Many preachers don’t preach the truth of God’s Word anymore, because they are afraid to speak the truth of God in the church. They stay silent about the truth and preach a compromised gospel. But why are so many Christian leaders afraid to preach the truth of God’s Word in the church?
Many preachers have adjusted their message to what people want to hear
Many preachers and church leaders compromised and adjusted the gospel of Jesus Christ and the words of God to what people like and want to hear. В результаті, they have turned the powerful gospel of Jesus Christ into a humanistic self-motivating powerless gospel, that focus on the wealth and prosperity of the carnal man and their daily lives.
They only preach positive and gentle words, and wonderful promises, for a prosperous and successful life, that temporarily motivate the people in the church. They preach the promises but leave the demands and the hard and admonishing words of God, which are many times confronting and call to repentance and a holy life, поза. Why are so many preachers doing that?
Why do many preachers don’t preach the whole truth of God anymore?
Many preachers don’t preach the whole truth of God anymore because they are afraid to tell the truth. They are carnal and led by their senses, емоції, і почуття. They see the struggles of people and hear about their difficult lives and the guilt they feel. тому, many preachers leave them alone.
The church leaders don’t want to burden them with all kinds of requirements, Правила, положення, виправлення, і покарання, so that they become more burdened and feel even more guilty or offended.
Ось чому, instead of preaching the whole truth of God, they preach partial truths, which isn’t the truth. They speak what the people want to hear and feel good about.
Тож я прикликаю тебе перед Богом, і Господа Ісуса Христа, who shall judge the quick and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom; Проповідуйте слово; бути миттєвим у сезон, поза сезоном; докоряти, докір, заохочуйте з усім довготерпінням і наукою. На той час прийде, коли вони не терплять звукову доктрину; але після власних похоть вони набирають себе вчителями, Маючи свербіж вух; І вони відвернуть свої вуха від правди, і буде звернено до байок (2 Тімоті 4:1-4)
The carnal church leaders preach carnal messages
The carnal church leaders preach carnal messages, which derived from their carnal minds. These messages soothe and comfort people’s ego and give them pleasant feelings, and temporarily motivate them.
They speak the same message as the world and teach the believers worldly методи і прийоми to become prosperous, успішний, and wealthy in life.
This message draws many people. Бо, who doesn’t want to live a prosperous wealthy life and be successful without any hardships? If it works in the world, it will work in the church.
And so they preach carnal messages and draw people to themselves, instead of preaching the truth of God and win the people for Jesus Christ and God’s Kingdom.
Because what happens when проповідники, who preach this message fall into sin? Most people drop out and leave the church. Sometimes they even leave the faith, because they’re disappointed in the church leader.
This behavior proves that those people have built their faith upon the motivational carnal words of the leader, instead of the spiritual words of Jesus Christ; слово.
What is wrong with the message in the church?
If Christians struggle in life and experience difficulties and hardships, and /or feel guilty about themselves, you should preach the whole truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Because only the truth of God’s Word set people free and deliver them from (я) засудження.
If the church leaders wouldn’t conceal the truth of God but preach the whole truth of God’s Word in the power of the Holy Spirit, then many people would be delivered and freed from their yokes and heavy burdens. Then they would finally get what they are looking and longing for and that’s a peaceful joyful life without guilt and condemnation, anxiety and fears, including the fear of death.
Jesus promised to give rest
Прийди до Мене, all you that labour and are heavy laden, І я дам тобі відпочинок. Візьміть на себе Моє ярмо, і навчіться від Мене; бо я лагідний і покірний серцем: and you shall find rest unto your souls. Бо ярмо Моє легке, і тягар Мій легкий (Матвій 11:28-30)
Jesus promised, that He gives rest to those, who labor and are heavy laden, because His yoke is easy, and His burden is light.
Jesus promised, що кожен, who takes His yoke upon him and learn from Him, because He is meek and lowly in heart, will find rest for his soul.
If therefore, a person is still weary, heavy laden and carries a hard yoke, then it’s about time to give that hard yoke to Jesus. It’s time to let go of the things the person carries around with him.
Ісус не каже, that you won’t have to carry a yoke or that you will have no burden and will not experience storms.
Everyone will go through storms in life, there is no one excluded.
The Bible doesn’t say, that Christians won’t have storms in their lives. Навпаки, Christians will experience a lot of resistance from their surroundings and persecutions by the world, because of their faith.
The only difference between believers and unbelievers is, that born again believers are founded on the Word, and stay in Christ. Believers shall not be overwhelmed and controlled by the circumstances. They stand on the Word and not leave the Word.
They shall not murmur, скаржитися, wallow in жалість до себе, blame others (включаючи Бога) and overload themselves with worry, занепокоєння, and stress. But in the midst of their turmoil, they shall experience joy and God’s peace that derive from their relationship with Him. (Читайте також: В'язень обставин).
What does it say when people already feel guilty enough
When people feel guilty and condemned, there’s something wrong with the relationship with Jesus Christ and the Father.
Воістину, воістину, Я кажу тобі, Той, хто слухає Моє слово, і вірує в Того, Хто послав Мене, has everlasting life, і не прийде на осуд; але переходить від смерті до життя (Джон 5:24)
Maybe they are not born again or have an unrenewed mind, that causes condemnation, because they don’t feel good enough and still considers themselves a sinner.
But it can also be that they don’t want to listen to the Word of God and are not willing to відставив старого. They want to keep doing those things, which oppose the will of God. Therefore they bring condemnation upon themselves, which causes feelings of guilt.
How to be delivered from feelings of guilt and condemnation?
Only by preaching the truth of God’s Word and observing the words of God, people be delivered from feelings of guilt and condemnation.
The first thing, that disappears when you каятися і стати народжений знову is the feeling of guilt.
That’s because in Jesus Christ, you have been made free from every fault; every sin and iniquity. You are no longer guilty of sin
If you live after the Word and the Holy Spirit in righteousness, виконуючи волю Божу, you stay free from condemnation, that causes feelings of guilt.
But if you stay carnal and keep living after the flesh, doing those things that the world does, and which you did before your repentance, добре, then the feeling of guilt remains. That’s because your life stays unchanged and you have not truly repented.
This message is not often preached, because the preachers rather satisfy the believers, by preaching partial truths, which are lies and keep them in the church.
Наприклад, they say that it doesn’t matter how you live, that you may do what you want to do because God loves you anyway and He made you just the way you are.
They are afraid to speak the truth of God because they know that the truth shall demand a change in the life of the hearer. And many hearers don’t want to become doers and change their life.
They’re not willing to заплатити ціну and put off the old man. They want to make their own decisions and live, the way they want to live. Therefore many believers are living with heavy burdens, засудження, and feelings of guilt.
Do preachers stand in God’s service or people’s service?
There are many preachers today, who belong to the world and are no longer in God’s service but people’s service. They preach what the people want to hear. But church leaders do not stand in the service of people but in the service of God.
A church leader should serve the people, but should not stand in the service of people. ‘Serving’ and ‘standing in the service of’ are two completely different things.
God appointed people in the office as leaders, представляти Його, Його Слово, і Його Царство. Therefore church leaders should listen to God, serve and obey Him and live according to His will.
They shall not speak from his own carnal mind, for selfish reasons and for personal gain, because the person died to self, і поклав своє тіло.
The person is not looking for a message to draw as many people as possible in order to grow. But the person is looking for the truth and isn’t afraid to lose people because of preaching the truth.
The person is not focused on financial gain, слава, and to be put on a pedestal by the people, but the person has only one purpose and that is to exalt Jesus Christ and to honor the Father.
For this reason, the person shall listen to God and speak, what God has to say through the Word and the Holy Spirit and not deviate from His words.
Слова, which the person shall speak after God’s will, shall not only exalt Jesus and honor the Father, but the words of truth shall also strengthen the spiritual man.
The words of God are Spirit and life to the spiritual new man
The words of God may be hard, хворобливий, confronting and not always positive and nice for the carnal man, але для духовної людини, the words of God shall bring forth life, радість, and peace and cause the spiritual man to grow up into the image of Jesus Christ.
The words of God are the truth, and only the truth of God’s Word shall set people free from the lies of the devil.
The truth doesn’t only set people free from the lies of the devil, but the truth will cause the people to stay spiritual awake and watchful and that they will grow up into mature sons of God, who are not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ, but bold enough to preach the words of God and do what Jesus commanded to do.
тому, it’s about time to remove all those ‘feel good’ sermons from the church, which are mainly based upon personal experiences and philosophies of man, that temporarily causes pleasant and motivating feelings, and pleases the emotions and feelings of the carnal man, and bring back the Word of God and preach, what God has to say through the Word and the Holy Spirit to the church. It is important that the gospel of Jesus Christ and the truth of the Word of God, that calls people to repentance and sanctification, is preached again. Так що, souls are won for the Kingdom of God, instead of that souls are being pampered for the kingdom of darkness.
There is only one way, and that is through the spiritual Sword; Слово Боже, that pierces even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit(Євт 4:12). It is about time, that leaders don’t rely on (їх) own human knowledge, філософії, і наука and that they copy the methods of the world and apply them in the church, but that they rely on the living Jesus Christ and have faith in Him and act in the Ім'я Ісуса.
Paul preached Christ crucified and relied on Him
Так само, як Павло, who was filled with the Holy Spirit and wasn’t ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The apostle Paul wasn’t afraid to preach the truth of God, despite all the resistance and persecutions of man and . Paul feared God and not people, and therefore he wouldn’t dare to preach something else, then the crucified Jesus Christ.
Paul knew the power of the cross and relied on what Jesus had accomplished at the cross, instead of relying on his own intellect, знання, Мудрість, філософії, and theories of the world. He didn’t go in his own name and his authority, but in the Ім'я Ісусаand in His authority
Paul didn’t come with enticing words, that had a temporary effect on the carnal feelings and emotions of the old man. Because Paul knew, that his own words, contained no power at all and would lead to nothing. He knew the power of the Word and the effect of the Word on people. Ось чому, he spoke the words of God and spoke words of the Spirit, which confronted the carnal man, і закликав їх до покаяння, delivered the people and set them free, and caused the spiritual man to grow up and mature in Christ, and become like Him.
Don’t fear people, but fear God
Ісус сказав, that you shouldn’t be afraid of people and what they might do to you, but that you rather fear Him, Who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Because the Day of Judgment will come for everyone.
І не боїться тих, хто вбиває тіло, але не в змозі вбити душу: but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell
Матвій 10:28
On this day, every person shall give an account of every idle word that has been spoken and the works they’ve done. By the words they have spoken and the works they have done, they shall be justified or condemned (Ой. Матвій 12:36-37; 16:27-28; Одкровення 20:12-15).
Але я кажу вам, That every idle word that men shall speak, вони дадуть звіт про це в день суду. Бо словами твоїми ти будеш виправданий, і за слова твої ти будеш засуджений
Матвій 12:36-37
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