THE SPIRIT OF TRUE PREACHING<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a big difference in preaching at someone and preaching to someone. There is a big difference in preaching to condemn someone for being wrong and preaching to convict someone that God is right. There is a big difference in loving to preach and preaching in love to those you love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Romans 9 is as clear a passage in all of the Bible concerning God\u2019s sovereign election, sovereign mercy, sovereign grace and power. But we need to begin preaching the Truth in the spirit in which Paul wrote it. He began by saying, \u201cI have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart\u2026 for my brethren, my kinsman\u201d (vs. 2-3). No man spoke the Truth more boldly or plainly, yet he did so \u201cIn love\u201d (Ephesians 4:15). We need to uncompromisingly preach the Truth of the Gospel of God\u2019s sovereign grace in Christ. But, Oh for grace to preach the Gospel of Christ in the spirit of Christ, Who cried, \u201cOh Jerusalem, Jerusalem!\u201d Christ was the only One who had a right to get mad at people, yet he wept over them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Paul Mahan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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