02/02/24 SOME "ISSUES" MATTER

02/02/24 SOME "ISSUES" MATTER

I remember when society said that no one should talk about "religion" or politics in normal conversation, and most folks followed that advice.
Boy, were those people deceived.

I remember when the government and the church community said that preachers should not preach on "political" subjects (unlike Biblical messengers who dealt with morality, social and civil order, salvation, which were very political) from the pulpit, and most pastors followed that directive.
Boy, were those preachers gullible.

I remember when people referred to my preaching, as "issues" preaching. I was preaching about the Lordship of Christ over His people and His Church, the murder of the unborn, the "sterilizing" of the Church, the brainwashing of our children by Humanistic Secularism, the abandoning of Biblical order (for family, church, society and nation), the overthrowing of freedom (among other "ISSUES"). God's word and God's salvation are specifically aimed at the moral issues of society that destroy individuals, families and nations.
Obviously I was preaching Biblical truth, while so many others were stroking the enemies of the cross (political, academic, and religious), in order to get public, government, congregational approval and financial support for their gutless message.
So, how did the watered down, castrated, twisted preaching of a corrupted ministry turn out for America?

Good preaching is not determined by oratoracle prowess, charismatic appeal, academic accomplishment, wild eyed rhetoric. Good preaching is the loving, uncompromising, sincere proclamation of God's eternal, unchanging, Christ honoring, Spirit led, Biblically sound, sin hating, soul saving, life transforming message of God.

We could sing, "where have all the preachers gone?"
We can also sing, "where are the preachers going to come from?"

There might not be much time left to reach this Noahic society (including our own young people).
Who will do the Lord's work?
Who will lift the banner?
Who is raising up an army?
Who is leading and training the next generation of spiritual warriors?
Who will say, "Here am I Lord, send me?"