God Is Calling Us To Repentance

God is Calling us to Repentance

By: Ken Jarman

Please turn with me to:

2CH 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

2Timothy 4:3-5

2TI 4:3 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;

2TI 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

2TI 4:5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an

evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

2 Timothy is the second letter Paul wrote to Timothy with instructions about teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Although this letter was to Timothy and Paul was speaking of the religious people of his day. I believe when we look around us at the religious people of this day. We can see much of the same things Paul was speaking of then.

(Prayer)

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine

People today are turning away from sound doctrine because sometimes it cuts deep into their lives and their hearts.

They don’t want to be told about sin

They don’t want to hear about repentance

They don’t want to hear about obedience to God

They don’t want to hear about the commandments of God

They don’t want to hear about living holy and righteous lives

In other words they don’t want to hear the word of God.

But after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

They want to be in a church where the Pastor will preach nothing but what they want to hear.

They want to be in a church where if it feels right it’s got to be right.

They want to be in a church where they can be entertained and amused and pacified

(Don’t say or preach anything that will upset anyone)

They want to be in a church where they can shout and cut a two-step just for the sake of doing it and they tell each other “my, my we had church today”

They want to be in a church where they can shout and holler at the preacher as he preaches. Then tell you “child, did he preach today” but they have no idea what he was preaching about.

They have turned their ears so far from the truth that they will believe anything

Paul warns Timothy and us about these people

2TI 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

2TI 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

2TI 3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

2TI 3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

2TI 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

2TH 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

2TH 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

2TH 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had

pleasure in unrighteousness.

These people will tell you

“I’ve been saved, sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost.”

Yet they live like they’re full of the devil.

They’ll tell you they’re religious folk. Born again Christians

But when you look at their lives you’ll see that’s all they are

Is religious folk.

Yes, they go to church

They might sing in the choir

They might teach Sunday school

They might even be board members

And they might even be the Pastor

They are loyal and close to their church

But they are far from God

And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

They get caught up in religion

Refusing the Word of God

Hanging on to the things that are wrong but seem right to them

You need to be sure that you are in a church where you can receive correct

instruction and sound doctrine from someone who is teaching sound doctrine from the word of God and is rightly dividing the Word.

They have religion but not relationship

Relationship is a partnership between you and someone else

Relationship is intimate companionship between you and someone else (ex. a man and a wife.)