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Sunday 10:30am Main Worship

Wednesday 6:30pm

Phone: 941-488-1551

Email: cbcvenice@yahoo.com

Service Times:

Sunday 9:30am Bible Fellowship

Sunday 10:30am Main Worship

Wednesday 6:30pm

Signs Are Not Enough

Film director Woody Allen has been quoted as saying, “If only God would give me some clear sign!  Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.”

The reasons people give for not believing God often boil down to something they want God to do to prove Himself.  Sadly, in making “to do” lists for God, we miss seeing the countless things He has already done.

Even people who lived near Jesus and who witnessed His miracles asked for more proof.  Comparing Jesus to Moses, they asked, “What sign will You perform then, that we may see it and believe You?…Our fathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat’” (John 6:30-31).

The startling thing about their request is that just one day earlier Jesus had indeed given them bread.  He had fed 5,000 of them with the bread from one boy’s lunch!   Today we have hordes of evidence to point us to the reality of the God of the Bible.  Romans 1 does explain they have no excuse,  “Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them.  For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:” Romans 1:19,20

For the Christian, we also are keeping watch.  We are regularly looking at the various things happening in our world that point to a soon rapture of the saints to be with Jesus in glory ( 1Thess. 4:16).

“Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door.” (Matt. 24:32-33)

Students of prophecy often identify the Lesson of the Fig Tree in Matt. 24 as a reference to Israel. While the fig tree is sometimes used to symbolize Israel, this is not one of those times. The fig tree is one of the last trees to bud in the spring, so when it begins to get leaves people know that summer is right around the corner.  There’ll be no more false starts, no more cold snaps.  Summer is now certain and soon.  Jesus used this analogy to tell people who’ll be on Earth at the time that when they see the things he described beginning in Matt. 24:15, they’ll know that His coming is really near.

Stay alert Christian, He’s coming soon!, Pastor Larry

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