Derek begins this message by giving an understanding of contradictions between the two sides of prophecy; what is true and what is distorted by darkness. Using Scripture he brings out that in the end times the light will get lighter and brighter in believers, while deep darkness will cover the earth.

Derek finishes this week’s message with a word about marriage and the need to put God first when you are considering choosing a mate. Remember to wait on God. Let God do it. Then Derek addresses the need for everyone to put their occupation and their whole life before the Lord—to commit and give yourself totally to Him.

Today we look at seven requirements in the life of a Christian who is truly looking forward to the coming of the Lord. These appear in 2nd Peter, chapter 3. Derek explores each one of these, starting with holy conduct, godliness, looking for the coming of the Lord, hastening His coming, being found by Him in peace, without spot, and blameless. Let’s consider these points together.

Derek continues to look at the coming of the kingdom of God at a time when the world is being shaken. We have a choice to make: to love God or love the world and its lusts. We can’t have both. God’s priority is to have a people who are purified just as Jesus is pure.

God’s will for Israel to be reborn is a sign of the last days, and Derek has witnessed this firsthand. He offers words of counsel from the Bible that you should align your life with God’s priorities. The first priority is for the coming of His kingdom on the earth in the person of His chosen King, Jesus.

Derek begins this message by quoting Jesus’ description of the last days. Jesus said that corruption in the last days will be like in the days of Noah and Lot, and self-love will be rampant. Derek’s aim is not to dwell on these facts, but to point them out and then present the way we are to live in these days.

Today Derek focuses on the state of being lost—being foolish, disobedient, deceived, and enslaved. He takes Paul’s list in Titus and paints a picture of why we need God’s mercy to set us free from the life of darkness.

Continuing this week with the theme “A New Beginning,” Derek focuses on eight facts of importance for us from Titus 3. Paul clearly and fully unfolds why we need God’s mercy, and how God made provision for us through Jesus.

In today’s study we look at God’s provision for re-creation, our identification with the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ; and His provision for our reconciliation with Himself in the death of Christ. These benefits are a mystery to the natural man, but as we enter in to this new life we see the reality of it all in our lives, and the need for others to receive this reconciliation as well.

Today we look the process of being cleansed and acquitted. In the Old Testament this was a temporary solution, but in the New Testament became permanent through the blood of Jesus. The sacrifices and sprinkling of blood in the Old Testament that covered sins had to be repeated, but the blood of Jesus once and for all cleanses us—blots out sins as we confess them, and causes us to remain in the light.