Sermon
The Judgment of God When Christ Returns
Cross Church
Speaker: Nick Floyd
November 19, 2023 · 35 min
End Times / EschatologyGospelSalvationGod's Sovereignty2 Thessalonians 1:4–10Matthew 7:21–23Luke 16:19–26
Summary
Second Thessalonians 1 presents Christ's return with judgment: believers receive relief and glorification, while unbelievers face eternal destruction and separation from God's presence. The pastor challenges listeners to examine whether they truly know Jesus through personal faith rather than external religiosity, and to carry burden for the lost.
Highlights
God is the one who sets things right. We don't have to make it right. God will make it right. In this life or in the life to come, God is the one who makes things right.
When you come to faith in Christ, it is complete and total humility and submission of your life and your direction to God. That is biblical salvation.
Hell is a place of no hope, no reason for living, and no opportunity to die.