Like Sgt. Schultz: 'I hear nothing!'

Paul reveals in II Timothy 1:15 that nearly everybody has rejected him, writing, “This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.”

Jordan explains, “If you compare that with I Timothy 1, you’ll see the drift in how things are going. He writes in I Timothy 1:6, ‘From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling.’

“Notice they didn’t leave the Bible; they just left Paul. They didn’t quit believing the Scripture; they just quit being dispensational. While in I Timothy 1 he says some, not everybody, in II Timothy it’s become all. So there is a widening apostasy.

“I Timothy 4:1 says, ‘Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.'

“Doctrines of devils affect those who are not perfected in Paul’s doctrine; those who don’t hold fast to Paul’s message. You have to change Paul’s doctrine to have that kind of thing happen to you. Some have had that happen. In II Timothy, it’s everybody.

“Paul warns in 2 Timothy 2 ‘[16] But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
[17] And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
[18] Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.'

“Notice, they’re not denying the resurrection but they’ve erred concerning the truth about it, putting the resurrection at the wrong place on the timeline. In other words, they’re not getting the resurrection dispensationally positioned correctly.

“You depart from Paul and your dispensational scheme is going to get confused. And when it does, you’re going to err concerning the truth and that develops into something else.

“Paul says in 3:8, ‘Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.’

“When you err concerning the truth, it won’t be long before pride shows up. They say, ‘Well, I know I’m right,’ and when you begin to try and show them their error, they are men of corrupt minds who RESIST the truth.

“And when you resist any correction, that winds you up in chapter 4:3: [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;
[4] And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

“They won’t simply resist it, they won’t even let you teach it. You see how far you’ve gone here? You start out by forsaking Paul, turning away from right division, and that causes you to take in error, which causes you to build a system that resists the correction of truth—the doctrine, reproof and correction. And when you get into that system, now you don’t even want to hear it.

“It’s just a complete, ‘I’m not hearing it!’ You turn away your ear: ‘I’m not listening! I can’t hear what you’re saying.’ It doesn’t happen overnight. That’s the course of the apostasy.

“Paul’s saying, ‘That’s what history in the church is going to look like, Timothy, until Jesus comes.’ Now, we’ve had 2,000 years of church history that bears that out.”

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