The Apostle Paul exhorted his disciple Timothy with the following words which apply to us today. You may turn in your Bibles to 2 Timothy. We're going to be in chapter 4 and in verses 1-5. Paul is telling Timothy how to preach and reprove sinners and rebuke sin, to exhort his hearers with doctrine. Paul even describes our sad spiritual condition today where we pick for ourselves teachers who scratch our itch and nothing more. Here now is the word of God for us today.
1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall
judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2 Preach
the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with
all longsuffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will not
endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to
themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their
ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 5 But watch thou in all
things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of
thy ministry.
I'm sorry to say, friends, that we don't have many preachers today who reprove or rebuke anything, much less preach the great doctrines of the Gospel. Sadly, we live in a day, friends, of a diluted Gospel that's been so watered down it no longer has any teeth or power. It grieves me how the American church has become seeker friendly, politically correct and a house of entertainment. Many preachers today do not even know what the Gospel is, much less know how to preach it to bring sinners to conviction of sin and salvation through repentance toward God and faith in Jesus Christ. A seminary does not teach you how to preach the Gospel, I know, I’ve graduated from two different seminaries. They taught me theology, church history, apologetics and biblical studies but not how to preach the Gospel of the Son of God. I had to learn that outside of a seminary
classroom.
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