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.
Preach the word, be instant in season out of season, reprove, rebuke.
Now folks can someone define for me what it means to rebuke someone?
Don't do that.
Is it, hey that's wrong.
No rebuke is to correct, bury sharply.
Revue, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
Why Paul?
Why should we preach in such a way, in such a manner?
I'll tell you why.
Verse 3, for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine.
But after their own lust, shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears
and they shall turn away the ears from the truth and shall be turned into fables.
I guarantee you every single one of you can attest to a time when you gave the word of
God to someone.
You gave them clear scripture and they're just like, I don't want it.
It's like, why can't you understand what I'm trying to teach you here?
Salvation is so simple.
It's by faith alone.
It's not by repenting of your sins.
Here are the scriptures and they're just like, no, you're, you're taken out of the context.
No, that's not, that's the wrong interpretation.
Is it that they just can't understand?
No, according to this, they don't want to understand.
They're trying to turn away their ears from the truth.
They want to believe fables, okay?
They want to have this Narnia Christianity, okay?
It's a fable.
Folks, I like reality.
I like reality.
I like what the Bible actually teaches, no matter how controversial it is.
It's wonderful.
The words of the Lord are pure words.
It's great.