I'm sure that most of you have heard the joke about you've never seen a U Haul behind a hearse, referring to the truth that we cannot take anything with us after we die. For those who have placed there trust in Jesus Christ for salvation, they have confessed Him as Lord and believe in their hearts that God raised Him from the dead, they never die, they just leave this earth and their fleshly body behind and go to be with the Lord in Heaven forever.
And for those believers you cannot take possessions or wealth with you true enough, but you can take souls with you! Oh what glorious reunions there will be in heaven for those who became fishers of men on earth and lived their lives in God's harvest field here on earth! Those who win souls are those who are employed by God in His Kingdom Work. "The harvesters are paid good wages, and the fruit they harvest is people brought to eternal life." John 4:36 NLT. God says His fields are white for harvest, won't you come be a harvester?
I am so thankful that our responsibility is to carry the Good News of Jesus Christ, a.k.a., the Gospel to those around us that are unsaved. We cannot save them, that is the work of the Holy Spirit of God, we don't cause them to grow, God causes the growth, all we have to do is share the Gospel, the Word of God, and the Word does the work, we are blessed to be able to share the greatest news this universe has ever or will ever hear!
Our sins have separated us from Holy God, and we cannot get to Him with good works, or morality, or religion, so Jesus came down to us on earth, in the flesh, incarnate, God/man and lived here without sin and He chose to die in our place to pay the sin debt we owed so that we could have peace with God, forgiveness of sins and spend eternity with Him!
If you are born again, sins forgiven, a child of God not by the will of man but by the will of God and you died right this second as you are reading this sentence.....how many souls will be in heaven because you were faithful to share the gospel with; those at work, to those in your own family, to the kids dance teacher, or their teacher at school, to the person who picks up your trash or cuts your hair or does your nails, or the person on the commuter train, or the person who is serving you a meal or the cashier where you buy your groceries? How many souls will be in heaven because you cared enough about them to share the gospel?
This morning in church one of our college interns gave his testimony, and wow was it ever powerful! I thanked God and gave Him glory for this young man and the way God's light shined thru him. He shared many things but one thing he shared I wrote down as soon as I heard it because it is so applicable to the Bible study course we are doing and it is the topic of this blog.
He said; "There are only two things that are eternal on this earth, God's Word and the souls of men." It has been given to us as believers by Jesus Christ Himself to be His witnesses. Our responsibility is to take God's Word and connect it to the souls of men in our sphere of influence, so that they might be saved and have eternal life with Christ.
Are there souls in heaven right now because of you? When you get to heaven will any come after you because you faithfully carried the Good News to them?
Can you imagine in your minds eye what that will be like to see one another in heaven? Oh the rejoicing there will be!!
Who shared Jesus with you? Who cared enough about you to lead you to Christ? Thank God for them right now.
Galatians 1:24 says; "And they were glorifying God because of me." Is anyone glorifying God because of you....?
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