"Preach The Word"

II Timothy 4:1-5

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.

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t would be reasonable to say that all of us at some point have either been given a definition of preaching or have developed our own. Specifically, preaching is "a spoken communication of divine truth with a view toward persuasion" that diving truth of course being the Word.

Of course, divine truth will represent a divine mind, so one speaking (preaching) it should portray the mind of Christ. In order to know the mind of Christ one must know the Word. So, it logically follows that a preacher must know the word of God.

Many who call themselves preachers are not true preachers of the Word of God. You see, one who represents God must first know how and why God speakers. The only way to access this information is through the Holy Ghost.

Today, one can access many different "kinds" of messages. The devil has very strategically placed deceptive doctrine where most people can be tricked and deceived. Most frequently the vulnerable are lulled into a feeling of false security.

Though the majority of the Church world serves God for political and/or social reasons, we know His Word that we are to serve Him for His reasons. We (mankind) are not some "accident" that just happened but rather we were purposely created. He would not have given life to a being just to heap blessings upon him and not receive something of him for himself.

One currently popular message is that of the depth of God's love for us. The fact is that we can read for ourselves how much He loves us. That which needs to be made clear to us is what is required of us. One calling himself a preacher, who does not do this, is misleading his followers and doing them a disservice.

There is an existent plan for those who will belong to Him. If He would allow anyone entrance into His kingdom without meeting His requirements, He would be forced to allow everyone to join Him.

One can get much "information" from preaching today, but not necessarily truth. Therefore, to compensate for this lack of truth, our lives must be its greatest testimony. We must live our lives in a way to represent what we say is true of our God. If we profess Him as a deliverer, we must live a delivered life. If we profess Him as a healer, we must accept our healing. If we profess Him as a Saviour, we must live saved. This is so a dying world might know that because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ of this and more, there is hope.

The first acceptance of the believer must be that God "is" and therefore, He will reward those who seek Him. Of course, many already feel that they have been looking for Him for a long time. However, this is not what scripture says. We can read that the day that we seek Him with our whole heart, He will be found.

Now has begun a consecrated effort by God for His people to do what they have been birthed into salvation to do. That is to take on the responsibility of obeying Him and adhering to His principles.

The Word has to be accepted and used in its unadulterated form. Unfortunately, what we have become accustomed to is hearing it intellectualized and often intellectualizing it ourselves. Since God's intellect will always be greater than ours, we must simply accept rather than understand what He says. If we would only accept the Word of God, we would receive revelation and understanding into our lives. This would liberate us from dealing with the "ordinary" in our lives and allow us to concentrate on the extraordinary work of the Lord.