ARE THE PERILOUS TIMES HERE? - J. C. O'Hair

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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