As The Days Of Noah

From the Pastor:  Dr. M. J. Seymour, Sr.

 

Jesus said: “But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.”  (Matt. 24:37)   “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.  And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” (Gen. 6:5-6) 

God has said: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.” (Is. 55:8)  Every man is right in his own eyes, but through the eyes of God there is a totally different perspective of the moral and spiritual character of man.  Jesus so graciously gave us some insight as to the make-up of man’s quality in the last days.  This was to fortify our enduring patience in the last days; it was for our preparations and calmness of spirit.  The saints must not fall victim to the evil purposes of man.  We must see through the eyes of the Spirit and discern the difference between the holy mind of God and the brute beast mentality of reprobated men.

These windows of man’s perverted spiritualities given to us in the Scriptures are to help us to comprehend the insane motivations and actions of the world around us.  Mankind will become increasingly more depraved and the reality of it must not paralyze the believers into a state of despair.  “Ye shall be my witnesses!” 

Even I can understand how the Lord did and does regret that He made man.  The animal world has far more scruples than humans.  Humans are enormously viler, more perverted, and more self and environmentally destructive than any other creature that is upon the face of the earth.  Adam’s sin plunged the morals and the intentions of man to the depths of the sewage pot.  By nature he is corrupt. 

Yet, when the fountains of mercy and grace gush from the bosom of the Creator, when the blood of the Christ cleanses, and when birth out of the Spirit gives sacred life, the new creature within abandons the old man as a butterfly his cocoon!  Praise be to God!