All Things Are Ready
By: Kirbbie L. Cowart
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Ephesians. 5:8
I. JESUS IS COMING BACK FOR A CHURCH THAT IS READY.
A church without spot or wrinkle.
A church that is reflecting Gods glory in the world.
A church that is without sin.
A church that is living by faith.
A church that has knowledge of God and His Word.
Jesus is coming back after a church that is without spot or wrinkle. I told a brother in the Lord last month that we are not going to an Assembly of God or Baptist heaven. These names we wear down here on earth does not empress God one bit. He is coming back for the redeemed; those that have been born again and are walking in newness of life, and reflecting His life in everything they say and do. He is coming back after a church that knows him by the word he has spoken to them through the scriptures, not what some preacher has told them, or what grandpa or grandma told them, or what someone may have prophesied over them. He is coming back for a people that know him because they have studied the word of God for themselves.
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Ephesians 5:27
EVENTS WILL HAPPEN SUDDENLY IN THE LAST DAYS.
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
1 Thessalonians 5:1-3
The fulfillment of Gods plan will catch some people off guard. We are not to sleep spiritually, but we are to watch. The coming of the Lord cannot catch a person off guard who is looking for Him. Did you look for Him to come today? The generation that will be ready for the coming of the Lord must be in the place where they are seen being like God said they should be. It will be a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing. It will be holy and without blemish. People who have lost all hope in the worldly system need to know the peace of God in a troubled world, and be rejoicing because their Lord is soon to return?
GOD MAKES ALL THINGS READY.
When it was time for God to send Jesus the first time, He made all things ready.
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law...
Galatians 4:4
As the time draws close for Jesus to return, God will again make all things ready. He is sending out His servants right now telling people everywhere all things are ready. Look at the news of the world He is saying did I not tell you in the Bible that all these things must come to pass before I return. All things are Ready! Are you Ready? Will you come to the marriage?
Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and [my] fatlings [are] killed, and all things [are] ready: come unto the marriage.
Matthew 22:4
Are you making light of the call of God to the marriage, and going about doing your own thing, living as though you will never die? Look at what he did to those that made light of the call.
But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise: And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them. But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
Matthew 22:5-7
He sent forth his armies to destroy them. We see his armies on the news every night but we say to ourselves, “They can never come here to America.” Can I tell you something? The army of God’s judgment is here in America and they are soon to be revealed because America has made light of the call to repent and come to the marriage. All things Ready!
SLEEP ON NOW
Just as it was with the disciples when Jesus was about to be betrayed. All things were ready for him to die on the cross his disciples went to sleep. Many to day have gone to sleep even though all things are ready for the return of Jesus Christ. Will he say to you sleep on?
Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Matthew 26:45