2 Timothy 3:1-5 (AMP)
3 But understand this, that in the last days dangerous times [of great stress and trouble] will come [difficult days that will be hard to bear]. 2 For people will be lovers of self [narcissistic, self-focused], lovers of money [impelled by greed], boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane, 3 [and they will be] unloving [devoid of natural human affection, calloused and inhumane], irreconcilable, malicious gossips, devoid of self-control [intemperate, immoral], brutal, haters of good, 4 traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of [sensual] pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of [outward] godliness (religion), although they have denied its power [for their conduct nullifies their claim of faith]. Avoid such people and keep far away from them.
There are already spiritual casualties in the body of Christ that
need urgent spiritual attention.
We now live in a world
where;
- ladies dress stark naked and doesn't see anything wrong with it.
- some pastors take alcohol, smoke and still preach
- Men of God put Taliban in the pocket, serving another god and still climb the altar
- Abortion has become the order of the day..whereas some people are crying for children for many years
- during the service, armed robbers can enter the church, take the offering rob, kill and just walk away..
- some have sold their conscience to the devil completely.
- If one is not careful, one can fall into the hands of wrong ones
- II Tim 3:2..men shall be lovers of themselves. For example, when they are serving food in an occasion... they get to you and skip you simply because you are not their family member.
- Some pastors check the offerings of the church as if they are the general overseer and eventually chop the money without allowing people to ask them question
- Covetousness is a spirit of the end I.e what they have isn't enough, when they see your own, they want to collect it. They see your wife , they pursue your wife.
- Some chase married men, married women..
- Some men of God boast on the altar, my church is bigger than your church, who is your mentor? When did you become born again? I've put on this collar for many years..etc. On the last day, the crowd in your church is not the qualification to make heaven
- Some sell their body in other to have food in their system..Bible says, 'Behold, I send you as sheep among wolves....these days wolves roam about in sheep's clothing!
- Some people won't see you before they criticise you. This occurs mostly among believers. When they see that a man of God is being used both far and wide, they blaspheme the Holy Ghost! We speak things we don't know. If you know someone five years ago, do you know them today?
- When people begin to mention names, they are not from God..they are there to cause confusion. You can't injure other Christian soldiers and think you will enter the Kingdom. On the day of harvest, God will separate the tares from the wheat...leave them for God and don't judge.
- Some men of God fight against other men of God on their altar. Don't judge people by thy past.
- There are different political groups now in the church fighting each other. Majority has left the primary aim of fighting the devil. Rather than fighting one another..let's go to the village and preach the gospel.
- Remember that every house has a toilet and yours will soon smell if you are fond of running others down.
- An age 9 boy was caught smoking while an 11 year old boy was caught fornicating...all because of computer age. Majority of our children are on Twitter twitting their lives. A 15 year old could call his parents by their first names. Some parents praise their children as they dance Makossa to hell fire.
- When last have you called your parents, that thank you for bringing me into this world, how many mothers are called witches because of false prophets?, how many children have become disobedient and unthankful to their parents?. When parents are crying, God is angry.
- If you have done evil to your father or mother, go and make amends. No matter how anointed a man is, he cannot reverse a biological curse.. Remember Exodus 20:12 KJV "Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee."
We need to return to the place of the cross.
Acts 4:10-12 KJV
"Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."
O Lord Jesus, we ask for the mercy of your cross, forgive us
our sins and heal our land. Repent from your sins and return to God wholeheartedly.