I’m amazed that every single person on the planet doesn’t understand that we’re here to find God and then give our testimony to help nonbelievers find the way to heaven too. It’s just so obvious to me. I understand Satan has put blinders over the eyes of nonbelievers so they cannot see the truth of God. That’s the reason but it’s not a good excuse in the eyes of God. God expects every person to use their mind and find their way back to heaven. We’re all creatures made by the hands of God and he has put eternity in our hearts, so we would seek out our creator. Some people just get lost along the way. When we look up at the moon, the sun, and the stars in the night sky we see God’s handiwork, which is confirmed in Psalm 19:1. We know deep down in our souls there’s a God in heaven whether we want to admit it or not. I’m amazed that Satan and his fallen angels (demons) have been successful at hiding the truth of God from man. Satan has put blinders over the eyes of nonbelievers so they cannot see God without the help of believers witnessing Christ to them. Every day roughly 16,000 believers are dying in the arms of God and returning to heaven to be in the presence of Jesus Christ forever. On the flip side, approximately 160,000 nonbelievers are also dying daily and going straight to hell for the lack of a witness for Christ. Nonbelievers in hell will be in the presence of Satan where they’ll be in pain and agony 24/7 forever.
There are approximately eight billion people on Earth, and 2.5 billion of them claim to be Christians. How many of these Christians are saved unto eternal life in heaven? All of them think they are because they know Jesus, but I’m guessing maybe only 50% are truly saved to heaven by a profession of faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. I’m amazed that most self-proclaimed Christians do not read God’s word regularly. How can they be in fellowship with God if they aren’t immersed in his word? Only 10% of Christians who attend church regularly have read the Bible in its entirety. That is a travesty! Even fewer Christians than that have taken the time to study God’s word for knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. Those believers who do abide in God’s word know that to please God they must obey the commandments of God contained in the Bible. You cannot “do” until you know what to do. The number one commandment of God is for believers to witness for Christ to save lost souls to the kingdom of heaven.
Believers become saints in heaven through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Believers still go to heaven even if they don’t save a single soul to heaven. 90% of the saints in heaven are in that category. You have to understand that if you don’t witness for Christ and save at least one person to heaven you won’t please God and you’ll be on the lowest rung of heaven forever. You might be okay with disobeying God by not saving anyone to heaven but I’m not. You might be okay with being a worker bee in heaven for a billion trillion years but I’m not. My mantra every day is to, “save one more for Jesus” by my witness for Christ. My goal is to save a minimum of one thousand lost souls to heaven during my lifetime. Is that going to be difficult to achieve? You bet it is. Is it going to be impossible? No, it isn’t. With God’s help, nothing is impossible. Pick a goal that works for you and run your race before God to achieve it. Dream big because you can do it. Never forget God is inside you as your helper. In 1 Corinthians 9:24, the Apostle Paul says believers are to run their race before God so they receive the prize. What is the prize? It can’t be eternal life because we already have that. Our prize from Jesus Christ on the last day can only be honor, glory, and riches based on how many people we save to heaven.
PRAYER AFFIRMATION:
2 Corinthians 5:20 – Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God was pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.
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.
MY AFFIRMATION:
The purpose of my life is to witness for Christ to the nonbeliever in obedience to the commandments of my God. As a disciple of Jesus Christ, I’m a representative of God on this earth. I’m duty-bound to share the gospel message of Jesus Christ with all nations and all people. My goal is to produce much fruit for God by saving as many lost souls to the kingdom of heaven as I can during my lifetime. Lord, I ask that you guide me in this task, and strengthen me so that I have the wisdom, determination, and perseverance to finish the salvation plan you have for my life. Praise God for his love, mercy, and grace toward his servant!
In Corinthians 5:20, when God begins the verse with the words “now then” it indicates something has to happen before the verse is applicable. God means that after believers have been saved unto eternal life in heaven by accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior; at that very moment; God appoints them as ambassadors for Christ. An ambassador is defined as, “a diplomat sent by a state as its representative in a foreign country.” The kingdom of heaven is a state not of this world ruled by God. God made us and put us on this earth (a foreign country) and the moment we’re saved to heaven we return home spiritually to the God who made us. God makes it clear in the Bible that believers are in the world, but not of the world. Furthermore, believers are strangers and aliens on the earth. Those are God’s words, not mine. Philippians 3:20 tells us, “For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.” The second part of this verse indicates believers are waiting for Jesus to come in the air to rapture his saints to himself, so they can receive their glorified bodies in the air, before returning home to heaven.
Ambassadors for Christ are saved believers and they have just one job, and that job is to witness for Christ to save nonbelievers to heaven. In Matthew 13:23 Jesus uses the metaphor of “fruit” to represent nonbelievers saved to heaven. Jesus makes it clear all believers are to share the gospel message of Jesus Christ, but some believers will be more successful than others. Obedience to God is more important than how many people you save for heaven. Everyone who saves at least one person to heaven will receive honor, glory, and riches from God on the last day. The more you save the more you receive from God. One of the spiritual truths of heaven is, “You reap what you sow.” Only 10% of the saints in heaven will have saved at least one other person to heaven. Some believers will produce much fruit by saving 30, 60, and even 100 people to heaven. The Lord says a hundred lost souls saved to heaven is a good harvest. Only 1% of the saints in heaven will have saved at least one thousand nonbelievers to the kingdom of heaven and they will shine like the stars in the firmament on the last day; like it says in Daniel 12:3. I plan to run my race before the Lord so that I save “many” nonbelievers to heaven (at least a thousand) so that I’m in the top 1% of the saints in heaven when all is said and done.
PRAYER AFFIRMATION:
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 – Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own. For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Acts 1:8 – (Jesus) – But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
MY AFFIRMATION:
Holy God, Lord of Heaven and Earth; at my conception, you gave me a part of your divine essence, my eternal spirit, so that I might fellowship with you forever in heaven. You knit me in my mother’s womb. Help me find my way back to the God who made me. I have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. As a result, your Holy Spirit indwells me. My body has become God’s temple. The blood shed by Jesus Christ on the cross at Calvary has made me a slave of Christ and my body is not my own. Lord, I give my body back to you as my reasonable service. I will glorify God by praying continually before the throne of grace. I’ll continually witness the gospel message of Jesus Christ to all nations and all people to save nonbelievers to heaven, in obedience to the commandments of God.
NOTE: In 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 God tells us that as believers, we belong to God because we were purchased by the shed blood of Jesus on the cross. When we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior God sends his Holy Spirit to indwell us as a sign of his ownership. God has set his seal on us and nothing can separate us from God or keep us out of going to heaven one day. The Holy Spirit will never leave the body of a believer. When we die the Holy Spirit will take our eternal spirit back to heaven and when we receive our glorified body from God the Holy Spirit will indwell that body too, for all eternity. The Lord reminds us that our body and spirit came for God and we are slaves of Christ through his death on the cross. God tells us our primary mission on earth is to glorify God through continuous prayer and by using our bodies to go forth into the world and share our witness for Christ with nonbelievers so that they might be saved from hell and saved to heaven.
In Acts 1:8 Jesus commands his disciples to witness for Christ to all nations and all people. Jesus is not just talking to his original disciples; he’s talking to every believer from that moment in time until the Second Coming of Jesus Christ to the earth on the last day. I’m a believer and a disciple of Christ, so I’m being personally commanded by God to give my testimony of him to the nonbeliever. Shall I disobey the God who made me? Certainly not! Shall I make a weak attempt to share the gospel message and then back off when I feel rejected? The answer is no! God tells us in his word that following him won’t be easy. If it was easy everybody would be witnessing for Christ. God says many are called but few are chosen. Make sure you step forward when your name is called. God doesn’t let you go into battle for him alone. 1 Thessalonians 1:5 tells us the gospel goes forth not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit and much assurance. The gospel is the power of God unto salvation and we are simply the messenger. We see this confirmed in Acts 1:8. You cannot effectively witness for Christ unless you have the Holy Spirit inside you and with you, as you witness to the nonbeliever. Only the Holy Spirit can save someone to heaven.
PRAYER AFFIRMATION:
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.
Matthew 6:19-20 – (Jesus) – Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
MY AFFIRMATION:
I can do nothing on my own, but I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. I will obey the commandments of God as I keep my eyes on Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. My trust in God and my love of God will never wane. I will seek to please God always by my good works. Lord, bless me as I sow the gospel seed of Christ bountifully so that I will reap bountifully on the last day. My goal in life is to please the God who made me by my work on Christ’s behalf. When I stand before the bema judgment seat of Jesus Christ on the last day I long to hear him say, “Well done good and faithful servant.”
The word “vain” means unsuccessful. So if what we’re doing is “not” in vain that means we’re being successful. In the Bible, our work for the Lord, our labor, is defined as sharing the gospel message of Christ with all nations and all people. That’s what we mean when we say “witnessing for Christ.” God is speaking only to those who believe in Jesus (believers) in 1 Corinthians 15:58 because he refers to us as his “beloved brethren.” Immovable means, “not able to be changed or persuaded.” The word steadfast is defined as, “completely unwavering in one’s attitude or aims.” God is making it clear in this verse that if believers witness for Christ often (abundantly) they will save nonbelievers to heaven abundantly. How could it be otherwise? Two spiritual truths of heaven are, “You reap what you sow” and “If you sow bountifully you will reap bountifully.”
Every day we need to remind ourselves why we’re here and what our job is. “One more for Jesus” is my mantra and I say it every morning while I’m drinking my pot of coffee. Our job as believers is to be unwavering in our determination to serve God by witnessing for Christ at every opportunity for as long as we’re able. We’re the bearer of “good news” and it’s up to God to save whomever he will through the gospel seed we cast before him. If we do our part God will do his. On the last day, when we’re in heaven, we need to make sure we have no regrets and that we have given our all in service to our God. God is fair and just to all. God will remember us and our work. God will shower us with honor, glory, and riches in heaven. We can’t take our money with us to heaven but we can pay it forward by using our time and money to help save nonbelievers to heaven. God will bless us tenfold when we do this. I witness for Christ because I love God and my fellowman, and not for a reward. If no rewards were forthcoming for my service to God my witness for Christ wouldn’t change one iota because every soul is precious in the eyes of God. I love what God loves and I hate what God hates. God is generous to a fault and if he wants to give me anything on the last day I’ll graciously accept it and so should you.