Preachers, Talk as a Dying Man to Dying Men

[Johny Joe Hold]

In their battle to destroy sin, our Pastors at Landover Baptist take big risks. Pastor Zeke rails against sin every Sunday. Do people in the pews like to here this? Some must squirm and get angry.

The problem in this country is pastors do not want to take risks. They have an income and family to support. Their thinking is, "Why rock the boat. Sin is here so just tip toe around it."

I'm encouraged when I read about preachers who tell other preachers to face the firing squad. Tell those in the pews they are sinners and they need to shape up or leave this church. Only by doing this, the link below explains, can preachers make progress against the ever-marching Satan. The author recommends preachers talk to those in the pews as dying people because surely they are going to die and their sins will damage their eternity.

Pastors: Stop Trying to be Popular—Speak as a Dying Man to Dying Men - Shane Idleman

[MitzaLizalor]

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Pastors: Stop Trying to be Popular—Speak as a Dying Man to Dying Men - Shane Idleman

Rather Than Position Yourself

This is so big. I don't squirm myself but have noticed the exudates of squirming occasionally during sermons. Ew.

It's as though you can see into their brains. The failure of humanity as a species [sic] certainly derives from (or will derive from) adopting "positions" rather than presenting arguments, as Isaiah well knew.

Isaiah 1:18-19 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land

“Did you enjoy your dinner?” my grandmother would enquire. But her question was unnecessary: everything she cooked was good. She got up early, chopped wood for her fire and taught me how to do so, looked at the sky and asked me what I saw. She never told me what she saw. She only asked questions. Learning to cook just involved watching – language not required.

Her owner was also well informed. We discussed various topics in his chicken incubator and he too asked me questions. If I asked a question I'd get an answer but generally in that environment it was, “Why do you think that chicken's doing that?” or similar. The temperature was monitored at 120˚F and conducive to active discussion. Birds run hot, I learned. And have since verified. It's not a position e.g. I think birds have a body temp. of 22˚ (or) Whatever you claim, my position is that the moon is made of feathers. It's verifiable: go and look for yourself! Has anyone returned from perdition with a positive report? No. And we know that will never happen because God is Jesus.

John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Communication communicates more than just facts. It communicates ideas. One such idea is is to use logic and reason. From the time of Isaiah's writing to the present day, nothing has surpassed what he described. God is Jesus. Jesus is God. Ask anyone: if they start squirming bodily or through duplicitous language, stand well back. Satan is present and working. I'm so glad I was taught how to distinguish lies from reality, so glad, and the moon is still there just as it was, not so many years ago. Everyone who taught me is now dead.

[Johny Joe Hold]

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This is so big. I don't squirm myself but have noticed the exudates of squirming occasionally during sermons. Ew.

Ask anyone: if they start squirming bodily or through duplicitous language, stand well back. Satan is present and working. I'm so glad I was taught how to distinguish lies from reality,

Thank you, Sister Mitza. It simply amazes me that with so much sin engulfing our country there are preachers who will not condemn it from the pulpit. Thank God for Pastor Zeke.

[Dennis Lukes]

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Joel Osteen is the ultimate fluffy bunny false Christian. If preachers try to prettify God's word, to cut out all the parts that are unpleasant, they'll all burn in Hell just the same as this grinning heretic.

[Johny Joe Hold]

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Joel Osteen is the ultimate fluffy bunny false Christian. If preachers try to prettify God's word, to cut out all the parts that are unpleasant, they'll all burn in Hell just the same as this grinning heretic.

Joel is not helping Christians. He tells Christians over and over again, "God wants you to succeed."

No, God wants to punish you for your sins. Did God tell the sinners swimming around Noah's boat pleading to be allowed on it, "I want you to succeed."?

Joel's message is dangerous because it can only make God more angry than He already is.

[MitzaLizalor]

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Hosea 7:6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.