MORAL DECAY - How FAR have we FALLEN - 28 May 2019 (The Fountain of Living Waters) by Celia Joy Martins
In the times we are living in right now, EVERY DESCRIPTION in 2 Tim. 3 has been FULFILLED.
GREED, DECEIT, VIOLENCE, HORRIFIC CRIMES of EVILNESS are being COMMITTED by people who are DESPISING everything that is GOOD and HONORABLE and RIGHTEOUS.
Current newscasts disclose a somber picture of MORAL DECAY - TRANS-GENDER ABOMINATION - CORRUPTION - MURDER - UNREST - RUMOURS of WAR - and in the SPIRITUAL arena of FAITH and GODLY-LIFE there are an EVER INCREASING NUMBER of FALSE TEACHERS ... PREACHING on THINGS they KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ... FOLLOWING a STREAM of FALSE INDOCTRINATION ... DECEIVING the children of Yahweh God.
In Messiah's OWN WORDS: WATCH OUT!
Matt. 7:15 "WATCH OUT for FALSE PROPHETS. They COME to YOU in SHEEP'S CLOTHING, but INWARDLY they are FEROCIOUS WOLVES."
Matt. 24:4 "Take HEED that NO ONE DECEIVES you. For MANY WILL COME in MY NAME ... and WILL DECEIVE MANY."
A RELATIONSHIP with the Father and KNOWLEDGE of His WORD:
When we KNOW the WORD of YAHWEH God, having an INDEPTH KNOWLEDGE of it - and WALKING in a RELATIONSHIP with our ABBA - HIS WORD (His SPIRIT and His SON) SETTLE in our HEARTS (spirits) - THEN - NO ONE will be ABLE to DECEIVE us - for HIS WORD IS TRUTH.
Although some translation errors do occur in HIS WORD ... His MESSAGE of SALVATION - the HISTORY of the FATHER in HIS WALK with HIS PEOPLE - HIS LAWS, COMMANDS AND COMMANDMENTS - HIS FEASTS - HIS SABBATH DAY - HIS LOVE - PROPHECIES etc. ALL STAND FOREVER - and are NOT DEBATABLE ...
They say that the Bible is the BEST SELLER of all books worldwide, but in the Western civilization - it is NOT READ.
For a long time now, people do not even take their Bibles to the organized Assemblies (churches) where only the specific Bible verses are shown to them on screens ... or electronic boards - their Bibles laying at home or in a drawer ... UNOPENED ... and I wonder how will it ever be possible that the WORD of YAHWEH God - will FIND its HOME IN them.
Like the apostle Peter, we can be "EYEWITNESSES" of the WORD of Yahweh God, when it FOUND ITS HOME IN US - for HIS WORD is POWERFUL - it is SPIRIT AND TRUTH - FOLLOWING HIS WORD we are PREPARED for LIFE ETERNAL with Him.
2 Peter 1:16 "For we did NOT FOLLOW CLEVERLY DEVISED STORIES when we TOLD you about the COMING of our MESSIAH YAHSHUA in POWER, but we were EYEWITNESSES of His MAJESTY.
:17 He RECEIVED HONOR and GLORY from YAHWEH the FATHER when the VOICE CAME to Him from the MAJESTIC GLORY, saying "THIS is My Son Whom I LOVE; with Him I am well PLEASED."
:18 We OURSELVES HEARD this VOICE that CAME from HEAVEN when we WERE WITH Him on the SACRED MOUNTAIN."
LET HIS WORD BE A LIGHT that SETTLE in our HEARTS:
2 Peter 1:19 "We also have the PROPHETIC MESSAGE as SOMETHING COMPLETELY RELIABLE, and YOU WILL DO WELL to PAY ATTENTION to IT, as to a LIGHT SHINING IN A DARK PLACE UNTIL the DAY DAWNS and the MORNING STAR RISES IN YOUR HEARTS."
2 Peter 1:12 "So I will ALWAYS REMIND you of THESE THINGS, even THOUGH you KNOW THEM and ARE FIRMLY ESTABLISHED in the TRUTH you now have."
DECEPTION that will CREEP IN - KEEP WATCH (Acts 20:28-30):
"Keep WATCH OVER YOURSELVES and ALL the FLOCK of which the Holy Spirit has MADE you OVERSEERS." (Acts 20:28a)
BE SHEPHERDS - FOLLOW the LEAD of MESSIAH:
"Be SHEPHERD of the ASSEMBLIES of YAH, which He BOUGHT with His own BLOOD" (Acts 20:28b)
SAVAGE WOLVES WILL COME IN:
"I KNOW that AFTER I LEAVE, SAVAGE WOLVES will COME IN AMONG you and WILL NOT SPARE the FLOCK." (Acts 20:29)
EVEN from your OWN people they will rise UP and DISTORT the TRUTH:
"Even from your OWN NUMBER MEN WILL ARISE AND DISTORT the TRUTH in ORDER to DRAW AWAY DISCIPLES after THEM." (Acts 20:30).
2 Peter 3:17 "Therefore, dear friends, since you have been FORWARNED, BE ON YOUR GUARD so that YOU MAY NOT BE CARRIED AWAY by the ERROR of the LAWLESS and FALL from your SECURE POSITION."
2 Tim. 3 - END OF TIME HAPPENINGS:
We NEED to STAND FIRMLY for CORRUPTION will GROW :
2 Tim. 3:1 "But UNDERSTAND THIS, that in the LAST DAYS will COME (set in) PERILOUS (dangerous, unsafe, hazardous, risky, death-defying, terrifying extreme, exposed) TIMES of GREAT STRESS and TROUBLE [HARD to DEAL WITH and HARD to BEAR]."
LOVERS OF SELF (their own god):
PEOPLE will be LOVERS of SELF and in UTTER SELF-CENTERED-NESS be LOVERS of MONEY - STIRRED UP by INORDINATE (excessive, undue, extravagant, unreasonable) GREEDINESS and DESIRE for WEALTH. (2 Tim. 3:2a).
DESPICABLE, DISRESPECTFUL, PROUD AND ARROGANT:
PEOPLE will be CONTEMPTUOUS BOASTERS -
DISRESPECTFUL -
SNEERING -
DESPICABLE -
WICKED -
SHAMEFUL -
DISGRACEFUL -
VILE & DREADFUL -
SHOWOFFS, BIGMOUTHS, KNOW-IT-ALLS, WINDBAGS, BRAGGERS, BIGHEADS, ATTENTION-SEEKERS -
PROUD and ARROGANT (2 Tim. 3:2b).
They will be ABUSIVE -
RUDE & UNMANNERLY -
INSULTING -
FOUL -
OFFENSIVE -
VIOLENT -
CRUEL -
VICIOUS -
SADISTIC -
BLASPHEMOUS -
PROFANE -
IMPROPER & UNGODLY -
IRREVERENT -
SCOFFING [making FUN of, LAUGH-AT, MOCKING] -
DISOBEDIENT to PARENTS -
UNGRATEFUL -
UNHOLY -
PROFANE and WICKED. (2 Tim. 3:2c).
CALLOUS and INHUMAN: (2 Tim. 3:3a)
PEOPLE will have NO NATURAL HUMAN AFFECTION - (2 Tim. 3:3a). They will be:
HEARTLESS -
UNFEELING -
COLDHEARTED -
COLD -
CRUEL -
PITILESS -
UNCARING -
INSENSITIVE -
UNSYMPHATHETIC & THICK-SKINNED (CALLOUS).
PEOPLE will be STRANGE:
WEIRD -
OTHERWORDLY -
EERY (supernatural) -
UNCANNY (creepy) -
UNEARTHLY (unreasonable, outrageous, ridiculous, absurd, bizarre, macabre, ghostly, unnatural, mysterious, not normal) -
BRUTAL - (ruthless, vicious, harsh, terrible)
MERCILESS -
COLD-BLOODED -
VICIOUS (sadistic, atrocious, cruel, appalling) & INHUMANE (not HUMANLIKE, INHUMAN).
TROUBLE-MAKERS - LOOSE in MORALS and in CONDUCT - HATERS of GOOD:
PEOPLE will be RELENTLESS (admitting of no truce or appeasement) -
SLANDERERS (attackers, backbiters, exposers, mudslingers) -
FALSE ACCUSERS -
TROUBLE MAKERS -
INTEMPERATE (unbalanced, severe, extravagant, excessive, inordinate, unrestrained, uncontrolled, self-indulgent, unreasonable) and LOOSE in MORALS -
INTEMPERATE (unbalanced, severe, extravagant, excessive, inordinate, unrestrained, uncontrolled, self-indulgent, unreasonable)and LOOSE in CONDUCT -
UNCONTROLLED and FIERCE (angry, vicious, furious, intense, violent, aggressive, brutal, severe SAVAGE - WILD - OVERPOWERING - OVERWHELMING - EXTREME ...) - and HATERS of GOOD. (2 Tim. 3:3b).
TREACHEROUS - LOVERS of SENSUAL PLEASURES:
People will be TREACHEROUS BETRAYERS -
RASH and
INFLATED with SELF-CONCEIT -
They will be LOVERS of SENSUAL PLEASURES -
and VAIN AMUSEMENTS MORE and RATHER than
LOVERS of YAHWEH GOD. (2 Tim. 3:4)
2 Tim 3:5 "For ALTHOUGH they HOLD a FORM OF PIETY (TRUE RELIGION) they DENY and REJECT AND ARE STRANGERS to the POWER of IT ... AVOID ALL SUCH PEOPLE [TURN AWAY from them].
:6 For AMONG THEM ARE THOSE WHO WORM their WAY INTO HOMES and CAPTIVATE SILLY and WEAK-NATURED and SPIRITUALLY DWARF WOMEN, LOADED DOWN with [the BURDEN of THEIR] SINS [and EASILY] SWAYED and LED AWAY by VARIOUS EVIL DESIRES and SEDUCTIVE IMPULSES.
:7 [These WEAK WOMEN WILL LISTEN to ANYBODY who will TEACH THEM]; they are FOREVER INQUIRING and GETTING INFORMATION, but are NEVER ABLE to ARRIVE at a RECOGNITION and KNOWLEDGE of the TRUTH.
:8 Now just as Jannes and Jambres were HOSTILE TO and RESISTED Moses, so THESE MEN ALSO ARE HOSTILE TO and OPPOSE the TRUTH. They HAVE DEPRAVED and DISTORTED MINDS, and are REPROBATE AND COUNTERFEIT and TO BE REJECTED as FAR as the FAIT is CONCERNED.
:12 Indeed ALL who DELIGHT in PIETY and are DETERMINED to LIVE a DEVOTED and GODLY LIFE in MESSIAH YAHSHUA WILL MEET with PERSECUTION [will be MADE to SUFFER BECAUSE of their RELIGIOUS STAND.]
:13 But WICKED MEN and IMPOSTERS will GO ON from BAD to WORSE, DECEIVING and LEADING ASTRAY OTHERS and BEING DECEIVED AND LED ASTRAY THEMSELVES.
:14 But AS FOR YOU, CONTINUE to HOLD to the THINGS that you HAVE LEARNED and OF WHICH YOU ARE CONVINCED, KNOWING FROM WHOM you HAVE LEARNED them,
:15 And how from YOUR CHILDHOOD you have had A KNOWLEDGE of AND BEEN ACQUAINTED wit the SACRED WRITINGS, which are ABLE to INSTRUCT YOU and GIVE you the UNDERSTANDING for SALVATION which comes through FAITH in MESSIAH YAHSHUA [through the LEANING of the ENITRE HUMAN PERSONALITY on YAHWEH God in MESSIAH YAHSHUA in ABSOLUTE TRUST and CONFIDENCE in HIS POWER, WISDOM and GOODNESS.]
:16 EVERY SCRIPTURE is YAH-BREATHED (GIVEN by HIS INSPIRITATION) and PROFITABLE for INSTRUCTION, for REPROOF and CONVICTION of SIN, for CORRECTION of ERROR and DISCIPLINE in OBEDIENCE, and for TRAINING in RIGHTEOUSNESS (in HOLY LIVING, in CONFORMITY to YAH'S WILL in THOUGHT, PURPOSE and ACTION).
:17 So that the MAN OF YAH may be COMPLETE and PROFICIENT, WELL FITTED and THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED for EVERY GOOD WORK."
O Thank You Abba for Your WORD - for PRESERVING Your WORD throughout all the ages - YAH-BREATHED and by YOUR INSPIRATION - PROFITABLE for INSTRUCTION - REPROOF and CONVICTION of SIN - Father - we have only ourselves to blame if we IGNORE it - if we REJECT TRUTH and KEEP ON DOING WRONG. Help us then O Abba to CRUCIFY the SELF - to LAY the SELF DOWN - TURN AWAY from SELF for it is standing in our way to a WHOLEHEARTED RELATIONSHIP with You. Help us to YIELD TO YOU WHOLEHEARTEDLY ... for we BELONG to YOU - we are NOT OUR OWN - In Yahshua Messiah's name. Amen.