are your ears itching?
Day in and day out, are you:
Truly taking the time to pick up your cross daily? (Luke 9:23)
Examining yourself and testing your faith? (2 Corinthians 13:5)
Working out your salvation with fear and trembling? (Philippians 2:12)
Or are you:
Listening to people who tell you it’s okay to date someone who’s not Christian? (2 Corinthians 6:14)
Listening to people who say you don’t have to keep the Sabbath? (Exodus 20:8)
Listening to people who say women can be pastors? (1 Timothy 2:12, 1 Timothy 3:2)
Listening to people who say tradition is more important than what God has written? (Mark 7:13)
If you listen to those people, if you choose them over God, you are in danger. You are in sin. You have itching ears (2 Timothy 4:3-4). And you need to repent. This isn’t optional. Just like God’s truth is not optional. Instead of sitting in an echo chamber where people pat you on the back for your watered-down, lukewarm “Christianity”, surround yourself with people who truly put God above the world. And if there are none around you, then separate yourself, lest you be corrupted (1 Corinthians 15:33, 1 Timothy 6:3-5).
Do not sit there in a building people wrongly call a church because tradition says that we have to be in a “Christian” community, even when it’s not “perfect.” That’s just a fancy way of saying they want to live in their sin because God has made it clear that perfection, meaning completely and totally free from sin, is not something we can reach in this fallen world. But we can all have one mind (1 Corinthians 1:10).
One mind that is guided to all truth by the truth maker Himself. We can reject the fleshly divisions called denominations, we can reject mammon, we can reject false doctrine, and just listen to God. We can because God is within us and He is working. Working to make us perfect. But that work cannot be done in you if you are grieving Him. It just can’t be done (Galatians 5:9).
If you want to ignore me and have your ears itched by those dancing along that broad path to destruction because you’re offended, go on ahead. Just don’t say that God didn’t warn you. Because He did, through me. And through His perfect and holy Word.
