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me and you'all give the Lord a hand clap because he is good
his mercy endures for ever he is forever faithful
and there's always a reason to give God praise and honor and glory
he's our Savior he's are king if you have your bibles this morning we're
gonna go back just a little bit you're not going to find anything on the screen
in for several reasons but number one i want you to listen to what should say
out your iPad your iPhone your tablet you pencil your paper whatever you have
and I hope you have access to the Scriptures but
we're going to be in several scriptures today as we have
wrapped up the Matthew series last week but I always hate to
are have a message that it's one of those you ought to
and I never wanna come across as you ought to you ought to but
arm without giving you some hands-on tools
and so are as I met with this past week
we're going to begin a a series in the future is not gonna be long series but
the the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives and
on the Holy Spirit but as I just as God kept
speaking to different people and circumstances this week
n last week we wound up Matthew or jesus said your to go into all the world
and you preach the gospel well I want to come back this week
and some people have asked this week in just brought up in his come up several
stimson that
what witnessing what witnessing
to are witnessing training are you using
and different types different ways but what I want to do this morning
is to give you some scriptures
and just a tool it's not a complicated too warm
but it is a tool I assure you
that at some point in your life
the opportunity is going to come for you
to lead somebody to faith in Jesus Christ
it may be your child it may be your husband it may be your wife
it may be your sister your brother maybe your mother dead
maybe appear at work but when God finds a heart
that's in an all-out sell out to him
he's going to use you and so
I'm gonna surprise you not surprise you but if I hear anything you so often is
well I'm just not one of those witnessing types
well i wanna talk in a dress that just for a moment so let's begin
in the book a backs axed chapter 1 verse
8 or Jesus gave us
the character up the new disciple
and he says an axe chapter 8 verse 1:
up the acceptor 8 its unique action after one
verse a axed chapter 1 verse 8
Jesus had been crucified
he was raised from the dead he walked on this earth
for a brief period brief period of time and then the Bible says he was standing
on a mountain outside the city Jerusalem
and he was taken up into the clouds and right before he was taken up
he gave his disciples this war daschle the last words that we have recorded
a Jesus talking to us are talking to you
human beings if you will on this earth in a sack chapter 8
acceptor one verse H excuse me he said but you will
receive power when the Holy Spirit
comes on you Jesus had something in mind
he said first ball was fixin to happen here in about in nineteen -18 -7
he was fixing to be taken up to heaven he wanted them to know
you are going to receive power and he said that power is going to come
when the Holy Spirit comes upon you well
when the Holy Spirit first came
he came it an event called pentecost a Jewish festival
a Jewish holiday
and the Holy Spirit descended on the people its founder next chapter 2
it's incredible leave it were God moved
following that time
I believe the Bible teaches according to axe chapter two verse 38
in many other verses that when a person becomes aware of their seein
and they become aware that Jesus died for their CNN they trust Christ as their
Savior
when you pray action after two first 38 says these words
is says repaint
and be baptized every one have you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ he
said
and you will receive the Holy Spirit he doesn't come in the way he came that
first moment to those first disciples
now it when you receive Jesus as your Savior
the Holy Spirit of God got spirit the third person the treaty
comes to live within you but the promises the same he says
he told his disciples he said he says you will receive power
Quinn the Holy Spirit comes upon you
but what is that power to be use for and I would you look
and you will be my witnesses
no be very careful because he didn't say and you were to go witness
he said you'll be my witnesses
if you claim to be a Christian Church if you claim to be a Christ follower
the life you are right now living is a witness to what Christ can do
for some there are false witnesses
Christ never came in a person never really
gave their life to Christ they might have understood the story
how Jesus died for us but for some reason there wasn't an authentic sincere
commitment of one's life to Jesus crisis it's a false witness
but then there's another witness
there's a fraudulent witness crisis really did come in
but what he's trying to do in our lives
we're really not let him do but then there's a fervent witness
all OVA sir witnesses
everyone a bus are witnesses
jesus said when the Holy Spirit comes upon you you will be
my witnesses now for years I took divers to mean it major to go out in witness
so I'm gonna lighten the load a little bit because many have you would say
me and I just don't feel comfortable giving a witness and going up to
witnessing to people
and we take it we always take it to the extreme like I don't like
going up in just hitting somebody cold turkey is a you gonna urban
know geez is so you know you for Snow Hill nobody likes to do that
and that's not what Jesus did jesus said when the Holy Spirit comes upon you
the spirit that he says that his mind
he basically said I'm gonna give to my people now
so that wherever you are you
are Jesus to that community into that environment
the question is what kind of witness for Christ are we being
I'll are we witnessing is so week we so often say
I'll active all IIIi
I can't I'm not not very good witness I can't talk
when that time comes
you are right now
fully prepared to do what Jesus one ***
the thing that the body of Christ is lacking
is that lack of confidence because
there so many things you said number one you think you usually I don't know
enough
if God opens the door for you to walk in and present you that situation he's
aware love your spiritual education level
and he's prepared you and you're ready now let's break down the witnessing
thing just a little bit the word witnesses a legal is a legal term it's a
legal context
and if your call to court and to a trial
you're not call to tell what you don't know you're called as a witness to what
you do know
if you begin to talk about things that you just heard on the news that you
heard your friends say
or that you just simply have inferred into this situation you bring your own
opinion
you year year discredited as a witness a min all your call to do
is to share in that moment what you know
you say well I don't know much
a million that's fine bone Christ opens at opportunity in from time to time
II her parents feelings and Mama day i'd never me to do this but
I don't wanna rob the joy every love you went when you come to our office and you
say
my child my son my daughter wants to receive Christ from time to time not
every time
but I said hey okay I'm not gonna do it in a say what
isn't that why you're heart pave played is a
pastor no I'm not a hard holy man I'm equipped for the Saints to do the work
love the ministry that's jobs got description I don't wanna drop you as a
mother are dead
a being there when your child cries out to the Lord
missus Jesus hi what you in my heart
just simply because Satan has you fooled
that you don't know where you're going or you don't know what you doing
if you met Jesus you know how you met Jesus
and you know how to take somebody else to that point I'll always be glad to
share Jesus with someone
always
but I want to say listen we think number one we don't know enough
number two we think we're not good enough we think their sin in our past
and we're not qualified for that top job
a pic telling people leading people to Jesus
let me tell you there's nobody on this planet
the older idea the farther I Q
more aware of God's grace but equally aware
my brokenness in my mmm
my I don't know what are the words that
my afflictions there's no one on this planet
in and of themselves worthy to
be part I've God's great plan have leading somebody to faith in christ
but that's the good news of the gospel that's what he's given us
I'm gonna give you three for scriptures that if you ever if you're a moment
because you are prepared right now
if you know Christ as your Savior Eunos how to tell someone else as a witness
how you found the number two you are worthy
because your sins have been washed in the blood of the Lamb
your sins have been covered your past has been forgiven
your future is secure you are worthy not enough yourself
but you are worthy because he burst tells you have become the righteousness
of God
and in him he has made you perfect and you know
you say I don't feel perfect I don't know unless it is all this stuff in me
in the eyes of God when you became his child he washed you
he clinched you he didn't just play and you from past seasons
he please you from president CNN's he claims you from all your future Seans
and the reason a child got to know that they're gonna spend eternity with Him
is not because of our performance because of his promised
he said if you believe in me I am going to give you eternal life
so when someone ask you and just simply ask you are you going to heaven with
common as you say yes ongoing
and they mistakenly think that you think that you're so good
that you're gonna go you're not gonna go I'm not gonna go because a bar
worthiness
we're gonna go because Jesus is going to keep his promise
that he said whoever believes in me will not perish but have eternal life
and listen that's all you can promise you will what if they start asking all
these
deep questions they're not going to do that if they do God's gonna give you the
answer for that moment he's not going to set you up for failure
if he's going to use you as a tool he's gonna use use it to a victory
he say well this is the third thing I want to say to just when you're
witnessing
number one let me make sure you follow your number one
some people don't witness cuz I don't know enough they think yes you do
they think they're not worthy enough yes you are the third thing that we think in
that moment is that
to that that that in those moments
that that we're gonna be asked questions that we don't know the answer to that
we're gonna known
that'll never happen and so
the third they own be is sure your his you're never
you and I you're never gonna win win somebody to Jesus Christ
it's not a win-loss game he didn't call it should be a winner loser he called us
to be witness
in and John you need to write this first down
put in the notes John 6:44
is clear direction everybody kids when you go back to school
you need understand this in John chapter 6 first 44
Jesus tells us there peace is very
very clearly jesus's no one can come to me
unless the father who sent me
draws him you know who wins people to Jesus
God the father and if we're just fortunate enough to be included in his
plan
thank you lore so you're not gonna fail
you're not gonna you're not gonna lead somebody to say a prayer receiving
Christ
that God had no really touch their hearts and convinced him that he's alive
you don't have to be so smart so intelligent so quick such a good
salesman
that we're gonna trick somebody or convince somebody that God is real
God takes care of that by moving into the creation that he created
and speaking to their heart now
with that said I am going to give you some scriptures just to help you
and I'm gonna move them very fast as I got a long ways to go for civil romash
after five versus 8
some people would call this the Roman Road but it's the Roman Road abbreviated
for crossroads okay
romash after five yr seitz is this
if somebody wants to know that you Jesus you put this in the fryer Bible put it
somewhere you need to put in your iPad
romash after five versace's this while we were yet sinners
Christ died for us honest eat and how many viewer yet to be born with Jesus
died
I como you large good to hear the way the listener you sleep now how many a
viewer yet to be born when Christ died on the cross
so yeah are so while we were still sinners Christ died for us
he died in advance for your sin for my sins that is grace that is love that is
unbelievable love on God's part
that while we were yet sinners we were still we were not even aware of him
not only Christ died before you were born
let me to miss this how many have you
how many have your Seans were yet to be committed
when Jesus died for your sins haha lover
well that's good news and the reason is good news because you want to say well
that counts he paid for all um
until that time that I accepted him as my savior
and then from this point own we don't say this but we believe it
from this point own I'm responsible for my own sayin
oh yeah no way
he paid for all other if that's the case
you're gonna live in bondage your live guilt-ridden
because the moment that you give your life to Christ here's what happens
Satan is a sore loser and he wants to destroy
your desire to be a witness for Jesus Christ
by thinking you don't know enough to think we're not we're enough
Christ died he either died for all your sales when he died he didn't die for any
other
he didn't put a halfway point somebody got saved older in life
so listen he died while we re citrus Christ died for us
romash after 3 verse 23 right this from death for all have sinned
don't doubt it and fall short of the glory of God now
I wish I had a long time to stay here but i wanna tell you
it's time everybody on the planet came off
up their pedestal and quit trying to live
is if they were the one person that Jesus really would have had to die for
and this time you quit putting people on a pedestal
trying to think that you see them and they don't have the same problems that
you and I have
we all have the problems everybody is broken
we all have CNN that grows dark
hideous seein and the reason the church's come alive is because when its
people
become aware of the San that's in their lives and we're all broke in and we
don't celebrate our brokenness
nor do we deny it but the Bible says for all have sinned let me to share with you
great man like whitfield the known in the West Lee suffered enormously
in their struggle to find salvation quit feel spiritual need was so all-consuming
that his fat *** teens almost killed him
John and Charles Wesley who wrote many of the great hymns are the fate
were inconsolable until at last long day found salvation
Charles Spurgeon suffered so greatly in his quest for salvation that he said
I would rather pass through seven years have laying machines illness
then to ever pass again to the terrible discovery
up the evil UVC in not surprisingly their subsequent ministry eclipse that
most Christian Ministries
because the anguish that in the sole guys we got to come back
all have CNN CNN is dark its from
know it's from the great deceiver it is horrible it is dark it is nasty it is
filthy
and every one of us are involved in it and have been involved in it
John Bunyan spiritual torme it was terrific
with the severity that few of us could even conceive year after year he was
repeatedly overwhelmed by
consciousness ASEAN hopelessness in this seemingly certain prosperity
a monitor nitty inhale prospect return Indian Hill
then follow long years of harsh in prisons prism add for bunion intensified
even when not in prison by the very real threat a vexed
executioner deportation no wonder pilgrims progress was such an
outstanding powerful book
it was almost for John Bunyan a virtual autobiography
Mark Victor storm it was in his inability to hear God
after losing his sight doctor William moon prayed a prayer that was partly
answer he said Lord help me use this tower love blindness in your service
Barbara Johnson who's an author has touched so many people for the glory of
Christ
because over ridings but she was robbed
through the whole or
have two sons being taken through death losing a third person to a gala the
authors and a gay lifestyle and husband being
critically injured
gonna tell you guys healthy church is the one that the people know that
they're broken
and we're not happy about it
but Romans 6:23 SES the wages UVC in
his death in other words what we deserved for all we've done is death
not going to camp out the wrong because all Marxian the stuff when I really am
honest about
the *** the greed the filth the prejudice the Pride
the anger that's in this are
when I'm really honest
I know I deserve death
and the churches of our from people understand we deserve death but in room
620 ceases
but the gift there is no way you can get something that's given to you it's just
given to you but the gift
have gone is eternal life
in Christ Jesus
I lay awake at night in every year I that passes I don't get better I get
worse
and I'm not proud of it
he said would tell us pastor tell us where you do
some stuff that I battle now %um think was ASEAN
but things like prayer list miss
and times have seasons have
not being with my lord
to gift of God is eternal life in Christ she's the third verse is Romans 10:9
Etienne
the Bible sales in you share this first
in this order is says but if you confess with your mouth
the Lord Jesus and believe in his heart
the in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead
the Bible says you will
be say and there's two things in there
confess with your mouth in other words you do it openly
Lord Jesus I am a sinner
and believe in your heart lord I believe in my heart
the Jesus died for my scene and God raised him from the dead
the Bible teaches you will
be say
you're not saved on your performance
you in our saved
because the promise of God
only give you one more scripts you really quick tell you one quick story
and then we're done in action after four first tourney
remember jesus said on the Holy Spirit comes on you