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The Power of the Holy Spirit in Evangelism 0:01 Hey, everybody. Welcome to the men's global livestream. If you have a Bible on hand, I want you to hold 2 spots and in the same part of your Bible. I want you to hold a spot in first Corinthians0:12 2, and then I want you to hold a spot in second Corinthians 5. If you're joining us for the first time, we are in the final session of a series called overtaken.0:24 And the headline, for this entire series has been this, what has gotten into them? That was the headline, that was over the0:36 first followers of Jesus who had been filled with the Holy Spirit, and people were seeking an explanation for the before and the after. These men were0:48 filled with God's Spirit. They started to change and transform. Some force had overtaken them, and people were super curious. Now as we've said in all the previous1:00 sessions, this was predicted. Jesus told them that the Holy Spirit would come on them and that they would receive power and that it would literally rock their world. It was gonna change1:12 them and the people that they reached forever. Right? And that's the same experience that God intends for every believer. It's not unique to the men1:24 of the book of Acts. It is consistent throughout church history, when people come to Christ, they're filled with the spirit, and God intends for that same1:36 overtaking, that same transformation, and the same headline from people who are witnessing the before and the after. Right? God, just like he1:48 set those men loose in the city of Jerusalem, when the first church was born, Ever since, he's been setting believers loose, filled and empowered by the Holy Spirit, where they live, where they1:59 work, where they pray, where they play. He wants to do the same thing with us, and we're learning about what the Holy Spirit wants to do in you and more importantly, through you to reach other2:11 people. And in part 1, we talked about how the Holy Spirit wants to release captives. He wants to set people free using you. We talked about how the Holy Spirit wants to relieve pain2:24 through you. We talked about how the Holy Spirit wants to reduce the burden of other people. We talked about last week with Pastor Jason how the Holy Spirit wants to raise spirits and2:36 bring encouragement through you to people. And today, we're gonna talk about how the Holy Spirit, listen, wants to reach souls using you.2:48 Now to get us thinking in God's direction, I wanna ask you a question. How many interactions do you think the average person or yourself have on any given day? Now I2:59 went on and did some research, went online and did a little bit of research, and most of the studies, kinda come around the same number. The average person has about3:11 25 to 30 interactions a day with separate people, and those interactions last, on average, about 10 minutes. Now I don't know if that number seems3:23 high or low to you, but when I thought about it, it's not super high when you think about it. You know, you got your your good morning exchanges. You got your work interactions. You got your coffees, your lunches,3:35 your workouts, your your waiters, your waitresses. You got your family. You got your kids. You got your kids' activities. You got your kids' coaches. You got the parents of the kids who are in your kids' activities. You3:47 got dog parks. Right? You got neighbors, and on and on and on. So it's not hard to see how, on a daily basis, we're talking to between 25 and 303:59 people. Now here's the amazing thing. The amazing thing is that you and I have the power to take those interactions and conversations, listen, any way we wanna take4:10 them. We have the freedom to choose the topics of the conversations, where we want the conversations to go, what we would like to discuss, right, at any time we choose.4:22 That's really important. So add the 2 together. You have it between 25 and 30 interactions. They last about 10 minutes each, and you have the amazing power to take those interactions and conversations in4:34 any direction that you want. So let me give you a kingdom fact followed by a kingdom question. Here's the kingdom fact. In the kingdom of God, man of God,4:46 every conversation counts. I'm gonna say it again. In the kingdom of God, every conversation and interaction that you have with another person counts. Now here's the4:57 kingdom question in light of the kingdom fact. Where will you take those conversations? Where are you gonna take them? What are you gonna talk5:09 about? You see, God's man knows that when he's with believers, okay, the Holy Spirit wants to raise the spirit of believers. Now, God's man also knows5:21 that when he is with non believers, what does the Holy Spirit want to do? Well, he knows that the Holy Spirit wants to use him, not someone else, because someone else isn't there. The Holy5:33 Spirit wants to use him to reach and save their souls. So before we get into the study, let me give you 1 last question. Will you, knowing these5:45 facts, will you be willing to allow those conversations to be focused on something that will change another person's life for all5:56 eternity, for forever. Believers have that power through the Holy Spirit, and they have that privilege through the Holy Spirit, and they have that purpose, as we're6:08 going to see in our study. So here's what we're gonna do for our time together. We're gonna see how relationship with Jesus transforms our view of people. Secondly, we're gonna see the purpose6:21 behind Jesus's process with his followers. Third, we're gonna see an example of a man who is overtaken by the power of the Holy Spirit, and he knows why. And then6:32 lastly, we're gonna look at how the Holy Spirit will move in us and through us to reach others for God specifically to reach their soul. So let's look first at the invitation to6:44 relationship with Jesus and the end game of that process. You find that in Mark chapter 1 verse 17. If you downloaded the notes, it's right at the top. Says this, Jesus6:57 called out to them, come, follow me and I will show you how to fish for people. Okay. Very familiar passage for Christians. Let's unpack7:08 it word by word, phrase by phrase. First, there's come. Alright. When you say come, what is that? Alright. Write this down. It's an invitation. Alright. So come is an invitation. That7:20 starts the relationship with Jesus. Jesus says come. Alright? Now here's the second second phrase. Come, follow me. What's that? That's imitation. Okay? When7:32 you come into relationship with Jesus, alright, you learn a way from the master. Right? To be, you learn a way to believe. You learn a way to behave. That's7:44 what a disciple was then and is now. Right? Jesus is saying, follow me as I follow God. Right? And do what I do. Watch7:56 me closely and then do what I do. The third phrase that we see after come follow me is I will show you how. Right? What is that? That's8:07 impartation, which suggests the next aspect of the relationship. Right? There's an invitation into the relationship. There is imitation going on in the relationship.8:19 There's teacher and student. There's master and servant. Right? And then there's this impartation. Right? It's a process of training. Right? So in the relationship with Jesus, there's this process8:31 that he's telling his guys, like, hey. I'm gonna show you. I'm gonna make you. Right? And then there's the last phrase, come follow me, I will show you how to fish for8:43 people. What's that? That's our impact. Alright? There's your end game. There is the purpose of the process in relationship with Jesus. You and I are in8:55 relationship with Jesus. The disciples are in relationship with Jesus. Right? There's an invitation to imitation. And while we're in relationship, there's impartation from Jesus. We watch him. We see what he says. We see9:06 what he's talking about. We see how he does it. We see how he interacts with people. We imitate him. And all that time, he's imparting to us in a training type way, right, how we're going9:18 to do a specific thing, fish for people. Right? Now in the first century, a lot of the guys that were initially following Jesus, they were fishermen. So he grabbed a metaphor and, you know, just9:30 imagine you're a fisherman. He's like, oh, yeah. I know I know what that involves. Right? We gotta go to where the fish are, and then we gotta throw the net, and then we gotta draw the net. And so there's a foundation9:41 for what we're talking about. And as Jesus trained them and then he told them about going to the cross and how how he went to the cross and he died and was resurrection and resurrected,9:53 he told them to go wait in Jerusalem and then the power to fish for men would fall on them. Right? We've been talking about this in this series. Right? You'll receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you'll10:04 be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, and all Samaria, and the uttermost parts of the world. Well, if you go up in the book of Acts to chapter 4, we see this this next phase10:16 of what that was, of the Holy Spirit coming on and into men and then the Holy Spirit overtaking them and overflowing out of them. We read about that in acts 4 31.10:28 Says this, after they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. Listen. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly. I want you to see10:40 the connection to the filling of the Holy Spirit and then what happens after that. Alright? And this is what I want you to take away from that passage of scripture10:52 is filling equals speaking. Alright? The Bible says they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God11:04 boldly. Right? Well, that was their time on earth. So now it's our time on earth. Our heart is beating here. We're filling, not filled, past tense. That was their story. Now it's11:16 our story in real time. We're filling with the Holy Spirit, and now we're speaking. Alright? So I want you to see that relationship between filling of the Holy Spirit11:28 and speaking the word of God wherever we go, where we work, where we live, where we pray, where we play. If you're filled with the Holy Spirit, you're speaking the word of God and the ways of11:39 God and the plan of God, and you're working toward that. You're using words intentionally to bring about God's purposes in another person's life. That's what11:51 I want you to see. Got it? Alright. Now Jesus told his followers over and over again that he had chosen them, that he had appointed them to go12:03 bear this fruit. Alright? Just another metaphor for the endgame of the process. They were gonna be fishers of men. They were gonna be bearers of fruit. Right? Fruit that12:15 lasts. That's key. Fruit that remains. Fruit that never ends. Fruit that lasts forever. And the Bible talks about the person, the12:27 man being a tree that bears fruit. And let's see 1 snapshot of that that relates to reaching a soul. Proverbs 11 30 says this, the12:39 fruit of the righteous, right, those who know God, is a tree of life, and he who is wise wins souls. I love that. Right? So not only is,12:50 Jesus, right, letting people into relationship with him, sins forgiven, purpose for living, home in heaven. But there's a purpose on earth before we go to our home in heaven, and that13:02 is to fish for people, to be filled with the Holy Spirit, speak the word of God boldly, and to win souls. Now why is it wise to win souls?13:14 Well, because when you win a soul, that lasts forever. It goes with you. There's a lot of things that we do, a lot of energy that we put into a lot of things.13:26 Right? Just think about your life and where you dedicate time and energy, and it stays right here with you. But the Bible13:38 teaches that we're called, chosen, appointed, right, to bear fruit fruit that lasts forever. How do you do that? Well, wisely,13:50 you win souls. Because what are the 2 things that go with us to heaven? God's word and people. Alright? I love that. He who is wise wins souls. And this falls right under that14:02 category of what does the Holy Spirit want to do in and through you with people. He wants to to help lead them to salvation. And so what we're going to do now is we're going to look at a man, an14:14 example of a man, overtaken by the power of the Holy Spirit, and he knows why. Alright? And this is we find this man in second Corinthians chapter 5. Of course, it's our brother Paul,14:25 the apostle. And I just want you to listen to this picture that he paints, which kinda goes to what's gotten into him, and he's trying to explain what's gotten into14:37 him. Alright? Second Corinthians chapter 5 is 1 of our key passages. Paul says this, if we are out of our mind, as some say, it is for God. If we are in our14:49 right mind, it's for you. For Christ's love compels us because we are convinced that 1 died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all that15:01 those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and was raised again. So from now on, we regard no 1 from a worldly15:13 perspective. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come, the old is gone, the new is here.15:25 All this is from god who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. Wow.15:37 It's all there. Okay? It's all there. Right? You see people differently when God is in your life. God's love15:48 comes into your life. It's made real and animated through the Holy Spirit. You experience God's love, and then you express your experience, which means how you think,16:01 how you live. And on the how you think level, I underlined it in the downloaded notes. So from now on, we regard no 1 from a worldly point of view. Well, what point of view do you regard16:13 them? You regard them from an eternal point of view. Right now in those 25 to 30 interactions that you're gonna have today, tomorrow, the next day, most every day that you're16:25 functioning, the people that you bump into fall into 1 of 2 categories. A, they are a believer in Jesus Christ. Alright? What's your job there? Well, we learned about that in part 5. Encourage that16:36 person. Build up that person. Right? To love God and to love people and to live out God's purposes. Okay? The other type of person is a non believer. Alright? What's your job with them? Alright?16:48 Your job is to reach their soul, to evangelize, encourage and evangelize. That's it. There's only 2 options in terms of the people that you run into: believer, non believer, encourage, or17:00 evangelize. Right? And that's what the apostle Paul is talking about. He's like, that's how I see people. I see them as believers, and I see them as non believers. When I'm with believers, I encourage and build them up,17:10 and that's what I spend a lot of time doing. And when I see non believers or I know there's non believers, my my heart's desire is that they go from being an enemy of God to a friend of17:21 God. That's what the word reconciliation involves. Right? 2 people, 2 parties are at odds. And when they become reconciled, right,17:34 they stop being enemies and they start being friends again. Right? Right? When you are reconciled to a person after a conflict, you were at17:46 odds, then you got reconciled back through a process. The Apostle Paul says that every believer has this ministry of reconciliation, right? So when they're with people,17:58 we're God's ambassadors. He says later in 2 Corinthians 5, we're God's ambassadors. What do ambassadors do? Well, they build bridges between countries and kingdoms, right? And we're an ambassador of the King. We18:09 represent heaven on earth in the relationships, and we're building bridges. And we're saying, you know what? You're without Christ, but God loves you, and you can be a friend of Christ. When18:21 you're without Christ, right, that's that's hostile. Right? You're God. You're in charge, or something else is God that's not God. Right? But let me show you how to18:33 become a friend of God. I love that gospel tune, I am a friend of God, because it is the outcome, the glorious outcome of being reconciled to God. We18:44 make peace with God. How? Through the bridge of the person and work of Jesus Christ. Simple. And that's how we gotta keep it. Now there's an example of a man who18:56 gets it. Question. Do you get it? Are you a Christian? If you're a Christian, you have the Holy Spirit. Are you filled, empowered, and led by the19:08 Holy Spirit? If you're filled, empowered, and led by the Holy Spirit, you release captives, you relieve pain, you reduce loads, you raise spirits, you reach souls because that is what the Holy Spirit wants to19:20 do through God's man. So let's look at what reaching souls is gonna evolve. What are we gonna feel, sense, experience, and do? Because the Holy Spirit's working19:32 in us to do those things. Number 1, the Holy Spirit will move you to sacrifice for the lost. Alright? Now Jesus himself said that in Luke chapter 15 verses 4 through 7. He said,19:43 suppose 1 of you had a hundred sheep and lost 1. Wouldn't you leave the 99 in the wilderness and go after the lost 1 until you found it? When found, you can be sure you would put it19:55 across your shoulders rejoicing. And when you got home, call in your friends and neighbors saying, celebrate with me. I found my lost sheep. Count on it. There's more joy in20:07 heaven over 1 sinner's rescued life than over 99 good people in no need of rescue. Wow. So what is the Holy Spirit going to20:19 do? He's going to burden you. He will move you to leave what's comfortable, all the people who don't need rescuing, into the unknown20:31 or to take a risk or to go into spaces and places where people who are who need rescue and need saving. Right? And that's the sacrifice20:43 when you go from what's comfortable to what's uncomfortable and perhaps unknown from a heart position of, oh my gosh, this person needs the Lord. Right? Do20:55 you leave the 99 to go for the 1 and man, there is heaven. If you wanna ring the bell in heaven, do that. That's what Jesus said.21:07 Parties. Party after party after party after party. Ding ding ding ding ding. Spirit filled people winning souls to Jesus, reconciling people21:19 to God. Enemies now friends, that's cause for celebration in heaven. Men, there's a wave of this coming, and it comes through a confidence in21:30 knowing who you are, your identity, putting energy into who you are, and letting the Holy Spirit tell you who you are, and that identity and energy leading to an expression which21:42 reaches souls. It's happening all over the world. And you're on this you're on this, you know, this session with me right now on the global livestream because God's calling you to do it. Otherwise, you wouldn't be here.21:54 Second, the Holy Spirit will use your words to testify about Jesus. Now, again, Jesus predicted this. Alright? As he was22:06 preparing to go to the cross, be crucified, die, and resurrect, right, and go to the father, he had to prepare the22:17 disciples. And so he had to give them the game plan that was coming. He said this, when the friend I plan to send you from the father comes, the spirit of truth22:29 issuing from the father, he will confirm everything about me. You too, from your side, must give your confirming evidence since you are in this with me22:41 from the start. Do you do you see what Jesus is saying? He's he's saying, hey. I'm gonna leave, but you're not alone. I'm gonna send the Holy Spirit, and he's gonna animate22:53 and lead you as if I'm physically present, but he's gonna be my spiritual presence, and he's gonna testify about me to you. Right? He's gonna confirm that I'm23:05 the Lord. He's gonna confirm my person, that I'm God. He's gonna confirm my work on the cross for you, that I died for your sins. He's gonna confirm my calling on you, that I've chosen and appointed you23:17 to go bear fruit. He's gonna confirm everything I've said about you, and he's gonna confirm your mission going forward. So the Holy Spirit testifies to us, and then we, in23:28 turn, roll that over and start testifying to other people. So the Holy Spirit takes from Jesus, testifies to us, and then we testify to other23:40 people. So the Holy Spirit will use our words to testify or give testimony. And when we tell our story of what we've experienced and what we've witnessed in the person of23:52 Christ, we use words. Right? That's why I said the Holy Spirit will use words to testify. Just imagine, you know, being called up as a witness in a court. What do they do? State your name? Do you where's the defendant,24:04 you know, over there? What exactly happened? Can you tell us? Right? Keywords, can you tell us. That's what a a lawyer asks a witness. Can you tell us? Right? And that's what God's asking24:16 is of us. Jesus is saying, hey. From my side, Holy Spirit's gonna come testify to you. From your side, right, you're gonna give your confirming evidence, right,24:28 of Jesus. Right? You're testifying about the reality of Jesus, the person of Jesus, the work of Jesus, the presence of Jesus in your life, and what he has done for you.24:40 Number 3, the Holy Spirit prompts us to know and make known the gospel. Alright? Let's read and unpack God's word on this point. It's from first24:51 Corinthians chapter 15. Says this. Friends, let me go over the message with you 1 final time. The message that I proclaimed and that you made your own. This message25:03 on which you took your stand and by which your life has been saved. I'm assuming now that your belief was the real thing, not a passing fancy, that you're in this for good and25:15 holding fast. The first thing I did was place before you what was placed so emphatically before me that the Messiah died for our sins exactly as scripture tells25:27 it, that he was buried and that he was raised from death on the third day, again, exactly as scripture says. So the Holy Spirit prompts us25:38 to know the gospel and make known. I love the language here. Paul says, let me go over this again. Ever had somebody say to this? Hey. Let's be clear. Let's go over this 1 more time just25:50 to make sure that you know. Right? And he says, this is the message that I proclaim and that you made your own. Okay? Kinda important that we would know26:03 the message upon which we're making our eternal stand, upon which our eternal guarantee is made. So Paul is in this first things first.26:14 Alright? Forget about all the other stuff. We just want to focus on you knowing the gospel, you knowing the message that saved you, and then we're gonna focus on making it26:26 known. Right? First things first, know the message and then make it known. Can we say that together? Know the message and make it known. And that's where we spend a lot of26:38 time thinking. Alright? Not too hard because the message of the gospel is simple. Right? God loves us. To prove it, he sent26:49 Christ, and then you can accept or reject what he did, and there are consequences to acceptance and rejection. There you go. The gospel is about God taking27:01 the initiative in the person of Christ, the person and work of Christ. He's God, and he died for you, so that you could have relationship forever with God. There it is.27:14 You can accept that, what he did for you, for yourself, or you can reject it, and there's consequences to both. So the Holy Spirit will move us to sacrifice for the lost. The Holy Spirit will use words27:26 to testify about Jesus. The Holy Spirit will prompt us to know and make known the gospel. Why? Because that's the message that saved us. And then lastly and finally, the Holy Spirit creates an urgency27:38 and energy in light of eternity. Alright? Talks about this in second Corinthians 5 9 through 11. Listen carefully. Paul says, cheerfully,27:51 pleasing God is the main thing, and that's what we aim to do regardless of our condition. Sooner or later, we'll all have to face God regardless of our conditions. We28:02 will appear before Christ and take what's coming to us as a result of our actions, either good or bad. That keeps us vigilant. You can be sure it's no light thing28:14 to know that we'll all 1 day stand in that place of judgment. That's why we work urgently with everyone we meet to get them ready to face God.28:26 So you see a couple of things going that lead to another thing. 1 is you have an awareness on the part of Paul the believer, the man of God, of28:38 eternity. Alright? There's a future meeting. Alright? Then you see him aware that there's limited time. Right? Got28:51 an unknown ending, a future meeting, right, and we have limited time. So eternity and accountability to God creates urgency. I'm gonna say that 1 more time. Eternity29:03 and accountability to God. Right? The fact that 1 day your heart will stop and you will stand before God and be an attorney. But it's not just, Oh, hey. How's it going? It's no. There's actually for the believer29:16 accountability. It's like, Okay. I saved you. I left you on earth. I gave you relationships and resources and time and opportunities. What did you do with them?29:28 That right there, for god's man, should create urgency just like it created urgency for Paul. His last, thought here is that's why we29:40 work urgently with everyone we meet to get them ready to face God. So every person in that 25 to 30 interactions, 1 day, they're going to eternity, and they're gonna face God. And29:51 either they will be in Christ or not in Christ. Alright? And there's consequences to both of those conditions. Alright? It's really simple. Alright?30:05 Holy Spirit creates an urgency and energy in light of eternity. Alright. Now, finally, last point. The Holy Spirit will validate for others the truth of the30:17 message. So you're where you work, where you live, where you pray, where you play, you got 25, 30 interactions a day. You could take a conversation anywhere you wanna go. Is the burden on you to save30:29 someone? Hundred percent, no. Alright? Maybe you knew that, but I'm just reminding you that it's not on you. It's it's not on your words. It's not how fancy, you know, not how much you know the Bible.30:40 It's your job is to initiate a conversation, use words to bring people to God, and then the Holy Spirit is already at work all around this person. Otherwise,30:53 he wouldn't have brought you next to them. So he's already done sort of the prep work and the soil tilling. He's he's already been talking to this person, and31:05 there's a story that's unfolding that you're a little part of. Right? And God's man understands that. Right? But the Holy Spirit the burden is on the Holy Spirit. When we read about this in Hebrews chapter31:17 6. It says this, once people have seen the light, gotten a taste of heaven, and been part of the work of the Holy Spirit, once they personally experienced the sheer goodness31:29 of God's word and the powers breaking in on us. If they turn their backs on that, washing their hands of the whole thing, well, they can't start over as if nothing happened. That's impossible. What31:41 is God's Word telling us right now? The Holy Spirit does it all. Alright? Let's say that together. The Holy Spirit does it all. That's right, man of God. The Holy Spirit, number 2, doesn't mess around.31:53 Holy Spirit does it all. Holy Spirit doesn't mess around. It makes the message he makes the message clear. Alright? They see it. They recognize it. They they make a decision and32:05 responds to it, and the Holy Spirit confirms that our message is god's word. And when the Holy Spirit does that, alright, it's off32:17 you. Right? It was never on you, but you need to remember, hey, it's off me. So that's what's cool about these 25 to 30 interactions. You can just be filled, empowered, controlled, partnering with the Holy Spirit,32:29 and he's gonna start letting you in on what he's already doing. Alright? And then he's gonna give you opportunities to use words, right, because if you're filled, you're speaking, to influence32:41 the conversation, to season the conversation. Right? And maybe you're planting seeds. Maybe you're picking fruit, and you're gonna lead that person to the Lord. I don't know. But the Holy Spirit is at work, and that's32:53 comforting. It's comforting to know that he's already at work. He's providentially arranged this interaction with all these people, and then you can use words in your presence,33:05 to and actions, to start moving the kingdom forward, leading towards salvation in their life. In John chapter 16, Jesus reaffirms the Holy Spirit's33:16 role in in really accomplishing the work of salvation and and not messing around. Jesus says this, when he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard33:28 to sin and righteousness and judgment. In regard to sin, because men do not believe in me. In regard to righteousness, because I'm going to father where you can see me no longer. And in regard to judgment,33:40 because the prince of this world now stands condemned. And so helping someone feel the presence of God, feel the the awareness33:52 of God, think about sin, think about righteousness, think about that moment of judgment, that's still on the Holy Spirit. So34:04 again, you should be telling yourself, wow, that's reassuring, and that's comforting. My job is just to to show up and give Jesus this loaf and34:16 fish of my obedience and give God my words, and then the Holy Spirit's gonna take those and go to work. Right? But he's just letting us participate. Does the Holy Spirit34:27 need us? No. Is the Holy Spirit letting us participate? Yes. And this is the most exciting part about being a follower of Jesus is doing something eternal for another person.34:40 Fellas, there's 700000000 men in the world who name the name of Jesus in some way. Right? What would happen? Let's not use such a meta34:51 number. What would happen in your church if all the men who named the name of Jesus were filled, empowered, and controlled by the Holy Spirit, took the initiative in the power of the Holy Spirit, and then gave the35:02 results to God? They did their part. Right? Wow. Now when we think about reaching a soul, that's where this whole thing of the Holy Spirit and God working35:14 ahead of us and then and then God arranging an intersection, That's where there's this, what I would call this mysterious perfection, that that comes35:26 onto the scene. And this is talked about in first Corinthians 2 1 through 4. 1 of the greatest evangelists of all time, right, the greatest talkers about Jesus, Paul,35:38 right, listen to what he says. He talks about this mysterious perfection in first Corinthians 2. He says this, you'll remember friends that when I first came to you to let you let you in on God's sheer35:50 genius, I didn't try to impress you with polished speeches and the latest philosophy. I deliberately kept it plain and simple. First, Jesus and who he36:01 is, and then Jesus and what he did, Jesus crucified. I was unsure of how to go about this and felt totally, listen, inadequate. I was36:13 scared to death if If you want the truth of it and so nothing I said could have impressed you or anyone else, but the message came through anyway. God's spirit and God's36:25 power did it. Amen. Aren't you glad? Right? You don't have to use fancy words, polish speeches, be a philosophy major, have a have a big36:36 degree or letters after your name. You can just be plain and simple. Paul said, it's Jesus and who he is. It's God. He's Lord. Then there's Jesus and what he did.36:48 Right? He died for sin. And when God initiates to die for your sin, to wash it away so that you can know him got a decision to37:00 make. Right? And I love his commentary. Right? Unsure, inadequate. Uh-huh. Sure. Everybody that has seen this guy when Paul was living on earth, it's37:12 like, are you kidding me? You're an amazing speaker. But that's how that was his attitude. That was his approach. You know? He didn't he just he was unsure, and he was adequate, and he was scared to death. But what's so37:24 cool is he's like, hey. But guess what? I could have butchered it, but the message came through anyway. Why? Because it's not my message. And the Holy Spirit's already at work. And37:36 God's spirit and God's power did it. Amen. So God's man just 3 things in closing. Write these down. God's man, just like this God's man, takes the initiative. Alright? You37:48 take a risk. Alright? The Holy Spirit's ahead of you, which should make you assured that it's okay to take the risk. Hey. I'm here. I'm already. I'm already working. Go ahead and turn the conversation, in a38:00 spiritual direction toward Jesus somehow. Right? I'll I'll open a door for you. Alright? And to be aware. Take the initiative. Second, God's man keeps the message simple. I think I've done it 3 or 4 times in this38:11 message. But, you know, hey, I I realized God loved me. He proved it by sending Jesus to die for me on the cross for my sins, all my mistakes, because38:22 he's mistake less, and wash them away. And now, because my sins are washed away, I can know God because God is sinless. So now38:34 I can have a relationship with God. And I just have to make a decision. I made that decision to do that. You ever made you ever had an experience like that? Do you wanna make do you wanna make a decision like that?38:47 Third, God's man lets the Holy Spirit multiply his obedience. What I loved about that last passage from first Corinthians 2 was that Paul just scared, unsure, totally38:59 inadequate, just kinda gave it a whirl and was obedient. Alright? Listen. I know that that doesn't sound really spiritual, but the Holy Spirit just spoke to me and said,39:11 every man listening to the sound of my voice right now needs to give it a whirl. Alright? You ever given something a whirl? It's like, maybe it's a motorcycle. It's like, hey, give it a whirl. Maybe it's a mountain bike.39:21 Hey, give it a whirl. Maybe it's a golf club. Hey, give that a whirl. You know? Take a test. Alright? Take a risk. Try it out, man of God. And just make sureShow more In this video 0:00 The Power of the Holy Spirit in Evangelism5:34
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