Ephesians
4:19
"Who
being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to
work all uncleanness with greediness."
I just read in a magazine recently, where a young man somewhere had just
became a multi-millionaire overnight, by putting a pornography
page up on the internet. He is just reaping in the money. Alright,
what about a young man like that, does God love him? Absolutely! Is
this Gospel available to him? Absolutely! But do you think it is
very likely that he will ever see it? No. Just like and possibly for the same reason that those hung up on all the Old Testament prophecies possibly wont either. Or how about those people who are diehard Islamist? We mean, they are all so
blinded, no doubt, by the chains of Satan, and all he has on his
mind is more, more, more power and needless blood shed. All because of the things that greed and religious ideology
precipitates, because it’s driving source is greed, in his case it is ego that drives this stuff.
All
right so in verse 19 they have gone beyond the feeling that would
respond to this Gospel, because they are saturated with this immoral
lifestyle, the immoral thoughts, and what have you, and all they can
think about is working that which is unclean for the sake of
satisfying their greed and religious ideologies. Had a gentlemen tell us several years ago,
that it was his opinion that the human race is motivated almost
entirely by one word. "Greed!" And you know he is
completely correct. Now we love the capitalistic system, we love
this freedom and all that, but you take greed out of it, and how long
would it last? Oh it would die overnight, because it is that
constant push for more and more that keeps it going. Sadly more and more corrupt politicians and failing economies cause extreme hardship across the world because most nations today operate on a negative cash flow (in the red). And that house will one day collapse on itself.
But
that is not what we are talking about. We are talking about those who
are so saturated with the things of the this world especially
the lower element that we are seeing it take over our whole
societies, and greed is the motivating power. It is what drives the
drug culture as it did the alcohol kingpins of the 1920's and it's
related crime culture.
Ephesians
4:20
"But
ye have not so learned Christ;"
Speaking of us as members of the Body. That is not what we have learned
of Christ. We are not in the Body of Christ to promote our greed.
We are not a Christian so we can have health, wealth, prosperity of any kind nor religious ideologies, our
Bible does not teach that. My goodness, look back over the years
of Christian history. How many millions suffered and died for their
faith. They did not have health, wealth and today's prosperity message. Even today all around
the world Christians are under tremendous persecution, we do not
hear much about it. There is an organization up in Bartlesville,
Oklahoma that puts out a monthly magazine, and they report on the
persecution of Christians. It is an unreal amount of persecution
that is going on against Christians right now as we speak today. But this is exactly as the Lord said it would be and more so as the final day draws near.
There are places in almost every continent where we are dying
daily for our faith. These Christians are not in it for greed, or some trumped up religious ideology
but rather we are in it because we love the Word of Truth! We have the ontological essence of Grace, Truth and God's Agape Love restored within us and He is our motivation, our driving force of Love for all.
Ephesians
4:21
"If
so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the
truth is in Jesus:"
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