Chapter 5, Part 3

“For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure
through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who
have actually escaped from those who live in error.”
2 Peter 2:18

Many men are like wolves in sheep’s clothing. They approach with words of endearment that have no meaning. They are empty promises designed to destroy and not to encourage. They play on the desire to be wanted by all humans. They attack a woman’s vanity and use it against her. They deliberately mislead and connive the unsuspecting women into a false sense of security and hope. Only to pull the curtain down when they have achieved their goals. They use any and every method at their disposal to overcome the obstacles to their desired end. That end of course being their own selfish pleasure. The Bible says those being attacked are newly removed from sinful pasts. The same women who are being misled are the same sisters standing up in church during the altar calls professing the lordship of Christ Jesus. That lordship should begin to be realized in a person’s life, in how we live. How long do you think the shepherd will allow His sheep to be treated this way? Remember they are still technically under authority, many men are not. Eventually, the good and faithful shepherd will come to the aid of His fallen sheep. Woe to those wolves who are found to have been misleading His flock.

Many brothers have gravely erred in their conduct and thoughts. They have mistaken God’s patience for indifference, His kindness for weakness. Do not be fooled, God at His appointed time will unleash His wrath upon those who are disobedient. We must discontinue this utter lack of respect for God and His Word. We should repent as a people beginning with us, the men. We cannot continue to deny the authority of God and bring accusations against Him. This false pride must cease. This attitude of being bulletproof, it may work on the streets, but it does not carry with God. How much longer will we continue not to see the futility of our actions? Our lives are continuing to get worse. Our children and our family’s lives are getting worse. There is still time to step back from the abyss. We are on the path to destruction. All we like sheep have gone astray.[1]

“and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of
uncleanness and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed.
They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries,
whereas angels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a
reviling accusation against them before the LORD.
but these like natural brute beasts made to be caught and
destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will
utterly perish in their own corruption,
and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who
count pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and
blemishes, carousing in their deceptions while they feast with you.
having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin,
enticing unstable souls and are accursed children.”
2 Peter 2:10-14

It is amazing to me how this was written two thousand years ago and yet it captures what is happening in our communities. We have turned fleshly pleasure and desire into a god that we are sacrificing our souls to. However, we are not just sacrificing our souls, but the children’s souls as well. Our hearts are “trained” in sinfulness, not in righteousness. Our only faith is in ourselves and whatever paltry pleasure we can derive at the expense of others. The problem with sexual sin is that it keeps taking more and more to get us excited. The more women we are with the more women we lust after. We have debased our women and perverted ourselves.

The future for us in this condition is not a pleasant one to look forward to. Our communities will continue to deteriorate. Our children will continue to be cut down by each other or the police. There will be a growing chasm of dissension between us as a people. There will be no unity amongst us. We as a people will continue to be disrespected and scorned. New plagues of drugs and crimes will come upon us. Parents will stop caring for their children. Our hearts will begin to wax cold towards one another. Children will lose their love and respect for their parents. Our best and brightest young people will fall prey to destruction. Fornication and sinfulness will rule our lives and our hearts. Unless the Lord was to have mercy, it would be our destruction. The Lord will keep a remnant for himself, a humble and faithful people who will love and obey Him.

These things are to wake us up to our deliberate sinfulness before God, to cause us to repent and forsake this terrible sin. How can we not see the damage this epidemic has and is causing to our people? It all begins with the men, there has to be a revival, as we have never seen. As a people, our biggest enemy is our attitude towards fornication and sexual sin. It cannot be ignored any longer. We as a people need to take action or it will destroy us. The time is at hand for every man to seek God while He may be found.[2] God has shown us the problem, are we willing to do the solution? Are we even willing to acknowledge that there is a problem? For our sakes, I hope so. In order to begin to solve a problem, we must acknowledge there is a problem.

“But if anyone does not provide for his own, and
especially for those of his household, he has
denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”
I Timothy 5:18

How can we as “so called” men make babies and not be responsible for them. No other creature on the face of the earth does that. How can you not provide for what is yours? These are not some orphans in a far off country; these children are our flesh and blood. How can you enjoy anything knowing that you have children suffering somewhere? Fornication is one of the most selfish and self-centered of all sins. All that matters is my gratification, my pleasure. It is interesting that when women get a man who has children from a previous relationship that he is not supporting, they have children by this same man. News flash, if a man has deserted his children from a previous relationship, he is going to desert the ones he has with you! These women will not only have children from this man, but will also defend this man against the women he has already deserted. Of course, in the end they find out what the other woman already knew and tried to tell her. This is not about “hating” on other men, it is about loving my people and especially those broken children already here and those yet to come. What self respecting man will not take care of defenseless children or will steal from his flesh and blood? A man is supposed to support and leave an inheritance to his children. We pretend they do not exist and then wonder why they are angry and in pain. We leave them to grow up thinking that their father does not love them. The pain of this is devastating to a child. Men it must and will stop one way or the other.

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[1] Isaiah 53:6

[2] Isaiah 55:6