Speak Plainly Series

When we preach Christ crucified, we have no reason to stammer, or stutter, or hesitate, or apologize; there is nothing in the gospel of which we have any cause to be ashamed. " Charles H. Spurgeon"

The Lord promised, "For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent" (Zephaniah 3:9). What they speak should be the pure truth. Their language should be not only grammatically pure, proper, and genuine, but theologically pure, without any tinge of error in it.

We would rather speak five words to edify others than ten thousand words in difficult and strange expressions.

If any man speaks, let him speak as God's oracles; if any man ministers, let him minister according to the ability that God gives him, that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen " (1 Peter 4:11).

"As the Lord lives, whatever the Lord says to me, that I will speak." (See 1 Kings 22:14.) We should speak neither less nor more than God's word, and we are bound to declare it with the mind of God, whom we believe in and are not to be shaken in our confidence in him.

Don’t speak falsehood plainly so that the wrath of God will not come upon you like the foolish prophets in the book of Ezekiel.

"Woe unto the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing! They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, "The Lord saith" and "the Lord hath not sent them." And they have made others hope that they would confirm the word. Have you not seen a fictitious vision, and have you not spoken a false divination, while saying, "The Lord saith it," though I have not spoken? Therefore, thus saith the Lord God; because ye have spoken vanity and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord God". (Ezekiel 13:3,6,7,8)

CONCLUSION

1. How do we present the gospel truth to our congregation? Do they really understand it the way Christ preached it to us? Are we concerned more about their applause or the conviction of their hearts while preaching? Are we moved by their influx into the church, only to be entertained by comedians, not by the truth of the Gospel that was purchased by the blood of Jesus? God sends "the doves" to His ministers to feed them with pure, holy, wholesome doctrine, not with the chaff of unwritten traditions, nor with the mixtures of human inventions.

I have loved you with an everlasting love (Jeremiah 31:3), therefore I have not delivered the soul of my turtle dove into the company of the wicked" (Psalm 74:19).

2. God usually speaks his words to us plainly so we can deliver the messages clearly to his children, but we don’t hearken to his voice (Psalm 81:11). When men refuse to listen to God's counsel after he spoke plainly to them, their eyes will see and their hearts will tremble when they see his judgments; he said, "I will spue you out of my mouth" (Revelation 3:16).