Where In The Bible Will I Find:

The Kind Of Preaching Needed In Every Generation?

Of course, first, we need to preach the gospel, because the gospel is "the power of God unto salvation" (Rom. 1:16). The gospel means "good news." It is the good news of the birth and life of Jesus and what His death on the cross means to us, that through the shedding of His blood, salvation through obedience to His Word, is brought near to us. We need, as every generation needs, the kind of preaching the apostle Paul instructed the young preacher Timothy to do, "preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine" (II Tim. 4:2).

This means that all false doctrine must be exposed and rebuked, and, as our late good Christian brother Marshall Keeble said, "preach it if it hurts and preach it if it don't hurt." God is no respecter of person and neither should gospel preachers be. We need BIBLE preaching and not a watered-down reasonably facsimile thereof. The apostles prayed, "That with all boldness they may speak thy word" (Acts 4:29). "...(A)nd they spake the word of God with boldness" (Acts 4:31). How we need this BOLDNESS in ALL gospel preachers, in every generation. We need more and bolder preaching on faith, repentance, confession, baptism, the Lord's Supper, the kind of music the Lord wants in the worship service, the establishment of His church, and the great gospel plan of salvation.

As a Christian, we need more and bolder preaching on how to live the Christian life, such as on modest apparel, gambling, dancing, drinking, drugs, fornication, marriage, divorce and remarriage, submission to parents, evil speakings, and such like. Our young people have been neglected in the home as well as in the Bible class. We are losing them by the scores because we have not done an adequate job in our day by laying a firm foundation. They must be taught how, and why they must be a Christian while in their youth. They must be warned against false doctrines and atheistic teachers who are often too successful in leading them astray.

We must not give up on them, shrug our shoulders, or mark them off our list. God will bring us into judgment to account for such negligence. Our young people need to hear more sermons on Christian evidences, the existence of God, the Bible as the Word of God, Christ as the Son of God, His ONE and only church, His death, burial, resurrection, ascension and that He is coming back again to gather His redeemed and return with them to heaven (I Cor. 15:24). If preachers would preach more and bolder on these subjects then everyone of us would be, as Peter commanded, "But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear" (I Peter 3:15).