Sometimes I feel like old Elijah:
Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the Lord; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
1 Kings 18:22 (KJV)
We do have some good Preachers out there, I hear some good Sermons on Love, on tithing, on healing. I hear good teaching on lots of subjects, even explaining the prophecy of Daniel and Revelation. But where is the Voice of the Prophet? Where is the Thus Saith, and the Woe Unto, where is the call to repent and the Trumpet to don armor and man the wall?
Where is the Preacher that tells it like it is, no holds barred? Why are we tolerant of Sin? I don't find the word tolerance in the Bible anywhere. Yes I know the word wasn't coined until 1,300 years after Christ, but I don't find the concept anywhere in the Bible where we are to show "patience, sufferance or forbearance" to sin of any sort. For instance, " Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
" Ex 22:18 (KJV), no tolerance there and of patience with the sinner jesus said: " I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
Rev 2:2 (KJV)
So yes, we are to be patient with the sinner, but never with the sin. When we have sin in the Church, we need a Preacher wit a prophet's voice who will point it out, rebuke it, and get it out of the Church.
When we have sin in our local community we need Preachers who will, point it out, rebuke it , and get it out of the Community.
When we have sin in the Nations we need Preachers who will point it out, rebuke it, and get it out of the Nation in question.
Paul taught Timothy: "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry."
2 Tim 4:2-5 (KJV)
Be instant, in season, out of season, but instant in rebuking sin. Prove it over and over, God has no tolerance for sin. Exort your congregation to do the same, exort them with patience, but Doctrine requires truth and directness and exact obedience. Doctine is sound even if lust won't regard it or endure it. Don't let your congregation listen to the fables of the outside world as they attack the teachings of the true Church. Don't allow what false teachers and deacons from outside do affect the sure dogma inside your own Church Pastor. Rebuke over and over, in season and out, no matter what, for Woe are those who do not the Will of the Savior.
Tolerance of homosexuality, of drugs, of abortion, gossip, beastiality, lying, greed, witchcraft, busybodying, drinking, cussing, pewsitting, pride, hate, murder, adultry, and the idolatry of loving anything in this world so that it affects your Service to God; these are sins the Voice of the Prophet must weed out of the Church.
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