What happens if we do not reprove, rebuke and exhort?

 What happens if we do not reprove, rebuke and exhort?

2Ti 4:3 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;

2Ti 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

I want you to understand here what this says.

It does not say the false prophet will lead them away. It says their itching ears will lead them away to a false gospel, false teachers and false prophets.

They will not endure sound doctrine, this is fairly self explanatory here folks, it means the people will not want to hear the truth they will want to hear what makes them feel good.

Are we not there today in this world? Sound doctrine churches are struggling to stay alive while false prophets have mega churches and why?

Because we stopped the discipline, reproving, rebuking and exhorting.

The church stopped doing this some years ago and why?

Because the churchgoer was chasing after false teachers that would tell them they are ok and they do not have to do a thing in the Christian life, they did not have to live a Godly life.

They found someone that would validate them rather than challenge them, hold them accountable preach sin and hellfire.

Because they want to hear what they want to hear, they want a God that doesn’t scare them or hold them accountable. They want to have their sin and feel good about it.

They got exactly that and now look at our nation, our world.

Do not place all the blame at the feet of the false prophets. The people have to hear it and want it, if the people rose up and said no more to them, they would be out of a job. No it is the people that propagate the falsehoods and give the false theologies a purchase.