Dearly Beloved, We shall be continuing in our series of EVANGELISM(ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF THE HOLY GHOST)! But this time we are in Part 3!!
Once again, using our anchor scripture which is Acts1:8-“But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth”. In this segment, we shall be discussing the fears of evangelizing to the people, the blessedness of Evangelism and how the Holy Ghost empowers us for Evangelism.
In Philip1:28- ” And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God”. According to Oxford Dictionary of Current English(THIRD EDITION), Perdition can be defined as ” A state of eternal damnation into which a sinful person who has not repented passes after death”. In the above verse we can see that the devil wants fear to be imbibed in us, so that we won’t be able to carry out our primary assignment on earth! Listen to this; Faith moves God while Fear moves the devil. Also in Job3:24-25- ” For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me”. So therefore, we can see in the above verses that all the devil do is to create fear in us thereby rendering us powerless. Fear is the bait for death. In part 1 we learnt of how the disciples where not confident of themselves until the Holy Ghost came upon them; especially peter who denied Jesus Christ three(3) times(Matt 26:69-75), but immediately the Holy Ghost came upon them it was still this same peter that denied Jesus then that first stood up to speak to the multitude(Acts2:14); what caused the transformation? The answer is simple; THE HOLY GHOST!!!!!! He brought courage, erased fear and had enormous faith to face anybody. Halleluyah!! I have the Holy Ghost, all fears has been erased!! Glory!!! Faith is your positive response to what God has provided by grace. Evangelism requires enormous faith; because it is our positive response that whoever we would minister to will receive the word and open their heart to the convicting of the Holy Ghost to what God has provided by grace which is salvation; Titus2:11-14 ” For the grace of God that bringeth salvation(total package) hath appeared to all men,
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Who gave himself to us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of goods works”. Also in Ephesians2:8-9; ” For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast”.
So we are saved by grace through faith which is the gift of God! Now, one major fear of Christians about Evangelizing is about preaching to conductors, drunkards, touts, drug addicts, and all manner of sort and they think they cannot be converted. But don’t forget that it is the Holy Ghost that convicts and not you, and we have seen those set of people give their life to Christ and some even turn pastors. Do your job and leave the rest for God to handle! I want to point out to us that do not go and preach to the opposite sex except you have an partner of the same sex that you want to minister to(Never try it, it is dangerous, both male and female, it is a ploy of the devil and it would be rather foolish if you try it! Even the bible says, wisdom is profitable to direct).
Part of the features of the Holy Ghost coming are:
1) Reaping the Kingdom harvest- Num 11:31, Acts 2:2
2) Supernatural utterance- Matt10:20, Epe6:19
3) Source of Victory, Triumph and Conquest- Jer51:20-24, Isa59:19.
The Holy Ghost is our most profitable companion and he is our God ordained helper. The Holy Ghost also does the following:
1) He directs us to ready-made souls- Matt10:20, Acts 8:29-31, Acts 16:6-8.
2)He emboldens us in ministering Christ(Acts4:13); he emboldens the anointed and he says it for free and then you become untouchable!(Acts 4:29-30)
BLESSINGS ENTITLED TO GENUINE SOUL WINNING
1) Divine Health- Pro13:7 this is the heritage. Of every faithful ambassador. Jn15:2. God makes you so fit so as to keep you so fruitful. You begin to walk under supernatural strength(Isa40:31), what you cannot do with normal strength, u begin to do with supernatural strength. Every fruitful believer is an ambassador!
2) Divine Wealth- Joshua1:8! Health is wealth, so when you become healthy, you become wealthy! Also, wealth is a blessing for every genuine soul winner when you begin to win souls for the kingdom, you automatically be on God’s pay roll and when you are on God’s pay roll, u cannot be poor!(Job22:21:30)
3) The Holy Ghost empowers the saints for exploits- Isa61:1-7, Lk4:18- he empowers us to have usual accomplishments of our endeavors. He comes to beautify destinies. The anointing raises builders from beggars. He is commander of exploits! Isa45:2.
Listen: these blessings are only entitled to ambassadors of Jesus Christ! People have been committed and had this blessings but as soon as they lost the commitment, they lost the blessings; why?????? Their case is like king saul, he was still the king and on the throne but he lost all his king ship benefits as soon as he disobeyed God, you may still be bearing the name ambassador but you may have lost the benefits that come with it ! So when things are bad, check if you are still a genuine soul winner and if you are still entitled to the benefits, if not re trace your steps and God will bless you!
HOW DOES THE HOLY GHOST EMPOWER US
1) He is the custodian of visions.Joel2:28, Jn16:12-13. Vision also is the platform for exploits. When God leads, he goes before the lead, goes with the lead and works for the lead. Jn10:4, mk16:20, 1thessa 5:4. The Holy Ghost unveils the plan of God, so we can have a walk over. Every of God’s plan is for God. Pro29:18.
2) The Holy Ghost gives us access to supernatural faith. The Holy Ghost is our spiritual rig for digging into the tins of God.(1cor2:9-10). Basically, the deeper the knowledge, the stronger our faith. Dan3:28, Heb11:33. Supernatural faith is as a result of supernatural insight. Dan6:23, 1cor12:10.
3)Providing access for us to Supernatural Insight- Dan11:32, Psa45:3-5, Isa11:1-3.
4) The holy Ghost provides Supernatural wisdom- Isa11:1-2, 1cor1:24, Pro3:19, Psa104:24, Mk6:2, Matt13:54.
Beloved, I believe I have been able to impart into you another session of teaching that has had so much impact on my life and has driven me crazy for God. I pray as you have read and continuing reading the Spirit of God will minister more to you as the bible says that the Spirit entered me as spake unto me.
As I wrap up this teaching, note that there are teachings that come with soul winning. I will be teaching under the Inspiration of the Holy Ghost about the Commitment, fervency, passion and lots more about Soul winning in part 4! You can’t just afford to miss those gracious ministrations. I am sure that this three(3) teachings has had enormous impact in your life, therefore I enjoin you not to miss the fourth (4) segment of this gracious teaching! Don’t miss it for anything. You can reach out to my blog at wordpress.com(pastor89) and get over 20 impactful teachings!!! Remain blessed!!!! Jesus is Lord!!!!!
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