2 Timothy 3
But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come. For men will be:
- lovers of themselves
- lovers of money
- boastful
- arrogant
- abusive
- disobedient to their parents
- ungrateful
- unholy
- unloving
- unforgiving
- slanderous
- without self-control
- brutal
- without love of good
- traitorous
- reckless
- conceited
- lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God
...having a form of godliness but denying its actual power. Turn away from such as these!
They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and disqualified from the faith. But they will not advance much further. For just like Jannes and Jambres, their folly will be plain to everyone.
You, however, have observed my teaching, my conduct, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance, my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
Indeed, all who desire to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
But as for you, continue in the things you have learned and firmly believed, since you know from whom you have learned them. From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures {{There was no "New Testament" when Paul said this}}, which are ABLE to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.
Greetings Y,
They are all over you!
I know it's not a loving attempt to see to your salvation.
Once they label someone a pharisee your toast!
Sadly they don't fully understand what the Pharisees represented! They represented hypocrisy!
Another sadly, many people excel at hatred or anger so they tend to label things in such a way that they may practice their craft.
Jesus basically told us that the only way to "love Him" was to know and keep His commandments. And that those who "love Him" will be loved back and have fellowship with both Him and The Father!
In so many words Jesus is intimating that His commandments are a representation of Himself so any resistance to them is a resistance to Him and by proxy a resistance of the Father. John said If you have not the son you have not the Father!
Jesus also speaks of "that day" when he would confront "many" who claimed fellowship with Him and touted their many good works, but He said "I never knew you" why? He said you who work "without the law".
Ref verses:
Joh 14:21 KJV He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
1Jn 2:23 KJV Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
Mat 7:22-23 KJV Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? (23) And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. (anomia - without the Law)
In the Sanctification process the Holy Spirit "leads us into all truth" Jesus is the way the truth and the life. He also is Logos/Word of God, the I am, the giver of the Law, the same yesterday, today and tomorrow! Is it no wonder that those who can receive the leading of the Holy Spirit regarding the Laws of God, find them beautiful!?
Bless YHWH! Know and Keep as the Spirit Leads!
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