By James T. Smith
2 Timothy 3 (NIV),
“But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people. They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.”
Jesus Christ came to this earth, born as a human, but being completely divine, God in flesh, the Word of God. Jesus Christ was the last Word of God to mankind, Jesus Christ lived a perfect life before God and mankind, taught what the law of God required for every person to live out. Jesus Christ said every person must be born again by the Spirit of God in order to do this, because mankind is born with a sin nature, and there is no way w ...
