Today I want to look at the passages beginning at verse 36 to 51 of Matthew 24. And Jesus saying to those who are watching, he gives us three illustrations or three stories. And these three illustrations are emphasizing how suddenly and unexpectedly the

return of Christ is going to be so sudden, it be so quick and so fast. The first is the

equivalence to the days of Noah.

The second is the separation between believers and non-believers on that day.

And the third is the thief who breaks at homes at nighttime while everybody's asleep.

Then finally, he emphasizes the imperative for being faithful.

And he distinguished and contrasts between those who are faithful and those who are not.

So first of all, the days of Noah. It is fashionable today among mega-church pastors

in order to please their non-believing churchgoers, they say

or deny the historic account of the flood and Noah. And they say, if you don't want to believe

it, you don't have to believe it. Read my lips. Yes, you do. I'm going to tell you

why. If Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, who co-existed with the Father before all worlds,

whom the Bible said through whom and for whom the whole world

is created, who was there in the time of now? When he says it happened, it means what? It did

happen. Otherwise, you are questioning the integrity of the Savior. And how can you worship

a Christ as your only Savior and Lord when you question his integrity? Do you understand why?

Both Old and New Testament affirm the flood as a historical event that had taken place.

The most important thing here that the Lord is emphasizing in this telling of the story

and the telling us why it's going to be similarities between

the days of Noah and the days of the return of the Lord is the suddenness of it.

It's going to be sudden for most people.

Those who have rejected Noah's invitation to be saved and enter into the ark, they were taken by surprise. What were

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