The Day of the Lord is...

Hastening

Horrific

For All Humanity

In Order to Prepare for the End of the World I Must...

Repent

Remain Ready

What is the will of God for you in light of the return of Christ? According to 1 Thessalonians 4:9-12 it is to earn the respect and the ear of the lost by living an exceptionally normal life.

God's greatest desire for you is holiness. If you are behind in sexual holiness, then holiness is out of reach. In Paul's first direct exhortation in 1 Thessalonians, he settles this ever-present issue that infected the culture of Thessalonica as much as 21st Century America. What is Biblical sexuality? How can I live a sexually holy life? What does God expect of me, and how can I attain it? Can I ever be free? Those are the questions we answer this week. Visit www.harvestroc.org/sexual-holiness-holiness for a list of resources to help you in your right for sexual holiness.

Death is strange. It is foreign to God's original Creation: it is the opposite of what God called good. Yet it is only through death that we get to experience life. It is through death that He gathers His children to Himself. Through the death and resurrection of Christ, we are more than conquerors, and death, the greatest enemy, is defeated and used as the vehicle to turn faith to sight. The empty tomb fills us with hope as it empties death and grief of its power over us.

Your hour of suffering is our time to fight. While each of us have our own individual hours of suffering, God has given us the greatest weapon of our warfare: the Church. How do we fight? How do we fight for each other? We have an Enemy, how do we fight him? Dive in to God's Word with us, and let's fight!

Suffering happens to all, both believers and non-believers. When you face suffering in the form of sickness, loss, the consequence of your own sin, or in a way that seems to come to fast and so heavy that it completely mystifies you, where do you go to find hope? Believe it or not, all suffering that comes into our lives is allowed by the Lord, and He uses it to strengthen our faith in Jesus. Suffering has been with us ever since the fall in the garden. How do we suffer faithfully in a way that will strengthen our faith in Jesus? That is what we tackle today.

What is baptism? Is baptism a matter of obedience, or spiritual maturity? Who should be baptized? Who should not be baptized? What happens to me when I am baptized? Is God pleased? Do I hit a higher spiritual plane? So many questions, and God's Word has answers for all of them.

We have the world's greatest treasure in our laps: God's Word. But how do we know we can trust it? Is there any evidence that can prove it? Why should I pay attention to it? And what can I do to begin to dig in? Let's answer those questions!

Today we explore our theme verse from 1 Thessalonians 2:12, "For you know how, like a father with his children, we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory." The Apostle Paul gives us insight into what that means, and how we actually do it.

As Christians, we often put the cart before the horse. While we may not say it verbally, we see our Christian duty to Work for Christ as the basis for how God sees us. The Bible says that God identifies us as who we are, and from that we respond with our duty before Him because of what He has done. Are you resting in His identity of you? Or are you trying to show Him you are worthy of acceptance?

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