Well, a lot of people want to know about the future. A lot of people are talking about the end times. And you can scroll on Tik Tok or look at YouTube videos and someone’s always predicting the end of the world. Have you noticed that they’ll talk about blood moons and they’ll talk about uh World War II and they’ll talk about a cashless society and maybe the imminent AI takeover into the world could be coming soon.
You see it everywhere. And then closer to home, you see it in the way that people live. So many people today, they’re living with almost no fear of God and almost no respect for truth. I mean, marriage is now mocked and life is devalued and sin is celebrated. So, if you’ve ever wondered, are we living in the last days? You’re not alone.
Because about 2,000 years ago, some brand new Christians in Thessalonica asked very similar questions. And they wanted to know, “When will the world end? When will Jesus return? And if he’s coming back, what does that mean to me now? What does it mean to my family? How should we live?” And Paul speaks directly to them in a letter that he wrote to the First Thessalonians.
And he doesn’t tell them when the end will come, but he tells them how to live until it does. And so today, we ask God that you would speak to us. Build our faith, God, with a spiritual urgency to do your will. Share your word. Share your love, believing that we’re ready when Jesus does return soon. Bless the preaching of your word.
May it change lives. We pray this in Jesus name. If you agree, all God’s people said, >> amen. All right. Today, we’re wrapping up the message series on 1 Thessalonians. We’re going to look at the final two chapters. We’re going to do an overview of chapter 4 and chapter 5. Let’s review where we’ve been in case you missed previous weeks.
