Be Ready

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Be Ready!

• Mt 2816-20 and Selected

Pastor Dave Martin Cross Creek Community Church
April 6, 2008
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• Matthew 2816-20 16 Then the eleven disciples
  went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had
  told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they
  worshiped him but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus
  came to them and said, "All authority in heaven
  and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore
  go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing
  them in the name of the Father and of the Son and
  of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey
  everything I have commanded you. And surely I am
  with you always, to the very end of the age."

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Mt Tabor1,843 feet above sea level

• Believed to be
• The site of Christs transfiguration
• One of the sites of Christs post-resurrection
  appearances

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Review from last week

• I. The Proclamation of Christ
• II. The Presence of Christ

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III. The People of Christ

• Over 500 eyewitnesses attesting to the fact
• JESUS IS ALIVE!

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• 1 Corinthians 153-8 3 For what I received I
  passed on to you as of first importance that
  Christ died for our sins according to the
  Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was
  raised on the third day according to the
  Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Peter, and
  then to the Twelve. 6 After that, he appeared to
  more than five hundred of the brothers at the
  same time, most of whom are still living, though
  some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to
  James, then to all the apostles, 8 and last of
  all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally
  born.

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IV. The Promises of Christ

• I Will Send the Holy Spirit
• Luke 2449 I am going to send you what my Father
  has promised but stay in the city until you have
  been clothed with power from on high."

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• John 1416-20 16 And I will ask the Father, and
  he will give you another Counselor to be with you
  forever-- 17 the Spirit of truth. The world
  cannot accept him, because it neither sees him
  nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives
  with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave
  you as orphans I will come to you. 19 Before
  long, the world will not see me anymore, but you
  will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
  20 On that day you will realize that I am in my
  Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.

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• John 167-8 7 But I tell you the truth It is for
  your good that I am going away. Unless I go away,
  the Counselor will not come to you but if I go,
  I will send him to you. 8 When he comes, he will
  convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and
  righteousness and judgment

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The Holy Spirit

• Ten days after Christs Ascension the Holy Spirit
  came Acts 2
• He dwells within every true believer 2Co 619
• He empowers us supernaturally Acts 18

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The Continuing Work of Christ is now

• Placed into the Hands of His disciples
• You and I today!

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IV. The Promises of Christ

• I Will Send the Holy Spirit
• I Will Return Again

Jesus is coming again!
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Jesus is preparing a place for you

• John 142-3 2 In my Father's house are many
  rooms if it were not so, I would have told you.
  I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3
  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will
  come back and take you to be with me that you
  also may be where I am.

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Jesus Raptures those who are His

• 1 Thessalonians 416-17 16 For the Lord himself
  will come down from heaven, with a loud command,
  with the voice of the archangel and with the
  trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will
  rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive
  and are left will be caught up together with them
  in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so
  we will be with the Lord forever.

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• 1 Corinthians 1551-52 51 Listen, I tell you a
  mystery We will not all sleep (die), but we will
  all be changed-- 52 in a flash, in the twinkling
  of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet
  will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable,
  and we will be changed.

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Jesus literally returns to earth

• Acts 111 "Men of Galilee," they said, "why do
  you stand here looking into the sky? This same
  Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven,
  will come back in the same way you have seen him
  go into heaven."

Mount of Olives
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• Revelation 17 Look, he is coming with the
  clouds, and every eye will see him, even those
  who pierced him and all the peoples of the earth
  will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen.
• Matthew 2430 "At that time the sign of the Son
  of Man will appear in the sky, and all the
  nations of the earth will mourn. They will see
  the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky,
  with power and great glory.

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• Matthew 2444 So you also must be ready, because
  the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do
  not expect him.

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Be Ready!
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Be Ready Jesus is coming soon!
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Next Week

• Friend Day
• April 13th
• In the Beginning (New series)
• Be inviting your family, friends and neighbors