Adrian Rogers said this;
"There are those strutting into hell thinking they're too good to be damned."
He also said, " Feelings are the shallowest part of our being."
Interesting isn't it? So many people in our days of apostasy make "feelings" more important than facts. This is the very reason there is so much arrogance, fighting, and devouring going on today in church gatherings.
When we seek God with all our heart, soul and mind, we will be rejected for speaking the truth that convicts hearts of sin.
We don't even have to address anyone personally, all we have to do is quote from the Bible and many people listening will become unhinged calling us rude when we were not rude, just factual. Never take this to heart, it isn't about us when someone rages at us for telling the truth, it does however say a lot about them.
2 Timothy 4:2-4 "…2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. 3 For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. 4 So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.…"
Never stop speaking the truth, it may help someone trust in Christ.
If our focus is Christ we will not be intimidated into silence by people of wrath. If our focus is being appreciated by men then we will become silent to make wicked men like us.
Are we more concerned about men appreciating us than we are about pleasing God? It is a good question for all of us to ask ourselves and bring to God. Pleasing God has eternal rewards and inner peace on this earth, pleasing men keep us continually fearful of people never knowing if they will like us.
Matthew 10:26-28
26 “So do not fear them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.
27 What I tell you in the darkness, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered in your ear, proclaim on the housetops.
28 And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."
Walk in love and fearlessness, it is the only way we can thwart the schemes of the devil.
