February 5, 2011 Forward Motion Faith

Absentee Blogger

I apologize.  I failed to write a blog last night.  To be honest I was down for the count!  It just didn’t work out and it didn’t get done.  I am sorry.

What they don’t know WILL hurt them!

On to tonight’s blog.  Years ago I was preparing a sermon and when I read this passage of scripture – I stopped in my tracks because I saw something I had not seen before.  Here is the passage:

Matthew 9:36-38 (New American Standard Bible)

36 Seeing the people, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and dispirited like sheep without a shepherd.

37 Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.

38 “Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.”

Did you catch the phrase in verse 38?  Jesus is the “Lord” of the harvest.  That means that He is Lord of the lost – they just don’t know it yet!   That’s where you and I come in – we are the ones to inform them!  Yes, in this case what they DON’T know will hurt them!  Those who don’t find Christ as their Savior will spend eternity in hell.  Pure and simple.  Regardless of what all the PC people say out there in the worldly and antichrist arena – there is only one way to heaven – that is to accept Jesus Christ as your personal Savior.

Acts 4:12 (NASV) Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”

There is a movement out there that teaches that you have a right to choose any religion you want to.   I agree – choose away my friend. There is a movement that entitles you to choose whatever God you want to choose to serve.  I agree – choose away my friend.  Problem is in your right to choose.  Because you have a right to serve a false God doesn’t make your choice a righteous one.  Again, there is only one God, one Lord and one Savior!

Proverbs 14:12 (NASB) There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

Yep!  One way!  One way to heaven!  In an age where pluralism is so popular and where hybrid gods are being created – it’s not popular to announce that Jesus is the only way to heaven and He is the ONLY God.

I want to challenge you to find the person that you personally know is not saved and share your testimony with them.  Don’t beat them up with an aggressive message.  Let the testimony itself do the work.   You don’t have to save them – you can’t!  But what we have to do is share our faith.  Simple.  God didn’t make this process complicated.

There is power in your testimony.  Share it.  Don’t keep it inside of you.  You don’t have to have a theology degree to share what Christ has done for you.  In order to be an effective witness of Christ you only need two things: 1) an experience with Christ and 2) you need courage to speak.  Come on – go for it.  Share your faith and make a difference in someone’s life.  Remember, what they don’t know will hurt them.