2 Timothy 4:2 “…preach the word…”

“The word is described in the word as a hammer. The word is described in the word as a fire. The word is described in the word as a sword. … Is it sensible to think that I have preached the word and nobody has been smashed, nobody has been pierced, nobody has been ignited? I would think it much safer to suppose that when nothing of that sort happens, you haven’t preached the word.”

Richard Owen Roberts