SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/16/2023 9:39 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “Sin Will Be Too Attractive”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
24:12-13
Message of the verses: “And because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end, he shall be saved.”
I begin this SD by writing about a third cause of
defection and that is that defection will be the love of lawlessness, which, as
it is increased, will cause most people’s love for righteousness, truth, and
things of God to grow cold. Now after
living in the United States of America all of my life I have seen this
defection happening more and more, especially in the last 7 years as it seems
it is like a snowball going down a very large hill getting bigger and bigger
all of the time. My thoughts are, and I
have been praying for this is we need in this country to have a Holy Spirit
revival, and what I mean by that is that the Holy Spirit will be the one who
causes this to happen, and the believers part in all of this is to pray for Him
to do this.
I continue to mention that the events that Jesus is
talking about are in the future, in the Tribulation period, but these things
have been going on every since sin entered the world back in the third chapter
of Genesis. Jesus is saying that in the
Tribulation period lawlessness will certainly include disregard for human laws,
it will be manifested most vehemently in increased disregard for God’s
law. Evil will multiply so rapidly and
unashamedly that many people who are initially drawn to the gospel will turn
away from it because of the multiplied enticements of sin. Now I have seen this happening in our country
and there is no doubt that Satan is behind this and is using his people to pull
this off.
MacArthur writes “The lawlessness will be diabolically
aggressive and unabashed. Rather than
trying to hid their sins, people will flaunt them, and such gross evil will
draw many people, including some professed believers away from whatever
interest in the things of God they may once have had.
“Describing the same period Jesus is talking about here,
Paul warned,
1 But realize this, that in the last days
difficult times will come. 2 For men
will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers,
disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips,
without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of
pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness, although they
have denied its power; Avoid such men as
these.
“Global violence, immorality, lewdness, selfish
desire, and every other moral vice will run rampant as unbridled sin expresses
itself. Men will be engulfed in a tidal
wave of corruption and they will glory in it.”
12/16/2023 10:11 AM
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