Dangerous Times
Copied from the sermon notes of Pastor Don Elmore
July 5, 2015
Scripture Reading: 2 Timothy 3:1-5
Today's reading, what a great description for today’s world! I am interrupting my series on “The Thorns in Your Sides” because there is so much occurring in today’s world that is evil that I thought that I needed to bring a sermon on what is happening. Every new invention has a good and evil aspect to it. We are fast approaching the time where there would be “much learning” but it doesn’t produce the scholars that would reveal the truth of the Bible.
There are a multitude of verses which tell us of God’s love for a certain people that has been forgotten or relegated to the Old Testament, which, they say, is about another people. Let’s look at just one such scripture:
Deuteronomy 10:14-15: “Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens belong to the LORD thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is. Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.”
These two verses were spoken to the Israel people; not the Jews or Canaanites, for they are not the same people. The Jews were not there to hear this when it was spoken by Moses. God told them (the Israelites) that He delighted in their fathers (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob/Israel) to love them, and that he chose (or elected) their seed after them which is you, which are above all people.