PREACHING

There is no doubt that today is a day like no other ever before. No doubt every generation has probably said the same thing… However, this must never be an excuse... This knowledge of this truth must not be ignored, or cast off with the shrug of the shoulders… With each passing day proven by statistics, proven by the morals or the lack thereof… I believe also proven by the increase of our knowledge and the advancements of our age… Never has there been a day like today…

 

·        I say that not to excuse the preacher from preaching…

·        I say that not to excuse the church from being the church…

The fact is we are in a day that every day and every minute of the day our faith is under attack… If our faith is under attack that means the preaching of the word is under attack… It is the preaching of the word of GOD that caused us to believe… It’s the preaching of the word of GOD that gives us faith…

Paul asked…

Gal 3:2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?     KJV

 

Paul stated to the church of Rome…

Rom 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.    KJV

 

·        The hearing of the preached word of GOD is what brings forth faith…

·        The hearing of faith brought us to the Holy Ghost…

·        Christ came by the preached word of GOD…

The word was made flesh and dwelt among us... Yet, Jesus did not come without an announcement… Jesus came by way of the preached word of GOD… (THE PROPHETS, THE PSALMS…)

We that obeyed the word of GOD… The gospel was not obeyed until we first heard the gospel preached…

 

Paul said, of all things that he came preaching… Notice what he preached first…

 

1 Cor 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: KJV

 

This that Paul first received, he also first preached, because this was preached to him… What was preached to him, he received into him, and came upon him…

 

2 Peter 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.    KJV

 

The book of Acts is nothing but the account of what the preaching of the word of GOD gave us… We see HIS results, because we like them that first heard the word of GOD, believed…

 

Acts 2… What shall we do??? Then Peter said… Then Peter preached…

Acts 8… The Samaritans being baptized was the result of Phillip preaching the word of GOD… The Samaritans were filled with the Holy Ghost when Peter and John was sent unto them… Again, the preached word of GOD was the means of their deliverance, salvation and their knowledge of the truth…

 

The Ethiopian in Acts 8 being baptized and filled with the HG… Came about because GOD sent Philip to preach unto him the word of GOD…

 

Acts 10, gives the result of Peter preaching the word of GOD to the first gentile Cornelius and all his house…

 

Acts 16… The jailer’s salvation was the result of the preached word of GOD…

 

Acts 19… Paul preaching to the disciples of John the Baptist which already believed in Jesus yet at the preaching of Paul were filled with Jesus, because of Paul’s preaching the word of GOD…

 

Acts 9… Paul’s own salvation and deliverance from religion came not at the place of being knocked off his horse, blinded, and hearing the voice of Jesus from heaven… But came when he heard the word preached by Ananias…

 

·        IT IS THE PREACHED WORD OF GOD THAT GOT THE DESIRED RESULTS…

·        IT WAS THE PREACHED WORD OF GOD THAT CONVERTED THE SINNER…

·        IT WAS THE PREACHED WORD OF GOD THAT BROUGHT FORTH OBEDIENCE…

·        IT WAS THE PREACHED WORD OF GOD THAT CAUSED THEM “TO BELIEVE AS THE SCRIPTURE HATH SAID…”

 

Acts 5:32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.     KJV

 

THIS CAME AND COULD ONLY COME BY THE PREACHED WORD OF GOD…

 

The Holy Ghost fell on them when they heard the word preached…

 

Where are we to go??? To wherever the word of GOD tells us…

What are we to believe??? Whatever the word of GOD tells us…

How are we to walk??? The way the word of GOD tells us…

What are we to speak??? Whatever the word of GOD tells us to speak…

How are we to be saved??? The way the word of GOD tells us…

 

WE MUST KNOW IT HINGES ALL ON THE WORD OF GOD AND US HEARING AND OBEYING THE WORD OF GOD…

 

Rom 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?     KJV

 

We all need preaching and we all need a preacher of the word of GOD… Without a preacher we cannot believe because without a preacher we cannot hear… THANK GOD FOR THE PREACHED WORD OF GOD… THANK GOD FOR GIVING ME A PREACHER TO PREACH TO ME THE LIFE TRANSFORMING WORD OF GOD… WE CAN HAVE HOPE THAT GOES BEYOND WHAT OUR DAY IS SAYING TO US… WE CAN HAVE WHAT HEAVEN SAYS WE CAN HAVE BECAUSE OF THE PREACHED WORD OF GOD…