Christ is coming back to accomplish two goals. For some, His Second Coming will be wonderful, but others will see it as terrible. In this sermon, Pastor David explains the twofold purpose of Christ’s glorious return. When Christ returns it will cause both celebration and devastation as He brings both wrath and rescue. When Christ comes back He will give vengeance to unbelievers and deliverance to believers.

When Jesus came the first time it was to be despised and rejected. When He comes a second time it will be to be glorified and admired. He came the first time to bear the penalty of sin as the Substitute. He will come a second time to bring the penalty of sin as the Judge.

2 Thessalonians 1:5-10 This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering6 since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you,7 and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus.9 They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His might,10 when He comes on that Day to be glorified in His saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.

Christ’s first coming was private, in humility and weakness, but His second coming will be outstandingly public, in glory and power. In this sermon, Pastor David looks forward to how Christ will return.

1 Thessalonians 4:14–18 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep. 15 For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.

Throughout the Old Testament, God’s people wondered when the Messiah would come, and now Christians are curious when He will come again. In this sermon, Pastor David examines Jesus’ answer to the question of when He will come and what we need to do to get ready.

The people of God are waiting for Christ to come. In this sermon, Pastor David explains how people in both the Old and New Testament were eagerly anticipating the coming of Christ and how we still are today. The long awaited Savior has come and gone so now we are waiting for Him to come again.

Titus 2:11–14 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, 12 training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, 13 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 14 who gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession who are zealous for good works.

It’s not about you, it’s about Jesus. Christ is all, we are nothing. These kind of statements may seem odd to us, but they’re true. In this sermon Pastor David explains why we should follow John’s example of exulting Christ and humbling ourselves.

Jesus had confronted the religious leader Nicodemus with his need to be born again. Nicodemus was puzzled, so Jesus explained that He was talking about spiritual birth and that unless Nicodemus experience it, he would never enter the kingdom of God. Then Jesus explained, how salvation works, how one comes into the kingdom of God: only by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, to the glory of God alone.

After dark a man named Nicodemus knocked on the door where Jesus was saying. In their conversation, we learn that the miracle of the New Birth is even more miraculous than Jesus acts of healing the sick and raising the dead. In this sermon Pastor David describes our need for God’s act of regeneration in which the Holy Spirit gives new hearts, enables belief and transforms sinners into saints.

At a wedding in the town of Cana, Jesus miraculously turned water into wine. But why? Preaching from John 2:1-12, Pastor David shows us that every miracle Jesus performed pointed toward the cross. John calls this His first sign and go home event signifies something greater, from His response to His mother’s reaction to the miracle itself, Jesus had the glory of the Gospel in mind. Jesus’ wondrous signs point to who Jesus really is. Miracles provide reason for us to believe in His name.