Expectancy
AMEN PODCAST
Alex and Lokelani Wilson
5.0 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Are you truly expecting Jesus to return, or have you gotten too comfortable in this world?
In this powerful message, Pastor Alex breaks down Jesus’s parable of the thief from Matthew 24:42-44 - the first of five parables about His second coming. Most Christians today are living like Jesus will never return, but He told us to stay AWAKE and stay ALERT because He’s coming like a thief in the night.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
* Why Jesus compared His return to a thief (and why that should change everything)
* The two ways we can stay ready for His coming
* What’s causing Christians to “fall asleep” spiritually
* How to live with true expectancy every single day
This is part 1 of our 5-part series on Jesus’s parables about His second coming. Don’t miss what could be the wake-up call your faith needs.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Amen podcast. I'm Lockelaani and I'm here with my husband Alex today. We're diving |
| 0:05.8 | into something that should keep us on the edge of our seats. Jesus's second coming and what it means to live with |
| 0:12.6 | true expectancy. After Jesus explained the destruction of the temple to his disciples, he shifted their |
| 0:19.5 | focus to something even bigger, his return. |
| 0:23.2 | And he didn't just mention it once. He gave them five powerful parables about his paroxia, |
| 0:30.7 | his coming presence. But here's what's disturbing. Most of us are living like it's never going to |
| 0:36.9 | happen. So the question we're |
| 0:38.7 | wrestling with today is this. Are you truly expecting Jesus to return or have you gotten way |
| 0:44.6 | too comfortable in this world? Because Jesus himself said, we need to stay awake. Stay ready because |
| 0:51.0 | he's coming at an hour when we least expect it. |
| 0:59.7 | Alex is going to break this down for us, but I just want you to think about this as we get started. |
| 1:05.5 | When was the last time that you actually lived like Jesus could return today? |
| 1:08.9 | Hey, Matt. |
| 1:11.0 | What's going on, everybody? |
| 1:12.0 | Welcome back. |
| 1:13.7 | And let's jump right in. |
| 1:15.2 | We're going to be talking about expectancy. |
| 1:18.3 | Looking at Matthew 24, 42 through 44. |
| 1:21.0 | Just a little introduction of what we've been talking about. We are looking at Holy Week. |
| 1:25.9 | Jesus is talking to his disciples. He's going to get arrested in a few moments here coming up in the next chapters. He has just gone to the temple. He's pronounced some woes, some judgment on the temple. And then he says, you know, to the disciples who ask him, when is this going to happen? He describes to them when the destruction of the temple is going to happen. |
| 1:46.4 | And a lot of misinterpretation, a lot of bad theology, bad eschatology, which is the study of |
| 1:52.7 | end times, comes out of Matthew 24. |
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