Be Prepared (1 Thessalonians 5:1-11)
What do you do if you don't know something?
People in ages past (like pre-1990) used to go to the public library or consult a dictionary or maybe ask someone who knew. Today, what do we do? Almost instinctively?
We Google it or we ask Siri.
(me) "Hey Siri, what is the capital of Alabama?"
(Siri) "Montgomery is the capital of Alabama."
(me) "Hey Siri, what's the weather going to be like today?"
(Siri) "It's currently cloudy and 55 degrees. Expect partly cloudy skies starting in the morning…"
(me) "Hey Siri, what happens when the end comes?"
(Siri) "Okay, I found this on the web for 'what happens when the end comes.' Check it out."
There is a lot of speculation (online and otherwise) about the End of Days, the End of Time, the Day of the Lord, the Return of Christ. THE END of life as we currently experience it.
When will it be?
What will happen?
How should we prepare?
Maybe these are your questions. Maybe you have others. Join us Sunday as we hear from the Apostle Paul who tells us what we most need to know.
Hope to see you then!
Many blessings,
Pastor Tim
Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night. But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him. Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11