2 Timothy
4:1-5
"1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the
Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and
his kingdom;
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out
of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not
endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves
teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the
truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
5 But watch thou in all things, endure
afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy
ministry."
"I
charge thee...Preach the word...." (v1, 2)
1 Timothy
4:1-3, 7-10
"1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in
the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing
spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their
conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to
abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of
them which believe and know the truth....
7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables,
and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but
godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now
is, and of that which is to come.
9 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all
acceptation.
10 For therefore we both labour and suffer
reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men,
specially of those that believe."
We are living
in the last days (the latter times). Men
are giving heed to seducing spirit, many have even departed from the
faith. We can just look at many of these
message boards and see, there be false teachers and those that speak lies, and
those that have turned from the truth to fables.
Galatians
1:6-10
"6 I
marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of
Christ unto another gospel:
7 Which is
not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel
of Christ.
8 But though
we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which
we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
9 As we said
before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than
that ye have received, let him be accursed.
10 For do I
now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men,
I should not be the servant of Christ."
Read 1
Timothy 6:3-5
They will
preach unto you a gospel which we did not preach unto you. They will speak lies and heseries (see 1 Tim.
4:2).
Titus 1:10-14
"10 For
there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the
circumcision:
11 Whose
mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they
ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
12 One of
themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, the Cretians are alway liars,
evil beasts, slow bellies.
13 This
witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the
faith;
14 Not giving
heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth."
They are
deceivers. We can see that in this
world, and read it on these message boards.
2 Peter 2:1-3
"1 But there were false prophets also among the
people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall
bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring
upon themselves swift destruction.
2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways;
by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3 And through covetousness shall they with
feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time
lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not."
False
prophets are among the people.
What is the
purpose of this? We are living in the
latter days, Christ's nearing return is coming close. We need to go out, as Jesus said in the
Gospel, and preach the Gospel. We need to
reach the lost while we have time, while we are still here. "I must work
the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man
can work" (John 9:4). The night
cometh when we will not be able to witness to those that are lost.