THINK ABOUT IT            6-9-25

THINK ABOUT IT              6-9-25

“I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:”Romans‬ ‭9‬:‭1‬-‭3‬ ‭

After reading those words you don’t have to wonder what made Paul the great man he was. He was willing to go to any length and make any sacrifice to bring people to Christ. It was the was the same with other great servants of Christ. Consider these quotes:

David Brainerd, one of the most celebrated Christian missionaries, was labouring among the poor American Indians on the banks of the Delaware River, and he once said these words: “I care not where I live, or what hardships I go through, so that I can but gain souls to Christ. While I am asleep I dream of these things. As soon as I awake the first thing that is on my mind is this great work. All my desire is the conversion of sinners, and all my hope is in God”. 

Listen to Whitefield: “Oh Lord, give me souls or take my soul!”. 

Praying Hyde, missionary to India: “Father, give me souls or I die”. 

John Henry Jowett, that great preacher, said these words concerning passion for souls, it sums up what we have read in verses 1, 2 and 3 of Romans 9. Listen to it carefully, and if you are concerned about your lost passion for lost souls, listen to it and put it into practice: “We can never heal the needs we do not feel. Tearless hearts can never be heralds of the passion. We must pity if we would redeem; we must believe if we would be ministers of the saving blood. The disciple’s prayer must be stricken with much crying and many tears. The ministers of Calvary must supplicate in bloody sweat, and their intercession must often touch the point of agony. True intercession is sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice”. Think about it! – HDS

David Stone  

Lakeway Baptist Church  

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