WHY PEOPLE WILL NOT ENDURE SOUND DOCTRINE!

2 TIMOTHY  4:3

INTRO:    WE ARE LIVING IN A GENERATION OF,  IF IT FEELS GOOD DO IT!    BUT LET ME SAY EVERYTHING THAT FEELS GOOD IS NOT OF GOD.   

?  OUR CHURCHES  ARE MOVING AWAY FROM THE OLD TIME WAY OF WORSHIPING GOD,  AND THEIR EXCUSE IS,  WE ARE  DEALING WITH A DIFFERENT GENERATION OR SOCIETY.

?  PEOPLE ARE TURNING A DEAF EAR TO THE OLD FASHION PREACHER THAT  LIFTS UP HIS VOICE AND SPARES NOT THE WORD OF GOD.   THEY ARE TURNING HIM OFF,  BECAUSE THEY ARE TIRED OF HEARING ABOUT THEIR SIN AND THE COMEING OF THE LORD. 

?  BUT IN REALITY THEY ARE  GETTING TIRED OF HEARING THE WORD OF GOD.    FOLKS IF TIMES TARRY WHAT WE HAVE HEAR AT GOING HOME CHURCH,  WILL BE OBSOLETE IN  A LOT OF CHURCHES.

?  YES,  WE SING AND PREACH ABOUT THE OLD TIME WAY, BUT THERES A LOT OF NEW TIMERS OUT THERE  THAT DON’T  HARDLY KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE MOVING OF THE SPIRIT, AND THEY ARE THE ONES THAT ARE COMEING ON THE SCENE  THAT WOULD LOVE TO  GO TO THIS MODERN “PRAISE AND WORSHIP” MUSIC.

?  AND SOME WOULD LIKE FOR THE PREACHER TO LIGHTEN UP AND NOT PREACH SO HARD AGAINST SIN.     AND TO SOME IT WOULDN’T  MATTER IF WE  USED A DIFFERENT BIBLE OR NOT,   BECAUSE THEY ARE LIVING SO LOOSE AND ARE AWAY FROM GOD.

LET ME GIVE YOU  SOME REASONS TONIGHT:   WHY  PEOPLE ARE NOT ENDUREING SOUND  DOCTRINE   OR  WANTING A NEW RELIGION!

1-  PREACHERS ARE PAMPERING INSTEAD OF PREACHING

?  THEY PREACH ONLY ENOUGH THAT WILL APPEASE THE FLESH THAT WHEN THEY DO HIT SIN,  THEY WANT TAKE IT TO OFFENSIVELY,  AND TAKE IT OUT ON THE PREACHER.

PREACHING CLEANSES --Pr 16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.

Joh 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

?  THERES SOMETHING I WANT AROUND GOING HOME,   PREACHING THAT WILL PAINT SIN UGLY, DANGEROUS,  AND  DEADLY.

?  SOME PREACHERES ARE NOT PREACHING THE WHOLE COUNCIL OF GOD.

PREACHING CLARIFIES --   1co 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

?  PREACHING  CLARIFIES,  MAKES CLEAR,   WHEN A MAN OF GOD UNDER THE  UNCTION OF THE HOLY GHOST   PREACHES THE WORD OF GOD,  I BELIEVE THE HOLY GHOST    LETS A MAN KNOW WHERE HE STANDS AND WHAT CONDITION HES IN.

?  I’VE  HAD FOLKS OR SOMEBODY TELL ME,  PREACHER YOU PREACH TO WHERE I CAN UNDERSTAND IT.    THAT’S  THE WAY WE BETTER BE PREACHING.

PREACHING CHALLENGES --  IT CHALLENGES US TO  LIVE RIGHTEOUS,  HOLY,  UPRIGHT,  BEFORE GOD.    TO BE ABOUT THE FATHERS BUISNESS.    TO WITNESS.    TO STUDY GOD WORD.     TO LOVE OUR NEIGHBOR.      TO LIFT EACH OTHER UP.      TO PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER.   ECT…       WE ARE TO DO WHAT VS.2 SAYS!

2-  PEOPLE WANT TO REASON INSTEAD OF REPENT     VS.  3-4

THEY TRY TO JUSTIFY THEIR SIN  --   DON’T MAKE NO DIFFERENCE HOW MUCH YOU TRY TO JUSTIFY IT, IT IS STILL SIN!   THAT’S THE REASON OUR CHURCHES ARE IN THE SHAPE THERE IN,  BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE LIVING IN THEIR SIN AND EXPECTING TO GO TO HEAVEN WHEN THEY DIE.

?  THAT’S THE REASON SOME FOLKS DON’T AND CANT GET SETTLED  IN A CHURCH,  THEY TRY TO FIND A CHURCH  AND A PASTOR THAT WILL NOT INSIST ON GETTING RID OF THEIR SINS AND SINFUL PLEASURES.

?  VS.4   THEY DON’T WANT TO HEAR THE TRUTH!    THEY WANT  SOMEONE WHO WILL  TICKEL THEIR EAR,  TELL THEM WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR, TO SATISFY THIS FLESH.

?  AS LONG AS YOU HAVE A PREACHER THAT WILL PREACH THE WORD AND PREACH AGAINST SIN,   YOU WILL NEVER HAVE THE BIGGEST CHURCH IN AMERICA OR  WNC.    NOW DON’T GET ME WRONG YOU COULD HAVE,   IF  PEOPLE WANTED TO REPENT INSTEAD OF REASON.   BUT THE WAY  THE MAJORITY IS GOING AND WHAT IM SEEING COMEING UPON THE SCENE WE ARE IN BAD SHAPE!

?  BUT AS LONG AS I HAVE JESUS AND KNOW THE SCRIPTURES, MY DESIRE IS TO LIVE FOR HIM AND LIVE BY THE  WORD OF GOD!

3-  BECAUSE   PEOPLE  DON’T SEE THE POWER OF THE HOLY GHOST IN OUR CHURCHES

?  THEY  DON’T SEE SPIRITUAL POWER IN THE CHURCH.

THEY NEED TO SEE THE POWER THAT TRANSFORMS:Ro 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.       THE  POWER TO SAVE,   WE OUGHT TO GET UNEASY WHEN FOLKS ARE NOT BEING SAVED IN THE CHURCH.

?  WE NEED  TO SEE WHAT ISAIAH SAW IN  ISAIAH 6:1-7 (EXPLAIN)

?  WE NEED TO SEE PENTECOST LIKE IN   ACTS 2:1-12  (EXPLAIN)

THIS NEW STUFF THAT’S COMEING ON THE SCENE  WILL BRING:

?  UNSOUND DOCTRINE

?  INSTABILITY

?  UNFAITHFULNESS

?   NO SEPERATION

?  SERVICES  SIMILAR TO WORLDY CONCERTS

?  UNCERTAINTY OF MORALS (NO DEFINITE RIHGT OR WRONG, NO BLACK AND WHITE,  ALWAYS A GRAY AREA)

CONCLUSION:    LETS STICK TO PREACHING ,   REPENTING,  AND WELCOMEING THE POWER OF GOD IN OUR CHURCHES!