If you visit FP's discussion board you are familiar with avatars and signatures. Avatars are small images posters insert below their username to represent them. Signatures are created to appear below each of their posts and usually contain a passage of Scripture important to the poster.

My avatar is the freedom loving tank man -- the brave young man who stood before a column of tanks after Chinese troops violently cleared thousands of his fellow demonstrators from Tiananmen Square. My signature asks for support for FP and includes a passage of Scripture important to me -- where the Apostle Paul gives final instructions to young Timothy. Paul says:

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 the truth and will turn aside to myths (2 Timothy 4:1-4). 

Why did I pick the tank man for my avatar and Paul's instructions to Timothy for my signature? My original reason for the tank man image is because it accurately expresses the way I feel about my ministry. From the start, FP has been standing almost completely alone trying to get this information into the hands of God's people. The passage of Scripture from 2 Timothy came later as I pondered the reasons why the information I had was so slow to be received.

Yet, as I look at my avatar and signature, I realize there may be more being said. You see, the love of freedom and the love of truth are intimately related. When a people lose their love of freedom, they soon will lose their freedom. Likewise, when a people lose their love for truth, truth will be lost also. And, of the two of these treasures, the latter is the worst to lose. That's because, according to Jesus, it's the truth that makes us free (John 8:31-32).

You see, our real enemy is spiritual (Ephesians 6:12). Should we ever forget that we will be fighting the wrong war and destined to fail. People who say they love freedom and yet demonstrate a disregard for accuracy and truth are deceiving themselves. As God's people on earth, our first concern should be truth. Unfortunately, this appears no longer to be the case.

I would rather see a person who I may disagree with but demonstrates a love for the truth, than a person who I may agree with but is careless with truth. Friends, we're not careless with the things we love. That's why Paul places so much importance on our speaking truth to each another. Without a sincere love for each other and truth, we will never grow up to the stature of Christ as Paul instructs (Ephesians 4:15).

Until I began posting on Internet discussion boards, I never realized the degree of the problem among so many of today's Christians. And if I should attempt to point out this situation because of some careless or inaccurate post, the response is usually angry and totally missing my point.

The Bible tells us Christ's love has been shed abroad into the hearts of men. This being the case, where has it gone? I'll tell you where it has gone. Jesus told us, in the end-time, the love of many would grow cold (Matthew 24:12). And, Paul told Timothy that the time would come when God's people would not endure sound doctrine. Instead of truth, they would pursue something they love more -- their own desires.

I fear that time has come.