Keep Calm & Live For God!

Written By Adam Dragoon

Sermon Summary

In 2 Timothy 3:1-9, Paul warns Timothy that in the last days, perilous times will come—not because of external disasters, but because of the condition of human hearts. The dangers of the end times are not asteroids or earthquakes, but people who are lovers of themselves, lovers of money, proud, ungrateful, unholy, and lacking self-control. These are not new problems, but Paul says they will reach unprecedented levels, and the majority will be swept up in them. Even more sobering, many will maintain a form of godliness while denying its true power, deceiving themselves and others into thinking they are righteous while their hearts are far from God.

The tendency to ignore warning signs is not just a physical survival issue, as illustrated by stories of pilots and shipwreck survivors, but a spiritual one. Our instinct is to cling to what is familiar and comfortable, even when alarms are blaring all around us. The church has faced many seasons—times of persecution, compromise, revival, and now, in our age, a Laodicean lukewarmness marked by self-reliance, wealth, and spiritual blindness. The red flags are everywhere, but the question is whether we will recognize them or retreat into complacency.

History and scripture are not just dry manuals to be referenced in emergencies; they are living testimonies meant to shape our hearts. The difference between those who survive spiritually and those who fall away is not just knowledge or preparation, but what is truly in the heart. Like the young woman who survived the Amazon jungle by remembering what she had learned and staying calm, we must internalize God’s word and let it transform us from within. Paul’s confidence in Timothy was not based on Timothy’s intellect or resources, but on his careful following of doctrine, example, and faith. In perilous times, it is those who have hidden God’s word in their hearts, who have been discipled and have seen faith lived out, who will endure.

Now is the time to examine our hearts. Are we ignoring the alarms, focusing on the familiar, or are we alert to the times and determined to endure to the end? The call is to keep calm, live for God, and let His word be more than information—let it be the very life within us.

“The call is to keep calm, live for God, and let His word be more than information—let it be the very life within us.”
— Pastor Dave

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  • [00:00] - Welcome

  • [00:54] - The Danger of Familiarity and Ignoring Warnings

  • [03:16] - The Navy Pilot: A Lesson in Panic and Complacency

  • [05:37] - Understanding the “Last Days”

  • [09:45] - Perilous Times Defined by Human Character

  • [11:10] - The Rise of Self-Love and Its Consequences

  • [13:22] - A Form of Godliness Without Power

  • [16:41] - The Value of Scripture and Church History

  • [19:09] - The Seven Churches: Lessons from Church History

  • [22:36] - The Laodicean Church and Modern Parallels

  • [24:39] - Recognizing Red Flags in Our Time

  • [26:42] - Survival Stories: Calm in Crisis

  • [28:26] - What’s in Your Heart Matters Most

  • [32:11] - Paul’s Confidence in Timothy: The Power of Discipleship

  • [33:37] - Responding to the Alarms: A Call to Endurance

  • [36:01] - Invitation to Salvation and Prayer

Key Takeaways

  1. Perilous times are not defined by external chaos, but by the internal decay of human character
    The greatest dangers to faith are not disasters or persecution, but the subtle and pervasive rise of self-love, pride, and spiritual apathy. Recognizing this shifts our focus from blaming circumstances to examining our own hearts and communities. [09:45]

  2. The most alarming sign of the last days is not open rebellion, but a form of godliness that denies its power
    Many will claim to be fighting for righteous causes or even identify as Christians, yet their lives are marked by the very vices Paul warns against. True godliness is not a label or a cause, but a transformed life empowered by the Spirit. [16:08]

  3. Church history is not irrelevant or boring; it is a vital map for navigating the present
    Each era of the church, from apostolic zeal to Laodicean complacency, offers lessons and warnings. Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat its failures, but those who learn from it can discern the times and avoid spiritual shipwreck. [21:16]

  4. Survival in perilous times is not about having the right tools or even the right knowledge, but about what is in the heart.
    The difference between those who endure and those who fall away is often the internalization of God’s word and a calm, steadfast trust in Him. When crisis comes, it is the heart anchored in Christ that prevails. [28:26]

  5. Discipleship and living examples of faith are essential for spiritual endurance.
    Paul’s confidence in Timothy was rooted in Timothy’s careful following of doctrine and example, not just intellectual assent. We need living models of faith—people whose lives we can observe and emulate—so that when perilous times come, we are not left to panic, but can endure to the end. [32:11]

Bible Reading

  • 2 Timothy 3:1-9 (ESV)
    But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith. But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.

Observation Questions

  1. According to Paul in 2 Timothy 3:1-5, what are the main characteristics of people during the “last days”?

  2. What does Paul mean when he says people will have “a form of godliness but deny its power”?

  3. In the sermon, what examples were given to show how people ignore warning signs, both physically and spiritually? [03:16]

  4. How does Paul describe the real danger of perilous times—is it external disasters or something else? [09:45]

Interpretation Questions

  1. Why does Paul focus on the condition of people’s hearts rather than outside events when describing perilous times? [09:45]

  2. What does it look like in real life to have “a form of godliness but deny its power”? How might this show up in churches or Christian communities today? [16:08]

  3. The sermon talks about the church being in a “Laodicean” age—what does that mean, and how does it relate to spiritual complacency? [22:36]

  4. Why is it not enough to just know the Bible or have the right tools? What does the sermon say is the real difference between those who endure and those who fall away? [28:26]

Application Questions

  1. The sermon warns about ignoring spiritual “red flags” and alarms. Are there any warning signs in your own life or in the church that you have been ignoring? What would it look like to pay attention to them this week? [33:37]

  2. Paul says the greatest dangers are not disasters or persecution, but self-love, pride, and spiritual apathy. In what ways do you see these attitudes creeping into your own heart or community? How can you fight against them? [09:45]

  3. The message challenges us to examine whether we are just “familiar” with God’s word or if it is truly hidden in our hearts. What is one step you can take this week to internalize Scripture more deeply? [29:15]

  4. The sermon highlights the importance of living examples and discipleship. Who is someone you look up to as a model of faith? How can you intentionally learn from their example, or be that example for someone else? [32:11]

  5. When crisis or temptation comes, do you tend to panic, freeze, or retreat to what is comfortable? Can you share a recent situation where this happened? What would it look like to “keep calm and live for God” in a similar moment? [03:16]

  6. The Laodicean church was marked by self-reliance and spiritual blindness. Are there areas in your life where you are relying on your own strength instead of God? How can you shift your trust to Him this week? [22:36]

  7. The sermon ends with a call to endure to the end. What practical habits or relationships help you stay spiritually alert and enduring, even when others around you are growing cold? [33:37]

  • 2 Timothy 3, verses 1 through 9. There's a book called Deep Survival. Deep Survival, Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why? It's written by a man named Lawrence Gonzalez. In this book, he explores how accidents happen. He explains they often result from bad habits, but also because our brains naturally rely on past experiences to guide us. It's another reason that accidents happen. When we repeat the same actions over and over again, we can become complacent.

    For instance, you might mentally connect an activity with a past success. When I, for example, go fishing and maybe you, you know, wade into the river, right? And so you're standing knee deep in the water and you cast your hook and you always catch fish right here. When you stand right here, cast my line, I always catch fish here. But then you'll overlook warning signs that appear in the moment. There's a thunderstorm coming over top of you. Lightning is striking. And if it strikes the water, you're going to get electrocuted. But you don't notice because I always catch fish right here.

    He tells a story in this book of a U.S. Navy pilot. Excuse me. This man is coming in for a landing on an aircraft carrier. The problem is he's approaching the runway of the carrier. But he's going too slow and he's coming in too low. Air traffic control tower, they're yelling at him to speed up. So, in case you don't know, when you're flying an airplane, the faster you go, the longer you can stay in the air, right? So when you start to slow down, you start dropping like a brick out of the sky. And that's what was happening to this man. They're screaming at him to speed up. Warning lights on the ship were flashing at him that he was too low. They've got these little traffic lights, and you know, when it goes too low, it's telling you, the pilot, "Oh, look at that, I'm too low." The ground crew starts screaming into his radio, "Speed up. You're too low. You're going too slow. Speed up." Warning alarms in the cockpit start going off. Beep, beep, beep, beep. "Speed up. Speed up. Too low. Too low." So, despite all that, his jet strikes the back of the ship, and it splits in half. The back half of the jet hits, falls into the water. The front half of the jet skids across the runway. The flight officer in the back seat is crushed by the impact. Somehow, the pilot manages to live.

    So, the investigators later said that this pilot had his hand on the throttle the whole time. All he had to do was bump it up just a little—thank you, fraction of an inch—but somehow he hadn't heard any of the warnings, he hadn't seen any of the lights flashing, heard none of it. He became so focused on what he knew was familiar—in this case, the runway—that everything else was blocked out. How is it possible that a smart, young, healthy, highly trained fighter pilot was able to block out all of those warnings?

    The author of Deep Survival says ignoring red flags is a form of panic. It's part of our survival instinct that we know as fight or flight. It's an instinct that says, "I just need to get back to the familiar, to what I perceive as safe," based on past experience. Despite all the information around us screaming, "Hey, stop! This is not a good idea," when confronted with a life-threatening situation, 90 percent of people freeze or panic. Yet, if 90 percent do that, that means there is another 10 percent that remain cool, focused, and alive. But how do they do that?

    In our text, the Apostle Paul is writing to his disciple, his young disciple named Timothy. In this passage, he's going to lay out a series of red flags, warnings.

    2 Timothy 3:1-9 says:
    "But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty—lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away."

    For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women, loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts. Always learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now, as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth. Men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith. But they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.

    Would you pray with me this morning? As our heads are about—Father, I’m asking, oh God, for Your help this morning. God, I cannot do this on my own. I am trusting in You. Father, I ask You, God, that You would move on every heart, every ear in this place, that they would be open to what You would speak. I pray that You would give me wisdom to say what You would have me to say. In Jesus’ name, amen.

    I want to preach a sermon called Keep Calm and Live for God. I want to look firstly with you at Perilous Times and Perilous Men.

    In our text, Paul says that perilous times will come in the last days. So, first, we have to understand—and we and this term last days—means there are some who suggest that the last days just refer to the time from when the church was born in Acts chapter 2 until Jesus comes back. But I would argue that, as Bible scholar Adam Clark says, it's probable that the apostle Paul had some particular age in mind, in which there should appear some very essential corruption in Christianity. In other words, it's not reasonable to say that the last 2,000 years are the last days, since we only have about 6,000 years of recorded human history.

    Let me ask you: when you read a book, do you consider the first third of the book the beginning, or just the first few pages? Do you consider the last third of the book the end, or just the last few pages? I’d argue that, just like a book or a movie, you can sense when you're getting close to the end. And if it's a really good book—the best drama, the best plot twist, the best battles—happen in those last few pages.

    In our text, Paul tells us what we should be looking for that will indicate we are close to the end. He says perilous times will come. The word perilous was used in classical Greek to describe both dangerous wild animals and raging seas. So, in other words, perilous times are going to feel like we're being tossed around—like the ocean in a hurricane. Some of you have been in the Navy, been through a hurricane, I know my wife has, while you're on a ship. Or it could feel like we're surrounded by hungry grizzly bears. Anybody had that experience? No? Okay.

    But that could be a little vague. We've all gone through chaotic times in our lives. Can you say amen? Honestly, those times of chaos that come in our lives—they only last for a certain amount of time. I've heard people say, "This too shall pass." They last a few days, a few weeks, a few months, maybe a few years. But they end. And others around us don't appear to be going through the same things we're going through at the same time.

    So, to clarify what he means by perilous, Paul gives us some additional red flags, some warnings. First, he says, men will be lovers of themselves. Now, it should be pointed out that when he says times will be perilous, the very first thing he says is, "for men will be..." But it's not natural disasters that bring about perilous times. It's not an asteroid striking the earth. It's not something from the outside. It's something from the inside. It's mankind. It's us. We bring the perilous times. And it starts with man's love of himself.

    Of course, this has been a problem in every generation. Men have always loved themselves. But it is certainly prevalent now. Our culture encourages us to love ourselves. Society tells us to love ourselves unconditionally. There's nothing wrong with you, and that such self-love is the foundation for a healthy human personality.

    The Bible scholar Barclay said, "Love of self is the basic human sin from which all others flow." Paul goes on to say that men are going to be lovers of money. We spoke about that in our Sunday school this morning. He says they're going to be boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty—that is, full of pride and arrogance—lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.

    Now, none of these things are new, but what Paul is saying is that these things will be at unprecedented levels. The majority of humans will be acting this way. It'll be hard to find a person who is humble, generous, loving, truthful, honest, forgiving. Instead, the vast majority will be entitled brats who hate their parents, whose default position on any matter is dishonesty. When you challenge them on their beliefs, they don't try to engage you with facts and logic. They immediately attack you with slander. They say the worst possible things about you and your family, and on and on. They wish death on you like that. They'll be traitorous, showing no loyalty to God, to family, to church, to their country. They'll have no self-control. They'll be addictive personalities. Their flesh rules their decisions. When their flesh says, "Feed me snacks every 20 minutes," they obey. They'll be brutal. They’ll prefer violence and destruction to debate and reason. They’ll prefer personal pleasure to the will of God. In fact, they will not even consider the will of God.

    Yet, somehow, despite all of this—despite spending their time on self-love, their energy on money and the things of this world—Paul says in verse 5 that they have a form of godliness but deny its power. And from such people, turn away. How is it that these people who act in this way have a form of godliness? You ever wonder that? Like, shouldn't it say they have a form of ungodliness? Like, all of that is ungodly. Yet it says they have a form of godliness.

    As I’m reading this list, I couldn’t help but get the mental picture of the protests happening across the country—the pro-Palestine protests. And, you know, all across our country, Europe, Australia, these protesters—they're mostly atheists, a lot of homosexual, transgender, and they’re chanting in favor of Hamas and for the death of Israel. Hamas, a Muslim group who would just as quickly toss these people off of a building. The absurdity was just on another level. They vandalized buildings and businesses. They attacked counter-protesters with slander and violence.

    Recently, there have been some brave YouTube street preachers who go among these people. It’s very entertaining to watch, sometimes very convicting—like, man, I don’t know if I have the courage for this. They go in and they preach to these people, with a microphone and a speaker right in their face. It’s incredible. Or they’ll talk to them, try to pray for them. And when these protesters aren’t screaming incoherently and trying to break their equipment, what they find is that these protesters are generally ungrateful college kids who hate God, hate Jesus, hate the church. They’re there on their parents’ dime. Many of them, as you look at them, are pictures of a lack of self-control. Yet, in their minds, they’re fighting for a righteous cause.

    But then, you find out as these street preachers confront them, many come up and say, "I’m a Christian too." What? And I would never spread hate the way you’re spreading hate. It’s a form of godliness—while denying the power of true godliness. It’s everything Paul warned us about—perilous times, perilous people causing those perilous times.

    Are you beginning to see the red flags?

    I want to look secondly with you at Fight or Flight. So, we have all the information we need in the scriptures. We could treat the Bible like it’s just an instruction manual or troubleshooting guide: if this happens, do that. Okay, that can be helpful. But if it’s just head knowledge, it’s not enough. We have the history of the church we could examine. Most people would balk at that and say, "History? Oh, why would I want to examine church history? That sounds so boring." But studying history helps you maintain your bearings. You know where you are in history. If you study the past, you can know what they’ve tried before, what your predecessors have gone through, what they’ve tried, what not to do. Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it.

    When you consider the seven periods of church history from the time of Jesus until now—those that Jesus spoke about in the book of Revelation—they line up with the seven churches of Revelation. Did you know that? You don’t believe me? So, Jesus listed seven churches: Ephesus was the first one. The word Ephesus actually means desirable. Jesus tells them to remember their first love, or He’ll remove their lampstand. This was the apostolic church—around during the time of Jesus and the apostles. As the first century drew to a close, the original 12 disciples began to die off. Though the church had grown greatly, it then experienced a widespread falling away—people leaving the faith. How many know that when people leave, it can make your love go cold? It hurts. Jesus told them, "Remember your first love." This represents the period from about 30 AD, the time of Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection, until about 100 AD.

    Next is Smyrna. The word Smyrna means crushed. Jesus finds no fault in them; He only encourages them. This is the persecuted church under Rome. There were ten major periods of trial during this time, roughly from 100 AD until just after 300 AD.

    Then comes Pergamos. The word Pergamos means married. Jesus told them to stop what they were doing, or He’d come and fight against them. Try fighting Jesus—try that! This was the worldly, imperial, early Roman church married to the government under Constantine. This period spans from about 313 AD to around 590 AD.

    Next is Thyatira. The word Thyatira means continual sacrifice. Jesus said He would give them exactly what they deserve according to their works. That’s a scary thought. This was the pagan or papal church—the medieval Catholic church. Continual sacrifice refers to the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation—believing that when you take communion, you are literally eating Christ’s flesh and drinking His blood. This period saw increasing false doctrines, sexual immorality, and during this time, Europe was devastated by the Black Plague, wiping out a third of the population. Jesus said, "I will give you according to your works." This spans from about 590 AD through roughly 1517.

    Next is Sardis. The name Sardis means remnant. Jesus says, "You have a name that you live, but you are dead." Yet, there is still a remnant—some who are worthy to walk with Him. This is the church of the Reformation. The church had a reputation everyone recognized, but spiritually, it was dead. This corresponds to the time of Martin Luther and others who stood against the corrupt church, translating the Bible into common languages. This lasts until about 1700.

    Then comes Philadelphia, meaning brotherly love. Jesus has nothing but encouragement for this church. It’s called the church of the open door—a revival, missionary church. This includes the Great Awakening and lasts until around 1900.

    The seventh and final church Jesus mentions is Laodicea. Here are some facts about Laodicea: it was an important, wealthy city with a significant Jewish population. It was a center of worship of Caesar, symbolizing wealth and power, and also idolized Asclepius, the healing god, with a famous medical school attached. After an earthquake devastated the region, Laodicea refused imperial aid, claiming self-reliance. It was a major commercial hub, exporting goods worldwide. Laodicea prided itself on wealth, fashion, and pharmaceuticals. Does that sound familiar? Their water supply was poor—lukewarm from a hot spring six miles away, making them vulnerable to attack. They became accommodating to enemies. This sounds like the modern church—lukewarm, tolerant, liberal, globalist.

    The layout of Laodicea from 1900 until now reflects this. The name Laodicea means rights or rule of the people. It’s the church that’s complacent, self-sufficient, and indifferent.

    Are you seeing the red flags yet? It’s not as if the church has never experienced this before. False prophets, false doctrines, scandals, persecutions, times of blessing, times of poverty—yet she’s still here because Jesus loves His church. But the question is: when we see these things happening around us at an alarming rate, what will we do with the warnings? Do we simply long for the familiar and shut them out? Do we ignore the screams for help? Do we ignore those dying around us, going to hell? While we focus on just living our lives, just making it through another day, just trying to secure our own place?

    If we do that—if we focus on ourselves rather than heed the warnings—aren’t we guilty of the very things Paul warns us about? Being lovers of self, lovers of money, and so forth.

    Or can we recognize the times we are in now?

    Finally, I want to look at It’s Not What’s in Your Survival Pack. In Deep Survival, the author affirms the importance of keeping your mind, your mental state, in a survival situation. He contrasts two stories of survival at sea: one, an experienced and prepared sailor who was able to think quickly enough to survive after being stranded on the ocean for nearly three months; and another, a crew of disorganized sailors who, over five days, all perished except for two who were rescued.

    He also talks about a plane crash—this is incredible. You’ve got to read this story for yourself. It actually happened in Lima, Peru, back in 1970. A plane took off from Lima, was struck by lightning, and began to disintegrate in the air. One passenger, a 17-year-old girl named Julianne Kepke, was still strapped to her seat as her row went through the bottom of the plane and started plummeting to the earth. She fell 10,000 feet into the Amazon rainforest. She survived. She spent 11 days walking through the jungle, against all odds—no food, no shelter, no equipment. She had a broken collarbone, a torn knee ligament, and a fly infestation in one of her wounds. Somehow, she got out alive. Why? How? She remained calm and remembered what she had been taught in survival training by her parents years before.

    When search parties went back to look for survivors, they found that at least 14 other better-equipped adults had survived the crash but did not make it out. They sat down and waited for rescue, and they all died.

    As the book Deep Survival concludes, after examining these stories and tragedies, the author makes a powerful statement: It’s not what’s in your survival pack that separates the quick from the dead. It’s not even what’s in your mind. Corny as it sounds, it’s what’s in your heart.

    We can treat the Word of God like a dry, boring manual—sitting on the shelf, collecting dust, only pulled out in emergencies. But when the red flags are all around us, the alarms are blaring, instead of pulling it out, we focus on the familiar, the safe, and we crash and burn—falling back into sin, dying spiritually.

    Or, we can prepare ahead of time. When disaster strikes, we don’t have to panic. We can remain calm, trust God, and rely on what He’s already put in our hearts. Psalm 119:11 says, Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.

    After Paul warns Timothy about the last days and the perilous men that will bring perilous times, he says in 2 Timothy 3:10:
    "But you have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, perseverance, persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra—what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord delivered me."

    It’s like he’s saying, "Timothy, here’s how you’ll know the last days are upon us. Perilous men, perilous times—these things will happen. But I’m not worried about you. You’ve carefully followed my doctrine, you’ve listened to my preaching and teaching of the Scriptures. You’ve been attentive. You’ve also followed my manner of life—you’ve watched how I live for God in real time. You saw what happened when I went through persecutions. You saw how I handled those persecutions and afflictions. I was a living example of a man of God."

    Can I ask you something? Do you have one of those? A living example of a person of God you can look to? We call that discipleship. Paul says, "Timothy, you’ve been a good student. I know my time on earth is drawing to a close. I know that when the last days come, with all the persecution, with all the perilous times, you will recognize it. You will remain calm and continue to live for God. You won’t be part of the 90 percent who panic."

    The Word of God, the love of Christ, the Holy Spirit, discipleship, faith, purpose—these aren’t just words on a page. They’re in your heart. So when the end times come, and the alarms are screaming, I believe you won’t ignore them. You won’t become narrow-focused on yourself and crash and burn. You’ll make it through to the end.

    Jesus said in Matthew 24:13, "But he who endures to the end shall be saved." What about you? Have you noticed the acceleration of perilous times and perilous men all around us? Are you convinced that we are indeed living in the last days? Maybe the last of the last days—that we are the church of Laodicea.

    I don’t know about you, but I believe the church at large is the church of Laodicea. Wealthy, increased with goods, in need of nothing—yet, Jesus says, "I will spue you out of My mouth." We’re living in that time. Do you recognize it? The red flags, the warnings, the alarms? Are you ignoring them? Instead, focusing on the familiar and the safe—like that Navy pilot, if I just get to the runway—beep, beep, beep—you’re too low, too slow. But if you ignore the alarms, you’re on your way to crashing and burning.

    Is the Word of God just dusty old information to you? Or is it written in your heart? That’s what will keep us in the last days, through the perilous times. Do you recognize where you are in history right now?

    The times we’re in. If you’re not saved, it’s a good time to get saved. If you are saved and you see these signs, let’s endure to the end. Let’s keep calm and live for God.

    Why don’t we bow our heads this morning? As we draw this service to a close, with every head bowed and every eye closed—I pray this sermon was a blessing to you. I pray that you can now hear the alarm bells ringing. We’re living in the end times, folks.

    Maybe you’re here this morning and you are not right with God. As we sit here, your heart’s not right with Jesus Christ. He’s not your Lord and Savior. If you’re honest with yourself, you’d look in your heart and say, "You know what? Pastor Dave, my heart is not right with God. Jesus Christ is not my Lord and Savior. If I were to pass into eternity today, wake up and stand before the living God, and He were to judge my life, I cannot say with certainty that I would make heaven my home."

    The alarm bells are ringing in your heart right now. Don’t ignore them. If you’re not right with God, would you lift up your hand? If you’re not saved, Jesus Christ is not your Savior, we want to pray with you. Would you lift up your hand in this place? All across this place. We’re not trying to embarrass anyone. We’re not going to put you on a microphone. We’re not asking you to join our church. We want to see you make heaven your home. Anyone else?

    Perhaps you’re backslidden in your heart. You once followed Jesus, but you turned away. Today, you’re not right with God. Is that anybody here? Would you lift up your hand? Just lift it up and back down very quickly. We can pray with you. Anyone at all?

    Praise God. Church, we’re living in the last days. The alarm bells are going off. The red flags are all around us. Do you recognize them? I want to open the altar for a time of prayer. Maybe you’ve got some things on your heart you need to speak to God about. Maybe something I ministered, maybe something I didn’t, but it’s on your heart right now. These altars are open. I encourage you to come down and pray. Let’s all take some time and pray together at this altar. These altars are open. Let’s pray.

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Written with Love by Pastor Adam Dragoon

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