Jesus Revealed in Doctrine GOD FINISHES WHAT HE STARTS
For yet a little while and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Heb. 10:37.
Several years ago my father and my uncle were holding meetings in a certain city. My uncle had just started preaching one night when a man near the front of the auditorium jumped up and turned around and began shouting to the congregation. He said, "Don't believe what these Venden brothers are telling you. They are talking about the end of the world, and it's never going to happen. Things continue just like they always have and always will." He turned to my uncle and continued, "You can't show me one single proof that it's going to happen."
And my uncle said, "Yes, I can--you're the latest one I've seen!"
"What do you mean?"
And my uncle read from 2 Peter 3:3, 4, "There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." And the man slumped into his seat. Exciting things happened back there on the sawdust trail! The Lord gave the right scripture at the right time.
God doesn't start something and leave it undone. It is a habit of people here in this world of sin to start things and never finish them. Parents try to teach their children to finish what they've started. But Jesus always finishes things. On the morning of the resurrection He paused long enough to fold the graveclothes and put them neatly away. He was finished with them. He needed them no more. That tells you something about Jesus.
What is He going to finish when He comes again? He's going to finish the great plan of salvation, of redemption, of restoration. He has made provision to more than make up to us for being born in this world of sin. He is able to carry forward to the end the work He has started in our lives. He can follow through to the end, which is only the beginning of eternity.
Jesus is coming. He is coming openly, to be seen by all. He is coming to finish the work that He began in redemption. He is coming to deliver us from a world of sin, and to take us to live forever with Him in the homes He has prepared for those who love Him.
For yet a little while and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Heb. 10:37.
Several years ago my father and my uncle were holding meetings in a certain city. My uncle had just started preaching one night when a man near the front of the auditorium jumped up and turned around and began shouting to the congregation. He said, "Don't believe what these Venden brothers are telling you. They are talking about the end of the world, and it's never going to happen. Things continue just like they always have and always will." He turned to my uncle and continued, "You can't show me one single proof that it's going to happen."
And my uncle said, "Yes, I can--you're the latest one I've seen!"
"What do you mean?"
And my uncle read from 2 Peter 3:3, 4, "There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." And the man slumped into his seat. Exciting things happened back there on the sawdust trail! The Lord gave the right scripture at the right time.
God doesn't start something and leave it undone. It is a habit of people here in this world of sin to start things and never finish them. Parents try to teach their children to finish what they've started. But Jesus always finishes things. On the morning of the resurrection He paused long enough to fold the graveclothes and put them neatly away. He was finished with them. He needed them no more. That tells you something about Jesus.
What is He going to finish when He comes again? He's going to finish the great plan of salvation, of redemption, of restoration. He has made provision to more than make up to us for being born in this world of sin. He is able to carry forward to the end the work He has started in our lives. He can follow through to the end, which is only the beginning of eternity.
Jesus is coming. He is coming openly, to be seen by all. He is coming to finish the work that He began in redemption. He is coming to deliver us from a world of sin, and to take us to live forever with Him in the homes He has prepared for those who love Him.
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