This week I want to share some insights into the role of the preaching of the Word of God. I begin with stating again how important the Word of God is to a believer.
When we look at Scripture, EVERYTHING we want to do as a church THE WORD does.
* The Word saves.
* The Word teaches.
* The Word convicts.
* The Word corrects.
* The Word trains.
* The Word equips.
* The Word transforms.
Church, the Word does the work married with the Holy Spirit. We are powerless and impotent without both. The Word must have the highest honor in our worship services, in our Sunday Schools, in our children's programs.
II Timothy 4: 2 "Preach the Word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 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; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables."
There is doubt the Pastor is to be dedicated to the Word of God. But is reading and studying the Bible a priority in your life? What value does it have in your life? What things are allowed to take precedence over God's Word?
The lost need the Word. First, are you praying specifically for some to be saved? Then "how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?" (Romans 10:14). You are that preacher and what we must do is share the Word with them. Prayer alone will not win them.
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