Man's Love In Response To God's: Teaching The Lost
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings...
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Teaching The Lost Requires Love
Teaching The Lost Requires Love
God loved us enough to teach us.
God loved us enough to teach us.
He gave us His Word written down and manifested in the Son.
20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
Not only has God given us “His inspired/breathed out Word” () but He did it because He loves us which mean we should...
Love others enough to teach them.
Love others enough to teach them.
We should love teaching others the gospel because God loved us enough to teach us the gospel.
The gospel is spread through human teaching of the mighty Word of God.
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
15 And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
2 and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.
2 and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.
13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” 14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?
Rom 10:13-14
Therefore, the lost are only going to be saved “if” we go and teach them God’s Word.
Summery
Summery
Teaching the lost isn’t about eloquent speech or knowing everything in the Bible.
It’s about loving the lost soul enough to try and show them God’s Word.
Teaching The Lost Requires Tools
Teaching The Lost Requires Tools
We need God’s Word
We need God’s Word
Once again it doesn’t matter how sliver tonged we are because it’s all about letting God’s Word do the work.
12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
When teaching the lost it’s about “getting out of the way” and letting God talk through His Word.
This doesn’t mean we have “no influence at all.”
We should understand the Bible enough to explain it modern terms however, as Mr. Packer once wrote...
“Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms. Confusion here is fatal.”
We need God’s unadulterated Word to teach the lost.
We need our mind.
We need our mind.
We need to be able to see the opportunities around us and mentally be able to also make opportunities.
5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.
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We need our mouth.
We need our mouth.
We need to be able to communicate with people.
Obviously if you can’t speak verbally you still “metaphorically” use your mouth through your hands.
The reality is no has ever taught the gospel to anyone without communicating with them.
2 and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.
13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” 14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?
14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?
We need our feet.
We need our feet.
Feet, in that we need to be able to “go where they are.”
26 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place. 27 And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship
Summery
Summery
If we are missing any of our tools we will not be able to properly or effectively teach the lost.
It takes God’s Word, our mind, our mouth, and our feet to reach the lost…which means...
Teaching The Lost Requires Dedication
Teaching The Lost Requires Dedication
Many will never teach a lost soul the gospel.
Many will never teach a lost soul the gospel.
They simply are not dedicated to it.
It’s not that opportunities don’t arise, it’s not that they are not capable, its because it simply isn’t a high priority.
4 And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. 5 Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, 6 but when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, they withered away. 7 Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.
Mt 13:4-
Friend’s family illustration.
Man obeyed the gospel only to find out the one who raised him had already obeyed the gospel but never once taught him the gospel. He never knew she was a member of the Lord’s church and she never repented or came back.
We must be dedicated to the lost.
We must be dedicated to the lost.
One simply cannot be “Christ-like” and not strive to “seek and save the lost.”
It isn’t possible.
Dedication to teaching the lost is almost completely based on planning, very rarely will we find “spontaneous” times to teach the gospel. So how do we plan to teach the lost?
Very rarely will we find “spontaneous” times to teach the gospel.
So how do we plan to teach the lost?
First we set simple goals.
Pray everyday for someone you know well that is lost.
Make effort weekly to contact that person and invite them to services.
Ask them if they are interested in studying the Bible with you.
Second set more difficult goals.
Pray for the courage to meet someone new and get to know them.
Make effort weekly to contact that person, go to where they are.
Pray for the courage to ask them to come to services and for a Bible study.
When we look at our greatest example of dedication to the lost we need to look no further than Jesus Himself.
Whether it is Jesus boldly talking in the temple or by a well He was dedicated to the lost.
Summery
Summery
When we look at our greatest example of dedication to the lost we need to look no further than Jesus Himself.
Whether it is Jesus teaching in the temple or by a well He was dedicated to the lost.
We must fight the good fight of faith (1 Timothy 6:12
Conclusion
Conclusion
“the salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world”
Invitation
“the salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world”
John Piper, Alive to Wonder: Celebrating the Influence of C. S. Lewis (Minneapolis, MN: Desiring God, 2013).
John Piper, Alive to Wonder: Celebrating the Influence of C. S. Lewis (Minneapolis, MN: Desiring God, 2013).
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.