Just Say It!

Jeremiah 1: 17

"Get yourself ready! Stand up and say to them whatever I command you. Do not be terrified by them, or I will terrify you before them.”

I think one of the hardest things for me when I preach, are the facial expressions shared by some in the audience.

I also know that I’m intimated by a few comments I get from folks, about the nature of Sunday morning messages.

I even consider heading in different doctrinal directions, when people’s beaks get bent a certain way.

God told the prophet Jeremiah, to say it just as He told him to say it.

If you study the Word long enough, you know that Jesus, nor did the prophets spare the horses when it came to telling the truth.

I realize that’s not popular in the church anymore. It’s probably even considered out of touch or even old fashioned.

People get easily offended, and even leave churches when the truth is expounded upon.

I had an old preacher friend of mine tell me one day that he believed the church has been way too nice—for way too long.

And yet God tells us, that we should not be frightened by people who gripe about the content of a sermon.

Actually He said, that we should be terrified of His response—if we don’t tell it like it is.

I have to really weigh my life this way…. “Do I want to please man, or the God who saved me?”

Don’t the events that happened in Boston on Monday, get you to think even just a little bit?

If they don’t, then we’re not paying enough attention to the depravity of our current culture.

If it’s all the same to you, I have to keep doing things and saying things as the Father brings revelation and conviction.

I also need to be keep in mind, that I will be judged by God one day—and not by people…..