The Return of Christ
Harris Creek Baptist Church
Harris Creek
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Pastor JP’s sermon underscores the clear biblical message that Jesus is returning, and challenges believers to live with a sense of spiritual urgency and readiness. God’s grace not only saves us but actively trains us to live godly lives in a world full of distractions and temptations. As we look forward to the return of Christ, we’re called to live in a way that reflects our hope, our purpose, and our mission.
1. Let Grace Train You to Say “No” Now
2. Let Future Glory Move You to Do Good Now
3. Let’s Live Ready—and Help Others Get Ready
Discussion Questions
1. What would change in your life if you truly lived with the expectation that Jesus could return at any moment?
2. In what ways can God’s grace help you say “no” to the world and “yes” to a life that honors Him?
3. How can you actively help others prepare for Christ’s return in your everyday relationships and routines?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Church, how we doing? Let's go, let's go. Hey, I want to take you back to fourth grade. |
| 0:06.2 | Mrs. Beer is my teacher. She wasn't Baptist, evidently. And so we, the fourth grade classroom |
| 0:16.0 | is all the way down the hallway. There's a long corridor at St. Michael's Catholic School where I went |
| 0:23.5 | my small school. I graduated with eight people in my class. And the fourth grade was like, so you walk |
| 0:28.8 | in, there's the administrative office, you walk all the way down the hallway to the other end of the |
| 0:33.7 | small school, and there's the fourth grade. We are in class all taking a test, so it's |
| 0:40.3 | quiet, and we're kind of, you know, pencils down, taking a test, and Mrs. Beer says, she leaves |
| 0:47.4 | the classroom. And so you could hear, she would wear these kind of, they were like heels, but not like high heels. I don't |
| 0:56.0 | know what they're called. Somebody can tell me afterwards, but you could hear them just walk down |
| 1:01.6 | that hallway. You could just kind of the clop of those heels and it would get more and more faint as |
| 1:07.0 | she moved towards the office down the hallway. And it was quiet. |
| 1:11.4 | We were taking our test. |
| 1:13.2 | And she was gone for like longer than normal, right? |
| 1:18.7 | And we're in there and we're just still taking our test. |
| 1:22.5 | Until Darrell Micah wads up a piece of paper and launches it across the room at Jeffrey Martin. |
| 1:32.0 | Jeffrey picks it up, launches it at Brandon Orozco, to which Brandon picks it up and just throws it back at Jeffrey, hits him right in the ear. |
| 1:43.7 | And then the kind of, the whole class, you know, you could just hear the faint chuckle of children, |
| 1:48.9 | laughter, and then it just got a little louder. |
| 1:51.9 | And the next thing you know, it's like a full-blown paper fight. |
| 1:56.3 | Kids are standing on the desk. |
| 1:58.7 | The roar of the classroom has just overwhelmed the situation. |
| 2:04.4 | And we're lost in the moment, if you will. |
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