Darkness
Woe to those who call good evil and evil good.
Isaiah 5:20. (NIV):
"Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.”
2 Timothy 3:1-5 (ESV):
"But 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, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.”
THEY WILL LOOK GODLY!
!!!!The sin will be sanitized!!!!
THE WORLD AND ITS FOLLOWERS PREACH:
not lover of self… just…self lovers…
not lovers of money… just… bag chasers…
not proud… just… bosses…
not arrogant… just… unapologetic…
not ungrateful… just… deserving….
not unholy… just… in my hoe phase….
not lacking self control… just… Turning up…
not being a lover of pleasure… just… having fun…
John 3:19-21
19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. 21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”
Jesus came into the world to expose the sinfulness of man and provide a way of escape!
But men refused his way of escape because they love the dark!
Romans 1 says:
they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.”
Timothy 2 3:13
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
Deuteronomy 11:16
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
Corinthians 1 6:9
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
James 1:22 - "Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says."
Matthew 24:36-41
36 No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. 39 And they were oblivious, until the flood came and swept them all away. So will it be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left.
They will deceive themselves to the grave.
Proverbs 16:25 (ESV):
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death."
What is our way out!
1 John 1:6-10
6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
We must walk in the light which is understanding the darkness of our sins confessing sins and turning from them!
Luke 8:9-14
The Pharisee and the Tax Collector
9 He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: 10 “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ 13 But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Acts 2:40 (ESV):
"And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, 'Save yourselves from this crooked generation.’”
No comments:
Post a Comment