{"id":6606,"date":"2018-12-06T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=6606"},"modified":"2018-12-06T07:48:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T14:48:29","slug":"last-days-are-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/last-days-are-here\/","title":{"rendered":"LAST DAYS ARE HERE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2 Timothy 3:1-2a<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy<\/em><em>.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have taken the liberty of listing only 7 despicable characteristics of people living in the last days. There are actually 17 listed by Paul. It is a depressing view of humanity, but sadly descriptive of our present world. That tells me that we are living in the last days.<\/p>\n<p>It grieves me that there are so many professed believers in the Lord Jesus Christ who\u00a0<strong>tell<\/strong>\u00a0more than\u00a0<strong>show\u00a0<\/strong>the way we are to live out our Christian faith.\u00a0 SORRY!\u00a0 I hate to upset the apple cart of these people, but we are first of all to\u00a0<strong>Show<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; then\u00a0<strong>Tell<\/strong>.\u00a0 We\u00a0<strong>hear<\/strong>\u00a0all too much and\u00a0<strong>see<\/strong>\u00a0so very little.<\/p>\n<p>Listen!\u00a0 If someone talks about being godly, yet violates the biblical pattern of godliness, do not consider that person a role model. In fact, they are negative role models and should be avoided.<\/p>\n<p>In exploring the meaning of godliness, it is possible to know about God and even possess some knowledge of God\u2019s Word and yet fail to put it into practice. Be cautious of such people. Look beyond what they say &#8212; observe how they behave.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings dear hearts! May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Timothy 3:1-2a \u201cBut know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:\u00a0For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy.\u201d I have taken the liberty of listing only 7 despicable characteristics of people living in the last days. There are actually 17 listed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-timothy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}