ASSEMBLIES OF GOD
Novelist Lloyd Douglas told about a man who visited his violin teacher and asked, “What’s new?”
“I’ll tell you what’s new,” said the teacher.
He grabbed his turning fork and banged it.
“That’s an A,” he proclaimed. “Now, upstairs a soprano rehearses endlessly and she’s always off-key. Next door I have a cello player who plays his instrument very poorly. There is an out-of-tune piano on the other side of me. I’m surrounded by terrible noise, night and day.”
Tapping the tuning fork again, the teacher continued, “That’s an A today. That will be an A tomorrow. It will never change.”
I want to bang the A of biblical teaching about the return of Christ as it relates to fulfilling the Great Commission.
Study every passage in the New Testament regarding the Second Coming, and you will find that it is a Blessed Hope and help to the Church. It ministers strength to believers so our hearts will not sag, our hands will not tire, and our heads will not droop under the burden of life and the opposition of the world. The glorious message of Christ’s appearing invigorates the Church and helps us remain diligent in the task of evangelism.
All the New Testament passages about the Second Coming fit into one of the following themes. The hope of our Lord’s return …
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“I’ll tell you what’s new,” said the teacher.
He grabbed his turning fork and banged it.
“That’s an A,” he proclaimed. “Now, upstairs a soprano rehearses endlessly and she’s always off-key. Next door I have a cello player who plays his instrument very poorly. There is an out-of-tune piano on the other side of me. I’m surrounded by terrible noise, night and day.”
Tapping the tuning fork again, the teacher continued, “That’s an A today. That will be an A tomorrow. It will never change.”
I want to bang the A of biblical teaching about the return of Christ as it relates to fulfilling the Great Commission.
Study every passage in the New Testament regarding the Second Coming, and you will find that it is a Blessed Hope and help to the Church. It ministers strength to believers so our hearts will not sag, our hands will not tire, and our heads will not droop under the burden of life and the opposition of the world. The glorious message of Christ’s appearing invigorates the Church and helps us remain diligent in the task of evangelism.
All the New Testament passages about the Second Coming fit into one of the following themes. The hope of our Lord’s return …
Read More
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