The Selfish End Times Generation

We are experiencing the selfish generation that does not regard nor do they respect the life of their aging parents.

2 Timothy 3 explains this phenomena as it unfolds and to what extend it grows. 

2 Timothy 3:1-5
“Difficult Times Will Come”

3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, [a]haters of good,4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of [b]godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.

"Pastor" not a Title nor a Position but a Gift

The one man leadership concept in which the "Pastor" is a title or position is not Biblical and sought after by those who love to control others. In a Biblical model of the church gathering there is a plurality of elders, not just one man preaches they all do. No one man dictates church matters the elders lead by their example and by teaching, they are not rulers over but leaders of .
The church gatherings have been perverted because the unbiblical nature of the leadership and the wrong teachings that are in seminaries. The worst way for a man of God to learn is through a seminary where they are taught what to believe rather than Who to seek, that is Christ.

John 16:12-14 "
…12 I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it. 13 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come. 14 He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.…"

Those who are led by Christ to be a leader in the eldership will be led by Christ and not any man. The Holy Spirit takes center stage always and in everything.

When we obey the Bible we avert many problems. Most churches today violate more scripture than they obey and the people who attend them are not reading their Bibles so they just follow the man in the pulpit instead of Christ. By the way, I see no pulpit mentioned in the Bible. This is a class system ritual that came from the Catholic church. The one man leadership model comes straight out of the Catholic church system from Luther and Calvin when they left the Catholic church they took with them many of their ritual church systems.

Acts 14:23
"And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed."

Titus 1:6-9
"If anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it."

Titus 1:5
"This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you—"

1 Timothy 5:17
"Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching."

1 Peter 5:1-4
"So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory."

Dead to Our Children

When we are dead to our children while we still live, there is grief that cannot be compared to real death. When someone died loving us we grieve at the loss for a time.

But when we are considered dead when we still live then it would have been easier to lose someone to death who loved us than to lose them through contempt while they yet live.

Does this make sense to anyone else? We live in times of great turmoil in the family, irrational responses to simple life problems as well as raging anger over things that many years ago would have been shrugged or laughed off.

I am meeting and hearing about many grandparents who are being pushed out of their children's lives as well as out of their grandchildren's lives. The contempt the grown children have shown the grandparents has isolated them from their grandchildren.

These are tactics of a narcissistic generation! To punish the parents with isolation from their grandchildren because of their refusal to resolve a matter, is diabolical not to mention intensely selfish.

In the 70's we used to call that generation the "me" generation, now we have gone beyond just mere selfishness to revenge over things that would not warrant actions of revenge.

When attempts have been made to resolve small matters of disrespect and are met with worse accusation and punishment, we realize there is nothing we can do further to resolve problems. We live in a world that refuses to discuss anything unless the answer to the problem is that they get what they want without expectations.

There comes a time when we must leave these people to God and step away to get on with our lives. The pain of loss over the grandchildren will never completely go away, but it can be minimized by the realization that God knows all about it and our conscience is clear before Him.

Our walk in these last days of foolishness is not easy. We are bombarded constantly with contempt for our desire to follow Christ. When this happens we are comforted by the fact that one day this mess will all be dealt with, we will be home with Christ and all those other wonderful Christ loving believers. This must be our focus, otherwise our children and grandchildren become our idols. We love them, we grieve as Christ grieved over Jerusalem, and move on to those who do love Him.

2 Timothy 3:1-5
“Difficult Times Will Come”
3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these."

Biblical Truth Is the Goal of the Believer