The Masses Demand That Which Will Soothe Them In Their Sins And Amuse Them While They Journey Down The Broad Road!

                                   
2Ti 4:1  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;
 
2Ti 4:2  Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
 
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. 

That time has arrived! 

Church-goers today WILL NOT endure sound doctrine. 

Those who...preach the total depravity of man...

Insist upon the imperative necessity of the new birth...

Set forth the inflexible righteousness and holiness of God...

And warn against the eternal and conscious torment awaiting every rejecter of Christ...

Find it almost impossible to obtain a hearing. 

Such preachers are regarded as puritanic pessimists, and are Not Wanted.

In these degenerate times, the masses Demand that which will Soothe them in their sins and Amuse them while they journey down the Broad Road!  

The multitude is affected with itching ears which crave novelty and that which is sensational. 

They have ears which wish to be tickled...

Ears which eagerly drink in the songs of professional and unsaved soloists and choristers...

Ears which are well pleased with the vulgar slang of our modern evangelists!

The things which are now done in so many churches...

The socials...

The fund-raisers...

The bazaars...

The concerts...

The moving picture shows...

And other forms of entertainment...

What are these but Idolatrous Commercialization of these houses of prayer!  

No wonder that such places are Devoid of Spirituality and Strangers to the POWER of GOD. 

The Lord will NOT Tolerate an Unholy Mixture of Worldly Things with Spiritual.

John 2:13  And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
 
John 2:14  And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:

John 2:15  And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;   

John 2:16  And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.

~Arthur Pink~