What We Need

1
What We Need

• Is Less Love

2
More Love or Less Love?

• What do we need the most in the world today? More
  love?
• In many cases, we need less love (2 Tim. 31-9)
• People loving the wrong things leads to terrible
  times we need less love!

3
2 Timothy 31-9

• But know this, that in the last days grievous
  times shall come. For men shall be lovers of
  self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty,
  railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful,
  unholy, without natural affection, implacable,
  slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no
  lovers of good, traitors, headstrong, puffed up,
  lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God
  holding a form of godliness, but having denied
  the power therefore. From these also turn away.
  For of these are they that creep into houses, and
  take captive silly women laden with sins, led
  away by divers lusts, ever learning, and never
  able to come to the knowledge of the truth. And
  even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do
  these also withstand the truth. Men corrupted in
  mind, reprobate concerning the faith. But they
  shall proceed no further. For their folly shall
  be evident unto all men, as theirs also came to
  be.

4
Less Love of Self

• We should care for ourselves (Mt. 2239), but
  selfishness causes many troubles at home and in
  society (2 Tim. 32)
• We must deny self (Lk. 925 Jn. 1225) and not
  think more highly of self (Rom. 123-5 Gal. 63)
• We should esteem others better than self
  (Phil. 23-4)

5
Less Love of Money

• Lovers of money cause many troubles (Lk. 1614
  2 Tim. 32)
• The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil
  (1 Tim. 610 Heb. 135)

6
Less Love of Evil

• Not loving good (light) but loving evil
  (darkness) leads to many troubles (Jn. 319-21 2
  Tim. 33)
• Some love the hire of wrong-doing (2 Pet. 215)

7
Less Love of Pleasure

• Loving pleasure (hedonism) leads to many troubles
  (2 Tim. 34 Tit. 33 Jas. 41,3 2 Pet. 213)
• Loving pleasure chokes the word of God (Lk. 814)

8
Less Love

• Some love family more than Jesus (Mt. 1037)
• Some love the glory (praise) that is of men more
  than God (Jn. 1243)
• Some love the world more than God (2 Tim. 410)
• Some love first place over Jesus (3 Jn. 9)

9
Love More, Love Less

• Love for God should be greater than self (Rev.
  1211)
• Love for God should be greater than money
  (1 Tim. 617 1 Pet. 118-19)
• Love for God should be greater than evil (Psa.
  9710)
• Love for God should be greater than pleasure
  (Eccl. 21 1213-14)
• Love for God should be greater than the world
  (1 Jn. 215-17)