“In the last days… people will… hav[e] a form of godliness but deny… its power” (2 Tim. 3:1,2,5).
Last week we talked about how it became necessary for Hezekiah to destroy the bronze snake Moses had made. In Moses’ time, that snake had been commissioned as an answer to his prayers for the Israelites. It was God’s chosen means of releasing His healing power into their bodies. However, generations later, it had become a stumbling block. It had become the object of their focus instead of God Himself.
That which held the shape of a past move of God no longer transmitted His virtue. It was empty of His blessing. It had become form without power.
We humans have had the tendency to fall into the same sorts of patterns over the generations, up to this day. For this reason, in His great love for us, Holy Spirit has issued us a warning about what to carefully avoid in these last days. We find this important exhortation in 2 Timothy 3, where we come to His striking words cautioning us against: “having a form of godliness but denying its power.”
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