The Coming of the Kingdom(Luke 17:20-37)

February 1, 2015

Mount Albert Bible Fellowship

The Kingdom is In Your Midst

Luke 17:20-21

What the Coming Will Be Like

Luke 17:22-24

Do Not Follow Them

As the Lightning Flashes…

But first…Luke 17:25

The People Will Not Be Ready

Luke 17:26-30

The People Will Not Be Ready

Days of Noah (17:26-27)

• “Eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage”

• “The flood came and destroyed them all”

• Warning: the construction of the ark

• Response: Noah would have been the laughingstock of his time

Day of Christ (17:30)

• Carrying on in ignorance of the coming judgment

• Destruction in fire (Rev 20:11-15)

• Warnings: in various places in the Bible

• Response: God will be cursed (Rev 16:9, 16:11)

• “Eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building”

• “Fire and sulfur rained … and destroyed them all”

• Warning: angels (Gen 19:11, 14)

• Response: Lot’s sons-in-law thought Lot was joking

Days of Lot (17:28-29)

“Remember Lot’s Wife

Luke 17:31-33

Who is Taken? Who is Left?

Luke 17:34-37

I Wish We’d All Been Ready

A man and wife asleep in bed

She hears a noise and turns her head, he’s gone

I wish we’d all been ready

Two men walking up a hill

One disappears and one’s left standing still

I wish we’d all been ready

There’s no time to change your mind

The Son has come and you’ve been left behind

The Judgment

Take Home

Where is your heart?