Preach!

It is all of our jobs to preach the Word! Look at these verses:

2 Timothy 4:2-4

2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.

Here Paul was telling young Timothy to preach the Word! We are to do the same. God wants us all to share the truth with others. In verse 2 Paul tells us to be ready at all times. Look at some of the words Paul uses to Timothy...convince-proof of the truth is in the Word. Show others what the Word says. This is why it is very important why must learn our Bibles. Rebuke-when others or ourselves are doing wrong we must be rebuked. BUT we must do this as the Bible tells us, rebuke gently and with love. If done in any other way it will not be absorbed by the one you are talking too. Exhort-means urge, advise, use caution...following God's Word is hard and we must exhort one another and keep each other accountable. Longsuffering-means to be very very patient even when the other is resisting you in doing right. In this area think of how we agonize God and He is still loving and patient with us...this is how we must be with others! Teach-we must instruct. So many don't have a clue what the Bible says, it is our job to teach them.

Verses 3-4 describe our Nation and World right now! People learn and believe what they want to be right not what the Word of God teaches. What or ears want to hear we now have teachers who will fill them with that wrong imformation. When told the truth they makes excuses and tell us we are judging them when in reality God's Word is judging them not us. Then they turn back to their lies and continue to live in their sin.

So let me ask this morning...are we preaching God's Word. Are we holding strong to the way God's Word tells us to preach as described in verse 2? My friends it is not easy but we are commanded to do so. It is not just the preachers job to share the Word...it is everyones who calls themselves a follower of Christ!

Have a blessed day and share Jesus!