When a simple gift of a Mother of Thousands plant sparked a deeper reflection on the nature of faith and sharing the gospel, it became evident that our everyday conversations could bear eternal significance. This episode weaves that personal revelation into a heart-stirring narrative, urging listeners to consider the gravity of spreading God's word in our hyper-connected yet spiritually hesitant world. As we traverse the landscape of modern communication, I challenge you to reflect on whether your dialogues carry the weight of salvation and grace, as we are called to do through the Great Commission.
Engage with me as we navigate the pressing need for open dialogue about faith, a conversation that is all too often silenced by the distractions of our age. We grapple with the scriptural truth that faith comes from hearing, and so, we must ask ourselves - are we the harvesters willing to work the fields, bringing in souls for Jesus? There's a profound sense of urgency that resonates throughout our discussion, a call to action for believers to become laborers in the spiritual harvest, ensuring no one is left behind when the time comes for divine reckoning. Join us for an episode that promises to be as impactful as it is introspective, filled with the steadfast desire to share the gospel and the love of Christ with a world in need.
When a simple gift of a Mother of Thousands plant sparked a deeper reflection on the nature of faith and sharing the gospel, it became evident that our everyday conversations could bear eternal significance. This episode weaves that personal revelation into a heart-stirring narrative, urging listeners to consider the gravity of spreading God's word in our hyper-connected yet spiritually hesitant world. As we traverse the landscape of modern communication, I challenge you to reflect on whether your dialogues carry the weight of salvation and grace, as we are called to do through the Great Commission.
Engage with me as we navigate the pressing need for open dialogue about faith, a conversation that is all too often silenced by the distractions of our age. We grapple with the scriptural truth that faith comes from hearing, and so, we must ask ourselves - are we the harvesters willing to work the fields, bringing in souls for Jesus? There's a profound sense of urgency that resonates throughout our discussion, a call to action for believers to become laborers in the spiritual harvest, ensuring no one is left behind when the time comes for divine reckoning. Join us for an episode that promises to be as impactful as it is introspective, filled with the steadfast desire to share the gospel and the love of Christ with a world in need.
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Today we're going to talk about being a witness. I had a lot of things on my mind about this one. I thought about doing something about communication and how we all get so tied up and, if our internet is fast enough or if we have a phone that we can text somebody and we can talk to those people, and kept thinking about that and thinking how many times, when we are doing all this communication, we communicate about the great commission that God gave us. Matthew 28, 18 through 20 says and Jesus came and spoke to them saying All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and 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. Amen, that's the Great Commission. But you know, I thought about the communication and then came to me in a package. My son sent me a Mother's Day present and it was a plant and any of you that know me know I am crazy about plants and the plant that he sent me was Mother of Thousands, and as I sat in there looking at these plants with all the babies on the tips if you don't know what a Mother of Thousand is, it's a succulent that at the ends, all the way around the edge of each leaf, it grows babies and I thought, as a Christian, that's what we should be doing. Everything around us should know about God. We should be having baby Christians all the time, teaching them and helping them grow in the board. But with all this great communication that we have the phones, the texts, the internet, the tablets, everything that we have, everything that we have how often do we use that for the God's kingdom? Now it's sad to think that we have developed so far that we can talk to anybody anywhere in the world, but we don't talk about God.
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Sometimes I think we were better off when we had a telephone and a library and a set of encyclopedias at your house, that anything you had to look up or figure out you had to do it on your own. Or you went and got a friend and you all went to the library and you looked at all the books and you read and you communicated with each other. We've lost that so much and now our communications have lost God in them. I go out on Facebook. I see a lot of posts about God because a lot of my friends are Christians and they do that but so many I see with just nothing important. And how important is God? Why shouldn't every communication that we do with anyone, no matter what we're doing, why don't we talk about God?
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There are people that think I'm crazy. I can go to the bank to talk to the teller about flashing a check and before I leave, I've told her about God Because I feel that's my job. That is what God sent me to do To tell others about him. To point the way. You know we want the communication nowadays to be so fast. You know the speed of light, but you know what God's going to come in the twinkling of an eye. And if you haven't used that speed of light communication to tell others about him, you, they're going to be left behind. And is that what you want with people that you know to be left behind? Why don't you use that communication that you love so much and that fast internet to tell others about God, about his salvation, about his death, his resurrection? That's what we need to do.
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Romans 10, 14 through 17 says how, then, shall they call on him in whom they do not believe? 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? And it is written how beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things. They have not all obeyed the gospel, for Isaiah says Lord, who has believed our report? So then, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God, god Hearing by the Word of God that we use in our communication with every person that we communicate with. That's what it should be. Is that what it is for you? Or do you send out lots of communications to lots of people and never once think do they know God?
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I had someone ask me a question about someone who's very close to me and said are they saved? And I had to say I really don't know. I've not talked to them about it because of situations. But the situation should stop me from telling them about God and asking them if they're saved, knowing that in a twinkling of an eye He'll be here. And if I haven't done that, then God's going to say why didn't you tell Him? Why didn't you tell Him about me? Why didn't you ask Him about me? I don't want that. I want God to say well done, good and faithful servant.
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2 Timothy 3, 16-17 says All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. If you're in the Word of God, then your communication is going to show that you're in the Word of God, and I think that's one of the communication. Things that people have left behind is being in the Word of God. And a lot of people say well, I don't read books anymore. I don't either. I don't read a lot of books. I do read a lot of books, but I don't have books in my hands. I have Logos software that has all my books on it, that has all the Bibles I can think of, that has all my studies on it, and I'm in the Word of God all of the time.
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James 4, 1 through 3 says when do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure, the war in your members. You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight in war, yet you do not have because you do not ask. You ask and you do not receive because you ask amiss that you might spend it on your pleasures.
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The communication that you have is with a headset on and a keyboard in front of you, playing games, talking to people everywhere about the games, about shooting, about riding your cars, about doing all this stuff. Do you tell them about God? Do you take the time to tell the people what you are talking to when you're playing the games on your computer about God, or do you think it'll make you look bad? Communication? That's always been the thing that makes a difference in any relationship. A difference in any relationship is communication.
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I don't understand why it is so hard for us to tell others about God. Is he in your heart? Is he in your life? He is such an important part of your life as a Christian. Do you not want other people to have what you have, the faith that you have to have the mercy and the grace and the love and the kindness that God gives you? Don't you want other people to have that? 935-38 says.
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Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. But when he saw the multitude, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered like sheep having no shepherd. Then he said to his disciples the harvest is plentiful, the laborers are few. Therefore, pray that the Lord of the harvest sends out laborers into his harvest.
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You didn't think you were going to get out of here without me talking about a song, and it's a beautiful song and I'm going to kind of end with some of the words of it. It says beautiful song and I'm going to kind of end with some of the words of it. It says my house is full, my fields are empty. Who will go and work for me? Today, it seems my children all want to stay around my table, but no one wants to work in my fields. Who will go and work in my fields? Let's work in his fields, let's bring in the harvest, let's tell others so when that twinkling of an eye happens, they won't be left behind.
