“THE LAST DAYS!”

 2 Timothy 3:1-5                        (ESV)

Godlessness in “THE LAST DAYS”

“[1] But understand this, that in “THE LAST DAYS” there will come TIMES OF DIFFICULTY. [2] For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, [3] heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, [4] treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, LOVERS OF PLEASURE MORE THAN LOVERS OF GOD, [5] having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. AVOID SUCH PEOPLE.”

Scripture is brutally honest and explicitly plain when it speaks AVOIDING SUCH PEOPLE!  There are some who “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 MORE THAN LOVERS OF GOD, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power”!  The next sentence we are told to AVOID SUCH PEOPLE!!!

Not all of us have the mentality to cut certain people out of our lives?  We might have to work with them, or associate with them, or just be subjected to them through daily objectives?  But do we actually make an effort to AVOID SUCH PEOPLE?  Or do we allow the SPIRIT OF GOD living inside of us to TRANSFORM us so greatly that our testimony is used to GLORIFY GOD?  In Matthew 5:16 JESUS is recorded as saying “In the same way, let your LIGHT shine before others, SO THAT THEY MAY SEE your good works and GIVE GLORY TO YOUR FATHER WHO IS IN HEAVEN.”  

There are times when we should AVOID SUCH PEOPLE, those who are blind to TRUTH!  But JESUS says when THEY SEE good coming from us it will GIVE GLORY TO YOUR FATHER WHO IS IN HEAVEN!  But those who are LOVERS OF PLEASURE MORE THAN LOVERS OF GOD should not be ones that we prioritize company with!  Our LIGHT should ALWAYS be shining so that this lost, dying world can SEE TRUTH!

“THE LAST DAYS” are coming!  It might be today, or it might be 1,000 years from now?  We are charged to AVOID SUCH PEOPLE whose main agenda is listed in the verses above.  But we ARE REQUIRED by JESUS to “let your LIGHT shine before others”, with no exclusions given!  We are instructed to make certain that THE LIGHT we have living inside of us shine the the darkness of this world in “THE LAST DAYS”!!!