Reflecting God – Embrace Holy Living - WordAction - The Foundry Publishing House of Kansas City, Missouri, United States - The Global Church of the Nazarene for Friday, 3 November 2017 "The Foolishness of Sins" by Rudy Morgan - 2 Timothy 3:1-9
2 Timothy 3:1 Moreover, understand this: in the acharit-hayamim will come trying times. 2 People will be self-loving, money-loving, proud, arrogant, insulting, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, uncontrolled, brutal, hateful of good, 4 traitorous, headstrong, swollen with conceit, loving pleasure rather than God, 5 as they retain the outer form of religion but deny its power.
Stay away from these people! 6 For some of them worm their way into homes and get control of weak-willed women who are heaped with sins and swayed by various impulses, 7 who are always learning but never able to come to full knowledge of the truth. 8 In the same way as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moshe, so also these people oppose the truth. They are people with corrupted minds, whose trust cannot pass the test. 9 However, they won’t get very far; because everyone will see how stupid they are, just as happened with those two.
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We are warned about the great danger of disregarding God’s holy Word in our journey with Christ. Having the right attitude toward God and holy living is paramount for our limited days, which are in the hands of God. Arrogance, pride, and disobedience are the background to godlessness in this broken and messed-up world.
The foolish choices of sinful lives are tantamount to practicing the danger of empty religion described in 2 Timothy 3:4-5. Listening to the news media any day is often like getting a dose of reality about the sorry conditions that exist in our broken world. The apostle Paul gives Timothy, and all serious followers of Christ, an “eye popping” dose of reality about what sinful practices and godless religion will look like in the closing season leading to the return of Jesus Christ. The Scriptures admonish us to “run” from the foolishness of sinful lives and from empty and dead religion.
Practicing the foolishness of sin pulls anyone into friendship with the world and separation from God. This is a definite “No” in the Scriptures. Our Lord is jealous that our friendship with Him should be paramount and consistent in our lives.
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Hymn for Today:
"I Want to Be Like Jesus" by Thomas O. Chisholm copyright 1945, Renewed 1972 by Lillenas Publishing Company. all rights reserved.
1. I have one deep, supreme desire, that I may be like Jesus.
To this I fervently aspire, that I may be like Jesus.
I want my heart His throne to be so that a watching world may see
His likeness shining forth in me. I want to be like Jesus.
2. He spent His life in doing good; I want to be like Jesus.
In lowly paths of service trod; I want to be like Jesus.
He sympathized with hearts distressed, He spoke the words that cheered and
blessed;
He welcomed sinners to His breast. I want to be like Jesus.
3. A holy, harmless life He led; I want to be like Jesus.
The Father's will, His drink and bread, I want to be like Jesus.
And when at last He comes to die, "Forgive them, Father" Hear Him cry
For those who taunt and crucify. I want to be like Jesus.
4. O perfect life of Christ, my Lord! I want to be like Jesus.
My recompense and my reward, That I may be like Jesus.
His Spirit fill my hungering soul, His power all my life control;
My deepest prayer, my highest goal, That I may be like Jesus.
You unfaithful wives! Don’t you know that loving the world is hating God? Whoever chooses to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy!(James 4:4)
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Please pray:
For faculty and students as they prepare for Christian ministry in Trinidad and Tobago.
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2 Timothy 3:1 Moreover, understand this: in the acharit-hayamim will come trying times. 2 People will be self-loving, money-loving, proud, arrogant, insulting, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, uncontrolled, brutal, hateful of good, 4 traitorous, headstrong, swollen with conceit, loving pleasure rather than God, 5 as they retain the outer form of religion but deny its power.
Stay away from these people! 6 For some of them worm their way into homes and get control of weak-willed women who are heaped with sins and swayed by various impulses, 7 who are always learning but never able to come to full knowledge of the truth. 8 In the same way as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moshe, so also these people oppose the truth. They are people with corrupted minds, whose trust cannot pass the test. 9 However, they won’t get very far; because everyone will see how stupid they are, just as happened with those two.
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We are warned about the great danger of disregarding God’s holy Word in our journey with Christ. Having the right attitude toward God and holy living is paramount for our limited days, which are in the hands of God. Arrogance, pride, and disobedience are the background to godlessness in this broken and messed-up world.
The foolish choices of sinful lives are tantamount to practicing the danger of empty religion described in 2 Timothy 3:4-5. Listening to the news media any day is often like getting a dose of reality about the sorry conditions that exist in our broken world. The apostle Paul gives Timothy, and all serious followers of Christ, an “eye popping” dose of reality about what sinful practices and godless religion will look like in the closing season leading to the return of Jesus Christ. The Scriptures admonish us to “run” from the foolishness of sinful lives and from empty and dead religion.
Practicing the foolishness of sin pulls anyone into friendship with the world and separation from God. This is a definite “No” in the Scriptures. Our Lord is jealous that our friendship with Him should be paramount and consistent in our lives.
---
Hymn for Today:
"I Want to Be Like Jesus" by Thomas O. Chisholm copyright 1945, Renewed 1972 by Lillenas Publishing Company. all rights reserved.
1. I have one deep, supreme desire, that I may be like Jesus.
To this I fervently aspire, that I may be like Jesus.
I want my heart His throne to be so that a watching world may see
His likeness shining forth in me. I want to be like Jesus.
2. He spent His life in doing good; I want to be like Jesus.
In lowly paths of service trod; I want to be like Jesus.
He sympathized with hearts distressed, He spoke the words that cheered and
blessed;
He welcomed sinners to His breast. I want to be like Jesus.
3. A holy, harmless life He led; I want to be like Jesus.
The Father's will, His drink and bread, I want to be like Jesus.
And when at last He comes to die, "Forgive them, Father" Hear Him cry
For those who taunt and crucify. I want to be like Jesus.
4. O perfect life of Christ, my Lord! I want to be like Jesus.
My recompense and my reward, That I may be like Jesus.
His Spirit fill my hungering soul, His power all my life control;
My deepest prayer, my highest goal, That I may be like Jesus.
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Thought for Today:You unfaithful wives! Don’t you know that loving the world is hating God? Whoever chooses to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy!(James 4:4)
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Please pray:
For faculty and students as they prepare for Christian ministry in Trinidad and Tobago.
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This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now
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