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.
Here is the plain truth of Scripture. It has been the case throughout the history of the church and it remains the case today.
Notice: They WILL NOT endure sound doctrine. This literally means that they will not put up with it, they will not bear it.
We can find in passages like this what sound doctrine consists of:
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world. Titus 2:11-12
Sound doctrine will teach us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts. What is the standard by which one is taught how to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this world? It is God's law/word. This is the standard and there is no other standard.
Notice: Those who will not endure sound doctrine are said to "heap to themselves teachers". That is they literally accumulate false teachers. As a person continuously denies and suppresses the truth of God's word, they are "tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of men and their cunning and craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive" Eph. 4:14. This passage provides us a clear explanation for why we see so many trends in the modern church. Year after year, there is said to be a "new move of God" or some latest and greatest "revelation". "Christian" bookstores have shelves filled with the "next great thing" (as if the Bible needed any improvement). Bible study groups are now studying from some new trendy book rather than the Bible itself.
Those that do not endure sound doctrine are given to emotionalism and will continuously seek after a better or more exciting religious experience rather than the sincere milk and meat of the Word.
Notice: When a person turns away from the truth, they are said to be "turned unto fables". The word fables here literally means: fictions or myths. Now, this should not be surprising at all. If we look in Genesis, we see that this is the very same thing that happened to Eve. When she rejected God's law, she was turned to the fiction of the serpent.
There are no greater fictions than that of "free will" and antinomianism. Those who have itching ears love to be told that "they can be as gods, determining for themselves what is good and evil". They do not like to hear that God is Sovereign and that His law governs them. Instead, they will insist on their own authority; their own power to will for themselves and to make their own ethics. Sadly, this is the message of much of the modern church. They have been turned away from sound doctrine and given over to fictions.
To all of this, there is a solution given in this same chapter. "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine".
2 Tim. 4:2 This is the charge to the leaders, to the men of God, that they preach the word, reprove, rebuke, and exhort with longsuffering and doctrine. The man of God must not feign his duty or shun his responsibility before God even if nobody is willing to hear.
So it is safe to say that even Calvinists will agree that Evangelical Calvinistic Missionaries to all the counties of the world in 2013 is NON-EXISTENT !
Matthew 28:19; Jesus commands "Therefore go and make disciples of **ALL** nations!"
Any honest Calvinist will admit that Calvinistic preachers who go to foreign lands go to established Calvinistic churches such as those in South Africa and only preach to other Calvinistists and do little if anything to seek and to save the lost!
Matthew 19:10: Jesus says, "The Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost!!"
Matthew 28:18,19: Jesus says, "All authority in heaven and earth has been given to Me. Therefore go and make discples of **ALL** nations!!"
Revelation 3:15-17: Jesus says, "I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold--I am about to spit you out of My mouth. You say, 'I am rich, I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing. But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked!"
Have you personally surveyed every Calvinist preacher that has ever gone to a foreign land? Do you have a list of every Calvinist preacher that has ever gone to a foreign land? Do you know for a fact from personal testimony that your statement is true? Do you have a report showing all of their names and a statement from each of them that they only went to established Calvinistic churches?
[Hbr 10:1-39 NIV] 1 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming--not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. 2 Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. 3 But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. 4 It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; 6 with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased. 7 Then I said, 'Here I am--it is written about me in the scroll-- I have come to do your will, my God.' " 8 First he said, "Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them"--though they were offered in accordance with the law. 9 Then he said, "Here I am, I have come to do your will." He sets aside the first to establish the second. 10 And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, 13 and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool. 14 For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. 15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: 16 "This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds." 17 Then he adds: "Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more." 18 And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary. 19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching. 26 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. 28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him who said, "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people." 31 It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 32 Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering. 33 Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated. 34 You suffered along with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions. 35 So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. 36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. 37 For, "In just a little while, he who is coming will come and will not delay." 38 And, "But my righteous one will live by faith. And I take no pleasure in the one who shrinks back." 39 But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.
dljrno4 has quoted A. W. Pink who claims, "There is not a single condition for them {saints} to meet, not a single responsibility for them to discharge in order to attain their eternal bliss."
However, in the same breath it should also be stated there are many things that the saints can do that will effect their eternal bliss!!
2 Peter 1:5-11: Make every effort to add to you faith {A FREE GIFT} goodness, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness and **LOVE**. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective...and will make your calling and election sure...and you will receive a *RICH WELCOME* into our Eternal Kingdom of Jesus Christ!
By saying REWARDS are not *EARNED* by the saints contradicts over 50 passages from the inspired Words of God and removes one of the most important incentives for obeying all of the NT commands with love with the hope countless eternal *REWARDS* for faithful and loving service!!
Daniel 12:3: Those who impart wisdom {NIV} will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness. like the stars for ever and ever!
Revelation 2:18; 3:21: Jesus says, "To him who overcomes I will give him a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to him who receives it....And I will give the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne."
Jesus says, "At the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne...Everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for My sake will receive 100 times as much !!" Matthew 19:28,29
SALVATION IS 100% FREE BUT HEAVENLY REWARDS ARE 100% EARNED:
Hebrews 11:1,6: Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see....And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He **REWARDS** those who earnestly seek Him!!
Ephesians 6:8: Serve wholeheartedly , as if you were serving the Lord, not men, because you know that the Lord will **REWARD** everyone for what ever good he does!.
Revelation 22:12 Jesus says, �Behold I am coming soon! My **REWARD** is with Me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done!�
Matthew 16:27: Jesus says, �The Son of Man is going to come in His Father's glory with His angels and THEN He will **REWARD** each person according to what he has done!�
2 Corinthians 5:9,10: We make it our goal to please Him... for we must all appear before the Judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
1 Corinthians 3:13-15: His work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. If what he has built survives , he will receive his **REWARD**. If it is burned up he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.
Colossians 3:23-25: Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, siince you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a **REWARD**. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. Anyone who does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favoritism.
How to Win Heavenly CROWNS:
I Corinthians 9:24-27: Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes in to strict training. They do it to get a **CROWN that will not last; but we do it to get a **CROWN THAT WILL LAST FOREVER! Therefore, I do not run like a man running aimlessly. I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize!
2 John 1:8: Watch out that you do not lose what you have worked for, but that you may be **REWARDED** fully!. Revelation 3:11: Jesus says, �I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your **CROWN!�
2 Timothy 4:7,8: I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the **CROWN of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge,will award to me on that day�and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for His appearing!
The **CROWN of Life for those who persevere under trials and persecution:
James 1:12: Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the **CROWN OF LIFE that God has promised to those who **LOVE** Him!
Revelation 2:10 Jesus says, �Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer... Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the **CROWN OF LIFE!�
Matthew 5:11,12: Jesus says, �Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. Rejoice and be glad, beacuase great is your **REWARD** in heaven!�
Hebrews 10:32-36: Remember those earlier days after you had received the Light, when you stood your ground in a great contest in the face of sufferin. Sometimes you were publicaly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated. You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions. So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly **REWARDED**. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you receive what He has promised!
The topic of this thread was about "NOT Enduring Sound Doctrine". It was NOT about "Heavenly Rewards" Your efforts to derail threads with off topic comments and spamming is not appreciated. Please find some respect for others members of this forum.
There are many Calvinists who claim that every saints will receive the same eternal bliss. But what does God's Word say??
Matthew 16:27: Jesus says, �The Son of Man is going to come in His Father's glory with His angels and THEN He will **REWARD** each person according to what he has done!�
2 Corinthians 5:9,10: We make it our goal to please Him... for we must all appear before the Judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
1 Corinthians 3:13-15: His work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. If what he has built survives , he will receive his **REWARD**. If it is burned up he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.
Colossians 3:23-25: Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, siince you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a **REWARD**. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. Anyone who does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favoritism.
It is GRACE by Faith Alone Not by Works lest any man should BOAST.
That is the Doctrine of Jesus. I dare anyone argue that one..
Awe yes the Calvinist that follow Calvinism. Anything with a ISM on the end of its title has Leaven in it and if anything has Leaven we must throw out the WHOLE LOT. Go ahead and Spew the Scriptures out of your mouth only to place the yoke of bondage on people. The more you do it means the faster the poor law laden Saints will come to realize that we were bought with the precious Blood Of Jesus Christ. He did not purchase us to place us again unto bondage but to have Life and That More Abundantly. He Bought us to set us FREE. So dont read Galations where it says to all the ISM,S in the world. ...Who has Bewitched you? DId you receive the Spirit of God by WORKS or was it Grace by Faith? If anyone preaches a different Gospel than this it is FALSE and is Laden by WORKS.
