“SO YOU WANT TO BE A PREACHER …?”
“SO
YOU WANT TO BE A PREACHER …?”
“Then Paul
stood up … and said
“… ye that fear
God, give audience. … and whosoever
among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.”
… Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the
prophets
…” Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and
perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no
wise
believe, though a man declare it unto you. (Acts 13:16, 26, 40, 41)
Fear God?
We note
that Paul is preaching to an audience that
fears God.
It is to
these people that God will preach
salvation.
Otherwise
what is the meaning of getting saved?
Saved from
what?
Saved from
the wrath of God!
The terror
of the Lord
As the
scripture says “Knowing therefore the
terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto
God; and
I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.” (2 Corinthians
5:11)
One thing
for people to get saved is to know the
terror of the Lord. And what is the terror of the Lord?... it is God’s
wrath of
hell and its everlasting burnings for those that choose to go there by
rejecting the salvation offered by Jesus Christ.
Put it
this way, God is absolute love and absolute
wrath, with the former being, that God would come himself, in the flesh
(1 Timothy 3:16), and die for the sins of the world.
Does Satan
rule and reign in hell?
The
confusion in most people’s mind is that Satan
is the ruler in hell. Nothing could be further from the truth. Satan
has not
been to hell yet (2 Corinthians 4:4) … it is God’s everlasting
punishment for
those who will reject Jesus Christ as their saviour.
So you
want to be a preacher?
Be like
Paul (1Corinthians 11:1) … you can do no
better.
1. Preach the
fear of the Lord (Psalm 33:8; Psalm 33:18, Psalm 40:3;
) … then
2. Preach the
salvation of Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:24)
Preaching
on the street
When I
preach on the street, I am accused of
preaching fear … to which I reply … “Correct! I am! It’s the fear of
the Lord!
There’s plenty of fear around today … but it’s the wrong fear.”
How
do you preach fear?
Preach
the impossible perfection that the law commands (James 2:10; James
4:17;
Galatians 3:24). As it has been said “The law is the knife and the
gospel
stitches up the wound.”
Harley
Hitchcock
www.
AustralianBibleMinistries
.com
Australian
Bible Ministries, PO
Box 5058 Mt. Gravatt East 4122 Qld, Australia
www.AustralianBibleMinistries.com
