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Date. Now when I say that, I know that's a lot of verses to think of considering in three short readings. But my burden and exercise is not so much to take it up verse by verse, not so much to try to get every detail. Not so much either to dwell on the negative side of things, although we certainly don't want to ignore what is brought before us, particularly in the third chapter, as to a description of the last days and so on.
But just simply, brethren, to perhaps encourage our hearts that amidst the days in which we live very parallel to the days of Second Timothy, there is an encouragement to go on and to get some overall sense of Pauls last words to Timothy and the last words that he wrote by inspiration before he laid down his pen and gave up his life for his testimony for the Lord.
I just suggest that, and if we do that, perhaps this afternoon we could just read the third chapter of the second Timothy.
Second Timothy, chapter 3.
This know also that in the last days perilous times shall come, for men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous boasters, proud blasphemers, disobedient appearance, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truth Breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce despisers of those that are good traders, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof.
From such turn away, for of this sort are they which creep into houses and lead captives, silly women, laden with sins, LED away with diverse lusts, ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Janice and Jambrice unders withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth. Men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith, but they shall proceed no further. Folly shall be manifest unto all men as theirs also was.
But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, charity and patience, persecutions, afflictions which came into me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra, What persecutions I endured, but out of them all the Lord delivered me. Yeah, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall acts worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and has been assured of.
Knowing of whom thou hast learned them, and that from a child, thou has known the Holy Scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction and righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
Yes, as well, as has often been pointed out, Second Timothy brings before us in very real language what is described as the last days or perilous times. And as we've mentioned, their days very parallel to the days in which we live. But I was thinking of this in connection with what our brother Dawn brought before us regarding fear in the previous meeting. And if you'll just go back to the first chapter for a moment.
Read the first here.
Verse seven For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. And I have no doubt there our brethren here this afternoon, whose hearts pray we've come from difficult.
Situation, little assemblies where there are difficulties and problems, or even little assemblies where we say, if the Lord leaves us here, I don't know who's gonna carry on. How are we gonna go on? If the older ones are taken and certain circumstances arise, how are we gonna go on? And those are very real fears and concerns. But isn't it beautiful that it's not in First Timothy that he makes this statement, but in Second Timothy he hasn't given us the spirit of fear.
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Now when the Lord Jesus described situations in Luke's Gospel concerning the last days, and I know it's a little different there, but he speaks of those in the world in the last days. He says men's hearts failing them for fear and looking for those things that are coming on the earth. And I have no doubt that anyone here who operates in any sphere of business or the corporate world or any sphere of the world.
You have you realize that men's hearts are failing them for fear today. Men look at conditions in the economic and corporate world, the political, the social world, and they realize that they are dealing with an interplay of circumstances that are beyond their control and that the elastic is being stretched so far that it's got to snap somewhere. Things are going to have to give. But rather, and we can sit here this afternoon.
With the peace of God in our hearts, not that we don't want to be aware, but we don't need to be overwhelmed. We need to be aware of what's going on in the world. We're not isolationists, but we don't need to be overwhelmed. And even when it comes down to spiritual things and things amongst the people of God and in the assembly, brethren, we don't need to be overwhelmed. And this was really my exercise in suggesting this portion.
But yes, we need to be aware of how God describes the Christian profession in the last days. We need to be aware and have discernment of the times in which we live. But Brother Timothy was encouraged to go on to the very end, and you and I can be encouraged from the word of God by the Lord Jesus himself to go on to the very end. There's provision made to the end.
And these are, as our chapter begins, They are the last days. They are perilous times. But the provision you and I have and the resources that you and I have in Christ today are the same limitless supply that have always been available to the people of God. Are these days of weakness? Yes, they are. Are they days of ruin? Yes, they are. Are we part of that? We have to hang our heads and say, yes, we are.
But brethren, we still have one who's in control. We have one who's everything, and one who has made provision to the very end.
To comfort, to know that God has never caught by surprise with anything, and so God perfectly.
Could see, if you will, the end of the day of Grace and that his grace would be eventually more and more despised and man be indifferent to it and his own, uh, son's.
Uh, gathering out of a bride and so on would come to its end with increasing failure. But God is never caught by surprise. And consequently, as these chapters give, and not only in Second Timothy is here at the end of Paul's life, but the end of Peter's, the end of John's, the end of of June, every one of them anticipates today and at the end in which we live, and God gives particular instructions and emphasis.
For us, you know, sometimes we might plan to do something and we say later, well, I never knew it would involve this or I never knew that it would get to this place. And I don't have anything to finish it off. I can't, I can't handle this situation. But it's a joy of thankfulness to us to see that God saw, God provided, and we can each one of us and together go on in fellowship with God, with his provision.
To get to the end and to serve him, Timothy here is being encouraged not just to hang on, but to serve to be a light in a increasingly Dark World in which he lived. And even if, uh, we're, uh, kind of a little light and not much energy in it, the darker the world gets, the easier it is to see that light. And so God gives us what's sufficient to go on with him.
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To be a light for him, and to be used in blessing to fellow man to one another.
It's helpful to see, isn't it, that second epistles always denote and bring before us days of weakness and ruin, That what was committed to the individual or individuals in the first epistle, He all, they all, it always breaks down. Man fails in his responsibility. Not that God ever fails in second epistles encourage us in that regard too. But as you say, second Peter.
Second John.
And even if I can put it this way, the 2nd epistle to the Ephesians, Paul wrote to the Ephesians, They were able to take in the highest truth committed to man. But when John wrote another epistle to them given to us in Revelation chapter 2, we find that they had left their first love and failure had come in. And so it's helpful when we take up second epistles to see that and in regard to this first verse that we began with.
I want to in a minute turn to a couple of other verses because you see in the epistles you see a decline of things that brings us right down to the very end. Now we won't turn to it, but to precede this verse, the apostle Paul at the in his last address to the Ephesian elders in Acts chapter 20, he spoke of a general decline that would come in after his departure.
He said, After my departure shall grievous wolves enter in not sparing the flock, and of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things to draw disciples after themselves. He anticipated this, that there was going to be a breakdown come in both from the outside and attack from the outside, and then that which is even more subtle and perhaps does more damage. But from the inside Satan is clever. He works from both ways.
And sometimes it's easier to detect and deal with that which comes from the outside than that which comes from the inside festers and bubbles up and defiles an effect and effects even before it's detected. And then here he writes to Timothy right at the end and he speaks about the last day. But let's go to Second Peter and see how Peter takes it just a little bit further in Second Peter chapter.
Second Peter chapter 3 and verse 3.
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers walking after their luck. Or if you notice in Mr. Darby's translation, he translates it a little different. It's the closing days now that's perhaps that perhaps brings us down just a little bit further.
Than the last days, the closing days. Now don't we have to admit, brethren, that these are not just the last days of the church's history on earth, but we see things that characterize the professing Christian testimony that would indicate that it is even the closing days. But let's see where John takes us. Go to first John, chapter 2.
First John chapter 2 and verse 18.
Little children, it is the last time. Or if you notice again, Mr. Darby, it's the closing hour. It's not just the last days. It's not just the closing days. But John brings us right down to the closing hour. Now, brethren, again, don't we have to admit we're right there? We're at the closing hour, but that ought to discourage us.
Not only, as I say, has a general declension come in, not only is it the last days, not only is it the closing days, but it's the closing hour. But, brethren, that ought to encourage us to hang on, to stand for the truth, to go on, as Dawn has said, and serve the Lord, to go on individually, to go on as families, and to go on collectively as gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. If we are right down in the closing hour, brethren, it's not very long.
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And isn't going to be worth it to seek to be faithful and go on in the past until the very end.
There's often a strong contrast between what's seen at the beginning of, uh, what we call a dispensation of God, and the end of it.
And the beginning of the day of grace was the day in which the love of God was displayed in the work of the cross, and in the formation of the assembly, and the very beginning of the Assembly of God. It says they had all things common. There was a work of God in the souls of men, that the love of God was placed in them to such a practical extent.
That there was true love of God's character, which, as we said earlier, is selfless. It always is occupied with the well-being of its object and never with itself and what it gets out of it. And as a consequence, at the end of the dispensation, you see, it goes to the extreme for which man becomes the center of his own existence, he becomes totally.
Selfish.
And in fact, there's a defined philosophy today that the end of all existence is the happiness of man. That is, man puts himself at the center and says the very reason for all existence is me and my happiness, and I'm going to love myself and I am going to find pleasure for myself. The truth of it is the glory of God.
Is the ending of all existence and God is supreme and has the 1St place and glorifies himself in all that he does. That's the right view, but Mann has reached that point and it pervades.
Advertising. It pervades school, it pervades everything that we see. And if we're not aware of it, we unconsciously absorb it and start to think that way, and we start to place ourselves at the center of our own lives and our own being. Is me first?
People say, well, if I don't, if I'm not happy, I can't worry about you being happy and so on. And so we make up all these ways of looking at something. And so this when Paul says Timothy, what's going to come is men are going to be lovers of the most their most themselves. They're going to be covetous. Give me I want for myself and so on and without any natural affection. Natural affection is that.
To which the heart goes out to somebody else, and so on. And so may the Lord help us, brethren, to recognize the day in which we live, so that we don't become a part of it unconsciously, not necessarily intentionally. But if we do, then we can't speak for the Lord. We can't represent the heart of God, which is.
As some of us remember, a little sign that once said joy.
JOY, Jesus first.
Oh, others next. Why yourself last?
But but the Lord Jesus first not self-interest, put the interests of others next, not self-interest, and put yourself in the last place. And God said that's the path of joy.
It doesn't say that the world is happy.
With this method of life, that's just the way it is.
When we read this, we tend to think of it as a description of, shall I say, the secular or even the heathen world or the godless world, whatever you want to say. But I think it gives it import when you realize it in its true context and character. And that is that he is not describing the the secular world or the heathen world or the world where they have never had the profession of Christianity.
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What he is describing here is the Christian profession in the last days, and I believe when we take it up in that light, it brings it, makes it very, very solemn, and gives it, it ought to give it a real import to our heart. You know he has taken up in the chapter before the Christian profession as the great house, and you and I are in the great House of profession in spite of ourselves.
We're part of that. We can't stand apart and say we're not part of the great house and the ruin and the failure and the things that have come in. There's provision to go on faithfully for the Lord in the last days and in the great House of profession, as we've been saying. But we are part of it. And as we read this list, and I don't think it's profitable to pull every word apart and dwell on all that he picked up here.
We're well aware of these things. We see them about us every day. But brethren, we ought to be exercised that we not be not these things not characterized us as individuals. They characterize the Christian profession in general. We have to hang our heads and admit it. But what he's going to tell Timothy later on in the chapter is, Timothy, you go on. You don't have to be characterized. There are certain things that have characterized me, the apostle Paul, and there are certain things that ought to characterize you.
Even in spite of the fact that I have just described to you the Christian profession at the end, but I think it's helpful as we take this up to see it for what it really is.
In chapter four of Second Timothy verse 3. Second Timothy 4, verse 3. For the time will come.
We have, uh, a description here.
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine and.
The key to that there is the sound doctrine. But after their own lust shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears, and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and they shall be turned to fables. So we have a description of the time that will come, the last days, the final days that we've been hearing about. Back to our chapter 3, verse five, having the form of godliness, but denying the power of it from such a turn away.
So we see here that they've departed from the fate.
But they've tried to keep a profession out there.
Uh, it's an outward appearance, but they are lacking on the inward part of it. Umm, if we go to first Peter chapter 4.
First Peter, chapter 4, verse 7.
But the end of all things, Here we are again. The end of all things is at hand. Be therefore sober. And that means sober minded.
Uh, and watch us through prayer and above all things, have fervent charity or fervent love among yourselves. For most shall cover a multitude of sins, Not my sin, but the other person's saving course. Uh, our love covers their sins, but have charity and love above all things. What we read in our, uh, Second Timothy chapter 3, here we see that the Christian has to have resources.
And we can see that these end times are coming and we have to rely upon our resources. And he gets into many different things that we're gonna probably gonna be talking about here in the future, but he wants us to cling to certain things. Uh, he doesn't want us to shy away from a de deviator to go away from those things. He wants us to cling to them. These truths that we have here, uh, continue in verse 14 and the word learned and the word assured.
And the word knowing of whom thou has learned them, what was then taught by our previous schoolmasters, clinging to these things, abiding to these things, all the fundamentals that they have taught us. And then we go into the scriptures. And the great greatest resource of all, of course, is scriptures. What we have to remember that there are in these last times those that are falling away from the faith, but still having a, a profession and they still are putting on a front, but they've fallen away from the faith and the end times.
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Above all things, have our love.
We have to have resources, don't we?
God wouldn't leave us blank without some resources.
When God took the children of Israel out of Egypt should be a people for himself, he took them to a land and he said this land is and the people in it are evil. I want the land emptied of them. I want to place you in the land. I want you to be put there for me. I am a jealous God. I will not share you.
With the gods around.
Frontier to be mine, and so they were to put away.
Everything that spoke of the gods of the land and all the high hills and Groves and so on that they established for themselves and God warned them, he said If you allow that idolatry back in the land, I'm going to put my hand on you and there's going to have to be judgment.
Sadly, when Christianity was brought into the world.
God brought himself in a way that he never had before, to the full extent of the revelation of himself. But his character doesn't change. God is.
Wants to have a people for himself that he can find his pleasure in and that they find their pleasure in him.
And so we see in this description what's happened in that best place, if you will, a profession of God with respect to what man loves. Does he love God? Does God have the supreme place in his heart and in his life? Verse two says men shall be lovers of themselves, covetousness, that is, lovers of money.
Lower, lower, uh, farther down it says verse 4 lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. And in the other sense of it, it, it also speaks about not loving the things that are good in verse 4, meaning the Darby translation, no love for what is good, traders headlong and so on. And so this is something that tells us about the day in which we live so that we can be aware of it.
And and ha have our hearts before our God. God says I don't wanna share you with the world.
And I want you for myself. And so please give me my place in your heart and in your life. Don't replace me with yourself and become self-centered and say I love myself, I love my money, I love my pleasure. What's in it for me? Because if you do, and man has done that generally and even in the Christian profession.
We're it permeates us, what we have and the consequences God has set aside and what is good from God in the light is lost. Man doesn't even want to do the good anymore.
He wants, the society says, in which we live in this country is who are you to tell me what's good and what's bad? It's my business to find my pleasure my way, and you have no right to stand in judgment upon me.
We don't personally, but God does. And it's not wrong to declare what God says is right.
And God says certain things are right and certain things are sin and yet we live in a society now that says no, don't you dare tell me that's who are you to say you can tell me. In other words, they look at the person that says speaks for God and says we don't want to hear from you. But Paul telling Timothy that's the way it is and it has come into the profession of of what God is. The barriers are down. And so we need to be aware of it and.
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Consequently, get the instruction from the Lord through Paul.
To live like Timothy is encouraged to live.
If you say it's impossible for us to be lovers to ourselves and lovers across both.
It's it is a recognition that I was condemned there and it took the cross for God to do away with me. And so if if we fall into this which.
Professing church in our day characterized by.
It must be because we don't enter into the the truth of the cross of Christ.
We've lost sight of it.
It seems that if in taking this up.
It is imperative that we look at.
The umm, Church of Laodicea, because we have the same character, the same essence, uh, brought out an adversary in every detail. We have it from, from the point of view given to John, uh, by the Lord Jesus. And uh, it just verifies exactly what it, uh, Timothy is being instructed, uh, by Paul, uh, we have the exact same characters of what's been mentioned so far.
In umm Revelation 3 in the Church of Laodicea.
Yes, they were so indifferent to the claims of Christ and occupied with themselves that He has to say to them, Behold, I stand at the door and knock. They had lost that sense of fellowship and communion with himself that he so desired. I'd just like to say a word on that and in connection with some previous comments.
Because brother Phil brought up about self and you know, I think of the prodigal son when he came to the father, he said two very or three very significant words. Father, give me now doesn't that sum up the spirit of the age in which we live? We want everything that the father can give us. We want for self without.
Necessarily.
The he, the the product of son didn't want the blessing and company of the father's house. He didn't want what he perhaps felt were the restrictions of the father's house. But he wanted everything, all the blessing that the Father could give him and what he felt the Father owed him. How many times have we said and I have to hang my own head? Well, I deserve it or that person deserves that, You know, I deserve nothing, everything I have.
A blessing is on the grounds of pure sovereign grace. We really deserve nothing, but we become so occupied with self. Don mentioned the circle and when it says in Romans, be not conformed to this world, but be transformed again, we apply that to many practical outward things. But I believe really in the context of that portion, what he's saying is that the bent of the natural man is to draw a circle and put himself in the center of that circle and do everything for himself.
That's the bent of the natural man, and that's what we see personified in the world around us and in even the Christian profession in the last days. Because whatever characterizes the spirit, whatever the spirit of the world is, whatever characterizes the world in the day in which we live, eventually affects the Christian testimony and the people of of God. And even in our practical Christianity, brethren, I think we need to be very, very careful.
Things creep in so subtly. Now I want to say what I'm going to say very carefully, and I want to qualify it, lest you misunderstand me. How many of us came to this conference with our our foremost thought being that we would get something. Now I hope we all get something. Don't misunderstand me. I hope that when we leave here on Monday, we all leave with a blessing and that we've got some spiritual food and something to exercise our souls, and we go away refreshed and encouraged.
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But, brethren, all thought to have been my first thought in coming to this Conference.
Wouldn't it have been better if my first thought in coming to this conference was that, you know, it's gonna please the Lord Jesus to see a few of his own gathered together with the Word of God before them and the privilege of remembering him on Lord's Day and the pre He's gonna be glorified in the preaching of the Gospel. And my second thought perhaps being maybe my coming in some way can encourage another.
And be for the blessing of another. That's selflessness. But so often we fall and I'm I'm not pointing the finger, brethren. If I have to point the finger, I have to point it here and leave it here. But so often our thought is, what can we get out of it? What do we get out of going to meetings? You know, when I hear someone say they're bored with the meeting or they didn't get much out of the meeting, or there's just nothing there, I wonder if perhaps that person is going.
With a selfish motive that we're going just to get something. But if we go first of all for the glory of God and because it pleases the Lord Jesus, and perhaps by our presence and our actions and maybe even our words we're a blessing and encouragement to someone else, then I believe we're going to truly be refreshed in our own soul. Because he that Watereth is watered all to himself. Well, I don't say these things to be critical, but I simply say to them that we don't want to fall even under.
In our CRO practical Christianity, we don't want to fall into the trap of what we have here that characterizes generally the Christian profession in the last days, brethren, it doesn't have to characterize us as individuals.
There's a couple Old Testament verses that I'd like to read together. Isaiah chapter 30.
Isaiah chapter 30, verse 8.
Isaiah 30 and eight go now, right before them on a table or a tablet.
And noted in a book that it may be for the time to come forever and ever that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of the Lord. Now note this verse who say to the seers, see Knox and to the prophets prophesized not unto us the right things nor don't speak the right things to us speak unto us smooth things prophecy deceits get out of the way, turn the sight out of the path cause the Holy one of Israel.
Ceased from before us and another reading in Jeremiah chapter 5.
Jeremiah, chapter 5, verse 30.
Jeremiah 5 and 30 A wonderful means in an appalling We have to be real careful of that word. Wonderful. Jeremiah 5 and 30 A wonderful and appalling and horrible thing is committed in the land. The prophets prophesized falsely and the priests bear rule by their means, and my people love to have it so.
And what will you do to the end of it all? The last days, the last times, what people are wanting?
We see them wanting the smooth things. We see denominations letting gay ones get on their platforms and doing the speaking. We see the churches having the bands with the rock'n'roll and the big screens.
And we see all kinds of things going on in the last days that are creeping in slowly and they're wanting to smooth and not so and not the old packs.
And not scriptures. And we see here what Timothy is trying to bring across, that in these last days, these things are gonna be taking place, aren't they? We have to stick to the truth of scripture. We have to see stick to what has been taught to us, what our oversight has said, what our forefathers have taught us. And everything down the line, we have to stick to it, but mostly to scriptures. Always our resource and inspiration.
Of God. That's our resource right there. These last things are taking place, brothers and sisters. It's happening to Israel, too.
And Israel is going to be judged, and because of these last things that will therefore bring in the judgment to come.
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I'd like to read make an application of loop 24 as a positive.
We necessarily had to speak of negative things and be encouraged. I'd like to make a positive application.
Comes to mind from what Phil said a few minutes ago in Luke chapter 4.
Umm, I'm sorry Luke, Chapter 24.
On loop 24.
And.
Umm, verse five and as they were afraid.
And bowed down their knees to the earth, they said unto them, This is the Angel speaking to them. Why seek ye, the living among the dead? He is not here.
But it's risen.
Just like to make this application of these these. I know it's not the context but.
The world in which we live lives in death.
Man is dead.
Who just trespasses in his sins?
And men, dead men, seek to find pleasure to pass their lives.
And there's no end in it. There's no fruit in it for God.
Man, engaged in his evil, feeds on his own sinful desires and wastes his life without any fruit.
And so we who have died with Christ, and risen with Christ through his death, as it were in application, the question can be raised, why would we seek?
The living among the dead is not here, is not there.
The one that we seek is risen.
This afternoon he sits at the right hand of God, outside of it all, and he is there as the object for our lives and our faith.
And so we're exhorted in Colossians, let your mind be on things above where Christ said it at the right hand of God. And Galatians chapter 2, I live by the faith of the Son of God. That is, I live by that faith which has the Son of God as the object of that life. And so in the measure in which the Lord Jesus Christ becomes the object of our lives.
To that extent we are delivered practically from seeking the living among the dead and sharing with the dead in that which God has nothing to say to except to judge. So may the Lord help us. It delivers us from that self occupation, because the object is not self, it's Christ, and into the measure to which He becomes the object of our lives.
As Jim said earlier, that I come here for me and what I'm gonna get, or is the thought, the Lord Jesus wants me to come here and He will, as it were, reveal himself to my heart, because that's His will and wish to do so. And in so doing, in His company, we get to enjoy the object of the heart and of the life, and God has given glory in it so.
May the Lord help us, brethren, to answer in our own souls. Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, he is risen.
So we can say in this chapter that the 1St 9 verses actually give us the fall or the corruption of prison them, don't they? And then starting with verse that we might keep this in mind for the next reading, but starting in verse 10, we have the resources of the godly in such a day. And it's often been mentioned in connection with the 1St 9 verses in the fall of Christendom, uh, that it's actually quite similar to what we have in the early chapters of Roman, isn't it?
Umm, you read the description of the Gentiles and even the Jews in the early chapters of Romans.
We see that there's really little difference from that. And uh, what we have in the 1St 9 verses of our chapter, and it's often been said that a dispensation comes to an end when those who have the peculiar dispensa, the peculiar calling of the dispensation are a little different from that from which they were called out. And so in the early chapters of Romans, for instance, we have the lost and guilty condition of mankind for which God brought a remedy, which of course we have in the gospel. Thank God for that.
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And of course, out of that, Christianity was born.
But now we see in, uh, the Apostle Paul gives us the same feed of, uh, corruption which were coming in among Christendom, which would, uh, which would ultimately be the death knell of Christendom as well. And so again, I believe what we have in the 1St 9 verses is that corruption of Christendom where in time at least these are the seeds of corruption creeping in. Uh, we're in time in the full development, which we probably actually have in the book of Jude. I think it goes, Jim, even a step beyond what you haven't.
First, John is full apostasy in Jude, and yet there's still a passive escape. And then we know the apostasy comes to its fruition actually during the, uh, the, uh, period of that we have covered in the Book of Revelation. But Jude even goes a step beyond first John, doesn't it, in final corruption. And so again, what we have here at the initial seeds of corruption coming in, in the 1St 9 verses, and then we have that remedy.
We have in verse 12 just to give a brief outline. Yeah, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus. That's what our brother Don was just speaking about. And then the Holy Scriptures are given to us in verse 15 from a child that has known the Holy Scriptures. That's what Paul spoke about in Acts of Money, isn't it? God and the word of His grace are the abiding resources till he concludes the dispensation.
1, 168.
The night is far spent and the day is at hand. No sign to be looked for. Stars and skies rejoiced. Any thanks to your Lord's own command. Rejoice.
Uh, great, I'm on walk.
And where's all of my life?
I will bring language train.
So much around.
OK.
Being called.