Recently I was accused of being too harsh and called a “sledgehammer.”
Was the message of the original Gospel always soft? Did Jesus and His holy apostles pander to the sinful sentiments and whims of sinful men? No! Read God’s Word for yourself as He commanded you to do – and cease now to be misled by the soft-peddling pansies of today’s apostate modern church world! Repent now. Follow Jesus! Then you won’t live by your sinful emotions but will rather be an authentic disciple of Jesus who loves His truth – NO MATTER WHO IT OFFENDS. But first it must offend YOU unto repentance – to drive you to real repentance and a real, a crucified walk with Jesus (Galatians 2:20). “Let God be true and EVERY man a liar.” (Romans 3:4) “You preach this Gospel JUST LIKE it’s written young man, you understand me!” | YOU Preach this Gospel Just Like it’s Written Son!
Gospel truth-tellers, sledgehammers, have always been and still are God’s way of bringing those in darkness into His light: “Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?” (Jeremiah 23:29)
Here’s why such powerful words, the very words of God, must be proclaimed in an apologetically fashion:
“And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.” John 3:19-21
Unnecessary harshness? Noooo!!!!!
Perhaps we could learn some things…. right? For example, how does God define true “love” as opposed to the sinful whims of evil-justifying un-repentant men? “Open rebuke is BETTER than secret love. 6 Faithful are the wounds of a FRIEND; but the kisses of an ENEMY are deceitful.” (Proverbs 27:5-6) Are you rebuking when needed or are you the enemy who kisses, compromises with that which God calls sin/evil?
Un-repentant, sin-justifying compromisers want to act like we don’t have a Bible – to deny that God, the Judge, has spoken. So these children of Satan attempt to shut down the messengers of truth! Steam roll them with God’s Word and authority saints – “Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.” (2 Timothy 4:2) ! SMH What ever we read in the Bible is from the JUDGE and if you don’t believe that, you are “not of God” according to Christ (John 8:47).
Modern pastoral pansies peddle compromise only because their own personal lives are compromised. “The righteous are bold as a lion.” (Proverbs 28:1)
BEWARE of the soft-peddling modern hirelings! They only want to use you to build their own kingdom using Christ’s name in vain – while refusing to offend you with the truth. These are the half-truth warlocks in our midst. They will never speak straight, call you to repent, preach the cross, inform you that without holiness no man shall see the LORD, that “eternal security” is a lie from hell, that all the lukewarm are hell bound, that you are as sure for hell as if you were already there if you are not in a holy, abiding relationship with Christ ! RUN!!!!
The Bible is full of warnings from Genesis to Revelation. If you have a problem with warnings, you have a problem with God. Warning is for protection. If you don’t like warnings, you simply give away the Bible to someone who is an authentic, honest a truth seeker.
Would you correct Christ’s apostle Paul for being too harsh (according to you)? Here’s what Paul said to a deceiver in his day:
“Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him, 10 And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?” Acts 13:10
Soft men get nothing done. No, they only coddle and perpetual people in their sins, leading them to damnation.
John the Baptist and Jesus spoke straight. They were full of the Holy Ghost, zeal and fear of God. Jesus told the false leaders of His day that they are going to hell 3 times in Matthew 23. Jesus warned because He loves and He is still doing so through His few true servants today. Warning!
The soft-peddling, half-truth pansies who “man” most pulpits are nothing but rebels, moral cowards. If they were men of God – they’d fearlessly preaching the whole truth of God as He mandated we do! (2 Timothy 4:2-4; Jude 3, etc.)
“Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.” Jude 3
Those who refuse to speak the full truth of God’s Word don’t do so because they are not in the cross and are preserving their lives in this world (Luke 14:33; 17:33; John 12:23-25). These are the very false prophets we were so often warned about! Run!
