Making a Differencewith Pastor Phil Erickson

Dec 17th, 2022 Turning To Fables – The Saturday Morning Post

Today’s Passage – 2 Timothy 3 – Titus 3; (Click on the references to listen to the audio – click here to view the text from the Blue Letter Bible website)

(Second Milers also read – Psalms 81 – 85; Proverbs 17)

Read the “1217 Evening and Morning“ devotion for today, by the late Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

“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, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 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.” (2Timothy 4:1-4)

Good morning. Once upon a time there was a king. This king trusted in the King of Kings. He loved the LORD so much, and wanted to read about Him in his own language. So the king commanded that a translation be made. The translators wanted to please the King of Kings, and their king too. They worked diligently to complete the task given them. And the King James Bible was born. The preserved Word of God for English speaking people. It would go on to show people the way of salvation, and lead to many revivals. This could be the happy ending, but wicked men with a lust for money made changes to the King James Bible: left out passages, changed words, destroying sound doctrine, and creating their own.

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” (2Timothy 3:1-5)

Who is behind this evil plot to destroy God’s Word. There is only one who could try, only to fail. He is the devil. And one day, he will find himself in the Lake of Fire…

“And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.” (Revelation 20:7-10)

See, even reality can have a happy ending. Amen?

Peace.