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F IR E ? continued just the same. When the resistance became too great they found oppor tunity to talk with jailers and sol diers and executioners. Nothing could put out the flame that burned in those men. And nothing could keep them quiet. They were God’s sales m en— and selling His salvation through Jesus Christ was all that was important. Nothing else mattered. And the flames spread. Now, honestly, can you really im agine the big fisherman or the fiery little tentmaker content with just a one-hour session of holiness once a week? Can you imagine James and John and Philip going even one week without talking to someone about Je sus? Of course not. Well, all right, how about today? How’s the job going? Remember these men we’ve been talking about had no Reverend tacked on the front of their names. They were laymen. They got no money for preaching the gospel. Paul earned his keep making tents, but his life work was preaching Christ. You earn your keep by book keeping or selling groceries or run ning a filling station or managing an office, but if you’re a Christian that’s not your life work. For a Christian there is only one real job. That’s winning men to Jesus Christ. How’s it going? Well, it’s not going so fast as it once did. Starting with 120 at the day of Pentecost the Christian Church took over the Roman Empire, at least nominally, in 300 years. If it were going that fast today we could count on the job being done in another ten years or less, because theoretically there are some 600 million Christians in the world today in a total popula tion of 2 billion. Our product is still as good as it ever was. Science for all its wonder ful progress has found no way to re move evil from the souls of men. Only the gospel of Jesus Christ can do that by giving them new hearts for old stained ones. And for all our marvelous jet planes we still can’t reach heaven under our own steam. Only the power of God can take us there. And though we have amazing new bombs for launching more peo ple than ever before into eternity, we still have found no compass but Jesus Christ to guide them to the golden city of God once they get there. No, Christianity is as good as ever. And we are happy to use it for our selves and our families—and if it’s that good we ought to be talking it to every person we know. There’s really no danger that heaven will be come overpopulated, you know. THE KING'S BUSINESS
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