Dear Truro family,
Every Sunday we proclaim that “Christ has died! Christ is risen! Christ will come again!” Last Sunday, in our reading from John 5, we heard Jesus himself remind us that he will indeed come again. Louis Berkhof writes this about Jesus’ return in his Systematic Theology:
The second coming of Christ, though personal, physical, and visible, will yet be very different from his first coming. He will not return in the body of his humiliation, but in a glorified body and in royal apparel (Heb. 9:28). The clouds of heaven will be his chariot (Matt. 24:30), the angels his bodyguard (2 Thess. 1:7), the archangels his heralds (1 Thess. 4:16), and the saints of God his glorious retinue (1 Thes. 3:13; 2 Thes. 1:10). He will come as King of kings and Lord of lords, triumphant over all the forces of evil, having put all his enemies under his feet (1 Cor. 15:25, Rev. 19:11-16).
Our King Jesus is coming soon. Is it good that we remind ourselves of this? It is!
Jamie