GOOD NEWS IN BAD WORLD: Part-1 By: Lunminthang Haokip The Last Commandment: All power is given unto me in heaven and earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, and of the Son, and of the Holy ghost (Matthew 28:18, 19). The First Commitment: Big turbines generate electrical power in power stations. The main target of a hydro-electricity project is to electrify towns and villages, which have no power-supply. The power generated is transmitted as currents through cables laid on lamp-posts to give light to dark houses. Jesus said, All power is given unto me. The Current That Gives Light: The Son of God is the life-giver himself. The Spiritual power generated through the crucifixion of Jesus Christ is the Gospel - the Good News of the Lord, which has the current to cut off a man’s past, save sinners by lighting up darkened souls and enlivening deadened spirits. Jesus Commands every believer to be the cables, lamp¬posts and transformer that transmit the spiritual electricity of the Word of God to hot up mans cardiac filament to make it glow and transmit the spiritual light of conversion. The risen Lord expects every believer to make His last commandment their first commitment. Make Evangelism Your Ism: War is too important a matter to be left to Generals only, Napoleon said. Evangelism- the preaching of the Gospel to win souls for Christ - needs to be taken up on a war-footing. Go ye does not apply to full time labourers in Gods Vineyard alone but to every converted person worth his or her testimony. Every human being living on this sin-smeared messy expanse between two poles is on an equal footing when it comes to invitation to salvation and the responsibility to take salvation to others. There isnt a soul our Creator had denied a spiritual gift due to each that renders one fit to play a role in evangelism. Each professor of the faith is therefore to engage himself in the Christ-commanded service of harvesting souls according to ability and direction. Therefore said he unto them, the harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few (Luke 10:2). Teach All Nations: Who are these nations to be taught? After the great flood of Noahs time, God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth (Gen 9:1) Fallible Humans: Humankind were tested under a new standard of conduct. Having failed to live without laws and the restraint of civil authorities, they were forced to obey the right and reject the wrong. Genesis chapter 9 records successive failures of Noah, Ham, daughters of men and men in general in accomplishing Gods purpose. Instead of systematically scattering themselves abroad in distinctive groups, the wicked generation of the time made a grand game plan to integrate as one people to defy God and sabotage His designs (Gen 11:1-9). God didnt take kindly to that. He put down the rebellion against Him with an iron hand by confusing their languages and drove them out all over. The Birth of Nationalities: Because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of the earth (Gen. 11:9). This accounts for separation of peoples as nations and the division of the earth as continents and islands. And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided (Gen. 10:25). To these nationally and notionally fragmented and diversified lost races, God sends us to boldly put across the message of the Cross. Bastions of Transgression : For the thousands of years of the Almightys revelation of divine displeasure over the excessive measures of human transgressions through calamities and diverse adversities, the rebellious mentality of men had not mellowed down. Sin spreads millions of times, faster than righteousness. The prophetic voices, that informed nations of the ultimate penalty for iniquities down the centuries have failed to bring the massive majority to repentance towards God. Immorality continues to be the favourite pastime of moral menaces in cities and villages. The body was meant to be kept holy for Gods own Spirit to dwell in. Its wholesale abuse in contacts outside holy marriage not only created folly marriages, but also wrought divine wrath in the form of Aids and family woes. But the natural man had not become wiser. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire (Jude 7) .
Posted on: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 03:17:43 +0000
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