Six points of the rapture of the church.

The doctrine of the Pretribulation Rapture is a great motivator for purifying the Christian life.

1. It encourages the believer in his trials and persecutions. " Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words" (1Thess 4:17-18).

2. It keeps the church's focus on the Great commission(Matt 28:18-20; Mark 16:15; Luke 24:44-48; Acts 1:8) D.L. Moody had it right when he said:"I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel. GOD has given me a lifeboat and said to me, "Moody, save all you can".

3. It motivates belivers to be busy in the Lord's work: " Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord"(1 Cor 15:58).

4. It motivates believers to live obedient lives: " Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of GOD: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of GOD, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear,we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure"(1 John 3:1-3); "But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the might"(1 Thess 5:4-7).

5. It motivates believers to seperate from evil: "Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great GOD and our Saviour JESUS Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeen us from all Iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works"(Titus 2:13-14).

6. It keeps believers in the out look for heresy and apostasy: "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables"(2Timothy 4:3-4); "Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father. And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. There things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him" (1 John 2:24-27).