THE RAPTURE OF THE SAINTS - Part 2

MONDAY, 28TH AUGUST, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE

TOPIC:  THE RAPTURE OF THE SAINTS – Part 2

Who Are Those Qualified For The Rapture?

MEMORIZE: “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” John 14:3.  

SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17.

“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”

EXPOSITION:

Since the Scripture has established the fact that Jesus is coming back again, it is necessary to know who he is coming for. Though he died for the sins of the whole world, yet only those who believed in Him are His own. John 3:16-18 says, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”.

God's design in sending his Son into the world was that the world through him might be saved. He came into the world with salvation in his eye, with salvation in his hand.  Therefore the offer of live and salvation is sincere, and shall be made good to all that by faith accept it John 3:17: God sent his Son into the world, this guilty, rebellious, apostate world; sent him as his agent or ambassador, not as sometimes he had sent angels into the world as visitants, but as resident. Therefore, only those who accept Him as their Lord and personal Saviour shall be saved.

Psalm 24:3-4 also declared who will be able to stand before God at rapture: “Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? 4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.”  

No unclean person shall be rapturable. Isaiah 35:8: “And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.” Notwithstanding, our righteousness does not come from our human effort, it is the righteousness of Christ that he imputed in us. For it is written, “But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.” Isaiah 64:6. For without holiness, no one will see the Lord.” Hebrews 12:14.

Therefore, have you given your life unto Jesus Christ? Is your name written in the book of life? Are your hands and heart clean to be with the Lord at rapture? Your decision here will determine your position before him at rapture. Let the blood of Jesus Christ wash you clean from all your sins, known and unknown today.

PRAYER POINT: Lord, I plead the blood of Jesus Christ over my spirit, soul and body to be purified and qualified for the rapture in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Jeremiah 16 – 18.

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