Difficult Times Will Come

   “But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.  For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.”  (2 Timothy 3:1-4 NASB).

   These truly are difficult times.  Our Christian beliefs, upon which this nation was founded, are being threatened and done away with in every sector of our society.  The onslaught of ungodliness and godlessness is unrelenting.

   What should be the Church’s response to this attack upon our values and our very way of life?  The answer is the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

   However, the Gospel of much of today’s Church is not the same Gospel Jesus preached.  “From that time Jesus began to preach and say, ‘Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.’” (Matthew 4:17 NASB).    “And Jesus was going about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people.”  (Matthew 4:23-24 NASB).

   Jesus, the second Adam, came to take away our sins.  In so doing, He also ca ...