There are preachers who drink to the point of drunkenness, but want nothing to do with evangelism.
There are pastors addicted to porn who oppose soul winning.
There are preachers cheating on their spouse, who at the same time, refuse to preach the Gospel.
Matthew Henry wrote this, concerning the Pharisees:
“They were very strict in avoiding sinners, but not in avoiding sin; none greater zealots than they for the form of godliness, nor greater enemies to the power of it.”
“Hate the sin, but love the sinner,” is a popular quote.
These ministers reverse it.
They love the sin, but hate the sinner.
It is easy to be outraged by immoral pastors.
But the sin of ‘loving sin and hating the sinner’ can be more subtle than booze, porn, or adultery—more subtle, but no less evil.
The Pharisees were not drunks, nor were they sexually immoral, yet, they were guilty of reversing their calling.
They loved power and popularity while disdaining the poor and the lost.
They even attacked Christ for being around sinners.
The modern preachers who love adoring crowds and obscene wealth;
the trendy pastor who deliberately takes the Bible out of context to advance a seductive message;
the celebrity minister who is silent when interviewed by the secular media about hell, the Cross, sexual sin, and the need to repent:
are all as guilty as Pharisees, and immoral ministers.
They also ‘love the sin, but hate the sinner.’
Hating a sinner means you know your message won’t help them, but you preach it anyway.
Hating the lost means you love other things more than seeing men and women delivered from the power of Satan.
Lost souls are going to hell, yet that never occurs to these modern preachers.
Their obsession with numbers, prestige, and remaining acceptable by the outside world, has deafened them.
Modern preaching stopped being focused on winning souls, and not winning souls has done more damage than anything else to our nation.
If America finally does degrade into a socialist dictatorship—under the wholly corrupt Democrat Party—it will be the fault of the pulpit.
Charles Finney said,
“If there is a decay of conscience, the pulpit is responsible for it.
If the public press lacks moral discrimination, the pulpit is responsible for it.
If the church is degenerate and worldly, the pulpit is responsible for it.
If the world loses its interest in religion, the pulpit is responsible for it.
If Satan rules in our halls of legislation, the pulpit is responsible for it.
If our politics become so corrupt that the very foundations of our government are ready to fall away, the pulpit is responsible for it.
Let us not ignore this fact, my dear brethren;
but let us lay it to heart, and be thoroughly awake to our responsibility in respect to the morals of this nation.”
How evil is it when the very ones who are called to save a nation, instead, advance her destruction because of their vanity?
The rampant sin of corrupt preaching is the mastodon in the room.
We don’t want to talk about it.
It is breaking a taboo to expose it.
But, it is a towering iniquity that must be rebuked and rebuked fervently!
Sermons that garner the highest adulation may have been born in the lowest hell.
Voices that receive wild acceptance from the world can be Satan’s greatest tool.
The greatest attack on the Body of Christ will not come from without, but from within.
Again, Matthew Henry wrote,
“Seducers are more dangerous enemies to the church than persecutors.”
False ministers are a trophy of Satan.
It only takes a few of them to do horrendous harm.
On the other hand, a small number of truly consecrated men and women can do astounding good even at this hour.
The dividing and separating has begun.
The coronavirus was the deadline.
The Lord has waited patiently, but now He will judge false ministers.
Watch, the correction will be swift and fierce.
The voice of God is calling the righteous core to His side.
He means to equip them with nation-saving skills.
At the same time, carnal ministers are on social media, vainly trying to save their empire.
Even now, they insist on preaching their hollow lies, as if nothing has happened to justify repentance.
But you, vessel of God: ignore them. You have fresh orders.
God is seizing you and He is seizing the moment to build you into a mighty vessel of love, truth, and supernatural power. Here is your mandate from the Bible:
“But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor. Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work” (2 Timothy 2:20-21).
Cleanse yourself from the corrupt ‘Christianity incorporated’ that has bitterly failed America.
Embrace robes of righteousness.
Submit to the refiner’s fire, and you will come forth as gold.
Instead of using the degrading tactics of human marketing, we must take up the weapons of God!
“The weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood]. Our weapons are divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying sophisticated arguments and every exalted and proud thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought and purpose captive to the obedience of Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:4-5).
That is the picture of a new breed of preacher.
Gifts of miracles will tear down demonic strongholds.
Words from the Holy Spirit will destroy the most sophisticated arguments against the Gospel of Christ.
Messages will be preached.
Souls will be saved. Disciples will be created.
And America will be delivered. Hallelujah!
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