"In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of His appearing and His kingdom, I give you this charge: Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--- with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths." (2nd Timothy 4:1-5)
"But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. They said to you, 'In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.' These are men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit." (Jude 17-19)
Friends, it is time for us to be like the Bereans and diligently search the Scriptures. (Acts 17:11) False doctrine and teaching is rampant and we must be aware of its hazardous results. The post below has a link to a story in England of golf course maintenance gone wrong. The maintenance worker used a substance that appeared to be the right thing for the job, but it wasn't. His mistake had some serious ramifications. And so it will be for us if we do not make sure that we are receiving and dispensing the pure Word of God. (Psalm 12:6; 19:8; 119:140; Proverbs 30:5; John 17:17) "Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world."
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