The message Satan has stolen from the Church is the urgent truth of Christ’s promised second coming. Yet as the sermon warns, Satan aims to distract believers from maintaining constant readiness for that day. We learn it is vital for Christians to recover this central biblical message and ensure it shapes their mindset, priorities, and conduct through watchfulness.
The certainty of Christ’s return is firmly established through clear prophecies in Scripture and the fulfilment of prophecies surrounding His first advent. However, His coming will be sudden, as in Noah’s day, taking many by surprise. This sobering reality emphasises the importance of individual watchfulness rather than relying on others.
As the sermon cautions, it is all too easy in these last days for Satan to have stolen the focus on Christ’s return from God’s people. Through compromise, lukewarmness, and preoccupation with earthly things, believers can neglect guarding their lamps and maintaining constant readiness. But the true character of the Church is living in eager expectation of Christ, obediently awaiting His coming.
