146. WITNESSING
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How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth Salvation (Isa.52:7).
1. Jesus is our message!
2. You can deny your faith just by keeping your mouth shut.
3. A witness is the connector between God and the people!
4. We, God's victorious army, will lay at the feet of the conquering King the souls we have recaptured from the Enemy!
5. The more I get to know Him
The more I find Him true,
The more I long that others
Should be led to know Him too!
6. Souls, not diamonds, are forever!
7. The World knows enough Hell! Let's show them a little more Heaven.
8. There's nothing like personal visitation to do the job! Jesus even left the 99 to search for the one lost sheep!
9. The Lord has no hands but your hands and He has no lips but yours and He has no eyes but your eyes and no body but your own, for you are His Body, His Bride for whom He died that you might live and love others as He did.
10. The most important job for everybody right after they get saved and filled with the Spirit, is to get out witnessing, litnessing and winning others.
11. Communication is such a vastly important part of our work. In fact, almost our entire job and our whole ministry is communication. Almost everything is communication, from the very beginning of the Bible to the end. From the beginning of our lives to the end, it's all involved with communication.--The Lord's communication with man and man's communication with Him.--His giving the message, the Word, and man receiving it!
12. What greater witness can you give than to both live and die for Jesus?
13. You can't always win but you can always witness.
14. Let's minister and witness where every word is going to really count!
15. Go to the cities and the leaders of tomorrow! Win them, and they'll lead their own people.
16. Reap'm! Pile'm! Stack'm! Get'm in the Barn of God's Great Kingdom! Let's go, Reapers!
17. The purpose of miracles is to attract attention to the message and help people to receive it.
18. You owe it to the sinner, in order to try to win him, to tell him he's a sinner!--Or how's he ever going to know he needs a Saviour?
19. Witnessing is salesmanship.
20. If a man has religion, he must either give it up or give it away.
21. Sometimes in order to get to witness, you have to be witnessed unto by the Devil! You have to pay for preaching by listening to their tirades!
22. Your eyes are your most potent witnesses of God's love!
23. There is power in a look!
24. Are you Old Testament Christians or New Testament Christians? In other words, is your religion manifested by your buildings and ceremonies or by your lives, evangelism and soul-winning!
25. Forget about trying to convince people who don't want to be convinced! If they reject the Truth, forget them!
26. Don't try to cram the truth down the throats of those who don't want it!
27. You're a powerhouse, you're a generator of the Spirit of God! Think what an effect you have on people!
28. When it's dark, light is very penetrating!
29. If people won't listen, you just keep on going. You really don't have any responsibility to tell them more than once.
30. Those convinced against their will are going to be of the same opinion still! Their minds are made up, don't confuse them with the facts!
31. Whoever tells the World the Gospel, makes of some, better people, and of others, worse, because they reject it.
32. Send out those fiery hot flames and darts of love, arrows of the Spirit to set'm on fire for God!
33. We belong to no man but Jesus, but we can become all things to all men. We have no creed but love, but we can adapt ourselves to all creeds.
34. Go where the people invite you, go where the hungry sheep are, go where you are received.
35. The World has to be re-evangelised in every generation.
36. We are the most active, the most effective and the most fruitful witnesses on God's Earth today!
37. Are you faithfully mining and refining God's good gold of His Words and passing them on to the people?
38. The false cults and false prophets on the mission field spend more time trying to convert to their split-off doctrines those who are already Christians, than trying to convert the heathen to Christ!
39. The only love of God they can see is the love they see in you.
40. Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice when some have never even heard it once?
41. Your only excuse for living is to give life to the lost by His Letters.
42. The best cure for personal problems is the battle front!
43. With His Word and lambs in our hearts and hands we can win the World for Jesus!
44. Going is not an option!--It's a commandment!
45. We must give the message of God as it is, to whomever He wants to hear it.
46. All work and no play makes a very dull student, and an even worse witness.
47. Be a witness, even if not a winner.
48. Our greatest tools are radio, lit and FFing!
49. You cannot be a light without being seen.
50. Winning souls is like farming; we spend a lot of time plowing and sowing and watering with our tears and prayers!
51. In winning people you have to inspire their faith in you before they can believe in God. You are their link with God.
52. Sometimes all some people need is for somebody to listen, and that's half the job of being a witness!
53. Solving the problems of the youth with Jesus is our business.
54. Let's set the World afire for God and enlighten the hearts of all men everywhere!
55. It's pretty hard to talk about Jesus to a man with an empty stomach.
56. Funerals are a tremendous chance to witness to the unsaved.
57. Failing to stand up for the Truth is denying the Lord.
58. Street ministry with no follow-up is like scattering seeds without plowing, fertilising, watering or reaping!
59. We give people what they need physically, in order to show them God's love spiritually.
60. If you're too busy to heed the cry of those in need, you're busier than God Himself!
61. You can always drop a little love into the hearts of those on your way, and they will know that God has loved them that day.
62. We believe in a social gospel as well as a personal gospel!
63. Ignore ridiculous foolish questions and preach love.
64. Never underestimate the power of personal witnessing to not only win souls, but inspire and encourage your own heart, set you on fire and keep you alive spiritually as you battle right on the front line in the Hellholes of the Devil to rescue lost sheep!
65. Get a decision, nail'm down, put in a hook, test them on everything, draw the net, give the invitation, express the need!--You've got to make people answer and do something to cause them to move!
66. You can give Him away as much as you want, but never get rid of Him!
67. You can hide your witness in an envelope! You can mail it undercover!
68. Your job is to tell them the truth and to show them love! Their job is to receive it and believe it.
69. It's better for the Gospel to be bad news for some people than no news at all!
70. The quicker we can get our job done the quicker the Lord can judge our enemies for rejecting Him and us and His Truth!
71. Our religion is love!
72. Plant your love and yourself and your heart in them, like Jesus plants Himself in us!
73. C'mon, let's go! Go forth bearing precious seed and plant it in fertile fruitful receptive ground, young and eager for it who will burst with offspring for Jesus!
74. Witnessing is martyrdom, and if you are a faithful witness unto God you will be a daily martyr for Jesus Christ!
75. We preach a lot of love, and we give a lot of love, and we live for love and we'll die for love!
76. You're causing hearts everywhere throughout the World to turn to gold--the Lord's golden glow of happiness and satisfaction!
77. It's the witness the Devil fears.
78. Witnessing is never wasted.
79. Witnessing in itself is a form of reward and blessing and encouragement, and it inspires our own hearts as we watch the Lord work.
80. I admire more than anyone else in the whole Family those who are pounding the pavements daily with the literature and begging people to receive the Truth!--Battlefront Warriors!
81. He gives you the message of the Gospel free, but you have to work hard at getting it out.
82. Paul said, "Preach the Word!" (2Tim.4:2) and I'm not much interested in anything that doesn't preach the Word or preach Christ!
83. If you can show people that love exists, then they can believe that God exists!
84. Go to the cities!--Where most of "all the World" are!
85. Much as we hate'm, it's the cities where you've got to do most of your preaching.
86. The primary and first ministry of all of us is reaching the lost and reaching the people who need the Message!
87. You always win if you witness and you love!
88. Skillfully wield the weapon of the Word so that they know you know what you're talking about, and once you've given them the Word, your job is done.
89. Soft words win hard hearts.
90. Very few people are won instantly, it takes a little time and persuasion for them to believe.
91. You need to find out as much as you can about a person, where he's at, and then reach him there.
92. Everybody loves a story, and life stories are more effective in witnessing than getting into theological arguments and preaching sermons.
93. The most difficult cases in the World are the moral men and the good men, because they don't even realise that they're sinners or that they need a Saviour.
94. To win souls you have to win them to yourself first and then lead them to the Lord, because it's God in you that they see!
95. You can't force results; it's God Who gives the increase. (1Co.3:7)
96. Personal witnessing is a hand-to-hand fight with the Enemy, man to man! It's a struggle, it's hard, it's a battle, but it's one of the most fruitful kinds of witnessing.
97. We're not trying to change anybody's religion, we're just lifting up Christ, that's all, we're just living examples of the Love of Jesus! What they do about it then is their business!
98. You can't compel people to receive it, you can only try to prepare the ground, soften it with your tears and your prayers and sow the seed, but it's up to God to cause it to take root!
99. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can lead people to the truth, in love, but you can't make them drink it. If they don't want it, you can't drink it for them.
100. You can win hearts with your love, but only the Spirit of God can win souls.
101. If you don't speak out and witness when you should, you're literally denying the Lord by keeping your mouth shut.
102. You don't have to have a special revelation to go out and witness--you've got to have a special revelation to stay home!
103. Jesus, Paul, and the early Apostles all put their major emphasis on and had their greatest successes in the major centers of population, the big cities, from which their converts there reached the surrounding territory themselves!
104. The truth is bound to bring division sooner or later! But you don't have to go deliberately out of your way to try to cause division as soon as possible!
105. In all of your witnessing, dwell on the positive, not the negative!
106. Your own personal testimony is the most effective message you have!
107. Videos are a weapon, a gun, an offer they can hardly refuse and certainly can't refute! There is the vivid living colour and sound, proof of the results!
108. I consider video to be one of our most powerful atomic weapons with the Family and outsiders!
109. We've got the greatest products in the World--We should be the greatest salesmen!
110. We just cannot hide our witness entirely. If we witness, we are bound to get some opposition and some persecution, but we have to go ahead and shine for Jesus anyhow, live or die!
111. Not everyone can understand strong doctrine, but everyone understands love.
112. Stop wasting your time, effort and God's money and lit on unseen unknown unreceptive unresponsive unfruitful targets! God help us to be more sensible, economical, labour saving, efficient, effective and fruitful!
113. Sow good ground, fish fruitful waters and hunt likely game! Stop wasteful, indiscriminate, blind, lazy sowing on sterile ground, fishing in polluted waters and hunting dead ducks! Choose your targets and hit'm!--Missing the mark is sin!
114. Litnessing should mean getting out the Message, not just getting in the money!
115. The greater the darkness, the brighter the light!
116. The Devil fights witnessing worse than anything in the World!
117. Keep the Gospel simple!
118. Even if we never win a soul, we're still winning because we're witnessing!
119. We just witness--His Spirit has to win them!
120. The most Gospel-neglected class are the rich and intellectuals, because the missionaries are afraid of them.
121. The Good Samaritan was really the Lord, and the innkeeper is His steward, like you or me!--And whatever we spend to rescue these people and save souls, he will more than repay!
122. He won't bless any other area if you neglect the number one job you have to do, preach the Word, and number two, try to win those to whom you preach it.
123. The meek are our target--for our witnessing and litnessing!
124. Our major job is to stand up as God's strongest witnesses before both the Church and the whole World.
125. Our job is to witness, win souls, and take care of the results!
126. We are ministers both unto salvation and condemnation, depending on how they receive our witness!
127. Don't you like to love souls into the Kingdom?--Witnessing is lovemaking!
128. If the sheep is lost out on the mountain, you don't sit around in the sheepfold singing songs, hoping he'll hear you and come home--you go out on the mountain and find him!
129. No farmer is going to sit around in the barn and wait for the crop to walk in on its own two feet--he has to go out there in the field where it is and harvest it and bring it in!
130. These souls are very precious, they're very fragile and they're very delicate, tender and important, so let's be awful careful that we don't disappoint them and we don't disappoint the Lord.--That our love doesn't fail.
131. We don't have to wonder where we're going to go from here--we've gone! We've done it!--Into all the World to preach the Gospel to every creature!
132. Listening is half the job of being a witness!
133. Just harp on a verse or two until he's got `em so memorised he can't forget `em.
134. You've gotta be a baby!--And babies don't waste most of their time arguing over theoretical theological doctrinal shibboleths!
135. You first have to show them that they're a sinner before you can convince them that they need a Saviour.
136. Seek out the hungry sheep who gobble it up and beg for more!
137. Jesus walked miles out of His way in the heat of the day to love and win one wicked woman at a well!
138. Stay on the main line!--Loving God and your neighbour is the solution to everything.
139. You should enjoy witnessing in the spirit as much as you do wooing in the physical!
140. Another year is dawning, Dear Master let it be
In witness and in winning, Another year with Thee.
141. You always win if you witness. You never lose if you love.
142. God's love is never lost. It always has its effect in some way.
143. If you want to change the World
Plant your loving seeds
Go ye into all the World
And give to those in need.
144. Any price is not too big to pay to save a soul!
145. Hold the lighted lamp on high
Be a star in someone's sky
He may live who else would die.
146. When it becomes extremely difficult or virtually impossible for you to witness, it's time to go someplace else where there's more freedom and liberty to do so.
147. You have the Answer: They need the Lord, and you have Him!
148. Show them that you know more than the newspaper.
149. In witnessing, it all depends on the situation and the case: If it's your last chance, hard-sell! If you're pretty sure you'll see'm again, soft-sell, go slow. But if they're ready, sock it to'm!
150. So you can't win `em all!--But God'll give you enough to keep you encouraged, so you won't quit!
151. If you want your neighbour to know what the Lord will do for him, let him see and hear what He has done for you.
152. We are in the business of publicising the Gospel, and we will do it any way we can!
153. Never think that just because you're out alone some place or in some lonely prison cell, that God can't work or use you, because He may be preparing you for something in which you'll be a greater witness than you ever dreamed!
154. There's no such thing as "Bad" publicity!--Whatever God wants to use to keep us in the news and His Message before the public is His business!--He knows best!
155. You can't very well tell people that you love them if you don't make the slightest attempt to learn their language, their customs, culture, history, religion, characteristics, nationality traits, etc., which are all a part of them.
156. I do not believe that we have to wait to witness until we know everything.
157. A soldier may not understand how a bullet is made, but to do the job, all he needs to learn is how to fire it.
158. Our preaching sends some people to Heaven and others to Hell!
159. Leave something up to the Holy Spirit! It's just your job to be a witness.
160. Break the box and let `em roll!
Give enough to fill their soul!
Make of them a holey hole!
Spill the gold and let it roll!
161. Get those Homes ready and wit with lit to every nit-wit in the pit--Till the whole World's lit with the Holy Writ! Git! Don't sit! Make each bit fit in every kit, and don't you quit till you make a hit mit every tit!
162. Give `em your own testimony! If they won't believe that, they won't believe anything!
163. We cannot stop saving souls just because some people don't like the way we do it!
164. A ray of sunshine is even more beautiful in the midst of rain!
165. I'd rather die alone as a witness in the jaws of the lions in the arena than of old age in the mocking crowd of the grandstands!
166. What everybody needs is love! If they're not going to find it in you, where are they going to find it?
167. Burn free, beloved, burn free! You shall set the World on fire for His Kingdom!
168. The smaller you are, the clearer they can see Him!
169. Don't ever think because there's so much darkness that it's no use to have such a small light, because even one candle can be seen a mile away when it's dark!
170. Christ alone can save this World, but Christ can't save this World alone!
171. You can even witness by your look, your smile, your spirit, your prayer--even without a word!
172. The business we're in is moving people--making them mad, sad or glad!
173. If you can show people that Love exists, then they can believe God exists, because God is Love!
174. Watch for the worthy and wait for the witness.
175. It's never going to become totally impossible to preach the Gospel.
176. I can give them grace and the mercy of God that Jesus gives me to love them with, to help to save them.
177. Your greatest witness is love, and the eyes are the first to show it.
178. With the Lord, you can get through to people's spirits immediately.
179. It's a blitzkrieg of the Spirit!--A lightning war of the Spirit for the souls of men!
180. Get the Words that work to the World by the millions for the billions!
181. Witnessing's more important than winning!
182. Only His Spirit can win. We can only witness!
183. In witnessing, as in all salesmanship, see things from the other person's point of view and talk in terms of his wants, needs and desires.
184. In witnessing, like any salesmanship, find out what people want, and help them to get it. That's the one big secret of selling anything.
185. Hang on Heaven! Here we come!
No wait a bit!--We've missed someone!
186. Be as ready as you can, to save as many as you can, with as much love as you can, so we can all be ready.
187. If you win one soul and each six months win one more,
And if each won soul would yearly win two more,
In only 16 years there would be no more!
All 3 billion people would be through the Door!
188. People are our business! We're in the business of building people, and people are our main attraction!
189. It's not our business to question God as to what the effect may be of His Message.
190. That's the name they won the World in--Jesus!--And that's the only name we'll win it in too--Jesus!
191. Drop that little seed of the truth of God's Word into that empty hole of an empty heart, then cover it up with the loving warmth of God's love, trusting God's Spirit to bring forth the miracle of new life!
192. Your love, like God's Word, is going to accomplish its purpose whether they receive it or reject it.
193. The meaning of existence is to convey love to the people and to show love to the World!
194. Ministering to their physical needs was something that Jesus often did before he ministered to their spiritual needs.
195. You want to win them to Christ, but that's really the work of the Holy Spirit.
196. "Behold, I will hold thee accountable for every one that is lost and every one that dieth in darkness, if thou dost withhold the water and the bread of life which I have given."
197. If you are not faithful in pouring out the water of the Word, God can dry up all the springs of your sustenance and starve you as you are starving others! You cannot reap unless you sow!
198. A river with no outlet becomes a Dead Sea, and if you just keep drinking it in and not giving it out, you are going to stagnate, dry up and the Devil will blow you away!
199. Pour more, witness more, send more, mail more and God Himself will do more than we ever dreamed!
200. Lord, help us to hasten the End through proclaiming Thy truth!
201. Choose ye this day which way you'll serve!--Go public and blow it!--Or stay personal and sow it!--And really reap real disciples who'll carry on till Jesus comes!
202. Do your best to reach the best who can do their best to reach the rest!
203. The poor ye have always with you and for you.
204. Communication is the name of the game. The Word is our work, so use it in any form that you find most useful and helpful and encouraging.
205. This is our last chance to give an awful lot of people their last chance, who may not have another chance if we don't reach'm now!
206. That's part of our job--to make people make a decision!
207. They will never be able to stop personal individual one-on-one witnessing and soul-winning, and God has said so! "They Can't Stop Our Rain!"
208. I am opposed to mass evangelism! I don't like mass evangelism! I'm against mass evangelism! I don't believe in mass evangelism! I fight mass evangelism! It's ineffective, inefficient, unfruitful and dangerous!--Except some places.
209. The only really safe, sound, permanent, effective, efficient and fruitful evangelism, is personal evangelism!
210. Our meetings ought to be a powerhouse of Holy Ghost spiritual power and conviction and singing and testimonies and message--a Gospel evangelistic message that socks it to'm with evangelistic fervour and power and fire and inspiration!
211. We preach the most important doctrines of all--Jesus and His Love and His Salvation!
212. I won a lot of people to the Lord with only John 3:16.
213. You must pin their faith in the Word, because you can be here today and gone tomorrow.
214. You can't win'm all, but those you do are worth it all!
215. "Even the excreta of his vomit, and the tears of his eyes, and the offal of his bowels, and the piss of his penis, can give life unto them which are athirst, and which do hunger and long for life, that which thou dost eschew! Even these droplets in the dust shall bring life into them which are dying! If then these which are leprous nigh unto death can drink of his piss and eat of his dung, and anoint their eyes with eye salve made of his spittle, how much more shouldst thou, O foolish ones, render unto them the pure waters of life which flow from his mouth, and the bread which strengtheneth from his tongue!"
216. "Hear ye the Words I have given thy father David. For they are spirit and they are life that set they spirit free, for which they hunger, and oh how they thirst for that which thou hast!"
217. "Would that they might know the love of thy father, and would that they would drink of the words of his bosom that their thirst might be slaked and content!"
218. "They long for thee, and they search after thee, and they would follow thee if they could but find thee!"
219. "Behold, I see millions--10 thousand times 10 thousand, and thousands of thousands, who hunger for thy words, who thirst to drink after thee, who hunger to feed of this living bread, but thou givest it not unto them because of thy little faith!"
220. "Lovest thou the kisses of David? Indeed, they are without number and he giveth to thee without measure, but thou withholdest them from thy sheep!"
221. "Thou shalt flood the World with thy doctrine!"
222. "You see how you must give out to make room for more?--Or thou shalt perish from glutting, and thy presses shall burst with new wine! For thou hast not given that which thou hadst, so how can I give more unto thee?"
223. "Cast thy bread upon the waters! Cast forth thy bread upon the fountains! Cast thy bread unto the hungry, and behold, it shall return unto thee in plenteous bounty, more than thy wildest dreams--more than thy heart could desire!"
224. "Open thou thy lips, and loosen thy tongue, and loosen thy purse, that thou mayest give unto them that have need of thee, in like measure as He has given unto thee!"
225. "Oh, so few have so much love for the Children of David to take half their life and give to those who never hear, like Pandita!"
226. "How many more will die without the words of their father? How many will die without the words of their father? How many will ye let die without the words of their father? Behold, how many will die without the words of their father!--And yet no man, no man careth for their soul! They wait to be kissed of My Spirit, and they wait for the words of My David that shall interpret it for them."
227. These who are responsive to your look of love and whose spirits leap out of their eyes to embrace you are already Children of God in God's mind!
228. God's work always has room for salesmen--in fact, that's what we all are, salesmen for the Gospel!
229. John 3:16 was God's part--1John 3:16 is ours!
230. One man's meat is another man's poison.
231. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. (Mk.12:34)
232. There are three things to aim at in speaking: First to get into your subject, then to get your subject into your self, and lastly, to get your subject into your hearers.
233. When our heart is afire, some sparks will fly out your mouth.
234. Every time you open your mouth, you let people look into your life.
235. A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. Pro.15:1.
236. Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Pro.26:4.
237. He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of a diplomat.
238. Almost Jesus' entire ministry was giving parables, telling stories and painting Word-pictures!
239. Good words are worth much and cost little.
240. Take a tip form Jesus, and from the Apostle Paul: They often disguised the deeper and more dangerous truths of their message in stories and parables.
241. Sometimes it's too late to beat around the bush!
242. Dwell on the positive, not the negative, discuss the things you have in common, not your differences.
243. Speak to individuals, not to just masses and millions!
244. Are your spoken words just so many icicles piercing their hearts and hurting with their coldness?--Or are they globs of real clinging love, like warm flesh clinging to them, hugging, loving, kissing them, fucking them with the Word of God in the Spirit!
245. We cannot always oblige, but we can always speak obligingly.
246. It pays to advertise!
247. Television is the most intimate medium of communication ever invented outside of being in bed together!
248. Spirit, spire, inspire, inspiration and spurt all come from the same root word! The spire of His inspiration causes a spiritual orgasm which fills you with His Spirit in spurts of the seed of the Word of God, which, when conceived in responsive hearts, brings forth fruit, new-born babes into the Kingdom of God!
249. How can you judge the value of the immortal soul? God valued it so highly that He gave His Own Son to redeem it!
250. Sometimes, all some people need is for somebody to listen, and that's half the job of being a witness! Let's not fail them in showing them we're willing to listen to their troubles, and to give them some personal word of comfort or counsel to let them know we're thinking of them individually, and not just another name, number, etc.
251. If you win souls personally in public, for God's sake at least ask them for their name and address so you can feed them through the mail later!
252. Unlike most preachers who preach for pay, we pay to preach! We give away thousands of dollars' worth of free lit, radio tapes, MWM gifts, labour and love every month!
253. Soul winning is not our major task! Witnessing His Wonder Working Words to the World is our major task! Witnessing is more important than winning. We'll win very few compared to the millions to whom we'll witness. But we're more responsible to give them all God's Message than we are to win them, for only His Spirit can win. We can only witness. What they do with our witness is up to them, as each must make his own decision. Even God can't win them all, but He wants to give them all a chance. We must give them that opportunity with our witness of his Wonder Working Words to the World!
254. Never underestimate the power of personal witnessing not only to win souls but to inspire and encourage your own hearts and to set you on fire and keep you alive spiritually as you battle right on the front line in some of the hell holes of the Devil to rescue some of God's sheep.
255. Do you want to work miracles? Well, get out there and God will do it! Do you want compassion for souls? Get out there face-to-face with them and face the need and God will give you the compassion.
256. Everyone you witness to, you're wooing them in the Spirit.--Wooing and loving and sowing the seed of God's Word in the Spirit.
257. We are the operators, we are the link between God and them and if we fail to pass the call on, if we fail to plug it in or we don't flip the switch, they will never get the message.
258. The mail can only go so far and then they have to have the personal touch and meet somebody face-to-face. Sooner or later they've got to have that personal touch and even more personal correspondence, individual correspondence and fellowship if we're going to really follow them up as we should and make genuine disciples of them, real Family members.
259. Our job is not done just when people are saved. We're not done until they're disciples and they are witnessing and winning souls themselves and establishing local fellowships, local clubs where they can have local fellowship with each other and help to sustain and support each other and protect and provide for each other. And of course, that, in a sense, is eventually a Family Home.
260. Shallowness, superficiality, manpleasing and hypocrisy are the only things that many know in the World, and they are so thankful for an opportunity to share their deepest thoughts and feelings or even fears.
261. It's impossible to hide the love of God and the truth of Jesus! If you have Him in your heart and you have His love you'll show it and you'll try to share with others.
262. We are literally from Heaven and we are ambassadors to this Earth! We are ambassadors to this foreign country of this World.
263. Small talk may bring big results.
264. We had better watch out if we're going to be that selfish that we don't want to bring in those dirty sinners to mix with our nice pure children, and we don't want to have the trouble of teaching and training and supporting them!
265. Back off a bit and slow down regarding some of this high exposure and excessive publicity to the wrong people. Try to quiet down, simmer down and have much less exposure and a much lower profile to try to last a little longer if possible in the more fruitful ministries of personal witnessing and litnessing and personal contact and door-to-door ministries and fellowships.
266. "Cast ye not your pearls before swine lest they trample them under their feet and rend you. Cast not that which is holy unto the dogs." (Mt.7:6)--The swine and the dogs who are our enemies, usually the self-righteous, hypocritical Scribes and the Pharisees, the same kind Jesus had to fight. But when He finally came out and openly condemned and fought them, that was the end of His public Earthly ministry.
267. Witnessing can never be totally secure. It is always risky because we have bitter enemies and the Devil hates us, so he is bound to fight us somehow sooner or later. But you have to try to exhaust all possible means and measures and ministries to make sure you have finished your job and reaped the harvest and exhausted the field and saved everybody you can and won all the disciples you possibly can and given everybody a chance before you quit.
268. I would rather have two real solid well-trained sold-out witnessing disciples in any town anywhere in the World than one radio station.
269. One live witness is better than one dead letter any day!
270. Jesus never taught the people without using pictures and illustrations, parables and stories. (Mt.13:24) Jesus was a great story teller.
271. Telling stories is a tool of teaching which helps people to learn and to remember more easily, just like your children.
272. Salesmanship is persuasion! Salesmanship is soul-winning! Salesmanship is mind-winning, heart-winning, soul-winning! Our whole job is salesmanship! "Go ye into all the World and preach the Gospel to every creature" is salesmanship! If it's not going to make any sales, if it's not going to get any results, if it's not going to win any souls, then it's no good! So let's get out there and sell!
273. No matter how sweet you are and what a sweet smile or spirit you have and how loving you are, unless you accompany your sample with a sermon, people won't know who to give the credit to and may attribute it to your good upbringing, your wonderful parents or your good church, when the credit belongs to Jesus and He should get it.
274. If you can't possibly do anything else but smile, pray that the Lord will somehow show them you care about them and that they'll think about the Lord and that He cares for them!--But although it may help and encourage them, it doesn't tell them too much about Jesus and Salvation.
275. If you have to spend hours talking to a person you certainly ought to be able to get some serious witness in, more than just a smile and a talk about trivialities.
276. The most effective, efficient and fruitful method of soul-winning is personal witnessing.--Whether to friends and acquaintances, such as workmates, schoolmates, business co-workers, whether on the street or in private FFing, whether with literature distributed by hand or by mail, whether through small meetings or whatever method possible.
277. No matter where you are, you are going to have to be a witness, sometimes in the worst and toughest and darkest places you can possibly be in!
278. High publicity mass media ministries have sacrificed personal witnessing and winning of real whole-hearted all-out disciples who are really willing to live and die for the radical message that we're supposed to preach!
279. One man's meat is another man's poison.
280. First impressions mean so much that it's very important to put almost the first and most important things first! But do wind up with something very important to leave a good taste in their mouth.
281. Today our children are probably our greatest asset, our greatest witness, our greatest proof that our system, our revolution works, and I'm sure the Devil hates our children almost more than anything or anyone else.
282. We preach Jesus!--We preach His Word, we preach His Love, we preach His Gospel, the Good News of Salvation, we preach faith in Him, we preach Him as the answer to all of our needs--physical, spiritual, mental and with hope for the future and Heaven at last!
(See also No. G, J, O, 5, 7, 51, 92, 97, 125, 154, 180, 182, 196, 208, 211, 224, 235, 241, 251, 264, 274A, 299, 306, 328, 328B, 330, 335A, 344, 527, 545, 548, 556, 557, 565, 588, 605, 617, 632, 639, 641, 649, 697, 717, 749, 750, 769, 804, 806, 834, 848, 895, 923, 927, 942, 1009, 1054, 1055, 1265, 1333, 1359, 1382, 1417, 1537, 1572, 1589, 1590, 1604, 1609, 1629.)
283. PSA.40:10 I have not hid Thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared Thy faithfulness and Thy Salvation: I have not concealed Thy lovingkindness and Thy truth from the great congregation.
284. PSA.51:13 Then will I teach transgressors Thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto Thee.
285. PSA.71:15 My mouth shall shew forth Thy righteousness and Thy Salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
286. PSA.96:3 Declare His glory among the heathen, His wonders among all people.
287. PSA.107:2 Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy.
288. PSA.119:46 I will speak of Thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.
289. PSA.126:5,6 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
290. PRO.11:30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
291. PRO.14:25 A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.
292. ISA.43:10a Ye are My witnesses, saith the Lord, and My servant whom I have chosen.
293. ISA.61:1-3 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me; because the Lord hath anointed Me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He might be glorified.
294. ISA.62:6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence.
295. JER.1:7 But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
296. EZE.34:11 For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search My sheep, and seek them out.
297. MAT.5:14-16 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
298. MAT.7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
299. MAT.9:37,38 Then saith He unto His disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth labourers into His harvest.
300. MAT.10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
301. MAT.10:27 What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
302. MAT.10:32,33 Whosoever therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in Heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in Heaven.
303. MAT.10:40 He that receiveth you receiveth Me, and he that receiveth Me receiveth Him that sent Me.
304. MAT.28:19,20 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
305. MK.16:20 And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the Word with signs following. Amen.
306. LUK.8:16 No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.
307. LUK.14:23 And the Lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that My house may be filled.
308. JOH.4:35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
309. JOH.9:25 He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.
310. JOH.10:16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
311. JOH.12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me.
312. JOH.15:16 Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in My name, He may give it you.
313. JOH.15:27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with Me from the beginning.
314. JOH.17:18 As Thou hast sent Me into the World, even so have I also sent them into the world.
315. JOH.20:21b As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.
316. JOH.21:17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because He said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto Him, Lord, Thou knowest all things; Thou knowest that I love Thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
317. ACT.5:20 Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.
318. ACT.5:42 And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.
319. ACT.8:4 Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.
320. ACT.18:5 And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.
321. ACT.20:20 And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,
322. ACT.26:22 Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come.
323. ROM.10:14,15 How then shall they call on Him in Whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in Him of Whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
324. 1CO.2:4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.
325. 1CO.3:6,7 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
326. 1CO.9:16 For though I preach the Gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the Gospel!
327. 1CO.9:22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
328. 2CO.4:5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
329. COL.1:28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.
330. 1TH.2:4-6a But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts. For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness: Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others.
331. 2TI.4:2a Preach the Word; be instant in season, out of season.
332. JAM.5:20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
333. JUD.22,23 And of some have compassion, making a difference: And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
(See also 1CO.9:19-23.)
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