Matthew 24:3436

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• Matthew 2434-36
• Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by
  no means pass away till all these things take
  place.
• Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words
  will by no means pass away.
• But of that day and hour no one knows, not even
  the angels of heaven, but My Father only.

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Things to do While Waiting
2 Peter 3
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Things to do While Waiting

• I need to be diligent (14)
• To make haste use speed make an earnest effort
• We dont know when He will return (10)
• Taught by Jesus Matt. 2437-44
• To be found in an acceptable state
• Peace Rom. 51, 10 James 44

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• Romans 51, 10
• Therefore, having been justified by faith, we
  have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ
• For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to
  God through the death of His Son, much more,
  having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His
  life.
• James 44
• Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that
  friendship with the world is enmity with God?
  Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the
  world makes himself an enemy of God.

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Things to do While Waiting

• I need to be diligent (14)
• To make haste use speed make an earnest effort
• We dont know when He will return (10)
• Taught by Jesus Matt. 2437-44
• To be found in an acceptable state
• Peace Rom. 51, 10 James 44
• Spotless Eph. 524-27, Titus 115-16

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• Ephesians 524-27
• Therefore, just as the church is subject to
  Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands
  in everything.
• Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also
  loved the church and gave Himself for her,
• that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the
  washing of water by the word,
• that He might present her to Himself a glorious
  church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such
  thing, but that she should be holy and without
  blemish.

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• Titus 115-16
• To the pure all things are pure, but to those who
  are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure but
  even their mind and conscience are defiled.
• They profess to know God, but in works they deny
  Him, being abominable, disobedient, and
  disqualified for every good work.

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Things to do While Waiting

• I need to be diligent (14)
• To make haste use speed make an earnest effort
• We dont know when He will return (10)
• Taught by Jesus Matt. 2437-44
• To be found in an acceptable state
• Peace Rom. 51, 10 James 44
• Spotless Eph. 524-27, Titus 115-16
• Blameless Rom. 81, 21, Matt.71-5

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• Romans 81, 21
• There is therefore now no condemnation to those
  who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk
  according to the flesh, but according to the
  Spirit.
• Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you
  are who judge, for in whatever you judge another
  you condemn yourself for you who judge practice
  the same things.

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• Matthew 71-5
• Judge not, that you be not judged.
• For with what judgment you judge, you will be
  judged and with the measure you use, it will be
  measured back to you.
• And why do you look at the speck in your
  brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in
  your own eye?
• Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me
  remove the speck from your eye' and look, a
  plank is in your own eye?
• Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own
  eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the
  speck from your brother's eye.

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Things to do While Waiting

• I need to be studying (15-16)
• Regard the longsuffering of God as salvation
• The best way to prepare is study
• Paul exhorts Timothy to study
  1 Tim. 413-16
• Till I come, give attention to reading, to
  exhortation, to doctrine. Meditate on these
  things give yourself entirely to them, that your
  progress may be evident to all. Take heed to
  yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them,
  for in doing this you will save both yourself and
  those who hear you.

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Things to do While Waiting

• I need to be studying (15-16)
• Regard the longsuffering of God as salvation
• The best way to prepare is study
• Paul exhorts Timothy to study
  1 Tim. 413-16
• Must search the scriptures daily Acts 1711
• These were more noble than those in Thessalonica,
  in that they received the word with all readiness
  of mind, and searched the scriptures daily,
  whether those things were so.

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Things to do While Waiting

• I need to be on guard (17)
• Be on a spiritual watch Lk 1215
• Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one's
  life does not consist in the abundance of the
  things he possesses.

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Things to do While Waiting

• I need to be on guard (17)
• Be on a spiritual watch 1 Jn 521
• Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

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Things to do While Waiting

• I need to be on guard (17)
• Be on a spiritual watch Lk 1215, 1 Jn 521
• False teachers follow the devices of their master
  1 Peter 58
• Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the
  devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking
  whom he may devour.

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Things to do While Waiting

• I need to be on guard (17)
• Be on a spiritual watch Lk 1215, 1 Jn 521
• False teachers follow the devices of their master
  1 Peter 58
• Being students will make us principled people
  (17)
• Being carried away destroys our steadfastness 1
  Cor.1558

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• 1 Corinthians 1558
• Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast,
  immovable, always abounding in the work of the
  Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in
  the Lord.

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Things to do While Waiting

• I need to be on guard (17)
• Be on a spiritual watch Lk 1215, 1 Jn 521
• False teachers follow the devices of their master
  1 Peter 58
• Being students will make us principled people
  (17)
• Being carried away destroys our steadfastness 1
  Cor.1558
• Being grounded in truth will keep us from
  religious error Eph. 413-14, 1 Cor. 1613

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• Ephesians 413-14
• till we all come to the unity of the faith and of
  the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect
  man, to the measure of the stature of the
  fullness of Christ
• that we should no longer be children, tossed to
  and fro and carried about with every wind of
  doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning
  craftiness of deceitful plotting
• 1 Corinthians 1613
• Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be
  strong.

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Things to do While Waiting

• I need to be growing (18)
• We are to grow in grace and knowledge
• Message of grace shows us how to live Godly Titus
  211-13
• For the grace of God that brings salvation has
  appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying
  ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live
  soberly, righteously, and godly in the present
  age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious
  appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus
  Christ,

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Things to do While Waiting

• I need to be growing (18)
• We are to grow in grace and knowledge
• Message of grace shows us how to live Godly Titus
  211-13
• Knowledge is our understanding of Christ
  2 Peter 12-3

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Things to do While Waiting

• I need to be growing (18)
• We are to grow in grace and knowledge
• Message of grace shows us how to live Godly Titus
  211-13
• Knowledge is our understanding of Christ 2
  Peter 12-3
• We will be destroyed for a lack of knowledge
  Hosea 46

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• Hosea 46
• My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
  Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will
  reject you from being priest for Me Because you
  have forgotten the law of your God, I also will
  forget your children.

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Things to do While Waiting

• I need to be growing (18)
• We are to grow in grace and knowledge
• Message of grace shows us how to live Godly Titus
  211-13
• Knowledge is our understanding of Christ 2
  Peter 12-3
• We will be destroyed for a lack of knowledge
  Hosea 46
• We must long for spiritual food so we can grow 1
  Peter 22

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Things to do While Waiting

• There is no doubt Hes coming again
• The question is are you ready?
• Hes given us things to do while we wait
• Are you diligent?
• Are you studying?
• Are you on guard?
• Are you growing?

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• Luke 1237
• Blessed are those servants whom the master, when
  he comes, will find watching