Great is Thy Faithfulness Pastor John Kane

Well want to say good morning to each of you that are here. And I also want to say good morning to each of you who are watching on the video. We pray that you would worship together with us as we honor the Lord.

We want to say a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I've heard a lot of people say they're glad to see 2020 go out and 21 to come in. But the Lord's the same right whether it's in 20 or 21. So we thank the Lord for that and we would like the Cain family to come up here and stand with me.

Yeah, I told I warned her ahead of time. We just want to say a word of thanks to the Cain family in all that they have done for us in this interim time providing the music and Pastor John providing a message and the church as we do and many times before have Contributed to a gift for you.

So it's it's really a belated between Christmas and New Year's gift. But we just want to say a word of thanks for The great job that you're doing for Faith Bible Church, and we want to thank you for it.

I Tell you how much we're falling in love with you folks and how really grateful we are that we can serve here and be encouragement To y 'all. Amen. Amen family you say thumbs up. We're glad to have you with us, thank you for that and even as we prepare our hearts.

Preparing for Worship and the Call to Be Still Before God

For worshiping today read a portion of Psalm 51. God is our refuge and strength a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear even though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea.

Though its waters roar and be troubled. Though the mountains shake with its swelling. And I like to jump to verse 10 Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth and I have a little note that I've written myself that I'd like to look at and it Says stop fighting God.

Be still and know that the Lord is God even in this time of trouble. We would just remind ourselves. It's a time where the Lord Still is in the throne, right and he's still in control. So let's have a word of prayer before we start.

Our Heavenly Father and our God we come before you today. We thank you for the many blessings that you have given each of us even during this past year and as we look forward to another year and We would pray Heavenly Father that you would guide and direct each one of us and all that we would do is we prepare ourselves Even for this service today and we prepare ourselves for the year to come.

We pray Heavenly Father that we might keep you in the center of our thinking and May we look up to you and all that we say and all that we do and may we as we worship you today. We would pray that you would be with us receive our worship and we would thank you and pray in Jesus name.

Amen. We're gonna let you sit because we have a group of songs and then we'll tell you when to stand. During some of the other songs, okay. Nature sing and heaven and nature sing and Say the same rocks hills and plains.

Repeat the sounding joy. Repeat the sounding joy repeat repeat the Sounding joy with truth and grace and And wonders of his law and wonders of his love and wonders of his love. Angels we have heard on high those we have sweetly singing The place and Mountains Echoing their joyous strains.

Whenever I sing this song. I always say do I know Latin? What is excelsis Deo? Excelsis means in excellent in excellence is talking about glory to God and The Deo is God so God is an excellent God. We are praise to him should be excellent.

So glory in excelsis Deo Glory Lord, you know your excellent glory and that's what I was talking about. And I like to As a kid, I I learned these songs, but then I started saying what do they mean? So verse 2, okay Your joyous strains prolong Say what mean the tidings be which inspire your heavenly song Excelsis Deo sing Jesus Lord of heaven and earth.

Mary Joseph Your aid Savior's birth wonderful Savior we have May what a wonderful Savior We are Redeemed the price is paid. What a Wonderful Savior. Or is Jesus by Jesus. What a wonderful Savior is Jesus sing what what a wonderful Sile my soul to God what a wonderful Say Oh Savior is Jesus Jesus Oh Savior is Jesus my Lord.

What a wonderful Say and try him in each try under fall say Your is Jesus my Jesus is Jesus. Ask you to stand with me as we sing immortal invisible mortal Invisible God in light Accessible In from our eyes most blessed most glorious the ancient of days.

Almighty Victorious thy great name we praise Unresting unhastening and silent as life nor Wanting nor wasting thou rule us in mine Thy justice like mountains my soaring Thy clouds which are fountains of goodness and love.

Great father of glory the father of life Thine angels adore thee all Veiling their side all praise we would render. Oh help us to see the splendor of life Praising our Lord a Mighty fortress is our God or trust is our God.

Ball work never Failing The flood of mortal ills Prevailing or still our ancient fall Does seek to work us what is crap and armed with cruel or strife? Losing our side the man of God's own choosing Baby Christ Jesus it is Lord savage to age the same And he must win the Battle To undo His truth to triumph through prints of darkness.

We Thank you and you may be seated as pastor comes.

God’s Faithfulness in a Year of Bad News

Riches and Houses are an inheritance from the fathers but a good wife is from the Lord and I just think about the wife that God has given me and what an amazing help me. She is. Can you imagine me trying to be here without Janet?

Wouldn't happen so thank you so much for all you do to sweetheart and What a blessing we're missing some folks this morning and I'm sure as the flu season continues We might miss one or two more right colds going around and it's winter, right?

So it's great to be here. If you have a Bible I invite you to open it with me to lamentations Lamentations chapter 4 and I think we would all agree that we've seen some pretty bad news this past year of various types and sizes on TV on our phones on computer, however, you get your news and I've actually talked to more than a few people the past few weeks that have sworn off news of any kind they refuse.

I'm not sure I could do that. What happens if the world ends and I don't know about it, right? On on many fronts and in many ways our country and the world are facing some of the most Perhaps the most upsetting and foreboding times in recent history.

Whether we talk about the economy. Whether we talk about government. Morality politics disease the state of the church the average Christian going to church doesn't really Get a sense of what's really going on in churches today in Terms of the watering down of the gospel in terms of doctrine in terms of practice with You know scantily-clad women dancing around on the platform in some kind of worship and You know, I'm not so sure that January 1st on January 1st 2021 that everything is going to change and be all right.

You know as much or as we want. As much as we need to be and as much as we're praying that it would change. So, what about some good news to end the year on would you like that? And good news always looks better when you know, there's bad news I think right.

You know as we think about 2021 It will be most helpful most encouraging for us to really focus on being Biblically grounded and have a biblical Perspective on what's going on in the world right now. Not what we hear on the news not what we catch on Twitter not what we get from emails that how many of get emails from friends and Neighbors and relatives.

Oh watch this watch this watch this right? How many of those do you get every day, right? So a biblical perspective. Not what a friend says not what a news anchor says not what we read. But a biblical perspective, please.

Listen to me can only be found in God's holy and true Word. There's the world's way of looking at all of this and there's God's way of Looking at all of this and the message title today if you have your notes is great is thy faithfulness.

Because God's people need to know and remember that God is Faithful no matter what is going on around us. My I'm so embarrassed because this gentleman that's visiting. I always forget your name because I don't see you for three weeks.

It goes out but he was just involved in a car accident, right. A lady ran a red light totaled his truck. He's not hurt. God is faithful. God is faithful. The story your friend just told me about being shot.

God is faithful. God is faithful. He can be trusted. God's Mercies are new every morning. There are all kinds of shadows and subterfuge in the world. But with God there is no shadow or turning. God is the same.

Yesterday today and forever. God does not change. Presidents change politicians change the weather changes. God never ever changes. Good news Jesus saves good news. A loving God cares now. A Biblical perspective on what's going on in the world.

In order to have a biblical perspective about what's going on in the world. I've got to give you this morning Bad news and good news. Okay. Please I said good news, but there's got to be some bad news.

In fact over the years I have done so many evangelism training courses. I I Think I've lost count but one of them was called the good news bad news. Some one is called Romans Road some of you have heard of that you can take people through the book of Romans give them the plan of salvation through the Book of Romans.

This one I did was called good news bad news. And that's really the title that I was thinking about. Giving the sermon this morning, but instead great is thy faithfulness and you'll see why in a moment.

Here in lamentations, which we will get to should the Lord Terry maybe. We'll see what happens because we got to do second Kings, right and then we got to do the Chronicles we got it we did Samuel was so we got to do the Chronicles and we got to go through Job and the we might make it to lamentations if Jesus Terry's.

So lamentations. God has lost his patience with his people the Israelites over many years. God had raised up prophets to call them to repentance to tell them, you know, your heart is turning away from me.

You're in sin. Please turn back to me everything will pick if you don't do this. This is what's going to happen. You're going to reap what you sow right and Israel consistently over the years just refused To listen to the prophets.

Sometimes they would a little upbeat then they would go right back to where they were. So around 700 BC 700 years before the birth of Jesus Christ. The Assyrians invaded the northern kingdom and had defeated the ten tribes.

So we're talking about well over a million people literally disappearing from the face of the earth. You don't hear anything at all in history about the ten tribes after the Assyrians invade the northern kingdoms.

Okay, so they're either killed or they're deported to serve as slaves a few of them. You know avoided the soldiers somehow we know for you know. Through historical sources that some of these Israelites in the northern kingdom remained in their homes out in the maybe out in the wilderness or something or they had a farmhouse or something like that and.

Or they ran for their lives. So that's 700 BC's and The Assyrians were stopped at Jerusalem. So they're advancing through the nation of Israel. They're moving their way south and they come to Jerusalem.

They cannot overthrow the southern two kingdoms. They can't overthrow the key city of Jerusalem. So we have the two southern tribes remaining Benjamin and Judah so The prophets are still prophesying to the southern tribes.

Isaiah's there you know, hey ask the Lord a sign, right? That's part of the southern kingdom. Judah. King Ahaz says I'm not gonna ask for a sign. The Prophet says I'm gonna give you a sign. Remember that Behold a virgin shall be with child.

That's part of this period of time where the ten northern tribes are gone and Along comes the Babylonians who defeat and overthrow the Assyrians and they say we're now going to go into Israel. It's a key piece of geographical territory that links northern, you know, southern Europe with Africa.

So Israel that particular piece if you know anything about the history of that area. It's always a key piece of real estate that countries want. Have you ever seen peace in Israel. Nah, they signed peace treaties and then they shoot each other the next day, right?

So the Babylonians come after Jerusalem and the way they did it was to lay siege so they surrounded the city and they cut off all food and water and Eventually, they scaled the walls. They blew up the walls.

They killed the soldiers. They're killing the Jewish the people that live in Jerusalem. And you want to talk about bad news and you want to talk about a bad year. Take a look at Lamentations chapter 4 and look at some really bad news.

Lamentations chapter 4 verse 1. How the gold has become dim. How Changed the fine gold. The stones of the sanctuary are scattered at the head of every street. The precious sons of Zion valuable as fine gold.

How they are regarded as clay pots. The work of the hands of the potter. Even the jackals present their breasts to nurse their young. But the daughter of my people is cruel like ostriches in the wilderness.

The tongue of the infant clings to the roof of its mouth for thirst. The young children ask for bread. But no one breaks it for them because there's none. Verse 5. Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets.

Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace ash heaps. The punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is Greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom which was overthrown in a moment with no hand to help her.

Her Nazarites were brighter than snow and whiter than milk. They were more ruddy and body than rubies like sapphire in their appearance and now their appearance is blacker than soot. They go Unrecognized in the streets.

Their skin skin clings to their bones. It has become as dry as wood. Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger for these pine away. Stricken for the lack of the fruits of the fields.

The hands of the compassionate woman Have cooked their own Children, they become food for them in the destruction of the daughter of my people. The Lord has fulfilled his fury. He has poured out his fierce anger.

He kindled a fire in Zion and Has devoured its foundations. You want to talk about bad news? You want to talk about things becoming more horrible than anything we could ever? Imagine the wealth of Israel's rich stripped from them people.

Livestock. Not the jackals in the field, but the Israelites livestock. Even children starving to death. Children literally dying of thirst. You talk about the bomb in Nashville. That's a cakewalk compared to this.

Things so bad so horrible mothers so Hungry, they turn to eating their own children in order to survive. I hope we can agree that that's about as bad as as bad can be. Jeremiah had preached to them he had warned them and Here he is walking the streets of the capital of the southern kingdom the capital of Judah and Benjamin and he sees this and he is Overcome.

What does he turn to for hope? How could anyone be lifted from the depths of despair that would come from being an eyewitness? To this kind of pain and suffering go to chapter 3 verse 1. Look at the prophets testimony during this time.

I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of God's wrath. Verse 4. He God has aged my flesh and my skin and broken my bones. He has besieged me and Surrounded me with bitterness and woe. Verse 8.

Even when I cry and shout. He shuts out my prayer. He has blocked my ways with hewn stone. He God has made my paths crooked and We can go on. He has been to me a bear lying in wait like a lion in ambush.

And it just keeps going and going this incredibly vivid description of how bad things are how Bad God has allowed even in the prophets life things to get so bad. Look what he says in verse 18. And I said.

Even my strength and my hope have perished from the Lord. Beloved. Can you think about feeling that way? Can you think about? Things being so bad that your testimony would be. My strength and my hope have perished from the Lord and I want to say to you you know many of us here are sort of untouched by what's going on in the world right now, but I guarantee you if we talk to people and Related to them and Interacted with them.

There are people that would say to us. This is how I feel. I've lost my job. I've lost my home. We're living in a car. My strength and my hope have perished from the Lord. I talked with an unbeliever Yesterday that said essentially the same thing about all of her friends and She was bawling because she was able to give her daughter a Christmas and her friends were not.

So what does Jeremiah do? When you go that low and Things are that bad. And what do believers need to do as we look ahead to? 2021. No matter how bad things might be. Look at what Jeremiah does in verse 20.

He's beside himself in verse 18. Do you see that his hope is gone? He feels like God has hemmed him in and and enclosed him and just. Everything is is as bad as bad can be. Verse 20. My soul still remembers and sinks within me.

That's humility. That's a picture of humility. This I recall to my mind. Therefore I have hope. What does he call to his mind? Through the Lord's mercies we are not consumed. Because his compassions fail not.

They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness God. The Lord is my portion says my soul. Therefore I hope in him. Dear friends. Great is the faithfulness of God. A mighty Fortress is our God a bulwark never failing.

That's the good news. Great as I faithfulness, let's pray. Father, thank you So much for this day that we can gather together and worship you as we look forward this last time together before 2021. Father, may you help us to understand your word and and Lord just to encourage and strengthen us in our inner man.

That we might better be able to face what 2021 might have for us God for our family and for our friends and for our neighbors we ask in Jesus name. Amen. So go to set now mark your place there, please.

In lamentations, we're going to come back there but open flip over to 2nd Timothy in the New Testament. 2nd Timothy 3 1. Just want to get started on a couple of things and then we'll dig into a couple of pretty important points.

Living in the Last Days and the Coming of Christ

What's the whole point of this message? It's to help us have a biblical perspective on 2021, right? In other words, we're getting all this news. We're getting all this information. We're getting Bombarded with all this we have a new year coming around.

Well, what is a biblical perspective on what's going on in the world? How can we have a biblical perspective on 2021 and what's happening in our world today? One of the first things we need to understand is where 2021 where we are right now and where 2021 will fall on the timeline of God's history of the human race.

Did you hear what I said? Okay, secular scientists will tell us we've been here four and a half billion years. The earth is four and a half billion years old. That's not how old the earth is. It's about 7 ,500 years.

8 ,000 years old according to God's Word. So what we're doing today is we're looking at the world in the condition of the world through the lens of scripture. Are you with me? That's what I want to do.

And one of the first things we need to understand about 2021. First right out of the box is where does 2021? Fit on God's timeline of human history. Okay now understand something this past year. And every single year since the resurrection of Jesus Christ Falls on the timeline of God's history that he refers to as the last days.

Look at second timothy chapter 3 verse 1. But know this that in the last days Perilous times will come. Now paul Was writing timothy around 65 to 67 ad. So jesus had been resurrected from the dead. And would you agree that this verse?

Sort of describes our world today perilous times. And guess what? From the day of the resurrection up to this very day God's word refers to this period in human history as the last days. The period in human history began in 33 ad when Jesus Christ rose from the dead.

The early church was living in the last days. The people living in 1000 ad were living in the last days. Now follow this, please the people living in 1976. Were living in the last days. The people living in 2001 were living when in the last days.

The people living in 2020 were living when in the last days. Now follow this. This means that with each passing hour day month and year We are closer and closer to what historic event the second coming of jesus christ.

So we can start today with some good news. And we can stand on an absolute bedrock of truth. And it's this. God promised that jesus christ would come the first time didn't he? And he came. And god promised that he's coming again.

And we can stand on that truth. Every hour we get closer to the return of jesus christ. That is good news for 2021. Come on, bring it on because i'm that much closer to the return of jesus christ. So when it comes to dealing with whatever 2021 might bring our way.

Know that on the timeline of god's history of the human race. We're living in the last days and with each tick of the clock each second hand each minute hand each Hour hand that goes around we're that much closer to the second coming of jesus christ.

So viewing history And the events of our days through the lens of scripture is absolutely good news. Today we're closer to the return of jesus christ than we were yesterday and this morning. When we walk out that door We're going to be that much closer to the second coming of christ.

Okay, so good news and bad news. Now I got to go back to some bad news just to give you the good news. All right. What is some of the bad news that we need to know and understand and remember. When it comes to having a biblical perspective.

On the days in which we live a couple of points number one part of the bad news is That the bible tells us the general condition of mankind will be worse in 2021 than it was in 2020. Now god could not be any clearer on this point.

The world has been and will continue to get worse and worse. History proves this. Look at second timothy 3 13 but evil men. And imposters will grow worse and worse deceiving and being deceived if we were to plot the morality of man beginning in the garden.

With the fall of man if we were to take graph paper with an x-axis and a y-axis. And plot the morality of mankind beginning at the garden and coming up to this day. You know what the line would look like.

It would be ever declining now. Does sometimes it tick up? Absolutely. We have the great awakening in the united states. We have revivals. We have the the underground church in china. We have the former soviet union.

We have all kinds of evidences of these upticks, but the overall. The overall morality is a downward line and will get worse and worse and worse. Until jesus comes again, okay. We need to understand that if we want to have a biblical view of what's going to be happening in 2021.

We need to understand that there's a downward line. Men will continue to get worse and worse first timothy 4. Second the bad news is that in general The bible tells us that the church Will also continue to decline in 2021.

Verse chapter 4 verse 1. Now the spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith. Giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons. Now, I don't have time. But if you notice the word the term here is latter times right in second timothy.

It's last days. In many passages in the new testament, you will see latter days. Last days. Similar words those are basically Signposts in the new testament. So they're signposts. They're they're kind of signs of the times kind of wake up and look at this.

I have something to tell you because they're clues About what the state of the church and the world will be as the clock of human history ticks onward now notice that. That in these verses here in chapter 4 first timothy chapter 4 verse 1 paul mentions one of the signposts of Getting getting closer and closer to the return of christ and it's the apostasy.

That will occur in the church. Look carefully at verse 1. The spirit expressly says that in latter times. As the return of jesus christ draws ever closer. Some will depart from the faith giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons.

Speaking lies and hypocrisy having their own conscience seared with a hot iron. Forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from foods. Which god created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Now this word uh depart in verse 1. Basically means to leave It it's it's it's actually where we get the english word apostasy. So depart from the faith in other words in the last days. Meaning in the last days months and years leading up to the return of jesus christ.

People in the church will abandon and depart from the faith meaning. They will literally walk away from church. And if you look at church history since the church began. There is an ever increasingly number of so-called christians people who would say they i'm a christian I go to church.

I believe in god. I believe in jesus christ and they will move away and they will turn a cold Shoulder to the faith and this is only one aspect of apostasy. There is different shades and variations of apostasy ever since the resurrection of jesus christ from the grave.

Mankind has been living in the last days and god god's word tells us that an apostate church will arise. In which men and women will be religious. They will have a form of godliness, but they will deny the power thereof and one of the chief characteristics of the apostate church is denial is denial and that's my second point because as as 2021.

And then god willing 2022 should the lord terry we have no idea when he's coming back. As the hands as the sands of time slowly sprinkle down. In the last days, there's this ever increasing state of denial.

One of the chief characteristics Of the church during the last days is an ever increasing state of denial. Look at first john first john 2 little children. It is the last hour. Okay, that's again last days right latter times.

It is the last hour. And as you have heard that the antichrist is coming. Even now many antichrists have come and notice capitalization in lowercase. There is a personal I don't have time to preach it this morning.

There is a personal antichrist that will come but there's many Antichrists that have already come and in fact if you know anything, I mean at all about india. Uh in in the hindu religion, there are men that raise up and call themselves.

I am jesus christ. They call themselves jesus christ. There's actually a spanish preacher in florida that says he's the second coming of jesus christ incarnate in the flesh. As he's drinking his margaritas.

Yeah, he's on tv. He's got a church on tv. He's jesus christ the second i'm the second coming of christ. Yeah, I mean you don't see that on nbc or cbn or cnn. Do you right. You don't but he's there he's got a nationwide website and all that.

Don't google him. As you have heard that antichrist is coming and even now many antichrists have come by which we know it's the last hour. They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us for if they had belonged to us.

If they had been of us they would have continued with us. But they went out that they might be made manifest that none of them were of us. So there is this continuing and concerted effort by the devil.

In the form of so-called science the news media false teachers to strip jesus christ of his true identity. And present him merely as a good teacher. Not the son of god not god incarnate in the flesh not born of a virgin.

Not necessarily. Did he leave a sinless life? In fact, one of the men in our church a deacon in our church this morning told me he saw um, a television special uh. On one on some news news something this past week.

That talked about that. Jesus christ was not born in bethlehem. Where was jesus born? Bethlehem. Okay, that's what the bible says but they're constantly attacking jesus christ. He didn't necessarily. He died on a cross, but he didn't really die.

He fainted. He didn't raise from the dead. This is what they're teaching. And more and more of this kind of denial is being taught in seminaries today and it's only getting worse. Just talk to victor sometime.

He's been around a while he will tell you. He never you talk to anybody that's been in church 40 50 60 years. They would tell you what they're seeing in church today. They never thought they would see.

Look at second peter 3 1 this is coming more and more. Wait till you see this. You don't see it that much right now, but it comes in waves but look at this one second peter 3 1 people in the church. Will deny the second coming of christ.

Verse one beloved. I now write to you this second epistle. In both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder. By the way, we forget. Okay, this is important. Look at the word reminder. That you may be mindful.

We forget. We forget our car keys. We forget where we put our wallet. We forget the truths of god. Look at this. I'm stirring you up by way of reminder that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before.

By the holy prophets and of the commandment of us the apostles of the lord and savior knowing this first. That scoffers will come in the last days. Walking according to their own lusts and saying where is the promise of his coming?

For since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation. Bad news. In 2021 there will be an ever-increasing denial Of what the bible teaches about jesus christ and there will be a denial of god's promises about the return of jesus christ.

As the clock marches through the last days and as the second coming of the lord. Jesus christ draws ever Nearer there will be a denial of the fundamental tenets of the faith. Go to jude right before the book of revelation.

The book of jude warns about godless men who will sleep it slip in among christians in the churches. And they will change the grace of god into a license for immorality. Jude for. For certain men have crept in unnoticed who long ago were marked out for this condemnation.

Ungodly men who turn the grace of our god into lewdness and deny the only lord god and our lord jesus christ. Look at the history of the mormon church. And polygamy. It's right there. Denying the deity and lordship of jesus christ is denying the fundamentals of the faith.

As the return of christ draws ever nearer and as the clock of 2021 starts ticking this coming week. The bible tells us there will be an ever-increasing denial of christ. And there will be a denial of the return of christ.

There will be an increasing denial of biblical doctrine and the biblical gospel. You can see that on tv every day of the week. A tv preacher will look in the camera and says you can be a christian right now.

Just pray this prayer with me. Jesus i'm a sinner save me. That's not the biblical gospel. That is not the gospel that jesus christ preached and died for. As the return of christ draws ever nearer Luke Warns as it was in the days of noah.

So it will be in the days of the son of man. Talking about when he comes again. Does anybody remember from genesis chapter 6 how god describes the world? When we did genesis I read it to you. God looked around the world.

And all he saw was wickedness in the heart of every man. Paul warns timothy in the last days men will be lovers of self. Lovers of money. Does this sound familiar? Boastful arrogant revilers. Disobedient to parents.

Ungrateful unholy unloving irreconcilable. Does that sound familiar? Malicious gossips. Does that sound familiar without self-control? Does that sound familiar? Fathers killing their children mothers killing their children.

Does that sound familiar. Haters of gold treacherous? I'm, sorry haters of good treacherous reckless conceited lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of god holding to a form of godliness. Although they have denied its power avoid such men as these.

There will continue to be a form of godliness in people. But the reality is people will be less and less godly and this is more true Today than it was last year and more true today than it was 10 years ago.

Because that is a biblical perspective on the days in which we live. In 2021 one more point the general moral condition of mankind Will be worse not better. Go to first timothy four again with me. The church will continue to decline in general people's consciences.

Will be more and more dull. This is an amazing verse. First timothy four verse one now the spirit says expressly That in the latter times some will depart from the faith. Giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons.

Speaking lies and hypocrisy and here it is having their own conscience seared with a hot iron. Here is something to understand. It's a faithful saying. The vast majority of people who believe in god don't one day wake up and want nothing to do with god church or the bible.

In most cases those who turn away From the faith at first feel pangs of conscience. I need to read my bible today. I just too I got to get going. I should Spend time with the lord this morning. I I got to get out and do this and and the conscience Warns them.

I I should go to church today. I got so much to do at the house. I should call that person. I should reach out. I should ask for prayer, but but but but but they ignore it. They ignore this god-given warning system.

The inner voice of conscience and pretty soon their consciences become calloused and hardened and seared with a hot iron cauterized and desensitized. So having a biblical perspective on the days in which we live.