Timeless Truths for Tough Times. 1 Peter 4:7-11 When Peter said, “The end… is at hand,” he said exactly what he should have been saying, because, you see, from the days of Pentecost right up until this present day, we live in an age called the last days or the end times. If Jesus Christ may come at any moment, if the end of all things is at hand, how then should we be living? And, what should be a lifestyle for those of us who are here, in these last days? You say that the end is at hand, but when Simon Peter wrote this, it was almost 2,000 years ago, and Simon Peter said, then, that the end was at hand. He must have gotten confused, because it didn’t come. It’s been 2,000 years, and Peter said, ‘It’s right nigh,’ and it hasn’t come yet.” Well, I want to ask a question, and try to answer it: Was Peter wrong? Absolutely not. God help us that we will speak the truth in love and that this place will be a place that, when people think about it, they will say, “Behold, how they love one another.” And, I’ll make some mistakes, and you’ll make some mistakes; but we will have a love that covers, and, together, we will give Jesus praise. And, when He comes, He will not find His children bickering or quarreling, but loving one another. That’s the lifestyle for the last days. And, I want to tell you: In these days of lawlessness, we had better be careful, or there will be days of lovelessness. “Because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” And so, let’s have that kind of love.