EVENING: “Marvel Not” – Why a Second Birth is Essential Scripture: John 3: 1-14 Text: John 3: 6, 7 1. What it is Not 2. Why it is Essential 3. Why People Marvel at it
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“ Great Sermon! ” Why is it that we miss this so much in so many Reformed and Presbyterian Churches today? Is it because we live in a time in which preachers don't want to read:"Preach the Word!", but rather change that in:"Please the people!" A time according to what follows after Paul's urge to Timothy:"Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and turned aside to fables."
This comment is mostly adressed to preachers. You should read these words of 2 Tim.4:1-5 EVERY time you prepare your sermon and EVERY time you walk up the pulpit! May the Lord bless you all in doing so, so that the Holy Spirit will change (covenantal) goats into sheep and the other sheep may be fed.
Br. Bilkes, I can imagine, that there are opposing voices against your preaching, but please be assured that my wife and I are so blessed with your sermons! We stand in our area so alone, that we cannot even find a congregation of reformed signature within a 60 mile radius where we could hear this preaching. May the Lord bless you in your ministry.
Dr. Lawrence W. Bilkes is pastor of the Free Reformed Church of Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. He was ordained to the ministry of the Word in 1971 and has also ministered in Canada and The Netherlands. He received his doctorate in 1997 from the Theological University of the...
