I think I'm going to have be a man in black. People who are close to my heart are going in directions they ought not to go. They've fallen in love with this present world, like Demas. They are not merely deserting me; they're deserting the church of our Lord Jesus Christ. They are running fast for the newest deception the deceiver has crafted, rapidly trying to fuse together Christianity with materialism. The deceiver has confused the meaning of materialism so that is now exclusively means "loving money and the things it can buy." In the midst of this confusion, the deceiver is designing a syncretism that hasn't reared its ugly head in ages.
I can't hardly read it without weeping.
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths (2 Tim. 4:3-4 ESV).
I can't hardly read it without weeping.
