SOUL WINNING
by Walter L. Wilson
O NE OP THE MOST IMPORTANT min istries in which every child of God should be engaged is personal evangelism. I want to share several reasons with you, pointing out why this is our paramount responsi bility. First of all, without Christ, a man is dead to God. He doesn’t have the facility, nor does he desire, to listen to the Lord. There is no urging within him, except, of course, that which the Holy Spirit gives, to seek the Saviour. While God loves him, he will not be reconciled to the Lord. Spiritually, he is a corpse. Is this the way with you? God calls but you don’t reply. He com mands but you don’t obey. He loves but you don’t respond. We as be lievers need to bring dead people the gift of eternal life. The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eter nal life. Salvation is not something one works, prays or weeps for. One must go to the Saviour trusting His life and soul to Him. The second reason for personal evangelism is that the unsaved man is blind. Since he can’t see anything in the Bible, he isn’t interested. There is no meaning for him. He looks at the Psalms and they bore him. He looks at Chronicles and it tires him. He looks at Matthew and it distresses him. He could even read the 53rd of Isaiah and never see the Lord Jesus at all. Christ said, “Ex cept a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God.” By taking the Gospel to an unsaved person, his eyes and mind can be opened. The third reason for personal evangelism is that the unsaved per son is wicked in God’s sight. How many sins have you committed? Suppose you sin ten times a day; sins of ignorance, presumption and
those causing other people to fall. That would be 3650 in one year, or 36,500 in ten years. Take a good look at the record. If you Saw two snakes come into your house, one a cobra and the oth er a poisonous rattlesnake, would you ask, “Have you been a nice snake? Have you bitten anybody late ly? If not, then you can live in my house with me.” Of course not. God knows the thought, purpose and in tent of every individual. We are all wicked. Apart from the redeeming work of Jesus Christ, none of us could live with the Lord. The fourth reason for personal evangelism is that man is unclean. This is why he can’t enter into God’s presence. Sin defiles the body, soul, heart and mind. The only way we can go to heaven is to'be cleansed by the blood of Christ. He loves to do it for you. You couldn’t possibly take your sin to heaven, even if for some strange reason you wanted to. Sins make us soiled. Any doctor or nurse going into the operating room must be certain to wear that which is sterilized. When you go to glory, you must be purged from all uncleanness. All of the evidences of wickedness and sin must be completely taken away. Christ clothes us then in the spotless robes of His righteousness. The fifth reason for personal evan gelism is that man naturally, apart from God’s Son, is an enemy of the Lord. It was true at the time of the crucifixion; it is just as true today, for the mob calls out from angry and vile lips, “We will not have this man to reign over us.” The only way a man can be a friend of God is through the One who makes inter cession for us “with groanings which cannot be uttered” (Rom. 7:25). 17
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