Part 6 | How to Feel Fine at the End of the World
From 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11
The end of the world should our faith, not us in .
We feel fine at the end of the world… because…
1. We have in the midst of .
📖 1 Thessalonians 4:13 ESV But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.
📖 1 Thessalonians 4:14 ESV For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
📖 Matthew 10:28 ESV And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
2. We are in the midst of .
📖 1 Thessalonians 4:15-16 ESV For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
📖 1 Thessalonians 4:17 ESV Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
📖 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 ESV Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep (die), but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
📖 Revelation 11:15 ESV Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.”
📖 1 Thessalonians 4:18 ESV Therefore encourage one another with these words.
3. We are in the midst of .
📖 1 Thessalonians 5:1-2 ESV Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. 2 For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
📖 Exodus 22:2-3 ESV If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him, 3 but if the sun has risen on him, there shall be bloodguilt for him. He shall surely pay. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
📖 1 Thessalonians 5:3 ESV While people are saying, “There is peace and security,”…
📖 Luke 21:25-26 ESV “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, 26 people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
📖 1 Thessalonians 5:3 ESV then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
📖 1 Thessalonians 5:4 ESV But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief.
4. We are increasingly in of .
📖 1 Thessalonians 5:6 ESV So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night.
A. Stay in the .
📖 1 Thessalonians 5:8a ESV But since we belong to the day, let us be sober,
B. Stay in the .
📖 1 Thessalonians 5:8b ESV having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
📖 Matthew 24:12-13 ESV And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
C. Stay in the of .
📖 1 Thessalonians 5:9-11 ESV For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with Him. 11 Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
