1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:06,560 Speaker 1: Life Audio. Well, hello and good morning friends and faithful listeners, 2 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:09,880 Speaker 1: and welcome to the Bible Explained podcast. Thank you so 3 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 1: much for being here and sharing a cup of coffee 4 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 1: with me. We're gonna be talking about two Timothy three 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:20,920 Speaker 1: today and discussing bad characters in the church. Stay tuned, 6 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:30,639 Speaker 1: and as usual, before I begin today's podcast episode, here 7 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:35,280 Speaker 1: is a quick word from a sponsor. All right, go 8 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:37,839 Speaker 1: ahead and grab your Bible faith listener, and also your 9 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: cup of coffee or your cup of tea this morning, 10 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:44,560 Speaker 1: and turn to two Timothy three, verses one through nine. 11 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 1: I'll be reading this as I always do, from the web, 12 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:49,600 Speaker 1: but of course feel free to grab the version of 13 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 1: the Bible that you prefer this morning. And once you 14 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 1: grab it, let's go ahead and give reverence to God's 15 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 1: word by reading Second Timothy three together. But know this 16 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: that in the last day, grievous times will come. For 17 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 1: men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, 18 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 1: disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy without natural affection, unforgiving slanderers 19 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: without self control, fierce not lovers of good, traitors, headstrong, conceited, 20 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: lovers of pleasure, rather than lovers of God holding a 21 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: form of Godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away 22 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:29,679 Speaker 1: from these also, for some of these are people who 23 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 1: creep into houses and take captive, gullible women, loaded down 24 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:36,480 Speaker 1: with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and 25 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 26 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 1: Even as Johnnys and Johnbres opposed Moses, so these also 27 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: oppose the truth. Men corrupted in mind, who concerning the 28 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: faith are rejected, but they will proceed no further, for 29 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:52,919 Speaker 1: their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs 30 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 1: also came to be in the Second Letter to Timothy. 31 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 1: So far Paul has been encouraging Timothy to keep on 32 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: using his spiritual gift and also to teach this church 33 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 1: in Macedonia all the things that should be taught, namely 34 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: the gospel message, while avoiding unnecessary and useless stuff that 35 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: was seeping its way into the church. Paul encourages Timothy, 36 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: look at the good things and teach those, and avoid 37 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:23,080 Speaker 1: the bad things and get rid of them out of 38 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 1: your church. And now he really hits this topic hard. 39 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:29,519 Speaker 1: In the passage we're reading today. He starts out in 40 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: verse one, but know this that in the last days, 41 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 1: grievous times will come. Now, when Paul says the last days, 42 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:40,839 Speaker 1: that means from the time that Jesus ascended up into 43 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 1: heaven until he comes again. So we are technically in 44 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 1: the last days, as was Paul two thousand years ago. 45 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 1: So the last days is just all of it until 46 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: Jesus comes again. Paul says, in these last days, grievous 47 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: times will come. Depending on the version you read, the 48 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: word grievous might be changed. It might say perilous, it 49 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:06,960 Speaker 1: might say hard, it might say difficult or dangerous, but 50 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 1: the web translates it as grievous. And what that means 51 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: is just very difficult times are coming, mainly because people 52 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 1: are going to continue to get worse and worse and 53 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: worse until Jesus comes again. That has talked about multiple 54 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 1: times in scripture, that evil men will continue to get worse, 55 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:28,640 Speaker 1: and that's what the next verse goes into verse two, 56 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: for men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers. 57 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 1: And I'll pause right there and talk about those ones 58 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: first before I continue on with the list, because there's 59 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 1: a lot of things right here a lot of different 60 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 1: behaviors that make people evil essentially in these last days. 61 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 1: So the first one is men will be lovers of self. Now, 62 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 1: when Paul says men here, he's not talking about just males, 63 00:03:55,440 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: he's talking about all of mankind. So men and women together, essentially, 64 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 1: people will be lovers of self and man? Is that 65 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: not so common today? What do we always see everywhere 66 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 1: we go, whether we're watching something on TV or we're 67 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: at the grocery store, we always see something about self love. 68 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 1: It is promoted and pushed every single place we go, 69 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:23,920 Speaker 1: with sayings like, oh, you're beautiful just the way you are. 70 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 1: You're perfect just the way you are. You don't need 71 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: to change. You must love yourself before you can love 72 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 1: other people. I hear that one all the time, and 73 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 1: that one kills me, because, no, you already love yourself. 74 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:42,839 Speaker 1: Every single person already loves themselves. Even when you abuse yourself, 75 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 1: it is a form of self love because you're trying 76 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:49,719 Speaker 1: to make yourself either get sympathy from other people or 77 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 1: feel better in some way through that abuse. And you 78 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 1: can disagree with me all you want, but I staunchly 79 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:57,479 Speaker 1: believe that in my mind is not going to be 80 00:04:57,560 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 1: changed on that. I remember years ago, when I first 81 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 1: start this podcast, I said something kind of insulting about myself, 82 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 1: like I made fun of myself, and someone contacted me 83 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 1: and told me that I need to stop beating myself 84 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 1: up and I need to love myself a little bit more. 85 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 1: And I was like, lady, I do love myself. Trust me. 86 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,360 Speaker 1: I can make as many insults as I want about myself. 87 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 1: I love myself a lot. In fact, I probably should 88 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 1: love myself a little bit less than I actually do. 89 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 1: And the reason she felt that she needed to contact 90 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:32,720 Speaker 1: me about that is because that's what's pushed in our 91 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: society right now, is that every single person must love 92 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 1: themselves more, not less, but more. But this ideology is 93 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,359 Speaker 1: so dangerous, and here's why. Because it makes you so 94 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 1: self centered and self focused that you don't think about 95 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 1: other people. It takes humility away, and as we know, 96 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 1: Christians are supposed to be humble, Jesus was the most 97 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:01,160 Speaker 1: humble person that ever existed and ever will exist. We 98 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: are supposed to emulate Jesus. Jesus was so humble he 99 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:09,160 Speaker 1: died for us, the most shameful and embarrassing death that 100 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 1: you could die. Hanging naked on a tree in front 101 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: of everybody, being insulted and spit on, and he had 102 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 1: a crown of thorns on his head to make fun 103 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 1: of him. Can you imagine if somebody you knew and 104 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 1: loved was being mistreated like that, like your husband or 105 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 1: your wife, was being abused and made fun of and 106 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 1: treated in that capacity, you know, like a crown of 107 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 1: thorns going on their head just to humiliate them and 108 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 1: insult them while they're hanging up on a cross. That's 109 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 1: what Jesus dealt with for us. He was humble, and 110 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:44,719 Speaker 1: he did that because he was looking toward the glory 111 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:50,719 Speaker 1: of giving us salvation through him. So we're not supposed 112 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 1: to be focused on self love. We're supposed to be 113 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:56,600 Speaker 1: focused on loving other people. Where does it say anywhere 114 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:00,200 Speaker 1: in scripture where does Jesus say love yourself more or 115 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:02,280 Speaker 1: before you can love other people? Where does he say that? 116 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 1: He does not say that. He says love other people 117 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 1: a new commandment. I give you to love God and 118 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 1: to love other people. There is no self love in 119 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:17,239 Speaker 1: that statement. So no, we don't need to love ourselves more. 120 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 1: And that's the problem with our society nowadays. We love 121 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 1: ourselves too much, and we don't think about other people. 122 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 1: So that's the first problem that Paul gets into. And 123 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 1: we have about thirty more to talk about. And I 124 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: just discussed that one point for about five minutes, so 125 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 1: we'll see if I get through the whole list. People 126 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 1: will be lovers of money. Now we actually went over 127 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 1: that not too long ago. That love of money, if 128 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 1: that gets into the church, especially when it comes to 129 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 1: pastors and elders and leaders, that can become really bad. 130 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 1: If you love money too much. There is nothing you 131 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 1: won't do to get that money. We can use money, 132 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 1: we can own money, there's nothing wrong with that, but 133 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 1: we can't be lovers of money. It leads to all 134 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 1: sorts of very corrupt things. Also boastful and arrogant. Christians 135 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 1: should have nothing to do with arrogance and boastfulness. Now 136 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 1: that being said, I think sometimes Christians get into this 137 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 1: like false humility kind of thing, which also is not 138 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: good because false humility is also arrogance in a way. 139 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 1: You know, false humility is when you say something that 140 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 1: sounds really humble, but internally you're not feeling humble at all, 141 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: or you're trying to like downplay what you do. Even 142 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 1: if it is like really good because you think that 143 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 1: if you accept the praise or the reward for something 144 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: that you're doing for Jesus, then you're sinning in some way, 145 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 1: But that's actually not the case. You are supposed to 146 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:52,320 Speaker 1: do things excellently. In fact, I just read a psalm 147 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 1: not too long ago that says play your instruments with 148 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 1: skill to the Lord. And there are tons of examples 149 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: of artists in scripture using the talents that God gave 150 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 1: them with skill for him. But on the flip side, 151 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:11,199 Speaker 1: you know, being too boastful or arrogant is also wrong 152 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 1: because when we're boastful and arrogant, we are taking the 153 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 1: glory off of God and putting it on ourselves. Now, 154 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 1: moving on with this list of evil behaviors, it says blasphemers, 155 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:26,680 Speaker 1: disobedient to parents, unthankful, and unholy. Now, the first one 156 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 1: is pretty self explanatory. Blasphemers. That would be anybody who 157 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:33,839 Speaker 1: insults the character of God, or insults the word of God, 158 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: or treats God with contempt or disrespect. That is what 159 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 1: blasphemy is. Then disobedient to parents is right next to blasphemy, 160 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:50,439 Speaker 1: because if you're willing to insult your Maker, your heavenly Father. 161 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 1: Then being disobedient to your parents and disrespecting them is 162 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:57,959 Speaker 1: going to be second nature to the blasphemer. So I 163 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 1: think that's why those two things are listed so close together, 164 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 1: is because they're kind of related in a sense. And 165 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:08,440 Speaker 1: being disobedient to parents is a grievous sin in the 166 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:11,720 Speaker 1: eyes of God, because as Christians we are supposed to 167 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 1: respect our parents. We talked about that in a great 168 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:18,720 Speaker 1: detail actually in one Timothy with the rules for widows 169 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 1: and how a widow of she has believing children, she 170 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 1: should absolutely be getting support from her children. Then it 171 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:30,239 Speaker 1: says unthankful and unholy. When I read the word unthankful, 172 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 1: that kind of hit me a little bit because I 173 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:36,440 Speaker 1: am not a very thankful person, you know. I am 174 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:38,760 Speaker 1: initially like, if I see God doing something in my 175 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:41,560 Speaker 1: life for like a whole week, I'm like, yay, you know, God, 176 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:44,640 Speaker 1: thank you so much. But then the second something goes wrong, 177 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:48,439 Speaker 1: even if it's something minor, I immediately resort to unthankfulness. 178 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:51,880 Speaker 1: And this just happened to me recently, actually, so that 179 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: kind of hit me a little bit. Paul himself in 180 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,319 Speaker 1: Philippians said that when we present our requests to God, 181 00:10:57,679 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 1: regardless of what they are. We are supposed to be 182 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 1: thankful in every circumstance. Then, moving on in the list, 183 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:11,839 Speaker 1: it says unholy without natural affection, unforgiving slanderers, without self control. 184 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 1: So someone who is unholy would obviously be a person 185 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: that does not follow the Christian lifestyle. You know, the 186 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 1: word holy is defined as someone who is set apart. 187 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:28,839 Speaker 1: If you are not acting as somebody set apart, then 188 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 1: that means you are not living out scripture the way 189 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: you should be doing. So that's what the word unholy means. 190 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 1: Then this next one without natural affection. Man, Like, this 191 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 1: is prevalent now, specifically with women online. I feel like 192 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 1: I am unfortunately chronically online and I see a lot 193 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 1: of stuff that makes me very angry, and I probably 194 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 1: shouldn't get engaged in those things. And I've been doing 195 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:00,439 Speaker 1: better with it. Okay, I'm not getting into Facebook fights anymore. 196 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: But I see a lot of women hating babies and 197 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:09,320 Speaker 1: hating children, and it's like, that is so bizarre to me, 198 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:15,080 Speaker 1: because we are naturally designed as women to love little babies. 199 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:18,600 Speaker 1: Even animals love babies. You know. I was just talking 200 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 1: to my mom recently about how it seems like my 201 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 1: two dogs somehow understand the innocence of babies and whenever 202 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: they encounter a baby, are like really careful with the baby. 203 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:35,679 Speaker 1: It's like animals understand that innocence, and if animals can 204 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:40,120 Speaker 1: understand it, certainly human beings should be able to understand 205 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:43,960 Speaker 1: that babies should be protected and taken care of and 206 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:49,320 Speaker 1: not mistreated or abused or aborted just for existing. And 207 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 1: I mean that goes for little children and even teenagers 208 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 1: as well. I'm around my teenagers every week at the 209 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 1: youth group, and they are children. They don't think they are, 210 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 1: but they are, and they should be protected as human beings. 211 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,640 Speaker 1: So yes, I see unfortunately a lot of women nowadays 212 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 1: without that natural affection. And what's interesting about that is 213 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 1: the loss of natural affection actually kind of goes back 214 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 1: to the first point, which was lovers of self, because 215 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 1: a lot of times when I see, you know, the 216 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:24,360 Speaker 1: women talking about why they don't want to have kids, 217 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 1: or why kids are terrible or disgusting or whatever they 218 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:32,200 Speaker 1: like to say, they usually bring it back to, well, 219 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 1: I don't really want to take care of another life. 220 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:36,560 Speaker 1: I just want to live my own life and do 221 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 1: whatever I want to do and travel and eat at 222 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:44,080 Speaker 1: restaurants and not be bogged down with a child. So 223 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:46,960 Speaker 1: it kind of does go back to the whole self 224 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 1: love movement. Interestingly enough, it's sort of connected. Not to mention, 225 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:58,080 Speaker 1: it says also unforgiving slanderers, without self control, fierce, not 226 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 1: lovers of good. So unforgiveness is on this list. Like 227 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 1: if you just refuse to forgive somebody or you're not 228 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 1: working through the unforgiveness, that's considered to be an evil behavior. 229 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 1: If Jesus loved and forgave us, then we should also 230 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 1: be trying to love and forgive other people. Now that's 231 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 1: easier said than done, but as Christians, we should be 232 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 1: at least working toward forgiveness in our hearts. There was 233 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 1: a really good book that Lisa Turkers came out with 234 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 1: that I went through and it helped me a lot 235 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 1: with a few things, and it was called Forgiving what 236 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 1: you Can't Forget, And I do recommend it specifically to 237 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 1: any lady that is struggling with unforgiveness right now. I 238 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 1: think it's a really really good read and definitely helped 239 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:42,640 Speaker 1: me with a few things. So unforgiveness is on this 240 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 1: list as well. As slandering, So that would be gossiping 241 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:50,240 Speaker 1: in a lying way behind somebody's back, so lying about 242 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 1: them essentially without self control, basically being unable to control 243 00:14:55,680 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 1: your temper or your lusts out in public fierce, so 244 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 1: without mercy, essentially not lovers of good, traitors, headstrong, conceited, 245 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 1: lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. And again 246 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:17,680 Speaker 1: that one goes back to the lovers of self. You know, 247 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: if you're too focused on yourself and your pleasures, that 248 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 1: you would rather do that than follow the word of God. 249 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 1: That obviously has no place in the Christian life. The 250 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 1: Christian life honestly, is a lot about denying yourself and 251 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 1: focusing on something that is to come instead of something 252 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 1: that is here on earth. Because the momentary pleasures here 253 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 1: on earth are really worthless in the long run. You know, 254 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 1: short term they seem great, but in the long run 255 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 1: they're nothing. That's why Jesus tells us to store up 256 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 1: our treasures in heaven rather than here on earth. Then 257 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:55,480 Speaker 1: verse five says, these people hold a form of godliness, 258 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 1: but have denied its power. Turn away from these also, 259 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 1: so are these people doing all of these unholy behaviors? 260 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: We just went through. But they're claiming a form of godliness. 261 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:11,920 Speaker 1: They're saying, oh, we're actually really good people. I'm a 262 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 1: good person because I do such and such. But then 263 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:17,040 Speaker 1: they are doing half the things or all the things 264 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 1: or some of the things on this list without any care. 265 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:23,560 Speaker 1: You know, obviously we all sin. We're all going to 266 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 1: do some of these things. You know, when I was 267 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:27,320 Speaker 1: reading through this list, I was like, yep, I do that. 268 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: I do that, I do that. We all are going 269 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 1: to sin. But the difference is do you recognize your 270 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 1: sinning and want to turn away from those sins, or 271 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 1: do you do them believing that you're fine, that you 272 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: are a good person, that these things aren't actually bad 273 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 1: at all. That is the difference. So these people have 274 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 1: no remorse over their sins, and they claim to be godly, 275 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 1: they claim to be good people. They're like, oh, yeah, 276 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:54,920 Speaker 1: you know, I'm a Christian. But then they don't follow 277 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:58,680 Speaker 1: any of the aspects of Christianity. They just take and 278 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 1: pick and choose whatever they want out of the Bible 279 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 1: and then you know, throw away the stuff they don't like. 280 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 1: That's not true Christianity, that's not truly following Jesus. Jesus said, 281 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 1: if you love me, you're going to keep my commandments. 282 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:15,880 Speaker 1: And one of his commandments was to love your enemies, 283 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: and to forgive as the Father has forgiven you, and 284 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 1: to go and sin no more, and to love your neighbor. 285 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:25,440 Speaker 1: And those are only a few of the many commandments 286 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:28,760 Speaker 1: that he gave. So if we love Jesus, we're going 287 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 1: to keep all of his commandments, not just pick and 288 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:34,920 Speaker 1: choose whichever ones we like the best. Paul says, turn 289 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:39,880 Speaker 1: away from these people, avoid them, don't associate with them. 290 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:44,200 Speaker 1: For some of these Verse six are people who creep 291 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:50,400 Speaker 1: into houses and take captive, gullible women loaded down with sins. Now. 292 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:55,240 Speaker 1: Home churches were very common back in Paul's day, especially 293 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 1: in the Gentile areas, because a lot of women became 294 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:04,640 Speaker 1: the first converts to Christianity in the Gentile regions, and 295 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 1: they would host home churches in their houses and obviously 296 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:13,159 Speaker 1: invite guests to come in and speak. So women could 297 00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:17,200 Speaker 1: host home churches. They weren't supposed to be preachers, as 298 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:19,439 Speaker 1: we've discussed in the past, but they could host the 299 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 1: home church people who weren't actually Christians but wanted to 300 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 1: benefit from the Christian lifestyle and gain money through it. 301 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,439 Speaker 1: They would pretend to be very holy and righteous people, 302 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:35,280 Speaker 1: and they'd go into these homes where these gullible women lived, 303 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 1: who potentially were hosting home churches, and they would sort 304 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 1: of weasele their way in by being very charming, and 305 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:46,480 Speaker 1: these women, who were gullible and also loaded down with 306 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:50,359 Speaker 1: sins themselves, would believe it and they would spread the 307 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 1: message of these false teachers. Now, unfortunately, this is also 308 00:18:55,280 --> 00:19:00,159 Speaker 1: very common today women especially, And I hate to be 309 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:04,880 Speaker 1: negative towards my own sex, but unfortunately I do see 310 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 1: this quite a bit. Women are far more gullible when 311 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:12,919 Speaker 1: it comes to someone who is charming and has a 312 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:16,240 Speaker 1: nice smile. Women a lot of times will believe what 313 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 1: these people say because they seem like nice people. I've 314 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 1: seen that in my own life many times over, where 315 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:27,959 Speaker 1: a woman just kind of believes something someone says because 316 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,119 Speaker 1: they have a nice smile. In fact, let me give 317 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:33,600 Speaker 1: a quick example of this. Last month, my husband and 318 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:37,040 Speaker 1: I celebrated our ten year wedding anniversary and we went 319 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:39,840 Speaker 1: to Vegas on a vacation. I had never been to 320 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:42,399 Speaker 1: Vegas and my husband hadn't either, so it was brand 321 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:45,600 Speaker 1: new to us. And in order to get around. We 322 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,639 Speaker 1: ubered a lot, and there was this one girl. We 323 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:51,159 Speaker 1: were talking to our Uber driver and I asked her about, 324 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:55,119 Speaker 1: you know, the safety in the city and what she experienced, 325 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:57,119 Speaker 1: you know, as a driver, and she was telling me 326 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:00,919 Speaker 1: that human trafficking had gon and a lot worse in 327 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,960 Speaker 1: the city, you know, because of various problems that were 328 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:06,359 Speaker 1: going on. And she told me, she's like, beware of 329 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:10,040 Speaker 1: anybody that tries to give you a ride outside of 330 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: the casino who claimed to be a driver of Uber 331 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:18,320 Speaker 1: if you did not go directly through the Uber app, like, 332 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 1: do not get into their car under any circumstances. So 333 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,199 Speaker 1: I took that to heart, and my husband and I 334 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 1: that evening were actually walking around and we were outside 335 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:30,280 Speaker 1: of some of the hotels you know, on the strip, 336 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 1: and there was a bunch of girls that were in 337 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 1: front of us, and they had just come out of 338 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 1: the hotel and there was this man with a car 339 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 1: that was waiting there and he goes up to the ladies. 340 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 1: He's like, ladies, do you need a ride, I've got 341 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:48,359 Speaker 1: a car right here. I'm an Uber driver. And immediately, 342 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 1: you know, because I had just heard this information in 343 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:52,480 Speaker 1: my brain, I'm, you know, my red flags are like 344 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 1: going off, And I almost turned to those ladies and said, 345 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:58,200 Speaker 1: don't get in that car, like under any circumstance, don't 346 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:00,640 Speaker 1: get in that person's car. But I get a chance 347 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,880 Speaker 1: to do so because the husband of one of those 348 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:07,439 Speaker 1: ladies came out of the hotel like directly after that 349 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:09,240 Speaker 1: and told all the girls. He's like, no, we're not 350 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,720 Speaker 1: getting into that person's car. We don't know him. Why 351 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 1: would we get into that person's car. And thankfully, you know, 352 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 1: my husband and I didn't have to step in at 353 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:19,359 Speaker 1: that moment because the guy handled it after that, and 354 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:23,720 Speaker 1: all those girls were like mulling it over beforehand, before 355 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 1: that husband had come out. They were like, yeah, maybe 356 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:31,240 Speaker 1: we can use this guy's car. Because women are more 357 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 1: gullible to things if somebody seems friendly and nice. And 358 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 1: that is also true when it comes to spiritual things 359 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:42,439 Speaker 1: as well, which is why I'm giving a warning to 360 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:46,960 Speaker 1: all the ladies listening, which is, don't believe everything you 361 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:51,040 Speaker 1: hear just because somebody seems nice. Oh and don't get 362 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:57,439 Speaker 1: into strangers cars. No, but seriously read scripture. Let the 363 00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 1: Holy Spirit teach you what is going on on. Don't 364 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 1: be gullible, don't be deceived, protect yourself, protect your spiritual 365 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,159 Speaker 1: health and the spiritual health of your families. It is 366 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 1: important for you to do that. So just be careful, 367 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 1: is all I'm telling you. And you know Paul understood 368 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 1: this as well. It might sound sexist, but it's kind 369 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:20,399 Speaker 1: of the truth. Like I hate to say it, so 370 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:24,760 Speaker 1: just be careful. All right, faithful listeners, I'm going to 371 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 1: end it there because I actually have somewhere I have 372 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 1: to be, so I don't have time to finish talking 373 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:34,119 Speaker 1: about the last couple verses. But before I end the episode, 374 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 1: here's a quick message from a sponsor. 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