4.7- P.O.J. As we live through times of great evil and wickedness there is a tendency for the love of most people to grow cold.

 4.7-

P.O.J.

As we live through times of great evil and wickedness there is a tendency for the love of most people to grow cold.

I hope that I am still a young at heart age 75 but I have noticed that we can think things are trustworthy and reliable that are not actually.

P.O.J.

In about 1970, a needed a jobcar. I found one that was peculiar and odd. A 1960 Yellow Ford Woody Wagon.

I thought of it as Peculiar Odd Jobcar P.O.J. that ran well.

When I spoke to the salesman he told me that the low price on it meant that “It wouldn’t last long” because a dealer was coming over to Beaumont, Texas to buy it for his own car lot on Monday. (We were speaking on a Saturday.)

I called back on Wednesday and surprise, surprise it was still there.

I bought it. I kept it only a couple of months. It didn’t measure up to being a P.O.J. that ran well.

It didn’t even reach the status of Piece Of Junk that ran well.

I began to think that some of the words of the car salesman were not reliable.

I took it back to the salesman who sold it to me. I explained that my job had changed and the car was not what I had expected and so I would sell it back to him giving him what I considered a very good profit. He explained to me this principle that I should have picked up on earlier. “We sell at retail and buy at wholesale.”

We cannot get trapped into attaching ourselves to words that are not reliable. There are some bad habits I’m attached to that I want to get rid of. There are other good habits that I want to get and keep. There are lifestyle ways that are healthy and helpful but are still temporary by their nature.

Buildings that look safe and solid for the security of a house or school house or hospital or church house are not actually able to remain.

In times of great wickedness we learn that things we thought would remain do not actually remain. My P.O.J has long been in the crusher.

There is a

P.O.J. that remains.

Powerful Old Jesuswords.

“Because of the increase of wickedness the love of most will grow cold, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.”

Larry Wishard

3.21.22

Matthew 24.

24 Jesus left the temple area and was going on His way [a]when His disciples came up to point out the temple buildings to Him. 2 But He responded and said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, not one stone here will be left upon another, which will not be torn down.”

3 And as He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the [b]end of the age?”

4 And Jesus answered and said to them, “See to it that no one [c]misleads you. 5 For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the [d]Christ,’ and they will [e]mislead many people. 6 And you will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pains.

9 “Then they will hand you over to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name. 10 And at that time many will [f]fall away, and they will [g]betray one another and hate one another. 11 And many false prophets will rise up and [h]mislead many people. 12 And because lawlessness is increased, [i]most people’s love will become cold. 13 But the one who endures to the end is the one who will be saved. 14 This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole [j]world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

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