Pleased or profited?
“The word preached did not profit them.” Hebrews 4:2 What countless millions of sermons seem to be preached in vain, so far as regards any appreciable result! What a small amount of profiting in the way of increased holiness! To be truly profited from the hearing of sermons, is to have Scriptural truth deeply enstamped upon the heart and visibly upon character; the transformation of the whole heart and soul into the image of God and the mind of Christ; the cultivation of a godly temperament; and a fitness for glory. This, and this only, is profiting from the preached Word. Multitudes are pleased by sermons, who are not in the smallest degree profited by them! The fault is partly to be ascribed to the preachers. Either their aim is often something else than the profiting their hearers, or else they know not how to accomplish this. One would suppose it impossible to hear a great deal of today’s evangelical preaching of this age, without asking the question, “Who can be profited by this?
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