Rediscovering Church: Between the Resurrection and the Return - Matt Ro

Church of the City New York

COTC NYC

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🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This Sunday, Pastor Matt Ro continued our Rediscovering Church series with a teaching on how we ought to live between Jesus’ resurrection and His promised return. The reality of His return is imminent, and should be both the anchor and driving force of our hope. As followers of Jesus, we are meant to be a community marked by faith, hope, and love, that anxiously awaits His return and His Kingdom being fully realized on the earth.

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0:00.0	Giddy folks, welcome to the Church of the City, New York podcast. Good to have you with us.
0:09.8	This summer we are going to be in a series called Rediscovering Church. It is going to be a verse-by-verse
0:15.1	teaching through the book of one Thessalonians. This is a beautiful book, short book, potent book,
0:21.2	with a ton of implications for how to follow Jesus
0:24.3	in a world like ours.
0:26.0	If we can serve you anyway,
0:27.5	please jump on our website,
0:29.0	church.n.YC.
0:30.5	And as always, hope you're doing well, peace.
0:36.1	And today our teaching text is First Thessalonians 5, 1 through 11.
0:42.7	Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you.
0:48.9	For you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
0:55.8	While people are saying peace and safety, destruction will come on them suddenly as labor pains on a pregnant woman,
1:02.2	and they will not escape. But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this
1:08.2	day should surprise you like a thief.
1:10.8	You are all children of the light and children of the day.
1:14.6	We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
1:18.4	So then let us not be like others who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober.
1:24.6	For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night. But since we
1:30.4	belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate and the hope of
1:36.5	salvation as a helmet. For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath, but to receive salvation through our
1:43.0	Lord Jesus Christ. He died for us so that
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