SUNDAY July 6, 2025

What Are You Allowing Yourself to Hear?

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.
2 Timothy 4:3-4

Warning! Warning! Warning!  We are in the Last Days, right now––today! Unfortunately, this is why we see a deviation from the truth––not every church teaches the truth of God’s Word. They do not teach sound doctrine––what is doctrinally correct. There are men who have their own ideas and their own desires when teaching. Paul describes them as having itching ears. The words itching ears mean “scratching or tickling ears.” These false teachers influence others to be like themselves.

You will find teachers like this in liberal seminaries. Be careful when going to a seminary, as some of them do not believe that the Bible is God's Word. They believe there are mistakes in the Word of God––that it is not inerrant. Professors and scholars think they are great teachers, teachers who teach truth, but that is far from the truth. They are false teachers who do not teach the truth of God’s Word; they do not believe it. They may profess Christianity, but they are liberal thinkers who deceive people.

False teachers often present salvation by works. Some even teach that there is no need for repentance, or if you live a life of sin, do not worry, God will forgive you––once saved, always saved. Right? Let me correct this. There is no salvation apart from true repentance. You have to repent in order to be saved: For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted... (2 Corinthians 7:10).

Christ is the Savior of the world. That is why He left heaven. He was born of a virgin. He was 100% human, and 100% God. And at the age of 30, He started His ministry. When he reached 33 years, He died on the Cross, finished His mission, and resurrected. That is why we are saved!

For it was thy sin, and the sin of all the world, that lay upon our Redeemer, and his sacrifice and satisfaction is sufficient for all, and the fruits of it are offered to one as well as another, but it is true that it was never the intent of his mind to pardon and save any that would not by faith and repentance be converted.
~Richard Baxter~

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