What must pastors not forget to preach in their sermons?

Kevin Swanson explains in this video that a pastor needs to preach the great contrast between God’s holiness and man’s sinfulness. Preachers must point to the cross. At the cross, God sent His Son, Christ took the wrath of God and experienced God’s turning away.

Christ endured all of this because of His love towards us and His mercy towards us. At the cross, we begin to see our sinfulness and God’s righteousness. We see the love of God shown towards us.

Romans 5:8 (NKJV) – “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” 

A pastor needs to preach the great contrast between God's holiness and man's sinfulness. If you bring these two aspects in and you point to the cross, which I think is probably the best, the most powerful contrast as represented in the eyes and the minds of human beings as you can find anywhere, there you get the picture of what God did there on the cross. Because of our sin, he sent his son. His son took the wrath of Almighty God, the son who was everlasting loved by the Father, had to experience the withdrawal of the Father, the turning of the face of the Father there at the cross, and He did it because of His love for us. He did it because of His mercy towards us.

So there at the cross we begin to see a different perspective of God. There at the cross is where we see these two things come together. We see our own sinfulness, we see God's holiness, we see God's righteousness, but we also see the love of God shown for us for sending His own Son to that cross to die for us. You