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 TikTok 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 World War III

and they'll talk about a cashless society, and maybe the

eminent AI take over.

End of 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 ask 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

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