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What is the Value of Life?

A little boy went to his old grandpa and asked, "What's the value of life?"

The grandpa gave him one stone and said, "Find out the value of this stone, but don't sell it." The boy took the stone to an Orange Seller and asked him what its cost would be.

The Orange Seller saw the shiny stone and said, "You can take 12 oranges and give me the stone." The boy apologized and said that the grandpa has asked him not to sell it. He went ahead and found a vegetable seller. "What could be the value of this stone?" he asked the vegetable seller. The seller saw the shiny stone and said, "Take one sack of potatoes and give me the stone." The boy again apologized and said he can't sell it. Further ahead, he went into a jewellery shop and asked the value of the stone.

The jeweler saw the stone under a lens and said, "I'll give you 50 million for this stone." When the boy shook his head, the jeweler said, "Alright, alright, take 2 gold necklace, but give me the stone." The boy explained that he can't sell the stone.

Further ahead, the boy saw a precious stones' shop and asked the seller the value of this stone. When the precious stones' seller saw the big ruby, he lay down a red cloth and put the ruby on it. Then he walked in circles a

round the ruby and bent down and touched his head in front of the ruby. "From where did you bring this priceless ruby from?" he asked. "Even if I sell the whole world, and my life, I won't be able to purchase this priceless stone. Stunned and confused, the boy returned to the grandpa and told him what had happened.

"Now tell me what is the value of life, grandpa?" Grandpa said, "The answers you got from the Orange Seller, the Vegetable Seller, the Jeweler & the Precious Stones' Seller explain the value of our life...

You may be a precious stone, even priceless, but people will value you based on their financial status, their level of information, their belief in you, their motive behind entertaining you, their ambition, and their risk taking ability.

But don't fear, you will surely find someone who will discern your true value." You are Unique and No one can Replace you...

Hallelujah!!!

To your success

Pastor Kehinde Adegbolahan

A Piece To Ponder

Never since I was born, I have not seen many people arrived late to the airport when the person is travelling. In fact, when the plane is taking off at 11:00pm, the person will be at the airport by 7:00pm, wow!

That's how much people value travelling overseas. But on a Sunday morning when Church has long begun that's when you see men and women with 'swag' gliding like pregnant serpents to Church, they know they are late, but because they have a new armani suit on and the latest designer's bag, they want everyone to see it. Church starts at 7:00am, but people will come at 9:00am, why? They think praise and worship is for the uncivilized.

Just take the test to call them on Monday at 5:30am, you'll realise they are already on their way to work and some will be there already. Know this today, anytime you go to Church one minute late, you have NOT attended Church at all.

There is a register of God, where angels record the name of those who come on time, and you'll be surprised that in Heaven they will tell you, you never attended Church.

If Christ is saying 'where two or three are gathered, I'm in their midst', you think He comes late?

The time you give is the time He keeps.

What does it mean to arrive late to Church?

1) Disrespect to Christ

2) Betrayal of Christ

3) Disregard to the Church and the Pastor

4) Interruption of an eternal Programme


Now consider all these, and tell me they are not sin.

Remember,

Eternity's Flight is not a flight taking you to overseas, it's a flight taking you to Heaven.

Don't miss it!

There are a lot of people who are planning to go to Church late this Sunday.

Let this message get your attention.

God bless!

Most of us are victims!

Good day


To your success

Pastor Kehinde Adegbolahan

 

The Making of a Family Minister

God, in this present time, is in need of family ministers, people that can build their homes and the church. Men that are first successful husbands and father then pastors. God wants our ministry to start from Judea. Luke 24:47.

Recent research shows that ten leading minister in Nigeria today are successful family men.

Types of Ministers

1.      Celibate Ministers (1. Cor. 7:27-40)

2.      Ministry Ministers

3.      Family Ministers

Types of Marriages

1.      Retrogressive Marriages

2.      Executive Marriages

3.      Olympic Marriages

4.      Electronic Marriages

5.      People's Marriages

6.      Parasitic Marriages

7.      Rocky Marriages

8.      War Veteran Marriages

9.      Super Master Marriages

10.    Friendship Marriage

Old Testament Family Ministers

1.      Adam

2.      Noah (Gen. 7:6-7)

3.      Moses (Exo. 4:18-20)

4.      Joshua (Jos. 24:15)

5.      Abraham

6.      Job (Job 1:5)

7.      David etc.

Family Failures

1.      Eli (1. Sam. 3:11, Matt. 19:3-9)

2.      Paul (1. Cor$ 7, Eph. 5, Col. 3:17-22)

3.      Peter

4.      Phillip (Acts. 21:9)

5.      Aquila (Acts 18:2-26, Rom. 16:3, Cor. 16:19, 2 Tim. 4:19

A Big Question!

Are you a family minister or a modern day family failure?

Facts

-        Your family is what you make it to be

-        Your marriage is the picture of your character

-        Marriage is like a farm, if you fail to cultivate it, it will grow weed

-        If you cannot lead a home successfully, you cannot lead a church to where God wants it to be

-        No matter your success in the ministry, you are a total failure if you are a disaster out at home

-        If you fail to make your wife happy, God is angry with you

-        Bad marriage will affect your credibility and your ministry

-        If your wife do not see you as a pastor, then you are not one

-        You are either the head of your family or the headache

How to become a family minister

1.      Strike a balance between ministry and marriage

2.      Develop uncommon love for your wife

3.      Get to know the difference between parenting and parenthood

4.      Become a man of vision. Know where you are going and share with your wife. If the head is headless. The follower will not follow

5.      Provide adequately for your family. If you want your wife to call you HONEY, give her MONEY, Provide physically, emotionally, financially, morally for your home.

6.      Single ministers should pray very well before choosing. Women are many but wives are scarce. Three types of minister's wife: Caterpillar wives (Jezebel), Passive wives, Ministerial wives (Priscilla) Prov. 19:14

7.      Commit the jeart of your wife to the ministry

8.      Set your priority right (God, Wife, Children and Ministry)

9.      Honor your wife publicly. Appreciate her little efforts and she will be challenged to do more

10.    Involve her in the ministry - Visitation, Women Leadership, Sunday School, Bible Study, Evangelism, Counselling, Children Church, Youth Ministry, Marriage Ministry and Ministrations. Make sure your wife is not idle, anybody that is idle may cuddle the devil

11.    Be her husband not just her pastor - What you cannot do for members, do for her. Cuddle her, touch her, kiss her, pray with her, joke with her, send love notes, romantic text messages and spoil her with a little with gift

12.    Satisfy her bedroom desires. Never be a Russian in the bedroom. Your wife needs about 20minutes of "Laying of Hands" before any "Combine Service". Be a lover in the bedroom, not a horse rider, inform your wife ahead if you must fast (1. Cor. 7:3-5), sex with your wife is not a sin, it is holy and righteous, it does not destroy annointing, in the bedroom you are a lover and a husband, you are not just a pastor

13.    Create interest in your wife's business, family, health, fear, joy and plan. In sickness be by her, never frget that she needs more than paracetamol, she needs "Kissquine, Lovequine, Touchdol and Parasitahug"

14.    Understand body signs. If she refuses to take tablets or say amen to your prayer, know that she needs more than casting and binding, she needs you, she needs your touch, attention, affection and your care

15.    Celebrate her birthday lavishly, understand the mood of a woman, they are female which means a FEELING-FEMALE, a male with strong feelings. Be an aggressive lover, buy her gifts, tell her you love her, giver her your attention

16.    Have children you can adequately cater for. Family planning is not abortion, it should be done. Most pastors are still raising between 6 and 8 children while their salary ranges between N18,000 and N30,000. Let your wife work to supplement the family income, it is not compulsory for jer to be on full time unless the church is paying her. Raise smaller family for a better effect if your wife is too busy with your "battalion" she may not have time fir ministerial work

17.    Let there be togetherness. Be proud of her, be faithful to her, support her in the kitchen, and with the baby. Pray together, talk together, sleep together in the same room, on the same bed, stroll togetjer, sit, eat, minister, study, travel together for ministrations and dress together, holiness should not make you a romantic disaster

18.    Develop leadership skill, crises management. Let the Lord take the glory in your family

19.    Never allow third party into your marriage. (Friends, Families, Church Members etc are all third partner)

20.    For God's sake, rest. Most pastors don't rest, please do rest. If you fail to rest you are putting your life "under arrest"

To your success!

Pastor Kehinde Adegbolahan

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DEAR PARENTS, PLEASE READ THIS IF YOU, YOUR CHILD, AND YOUR FAMILY USES SOCIAL MEDIA!!!

Calvary greetings to you. Galatians 2:18 "For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor"

Never go back to your vomit again. Think about those things you abandoned or pulled down before and you vowed never to rebuild them again. They are known as Stylish Sins.

As a parent, an educator and a minister of the Most High God, this particular topic is near and very dear to my heart. Every week that passes, the social media landscape changes, and keeping up with it can be a nightmare. I ask that if you find value in this article please share with others so that we may spread the word about not only keeping our children safe online but ourselves also.

If you’re a parent, you have to keep up with it. You have to be “savvy” enough to know what social networks your kids are using. You can’t use the excuse “I don’t understand this stuff!” (for example: Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, Vine, Google+, Ask.fm, and Tumblr) If you don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s time to start doing some research. You don’t have to be an expert or guru, but you should know how these networks operate. These are the platforms your teenagers or soon to be teenagers are probably using right now.

Here is some advice to get you started on educating yourself and your children on how to use social media safely:

1. Teach your child about respect. Respecting themselves and respecting others. If you stop them from being on Twitter or Facebook they’ll just move to WhatsApp or Instagram or SnapChat or Google+ or you get the point. Give them the skills to make good decisions first and foremost.

2. Don’t use social media to humiliate your child. It may be a temporary fix to get your child to stop making poor decisions but the potential long term ramifications definitely outweigh the short term.

3. Teach your child that whatever they put online is permanent (this includes texting! SMS) Private is not always Private. The photo they post online is not owned by them anymore. It’s owned by Facebook, Instagram, and Google, etc. and they can do what they want with it (so can that bully who happens to be a friend of a friend on Facebook which gives them access to certain photos your child posts).

As many that have falling prey to friends that tags them to nude pictures online, it is high time you spent quality time with the security settings on Facebook, never permit 100% tagging access to your friends, scrutinize every picture and stories you are tagged in.

4. Some day your kids may apply to a high school or college or submit a resume for their dream job and I can assure you they will most likely be researched online which is the normal practice in Nigeria. Ask yourself, what will their impression of my child be when their done? Therefore, teach them to also share their accomplishments like academic awards, sports awards, volunteering, community events, school club activities etc. online when they are involved in them.

5. Lead by example. Practice what you preach if you want them to navigate their digital life safely. Don't do contrary to what you preach, never share or upload nude pictures, rapes or terrifying pictures, I wonder who you are trying to please with it.

6. Explain to your child that communicating verbally is completely different than communicating online. If you happen to say something verbally that you later regret you can fix this over time. If you happen to post something online that you later regret that content may never disappear and you may never be able to fix it.

7. Tell your child to never take seductive photos and text them to his/her “boyfriend” or “girlfriend”. It’s incredibly risky and foolish because at some point his/her boyfriend/girlfriend probably won’t be the only person to see those photos. ‘Sexting’ should be a subject discussed before any smartphone is purchased. All this applies to pictures of under-age drinking, doing drugs, or any other illegal activity!

Take a look at these examples:

a. A student at High School was arrested and suspended from school for posting a fully nude photo of a local 15-year-old high school. The victim’s photo had originally been sent to her boyfriend in confidence, but leaked to this boy, which then made it available on Instagram.

b. Authorities say a trio opened several accounts on Instagram, and before those accounts were shut down, they had posted more than 50 photos of nude and partially clothed girls on social media for all the world to see. Concerned about the photos they had come across. Police say the victims in the case willfully took the pictures, but did not know they were being used for this purpose.

c. Be present and aware of what your children are doing online. Don’t give your tween a laptop/iPad/iPod and let them go to their room for the night if you don’t plan on keeping an eye on them. Know what apps they have. Know their password to these devices. You have to find a balance between trusting your child and parenting. If you don’t give them some space they’ll never learn to make good decisions (even if that means making a mistake here and there) and if you’re completely oblivious to their online activities you’re making it far too easy for them to potentially make an unrepairable mistake.

9. Teach your child not to interact/follow people they don’t know in person (exceptions: sports stars, celebrities, etc. who are positive role models).

10. Review the privacy settings of each app with your child. You’ll probably want to make sure that they’re not sharing their current location because of kidnappers and ritualists.

11. Start this journey into social media by making your teenager responsible for their hardware as well. Paying for their own smartphone and monthly bill will quickly teach a teen responsibility and accountability. No work, no money, no phone. It’s how the real world works. [As a parent, I have a N3,000 pay-as-you-go phone as a back-up in case a teenager hasn’t pay a bill.] Too young to work? Then it’s the parents device and all time-limits, usage rules, passwords are completely dictated by the parent.

12. Make sure your child knows to come to you with a problem right when it occurs, so you can help fix it. Things can get out of hand quickly online, as pictures, texts and posts can go viral within hours! Whether something is happening on their accounts, or an a friends’ account they need to know to report it to you. Let them know coming to you is their only option and that you will always listen.

13. Trust goes as far as they trust their friends! ‘Private’ or “Protected’ accounts give teens a false sense of security, since those ‘trusted friends’ might post pictures of you, tag you, or leave accounts open and accessible to parents or worse, peers. This is where ‘Don’t say ANYTHING you wouldn’t say out loud’ applies most!

What if your child asks you if they can get a Facebook, Twitter, Google, Instagram, etc. account?

Don’t start with NO! You want to start this journey with them knowing you’re there for them. That doesn’t mean you have to say yes either but hear them out first. Start with questions like these:

1. Why do you want a Facebook account? They’ll probably answer with something like “Because ALL my friends have one”.

2. Which of your friends are on Facebook? Hopefully they tell you. If not maybe they’re not ready to be on social media.

3. Are these the only people you would be friends with on Facebook? This might be a good time to talk about only interacting with people they know in real life.

4. What do you know about Facebook? They may say something like “You talk to friends and share photos”.

5. What kind of photos would you be sharing? My guess is they’ll say something like “I don’t know. Me and my friends.” This is a great time to talk about what types of photos are appropriate to share online and why.

After you’ve had this conversation with your child you need to make a decision as to whether they’re ready for social media or not. If you’re on the fence about letting them you can always say “Yes, but under one condition. You have to share your password with me. If you’re being honest about why you want to be on Facebook then you have nothing to hide from me”. You can also tell them you’ll only use the password if you feel like they’re hiding something from you or not using the network responsibly. A written agreement between you and your teen might serve as a reminder of rules that are not to be broken and consequences that will happen if they are. Refer back to it often and review the rules when appropriate.

Apps/websites that you need to be monitoring if your teens/tweens are using them:

Remember it’s not necessarily about the technology. It’s more about how the technology is being used. However, some of these apps/websites encourage risky behavior.

1. Tinder – This app lets your kid “like” people who are as close as 1 mile from their location. If the other person “likes” your child back then they’ll be able to chat and give their location. This app is known for “hook ups”.

2. Ask.fm – This is a question and answer social site that allows people to ask and answer anonymously (the bullying possibilities are endless).

3. Whisper -This website allows users to post “secrets” and photos anonymously. It also allows whispering to other users anonymously as well. Here is their tagline: “Express Yourself – Share Secrets – Meet New People.”

4. SnapChat – The app that supposedly allows users to send a photo that will disappear “forever” after 30 seconds. The problem is that it’s easy to take a screenshot, which makes that statement ridiculously untrue.

5. Burn Note – Similar to SnapChat, this app’s number one priority is privacy, which teens are drawn to, but makes bullying, sexting, etc.. easier to participate in.

6. Let’s Date – Similar to Tinder, this app starts you off as anonymous to all but once you tell other users “let’s date” and once reciprocated you’re no longer anonymous to them.

7. Kik Messenger – I think I will let this next quote sum up this app:

If you grab every new app out there that you hear the kids & teenagers like, then you probably have KIK, an app extremely popular among the young crowd. While the messenger app is simple and often fun to use, with meme-making features and the ability to add videos and images to chats, it’s also full of random sex-spammers.

8. WhatsApp – Recently purchased by Facebook. This app allows users to chat, send messages, send photos, join groups, etc…

9. Slingshot -Teens love this app because in order for you to view a video or photo another user sends you have to send them one as well. Your kid can easily be found by random people on this app.

10. Chatroulette – A website that matches you randomly with another user so that you can video chat with them. According to a poll – 1 in 8 spins yielded someone apparently naked, exposing themselves or engaging in a sexual act.

Parents should keep all their children off the site because it’s much too dangerous for children. It’s a predator’s paradise. This is one of the worst faces of the Internet that I’ve seen. It’s disconnecting human relationships rather than connecting them.

There is a new “it” app that your child will be downloading all the time. It’s extremely important to teach them about making good decisions and the consequences that come with making bad ones. Just because they might be “anonymous” on said social network doesn’t excuse them from being a good person who is respectful of others.

Remember the book of Galatians 2:18 "For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor"

A visit to deliverance ground will give you an eye opener and understanding of this write up. A glance of a nude picture online can lead you to a perpetual or everlasting torture of your soul, caged and extortion of your virtues, continuous flash back and memory of pornographic images.

Do not allow your carelessness, busy schedules and job to take away your rest of mind and peace. Remember how you prayed fervently to have those children as a gift from God, why allow the technology of today to destroy their future, not only theirs but including yours. If you have spent your youthful years on the mountain praying for fruit of the womb, will you spend your old age at the mountain again for the salvation and deliverance of such children again? Then what is your gain?

To many out there who are still in the habit of sharing porn, nude pictures and orgy scenes, you playing with fire, abominable fire that consumes the soul of its victim without pity. Jesus is calling you, He is still in the business of deliverance, give your life to Him today because tomorrow is always LATE!

Remember the book of Galatians 2:18 "For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor"

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When Your Prayer Enter Voicemail

Most of believers have now turned and learned to live with voice mail as a necessary part of our lives, which ought not to be. Have you ever wondered what it would be like if God decided to install voice mail?

Imagine praying and hearing the following:

• Your prayer cannot be connected at present, please try again later.

• Your prayer cannot be connected at present, please try again later and then disconnects.

After several attempts, finally you are through.

• Thank you for calling heaven.

• Press 1 for English

• Press 2 for Yoruba

• Press 3 for all other languages.

Please select one of the following options

• Press 1 for request

• Press 2 for thanksgiving

• Press 3 for Complaints

• Press 4 for other matters.

What is Voice Mail?

Voice Mail System (also known as voice mail, voice message or voice bank) is a computer based system that allows users and subscribers to exchange personal voice messages; to select and deliver voice information; and to process transactions relating to individuals, organizations, products and services, using an ordinary telephone.

Voicemail can also be simply defined as a centralized electronic system which can store messages from telephone callers.

In the book of Psalm 143:7 "Answer me speedily, O Lord; My spirit fails! Do not hide Your face from me. Lest I be like thodr who go down into the pit." (KJV)

I pray for you that, May your prayer never enter voice mail; may it never be deleted, may it never leave heaven's coverage area and you will never run out of prayer credit, be recharged with the word of God in the mighty name of Jesus.

This write up is not to teach you about latest technology or you will be wondering if I have turned up into a Geek. Don’t be surprised that the Evangelism and Mission work demands more than Social Media, Sharing Handbills and Visitation. It is required to stay focused, concentrated and updated of trends that will support and promote the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

My Message Proper

For this message, there is a secret I have to share with you in case if you don’t have access to it or not privilege to have them. One of the major reasons why your prayer MUST not enter the voicemail God:

Your Wife Your Engine Room

Your WIFE should have grace more than you and also become your engine room of your life, ministry and marriage. The day you love your husband or your wife more than God, it is the day he/she will fail you. Never ever love your husband or wife more than your God because when you are going through the tribulations of life, your wife/husband was not there before you met them. Let the person there take the glory that is unshakable and share not with Him.

The word WIFE occurred 396 times in the scriptures which makes the word and title of a wife very and highly important in our lives.

A man is the head of his family and the prophet of his home (family referred to herein in this message is combination of A Man, A Wife and Children while Marriage is between a Male and Female); if your WIFE is not yet the engine room of your life, you have just boarded an automatic one chance vehicle that takes you nowhere. It is either you pray her into it, work with her into it or start practicing it now.

In Proverbs 5:18, “He who finds a wife, finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the Lord” He that findeth a WIFE, findeth a good thing, the bible did not say girlfriend or sexual partner in sin, but a wife; obtain Favor from the Lord.

Remember, in 2 Samuel 11: 4, David lay with Bathsheba and obtained disfavor from the Lord likewise Samson laid with Delilah and obtained serious punishment and loss of divine power and inheritance. David was able to do the right thing in 2 Samuel 12:24 “Then David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and then went in to her and lay with her. So She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. And the Lord loved him.”

A question you should ask yourself at this time is, Who Are You or Have You Been Sleeping With or Sleeping With You? Is it Your Wife, Sex Partner in Sin or Girlfriend? The only way and sure way to obtain favor from the Lord is through your WIFE!

As a man you must declare each time that "Lord as I am knowing my wife let me obtain Favor from You, in the form of financial, success, grace, promotion and opportunity favor I receive it in the name of Jesus. As it is written, men findeth a wife and obtain favor from the Lord"

Flash Prayer Point

• Any power standing as a barrier on the way of my helpers, be roasted by fire and be vaporized. God of Elijah cut them off from my life, marriage and ministry in the name of Jesus.

• Any principality from my father's house, mother's house and in-law's house standing against my wife and my children be struck with the 10 plagues of Egypt in the mighty name of Jesus.

• Lord, pour your oil of prosperity over my life, the life of my wife and my children in the name of Jesus.

Always and continuously pray for your wife; pray that any power standing against your wife should die in Jesus name. Pray more for your wife more than yourself, else there will be evil transfer. If you don’t serve God you will serve something else lower than God.

The Wife should be praying “O Lord, any day my husband sleeps with me, let miracles, breakthroughs, blessings happen to him in the name of Jesus.” But remember you must be in agreement with yourself in order to observe your fasting periods. By the way, who is the creator of Marriage? God Himself, so praying for your husband or wife is very timely indeed.

For the singles, Please Don’t Pray for the bone of your bone because it will lead you out of God's instruction. It is a bad prayer point; a traditional prayer is not good for you as a genuine child of God. Instead ask and pray for a help-mate that will help you fulfill the will of God for your life.

Type of woman available: A knife woman and A virtuous woman. Which one are you?

To be concluded…

To your success!

Pastor Kehinde Adegbolahan

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12 Reasons Every Christians Should Win Souls

THE IMPORTANCE OF SOUL WINNING

People wonder why I emphasize soul winning so much. As it is our civic responsibility to pay Tax so it is our Spiritual and Life responsibility to Win Soul, it is  the Law.

1. BECAUSE GOD COMMANDS IT

Soul winning is not an option. It is not a spiritual gift. It is not a church growth programme. It is a clear, unequivocal, unavoidable command of God.

2. BECAUSE THERE IS A HELL

Psalm 9:17 still says, “The wicked shall be turned into Hell and all the nations that forget God.” Revelation 21:8 still says those without Christ will have their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone.

3. BECAUSE WE KNOW HOW TO ESCAPE HELL

Imagine a man having a cure for cancer and keeping the news to himself. Imagine seeing someone about to be run over by a car and not trying to warn him. How much worse it is for those of us who know the only escape from eternal damnation to keep it from those desperately in need of this truth.

4. BECAUSE SOULWINNING IS THE DECENT THING TO DO

1 Corinthians 15:34 says: “Awake to righteousness and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.” I once heard of a preacher who, along with his family, befriended an elderly lady. She became a kind of a grandmother to his children and was included in family gatherings. After a while, their friendship had advanced so far that he felt awkward about giving her the Gospel; wished he had done it sooner, but did not know exactly how to broach the subject. Years went by. One day the preacher was under such deep conviction that he went over to the lady’s house and clearly explained the Gospel. She was very quiet when he ended. She said, “Are you telling me that you believe that if I died right now, I’d go to Hell because I’ve never trusted Christ?”

“Yes ma’am,” he replied. “That’s what the Bible says.”

“And you’ve believed this all the time you’ve known me?” He again replied in the affirmative. “Get out of my house,” she said. “You’re not my friend. I don’t ever want to see you again.”

I hate to say it, but the lady is right. It is not friendship or any other kind of decent behavior to withhold the Gospel from those who need it.

5. BECAUSE THERE IS A HEAVEN

What a wonderful blessing it will be to be reunited with loved ones for eternity. What a privilege it will be for us to see those living forever in Heaven, to whom we have given the Gospel of Christ.

6. BECAUSE IT GLORIFIES GOD

John 15:8 says:“Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.” There are those who say that our prime motivation is not to win people to Christ but to glorify God. I do not disagree with them, but I must remind them that the Bible clearly says God is glorified when we bring forth much fruit.

7. BECAUSE IT ENCOURAGES BELIEVERS

When I win people to Christ, bring them to church, or share their testimonies with others, believers are encouraged and uplifted. Iron sharpens iron and my testimony encourages others to do the same.

8. BECAUSE IT PERPETUATES TRUTH FOR THE NEXT GENERATION

The Lord Jesus tells us that believers are like wheat and unbelievers are like tares. Wheat must be planted every season. It never regenerates itself. Weeds grow automatically. It takes nothing for wrong to prevail and evil to predominate. It takes great effort for righteousness to be perpetuated.

9. BECAUSE IT DEMONSTRATES THE POWER OF GOD

10. BECAUSE IT IS A TIMELESS PRINCIPLE

Even a casual reading of the Word of God will convince you that it has always been right for people who know God to tell people who don’t know God about God. Remember, it is an Old Testament verse that says, “He that winneth souls is wise.”

11. BECAUSE WE MUST FACE JESUS AT THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST

“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, whether it be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.” 2 Corinthians 5:10–11 (emphasis mine)

12. BECAUSE OUR HANDS WILL BE STAINED WITH THE BLOOD OF THE LOST WE DON’T TELL

“When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him no warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.” Ezekiel 3:18

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