back to indexEV Training Class #1
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If you look at the end of the class number one, the lecture, 00:00:13.140 |
you're going to see at the very end of each lecture 00:00:16.140 |
a place where all the homework is listed out. 00:00:18.780 |
So that should be comprehensive at the end of each lecture. 00:00:23.900 |
But beyond that, when you come in every week, 00:00:26.820 |
you are going to have a short five-minute quiz as well. 00:00:30.460 |
And the purpose of the quiz is just for accountability's sake. 00:00:37.860 |
We are going to switch papers and grade each other 00:00:40.020 |
and have that extra form of accountability of shame. 00:00:54.820 |
It's going to be big category headings and things like that. 00:01:03.100 |
But you want to get the general principles that 00:01:08.100 |
I did an evaluation thing with the previous class. 00:01:32.900 |
I know a lot of you are memorizing through books 00:01:50.180 |
but it enhances your ability to evangelize a lot. 00:01:55.620 |
When you have scripture at the tip of your tongue, 00:02:00.020 |
even for yourself, even if you don't say it, the verse, 00:02:03.220 |
even for yourself to understand that the authority 00:02:06.640 |
than Christian principles, it's very important. 00:02:32.900 |
Yeah, we have 15 married people in here, seven college students 00:02:39.380 |
That's kind of the breakdown of our class here. 00:02:42.820 |
After class ends, you guys can kind of talk to each other 00:02:50.580 |
If there are no other questions, we'll begin. 00:03:37.320 |
And then the first one is going to be on the motivation 00:03:40.600 |
And then the last lesson is going to be on methodologies. 00:03:46.080 |
we're going to start doing a little bit of role play, too, 00:03:48.540 |
kind of pairing off and having you guys evangelize 00:03:52.200 |
And you're going to be taking on a different religion. 00:03:54.400 |
So the one that's being evangelized to is going-- 00:04:09.200 |
what are your personal feelings about evangelism, 00:04:12.800 |
Can you go ahead and do that in the next 30 seconds? 00:04:25.640 |
You're not going to be sharing this or anything. 00:04:27.640 |
Sometimes being aware of this, of something you checked off, 00:04:40.280 |
Just being aware that, man, I'm pretty timid. 00:04:43.960 |
You know that about yourself, but just be aware of it. 00:04:47.600 |
And then you can use that to say, how can I attack that? 00:05:01.040 |
is to Christianity what veins are to our bodies. 00:05:11.920 |
you might as well talk about a doctor majoring on healing. 00:05:16.080 |
Man by the name of Bass Harner at the Moody Bible Institute. 00:05:23.840 |
And secondly, how should we motivate others to evangelize? 00:05:33.240 |
Because we know that we ought to be evangelizing, 00:05:36.120 |
and your answer can be quite different from everybody else 00:05:40.640 |
But our motivation has to be on the same heartbeat here, 00:05:44.920 |
So going into some of the false motivations here, 00:05:54.800 |
A dying friend in your arms, if you only had one more minute 00:06:01.600 |
And many of us maybe have felt that with a family 00:06:18.040 |
are so just taken captive by that thought, he's dying, 00:06:29.360 |
it is always going to be a desire for God, his glory, 00:06:36.440 |
And so while these things are very important, 00:06:41.840 |
under the category of who God is and why it's so important 00:06:49.920 |
You have the cure to cancer, and you've withheld it. 00:06:53.160 |
And so you've heard that before maybe in your life, right? 00:07:13.200 |
can be a temporary manipulation of your own heart 00:07:26.560 |
"Any manipulation in evangelism may produce short-term results, 00:07:30.160 |
but in the long run, becomes a barrier to genuine belief." 00:07:34.000 |
So when you're motivated by these temporary manipulations, 00:07:37.640 |
many times the content of the message that you're portraying 00:07:45.960 |
and wanting this person saved, you begin to-- 00:07:51.600 |
can go a little bit secret sensitive in there. 00:07:58.360 |
when it's on God and who he is, and your desire for him 00:08:04.800 |
So here's some lasting motivations, God's purposes. 00:08:25.160 |
But mission statements are helpful to identify 00:08:34.480 |
It helps you direct where to spend your time and money. 00:08:37.160 |
It helps you know what and why of your to-dos. 00:08:39.520 |
And so for the Christian, our mission statement is biblical. 00:08:50.640 |
if you were at the members meeting yesterday, 00:08:52.960 |
our vision for this year is very much our mission statement, 00:09:02.680 |
If you turn to the next page, what is the mission statement 00:09:09.600 |
But this is the Bible survey for a mission of God. 00:09:12.280 |
This is that idea that God is a missionary God. 00:09:15.600 |
And he desires-- all through the course of scripture, 00:09:19.160 |
you're going to see that he was very, very consumed-- 00:09:35.280 |
So nothing so much glorifies God as his gracious redemption 00:10:12.280 |
We're very familiar with the fact that when we one day die, 00:10:15.240 |
we're going to be brought into perfect worship before God, 00:10:18.840 |
perfect fellowship before God and one another. 00:10:27.840 |
But also, that is our testimony to the world, 00:10:40.280 |
God's goals, it's reconciliation of rebellious sinners 00:10:45.200 |
This time period where sinful man walks this earth, 00:10:58.200 |
And secondly, to present every person complete in Christ, 00:11:13.240 |
So in 2 Corinthians chapter 4, verse 15, Emily, 00:11:22.880 |
For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends 00:11:25.640 |
to more and more people, you increase thanksgiving 00:11:30.040 |
And this is a question you have to ask yourself. 00:11:34.960 |
It doesn't take long to take a cursory glance 00:11:37.120 |
at your checkbook, at the way you spend your time, 00:11:40.080 |
to prove whether you believe this truly or not. 00:11:59.960 |
And so we will all say we live to the glory of God, 00:12:10.840 |
about when you wake up, what has been the thing that's 00:12:18.200 |
Roman number one, if you are concerned with magnifying 00:12:24.360 |
the glory of God, there is a simple biblical mathematical 00:12:28.680 |
More people saved equals more people giving glory to God. 00:12:37.040 |
are going to desire God's glory truly in other people as well. 00:12:41.560 |
So if you are jealous for God's glory yourself, 00:12:44.040 |
then when you see people who are walking around 00:12:46.040 |
as robbers of God's glory, it drives you crazy. 00:12:59.240 |
there's that compassion that's there, as the first step is, 00:13:04.240 |
man, I need God to be made known in this person's life. 00:13:12.520 |
I want them to understand God's compassion and kindness 00:13:18.680 |
And we're going to talk about that, especially next week when 00:13:22.520 |
Christine, can you read for us that quote by MacArthur? 00:13:29.080 |
"When we worship God, by proclaiming his glory 00:13:31.480 |
and his clarity, Paul wrote to the Thessalonians, 00:13:35.240 |
brethren, pray for us that the word of the Lord 00:13:45.120 |
when people hear it and are saved, God is glorified." 00:14:04.480 |
"We glorify God by evangelizing, not only because evangelizing 00:14:08.680 |
is an act of obedience, but also because in evangelism, 00:14:12.520 |
we tell the world what great things God has done 00:14:17.040 |
God is glorified when his mighty works of grace are made known." 00:14:21.720 |
So that book was actually out there yesterday, J.I. Packer, 00:14:26.040 |
And so I think if you still want to purchase those, 00:14:35.040 |
"Because the Lord is worthy of glory, we must evangelize." 00:14:41.760 |
We evangelize because we are captivated by God's glory. 00:14:48.640 |
So we can't go out there trying to convince ourselves 00:14:52.760 |
We need to already be about that in our everyday living. 00:14:55.680 |
So that's our passion, our heart, love, and obedience. 00:15:09.640 |
"If you love me, you will keep my commandments." 00:15:12.680 |
"If you love me, you will keep my commandments." 00:15:14.640 |
And then 1 John 5, 3, let's go back to Alyssa. 00:15:17.240 |
"For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments, 00:15:24.480 |
"Let your light shine before men in such a way 00:15:36.440 |
But the love obedience factor comes together. 00:15:40.440 |
Many times, remembering that you need to obey 00:15:50.720 |
know we should be evangelizing, but we feel nervous to 00:15:55.560 |
going to let my life evangelize, or we make all these excuses, 00:16:02.520 |
You love how you're perceived, and how you're 00:16:28.760 |
And so I'm going to go as nerve wracking as it might be. 00:16:33.280 |
So the Lord has commanded that we evangelize the world. 00:16:42.200 |
If the purposes of God and a desire to obey Christ 00:16:54.040 |
Perhaps you are greatly afraid of being rejected by man. 00:16:56.840 |
In 2 Corinthians chapter 5, verse 10, it says, 00:17:03.880 |
"For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, 00:17:08.800 |
for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, 00:17:13.240 |
Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men." 00:17:21.480 |
the knowing is a participle to the "we persuade men" 00:17:32.800 |
So therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men. 00:17:36.040 |
We are not out there to persuade men, just like that. 00:17:49.920 |
In Galatians 1, 6, "I am amazed that you are so quickly 00:17:52.200 |
deserting him who called you by the grace of Christ 00:17:54.400 |
for a different gospel, which is really not another. 00:18:02.400 |
should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have 00:18:08.560 |
if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you've 00:18:13.920 |
"For am I now seeking the favor of men or of God? 00:18:35.960 |
There's a few more here in Proverbs 29 and John 14. 00:18:48.040 |
You might not have a pattern of applying God's word. 00:18:50.440 |
Or you have a pattern of not applying God's word. 00:18:53.200 |
So if you're wondering, why am I not in obedience? 00:18:56.800 |
There's the fear of man and the non-fear of God at play. 00:19:00.240 |
But there's also this thing of maybe you're just simple, 00:19:14.080 |
If you're in a regular habit of reading scripture and yet not 00:19:17.680 |
applying-- so if you read every day for the next year 00:19:20.560 |
and yet not applying, you are at risk of becoming 00:19:27.560 |
but you have gotten into a pattern of seeing them 00:19:29.640 |
as directed at the general church, but maybe not to you. 00:19:33.960 |
And so we're able to sit-- like when we get together 00:19:39.400 |
But only what you've been applying actually matters. 00:19:45.800 |
is actually something I think you should be sharing 00:19:51.320 |
So if you're giving concepts about how we should be, 00:19:54.080 |
there's a lot of-- it could be laced with a lot of judgment, 00:19:59.280 |
people who are reading and learning and growing 00:20:02.280 |
a lot in the knowledge of God, and yet they're not applying. 00:20:04.720 |
And so when their sermons are being aimed at them, 00:20:15.040 |
I think the people who are most walking and abiding in Christ 00:20:20.600 |
are the ones who are the most-- when they're hearing sermons, 00:20:29.520 |
I've heard some people who are just walking so well with 00:20:32.320 |
Christ that they heard the most basic of sermons, 00:20:34.360 |
and they come up, and they're just so broken. 00:20:36.920 |
And you're like, no, that's such a basic Bible thing. 00:20:49.440 |
So these big categories we're hitting here-- our passion, 00:20:58.600 |
Roman numeral 1-- what does it mean to evangelize? 00:21:00.640 |
So we're going to go into a little bit of Greek here. 00:21:02.840 |
The first one, "uangelizo," preach the good news. 00:21:06.240 |
Oh, when you see a double G like that, by the way, 00:21:09.720 |
We have an NG sound in there, that "ng" sound in there. 00:21:23.440 |
Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this 00:21:31.080 |
you're going to see another instance of this word, 00:21:34.400 |
So there is this aspect of that, that we go to preach it. 00:21:42.800 |
with illustration and producing understanding. 00:22:05.000 |
So a lot of what we do on Wednesday nights right now 00:22:10.800 |
There are instances where Pastor Mark will be moved 00:22:14.120 |
by the Spirit, and he'll just start preaching. 00:22:17.600 |
But teaching is to really produce understanding. 00:22:21.640 |
And it feels like there's a different purpose in it 00:22:39.120 |
And then next, another word when we think of evangelism 00:22:42.000 |
is "keruso," to herald the gospel or to proclaim, 00:22:50.960 |
So look at the nuances of each of those things. 00:22:54.560 |
this is the man who came before and preceded the king. 00:22:57.760 |
And he would trumpet and say, someone is coming. 00:23:01.560 |
And sometimes he would give the report of the king 00:23:05.760 |
This is what the king is going to talk about. 00:23:08.600 |
He'd say, these are the things he's coming for. 00:23:10.600 |
And the king is going to come, and then he'll do his thing. 00:23:16.040 |
Sorry, I actually printed out for you guys an unedited copy. 00:23:24.640 |
into capitalists what great things Jesus had done for him. 00:23:42.040 |
the image of the herald, it was an invitation. 00:23:44.600 |
So the herald would come to make everyone come out 00:23:56.640 |
So if you're going, and you're talking to someone, 00:23:59.080 |
and you're just like, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, 00:24:10.560 |
Like what it says in Isaiah 55, come and drink of the wine 00:24:14.080 |
that you did not purchase, the milk that comes freely to you. 00:24:18.720 |
And eat of the bread that you have no reason to have. 00:24:28.840 |
is witness, one who gives knowledge, confirmation, 00:24:32.280 |
One who gives knowledge, confirmation, or light. 00:24:38.760 |
Sean, do you think you can read for us Galatians, please? 00:24:45.400 |
you have, for I bear you witness that, if possible, 00:24:48.680 |
you have plucked out of your eyes and given them to me. 00:24:51.520 |
So have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?" 00:24:56.640 |
So this idea of witness, for I bear you witness 00:24:59.520 |
that that word, if you look at the word martyreo, 00:25:10.440 |
So when we're called witnesses, or even the word testimony, 00:25:17.360 |
That the testimony that we're giving is our life. 00:25:30.400 |
So that idea of witness is found in scripture as well. 00:25:34.560 |
So we must speak and communicate a distinct message. 00:25:42.600 |
Verbal communication, or transmission of the gospel. 00:25:54.120 |
They were truths known only to God, but now revealed. 00:25:57.960 |
In order to truly evangelize, we must speak the message of God. 00:26:01.560 |
So all four of those do require verbal communication. 00:26:10.440 |
you think that just by the way I live, hopefully 00:26:23.520 |
It's OK to do, and it is actually very beneficial to do. 00:26:26.400 |
And we should all be having an idea of our lifestyles 00:26:29.800 |
preaching something, but it is not evangelism. 00:26:36.600 |
you know, the Jeremiah 17, 9, the hardest deceitful part-- 00:26:44.800 |
You are not obeying the command to evangelize 00:26:48.840 |
when you're just hoping that your lifestyle communicates 00:27:02.640 |
So again, this is the most heavy in terms of just getting 00:27:06.600 |
Roman numeral 2 here, what makes evangelism God-centered? 00:27:18.200 |
This was actually a 10-week course when I first started it, 00:27:30.000 |
And if you look down the left column versus the right column, 00:27:39.880 |
I've been kind of given to this left side that kind of 00:27:46.280 |
like, we have a man-centered approach to evangelism. 00:27:50.840 |
We love talking about God's chief attribute of love, 00:27:56.560 |
What do we start off with in our point of contact? 00:28:00.360 |
Do we have this idea of man is sick and ignorant? 00:28:04.760 |
I thought the outreach team did a great job just very, 00:28:11.840 |
what is the beginning point in many of these, 00:28:14.280 |
and why is it that we need to be trained in preaching 00:28:16.480 |
the gospel, not because we don't know the gospel, 00:28:19.720 |
but because many times our motivation in the gospel 00:28:23.120 |
And so it starts off wrong, and honestly speaking, 00:28:26.080 |
many times we don't even get to the heart of it. 00:28:30.360 |
So we start it off wrong with right material, 00:28:41.040 |
the right material with the wrong starting point 00:28:52.440 |
So that's a lot of what we're going to talk about. 00:28:55.280 |
go over the next four weeks, which is God, man, Jesus, us. 00:29:02.600 |
In everyday conversation, they might bring up something 00:29:06.040 |
about Jesus dying on the cross, and you might start there. 00:29:08.600 |
But you have to come back to God being holy and creator. 00:29:18.160 |
You might start there, that someone randomly said that 00:29:20.960 |
because they went out to harvest crusade or something, 00:29:29.360 |
I start a lot of times with man being sinful, 00:29:33.560 |
I start a lot of times with man being sinful. 00:29:37.920 |
So the thing is, if we're starting in these places 00:29:59.240 |
I see testimonies that say, I was depressed and lonely 00:30:17.520 |
He did not come to save me from depression and loneliness. 00:30:21.800 |
Honestly, you deserve to be lonely and depressed 00:30:32.520 |
And I actually talked to a youth student this past-- 00:30:36.320 |
And then they're saying, yeah, I'm struggling with depression, 00:30:40.120 |
and this is hard, and these are the reasons why. 00:30:49.040 |
Honestly, I don't want God to comfort you in that place. 00:31:01.120 |
And so a lot of our evangelism, you have to ask yourself, 00:31:11.160 |
Someone might break down in front of you crying, 00:31:13.200 |
because they feel like their life is just so hard. 00:31:28.200 |
But God did not come to save them from just that darkness. 00:31:33.160 |
You have to kind of clump these things together. 00:31:40.160 |
He cannot just pluck you out of your darkness. 00:31:43.200 |
You need to surrender and repent before him of your sin. 00:31:46.480 |
And only in that place, you'll produce true joy, true peace, 00:32:40.240 |
God-centered EV must be dedicated to accuracy 00:32:51.480 |
And then, therefore, we do not measure evangelism 00:32:59.920 |
How many are attending my church now as a result? 00:33:02.400 |
We ask the question instead, was the message of Christ 00:33:04.640 |
proclaimed and laid upon the unbeliever to believe? 00:33:18.640 |
You can feel rotten because they yelled in your face 00:33:41.520 |
And you're like, oh, man, I don't feel good about this. 00:33:43.820 |
And yet, I'll say, man, that was faithful preaching 00:33:54.400 |
We did something dumb in the college ministry. 00:33:59.280 |
It's like this idea of when can you do the victory dance? 00:34:08.680 |
It was helpful because I think a lot of them, 00:34:10.600 |
as they would come out, they'd be discouraged. 00:34:13.000 |
And then the two of them would look at each other and say, 00:34:17.240 |
Were we faithful in presenting who God is to them? 00:34:28.800 |
And they walked away, and we probably ruined their day. 00:34:31.800 |
And yet, you could do the victory dance in that. 00:34:43.280 |
You're going to be out at UTC, and someone's just 00:34:59.520 |
Or is it completely filled by the vision of who God is? 00:35:03.800 |
And so they're uncomfortable, but it doesn't change you 00:35:07.720 |
You're just like, you're going because of it. 00:35:12.800 |
Number two, God-centered EV must be holistic in preaching 00:35:15.440 |
the biblical worldview and not necessarily exhaustive. 00:35:25.000 |
So holistic means you're hitting all the points. 00:35:30.480 |
And we're going to be doing that the next four weeks 00:35:34.960 |
in the God/Man/Jesus response idea of the gospel. 00:35:43.880 |
and they were asking, hey, in every time we're 00:35:47.280 |
preaching the gospel, do we need to get to all four? 00:35:55.840 |
And at any point, if they just cut the conversation, 00:36:01.640 |
But if you can, your holistic approach is the goal. 00:36:18.440 |
So letter A here, "Therefore, we cannot push one recorded 00:36:41.520 |
You also can't ask the question, what's the minimum 00:36:46.480 |
What are the basic elements that are the bare minimum 00:36:53.560 |
Thus, your goal is to present a holistic, biblical worldview 00:36:58.360 |
Again, we're going to hit this over and over again 00:37:02.560 |
And the message is not the same as your testimony. 00:37:04.920 |
This means that your personal journey to faith 00:37:09.480 |
You can definitely share the gospel in your testimony. 00:37:12.080 |
But if you're sitting there just talking about your own walk, 00:37:23.080 |
This will help you maybe become a vehicle into the gospel. 00:37:50.760 |
Pragmatics has been a major confusion and error 00:37:55.560 |
In an effort to make the church more successful, 00:37:57.720 |
like being relevant, effective, winsome, or appealing, 00:38:00.400 |
church leaders have adopted philosophies and methodologies 00:38:13.160 |
involves the lifestyle witness of each member of the church. 00:38:16.160 |
Involves the lifestyle witness of each member of the church. 00:38:34.960 |
in that circumstance, even in a difficult circumstance. 00:38:38.080 |
You see them going house to house many times. 00:38:50.160 |
OK, can you read this for us, the next paragraph? 00:38:53.240 |
Evangelism is a deeply linked to life and relationships. 00:38:57.720 |
Whether in the synagogue, or the marketplace, or the home, 00:39:01.200 |
the gospel is communicated through life studies. 00:39:03.680 |
Evangelism is linked to life and the events of life. 00:39:13.080 |
Whenever there is an unbeliever, they share the gospel. 00:39:19.400 |
There was a very reason with college ministry, 00:39:21.320 |
I was very hesitant to set a weekly evangelism time. 00:39:24.840 |
But we are evangelizing and things like that. 00:39:27.400 |
It's because that idea of setting the time to evangelize 00:39:37.960 |
It's great that we can all go do that together. 00:39:44.760 |
Because evangelism is more natural than anything else. 00:39:47.840 |
In your relationship-- that's why in this chart, 00:39:50.000 |
like this Paul's in jail, he's just evangelizing. 00:40:05.480 |
So the church, to grow the church in a holy huddle 00:40:09.800 |
is not the mission of our church or even our lives. 00:40:17.320 |
It says that these people were developed and brought up 00:40:22.400 |
to equip the saints to do the work of ministry. 00:40:25.920 |
The work of ministry isn't just like relegated to like, oh, 00:40:30.640 |
what I do is clean up ministry or parking ministry. 00:40:37.280 |
trying to comprehensively do church together, 00:40:40.120 |
that our church would, yes, be building each other up. 00:40:44.720 |
But ultimately, that we're going out and preaching the gospel. 00:40:47.280 |
That is actually our ultimate mission and goal. 00:40:51.320 |
And so if your mission statement is kind of going along 00:40:59.960 |
You look at your life and say, but has that been my goal? 00:41:05.080 |
And then the second danger is to then jump into, 00:41:14.840 |
You can't go from, but have I been doing that? 00:41:19.480 |
It has to be, but has my passion been for God's glory? 00:41:23.520 |
Has my heart been a love and obedience to Christ? 00:41:26.680 |
We have to fill that in so that the I have to go evangelize 00:41:35.480 |
after we do this and you guys are evangelizing, 00:41:52.000 |
Oh, I love this part, that we go out in so much confidence. 00:42:01.720 |
And so when I'm out there, the adrenaline rush is very real. 00:42:14.880 |
like one of those fake things where you're like, 00:42:19.560 |
It's like you drown it out by remembering our confidence 00:42:32.760 |
And so you need to come back to this over and over again. 00:42:36.320 |
We must be careful to distinguish the results 00:42:54.160 |
Consideration does not mean that we should be indifferent as 00:42:57.280 |
to whether we see fruit from our witness to Christ or not. 00:43:00.760 |
We are not to define evangelism in terms of achieved results." 00:43:17.120 |
We're going to go into that in one of your resources. 00:43:19.400 |
But man, that's why the whole victory dance thing, 00:43:27.960 |
The only thing that you have control of is your preaching. 00:43:42.000 |
as hopefully you see things happening in this person 00:44:03.360 |
regardless of what we see, because it's not based on them. 00:44:12.560 |
by the ingenuity, determination, the strength, 00:44:17.160 |
It will be accomplished by the grace and power of God. 00:44:24.240 |
You matter a ton, because God tells you to go do it. 00:44:30.080 |
because God is the one accomplishing by His grace 00:44:44.520 |
Now, they might disobey, and they might resist Him, 00:44:59.200 |
manipulated this person to say something, or to feel something, 00:45:04.160 |
But if the gospel wasn't faithfully preached, 00:45:13.280 |
Therefore, we can trust that God's message and God's methods 00:45:19.000 |
We can focus on following His plan and ordained agenda. 00:45:23.920 |
We do the preaching, teaching, proclaiming, witnessing. 00:45:30.920 |
We do it with God's glory in mind, not man's glory in mind. 00:45:33.840 |
We do it because we love Him and we desire to obey Him. 00:45:42.240 |
Don't stray from His plan, unordained agenda. 00:45:47.320 |
Letter B, therefore, we can have hope and persevere. 00:45:50.400 |
Knowing that the giving of faith and the salvation 00:46:05.280 |
Knowing that all of it now is in God's hands, 00:46:07.360 |
that you've done your part, and now maybe you 00:46:15.640 |
Now, can you pray for God to save their hearts 00:46:24.920 |
But if you've faithfully preached God's message 00:46:31.320 |
without trembling before man and a fear of man, 00:46:35.160 |
and you really feel like you did a faithful job of presenting 00:46:37.960 |
who He is, then you can pray saying, God, use it. 00:46:42.720 |
Whatever seed was planted, God, make it sprout. 00:46:48.560 |
And then Roman numeral number two, pray relentlessly 00:46:56.280 |
Pray relentlessly and rely on the Holy Spirit. 00:47:04.860 |
Brethren, my heart's desire and my prayer to God for them 00:47:16.740 |
Don't gloss over so quickly why both are put there. 00:47:19.780 |
He could have said, I pray for God to save them. 00:47:30.140 |
My heart's desire and my prayer to God for them 00:47:38.400 |
And He, when He comes, will convict the world 00:47:40.380 |
concerning sin and righteousness and judgment. 00:47:52.780 |
that God may open up to us the door for the word, 00:47:55.260 |
so that we may speak forth the mystery of Christ, 00:48:09.620 |
Do you intercede on behalf of unbelievers continuously? 00:48:13.260 |
Do you pray for more opportunities to come your way? 00:48:27.620 |
or with this child or whatever, that you would 00:48:33.620 |
When you pray for opportunity, by the way, when it comes, 00:48:38.740 |
When you don't, and opportunity comes, you're like, oh, boy. 00:48:46.940 |
But when you're praying, when it comes, you're like, oh, 00:48:55.780 |
If you know, if one of the check marks in the beginning 00:48:58.100 |
was like, nah, I'm shy, I'm timid, well, great. 00:49:17.640 |
Letter B, God ordains the end and ordains the means. 00:49:25.220 |
And that brings us to the end of the motivation 00:49:32.740 |
OK, so to review, our mission is God's purpose. 00:49:54.940 |
So take time to meditate on that a little bit. 00:49:57.780 |
And again, remember, apply to see, like, where am I? 00:50:02.660 |
Like, am I evaluating where I am and how I've been thinking 00:50:08.460 |
Or have I just been praying a lot for someone to be saved 00:50:13.780 |
We pray like-- like, every prayer is a prayer. 00:50:16.060 |
I feel like we're praying for unbelievers, which we ought to be. 00:50:20.020 |
My question is, like, yeah, but since we prayed, 00:50:29.700 |
And, you know, and so let's try to get our mission kind of 00:50:41.500 |
And a lot of times, we will hear sermons, and we're like, man, 00:50:57.660 |
You know, like, those are such weak convictions. 00:51:07.580 |
That if it's just to not be lazy, like, come on, you know? 00:51:16.300 |
Oh, that's like, we got to do more than that. 00:51:29.300 |
have of this ticking time that we have in this world, right? 00:51:32.300 |
And we're so consumed with Him, and we come home like, 00:51:41.900 |
This is very different than just wasting time, right? 00:51:44.220 |
We know we can go watch a movie, but can you really 00:51:47.180 |
waste time when you have this mission in life, 00:51:54.140 |
So we get so captivated on what we're not supposed to do, 00:51:58.260 |
but I think what we ought to do should be many times feeding 00:52:11.340 |
they were interviewed, and these psychologists came by 00:52:18.700 |
The final conclusion was that adulterers, where it happens, 00:52:28.380 |
fall in love with someone else or attraction to someone else. 00:52:32.580 |
It's when they fall out of love with their wife. 00:52:41.740 |
where when your love for the Lord is so great, 00:52:45.300 |
like what you see in Philippians 3, 7, 3, 11, 00:52:53.940 |
But when you're captivated by something so much greater 00:52:56.420 |
and more beautiful and of more value and worth, 00:53:05.300 |
And so evangelism is-- that's why the motivation is 00:53:10.260 |
You could be here saying, train me for evangelism, 00:53:13.260 |
and you can go out with the wrong motivation, 00:53:16.220 |
So homework-wise, these are two very short readings. 00:53:23.380 |
So if you want to know-- you can go and look at it yourself, 00:53:25.940 |
but this will probably take you a few minutes 00:53:30.500 |
It's in the resources section of your packet. 00:53:41.140 |
The table of contents shows you homework 1, homework 1, 00:53:51.580 |
And then you're going to be reading Islam and Roman 00:53:56.780 |
And try to kind of play with the material a little bit, 00:54:00.500 |
because later on, I'm going to be kind of printing out things, 00:54:03.620 |
and we're going to be doing the office thing, 00:54:05.780 |
where you put the thing on your forehead, walk around. 00:54:09.220 |
You're going to be play-acting like a Muslim or Roman 00:54:13.780 |
and being the Christian that's evangelizing to the Roman 00:54:18.220 |
So do your best, and then don't need to do that. 00:54:28.380 |
The quiz, is it just going to come from the lectures, 00:54:37.540 |
You know, I won't put the religions in there. 00:54:40.520 |
And the memory verses, can you go over the purpose 00:54:48.340 |
The next four is going to be on God, man, Jesus, us, 00:54:56.940 |
we're going to be having memory verses that go along with it. 00:55:02.780 |
when you're preaching the gospel, when you're 00:55:04.620 |
evangelizing to people, that you have these memory verses that 00:55:10.220 |
so that you're not just relying on your own words. 00:55:12.860 |
But also to remember, this is indeed scripture and biblical. 00:55:20.860 |
But there's evangelism outreach on March 7th. 00:55:52.420 |
like one of those ones that you get really annoyed by it, 00:55:58.940 |
Can you message me and say, like, oh, on this page of-- 00:56:01.260 |
and it will be helpful to not distract future classes. 00:56:14.460 |
and challenge ourselves to ask, how have we been evangelizing? 00:56:20.500 |
God, even as we look forward to evangelizing in March, 00:56:24.820 |
God, is our desire just to scratch a guilty conscience? 00:56:45.780 |
who desire just to be trained or discipled in certain ways. 00:56:49.380 |
But God, it is truly because of the shepherd we love and follow.