All right, good morning and welcome to our second service. We're in Second Thessalonians,

and our text today will be verses 1 and 2. We're not going to quite get to verse three, but I'll have you turn there if you're

not there already. And once you do, if you're able, I'll ask you to stand. You can follow along

as I read. The Apostle Paul is writing to this church in Thessalonica, and we are beginning a very interesting and I would say

prophetic chapter, a chapter fitly spoken, if I can say it that way today. So beginning in verse one,

the Apostle Paul writing to the church says,

concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and, keyword, our being gathered to him,

we ask you brothers and sisters, not to become, verse two,

easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us, whether by a prophecy

or by word of mouth or by letter asserting that the day of the Lord has already come.

Let's pray, if you would, join with me.

Lord, thank you for these two verses that we have before us today. Would you

settle our hearts, quiet our minds so that we can give you our undivided attention? And Lord, as we do, would you speak clearly into our lives

in and through your word we pray. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. You can be seated. Thank you.

So I want to talk with you today about how we as Christians should never be easily alarmed or become unsettled, especially in light of all that is happening in our world,

in our country today.

You know, it's interesting when this crisis first hit, I went to the Lord, sought the Lord, inquired of the Lord concerning

what I was to do in terms of the teaching of His Word.

And I really sensed that the Lord would have me to begin doing these topical teachings on Thursday nights instead of

resuming the book of Proverbs, at least at that time. And then also on Sunday mornings to

begin addressing really all that was happening from a prophetic perspective because what was happening was

very prophetic for obvious reasons. I think you would agree. But in the back of my mind,

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