Jud 1:10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
Jud 1:11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
Jud 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Jud 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Speaking evil
Brute beasts
Corrupting themselves
The way of Cain
Ran greedily after the error of Balaam
Perished in the gainsaying of Core
Feeding without fear
Clouds without water
Carried by the wind
Trees with withered fruit, without fruit, dead, plucked up by the roots
Raging waves foaming shame
Wandering stars reserved for the blackness of darkness forever
Evil.
Look around you.
Look around you, don't hide yourself in a protective bubble refusing to see the evil that truly exists.
I'm like a lot of people, I don't like reading or hearing about all the nasty, horrible things going on in the world. Why would I like it? Why would anyone like it? Yet it does exist and our news people today have no problem whatsoever with exploiting every bit of evil they can as often as they can making it very easy for those who want to see just what state our world is in. Some would say, and they'd be right, that what is revealed in the media is only the tip of the huge iceberg of evil that truly exists.
People we'd never suspect are living in evil and when a few of them are caught we are shocked- yes, even today we can be shocked. You wouldn't expect your cousin, your uncle, your mother, your neighbor, your mailman, your grocery cashier, your bank teller, etc of sick, evil, depraved beyond our comprehension. Yet every single person we do read/hear about is the relative of someone, is the person who is known by another and loved by people.
Evil.
We cannot forget the evil exists as much as we'd love to.
We have to continue to watch- to know what is happening in our world. If we find ourselves becoming desensitized by what we hear and read, we need to pray and pray hard. If we allow our horror, our heartache to die away then we become accepting of it all and lose our compassion. We must have compassion without compassion we've lost the ability to love others as our God would have us love them. Without compassion we are most likely among those who can turn their heads away from those in need, and as soon as we turn away from those in need our heart is in the process of hardening and when that happens we cannot claim the love of God as ours. God doesn't want us to harden our hearts! God doesn't want us to stop crying and feeling the pain and heartache of the results of all the evil around us. We have to watch, we have to know, we have to comprehend that evil exists beyond anything we want to imagine and know that Satan is the cause, Satan is the reason, and Satan will be destroyed, completely and utterly destroyed and all His evil will be destroyed with him.
Do we want to be among those who are destroyed? Most will be. But we don't have to be. We are given a choice and depending upon our choice we will have eternal life or eternal death.
Jesus said this when praying to His Father, our Father in Heaven-
Joh 17:15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
Keep us from EVIL heavenly Father! Keep us from EVIL!
And this…
Deliver us from EVIL!
Mat 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Keep us from EVIL.
Deliver us from EVIL.
Why say this? Why ask for this? Why would our SAVIOR ask our Heavenly FATHER to keep us from evil if it weren't something that would be everywhere and easy for us to succumb to?
Evil is everywhere and we are fools that want to remain blind to the truth if we don't realize that fact.
We need to pray to be delivered from evil.
We need to be kept from evil.
Please LORD, only by YOUR grace, only through YOUR power may we be kept from the evil that surrounds us, that constantly confronts us, that would drag us down and keep us from You. Please SAVE US!
Jud 1:11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
Jud 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Jud 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Speaking evil
Brute beasts
Corrupting themselves
The way of Cain
Ran greedily after the error of Balaam
Perished in the gainsaying of Core
Feeding without fear
Clouds without water
Carried by the wind
Trees with withered fruit, without fruit, dead, plucked up by the roots
Raging waves foaming shame
Wandering stars reserved for the blackness of darkness forever
Evil.
Look around you.
Look around you, don't hide yourself in a protective bubble refusing to see the evil that truly exists.
I'm like a lot of people, I don't like reading or hearing about all the nasty, horrible things going on in the world. Why would I like it? Why would anyone like it? Yet it does exist and our news people today have no problem whatsoever with exploiting every bit of evil they can as often as they can making it very easy for those who want to see just what state our world is in. Some would say, and they'd be right, that what is revealed in the media is only the tip of the huge iceberg of evil that truly exists.
People we'd never suspect are living in evil and when a few of them are caught we are shocked- yes, even today we can be shocked. You wouldn't expect your cousin, your uncle, your mother, your neighbor, your mailman, your grocery cashier, your bank teller, etc of sick, evil, depraved beyond our comprehension. Yet every single person we do read/hear about is the relative of someone, is the person who is known by another and loved by people.
Evil.
We cannot forget the evil exists as much as we'd love to.
We have to continue to watch- to know what is happening in our world. If we find ourselves becoming desensitized by what we hear and read, we need to pray and pray hard. If we allow our horror, our heartache to die away then we become accepting of it all and lose our compassion. We must have compassion without compassion we've lost the ability to love others as our God would have us love them. Without compassion we are most likely among those who can turn their heads away from those in need, and as soon as we turn away from those in need our heart is in the process of hardening and when that happens we cannot claim the love of God as ours. God doesn't want us to harden our hearts! God doesn't want us to stop crying and feeling the pain and heartache of the results of all the evil around us. We have to watch, we have to know, we have to comprehend that evil exists beyond anything we want to imagine and know that Satan is the cause, Satan is the reason, and Satan will be destroyed, completely and utterly destroyed and all His evil will be destroyed with him.
Do we want to be among those who are destroyed? Most will be. But we don't have to be. We are given a choice and depending upon our choice we will have eternal life or eternal death.
Jesus said this when praying to His Father, our Father in Heaven-
Joh 17:15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
Keep us from EVIL heavenly Father! Keep us from EVIL!
And this…
Deliver us from EVIL!
Mat 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Keep us from EVIL.
Deliver us from EVIL.
Why say this? Why ask for this? Why would our SAVIOR ask our Heavenly FATHER to keep us from evil if it weren't something that would be everywhere and easy for us to succumb to?
Evil is everywhere and we are fools that want to remain blind to the truth if we don't realize that fact.
We need to pray to be delivered from evil.
We need to be kept from evil.
Please LORD, only by YOUR grace, only through YOUR power may we be kept from the evil that surrounds us, that constantly confronts us, that would drag us down and keep us from You. Please SAVE US!
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