The Return of the Lord is Close

It says, "But as the days of Noe were, so shall ... the coming of the Son of man be." (Matt. 24:37) If we go back into Genesis, we find that in the days of Noah, it says "... that every imagination of the thoughts of his (man's) heart was only evil continually ... and the earth was filled with violence." (Gen. 6:5, 11) That's the condition we live in today.

It says, "...As the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." (Matt. 24:37) So I believe there is no doubt that the return of the Lord is close.

When? I don't know. Even Christ Himself doesn't know, the Word tells us in this chapter. (Matt. 24:36)

How then should we be? What should be our attitude?

We read in the final verses in this chapter, "Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming." (Matt. 24:46-48). Again ... the element of time. If the servant says, "I've got more time." "And shall begin to smite his fellow servants and to eat and drink with the drunken, the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, and shall cut him asunder and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (Matt. 24:49-51)

I believe, dear ones, that is a warning to the believer -- to the servant -- to be ready and not to become slothful.

Finally, it can be concluded in the 44th verse of this chapter, "Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh." (Matt. 24:44)

--Sermon Excerpt: Elder Bro. S.R.