Cowards, The Truth and Sinners

If you see someone in a burning building, what do you do? We all know the answer, we help them! Then why by all that is holy do we keep silent when we see people headed for destruction in Hell? Why do we not point out their sin and love the person by telling them the hope that is found in Christ? We who follow Christ know Hell is real and from there you can not escape! We have become afraid to speak in truth to those who are perishing. Our, if it feels good do it, attitude is one sure way to let people stay in their sin. You can point out, in a loving, non judgmental way, that we all fall short and need a Savior. But to say nothing is being a coward! It is up to the person to turn from their sin just as we have, our only duty is to prayerfully, humbly and lovingly tell our story of a sinful life changed by the mercy of the Cross! You must see this, the devil is cunning, he will find your weakness and he will pick at it until it festers into sin! If he can get us to accept that all manner of sin as okay, then he can cause great confusion. When we ignore what God is teaching in His holy word and exchange the truth for a lie, then we are on the road to destruction.

Jude 1:17-23

17 But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

18 They said to you, "In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions."

19 It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.

20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,

21 keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.

22 And have mercy on those who doubt;

23 save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.

Jude 1:4-11

4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

5 Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

6 And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day-

7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

8 Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones.

9 But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke you."

10 But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.

11 Woe to them! For they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam's error and perished in Korah's rebellion.

2Tim.4:1-5

1 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:

2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.

3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,

4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

5 As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

Lord God in heaven, Forgive us for not being bold in Your name. Amen