You’ll Die With Synthetic Grass
Jeremiah 3:15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
If we were to play a word association game and I said the word pastor, what would be first words that would come to your mind? Preacher, teacher, leader? Those may be some. Going a step further I think we all have opinions on what a pastors duties are also. Unfortunately, for some they may think the pastors duties are to just do everything at the church. While there is a lot they have on their plate the most important is that they are responsible for the flock the Lord has placed them over. A true man of God desires to see the flock grow spiritually! His desire is to see people get saved and grow a closer walk to the Lord. Even though I’m not a pastor I consider it a great honor and responsibility to preach God’s Word. It will weigh on you to pray and seek God’s will for a message to preach. You want to see people get sustaining help from God. Not something that just tickles their ears or plays on their emotions for a fleeting moment. However, there are some that don’t view it that way. You have some that instead of preaching the truth they are more interested appeasing the congregation in order to draw a crowd. They’ll preach falseness. They’ll try to tell you that Jesus loves you and everything will be ok. God does love everyone, but we will still face problems. It’s that growing in the Lord from preaching truth that will give us the substance we need to face this world. Instead of that these false preachers are leading people down a road to hell. Jeremiah 23:1-2 [1] Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the Lord. [2] Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the Lord.
You place a sheep on synthetic turf they are not going to make it. They’re going to die out. Same with us. False preaching and teaching isn’t sustaining anyone. It might seem great for a moment cause it will play on ones feelings. We should be thankful for a pastor and church that preaches the truth. We should be thankful for preachers across this world that will preach the truth. As this world gets farther and farther from God it’s those men of God that will stand and preach the entire truth that will get us through whatever is to come while still on this earth.
God bless you today! Bro. Josh Richardson
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