We are living in the days of "raging insanity" when right is called wrong and wrong is called right. Get used to it and rejoice that Christ is taking us home soon.
The most ridiculous things are being proposed and implemented to justify wickedness.
2 Timothy 3:1-8 "3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult (ragingly insane) times will come.
2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, 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 people as these.
6 For among them are those who slip into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, worthless in regard to the faith.
9 But they will not make further progress; for their foolishness will be obvious to all, just as was that also of Jannes and Jambres."
God not only told us what we will see in most people in these end times but He also named them boldly so that others would be warned not to follow them.
When you are ever challenged to do things privately when the false preachers did their dastardly preaching publically, you are observing someone who is hiding something about themselves. Those who do not appreciate openness are those who have something to hide. Those who are more worried about someone's embarrassing feelings have a worldly focus. When we love Christ our greatest aim is to turn people from sin and evil and toward Christ. Secrecy is the enemy of God.
Openness and honesty are healing balms for those who have been injured by liars and tricksters.
Those who do not have anything to hide do not fear being exposed. Their sin has been forgiven, they are walking with Christ and they are keeping close accounts as they self-reflect to make sure they are pleasing the One Who lives in them, that is Jesus Christ.
We must not allow the weaker believers to intimidate us into silence as we expose public sin.
Ephesians 5:11
"Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them."
Matthew 23:4-6 "…4 They tie up heavy, burdensome loads and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them. 5 All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels. 6 They love the places of honor at banquets, the chief seats in the synagogues,…"
John 3:20
"For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed."
Isaiah 5:20
"Darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
Most importantly we must remember this;
Ephesians 6:12
"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places."
Romans 12:9
"Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good."
Ephesians 6:11
"Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil."
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