Faithful And Empowered Witnesses
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world,
and preach the gospel to every creature
(Mark 16:15).
The Lord Jesus, before His glorious ascension,
charged us to go into all the world and preach
the Gospel to every creature. We’re His faithful and
empowered witnesses. You can say like Paul, “And I
thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me,
for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the
ministry” (1 Timothy 1:12). Your life as a Christian
is to bear witness of the reality of the Kingdom, and
minister the Gospel to those in your world and in the
regions beyond.
You’ve received the power to be a faithful and
effective witness of the Lord Jesus. He has made you
an able minister of the Gospel (2 Corinthians 3:6). One
vital evidence that the Holy Spirit is active in your life is
soul winning; dynamic evangelism! Whenever people
received the Holy Spirit in the Bible, they preached
and taught the Word with boldness, resulting in the
conversion of sinners. For example, Peter ministered
the Gospel and converted three thousand souls in one
day: “Then they that gladly received his word were
baptized: and the same day there were added unto
them about three thousand souls” (Acts 2:41).
Christ has come, and has brought salvation to the
whole world. It’s our responsibility to tell the untold
and take the message of salvation to the ends of the
earth. The Gospel has been committed to our trust,
and many people may never hear it, except through
you. It’s your responsibility to let others know what
Jesus came to do. He was born to die for the sins of
men, and raised back to life for their justification. He
came to make men sons of God. Everyone in the world
today must hear that Christ Jesus came that they might
have life (John 10:10), and we’re the bearers of this
glorious news.
The Gospel message is the only hope for the
world today. It’s man’s only means of salvation. Paul
said, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ:
for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone
that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek”
(Romans 1:16). It’s your responsibility as a minister of
reconciliation to take the message of Christ’s salvation
to the lost and dying of this world. This is your calling,
and you’ve been empowered for the job!
Prayer
Dear heavenly Father, necessity is laid upon me to preach the
Gospel; it’s all that I live for!
Thank you for your grace and power at work in me as I reach
out to the unsaved with the Gospel, delivering them from
darkness into light, and from the power of darkness unto God,
in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Further study:
Luke 15:7; 1 Corinthians 9:16; Romans 10:13-15
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John 11:1-16
2 Kings 10-12
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Mark 12:18-27