Introduction: We have all been BLESSED beyond measure! Blessed with health, families, homes, Churches, jobs, and most of all – eternal life, if you have repented of sins and trusted in Jesus Christ’s sacrificial death on the cross and resurrection from the dead. Why has our Lord BLESSED us so much? The answer is so that we will answer His Calling.

1. Because we are Marked men and women sent on a MISSION!

“And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. 2And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. 3And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 4And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.” (Rev 9:1-4)

During the tribulation, these demon-like locusts will torment those who do not have the seal of God on their forehead. Today, it is CHRISTian bashing season in America. TV sitcoms, Hollywood, and the secular music industry, as well as atheistic and agnostic politicians, mock our CHRISTian faith. Yet, our Lord Jesus has called us to suffer hardship as we take up a cross daily and follow Him. Are you being persecuted right now? Stand strong in the Lord!

2. Because deadly DEMONS are destroying!

“And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. 6And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them….” (Rev 9:5-19)

These hideous demonic creatures will torment those on the earth during the tribulation. Their king is named:

“And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.” (Rev 9:11)

3. Because Jesus Christ is CALLING us to call others to change!

“20And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: 21Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.” (Rev 9:20,21)

Jesus is calling all men to turn from:
* IDOLATRY
* IMMORALITY

Conclusion: We should Answer Jesus’ Call because we’ve been:
* Sealed by the Holy Spirit of God
* Washed in the blood of the lamb
* Kept by the Power of God
* Inheritors of a heavenly possession which cannot be destroyed

Will you answer? Jesus is Calling!