The late great Bishop Ken Goodson of Virginia was considered a staunch conservative. He had a very liberal Methodist lady in his conference named Tess Hoover. One day Tess said to him, "Bishop, you're so conservative that you probably believe in the devil." "Yes I do," he said, "and I don't like her at all."

The text this morning says that one-day—we do not know when—but it asserts that one day the ages of earth will end. There will be a final judgment when God separates those whom he calls wheat and those whom he calls weeds. The one will be brought into the kingdom of their Father and the other thrown into the fiery furnace. Now you might ask me, “Preacher, do you really believe that there will be an end of the ages and a final day of reckoning?” I could give you a lot of educated answers…