Having spent much time (in previous blogs) emphasizing our responsibility to be ambassadors, heralds, emissaries of God in reaching the lost, consider now how meaningless and useless all of it is, without God’s work. Here, please consider the...
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How is it that man’s work in evangelism works together with God’s power in awakening dead men? Though we may never be able to unpack the depth of this mystery, it is essential that we understand it in a basic way. Otherwise, we easily can get...
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“Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us, we implore you, on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.” Pleading…pleading…pleading…Would the sovereign over the universe actually condescend and plead with...
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Oh, dear one. Blood-bought, redeemed, dear one. Can you hear the Savior calling you into the ministry of reconciliation? It would be enough for Him just to command us, would it not? If the King says to His subject, “Go,” then surely that is...
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2 Corinthians 5:10-11— “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we...
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Can you say: “Lord, send me to whom You will-only send me. Let that power come upon me, that I may win souls for Jesus Christ? May we have no will but God’s sweet will. Oh, that our wills may be swallowed up in God’s will.” These precious...
Read more What joy awaits us every day! Jesus has not only saved us, He has–and this is beyond belief–actually called us into His joyful labor of reaching the lost, broken, and blind people of the world! We get to do this! And the plentiful...
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Yes, yes, yes—proclaiming Jesus to a lost and dying world is a great privilege! Yes, it is intended by God to be a source of great joy in our Christian faith. (I believe that the lack of witnessing in a believer’s life robs him of the joy God...
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Don’t you love the great hymn, Onward Christian Soldiers? It succinctly captures the Biblical reality that we really are soldiers, that there really is a war. Think of these words from the third verse: “Where duty calls or danger, be never...
Read moreEver hear the saying “short but sweet?” In the last entry concerning our the motive of love for our neighbor in evangelizing, here is a short but sweet exclamation point to the last few blogs from Mr. Packer . . . “We shall not ask with...
Read moreMr. Packer continues to instruct us about proper motives and proper motivation! If you are like me, you often have to deal with a lack of motivation and a very real reluctance to go and to broadcast the gospel. Please allow these words to stir...
Read moreLoving our neighbor—in the words of Packer—continued “There is something very wrong with us if we do not ourselves find it natural to act in this way: let us be quite clear about that. It is a great privilege to evangelize; it is a wonderful...
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