A Clarion Call – Part 5
In the last days…men will be lovers of self, lovers of money…disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy…without self-control…haters of good, treacherous…lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power. Avoid such men as these…who…captivate weak women weighed down with sins…always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth [2 Timothy 3:1-7].
Not long ago society knew responsibilities. We knew not to disturb the neighbors just because we wanted to do something. We put society and others first and fit in. We knew right and wrong because the Bible taught us right and wrong. But no longer.
I’m being serious, dear friends. Nowadays most people don’t recognize right and wrong, and this includes the authorities! If anyone complains about disturbances of the peace, they are complainers. The criminal becomes the victim and the victim the criminal.
This is the season of the witch! It proves we’ve lost all semblance of Bible reality in our society, and the Christians fall right into the same pattern of behaviors too. Paul refers to this behavior by the phrase “lovers of self”. Biblical love gives. Worldly “love” takes.
Not long ago our society thought in terms of others, and this is known as “responsibilities”. The concept of responsibilities leads us to give. Today’s society thinks in terms of “I-me-mine”, and this expresses itself as “rights”. The concept of rights leads us to take.
Paul’s list is extensive and more than we can expound upon in this venue. It would be a good spiritual exercise for each of us to read each behavior and attitude, then weigh its application in today’s society. Let us draw from our conclusions examples of how we are conformed to the world. Finally let us determine to be in prayer about this, conducting spiritual warfare with vim and vigor to overcome these worldly behaviors and mindset in our lives.
If we will have any success in reviving our society—and if we don’t we’ll degenerate into an utter socialist train wreck in a generation or two—but to succeed we must grow into mature men and women of God. We need Biblical spiritual leadership, not doctrinal carnal leadership. Man’s words brought us to our present unspiritual condition. We must flee from man’s words and embrace the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible.
Not convinced? Read another of Paul’s worldly behaviors: “lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God”. Our kids today think they are entitled to an easy, comfy life. Society owes it to them, and the parents had better produce. And we parents have swallowed this antichrist sentiment hook, line, and sinker! We go on guilt trips if our sweet, little child can’t keep up with the Joneses. Oh, the poor dear. Pooh pooh… I’ll bet he is scarred for life, never again to be heard from in cultured society.
Methinks the Lord would prefer we raise the little tyke to know Him, to teach him to feed on the Bible daily and talk to Him in prayer. The worldly things are secondary, a remote and distant secondary at that. But we put worldly success up front. We’ve done this for so long that we don’t know any different. We’ve reached the point where the Bible just isn’t relevant, so why waste time reading it?
A sad note on which to finish the song. Praise the Lord! It’s not the finish. The fat lady hasn’t finished singing yet. We’ll look for a ray of hope in our next study. Here comes Jesus now. Won’t you let Him in?
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Genesis: Volume 1 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
Not long ago society knew responsibilities. We knew not to disturb the neighbors just because we wanted to do something. We put society and others first and fit in. We knew right and wrong because the Bible taught us right and wrong. But no longer.
I’m being serious, dear friends. Nowadays most people don’t recognize right and wrong, and this includes the authorities! If anyone complains about disturbances of the peace, they are complainers. The criminal becomes the victim and the victim the criminal.
This is the season of the witch! It proves we’ve lost all semblance of Bible reality in our society, and the Christians fall right into the same pattern of behaviors too. Paul refers to this behavior by the phrase “lovers of self”. Biblical love gives. Worldly “love” takes.
Not long ago our society thought in terms of others, and this is known as “responsibilities”. The concept of responsibilities leads us to give. Today’s society thinks in terms of “I-me-mine”, and this expresses itself as “rights”. The concept of rights leads us to take.
Paul’s list is extensive and more than we can expound upon in this venue. It would be a good spiritual exercise for each of us to read each behavior and attitude, then weigh its application in today’s society. Let us draw from our conclusions examples of how we are conformed to the world. Finally let us determine to be in prayer about this, conducting spiritual warfare with vim and vigor to overcome these worldly behaviors and mindset in our lives.
If we will have any success in reviving our society—and if we don’t we’ll degenerate into an utter socialist train wreck in a generation or two—but to succeed we must grow into mature men and women of God. We need Biblical spiritual leadership, not doctrinal carnal leadership. Man’s words brought us to our present unspiritual condition. We must flee from man’s words and embrace the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible.
Not convinced? Read another of Paul’s worldly behaviors: “lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God”. Our kids today think they are entitled to an easy, comfy life. Society owes it to them, and the parents had better produce. And we parents have swallowed this antichrist sentiment hook, line, and sinker! We go on guilt trips if our sweet, little child can’t keep up with the Joneses. Oh, the poor dear. Pooh pooh… I’ll bet he is scarred for life, never again to be heard from in cultured society.
Methinks the Lord would prefer we raise the little tyke to know Him, to teach him to feed on the Bible daily and talk to Him in prayer. The worldly things are secondary, a remote and distant secondary at that. But we put worldly success up front. We’ve done this for so long that we don’t know any different. We’ve reached the point where the Bible just isn’t relevant, so why waste time reading it?
A sad note on which to finish the song. Praise the Lord! It’s not the finish. The fat lady hasn’t finished singing yet. We’ll look for a ray of hope in our next study. Here comes Jesus now. Won’t you let Him in?
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Genesis: Volume 1 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
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