Ok....sorry for the delay here in getting to post part two. I know that you all have been waiting with bated breath to read the sequel to what a missionary is looking for and laboring towards in the people that he is trying to reach. So, here we go.
Last time we said that we are looking for a Certain People....i.e., a people that God has prepared to receive the Gospel. Next according to Matthew 10:7, "And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand", we are laboring towards a Clear Proclamation. The message must be clear. We live in such a time where the message of the Gospel has been so murkied and muddled by so called churches and renegade 'preachers' that it is often difficult to give an understanding to people of what the Gospel is and why they must be born again. There is a Kingdom of heaven, of which Jesus is the King. The Kingdom of Jesus is coming to this earth, and all men must prepare to meet Jesus! Jesus the King demands subjection to His authority, and His command to prepare for the Kingdom of Heaven is to "repent and believe the Gospel" Mark 1:14-15. It is one thing to preach a clear presentation of the Gospel, but it is quite another thing to have your audience 'hear' a clear presentation of the Gospel. So many people have had a shallow experience with Charismatic religion, and actually have no idea what the Gospel is or what the Bible teaches, yet they are convinced that they are born again. One certain leader in a prominent Charismatic church was talking with one of our men this week, and actually took issue with him on the point that Jesus IS God. She had never been taught that doctrine, and couldn't believe it was actually in the Bible. It is a job that we must labor towards, to make certain that people are hearing and believing the Gospel of God, and not some devil-made, preacher-taught counterfeit.
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