"I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 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, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry."
2 Timothy 4:1-5 (ESV)
Paul's warning to young Timothy is so real, even today. Where preachers stand up and claim to be teaching God's Word, then launch into a speech praising the traditions of one denomination. Where preachers claim to be bearing the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but are more interested in how much money they can fleece out of you. Where preachers claim to be standing under the authority of Scripture comes and exhorts practices in total opposition to that which is clearly stated in the Bible. Week after week, these men take their turn at the pulpit to violate it, defile it, doing whatever pleases their fancy. In what way does this not look like prostitution?
My soul cries for the younger generation of Christians. Week after week, year after year, they are fed lies and the passions of men. They become like the seed who are scattered everywhere but on fertile soil and are destroyed, even as they grow. I truly pray that in spite of the decay spreading from the pulpit, that the Holy Spirit continue to raise leaders who are after God's heart; Who will handle God's Word responsibly and faithfully, so that the world will not look at us and scoff: "Where is your God? Are you not just like us?"
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