REMEMBER …

As we near the full-blown apostasy, and arrive at the threshold of the seven-year tribulation, "evil men will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived" (2 Tim. 3:13). And as well, they will "not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own lusts, and will turn away from the truth, and will turn aside to lies" (4:3-4).    A friend just reported attending a big mega-church in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area where entertainment rules the morning services. The music was 7-11 with six music leaders up front, waving, weaving, weeping, wobbling, and wailing, and squinting the eyes like they have some back pain! It was filled with young people with flip flops on and ragged blue jeans. Few Bibles, no exegesis of the text, no doctrinal explanation, just emotion!    This is what Paul was talking about when he warned the church at Thessalonica not to go to sleep. "So then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober" (1 Thess. 5:6). In my opinion it is too late. The church is already snoring! – Dr. Mal Couch