Preaching God's Word

Today's health and wealth preachers (your know the ones who teach "God wants all his children to wealthy and healthy here on earth") are preaching what the masses want them to preach, not what God's Word teaches. In fact God warned us of this danger when he wrote:

In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: 2 Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage — with great patience and careful instruction. 3 For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.

2 Timothy 4:1-4

Jeremiah wrote about the same phenomenon when THE LORD spoke through Jeremiah saying:

"Do not let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you. Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have. 9 They are prophesying lies to you in my name. I have not sent them," declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 29:8-9

Whether you are a preacher like me, a Sunday School teacher, or a regular Joe Christian, we need to be careful to assert what God asserts and to speak what God speaks. We must teach what the Word says, not what the crowd wants to hear.