{"id":3954,"date":"2024-04-26T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackaby.net\/members\/?p=3954"},"modified":"2024-04-19T10:49:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T15:49:57","slug":"turning-their-ears-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/2024\/04\/26\/turning-their-ears-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning their Ears Away"},"content":{"rendered":"

People choose how and what they listen to. For many unbelievers, the issue is not that they do not believe; it is that they choose<\/em> not to believe. Many agnostics and atheists claim to only believe what is factual and reasonable. Yet that is not true. These same people refuse to listen to facts that challenge their beliefs. They ridicule and argue rather than listening and inquiring. When hearing biblical truths, these people immediately begin formulating a rebuttal rather than seeking to understand and to fairly evaluate the evidence being presented.<\/p>\n

In the last days, people will be impatient with truths that disrupt their opinions. Their ears will itch for teachings that affirm what they already believe and support their present lifestyle. They will likewise be impatient and resistant to anything that challenges their beliefs or condemns their current lifestyle.<\/p>\n

In the last days, it will be amazing how seemingly intelligent people will embrace worldly fables and belief systems built on wishful thinking. People will choose to believe lies rather than to listen to the truth. In the coming days, it will not always be easy to share truth with others. But we must. And we must do so in ways that command people’s attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers: and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. 2 Timothy 4:3-4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotionals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15184,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions\/15184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}