{"id":45751,"date":"2022-10-01T02:00:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/living-successfully-in-perilous-times-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:00:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:00:34","slug":"living-successfully-in-perilous-times-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/living-successfully-in-perilous-times-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Successfully In Perilous Times &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, we read horrifying news stories regarding man&#8217;s inhumanity to man. For example, in New York City, a policeman was stomped on and hurt badly after being knocked off his scooter. And we&#8217;ve all seen on television, protesters, not only with foul language on their shirts, but issuing it out of their mouths as well.<\/p>\n<p>Thus Christians should not be surprised when our fellow man behaves so badly. Paul spoke about this kind of environment when he spoke of it happening in the &#8220;last days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>But know this, that in the last days perilous times shall come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; (2 Timothy 3:1-5).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Today, the world contains plenty of folks that fit the above description. The question is: Why do these conditions exist? Paul has a two-fold answer for us:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>These are perilous times [times of stress] and<\/li>\n<li>There are evil people running about causing these perilous times (2 Timothy 3:8; 2 Timothy 3:11).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Paul goes on to tell us that such evil people have a form of godliness&#8221;  that is to say that they may well seem to be good folks in some ways, but they are not. He says they make a practice of deceiving gullible women (2 Timothy 3:6). They are also the types of folks that are &#8220;ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth&#8221; (2 Timothy 3:7). Such people think they are smarter than anyone else, when in reality they know very little or nothing. They are usually people unproductive of anything but trouble.<\/p>\n<p>And what is the Christian response to all of this? How must we live in these perilous times and among these evil people? Paul tells us in 2 Timothy 3:12:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<em><strong>and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We may as well expect trouble to come and not be surprised when it comes to us. In fact, it will become worse (2 Timothy 3:13). Then in 2 Timothy 3:14-17, he gives us instruction on how to successfully live in this evil environment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Continue in God&#8217;s truth (2 Timothy 3:14).<\/li>\n<li>Understand that the Scriptures will make us wise to salvation (2 Timothy 3:15).<\/li>\n<li>The inspired Scriptures are a reliable source for doctrine, reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness (2 Timothy 3:16).<\/li>\n<li>If we live by the instruction of Gods Word, we will become mature Christians, fully able to do the work God expects of us (2 Timothy 3:17).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Encourage<\/li>\n<li>Pauls Two-Year Roman Imprisonment<\/li>\n<li>America, Christianity, and the Culture War (Part I)<\/li>\n<li>America, Christianity, and the Culture War (Part II)<\/li>\n<li>America, Christianity, and the Culture War (Part III)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, we read horrifying news stories regarding man&#8217;s inhumanity to man. For example, in New York City, a policeman was stomped on and hurt badly after being knocked off his scooter. And we&#8217;ve all seen on television, protesters, not only with foul language on their shirts, but issuing it out of their mouths as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/living-successfully-in-perilous-times-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Living Successfully In Perilous Times &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}