QT 5/13/2024 1 Tim 6:3-5, Modern culture is not improving life

1 Timothy 6:3–5 (ESV) — 3 If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, 4 he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, 5 and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.

 

NOTE: To disagree with the sound words of Jesus is an incredible level of conceit, since the person would be placing themselves up against God. Why? Clearly the impact would be to cause arguing and dissension. To disagree with the plain sense of scripture is a level of apostasy rarely seen on a grand scale. I do see people who don't like something Paul wrote or who try to reinterpret something Jesus said. Some try to make the bible fit with today's cultures and mores in regard to marriage, sexual activity, gender roles, and gender definition. The issue is ignorance of who created us and an unwillingness to believe that the creator knows what is best for us to experience the blessing of life to the fullest.

 

We do have an enemy. There is a demonic realm. And it has done an incredible job in these last days to question everything that God has said without any real evidence. And as a scientist myself, I do mean that sincerely. The so-called studies regarding culture are often reported when the results fit the narrative but follow-on studies that fail to support the narrative are ignored. Theories fitting the cultural narrative are called settled-science, a term that is not scientific, but a made-up phrase to make something sound rational. A good scientist is always questioning and is always reevaluating the data. Our world is falling apart culturally in many ways. The anger and strife only increases. Yet no one questions the narrative that got us to where we are today.

 

PONDER:

1. Who is right, God or man?
2. If a person believes that man is right and God is wrong, it is because there is no belief in God. What is my belief?

 

PRAYER: Father, the end days will be a terrifying ordeal to those who have bought Satan's lies. I pray for families before they are ruined by following this toxic culture to turn to you and be rescued before it is too late.