LET THE LORD REIGN IN YOU

JUNE 7TH

Text: 2 Timothy 3:1-4 King James Version (KJV)

1.  This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

2.  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3.  Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

4.  Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

As children of God we do not operate by the rules of the world, but by the rules of the Bible. Jesus cannot be the Lord of your life and you are operating by the lordship of the world. His precepts, laws and commandments are the laws you live by. If you do not know how to die to self, you cannot be a lover and pleaser of God, for Rom 8:7-8 tells us that those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

Some Christians are only motivated to act for God when they are going to have benefits for themselves. But if there is no immediate gain, then there is nothing strong enough to motivate them. It is no wonder they loose their joy so easily. If you desire to be happy, there is only one way, you have to trust and obey Jesus. The Scripture tells us that at night when men slept, the enemy came and sowed tares.

When a man truly encounter the Son of God, His joy and life will flow from within that soul like fountains of living water. In John 4, Jesus said to the Samaritan woman that the water is has to give is the one you drink from and never thirsty again. If you drink of the river of life, your life can never be the same again.

You cannot be a lover of the world and be a lover of God. When you pitch tent with the world you say goodbye to God.