{"id":33254,"date":"2022-09-10T20:41:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T01:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/right-before-the-rapture-what-are-we-to-do\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T20:41:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T01:41:44","slug":"right-before-the-rapture-what-are-we-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/right-before-the-rapture-what-are-we-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Right before the Rapture \u2026 What Are We to Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires; and will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside to myths.\u00a0<\/em>2 Timothy 4:3-4<\/p>\n

I have a good friend of mine who works with churches to help them design and build new facilities.\u00a0 It\u2019s a calling from God for him, but he was lamenting about the fact that so many churches today seem more concerned with production, entertainment, and style than they do with preaching, praying and heart-felt worship.\u00a0 He told me that the new wave is for pastors to preach a 15 minute \u201cfeel good\u201d sermonette.\u00a0 Some very popular preachers on TV today rarely mention sin, or the cross, or the core message of the Bible.\u00a0 YIKES!<\/p>\n

A MARK OF THE END TIMES<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you pastor a church or preach regularly, you need to be sure you are aware of this fact.\u00a0 One of the tell-tale signs we are living in the last days is the abandonment of the preaching of the Bible, the very Word of the living God.<\/p>\n

I believe we are seeing an increasing number of preachers who appear to be more concerned with popularity and political correctness than they are with faithfulness to preach the whole counsel of God.\u00a0 Peter and John could have gotten along just fine with the Jewish Sanhedrin IF they had only stopped preaching in Jesus\u2019 name \u2026 but they would not do that!\u00a0 They were called to be His witnesses, even if their witness meant prison and death.\u00a0 As the viciously attacked beauty contestant, Carrie Prejean, so aptly said after she gave her \u201ccontroversial\u201d answer to the gay marriage question at the Miss USA pageant, \u201cI would rather be biblically correct than politically correct.\u201d\u00a0 Would to God that every preacher in America had the courage and conviction of Peter, John \u2026 and even Carrie Prejean!<\/p>\n

EVERY PASTOR\u2019S CALL<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paul emphatically and clearly told young Pastor Timothy, \u201cPreach the Word!\u201d\u00a0 We are not to preach pop psychology or \u201cfeel good\u201d theology \u2026 we are to preach His Word. \u00a0Now, it is true that we must make it culturally relevant and be as approachable and winsome as possible so people will be able to hear the message, but we are to \u2018preach the Word!\u2019 \u00a0Why?\u00a0 Because the devil works hard to get us to turn away from the Word.\u00a0 The devil knows that the Word of God is milk (1 Pet. 2:2), bread (Matt. 4:4) and meat (Heb. 5:14) for our souls.\u00a0 He knows that there is nothing more important for us TO HEAR AND TO DO than God\u2019s Word.\u00a0 It is the Word of God that produces faith (Rom. 10:17).\u00a0 If the devil can get us to water down the Word, compromise the Word, lay aside the Word, or, God forbid, disbelieve the Word \u2026 he has us right where he wants us.<\/p>\n

OUR CHALLENGE FROM GOD<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Bible challenges us to be people who tremble at His Word (Is. 66:2).\u00a0 May you and I ALWAYS hold to the clear teachings of the Bible, even if those clear teachings go against the grain of political correctness and the world\u2019s warped understanding of \u201clove.\u201d\u00a0 Make no mistake about it; real love kindly but firmly tells people the truth, even if it is unpopular and unpalatable to their ears.<\/p>\n

Remember, truth is not what you may think, or what you may feel, or what may seem right to you \u2026 truth is what God says (Jn. 17:17).\u00a0 We would do well to cling to His Word.\u00a0 God will always honor the person who honors Him (1 Sam. 2:30).<\/p>\n

Love,<\/p>\n

Dr. Jeff Schreve<\/p>\n

From His Heart Ministries<\/p>\n

Pastor, First Baptist Church, Texarkana, TX<\/p>\n

www.fromhisheart.org<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires; and will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside to myths.\u00a02 Timothy 4:3-4 I have a good friend of mine … Continue reading “Right before the Rapture \u2026 What Are We to Do?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}