The God of the Universe has revealed Himself by way of a Book that He wrote. That Book called the Bible contains propositional truth from the One who calls Himself the Author of Truth.
This God explains that as the countdown to the end of days approaches, so does the level of religious deception. False teachers, proclaiming a false gospel, with false prophets, heralding false messiahs would become the norm, as Jesus explained in Matthew 24:24.
Most ominously, Christ’s church would gather teachers who would teach what people want to hear (itching ears) rather than what they need to hear (God’s Word).
Amid all that warning, come these verses that we begin with this evening. The simple lesson for us and warning to us is that:
Detached from Truth—
Lives are Shipwrecked
Guarding the truth is our chief responsibility as we witness the fall away from it that characterizes the end of days.
To not guard the truth leads to “shipwreck”; we can get into a state of not being moored and anchored by the truth, as we see when Paul uses this word to describe those who thrust away sound doctrine and try to sail on their own and not carefully guarding Christ’s way, truth and life.
1 Timothy 1:19-20 having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck, 20 of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.
What can cause a soul to be shipwrecked? False teaching and belief in false doctrines about Christ. That was one of Christ’s constant warnings.
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