Many people in America are complaining about this "stay at home" order.
I want to remind you that we deserve everything God can throw at us for our sins. There are so many it would take pages to list them and then I would have "Christians" coming to argue with me that they were not sins.
God said divorce was a sin and remarriage was adultery, but the people refuse to believe it. They argue and fight to defend sin that God condemns.
The sin of abortion, more than 50 million babies have been murdered because people do not want the consequences of their sin.
Gambling, prostitution, filthy magazines, false doctrine, refusing to be rebuked or corrected, stubbornness when confronted with sinfulness. There are many more, this list is very long. Here in the following verses God describes what it will be like in these end times of apostasy and rebellion:
2 Timothy 3:1-5
“Difficult Times Will Come” (Perilous times: ragingly insane times)
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."
Notice these people will have a form of religion based on their own desires. They will make up truths twisting scripture to justify their sin. Those who don't do these sins themselves will approve of those who do them.
Romans 1:31-32 "…31 They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things but also approve of those who practice them."
Notice the anger at the righteous people within their own church gatherings for correcting, rebuking, and refusing to submit to the sinful ideas.
Titus 1:16 "They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work."
Matthew 15: 7-9 "You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: “‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”
These are the times we are living in right now. Do not be discouraged from continuing to speak the truth. The response of others is not an indication of whether or not you did anything wrong.
Narcissists will try to make you think you were evil, they will accuse you of character flaws for speaking what God told you to speak. Ignore them, keep trusting the Holy Spirit, and keep going as you are led. What they say means nothing.
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