After a morning worship service a woman said she wanted to speak with me. This lady had been visiting with us for a short period of time and was not a member of our congregation.
This visitor wanted me to know she heard me use the word “sin” in the sermon and she approved. She also told me she had not heard a preacher use this term in the last 15 or so years. In the denominational churches she has been attending, no preacher had been willing to say the word “sin.” She said other words not being used included judgment, hell, and righteousness.
We have come to a time when some who call themselves preachers are unwilling to say what the Bible says. Like Isaiah’s time (30:10), people have the mindset: “Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits.”
Regardless of the culture in which we live, the words of 2 Tim. 4:1-5 will always be timely:
I charge (thee) in the sight of God, and of Christ Jesus, who shall judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure the 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. But be thou sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry.
The audio sermons posted today and tomorrow deal with what Paul told Timothy in 2 Tim. 1, 2, 3, 4.
Brad Price