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BE NOT SOON SHAKEN IN MIND
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Be Not Soon Shaken In Mind

• II Thess. 21-2
• Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of
  our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering
  together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in
  mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by
  word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day
  of Christ is at hand.

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• II Thess. 23
• Let no man deceive you by any means for that
  day shall not come, except there come a falling
  away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the
  son of perdition
• In the Garden of Eden, Satan deceived Eve Gen. 3

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• We are warned about the devil.
• II Cor. 211
• Lest Satan should get an advantage of us for we
  are not ignorant of his devices.
• I Pet. 58 Be sober, be vigilant because your
  adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh
  about, seeking whom he may devour

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• Paul warned about false teachers.
• II Thess. 210-11
• And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness
  in them that perish because they received not
  the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
  And for this cause God shall send them strong
  delusion, that they should believe a lie

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• II Thess. 212
• That they all might be damned who believed not
  the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
• II Pet. 21 But there were false prophets also
  among the people, even as there shall be false
  teachers among you, who privily shall bring in
  damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that
  bought them, and bring upon themselves swift
  destruction.

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• Times havent changed much.
• After over 1900 years, theories about the Lords
  coming are everywhere.
• False teachers loudly proclaim His coming.
• Paul said Be not soon shaken in mind!

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• I. Behold the time is near, Hes coming
• Often preachers on radio or TV say Christ will
  come in our lifetime.
• We are living in the last days!
• Truth is been living in the last days for over
  1900 years.

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• Behold the time is near, Hes coming
• Acts 216-17
• But this is that which was spoken by the prophet
  Joel And it shall come to pass in the last days,
  saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all
  flesh and your sons and your daughters shall
  prophesy, and your young men shall see visions,
  and your old men shall dream dreams

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• I. Behold the time is near, Hes coming
• II Tim. 31-2
• This know also, that in the last days perilous
  times shall come. For men shall be lovers of
  their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,
  blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful,
  unholy,

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• I. Behold the time is near, Hes coming
• II Tim. 33-5
• Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false
  accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those
  that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded,
  lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God
  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power
  thereof from such turn away.

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• I. Behold the time is near, Hes coming
• The last days here refer to the entire time of
  the Christian age.
• Jesus knew they would do so!
• Matt. 2436 But of that day and hour knoweth no
  man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father
  only.

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• I. Behold the time is near, Hes coming
• Matt. 2444
• Therefore be ye also ready for in such an hour
  as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

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• Behold the time is near, Hes coming
• II Pet. 310
• But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in
  the night in the which the heavens shall pass
  away with a great noise, and the elements shall
  melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the
  works that are therein shall be burned up.

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• I. Behold the time is near, Hes coming
• I Thess. 52
• For yourselves know perfectly that the day of
  the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
• When man sets dates he is a false teacher is
  not teaching Gods word.

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• II. He will set up His kingdom
• Prophecy foretold of Christ kingdom
• Isa. 714
• Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a
  sign Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a
  son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

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• II. He will set up His kingdom
• Prophecy foretold of Christ kingdom
• Isa. 22
• And it shall come to pass in the last days, that
  the mountain of the Lord's house shall be
  established in the top of the mountains, and
  shall be exalted above the hills and all nations
  shall flow unto it.

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• II. He will set up His kingdom
• Prophecy foretold of Christ kingdom
• Isa. 23
• And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and
  let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the
  house of the God of Jacob and he will teach us
  of his ways, and we will walk in his paths for
  out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word
  of the LORD from Jerusalem.

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• II. He will set up His kingdom
• Prophecy foretold of Christ kingdom
• Dan. 244
• And in the days of these kings shall the God of
  heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be
  destroyed and the kingdom shall not be left to
  other people, but it shall break in pieces and
  consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand
  for ever.

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• II. He will set up His kingdom
• N.T. speaks of the kingdom.
• Matt. 31-2
• In those days came John the Baptizer, preaching
  in the wilderness of Judaea,
• And saying, Repent ye for the kingdom of heaven
  is at hand.

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• II. He will set up His kingdom
• N.T. speaks of the kingdom.
• Matt. 417
• From that time Jesus began to preach, and to
  say, Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at
  hand.

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• II. He will set up His kingdom
• N.T. speaks of the kingdom.
• Mark 91
• And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you,
  That there be some of them that stand here, which
  shall not taste of death, till they have seen the
  kingdom of God come with power.

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• II. He will set up His kingdom
• N.T. speaks of the kingdom.
• Mark 91
• And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you,
  That there be some of them that stand here, which
  shall not taste of death, till they have seen the
  kingdom of God come with power.

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• II. He will set up His kingdom
• Many still look for a political, military
  kingdom.
• GOD NEVER PROMISED THAT!
• John 1836 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of
  this world

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• II. He will set up His kingdom
• A future world-wide kingdom, has no foundation in
  the scriptures.
• Kingdom will not begin in Jerusalem in the
  future.
• It began in Jerusalem over 1900 years ago.

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• II. He will set up His kingdom
• Col. 113-14
• Who hath delivered us from the power of
  darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom
  of his dear Son In whom we have redemption
  through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins
• Hath delivered is past tense.

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• II. He will set up His kingdom
• Christ will do one more thing with His kingdom.
• I Cor. 1524
• Then cometh the end, when he shall have
  delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father
  when he shall have put down all rule and all
  authority and power.

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• III. He will reign on earth 1,000 years
• Jesus Christ is reigning NOW!
• I Tim. 615
• Which in his times he shall show, who is the
  blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings,
  and Lord of lords

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• III. He will reign on earth 1,000 years
• Jesus spoke of His authority.
• Matt. 2818
• And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All
  authority is given unto me in heaven and in
  earth.

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• III. He will reign on earth 1,000 years
• Acts 229-30
• Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you
  of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and
  buried, and his tomb is with us unto this day.
  Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God
  had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit
  of his loins, according to the flesh, he would
  raise up Christ to sit on his throne

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• III. He will reign on earth 1,000 years
• Acts 231-32
• He seeing this before spake of the resurrection
  of Christ, that his soul was not left in hades,
  neither his flesh did see corruption. This Jesus
  hath God raised up, whereof we all are
  witnesses.
• HIS REIGN IS NOW- NOT IN FUTURE!

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• III. He will reign on earth 1,000 years
• Rev. 201-2
• And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having
  the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain
  in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that
  old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and
  bound him a thousand years,
• Cannot bind a spirit with a literal chain!

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• III. He will reign on earth 1,000 years
• Rev. 203
• And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut
  him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should
  deceive the nations no more, till the thousand
  years should be fulfilled and after that he must
  be loosed a little season.

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• III. He will reign on earth 1,000 years
• How is Satan bound?
• He cannot destroy the Bible, cannot make one sin,
  cannot bodily possess a human being.
• This was fulfilled when Christ died.

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• III. He will reign on earth 1,000 years
• Heb. 214-15
• Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of
  flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took
  part of the same that through death he might
  destroy him that had the power of death, that is,
  the devil And deliver them who through fear of
  death were all their lifetime subject to
  bondage.

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• III. He will reign on earth 1,000 years
• When one, through faith, turns from sin is
  buried with Christ in baptism, he is then raised
  with Him.
• This is the first resurrection-Rev. 20
• Neither Satan nor hell has power over these.

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• III. He will reign on earth 1,000 years
• 1,000 year reign - Is not what He is
• going to do, but what He is doing now!
• Christ is reigning throughout the Christian age.

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• IV. Lords purpose in coming again
• He is coming to raise the dead.
• John 528-29
• Marvel not at this for the hour is coming, in
  the which all that are in the graves shall hear
  his voice, And shall come forth they that have
  done good, unto the resurrection of life and
  they that have done evil, unto the resurrection
  of damnation.

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• IV. Lords purpose in coming again
• He will reward the faithful-cast out wicked.
• Matt. 2546
• And these shall go away into everlasting
  punishment but the righteous into life eternal.

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• IV. Lords purpose in coming again
• Bible nowhere says plainly or vaguely that He
  will ever reign upon this earth!
• The text says They lived reigned.
• This was not a reign of Christ, but the reign of
  souls with Him.

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• In the face of false teachings, Paul said
• I Cor. 1558
• Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast,
  unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the
  Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is
  not in vain in the Lord.
• Be not soon shaken in mind!

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• All need to obey the gospel to be saved.
• Hear Rom. 1017
• Believe Heb. 116
• Repent Luke 133
• Confess Christ Acts 836-37
• Be Baptized Acts 238
• Remain faithful Rev. 210

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