Winning Souls is Wise

Winning Souls is Wise

“The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.”(Proverbs 11:30)

Few things can compare with the joy on the face of someone who has recently come to Christ and had their sins forgiven (as exemplified by the girl in the picture above).

Multiply that a hundred times if you happen to be the one who has explained the Gospel to them and led them to Christ.

I have learned I don’t have to be clever to be the instrument in God’s hand to bring someone to Christ. All I have to do is explain the Gospel to them with clarity and compassion. It is not I who performs the miracle. The miracle lies in the message of the Gospel itself:

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. ¹⁷ For in it [the] righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “But the righteous [man] shall live by faith.” (Romans 1:16 – NASB)

The Gospel is the power of God; not in you, or me, or the gifted preacher. So long as the Gospel is presented clearly and with loving intent, the Holy Spirit will apply it to each individual. If the individual is receptive to the truth, the miracle of salvation will take place. Our part is simply to be faithful by explain it in terms that person can understand.

Yet the Scripture tells us the soul-winner is wise. What makes the soul-winner wise?

• The soul-winner is wise when he or she actually gets out there to share the Gospel. They don’t make the excuse they are not gifted in that way, or it is not their “thing,” as I have heard some declare.

• The soul-winner is wise to realize God has called every follower of Christ to share the Gospel, not just a chosen few.

• The soul-winner is wise in recognizing the power to win souls is inherent in the Gospel message; he is confident the Gospel seed will do its own work. All he needs to do is scatter it and the Holy Spirit will a apply it to those who here it.

• The soul-winner is wise to know that prayer is the indispensable companion to spreading of the Gospel. He does not depend upon a “method” alone, but uses prayer to prepare the ground for sowing, and to water the seed for growing.

The question is, “How wise are you? How wise am I? Are we actually getting out there to declare the Good News. If we are, know that God counts us among the wise.

The Wise Man

(13th July 1992)

“The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.”(Proverbs 11:30)

He that winneth souls is wiser

Than all the wisdom known

And in the previous ages,

The winds of time have flown.

The wisdom of the ancients,

Well gathered over time,

Can’t approach the brilliance

Of a poor soul-winner’s mind.

For the simple soul that hungers

To do the Father’s will,

And seeks to bring lost sinners

To the foot of Calvary’s hill:

The Spirit of God grants insight

Into the ways of men

That far transcends the genius

Of the famed with brush or pen.

Now the wisdom of the ancients

May well accomplish much;

If applied with zeal and rigor,

Could achieve the expert’s touch.

But the man who’s set on serving

His Lord and also others,

Is a man who’s always making

His foes into his brothers.

Bring your prize if you’ve a mind to:

Won in the halls of fame,

Or in a great place of learning

Of prestigious name.

And I will bring a soul-winner,

Whom the world will not applaud,

But who’s won the sweet approval

Of Jesus Christ his Lord.

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Camp Worship by Paul M. Walsh. Copyright. Used under the CC BY 2.0 license; please note the Disclaimer at this link. We have made no changes to this photograph. Lacey Johnson, 9, left, and Jasmine Anderson, 9, right, and Jaimie Brown, 10, in the center background, weep and raise their hands, after listening to a gospel presentation by Jason Mansur, a children’s minister from Harvestime Church of Eau Claire, Wis., while at the Assembly Park Bible Camp, in Lake Nebagmon, Wis., on Monday, July 30, 2007. Anderson said that she wanted to “grow closer

Impossible Stains

Impossible Stains

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Isaiah 1:2-20 

“Come now, and let us reason together,”

Says the LORD,

“Though your sins are as scarlet,

They will be as white as snow;

Though they are red like crimson,

They will be like wool. (Isaiah 1:18 – NASB)

No true conversion to Christ can take place before someone has become aware of how corrupt and sinful their condition is before a Holy God. There are too many shallow conversions to Christ in these days; there are too many who claim conversion to Christ, but who display little or no evidence a change has taken place.  They live in much the same way as they lived before.

They may come to church more often; they may contribute financially to the work of the church; they may treat their neighbour a little more kindly. On the whole, however, the direction of their lives is fundamentally the same as it was before. If enough of these people fill the pews of the church it is no wonder the world does not sit up and take notice; it is no wonder we are largely ignored by the world outside.

The Gospel is indeed Good news. It is a wonderful, positive, glorious message of hope and salvation, but the negative must always come first. A cure for cancer cannot be fully appreciated by someone in good health or by someone who refuses to acknowledge they are afflicted with the disease.

So it is that we must first become aware of our hopeless condition before we can appreciate the Good News of the Gospel. Only the soul that has given up hope of ever saving himself can ever experience true conversion – what the Bible calls being born again.

No Stain Remover Made

© 20^th October 2014 – by Christopher Shennan

It’s a reasonable assumption

That the sins you’ve sinned will stain you,

In a way and in a manner

That will ultimately blame you.

There is no stain remover made,

By human ingenuity,

That can purify the sinner

And take away iniquity.

But no stain of sin can remain

When the blood of Christ is applied;

The stains of sin are now banished –

Because of Christ the crucified.

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