Teaching A Young Radical Generation - Part 2 — Joy Dawson

Radical Worship and the Cost of God's Glory

All that intense, radical, real worship, seldom experienced, there's something very special about it because as I looked around and watched and listened, I could see fervent, fervent love for Jesus. You can have worship times and it's all just lip service, or you're listening to the beat of the band, or the lyrics, sort of kind of cool, and there's no real worship.

And the devil's not in the least bit worried about that. He can say, just keep it, keep that up. But when there is an intentional, passionate, sold out, desperate love for Jesus, where you want his glory and that alone, God's impressed and the devil has a headache.

I think that's what we had here this morning. I reveled in it and was right in with it with you. I noticed that the last part was an intentional, intense cry out for the glory of God, correct? Is that right?

What were the rest of you doing? Napping. This group here thinks that's what it was. Was it? Were you intentional on wanting the glory of God? Do you want Jesus Christ, the living son of God, the creator and sustainer of the universe to be glorified more than anything else?

Do you? Okay, I'll tell you the price now. Okay, I'm reading from the extract of something I read some years ago, which has never left me and impacted me greatly and so much so that I carry it around in my briefcase everywhere I go.

I did not know that this was on the program for today. Did you guys who were close to me see me right at the very last before I got up here, going into my bag and getting out these things? That was because of what was happening as you were crying out for the glory of God.

And the Holy Spirit says to me, get that material out that you carry everywhere and tell them the price and say it smiling. Because the price is awesome. And above anything that you know or understand right now as to what you've prayed, you haven't a clue what you're in for.

Do you still want it? Yes. Okay. This is Pastor Francis Frangipane. Who knows him? Great friend of mine. Tremendous man of God. Amen? Amen. Okay. And he's writing, the year was 1973. I was pastoring a small church in Hilo, Hawaii, and had been in a month, not a week, not two weeks, not three weeks, a month of intense prayer and fasting.

It was an earnest time of drawing near to God. I think that last statement's an understatement. At the end of this time, I found myself awakened during the night by a visitation of the Lord. It was not as though I saw his features.

I saw his glory and was overwhelmed by his presence. Physically, I was like a dead man. I could not so much as move a finger. Yet spiritually, the heavens stood unveiled before me, causing my state of awareness to be heightened beyond anything I have ever known.

Like those strange creatures around God's throne, I felt like I, too, had, quote, eyes around and within. Revelation 4, 8, if you've ever wondered what all that was about. Not eyes just out there, but eyes that see in here.

I saw things about myself that only God could reveal, and I gained an understanding of Christ's expansive presence and the glory that will be revealed. Remember, this experience occurred after a prolonged time of seeking God.

How long? A month. A month. I felt close to the Lord. If someone had asked me how I was doing, I would have replied, excellent, meaning spiritually. Yet suddenly, I became aware of my true human condition.

The flaws in my life became utterly sinful. I saw sin not as something I occasionally committed, but as something I perpetually was. Looking at my heart with the eyes within, I became instantly aware of the many times I could have been more loving or kind or sensitive.

I also saw how selfish nearly all of my actions were. Yet, for all that was resident within me of unrighteousness, I felt no rebuke from the Lord, nor condemnation. The only words I heard were my own in the light of his presence.

I abhorred myself. As Job said, Job 42, 6, I abhorred myself when he saw the Lord after all that testing he'd been through, and then he saw the one who had allowed the test, and he said, I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes.

Without any buffer of self-justification or deceit, with no other person but God to whom to compare myself, I saw how far short of his glory I truly was. I knew why mankind needed the blood of Christ, and I knew that no amount of personal attainment in and of itself could ever make me like Jesus.

In italics, I understood that only Christ could live like Christ in him. God's plan was not to improve me, but to remove me so that the Son of God could live his life through me. In his indwelling would rest my hope of becoming like him.

I observed things that were intimately personal, and I also beheld events ordained for the future. In the far distant night sky, I witnessed, as it were, the most glorious heavenly procession, the blazing and holy presence I felt in my bedroom emanated from this distant passage of supernatural beings.

In the forefront were pairs of magnificent angels. They were archangels, cherubim, seraphim, thrones, and dominions, angels of every class and order. Each pair was uniquely dressed in a glorious color.

Each was radiant in a splendor all its own. About one-third of the way back, because he's looking right into a mass of humanity, angels and people, about one-third of the way back was the Lord. His glory was like the sun in the midst of beautiful, multicolored stars.

Holy Spirit, give us revelation way beyond these words. Way beyond these words, give us revelation today that we may see you in your magnificent splendor and pristine purity, unfathomable love, and your absolute justice as a God who exercises judgment.

We want to see all of you. Don't short changes and help us to be honest when we say we will pay the price because we haven't a clue what it means until it happens. But just cause us to be honest. Put the fear of the Lord upon us.

Cause us not to ask for something we're not prepared to go through with. We ask that in Jesus' name, believing. I go on reading now. Beyond Jesus were innumerable saints, but I could not clearly, could not see clearly beyond the Lord's glory.

His splendor so enveloped those following him, it was as though they had become part of his being. The glory was so intense. It was obvious that the light which illuminated the entire procession emanated from him.

I realized that the Lord was not just coming to judge the earth, but to fill the earth with his glory. I cannot tell you in words about this glory, but even though the Lord seemed quite distant, the radiance of his presence was like a living fire upon my consciousness.

The energy was almost painful. Suddenly and without warning, the procession came closer. Not just to me, now listen to this, because this was history being made, and it refers to this time now. Listen.

Suddenly, remember this was 1971, suddenly and without warning, the procession came closer. Not just to me, but I am convinced also to this whole world. In other words, there was a shift. And there's going to be another shift.

It was as though a marking time or spiritual boundary had been crossed. The instant that occurred, my spiritual consciousness became so overwhelmed by the outraying glory of Christ that I could not, no, not for another second bear the intensity of his presence.

He couldn't take it. He couldn't bear it. Not for one second. I felt as though my very existence, I have this underlined, would be consumed by the blast furnace of his radiance. We don't know Jesus yet.

We don't understand what it means to ask for his glory. The Holy Spirit has put the cry in your heart, but don't kid yourself you know the consequences. Just be honest and tell God whether you're ready and willing to endure the consequences.

This was a pastor at the end of four weeks fasting and seeking God, and he couldn't stand it. Listen to what he says. I'll read that again. I felt as though my very existence would be consumed by the blast furnace of his radiance.

In the deepest prayer I have ever uttered, my entire being begged the Lord to return me to my body. Suddenly, mercifully, I was cocooned once again in the familiar world of my senses and my bedroom. Night passed into dawn, and the sunrise was quickly overrun by the full expanse of the day.

I arose, dressed, and went outside. With each step, I pondered the vision. I guess that's all I have recorded. Have you learned anything? That wasn't much of a response. Have you learned anything? Just let's get honest.

Don't mutter to God. Speak out. What's the truth? You're not answering to me. I'm not in charge. I didn't have the faintest idea that I was going to read that today, no clue. And I have been in a month of intense seeking the face of God day after day for this day.

He was a month, and I've been a month. And I didn't have any idea. But I'm not in charge. I don't know anything more preposterous than people who are called of God to bring the Word of the Lord, to do anything else but pay whatever price God says to bring that Rhema word at that moment to the exact people.

You can go a whole lifetime and be in church and in Christian meetings and never once hear the Word of the Lord. Do you know that? I'm grateful for the pastor of this church who understands what I'm speaking about.

He nodded his head. He understands what I'm saying is truth, right, David? Pastor David, I should say. I didn't honor him because it was the right thing to do. I honor him because I love him and know him in the Lord and wanted to honor him with that extra word.

I wasn't just dotting, putting dots on I's and crossing T's. Okay, another one. You ready for another one? Do you really want another one? Good. You're going to get it, whether you wanted it or not. But it's good to hear that you wanted it.

It shows you're hungry. It shows you're serious about today, which is the most encouraging thing that could happen to me, that you are taking this as seriously as God wants you to. You're getting there anyway.

The Fear of God in Smith Wigglesworth's Prayer Life

Okay, another quote. From George Stormont's book entitled Smith Wigglesworth, A Man Who Walked with God, Tulsa, Harrison House were the publishers in 1989. We have the following account. If you think that was something, listen to this one.

In 1922, when Smith Wigglesworth, who was an evangelist, was ministering in Wellington, New Zealand, he called for a special prayer meeting with a group of 11 spiritual elders. After each of them had prayed, Wigglesworth stood to seek the Lord and the presence of God.

Did you notice they all prayed, but he sought the Lord's presence? See the difference? They just shut off their mouths, and he realized we don't know how to pray as we ought and was seeking the Lord's presence before he did a prayer.

That's a huge teaching right there. And the presence of God began to fill the room. Soon, the glory of God became terrible. I didn't write this. This is a report. The light became too bright, the heat too intense, the other men couldn't take it any longer, every one of them left the room, only Wigglesworth could continue in the Shekinah glory of God.

Another minister heard what had happened and determined at the next gathering, no matter how strong the presence of God became, he would stay until the end. Once again, the holy presence of God filled the room and the glory became unbearable.

Everyone left except this one leader. He would not be overcome and driven out by the manifest presence of the Lord, but it was too much. Wigglesworth was caught up in the spirit, radiant with holy fire, and even the determined minister couldn't stand the intensity.

Soon enough, he was gone too. Are you learning anything? Do you still want to sing passionately? We want the glory? Have you already been ruined for the ordinary then? Good for you. Did this help you?

What did it do for you, honey? What was the reaction to you? Just speak out of your heart. He got a greater fear of the Lord and a greater honor of his presence. All right, what happened to you, honey?

Yes? Speak out loud, please. No, no, bigger voice than that. Fear of the Lord? Yes. That's a great answer. The greater sense of the fear of the Lord. Who would say that a greater understanding of the fear of the Lord came as I read those two?

It should be 100 of the hands. Otherwise a book would have been read about you and your story, and it hasn't, so your hand should have been up. Are we getting more honest? I'll give you another go. Who of you had a far greater sense of the fear of God as I read those two of what it means to be in the glory of God?

Now we're getting more honest. God sees your heart. Don't mess around. Don't waste God's time. He sees your heart anyway. Now what she said was that she realized she couldn't will this to happen, but she could surrender.

Fabulous. What's your name, sweetheart? Stephanie? Excellent answer. Two very good answers. Okay, what about you, honey? What did it do to you? Right there. You know who I'm pointing to. Yes, you. More of the fear of the Lord?

Good. Great answer. Because there's no way you could all hear that, I will tell you what he said. In essence, he was saying greater fear of the Lord, but he sees that it's a price that is high. He sees it's beyond anything that he could understand or perhaps cope with.

Not perhaps, cope with. But he's going to keep pursuing no matter what it costs because he wants the end result to be what God wants, the display of his glory, and he's willing to pay it. Put your hand up if that's your testimony, just what he said then, because I felt that was probably what

Okay, the leaders didn't put up their hands. What's happening to you three guys? Now these are three of my best friends, so I can speak like that. They know I love them to death, so No, I gave his answer.

I worked for Did I give you a correct interpretation? I gave his answer, so you missed it. Okay. All right. What he was saying is that he realizes the fear of God was a great factor, increasing, but he realizes it's all beyond anything he knows now or has experienced or can understand.

But he, with his will, has determined, with his will, to keep pursuing God and doing the next thing that God would tell him to do, right, honey? So that he can get to where God wants him with this display of his glory no matter what the price.

Right? That's his testimony. Now, who has that testimony? Okay. Great. Okay. Now we've got the leadership on board. That's terrific. If each one of them wasn't so deeply secure in my fervent, pure love of God for them, I would never be able to do what I did.

It's just a fun thing I'm doing. And you know what? That's the greatest compliment I could pay them, that I could put them on the mat like that, because I knew they'd come right through, whatever it was.

See? I knew. I knew. I love them to death. Don't I, boys? Okay. I think we're ready for the message of the day now. Well, it's all your fault you had this fantastic thing of the glory of the Lord in your worship.

And that's what triggered all this. Where's the girl who led it? Where is she? Yeah. Are you encouraged, sweetheart? I can't hear. I'm so encouraged. You're so encouraged. Praise the Lord. So you ought to be.

That's great. Wonderful. Okay. Here comes the message of the day. Jesus, it's all about Jesus. And that's why I'm excited. It's all about Jesus. Jesus, the master soul winner. Now, I've written a book called Jesus, the Model.

It's available today. I brought copies with me. And it is at a very reduced price, just because to make it easier for you. And I trust that you will at least seek the Lord if every one of you is to get a copy, if you don't have one.

Jesus, the Model. It's how we should be living our life. Could you think of anything more important? And one of the aspects is that we're going to look at him. You know, Jesus is like an incredible diamond.

All the brilliant facets all the way around. And it's only the expert who puts that diamond under some intense light that understands and sees all the different facets. I have a beautiful diamond on my ring that my precious husband gave me 65 years ago.

He put that on my finger. He died this February. February the 24th, five months ago. To say I miss him is the understatement of the year. But I am not living in the past. I'm living in the future. He's exactly where he was meant to be right on time.

He lived a beautiful life. We had a fabulous marriage. At his memorial service, I talked about how there was one word that described our 65 years. It was the word together. We did everything together.

Everything together. We had the same interests. We had the same love for sports. We had the same love for outdoors. Everything. If two people had the same thing, we had it. It was amazing. We were put together, matched by God.

Absolutely, totally matched by God. He saw all that. We had complimentary ministries. He would come. He was 90 when he died. And two people, just before he entered heaven, who were praying for him because he was in intensive care.

Very, very ill with his heart. It was his heart finally that took him. But God used the heart to take him. God took him. God gave and God took away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. And that's my testimony.

And right at the end, I had no idea he was going to die. I just thought he'd pull through this again like he'd done many other times with his heart. And I had no previous knowledge from the Lord that he was going to die.

And as he was look, there were signs in the hospital in intensive care that he could be going. My daughter said, I think he's slipping away. That was a shock to me. And so I immediately said, Darling, leaning over to the bed, would you rather that we released you to go?

Would that be your preference? And he nodded, yes. Oh, I said, thinking of him, not me, then I will pray the prayer of relinquishment. And I said immediately, Oh, God, I relinquish my sweetheart of 65 years, my best friend, my fabulous man of God that you've given me.

I relinquish him into your hands. And I trust you to do whatever will bring the most glory to Jesus. That's all I wanted. Above the natural, intense desire for him not to die and for me to be alone. That was an unbearable thought to my flesh.

But I don't live to my flesh. I live for the glory of Jesus. And because I do, it came out at the time when I was the greatest, tested the greatest. I instinctively, that's been my whole theme. I'm living for the glory of Jesus.

I did in life. Why not in death? So I said, Father, the next move is yours. I've placed him in your hands for you to do whatever will bring the most glory to name. That means you can come in upon him and have an absolute miracle that raises him up.

No problem at all. Or if that's not what will bring the most glory, take him to be with you. I leave the decision with you. I saw him with signs slipping away more and more. So I thought, oh well, Jesus has made his decision with the Father.

And I'm going to cooperate. So to show that I meant with all my heart that I only wanted the glory of God, although my flesh was screaming the opposite. Spirit wins every time. Spirit wins every time if you're living in the realm of the Holy Spirit.

It wasn't a struggle. It was easy. I tell you, it was easy. And I placed him in God's hands and I could see slipping away. So I said to my daughter and son-in-law who were beside the bed, I said, okay, this is where we worship right now.

Join with me. We're going to sing. Focus on Jesus. I was stroking my darling husband's head like as if he was a little baby, like this, tenderly stroking his head. And the other hand I had up here. Tears were streaming down my face, which he couldn't see because his eyes were closed.

He could hear no stress or sorrow at all. And I led in singing every beautiful song that Jim and I had often sung together because we'd had hours and hours and hours in the presence of Jesus worshiping together as a way of life.

So that was by life. This is now by death. You do the same thing. Jesus, we just worship. We sang, we sang and sang and sang and sang the worship songs. And the word that came out of his mouth was amen, very clear.

And then the angels just ushered him into the presence of God. He had no pain. What a way to go. Your wife stroking your head like a baby. The three of you singing worship songs to Jesus. The very desire of his heart was to go to be with Jesus.

He'd finished, he'd run his course. Absolutely invaded that room. The place was thick with the peace of God. Two people in different parts of America, totally unknown to each other, not even friends. One was in Ohio, the other one was in California, who were praying because they knew Jim was very desperately ill and were praying.

But as they prayed, they saw visions, each of them, at exactly the same moment because they reported into me at the time that he was being taken into heaven while we were singing. Both of them had exactly the same vision.

Jim was entering into heaven and there was a great big celebration going on. Jim's coming home! And there was like a party. It was big. They were having a party in heaven. All excited. Jim's coming home.

Big celebration. And then one of them saw letters like a banner in a vision. Well done. Well done. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Have you heard of a better way to die? And my heart could have been broken into a million pieces because of my deep, deep love and the unity and the affinity and everything.

It was just together, together, together, everything, spiritually, naturally, everything. But every time I would think to cry, I thought, that will only be crying for myself. He's where he's supposed to be.

He's run his race. He's finished his course. God took him. I've got to live for the future. And why should I cry about the future? I have not cried. And nobody could have loved a man more than this woman here.

Any of you who have heard my tapes or read my books or been anywhere near me around the world have heard me honor and speak nothing but love and affection and deep appreciation. Right? All the time, you'll hear it.

Any tape you pick up, there she's raving about Jim again. That was his name. So in the natural, my heart would have been broken in a thousand pieces. It was so painful to me to even think about the day he might die that I would say to him, darling, I can't even go there in my thoughts.

I think I'll just be a basket case. Did you hear that? I'd be a basket case. Just thinking about it while you're living. So what would I be like when you die? I don't know how I could live without you.

I've not cried. I'll tell you what's happened. I've chosen to worship Jesus and not think about myself. I've put my mind on Jesus. Let me tell you. I think I've got something somewhere. Or maybe it's in tonight's message.

I make up love songs to him. Every single night before I go to sleep, I have love songs. I'm talking to Jesus. It's called pillow talk to Jesus. I sing to him, praise him, worship him. I fill the house with worship songs.

My mind is centered on the Son of God, and I worship him in spirit and in truth. And do you know what's happened? Absolutely miracle grace has come upon me. I live with the grace of God, which is to me, because of how I thought the agony it would be if I ever lost him, to me, it's as big a miracle as the parting of the Red Sea.

Do you get it? What do you learn from that? Now, come on. I'm going to ask you. You've got to be sharp, and you don't know who I'm going to ask. Pardon? Yes, make it a way of life, no matter what you're going through.

The worst thing that I said all my life that could ever happen to me would be to lose my husband, Jim. I couldn't think of anything worse than that. I thought it would be a basket case. I'm not. I've learned to focus on Jesus.

We can go through anything if we focus on him. But it's a choice. I remember one day feeling really lonely. I remember one day feeling the tears start to come. And my daughter says, Weep, Mom. It's a healing thing.

And I thought to myself, If I weep now, what am I going to get? Just my nose blocked, and I can't breathe, and it's going to be horrible because if I weep, I'm going to think all about myself and how devastated it is to be without him.

I thought, I don't have to do that to be healed. I don't have to weep to be healed. So I go, Here we go, Jesus. I sing love songs to you. So I sing to him. Are any of you old enough to ever remember the little song we used to sing, Let's talk about Jesus.

The King of kings is he. The Lord of lords supreme. Through all eternity. The way, the truth, the life, the something. What something are they? Let's talk about the way, the truth, the life, the something, the Holy Spirit.

Holy Spirit, you're in charge. Have you forgotten? Remember, I'm surrendered to you. This is your show. The way, the truth, the life, the something, the life, the door. The life, the door. You're getting there.

Okay. Come on. Do some more so I get the exact word. The way, the truth, the life, the light, the door. The life, the door. But there's one word. Where are you, Holy Spirit? Why are you not bringing that through?

I hear his answer. He's my best friend. Holy Spirit's fabulous. I heard him. I'm testing you. I know what I'm doing. You just go on. And you don't have to explain me. And I can't fail. At the right time, I'll tell it.

Oh, thank you. Okay. Okay. So, here I've made up, I thought the other day, how many words can I substitute for? Let's talk about Jesus more and more. He's this and he's the life, the door, the way, the truth, the life.

And I've got 15 more words that exactly fit that syncopation. And I sing them all out to Jesus. He's adorable. He's beautiful. He's magnificent. Fifty. And I have it on a little piece of paper. And I think it's clipped to the notes of the message I'm going to give tonight.

Anyway, do you want to be Jesus' lover? Do you want to have a relationship with him that can make an earthly relationship as deep and wonderful as mine was? Look like peanuts compared with what it is with Jesus?

Get simple like I am. I will not be complicated. I refuse to be. Starkly honest, childlike. Did you notice that Jesus never once ever told children to be like adults? But he frequently told adults to get like the children.

Have a childlike, uncluttered, unsophisticated, abandoned love relationship with Jesus. That's not in the notes. Did you learn anything? Do you want it? Bow your head right now and ask for it. Just quietly.

And thank him that his grace will be sufficient for anything you're to endure as long as you keep the focus on him. If we had nothing else today at all, you've learned a whole heap, haven't you? We'll go on with the message because he wants to teach you more.

Five Reasons Jesus Came to Earth

Because Jesus, we're going to see some of the reasons why Jesus Christ left heaven and came to this earth. If I asked you that, would you be able to come up with the five reasons? Why? Someone says, what was the purpose of Jesus Christ leaving heaven and coming to earth?

Could you give a reason for the hope within you? Take these five down. He put aside his function of deity as Son of God but retained his nature of deity as coming of Son of Man. He put aside the function of deity as Son of God but he retained his nature of deity and coming as Son of Man.

Now, these are the five reasons why he came. That was how he came. That's how he operated. This is the five reasons. To show us what the Father is like. That was the first thing. Second, to die upon the cross to make atonement for the sins of the world.

Third, to defeat Satan and demon powers. Fourth, to show us how to live. Jesus, the model. But five, to be our life. To be the only explanation of what comes from us. They say if you touch something, what's inside will come out.

You know that saying? Well, the closer you get to anybody who is really living like this, the reaction will be Jesus. Right? Some of you have got it. I'm going to go over those five very quickly again.

He came to show us what the Father is like. To die upon the cross to make atonement for the sins of the world. Three, to defeat Satan and demon powers. Four, to show us how to live. And five, to be the only explanation of our life.

Christ in us, the hope of glory. Because he is our role model in everything, we need to study his life more than anyone else's. Okay. Put up your hand. Be starkly honest before God who knows the answer.

Have you ever, because of this, because he is our role model, we need to study his life more than anyone else's? In all that you have studied in your life, have you made the study from God's word of Jesus the model in how he operated?

What were his priorities? Have you made that the main thing of your life? If you have, put up your hand. I said study. I didn't say casually. Read the Bible. Study. Handful. We need the message, don't we?

Jesus as the Model for Soul Winning

Let's look at five. Let's look at the principles by which he operated as a soul winner. This is how this message is going to come out today. We're studying it. We're making a study, right? Can you see the logic of this message?

If he is the role model, shouldn't we be studying the role model more than anything else? Why are we not taught in the body of Christ to study the role model? Who of you have been under a lot of teaching?

I'm talking about spiritually, at any time in your life. Okay. Is this the first time that you saw that the first thing you're supposed to be doing is studying the role model? Would you say that you have heard a lot about this?

Because only three or four people put up their hand. Did you all hear a lot and disobey or didn't you hear it? Which is it? Did you hear a lot and disobey? Put up your hands. Did you hear that he was the role model but did nothing about it?

Okay. Did the rest of you not hear that he was the role model and should study? Is that where you're coming from? So we've got a lot of disobedience in the room then. What's the other conclusion? I will not make anything complicated.

Just two and two makes four. You've had wrong priorities or you've been disobedient to the right priorities. I think you need to repent, don't you? Go for it. Now, real repentance includes restitution.

That means you're telling God you're going. Restitution is you're going to make a study of him. You can get my book to help you or you don't need my book. You can go for it on your own. It's your choice.

Okay. Repentance shouldn't take half an hour when it's sincere. We're going to look at five things that characterized every encounter that Jesus had with lost souls and we're going to look at some important strategies he used.

That's the three things we're doing. Principles by which he operated as a soul winner, five things that characterized every encounter he had with the lost, and some important strategies he used. All right.

We're going to look at the principles. His first principle as a soul winner, we're looking at that, see, to win the lost, was to fulfill the purpose for which he came. How important could that be? Let's look at it.

John 6, 38. I came not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. Okay. What was the will of him who sent me? We read it in Luke 19, verse 9. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.

It was a primary principle and purpose. But why he left heaven? What's the application to us? 2 Corinthians 5, verse 15. And he died for all, 2 Corinthians 5, 15, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

Does this make sense? Do you see the logic of this? If his purpose was to come to seek and save the lost, he says that's, and you added that's your purpose because I came to marvel for you. So then his priority has to become your priority, right?

Can you see the logic? I just want to read. Come, let us reason together today. Get the logic of this. It's all simple but it's profound. That means that witnessing, oh, no, I've got to give you one more verse.

Oh, wow. This is a blockbuster. Matthew 4, 19. Follow me and I will make you fishers of men. That much fishing? Is fishing a way of life? That means that witnessing and winning people to the Lord Jesus Christ is an automatic outcome of following Jesus.

What could be, that's two and two making four. Follow me, I'll make you fishers of men. What is this word of God doing? What's the spirit doing to you right now with this? Follow me and I'll make you soul winners.