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The Living Waters Podcast

Ep. 2 - Why don’t some preachers preach the hard things?

The Living Waters Podcast

Living Waters

Evangelism, Apologetics, Jesus, Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Gospel, Creation, Religion & Spirituality, Salvation, Prolife, Faith, Witnessing, Theology

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Many preachers today avoid preaching about things like hell, repentance, and a God of judgement. In this episode the guys discuss the hard to preach topics, why preachers avoid them, and why it’s important. Send us Fan Mail Thanks for listening! If you’ve been helped by this podcast, we’d be grateful if you’d consider subscribing, sharing, and leaving us a comment and 5-star rating! Visit the Living Waters website to learn more and to access helpful resources! You can find helpful coun...

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That was about 200 people, and I was talking about many will come on that day and say,

0:05.4

Lord, Lord, and they'll say, apart from me, you work of aniquity, and I emphasize the word

0:10.4

andiquity, meaning lawlessness. And then I said, Scripture said, let everyone that names

0:14.4

the name of Christ, apart from aniquity, and I said, same word. And the whole congregation

0:21.2

yelled out, aniquity at me. And I thought, what's going on? If I send, they thought I was saying,

0:28.0

say the word, aniquity, and I said, I said, same word.

0:38.0

Well guys, today we are talking about why preachers have a hard time saying hard things,

0:45.0

and this is really part and parcel with the fact that our pulpits are filled with preachers,

0:50.6

it won't preach. And if you guys ever hear someone talk and you're listening to them and you're

0:55.2

like, how can you not know that that is just completely bonkers what you're saying?

1:06.2

No, but seriously, I'll hear a preacher preach, and I'll be like, you really think like,

1:13.0

that's pleasing to the Lord, or do you really think that people aren't clued into the fact that

1:17.3

you're pandering? So what you're talking about is something you've seen on YouTube or on

1:20.8

television or something, not like your local pastor. It's like the last time you were preaching.

1:24.7

Oh, yeah. Like, no, like hearing well-known preachers a lot of times on YouTube or on television

1:31.5

or whatever, just saying things that are puzzling to me in that you should know that that's,

1:38.9

that's not biblical, that's not pleasing to the Lord, and that people can see right through that.

1:44.4

So if you've got context there, you're talking about prosperity preachers, something like that.

1:48.9

I'm talking about false preachers, prosperity preachers, and then maybe not those

1:56.8

categorized as that per se, but maybe more of the contemporary woke type kind of

2:07.6

progressive preachers. Trendy preachers? Yeah, we're in those cool glasses and sitting with

2:12.4

stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah. Where have skinny jeans come in all this, too?

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