Page 33 - Apostasy

There was apostasy in Jesus' day and Paul's day

and Peter's day, and he said this will increase

and it would grow throughout the church age.

Let me begin reading in 2 Timothy, chapter

4, verse 1. And, again, I just want to point these

verses out to you this morning because there

are a number of messages in these. Paul said in

2 Timothy 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

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kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in

season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort

with all longsuffering and doctrine.” Now, why

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is he to do this? He said, “ 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

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ears; And they shall turn away their ears from

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