When children reign over, down to a perfection

II Peter 2: [9] The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

[10] But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

"All of chapter 2 is about describing these false prophets and the kind of sin they'll be involved in," explains Richard Jordan. "They despise dignities; they throw them aside, they want no part of them. They have this covetous life that's focused on nothing but the sins of the flesh and when authority comes in . . . you see the self-life wants to do its own thing.

"It's when someone who's self-absorbed, self-willed and self-centered is opposed by authority that comes along and says, 'Don't do that.'

"You remember in Isaiah 3 where it says children are going to reign over you, and the reason you discovered is the people who are charged with the responsibility of passing on the traditions of society and the principals of a culture . . . 

Isaiah 3:[1] For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,

[2] The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
[3] The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counseller, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
[4] And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
[5] And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

"When nobody is there who will say to the kid, 'No, you can't do that; that's wrong and not in your best interest,' then they just go out willy-nilly and do whatever they want and they get addicted to that and that's what they want all the time.

"Well, these people in II Peter 2 are way down the road in self-will. We see them back in the first three verses: [1] But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

[2] And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
[3] And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

"They completely throw off the things of God and want nothing to do with what God's doing and they just want to go out in that self-life that says, 'Just do your own thing.'

"In the Bible, when you lust after something that means you have a strong passion for it, and this is a lust of uncleanness; it's not a lust and passion for good things.

"It's that autonomous, 'I'm going to be my God and I'll be your God if you sit still long enough and I can get you in shackles.'

"These people in II Peter have that down to a perfection. This issue is really the ultimate goal of the satanic policy of evil and the course of sin he set for himself and for man.

Romans 1:22-24: [22] Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

[23] And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
[24] Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

"They've turned their back on God and His Word and His authority and who He was and they decided they were going to strike out on their own and do their own thing.

Verse 25: [25] Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

"That verse crystallizes the whole lie program. It's the issue of idolatry, but it's more than just bowing down to an idol of wood or stone; it's the issue of taking the creature and making the creature God. The deification of the creature; making the creature equal or superior to the Creator."

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