LIVING IN THE LAST DAYS

This summer were going verse-by-verse through the book of First John and looking at how to live confidently for God.  The title of today’s message is “Living in The Last Days,” and our text is found in 1 John 2:18-29.

The end of the world has always been a fascinating subject.  Books have been written on it and Hollywood has made a lot of movies about it.  A few months ago there was also a tremendous amount of news covering a man named Harold Camping who predicted the world was going to end on May 23rd.  How many of you heard about that? Of course the world didn’t come to an end and so now he’s predicting it’s going to end on October 21st.  Over his lifetime he has made a total of 13 such predictions.

So, is the world going to come to an end this year?  Is it going to end in 2012?  Are we living in the last days?  How can we know if these are the last days?  What are the signs to look for?  How should we live if these are the last days?

That’s what we’re going to look at this morning.  Here in our text, John gives us a few clues about the last days and tells us what we should do about it.  Let’s look at them together.  First, we need to...