grew up with that perspective and it was only later in life where I picked up the book by Gary DeMar last

And when I'm reading this in last day's madness, the obsession of the modern church, I'm trying to understand

There's the book the last days madness the obsession of the modern church.

Today we've got Last Day's Madness by Gary DeMar and our obsession of the modern church, Last Day's Madness

The sermon is titled The Vibrant Church in the Last Days. And here's our big idea. What the sermon is calling you to do. Fulfill your Christian responsibilities as the end nears. And as I say the big idea, I also want to read the text.

We are now back with not only Gary DeMar of American vision and author of last day's madness Obsession

So in order to deal with this within the Christian worldview context, I started dealing with this, and I wrote a book called Last Days Madness, and it kind of took off, and the more notoriety I had, Peter Lightheart and I had written a book in response to Dave Hunt called The Reduction of Christianity about how his end -time views, he had written a book called The Seduction of Christianity, and we wrote a book called The Reduction of Christianity because eschatology has implications to the culture in which we live, and he and others were reducing its significance by their end -time theology because supposedly we were always living on the precipice, some edge of prophetic history, and we could be raptured out of here at any moment.

There's nothing left from the church age except the rapture of the church. Then we hit the tribulation and Jesus returns again so we're living in the last days and The end of the last days is going to be marked by three dramatic events.

You know, one of the clearest teachings in the New Testament is that the last days will be marked by religious apostasy. And I think, again, that describes the day and age we're living in. The early church was so zealous.

I got introduced to partial preterism through Gary DeMar's book, Last Day's Madness.

Last days or latter days of what? Every single New Testament author says, we're in the last days. They were. They and their audience were in the last. Where did they get that language from? Here's my idea.

As we get towards the end of the church year every year you'll notice that our readings across the year cover literally every major doctrine within the scriptures in one year's time and we spend well at least three weeks or more talking about the end of the world and so today we are observing All Saints Day and we remember those who have departed and died in the faith and we recognize that they are with Christ and that should Christ tarry that we too will be joining them soon enough right and our names will be added to the roll of faith until Jesus returns but in the days immediately before Jesus returns there is going to be one who arises within the church who will be the man of lawlessness and the church always has understood two things about this particular person is that we will have to contend with him when the time comes and he is revealed but the spirit that is animating him the spirit that is really at work in him is already at work in the church today so we are already dealing with the man of lawlessness at least the spirit behind him.

And the world is winding down between the ascension of Christ and his second coming. That's last days terminology. That's the end of all things is at hand a kind of terminology. Since we have Jesus's return as eminent, I -M -M -I -N -E -N -T, or near, how should we live?

Here's a message from Pastor Chris Rosebrook. The Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew, the 24th chapter. Jesus said, when you see the abomination of desolation spoken by the prophet Daniel standing in the holy place, let the reader understand.

The Fundamentalist Movement. And then there's the Charismatic Movement. And on and on it goes. So we're going to end with Billy Graham because Billy Graham was at the tail end of the modern church and he was still ministering past 1970 into the postmodern church.

There's going to be a great tendency because the mindset in the modern church in the last days is Laodicean

This is the gospel of the Lord. In the name of Jesus. Amen. Well you can always tell we're getting towards the end of the church year when the topic turns to the end of the world. Now on that note we've all heard the saying there's no point in polishing the brass on the Titanic.

We are living in the final age. From Pentecost until the return of Christ, we are living in the last days. It doesn't mean that somehow that things went unfulfilled. If Peter expected Christ to return and then he didn't, we have all been expecting the return of Christ as we should.

And I've loved his Last Days Madness and I've encouraged people to read these things.

One of the things interesting is when we talk about the last days if you go back in contemporary modern