You may say, "What is that?" If a preacher wants to get along well today, he must not preach on sin, hell or repentance. The worldly crowd will not hear it and a good deal of the church crowd does not want to hear it either.

Noah was a preacher of righteousness (because they were so unrighteous and needed to repent). Jonah was sent to Nineveh to preach repentance. That was the message of John the Baptist, Jesus, the disciples, etc. God says, "Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." Do you understand that?

Why do people need to repent (including backslidden Christians)? Because they are wrong in the eyes of God! In plain English, if unsaved, it means you will die in your sins and go to hell unless you humble yourself and acknowledge your sin to God and trust Christ from the heart.

To repent means to "change your mind" but never forget that if you truly change your mind about your sin, you will also turn round, be converted, in your conduct. Peter preached, ". . . repent and be converted . . ." We have a lot of pseudo-repentance today, people who have made a decision for Christ simply because they don't want to go to hell.

We are told to preach the Gospel. If sin, hell and judgment are not real, or are unimportant, what is the Gospel all about? Do we really need it? The Gospel, is "Christ died for our SINS . . ." Did you notice, the Gospel has to do with SINS! Very negative! Disconcerting!

Many of you want to be saved in your sins . . . not from your sins. Many Christians don't want to repent of their sins and worldliness. We are told to "Preach the Word . . . reprove, rebuke, exhort . . ." That is for Christians.

I know a lot of Fundamental believers who seem to believe in perfectionism; they must for they never acknowledge that they're wrong. Repentance is a word they have an aversion for; they'd rather think about the streets of gold and how we are seated in the heavenlies in Christ.

They said to Isaiah: ". . . prophecy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophecy deceits." There are plenty of those preachers, but what good is a "smooth" message if it won't save you? The apostle Paul said, "Am I . . . become your enemy because I tell you the truth?"

If I deliberately deceived you, you would be terribly upset, and rightly so. But if you deceive yourself, that is all right. Well, you have no one to blame but yourself. A gospel that does not deal with sin, hell, and repentance is not the Gospel of God. God says, "If any man preach any other Gospel than that ye have received, let him be accursed."

Someday you are going to come face to face with god and the only thing that will matter is whether you owned up to your sin before Him, repented, and received His Son as your Savior. Christ died for your sins and rose again, but you must repent of your sins and receive Him. God has provided salvation for repentant sinners, but hell awaits all who refuse to heed God's message.

God asks: "How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?" You may say, "Well, I plan to do it someday." What assurance do you have that God will give you another opportunity? What guarantee do you have that you will do it before Jesus comes again?

Oh, the procrastinators I have seen, those who intended to get saved someday, but time for them ran out before they repented. God says, ". . . NOW is the accepted time; behold NOW is the day of salvation." Time ran out on Esau though he sought God's blessing "with tears." Are you going to let time run out on you?

We want to be true to God and His Word; that is why we preach sin, hell, repentance; so sinners might be saved and God's people might be right. We are well aware of the fact that these things are not popular, but they are necessary! If you are a disobedient Christian, we urge you to repent before you stand at the Judgment Seat of Christ!