Dr. John Tweedie - Lawlessness and Godlessness

July 2, 2025 | 28:39

Jerusalem has been attacked, conquered and occupied numerous times during her long and painful history. But why has Jerusalem suffered so much and are there any hopeful, prophetic signs that point to a better future for the holy city?

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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | Dr. John Tweedie - Lawlessness and Godlessness | July 2, 2025

Over my shoulder shoulders the mediterranean sea.
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The bible declares that god once destroyed the whole earth
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By a worldwide flood.
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But why did he do it?
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More importantly, will he do it again?
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Next, on the prophetic connection.
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Soft music
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The bible declares
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That god destroyed the generation of noah that day
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Because of wickedness.
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Listen to these words from genesis chapter six
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In verse five.
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Then the lord saw that the wickedness of man
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Was great in the earth,
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And that every intent of the thoughts of his heart
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Was only evil continually.
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The lord was sorry that he had made
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Man on the earth, and he was grieved in his heart.
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So the lord said, i will destroy man whom i have created from
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The face of the earth.
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Both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air.
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For i am sorry that i have made them.
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But noah found grace in the eyes of the lord.
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God said that that
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Was a one time event, a worldwide flood.
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He would never do that again.
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And so he entered into a covenant with noah.
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And the sign of the covenant was a rainbow in the sky.
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The promise that god would never again
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Destroy the world with a worldwide flood.
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And yet the world has become increasingly wicked
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In the sight of god.
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Once again, god may not destroy it by a worldwide flood,
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But he will not forever let wickedness
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Go unpunished.
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For the bible records
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That when god looked at the world of noah's day,
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He saw it was full of violence and wickedness,
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And that man was only inclined toward evil continually.
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It was then that god regretted that he had created man
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And had given him dominion over the earth.
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In my understanding, god
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Brought about that worldwide flood in the days of noah
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Because of the lawlessness of mankind.
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Mankind had thrown off all restraint and had,
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Entered into the kind of wickedness
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That at a certain point was just was unredeemable.
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And so god made the decision that he would,
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He would bring judgment on the earth.
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God's judgment upon humankind came in the form
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Of a worldwide flood.
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But god warned noah in advance of this impending disaster,
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Telling noah what he intended to do.
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The bible says that noah found favor in god's sight,
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And that he and his immediate family would be spared
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From the judgment that was to come upon the creation.
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God gave noah
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Specific instructions to build a large boat, an ark,
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A vessel large enough to accommodate
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Not only noah's family,
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But also individual pairs of all living things
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That blew above the earth or walked over it.
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These creatures, birds and animals would find safety
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Within the ark,
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But all other living things were destined to perish in
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The deluge to come.
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It actually says the world
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Was full of hamas, not the arab terrorist organization.
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You get that out there.
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The there's no accidents.
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The world was full of violence.
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The idea being that our relationship with
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God is reflected in our relationship with each other.
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And not only that,
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The nature reacts to the state the world is in.
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The description in the bible of the flood
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Is that the human race degenerated
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In its relationship with god, but also in its relationship
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With each other.
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And this is a point
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That is totally relevant to today,
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Because there is a direct relationship
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Between human being's relationship
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With god and with each other.
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Since the notion of absolute morality comes from relationship
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With god, when human beings lose that connection
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In the case of the flood story, degenerate
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Into the amoral polytheism of the pagan world,
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Then the relationship
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Between human beings in each other degenerates also.
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And if the world becomes full of lawlessness and violence
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And lack of charity and kindness, and the certain
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In god's eyes as allah, how does scripture describes it?
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When the world drops below a certain
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Threshold of immoral behavior, god, so to speak, loses
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Patience and says, we're going to do a big housecleaning here.
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But if god was going to cleanse the earth because it was
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Full of violence and wickedness, god also chose a remnant.
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Noah's family, the family of a righteous man
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Through whom the world could be repopulated
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In the day of noah.
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There was gross immorality.
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There was rebellion against god.
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God even grieved in his heart that he had created.
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Man says,
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And god knew that if he let this continue,
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There would be nobody left on the earth
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That would serve him, at least serve him voluntarily.
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And so god brought, brought this great flood,
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And therefore he wipes out the entire physical world.
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And it also explains why the
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The animal kingdom is punished too, because they suffer,
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They degenerate in their behavior to the human beings,
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Can elevate the entire world or bring the world down.
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Noah, the bible describes, was the one guy who walked with god.
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It says walk with god.
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He had a relationship with god and behaved in a way
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Which was far more godly and moral
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Than the rest of the world.
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And god decides to spare him not just out of kindness,
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But out of a desire that noah repopulate the world
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With people, have a relationship with him,
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And get therefore get the world back on target
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And create a world that has a relationship
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With god and behaves in the proper way.
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Again, not just towards god, but the whole human race behaves
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In a godly and charitable and kind giving way.
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A remnant remained, and those who were on that ship
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Were saved.
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They were in the ship of faith.
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And a new generation then grew from the loins of noah
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And his family, and god always deals with sin.
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He's not going to let it go on forever.
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And he has a remnant within the nations of the world.
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He's calling out a special peopl
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Jesus was aware of noah and the worldwide flood
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That symbolized god's judgment upon that generation.
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But jesus also drew a direct parallel
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Between noah's generation and another just like it.
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One he said would inhabit
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The earth immediately before his return
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In the days of noah, as jesus used it as an example.
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We've got to look at it because jesus himself said,
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These end times will be like the days of noah.
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And noah was a righteous man, a man who preached righteousness.
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So there's a righteous remnant in the church
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All over the world, in the far east, all the way to the west.
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And people, a remnant of people that are in the boat,
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Who are in the ark, who are locked in with jesus
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When the storms come, and all of the things
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That are going to happen
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That jesus talked about,
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We need to be like the days of noah and the days of noah.
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Evil and violence was increasing and we see it everywhere.
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I mean, because of technology, you know, we we just our navy
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Just intercepted
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A boat full of missiles coming from iran
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And brought it in down into a lot.
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And all these things are getting bigger and faster.
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Looking at noah and his family and having been spared the wrath
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Or judgment of god on the earth through, just torrential
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Rains and floods that, really wiped out all of mankind.
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When we look at that and we
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Parallel that to today's society, it's any wonder
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That the god of israel hasn't already judged the earth.
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Such issues as abortion, which is such a controversial issue.
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We've seen millions of unborn children,
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Many millions of innocent blood shed.
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It's just one of many issues.
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Then, of course,
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We've noted about terror and violence that in noah's day,
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The spirit of violence was so rampant in the earth
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That it could not hold back god's judgment on the earth.
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But then
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We also have the total breakdown of marriage and family life.
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We have the breakdown of our understanding of god's
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Original creation of adam and eve, and male and female.
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And we are worshiping, creation more than the creator himself.
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It's all these things together.
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But then it also is
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The practical geopolitical issues surrounding
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Israel, the nation of israel, the land of israel,
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And the dividing of jerusalem.
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We see the signs of this, of this today.
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And it's it's distressing
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That there aren't more arks being built
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Because the ark represents really
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A place of protection for the people of god.
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Jesus does compare our generation, at least
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The generation near his coming as like the days of noah,
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They were eating, they were making married.
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Life was going on as if god doesn't exist
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And much of the world is hedonistic today.
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Their main concern is making themselves feel good.
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And it's really not about anybody else.
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It's not. certainly not about god.
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It's about their own belly being their god,
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Their own appetites being satisfied by earthly things.
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If there are direct parallels between noah's generation
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And the world today,
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Could these characteristics also be harbingers?
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Prophetic signs that point once again to god's
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Impending judgment?
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Jesus spoke about storms coming and houses
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Being built on sand being washed away
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By the houses that are
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That are built on the rock will stand in the storm.
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And i believe that the lord would warn us today about,
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The sins of the days of noah and the lawlessness of mankind.
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But that means that among the people of god,
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Who truly want to serve him and want to advance his kingdom,
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I believe that
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There is a restoration going on, and it is a restoration
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Of god's lawful rulership of his kingdom.
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But why does creation need law and order?
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I grew up in a
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Generation that equated freedom with total independence.
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I mean, as a as a young man, i believed that i would be free
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If i got if i became independent of every restraint.
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And so we tried to do that,
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And in the end, we found out that wasn't freedom at all.
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It was just a different kind of bondage.
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In order to be truly free, human beings need
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The structure of righteousness that protects us.
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To be fully free,
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We actually need to find a dependance
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On someone who is trustworthy, who will bring out and
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And nurture,
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The things that are that are within us
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And bring them to their, their full productivity.
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And i see this as the as the lawfulness of god.
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Throughout history, any nation that committed itself
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To the rule of law
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Today, that's the single greatest criteria in determining
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Whether a nation is going to be prosperous or not.
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I sometimes ask my
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Businessman friend, if you had a choice to make a
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To make an investment in two countries,
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And one country was switzerland and the other was somalia,
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Which country would you choose and what's the difference? why?
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Why is the standard of living so much higher in switzerland
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And so much lower in somalia?
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And i think it's it's not about the intelligence of the people.
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It's not about how
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Good they are, how much they are loved by god.
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I think the sole difference there is the structure of law.
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You you have, you know, better laws in switzerland.
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You have, you have protection.
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Your investment is protected.
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Your your your family is protected.
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Your your business practices are protected in somalia
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Or in countries like that, you have no such protection.
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All right.
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So good laws are good.
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Better laws are better.
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Bad laws restrict freedom.
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Good laws bring freedom.
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What about a kingdom where the laws are perfect?
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Perhaps it can be said that the best of all worlds is one
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Where, by god's laws govern everyday life,
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And that true freedom is found by walking in obedience
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To the laws of this righteous kingdom.
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In other words,
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The best of all worlds is found not in a lawless kingdom,
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But in a kingdom governed by god's laws.
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Don't go away when we return.
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Doctor john tweedie continues his teaching.
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This past year has been
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Incredibly challenging, from the attacks on israel
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To the ongoing struggles faced by the jewish people worldwide.
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We've seen heartache, loss and resilience like never before.
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When jesus disciples asked him about the end of the age,
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The signs that would precede
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His second coming, he gave them many signs.
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Of course, the major signs were famines, pestilences,
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Earthquakes in many different places.
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But he said much more than that in answering their questions.
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Here's what he says in matthew 24, as recorded in verse 12.
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And because lawlessness will abound,
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The love of many will grow cold,
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Lawlessness
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Abounding.
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We like to think
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That we're living in progressive western societies,
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Where things go from good to better.
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But jesus is saying they're going to go from bad to worse.
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Lawlessness will abound.
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And of course, our streets in the western world
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These days are getting more and more full of violence.
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We live in very violent times.
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And so when jesus goes on to give this long
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Discourse about the signs that would precede is coming.
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And we wonder then when that time will be.
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And they wondered then and he answered,
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Because they said the disciples had asked them,
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Tell us when will these things be?
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What will be the sign of your coming
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And of the end of the age? like the end of the ages?
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We know it as the world knows it.
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But in verse 36 of matthew 24,
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He gives yet another clue to identify the time.
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And he puts it this way.
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But of that day and hour no one knows, so
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No one can categorically say, i know exactly when the time is,
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Not even the angels of heaven, but my father only.
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So that's a very definitive answer.
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But then he says something in addition to that.
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But as the days of noah were, so also will
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The coming of the son of man be.
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So now he gives us a great clue, if you like, a parallel
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Which allows us to say, well, what was
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What was it about noah's day that was so bad
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That it compares to this time that jesus is talking about?
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And in genesis chapter six and verse five,
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Listen to these words.
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Now jesus talked about lawlessness.
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And here's what we read in genesis six verse five.
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Then the lord
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Saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
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And lawlessness and wickedness are like twin brothers.
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They go side by side.
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They are hand in hand because if you have lawlessness,
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You have wickedness,
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And if you have wickedness, you seemingly have lawlessness.
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They run together.
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And that every intent of
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The thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
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So now we see that man is so far removed from god.
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God is not part of man's thinking.
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His equation and wickedness rules the day.
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That is what god, god's attention in the days of noah
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In verse six, not only his attention, his lament.
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And the lord was sorry that he had made
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Man on the earth, and he was grieved in his heart,
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And so the lord said, i will destroy man
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Whom i have created from the face of the earth.
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And of course, we know about the ark and the worldwide flood.
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But noah and his immediate family were saved out of that.
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It's a judgment that came from heaven upon the earth.
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You know, i as a pastor, i've officiated
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At many funerals during my ministry.
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And i remember one day that a funeral director
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Said something to me
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That not only got my attention, it shocked me.
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It sort of awakened me to
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I knew awareness of the world in which i was living.
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He said to me,
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John, do you have you heard the term granny dumping?
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And i hadn't heard the term.
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So i was intrigued by why are you asking me that?
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And then he went on
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To explain that more and more, he is a funeral director,
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Was experiencing what he and other funeral
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Directors called termed granny dumping.
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He said more often than not, we get a phone call
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That someone has died, a relative,
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And we're asked to go to the hospital, the nursing home,
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Wherever it happens to be, and collect the body,
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Dispose of it, and then,
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Simply send us an invoice.
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No memorial service, no funeral service
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For the person that has passed away, cut and dried.
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Keep the costs down.
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No need to commit them into god's eternal keeping.
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As happens.
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Funeral services.
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When a pastor or a priest
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Officiates, simply, they're dead and they're gone.
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And we don't want the trouble
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Of having to go through all of the,
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The rigmarole of a funeral service and the expense
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That's involved with limousines and all of that sort of thing.
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It's just
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Easier to just get rid of the body and send us the bill.
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Jesus
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Also talked about the love of many growing cold,
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In this time of lawlessness that will abound.
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That, and he could have been speaking about natural law.
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We could have been speaking about love for god.
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We can interpret in different ways.
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But there is a an absence of natural love.
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People have become selfish, and they're interested
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Only in what is of benefit to them.
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And they've lost the ability to care even about their own
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Relatives, those that are near and dear to them.
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And when society gets to that place, it's a very dark, dark.
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It's a place that's so far from god.
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Now, it's interesting that the apostle paul
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In one of his letters to timothy
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And timothy, was a young pastor who in fact followed paul
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And became pastor of the church of ephesus in asia minor.
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Today it's the western part of turkey.
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That was a very difficult place to serve because the temple
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Of the goddess diana was there.
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There was much idolatry.
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And so for christians there were distractions and temptations.
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And obviously timothy wanted to quit more than once.
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So the apostle paul, his mentor, wrote him two letters
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To encourage him, reminding him of his call
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That he should stay the course no matter what happens,
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And remember that he was called of god,
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And to stir up the gifts that god,
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The gifts that god had given him to serve as a pastor.
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But in the second letter to timothy, paul
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Writes, these words are found in chapter three.
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He writes of perilous
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Times to come, and this is yet another prophecy.
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But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come.
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The the greek word that is used there for perilous
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Is to leap us, and it means hard, grievous, difficult times.
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It's as if to say to timothy,
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You shouldn't be surprised by what you're going through.
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That's what it is to be in the service of the lord our god.
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And then this.
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And he gives.
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If you can't here there are 17 characteristics
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Of this future society that paul alludes to,
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Because he begins by saying, in the last days, once again,
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This is an expression of the final generation before
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Jesus returns, for men will be lovers of themselves,
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Lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers.
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And of course, blasphemy is against the almighty god,
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Disobedient to parents, unthankful on holy.
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I could insert here in light of what
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The funeral director said to me, granny dumpers,
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Because they don't care about grandmother and grandfather,
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And they're just glad to get rid of them.
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And unloving, unforgiving slanderers
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Without self-control, brutal despisers of good.
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This sounds like the generation of noah as well.
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Traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure
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Rather than lovers of god.
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So once again, the emphasis
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That this is a generation so far removed from god
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And god sees it.
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And as in the days of noah, he's prompted
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To bring his judgment upon that generation.
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And we do well to remember that when jesus christ returns,
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He returns not simply as the king of kings
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And lord of lords, the messiah of israel,
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The deliverer of israel.
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When it comes the second time, it's not as a gentile,
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Carpenter from the carpenter shop.
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He comes as the judge of the whole earth.
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He comes to judge the nations.
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At the end of this time.
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There's these perilous times that are prophesied
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In the holy scriptures.
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Stay tuned for more from doctor
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John tweedy after this break.
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6000 years ago, the world was a very wicked place.
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So much so that god decided to destroy humankind
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By a worldwide flood.
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But he saved noah and his immediate family
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Out of his judgment by allowing them
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To build an ark, a place of safety.
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6000 years later, the world is a wicked place.
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But god said he'd never again destroy the world by a flood
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Here and there, we see churches like this one
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Candles in the darkness of lawlessness and wickedness.
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Christians serving
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And are often the first to run when there's a natural disaster
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Relief to those affected by disasters and other things.
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So this tells us that god is still very much at work
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Among those that are his in this world,
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These individuals become candles in the darkness,
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And even where they are persecuted
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By those of other faiths, still they do the works of god.
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Jesus
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Met his disciples on a mountain in galilee
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Following his crucifixion in jerusalem,
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His death and his resurrection.
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He said he would meet them in galilee.
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And in matthew 28 we read these words in verse 16.
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Matthew 28.
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This is known as the great commission of the church.
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Then the 11 disciples went away into galilee, to the mountain
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Which jesus had appointed for them.
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When they saw him, they worshiped him.
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But some doubted.
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And jesus came and spoke to them, saying, all authority
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Has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
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Go therefore and make disciples of all
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The nations, baptizing them in the name of the father,
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The son, and of the holy spirit, teaching them
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To observe all things that i have commanded you.
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And lo, i am with you always, even to the end of the age.
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So even though jesus is not here with us physically,
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His spirit is very much with those who are his,
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And his goodness continues to transform the world.
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One life at a time.
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Dr. John Tweedie - Lawlessness and Godlessness

July 2, 2025 | 28:39

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