"Itchy ears, itchy ears, tickle my ears!"

"Itchy ears, itchy ears, tickle my ears. Tell me what I want to hear!" Many of us love to go to church on Sundays to hear "feel-good" messages, because we are told "God is not mad at you," by double minded pastors, even though we are continually living in sin and disobeying THE FATHER! What exactly pleases the Most Holy God? Repentance (a complete turn away from sin), and living a life that pleases Him, because if we love Him, we will OBEY Him (John 14:15)! If we keep looking back at sin and our old lifestyle like Lot's wife, we will likewise perish!

But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not (2 Peter 2:1-3). No, I am not judging wrongly, I am judging righteously as I am commanded to (John 7:24). If I was doing the same exact thing, I would be wrong for that would make me a hypocrite (Matt 7:5).

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. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry (2 Tim 4:3-5). Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ (Col 2:8). WE MUST CONSISTENTLY EXAMINE OURSELVES WITH THE SHARP SWORD OF GOD'S WORD.