Gospel Call Update #6

Hello everyone, my prayers are with you as we head into the winter and all that God promises us through the changing of the season. Sometimes we wonder if God is listening, or if He answers our prayers. There is a country song that says He always does, it's just that sometimes the answer is "no".
Bad music aside, we do need to be reminded that we are victorious in Christ Almighty in the face of ALL opposition and seeming defeat!

31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written,


“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”


37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:31-37
                                                                                     
Oh friends, if this precious reality lives in you, then you must sense the urgency to proclaim it! As God keeps us and tests us let us remember that His gospel is the greatest news that could ever be told. If we are saved we should have a burning desire to tell others of His holy sovereignty and judgement as well as His amazing free grace and wonderful love.
  
    "The Love of Christ compells me!" as Paul wrote in his letter to the Corinthians.

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20

This Paul declared for the world to know so that many would come to.....
....... know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3:19

So last night Michael and I showed up on BSU campus and we shared the priceless Gospel. Michael spoke at length with an African man who claimed to be Catholic. After asking His beliefs it became apparent he had fallen into the lies of Universalism and believed that all return to a state of purity at death and are saved to Heaven. Michael brought him to the hard truths of the opposing claims of different religions and made the man to reason that not all could be correct. In the end this person was of the mind that no one could ever know whose "sacred book" was right. We explained that Christ was the only One who ever stood in the gap between us and God. He said it was a Western concept that there had to be a payment for something. What!?  He had to go and we lamented that we could not have had more time with him as he was a pleasure to speak with and a challenge to debate.

It was raining so we just decided to make a loop and come back while we passed out tracts and looked for more conversation about God. Stopping in front of the library I preached a short, loud sermon that brought a man out who yelled that folks were trying to study. I asked if he were studying the Bible. Another man said I was being intolerant, because I had spoke ill of his religion. I asked him which religion and he said, "Science." When I attempted to ask him more questions he feigned irritation with me so I kept on preaching. I had another heckler who just hollered at me while he kept on walking. I told him I couldn't hear him and to come speak to me, but he kept on going. I finished a proclamation of the Law and Judgement of God, repentance of sins, and the only Way of Christ our Lord just as the campus clock sounded out the booming gongs of 7pm.

Michael and I moved on laughing and praising God, all the while handing out gospel tracts. We even made up a few stanzas to a parody song about being "just a good person" which we hear as a response so often. You kinda' had to be there, but let me tell ya' it was hilarious.

As we go out more and more often I may combine the updates, but please consider joining us or at least comitting to praying for our exhortation in the Word and for the cultivation of the fallow ground of the hearts of sinners.

Blessings to you and more free grace in our Lord  and Saviour Jesus Christ.