Sunday, January 10, 2016

A Life Resolution

A Life Resolution
Greetings and Introduction
Disciples Human Curiosity
  • When will these things be?
  • What will be the signs of your coming?
  • What will be the signs of the end?
Matt 24: 3-14
Former lunch discussion with Friends
  • Predictions of the end.
  • Talk about the antichrist.
    • When he appears
    • Who is he, pointing to current figures?
  • Finally asked my opinion
    • Prediction is wrong because no one knows.
    • Matt 24: 36
    • Antichrist has already come
    • 1 John 2: 18-23
      • Many antichrist have already come
      • Therefore we know it is the last hour.
      • He who denies Jesus is the antichrist
      • Stop looking for what has already taken place
What is John’s point?
  • We are there.  We need to be ready.
  • 1 John 2: 24-25
  • Hold to what you have heard from the beginning.
  • Abide in the Son and in the Father.
  • 1 John 3:11 – Love one another.
  • 1 John 2: 26 – Writing this because people are try to deceive you
What if we knew a date when the 2nd coming was, a date that we could plan for.
  • Time to clean up our act
  • Time to repent
  • Time to confess
  • Time to start loving others
  • Time to do good deeds
  • Time to let our light shine.
John tells us the time is now!!!!!
  • 1 John 2:18
New Year Resolution vs A Life Resolution
  • Time to get ready is now!
  • Time to change is now!
  • Time to become Resolved is now!
Matthew 25: 1-13
  • Parable is about wise vs foolish
  • Parable is about being prepared now
  • We never know when the end is coming.
Johns warning about final days was late 1st century
  • It has come yet.
  • 2 Peter 3: 9 -10
New Testament writers full encouragements on how to live
  • Wednesday night we heard some of Paul’s
  • 1 Peter 4: 7-10
    • End is at hand
    • Above all keep loving one another
  • John also with encouragement 1John 2: 15-17.
    • Do not love the world
    • Anything that is in the world
      • Desires of the flesh
      • Desires of the eyes
      • Pride of life
Flirtation with the world
  • We do it all the time
  • A slippery slope
  • Thin ice
  • Blue Ridge River Bank
    • People build right on River
    • Sooner or later the flood comes
Remember Jesus’s encouragement
Matthew 6:33
Matthew 22: 36 - 39


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