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Now verse 5 says, “For [although people] hold a form of piety (true religion), they deny and reject and are strangers to the power of it [their conduct belies the genuineness of their profession]. Avoid [all] such people [turn away from them].” Those people you need to turn away from. They’re not your friends.

There’s coming a war, and it’s not with North Korea. In this process, though, there is something happening that’s far more alarming than that. There are those who are going to be hostile to and oppose the Truth. We’re going to see something shift here, and we already are. “They have depraved and distorted minds and are reprobate and counterfeit, to be rejected as far as faith is concerned.”

This perilous times situation is so current to our day, it’s hard to believe it was written 2,000 years ago. Last week, we spoke about the soul, and the need for our souls to be converted. We used the story of Daniel to help explain. The soul is your mind, your will, and your emotions. It’s the Greek word “psuche.” Oftentimes, Christians get born again – that means their spirit comes alive – but their soul is still cracked. Their soul leaks out, and they’re never able to live Christianity to its fullest extent because they have a broken soul.

I talked about that, and we talked about Daniel and his mates that were with him in Babylon. Babylon means “to confuse, disintegrate, fragment, and disunite.” Babylon is still happening today. The culture today is driven by a Babylonian drive, and there’s a language in Babylon that Daniel had to learn. He had to learn how to speak to the culture so he could, like Billy Graham said, get a hold of the right timing and the gear of the right set of time that he was put there. While his anchor was in the Lord, he had to get in sync with the culture.

 

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