The expository preaching of sound doctrine leaves me so hungry for more. I can write forever about what I've learned and how my life is beginning to be even more transformed than before through all these revelations, convictions, etc but I simply do not have the time. All I can say is sound doctrine has ignited in me a passion for a continuous study of God's word not to the likings of my ears being tickled, but rather quite the opposite, my toes being stepped on. All the more, the truth, without being sugar coated or devalued by accommodating to the "felt needs" and desires of this world's demands as well as our own wanting, only leaves me with an ever-growing hunger for the sufficient, inerrant, and absolute truth that God has poured out to me(us) through His word.
"I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires and will turn away their ears from truth, and will turn aside to myths." - 2 Timothy 4:1-4
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