Trucebrakers
Preparing For Perilous Times • Sermon • Submitted
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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.
Trucebreakers = Covenant breakers
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Marriages suffer from the spirit of our culture
Marriage vows are broken for anything - that is covenant breaking
Marriage is difficult because it is work
Divorce is not the easiest solution many times
I understand marriage is difficult
My family was touched by divorce
Irreconcilable differences = Difference can be reconciled when there is humility and a desire to follow the Lord when changes need to be made
The complaints about a current position in a marriage many times is incompatibility
We’re incompatible - You were born incompatible
The only person that can make a marriage compatible is The Lord Jesus
I know one person can walk away and destroy a marriage - But there is a
It is natural for a man to love his wife
Love is a choice we make every
It is natural for a mother to love her children
It is natural for a child to love parents
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.
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.
Give your heart to your family !
When we are selfish it ruins our family
When we are selfish it ruins our church
When people are selfish it hurts every relationship
23 times in proverbs “My Son”
Pro 7:1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
Pro 19:27 Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
Pro 23:15 My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
Pro 23:19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
Pro 23:26 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
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 we pray for our family we are giving our heart to them
We give our heart to our family and we ask them to give us their heart
We shouldn’t be bartering with our family
If you will … then I will …
3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
In the beginning
9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
I am here to help save the commitments, the vows that have been made
1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
A vow for life
In the beginning
The covenant is not a contract it is a vow before God
The no fault divorce of 1970 was a significant legal reform that made it possible for couples to obtain a divorce without having to prove that one party was at fault for the breakdown of the marriage. Prior to this reform, in order to get a divorce, one spouse had to prove that the other was at fault, such as for adultery, abandonment, or cruelty.
The no fault divorce law... allowed couples to get a divorce simply by stating that the marriage was irretrievably broken and that there was no hope for reconciliation.
This made the divorce process less adversarial and reduced the need for couples to air their personal problems in a public forum, such as a courtroom.
The no fault divorce law was first introduced in California and quickly spread to other states. It was a major change in how divorce was handled in the United States and has had a significant impact on family law and the culture surrounding divorce.
The divorce statistics before and after the no fault divorce law of 1970 in the United States showed a significant increase in the number of divorces after the law was passed.
Before 1970, the divorce rate in the US was relatively low, with an average of around 2.5 divorces per 1,000 people per year. In the decade after the no fault divorce law was passed, the divorce rate increased dramatically, with the rate peaking at over 5 divorces per 1,000 people in the early 1980s.
The current divorce rate in the United States is 3.2 per 1,000 population according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The no fault divorce law did make it easier and less contentious for couples to obtain a divorce, which likely contributed to the overall increase in divorce rates.
Since then the lack of reverence and respect has brought a significant increase in the attack on the home.
Roe v. Wade is a Supreme Court decision from 1973 that legalized abortion in the United States. The decision as an attack on the home and a violation of the Constitution.
Unnatural affection leads to Trucebreakers
Marriage has become more about self gratification than God’s glorification
Marriage has become more about pleasure than producing the next generation to follow the Lord ; having loving and lasting relationships
Marriage is a battle
Rather than fighting each other we should learn to fight for each other
So much pain
lovers of their own selves
So much hurt
without natural affection
So much brokenness
trucebreakers
The laws that we look at a Christians and wonder how our country could govern so horribly:
Driven by the money
There were approximately 746,971 divorces in the United States in 2019.
More than 50 million children have watched their parents divorce since 1970...
Those children who have experienced divorce are 2 to 3 times more likely to suffer from social or psychological issues than their peers.
Their are real consequences in culture and mental health:
It’s estimated there would be 70,000 fewer suicide attempts yearly if we could return to the pre 1970 divorce rates.
Children are 89% more likely to divorce if their parents divorce.
God uses His Word to give healing wisdom and restoration to your marriage.
Any marriage can be healed
God’s word teaches that if a woman loves and lives the word there will be lasting changes in the marriage
Time, work, study
16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Prayer gives us access to mercy
Ability to find grace
2. Love with all your heart and continue to forgive your spouse’s trespasses.
Having done all stand
3. Ask God to show you all your weaknesses and then repent and seek forgiveness in your marriage.
The next step is to cleave. When a couple makes a holy commitment before God to remain faithful, there are no problems too big to solve, just people too small to solve them. Unfortunately, it's getting easier in our laws today to leave and cleave ... then leave and cleave with someone else!
I tell young couples that they must first leave the nest before they can cleave to another person. And I charge them that if they have left and cleft, there is no turning back again. There are no loopholes in a holy vow.
The last step is to become one. The husband and wife are to become one flesh. When you get married, you marry a whole person - body, soul, and spirit. God's arithmetic is one plus one equals one. Marriage is a romance in which both the hero and the heroine die in the first chapter.
Husbands and wives are to be one flesh physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Not only should we be sweet-hearts, but we also ought to be friends. Our spouse is to be our completer, not our competitor. Like a bow and a violin, each is inadequate alone; but when brought together, they make beautiful music.
But, what if you've failed? What if you've experienced a broken home? You cannot unscramble eggs. What's done is done. But, let me assure you, divorce is not an unpardonable sin. It is not a dead-end street. If you're divorced, you're not a second-class citizen. There's something called the grace of God. If you're in Christ Jesus, you're a new creature.
Many, many godly people have come out of broken homes filled with heartaches and tears and gone on to enjoy lives full of hope and healing.
God-like love is a commitment to remain faithful until the Lord calls one of you home. There is a commitment to loving that is different than just "being in love." I pray that you will know and practice that kind of commitment with your spouse. Love is an action, "being in love" is a feeling.
I pray that your marriage is running on the engine of God's love. Make certain that Christ is the head of your home. If your marriage is not a Christian marriage, give your hearts to Jesus Christ because the devil is working against you. If you're married and both of you have made Jesus your Lord, continue to feed your love day by day and don't take it for granted. Your godly home is the most remarkable testimony that you'll have in this world.
If you're divorced, ask God for forgiveness if it was your fault. If you were divorced because of someone else's wrongdoing, forgive that person in your heart and don't let bitterness carry you away. If you're unmarried, I implore you not to be unequally yoked but to marry another believer and build a Christian home.
Ecclesiastes 4:12 says, "And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly bro-ken." A marriage with Christ as the center cannot be broken. Stand faithful to His call of a holy union in your marriage. I want your home to be the sweetest place on earth, the nearest place to heaven. The family is the only part of the Garden of Eden that we have left. God bless you as you endeavor to raise your family for the glory of our Lord.