As surely as the water gathers behind a dam, the day of judgment is coming. And one day it will be revealed.

In fact, that's a message that the sermon that the Apostle Paul preached to the Athenians on Mars Hill from Acts chapter 17.

It's the very core of the Christian gospel. It's what Christianity

is all about. And he said to them in Acts 17, he said, the time of ignorance, God has overlooked.

But now he commands everyone everywhere to repent. For he has appointed a day. He has appointed a day in which he will judge

the world in righteousness by the man whom he has appointed. And in order to prove that this is the

man who's going to be the judge of the world, he raised him from the dead. In fact, Jesus said that the father judges no one, but the son

will be the judge. The very savior who died on that cross and rose again is going to be the judge

who sits on the high bench on that last day. We have been looking at the signs of the return of Christ.

We look today probably to the clearest

and the most detailed sign of the return of Christ. I want you to turn with me, please, to Matthew

chapter 24, beginning at verse 29. In these few verses, the Lord Jesus Christ delineate for us what we're going

to see happening to the cosmos. What is going to happen globally? He's going to be global

catastrophe. And there can be little doubt that soon after that, his return to take his bride home,

his return to take his children to heaven is around the corner. You know, I was thinking throughout

the week, the whole world celebrate Christmas almost. Not quite the whole world, but the whole,

everybody loves to celebrate Christmas. Everybody likes a baby. And then how the focus narrows and fewer and fewer still, truly celebrate the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ as our only hope for eternal life. And then fewer and fewer and fewer still truly look forward to the day of his return. It's amazing to me. So many Christians are so engrossed in this life

and the troubles of this life and the challenges of this life. So many Christians are so bogged

down with the problems of this life that So many Christians are so bogged down with the problems of this life

that they don't even want to think of the return of Christ being around the corner. Oh, they may

give you some sort of a pseudo-spiritual or pseudo-Christian reasons as to why they don't want to

think about him. But in reality, they don't want to think

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