Speak to Us Smooth Things

[419 words] Much of the world’s “political correctness” is in the Lord’s church, just as it was in Isaiah’s day. In Isaiah 30:9-10, God says, “This is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of the Lord, who say…do not prophesy to us right things; speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.” Many did not want to hear God’s truth then, and they do not want to hear it now. Paul said the time would come when people “will not endure sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts; and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto fables” (2 Timothy 4:3-4). Many in the church do not want to hear what the Bible says about hell, drinking alcohol. dancing, adultery, lying, instrumental music, denominationalism, marriage, divorce, and remarriage, or any sinful activity that…