The chief danger of modern times is that there are too many scornful men and women in the leadership of churches all over the world, pretending to be part of the sheepfold, but inwardly are ravening wolves.
Proverbs 9:8 "Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee."
To reprove means to reason and prove by Scripture. A scorner can never be reproved, because he does not believe in the word of God neither does he understand the word of God. In fact, there is a spiritual hate in him towards the word of God because Jesus tells us in:
John 7:7, 15:18 "The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil... If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you."
The scornful person does not like to be corrected by Scripture, neither does he does like his evil deeds to be exposed by the word of God. The gospel tells us plainly who these people are:
John 3:18-21 "He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God."
These are the men and women who loved darkness rather than light, and will not be reproved no matter that. They are not the children of light but of darkness (r. Ephesians 5:8). In today's context, where are these scornful men?
Matthew 27:39-43 "¶ And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, 40 And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross. 41 Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said, 42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. 43 He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God."
Notice the chief priest, the elders and the scribes are there among those who crucified Jesus, mocking him. In today's context, those would be the people sitting in the leadership of religious offices. Christian churches are no exception.
Matthew 27:40 "... If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross."
These are the very words that, to the very end, when they crucified Jesus, those scornful men still demanded to see a miracle from God. The 1611 King James Bible, the pure word of God too, is hated by scornful men for the same reason Jesus was hated. Speaking to his disciples, Jesus said in John 7:7 "The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil." Just like Jesus, the pure word of God expose the evil deeds of men. This is the real reason why the 1611 King James Bible is no longer welcome in most of the churches today. That is also the reason why churches today greatly prefer the NIV, NKJV, ESV, NASB, MSG, NLT, CSB, etc.
Today, Christianity is overrun by liberal and neo-evangelical churches that preach from all kinds of bibles except the 1611 King James Bible. These churches are filled with men in whom there is no faith, men whose eyes are fixed upon the physical things of this world, men whose eyes only desire to see the miracles and the signs and wonders of God, not desiring spiritual things in the bible. These church men and women may appear spiritual on the outside, but within are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
In Matthew 12:38-42, the scribes and the Pharisees desired a sign from Jesus, to which he replied: "... An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas". Notice that Jesus called the scribes and the Pharisees "an evil and adulterous generation", for truly, those scornful men were. Yet after Jesus rose from the dead on the third day, even as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, they still rejected him. Likewise, even though the 1611 King James Bible has proven itself faithful and true for centuries, inerrant and infallible, it will still be rejected by pharisaical churches run by scornful men and women.
Ecclesiastes 1:9 "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun."
The scribes and the Pharisees of the past are now the leadership of pharisaical churches of modern times. Their strange doctrines have taken root and as corrupt trees, have brought forth evil fruits. Throughout the four Gospel Books and the Book of Acts, the Pharisees, the Scribes and the Saduccees were the ones constantly persecuting Jesus Christ and the church. They were the ones who got really angry in the presence of the truth. The Book of Acts gives us a glimpse of just how angry and upset they were when the Gospel was preached to them through Stephen whom they stoned:
Acts 7:54 "When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth."
Today, even though the Pharisees and the Sadduccees who hated Jesus and persecuted the church are no longer with us, but their spirits live on in the form of “...doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees” (Matthew 16:12). In that sense, they continue to make disciples, converting them into “...twofold more the child of hell” (Matthew 23:15) than themselves.
Acts 23:8 "For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both."
The Sadduccees of Jesus' days are like the preterists of today. The Pharisees are more subtle but no better. But just like there is a true church of Jesus Christ who worship God in spirit and in truth, the Pharisees and Sadduccees too, had a congregation of their own, albeit they worship a false god that pretends to be the God of the Holy Bible. Today, their spirits are alive in false churches built upon false bibles, preaching false gospels, and teaching the congregation to deny Christ - producing false converts. Open your eyes and see how many Pharisees and Sadduccees these false churches have produced, people who call themselves Christians yet deny the pure words of the Holy Bible (calling God a liar). These are the "Christians" who get upset at the very words of God, having rejected the truth for lies, preferring darkness over light, not possessing the love of the truth.
2 Thessalonians 2:10 "And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved."
Today, we also see a lot of them on the internet constantly debating and brawling with others for the pride of life and exalting their own words and doctrines above plain Scripture instead of earnestly contending for the faith. Some of them even claim to be fundamental Christians or KJV-onlyists, but when we examine their posts or writings, often times we will find that they either employ cleverly disguised rhetoric to wrest Scripture or they use things that are not found in the Holy Bible which they claim equal to scriptural truth. The fear of the LORD is not in them. These are not born again believers but Pharisees and Sadduccees wanting to teach and make converts out of the people they met online.
Amen, very well said, thank you ❤️🙏