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Gospel Baptist Tabernacle781 Salem Road, Rossville, GA 30741

Where the Love of God abounds, everyone is

welcome.

Children’s Church taught by Paul and Marsha

Davis during preaching.

www.rossvillechurch.com

July 8, 2015

Pastor’s phone706-820-9513

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In 2 Peter 2 we are discussing folks who have stubbornly gone their own way.

They ignore many warnings and walk right on into trouble, leading others.

2 Peter 2 14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

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2 Peter 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; 16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

…thinking only of adultery when they see women.

The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures by Dallas

Seminary Faculty.

They love money and stuff.

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So many can’t think of women as sisters or men as brothers.

It’s all about sexuality in their carnal minds.

This ought not so to be.

1 Peter 1 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the Truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

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1 Peter 3 8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

Others can’t think of working except in terms of money, greed, or financial success.

Even the work we do at church.

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Galatians 5 13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

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God showed Balaam’s donkey the angel with the sword, standing ready to

kill him.

Balaam wouldn’t open his eyes and look.

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17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of dark-ness is reserved forever. 18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

Wells without water are people claiming the Name of Jesus, yet without the Holy Spirit.

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19 While they promise them liberty (from rules, etc), they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

We can be delivered, but so many love sin.

They won’t believe that the wages of sin is death.

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False teachers offer liberty from righteousness, while

ignoring the bondage of sin.

The weak grab onto such false teaching, because it fits with their own desires.

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21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the Holy Command-ment delivered unto them. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

Deliverance from sin is God’s good gift to us.

When we go back to it, we hurt ourselves.

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So many people hear the Truth and understand, but

choose to walk in the momentary pleasures of sin.