus Christ.

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It’s a it’s a powerful thought,
isn’t it?

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That’s when we come and we
reflect upon Our Lives.

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Dave, such as this.
And in all the preparations of

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life.
Our whole life, our whole

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exists.
It is preparing us for One

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Singular meat.
Ever thought about that.

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Your whole life everything, the
ups, and downs, the highs, and

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the lows, they’re preparing you
and me for just one.

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With the Lord Jesus Christ.
Face to face.

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And just imagine coming.
Face-to-face with you or Lord.

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And you look upon him and he’s
distinctive right away because

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you see the marks in his hands
and his feet.

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He still carries the hole in his
side.

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Are you carry those marks in the
Kingdom?

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That’s quite a thought, isn’t
it?

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He will carry those marks in the
Kingdom.

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He will be the only Immortal
being that carries marks into

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the kingdom.
As we reflect upon the Bread and

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Wine as we stare at the table.
Have you ever thought that is

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our Memorial and brother John
mentioned in his opening

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remarks?
That this is a feast for

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forgetfulness.
What a lovely thought that is.

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They’ll be no forgetting who
Jesus Christ is and what he did

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in the Kingdom as we stare at
the bread and the wine.

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And as we glanced at the Lord,
Jesus Christ to the kingdom.

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It will be a constant Memorial.
Of what he did with the marks in

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his hands and his feelings.
But he was the lamb slain from

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the foundation of the world,
that that’s quite a thought.

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But imagine coming face-to-face
with him.

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And he says those words to us,
well done, there will be

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faithful servant enter thou into
the joy of thy Lord and

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something, we all want to hear
and then we come to his right

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side and perhaps our Guardian,
Angel gives us a hug and

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embrace, and we look to Jesus
and we see his face and he shows

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us a radiant smile.
That’s what we’re all looking

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forward to Isn’t It.
Ultimately, we will receive our

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hearts desires, the words of
him, 405 say, shall we be with

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him in that day?
We make the answer now, can we

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just finally come to 1
Thessalonians 4?

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One person alone is chapter 4
and it’s still I for listening

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that’s in this sequence of
events.

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These dramatic events that talk
about how the living and the

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dead.
All are taken to meet the Lord

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Jesus Christ.
It says those words, they’re the

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end of verse 17 and so shall we
ever be with the Lord?

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This this momentary encounter
that we have with the Lord Jesus

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Christ face to face becomes
Everlasting fellowship and this

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is how Paul sums it up.
So shall we ever be With the

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Lord ever.
What?

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What a wonderful world that is
ever.

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No longer will we be separated
from the Lord?

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Jesus Christ through space or
time or sin.

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But forever think about that
forever in his glorious

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presence, fellowshipping, the
Lord Jesus Christ for all

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eternity This is our home.
This is why we’re here this

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morning.
I saw them. as we think about

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the bread and the wine, think
about the Lord, Jesus Christ who

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was taken up into heaven with a,
with a cloud of angels who was

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the son of man who stored in the
presence of the Almighty God.

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The Ancient of Days who was
given dominion and glory and

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Kingdom and he’s going to come
back and he’s going to gather us

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and he wants to see us and he
wants to embrace us and he wants

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to live with us forever more.
How are you feeling with those

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thoughts?
Let’s just finish with these

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thoughts.
Then brothers and sisters.

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Jesus said, some of you will see
the son of man coming in clouds

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and it was the moment of
transfiguration, Peter, James,

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and John saw them.
Son of man, coming in clouds in

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Matthew chapter 17.
And when they saw the son of man

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coming in clouds, they hit the
floor.

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They were absolutely terrified.
And there’s something altogether

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change.
No longer was Jesus, this all

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glorious and radiant, one he
steps out of his glory and he

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comes over to his three
disciples and he says all rise.

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Females.
And that’s why I want to leave

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with you this morning brothers
and sisters.

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We will all have this meeting
with the Lord Jesus Christ.

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But we’re going to be met by the
one who loves us.

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Who has died for us and we
remember him now, in the bread

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and in the Wind.
And in that very, very special

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day as we read here.
So shall we ever be with the

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Lord?
And in that very, very special

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day as we read here.
So shall we ever be with the

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Lord?