“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” (2 Tim. 3:1-4).
Verse 4 states that there will be people who are “lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.”
Does it mean if we love God, we will NOT enjoy pleasure?
Do we have to choose between God and pleasure? If we choose God, we’ll have NO pleasure? And if we have pleasure, we’ll have “no God”?
Of course, it does NOT mean that way! There is SUPREME and EVERLASTING pleasure in God.
Note what the Psalmist declared, “You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with ETERNAL PLEASURES at your right hand” (Ps. 16:11).
What is NOT promoted in 2 Timothy 3:4 are those who “enjoy the pleasures of sin” as we read in Hebrews 11:25 – not only it is “of sin,” but is also “for a short time.”
God wants His children to enjoy pleasure. And He wants them to enjoy it forevermore.
We can now start to enjoy it.
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Note what the Psalmist declared, “You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with ETERNAL PLEASURES at your right hand” (Ps. 16:11).
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Yun po ang sinabi ng psalmist. he has been filled with joy. siya po ang nagsabi nun sa kanyang sariling karanasan. siya po ay hari. masasabi po ba natin na yung ibinigay sa kanya na kinakanta niya ay ibinigay din sa atin? papaano po natin yun masasabi ay hindi naman tayo hari?
Kayo po, ano po bang karanasan maari ninyong ibahagi sa amin?
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