JUDGED WRONG FOR PREACHING A GREAT MESSAGE

JUDGED WRONG FOR PREACHING A GREAT MESSAGE!

After all the handshakes, and applause, for a earthshaking, soul stirring message, with people standing and shouting, preach it brother! how could one possibly be judged wrong? The answer is simple, it could be they disobeyed! No one will ever be judged in the kingdom by how well they preached, there is no such thing as a orator's crown. But everyone will be judged on how well they obeyed! If I asked them to preach and they obeyed, they did well. Did I ask you to preach, or did I ask you to feed someone and let someone else preach? Hearing the word is good, but watching the word is better! "Let your light and your talk, so shine before men that they may see your moral excellence and your praiseworthy, noble, and good deeds and recognize and honor and praise and glorify your Father Who is in heaven." Matthew 5:16 (AMP)

Yes, There are times, preaching can be considered ministering, but binding up a wound, is always ministering. Feeding a hungry person, is always ministering. Sad to say, most ministers do not minister because they are to busy just preaching with words. "If anyone has this world's goods (resources for sustaining life) and sees his brother and fellow believer in need, yet closes his heart of compassion against him, even if he draws crowds of thousands with great preaching, how can the love of God live and remain in him?" 1 John 3:17 (AMP)

Seldom does anyone question your love, when you give them a bed to sleep on. But they may often question your sincerity when you preach a great message, and then say, "Good-bye! Keep yourself warm and well fed, without giving him the necessities for the body, what good does that do?" James 2:16 (AMP) You say there are no hungry people in My congregation, well your preaching to the wrong crowd. The Spirit of the Lord is upon you, because he hath anointed you to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent you to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, and to set at liberty them that are bruised," Luke 4:18 (KJV) More people are converted because of a daily meal, than by hearing a weekly sermon. One sandwich to a hungry child, can equal a hundred sermons. Now don't get Me wrong, My word must be preached, but it has real life changing power, when you speak it, by relieving hunger pains, clothing naked bodies, and visiting those in prison and sick.

People are blind to the fact that, hunger pains completely drown out a preachers words. In their heart I hear them say, Sorry I can't hear you preacher, my feet hurt to bad, because I have no shoes! Or My husband is in prison preacher, could you stop preaching long enough to go visit him, please preacher." Teachers, preachers and church leaders, do not love merely in theory or in speech but in deed and in truth (in practice and in sincerity)." 1 John 3:18 (AMP)

Those that speak the word and do not do what they speak are worse than those who hear the word and do not do what they hear. Those that speak, give the full impression that they are doing what they are saying. They are loving in speech only. "Anyone who only listens to the Word from his own mouth or someone else's, without obeying it and being a doer of it, he is like a man who looks carefully at his own natural face in a mirror; [24] For he thoughtfully observes himself, and then goes off and promptly forgets what he was like." James 1:23-24 (AMP)

You are in total deception unless you are "doers of the Word and obey the message! Do not be merely listeners to it, because you are betraying yourselves into deception by reasoning contrary to the Truth." James 1:22 (AMP) The mirror speaks the truth, forgetting or ignoring it, never changes it. If you are a preacher, teacher or church leader, and do not love people with clear and definable actions as part of your daily life, not as part of your job description, then at least make it clear to those you oversee, that you do not practice what you preach, this will free you from deception. This is important because when you stand in judgment all the people will find out, you have been deceiving them.

Everywhere I went, "I was anointed with the Holy Ghost and with power: and went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for Father was with Me." Acts 10:38 (KJV) I preached one major sermon where I taught for about two hours, that was the sermon I preached on the mountainside. The rest of My messages were basically demonstrations of love while talking. If you teach and preach with demonstration, you won't have to talk so much and people will start to believe you. If people are not living what you are preaching, they don't really believe you, no matter how convincing you think you are. When people believe they follow!

If people are going home week after week and watching the same TV shows and have a weekly routine that bears no real fruit, then stop preaching and start ministering, so they will see a message that will change them. If you can't say,

"PATTERN YOURSELVES after me, follow my example, as I imitate and follow Christ (the Messiah)." 1 Corinthians 11:1 (AMP) then for their sake and the kingdoms, do not call yourself a pastor, preacher, teacher, apostle, evangelist, or a prophet. You are none of the above. Bottom line, if a person is not an example of Me, they exemplify the enemy.