Riff's Christian Journal

In many denominations there is on going preaching that is designed to make the church fit the world. The reason for it is so that no one will be offended in hopes that the world will like the church and will let it alone. I call it “Preaching For Itching Ears”.

In 2 Timothy 4:2-4 we read the following:

“Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 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.”

It seems that the time has come when no one wants to hear sound doctrine. There is no rebuking, no exhorting to abstain from all that is evil, there is no patience with learning the deep things of the Gospel of Christ. In short, there is no Biblical teaching being served.

In the Bible we are told that marriage, ordained by God, is to be between a man and a woman, but the church is teaching that marriage can be between two men or two women. The Bible teaches that homosexuality is wrong and that those who practice it will not enter Heaven. The church teaches that homosexuality is OK if it is in the confines of a loving relationship.

The Bible teaches that women are not to be in a position of leadership or to teach. The church says that women have a right to be a Pastor and to teach God’s Word. The Bible is clear on the qualification on being a Bishop, Pastor or Deacon – Men who are married to one woman and head up their home in a loving relationship. The church teaches that it is Okay for women to be in those positions, even though they do not meet the Biblical qualifications. The church, thumbing its nose at God, says that it is Okay for lesbians and gay men to be ordained as Ministers of God’s Word.

Why would God be happy with, and accept with kindness, something that He has specifically called an abomination?

Why would the church preach something that is not biblical? Because it is something that they do not want to hear due to the fact that the “world” says that this kind of teaching is wrong, hateful and intolerant teaching, and the church does not like it when the “world” is against it. The church no longer stands up for the sound doctrine found in God’s Word and instead it preaches what the world tells it that it should preach. God be damned as sinful man cowtails to itching ears. To them, the truth is no longer relevant.

Preachers would rather hide behind their pulpits than engage the world and what it believes. Preachers would rather have the church fit into the world view of things, instead of the church engaging the world in a way that it will view things through the eyes of God’s Word. In short, Pastors have become afraid of the “world”.

The church is slowly loosing its moral compass – the Bible. It is fulfilling the prophecy of what Jesus said in Luke 19: 14:

“But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We will not have this man to reign over us.’

When one gives up on its leader they will no longer listen to, nor obey, his teachings and commands. The church is doing just that. Sound doctrine is tossed aside and pulpits are being used to entertain those sitting in the pews telling them what they want to hear and not what they should be hearing. As long as the ear is tickled the people will stay, if not they will leave. Either way the church is dead for they look to, and trust in, themselves and not to God in teaching sound doctrine that will save people from facing the punishment for their sins.

What is being taught now is just the same as the blind leading the blind, and the only place they are all going is straight to Hell for they turned away from the truth to appease those who are offended by true Christian doctrine. The problem is they don’t know it.