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CONCERN FOR THE LOST 

FATHER, as You impress Your attributes on me and I begin to act like Your Son, more and more am I concerned about ones who don’t know You.  For me more and more Christlikeness is a slow process but it is progress nonetheless.

“I know what the gospel can do in people’s lives if they would believe the fullness of it, because I see what it is doing in me and in others.  Therefore, I have increasing boldness to speak the whole gospel to others, even amid opposition” Milton Vincent (ref#60, p51).

“The gospel give me boldness…by banishing my greatest fear…Living in the daily relief of…fear frees me up to…put…especially the fear of man, into perspective” Milton Vincent (ref#60, p50-51).

Will Metzger, in his book, Tell the Truth, sites Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ principles for evangelism:

“1.       The supreme objects of the work of evangelism is to glorify God, not to save souls.

2.        The only power that can do this work is the Holy Spirit, not our own strength.

3.        The one and only medium through which the Spirit works is the Scriptures; therefore, we ‘reason out of the Scriptures’ like Paul did” Will Metzger (ref#79, p30).

FATHER, You talk about no other subject in Your Word more than “evangelism.”  May I find such joy as JESUS in going about sharing You with others.

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DISCERNMENT

 “1    The Holy Ghost in Scripture saith
Expressly, in one part,
Speaking by Peter’s mouth, “By faith
God purifies the heart.”

2    Now, what in holy writ he says,
In part or through the whole,
The self-same truths, by various ways,
He teaches in the soul.

3    Experience likewise tells us this;
Before the Saviour’s blood
Has washed us clean, and made our peace,
We can do nothing good.

4    [But here, my friends, the danger lies;
Errors of different kind
Will still creep in, which devils devise
To cheat the human mind.

5    “I want no work within,” says one;
“’Tis all in Christ the Head;”
Thus, careless, he goes blindly on,
And trusts a faith that’s dead.

6    “’Tis dangerous,” another cries,
“To trust to faith alone;
Christ’s righteousness will not suffice
Except I add my own.”

7    Thus he, that he may something do,
To shun the impending curse,
Upon the old will patch the new,
And make the rent still worse.

8    Others affirm, “The Spirit of God
To true believers given,
Makes all their thoughts and acts so good,
They’re always fit for heaven.”

9    The babe of Christ, at hearing this,
Is filled with anxious fear;
Conscience condemns, corruptions rise,
And drive him near despair.

10    These trials weaklings suffer here;
Censure and scorn without;
And from within, what’s worse to bear,
Despondency and doubt.

11    But, gracious Lord, who once didst feel
What weakness is and fears,
Who gott’st thy victory over hell
With groans, and cries, and tears;

12    Do thou direct our feeble hearts
To trust thee for the whole;
The work of grace in all its parts
Accomplish in the soul.

13    Thy Holy Spirit into us breathe;
A perfect Saviour prove;
Lord, give us faith, and let that faith
Work all thy will by love.]” J. Hart (ref#224).