My goal for this message: To help you get a clear understanding of Jesus’ teaching about the end of time so that you will be compelled to live a faithful and fruitful life in this present time.

Two factors will make it difficult to get a clear understanding

• There are people who peddle end times prophecies for

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(Mark 13:21-23 NIV)

• There are people who make the Bible’s teachings about end times a

to be solved rather than a clear

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to be shared (Mark 13:23 NIV)

Three things Jesus wants us to know about the end times …

1. One day when we least

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   it, he will return in great glory and gather all believers to himself to be with him forever (Matthew 24:30-31,44 NLT)

2. When he comes he will judge everyone—

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   believers,
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   believers, and non-believers alike

His judgment will reveal our true selves (1 Corinthians 4:5 NLT)

Would-be believers are those who live a life of faith for

sake

True believers are those who live a life of faith for

sake

Non-believers are those who have failed to trust in the Good News of Jesus

His judgment will be

(Matthew 25:11-12 NLT)

His judgment will be

(Matthew 25:40 NLT)

3. Live every day like it is the day he returns—your

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depends on it (Matthew 25:21 NLT)