Lesson Twelve: “We Must Be About Our Father’s Business”

“What If It Were Today?”

but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

But the day of the Lord will come…”

Introduction:

The words to an old, old song go like this…

Coming in power and love to reign--What if it were today?

Over this whole earth scattered wide--What if it were today?

Chorus:

Glory, glory! When we shall crown Him King.

Glory, glory! Jesus will come someday.

Satan's dominion will then be o'er--O that it were today!

Then shall the dead in Christ arise, Caught up to meet Him in the skies;

Faithful and true, would He find us here, If He should come today?

Signs of His coming multiply, Morning light breaks in eastern sky;

Chorus:

Glory, glory! When we shall crown Him King.

Glory, glory! Jesus will come someday.

Born again believers all around the world are looking forward to that day when all the redeemed shall be called out of this world of sorrow and sin and be caught up together to meet the Lord in the clouds and to be with Him forever more!

And whether folks around us choose to believe it or not, Jesus is indeed coming to earth again, coming in power and love to reign, coming to claim His chosen Bride, all the redeemed and purified, over this whole world scattered wide—but the question is, ‘What if it were today?’.

Folks, it is for this reason that you and I, as born again believers, must be about our Father’s business!

Lesson: “We Must Be About Our Father’s Business”

I : No Greater Day Do We Have To Look Forward To

    A: The Day of the Lord Shall Come
        - II Peter 3:9-10, Genesis 6:5-7, Genesis 7:1-4, Genesis 7:10, Genesis 7:21-23

    B: What If It Were Today?
        - John 14:1-3, II Corinthians 5:1, II Corinthians 5:6-8, I Corinthians 15:51-57,    
          I Thessalonians 4:13-14, I Thessalonians 4:16-18, Titus 2:13, II Peter 3:10-11,
          I Corinthians 9:14, II Corinthians 5:10, Romans 10:11, Mark 8:38,
          Matthew 16:27, Romans 14:12


II : No Greater Privilege Do We Have As A Child of God Than to Be About Our Father’s Business

        - Psalm 126:5-6, Acts 1:8, Acts 8:8, Acts 5:41-42


III : No Greater Responsibility Do We Have To Give Account Unto God For Than That Of Telling Others
      About Christ Jesus!

    A: Never Forget That One Day…
        - 1: Will Be Our Last Day To Tell Someone About Jesus
            - James 4:14, Psalm 90:12, Revelation 21:4
        - 2: Will Be Someone Else’s Last Day To Hear The Good News Of The Gospel
             - Luke 16:19-31
        - 3: We Will All Stand Before God
             - Let me ask you this morning dear child of God…    
                   - Who will be in Heaven one day because YOU were willing to take the   
                      time and tell them how to go to Heaven when they die?
                   - Who will NOT be in Heaven that YOU should have told about Jesus,
                      but you simply never took the time to tell them??
                   - I don’t want anybody to die and go to Hell, and I am sure that you do not
                      either...but folks, the truth is, there are going to be a lot of folks in Hell
                      simply because you and I, as born again children of God, never took the
                      time or had the concern to go and tell them, and that is sad!


Conclusion:

The last verse of the song I introduced at the beginning of today’s lesson says, ‘Faithful and true, would He find us here, If He should come today? Watching in gladness and not in fear, If He should come today? Signs of His coming multiply, Morning light breaks in eastern sky; Watch, for the time is drawing nigh--What if it were today?’

Child of God, the truth is simply this…you and I need to make a right choice today, and that choice being to be about our Father’s business!

Jesus said in John 4:34 “…My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.”

Child of God, my prayer this morning is that as never before in our lives, you and I will decide to make that meat which spiritually sustains us will be to do the will of Him who has saved us and to finish the work that He has saved us to do, and that being to reach our Jerusalem, our Judea, our Samaria, and eventually, all the world around us with the message of the Gospel of Jesus before it is eternally too late for those we know and love and even for those whom we have never yet even met, but one day will!


Invitation:

Folks, the Bible reminds us that “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness;
but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
But the day of the Lord will come…”

Child of God, what will you choose to do today? Will you just sit by and watch people die and go to Hell without Jesus and one day stand before God with tears in your eyes as you give account unto God for the souls you let slip through your fingers and die without Jesus, or will you decide, starting today, to be about our Father’s business and start telling all those folks you know who need to be saved the good news that ‘Jesus Saves! Jesus Saves!??

Jesus is coming soon…oh, what if it were today? Let’s choose to be about our Father’s business today!

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