Soul Winners ABC
By Vagn Rasmussen
Index latest
update 6. feb. 2007
Mark 16:15-20 Mission/ evangelization
Mathew 28:19-20 Mission commandment
Very few Christians have
responded to the calling of the Lord.
The vast majority of
Christians have never understood Gods plans for their lives.
They are spiritual babies
all of their lifetime.
This grieves the Spirit away
in many Christian’s lives – not to enter Gods plan – respond to Gods Calling –
and receive a vision.
True ministers have a divine
calling and a divine vision to establish their ministry.
How many of you have prayed
unto salvation with one single sinner?
How many of you will enter
heaven with empty hands?
How many have testified to
the Lord, to unsaved people?
How many Christians are
ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ? And dare not confess Christ to
unbelievers.
Heard a man pray in tears
and in great pain in the hospital, given up of doctors and given less than 14
days to live, he prayed this most sad prayer: “ Lord if you will heal me, THEN
I will go and preach your word where ever you send me.”
He died less than 14 days
after. Why? Holy Spirit grieved away long ago. Faith grieved away long time
ago!
William Booth founder of
Salvation Army, prophesied in his late years:
In the last days there will
be: Christianity
without Holy Spirit,
Salvation
without repentance,
Salvation
without conversion,
Heaven
without Hell,
Christianity
without Jesus.
To be a
soulwinner.......
To be a
successfull soulwinner you must have compassion for the lost and unsaved.
Jesus wants
to save every soul HE has created!
We can
be a soulwinner in many ways.
1.
You can intercede for salvation of unsaved people.
2. The encounter method (personal soul winning)
3. You can invite people to a powerfull Holy Ghost meeting.
4. You can send a
missionary to the missionfield with your money.
5. You can spread the
gospel in song and music.
6. You can spread
christian litteratur, tracts, books and invitation to meetings.
7. You can explain the way
of salvation to children and pray unto salvation with them
8. You can partake in open air meetings and
give the message of salvation here.
etc.
9. You can respond to Mt. 28. and Mark 16 : preach the
Gospel to all nations, even your neighbours, working mates, relatives, the
strangers among you.
The possibilities and circumstances are numerous.
Be equipped with the whole armour of God.
The whole armour of God is: Helmet of salvation,
breastplate of justice, girdle of truth, shield of faith, twoedged sword of the
Spirit, which is the word of God,feet shod with shoes of willingness to preach
the gospel of peace, always praying in the Spirit for all saints. Ephesians
6:13-18
There are three things to tell the unsaved:
a) Jesus loves
all people.
b) Jesus can
forgive all sin - if repented and confessed.
c) Jesus is
comming soon.
Speak the word of God, especially THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
Explain to him Gods love, but also His justice.
Trust the Holy Spirit to confirm what you are saying.
Testify in such a way that the unsaved sinner is under
conviction of sin.
Learn how to lead a sinner in the sinners prayer, he is
praying after you.
Let him repeat your prayer sentence by sentence.
Here is a suggestion:
Dear Lord Jesus – I come to you as I am – I repent of my
sins – I confess I am a sinner
-
Jesus I
ask forgiveness for all my sins – I ask
you save my soul – Give me your Holy Spirit to dwell in me –
-
I
surrender my life to you – I thank you for
saving my soul – I thank you for eternal life – Amen.
Important words, keywords in the sinners prayer:
repenting of sins - confession of sins.
Asking Jesus for forgivnes of all past sinns.
Asking Jesus to save his soul.
Surrender ones life to Jesus Christ as Lord.
Thanking Jesus for the salvation and eternal life .
Receive it by
faith.
THE PROCESS OF SALVATION:
1)
Conviction of sin.
2)
Confession of sin
3) Forsaking of
sin – many will confess their sinns,
but will not FORSAKE and give it up 100%.
4)
Commitment
All
stages are important or the new converted sinner will backslide very soon.
Exhort the new born believer to:
1) Give testimony
in public of the salvation, or go to someone, telling you have now become a Christian.
2) Exhort him/she
to read in the bible each and every day. Make sure they have a bible. Word of
God is the daily bread to our souls.
3) Explain the
importance of praying to Jesus every day. Prayer is to the soul what the
breathing in of fresh air is to the body.
4) To have
fellowship with other Christians at least once a week, attending church
services. Be a member of a church.
5) Join a
prayergroup/cellgroup in the middle of the week. 7 days between the sunday
meetings is a very long time for a new believer.
6)Exhort to read good Christian litteratur, eventually
give some good books or spiritfilled song cassets.
Most salvation messages are given without mentioning the
baptism in water, and rarely is the baptism in the Holy Ghost mentioned.
Most tracts, if any, do NOT mention baptism in water and
the baptism in Holy Ghost.
The Apostle Peter in adressing the unsaved crowd on the
day of Pentecost says:
(Act 2:38) And Peter said to them, Repent and be
baptized, each of you on the name of Jesus Christ to remission of sins. And you
will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 2:21 and it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord shall be saved.
Acts 4:12 ... for there is none other name under
heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
(Jesus name in hebrew is Yeshua, which means
salvation.)
Acts 16:31 .... believe in the Lord Jesus Christ ,
and you shall be saved, and your house.
Romans 10:9 ... That if you shall confess with
your mouth the Lord Jesus and shall believe in your heart that God has raised
Him from the dead, you shall be saved.
Romans 10: 10 For with the heart man believe unto
righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
John 6:37 ... and he that comes to me I will in no
wise cast out.
Romans 3:23 we have all sinned
and come short of the Glory of God.
John 3:16 for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten
son, that they that believe in Him might have eternal life.
The
importance of speaking the word of God, the Ten Commandments:
Evangelisation
1)The love, joy and peace gospel? Or - preaching the law, the ten commandments, the best way to convince of sin, righteousness and judgement!
2) Give
alter call only when sinners are convinced and do not PUSH to salvation, or you
produce backsliders while your intention is to produce disciples.
80% of
those who made commitment to Christ are backsliding because of to days wrong
preaching.
The
church is full of backsliders, because many of the backsliders left the church
in short time, but still many simply stayed in church as secret backsliders.
3) The
cross-bearing, self-denial, and holiness preaching must be accompanied by the
preaching of the LAW of God – or your hearers will still lack the KNOWLEDGE of
sin!
4) The
purpose of God’s law (TORA) is fourfold:
1) To show the
world it’s GUILT before God.
2) To give
KNOWLEDGE of sin.
3) To show the
DEPTH of our sin.
4) To be a
SCHOOLMASTER to lead us to Christ.
5)
Pushing for commitment? – Never do it!
Without
the conviction of sin is present 80 – 90% will backslide within short time!
6) It is
of uttermost importance: The law of God must be preached before every
commitment.
That is
the reason why so little fruits come out of modern evangelisation and preaching
and testifying to Jesus.
7) Proverbs
11:30 He who is wise wins souls, or he who wins souls is wise!
Charles
Finney the revivalist said: “It takes wisdom to win souls”!
8)Wrong
alter calls, that promise a happy Christian life, when people make commitment
after their FEELINGS; this kind of commitment will not last very long. Some
people seeking salvation make their commitment because of FEAR of going to
hell. This also is a commitment with the wrong motive. The only genuine and
lasting commitment is motivated by being deeply convinced of sin under strong
influence of the Holy Spirit!
Wrong
alter calls will simply get people inoculated against Christianity! The
backsliders will turn against salvation message even more hostile than before.
The 9
out of 10 conversions and commitments of to day are motivated by FEELINGS or
FEAR and NOT because of being deeply convinced of sin!
9) The
sinner must UNDERSTAND his sin, depravity, his doom, and his judgement. ONLY
the preaching of the LAW of God can show this! The Holy Ghost will always
confirm the law of God preached. Holy Ghost will not confirm mere human ideas
or human laws preached. Only God’s law is a true measure of what sin really is!
10)
Finney said: “I remark that the Law (of God) is the rule and the only just rule
by which the guilt of sin can be measured.
11)
Finney only had 20% backsliders. His preaching caused commitments that made the
converts to send their roots deep down in the word of God and they did not
backslide. Temptation, persecution and tribulation only made the new converts
GROW.
Prosperity
religion and “joy religion” conversions caused of false promises and wrong
motives make such backsliders bitter on God and men.
12) See
if the converts have fruits.
Those
who have a “false” conversion will not have much fruit. They have not entered
through the door, which is Jesus Christ.
13)
God’s law is far stricter than the human laws and standards.
God’s
laws are written in our hearts, both Jews and Gentiles know what is right or
wrong. Even primitive tribes in the deepest Africa have God’s law written in
their hearts, “You shall not kill”, “You shall not steal”.
14) If
we are serious about reaching this world for God, we MUST return to biblical
principles of evangelisation and preach and expose the LAW of GOD. Jesus came,
not to remove the Law from the New Testament Church. He came to FULFILL the
Law. The Ten Commandments are written with love letters in our born again
hearts. Jesus gave His divine nature to live in our hearts. He who has not the
Spirit of Christ does not belong to HIM. Jesus Christ lives out perfectly the
Law THROUGH US and IN US.
15) The
Law convicts of sin.
The Holy
Spirit only confirms the preaching of the Ten Commandments, God’s law and God’s
word.
Just
preaching moral standards or human rules will not be confirmed of the Holy
Spirit as to have such a deep conviction of sin, righteousness and judgement
that the commitment to Christ will be lifelong and no backsliding at all!
16) The
law produces UNDERSTANDING.
The
unawake sinner will not seek God until he understands his true condition before
his Creator. Rom.3: 11
God
wants sinners to be taught that they might understand. Mt. 28:19-20…therefore
TEACH all nations…
Hosea
4:6 My people are destroyed for the lack of KNOWLEDGE…
17) The
law exposes sin.
Mt.
5:27-28 whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has committed adultery.
Jesus
reinforces the Law, Mt.5: 18 not one jot or tittle shall in no wise pass from
the law till all be fulfilled…
18) The
law prepares the sinner, prepares him for God’s grace.
Luke
19:2 Zaccheus paid 4 times back – He had read Exodus 22:1… a stolen sheep
restored with 4 sheep…
19) The
law is a SCHOOLMASTER.
The law
will stop their mouth. After hearing the law nobody has any excuse whatsoever.
20)
Wesley preached 90% law and 10% grace.
21) If
we preach hell without preaching the law, sinners will repent and make
commitment for FEAR and not because of being convinced of sin by preaching the
law and eventually the fear-converts will backslide!
22)
There is a lot of resistance to that kind of preaching, that is to say
preaching the law and God’s full council.
Resistant
people will tell you to read Paul’s letter to the legalistic Galatians. But the
truth of the matter is, the Galatians would try to get saved through their own
deeds, keeping the law and NOT get saved through convinced of sin, repentance,
forgiveness of sin, by the cleansing blood of Jesus!
23)
Melanchton said: “But there are many who speak only of the forgiveness of sin,
but who say little or nothing of repentance. If there is no forgiveness of sin
without repentance, so also repentance cannot be understood without repentance.
Therefore, if forgiveness of sin is preached without repentance, it follows
that people imagine they have already received forgiveness of sins, and thereby
become cocksure and fearless, which is a greater sin and error than all the
error that proceeded our time.”
Brethren
we need to change our approach to sinners and bring heartfelt conviction by
using the law.
The
effect of preaching the law to sinners is highly increased by intercessory
prayer, under mighty influence of the Spirit of prayer. Romans 8:26 the Spirit
itself makes intercession for us with groaning that cannot be uttered.
Zecheriah12:
10 and I will pour upon the house of David…The Spirit of grace and of
SUPPLICATIONS and they shall look upon Me, whom they have pierced and they
shall mourn for Him….
How to
receive a mighty portion of the SPIRIT OF SUPPLICATON? The answer is very
simple, but also radical: “Full commitment, take up your cross, self-denial, clean
and holy life, compassion for lost souls, change lifestyle to fasting and
praying. Jesus fasted and prayed 40 days before He said: “The Spirit of the
Lord is upon me, because He has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor.
He has sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the
captives, and recovering the sight of the blind and to set at liberty them that
are bruised” Luke 4:18
Jesus
Christ prepared His ministry through 40 days of fasting and praying. Can we do
with anything less?
Without
the SPIRIT OF PRAYER you can do very little for the Lord. With the Spirit of
Prayer upon your life you can be a tool in the hand of the Lord for the
salvation of thousands and thousands of souls otherwise lost forever and ever.
The SPIRIT OF PRAYER is very rare to find among Christians.
24) No
anointing – no results.
If you
don’t agonize in prayer, you will agonize in preaching (It’s hard to preach
without the anointing, if you didn’t pray in the spirit’s agonizing for lost
souls.
Without
the Spirit of prayer you will accomplish very little. Labouring in the Spirit
of prayer you can accomplish the impossible.
25) Easy
altar calls – never do it!
Reports
from India tell of mass conversions, absolutely without any lasting effect.
Investigations have shown that close to 100% were backsliding. There were no
genuine conviction of sin, there were no follow up efforts at all.
26) Not
good decisions, but good conversions.
A good
decision is not sufficient and only become a “false” conversion, finally producing
bitter backsliders.
A good
conversion caused by deep conviction of sin will produce good fruitful
Christian life.
27)
Fired up - fearless preaching.
Wesley
was a preacher of righteousness. He would exalt the holiness of God, the law of
God, the justice of God, the wisdom of His requirements and the justice of His
wrath!
Then he
would turn to the sinners and tell them of their enormity of their crimes,
their open rebellion, their treason, and their anarchy.
The
power of God would descend so mightily, that it is reliably reported, on one
occasion, when the people dispersed, there were 1800 people slain to the
ground, under the Spirit, completely unconscious because they have had a
revelation of the holiness of God, and in the light of that, they had seen the
enormity of their sins!
Wesley
preached the whole council of God and God blessed the word preached with signs
following.
28)
Baptized with Fire!
Everywhere
I go I find Christians who are baptized in Holy Spirit but NOT IN THE FIRE!
Luke
3:16 …He (Jesus) shall baptize you with Holy Ghost and with Fire.
Ten
steps to conviction of sinners:
1.You
shall not have other Gods before Me.
2.You
shall not make for yourself any carved image.
3.You
shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not
hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
4.Remember
the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
5.Honour
your father and mother.
6.You
shall not murder. (Mt.5: 21-23)
7.You
shall not commit adultery. (Mt.5: 28)
8.You
shall not steal.
9.You shall
not bear false witness against you neighbour.
10.You
shall not covet.
Expose
the law, the Ten Commandments to the sinners – and the backsliders in the
church who are hiding behind their religious faces, and to the backsliders
outside the church. There are a lot of lukewarm and backslidden peoples both
inside and outside all denominations along side with nominal Christians, who
are Christians only by name; therefore they are not confessing believers!
Only the
Holy Ghost anointed preacher, evangelist, can preach this kind of message
without backfiring!
To be
useful and successful in this kind of ministry, it has to be accompanied with
much prayer, sanctification, dedication, and full commitment and humbling
before the Lord Jesus Christ.
Soul
winners focus when testifying to awakened sinners:
Exalt
God and His holiness
Preach
the law of God, the Ten Commandments exposed.
The
justice of God.
The
wisdom of God’s requirements.
The
justice of His wrath.
Turn to
the sinners:
Tell
them the enormity of their crimes,
Their
rebellion.
Their
treason.
Their
anarchy
Show the
love of Jesus Christ and point to the love of Jesus Christ and His power to
forgive sins.
Add the
Father image of God the Father, God IS love.
See if
people are convicted of sin before giving alter call.
Only the
sins repented of and confessed and forsaken, only these sins are forgiven!
An
awakened sinner who will not forsake his sins, he grieves the Holy
Spirit away and he is in great danger.
May God Almighty
bless every SOULWINNER out there. Truly there is such enormous rewards waiting
for you, however, let us not work for the reward alone, let us win souls to
please our beloved Saviour Jesus Christ and respond to His call for us to
become wise soul winners.
LTV:
(Mat
28:18) And coming up
Jesus talked with them, saying, all authority in Heaven and on earth was given
to Me.
(Mat
28:19) Then having
gone, disciple all nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of
the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
(Mat
28:20) teaching them
to observe all things, whatever I commanded you. And, behold, I am with you all
the days until the completion of the age. Amen.