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J J J J J ÿÿÿÿ Well let’s turn in our Bibles to Matthew 28. And the title of my
message is, “The Who, Where, Why, and What of Evangelism. It was around 1971. I was a brand new Christian.
I had just come to faith on my high school campus and I was attending Calvary Chapel
in Costa Mesa. And I heard that I am supposed to go out now and start sharing my faith.
I wasn’t a year old in my new beliefs. I wasn’t six months old. I think I was probably
a couple of weeks old. But I thought, “I know enough to go out and tell others about
Jesus.” You know sometimes ignorance is bliss. Right. And so I went down to the beach.
I think it was Huntington Beach as I recall. I was armed with my Bible of course and a
copy of the Four Spiritual Laws that was put out by Campus Crusade for Christ. I was so
new to all of this that I hadn’t even memorized the contents of the little Bible tract quite
yet. And so I was looking for someone to talk to about Jesus. And I saw this lady about
the age of my mom sitting on the beach by herself. And I thought, “You know maybe
she will listen to me. She will be kind to me because I am so young.” And I walked
up. You have to understand I had long hair. I had hair to start with. I had long hair
at this point. And I walked up. My voice was shaking. I said, “Hi. Do you mind if I talk
to you a little bit about Jesus?” And she said, “No. Go ahead.” And I said, “Ok.”
And I sat down. And I just started reading the contents of this little tract. “The
Four Spiritual Laws. Copyright 1954. Campus Crusade.” And I just turned to page one.
“God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life.” And I just started reading
through this. And here is what I am thinking as I am reading. “This is not going to work.
Well who do I think I am out here talking to someone about Jesus as if this woman would
actually believe as a result of my foolish attempts to convince her about her need for
Christ?” And I was reading through this page by page thinking these thoughts of doubt
as I am saying these words. And I would look up at her periodically. And she was looking
at me. And I thought, “This isn’t really going well at all. I can hardly wait until
I am down.” I got to the very end of the little tract and there is a question that
you are to ask, or the person reading it would read the question. And the question is, “Is
there any good reason why you should not accept Jesus.” So I read that. “Is there any
good reason why you should not accept Jesus right now?” I looked up. She said, “No.”
“No. Ok. No. Are you saying you want to accept Jesus?” She said, “Yes.” “Yes.”
I planned for failure. Not success. And so in the most reverent tone I could muster I
said, “Let’s bow our heads for a word of prayer together” you know. And she closed
her eyes. I am frantically searching this thing for a prayer. What do I do now? I found
a little prayer at the end. And to show you how lacking in faith I was, as I was leading
in the prayer for her to accept Christ I was thinking, “This isn’t going to work.”
But when we are done praying and she said, “Amen” she said, “Something just changed
inside of me.” And I said, “Yeah. Something just changed inside of me too.” I just realized
that God could use someone like me. Now here is my point. I think that we way
overcomplicate this thing that we call evangelism. I am not suggesting we go out there telling
others about Christ without any understanding of what the Bible teaches because that is
where we are doing to take a little bit of time to break it down for you, talk to you
about effective tools of communication. Talk to you about what our core message is. But
having said all that I think most Christians know more than enough to go out and start
sharing their faith. We are just afraid to try. We are afraid to fail. Maybe we are afraid
to succeed. I don’t know. You know sometimes when you are young you
don’t know enough to not try something. And that is why kids will go out there and
just be so daring. And maybe that is why kids know more about computers than we do. We are
just you know we are intimidated by all of these buttons. The kid just goes in and starts
pushing buttons you know. I was talking to my friend the other day and
he just got a brand new iphone and he pulled it out. And he says, “I just got an iphone
and I know how to use it.” He was so proud. I am standing there with my granddaughter
Stella who is almost three. Well she is three now actually but she was probably about two
and a half at that point. And he is so proud that he can open up like his address book
or something. I said, “Watch this.” I said, “Stella launch a video.” She takes
my. Two and half. Foom. Cartoon is playing on the thing. I have loaded some cartoons
on here for her. And he is, “How did she do that?” Kids aren’t afraid to try you
know. They will just get in there and give it a go. And I think sometimes we are afraid to try.
And I want to challenge you. I want to urge you to start thinking more about sharing your
faith. Because it is my belief that God can use you to win others to Jesus Christ. Why
would be commanded in Scripture to share the gospel if we could never have any success
in this area. Proverbs 11:30 says, “The fruit of the righteous
is a tree of life, and he that wins souls is wise.” Daniel 12:3 says, “Those that
are wise will shine as bright as the sky, and those that turn many to righteousness
will shine like the stars forever.” And with the Harvest Crusade two weeks away
I thought we all to think a little bit more about evangelism. About sharing the gospel.
About our friends and our neighbors and our family members and people we know that do
not yet know the Lord. So we are going to talk about the who, the where, the why, the
what, the when of evangelism. Let’s start with the who. Who is called
to go into all of the world and preach the gospel? That brings us to our text Matthew
28. Let’s read verses 19 and 20. Here are the words of the Lord Himself. “Go therefore
and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded
you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Let’s pray. Now Lord these are Your marching
orders. These are Your words to us Your church to go into all of the world. Lord it is a
daunting task. It is overwhelming. It is intimidating. Sometimes it is even scary. But yet at the
same time Lord You have called us to do it. And Your calling is also Your enabling. So
we pray for Your power in our lives to have a boldness like we have never had before to
go out into this world and share Your good news with others. Speak to us as we consider
what this means together. We ask all of this in Jesus’ name. Amen. Now let’s break this text down for a moment.
In the original language these words are addressed to everyone. In others word we could translate
it, “Every one of my followers,” Jesus speaking, “You are to go into all of the
world and preach the gospel.” That means it is not just for the so-called professionals.
This is for everyone to do. This is for preachers and Sunday school teachers and missionaries
and construction workers and students and surfers and skaters and housewives and secretaries
and whatever it is you do. I mean you just fill in the blank. This is to everyone to
go out into all the world and preach the gospel. No one is exempted. Also in the original language it is a command.
So in other words Jesus is not saying, “Hey I know you are all so busy, but as a personal
favor to me, would you mind please going into.” No. He just says, “I command you to go into
all the world and preach the gospel.” See when I speak to my sons I just tell them
what to do. I don’t “Would you please.” Sometimes I will. But usually I will say,
“Just go do this for me.” Why do I say that? Because I get things done that way.
They just go and do it generally. But the point is you know it is a relationship. And
it is actually relationship of intimacy where I could speak to them in that way. So God doesn’t say, “Please could you
work it out.” He says, “I am ordering you. I have bought you. I have purchased you.
I have paid for you with My blood. You belong to me. And here is what I am telling you to
do right now. I want you to go into all the world and I want you to preach the gospel.”
This is not the great suggestion. It is the great commission. If I am a disciple I am
to go and make disciples of others. And if I am not making disciples of others one has
to wonder if I am really the disciple He wants me to be. Instead of this for many being the
great commission it has become the great omission. They don’t do it. Now let me say something provocative. I believe
for us to not look for opportunities to share the gospel can be a sin. You say, “What?
A sin. No. Come on. Greg. A sin is when you break a command. A sin is when you fall short
of God’s glory.” True. But there are not only sins of commission. There are sins of
omission. Right. It is like the story of that little boy in
the Sunday school class. And the teacher was talking about sin and she said, “I want
to talk about sin today and wonder if anyone can tell me what the sin of commission is.”
And a little girl in the front said, “I know.” And the teacher called on her. And
she said, “What?” The little girl said, “The sin of commission is when you do what
you should not do.” “That’s right,” said the teacher. “Well can someone tell
me what the sin of omission is?” A little boy in the back of the room is waving his
arm back and forth. The teacher calls on him. “Yes son. What is the sin of omission?”
He says, “The sin of omission. Those are the sins you want to do but you haven’t
gotten around to them yet.” No. The sin of omission is not doing what
you should do. So let’s put it together. The sin of commission
is doing what you should not do. The sin of omission is not doing what you ought to do.
Listen to this. The Scripture is clear when it tells us in James 4:17, “The person who
knows to do what is right but does not do it, for him it is sin.” So I can actually
be sinning when I don’t respond to the prompting of the Holy Spirit to share the gospel with
that person. Now having said that I am not trying to lay
some guilt trip on you. In fact what I want to tell you is it is a joy to tell others
about Jesus. The hardest part about evangelism is getting started. But once you get started
and once the Lord starts speaking through you I am telling you it can be one of the
most joyful things you have ever done to think that God almighty would speak through someone
like you or me is indeed a great privilege. It is an honor to go and tell others about
Jesus. And here is the thing. This message that God has given to us was not designed
to be hoarded. It was designed to be shared. You were blessed to be a blessing. Ok. Therefore
as I take in I need to give that message back out again to others so they can come into
this relationship with God. And I have to tell you next to knowing the Lord Himself
one of the greatest joys you will ever experience is when you have the privilege of praying
with someone to accept Christ and you start seeing the radical even visible changes that
will take place in your life. And I am saying to you this can happen. And as you give out
you are going to find that God is going to bless you even more. We are told over in Proverbs 11:25, “Those
who refresh others will themselves be refreshed.” It is refreshing as you give out and help
other people. So really we have a choice that is set before us right now. It is evangelize
or fossilize. But a lot of people aren’t doing this. A poll was taken that revealed
9 out of 10 Americans cannot accurately define the meaning of the great commission. By the
way that is the charge we just read to go into all the world and preach the gospel.
Seven out of ten adults have no clue what John 3:16 means. I think you all know what
it means. Barely one-third new the meaning of the expression the gospel. And only 4%
of adults could define the great commission, quote John 3:16, and define the gospel. So
if you fit in that final category then you are among the elite in the country today. You say, “Well Greg they probably aren’t
believers so what do you expect?” But here is the most alarming statistic of all. 95%
of Christians have never led another person to Christ. 95%. You say, “Well Greg we are
not all called to be evangelists.” Oh that may be true. But we are called to evangelize.
So let’s start thinking about how we can do it. So where do we start. We start at the
beginning. I guess the answer to how we reach the whole
world is the same answer that we would give to the question how do you eat an elephant.
I am sure you have thought about that a great deal. How do you eat an elephant? Answer.
One bite at a time. How do you reach the whole world? Answer. One bite at a time. So we could localize this. Personalize this.
Instead of saying, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel,” let’s bring it
home to you. Go into all of your world and preach the gospel. Go into all of your neighborhood
and preach the gospel. Go into all of your workplace and preach the gospel. Go into all
of your family and preach the gospel. You have a sphere of influence. You have a group
of people that will listen to what you have to say. Go into that world. That is the world
God has called you to. Number two. Where are we to preach the gospel?
Where? Answer. Everywhere. Everywhere. In Mark’s gospel we have a variation on the
great commission. In Mark 16:15 Jesus said, “Go into all of the world and preach the
gospel.” But notice also that is not just going out but the gospel is not just a proclamation
of who Jesus is but He says that we are to go and preach it teaching people to observe
things that He has commanded. So here is the end game. Here is what we are trying to do.
Our objective as Christians is to attempt to the best of our ability to share the gospel
with people. And hopefully by God’s leading lead people to Christ. Having done that we
then get up on their feet spiritually. Help them to mature. And we go out and do the process
again. Then we do it again. And we do it again. And I am telling you when you are engaged
in helping others come to Christ and grow spiritually it will revolutionalize your Christian
life. And the problem is a lot of us have not done
this. Where we just keep these truths to ourselves and we never go out and try to reach others
or help others grow. We are very focused on self. Very oriented toward our needs and our
own struggles. I am saying if you would just stop thinking about yourself so much and think
about someone that is literally separated from God and quite frankly on their way to
hell and try to reach them you would find your own life refreshed. It is sort of like the difference between
going to Disneyland with adults or children. You know going to Disneyland with adults is
a drag. Because adults complain about everything. Starting with the price of the ticket. “Can
you believe how much this is? I remember the old days when Walt was still alive. And remember
the E ticket and the little ticket. Yeah you know oh those were the gold old days.” And
yeah. Well you know what? That was a long time ago. Ok. But and then we go in and what
do adults want to do. We don’t want to go on rides. We are like, “Where do you eat
around this place?” You know. Here is the sad thing. I went to Disneyland
the other day. I was walking down Main Street and I saw a parade was coming. And I actually
looked at one spot there where there is a rocking chair to see if it was available.
And some old man was sitting there. “I got here first sonny boy. I tell you what.”
So you know but you know when you are with adults you want to eat. Then you get on a
ride. “Oh I don’t like this ride. The lines are too long.” And now they have these
little signs set up. “If you are at this place in line you will be on the ride in two
days.” You know it is like is this helpful. You know so that is the way it is with adults. Now go with a kid. I went just the other day
for our granddaughter Stella’s third birthday. And someone bought her this little become
a princess package. Now I have never done this before. You have to understand I have
raised boys. This is a whole new world to me. So we go to this little place. It is Sleeping
Beauty’s Castle and it is like a beauty salon for little kids, for little girls specifically.
No boys are in there. And so here are all of these little girls. And they turn them
into a princess. You can become you know Snow White or Sleeping Beauty or whatever. And
so we walk in and oh it is something I will tell you. And they work on the little girl’s
hair you know. And they have three styles you can pick from. And then you pick out your
outfit and they call them princesses. They are getting them ready. And I am kind of,
“Oh man this is really crazy” you know. And the people that are walking by and they
see the little girls go, “Hello princess.” And little girl is like, “Hello. How are
you?” You know. They are feeling good. And I am thinking, “This is so weird and stupid.”
And then a couple minutes go by and I see a little girl go by and I said, “Hello princess.”
I am kind of getting into you it you know. Because the little kids were having such a
good time really. And so I got so excited I had them do me up. No. I will tell you what
though. I still have glitter on me from it. Because there is just a lot of collateral
glitter floating around you know. But you know to see Disneyland through the eyes of
a child changes the way you view it. We went on Small World which has to be one
of the lamest rides ever made. They sing that song “It’s a small world.” Arrgh. But
when you see it through the eyes of a child it is still bad. No. I am kidding. It is different. And in the same way when you get a new believer
in your life in the first bloom of faith discovering the truths of God for the first time not only
is it glorious for them but is a blessing to you. So here is Dr. Greg’s prescription for spiritual
dryness. We need to go out and try to win people to Christ and help them to grow spiritually.
That is the great commission. Why are we to do this? Why? Why doesn’t
God just poke His face out of the heavens and say, “Hello humanity. I am God. You
are not. Believe in Me now or I will kill you. What do you say?” You know. Or better
than that or perhaps as a different option the Lord could raise up an army of angels
to come and proclaim the gospel. Well He could have done both of those things or something
else. But instead the Lord has primarily chosen to reach people through people. People just
like you and me. Romans 10:14 says, “How shall they call on Him in whom they have not
believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall
they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is
written: ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, who
bring glad tidings of good things!’” In Acts chapter 8 we have the story of a man
who came from Ethiopia. He was a foreign dignitary. He was the treasurer working for the queen
known as Candace. Powerful man. He would have traveled with an entourage. Probably had a
stretch chariot. Little flags on it. Secret Service running on each side you know. He
went to Jerusalem searching for God and he didn’t find Him there. He just found dead
lifeless religion. But he did happen to obtain a scroll of Isaiah the prophet. And as it
happened he was traveling through the desert reading out loud from Isaiah 53, which just
happens to be a passage that talks about the suffering of the Messiah. Meanwhile the Lord
led a guy named Philip to go to this man and share the gospel. Philip sees him traveling
along reading from Isaiah’s scroll. And Philip walks up to him and says, “Excuse
me sir. Do you understand what you are reading?” Here is what the man from Ethiopia says. “How
can I unless someone shows me the way.” Philip climbed up into the chariot, took that
scroll, told him what it meant, pointed him to Jesus and before the day was over that
man from Ethiopia became a believer and left with joy in his heart and a spring in his
step. And this is what people out there are looking
for right now. They are looking for someone to show them the way. I remember when I was a kid before I knew
the Lord and I was partying and doing drugs and all that junk. And I remember I would
hang around down at the Fun Zone in Newport. You know where you take the ferry across.
You know it hasn’t actually changed since then. I saw it the other day and went, “Wow.
It still looks pretty much the same.” And I would lean up against a wall. My hair hanging
in my eyes. Use your imagination on that. Here let me recreate the moment for you. Oh.
I miss those days. But anyway. Not all of those days. I miss the hair. That’s about
it. I would lean up against the wall. I would look real tough. And these Christians would
be walking around with their little Bible tracts and they would be handing them out.
And I remember they would look at me and they didn’t know what to make of me. Because
I did a pretty good scowl you know. They would just sort of thrust a tract at me and back
off. And here is what I was saying in my heart. “Talk to me. Don’t be put off by my tough
guy façade. It is fake. But I am too proud to say I need help. I am too proud to say
tell me about Jesus.” But I wanted someone to engage me. And these Christians would give
me these little booklets. And I would take it from them, stuff it my pocket. In my pocket.
Never in the trash. Took it. Kept it. I took everything everyone gave to me everywhere.
And I would take them home and I had a drawer for all kinds of religious literature. And
every now and then I would pull it out and empty it on my bed and try to sort through
it. I had tracts from Christians, literature from Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses. You name
it I had it. Krishna’s. And I would take all of this stuff and go, “What does all
of this mean?” You know what I was looking for? Someone to show me the way. And you know what? Most of us that have a
basic knowledge of the faith could have easily explained the gospel to someone like myself.
I suggest to you there is a world full of people out there just like I was who are waiting
for someone like you to just take a risk. To just say, “I will go ahead and give it
a go.” Worst case scenario. They will say no. But what if they say yes. Why? Because
God has primarily chosen to reach people through people. Now listen to this. And the primary
way God has chosen to communicate this is verbally. Verbally. Now you will need to live it. In fact let
me just back up for a moment. If you are not going to live as a Christian please do not
preach the gospel. Ok. Do us all a favor. Problem is people will talk about the Lord
and they are not living it. It is like could like shut up. You are actually hurting the
cause here. That is not the big problem. To me the bigger problem is that people that
are living it and living it quite beautifully who never talk about it. “Well,” they
will say, “I believe in lifestyle evangelism.” And what does that mean exactly? “That means
I will just live it and I will show my faith in the way I treat people and the way I do
my job and the way I live my life and people will just see it.” Well you now that’s
good. I am for that. But God is into living it and preaching it. He wants you to live
it and earn the right if you will to talk about it. But He wants you to verbally engage
people. To actually speak out for what you believe. Not just wait for people to come
up to you and ask you. But for you to go up to them and initiate a conversation. 1 Corinthians 1:21 says, “Since the world
in all its fancy wisdom never had a clue when it came to knowing God, God in his wisdom
took delight in using what the world considered dumb—preaching, of all things!—to bring
those who trust him into the way of salvation.” It is crazy. I don’t it. Why would God want
to use preaching? I don’t know why. But He does. And so the foolishness the Bible
says of preaching or literally the preached thing. It is the verbal communication of the
essential gospel message, which I will define for you in a moment. But listen to this. There is one thing that
Christians and non-Christians have in common. You know what it is? We are both very uptight
about evangelism. Christians are uptight about evangelizing. And non-Christians are pretty
uptight about being evangelized. I remember when I was a kid and the Christians
were out sharing. You know I wanted them to talk to me. But there were other times you
know we would hide from them because we didn’t want them to engage us. So you know there
are people out there that are uptight about all of this. And I think some of us give up way to easily.
We will go up to someone and say, “Well you know what? Has anyone ever told you about
Jesus?” “Yes.” “Oh. Would you ever come to church with me?” “No.” “Oh
ok. You want to come to the crusade.” “No.” “Ok. Sorry. Sorry.” Don’t give up so
easily. Don’t be such a wimp you know. Say, “Well why do you say that? Why no so quickly?
Did you have a bad experience in church once? Or is there something maybe you think that
this is that I could tell you a little bit more about it? Or are there questions.”
You know engage them. And then most importantly keep praying for them. And this brings me to another very important
issue. This is the why. The why that we do what we do is because is we have to care for
people. And I guess here is the big question. Do we really believe what the Bible says?
Because if we do that means that if a person doesn’t know Jesus Christ when they die
they will go to hell. Do we really believe that? Now if we do how can we be so cavalier
about this? How can we be so casual about it? How can we be so uncaring if we really
believe what we say we believe? You see sometimes we will even look at nonbelievers as the enemy.
They are not the enemy. They are trapped by the enemy, who is the devil. They are like
you used to be. A captive of sin. And that is how we have to see them. In fact we are told over in 2 Timothy 2:24,
“God’s servant must not be argumentative, but a gentle listener and a teacher who keeps
cool, working firmly but patiently with those who refuse to listen. You never know how or
when God might sober them up with a change of heart and a turning to the truth, enabling
them to escape the Devil's trap, where they are caught and held captive, forced to run
his errands.” See they are in bondage and they don’t why
or how. But you know. They are under the power of the enemy. So I pray that God will open
their eyes spiritually. I pray that they will see their need for Jesus. I pray that they
will respond to what it is I am saying. And I know what I am saying is the truth. So I
am going to tell them. All right. Now that brings us to point number
four. What is it we are to go into all of the world and preach? What is it we are to
go into all of the world and preach? Morality. We want people to be moral. No. Conservatism.
We want people to become conservatives. Right. No. No. That is not out message. Sometimes
people seem to forget this. Our message is the gospel. And I believe if you believe the
gospel you will become a moral person. But I don’t preach morality. I preach that God
can change a person no matter how they have lived or what they have done. You see the gospel. What is the gospel? Well
the word gospel means good news. Good news. But to fully appreciate the good news I have
to also know the bad news. We have all heard those good news bad news
jokes. They usually are related to doctors. Like the doctor that said to his patient.
“Hi. I have some good news and bad news.” You know if you are a doctor never say that
to your patient. “Hi. I have some good news and bad news.” The patient says, “What
is the good news?” The doctor says, “You only have three weeks to live.” The patient
says, “If that is the good news, what is the bad news?” “Well I have been really
busy. I should have told you a couple of weeks ago.” Oh that is bad. But here is the thing. Before a person can
fully appreciate the good news they have to know the bad news. Here is where it breaks
down for people. We say the good news is Jesus Christ. The good news is He will forgive them
of their sin. Right. Ok. That is true. But the bad news is all of humanity has sinned
against of God. All of humanity has offended God. Whether we have done it in ignorance
or on purpose. Romans 3:23 says, “All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.”
1 John 1:8 says, “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not
in us.” In fact one of the reasons God gave us the
law, the Ten Commandments is to show us we are sinners. That is why it is funny when
some people say, “Well you know I live by the Ten Commandments. That is all the religion
I need.” Oh you do not live by them. First of all no one lives by them. Everyone has
broken them. And sometimes I will when someone says that I love to just say, “You live
by the Ten Commandments?” “Absolutely.” “Good. What are they?” “Uh thou shall
recycle. I am not sure.” Most people don’t have a clue what the Ten Commandments are.
So sometimes I will recite a commandment or two and say, “Well you know you live by
the Ten Commandments. Well let’s talk about that a little bit. One of the commandments
says thou shall to steal. Have you ever stolen anything in your life? Thou shall not bear
false witness. Have you ever lied about anything? Thou shall have no other gods before me. Have
you ever had someone or some thing that has been more important to you than God in your
life?” “Well yeah maybe once.” Well here is the problem. The Bible says, “If
you offend in one point of the law you are guilty of all of it.” See. So no one lives
by the Ten Commandments. The commandments were not given to make us
righteous. They were given to show us our need for Jesus. They are like the moral mirror. You know I don’t always like what I see
in the mirror. Especially in the morning. But have you ever had the mirror reveal something
you weren’t aware of. Like maybe you are sitting with a friend and they are laughing
constantly. You are thinking, “I don’t think I have been that witty.” Then you
go to the restroom for a moment and you look in the mirror and find out why they were laughing.
You have a noodle attached to your nose. You just somehow missed that one in your feeding
frenzy and it kind of got stuck there with a little marinara. Yeah. Wow. The mirror just
told me the truth. I need to fix this. I look into the law of God. I realize that
I fall short of His standards. The commandments were given to open my eyes and to shut my
mouth. The commandments were given to say, “Listen friend you need Jesus.” Ok. We
all have sinned. Now some believe in the innate goodness of
man. “I believe man is good. I believe in human kindness. I believe that for every drop
of every rain a flower grows.” You are idiot. Ok. Have you looked at the real world? You
believe in the goodness of man. Are you serious? I read a story about a man named Fred Turner.
This is a true story from the newspaper. He decided to walk out across America. For what
reason? To prove that most people are good. He got as far as the Georgia South Carolina
line when he was robbed and pushed off a bridge. Fred Turner was walking along and a faded
red pickup pulled next to him while he was walking across a bridge. And they said to
him, “Are you the guy walking across America.” He said, “Yes.” And they said, “Good.
Give me your wallet.” And the pushed him off the bridge and he fell 100 feet. This
is what he said. He survived thankfully. “This could have happened two months from now and
I wouldn’t feel so bad, but I only got through one state.” Fred. Wise up. Man is not basically
good. You say, “Now wait a second Greg. Are you
saying there are not good people?” No. There are good people. I will take it a step further.
I have met nonbelievers that are amazingly good. And by good I mean they are people that
have integrity in the way they work. People that are kind. In fact you know truthfully
I have met some non-Christians that are nicer than Christians. The only consolation I take
in that is well that Christian think how much worse they would be if they weren’t saved.
No. There are good people. Ok. I am not denying that. There are people who are great humanitarians.
There are people who have shown acts of great sacrifice, benevolence. I mean we will open
up the paper and read about some courageous soldier throwing himself on a grenade and
sacrificing his life to protect his buddies. And that is good. And I acknowledge that is
good. So when we say no one is good we are not saying
that there are not good people. Ok. What the Bible says when it says no one is good it
is simply pointing out the fact that no one is good enough to please God. There is no
one that meets the righteous demands of God. Even the best of us still fall short and we
are still sinners you see. And that is where Jesus comes in because He was the only One
qualified to bridge the gap between a holy flawless perfect God and unholy flawed sinful
humanity. 2 Corinthians 5:18-19 says, “All this newness
of life is from God who brought us back to Himself through what Christ did and God has
given us the task of reconciling people to Him. For God was in Christ, reconciling the
world to Himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. This is the wonderful message
He has given us to reach others.” And this is why Jesus Christ being the only
to God is a nonnegotiable. Ok. And what I mean by that is when we say Jesus is the only
way to the Father we can’t fudge on this. Don’t every say something like, “Well
Jesus is my way. You know you may have your way and someone else may have their way, but
this is my way.” No. No. He is the way. He is the only way. He Himself said it. That
is why I say it. He said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no man comes
to the Father but by Me.” John 14:6. Acts 4:12 says, “There is salvation in no one
else. Under all heaven there is no other name to call upon for men to be saved.” You say, “Why?” Because only Jesus died
on the cross and rose again from the dead. 2 Corinthians 5:21 says, “He made Him who
knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
Jesus took upon Him the sin of the world. Ok. So here is the gospel message. The bad
news is you are separated from God. The bad news is there is nothing you can do to earn
God’s favor. The bad news is morality won’t get you to heaven. The bad news is you are
in deep trouble. The good news is God loved you love so much He sent His Son Jesus who
lived a perfect life to go to the cross and die in your place. He became sin for you.
And if you will believe in Jesus you can be forgiven. What is the essential gospel message? C. H.
Spurgeon defined it this way. Jesus died for me. Here is our message guys. It is Jesus Christ
and Him crucified. There is a place for apologetics. Apologetics
are the defense of the faith where we answer questions that people ask. There is a place
for building the bridge and we will talk about that a little bit next time. There is a place
for other techniques we might employ. But the bottom line that we are to get to, the
primary message we are to proclaim is the message of Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
For the Bible says, “The message of the cross is to them that are perishing foolishness,
but to us that believe, it is the power of God.” Paul said, “I am not ashamed of
the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes.”
You know there is power in the gospel. Listen. There is power in the simple story
in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Power in it. Don’t complicate it. Don’t
add to it. Don’t take away from it. Don’t apologize for it. Just proclaim it and stand
back and watch what God will do. Listen. I have been proclaiming this message
for 35 years now. And I am still amazed at how it works. When I started obviously I was
a lot younger. I mean at this point I am so old now my crow’s feet need sneakers. You
know it is just that is how much time has passed. But I still am amazed at the power
of the gospel. The stories I hear of people. Atheists. Satan worshippers. People in false
cults. People trapped by addictions that almost seem unimaginable. People that you would never
think they would believe in Jesus. But then we hear stories of how God gets through to
them and reaches them and transforms them. It is the power of the gospel. I would like to look at another passage now
and bring this message to a close. I would like you to turn with me to Matthew 11:28.
These are the words of Jesus where He effectively tells a person how to come into a relationship
with Him. These are familiar words. They are beautiful words. Even poetic. But let’s
not miss what they are saying. Jesus says in Matthew 11:28, “Come to Me, all you who
labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn
from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For
My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” An expanded translation from the Greek would
give us that statement as follows. “Come here to Me all of you who are growing weary
to the point of exhaustion, who have been loaded with burdens and are bending beneath
their weight. I alone will cause you to cease from your labor and take away your burdens
and refresh you with rest.” Here Jesus breaks down for us what the gospel
essentially is. First we come to Him. Then we take His yoke upon us. And then we learn
of Him. First we must come to Him. And what I like
to remind people of is they don’t have to clean their life up and come to God. They
can come to God and He will clean their life up. As I have often said, Jesus cleans His
fish after He catches them. Because there will be people that will say,
“Well I am going to sort this out and I am going to cuss less and I am going to be
nicer.” No. No. Just come to Christ now. And let’s ask the Lord to help you with
all of that stuff. And a whole lot more. Come to Him as you are. Come to Him with your sins.
Come to Him with your questions. With your addictions whatever they are. Our message
is come to Jesus. Our answer is Jesus. Here it is. You need to come to the Lord. He will
sort this all out. And we get off on these crazy rabbit trails and try to fix people
in this area before. No. Just get them to Jesus and let the Lord do the work in their
live. That is what Jesus says. “Come to Me all of you who are laboring and are heavy
laden.” Listen to this. Conversion is not a long drawn
out process. You know you will hear people sometimes say, “You know I am converting
to Christianity.” Converting. “Yes I am converting.” Well maybe you are saying that
you are looking into the claims of Christ and you are thinking about them. But you are
either converted or unconverted. Ok. You either believe or you don’t believe. But it doesn’t
take hours. It doesn’t take days or months. I takes seconds. I mean I believe honestly
a conversion could happen so quickly and so instantaneously we may not even be able to
measure it. I think many of us remember when that moment of belief happened for us. You
know sometimes we will see people come forward at an invitation and we will say, “That
was the moment they were converted when they walked up there to the stage and as soon as
they said amen after the prayer that is when they were converted.” Maybe. I suggest to you maybe they were converted
when they walked in the back door. They just came in and said, “I believe.” They were
just waiting for someone to tell them what to do next. But in effect they just believed
right there on the spot. It might have been halfway in a message. They are saying, “Will
you shut up and end so I can get saved.” You know they it might be at the end. Sometimes
it is after the service is over. Sometimes it is a week later. It is a month later. But
I am telling you it happens just like that. We need to understand it is the miracle of
God. But we want people to come. And I think one of the problems that many
of us have is we don’t pull in the net. Sort of like fishing and you know never pulling
it in when you get a bite. When you get a nibble try to reel it in. And it is ok to
say to someone, “Would you like to accept Jesus Christ right now?” They might say
no. But they might say yes. They are just waiting for someone to ask. You say, “Well
I don’t know how to do this Greg. I am not an expert at it.” That’s. Ok. I didn’t
know either the first time I led someone to the Lord. But you know what? It worked. Because
when a person wants to believe in Jesus the Lord will respond to that. And so we want
to just give them the opportunity. Would you like to come to Christ right now? Would you
like to receive Him as your Savior? As your Lord? You know I will go over the gospel message
with them again. And if they are sure they want to do it then I will say, “Let’s
pray right now.” I don’t care where I am. I might be on a street with them. I might
be in a store with them. I don’t care where it is. Wherever they are they can receive
Christ right there on the spot. I don’t say to people, “Well go home and think about
it for a week or a month.” No. I would say, “Hey would you like to accept Christ right
now?” And I find that many people do and they are just waiting for someone to ask them.
We must come to Jesus. Number two. He says, “Take My yoke upon
you.” Now this is a phrase. What does this mean? Take My yoke? What is this? Some thing
to do with an egg. No. A yoke was the steering device you would put on an oxen you know for
your cart. Then you would steer the animal with the yoke. So if Jesus were to say this
today He would probably say something like, “Give Me the steering wheel of your life.
Give me the master key to every lock, every door in your house. Give Me the title deed
to your life.” The idea is I want control. Ok. Give Me your password. Tell me the code.
I want control. I want access to all files right now. Tell me. Turn that over to me now.
And so that is what He is asking. He is saying if you are going to become a believer you
come to Him but then you turn your life over. And this is a big thing that is missing in
most gospel presentations. Follow me really carefully on this because this is a big one
in my opinion. As we call people to believe we also need to call them to repent. To repent
of their sin. Because the Bible says in Acts 3:19, “Repent and turn to God that your
sins might be wiped out that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.” Isaiah 55:6-7 says,
“Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked
forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to our God who will
abundantly pardon.” Here is the problem I hear in some so-called
gospel preaching today is there is no mention of repentance. It is sort of a good news message
of, “Hey just believe in Jesus and He will make your life fuller and you will have joy
and peace and everything will be great and you will go to heaven when you die.” Yeah.
Well what if I don’t believe in Jesus. “Well you know it will be uncomfortable.” Yeah.
That is a little bit of an understatement. But I don’t want to say hell. Why? Well
if I say hell to them it might offend them. Ok. But if you don’t tell them about hell
you might offend God. Because you didn’t tell them the truth. Hey you know what? Here
is what the Bible teaches. Understand the last thing God wants is for anyone to go to
hell. And God doesn’t send people to hell. We send ourselves there by our rejection of
Jesus. Tell them that. And here is the other thing. When they believe explain to them that they
need to repent of their sin as well. Listen. To believe in Jesus is to both take hold and
let go. You are taking hold of Christ. You are embracing Christ. You are letting go of
sin. You can’t have it both ways. It is like the story of that guy that was
walking along a mountain path and he lost his footing and slipped over the side. There
was like a 1000 foot drop and he is hanging by a branch. And he is in trouble. And he
is yelling, “Is anybody up there? Is anyone there?” And Jesus Christ walks along and
says, “Hi. I am here.” “Great. Can you help me out?” He says, “Yes. Take My hand
and let go of the branch.” “What?” “Let go of the branch and take My hand. I will
pull you up.” “Well I am not sure if You will.” “I will. Take hold of My hand and
let go of the branch and I will pull you to safety.” A couple of moments go by and the
guy yells out, “Is anybody else up there?” See Jesus says. “I will forgive you. Let
go of your branch if you will of sin. Let go of your branch of self-righteousness. Take
hold of Me and Me alone. I alone will save you.” I don’t want to do that. I don’t
want to say I am a sinner. I want to just say that I need a little religion. No. You
need more than a little religion. You need a lot of Jesus. Because you are separated
from Him irreparably by your sin. And only Christ can remedy this situation. So it is
to take hold of Jesus and to let go of sin. See there are a lot of people who feel bad
about what they have done but they never change. The Bible says, “Godly sorrow will produce
repentance.” The idea being it is not enough to say, “Oh I shouldn’t have done that,”
but, “I am sorry enough o stop. I want to change. I want to be transformed. I want to
follow the Lord and do what He has called me to do.” Turn from sin and put your faith
in Christ. And finally number three. I must learn of
Him. I must learn of Him. Matthew 11:28. Again Jesus says, “Take My yoke upon you, and
learn of Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.” Now if I have really believed in Jesus I am
going to want to change and grow. You know when people accept the Lord at our
Harvest Crusade we don’t classify them as conversions. We classify them as professions
of faith. Because only God knows who is saved and who isn’t saved. I am very reluctant
to say they are saved, they are not saved. You know because sometimes it might be questionable
about a certain. They are not saved. Well I am not God. Ok. So I am not in a position
to say that they are not a believer. But the way I know if a person is a believer is I
look for fruit and results in their life. Right. I look for some kind of tangible evidence.
As it has been said if you were arrested for being a Christian would there be enough evidence
to convict you. And evidence is not defined by how many Harvest
Crusade stickers you have on your car. Though that is a good beginning. Or even how many
Bibles you own. Or things of that nature. No. Rather the evidence would be the tangibles,
which would be change in your life. If they interviewed neighbors and friends and co-workers
and family members and so forth they would say, “Yes I saw dramatic change in their
life. They are a different person than they used to be.” That would be the evidence
ok. So time will tell. But as we are learning of the Lord we will be transformed and we
will see the evidence. And that is what we are praying for. But listen. My job isn’t to convert anyone.
I have never converted anyone and I never will. And I have they are one pathetic convert.
Only God can convert. Only the Holy Spirit can produce that work of transformation in
the heart of a man or a woman or a boy or a girl. But here is my job if you will. My
job is to proclaim. My job is to herald the message. My job is to take the gospel seed
and throw it out as far as I can get it. To as many people as I can get it too and then
to pray for results and leave it all in the hands of God. But my job also is to say do you want to believe
in Jesus right now. And as we have been talking in closing about how to lead others to Christ
I would ask you do you know Christ. Because as I have been talking to Christians about
how to share their faith in effect I have been talking to you about your need for God.
Because you are separated from God by your sin. You have broken His commandments and
fallen short of His standards. You stand apart from God without any way to remedy the situation.
That is the bad news. The good news is God loves you so much that He sent His Son Jesus
to die on the cross in your place. And Jesus hung there on the cross of Calvary and bore
every sin you ever committed. And if you will turn from that sin and put your faith in Jesus
He will forgive and you can know with certainty that you will go to heaven when you die. Not
to hell. To heaven. You can know it. You have God’s Word on it. Jesus says, “Behold I stand at the door
and knock. If you will hear My voice and open the door I will come in.” And I ask you
right now in closing have you ever asked Christ to come into your life. Do you know with certainty
that if you died right now you would go to heaven? If not, I am going to give you an
opportunity to get right with God. So if you would like to respond to this invitation and
ask Christ to come into your life does so now as we close in prayer. Let’s all bow our heads for a prayer if
you would. And Father now I pray for every person hearing this message. I pray that Your
Holy Spirit will do a work of conviction in their heart. That they will see their need
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