1 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:08,520 This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Lewis 2 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:12,200 Harold, assistant pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland 3 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:16,520 County in Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Lewis as he 4 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:18,920 continues teaching through God's Word. 5 00:00:37,160 --> 00:00:40,880 But know this, Timothy, know that in the last. 6 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:45,080 Days. Perilous times will come. 7 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:49,160 So he's warning Timothy that all these things that I prepared you 8 00:00:49,160 --> 00:00:52,040 to do, you need to have these things. 9 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:54,840 You need to be walking in these things so that when these 10 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:58,440 perilous times come, you won't. Fall by the wayside. 11 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:02,280 You won't be deceived. You won't be taken by the 12 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:05,440 trickery of other men. You won't give. 13 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:08,400 Up or give out, but you'll be. Able to stand. 14 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:12,560 No fighter steps into the ring without first preparing for the 15 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:15,520 fight. No soldier steps foot on enemy 16 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:17,920 soil without first training for battle. 17 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,440 Even with preparation and training, some endeavors are 18 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:24,440 perilous. It's risky to engage in these 19 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:27,240 things at all, to attempt to do so without being equipped. 20 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:31,680 It's just plain foolishness. In today's message, Pastor Lewis 21 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,960 shares with you that although the days you live in are 22 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:39,040 perilous, there are things you can do to prepare yourself for 23 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:41,720 the fight. These are things you can do to 24 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:45,880 equip yourself for battle. Now here's Pastor Lewis in the 25 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:49,720 Book of Second Timothy, Chapter 3, with today's edition of 26 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:52,840 Living Waters of Grace. Just to go back and give a a 27 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,320 quick recap we're. Talking about the perilous 28 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:59,080 times, we're talking about times of affliction. 29 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:01,880 We're talking about stressful times, dangerous times, 30 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:06,200 hazardous times, fierce times. As the writer says. 31 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:08,039 These are times. That are fierce. 32 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:12,360 And we know that join the whole chapter 2 or most. 33 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:15,760 Of chapter 2 that Paul. As he's speaking to his young 34 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:18,680 son in the faith, Timothy. He is. 35 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:22,320 Adequately preparing him. For these last days. 36 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:24,680 I remember when I was young and when I would. 37 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,960 Hear the older people pray. You know, they would always end 38 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:32,160 the prayer and please help us in these last and evil days. 39 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:34,480 And I never really understood what that meant. 40 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:37,000 Last days I understood. But evil days, Why are they 41 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,320 evil? And as we begin to study the 42 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:41,120 word. Of the God, we see why this 43 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:42,240 called the. Last and. 44 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:44,840 Evil days, as Paul calls it. There are. 45 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:49,560 Perilous times. Which is evil or wicked days? 46 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:53,160 And what we remember from last week, we know that Paul took 47 00:02:53,160 --> 00:03:00,440 time to prepare Timothy to function or to do ministry in 48 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:04,080 these last days, and he taught them things Like he said, 49 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:08,160 Timothy, you need to endure. Hardship as a good soldier. 50 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:12,440 And he also told him, he said you need to compete or be 51 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:15,720 disciplined to compete as an athlete. 52 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:19,680 You need to have the the the discipline of an athlete so that 53 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:24,240 you can do exercise, not just. For the body, but exercise the 54 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:27,040 spirit and. Then he also talked with him 55 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:29,200 about being a hard working farmer. 56 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:31,240 That he should. Be a hard working farmer that he 57 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:36,080 should work diligently in ministry and then last but not 58 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:39,880 least, he said Timothy, you also need to be diligent in your. 59 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:45,120 Study of the word so that you rightly divide the word of 60 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:48,120 truth. And as he goes into these last 61 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:50,960 times and he begins to. Talk about these false. 62 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:53,520 Prophets and the. Character of the false. 63 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:56,560 Prophets and the the the. Unbelievers of that particular. 64 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:00,760 Time and how depraved that they will become. 65 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,160 The things that we're seeing right now, these things are 66 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:05,640 going to increase and get increasingly. 67 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:08,560 Bad as we get. Closer to the return. 68 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:12,440 Of our Lord. And he even tells Timothy some 69 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:16,640 things that he can do in order to prepare for that time and 70 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:20,320 over in chapter 2, verse 22. He says flee also youthful 71 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:23,680 lusts. And pursue righteousness, faith, 72 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:26,880 love, and peace with those who call on the Lord. 73 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:30,600 Out of a pure heart. He goes on and he says don't get 74 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:31,840 into. Disputes with people. 75 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:35,920 Timothy over words and and and and arguing about things that 76 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:38,920 have no eternal value. It's not important. 77 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:42,880 Those things are distractions. And he said that the man of God 78 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:47,480 does not strive, the man of God does not get into arguments. 79 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:51,920 The man of God does not quarrel, but he's gentle and he with 80 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:55,040 humility, correct those who are in opposition. 81 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:57,040 But then he comes to. Chapter 3 he. 82 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:01,840 Says, but know this. But know this, Timothy, know 83 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:06,000 that in the. Last days, Perilous times. 84 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:10,080 Will come. So he's warning Timothy that all 85 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:14,080 these things that I prepared you to do, you need to have these 86 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:15,520 things. You need to be walking in these 87 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:19,200 things so that when these perilous times come, you won't. 88 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:22,120 Fall by the wayside. You won't be deceived. 89 00:05:22,280 --> 00:05:25,840 You won't be taken by the trickery of other men. 90 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:29,240 You won't give. Up or give out, but you'll be 91 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:31,160 able. To stand in the. 92 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:34,640 Perilous times. This is also a warning to us. 93 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:37,920 You know, the more I read this, the more it actually speaks to 94 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:40,080 me, and it speaks to. All of us about. 95 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:43,360 Being prepared as things continue to get worse and we. 96 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:45,080 See it we. See the news we. 97 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:47,640 Hear the reports. We see the things that are going 98 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:49,840 on in government. We see the things that are going 99 00:05:49,840 --> 00:05:52,360 in our own neighborhoods. Things are becoming 100 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:55,920 increasingly. Worse, as we are in the last 101 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:58,920 days, the last days is. Anytime between the time that. 102 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,240 Jesus walked this earth. And he ascended. 103 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,160 To be with the Father. Until he returns. 104 00:06:04,280 --> 00:06:07,280 That is the last. Days so we need to be. 105 00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:08,720 Prepared. And as we go. 106 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:11,280 Through these. These different characteristics, 107 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:14,320 it's actually about 19 of them and we went through a number of 108 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:18,080 them last week and today I am endeavoring. 109 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:21,040 To be able to. Get to verse 9, but we're going 110 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:22,600 to start with the word unthankful. 111 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:24,800 We left off that. Disobedient to parents and I 112 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:26,080 think. We exhausted it. 113 00:06:26,280 --> 00:06:28,240 But I want to get to the word unthankful. 114 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:30,000 He. Says at that time, not only 115 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,560 would there be and I'm going to start back at the beginning, he 116 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:35,360 said for men will be. Lovers of themselves. 117 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:37,800 And that. Is what kicks off this whole all 118 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:39,800 the other characteristics. It is the. 119 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:44,400 Overarching sin that brings to birth or brings to life all of 120 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,680 these other sins in between, he said that men will be lovers of 121 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,160 themselves, they'll be lovers of money, they'll be. 122 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:51,800 Boasters they'll be. Proud. 123 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:55,160 They'll be blasphemers. They'll be disobedient to 124 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:59,840 parents and they will be unthankful, unholy, unloving, 125 00:06:59,960 --> 00:07:03,480 unforgiving slanderers without self-control. 126 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:06,680 Brutal. Despisers of good traitors. 127 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:09,560 Headstrong, haughty lovers of. Pleasure. 128 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:11,880 Rather than lovers of God and I'm going. 129 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:14,280 To stop right there. And I just want to go. 130 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:16,840 Back to talk a little bit. About these things. 131 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:20,160 As we go through. So he says I'm thankful. 132 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:22,920 And that just simply means that they are going to be ungrateful. 133 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:27,120 Men will be ungrateful, and that is due to their arrogance and 134 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:29,600 their selfishness. When we are selfish and 135 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:31,800 arrogant, we're not grateful. We're not thankful. 136 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:33,680 We think we're entitled to these things. 137 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:36,200 That people do for us, we think. We're entitled. 138 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:39,720 For what God does for us. And even Jesus himself was 139 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:41,960 thankful. He thanked, he went up, and he 140 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:44,800 thanked God when he went into prayer before he. 141 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:47,680 Ate he thanked God. He told him when he was at the 142 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:49,320 tell me, he said, Lord, I thank you. 143 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:52,200 I thank you. So Jesus was. 144 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:57,280 Always in a thankful state of mind to the Father. 145 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:01,440 And we should be that way. In fact, it's not that we're 146 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:04,840 entitled to anything, but God gives us things out of his own 147 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:07,600 heart, but those in that particular time as we get. 148 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:09,720 To the last days. They're going to become more and 149 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:15,480 more unthankful and and ungrateful, and that is against 150 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:18,960 God's Word in Ephesians 5 and 20, he says giving thanks. 151 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:22,840 Always for all things to God the Father. 152 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:25,800 In the name. Of our Lord Jesus Christ, he 153 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:28,240 said for all. Things for everything. 154 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:31,080 That we receive. Everything that we go through, 155 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:34,320 give them thanks. And then at First Thessalonians 156 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:37,679 5 and 18, he says in everything, give thanks. 157 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:41,080 That means in every situation, in every circumstance, not only 158 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:42,960 in our mountaintop. Experiences, but. 159 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:44,880 Give them thanks in our Valley experiences. 160 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:47,840 Give them thanks when we're doing well, but give them thanks 161 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:51,520 when we're also struggling. Give them thanks when things are 162 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:53,960 going great in our lives, but also give them thanks. 163 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:57,320 For all of the trials that we go through, because he's always. 164 00:08:57,320 --> 00:08:58,960 Promised to be. With us. 165 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:00,520 And when he's. With us. 166 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:02,440 We know we're not alone, he says. 167 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:05,360 Give them thanks. And it's interesting because in 168 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:07,760 First Thessalonians Chapter 5 and 18 now people. 169 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:09,720 Always ask Well, will is the will of God. 170 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:11,240 There's several. Places in the Bible. 171 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:13,880 Where he will say, this is the will of God, this is. 172 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:18,440 One of them, this is one of them and everything give thanks for. 173 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:20,800 This is the will. Of God in. 174 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:25,400 Christ Jesus, for who? For you, for all of us. 175 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:29,400 To give thanks, he says we're going to be unholy and that 176 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:31,800 unholy really, you know, the Bible tells us all these things 177 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:33,320 really go against scripture that. 178 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:35,280 These that the that. We're going to start to see in 179 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:37,200 the last. Days, which is why we should 180 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:38,760 also. Do an inventory. 181 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:42,160 Of ourselves to see if. Any of us fall into any of these 182 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:43,840 things? I mean, this is something that 183 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:47,120 we have to look inward at and say, OK, am I unthankful? 184 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:50,640 Do I behave unholy? But with these particular men, 185 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:54,520 they are going to be unholy. The Bible tells us that we're to 186 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:58,640 be holy as he is holy and. That we're to be set apart from 187 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:01,880 the world and to be consecrated unto Him, but instead. 188 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:04,000 At that particular time, these people. 189 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:06,680 Are going to be profane. They're going to not. 190 00:10:06,680 --> 00:10:09,360 Desire to do the. Things according to God's truth. 191 00:10:09,560 --> 00:10:11,240 They'll be. Vessels of dishonor. 192 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:15,440 And instead of being set apart from the world, they're going to 193 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:22,600 be immersed in worldliness, immersed in worldliness, finding 194 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:25,440 pleasure in the fallen world system. 195 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:29,120 And most of it is going to be through compromise, through 196 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,000 compromise. Lot easier to compromise and 197 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,040 don't have to be by yourself and to compromise and be with 198 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:36,960 everybody. Else to look like everybody else 199 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:37,560 to. Sound like. 200 00:10:37,560 --> 00:10:40,600 Everybody else that. Doesn't bring persecution, that 201 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:43,880 doesn't bring resistance, but it's when you stand alone and 202 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:47,280 often times you will. You will be in times, be in 203 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:50,440 situations where you will need to stand for righteousness, and 204 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:54,360 you will. Be by yourself and you. 205 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:57,800 Have to be willing to be able to stand as opposed to 206 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:00,720 compromising, he said. Unloving or without natural 207 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:03,720 affection. This breaks my heart because 208 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:06,880 when you talk about natural, without natural affection, he 209 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:09,080 said, you're going to be without natural affection. 210 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:12,200 It's a natural affection. For us to love our kids. 211 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:15,600 To love our parents. To love our wives or our our. 212 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:18,600 Our husbands, that's a natural affection. 213 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:22,080 It's something that should be built into us, that's born in us 214 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:23,000 to love. Our. 215 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:26,760 Children. But we have an example, a 216 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:28,160 biblical example. Of this. 217 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:32,200 Lack of natural affection. We have it. 218 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:36,200 In the Book of Solomon in the book of first Kings, Solomon, 219 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:37,680 when he. Had to judge. 220 00:11:37,680 --> 00:11:42,840 Between the the two women who had sons, they both had sons and 221 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:45,040 and one of them rolled over in the sons in the middle of the 222 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,320 night and the one son died and the other one was alive. 223 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:50,280 The woman whose son died, she went over and she grabbed the 224 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:52,920 son that was still living out of the bed with the woman who was 225 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:55,360 still sleeping, put the live baby in her bed. 226 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:57,920 Took the dead baby. Put it in the other woman's bed. 227 00:11:58,040 --> 00:11:59,480 They came before Solomon, they said. 228 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:00,840 You got to judge between the two. 229 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:02,840 The woman said no, that's my. Child. 230 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:03,880 The living child. Is mine. 231 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:05,520 The dead child is. Hers, the other woman said. 232 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:07,720 No, the living child is mine. The dead child is her. 233 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:09,120 Solomon said. I got the solution. 234 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:11,040 Bring the baby and bring me a sword. 235 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:13,360 Solomon put the baby on the table. 236 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:17,120 Took a swore he said I'll divide this child, I'll give. 237 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:20,920 One 1/2 and give the other one the other half and the woman 238 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:24,560 whose child it was not the woman who was not the mother, because 239 00:12:24,560 --> 00:12:27,120 she didn't have a natural affection for that. 240 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:28,440 Child, she said. Yeah. 241 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:30,840 That's right, go ahead and divide the child and give. 242 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:33,280 Both of us half. And the woman who was the 243 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:35,920 mother, the true mother, the child, she said no. 244 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:40,960 Give her the baby, but please don't hurt the child. 245 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,680 That's natural affection. For a for a child. 246 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:48,320 That's natural affection A. Mother has that protective. 247 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:51,400 Nature in her if you really want to see the. 248 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:53,680 Worst. Of a woman mess. 249 00:12:53,680 --> 00:12:57,680 With her kids. Threaten her kids and you will 250 00:12:57,680 --> 00:12:59,400 see that woman do things that you never. 251 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:02,240 Thought she could do. You be in trouble and this is 252 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:05,600 exactly that's natural affection for the children. 253 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:08,800 But we're seeing now in days where there's no natural 254 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:11,240 affection. And in my research, 255 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:12,960 unfortunately, I looked at some things that. 256 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:17,520 Were just really, really. Dark in this society, one of the 257 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:20,800 things that I learned that the sex trafficking, the whole 258 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:25,800 industry of sex trafficking is really being motored not by 259 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:30,440 careless men or thoughtful men. But by parents who are. 260 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:34,080 Selling their children into sex trafficking for their own 261 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:39,000 selfish reasons. For their own selfish reasons. 262 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:43,440 Lack of natural affection. Abortion to kill. 263 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:45,200 A child that's. Growing inside. 264 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:47,200 Of you. That's a natural. 265 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:50,320 That's that's. Without natural affection. 266 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:53,360 Physical abuse. Sexual abuse. 267 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:57,480 Are all signs of a lack of natural affection. 268 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:00,120 Then he goes on, he says unforgiving and or 269 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:02,000 unreconcilable. People who will. 270 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:07,400 Just not agree to to forgive. Regardless of how long these 271 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:09,760 things have happened, it's been unreconcilable. 272 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:11,800 As we get. Closer to the time of Christ. 273 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:14,040 That will get worse. And they'll become truce 274 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:16,600 Breakers, which is another. Word that they use it's. 275 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:20,440 Truce Breakers in the King James version, and that's just not 276 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:22,600 even be able to. Keep oaths or keep? 277 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:23,920 Covenants. And that's why. 278 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:27,240 We have such a. Rise in divorce because we 279 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:29,160 become. Truce Breakers. 280 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:34,240 We'll become covenant Breakers, slanderers of false. 281 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:37,840 Accusers, people will start. To knock down and lie against 282 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:41,040 other people and tear down the the the reputation of other 283 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:44,120 people through gossip, through slander, and through lies and. 284 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:48,000 Hateful speech, that. Is not of God, That is not of 285 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,880 God. To sit down and to destroy or to 286 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:54,040 murder someone with the tongue is not of God. 287 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:58,320 It is not of God. And if we see these things in 288 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:00,040 ourselves? We should cry out to the Lord. 289 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:02,320 And ask him to help. Us to give us. 290 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:04,800 Grace to change these things and he. 291 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:08,840 Will he will, he says, without self-control. 292 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:11,160 That's just. Living a life of inhibition. 293 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:14,000 Live, just doing whatever feels good and that's. 294 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,360 Where we get the. Gambling from we get. 295 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:20,080 Abuse, sex abuse we get drug abuse, alcohol abuse all. 296 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:23,640 Leads from a lack of self-control, but not only that. 297 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:26,360 But the lack of. Self-control is also seen in the 298 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:28,480 church We. See that that that there? 299 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:31,040 Are people that are increasingly, not only in 300 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:33,040 church, but even outside of church, people that are 301 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:36,080 increasingly having a lack of self-control over their 302 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:41,080 emotions, over their emotions. So they blow up that things, the 303 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:44,240 smallest things, they blow up, they get angry and they hold 304 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:48,760 these things forever. No control over their emotions. 305 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:52,160 Incontinent is another. Word that is used for that 306 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:54,440 Brutal. And untamed. 307 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:57,640 This is like the this is like the result of a society where 308 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:00,160 people are so. Selfish that when they don't 309 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:01,840 get. Their way they can behave. 310 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:07,080 Violently, they can behave. Like, like savages, despisers of 311 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:09,000 good. And these are people who are. 312 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:13,040 Actually, they actually hate. Good or godly things. 313 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:16,080 In fact, not only do they despise good things, but they 314 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:19,680 even hate the people. Who try to live godly. 315 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:22,200 Jesus told us in John 15 that the world. 316 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:24,360 Hates you because. You are not. 317 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:27,880 Of the world you're. Living godly so the world does 318 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:33,120 not love people who are living. Godly, the world hates people 319 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:33,760 who? Are living in Golly. 320 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:36,280 But they love. Their own and then it says. 321 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:37,720 Traitors. People who are. 322 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:39,480 Or trading. They betray. 323 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:42,600 Each other, they betray the secrets of each other, betray 324 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:46,000 each other's trust a lot of. That's going to start happening 325 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:49,080 and as we go into. These last days, people. 326 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:51,760 Are going to be giving up to governors and giving up to 327 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:55,320 councils. Headstrong or or heady, which 328 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:57,280 means living. Reckless without. 329 00:16:57,280 --> 00:17:00,240 Any kind of. Thought or forethought? 330 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:02,280 They just do things without thinking things. 331 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:05,200 Through which also. Comes from lack of control. 332 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,160 A lot of these things are very much interconnected. 333 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:11,960 It's like a person who just makes a decision and acts on 334 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:14,440 that decision without thinking things through. 335 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:17,640 People who are haughty. Or high minded and these are. 336 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:20,520 People who are just so proud that they take their. 337 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:22,960 Position. They use their position as a. 338 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:25,400 Way to put other? People down and to put 339 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:29,360 themselves up, there's a way of making themselves more important 340 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:33,000 and that's going to increase. They're high minded and Romans 341 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:36,680 12 and three says you know not to think of yourself more highly 342 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:39,840 than you want, but yet these people were going to be blinded 343 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:46,800 by self worth, blinded by their high thoughts of themselves and 344 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:48,840 then of. Course lovers of. 345 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,680 Pleasure rather than lovers. Of God. 346 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,480 And that's one need to spend a little bit of time on because 347 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:56,320 when you look at where this thing. 348 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:58,560 Started. We're talked about. 349 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:00,960 Men will be lovers of themselves. 350 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:04,120 That was the very. First one and then the one the 351 00:18:04,120 --> 00:18:08,280 last one. Is lovers of pleasure rather 352 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:11,040 than lovers of God. I just want to make it clear 353 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:14,320 though, now these are people who are not making a choice between 354 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:18,040 loving pleasure and loving God. That is not the. 355 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:20,080 Choice because there is. Pleasure in. 356 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:24,920 God, God has pleasure. In fact, in Psalm 1611 it tells 357 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:27,440 us that in His presence there is fullness of. 358 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:29,880 Joy. And at his right hand are 359 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:33,960 pleasures evermore. So the difference is the 360 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:38,520 difference is worldly. Pleasure versus godly pleasures. 361 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:41,040 And their choice. Is that they'd rather have 362 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:45,680 worldly pleasure because that feeds the flesh, so the choice. 363 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:50,200 That they're making is to have. Worldly pleasures over godly 364 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:52,840 pleasures. And it's A and they're. 365 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:54,880 Deceived because worldly pleasures. 366 00:18:55,120 --> 00:18:59,200 Are fleeting, worldly pleasures are temporal and anything 367 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:00,720 that's. Temporal is temporary. 368 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,000 So that means that their. Pleasures are just. 369 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,560 Fleeting, Moses said. Look, I don't even want to be. 370 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:10,800 Called the the daughter. The son of the daughter of 371 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:12,280 Pharaoh anymore. I don't even want to be called 372 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:14,320 that anymore. But I rather suffer. 373 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:16,160 Affliction with the. People of God. 374 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:20,920 Been to enjoy the pleasures of sin for season. 375 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:23,800 Moses understood that that was not going to last. 376 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:27,200 That was a temporary. Situation People who were 377 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:30,320 living, and it was me at one time who was living for the 378 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:31,480 pleasures. Of this. 379 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:35,200 World, we think it's going to go on and on and on like it's never 380 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:37,840 going to end. I'm going to have fun all my 381 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:40,320 life. I ain't ever going to give this 382 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:42,200 up. I'm having too much fun. 383 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:46,920 Yes, it ends. It ends and it usually doesn't 384 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:49,760 end well. It doesn't end well. 385 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:52,160 But these? These things are temporal, but 386 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:54,160 in. God, there are pleasures. 387 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:59,160 Evermore, Evermore. And that's the choice. 388 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:01,520 But then he goes down here and he says now. 389 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:04,000 All. These things. 390 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:08,440 That was just listed, the lovers of themselves lovers. 391 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:12,160 Of money boasters, proud blasphemers, disobedient to 392 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:14,640 parents, people who are unthankful, people who are 393 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:18,000 unholy, unloving, unforgiving. The Slanderers. 394 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:19,840 Those who are without. Self. 395 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:22,640 Control those who are, brutal those who are. 396 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,520 Despisers of self and. Traitors, those who are. 397 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:28,600 Headstrong, haughty, and. Lovers of pleasure. 398 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:32,440 Rather than. Lovers of God, all those people. 399 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:37,720 Have a form of godliness. It's a form of godliness. 400 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:41,760 So these people on the. Outside, they look religious. 401 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:44,760 They make even talk. Like they're religious. 402 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:48,560 They have a form of godliness, and it's form of godliness 403 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:51,120 actually means that it's a they have a shape of godliness or 404 00:20:51,120 --> 00:20:54,160 semblance of godliness. They have an appearance of 405 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:59,160 godliness, but there's no fruit, there's no substance, there's 406 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:02,200 nothing. There's no life on the inside. 407 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:06,160 It's just a shell of an. Appearance of godliness. 408 00:21:07,360 --> 00:21:11,680 It's an imitator. Of godly people without the 409 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:14,000 power. So it's like profession. 410 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,360 Without practice. Without no relationship 411 00:21:17,360 --> 00:21:21,440 whatsoever. And this is what Paul is saying. 412 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:23,960 Paul is saying these people are going to look righteous. 413 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:25,960 They're going to. Look holy, they're going to look 414 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:28,400 religious, but. They won't have the Redeemer. 415 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:31,880 They will not have that. Relationship with the Lord. 416 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:34,440 None. These are people. 417 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:37,800 Who Jesus is. Talking about over in Matthew 7 418 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:40,440 when he says that they're going to be many that are going to 419 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,200 come to me and say. Lord, Lord, but everybody who 420 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,000 comes. To me saying Lord, Lord will not 421 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,560 enter the Kingdom of heaven. Oh, but they're going. 422 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:49,800 To put up the argument, Lord, didn't you know? 423 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,800 You know, didn't we? Prophecy in your name did not 424 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:56,280 cast out demons in your name did not do many wonders in your 425 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,880 name. And he's going to say depart 426 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:01,760 from me. I never knew you depart from me. 427 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:06,760 You who work lawlessness? Yes, you had an outward shell. 428 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,240 You had a. Appearance of godliness, but 429 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:12,080 there was never relationship. I never knew you. 430 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:16,040 There was never relationship and that's exactly what we're going 431 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:19,920 to see in the last. Days, these teachers, these 432 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,400 false teachers. That are going to have this 433 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,960 appearance of godliness. They're going to sound godly. 434 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:28,080 But their lives have. No. 435 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:30,000 Fruit. They're going to be. 436 00:22:30,120 --> 00:22:33,760 Just like Jesus. Talked about over in Matthew 437 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:36,800 chapter 20. 3 when he talked about the woes. 438 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,680 Over in Matthew 23 and there's two woes in. 439 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,880 Particular that just. He gives me the chills. 440 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,760 That he talks about. And he basically saying chapter 441 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:47,760 25 verse 23. What are you? 442 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:50,640 Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites for you, cleanse the. 443 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:54,080 Outside of the cup. And dish but inside. 444 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:57,640 They are full of. Extortion and self indulgence. 445 00:22:57,640 --> 00:22:59,520 And that's. Exactly what these false 446 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:02,400 teachers will be they'll be full of self. 447 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,200 Indulgence. Everything that you're teaching, 448 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:08,400 everything that they're doing is for selfish gain. 449 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:12,400 The Bible says they're. Feeding their own bellies and 450 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:16,040 then in verse 27 in the same. Chapter he says woe to you. 451 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:17,880 Scribes and Pharisees. Hypocrites. 452 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:22,040 For you are like whitewashed. Tombs which indeed appear. 453 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,760 Beautifully beautiful outwardly. And I remember Clark telling us 454 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:29,720 that he was in Israel and he stood up on the hill and he. 455 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:34,240 Saw these whitewashed. Tombs and how they glittered in 456 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,800 the sunlight and how. Beautiful they looked. 457 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,640 In the sunlight, he said. That's exactly. 458 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:41,040 What these false teachers? Are going to be. 459 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:45,080 Like like these whitewashed. Tombs which indeed appear 460 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:49,560 beautiful outwardly, but inside? Are full of dead. 461 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:54,960 Man's bones and all uncleanness. All uncleanness. 462 00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:00,400 Here on Living Waters of Grace, we're in the books of First and 463 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:03,960 Second Timothy. Pastor Lewis Harrell is walking 464 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:06,800 us through these letters written from Paul to Timothy. 465 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:10,120 Toward the end of these letters, Paul is anticipating that his 466 00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:13,320 time here on earth is coming to a close. 467 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:16,640 He's giving some final words of advice to his mentee. 468 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:20,240 Paul writes in Second Timothy 4, verse seven. 469 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:23,000 I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. 470 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:27,360 I have kept the faith wherever you are in your journey of faith 471 00:24:27,360 --> 00:24:31,800 with God, our hope is that you have the willingness to fight 472 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:36,000 for what's true, not compromising, but holding fast 473 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:39,640 to the Word of God. 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