Wolves among us
2 Timothy 4:1-5 I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: 2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 3 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; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. 5 But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
I believe we are living in these days that Paul speaks of; the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. Those days have truly been around since the beginning of time, for we are a world born into sin and all the traps of it. We seek to find all the pleasures in life that come with religions that promise worldly pleasures and, eternal life. That we are all good people and deserve all the good in life. We must understand that we are sinners, and that we are eternally lost without the only One whom can save us, Jesus Christ. You are not a sinner because you sin, you sin because you are a sinner. Christ provides you the means to justify you before a Holy God for that sin debt that we all must answer for; He has justified, or paid your debt by His death.
Many of today’s false prophets are simply wolves in sheep’s clothing. Matthew 7:15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.” They come with promises of earthy blessings; of smoke and mirrors that tickle your fancy and get you to think you DESERVE all of it. They never preach of the truth of sin and hell, for that scares people and effects their pocketbooks. Anybody will listen to a sermon that makes them feel good, but who wants to hear a sermon that makes you squirm in your seat in the realization of your sin? There is power in that conviction, and in that power resides the Holy Spirit that is drawing you to eternal victory; not a temporal false pleasure for your short time here.
Something in me stirred this week with a new church I saw, Animation Church. I simply cannot get past the trouble I have with the name alone. Animation is make believe characters, a fantasy land of make believe where anything goes, including death and life. A world where there is no truth, but only what satisfies the current need. How boldly can they proclaim their heresy on the title of their building? “We will make it all up as we go, and make it all work out in the end.” These are the days that Paul speaks of. There is the need for you to draw near to God and the things of God every day in His Word and prayer. This will provide you the discernment that you need to not be devoured by one of these wolves that are among us today.
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