“If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.” -Leonard Ravenhill
How true is this statement!
Today’s hirelings (John 10:12) have been set up as a judgment upon the people that have put them in their positions, tickling their ears. They are preaching a message in stark contrast to “Repent for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand” (Matthew 3:2), thus, making a people to war against the Living God (Micah 3:5).
Scripture tells us, “For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold…” -2 Timothy 4:3.
These people and their big, fancy, expensive suits, which cost more than most people’s whole line of clothing, beg for more money and preach a message of “gain is godliness,” so that, in the end, they can buy another home, car or even airplane.
“Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such with ...
