Reach Out to the Lost - #399 - JCSM's Weekly Devotions

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Luke 19:10 "For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost."

Matthew 28:19, 20 "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen."

Romans 1:16 "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek."

2 Timothy 1:7 "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind."

2 Timothy 4:2 "Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching."

Insight: Please reach out to the lost. Consider how the wages of sin is death. Hell is real and eternal. Remember that you have eternal life through Jesus Christ, so you should share your faith with others. We've been commanded to go and make disciples, so let's obey God and do it.

Prayer: "Dear Lord, bless us. Help us to have boldness and courage. Let us obey You and tell others about You. Remove our fears and worries. You are good and You are our God. Praise you for saving us. Remind us that You are real and so is Heaven and Hell. Motivate us to leave our comfort zone and share the gospel. Thank you for being real to us. Thank you for giving us more than we deserve. You are our great and awesome God and there is no other like You. To You be all the glory, honor, and praise. In Jesus' name, Amen."

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), was the renowned English novelist who authored the world famous novel, Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719. In volume III of A Selection from the Works of Daniel Defoe, he declared:

"In what glorious colors do the Scriptures, upon all occasions, represent these two hand-in-hand graces, faith and repentance? There is not one mention of faith in the whole Scriptures but what is recommended in some way or other to our admiration, and to our practice; it is the foundation and the top-stone of all religion, the right hand to lead , and the left hand to support, in the whole journey of the Christian, even through this world, and into the next; in a word, it is the sum and substance of the Gospel foundation." - A Selection from the Works of Daniel Defoe, Vol. III, p. 187. Stephen Abbott Northrop, D.D., A Cloud of Witnesses (Portland, Oregon: American Heritage Ministries, 1987), p. 116.

"How incongruous is it to the decoration of the government, that a man should be punished for drunkenness and set in stocks for swearing, but shall have liberty to deny the God of Heaven, and dispute against the very sum and substance of the Christian doctrine; shall banter the Scripture, and make ballads of the Pentateuch, turn all the principles of religion, the salvation of the soul, the death of our Saviour, and the revelation of the Gospel into ridicule. And shall we pretend to reformation of manners, and suppressing immoralities, while such as this is the general mixture of conversation?

"If a man talk against the government, or speak scurrilously of the King, he is led to the old Bailey, and from thence to the pillory, or whipping-post, and it should be so; but he may speak treason against the Majesty of Heaven, deny the Godhead of the Redeemer, and make a just of the Holy Ghost, and thus affront the Power we all adore, and yet with impunity." - A Selection from the Works of Daniel Defoe, Vol. III, p. 102. Stephen Abbott Northrop, D.D., A Cloud of Witnesses (Portland, Oregon: American Heritage Ministries, 1987), p. 116-117.

In his first great work, The True Born Englishman, which was a satirical poem written in 1701, Daniel Defoe quipped:

"Whenever God erects a house of prayer

The devil always builds a chapel there;

And 'twill be found, upon examination,

The latter has the largest congregation." - 1701, in his satirical poem, The True Born Englishman, Part I, Line 1. Lewis C. Henry, Best Quotations For All Occasions (Greenwich, CONN: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1961), p. 38. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 318.

Do you know how much of your sin you don't even know about? If you knew it all at once, you'd be very depressed.

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