Hello everybody, it's MinistriesTall23 back in the video. In this video I'm going to be talking about
lazy churches and lazy Christians who refuse to ever preach the gospel because
unfortunately out there there are some churches, some congregations of real
saved Bible-leaving born-again Christians with right doctrine and with
a right understanding of the gospel but who are lazy and unwilling to do the
work of preaching the gospel. Now the root of the problem does not lie simply
with the people of the church but most of the time it's with the leadership of
the church, the pastors and the deacons who should be organizing the soul
winning and the evangelism. There are even some churches with the title of
Baptists who don't do any soul winning and then there's some who do do soul
winning but only once or twice a month or they go out rarely in special
events or anything like this but Jesus commanded us to to preach as much as
possible. He said in Mark chapter 16 verse 15 he said unto them go ye into
all the world and preach the gospel to every creature and then he also commanded
in Matthew chapter 28 verse 19-20 go ye therefore and teach all nations
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost
teach them to observe all things whatsoever I've commanded you and lo I
am with you always even until the end of the world amen and this is what we
repeatedly see happen in the book of Acts that the Apostles and the early
church actually went out to preach the gospel they actually obey the command
of Jesus and went to get people saved for example after Peter's sermon to the
Jews in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost this happened in Acts chapter
2 verse 41 it says then they that gladly received his word were baptized in the
same day they were added unto them about 3,000 souls so from the work of the
church on the first day of his existence on the day of Pentecost 3,000 people
were saved just because Peter delivered this sermon to the people of Jerusalem
now it says also in Acts chapter 4 verse 4 be it many of them which heard the
word believed and the number of the men was about 5,000 this wasn't long after
Jesus said in Acts chapter 1 verse 8 you shall be witnesses unto me both in
Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria unto the uttermost parts of the earth
they obeyed his command and they taught the gospel they shared the gospel with
other people who were unsaved because if you don't do that then people aren't
going to get saved you need to actually preach the gospel in order to for
somebody to accept the gospel even when the disciples were faced with
persecution too when they were met with those who were trying to get them to
stop they continued to preach it says in Acts chapter 4 verse 18 to 20 and they
called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of
Jesus but Peter and John answered and said unto them whether it be right in
the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God judge you for we can
not but speak the things which we have seen and heard remember the Bible says
we ought to obey God rather than men so maybe part of the problem with the lazy
Christians with the lazy churches is the fact that they're afraid of persecution
they're afraid of people criticizing them for sharing the gospel for
preaching God's Word or it could be a combination of both both laziness and
fear of persecution they think that it might be too much work both to preach
the gospel but also to encounter those in the world who are hostile to them and
hostile to the Word of God but the Bible tells us in Romans 1 16 for I am NOT
ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to
everyone that believeth the Jew first and also to the Greek and then it says
in Ephesians chapter 6 verse 19 to 20 and for me that utterance may be given
to me that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel
for which I am an ambassador in bonds that there and I may speak boldly as I
ought to speak so there may even be some people who are who we meet to witness to
who are completely messed up in their sin who completely just don't care about
what the Bible says wicked people who are just against the scripture but it
doesn't matter at all because the gospel is a power of God because God the
God is on our side when we go out preaching the conversion of these people
is not simply by our own work it's not simply by our own doing it's through the
working of the Holy Ghost the Holy Ghost guides these people and they choose
whether or not to respond to the preaching of God's Word so remember the
Bible says it's the power of God unto salvation so that's why we shouldn't be
ashamed of the gospel we shouldn't be afraid of going out and preaching we
should rather speak it boldly as Paul did and those of the other apostles did
even in the face of persecution because in the end it's the gospel that gets
people saved without it people cannot be saved and that's another false doctrine
which needs to be addressed briefly the idea of both some Calvinists out there
who are to believe that God's just going to choose everybody and they're
genuinely saved no matter what so there's no point in soul winning and
then other Baptists who think that people get saved without the preaching
of God's Word but the fact is that you can't get saved without the preaching of
God's Word and that's a fact that's unfortunately not understood by
some churches out there there are some churches with a word like Baptist in
their name who don't understand the fact that you need to preach the Word of God
in order for somebody to get saved it says in Romans chapter 10 verse 9 to 17
that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus shall believe in
thine heart that God hath raised from the dead thou shalt be safe for with the
heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made
unto salvation for the scripture saith whosoever believeth on him shall not be
ashamed for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek for the
same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him for whosoever shall call
upon the name of the Lord shall be saved how then shall I call on him in whom
they have not believed and how shall they believe in him of whom they have
not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher and how shall they
preach except they be sent as it is written how beautiful are the feet of
them to preach the gospel of peace that bring glad tidings of good things but
they have not all obeyed the gospel for as I say saith Lord who hath believed
our report so then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God
so if somebody doesn't preach God's Word the lost cannot hear God's Word they
cannot understand God's Word if they do not hear God's Word they cannot accept
God's Word and therefore they will not be saved it's only through evangelism
through witnessing to the loss through explaining and preaching the gospel to
the unsaved that they can actually get their sins forgiven that's exactly what
Romans 10 teaches but we see this elsewhere for example when Peter met
with Cornelius in Acts chapter 10 it says in verse 37 of verse 43 that word I
say you know which was published throughout all Judea and began from
Galilee after the baptism which John preached have God anointed Jesus and
Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power who went about doing good and
healing all that were oppressed of the devil for God was with him and we are
witnesses of all things which he did both the land of the Jews and in
Jerusalem whom they slew and hanged on a tree him God raised up the third day and
showed him openly not to all the people but unto witnesses chosen before God
even to us who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead and he
commanded us to preach unto the people and to testify that it is he who which
was ordained of God to be the judge of quick and dead to him give all the
prophets witness that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive
remission of sins if we don't preach his name if we don't preach anything about
Jesus as Jesus commanded us then people are not going to have remission of sins
so if you're in a church that's lazy that doesn't want to do the work of
preaching the gospel that wasn't doesn't want to go out to soul winning I advise
you that you take scripture into consideration and go out and preach the
gospel and at least show some of these scriptures to other people in your
congregation to explain to them maybe even your pastor or if you are pastor
out there whatever because this is what the Bible says what the Bible commands
us to do to preach the gospel for it is the power of God unto salvation so doing
so doing this good work for God is more important than anything else that saves
people from hell we need to consider that that once we were unsaved as well
once we did not have forgiveness of sins but thankfully somebody taught us the
gospel somebody preached the gospel unto us now we should go out and do the same
thing we're made ministers of God we're called the ambassadors of Christ in the
Bible so thank you buddy for watching and goodbye