Entitlement, Disobedience & Disrespect: The Signs of the End Times

Entitlement

When a person feels entitled to everything, he loses his thankfulness for nearly everything. Why should a person be thankful when he feels he is entitled to anything he is ever given? This sense of entitlement is destructive to individuals, and it leads society as a whole into a state of unthankfulness.

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Today society is filled with people who are ruled by a sense of entitlement. When a person — or society itself — embraces a sense of entitlement, it produces a “Me! Me! Me!” attitude.

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When people live with an unrealistic sense of entitlement, they rarely feel grateful for what they receive because they think it’s rightfully theirs anyway. No matter how much they receive, they expect more and they believe they are entitled to more simply “because” — regardless of their performance or having done anything to merit it.

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An entitlement mentality is a blight on any society that can eventually undermine a nation’s economic stability, because it focuses on taking, not giving. Not only can this mindset erode a country’s economic system, but it also hinders men and women from reaping the benefit of God’s higher system of effort and reward.

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Disobedience

It is simply a fact that if a person is living a blatant life of sin or disobedience to the Word of God and the Christian community knows about it, that behavior will disqualify him from leadership in the Church. Or if an individual’s actions don’t correspond with the Bible’s requirements for spiritual leadership and he does nothing to self-correct, the Bible makes it perfectly clear that he shouldn’t be considered for a leadership position.

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Through Adam’s disobedience, sin entered the world and death was passed on to all men. But just as sin entered the world through Adam, the gift of God came into the world through the obedience of Jesus Christ. Now the grace of God and the free gift of righteousness abounds to all who have called upon Jesus Christ to be the Lord of their lives!

Paid in Full

A day is coming — and in large part, is already here — when children will no longer submit to or follow the leadership of their parents. They will deny their parents’ right to lead them, often disrespectfully, and will even assert their own right to make decisions for themselves without parental influence or intervention — including decisions that in many cases will be life-altering or detrimental to their long-term well-being.

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Disrespect

You may disagree with an authority figure on some matter, but that does not give you the right to be disrespectful toward that person in authority over you — even when you’re not in that person’s presence.

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When people behave disrespectfully toward their boss, their department director, their pastor, or their parents, they are demonstrating that they are not smart and certainly not mature. When you see this, it should send up a red flag before you to let you know the maturity level you are dealing with in the lives of these individuals. Even if they are called to the ministry; even if they have been to Bible school; even if they have been members of your church for a long time — the fact that they would act disrespectfully toward authority reveals that these people are still young in terms of maturity.

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Those who refuse to cooperate with the authority figures they are subject to will never advance well in life unless they choose to change — and if they choose to stay discordant and continue to refuse to submit to authority, it is likely they will be uninvited from participating in the future.

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Because rebellion is running rampant against every established form of authority, there is disrespect and dishonor for the authority of government, parents, police, and pastors — truly against nearly every form of established authority.

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The Bible clearly teaches that as the prophetic clock ticks toward the final countdown, widespread disrespect for authority will grow to become even more out of control and serve as a sign that we are reaching the cusp of this end-time age.

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