When you want to be successful at selling something you try to give the public what they are looking for. The world today is trying to the very same thing when it comes to God’s word.
It is not uncommon for man to want to choose all the exciting selling points of the Bible and yet when something is not so popular, we tend to see that get tossed out.
Man has a tendency to think that what he feels is good for him, is good for him. Has anything biblical stated about man ever pointed to that? No. As a sinful fallen creature man has a tendency to chase after things that are not of God.
The Bible is the Word for all of those who love God to follow. It’s our guide.
Psalms 119:105 – 105Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. KJV
As people in this country have gotten further away from God, they have gotten further away from truth. Yet the desire to have a God is built in all of us. Even the atheist serves his own life and materialism, while at the same time fights against God. That’s why people in the past and even today will worship idols. We were made to worship, it’s just the fall has messed us up.
In the last days men will chase after whatever they want. It even includes the teachings of what they want their God to be.
The Bible warns against this very thing.
2 Timothy 4:1-5 – 1 In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: 2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. 3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. 5 But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.
Yes the marketed gospel plays to those itching ears. If those ears change and are itching for something new someone out there will deliver it to them. This is the American way. The attitude is, “well it’s better to have them in church than not, so let’s get the word into the 21st century.”
Is that what God wants us to do?
Hebrews 13:8 – 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Jesus is the Word and the Word has not changed. The Word was good for Adam and since Adam walked with the Lord, I believe it was the same Word, as for those at the end of the Millennium and beyond.
Beware! We need to seek the pure and good Word of the Lord. Many today are victims of 2 Timothy 4:3-4. Don’t be one of them. Meditate on the Word and let it guide your path.