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Preach The Gospel With Your Life · The Bible Bit Podcast

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  Welcome back. This is Kimmy Miller of Woman at the Well Ministries bringing
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  you another Bible bit for you to enjoy.
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  Preach the gospel with your life.
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  Today as we journey through the scriptures, we are going to examine God's command
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  to go into all the world and preach the gospel to the entire human race.
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  This command spoken by Jesus himself requires a godly life to accomplish.
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  People hear your words, but they believe your actions.
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  Mark 16, 15 says, And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world and preach
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  the gospel to every creature.
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  He didn't suggest that you preach the gospel to everyone. He said, Do it.
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  So this means everyone you come into contact with or have opportunity to do
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  so, you are to share the good news of the gospel with them.
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  When you think about the command to tell everyone about the gospel of Jesus
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  Christ, it is a sobering thought.
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  This means that you are required to tell everyone around you,
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  even those with whom you struggle to love, those you have problems getting along
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  with, and those who are mean to you, are all to be told about Jesus.
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  You aren't given the commandment to tell only those you choose to tell,
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  or only those you think deserve to be in heaven.
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  No, you are to tell everyone.
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  Jesus says, For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Romans 10.13.
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  This means that Jesus died for everyone.
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  Jesus loves everyone, and every person has the opportunity to be saved.
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  In fact, in 2 Peter 3.9 it says, The Lord is not slack concerning his promise,
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  as some men count slackness,
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  but is long-suffering to usward, not willing that any should perish,
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  but that all should come to repentance.
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  Jesus wants every person ever born to be saved.
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  Jesus isn't slow concerning his promise that he came to give us all an abundant life, John 10.10,
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  but he is patient toward every person, deeply desiring that all would come to
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  him in repentance and receive his gift of salvation, Ephesians 2.8.9,
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  thereby giving them the abundant life he promised.
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  This means that every person with whom you have influence is placed in your
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  life for you to lead them to Jesus.
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  Your witness and footsteps either lead them to Jesus for salvation or to Jesus
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  so that they may grow closer to him.
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  James 4.8 Ye are the light of the world.
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  A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.
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  Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick,
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  and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
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  Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify
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  your Father which is in heaven.
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  Matthew 5, 14-16.
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  This includes family members and friends who see you every day.
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  Oh, you may be able to put on a face or an act for those with whom you have infrequent contact.
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  But those who see you day in and day out know the real you. They see your soul
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  and your heart on full display.
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  They truly know and see the real you. What would they say about your witness?
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  Are your motives pure? Do your footsteps lead others to Jesus?
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  Are your words pleasing to Jesus? Paul tells us in Colossians 1.9 that we are
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  to be filled with the knowledge of the will of God so that we might be wise
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  and have spiritual understanding.
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  He says to fill ourselves with the knowledge of Jesus so that ye might walk
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  worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, be fruitful in every good work,
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  and increasing in the knowledge of God, strengthened with all might according
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  to his glorious power unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness.
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  Colossians 1, 10-11 Why are we to learn of God and fill ourselves with him?
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  Because we are made partakers of the inheritance of Jesus through his blood,
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  which makes us people of light, his light.
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  Colossians 1.12 It is his light within us, given to us by Jesus,
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  when we receive his free gift of salvation, Ephesians 2.8-9,
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  that causes us to be the light of the world.
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  It is this light within us that we must choose to shine round about us that leads others to Jesus.
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  You simply can't lead someone to the light if there is no light in you,
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  dispelling the darkness around you.
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  Friend, you must be born again, John 3, 7.
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  And you must shine your light because you have been delivered from the power
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  of darkness, Colossians 1, 13.
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  You have been translated into the kingdom of Jesus and redeemed through the
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  blood of his forgiveness of our sins, Colossians 1, 13-14.
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  This marvelous transformation from darkness to light compels every saved person to shone their light.
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  It equips each of us to be the light of the world and not only motivates us
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  to preach the gospel, live the gospel, and love the gospel, but it also compels us to do so.
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  The love of Jesus for us and the light of Jesus in us,
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  allows us to fulfill his commandment to go into all our world and openly speak
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  the good news of the gospel to everyone we meet, know, and to all with whom we have an opportunity.
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  Your witness speaks louder than your words. Make sure both are pointing others to Jesus.
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  Remember you are loved. Jesus loves you.
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