Part II

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SERMON NOTES

Need 2 Know - A Study of Last Things / Part II: Seven Signs His Coming is Near Pastor Carl Toti January 28-29, 2017

1. A GREAT FALLING AWAY (Addressed in last week’s service) 2. S_________ Acts 2:19-20 (NKJV), I will show wonders in heaven above And signs in the earth beneath: Blood and fire and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD. 3. R_________ Acts 2:17 (NKJV), “And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh…” Matthew 24:14 (NKJV), 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come. 4. S_________ 2 Peter 3:3 (NLT), Most importantly, I want to remind you that in the last days scoffers will come, mocking the truth and following their own desires. 5. CHURCH __________ IN ____________ Hebrews 10:25 (NLT), And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near. 6. P_________ T_________ 2 Timothy 3:1 (NKJV), But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come. 7. ________________ ON A GRAND SCALE Revelation 12:9 (NKJV), So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Matthew 24:24 “…deceive the very elect.”

TEN PSYCHOLOGICAL STEPS TOWARD THOUGHT REFORM 1. Assault on identity 2. Guilt 3. Self-betrayal 4. Breaking point 5. Leniency 6. The compulsion to confess 7. The channeling of guilt 8. Re-education: logical dishonoring 9. Progress and harmony 10. Final confession and rebirth. http://changingminds.org/techniques/conversion/lifton_brainwashing.htm DECEPTION INDEX A person is deceived if he is a hearer and not a doer of the Word (James 1:22). A person is deceived if he says that he has no sin (1 John 1:8). A person is deceived when he thinks himself to be something when he is nothing (Gal. 6:3). A person is deceived when he thinks himself to be wise with worldly wisdom (1 Cor. 3:18). A person is deceived when he seems to be religious and does not bridle his tongue (James 1:26). A person is deceived when he thinks that he will not reap what he sows (Gal. 6:7). A person is deceived when he thinks that evil company will not corrupt good morals (1 Cor. 15:33). A person is deceived when he thinks that the unrighteous will inherit the kingdom of God (heaven) (1 Cor. 6:9).