NEW TIME RELIGION---2 Timothy 4:1-4

 

 

  • We sing about the “Old Time Religion” and being an “Old Time Christian” but there are a lot of New Timers out there.  We claim to love Old time religion, and yet some would love to go to this modern “Praise and Worship” music.

 

  • Some would give their last dollar to invest in closed circuit TV to get the Pastor off their back. Some would even like to do away with the King James Version of the Bible.

 

 

  • Our churches have eliminated Hymnals, and put a big screen up above the choir. The church looks more like a Theater or a night club than a house of Worship.

 

 

  • We know ‘em and they don’t know what real Holy Ghost filled Church services are all about. If the Holy Ghost came through many of our churches today, most folks would not even know who He was. 

 

Let me give you some reasons tonight for this  “New Time Religion”:

 

I.                 PREACHERS PAMPER INSTEAD OF PREACH

 

a.           PREACHING CLEANSES.

 

·         Proverbs 16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.

·         John 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

 

b.          PREACHING CLARIFIES.

·         2 Corinthians 2: 12  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

 

c.      PREACHING CHALLENGES. 

 

II.               PEOPLE REASON INSTEAD OF REPENT

 

a.      THEY JUSTIFY SIN.

b.     THEY REFUSE SALVATION

c.      THEY REFUSE CHURCH

III.             POWER IS SUPERFICIAL INSTEAD OF SPIRITUAL

 

a.      POWER TO TRANSFORM 

·         Romans 1:16

 

b.        POWER TO TRANSCEND

·         Philippians 3:21  Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

 

c.       POWER TO TRANSLATE. 

·         Hebrews 11:5  By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

 

NEW TIME RELIGION WILL BRING

 

1-INSTABILITY

 

2-UNFAITHFULNESS

 

3-NO SEPARATION

 

4-CHURCH SERVICES SIMILAR TO WORLDLY CONCERTS

 

5-UNCERTAINTY OF MORALS (NO DEFINITE RIGHT OR WRONG, NO BLACK AND WHITE…ALWAYS A GRAY AREA)

 

GOD HELP US TO SHUN THIS NEW TIME RELIGION….AND CLING TO THE OLD PATHS

 

2 Timothy 2:16  But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

 

Jeremiah 6: 16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

 

Get in the Old Time Way and Go to Heaven by God’s Grace, and Faith in His Darling Son Jesus…Who shed His blood on the Cross for your sins and mine. Be Saved and Get in the Old Time Way TONIGHT.