Thy Kingdom Come - Week 3

This message confronts us with a truth we often resist: we don't know what's coming next. Drawing from Matthew 24's Olivet Discourse, we're invited into the tension between our desire for control and God's call to trust. Jesus speaks plainly about His return, emphasizing that no one knows the day or hour—not the angels, not even the Son, only the Father. This phrase pushes against everything our information-saturated culture teaches us. We track our steps, our sleep, our calories, and reach for our phones the moment uncertainty strikes, believing that knowledge equals power. But this impulse traces back to Genesis 3, where humanity first grasped for the knowledge of good and evil. The sermon challenges us to see that our obsession with knowing often masks deeper fears: fear of losing control, fear of being abandoned by God, fear of vulnerability. Yet Jesus offers a different way. When we don't know what's next, we simply do what we know: trust our good Father who holds all things, stay alert to His work around us, and faithfully do the work He's placed before us. The examples of biblical women—from the midwives protecting innocent life to Mary saying “Let it be”—remind us that faithfulness doesn't require knowing the whole story, just knowing our part in God's story.