Teaching with Truth

“For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears

they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.” 2 Timothy 4:3-4

The primary aim for Christians and the church is, and has always been, to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ and teach the truth of God’s Word so that people will hear the gospel, believe in Christ, and then grow in faith through obeying the truth of God’s Word (Matthew 28:18-20). However, most people today in our modern culture don’t believe in absolute truth and reject the truth of God’s Word and instead follow the empty philosophies, ideologies, and myths of the world. Even in some churches, many liberal churches, you will find people who are biblically illiterate and don’t want to hear, know, or understand sound doctrine (teaching). But this is nothing new. The Apostle Paul, who wrote the above verses almost two thousand years ago, confronted a pagan culture and knew that “the time is coming when people will not endure sound

teaching.”

The time has come! Most people today, even those who call themselves “religious,” don’t want to hear the truth of the gospel of Christ, but instead they turn away to their own “gospel,” that “tickles their ears” and allows them to continue in their sin. They reject the truth of Christ and God’s Word and instead receive and believe the falsity and foolishness of this fallen world. Keep in mind that atheism, false religions, and cults are all grounded in a distortion of the truth of God’s Word.

However, Christians must know and understand that the Bible, Old Testament and New Testament, is special revelation from God and breathed out by God so that we may know the

truth of God.

All Scripture is breathed out by God and useful for teaching, convicting, correcting, and

disciplined training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be fully equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17

God commands believers to teach God’s Word because it is truth and we are sanctified (set apart) by the truth. The night before He was crucified, Jesus prayed to God the Father for His disciples and for all believers throughout history, saying:

Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. John 17:17

Jesus wanted His disciples and all believers to know that we are sanctified and grow in our faith from knowing, believing, and obeying God’s Word. A Christian comes to faith from hearing the truth of God’s Word (Romans 10:17) and then we grow in faith from hearing the teaching of the truth of God’s Word (2 Timothy 3:16). Unbelievers may reject the truth, but it is still truth.

That is why God commanded His followers to guard and teach the truth of God’s Word (1

Timothy 6:20) and why pastors and biblical teachers must “rightly divide the word of truth” (2

Timothy 2:15). The baton has been passed to you and me, and as the church, the body of Christ, we must stand firm guarding and teaching truth. This website, TeachingwithTruth.com, aligns with Bible-believing churches to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ and teach the truth of God’s Holy Word.