Defenders 3: Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 14): Practical Application of the Second Coming of Christ
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William Lane Craig
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🗓️ 23 June 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Defenders, the teaching class of Dr. William Lane Craig. For more information and resources from Dr. Craig, go to reasonable faith.org. |
| 0:11.1 | We come now at last to the end of our discussion of the Second Coming of Christ. And today I want to say what application this doctrine has to our lives. What should |
| 0:24.4 | be our response to what we've learned about the second coming of Christ? I think that this doctrine |
| 0:31.7 | has considerable practical application in our lives. First, it is a call to moral living, a call to holiness. |
| 0:44.4 | This contrasts with what we saw last time about the imminent potential apocalypse predicted by |
| 0:52.8 | physical eschatology. There you'll remember that Adams and |
| 0:58.0 | Loughlin said that preparation is as impossible as it is futile. There's nothing you |
| 1:06.6 | can do to prepare for this imminent apocalypse, and it wouldn't do any good if you could. |
| 1:15.1 | By contrast, the coming of Christ is something you can prepare for. His return is an incentive |
| 1:24.5 | to moral and holy living, so that we will be ready to meet the Savior whenever |
| 1:31.6 | he should return. 2. Peter 3, verses 11 to 14, this is right after the passage we read last |
| 1:40.7 | time about the coming of the day of the Lord and the destruction of the present |
| 1:46.3 | heavens and earth. |
| 1:47.9 | Peter says, since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of persons ought |
| 1:55.3 | you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, |
| 2:04.7 | because of which the heavens will be kindled and dissolved, and the elements will melt with fire. |
| 2:11.9 | But according to his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. Therefore, |
| 2:22.2 | beloved, since you wait for these, be zealous to be found by him without spot or blemish |
| 2:30.9 | and at peace. So the doctrine of the second coming of Christ ought to be an |
| 2:38.2 | incentive for us to live lives that are holy and blameless and to be at peace with ourselves |
| 2:46.9 | and with others. Paul draws a similar application in Romans chapter 13, verses 11 to 14. |
| 2:57.8 | Paul writes, besides this, you know what hour it is, how it is full time now for you to wake |
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