🔥 Title: “The Gospel Ain’t Gone Soft—We Just Stopped Preaching It Hard!”

(Subtitle: Grace Still Saves, But Judgment Still Stands).

📖 Key Scripture

2 Timothy 4:2-4 (NKJV)"Preach the word! 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..."

🪓 Sermon Breakdown (Grace-based, No-Compromise Style):

1️⃣ THE GOSPEL NEVER NEEDED A MAKEOVER

• Scripture: Galatians 1:6-9 – “If anyone preaches any other gospel…”

• Illustration: Like watering down medicine — it might go down easier, but it doesn’t cure a thing.

• Point: The Gospel is not a product to be rebranded. It's the Word of Life that pierces and saves.

  
  

2️⃣ WHEN THE PULPIT GOES QUIET, SIN GETS LOUD

• Scripture: Ezekiel 33:6 – “If the watchman sees the sword coming…”

• Illustration: Picture a fire alarm with the batteries removed—it looks fine on the wall but won’t warn anybody when the house is burning.

• Point: Pastors aren’t hired hands — they’re Heaven’s heralds. We must sound the alarm.

  
  

3️⃣ SUGAR-COATED SERMONS FEED HELL’S APPETITE

• Scripture: 2 Peter 2:1-3 – “There will be false teachers among you…”

• Illustration: A snake in the garden always sounds smooth — just enough truth to kill you.

• Point: Preaching grace without repentance is like handing someone a life jacket with no boat in sight.

  
  

4️⃣ REAL LOVE TELLS THE WHOLE TRUTH

• Scripture: Proverbs 27:6 – “Faithful are the wounds of a friend…”

• Illustration: A surgeon cuts deep, not to harm, but to heal.

• Point: If the church loves people, it must preach what saves them, not what spares their feelings.

  
  

💡 Closing Challenge:

"Saints, the Gospel doesn’t need a sugar packet. It needs a megaphone. Let’s stop whispering truth to a world that’s screaming lies."

🙏 Altar Call Invitation:

“Are you tired of lukewarm Christianity?

Are you ready to be forgiven, filled, and fired up for truth?

Come — Jesus didn’t die in secret. Don’t serve Him in silence.”

Pastor Terry

One Truth At A Time