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- The importance of earnestly preaching the truth -
Below is a quote from a letter I have previously written. Upon reading it I was once again stirred in my spirit concerning being a faithful teacher of the truth of Jesus Christ and His Glory.
“At that same time I was in a Christian Rock band and I still am to this day. Around this time my father gave me, for my birthday a book “The pleasure of God”. Which began to heavily work on my spirit. A few days later our band had an accountability and prayer meeting, one that I will never forget. In this meeting all the guys in the band confessed of having in some degree a struggle with lust. And then in the mist of our confession and edification, my brother said this in the middle of our praying for one another, something I will always remember.
I feel like I am on the edge of a very step Cliff and I am already falling off it. All the while I see a nicely dressed preacher with his hands at his side smiling at me and in a calm voice is telling me to come back. Dam it, why won’t some one grab me by the shirt collar and pull me back before I fall to my death. Can’t you tell I am all ready beyond that point of pulling my self back? I need more than flattery words.”
The above statement is one in which I hope nobody may accuse me of. Dear God may I never be in the place due to lack of desire or knowledge of the Glories of Jesus Christ, or trying to be so cultural relevant that I find myself irrelevant to helping Your precious elect in the way of Holiness and Godliness. It seems to me that much of the preaching now days, whether it been like this before I don’t know, is irrelevant of being of any real use to the Saint. The preaching primarily seems to be, above all things, missing the exalted Famous God of the scripture. The God of days is nothing more than a pagan God, which raised from low and ignoble thoughts of carnal imaginations. The God of today is a weak and diminished being. I am therefore forced to conclude the greatest thing the church faces today is to once again find and worship the TRUE Exulted image of the invisible Glorious God. If being transformed into the likeness of Jesus Christ is primarily done by seeing the Glory of God (2 Corin. 3:18, 4:6), then the church must was once again reclaim the true image of God and His Glory.
This now leads me to the second point. My desire is to help the church by telling and proclaiming Gods true Fame and Glory(Isaiah 66:19) to all, but not just in this. I also wish to do this, not with my hands in my pockets as if people-going to hell and saints not progression in sanctifications is of little concern to the Almighty God, but be violent and passionate in all diligence in telling this message of my Lord and Savoir.
Passive or water down truth, although told with a nice smile will be of little use to the saving of carnal souls and edification of the saints. Most of all it will not be a pleasing aroma and sacrifice to the living God.
I believe this passion was also the same which caused saints such as Jonathan Edwards to preach sermon like, “Sinners in the hands of an angry God.” Oh that my generation of pastors would rise up and preach the like.
Jude 1:23, “but others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.”
2 Corinthians 5:11, “Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men”
Colossians 1:28, “Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.”
Acts 20:31, "Therefore watch, and remember that for three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears.”
Matthew 11:12, "And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.”
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