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Whenever the subject of the Lord's second coming is in place, you're going to find there are two categories of people.

Those who are forever trying to fix a date on which the Lord will return.

Then there are those on the other extreme who are skeptical and they are apathetic about that day of the return. Then there are those on the other extreme who are skeptical and they are

apathetic about that day of the return of the Lord, about the whole matter of Christ's return.

And yet the scripture repeatedly urges us, urges every true believer in the Lord Jesus Christ

to live every single day with the expectancy

of the day of the Lord. Every generation must do that because we do not know exactly when

he's coming back and therefore it is our joy to live expectantly of the coming of the Lord. But there can be very little

doubt, I think, in the mind of anybody who's studying the scripture to know that the return of

the Lord is imminent. Jesus himself said, while only the Father knows that hour, nonetheless, Christians must look forward to the

return of Christ every single day. In Matthew 2444, I'm going to get you to turn to it in a

minute. He said, always be ready for the return of the Lord because you don't know the hour

in which he will return. You don't know the hour in which he will return.

You don't know the hour to expect him. Second Peter chapter 3, verses 3 and 4 tells us

that coffers will come in the last days walking according to their own lust and saying,

where is that promised of his coming?

But here's the irony.

And the irony is that the scoffers of our day, the scoffers of today, are in a state of frightful

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