Why can't he, or is he ready, to
take over?
Hey, freedom's not lost on me.
Come on, do your thing.
There's no place he can't be found.
He's a
king that he
brings all the other kings.
I thank thee this morning for the blessed
Savior is gathered with him eternally, sharing his
love.
O God, we pray thee that our lives
might ever be lived in the consciousness and
expectation of that soon coming.
Now we pray thee that thou wilt illuminate
our hearts by the Holy Spirit as we
turn to thy word again this morning.
We pray thee that the seed planted in
this way might bear a fruitful harvest in
days to come.
We ask it in Christ's most holy name.
I've been asked to say a word about
some of the books that are in the,
um, some of the books that are in
the bookstore.
There's a good selection of, and this would
provide very, preserve
them.
And he said, Lord, of
the neighbors
into your, incidentally,
I don't know, anymore.
You say, oh, I wouldn't be able to
answer their question.
And then, um, use it with others.
I think you all know that when you
ask me, if I would, and
you go along to the 24 unit, unit,
diploma two, here are the, to
see this interest here,
please.
Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they tremble, they
are not afraid to speak evil of dignity.
Whereas angels, which are greater in power and
might bring not railing accusation against them, but
these as natural brute beasts, made to be
taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things
that they understand not, and shall utterly perish
in their own corruption.
And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as
they that count it pleasure to riot in
the daytime.
Spots they are in blemishes, sporting themselves with
their own deceiving, while they feast with, having
eyes full of adultery, and that cannot, beguiling
unstable souls.
In heart they have exercised with covetous practices,
Cursed children, which have forsaken the right way,
and are gone astray, following the way of
Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved the
wages of unrighteousness, but was rebuked for his
iniquity, the dumb ass speaking with man's voice,
forbade the madness of the prophet.
These are wells without water, clouds that are
carried with a tempest, to whom the mist
of darkness is reserved forever.
But when they speak great swelling words of
vanity, they allure through much wantonness those that
were clean escape from them who live in
error.
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are
the servants of corruption, for whom a man
is overcome of the same as he also
brought into bondage.
For if after they have escaped the pollutions
of the world through the knowledge of the
Lord, they are again entangled therein and overcome,
the latter end is worse with them than
the beginning.
For it had been better for them not
to have known the way of righteousness, than
after they have known it to turn from
the holy commandment.
But it has happened unto them according to
the dog is turned to his own fullness,
divine for
what he has done.
It's easy in reading a chapter like this
to forget who the spirit is.
These men are men who wear clerics.
These men are men who, and
they can talk with, and very, very glibly.
You know, there are various forms of in
-talk to you, leading
souls.
And in verses 10 through 16 and
fourthly, teaching for in so-called
their ungodliness.
Nothing about preaching.
These are the fourth.
We notice in this chapter to be punished.
They're reserved for punishment and punishment.
We are reserved for an inheritance, and an
inheritance is reserved.
These men, we're speaking, these
men have a, these
are, an
investigation was made, having
definite, God,
they despise dominions.
They defy, daring are they,
self-willed.
They tremble not to rail at dignity.
In this verse, they
speak blasphemous, angelic beings, and they actively
oppose human government.
These religious
dare to act.
The archangel, he
wouldn't bring against him a railing or
two.
In connection with our attitude toward, I feel
it is very easy for Christians to slip
into the, maybe if you're on the, should
be, are ordained, those
whom God
has set over us.
Now in verse 12, these men are likened
to dumb animals, without reason, born
mere animals to be taken and destroyed, railing
in matters whereof they, four
-footed animal going on through its life.
It's guided by, and
here are, were
created in the image, but
these men came face to face, and they
rejected that
they're going through.
They profess to have great knowledge, and
that's a very strong, dedicated,
and in that terrible ministry in which they're
engaged, they are dooming themselves.
Phillips translates it like this, very, very graphic,
it says, their wickedness has earned them an
evil end, and they will be paid in
full.
Their wickedness has earned them an evil end,
and they shall be paid in full, says,
and shall receive the reward of unrighteousness.
As they that count it pleasure, Peter says
of them is that they carouse in the
daytime.
Most people, most men do their carousing at
night.
Men love darkness rather than light, because their
deeds are evil.
But when men start carousing, that they've flown
over, and you're going to hardly think of
this as being applicable.
The school that's passed, came into contact with
some of, you
look at those stately Gothic edifices within.
Peter says that they're blots.
In other words, they sit with the people,
and yet all the time, they
delight in corrupting the people therewith.
Only, verse 32, who knowing the judgment of
God, that they which commit such things are
worthy of death, not only do the same,
but have pleasure.
Then the next thing that Peter mentions here,
is endless,
they lure others into immorality.
It says, entice, and
they think, well, these things are schooled
in, schooled
in greed.
And that greed for the gratification, and
then he closes the verse.
The fourth
thing that Peter speaks about them is, how
they, how like Balaam.
These men have entered the ministry as a
lucrative, if you took their, the money away
from them, they school
all the time, to
say the prophet, in
the Old Testament, and
instead of cursing Israel, he had to bless,
and Israel were given over.
Now the interesting thing to me is, if
you go back to the book of Balaam,
and you don't hear Balaam,
the son of
Balaam, beat the ass, in order to go
on.
The angel of
the Lord, these men, had face
to face, these men, rebuke
these modernistic creatures today, but he often does,
with sincere, and it's a wonderful thing to
me, how often, happening
all the time.
We have a dear friend up north, who,
who had, he went
back, to
the meeting, to
me, when these
men don't go, and unrebuked, but they turn,
then in verses 17 through 19, and
he took us, when
we were going out to, a dear old
man, whom I believe was a true believer,
came up to me, and he said, people
going, the
only other hymn they sang, then
it says, mist driven by the storm, here
are, the sky becomes misty, maybe the land
disappears, and, when
they speak great sweat, these men, really, have
a, they're not lost for words, they can
really hold the audience, in the, words, words,
words, that
satisfies, man's spirit, and so the, great, through
much wantonness, those, that were a clean escape,
from them who live in error, friends it
means this, and I think this is very,
here's a man, and he was, really getting
bad, he was disgusted, maybe he heard Billy
Graham, or Charlie, now
he wants to reform, he wants to turn
over a new leaf, and he goes to
that, he finds them doing in the church,
he thought it was something, he should avoid,
now instead of being helped, the man is,
but when they, speak, great swelling words, of
any, maybe this man
has, has, he
hears, he hears these men, condoning, premarital, while
they promise them liberty, they themselves, are the
servants of corruption, what
they mean is, what they mean is, sin
is no longer some, blame
of sin, or disease, over, there
are victims, men who have barely escaped, from
the world, and down, down, then in verses
20, to escape the pollution, to the world,
than he ever did, before, it says it
had been, better for them, privilege
brings, responsibility, in the spiritual life, and obligated,
he is, finally these people, are likened, to,
to unclean, the dog, is turned, when
I realize this, and when I think of,
soul, being temporarily, in life, he
was just mirroring, before you, may
we not, dabble, true
believers, who are, staying on, because it was
their mothers, we were saying, to people, six
he leadeth me,