Warning is our Job

There are many believers who worry about being acceptable to non-believers so that the believers will listen to them.

We are not called to be acceptable or liked by non-believers, we are called to speak truth and leave all the results to God.

There have been people accused of being unbalanced because they spend so much time warning others of the wrath to come. If we take a close look at the prophets in the Old Testament, all we see is warning and rebuke.

We are living in wicked times, warning is not only necessary it is vital to the message. Read the words of Christ, you will not see continual praising for good deeds or accolade for accomplishments, just the opposite.

Christ came to offer salvation to the lost, that meant that He had to show them they were lost and then present the cure, which was believing in Him, knowing He paid our penalty, all we had to do was trust Him.

When we have trusted Him then He cleanses us, makes us new and provides a home in heaven for us.

Praising others is not very helpful when they are on their way to hell. If someone is standing on the railing of a bridge, enjoying the view from up there, is it wise to compliment them on their stance, the view or their happiness about it? NO, the wise thing to do is to warn them strongly that they could fall off and die in a cold watery grave.

We believers have been left here to warn of God's wrath to come, that those who are lost would have an opportunity to become saved from that wrath and their own sin.

Luke 3:7 "So he began saying to the crowds who were going out to be baptized by him, "You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?"

If we are fearful that someone will dislike us or malign our character because we speak truth, then we are not ready to witness. When we witness, our resolve ought to be to get God's message from our mouth to the hearers ears, it is not our aim at any time to get the hearer to like or validate us. We are irrelevant in this matter of witnessing.

Romans 3:3-5 "…3 What then? If some did not believe, their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it?
4 May it never be! Rather, let God be found true, though every man be found a liar, as it is written, "THAT YOU MAY BE JUSTIFIED IN YOUR WORDS, AND PREVAIL WHEN YOU ARE JUDGED."
5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is He? (I am speaking in human terms.)…"