2 Timothy 3:1-5
"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 [b]godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these."
2 Timothy 4:1-5
"4 I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom:
2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,
4 and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.
5 But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry."
2 Timothy 4:16-18
"16 At my first defense no one supported me, but all deserted me; may it not be counted against them.
17 But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that through me the proclamation might be fully accomplished, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was rescued out of the lion’s mouth.
18 The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed, and will [f]bring me safely to His heavenly kingdom; to Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen."
Christmas began through the Catholic church as a response to include paganism into their false Christianity. It has never been about Christ, only a distraction, the same with Easter, that's why these holidays went bad. They were not ordained of God. They are not in the Scriptures. The only celebration the Lord commanded was the Lord's supper, no other holiday was given to believers.
1 Corinthians 11:23-25 "…23 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: that the Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took bread, 24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” 25 In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”…
I need no alternative to Christmas or any other holiday. There are those who feel a need to fill in when they removed the man made holidays. There i s no need to have any man made holiday. My husband and I are completely content not to engage in man made holidays. We love the freedom we have now, we do not rush around doing all the things most people are stressing over. We are relaxed and content to know our Savior without any human trappings.
Just take a look at these festive gatherings, evaluate how many times the name of Christ is mentioned and how much prayer occurs. Almost never except in the prayer over the meal. When Christ is brought up by the one attending fanatic, the room goes silent while the person who spoke His name is ignored and even subtly mocked.
Your gathering may be different from this but it would be rare. I have been to many holiday gatherings over the years and in every single case Christ was never worshiped or spoken of except in the canned prayer before eating the meal.
Thanksgiving can be about Christ without the trappings, although most often it is more about fun and games than about Christ.
Just some things to think about when you feel pressured by the culture to race around like a chicken with the head cut off doing useless and meaningless things just to fit into the culture.
We do not need human validation or acceptance when we have Christ. We are free to do as we please without the pressure of family and friends to do things they do and act like they do.
There is far more freedom in Christ when we just obey Him. The culture places monstrous burdens that are unnecessary and wearisome.
Think with your own mind, obey Christ and your burden will be light.
Matthew 11:30 "“For My yoke is easy, and My load is light.”
Please pray for the distribution of my book which is coming out in a month to six weeks.
Title: "Narcissism, Second Timothy Three is Here."
"Just be friendly and they will like Jesus" is the new thinking of the modern church.
Lots of unsaved people are friendly. All they manage to do is validate whatever state their friends happen to be in. Sin is not very important and is actually defended for those who want to remain in it.
Being "friendly" without speaking the gospel is not biblical. In fact merely being friendly works against the gospel. Yes, we should always be kind but we must speak to people in order to obey Christ.
Romans 10:13-15 "…13 for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” 14 How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach? 15 And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”…"
The devil loves it when believers shrink from speaking boldly the gospel, it confuses those who do not understand what Christlikeness is.
Mere friendliness without words causes the unbeliever to feel validated in whatever state they are in. When people treat us special while we are in sin it leaves us feeling happy that we can be accepted in that sin.
Unbelievers, no matter how sinful they are, believe they are good people.
Romans 3:9-20
9 What then? [a]Are we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin; 10 as it is written,
“There is none righteous, not even one;
11 There is none who understands,
There is none who seeks for God;
12 All have turned aside, together they have become useless;
There is none who does good,
There is not even one.”
13 “Their throat is an open grave,
With their tongues they keep deceiving,”
“The poison of asps is under their lips”;
14 “Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness”;
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood,
16 Destruction and misery are in their paths,
17 And the path of peace they have not known.”
18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
There are many people who will think they are going to heaven just because they think they are good people. Sadly these people will hear these words from God, what I believe are the most frightening words anyone can ever here:
Matthew 7:21-23
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many [a]miracles?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’"
God commands us to speak the gospel. We are most believable when we are living what we preach of course, but the living of it should not be only what we do.
Those who would rather not speak are living in fear of rejection of man. We cannot be in obedience to God while we fear man.
Hebrews 13:6
"So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”
Lifestyle evangelism is an excuse to remain silent while garnering the acceptance of those who hate God. Never do we read in the Word of God that we should say things in a way that the hearer will accept it. We are to tell the truth as led by the Holy Spirit as well as through knowledge of the Bible.
Did the apostles do their evangelism wrong? After all they were martyred for their boldness and truth telling. God clearly said that we would be hated by ALL or most.
Matthew 10:21-23 "…21 Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death. 22 You will be hated by everyone on account of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved. 23 When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next. Truly I tell you, you will not reach all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.…"
When we speak the truth and are not accepted we are to leave those who rejected us and move on to others. We are not to remain in the lives of rejecters and continue to hope they will hear us.
When we are rejected we can know that the results are God's business not ours. If He chooses to send others to those who reject us thats up to Him, we are to obey and remove ourselves.
When we stop speaking truth boldly, evil grows. This is what we have been seeing in our world over the past 40 years. Most people have been intimidated to believe they should remain silent and accept everything no matter how evil. This is an endorsement and support of evil and it has caused the world to become even worse.
The political left as well as the unsaved community has literally gone postal. I have never seen adults act as childishly and vitriolic as they do now.
2 Timothy 3 is here!
"1 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."
These people hate what is good, hate those who have been made righteous by Christ and those who love Him.
2 Timothy 4:1-5
"1 I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom:
2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with [a]great patience and instruction.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,
4 and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.
5 But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry."
The political left is the most racist of all organizations today. They are the haters of men, women and children. They hate families, hard work, kindness and selflessness. In fact even their good deeds are done to show off and elevate self.
The left enables laziness to keep people in poverty, to demean them as persons while advocating they kill their children further devaluing their families.
Wise people teach people to work, giving them skills and dignity that earns them their own way. The left foolishly keeps people down, making them think they are incapable. When a narcissist demeans others they are attempting to keep them ignorant, helpless and dependent on them. This is the description of the Democratic party, purely narcissistic without remedy.
2 Timothy 3 describes in detail the mentality of the left!!!
"1 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."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 " 2 A wise man’s heart inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left."
There is nothing good that can be said about the Democrat party any longer. If there was ever any good in that system it is now gone. Debauchery, selfishness and crudeness rule that organization and those associated with it.
In recent years the democrat mentality has demonstrated such crassness and immaturity it can hardly be thought of as run by rational adults. Those who are in charge of that organization and those who have the most influence are infantile in their thinking and responses.
I left the Democratic party 40 years ago as I watched the emphasis the party placed on welfare systems to keep others in bondage. Even worse I watched the murderous defiance against decency in the promotion of abortion.
When killing innocent children and the right to be as immoral as one pleases is the party platform, there is nothing good left there to salvage.
Just my thoughts and I'm convinced of them.
Exacting revenge never produces any good in us. Those who seek revenge are in a dark place of self destruction. Those who are the targets of revenge do not learn from that vengeance against them.
We don't gain through our revenge and the target learns nothing either.
God has the believers back and one day will take care of the justice on our behalf.
Romans 12:19 “Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
Proverbs 6:34 “For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge.”
Revenge involves jealousy that someone got away with something. I am here to tell you that no one gets away with anything. It may appear that way now, but God sees everything. We don't get away with anything and others do not either.
Isaiah 54:17 “No weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.”
Second Thessalonians 1:6-8 “Since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.”
