Questions & Answers

What do I need to know to share Jesus with others?

You need to know the Gospel of Jesus Christ (the good news):

All mankind has a sin problem. (See Romans 3:23.)

God’s punishment for sin is eternal condemnation. (See Romans 6:23.)

God sent His Son, Jesus, to Earth

to 1) live a perfect life--so His sacrifice would be acceptable, 2) die as a sacrifice for each of us, and 3) be raised back to life--to prove His sacrifice was accepted by God. (See Romans 5:8.) 4)God did all this for us because of His love for us and wants to remove our condemnation based on His Son’s sacrifice for us. (See Romans 8:1.) 5) ach of us must make a personal decision to repent of our sins and surrender our lives to Jesus. This “change of direction in our lives” is the provision that applies God's forgiveness to our lives. (See Romans 10:9, 13.)

You need to know your own experience:

Write out your own story (testimony) so you can be comfortable telling it to others. It is your story, not someone else’s.

You need to know your assignment:

(Acts 1:8) tells us: “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Witnessing is our assignment. We don’t have to wonder what God wants us to do. We’re to be witnesses.

God didn’t say, “You shall be my lawyer.” What’s the difference between a witness and a lawyer? A lawyer argues a case; a witness tells what he has seen and heard. That’s the reason you need to know your testimony. A witness doesn’t have to know the answer to everything. All you need to know is what you have seen and what you have heard.

How can I get motivated to share Jesus with others?

There are at least six motivations for sharing your faith described in the Bible. Ultimately, all six of these are rooted in living a Spiritfilled life.

Motivation #1: The Soul Winner's Compulsion

(2 Corinthians 5:9) tells us: “Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.” He is simply saying, “I want to be acceptable to God. I want Him to be pleased with me.”

If we are not endeavoring to bring souls to Christ, we are not acceptable to God. It doesn’t matter how much money you give, how often you attend church, or how faithfully you live your life; if you are not endeavoring to bring souls to Jesus Christ, you are not acceptable or pleasing to Him.

Motivation #2: The Soul Winner's Compensation

The Apostle Paul was motivated by future rewards. In (2 Corinthians 5:10), he says, “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.”

Motivation #3: The Soul Winner's Conviction

In (2 Corinthians 5:11), Paul continues by saying, “Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men...” Paul was a soul winner because he knew what it meant for a soul to die unredeemed and go to Hell. He called it “the terror of the Lord.”

Motivation #4: The Soul Winner's Compassion

The Apostle Paul was also motivated by overwhelming compassion that caused some to say he was not mentally stable–that he was “beside himself.” He replied, “For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; or if we are of sound mind, it is for you. For the love of Christ compels us...” (2 Corinthians 5:13-14) How can we say we love Jesus and not be concerned for the souls He died for?

Motivation #5: The Soul Winner's Confidence

In (2 Corinthians 5:16-17), we see another of Paul's motivations: “Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”

Here's Paul’s confidence–if I lead a soul to Christ, he will be a new creature. He will become brand new in the Lord Jesus Christ. We too should not see people, but souls that Jesus died for and wants to transform.

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Motivation #6: The Soul Winner's Commission

Finally, Paul was motivated by his calling–his commission. (Second Corinthians 5:18) and following: “Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.”

We all have been called to the ministry of reconciliation. We have been reconciled. And we now have a responsibility to be ministers of reconciliation. If we're not interested in winning souls, we are guilty of treason against Heaven's King.

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Part 1: The New Birth

The first chamber in the King's holy palace is the Chamber of the New Birth. By nature, we are destitute of life, dead in trespasses and sins. We need, therefore, not a new creed, but a new life. The prophet's staff is well enough where there is life, but it is useless on the face of death. The first requisite is LIFE. This is what the Holy Spirit gives us at conversion.

As an outstretched hand has two sides- the upper, called the back, the under, called the palm- so there are two sides and names for the act of entrance into the Chamber of the New Birth. Angels, looking at it from the heaven side, call it Being Born Again. Man, looking at it from the earth side, calls it Trusting Jesus. Those that believe in His name are born again; those that receive Him have the right to become the sons of God (John 1:12,13). If you are born again, you will trust. And if you are trusting Jesus, however many your doubts and fears, you are certainly born again and have entered the palace. If you go no further, you will be saved, but you will miss untold blessedness. Jesus Christ has bought us with His blood, but, alas, He has not had His money's worth! He paid for ALL, and He has had but a fragment of our energy, time, and earnings. By an act of consecration, let us ask Him to forgive the robbery of the past, and let us profess our desire to be henceforth utterly and only for Him.

As soon as we say this, He will test our sincerity, as He did the young ruler's, by asking something of us. He will lay His finger on something within us which He needs us to alter, obeying some command, or abstaining from some indulgence. If we instantly give up our will and way to Him, we pass the narrow doorway into the CHAMBER OF SURRENDER, which is ever warm and radiant with His presence because obedience is the condition of manifested love (John 14:23).

This doorway is very narrow, and entrance is only possible for those who will lay aside weights as well as sins. A weight is anything which, without being essentially wrong or hurtful to others, is yet a hindrance to us. We may always know a weight by three signs: first, we are uneasy about it; second, we argue for it against our conscience; third, we go about asking people's advice whether we may not keep it without harm. All these things must be laid aside in the strength which Jesus waits to give. Ask Him to deal with them for you, that you may be set in joint in every good work to do His will

(Hebrews 13:21).

Consecration is the steppingstone to blessedness and is clearly established in the experience of God's children. There must be full surrender before there can be full blessedness. God admits you by the one into the other. First, I was shown that the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanses from all sin; and then it was made plain to me that He who had thus cleansed

me had power to keep me clean; so, I utterly yielded myself to Him and utterly trusted Him to keep me." Part 2 CONSECRATION

The act of consecration is recognizing Christ's ownership and accepting it, saying to Him, with the whole heart, "Lord, I am Yours by right, and I wish to be Yours by choice." Of old the mighty men of Israel were willing to swim the flooded rivers to come to David, their uncrowned, but God-appointed king. And when they met him, they cried, "We are yours, and on your side, David, son of Jesse." They were his because God had given them to him, but they could not rest content until they were his also by their glad choice. Why then should we not say the same to Jesus Christ? "Lord Jesus, I am Yours by right; forgive me that I have lived so l as if I were my own. And now I gladly recognize that You have a rightful claim on all I have and am. I want to live as Yours from now on,

See NEW BIRTH on Page 55