Without Natural Affection
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2 Timothy 3:1–7 (KJV 1900)
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;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Unholiness corrupts natural affection
Unholiness steals natural affection
Madonna ultimately got what she wanted after Sam Smith and Kim Petras took the stage to perform their Grammy-winning song “Unholy”, which included Smith donning a top hat with devil horns on it as flames rose up around them.
That alone—not to mention the fact that Smith is gender nonbinary and Petras is a transgender woman.
God given relationships
People in our life given to us by God to cherish affectionately;
Without natural affection = hard hearted towards kindred: - without natural affection.
Marriage
Children
Parents
Without natural affection = Absence of a devotion to our family members.
Lack of devotion to your spouse
Devotion to
Love your children
Unholiness steals
Unholiness in the mind
Do the imaginations in his evil heart
Affection for parents
Affection for grandparents
Affection to our Heavenly Father
Did you talk to Him today
Did you read His love letter to you
Unholy = It is characterized by indignation, bitterness, and a demand for punishment or restitution.
Covetousness
Vengeance
Mark 11:22–26 (KJV 1900)
22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.
1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
Unnatural affection = A Christian loving this world
15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
This idea that a christian is loved more by the world than that of the body of Christ is a lie.
I feel more loved by the unsaved
I wonder if eve felt more understood by the serpent than of God ?
I wonder if Absolom made Israel feel more understood than David his father.
You see, the treason of this world against God knows no boundaries.
The decline of love for family and the church in the modern world has as its inevitable moral and political and religious consequence the creation of masses of helpless, weak, confused individuals who cannot find solace in Christianity, regarded merely as a creed.
Individualism is the political and social philosophy that emphasizes the unique individuality and freedom of the individual, and prioritizes the individual's rights and interests above those of the community or society as a whole. It advocates for self-reliance, personal responsibility, and the pursuit of personal goals and desires.
The stress upon the individual, at the expense of the churchly community, has led remorselessly to the isolation of the individual, to the shattering of the man-God relationship, and to the atomization of personality.
Individualism has resulted in masses of unattached, insecure individuals who lose even the capacity for independent, creative living.
If you love the world you’ve lost the love for the Father.
There should be a natural bond in a family
a vow
a covenant
a love
a desire to not bring pain to my family
I don’t want to hurt my father
I don’t want to hurt my wife
Marriages but Absence of commitment
No devotion in the family is what the last days
6 For the son dishonoureth the father, The daughter riseth up against her mother, The daughter in law against her mother in law; A man’s enemies are the men of his own house.
Without natural affection
You give love then they hate you
You help people, in the last days perilous times without natural affection
35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
36 And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.
Jesus is clarifying Micah
When Jesus comes on the scene
When truth illuminates there will be a natural
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, And the heart of the children to their fathers, Lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
There are principalities and powers - spirits that want to divide fathers and children
We Protect the heart of our children by providing for our children.
We are not to hide from this world we are called to shine and provide truth for our family and our city.
We must be involved in order to protect
We Deflect unholiness
We nurture truth
When our affections are in the world we will have unnatural affections
When our affection is in the Lord we will have affections that are in the right relationships in our life.
We must work to keep our relationships healthy.
We must be willing to have uncomfortable conversations to have healthy relationships.
The enemy is all about shattering relationships
His goal is broken hearts, because it breaks God’s heart
His goal is fractured dreams, because he knows that if you “delight yourself in the Lord, The Lord shall give you the desires of your heart”
There is hope - homes can be repaired
There is a way to keep affection in our home; in our church
There is no reason to give up on our relationships
We are born again not to be victims, to be warriors - to be soldiers for Christ with the cross as our banner
Are you striving for affection
Giving affection
God is for your relationship
God has provided the plan for all you need to have natural affection
God just needs one spouse to work through to show His mighty power
God needs just one parent to show His grace and goodness through
How do we maintain and increase our ability to show natural affection to those God has placed in our life?
1. Parenting in the Spirit
Parenting in the flesh will always bring forth carnal unnatural relationships.
2. Marriage in the Spirit
Carnal marriages produces lack of intimacy in the home
Anger is not the way to operate in the home
All precautions must be taken to protect the affection in our home and in our church.
Unholiness produces unnatural affection
3. Continuing in Prayer
There may be times the one we love ...
the spouse
The child
the brother or sister in Christ
....do not want to hear our voice of love and care
God still hears my voice on their behalf in prayer
There is an assault on our family from the world and it’s direction - it’s antichrist philosophies
There is an assault on our relationships from the flesh - our flesh doesn’t want to do the work necessary to have natural, christlike affection
There is an assault on our family from the devil - he despises everything God has created except for himself - he loves himself
Tell those in your life you love them.
The enemy hates close, godly relationships
There are Relationship dividers:
Media
videos
cartoons
news
sitcoms
series/seasons
Screens everywhere
Get the screens out of every room
Isolation takes place when everyone has there own screen watching their own entertainment
2. Technology
a. computers
b. phones - constantly seeing texts, social media messages, videos
The average American spends 7 hours and 4 minutes looking at a screen each day.
Female teens aged 13 to 18 years had an average daily entertainment screen time of eight hours and two minutes in the United States in 2021.
Distracted from communication with those we are supposed to be loving
Children go to school
Parents go to work
Homework
Work
Household chores
Going to church
Serving in our church
how much time do we have for things that rob us of our relationships
16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Family Faith
..according to your faith be it unto you.
Matthew 9:29
The first step in taking back our families from society and building strong families for our Lord is to have faith. The most powerful and influential people on the earth are mothers and fathers of faith. It is up to us, as parents, to nurture our children with the truth and love of the Savior. One way we can do this is to communicate values about our Christian faith.
As parents, we must believe God for our children. In Mark 9 we read the account of the man who brought his demon-possessed son to Jesus for deliverance. Mark 9:23-24 says,
"Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief."
God did not put the burden upon the child to believe; God put the burden upon the parent to believe. That boy needed somebody to have faith in him. He was powerless. I have decided to have faith in my children, will you?
It is our divine job given by God to train a child to follow the course of life that will bring God glory. For instance, not only do we need to communicate our core beliefs about God, we also need to teach practical applications from God's Word about the choices they need to make regarding temptation. Proverbs 22:6 says, "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Are you training your children? Here are some questions to ask yourself:
1. Do I take them to a Bible-believing church?
2. Have I enrolled them in a Sunday school class?
3. Have I met their friends and know how they spend their time?
4. Do I know where they go when they leave our house?
5. Am I living - by precept and example - a life of holiness?
Training is more than teaching. Take some time each week to not only talk to your children about how to overcome the temptations of this world but also train them to be over-comers. If you don't do it, someone - or something - else will.
Do you know who has become one of the most popular educators of our children? Television. It has become the babysitter of convenience for our children. Suppose next door to you; there was a man and a woman who were living together and practicing immoral sex. Would you tell your child, "Mommy and Daddy are busy doing chores and running errands. Here's your stool. Now, get up there and look out the window and watch all of that." The only difference is that television has brought into your living room a veritable grocery list of what the Bible commands us to avoid in Colossians 3:5-7, 1 Peter 4:3, and 1 John 2:16.
How are you training your children to practice wisdom and discernment in their choices when you're not around? One day your children will get married and move from your home. What will they take with them? Will you have planted godly seeds of faith so they will make godly choices that bring glory to God?
When you train children in the important matters of faith, you teach, model, practice, and memorize the skill or lesson so that no matter how rebellious they may want to be, they have the skill, the knowledge, and the character to restrain themselves. Most of all, when they are saved, they have the Holy Spirit to empower them against the temptations of Satan.
Will you believe God for your children? I invite you to come before God right now and commit your family to God.
Bring to Him all the needs that your children have. Bring to Him the burdens you carry about your shortcomings as a parent. Confess your fears and failures. Rejoice in His power to forgive and make all things new. Ask Him to give you the kind of faith you're going to need to raise your children in the way that He would want. Now, believe that God will grant your request that you have asked in faith.
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith; Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:1-2
Objective: To be a family that understands God's Word and seeks to glorify God through prayer, evangelism, the study of God's Word, worship and fellowship with the body of Christ, and ministry with our gifts.
GOAL 1: Learn biblical principles.
Strategies:
1. Take notes during the sermon and discuss as a family.
2. Memorize one scripture verse a week as a family.
3. Read a book by a Christian author on the basic principles of our faith, e.g., creation, salvation, and Jesus' second coming.
GOAL 2: Reach the lost for Jesus Christ.
Strategies:
1. Pray for our neighborhood as a family.
2. Learn how to present the Gospel to a nonbeliever.
3. Invite an unsaved friend over to dinner and show the "Jesus" film.
GOAL 3: Pray and minister to the needs of the local
3 community.
Strategies:
1. Contact a single parent in our church and volunteer to babysit.
2. Contact a homeless shelter in our community and volunteer as a family once a month.
3. Contact our church to get the name of an elderly person who needs assistance.
Say I love you!
Don’t isolate, interact
Psa 37:1 A Psalm of David. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
Psa 37:2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Psa 37:3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Psa 37:4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
Psa 37:5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
Psa 37:6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
Psa 37:7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
Psa 37:8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
Psa 37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
Psa 37:10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shallnot be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
Psa 37:11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.