(The Ability To See The Actual Condition And Status Of The World)
We are living in a world of people who are governed by many things other than God’s Word, The Holy Bible. Many of the other things that are in vogue for the “normal” activities of the world are based on such things as: finances, popularity, political power, social acceptance, wealth, and on and on; whereas God’s Holy Word states that everything belongs to God, and that people are merely stewards.
Jesus (Alone; The Only Begotten Son Of God) has defeated death and the grave and has fulfilled the first portion of all that was required by His Father to The Father’s satisfaction, so that whosoever believes in Jesus The Christ His Son, has been granted eternal-life, which is a proper relationship with God His Father.
As we have been studying about the doctrine of “Progressive Sanctification”, we have come today to this message which is about developing a tenacity about what God HAS said as a means of protection from what things God has sent His Son Jesus Christ to secure and provide for to all believers, which is “Sanctified Spiritual Acuity” (The ability to see the actual condition and status of the world)
Old Testament Scripture Reading: Psalms 119:97 – 104 (KJV)
Psa 119:97 MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
Psa 119:98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
Psa 119:99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
Psa 119:100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
Psa 119:101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.
Psa 119:102 I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.
Psa 119:103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Psa 119:104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
New Testament Scripture Reading: 2 Thessalonians 2:1 – 12 (KJV)
2Th 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2Th 2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2Th 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
2Th 2:5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
2Th 2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
2Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
2Th 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
2Th 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
