Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.Watch therefore: for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh.
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The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. Wait you to be seated. so uh i was just talking to someone recently who is training for a marathon it's it's it's a grandma's marathon up here in duluth grandma's is a restaurant it's also a marathon where people run from two harbors minnesota about 26.2 miles roughly 20 roughly exactly 26.2 miles to duluth minnesota and uh they were already starting to train for grandma's marathon this now grandma's marathon happens the third saturday of june and yet here they are at the beginning of December, end of November, and they are already training for this marathon. And I was like, oh my gosh, that is, it seems like a lot of time to have to wait. I've even said this. They're like, that seems like a long time to have to wait. And they had such a good perspective. They're like, well, I'm not waiting. I'm training. I thought, oh my gosh, that's so good. That'll preach. …
… No, this is speaking of the normal round of life, a day like today that Jesus may come. And so Jesus said in Matthew chapter 24 verse 42, Watch therefore, for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. And Jesus said in Matthew 24, verse 44, Therefore be ye also ready. For in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of Man cometh. Question, are you ready now? Jesus said you are to be ready. Now He's coming, as we said, 1 Corinthians 15, verse 51, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. Somebody said that the average person blinks his eyes 20,000 times a day. Now who counts those kind of things? How do you figure that out? But I thought that's so interesting. That's how quickly you blink your eyes. That's how quickly the Lord Jesus Christ is coming. In a moment, in a split second, in an indivisible time, Jesus Christ is coming. People say, well pastor, you're talking about the wind. …
No, this is speaking of the normal round of life, a day like today that Jesus may come. And so Jesus said in Matthew chapter 24, verse 42, Watch therefore, for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. And Jesus said in Matthew 24, verse 44, Therefore be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of Man cometh. Question, are you ready now? Jesus said, you are to be ready. Now He's coming, as we said, 1 Corinthians 15, verse 51, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. I heard the other day on the radio, I thought how apropos because I'm preparing this message, somebody said that the average person blinks his eyes 20,000 times a day. Now who counts those kind of things? How do you figure that out? But I thought that's so interesting. That's how quickly you blink your eyes. That's how quickly the Lord Jesus Christ is coming. In a moment, he says there in verse 51, the word moment is the word we get our word Adam from. …