A querist asks, “When preachers withhold plain Bible teaching regarding a sinful practice that exists in a congregation so they won’t“rock the boat,” is this a sinful practice?”<\/p>\n
Indeed it is, (see 1 Corinthians 5:1-2 and commentary), because it shows a lack of concern for the souls of men, and those that do so will be held accountable (cf. Ezekiel 3:18; Ezekiel 33:6).<\/p>\n
Paul reminded the Ephesians elders that when he preached, he had “kept back nothing” that was profitable to them (Acts 20:20 KJV), nor did he hold back from declaring “all the counsel of God” (Acts 20:27 KJV). If we truly love men’s souls, can we as faithful Christians do any less than the inspired apostle Paul and be approved of God?<\/p>\n
In John 15:15, our Lord stated that disciples (followers of Christ) are His “friends.” Why? Our Lord answers, “for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.” Our Lord withheld nothing from His followers pertaining to the saving gospel of Christ.<\/p>\n
Peter declares that through the knowledge of Christ, we have been given “all things that pertain unto life and godliness” (2 Peter 1:3 KJV). A gospel that is preached and taught “in part” is a defective gospel<\/strong>. No one can be saved by hearing a “partial” gospel.<\/p>\n That is exactly why Paul exhorted the young preacher, Timothy to:<\/p>\n “Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine, For the time will come when they will not endure sound [healthy] doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables<\/strong><\/em>” (2 Timothy 4:2-4).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Brethren, the Scriptures make it clear that we are to teach and preach the “whole counsel of God<\/em><\/strong>” (Acts 20:27 ASV). We are to preach it whenever folks want to hear it (“in season”), and preach it whenever folks don’t want to hear it (“out of season”) – 2 Timothy 4:2 – even to the point of “turning the world upside down<\/em><\/strong>” (Acts 17:6 KJV).<\/p>\n Yes, we’ll have to “rock the boat,” and some folks will be offended (cf. Acts 7:51-58).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A querist asks, “When preachers withhold plain Bible teaching regarding a sinful practice that exists in a congregation so they won’t“rock the boat,” is this a sinful practice?” Indeed it is, (see 1 Corinthians 5:1-2 and commentary), because it shows a lack of concern for the souls of men, and those that do so will … Continue reading “Do We Have To “Rock The Boat” In Our Preaching? – Bible study”<\/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-45497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45497","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=45497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n