Brother Gyme Sunday School 5/12/13

Brother Gyme Sunday School 5/12/13

2Ti 3:1  This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

It is not always nice to think about these things but this is the warning side of it.  There is another side, a side of victory and strength.

Psa 84:11  For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Psa 84:12  O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

‘Perilous times’ contains the thought of reducing strength.  The enemy works to get us to give up to the point where we are destroyed.

Heb 12:6  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Chasten is to educate.  We want to be educated. 

For a person of every age the difference is that the young may start with more energy but when each reaches zero energy then it is zero for everyone.  Age affects the recovery time.  Food equals fuel and it is important that we get good fuel in our body for our emotional man, our mental man and also our spiritual man. 

We never want to reach zero spiritually.  The only difference between the natural man and the spiritual man is that we never have to reach zero spiritually.  We need to be refreshed.  We get refreshed by having devotions and being in the house of God.

Processed foods, high fructose corn syrup and hydrogenised oils are what you should not eat, you should spit them out.  These foods weaken the arteries and where ever a weak spot is the body tries to heal it by adding layers.  They can actually take the temperature of the inside of the artery and where it has been injured, it has a fever.  It is damaged. 

HDL and LDL are two kinds of fat.  The hard fat will clean out the soft fats, like butter, that will build up.  It is pretty hard to go backwards on some of the buildup but it is important that we eat right.  Good foods do good things. 

When I eat right then I do better spiritually and everything in my life is better.  We try to separate the spiritual man and the physical man and I don’t think that you can do that.  Being chastised is also for our physical help.

The perilous times affect us in many ways.  Even in the food that we eat.  When I have rested and have taken care of myself then I am even much better with my children. 

How are we doing with our food spiritually?  Are we eating pure food?  It is always about the principle.  The principle of what we are teaching is always right and always produces the same thing.  The Bible teaches what is right for raising every child.

Eating good is a right principle.  I am convinced of that.  We are to take care of the temple which is our body.  We need to do everything in our power to take care of the physical man so we can be what we should spiritually.

The drug companies want to sell you statin to lower your cholesterol.  Yet cholesterol is important to the vital processes in your body.  You take a drug to reduce the cholesterol and it causes your level to look great but all the vital processes in your body are not working right. 

We need to take care of ourselves.  Drugs are not the answer.

Start now taking care of your body and start now taking care of your spiritual man.  I wish I had started younger.  Start now.  Part of our job is to teach the next generation.  Hopefully they don’t have to reinvent the wheel. 

Processed foods are convenient.  So is a short devotional.  It takes time to have good devotions and to get something from your devotions. 

If you go somewhere and someone made a nice cake then you should enjoy it.  There is no manual for every child.  No one can tell you how to be healthy.  It is not for me to tell you.  What I cannot eat, maybe you can.  Food equals fuel and like a good engine what you put in your body affects the performance.

2Ti 3:1  This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

This is not in the future; it is our day.  Perilous means furious, fierce… 

Mat 11:12  And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

We will be pressed and we must press back.  We need strength to press back.

2Ti 3:2  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

There are too many examples of those that are selfish.  Everything is all about them.  We need to make sure that it is not all about us all the time.  When we give into self it multiplies, fond of self, lovers of their own selves.

Covetous means fond of money, fond of things.  These things are weakening to us.  They will weaken us spiritually.  It is not wrong to have money, a savings account, or a retirement plan.  We must have the right balance. 

Make sure you don’t just live for things and for the moment.  There are a lot of ways to be covetous.

Braggers and boasters:

Jas 4:1  From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

Jas 4:2  Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

Jas 4:3  Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

Jas 4:4  Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Jas 4:5  Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

Jas 4:6  But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

Jas 4:7  Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Jas 4:8  Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

Jas 4:9  Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

Jas 4:10  Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

Jas 4:11  Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Jas 4:12  There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

Jas 4:13  Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

Jas 4:14  Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Jas 4:15  For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

Jas 4:16  But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

Jas 4:17  Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

Boasting and bragging is evil.  We need to be aligned with what God wants us to do. 

Psa 10:3  For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

Proud – that thing that would want to appear above others.  Haughty, proud, that is an ugly thing. 

Excelling and being proud are two separate things.  Being bad at something does not mean that you are not proud.  You can be your best.

My wife is a very hard worker.  She was working hard on a correspondence class and had an A.  I asked her why are you so stressed?  She said, “I have always done my best my whole life why should I change now?”  Some people don’t like it when you excel but that doesn’t mean that you are proud.

God resists the proud.  That helps us to divide from doing our best or being proud if we feel a resistance from God then he is chastising us and saying, “No don’t be proud.”

Being proud means that we don’t submit ourselves to God and His Word.  If He shows us something and we resist then we are proud.

Pro 6:16  These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

Pro 6:17  A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Pro 6:18  An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

Pro 6:19  A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Blasphemers:  those that would talk against God.  Those that resist. 

Disobedient:  stubborn or willfully disobedient.

Unthankful and thankless:  It is excellent to be thankful.  Being thankful is a source of strength.   Unthankfulness is strength reducing.  When things don’t go how we want, we still have a lot to be thankful for.

Unholy:  wicked.  There is a lot of wickedness around us these days.  My children want to know if it is ok to be friends with this one or that and I instruct them that as long as you are the influencer and not the influencee.  If you are the one being influenced by them then it is probably not a profitable friendship.

Lovers of their own selves:  Adam Clark on 2 Timothy 3:

Lovers of their own selves - Φιλαυτοι· Selfish, studious of their own interest, and regardless of the welfare of all mankind.

Covetous - Φιλαργυροι· Lovers of money, because of the influence which riches can procure.

Boasters - Αλαζονες· Vain glorious: self-assuming; valuing themselves beyond all others.

Proud - Ὑπερηφανοι· Airy, light, trifling persons; those who love to make a show - who are all outside; from ὑπερ, above, and φαινω, to show.

Blasphemers - Βλασφημοι· Those who speak impiously of God and sacred things, and injuriously of men.

Disobedient to parents - Γονευσιν απειθεις· Headstrong children, whom their parents cannot persuade.

Unthankful - Αχαριστοι· Persons without grace, or gracefulness; who think they have a right to the services of all men, yet feel no obligation, and consequently no gratitude.

Unholy - Ανοσιοι· Without piety; having no heart reverence for God.

All of this is self.