---WINDOW INTO WORLDLINESS ~~
--[By: Steve Lombardo / Abiding Word Ministries ~~]

~~What is most important in your life? A major league baseball player, upon learning a teammate was diagnosed with colon cancer, said, "We're not immortal. Sometimes baseball seems like the most important thing in our lives, but it's not!"

--AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH~~

Jesus said in Luke 17:26-30) =

"And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. It was the same as happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building: but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed.'--

What Jesus says here is astounding. He points to the fact that people will be essentially the same in the days before His return, as the people who lived in the days of Noah and Lot. Human nature will be unchanged.

There are those who say we are progressing--getting better--but Jesus doesn't say that. Instead, His view is that people will remain basically the same. People will either be saved or they will be worldly, belonging to the world system whose god is the devil. Worldliness describes a concern for physical, material values, or it is seen in an ordinary life void of Biblical truth. Jesus, in the text provides a window into worldliness. We must beware to stay in the Holy Bible and use it as our road map to Heaven with our Lord. ~~