"The King is on His Way"

Mark 13:24–27 ²⁴[Jesus said:] “But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, ²⁵and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. ²⁶And then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. ²⁷And then he will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.

            How many look for the coming of the Lord, the King of the Jews, the Son of Man, the Christ?  Do you look at the clouds whenever there is an eclipse?  Most likely no one thinks of the second coming of Christ our King, no one really lives their lives or stays awake lying there and thinking the moment could be any second now.  Wait..., do you hear it?  POP!...  Nope, that was just pastor trying to give us special effects to get the point across. No, we live our lives as if Christ's coming is beyond our life span.  You know, in God's time, like this could be another twenty thousand years yet.  Of course sometimes God's timing is faster than we want it to be too.

            Mark 13:28–31²⁸“From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near. ²⁹So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that he is near, at the very gates. ³⁰Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. ³¹Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

            It could be in the spring, Christ coming again, of course not this next spring but one twenty thousand years from now.  Just speculating you know, no prophecy here, just a hopeful guess.  Mark gives us a double meaning here, "this generation" indicative to the generation at the time of Christ, and the generation of Christians living in the grace of God.  Are we asleep, do we live in our dreams, do we cling on hearing we are forgiven?  Let us not be like Sodom and Gomorra who fell asleep in their sin that lead to eternal death. It's not supposed to be that hard.

            Actually, it is supposed to be easy, we are brought into faith, Christ died for our sins, we're forgiven, and we are brought into believing. "pop!..." and we're saved.  There it is, we can go back to sleep now.  Remember to sin boldly because believers are saved.  We don't need to be awake per say Christ has got us covered.  Or, do we abide by our faith?

Romans 3:5-6 ⁵ But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.) ⁶ By no means! For then how could God judge the world?

Romans 6:15-16 Slaves to Righteousness

¹⁵ What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! ¹⁶ Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

            God is our Father in heaven, Christ is our Savior who returns to collect what is His.  God gave us to the care of Jesus, which was carried out through Christ being with us and then dying on the cross.

John 6:39 ³⁹ And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.

            The King is on His way let us constantly look for Him, not to be anxious about His coming, rather we wait in confidence.  Confident that our Lord's word's of mercy, grace, forgiveness, and salvation are true words spoken by the true Son of Man, Son of God, Christ our savior.

Mark 13:32–33 ³²“But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. ³³Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come.

            We do not know the day, or the hour, but when it comes we can celebrate because Jesus Christ paid the ransom that would have brought death to even the best of us if He had not paid it.  Now we have confidence that while the King is on His way, we know that He died so that we can live.  Christ did the work that we could not, He paid the price for our sin, and we are now adopted into the eternal relationship with our Father in Heaven.  Amen. 

Mark 13:37 ³⁷And what I say to you I say to all: Stay awake.” (Jesus said this)