“We are commanded by the Lord to raise up disciples, not spectators.”
Last year, I highlighted church statistics where George Barna’s Research Group found that after surveying pastors from across the country as to why they were not preaching against the sins of the nation as Scripture commands, they found the following.
“What we are finding is that when we ask them (the pastors) about all the key issues of the day {90% of them are} telling us, yes, the Bible speaks to every one of these issues. Then we ask them: Well, are you teaching your people what the Bible says about those issues? – And the numbers drop… to less than 10% of pastors who say they will speak to it.”
When researchers asked those pastors what else they are willing to do to get their people active in their political process, Barna said, “It is almost nothing.”
What great awakening preacher George Whitefield conveyed long ago rings true today when he said, “The reason why congregations have been so dead is because they have dead men preaching to them.”
Friends, the message that Jesus gives to His disciples, both past and present, is “Repent for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” When they repent, they will also preach repentance towards God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 20:1) . Read Matthew 3:2 and Mark 4:17. So, in the end, sheep will beget sheep.
If pastors today are not preaching out against sin, it just means that they have never repented, are dead, and remain in their sins. This is what Scripture clearly teaches (1 Corinthians 15:14-17).
As a famous preacher from the 1700-1800’s rightly perceived, if you want to know why they do not preach out against the sins of the culture, follow them home, and you will discover why. They are guilty of it (Numbers 32:23)!
The men of old who were used by the Lord to establish this country are not at all the same in comparison to what it is that you see in America today. Preachers and theologians such as Augustine, Jonathan Edwards, Martin Luther, John Knox, Charles H. Spurgeon, William Booth and the Black Robed Regiment (Puritans) were a complete night and day difference from what reigns in our pulpits today (John 10:12). Read Jeremiah 6:16 and Hebrews 11:32-34.
Just look at the nation and what it has become in the last generation alone. The people of this nation are not repenting of their sins before God. They are embracing them in their rebellion and that, to their own demise (Psalm 9:16-17).
What do repentant men do? They bring forth the fruits of repentance (2 Corinthians 7:10-11), they seek and save that which is lost, they raise up disciples, they build the old waste places (Isaiah 58:12), and they bring forth the answers to a world that is in dire need of that in which only the Lord can and will give (Mark 16:20; 1 Corinthians 4:20).
Friends, the Church of Christ is to be on the offensive, not on the defensive. And as I have already stated, “We are to raise up disciples, not spectators.”
When reading Ephesians 6:10-20, you will find that the armor of God is for the front, not the back. Furthermore, Scripture makes clear that the gates of hell shall not prevail against the Church (Matthew 16:18), and that in ALL things we are made more than conquers through Him who loved us (Romans 8:37). Scripture tells us that greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world (1 John 4:4), and that those that are born of God overcome this world, and the victory that overcomes this world is faith (1 John 5:4). How could it be otherwise?
Jesus told us that He has given us all power over the enemy (Luke 10:19) and that we would do greater works than He did.
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto My Father.” -John 14:12
Just think about that, He promised the Church that they would do greater works, but is that what we are seeing in America today? Certainly not.
Friends, I have been throughout this country living out what I have just relayed to you. For the past 30 years, I have traveled this nation from coast to coast doing over 3,000 events, including 366 public high school assembly programs in 25 states, colleges, churches, prisons, festivals, patriot meetings and more. I have been featured on Fox News and the New York Times standing for our biblical and constitutional values. I also do national radio broadcasting into 160 affiliate stations across the country. And now, on top of all this, I have been receiving many requests to have church services online to fill the need of those who have no place to go to church on Sundays.
Well, friends, we were honored by the requests. Therefore, we obliged. So, if you are ready to hear that truth that will set you free, the unadulterated Word of God, then join us every Sunday at 9:00 AM (Central Time) for messages that will open your eyes to see the Gospel as it was intended to be preached… without compromise by raising up disciples for Christ and His Kingdom.
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