ARE THE PERILOUS
TIMES HERE?
Pastor J. C.
O’Hair
F irst we quote four of the verses mentioned in our
Scripture reading: “This know also that in the last days PERILOUS TIMES SHALL
COME.” “Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof. From such
turn away.” (II Timothy 3:1 and 5). “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. And they shall turn away their ears from the
truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” (II Timothy 4:3 and 4).
In Jude Four we read of certain men who have crept in
unawares. These men are described as religious men, religious leaders. Peter
also described these religious leaders in II Peter 2:1 to 3 and wrote: “And
many shall follow their pernicious ways, by reason of whom the way of truth
shall be evil spoken of.” II Peter 2:2.
Paul, in II Corinthians 11:3, tells how such pernicious ways
begin. Then he describes Satan and his religious servants in II Corinthians
11:13 to 15: “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming
themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is
transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his
ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end
shall be according to their works.”
We here learn how religious leaders creep in under the
control of the angel of light. They get into religious groups even among
Christians who have failed to obey II Timothy 2:15 and II John 7. Some of them
“speaketh great swelling words,” (Jude 16). Of course, they claim to be
Christians and especially anointed apostles or servants of Christ.
As we look about today and behold the tremendous increase of
so-called modernists in the evangelical seminaries, pulpits and pews,
propagating their Christianized agnosticism, we should think seriously of the
Spirit’s warning concerning the perilous times. These “Liberal” leaders use the
Bible and some Christian phraseology to deceive and seduce their followers.
They neither teach nor endure sound doctrine. They turn God’s Word into a fable
and preach another Jesus and another gospel, pleasing the religious people with
itching ears. But Christians, remember I John 2:26 to 28 and II John 3 to 8.
Then think of the several million people in our own land,
who have been seduced into some of the antichrist or metaphysical cults
propagating, in Bible phraseology, the satanic vagaries of some false prophets.
Several million who were formerly members of some so-called Christian Church
have accepted these delusions
Because of the lack of real Scriptural evangelical Holy
Spirit conviction on the part of the “Modernist” leaders and even among some of
the indifferent religious leaders in dead orthodoxy, there is comparatively
little real evangelistic zeal in most of the churches and comparatively little
conviction of sin on the part of the sinners.
Christianity has always had to earnestly contend for the
faith in the face of legalism or ritualism, rationalism and agnosticism. Paul
wrote in Galatians 5:9, “A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.” John wrote
there were many antichrists even in his day. (I John 2:18).
Satan had his servants put in the leaven in the grace gospel
to pervert that gospel, and to subvert souls. (Galatians 1:6 to 9 - Acts
15:24). Read these verses and see how the gospel was perverted and souls
subverted.
Satan is still using religious men to put in the leaven.
Take an inventory today and see the ritualism, rationalism and fanaticism,
which abound. All began with that leaven.
In Romans 9:30 to Romans 10:4 we read of religious men who
sought righteousness, not by faith; but by the works of the law. They found
“Christ crucified” a stumbling-block. The rationalist today finds the cross
foolishness (Romans 9:32 - I Corinthians 1:21 to 25).
They have a zeal toward God; but not according to knowledge.
Many today have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof.
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