00:00What we can change is our response to all of this and what's going on inside our lives
00:05which is where the issue of discipleship comes in and the thoughts we're going to share tonight
00:10from the book of Philippians. We can also change what's going to happen in other people's lives
00:15by telling them the gospel and giving the opportunity to make a choice for Jesus or to
00:22reject him. That's up to them but our job is to warn them and to tell them the fact that Jesus
00:26is the saviour, is the answer and that Jesus is coming again and that he's the one who can put
00:31things right. And in some ways the message of the second coming actually is a message which
00:36highlights the division between the lost and the saved. People who are on God's side and people
00:43who are not. People who are saved and people who are not saved. Book of Acts chapter 17, Paul preaching
00:50in Athens, he said the times of ignorance got overlooked but now he commands all men everywhere
00:56to repent because he is appointed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by the
01:01man whom he has ordained. Given us assurance of this by raising him from the dead. So the message
01:08of the second coming actually speaks about a time of judgment coming and the judgment is going to come
01:14through Jesus and it's going to be in some way related to our response to the message of the gospel
01:20that Jesus died and rose from the dead. So our responsibility is to tell people the way of
01:25salvation so that they can come to the right points, repent, believe the gospel and be saved, ready for
01:32the coming of the Lord. Matthew 25, the sheep and the goats, when Jesus comes in power and glory
01:38there is a separation between the sheep, the righteous who enter into the kingdom to eternal life
01:44and the goats who enter into eternal punishment. So there are two options before us and basically
01:52we have to get a warning out to the saved to get people saved or to face God's judgment. We also
01:59have to use the time to get the word out and one of the encouraging things I find is that many people
02:05are doing just that. You know I send out the light for last days and I have people sending in to me
02:10asking for more copies, asking for copies of our leaflets to give out. I just had a lady from
02:16Lancashire who wrote, said that she's taken about two boxes already, she wants two more boxes to hand
02:22out in her town where she is and just to get the message out. I said to her, do you get any encouragement
02:27from your church on this? She said no, not at all. She said I'm all on my own but I'm doing it because
02:32that's what I believe the Lord wants me to do and we have to face the fact that also a lot of the
02:36churches basically won't give you much encouragement in this matter because most of them have really
02:42don't want to talk about it too much because it's too controversial or it might be a bit painful
02:46to discuss these things. But there are people out there who want to do it so praise the Lord
02:51and we have to join in with them.
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