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REWARDS FOR WAITING FOR JESUS’ SECOND COMING
Reward for those that are watchful however shall include earthly blessings of prosperity, rest of mind, increase, sound health, security, etc. As you are watching all these will be given to you as grace. Anything we have from God is, by grace, not better than the people who have gone. He has promised it, “The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want” (Psalm 23:1). That God is still there, He has not changed. Wait and watch till the end.”
Another reward awaiting those that watch for the Lord is to inherit the Kingdom of God. You must be a candidate to inherit the Kingdom of God if you are watching.
A word is enough for the wise. Uphold the hope till the end. Do you hope that Jesus will come one day? Yes. And this hope you have, uphold it till the end. It is essential to continue in the hope.
“Looking for that blessed and glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13).
Also, Hebrew 3:6 enjoins: “But Christ as a son over His own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
In Colossian 1:27, the Spirit of the Lord declares unto us, “Christ in you the hope of Glory”. Those who have Christ in them have the hope of glory at the end of their earthly sojourn. But when grudges, murmuring and bitterness are in your heart then Christ is not there again. Allow Christ to be in you so that you have the hope of His coming and when He comes you enter into the glory with Him. Because the Lord wants us to maintain that hope to the end. By coming to church, to teaching, prayer meetings, and bible study are meant to ginger and to encourage the hope more and more.
It is written in I Peter 1:13; “Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ”.
After all, we have been labouring, speaking, teaching and you have been hearing all these years, what the Lord needs from you is to“gird your loins, be sober and hope to the end”. The Lord will help us. And what becomes of those who have this hope, according to I John 3:3; “And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure”. You have to purify yourself; you have to wash yourself clean. We have been given the blood of Jesus for purification. Therefore, you wash every time, you wash every day to be pure.
Please, we are waiting for the coming of Jesus Christ for the second time. As we are waiting, this is what the Lord wants from you, because He has promised and He will never fail. It shall be a glorious happy day for us on that day when He shall appear in the sky. The Lord will help you. Amen.
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