FBC Fannin

It wasn't Samuel's job to change the message. It wasn't Samuel's job to change, to soften the rough edges of what God said. It is never our job to alter what God says. Now, people don't like this. Today. I remember the first sermon I can ever remember preaching on hell. It was out of Luke 16, hard text. And a woman came up to me after, and she said, I appreciate what you said. Said. She said, but, son, you don't ever have to apologize for what God's word says. Do you see? I was, oh, you know, hell. And she's exactly right. It's not my job. The word in the New Testament, often used for preacher is herald. You think of the guy that used to blow the trumpet, you know, in Middle Ages, and unroll the scroll, and he was to read whatever the king said. It was never the herald's job to change the message, just to simply say what the king has said. That's still our job. Do you understand what I'm saying? We still got to tell people the truth.