Special episode today as Pastor Bobby Roberts (Westminster Pres, Johnson City) joins us to talk about their upcoming church plant in Jonesborough.

Pray for God's gracious work in and through Bobby, his family, and this upcoming church plant.

https://christchurchjonesborough.org/

ONE context. 1-2

TWO understandable questions. 3

When will these things be?

What will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?

THREE present “things”.

False Christs. Do not be led astray. 4-5

External portents. Do not be alarmed. 6-8

Personal tribulation. Do not fail to endure. 9-13

FOUR powerful words. 14

Gospel.

Kingdom.

Preached.

World.

And then the end will come.

Genesis 34 today, a chapter with darkness, sin, and response.

Woe to you, workaholics with wrong priorities. 23.25-26

Woe to you, performance addicts fixated on the wrong audience. 23.27-28

Woe to you, false pietists who will receive the full penalty. 23.29-36

The TONE of lament. 23.37-39

The GOSPEL of substitution.

Jacob prepares to meet Esau and wrestles with God.

BUT WOE TO YOU, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!

… deconstruction evangelists. 23.13-15

… blind guides. 23.16-22

… pious negligents. 23.23-24

What of us?

The WARNING.

The GOSPEL.

God continues to bless Jacob as he parts ways with Laban to return home.

What do you think about the Christ?

(Informed biblical discernment)

DO you think about those who are unlike the Christ?

(Intentional cultural discernment)

How must you (we) respond to the Christ?

(RADICAL personal discernment)