Sermonette: Without Natural Affection

Sermonette: Without Natural Affection

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Richard T. Ritenbaugh
Given 21-Aug-93; 19 minutes

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description: (hide) Richard Ritenbaugh, describing with the help of statistics, the current disintegration of the family through divorce and estrangement, and the violence all over the world that has continued unabated since World War I, reminds us that all of this was prophesied. We desperately need to guard against the tendency toward violence in our own lives. II Timothy 3:1-5 graphically describes the times in which we are currently living. The core characteristic seems to be self-love (without an ounce of family love or natural affection) from which all of these other disgusting attributes germinate. Because of lawlessness, love and natural affection have gone stone-cold. Sin and lawlessness begets more sin and lawlessness, and affection and love disappear. Because we are living in these times, we must guard our own affections. When the majority "cool" only those who endure, staying close to God by immersing ourselves in the scriptures, will be saved.