Hard Sayings. “For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience [in suffering in Him] and comfort of the scriptures might have hope” of redemption. — Romans 15:4
John 15
18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also. 21 But all this they will do to you on my account, because they do not know him who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
Self Will, Anesthetizing Illicit Drugs, Rebellious, Disrespecting, Treacherous
See Sirach 3 on Children’s debts to Parents
Timothy 3:1-5. “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal,not lovers of the good,
4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.
Matthew 10:21-23
21 Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death; 22 and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved. 23 When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next; for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all, before the Son of man comes.
Be it near or still a ways off.…
The coming of the “Son of Perdition, the Man. of Sin”
