For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 2 Timothy 4:3
June 15, 2022
In this time when tolerance is touted as the reigning virtue, the truth of the matter is that we live in a culture of great intolerance. Everything is tolerated but God and the Bible. We are told that the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine. The itching ear disease is an epidemic. This is the effect of sin on people who are more interested in something different, something sensational. “Give them what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.” You read these polls that are taken. We are told that the majority of those polled want more churches that are inclusive and welcoming of those who want sexual freedom. Young people, we are assured, want reproductive freedom for women, religious freedom that seeks the liberation of LGBTQ people. What happens when the mad rush to seek to hear what agrees with unbridled desires? Hang God’s truth out to dry and watch lack of discernment take over and the deceived wander off into counterfeits. The myth of theistic evolution, the myth of good without God, the myth of equity without responsibility, the myth that you’re wrong to tell me that I’m wrong, the myth that God helps those who help themselves. The Message puts it this way, “You’re going to find that there will be times when people will have no stomach for solid teaching, but will fill up on spiritual junk food.” H
A time to pray: “Dear Lord, give me the sense to not make myself the measure of what is truth. Set me to running after what is holy and pleasing in your sight.”