Matthew 24:42-44

1. YOU will see Him & hear Him!– “Come in like manner as you saw Him” – Acts

1:11– “Behold…every eye will see Him” – Rev. 1:7– “When He is revealed…we shall see Him as He

is” – 1 John 3:2– “Looking for the…glorious appearing” – Titus

2:13– “Descend from heaven with a shout” – 1 Thess.

4:16– “…with the voice of an archangel” – 1 Thess. 4:16– “…with the trumpet of God” – 1 Thess. 4:16– “All…will hear His voice” – John 5:28

2. YOU will be raised!– “The dead will be raised” – 1 Cor. 15:52– “All in the graves will…come forth” – John

5:28-29– “…those who have done good” – John 5:29– “…and those who have done evil” – John 5:29– “Then we who are alive and remain shall be

caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.” – 1 Thess. 4:17

– This world is not my home!

3. YOU will be changed!– “…We shall all be changed” – 1 Cor. 15:51-52– “…Corruption [cannot] inherit incorruption” –

1 Cor. 15:50– He “will transform our lowly body” – Phil 3:21– “…be conformed to His glorious body” – Phil

3:21– “We shall be like Him” – 1 John 3:2– So much emphasis put on our physical bodies

God wants us to focus on “the hidden person of the heart” – 1 Peter 3:4

“For man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” – 1 Samuel 16:7

4. YOUR every possession will be burned up!– “Heaven and earth will pass away” – Matt. 24:35 – “Will pass away with a great noise” – 2 Pet. 3:10– “Will melt with fervent heat” – 2 Pet. 3:10, 12– “Will be burned up” – 2 Pet. 3:10– “All these things will be dissolved” – 2 Pet. 3:11– “Being on fire” – 2 Pet. 3:12– We put so much emphasis on our stuff!

“One’s life does not consist in the abundance…” – Luke 12:15 “Then whose will those things be?” – 12:20 “For what profit if he gains the whole world, and loses his own

soul?” – Matt. 16:26

5. YOU will stand before Christ to be judged!– “It is appointed…the judgment” – Heb. 9:27– Jesus “will sit on the throne” – Matt. 25:31– “All the nations will be gathered” – Matt.

25:32– “We shall all stand” – Rom. 14:10– “We must all appear” – 2 Cor. 5:10– “Judge the living and the dead” – 2 Tim. 4:1– “The dead, small and great” – Rev. 20:12

6. YOU will bow & confess!– “…Every knee should bow…and that every

tongue should confess” – Phil. 2:10-11– “Every knee shall bow to Me, and every

tongue shall confess to God.” – Rom. 14:11

7. YOU will give account of yourself to God!– “…Standing before God, and books were

opened” – Rev. 20:12– “Judged according to their works” – Rev. 20:12– “By the things written in the books” – Rev. 20:12– “The word that I have spoken will judge” – John

12:48– “Each of us shall give account” – Rom. 14:12– “…That each one may receive the things done in

the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad” – 2 Cor. 5:10

– “God will judge the secrets of men” – Rom. 2:16

8. YOU will be sentenced for eternity!– “Receive the things done in the body” – 2 Cor. 5:10– Jesus “will separate” – Matt. 25:32– To the righteous, “an entrance will be supplied…into

the everlasting kingdom” – 2 Pet. 1:11 “Well done…Enter into the joy of your Lord” – Matt.

25:23 “Come…inherit the kingdom prepared for you…” – Matt.

25:34– To the unrighteous, “in flaming fire taking

vengeance…shall be punished” – 2 Thess. 1:8-9 “You wicked and lazy servant…” – Matt. 25:26, 30 “I never knew you; depart from Me…!” – Matt. 7:23 “…You cursed, into the everlasting fire…” – Matt. 25:41

– “Anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire” – Rev. 20:15

9. YOU will enter eternity, never to leave!– “These will go away into everlasting

punishment, but the righteous into eternal life” – Matt. 25:46

– “There is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us” – Luke 16:26

– Those in Christ “shall always be with the Lord” – 1 Thess. 4:17

– Those who do not obey the gospel “shall be punished with everlasting destruction away from the presence of the Lord” – 2 Thess. 1:8-9

• YOU must believe Jesus is God’s Son – John 3:16

• YOU must repent of your sins – Acts 17:30

• YOU must confess your faith in Jesus – Mt. 10:32

• YOU must be immersed in water – Acts 2:38

– Sins are forgiven – Acts 22:16

– Added to His church – Acts 2:47

– Registered in heaven – Hebrews 12:23

• YOU must live ready to see Him – Matt. 24:42-44