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1 Thessalonians 2 Evangelism: a Way of Life

7/1/2016

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I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less? 2 Corinthians 12:15
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less? 2 Corinthians 12:15
​1 Thessalonians 2
Sharing Christ with people is more than telling someone a preplanned or memorized speech. Although if you do even that, I commend you for your effort to share the Gospel. We share Christ with people by the way we live our lives, offer ourselves, and love people. It is important that we understand the Gospel, are able to present it and defend it, but it is more important that we are able to live it.
When Paul went to Thessalonica, he did more than enter the city square and give a spiel. He showed up and represented Jesus Christ. This chapter describes how he did that and offers us guidance in sharing Jesus with whomever the Lord puts in our path. Verses 1-2 describe how Paul and Silas came to Thessalonica.
For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain. 2 But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had boldness in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of much conflict.
 
The Lord had ordained them to go to the city, they knew that it was not going to be fruitless. They went with a purpose, to share God’s Word. Paul live his life with that purpose. And that is never futile, even when we don’t see the results. Isaiah 55:10-11 says it like this,
For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
    and do not return there but water the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
    giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
    it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
    and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

 
It was not an easy task either. Paul said they had been shamefully treated at Philippi and went to Thessalonica anyway and didn’t have it any easier there. Paul and Silas had been thrown in jail in Philippi. Even through all the trouble there, people including Lydia and their prison guard had accepted Christ (Acts 16). In Thessalonica, many people were converted but the Jewish people became outraged and threated Paul and Silas’ life to the point where they had to be sent out of the city in the middle of the night to save their lives and the lives of the believers (Acts 17:1-10). But that conflict made the sincerity and zeal for the Gospel of Christ that much more apparent. Nothing would deter Paul from getting the truth to the lost.
Nothing has to deter us from sharing Jesus with anyone. What excuses do we use? It might be uncomfortable? The person may not want to hear it? They or we are busy? Jesus laid down His life in agony so you could be saved. Paul and every other apostle suffered prison and torture so people could be saved. All the apostles except for John were martyred in horrific fashion for the sake of the Gospel. Do you think maybe you and I can handle a person thinking we’re stupid or annoying in order to give them a chance to know the hope of Jesus and the love of their Father?
Verses 3-6 read,
For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive, 4 but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts. 5 For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness. 6 Nor did we seek glory from people, whether from you or from others, though we could have made demands as apostles of Christ.
 
Paul and Silas didn’t share the Gospel for their own glory. They didn’t do it so they would look good. Paul wasn’t saying to himself, “I want to be known as the greatest Christian of all time.” It is likely that Paul never even knew the great impact he had on Christianity. He certainly wasn’t being rewarded or made rich from his efforts.
I’ve seen so many people who have ministries and I wonder if they are doing that work to glorify the Lord or themselves. Although, God will use them for His purposes and doubtlessly there are people saved and helped through them, it seems to me that because they have become about themselves instead of Jesus. For some people ministry becomes about how great they are not about how great God is. If I can see that, I think that the deceived of the world see it too and they are not interested in hearing from a person who wants to glorify himself.
I picture a scene from Evita in which Eva Perón is building orphanages and giving charity to the needy of Argentina but it is all in her name, for her fame, and the sake of husband Juan Perón. The people receiving that charity were made to feel humiliated in order for Eva Perón to feel exalted. When we put ourselves in Jesus’ place of honor instead of exhibiting His humility we are not presenting the true Christ.
Presenting the Gospel is at its heart presenting Jesus. We should be the image of Christ to those around us. That means we need to be filled with the Holy Spirit and expressing Him in His fruit and the picture of love read about in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8.
The fruit of the Spirit is described in Galatians 5:22-23,
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
 
And the portrayal of love in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a reads,
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends.
 
Verses 7-8 describe what this meant to Paul,
 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children. 8 So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us.
Paul and Silas did more than preach and speak. They lived among the people, they formed a relationship with them. They shared themselves. They earnestly loved them. As they lived, they exemplified Christ. They didn’t behave in the flesh, they lived in the Spirit. Verses 9-12 read,
 For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. 10 You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers. 11 For you know how, like a father with his children, 12 we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.
There was no asking people to stop living one way, while they lived another. They lived in a way that no one could charge them with wrong. There was no way someone could accuse them of wanting money, lying, stealing, slothfulness, greedy, or immoral. They lived out the fruit of the Spirit and love and in that way they could exhort and encourage the new believers to walk in Christ.
Paul practiced what he preached. That is how and why the Thessalonians who accepted Christ could accept Him. They could believe the Gospel because they saw it being lived out. They could grow in Christ even when they had to send Paul and Silas to Berea because they could look at the churches around them and follow their example. They could see the difference between a Spirit-filled follower of Christ and the Pharisees of Judaism who hated Jesus.  Verses 13-16 read,
And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers. 14 For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews, 15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind16 by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them at last!
 
Paul didn’t simply make sure they were saved and abandon them. He kept tabs on them, he sent Timothy to check on them and he wrote them letters. He planned to come see them again. He maintained a relationship with them to ensure they were staying on the path of truth and not falling for the lies that would certainly be coming their way. Verses 17-20 read,
 
But since we were torn away from you, brothers, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face, 18 because we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, again and again—but Satan hindered us. 19 For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you? 20 For you are our glory and joy.
 
Love is why we share Christ. Jesus’ glory and the glory of the kingdom of God is why we share the Gospel. The hope of eternity is why we follow Jesus and invite as many who will follow with us.
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1 Thessalonians 2 How to Share the Gospel even if You're not an Evangelist

8/26/2015

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1 Thessalonians 2

I know that many believers are afraid to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with people. Or at least many are very anxious about it. I understand that trepidation. But whether not we are gifted with evangelism, it is still a command of Jesus to us, and it is a core purpose and manifestation of love and our response to our own salvation. Matthew 28:18-20 reads,

“And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

But many of us, leave evangelism to the two people in our church who are gifted. We say we don’t know how. Many of us associate evangelism with knocking on doors and asking, “If you were to die tonight, where would you go?” Many of us associate sharing the Gospel with men on street corners carrying signs that read, “Repent Today!” But evangelism, truly witnessing to the lost is not like that at all. And as believers we not only have the compulsion to share the love of Jesus with the world, we have the ability and the authority to do so. When Jesus ascended to Heaven, He didn’t leave us. He said He would be with us until the end of the age. His Holy Spirit came to us, indwelt us and fills us. (John 14:15-17). He makes it possible for us to testify to the awesome love of The Father. Verses 1-4 read,

“For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain. 2 But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had boldness in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of much conflict. 3 For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive, 4 but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.”

The Lord entrusted us, He commended us with the wonderful Truth. This is a secret and a mystery to the lost, but it is not supposed to remain an enigmatic secret. Ephesians 3:4-13 says,

“When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ, 5 which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. 6 This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

7 Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God's grace, which was given me by the working of his power. 8 To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, 9 and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things, 10 so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. 11 This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, 12 in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him. 13 So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory.”

We don’t share the gospel because we want to impress the church. We don’t testify to the Lordship of Jesus Christ to please men. We do it because The Lord loves us so deeply and we want to please Him by giving Him what He wants, which is for everyone to come to know Him. (1 Timothy 2:4, 2 Peter 3:9). And sharing the Gospel does not always mean walking up to people at the bus stop and having a pre-scripted conversation ending in leading them in the ‘sinner’s prayer.’ Sharing the Gospel is done when people see how we respond to suffering. Witnessing is done in our relationships and conversations when we deliberately bring the conversation to Jesus. Evangelism is done through our acts of love and faith to people. Verses 5-8 say,

“For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness. 6 Nor did we seek glory from people, whether from you or from others, though we could have made demands as apostles of Christ. 7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children. 8 So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us.”

When we share the gospel we are not selling something. We don’t have to cajole people to like us. We don’t need to persuade anyone with sweet-talk. We are genuinely loving, kind, and giving as The Holy Spirit has made us to be. (Galatians 5:22-24). If we love The Lord then like Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, we desire people to come to Jesus just like God does. (1 John 4:7-21). We love Him and our desires align with The Spirit of God and not with our selfish flesh. (Philippians 2:12-13).

We witness by our attitude and love toward one another. (John 13:34-35). We mentor believers and make them disciples by our love toward one another. Verses 9-12 read,

“For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. 10 You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers. 11 For you know how, like a father with his children, 12 we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.”

When we witness, we don’t have to be fearful. We do not have to worry about not knowing how or what to say. The Holy Spirit will do the work. He saves, not us. The Holy Spirit emboldens us and even gives us the words to say. (Acts 4:23-31, Matthew 10:19-20). Verse 13 says,

“And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.”

There is persecution for believers today and it will only get worse as time gets closer to The Day of Judgement. But that is all the more reason to spread the Gospel, people need Jesus or they will burn in Hell. We will face opposition because Satan hates people, he is our enemy and he schemes and plans to keep people from the fullness of God. (1 Peter 5:8). As, the body of Christ in a world of people who do not know Jesus we need one another and we need to remain faithful witnesses and keepers of The Gospel. The enemy and his followers will experience the wrath of God. We can snatch the lost out of his hands and lead them to Jesus. Verses 14-16 read,

“For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind16 by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them at last!”

Do we love one another as Jesus loves us? Do we love people as Jesus loves them? If we do, we can’t let them walk to Hell without giving them a chance to know Jesus. If we do we can’t leave the newly born again as orphans without a way to know their Father more. We are responsible for dispensing the Gospel. Verses 17-20 read,

“But since we were torn away from you, brothers, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face, 18 because we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, again and again—but Satan hindered us. 19 For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you? 20 For you are our glory and joy.”

First of all, love people with the Love of God. Be bold and courageous, not fearful. Trust and obey the Lord. This is not a job for 1% of the church. This is a job for 100% of the church. We were given our gifts for a reason, which is the building up of the church. (Ephesians 4:11-16). How will people know Jesus of they never hear about Him. Romans 10:13-17 reads,

“For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?” 17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.”

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Psalm 32 Salvation is Through Forgiveness of Sin by Jesus’ Blood

6/22/2015

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Psalm 32

This Psalm or maskil, a skillfully written contemplative poem celebrates salvation. Do you know how blessed, how privileged you are to be forgiven of your sins? Salvation is a real miracle. Because we are forgiven we get to have a relationship with The Lord, not just any relationship but an intimate one where we can really know one another, and where we are so united that nothing can come between us or divide us. Trying to separate us from the Love of God is like trying to take the cream out of the coffee after it has been poured in. Verses 1-2 read,

“Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven,
    whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity,
    and in whose spirit there is no deceit.”


Forgiveness, salvation is not an automatic. There are prerequisites to The Lord counting no iniquity against us. We can’t just say one day, “I am a Christian” and have it be true. Yet many people call themselves Christian who are not. What are the requirements to salvation? They are simple, Verse 1 tells us, “Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.” What is our sin covered with? What does that mean? The sin of the person who is called righteous by God is covered by Jesus’ blood. Even in the days before Jesus came though, a relationship with the Lord was forged through the forgiveness of sin and faith in Him. It has always been faith that saves us. But under the Old Covenant sin was covered by the blood of sacrifices and offerings. In the New Covenant, Jesus is the only sacrifice we require.

But what does it take to ask Jesus to be your Lord? Why do we call on Him to redeem us? Why doesn’t He just automatically save everyone? Verses 3-5 tell us,

“For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away
    through my groaning all day long.
4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
    my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah


5 I acknowledged my sin to you,
    and I did not cover my iniquity;
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
    and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. “


God calls us all and the guilt of our wrongdoings are heavy on us. Not everyone responds to God’s call. We have to acknowledge our sin and confess it. We have to realize our need of a way to God. In the Old Covenant the way was the burnt offerings, the peace offerings and the sin offerings when the people couldn’t keep the Law. They had to go through those rituals knowing that the blood of those animals was on their heads because of their sin. Today we admit our sins and accept Jesus’ perfect sacrifice as payment for our sin. We have faith in Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection to make the way for us to God. Without confession and repentance we are not saved. No one is perfect. All have sinned. (Romans 3:23). Even our pastors, even the most saintly of people have sinned and need Jesus. As difficult as it may be to admit to God that we have sinned and ask for forgiveness, it is not so hard when we know that we are not the only people who sin and when we know that there is no shame and no condemnation when we are delivered from who we were in sin to who we are as forgiven. Forgiveness takes away the punishment, the price we would have faced. The price of sin is death. (Romans 6:23). Jesus paid that price for you. He is the only one who could because He is the only one who never sinned. (2 Corinthians 5:21). He laid down His life for you. (1 John 3:16). He rose from the dead for you. (1 Corinthians 15:4). He ascended to Heaven to be your advocate, your door to a relationship with God, and to send the Holy Spirit to you. (Romans 8:34, Acts 1:8).

Have you asked the Lord to forgive you? Have you confessed to Him that you are a sinner and need Him? Have you been waffling on the edge wondering if you can or should call on Jesus? Today is the day. Now is the moment. You have no idea what will happen tomorrow, in five hours, or in five minutes. Verses 6-7 read,

“Therefore let everyone who is godly
    offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found;
surely in the rush of great waters,
    they shall not reach him.
7 You are a hiding place for me;
    you preserve me from trouble;
    you surround me with shouts of deliverance.”


The godly are not the pious religious who claim to live perfect sinless lives. The godly are those who recognize their need for God and depend on Him for forgiveness and trust Him to keep them. The moment we pray and ask Him to forgive us and be our Lord and Master, we become godly and He makes us more godly, more like Him every day. Verses 8-9 read,

“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
    I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
9 Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding,
    which must be curbed with bit and bridle,
    or it will not stay near you.”


God doesn’t leave His sheep to the wolves. He teaches us, guides us, and develops us, not as if we are animals trained with pavlonian methods. He teaches us as sentient intelligent people. We spend time with Him and He opens up His heart and mind to us. We read His Word, the Bible. We pray and we listen. We become part of a body (a church) of believers and we teach each other.  We go through life depending on Him and through it all He transforms and conforms us to His image, godliness.

Salvation is a privilege and a miracle. It is awesome. We cannot keep quiet about how wonderful our Lord is. The lost suffer but nothing comes of it. The lost have no purpose and they go through life filled with grief or trying to suppress the futility of life. But we have purpose! Life is not empty to us because we see God working, we know why we are here. We are here to have a relationship with God and to bring others to a relationship with Him too. We celebrate Christ. We rejoice in the transformation of the Holy Spirit in us. We revel in the Father’s amazing love. Verses 10-11 close the Psalm.

“Many are the sorrows of the wicked,
    but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the Lord.
11 Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous,
    and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!”


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Psalm 14 The Foolish and the Consequences of Ignorance

6/3/2015

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Psalm 14

I know a few people who are agnostics and even atheists who believe Christians are chumps. We’ve been duped into believing that there is a god out there who loves us so completely he came to earth, lived an impossibly sinless life, gave up his life, and rose again. How stupid can we be? Even other religions who believe in a god or gods think Christians are crazy for thinking we do not have to earn our eternal reward.

But the Bible, God’s perfect Word made evident for us reminds us the opposite is true. Verse 1 reads,

“The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”
    They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds,
    there is none who does good.”


Even the so called good deeds of the lost are not really good. Man can do no good without The LORD. We either serve our Master the One True Living God or we serve the prince of the power of the air, Satan. While God uses all deeds good or evil to benefit His children and conform us to His image when an act is done to serve the enemy it is not a good work, it is self-serving and self-edifying. The good that comes from it is due to God.

Without Him, we can’t be good. Doing good doesn’t earn us salvation it is a result of salvation. The Lord looked for a person who was good without Him and found none. He saw our great need of Salvation through Him, Jesus our Christ, our Redeemer. Verses 2-3 read,

“The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man,
    to see if there are any who understand,
    who seek after God.


3 They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt;
    there is none who does good,
    not even one.”


He looks for those who seek Him and when we do, He promises we will find Him. He is at the ready for any who call on His name. In Matthew 7:7-8 Jesus said,

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.”

Romans 10:13 says,

“For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

In their ignorance the lost seek pleasure, self-satisfaction, riches, and power. They hurt others to gain these things. God would freely give joy, contentment, treasures in Heaven, and His power and authority if only they would acknowledge Him and ask. Verse 4 laments their obliviousness.

“Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers
    who eat up my people as they eat bread
    and do not call upon the Lord?”


They are the fools and their foolery results in evil. It results in hate, especially toward the One True God and His followers. God loves us so deeply that when the time comes He will avenge us. Jesus will lead the great army of angels and take vengeance. The Day of Judgement is coming. Verses 5-6 say,

“There they are in great terror,
    for God is with the generation of the righteous.
6 You would shame the plans of the poor,
    but the Lord is his refuge.


7 Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!
    When the Lord restores the fortunes of his people,
    let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.”


We have a great sanctuary in The Lord. That Day will be horrible for the lost. Do we really want that end for them? The Lord God Almighty doesn’t want a single one of the lost to die. He doesn’t want them to burn in Hell for eternity. (2 Peter 3:9). And we should share His heart and His nature. We grieve their ignorance rather than reciprocate their hate. We should seek to tell them the wonderful truth, the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Jesus loves them and so should we. Even while He was on the cross dying a horrendous death for us He showed His profound love. Luke 23:34 says,

“And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

Even the most evil of people was created in the image of God. He loves them. He wants them to know Him. You and I can be the ones to tell them and to show them.

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Colossians 4 People Should Wonder Why You're Different

3/27/2015

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When we glorify Christ we stand out and others want to know how and why we can be so different. They want to know Jesus for themselves when they see Him lived out in our lives.
Colossians Chapter 4

How we act, the way we speak, and the manner of our responses to life matter. People are watching. Unbelievers are taking note. When we glorify Christ we stand out and they want to know how and why we can be so different. The Holy Spirit within us makes us distinct, and that distinction is amazing. They want to know Jesus for themselves when they see Him lived out in our lives.

But we have to make an effort. We have to put on Christ and choose to manifest the fruit of the Spirit. (Colossians 3:12). That means we ought to pray for one another that we will do those things.

Verses 2-4 read,

“Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. 3 At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— 4 that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak.”

Notice Paul didn’t ask them to pray He would be released from prison. He certainly didn’t enjoy prison but He knew that his suffering had a purpose. He was there to share the truth of Jesus Christ with everyone he could. He asked that the door would be open, not to the prison, but for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ.

What is the mystery of Christ? It is that we have salvation, absolute forgiveness, complete redemption and full restoration through the Jesus Christ. (Colossians 1:26-29). It is a gift of grace by faith, not by works. Once saved we are given God’s Holy Spirit and He resides within us, guiding us and transforming us to Jesus’ image. (1 Timothy 3:16). One day Jesus will return and He will gather all the redeemed with Him. (1 Corinthians 50-56).

Knowing that we hold the key to someone coming to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior we should behave in a manner worthy of Him. 1 Timothy 3:15-16 reads,

“if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth. 16 Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness:

He was manifested in the flesh,
    vindicated by the Spirit,
        seen by angels,
proclaimed among the nations,
    believed on in the world,
        taken up in glory.”


How is it that we should act toward unbelievers? Verses 5 reads,

“Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time.”

We should walk in wisdom, making the best use of the time. What difference will they see in us, if we act just like them, making foolish choices, speaking crudely, and filled with drunkenness instead of the Spirit?

Walking in wisdom means being led by the Spirit, using His discernment, and obeying Him.  Colossians 1:9-10 says,

“And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 10 so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.”

Making the best use of time is important. We are here for a purpose. We are here to reveal Christ to them, to share the truth with them, and let them know there is hope in Jesus. We have to choose to spend the time we have with them, be it 3 minutes, 3 hours, or 3 days in the way the Spirit leads and not be afraid to be bold. What is more important, their salvation or whether they feel annoyed? No one knows what tomorrow will bring, no one knows the day she will die, no one knows the hour of Christ’s return. Time is of the essence. Ecclesiastes 8:6-8 reads,

“For there is a time and a way for everything, although man's trouble lies heavy on him. 7 For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be? 8 No man has power to retain the spirit, or power over the day of death. There is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.”

Verse 6 says.

“Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.”

The way we speak makes a difference. If we tell vulgar stories instead of telling about the greatness and goodness of God, if our speech is peppered with judgement instead of salted with grace, then why would our answers to the big questions matter? Why would anyone even ask us the big questions?

Our lives are a testimony to Jesus. Everywhere we go, whether we want to be or not, we are Christ’s ambassadors. We are witnesses to God’s great love and ministers of the gospel. We have to always be ready to share the truth and defend the truth. 1 Peter 3:15-17 reads,

“but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, 16 having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. 17 For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.”

Even in suffering, we should be graceful, loving, and kind, more concerned with others than ourselves, since we know that God is with us. Paul was in prison and his concern was the ministry, he wanted to be sure that he was able to share the gospel and that the churches and friends he cared for were able to share the gospel.

Paul closed his letter to the Colossians with verses of greetings and encouragement to and from different people. Verse 12 reads,

“Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.”

And verse 17 says,

“And say to Archippus, “See that you fulfill the ministry that you have received in the Lord.”

So I encourage you today, stand mature in fully assured in the will of God, fulfill the ministry you have received in the Lord, walk in wisdom, make the best use of the time, and let your speech be gracious so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

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Ezekiel 36 Restored for God's Glory

3/18/2015

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Ezekiel Chapter 36

God had poured His wrath out on Israel. He had allowed Jerusalem to be devastated. The nations all around them cheered at the catastrophes they faced. The Lord dealt with Israel for her sin. He dealt with the other nations for their hate. Now it was time to restore Israel, His people. He would restore Israel so that the other nations would take note. He restored them so that everyone would know He is the Lord.

Verses 7-9 read,

“Therefore thus says the Lord God: I swear that the nations that are all around you shall themselves suffer reproach.

8 “But you, O mountains of Israel, shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to my people Israel, for they will soon come home. 9 For behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.”

When God is for you, who can be against you? He dealt with all the nations that took advantage of Israel during her weakness and cheered over her hardships. He dealt with Israel who had defamed and defiled His name, who had worshipped idols, and been utterly despicable. Verses 22-24 say,

“Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.23 And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.”

The Lord promised to restore and heal broken Israel. He does the same today for His children. He brings the penitent to Him, He heals, He allows us to know Him, and He gives us the ability to walk in Him and glorify His name. The change He makes are visible to those around us. He glorifies His holiness, His love, His awesome name. Verses 26-32 read,

“And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. 28 You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. 29 And I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. And I will summon the grain and make it abundant and lay no famine upon you. 30 I will make the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant, that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.

He removes our old attitude of stubbornness. He gives us His Spirit so that we will be able to walk in faith. He rescues us from sin. He provides. He changes us completely from who we once were to become His. He transforms us to the image of Christ. He does all these wonderful things for us, so that all people will know He is the Lord, so that all people will have the chance to come to Him, repent, and be His.

God’s restoration of His children is not partial. It is whole and it is awesome. It is not for our fame or exultation, it is for His. His purpose is not so you can keep His love to yourself but so that everyone will know He is the Lord God. What He does in us is so big it has to be Him that does it. No self-help book, 12-step program, or self-discipline can bring about such an absolute change. Verses 35-36 read,

“Thus says the Lord God: On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be rebuilt. 34 And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, instead of being the desolation that it was in the sight of all who passed by. 35 And they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.’ 36 Then the nations that are left all around you shall know that I am the Lord; I have rebuilt the ruined places and replanted that which was desolate. I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it.”

When He does this for us, He also gives us the ability and even the desire to ask it for others, for those who hate us, for those who snub the Lord, and for those who wander lost and ignorant of Him. God salvation started with Israel but He also gave it to other nations through Israel. God saved you, but He will also save the people around you through the testimony of what Jesus Christ did in you. Verses 37-38 say,

“Thus says the Lord God: This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their people like a flock. 38 Like the flock for sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

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Ezekiel Chapter 12 Sugar-Coated Positive Messages Don't Save. Jesus Saves.

2/26/2015

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Ezekiel Chapter 12

In this chapter the Lord gave Ezekiel a prophecy about Judah and her prince going into exile. But He began the word with this declaration in verse 2,

“Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not, for they are a rebellious house.”

The Lord knew that the people would choose not to listen or believe but He showed them anyway. He showed them because He wanted them to listen. He wanted them to take it seriously and heed His word. He wanted them to be saved. Ezekiel did everything God told him to do and the next the day, the Lord said, “Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’  Say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God…” (Verses 9-10a). God then proceeded to explain the prophecy to Ezekiel so that he could explain it to whomever asked. Verses 14-16 read,

“And I will scatter toward every wind all who are around him, his helpers and all his troops, and I will unsheathe the sword after them. 15 And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries. 16 But I will let a few of them escape from the sword, from famine and pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am the Lord.”

The few who listened, who took the Lord seriously and acknowledged their sin would be saved. But the majority of the people who supported the prince instead of seeking God would be exiled or die from war, disease, or hunger.

True prophets were not popular among the people. They didn’t give positive flowery messages. They pointed out the evil and told people to repent. They warned people of the impending trouble that awaited them because of their sin. They were not only unpopular but they were laughed at or ignored. Verses 21-23 read,

“And the word of the Lord came to me: 22 “Son of man, what is this proverb that you have about the land of Israel, saying, ‘The days grow long, and every vision comes to nothing’? 23 Tell them therefore, ‘Thus says the Lord God: I will put an end to this proverb, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel.’ But say to them, The days are near, and the fulfillment of every vision.”

The attitude of Israel that the prophecies fulfillment were so far off as to not be a concern reminds me of the attitude of many people today. I’ve heard people say that the Bible needs a dictionary to define the word ‘soon’ since it’s been two thousand years and the events that it claims will happen soon still haven’t happened. They ignore all prophecies that have come to fruition. They laugh at the idea of the Day of Judgment, of a God who requires payment for sin, and the existence of sin at all.

Yet God still loves them. He still wants them to be saved. He still calls us to go to them, make disciples, and teach them to obey. He still wants them to know Him. One day every person will know He is LORD, whether it is because they finally heard the message and believed or they face Him on their knees in terror on that Day. The Day will come and it is coming soon. God will do what He has said He would do. Verses 24-25 say,

“For there shall be no more any false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel. 25 For I am the Lord; I will speak the word that I will speak, and it will be performed. It will no longer be delayed, but in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and perform it, declares the Lord God.”

It isn’t up to us to decide if people will listen. It is up to us to obey the Lord and speak the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to them and let them have the opportunity to accept or refuse Him. It is up to us to reject sin, idolatry, and false religion, not call it harmless and propagate it ourselves.

People can’t know how awful these sugar-coated ideas are if we are accepting them and even passing them along as well. They are made sweet so people will receive them, but they are lies. They flatter so that people will believe them but they are abominations. People need the truth. The truth comes from God and it is covered in Jesus’ blood, it points out our weakness, our sin, and our desperate need of Him. It doesn’t cajole with positive ‘hang in there’ messages. It exhorts with “recognize your need, call on Jesus, and repent.” It says, “You can’t save yourself let go and fall into God’s capable hands. It is beautiful only after we accept it and realize the awesome exquisiteness and magnificence of God’s complete grace.

People’s reactions are not your problem, your actions are your concern. Tell them the truth and let them decide to be deaf and blind or hearing and seeing.

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Ezekiel 3:12-27 To Obey God or Obey Fear? The Price is on Your Head.

2/10/2015

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Ezekiel Chapter 3 Verses 12-27

After Ezekiel’s vision, he went in the Spirit and with the hand of The Lord upon him to the exiles at Tel-abib. He was bitter but he went. He sat among them overwhelmed for seven days. Ezekiel obeyed the Lord although he didn’t want to. The mission and the vision had been a lot to take in. And so he sat overwhelmed by the whole thing for a week. The Bible doesn’t say whether he prayed. I imagine he did. I would guess he took that time to process everything. He didn’t turn away from the job God had given him to speak to the Israelite exiles and tell them whatever God had for them.

After God allowed Ezekiel to sort out everything, He spoke to the prophet again. Verses 16-17 read,

“And at the end of seven days, the word of the Lord came to me: 17 “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.”

God told Ezekiel whenever he heard a word from Him, he was to warn the people. He didn’t give him the option of picking and choosing which message to give and which to withhold. Every word from God’s mouth to us has weight and should be heard by whomever God has chosen to receive it. We sometimes may pick and choose. God gives us a word or tells us to do something and we decide if we feel brave enough, we consider whether we think the person will receive it well, and then we decide if we’ll obey Him. I personally have had many conversations with God after His command to me in which I’ve said, “I really don’t want to.” Thank God, He is so merciful and gracious. Most of the time He just nudges me again, tells me in His quiet voice again to do it. Most of the time, I do.

God isn’t giving us commands, telling us to go, speak, give, or stop for His entertainment. He is telling us for a reason. He chose us for a reason. And our response affects things. It affects the person we might help, and it affects us. Verses 18-21 say,

“If I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person shall die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. 19 But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul. 20 Again, if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, and his righteous deeds that he has done shall not be remembered, but his blood I will require at your hand. 21 But if you warn the righteous person not to sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning, and you will have delivered your soul.”

God doesn’t give us a word of prophecy for a brother because He thinks it is cool. He gives it because our brother needs to hear it. He doesn’t tell us to go to someone because He has nothing better for us to do. He chooses us because we are the ones whom that someone needs to interact with, because He deemed us the most appropriate for the job.

Remember, their reaction or response is not your problem. They have free will, just like we do. But God wants them to hear His Word, know His Love, and see Him. If we refuse to obey, and they continue down the path of destruction, God is clear, their blood is on our hands. If we tell them then the responsibility of their response is with them and our hands are clean.

What is it that we are afraid of in telling someone God’s message? Are we really afraid of this person? Shouldn’t we much more fear the Lord God Almighty than any person? Do we love God enough to love His people the way He loves us? Do we love them enough to use our gifts and obey our Lord? If we can’t obey God out of love for Him and love for others, at least we should obey out of the fear of their damnation on our heads.

Oh, how I pray that none of us are that selfish! I pray that each of us really does obey the most important commandments of God’s commands as quoted by Jesus in Mark 12:29-31.

Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

These are active not passive commands. Loving God with all our heart or emotion, with all our soul or will, with all our mind or intelligence and discernment, and with all our strength or physical power. And just the same as a natural result of the first, we love our neighbor, the people not only in our inner circle but all those we come in contact with the way we want to be loved ourselves.

After God spoke to Ezekiel He told him to go to the valley and He would speak to him some more. So Ezekiel went and saw the glory of God just like He had seen before. He fell down at once, but the Spirit entered him and lifted him up again. Verses 24-27 read,

“But the Spirit entered into me and set me on my feet, and he spoke with me and said to me, “Go, shut yourself within your house. 25 And you, O son of man, behold, cords will be placed upon you, and you shall be bound with them, so that you cannot go out among the people. 26 And I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be mute and unable to reprove them, for they are a rebellious house. 27 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God.’ He who will hear, let him hear; and he who will refuse to hear, let him refuse, for they are a rebellious house.”

It may seem pretty severe to keep a man bound and mute except when he is doing or speaking for God. But God often used the prophets and circumstances as clear illustrations for His people. He wanted Ezekiel to only speak His words, to only go where He told him to go, and to only do what He told him to do. Ezekiel could only do God’s work by God’s power. It was obvious to the people who heard him because unless God was speaking through him, Ezekiel couldn’t speak. Remember it is God’s power you display, His love, His will, and His words you speak.

It is a stark reminder for us, not to add to God’s words. We are to say and do what He says when He says it. How many of us have gotten a word from the Lord for a brother or sister and waited, added to it, or taken away from it? We muddy the message. That isn’t obedience. That is letting fear sully God’s pure and perfect word.

My Brothers and Sisters, I encourage you to listen to the Lord well and obey Him immediately. Let’s stop arguing with Him and just trust Him. Let’s love people wholeheartedly enough to be willing to give them the chance to respond and choose life. Let’s trust God and see what He will do.

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Ezekiel 3:1-11 That Missions Trip to India is not the Only Place You Can Share the Gospel of Jesus Christ

2/9/2015

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Ezekiel Chapter 3 Verses 1-11

Ezekiel was still having his vision of the Lord. God spoke to him and told him to eat a scroll, to fill his belly with it. He was to eat it first before he went to the exiles to speak God’s words to them. The Lord wanted him satisfied with His word, His will, and Him. He didn’t send Ezekiel out to speak to people without equipping him for it. He doesn’t send people out if He isn’t going to give them what they need for the job. God sent Ezekiel to Israel and although Ezekiel didn’t know what he should say yet, God told him that He would give him the words.

And Ezekiel was not being given an easy job. He was going to his own people. People that assumed he was just like them. People who knew he shared the same culture they did. He had been through all the things they had been through, he was exiled the same as they were. They expected him to be like them. People who expect someone to be sympathetic to their vices, don’t take kindly when their expectations are not met. Verses 4-7 record the Lord’s words to Ezekiel.

“And he said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with my words to them. 5 For you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and a hard language, but to the house of Israel— 6 not to many peoples of foreign speech and a hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I sent you to such, they would listen to you. 7 But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart.”

It is easier to go to the stranger, to go to a foreign country, to go to people who do not know you or what to expect from you and speak the word of God. People who share your culture make suppositions about who you are. Even Jesus had a more difficult time in His hometown than He did in the rest of His travels. When He spoke in Nazareth the reaction was intense. Luke 4:28-30 records it,

“When they heard these things, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath. 29 And they rose up and drove him out of the town and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff. 30 But passing through their midst, he went away.”

It is easier to speak to strangers. Their reactions do not affect your entire life. But talking to the people you know is not the same thing. How they respond to you and against you can make your life miserable. But God sent Ezekiel to his own people. He sends most of us to our own people.

We are a testimony to Christ where we live, not only when we go on a missions trip, but every day, all day. And there is a reason for it. It is harder for people to hear from people like themselves. When they hear and understand the truth from someone just as ordinary as they are, it has to be real for them to believe it and change their life with it.

The person saved by hearing the word of a street evangelist has an awesome experience that probably doesn’t lead them straight into the community of God. When God uses the people around us and in our lives to lead us to Christ, it creates a faith community. It gives us the ‘one anothers’ to love immediately.

If we are the same kind of person they are and they see the awesome things God has done to make us different, then God is that much more real to them. If we were raised in similar manners, if we have the same cultural drives, we speak the same language from the same perspective.

Verses 8-11 describe it like this,

“Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads. 9 Like emery harder than flint have I made your forehead. Fear them not, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.” 10 Moreover, he said to me, “Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears. 11 And go to the exiles, to your people, and speak to them and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ whether they hear or refuse to hear.”

Israel was a stubborn, hard headed nation. Because Ezekiel was also an Israelite, he was like them. God said He had made Ezekiel’s forehead like emery and harder than flint. Emery is a very hard substance used as an abrasive to smooth and polish other hard surfaces. Like an emery board files a rough nail and makes it smooth, so emery takes out the roughness of substances like flint. Ezekiel was the right person to go to Israel because God had equipped him for the job.

Likewise, He has made you, prepared you and armed you for the ministry He has for you. He has placed the people in your life that need to see who God is. He has given you at least one Spiritual gift. He has given you brothers and sisters. He has given you the word. He has given you Himself. He has given you a relationship with the Father. He has given you the salvation of Jesus Christ. And He has given you the transformative power, teaching, guidance and comfort of the Holy Spirit.

Your mission field is around you. 

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Ezekiel Chapter 2 You Are Responsible for Giving God's Message to Whom He Chooses. They Are Responsible for Their Reaction.

2/8/2015

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Ezekiel 2

The second chapter Ezekiel begins with the words spoken by the Lord in His vision telling the prophet to speak to Israel on God’s behalf. Verses 1-2 read,

“And he said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.” 2 And as he spoke to me, the Spirit entered into me and set me on my feet, and I heard him speaking to me.”

It was through the word of God that Ezekiel was given the Spirit and able to stand in His presence, hear and understand what was being said to him. We too are only able to commune, hear, and accept the Lord’s will and word for us through Christ and with the Spirit. Before Ezekiel was given the Spirit, he couldn’t even stand before God. Jesus granted him the right and asked him to stand and the Spirit entered him and set him on his feet.

Then the Son of God gave his job. Verses 3-4 read,

“And he said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day. 4 The descendants also are impudent and stubborn: I send you to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God.”

I cannot really imagine how Ezekiel felt. He had to be in awe being given this vision and mission. And the job was a big one, one that had not gone well for other prophets. Israel didn’t like hearing bad news. No one really does. No one wants to hear that they are not the good person they think they are. And God was sending Ezekiel to these stubborn rebellious people to tell them they were stubborn, rebellious and sinful.

God knew that the people wouldn’t take it well, it was in there nature. But He loved them enough to tell them the truth. He loved them enough to give them a chance to respond. He loved them enough to give them every opportunity for salvation.

Verses 5-7 read,

“And whether they hear or refuse to hear (for they are a rebellious house) they will know that a prophet has been among them. 6 And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you sit on scorpions. Be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house. 7 And you shall speak my words to them, whether they hear or refuse to hear, for they are a rebellious house.”

You and I, Believer are also given a mission. We are the light of the world and we are called to shine the light of Jesus into the darkness. It can be intimidating to speak to someone and tell them the Gospel. But God loves them and wants them to be saved. Doesn’t that love mean He wants them to have the opportunity to accept or refuse Him of their own will, just like we had the chance to receive or reject Him of our own will?

They are human. They have a flesh nature. They, unlike us do not have the benefit of the Holy Spirit. They may look at us with contempt. They may think we are looney. They may call us hypocrites or worse. What is it to you? Do you know the truth? Are you foolish? Are you hateful? Do you love them as Jesus loved you? Are you willing to let them go to Hell because they may not like what you have to say or may not believe you?

You were given the Spirit of the Living God. He is awesome! He is God. God tells you “Do not be afraid of them.” In 2 Timothy 1:6-7 Paul wrote,

“For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands, 7 for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.”

You and I have gifts. We are meant to use those gifts to edify one another and to glorify God. You may think that evangelism is for someone else, it is for the few. But we are all called to be a testimony to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. There comes a time when you are face to face with someone who needs to hear that they need Jesus and you are the one God has chosen to speak to them. Their reaction is not your problem, your reaction is your concern. You can obey your Lord, or you can defy Him and rebel.

Verses 8-10 continue

“But you, son of man, hear what I say to you. Be not rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you.” 9 And when I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me, and behold, a scroll of a book was in it. 10 And he spread it before me. And it had writing on the front and on the back, and there were written on it words of lamentation and mourning and woe.”

The words of God are not always lollipops and unicorns. Sometimes they are difficult to digest. But they are always for our best. The dying do not want to hear that they are dying. But if God puts someone in our path and has a message for them, it is a message they need to hear. What they do with that message is up to them. What we do with the directive to give it to them is up to us as well. What love do we have if God says, ‘Tell that man that Jesus loves him and he doesn’t have to die a sinner’ and we refuse to obey Him because the man might not like what he hears? It is hateful to let him continue dying without offering him the chance for eternal life.

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