A bride-to-be wouldn't forget her upcoming wedding date, would she?

Here's Nancy DeMoswalgamuth.

The fact is I can go months without consciously thinking about the fact that Jesus is coming back.

This is the Revival Hearts Podcast with Nancy DeMoswalgamuth, author of Heaven Rules for September 28th, 2013. I'm Dana Gresh.

When you've been apart from someone you love, you can count the days until you see them again.

Do you feel that type of longing for the return of Christ?

If not, I hope you'll gain a sense of expectation today.

Nancy's continuing in the series, encouragement to persevere. Let's listen.

Well, because of such an important topic and theme throughout the New Testament, I want to come back again today and in the next session to what we started in the last session on the return of Christ, the second coming.

The phrase I'm picking up on in Revelation 3, the letter to the church in Philadelphia that we've been looking at, is just that little, short little phrase, I am coming soon, four words.

And what hope and promise and encouragement they give to those who know Christ, what fear and challenge they ought to be to the hearts of those who don't know Christ.

But Jesus says, I am coming soon, hold fast what you have so that no one may seize your crown.

So I've been reflecting on this whole thing about the promise of Christ's return and believe it or not, I have never taught on the second coming of Christ.

I just think it's about time to do that. So I'm making up for last time this week in this series.

But it occurs to me that there are a number of different responses that people have to the promise of Christ's return.

First of all, the scripture talks about those who don't believe it. Those who deny it say there's no such thing.

Those people referred to in 2nd Peter chapter 3 as scoffers.

And it says that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing following their own sinful desires.

Now the reason they scoff, the reason they don't believe is because they have sinful desires and they want to be able to fulfill those sinful desires.

So they don't want to be morally accountable to anyone or anything. So if they just say there's no day of reckoning, there's no day of judgment.

There's no return of Christ. Then they can live so they think the way they want to live.

So following their own sinful desires, they will say these scoffers, where is the promise of his coming?

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