This is the day.

Revelation 16:20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.

21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

What a statement of hatred, and hardness! Men here are pictured as having been plagued and abused and killed, yet they will not repent. Many times we have the idea that, "if they could only see the suffering of Hell, they would repent." However, these people have seen great miracles and they have heard great preaching by the two witness, and by the hundred and forty-four thousand. They have experienced some of the greatest judgment the world has ever know, yet with their last breaths they are still blaspheming God. How true it is that we are in the last days. The need for real Holy Spirit filled preaching is greater than ever. Can God still work and send a great revival throughout the world? God has not changed! Would to God that we could see the need, and get serious about the late hour in which we live.

The one thing God promises will get souls saved.
PREACHING: I Corinthians 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;

What will not turn men to God.
I. Plagues. ("and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail") Think of Pharaoh in Exodus.
II. Programs. (building projects, puppet ministries, VBS, clowns, and swallowing goldfish all draw a crowd, but only the preaching of the Word of God will get people saved){these activities alone are not enough, but if preaching is done with them God will move}
III. Portraits (though beautiful, a chalk drawing ministry does not qualify as preaching)
IV. Personality (many flamboyant men have mounted a pulpit, and given a lot of great expositions based on their personality, and a prosperity gospel, however, it’s still through the power of God not the personality of a man that God does His work)