A preacher was driving home one night with his wife and two
daughters in the car. It was raining and dark and because of the intensity of
the rain he could hardly see past his headlights. On the way he had to drive
over a huge bridge. There were signs posted all along the bridge that said
"DO NOT PICK HITCH-HIKERS."
There was an institute for the criminally insane near the
base of the bridge and sometimes people would escape from it and try to hitch a
ride. On this particular night, as he turned his car on to the bridge, he had
to drive exceptionally slow because he could hardly see the road.
Somewhere near the top of the bridge a man suddenly appeared
in the headlights. He was soaked, standing in the middle of the road with his
shirt off frantically waving it over his head and screaming.
This preacher's wife began to say, "Oh please don't stop, try to drive around
him!" But the man was unavoidable and there was nowhere for the car to
go to miss him. So he had to stop the car and as soon as he did, the man slapped
his hand down on the hood of the car and was screaming at the top of his lungs.
The preacher looked over at his wife and said to lock the
door after him and not to unlock it until he returned. His family was now
crying and pleading with him not to get out of the car. He opened the door and
stepped outside...He was immediately soaked from the rain.
As he approached the front of the car to grab the man, all
of a sudden he could make out what the man was screaming, "THE BRIDGE IS
OUT! THE BRIDGE IS OUT! A BUS LOAD OF KIDS JUST WENT OVER!"
As these words registered in the pastor's mind, he looked
back in the car at his wife and two daughters. He wrapped his arm around the
man and wept in gratitude. The preacher stood there with the man for the next
half-hour in the middle of the road, waving his jacket above his head
screaming."THE BRIDGE IS OUT! THE BRIDGE IS OUT!"
- For a lost and a dying world --- The Bridge Is Out.
- For a people heading to a Christless Eternity -- The
Bridge Is Out.
Does it beat your Imagination that in a Nation of Vietnam with a population of over 90.4 million people, 91% does not believe that God exists? Only fools believe such. But must we call them fools? What can we do about this deplorable scenario? Hell has opened its mouth wide and many are speeding into it?
- Where are the men and the women who will stand in the middle
of the road and forbid people to perish?
- Where are those who will stand in the gap, on the streets,
the highways and the byways to forbid multitudes from going to such a horrible place?
- Where are those who shall sell their car and empty their
bank account for the sake of the gospel?
Learning To Make
Spiritual Sacrifices That Truly Pleases God.
Today we are living as people who are no longer pilgrims,
living and acting like permanent landlords on Earth. I still remember the early
Apostles; they died for the sake of the gospel except John whom died naturally.
This people hated and deserted their lives for gospel sake.
I still remember the early missionary who came to West
African because of souls. Just imagine a white man coming to Nigerian and other
African countries when there was no electricity because of souls. At that time,
that little insect called mosquito fought grossly against the gospel when
malaria was been dreaded as HIV during that period because it was incurable.
But look at what happened, yet the more they died, the more
they came. They said, “If we perish we perish West Africa must received the
gospel” That was reason why you received this gospel. Today majority of you
find it so difficult to preach, sponsor or advertised the gospel, you find it so hard to sponsor and
promotes the gospel.
Oh let me not eat and satisfy until I get souls for my God.
Let me not struggle and competes for church positions and leadership until I
burnt-out and reach out for souls for my God. As I pass through the streets of
major cities I get challenges.
You will behold the best billboard, gorgeously
decorated with flourishing light but when I look up, I behold Rothmans (Cigarettes), when I
look up again I see Benson & hedges. Imagine, people spending millions of dollars to advertised
poison.
What are we doing? Where are we in the purpose of the Almighty God? I
have a suggestion if it is possible. I wish every Christian could go to Hell
fire and spend one hour. If every Christian could go to Hell and spend one hour
we will come out and change our attitude toward evangelism.
Apostle Paul said, (Romans 9:3) I wish am cast away and rejected so that
my people Israel would be save” A day shall comes when every other adverts shall
ceased. Now is time to advertised the Gospel. God has called us as an
advertiser of the gospel.
Today the world is technically getting advance, we
are supposed to make use of this advancement for the advertisement of the
kingdom of God. The Lord has given us a great commission, to go into all the world to preach the gospel to every creature, (Mark 16:15). This great commission is also known as "Global Mission’s Outreaches And World Evangelizations".
Because the purpose of God is that this gospel which make a
sinner to become saints, a criminal to become a Christian, the gospel that
delivered you should reach out to other people. Let me ask "Are you
prepared to die now? If you go to Heaven will you regret?
I mean now-NOW! What have you really achieved? What have you
done? Imagine a man called John G Lake. John Graham Lake came to South African
and spent only 5 years an insurance man, yet under 5 years he has 1250 preachers,
625 congregations and 100,000 converts just under 5 years.
These are the kind
of people you want to go to Heaven and sit down with and received rewards, who spent their money and burnt out for souls. John G lake will received and you will receive, Peter and
Paul will receive and you will receive and you say you are going to Heaven. My
friend rewards shall be there.
You know, there are two members in every church.
- Executive Observers and
- Participants.
You watch others spend their money to advertise and promote
the gospel and you sit behind gazing at them. If some people will use petro
Dollar to propagate a Islamist religion of a founder that is still in the
grave. Oh my God!, why can’t I bring out? Where are the men who can sell their
cars because of evangelism?
Where are women who can close their bank account because of
value for souls? Today is the day we should burnt out and tells the world that
Jesus died for the sinful ones. Do you know what you have been missing all this
while? -- The soul winner’s joy. Moreover nothing can take the place of this joy,
nothing!
How do you feel my brothers and sisters? You are in the
church clapping and relaxing while your friends are on their express road to
Hell. Look at your neighbors on their express road to Hell and you are there
relaxing. What about that your former sin partners, what have you done in order
to get the gospel across to them?
Look at you a Managing Director, CEO; the people working
under you don’t even know the worth of the gospel. Your colleagues and business
partners they don’t know the danger of serving God under his anger. They have
not seen the light of Jesus and you still snoring. My dear friends, there is no
more time. In eternity someone might says “You didn’t tell me” This is the time
of telling them by sponsoring the gospel”
By the way my friends, why must you keep quiet until your
relation go to hell? Until your friends, your family members, your village,
your community perished in Hell? What have you done Moreover it’s not in your
hand to convert but do what you should do, then the Holy Spirit will do the
conviction.
This is the day of good news and the day of good news has an
expiring date because a day shall comes when people will no longer preach. When
I remember the vanity of this world, people touch these things. Look at
Solomon, he touch money, women, wealth and ruler ship but at the end, he says,
Vanity upon vanity all is vanities.
Ecclesiastes 1:14 "I have seen all the works that are
done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit" If a man who touches all this things calls it vanities, why
must not we come out of vanity and face reality because the only thing that is
valuable is spirituality.
Why can’t you support in promotion of this gospel in order
to tell people that this world is vanity because someday you will die and you will not go with
any wealth but with only empty handed. According to statistics everyday about 345,000 people are
born.
Also everyday about 146,000-153,000 people died, just as you are reading
this message some people are dying all over the globe and speeding up to Hell and at the end of
everyday 146,000 people will died. Whose turns will be the next to die?
You don’t know because it could be your neighbor? It could
be that man in same car, airplane, train or office with you. It could be that
person travelling with you. It could be that your business partner with you. It
could be that person selling in same market with you.
The harvest is ripe but
the laborers are few in number and it high time you sit-up and join in the new
way of revival we are longing by sponsoring the gospel.
There are many things you can do for this Gospel of the Kingdom of God to reach them. This great commission, the mission work is indeed labor intensive, time consuming and capital intensive...but it is Heaven advancing!
It requires serious finances but when we talk about money or Giving for God's work, it's at this point we will know those that truly love the Lord and have compassion of Christ for the lost in the world. If you say that you love the Lord with all your heart, soul, spirit and body, then you must prove it to the Lord by giving even sacrificially to him for the advancement of his work here on earth.
For example, you can give money to a beggar without loving him but you can't say you love your spouse without giving him or her something special from time to time because giving is a practical language of love!
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