Preached by Chris Broom, 11/1/2009

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Buyandeiger Gansukh (center, also known as BD) gets Baptized!

Mark Series part 26: Faithful to the End – Outline

Today we’ll look at Mark 13, known as the Olivet Discourse, it is the longest of Jesus’ monologues in Mark. There is much we don’t know about Jesus’ return, and that is often the subject of much debate. Why has God kept it such a mystery? As some young teens recently responded, “If we knew when he was coming back, we’d all live however we wanted to until just before he was to come, then we’d repent and have one really good Sunday before he came.” Today we are not going to talk about what we don’t know… we are going to talk about what we do know and what that means for how we ought to live!

1. Jesus prophesies the destruction of the temple (Mark 13:1-2)
- Stones were massive: 37 ft long, 18 ft wide, and 12 ft high
- The temple was magnificent – whatever wasn’t overlaid with gold was the purest white
- In AD 70, the temple was destroyed. Romans pried apart the stones to get at the gold that had melted between them when the roof was burned
- We are in the end times right now: the time between Jesus’ orientation and second coming
- Satan is offering us M&M’s (massive and magnificents) to catch us off guard
- There is nothing bigger than God, but when we get our eyes on other things we forget
- We have to realize that all these things are STBA (scheduled to burn anyway)

2. Jesus’ answer to the question “When will all this happen?” (Mark 13:5-31)
- Don’t be deceived… don’t be arogant and think you won’t be one of the many, know the scriptures for yourself
- Be on your guard… we are not on our guard in peacetime, but in wartime. (The war began right away – things in verses 9-11 can be seen happening in the book of Acts)
- Stand firm to the end. Be faithful.

3. Christ’s return – what we do know.
- Mark 13:32-37 – the hour is unknown, even to Jesus.
- Acts 1:9-10 – Jesus will be coming on the clouds
- 1 Thesselonians 13:18 – the saved will meet Jesus in the air, anything else is a lie.
- Knowing specifically when the end will come will NOT help our faith!

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