God said in the last days "difficult times would come" (2 Timothy 3), in the original language the word difficult means; "ragingly insane" times would come in which very little makes good sense and is even monstrously and radically foolish.
Murdering babies in the womb because they are inconvenient, all the way through the ninth month. Ragingly insane!
Murderers being convicted and housed with free room and board as well as free health care, for the rest of their lives for their crimes, rather than being executed is irrational. Ragingly insane!
Promoting to young children that they should question what gender they are, even having the state come against wise parents who say no, punishing the parents while allowing mutilation of children to be mandated. Ragingly insane!
Many people who say they are Christians rage against Bible truths as though the ones who assert God's Word are the bad ones treated with contempt for their expectation that "all Christians" adhere to God's Word. Ragingly insane!
Preachers teaching doctrines that claim devils mated with women ignoring all the passages that refute such a thing. Ragingly insane!
Promoting the acceptance of homosexuality as an alternative lifestyle without correction asserting that love is what supports the sin when God said that love is to speak against the sin to help those caught up in it realize Christ can free them for eternity. Ragingly insane!
Christ is all about freedom of speech but those who want to sin without guilt oppress those who speak the healing words of Christ are disregarded and punished for their love of God, the truth and the person they are correcting. Ragingly insane!
"Christian" families punish those who speak the truth of the Bible for being rude and mean while those who do not follow the Bible are the rude and mean ones. Ragingly insane!
We are living in the end times in which very little that goes on in the culture is rational and reasonable. Everything is tainted with culturally ungodly thinking while those who think with the mind of Christ are penalized for loving the Word of God more than they care about their own safety or being loved by others. Ragingly insane!
As an elderly person, I have seen the culture grow worse over the years. In my lifetime it was bad when we could see with Spiritual eyes, but now one does not have to have Spiritual eyes to see it, even some secular people are noticing a shift in attitudes over the past 50 years.
Some seculars blame the shift in the culture on self-esteem teachings that ruined the hearts of many people. However, they do not know the Scriptures that say this would happen in the end times. They think they can fix the culture by teaching better attitudes, but it cannot be fixed by anything man does.
It is only through trusting in Christ that individuals can be changed on the inside which changes their actions and reactions on the outside.
The sad news is that the culture as a whole will never be better, but will become worse as God prophesied in His Word.
The hope for mankind is Jesus Christ but the culture will seek every other kind of remedy that will not work because the hearts on the inside are not changed. And, hearts have become hardened toward God. As long as the heart is hardened the mentalities of people will harden along with it.
2 Timothy 3:1-5
Difficult (ragingly insane) Times Will Come
3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult 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."
Sadly we see this in the cultural Christian gatherings in which personal pleasure and safety take priority over God's Word. Those in the gatherings of cultural Christians kick at the Word of God demanding that He keep them safe and full of happiness but they don't want Him. They only want what He has to offer but don't know that His blessings are not the things they have, His blessings are the peace and joy authentic believers possess who have been changed by Him that they will have as well as their eternity in Paradise with Him.
In other words, cultural Christians are seeking superiority over others, physical blessings such as health and wealth while neglecting the weightier matters of Spiritual fruits that only come from Christ.
Matthew 23:23 "
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the Law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others."
Most cultural "Christians" in our day do not have the fruit of the Spirit of Christ because they do not have Him.
Galatians 5:22-23
"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
Salvation through faith in Christ and the fruit of Christ are the important things!!!!
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