Matthew chapter 24 begins with a powerful scene. Jesus leaves the temple and his disciples approach to show him the buildings. For them, that temple was impressive.  It was the religious center, the symbol of identity, the structure that seemed indestructible.  But Jesus looks at all this and says, “See all these things, not one stone here will be left upon another that will not be thrown down.

”  What a strong word.  The disciples admired the building, but Jesus saw the judgment that was to come.  They looked at stones, gold, beauty, and external grandeur.  Christ saw a house that had lost its purpose, because he himself had said that this house should be a house of prayer, but they had turned it into a den of thieves.

And now his disciples show the Lord what men admired, but which God had already condemned.  This teaches us something important.  Not everything that impresses men impresses God.  Not everything that is big is healthy.  Not everything beautiful has glory.  Not everything that seems firm will remain. There are structures that can take decades to build and fall in a single day when God allows their emptiness to be revealed.

  That’s why this message is not meant to produce fear, but to awaken.  This is not to fuel speculation, but to call on the church to prepare.  Christ did not speak of the end times so that we would live obsessed with dates, theories and sensationalism, but so that we would live vigilant, sober, holy and steadfast.  After announcing the destruction of the temple, his disciples asked him, “Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”  And Jesus’ first answer was not a date.

   It wasn’t a calendar, it wasn’t a secret formula.  His first word was a warning.  Look, don’t let anyone deceive you. That means that deception would be one of the greatest dangers for the disciples.  And if the Lord started there, we cannot treat it as something secondary. No one is completely immune to deception after years in a church.

No one is immune to lying simply by having a degree, a ministry, experience, or biblical knowledge. If we do not remain humble, if we do not love the truth, if we do not examine everything in the light of Scripture, if we do not depend on the Holy Spirit, we can be led astray by voices that seem spiritual but do not come from God.

So from the beginning we must understand the weight of this calling.  Return to the word, return to prayer, return to the simplicity of the gospel, return to Christ before the structures you trust are shaken.  The Lord is not calling us to a decorative faith, but to a resilient faith.

  Not a church that only sings when everything is fine, but a church that remains when night falls.  Not to believers who live distracted, but to disciples who know how to discern the times.  Because the world will change, freedoms may change, systems may change, the economy may change, nations may change, but Christ does not change, and whoever builds their life on Him will not be put to shame.

  When Jesus said, “See that no one deceives you.”  He was speaking to men who had walked with him, who had seen his miracles, who had heard his teaching directly from his lips, who had seen the sick healed, demons cast out, loaves multiplied, storms silenced, and the dead brought back to life.  And yet he told them, “Be careful, that should humiliate us.

”  If those disciples needed warning, how much more do we.  If men who were physically close to the master could be exposed to deception, how can we think that we are above that danger?  No one should feel too mature, too prepared, too biblical, too spiritual to be vigilant.  Deception doesn’t always come with a grotesque face; often it comes with religious language, with an appearance of wisdom, with attractive promises, with soft words, with messages that caress the flesh and lull the conscience to sleep.

Therefore, the first sign that Jesus places before his disciples is not a war, nor an earthquake, nor a plague, but deception.  For before many fall through persecution, many will fall through seduction.  Before some are overcome by pain, others will be overcome by lies. Spiritual deception is dangerous because it does not present itself as deception.

  Nobody takes poison if the bottle clearly says deadly poison.  The enemy knows how to disguise lies as partial truths.  He knows how to mix the Bible with ambition.  He knows how to use Christian vocabulary to introduce human doctrines.  He knows how to talk about blessing while hiding rebellion. He knows how to mention grace while eliminating regret.

  He knows how to talk about love while denying the holiness of God.  And that’s why we need discernment.  Not a morbid suspicion towards everyone. Not an arrogant attitude of believing that only we are right, but a humble heart, full of the word, capable of testing spirits, capable of comparing every message with scripture, capable of asking, does this exalt Christ or does it exalt man?  Does this call for repentance or justify sin?  Does this produce obedience or just emotion?  Does this bring me closer to the cross or does it feed my ego?  Does this make me love

the truth more, or does it only promise me a more comfortable life?  Jesus said that many would come in his name saying, “I am the Christ.”  And they would deceive many.  The word Christ speaks of the anointed one, the Messiah.  And this does not only refer to people who literally present themselves as the Messiah, although there have been and will be false Messiahs.

   It also points out all kinds of false anointed ones, false messengers, false voices clothed in spiritual authority who seek to occupy a place that belongs only to the Lord.  There are people who want me to follow their voice more than the voice of Christ.  There are religious systems that want to subject consciences to men and not to the word.

  There are preachers who use the name of Jesus, but the real focus of their message is not Christ, but money, fame, power, spectacle, success, or control.  And when a person loses their center, even if they continue to use Christian language, they begin to stray.  That’s why we shouldn’t be impressed solely by charisma, crowds, lights, music, intense phrases, or moving testimonies.

The question is not whether something is impressive.  The question is whether it is true, whether it is biblical, whether it leads to Christ, whether it produces holy fruit.  We live in a generation that loves signs, strong emotions, spiritual novelties, adrenaline-pumping experiences. But Jesus warned that a wicked generation looks for signs without wanting to repent.

  Not because God cannot perform signs, but because the human heart can become addicted to the extraordinary and despise the essential.   He may want miracles, but not obedience.  He may want prophecies.  But not holiness.  You may want words of prosperity, but not a cross.  You may want experiences, but not character.  And when the church exchanges hunger for the word, for a hunger for spectacle, it becomes vulnerable.

  Because a show can fill a venue, but it doesn’t necessarily create disciples. Music can be moving, but it doesn’t necessarily bring regret. A conference can be exciting, but not necessarily break your pride.  A motivational message can lift your spirits for a few hours, but only God’s truth can set your soul free. Jesus said, “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

” Lies, even when well- dressed, always end up enslaving. That is why it pains us to see that in some places preaching has been displaced by religious entertainment.  There is a lot of singing, a lot of applause, a lot of encouragement, a lot of declarations, but little confrontation.  And singing to the Lord is precious when it comes from a surrendered heart.

  Praise is biblical, necessary, and powerful.  But when music is used to avoid the confrontation of words, something is wrong.  Because a song can be pleasant, but the word holds a mirror up to us.  Words not only encourage us, they lay us bare; words not only comfort us, they correct us.  The word not only reminds us of promises, it calls us to surrender our sins.

  And many don’t like that mirror; they prefer messages that say, “Everything will be alright. God will bless you. Great doors will open,” but without mentioning repentance, purity, obedience, prayer, or turning away from lying, adultery, fornication, greed, pride, lukewarmness, and double living.

 But that’s not the whole gospel. God blesses, yes. God opens doors, yes. God restores, yes, but He never blesses rebellion as if it were obedience. He never calls light into darkness. He never offers grace so that we remain comfortable in sin. We are seeing what Jesus said: “Because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.

” What a terrible statement. It doesn’t just say that lawlessness will increase outside the church. It says that this increase will bring a cooling of many hearts. And one might ask, how does love grow cold? It grows cold when sin becomes normalized. It grows cold when prayer ceases to be a priority.

  It grows cold when the word no longer penetrates. It grows cold when the heart is filled with materialism. It grows cold when the believer becomes accustomed to living like the world, but with religious vocabulary. It grows cold when one no longer weeps for souls, is no longer moved by the holiness of God, no longer feels burdened to serve, no longer grieves for their sin, no longer joyfully awaits the coming of Christ.

 It grows cold little by little, like a house where the hearth fire is dying down and no one gets up to add wood, and when finally only ashes remain, some still say, “Everything is fine, we’re still meeting, we’re still singing, we’re still functioning.” But the Lord sees deeper. The sign of our times is not only that there are people hungry for the word, but also an enormous indifference toward it.

 There are those who hear one message after another, follow one preacher after another, go to one church after another, attend conferences, campaigns, meetings, and broadcasts, and remain the same. Same bondages, same struggles.  The same lack of growth, the same untreated character , the same lack of commitment. Then one wonders, why does the word seem to bounce off? Why do so many hear and so few respond? Not because the word has lost its power, but because many hearts have become accustomed to listening without obeying. And that is one of

the most serious illnesses of our generation: having access to more messages than ever before and yet experiencing less transformation. We have paper Bibles, Bibles on our phones, sermons at any hour, Bible studies, commentaries, platforms, channels, resources, but do we have more holiness, more prayer, more service, more fear of God, more love for the lost, more willingness to deny ourselves? If not, then the abundance of information is making us responsible, not mature.

 Jesus also spoke of wars, rumors of wars, nation against nation, kingdom against kingdom, famines, plagues, earthquakes in different places. And he said that all of this would be the beginning of birth pains, not the immediate end, but birth pains. Birth pains have one characteristic: they increase in intensity and frequency.

  until the appointed time arrives . If we are to understand the times, it’s not to panic or play at setting dates, but to awaken. Every generation has had its signs, but ours is experiencing a concentration of moral, spiritual, political, technological, and social changes that should lead us to a more sober life. The Bible doesn’t call us to be obsessed with headlines, but rather to discern.

 It doesn’t call us to speculate with pride, but rather to be vigilant. It doesn’t call us to shut ourselves in fear, but rather to prepare ourselves. Because the same Christ who said, “See that no one deceives you,” also said, “See that you are not troubled.” That is, beware of lies, but also beware of panic. The believer should not live deceived or troubled.

 They should live vigilant and trusting in God. And in the midst of all this, the question isn’t just, “What is happening in the world?” The more serious question is, “What is happening to me?” Because it’s easy to point to the darkness outside and not see the lukewarmness within. It’s easy to talk about the evil of society and not  We must acknowledge our lack of prayer.

 It’s easy to denounce the confusion of the times without examining whether our love has grown cold. It’s easy to criticize false teachers without asking ourselves if we are obeying the true Master. The call in Matthew 24 is not for the merely curious, but for disciples. It’s not about filling our minds with prophetic facts, but about preparing our hearts.

 Christ doesn’t want an informed but asleep church. He wants a church that is awake, holy, steadfast, humble, full of truth, capable of resisting deception and remaining faithful when pressure mounts. That’s why we must return to a sincere search for God. There are still open doors, the gospel is still being preached, the Holy Spirit still convicts of sin.

 There is still an opportunity to repent. Christ still calls, the word still spreads. We can still kneel, open the Bible, put our lives in order, be reconciled, ask for forgiveness, serve, evangelize, consecrate ourselves, and awaken. But we must not waste time on vanities. How much time has been spent on things that do not edify? How many hours on distractions that produce no eternal fruit?  How many useless conversations.

How many worries without prayer. How much energy invested in what will have no weight before God tomorrow. Church of the Lord, this is not a time to sleep. This is not a time to play with sin. This is not a time to seek a comfortable gospel. This is a time to return to Christ with all your heart. Jesus did not want his disciples to be trapped in prophetic curiosity without practical obedience.

 That is why , when they ask him about the signs of his coming and the end of the age, he does not give them a map to fuel speculation, but a warning to build character. See that no one deceives you. Then he tells them about false Christs, wars, rumors of wars, plagues, famines, earthquakes, persecution, betrayal, false prophets, and a cooling of love.

 And in saying all this, the Lord is teaching us that the problem of the end times will not only be what happens on earth, but what happens within the human heart. Because you can see earthquakes and not tremble before God. You can hear news of war and continue living.  in sin. You can talk about the Antichrist and not examine whether there is a spirit of disobedience in your own life.

You can study Revelation and still not forgive, not pray, not evangelize, not live in holiness. That is why prophetic knowledge, if it does not produce vigilance, repentance, and faithfulness, becomes dangerous information, because it can inflate the mind while the heart remains asleep. The Bible often speaks of signs and also of times.

 And the wise believer does not live in ignorance of the times, but neither does he live enslaved by them. We must discern without panicking, watch without paranoia, prepare without ceasing to love, and look at the signs without losing sight of the Lord of the signs. Every generation has had moments that confront it. Noah’s generation ate, drank, married, made plans, and continued with their lives as if nothing were going to happen until the flood came and swept them all away.

 They were not condemned for eating or marrying, but for living without fear of God, without repentance, without heeding the warning. That is the  The tragedy of a sleeping generation. It continues to operate as judgment draws near. Jesus’ generation asked for signs, but rejected the greatest sign : the Son of God among them, dead and risen according to the Scriptures.

 And our generation also has its signs. We do n’t need to invent them. We simply need to look with biblical eyes. Moral confusion, spiritual apathy, false teachers, materialism, emptying churches, temples turned into businesses, believers without hunger for the Word, young people pressured to deny the truth, weakened families, faith reduced to entertainment, and a society increasingly hostile to the gospel.

 But the most serious issue isn’t that the world acts like the world; the most serious issue is when the church begins to live as if the world were right. When believers speak the same way, react the same way, consume the same things, love the same things, fear the same things, pursue the same things, and are only distinguished by occasionally entering a place called church.

 That’s not witness; that’s spiritual camouflage. And the Lord did n’t call us to go unnoticed. He said we are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. world. Salt is useless if it loses its flavor. Light doesn’t fulfill its purpose if it’s hidden under a table. A church that doesn’t make a difference ends up being irrelevant.

 Not because it lacks methods, but because it lacks holy fire. We can have creativity, resources, platforms, buildings, music, cameras, screens, and programs. But if there is no holiness, no prayer, no Word, no compassion for the lost, no spiritual authority born of obedience, then we have become a religious institution that retains its form but has lost its power.

 And this is painfully evident in many places. Places that were once temples where Christ was sung are now bars, nightclubs, cafes, or shopping malls. Churches that were once built to preach the gospel are now for sale because the congregation has aged, faded, emptied, or lost its vision. And one might view this as real estate news, but spiritually it’s a cry for help.

 It’s not simply about buildings being sold; it’s about generations that weren’t discipled, about homes that didn’t pass on the  Faith, from pulpits that perhaps have ceased to confront, from congregations that have grown accustomed to a religion without a mission. Because the beauty of a church is not in its walls, nor in its pews, nor in its sound, nor in its design.

 The beauty of a church is in the souls that love Christ, in healthy sheep, in restored families, in consecrated youth, in steadfast elders, in children instructed in the truth, in believers who pray, serve, forgive, evangelize, and await the Lord with burning lamps. That is why we must ask ourselves, what are we sowing? Because we cannot expect a spiritual harvest if we have sown distraction, comfort, superficiality, and entertainment.

 We cannot expect young people filled with fire if we have shown them a lukewarm Christianity. We cannot expect strong families if the family altar disappeared years ago. We cannot expect a missionary church if we only teach people to receive and not to give themselves. We cannot expect courage if we never preach the cross.

 We cannot expect discernment if we have replaced Scripture with opinions. The law of  Sowing and reaping don’t disappear just because we’re in a congregation. What a man sows, that he will also reap. If we sow the Word, prayer, holiness, and truth for Christ, there will be fruit. If we sow vanity, fleshly desires, and superficiality, we will reap spiritual weakness.

 Now , the Lord is still giving us an opportunity. The doors are still open. There is still time to return. We can still awaken. We can still repent of having lived a half-hearted faith. We can still say, “Lord, I don’t want to go unnoticed.”   I do n’t want to be just another person who talks about Christ but lives without Christ at the center.  I don’t want a lamp turned off.

   I don’t want a beautiful house without presence.   I do n’t want a Christian man with a cold heart.  This is a time for sincere searching. Not pretense, not spiritual makeup, not momentary emotion, but a sincere search, a search that leads us to close doors to sin, to silence voices that contaminate us, to open the Bible with hunger, to recover secret prayer, to restore broken relationships when possible, to serve with humility, to preach with courage, to live with a clean conscience before God.  And at this point we need to

understand something.  The signs of the times are not meant to satisfy curiosity, but to awaken responsibility. If Christ is coming soon, then I must live in holiness today.  If evil multiplies, then I must keep love burning.  If the deception increases, then I need to know the truth better. If the world’s systems are moving towards greater control, then my trust cannot be in money, technology, governments, or human stability.

  If many churches grow cold, then I must cry out that my heart will not grow cold. If many will be swept away by the current, then I must learn to go against the current, holding Christ’s hand .  Because following Jesus was never about following the majority.  Following Jesus has always meant entering through the narrow gate, walking the narrow path, carrying the cross, denying self, and remaining faithful even when others turn away.

  The world is preparing people to live without God.  Prepare children to think without God, young people to desire without God, families to organize themselves without God, nations to legislate without God, economic systems to control without God, and false religions to expand with determination. Meanwhile, many Christians are distracted by small things.

  The enemy does not need everyone to publicly deny Christ.  Sometimes it is enough for him to keep them busy, tired, entertained, in debt, resentful, and spiritually weak.  That way they don’t pray, they don’t study, they don’t serve, they don’t evangelize, they don’t keep watch .  That is why the church must wake up, not tomorrow, today.

  Because when a generation loses the fear of God, the next thing it loses is discernment.  And when he loses his discernment, he begins to call his slavery freedom.  But there is a glorious hope that sustains this calling.  Christ is coming, not for a church that is perfect in human appearance, but for a church washed by his blood, without spot or wrinkle, prepared, awake, faithful.

  This hope should not produce passivity, but purity. John says that everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.  The hope of Christ’s coming is not an excuse to abandon responsibility; it is a reason to live more seriously. If the king comes, let’s clean the house.  If the bridegroom comes, let us keep the lamps lit.

  If the judge is at the door, let’s not play with sin.  If the Savior is near, let us preach while there is still time.  If the night is far gone, let us wake up from our sleep, for our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.  So don’t look at these times with eyes of defeat.  Look at them with sobriety and with faith.

  Yes, these are difficult times.  Yes, the pressure will increase.  Yes, the deception will be strong.  Yes, many will cool down.  But it will also be an opportunity for true disciples to shine with a light that does not come from them, but from Christ.  When everything goes dark, a small light stands out more.  When lies multiply, the truth becomes more precious.

  When many are negotiating, faithfulness becomes a powerful testimony.  When the church stops playing games and returns to kneeling, the Lord is glorified. Therefore, lift your gaze.  Get your life in order, return to the word, seek God with all your heart and do not let these times drag you down.  Christ spoke, Christ warned, Christ promised.

  And the same Christ who said that difficult days would come , also said, “I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” There is a truth we must urgently reclaim. The coming of Christ was not revealed to feed curiosity, but to produce holiness. The Lord did not speak to us of the end times so that we would fill our minds with theories and leave our hearts unrepentant.

 He did not give us signs so that we would live obsessed with news, dates, political systems, or human names, while neglecting prayer, the Word, and obedience. Biblical prophecy, when rightly understood, does not make us cold, proud, or speculative. It makes us sober, humble, watchful, and consecrated. For if Christ is coming, then we cannot live as if He will never come.

If the King is near, we cannot continue cleaning only the facade while the interior remains in disarray. If the bridegroom is coming for His church, the lamps cannot remain unlit. If the trumpet will sound, the question is not simply when it will sound, but whether we will be ready when it does. Paul writing  In 1 Corinthians, chapter 15, it speaks of a mystery.

 And in Scripture, a mystery is not a fantasy, a strange idea, or human speculation. It is a truth that was hidden and that God chooses to reveal in His time. The apostle says, “We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed.”  What a powerful statement.  There will be a generation of believers who will not go through death as so many before have, but will be transformed in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye.

  The dead in Christ will rise imperishable, and those who are alive will be transformed. This is not religious poetry, this is apostolic hope.  This is a divine promise.  This is the certainty that history will not end in the hands of governments, empires, technology, or human corruption, but in the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Death will not have the last word, the grave will not have the last word, sin will not have the last word, Christ will have the last word.  But Paul says this will happen at the final trumpet.  And although believers may have different ways of understanding some eschatological details, there is something we cannot dispute.

  The Bible calls us to live ready.  Not ready out of carnal fear, but out of obedient faith. Not ready because we know the exact day, but because we know the Lord who is coming.  Writing doesn’t give us permission to sleep because we don’t know the time. On the contrary, precisely because we don’t know the time.  We must be vigilant.

  Jesus said that no one knows the day or the hour, but he also said that we must be prepared.  The problem for many is that they use what they don’t know as an excuse not to obey what they do know.  I don’t know the day, so I live distractedly.  I don’t know the time, so I postpone my regret.   I do n’t know how all the details fit together, so I don’t worry about my holiness.  That’s a dangerous mistake.

  You don’t need to know the date to live faithfully.  You don’t need to know all the details of the prophetic calendar to cleanse your heart, forgive your brother, close the door to sin, seek God, and preach the gospel while there is still time.  The book of Revelation shows us that human history is moving towards a final manifestation of God’s rule and God’s judgment.

  It speaks of seals, trumpets, bowls, judgments, nations shaken, human systems broken, spiritual powers at work, and the final triumph of the Lamb.  It is not a book meant to produce dark entertainment or hopeless fear.  It is a revelation of Jesus Christ.  From the beginning, the center is not the beast, nor the dragon, nor the judgments, nor Babylon, nor the catastrophes.

The center is Christ glorified. The lamb that was slain is worthy.  He who was rejected by men reigns in majesty.  The one who was crucified will come as king.  He who was humiliated will be acknowledged by every knee. Therefore, studying prophecy without worshipping Christ is to lose the purpose. To speak of the end of the Lord of the end is a contradiction.

  Knowing details about the antichrist and not living under the lordship of Christ is a spiritual tragedy.  And yes, the scripture speaks of a final leader, of a system of deception, of control, of rebellion against God, of a humanity that will seek to organize itself without the creator.  The Bible speaks of the man of sin, the wicked one, the son of perdition, of an anti-Christian spirit that is already at work in the world and that will manifest itself with greater force.

But we shouldn’t look at these things with morbid curiosity or fascination.  We must look at them with discernment and fear of God.  Because the spirit of antichrist does not begin only when a final character appears.  It operates every time the authority of Christ is denied, every time the truth of God is replaced by a lie, every time man is exalted above the creator, every time a society says, “We do not want this to reign over us.

” And that attitude is already in the world, it’s in systems, in ideologies, in laws, in education, in entertainment, in false religions.  And he also tries to infiltrate the church when Christ ceases to be the center and man occupies the throne.  That’s why we must be careful.   It’s not about living with conspiracies everywhere, but neither is it about living naively as if nothing is happening.

  Today we see a stunning increase in control, surveillance, and dependency. technological advancements, increasingly centralized economic systems , and a global capacity to track, measure, analyze, and direct human behavior.  And while we shouldn’t assert more than what the scriptures state, we must acknowledge that the world is preparing for forms of control that previous generations could not have imagined.

What once seemed impossible is now commonplace.  A device we carry in our hand knows our tastes, our conversations, our movements, our searches, our purchases, our weaknesses. And the believer should not respond with panic, but with wisdom.  Our trust is not in money, because money can fail.  It’s not in the systems, because systems can change.

  It is not in the stability of a nation. Because the nations tremble.  Our trust is in Christ, in his word, in his unshakable kingdom.  But the most important preparation is not storing up external resources, it is having your heart aligned with God. Understanding signs is useless if the soul is lost.  There’s no point in talking about trumpets if we haven’t been born again.

   There is no point in discussing the end times if we remain dead in crimes and sins.  That is why all preaching about the coming of Christ must come to this question.  If today were your last day, where would you spend eternity?  Not tomorrow, not in many years’ time, today, because death does not ask for permission.

Life is fragile, eternity is real. And a man can gain money, fame, position, knowledge, relationships, experience and still lose his soul. Jesus said it clearly.  What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?  That question shatters any false sense of security.  You can have a house, but not have peace.

You can have health but not salvation.  You can have religion, but not have life.  You can have plans, but you can’t have forgiveness. You can have time for everything except God, and one day discover that time has run out.  The Bible teaches that it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment.

  There is no reincarnation, no second life to correct what you rejected in this one.  There is no biblical purgatory where you negotiate afterwards what you refused to surrender before.  There is life, death, judgment, and eternity.  That may sound harsh to a generation that doesn’t want to hear absolutes.  But it is merciful to tell the truth before it is too late.

  The biggest problem for human beings is not political, economic, psychological, or social, although all of those areas can be important. The biggest problem for human beings is sin, which separates them from God, and the wages of sin is death. Physical death, yes, because we are all going to the grave if Christ does not come first.

  But also spiritual death, a life disconnected from God, breathing on the outside and empty on the inside, functioning, buying, traveling, laughing, working, but dead in crimes and sins.  And that is why Christ came.  He didn’t come to improve our religion a little, he didn’t come to give us a philosophy of life, he didn’t come to make our condemnation more bearable .  He came to save.

  He came to find and save what had been lost. He came to die on a cross for sinners. He came to shed his blood to cleanse the guilt.  He came to conquer death with his resurrection.   He came so that whoever believes in him may not perish but have eternal life.  This is the good news that the church cannot stop preaching.

  If we stop talking about sin, the cross loses its meaning.  If we stop talking about judgment, grace seems unnecessary.  If we stop talking about hell, the call to repentance becomes weak.  If we stop talking about the resurrection, our faith becomes empty. But Christ died, Christ rose again, Christ reigns, and Christ will return.

  And today He still extends mercy to the repentant sinner.  Therefore, do not harden your heart. Don’t play with eternity.  Don’t say, “Someday I’ll make things right with God.” Don’t say, “When I’m older.” Don’t say, “When I sort out my affairs.” Don’t say, “When I feel something stronger.” Today is the day of salvation.

Today the Lord is calling you. Today His patience is an open door. The Bible says that He is not slow in keeping His promise, as some understand slowness. Instead, He is patient, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. Perhaps Christ hasn’t come yet because He is still calling His own, because there are still souls who need to repent, because there are still prodigal sons who need to return, because there are still hearts that need to be broken by His love.

 But don’t mistake God’s patience for indifference. God’s patience is salvation, but it also has a limit on the eternal calendar. So if you are hearing this word, don’t treat it as just another message. It may be one of the last opportunities God grants you to surrender to Christ, to return to the path, to be reconciled to Him, to leave behind your double life, to abandon  That coldness, to surrender your soul to the Savior.

 It doesn’t matter if you’ve been in church for years or if you barely understand the Bible, it doesn’t matter if you come from a religious tradition or if you ‘ve never believed. What matters is this. You need Christ, you need forgiveness, you need to be born again. You need the Holy Spirit to give you life where there is death. You need the blood of Jesus to cleanse what you cannot cleanse with human effort.

 And if you hear His voice today, don’t harden your heart. Repent. Believe in the gospel. Come to Christ. Because the same Lord who warns of judgment is the one who opens His arms to the sinner and says, “Come to me.” And if we talk about being prepared for the Lord’s coming, then we cannot avoid talking about eternity.

 Because the prophetic message doesn’t end with systems, signs, trumpets, nations, judgments, or future events. It ends by directly confronting the human soul before God. The most urgent question isn’t just whether you understand Matthew 24, or whether you can explain Revelation, or whether you know the  Different views on the rapture, or whether you can distinguish between seals, trumpets, and bowls.

 The most urgent question is this: If your life ended today, would you be prepared to meet God? If tonight were your last night, if you did n’t wake up tomorrow, if in a few hours your name entered eternity, what would your destiny be? Because we can talk a lot about the end of the world and forget that for each person, the end can come at any moment.

 For some, the end won’t come first with a great sign in the sky, but with the last heartbeat. And when that moment arrives, it won’t matter how much money you accumulated, how many plans you had, how many things you bought, how many opinions you defended, how many trips you took, or how many people applauded you.

 Only one thing will matter: whether you belong to Christ or not. We live in a generation that avoids talking about death, glosses over it, hides it, turns it into a statistic, softens it with vague phrases, but cannot eliminate it. Death continues to visit homes, hospitals, highways, wealthy neighborhoods, and  The poor, the young, and the old, believers and non-believers.

 And the Bible doesn’t allow us to speak of it superficially. Hebrews 9:27 says that it is appointed for man to die once, and after that to face judgment once . There is no reincarnation, no other life to correct what was rejected in this one. There is no second chance after death to bargain with God. There is life, death, judgment, and eternity.

 This may unsettle a society that wants to choose its own truth, but God’s truth doesn’t bend to our preferences. Human beings can deny gravity, but if they jump from a building, they will fall anyway. They can deny fire, but if they put their hand in the flame, they will get burned anyway. They can deny judgment, but their denial will not cancel the throne of God.

 Some say, “I don’t believe in hell.” But man’s unbelief does not destroy the reality that God has revealed. Others say, “I believe that in the end everyone will go to heaven.” But we are not the ones who design eternity; it is God. God has spoken. Others say, “I am a good person.” But salvation is not received by comparing ourselves to other sinners, but by acknowledging our condition before the holy God.

 Others rest on a religious tradition, a childhood prayer, a ceremony, a Christian family, or having once attended church. But none of these things can save a soul that has not been born again. Jesus didn’t tell Nicodemus, a religious man knowledgeable in the law, “You need to improve a little.” He said, “You need to be born again.” That’s the point.

 The problem with human beings is not simply a lack of information, a lack of self-esteem, or a lack of religion. The problem is spiritual death. Paul said it clearly. He gave you life when you were dead in your trespasses and sins. He doesn’t say merely sick, he doesn’t say merely confused, he says dead.

 And a dead person cannot resurrect themselves. A dead person does not wash themselves. A dead person does not rise by their own strength. They need life to come from outside, and that life comes from Christ. That is why the gospel is not advice.  Morality for decent people is the power of God for salvation. Christ came because we were lost.

Christ died because our sin required judgment. Christ shed his blood because without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. Christ rose again because death could not hold the author of life. And today, the same risen Christ calls the sinner to repentance and faith. He does n’t call you to become a little more religious. He calls you to give you life.

 He does n’t call you to pretend to be better on the outside while you remain dead inside. He calls you to pull you out of the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom of his beloved Son. He calls you to forgive your sins, cleanse your conscience, break chains, give you a new heart, and make you a child of God. Perhaps someone will hear this and say, “But I have an emptiness that nothing fills.

” That emptiness is not accidental. There are people who try to fill it with money, with pleasure, with relationships, with travel, with achievements, with entertainment, with substances, with religion, with work, with recognition, with shopping, with social media. And yet, at the end of the day…  Every day, they feel the same dissatisfaction.

Why? Because the human heart was created for God. When the spirit is disconnected from the source of life, nothing created can fill the Creator’s place . You can have moments of excitement, moments of distraction, moments of pleasure, moments of success, but when it all fades, the emptiness remains.

 And that emptiness isn’t healed by more of the world; it’s healed by returning to God. It isn’t healed by escaping; it’s healed by surrendering. It is n’t healed by masking guilt; it’s healed by receiving forgiveness. It isn’t healed by a new philosophy; it’s healed by being born again. That’s why the call of the gospel is urgent. Today is your opportunity.

 You don’t know if you ‘ll have another tomorrow. You don’t know if there will be another service, another message, another invitation, another moment of conviction. The Bible says, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”  Today that word carries weight.  Today God speaks to you. Christ is calling you today.

  Today the Holy Spirit may be touching an area of ​​your soul that you have been avoiding for years. Today you can stop running away.  Today you can confess what you have hidden.  Today you can surrender your pride. Today you can say, “Lord, I no longer want to stay far away.”  Don’t say later.  Don’t say, “When I fix my life.” If you could fix it yourself, Christ would n’t have had to die for you.

  Don’t say when I understand everything.  No one comes to Christ because they understand all the mysteries.  He comes because he recognizes that he is lost and needs salvation.  Don’t say anything when you feel something stronger. Salvation does not depend on an intense emotion, but on repentance and faith in Jesus Christ.

  Christ has not delayed his promise because he is indifferent. Scripture says that the Lord is patient, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. God’s patience is an open door, but an open door will not remain open forever.  One day patience will give way to judgment.  One day the invitation will end.

  One day the one who knocks on the door will stop knocking.  One day the trumpet will sound.  One day the books will be opened.  One day every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.  The question is whether you will confess him now as savior or whether you will acknowledge him later as judge, because every knee will bow.

  The difference is whether you willingly bend in repentance today or whether you will be forced by the irresistible glory of the king when there is no longer any opportunity for salvation.  We’re not talking about human religion, we’re not calling on you to sign up to a list, to adopt a label, to please a congregation, to improve a statistic.

We are talking about your soul, we are talking about eternity, we are talking about the God who created you, about the sin that separates you from him. of Christ who died on the cross for sinners, of the blood that can cleanse you, of the resurrection that guarantees eternal life, of the Holy Spirit who can make you new.

  The Church does not need your money for you to be saved.  God is not in need of your possessions.  He wants your heart.  And when God asks for your heart, He doesn’t ask for it because He wants to take your life, but because He knows that without Him you are already losing it.

  Jesus said, “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”  But that life is received by coming to him, not admiring him from afar, not postponing him, not arguing with one’s conscience, but surrendering.  And perhaps you’ll say, “I’ve done too much wrong.”  Listen carefully.  If there is true repentance, the blood of Christ is more powerful than your sin.

   There is no stain he cannot clean.   There is no chain he cannot break.  There is no past that he cannot redeem. But don’t confuse that with permission to continue as before.  The grace that forgives also transforms.  The mercy one receives also sanctifies.  Come as you are.  Yes, but don’t expect to stay as you are.  Come with your guilt.

  Come with your wounds, come with your failures, come with your shame, come with your weariness, come with your broken story, but come willing to surrender your life to the Lord, because Christ is not an add-on to your agenda, He is King; He is not a charm for your problems, He is Savior; He is not a religious emotion, He is the living Son of God , crucified and resurrected, worthy of all.  The tomb is empty.

  That is our hope.  If Christ had not risen, our faith would be in vain, our preaching would be empty, and we would continue in our sins.  But Christ rose again, death was defeated, the stone was rolled away.  The tomb remained as a testimony that the Father accepted the work of the Son.  And because he lives, the sinner can be forgiven.

Because He lives, the spiritually dead can receive life.  Because he lives, the believer can expect resurrection. Because he lives, the story has a glorious ending.  Because He lives, the church does not preach a memory, but a present Lord, and that Lord is calling today.  Do not harden your hearts, so listen to me carefully.

  If you have not given your life to Christ, do not let this hour pass you by. If you’ve strayed, come back.  If you have a lifeless religion, repent.  If you’re playing with sin, stop.  If you have lived far from God, come to the Father through the Son.  You don’t need perfect words.  You need a broken heart and sincere faith.

  Say to Him, “Lord Jesus, I acknowledge that I am a sinner. I acknowledge that I need forgiveness. I believe that You died for me and rose again. I repent of my sins; come into my life. Be my Lord and my Savior.” I know that prayer isn’t magic, but it can be the beginning of a new life if it comes from a surrendered heart. Today Christ is calling you.

Today the door is open. Today there is mercy. Come to Him. There is an image that must be etched in our consciousness: an empty tomb—not a theory, not a tradition, not a religious emotion, not a pretty story to comfort the weak, but an empty tomb. Because if Christ did not rise, then everything we preach collapses.

 If Christ did not rise, the cross would be just another tragedy in human history. If Christ did not rise, death would still reign unopposed. If Christ did not rise, our sins would still weigh us down. Our faith would be in vain, and our hope would have no foundation. But the tomb is empty. The Lord lives, and because He lives, He lives.

 The gospel is not a philosophy,  but the power of God for salvation. Because He lives, the sinner can be forgiven. Because He lives, the slave can be free. Because He lives, the hardened heart can be broken because He lives. The one who was spiritually dead can be born again because He lives. The church does not proclaim a memory, but a present King who saves, transforms, and will return.

 There is something profoundly serious about this. Christianity is not sustained by full temples, nor by religious systems, nor by the human capacity to organize activities. It is sustained by a living person, Jesus Christ, crucified and risen. That is why we do not simply preach values, nor morality, nor emotional well-being, nor advice for improving life.

We preach Christ, we preach His incarnation, His holy life, His substitutionary death, His shed blood, His burial, His resurrection, His ascension, His intercession, and His glorious return. And when a church stops preaching Christ in this way, it may still have religious language, but it has lost its center.

 It may sing, it may meet, it may broadcast, it may fill schedules, but if Christ crucified and risen is not  He’s at the center, so we’re offering the world something that can’t save. People don’t just need to feel better for an hour; they need to be reconciled to God. They don’t need a religion that masks their emptiness. They need eternal life.

 They don’t need an emotion that fades tomorrow. They need the living Lord entering their story. That’s why the testimony of a transformed life has so much power. When a person truly encounters Christ, something changes at the root. It doesn’t always change everything in a second in terms of processes, wounds, or habits, but it changes the Lordship, it changes the direction, it changes the source, it changes the owner of the heart.

 Those who once lived for themselves begin to understand that they were bought with a price. Those who hated begin to discover forgiveness. Those who were once full of violence, anger, pride, or destruction begin to weep before God and acknowledge, “I need your love, I need your mercy, I need you to save me.” That’s the work of the Holy Spirit.

 It’s not emotional manipulation, [snort], it’s not human pressure; it’s God opening the eyes of a sinner to see the beauty of Christ and the gravity of their sin. And  When that happens, one can no longer remain silent. Because if it is true that the Son of God died for us, if it is true that He bore our sins, if it is true that He was scourged, spat upon, crowned with thorns, nailed to a cross, buried, and raised on the third day, then this is too great to keep to oneself as a private opinion.

 The church needs to recover that holy urgency—not an aggressive urgency, not empty shouting, not carnal pressure, but a passion born from the reality of the cross and of eternity. How can we remain silent if we know that Christ saves? How can we remain indifferent if there are souls walking toward eternal death? How can we live obsessed with our petty affairs while there are people who do not know the Savior? How can we argue over vanities when time is running out? How can we spend our whole lives seeking comfort if the Lord has commanded us to go and

preach the gospel? The early church did not have the resources we have, but it had a burning conviction. Christ lives, Christ saves, Christ is coming. And that  Their conviction led them to preach even in the face of opposition, imprisonment, threats, and death. They didn’t have to be entertaining to serve.

 They didn’t need everything to be comfortable. They had seen the glory of the risen Christ and knew the world needed to hear. Perhaps that’s why so many modern believers feel so cold, because they have lost the capacity to marvel at the gospel. They have become accustomed to hearing that Jesus died. They have become accustomed to singing about the blood.

 They have become accustomed to hearing that the tomb is empty. And when one becomes accustomed to the glorious, one runs the danger of treating the eternal as if it were commonplace. But there is nothing commonplace about the cross. There is nothing small about Calvary. There is nothing routine about the fact that the Son of God was handed over for sinners like us.

We should tremble and worship. We should weep and surrender. We should rise each day saying, “Lord, if you gave your life for me, my life belongs to you.” That is the reasonable response to the gospel. Not Sunday faith, not partial obedience, not  Not superficial gratitude, but a whole life placed at the feet of Christ.

 And if Christ rose again, then we must also understand that our mission is not over. He didn’t save us to hide until he returns. He saved us to be witnesses—witnesses not of invented ideas, but of an eternal reality. Every believer should carry this prayer in their heart: Lord, use me to bring souls to your feet.

 Not everyone will preach from a pulpit. Not everyone will travel the world. Not everyone will have a public ministry. But everyone can witness. A mother can tell her children about Christ. A young person can stand firm in the midst of a hostile class. A worker can reflect integrity and share hope. A neighbor can pray for another neighbor.

 A believer can reach out to someone who is broken and say, “Christ can lift you up too.” The mission doesn’t belong to just a few; it belongs to the church. And a church that doesn’t evangelize is forgetting why it was left in the world. But we must evangelize with the right message. We don’t call people to improvement.  Superficial.

 We don’t promise them a trouble-free life. We do n’t tell them that coming to Christ means everything will be easy. We tell them the truth. You are a sinner, you are separated from God. You cannot save yourself. Christ died and rose again. Repent and believe in the gospel. And we also tell them, there is forgiveness, there is grace, there is new life, there is adoption, there is the Holy Spirit, there is eternal hope, there is a family of faith, there is a Lord who does not abandon.

 The gospel wounds pride before it heals the soul, it tears down self-sufficiency before it lifts up the sinner. It tells us the truth about our misery, but it doesn’t leave us there. It leads us to the mercy of God in Christ. That is the preaching that saves because it is not focused on man, but on the Lamb.

 That is why, when we make a call to Christ, we are not putting on religious theater, we are not trying to fill a space at the front, we are not playing with emotions, we are facing an eternal matter. Every person who responds to the gospel is a soul for whom Christ shed his blood. Every tear of  Repentance is precious in God’s sight.

 Every surrendered heart is a work of grace, and we must treat that moment with holy fear. No one can be converted by human pressure. No one can be born again because someone pushes them. But when the Holy Spirit convicts, when the word penetrates, when a person understands their need for salvation, then we must respond—not tomorrow, not when it’s more convenient, but today.

 Because the call of the gospel is always urgent. Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts. Perhaps someone has lived years far from God. Perhaps someone has used a religious facade to hide an empty heart. Perhaps someone grew accustomed to hearing messages but never truly surrendered.

 Perhaps someone was wounded by religion and turned away, confusing Christ with the errors of men. Perhaps someone says, “I am not worthy.” And it’s true, no one is worthy in themselves. That is precisely why we need grace. Christ did not come to seek people who could boast of their purity, but sinners who recognize their need. He did not come to call the righteous,  but to sinners to repentance.

 The door is open not for the proud who think they need nothing, but for the brokenhearted who say, “Lord, have mercy on me.”  If you come like this, you will not be rejected.” Whoever comes to Christ, He will not cast out. So the empty tomb forces us to decide. If Christ lives, we cannot leave Him as just another thought in our minds.

 If Christ lives, we must surrender. If Christ lives, we must preach Him. If Christ lives, we must await His coming. If Christ lives, we must forsake sin. If Christ lives, we must live for His glory. There is no neutrality before the risen One. Either we receive Him as Lord or we continue to resist the only one who can save us.

 Either we kneel now in repentance, or one day every knee will bow before Him when there is no longer any chance of salvation. May God grant us to respond today with humility. May we not be a generation that had many messages and little obedience. May we not be a church with much information and little passion for souls. May the Lord restore to us the fire of the gospel, the burden for the lost, the reverence for the cross, and the holy joy of knowing that our Redeemer lives.

 If Christ lives, if Christ reigns, if  Christ is coming, so the Christian life cannot be lived lukewarmly. We cannot speak of an empty tomb and continue living as if sin had a right over us. We cannot say that we await the Lord and at the same time be spiritually asleep. We cannot sing that he is King of kings and Lord of lords and then allow fear, money, culture, the flesh, technology, human opinions, or personal desires to rule our hearts.

 Christ’s resurrection not only gives us hope for the future, it also demands a response in the present. If he conquered death, then we are not called to merely survive religiously, but to live as a redeemed people. If he shed his blood, then we are not our own. If he promised to return, then every day must be lived before him with lamps burning, with a clear conscience, with willing hands, with open eyes, and with a prepared heart.

But this preparation is not made in a moment of emotion; it is formed in daily life. It is formed when you choose to pray, even when your flesh resists. It is formed when you open the Word, even when the  The world may offer you 1,000 distractions. It is formed when you say no to a temptation no one else knows about.

 It is formed when you decide to forgive because Christ forgave you. It is formed when you choose to serve even if you don’t receive applause. It is formed when you get up after falling and don’t let guilt bury you, but instead run to sincere repentance. It is formed when you stop living for human approval and begin to ask yourself, “Lord, does this please you?”   Does this decision honor your name?  Does this relationship bring me closer to you or pull me away?  Does this conversation build up or pollute?  Does this habit strengthen me or enslave me?  The believer who waits for

Christ does not live distracted, he lives examined by the word.  And this generation urgently needs that examination because there is tremendous pressure on families, on young people, on children, on marriages, on believers who work in environments where God’s truth is ridiculed. There is a current that pushes strongly.

A movement that not only wants the world to live without God, but also wants the church to be ashamed of God.  He wants Christians to be silent, to adapt, to soften the message, to hide uncomfortable truths, to renounce holiness, and to accept as normal what God calls sin.  And if we are not rooted in Christ, the current will carry us away.

  No one can resist the current of the world with a superficial faith.  No one can stand firm with a neglected prayer life .  No one can discern deception if they feed more on social media, news, entertainment, and human opinions than on the living word of God.  To remain, one must be anchored. To win, one must be clothed in the armor of God.

  To avoid being deceived, one must love the truth more than comfort.  Paul said that in the last days many would not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears they would heap up for themselves teachers according to their own desires.  That expression reveals a sickness of the soul.  They are not looking for the truth, they are looking for someone to tell them what they want to hear.

  They do not seek to be transformed.  They seek to be confirmed on their own path.  They do not want a word that leads them to the cross.  They want a word that will allow them to keep their ego intact.  And when a generation has an itch to hear, voices will appear ready to scratch that itch.  Message without repentance, grace without holiness, prosperity without obedience, love without truth, Christ without the cross, Church without mission, faith without sacrifice, hope without judgment.

  But that doesn’t save, that entertains, that lulls, that fills halls maybe, but it doesn’t prepare a bride for her husband.  The Church of Christ must love sound doctrine, not because it is cold, but because truth is the path to freedom.  The truth may hurt at first, but it heals.  Lies may comfort at first, but they enslave.

   That is why we must ask the Lord to free us from a comfortable faith.  A comfortable faith wants benefit without surrender, it wants salvation without lordship, it wants promise without obedience, it wants heaven without the cross, it wants to sing without consecrating itself, it wants to listen without changing, it wants to receive without serving.

  But biblical faith is not like that.  Biblical faith says, “Lord, here I am. My life is yours, my time is yours. My talents are yours. My house is yours, my children are yours, my future is yours, my wounds are yours too. My plans are submitted to your will.” That does not mean that the believer never trembles, it means that even while trembling, he obeys.  It doesn’t mean I never cry.

   It means that even while crying, she trusts.  It doesn’t mean I’ll never be tempted.   It means that when tempted, he runs to the Lord and takes the sword of the word.   It does n’t mean that he never gets tired, it means that when he gets tired he goes to Christ and not to sin seeking false rest.  And here comes a beautiful truth.

God does not call us to prepare ourselves alone. The same Lord who warns us also sustains us.  The same Christ who says, “Watch,” also says, “I am with you always.” The same one who commands us to persevere gives us the grace to persevere. The same one who calls us to holiness gives us his Spirit to walk in newness of life.

 That is why we do not preach a preparation based on human pride, but on dependence. We do not say, “Be strong in yourself.” We say, “Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.” We do not say, “You can save yourself,” we say, “Christ saves, Christ protects, Christ transforms.” We do not say, “Live in fear,” we say, “Live with holy fear and trust in God.

” Biblical preparation does not produce despair; it produces vigilance filled with hope. It does not look to the future saying, “We are lost,” but saying, “Our Redeemer lives, and though the world trembles, his kingdom remains.” But precisely because there is hope, we have no excuse for passivity.

 As long as there is breath, there is an opportunity to obey. As long as there are open doors, we must preach. As long as there is family, we must Sow the word in your home. As long as there are young people, disciple them with truth and love. As long as there are neighbors, colleagues, friends, and strangers without Christ, witness to them.

 As long as there is hidden sin, confess and repent. As long as there is apathy, return to the fire of the altar. As long as there is pride, humble yourself. As long as there is time, seek the Lord. For the day will come when it will no longer be time to prepare, but to appear. The day will come when the opportunity closes.

 The day will come when the cry will not be “Come to Christ,” but every tongue will confess that He is Lord. And if we speak of mission, we must speak with passion. We cannot become accustomed to seeing souls lost. We cannot look at people as numbers, as problems, as nuisances, as cultural enemies. Behind every face is an eternity.

 Behind every broken story is someone who needs to hear that Christ died and rose again. Behind every confused young person is a soul that can be reached by grace. Behind every addict, behind every religious person  In every empty space, in every proud person, in every hardened heart, there is someone who needs an encounter with the Savior.

Not everyone will respond, it’s true. Not everyone will receive, it’s true. Some will scoff, others will reject, others will rise up against the truth. But our task is not to guarantee results. Our task is to be faithful, to sow, to pray, to love, to preach, to serve, to warn, to comfort, to correct, and to let God do what only God can do.

The church that awaits Christ must be a church of tears and of courage. Tears for the lost, courage against deception. Tears for the condition of the world, courage not to imitate it. Tears for the children of a confused generation, courage to raise them in the truth. Tears for those who have strayed, courage to call them back.

Tears for our own sin, courage to repent. We don’t need a religious harshness that condemns without compassion, nor a false compassion that embraces sin without calling for repentance. We need the heart of Christ filled with  Grace and truth. He could weep over Jerusalem and also denounce its harshness.

 He could touch the leper and also cleanse the temple. He could forgive the sinful woman and tell her to sin no more. He could welcome the brokenhearted and confront the hypocrite. That is the life we ​​are to reflect. So let us lift our eyes without letting our guard down. The world will change, but Christ does not change.

 Institutions may fall, but the word remains. Freedoms may be diminished, but the gospel will not be chained. Human systems may try to control, but the Lord still sits on the throne. Evil may multiply, but God’s grace still saves. Many may grow cold, but you don’t have to grow cold. Many may be distracted, but you can watch.

 Many may give in to the current, but you can stand firm in Christ, not because you are better, but because His grace is sufficient. Not because He has strength of His own, but because the Holy Spirit sustains those who surrender. Not because the path is easy, but because the Lord who goes before us is faithful.

 Today, then, return to  Consecrate yourself. Don’t wait for a bigger crisis to take your spiritual life seriously. Don’t wait to lose what you love to pray again. Don’t wait for the world to get darker to light your lamp. Don’t wait for others to wake up to wake you up. Say to the Lord, “Here I am.”  I want to live prepared.

  I want to love your word.  I want to serve while there is time.  I want to preach Christ, you shameless bastard .  I want to guard my heart from deception.  I want my house to be yours. I don’t want my life to be wasted on vanities. Because when Christ comes, we do not want to be found asleep, cold, distracted, or hiding.

  We want to be found faithful.  Faithful in secret, faithful in public, faithful in trial, faithful in waiting, faithful until the end. Now, having spoken of perilous times, deception, lukewarmness, the coming of Christ, eternity, the empty tomb, and the urgent need to preach the gospel, we have reached the moment when no one can hide behind an explanation.

The word of God was not given for us to admire from afar, but for us to respond to.  And the answer cannot be tomorrow if the Lord is calling today.  It cannot be later if the Holy Spirit is touching now.  It cannot be when I have time, if eternity is before us, because there are moments when God in his mercy stops the noise of life, sits us in front of the truth, shows us the real condition of our heart and says to us, “Return to me.

”  And when that happens, the most dangerous thing a person can do is to harden themselves, become distracted, justify themselves, or think that they will have another opportunity guaranteed.  No one is guaranteed the next sunrise.  No one is guaranteed the next worship service. No one is guaranteed the next call-up.

  That is why Scripture says, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.” If you have lived far from God, today Christ is calling you. If you have had an outward religion, but not a surrendered life, today Christ is calling you. If you have become accustomed to sin, today Christ is calling you.

 If your heart has hardened and almost nothing moves you anymore, today Christ is calling you. If you once walked with God, but grew cold, faded away, began to bargain with the world, left the sanctuary, abandoned the Word, left the congregation, stopped serving, stopped weeping for souls, today Christ is calling you, and he is not calling you to publicly humiliate you without mercy.

 He is calling you to save you, restore you, cleanse you, awaken you, and bring you back to the path. The gospel is not a message of condemnation for those who repent. It is the power of God for salvation. But we must also speak the truth. If you reject grace, only judgment remains. If you despise the cross, there is no other sacrifice that can save you.

  If you turn your back on the only Savior, you will find no other way to the Father. That’s why we’re not talking about a superficial decision. We’re not talking about raising a hand out of emotion and going home the same. We ‘re not talking about repeating words as if they were a magic formula. We’re talking about surrendering your life to Christ, acknowledging, “I am a sinner, I need forgiveness, I cannot save myself.

” I believe that Jesus died for me, that He shed His blood, that He was buried, and that He rose again. I repent. I renounce ruling my life apart from God. I receive Christ as Lord and Savior. That surrender is serious, it’s precious, it’s urgent. And when it comes from a broken heart, God works, God forgives, God cleanses, God adopts, God gives life, God breaks chains, God begins a work that only He can sustain.

 It doesn’t mean there will never be struggles, but it means you will no longer be alone. It doesn’t mean you will understand everything immediately, but it means you have passed from death to life. It doesn’t mean your past disappears as if it never existed, but it means the blood of Christ speaks.  Stronger than your guilt.

And to the church that already knows the Lord, the call is also clear. Let us awaken. We cannot continue living as if we had centuries ahead of us to do what God commanded us to do. We cannot continue postponing obedience. We cannot continue playing with vanities while souls are lost. We cannot continue nurturing a comfortable Christianity, without tears, without mission, without holiness, without a burden for the lost.

 If Christ comes soon, may He find us faithful. If times become more difficult, may He find us on our knees. If deception increases, may He find us filled with truth. If evil multiplies, may He find us with love ablaze. If doors close, may He find us having taken advantage of every open door. If the pressure increases, may He find us firm on the rock.

 We do not want to be a generation that had resources, but no fire, that had messages, but no obedience, that had platforms, but no tears, that had songs, but no holiness. We must once again lift up the name of Jesus Christ above all.  Everything. Not the names of men, not the prestige of ministries, not the glitter of structures, not the comfort of our little kingdoms. Christ, Christ alone.

 He is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He is the Lamb who was slain. He is the Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. He is Emmanuel, God with us. He is worthy to receive power, riches, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and praise forever and ever . Yes.