Quote from the audio series, The Fullness of the Cross. I think - TopicsExpress

Quote from the audio series, The Fullness of the Cross. I think the Lord wants me to turn you for a moment to Luke 17. Sometimes I feel like I’ve taken on a mountain when I begin to speak about materialism. Luke 17, beginning at verse 26. Jesus is speaking about what it’ll be like at the close of this age. “And as it was in the day of Noah, so it shall be also in the day of the Son of man. They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them. [Right in the middle of all those activities.] Likewise it was also in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and it destroyed them all. [Notice right in the middle of all those activities. There was no gap, no interval, no transition. Then Jesus says:] Even so will it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.” Now if you look at the things that Jesus speaks about: eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, building, planting, buying and selling; none of those things is sinful. All of them are perfectly legitimate. What’s the problem? Being immersed in them. Being ensnared in them. Not being able to see beyond them. Living as if they were the only things that are real. Who can deliver us from that? Only the Spirit of God.