Are you ready to meet the true Jesus Christ?

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What do we need to do to be ready so we will not be surprised when Jesus Christ returns? He is coming like a thief in the night. 

1 Thessalonians 5:2 and 2 Peter 3:10

Six steps to be ready

1. Stay in the word so you will not be deceived.

2 Timothy 4:2

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

Romans 12:12

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer.

2. Realize that....

Matthew 24:36

"But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." 

3. Be a watchman and watch current events.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

1 Peter 4:7

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober and watch unto prayer.

4. Pray always that you will be accounted worthy to escape the things to come.  

Luke 21:36

Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

5. Turn to the LORD thy God and be obedient to his voice.

Deuteronomy 4:29-31 

But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he swore unto them.

6. Be faithful and true to Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.

2 Timothy 4:8

Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all of them also that love his appearing.

Psalms 118:6

The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?