Promise Made, Promise Not Kept… Yet

Sermon Notes

SCRIPTURE: JOHN 14:1-3; I THESSALONIANS 4:13-17; I CORINTHIANS 15:51-52

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
John 14:1-3 (KJV)

1. JESUS' COMFORT

• Let not your hearts be troubled
• Believe in God, believe in me

2. CREATION AND THE FALL OF MAN

• Perfect world
• Fall of man
• The curse

3. JESUS' FIRST COMING

• Prophecy fulfilled
• Jesus lives, dies and rose again
• "I will come again."

4. JESUS' SECOND COMING

• The Rapture... what is it?

?But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
I Thessalonians 4:13-17 (KJV)

Behold, I show you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
I Corinithians 15:51-52

• Signs
• Commands