The Last Days
The Lord's Day Morning May 8, 2005 II Timothy 3:1-9 “The Last Days” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If your have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to II Timothy, chapter three. As we work our way through the letters of Paul, called the Pastoral Letters, we have most recently been in II Timothy 2, where Paul speaks of his own suffering serving the interests of the church, as we were moved as we considered Paul's words there. In this passage today, Paul is reminding Timothy and the Ephesian Christians, and you and me, of the context in which we live and minister as Christians. You’ll notice that in the very first verse in this passage, Paul speaks about “the last days.” He is not speaking about those times which are future from us now, immediately prior to the…