There is one main point I want to stress to readers who are believing Christians. I’m mainly speaking to those who want to share the gospel message of Jesus Christ as much as I do. As believers we all know the truth of God; that Jehovah is the only God and we’ve been saved unto eternal life in heaven through faith in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. If we know our Bible like we should we also know God requires that we witness for Christ in order to save lost souls for the kingdom of heaven. We know this as the Great Commission which Jesus gave to his disciples before he ascended back to heaven. Believers are to witness for Christ to all nations and all people. That is a very broad and far-reaching commandment from God. Here is where the problem starts for many believers. They know they should witness for Christ but Christians don’t do it because they don’t know how and if they do know how to share their witness for Christ their attempts are feeble at best.
Many believers just haven’t figured out yet how to comply with God’s commandment to share the gospel of Christ. They don’t understand how important this is to God and how this affects our future standing in heaven forever. The treasure that we will receive in heaven one day will be solely based on how many people we save to heaven. Sharing the gospel of Christ with nonbelievers is the main reason God leaves us here on earth after our salvation. Sharing the gospel is the only way to truly please God. If you happen to be a nonbeliever reading this blog I’m speaking to a “dead man walking” because Satan has put blinders over your eyes so that God is foolishness to you. Your destiny is to go to hell for all eternity because of your unbelief. In his word God calls all nonbelievers “fools” because the truth of God is self-evident yet they cannot see it because Satan is the god of this world. I challenge nonbelievers to prove me wrong. Read God’s word in its entirety with an open mind. There’s a 95% chance you’ll fall on your face before the God of creation and ask for his mercy and grace. You can thank me later in heaven.
Mark 11:24 – (Jesus) – Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
John 15:5 – (Jesus) – I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in Him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
Philippians 4:13 – I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
2 Corinthians 9:6 – But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
Many believers haven’t done the hard work of learning how to witness for Christ and I have to attribute that to laziness. Read my blogs from December 2019 for guidance. In the book of Romans God clearly tells us how to share the gospel message of Jesus Christ so man is without excuse. It’s so well known it’s referred to as the “Roman road” to salvation. Please review the following verses in order: John 3:16, Romans 3:23, Romans 6:23, Romans 5:8, and Romans 10:9. This will give you a better understanding of what you should share with nonbelievers. When you witness to nonbelievers start by letting the nonbeliever know God loves them. People will pay more attention when they know God loves them. The “sinner’s prayer” is also a well known prayer of salvation that man can pray before God to be saved. All you have to do is “google” either term or look on the back page of any Chick tract. Then again, there are some believers who delude themselves into thinking that witnessing for Christ is optional and they only need to do it occasionally to please God and then only if someone asks them about God. That’s Satan trying to influence you into wrong thinking. As believers, when we give our testimony about God to nonbelievers we know we’re going to face rejection and even persecution in some cases. That keeps many believers from witnessing as they should and I understand that. It’s a natural human response that you must overcome. God never promised you an easy time in this life; quite the opposite. We are to suffer as Christ suffered and God will glorify us on the last day for any suffering we endure on behalf of Christ. Suffering on earth is actually good for us in heaven so embrace it. In God’s word he makes it clear believers are to persevere in their suffering and witness for Christ without ceasing.
1 Peter 3:15 – But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 – Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
1 Peter 5:10 – But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered awhile, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
1 Timothy 2:8 – I desire therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
Proverbs 14:25 – A true witness delivers souls, but a deceitful witness speaks lies.
God’s salvation plan for man requires that believers save nonbelievers to heaven by their testimony of God. In the Bible when God talks about “good works” or believers doing God’s work on earth God is talking about witnessing for Christ in order to save lost souls for the kingdom of heaven. Failure to do so will displease God and cause man to lose out on all the treasures in heaven that they could have had through obedience to God. So what must a believer do? Immediately start sharing the gospel message of Jesus Christ wherever you are, in whatever situation you find yourself, and by any means at your disposal. God gives everyone the right and ability to be successful at witnessing through daily prayer, daily Bible reading, and by studying God’s word for knowledge, understanding and wisdom. As a believer you are indwelt by the Holy Spirit so Jesus Christ is always in you and with you to help you in your ministry of reconciliation (witnessing for Christ). You can enlist God’s help by asking for it in prayer. God says we do not have because we do not ask; so ask. God says we can have whatever we ask for in prayer if we pray continuously and we believe God will grant our petition; so believe and keep on praying. God placed you where you are and with prayer your success is assured. God only hears the prayers of believers; God’s children.
As you humbly work alongside God in his harvest field every day ask God in prayer to help you to save nonbelievers to the kingdom of heaven. We can do nothing without God but all things are possible with God. Prayer is the universal lubricant that makes everything in heaven work. The key is we must pray to God before, during, and after our witness for Christ. We must always pray for something that God also wants to do (in his will) and then we must pray continually and believe God will do what we ask. We know that God wants all his creatures in heaven so praying in accordance with God’s will ensures your prayers will be answered because God said he would answer our prayers and God cannot lie. Remember that no amount of work done only by us can save someone. Only the love, mercy and grace of God can save a lost soul unto eternal life in heaven. Salvation is a gift from God; not by works.
Isaiah 1:18 – Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord, though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
James 4:2 – Yet you do not have because you do not ask.
Ephesians 2:8-9 – For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.
Romans 12:1 – I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
Believers are indwelt by the Holy Spirit and he is our helper so ask him to take your prayers before the throne of grace in a manner that is pleasing to God. That’s why the Holy Spirit is called our helper. Jesus Christ is our mediator who sits at the right hand of God the Father in heaven so ask him to help present your prayers to God so they have a good smelling aroma. Jesus is called our mediator for this reason. In Isaiah 1:18 God asks man to come before him in prayer and reason with him about his salvation plan for man. We’re not to reason with God on our own behalf because we’re already saved. We’re to reason with God about the number of souls we can save with God’s help. In the dictionary “reason” used in this context means to ” persuade someone by using arguments.” God says he’ll listen to our arguments and base his decision on his justice and what we say. Think of yourself as acting as your own attorney pleading a case before the Supreme Court of heaven.
In my nearly fifteen years of ministry I’ve given away close to 2,000 Bibles and distributed well over 35,000 Chick Christian tracts to my seven prison ministries and others. These little cartoon booklets contain the gospel message of Christ and they have the “sinner’s prayer” on the back page. Millions of people have been saved through Christian tracts alone. Distributing Chick tracts is what I refer to as “passive witnessing. ” I have also personally handed out Chick tracts for almost fifteen years wherever I go, whether it’s to the grocery store, pharmacy, Walmart or to my doctor’s office, etc. Distributing Christian tracts is the best way I’ve found to “passively” witness for Christ. They’re affordable and they can reach the most people with God’s message of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Www.onemoreforjesus.net and www.christiantractministry.com are my two websites where I also “passively” witness for Christ to save souls for heaven.
1 Thessalonians 1:5 – For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit and in much assurance.
Matthew 13:23 – (Jesus) – But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
James 5:16 – The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous (saved) man avails much.
James 1:22 – But be doers of the word (by witnessing for Christ), and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
In the past I would ship a thousand tracts (one case) to a prison and hope that at least one person would be saved. Out of every thousand people who received one of my tracts or visited one of my blogs sites I was hoping one person would be saved or moved along the path to salvation so that I would be rewarded by God on the last day as the reaper of that soul or equally as the sower of the gospel seed that lead that person to salvation. I was really trying to save nonbelievers on my own and setting the bar too low. I have since learned to be more fruitful by involving God in my witness because, after all, it’s God who does the saving not us. The increase for heaven is to the glory of God alone. We are just a vessel for the Master’s use. We are to bear fruit for God and produce souls for heaven.
I now pray before casting any gospel seed before the Lord. When I ship out a thousand tracts to one of my prisons now I ask God for a 10% return. I ask God to make 100 gospel seeds fall on good ground so that 100 souls are saved to heaven. I ask for God to make me fruitful before the Lord in fulfillment of John 15:5. I also ask daily for the same 10% return on my two blog sites where I also witness for Christ. I ask God for a 100% return on all the Bibles I donate to prisons. Bibles can circulate for 40 years and save many people but I’m only asking that I be credited with one saved soul per Bible. I think that’s a reasonable request for me to make to God in accordance with Isaiah 1:18. Keep asking God for his blessings and you will receive them more often that not. It never hurts to ask of God.
Every day millions of nonbelievers are dying and going straight to hell for the lack of an effective witness for Christ. God grieves over every lost soul and so should all believers because they are our brothers and sisters and they deserve a chance at heaven too. Every soul is equal and priceless in God’s eyes. As believers we must stop this from happening! We can’t save everyone but we can save some. God has made every creature with his hands and he wants all his children in heaven with him so believers must help God by witnessing for Christ. God loves us all and he hates it when Satan steals a soul for the kingdom of hell. Always love what God loves and hate what God hates and you can’t go wrong. Asking God for a 10% return on my gospel seed and 100% for Bibles is a reasonable prayer request for God to grant in fulfillment of Isaiah 1:18. God is not trying to keep people out of heaven. God is trying to get all his creatures into heaven. God is glorified when man is saved to heaven so I know God grants my prayers every time. In fact, the Bible confirms we can have what we pray for if we believe we will receive it.
In summary, start handing out Christian tracts to nonbelievers immediately because anyone can do it. I recommend using Chick tracts because the cartoon booklets reinforce the gospel message inside. Go to chick.com and read their entire inventory online before choosing the ones you like best. My two favorite tracts to pass out are, “This Was Your Life” and “Then What?” When you distribute gospel tracts you’re obeying the Great Commission of Christ and pleasing God at the same time. God can save whomever he will using your gospel seed if you pray for it and you’ll receive treasures from God on the last day as the reaper or the sower of a soul to heaven. My mantra every day is to save, “one more for Jesus.” It should be yours as well. In order to be successful at witnessing for Christ you must set some reasonable goals for your ministry of reconciliation. My personal goal is to save 1000 nonbelievers to heaven before I die. It’s a hard goal to reach but not impossible with planning and perseverance . Never lose sight of the fact that every creature made by God is priceless in his eyes. As believers we owe it to God and to all nonbelievers to try and save as many of them as we can for heaven.
Matthew 9:37-38 – (Jesus) – The harvest is truly plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.
1 Corinthians 15:58 – Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Daniel 12:3 – Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever.
Micah 6:8 – He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
I’ve always been confused by the verse shown above (Micah 6:8) because of its simplicity. Everything God wants from us is boiled down to three things. I understand to act “justly” means to always do the right thing by emulating Jesus Christ in all our actions. I also know if we “walk humbly” with our God we are being obedient to the commandments of God. The third thing is the one that’s confusing to me. God requires that we are to “love mercy.” God’s mercy is his gift of salvation so, of course, believers are going to love their salvation. How could we not? We get to be in heaven in the presence of Jesus forever where God will shower us with love, honor, glory and riches. My question is why did God restate what was so obvious? Then it dawned on me God wasn’t just talking about the mercy (salvation) of believers. God was primarily talking about nonbelievers. God is saying that we as believers are to love sharing the gospel of mercy with nonbelievers so that they too can be saved unto eternal life in heaven like we are. You do what you love doing. My understanding of the above verse now is that to please God believers are to witness for Christ, obey the commandments of God and emulate the actions of Jesus in our lives.
Romans 4:4 – Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt.
Read Romans 4:4 a couple of times slowly and try to figure out what God is telling us. In the first part of the verse “works” refers to witnessing for Christ. The word “him” refers to us; believers who have been saved unto eternal life in heaven. The personal pronoun “who” indicates some believers will witness for Christ and some will not. In fact, we know that 90% of the saints in heaven will be there through faith in Jesus Christ alone; never having saved even a single person to the kingdom of heaven by a witness for Christ. God confirms in Ephesians 2:8-9 that salvation is through faith and not works. However, it also says in the second part of Romans 4:4 that believers can also earn their “wages” when they share the gospel and save nonbelievers to heaven. Wages are treasures in heaven which will correspond to rights, honors, glory, privileges and responsibilities we receive from God based on how many nonbelievers we save to heaven. In Matthew 13: 23 Jesus tells us some believers will save 30, 60, and even 100 nonbelievers to heaven. In the Bible a hundredfold harvest of lost souls is considered by God to be a good harvest. This should be the baseline goal of every believer. It’s also very clear to me that every believer’s rewards in heaven will be different and based on how many people we save for heaven. We get to keep what we earn. “Grace” is the free and unearned favor of God whereas wages are considered to be payment for services rendered. When we do the work of God he will pay us
The most important word in Romans 4:4 is the very last word which is “debt.” God made all men and he put us all here on earth for his pleasure and his glory. Once God calls us unto eternal life in heaven through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior we are indebted to God for our salvation. We owe God something and that something is doing his “work.” We are to obey the commandments of God. God’s number one commandment for us is to witness for Christ and we cannot please God without doing it. So even as believers are sharing the gospel to pay off their debt to God he is generously paying us heavenly wages for every soul we save. For believers who witness for Christ it’s like we’re earning double pay or overtime pay. You now know why you are here on earth and what you’re supposed to be doing with your body (witnessing for Christ) and this is made clear in Romans 12:1. God gave us our body and we’re to freely give it back to God. The 90% of saints in heaven that haven’t saved anyone will still have some good works before the Lord like helping the needy or feeding the poor. These works will all be burned up before the bema judgment seat of Christ on the last day if they haven’t also saved at least one person for heaven.
It’s critical for a believer to save at least one person to heaven in order to receive a reward from Jesus. More is better but one will do. Look, if you save only one person for heaven and every soul is priceless to God how could God not be pleased and reward you for that? There is a pecking order in heaven and where believers rank will be determined by how many people they save for heaven. Whatever we earn on earth by our good works will last for all eternity in heaven. The question is are you satisfied with being a worker bee forever or would you rather rule with Christ in heaven and receive treasures based on your “good works” for the Lord? I’ve decided I want to work for the Lord save many so as to “shine” before God like it says in Daniel 12:3. I’m not sure what that means but I know it’s good. I’ve asked God in prayer what he means by “many” and the Lord has confirmed in my spirit and through another man of God that 1000 saved souls for heaven qualifies as “many.” That should be your target as well. Some believers will be able to shine in heaven or God would not haven mentioned it. You have to want it badly enough to make it your #1 priority in life. I wanted to make sure you knew your options in this life and in the next one (heaven). Of course if you’re a nonbeliever you don’t have to worry about any of this because you won’t be going to heaven anyway; unless you give your life to Jesus. All nonbelievers go to hell immediately when they die where they’ll be in pain and agony 24/7 forever. Keep in mind that one day in eternity is a trillion billion years, and the rest. Avoid hell at all costs!
James 5:20 – He who turns a sinner from the error of his ways will save a soul from death (eternal death in hell). NOTE: In the above verse God is telling us what believers must do to please him; to earn our keep.