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give me your emotional state of being at the end of our last session, the end of our last recording.

Blown away, amazed, just seeing how fear has gripped me in my reading,

interpretation, understanding of scripture, and then has stolen the hope and the joy of Christ

from me as I think of the future.

I felt naked. I felt gosh once again there it is. You're kidding.

And also relief. Oh yes, enormous relief that this fear, vague dread thing

Yeah, is actually false.

It's warfare, not reality.

Right, right.

Well now the passages of comfort, peace,

be a good cheer. Suddenly I see those. Now those can get in, yeah, a little clearer.

Having banished fear. Friends, welcome back to part four of a series that we're doing on the return of Jesus.

And what Craig and I were reacting to was, last time we talked about this dread and apocalyptic horror that's

kind of gotten into the church when in fact scriptures saying Jesus himself describes the end times as no

it actually comes as a surprise life looks a lot like people going out to dinner.

Paul says, yep, it's like a thief in the night.

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