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Mark chapter 13, verses 35 through 37.

Therefore stay awake.

For you do not know when the master of the house will come in the evening or at midnight,

or when the rooster crows or in the morning, lest he comes suddenly and find you asleep.

And what I say to you, I say to all.

Stay awake.

Would you just let those last two words soak in?

To your heart and mind, like right now, all day long, I stay awake.

Stay awake. What does that mean? Like, Jesus is talking here in Mark chapter 13 about when he will

return, when he will, in the words of verse 27, send out the angels gather his elect from the four winds,

from the ends of the earth, the ends of heaven.

He's talking about when the son of man will come in clouds with great power and glory.

The whole picture is, and Jesus makes this clear, not just in this passage, we see it all over his word.

Jesus is coming back.

Jesus has died on a cross, risen from the dead, ascended to the right hand of the Father, and he is coming back.

And he could come back at any moment.

Now, you might say, well, I mean, he said this 2,000 years ago.

He hasn't come back yet.

Like, how do we know?

Well, all that means is we're 2,000 years closer to him coming back.

And the truth of what Jesus taught here is the same today.

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