Christ the Preacher, with Gracious Words of Truth<\/p>\n
"And all bare Him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth" (Luk_4:22).<\/p>\n
As Christ spoke that day from the pulpit in Nazareth, the people "wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth."<\/p>\n
The preacher of to-day should follow in the footsteps of Christ, the preacher of the Nazarite pulpit.<\/p>\n
The words of His text were words of gracious intent. He read where it was written: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He hath sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord."<\/p>\n
Our God is a God of all grace. He is a God full of tender compassion. The Lord Jesus spoke gracious words of a gracious God. He spoke of the pitiful poverty of the poor, but He told how riches could be obtained.<\/p>\n
He spoke of the wreckage of sin and of the broken-hearted, but He told how hearts could be healed.<\/p>\n
He spoke of the captives bound in sin, but He told them of deliverance.<\/p>\n
He spoke of those whom satan had blinded, but He spoke of Him Who gave sight to the blind.<\/p>\n
He told of the bruises of sin, but He spoke of the balm of Gilead.<\/p>\n
He preached the acceptable year of the Lord.<\/p>\n
Ministers of to-day must remember to preach the love of God. To be sure, the wages of sin is death; but is not the gift of God eternal life?<\/p>\n
To be sure, the wicked shall be turned into hell; but has He not sent us to proclaim that He suffered, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God?<\/p>\n
To be sure, a day of tribulation, an hour of gloominess and of darkness, is fast enshrouding the earth; but did He not give promise of the dawning of a new day when He shall come to reign?<\/p>\n
The preacher must place the emphasis where the Spirit of God places it, particularly in this day–the acceptable year of the Lord.<\/p>\n
We must place the emphasis upon the Cross where Christ died that He might redeem the lost.<\/p>\n
We must place the emphasis upon the empty tomb, and preach that Christ lives to strengthen and to sustain the saints.<\/p>\n
We must place the emphasis on the Second Coming of Christ, and on the glory that awaits.<\/p>\n
The minister must never allow the thought to become prevalent that he is a pessimist, scattering gloom and despair to the four winds of the heavens.<\/p>\n
The minister must not become known as a twentieth century optimist, blowing soap bubbles; but he must, recognizing the present sway and sweep of sin, and its impending darkness, scatter light amid the gloom.<\/p>\n
If the minister preaches "the world is getting worse," and that the age is rushing headlong into judgment, and that the day of Jacob's trouble is ahead; let him be sure to envelope his discourse with the fact that, from the present age, Christ is ready to save all who come to Him; that, above the storm of judgment, Christ will rapture those who are in Him; and that, after the night of Jacob's trouble, will come the day, and the reign of the Prince of Peace.<\/p>\n
Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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