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  PREACHING THE TRUTH
  by Brian Brodersen
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Summary: The church needs to revive the message of damnation and remind
people of the reality of hell in order to address the root problem of
sin and rebellion against God.

Duration: 2:42 Topics: "Sin And Judgment", "Repentance And Revival"
Scripture References: Matthew 5:30, Matthew 10:28, Luke 13:3, Romans 6:23, Hebrews 9:27

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DESCRIPTION
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This sermon emphasizes the importance of addressing sin, rebellion
against God, and the reality of judgment and damnation. It challenges
the trend in some churches to focus solely on love, prosperity, and
avoiding uncomfortable topics like sin and hell. The speaker urges a
revival of the message of damnation to remind people of the consequences
of sin and the need for repentance.

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CONTENT
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You see, what we need today, really, you know, there's all kinds of
questions in the church about, you know, what do we do to reach the
world and, you know, so many churches have opted for, well, let's try to
be more like the world and then they might respect us or think we're,
you know, cool or something like that and, you know, that's the way to
reach out to the world and let's get away from, you know, anything
that's condemning and let's not use terms that make people feel
uncomfortable and by all means, we gotta get past that age of preaching
hellfire and brimstone and all of that sort of thing. We gotta talk
exclusively about the love of God and about prosperity that God wants to
bring to your life and we don't want to mention judgment and talk about
sin and, oh, the blood of Jesus, that can be so offensive to people and
much of the church has opted for that approach. But you know what? It's
not working.

It doesn't do anything. The problem is a problem of rebellion and people
need to know your problem is sin, your problem is you're in rebellion
against God and the solution is you need to repent because if you don't,
there's a judgment that's ahead. I think the wisest thing the church
could possibly do in the current situation is to revive the message of
damnation, to remind people that they're going to hell.

People are going to hell. That's the reality. Do we believe Jesus or
don't we? Do we believe what he said? Was he right? Is he an authority?
Does he know what he's talking about or maybe not? Well, I choose to
believe he's right.

I choose to believe that he knows what he's talking about and he tells
us unequivocally people are going to hell. Jesus said if your hand
offends you, cut it off. It's better to live like name than to be cast
into hell with two hands.

You know, sometimes I think we read our Bibles and those kinds of
things. We just say, well, you know, that's a little too heavy for me.
I'll just pass that.

Get to the nicer parts of scripture. And we don't take this stuff to
heart. We don't take it serious.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/J05684R9bvE.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/brian-brodersen/preaching-the-truth/
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