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