Sermon Series: The Return of the King: The Gospel and the Future
Sermon Text: 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12
Sermon Title: “It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better”
Sermon Slides:
SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title SlideSLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea: The Anti-Christ is Coming … So Be Watchful.But Don’t Be Fearful … For The Christ is Returning.
SLIDE 3 – Point 1: The Coming Anti-Christ … Lawlessness & Satan Incarnate. (vv. 3-12)SLIDE 4 – Ephesians 2:1-2 – “And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, followingthe course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.”SLIDE 5 – 1 John 3:4 – “Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.”SLIDE 6 – Matthew 24:12 – “Because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.“SLIDE 7 – Matthew 7:21-23 – “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.”SLIDE 8 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of SermonSLIDE 9 – Matthew 24:9 – “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.”SLIDE 10 – Revelation 7:9, 13-14 – “After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation … standing before the throne and before the Lamb … Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, ‘Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?’ … And he said to me, ‘These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes … in the blood of the Lamb.’”SLIDE 11 – 2 Timothy 3:1, 4-5 – “But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty … For people will be … lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power.” SLIDE 12 – 1 John 2:19 – “They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us.”SLIDE 13 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of SermonSLIDE 14 – Revelation 20:1-3 – “Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven … and he seized the dragon … who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.”
SLIDE 15 – Point 2: The Returning Christ … Righteousness & God Incarnate. (vv. 6-8)SLIDE 16 – 1 Timothy 3:16 – “Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.”SLIDE 17 – Ephesians 3:3-6 – “… The mystery was made known to me by revelation … the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.”SLIDE 18 - Matthew 24:14 - And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come."SLIDE 19 – Insert Copy of Point #2 of Sermon
SLIDE 20 – Three Uses of This Sermon for Our Church and Lives.SLIDE 21 – For the Unbeliever … Stop Refusing His Kindness. SLIDE 22 – For the Believer … Keeping Resisting the Real Enemy.SLIDE 23 – For the Church … We Won’t Escape Persecution … but We’ll Be Rescued from Condemnation.
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