2 TIMOTHY 4 2 4 2 Preach the

2 TIMOTHY 4: 2 -4 2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and teaching. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be 1

SOFT PREACHING 2

Some preachers: 1. Not sure about baptism 2. Not sure I. M. is wrong 3. Can’t preach “THE ONE TRUE CHURCH” 4. Believe there are saved in all churches 5. Preach false doctrines on marriage 3

We must: 1. Study – 2 Tim. 2: 15 – a. Stop auditing classes – Don’t let the teacher do all the work. b. How much do we remember of class? c. Get a religious library – or online d. Take time to be holy 4

We must: 2. As Babies, Desire – 1 Pet. 2: 2 “That you may grow” 3. Hunger/Thirst – Mt. 5: 6 That you might be “filled” 4. Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ – 2 Pet. 3: 18 5. Put on our weapons – Eph. 6: 10 -17 – Acts and two 38’s 5

We must: 6. Keep the word in our hearts – Psm. 119: 11 7. Must meditate on it – Psm. 1: 1 -2 8. So we are ready to give an answer – 1 Pet. 3: 15 6

We must: 1. Let our lights SO shine – Mt. 5: 16 a. Draw them by our beautiful works b. can of Won’t study with someone with a beer or a cigarette in hand. c. Not seen in immodest clothing 1 Tim. 2: 9 f d. They won’t hear “ugly” words 7

We must: 2. Look for the lost a. Won’t have to look too far. Mt. 9: 37 b. Pray – 1 Th. 5: 17 -38 c. Find “Noble Bereans” – Acts 17: 11 Received the word with all readiness of mind and search the scriptures daily whether those 8

We must: 3. Use the tracts a. Doing no good in the rack b. Study them ourselves c. Give to friends/neighbors/relatives d. Put your tip in a tract. 9 9

We must: 4. Teach our children/grandchildren a. Ask a few basic Bible Questions 1. Their Bible class teachers can tell b. Jay Leno – Watters World c. Hos. 4: 6 – Dt. 6: 6 ff – 2 Tim. 3: 15 10

We do all this because we don’t want the church to die 1. We don’t want to have ear-tickling preachers – 2 Tim. 4: 3 2. Don’t want to be like those in Heb. 5: 12 -14 3. Don’t stay a baby – 1 Cor. 3: 1 -3 11

EXPOSING FALSE TEACHERS WE NEED WATCHMAN TODAY SOFT PREACHING NOT NECESSARILY ERROR, JUST NOT “THE WHOLE COUNSEL” SOFT ELDERS ALSO TO BLAME STAMPEDE FOR WORLDLINESS 12

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Preached: Westside - Bloomington, IN. 10 -25 -15 S. M. 14