A link would be good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4MZFcsEoGc
Or even some kind of transcript
(caveat: I've not checked this transcript - but it might be useful for any not wanting or unable to watch the whole of the above video)
you know there are many people today who
say that we're not living in the time of
the end they say the world is just as
the same as it's always been
there's no real changes that have taken
place but of course we know they're
deceiving themselves never before have
so many people around the globe openly
practice and flaunted sexual immorality
and not just among themselves but
they're seeing that it's brought into
the homes by means of internet
television and other means never before
has man had the power to decimate entire
populations by dropping just one bomb or
by means of chemical warfare never
before has there been such widespread
lack of love of natural affection that
results in the death of children it's
interesting that some calculate that
over
1 billion abortions have taken place
since 1980
that's really something
just about the population of China if
you can imagine and that is something
that's accepted is commonplace in our
day so some people think well things
haven't changed but is that true no
quite to the contrary and something else
that we're fully aware of is that people
around the earth are making a garbage
dump out of the planet that we live on
polluting the air the Seas the land
and yet some still insists that things
haven't changed now why is it why do
people have that attitude well part of
it lies in what the Scriptures tell us
what Paul wrote at second corinthians
four three and four and there it says
the Satan blinds the minds of the
unbelievers and the unbelievers are not
just atheists the unbelievers are found
throughout the churches of Christendom
they don't believe really believe what
the Bible has to say about prophecy
about morality that God is really going
to clean up this planet and is going to
be a wonderful new world of peace and
happiness and so to help people
understand these things we go out and we
preach we tell them about what Matthew
24 says in mark 13 and Luke 21 and
second Timothy three that we're living
in the time of the end but there is
something we have to remember if we get
a little bit discouraged when people
don't respond as we feel they should
with all of the evidence that we see and
we appreciate
the Bible indicates very clearly that
many people would not see the sign they
would not accept what the Bible has to
say and what's most interesting about
that is that the people who ignore and
who deny the sign that we're living in
the time of the end are part of the sign
themselves what they do and well the way
they think turn to second Peter
second Peter chapter three and we'll
read verses 3 and 4 in the first line in
verse 5
second Peter 3 3 & 4 in the first line
of verse 5 Peter wrote first of all know
this that in the last days so this is
something Peter is saying would happen
during our time ridicule errs will come
with their ridicule proceeding according
to their own desires and saying where is
this promise presence of his wife rum
the day our forefathers fell asleep in
death all things are continuing exactly
as they were from creations beginning
and then the reason for it is given in
the next line for they deliberately
ignore this fact well here the fact was
they ignored the flood of Noah's day the
fact for us today is that they ignore
what the Bible clearly says or what
Jesus said would be the sign of the last
days so they don't realize it that
they're part of the fulfillment what
contributes to an unbelieving attitude
well one of the things is what we could
call as gradualism the watchtower of
January 15 2014 paragraph 30 or page 30
paragraph 11 stated the following it
seems that the more familiar situation
is the less people are inclined to pay
attention to it a steady decline in the
morality of society in general may seem
less shocking than a sudden unexpected
change in the behavior of a close
acquaintance and then it says
nevertheless this gradual decay of
morality is dangerous and isn't it true
that most of us have we were raised in
an environment that was not so good they
were immoral things taking place around
us wars crime and so people get to the
point where they accept it as normal and
as it escalates it really doesn't
impress upon him on them that no times
have changed they're becoming far worse
than ever before gradual decay of
morality is dangerous it makes me think
of an illustration about how to boil a
frog
if you heat up a pot and you have the
water boiling and drop a frog into it
what's going to happen he's out of there
he's not going to stay that frog isn't
stupid he hits the water and it's
terribly hot and out he jumps but if you
fill the pot with cool water drop the
frog in and then gradually little by
little you heat it up
until it gets to the boiling point he's
cooked and that's what's happening in
the world today the gradualism is not
perceived by people in the world but
they're being cooked it's getting hot
and so we know that wicked men are going
to continue to increase imposters
scoffing at the truth world conditions
are escalating they're getting worse
constantly but they're going to have to
deal with the creator and his judgment
and there's three Psalms I'd like to
just mention briefly that I find very
interesting to tie in nicely with the
wickedness of the world in what jehovah
will do psalm 10 verse 4 in his
haughtiness the wicked man makes no
investigation all his thoughts are there
is no God
Psalm 12 8 the wicked walk around
unrestrained because the sons of men
promote depravity that could have been
this morning's headlines in the New York
Times and the last Psalm 92 7 when the
wicked sprout like weeds and all the
wrongdoers flourish it is that they may
be annihilated forever and to that we
say Amen so be it
