For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
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… we have church discipline, but it is still a serious sin. We read in 2 Timothy, understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty for people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. That is quite a list to describe what some people will be like. Unholy, heartless, brutal, lovers of pleasure, reckless, treacherous, and right in the middle, disobedient to their parents. That's how strongly even the New Testament considers this sin. You might ask the very natural question, are there limits to obeying our parents and are there limits to what parents can require of their children?" Yes, to both questions, authority can be abused. The antidote to bad authority is not no authority but good authority. We know from Acts chapter 5 that if any authority should require of us what God forbids or forbid from us what God requires, then we say with the apostles, it is right for us to obey God rather than man. And Jesus himself understood this, especially in that ancient culture where there was a much stronger emphasis on loyalty and respect for your parents. I know this is very anachronistic and maybe not the best way to read back into the New Testament, but it gives you a picture maybe if you've seen Fiddler on the Roof, the sort of authority that the father, though it was, you know, in that musical, …
… just blade whittling down the wood. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanders without self-control. Wow. Brutal, despisers of good. They hate good. Traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. Here's the kick. Having a form of godliness but denying its power from such people turn away. They look like believers but when you're not looking at them that's who they really are. And then there's a quote. I don't know if this is up in the... There it is. Okay, good. But one of the paramount teachings of false prophets will be that of mocking. Number one, the return of Jesus Christ both for his church as well as number two his second coming to the nation of Israel to the Jewish people. Listen, these are the things we're going to be looking at tonight. Don't be a mocker. Well, you know, I know you go to a church or you're the pastor that says Jesus is coming back. …
… there will come times of difficulty for people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness but denying its power avoid such people okay paul is writing to timothy here and he's not talking about the world he's talking about the church here he's not addressing atheists he says these people they have some sort of appearance of godliness but they deny its power these are not people that don't believe in godliness don't believe in god but much like the demons they believe there's a god but he says be careful of these people because they're not really lovers of god they're really lovers of pleasure and paul's saying you know in the end times it's going to get terrible the last days are going to come terrible times not because the world is going to be in sin the world has always been in sin the problem is how much that sin has crept into the church in the last days and people who attend these gatherings and call it church he says there's going to come a very very difficult time because people are going to be the first thing he says lovers of self false wildzam ЖДЛ might not be tested for yourself but there's truth in it regardless the thought that came to my mind is all of your Facebook accounts. …