Thoughts on Evangelism

I have been sharing the Gospel of our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ, for over two years now, mainly on YouTube. I have no idea how many people were converted. Maybe none were. Were any changed? Yes, one person was changed. I was.

That one thing that I did not expect from evangelism was to be changed by it. A few weeks after I started sharing the Gospel, my interests started to change. I started to lose interest in movies and television. This was very odd, because I was a movie buff, and the type of person that turns the TV on the moment I arrive home. Now my DVD collection gathers dust and my TV is mostly used to display YouTube videos (I use a Sony Playstation to stream web content on my HD TV).

I wondered about this, and thought that the Lord wanted to protect me from the temptations that may come to me by sharing the Gospel in YouTube. Maybe Jesus does not like to watch TV and go to movies too, and after all, the whole point of accepting Jesus Christ is to be like Him. Frankly, there are no good movies being made anyway, and I would not be surprised if TV becomes as obscure as shortwave radio. The future is YouTube and other sources of web content.

Something odd happened recently. I used to post videos with licensed music, but the Holy Spirit told me to stop, and so I took them down. I thought my views would drop, but to my surprise, my views started to rise, and now my average views have tripled! I also discovered a lot of places where I can obtain freeware content.

Two years. 100 subscribers on YouTube. I know by now that it is not my work, but the Lord’s! What might be next? I never knew this could be so much fun!

God bless,

George

P.S. For those of you who might be interested in why I share the Gospel on YouTube, here is my YouTube video explaining why:

Be Strong

“…let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
(Hebrews 12:1b-2)

Be Strong in the Lord. Below is a song of encouragement from a cool Christian pop rock band, Newsboys. I pray that you are blessed!

The Word of God

Although the Bible was clearly physically written by men no word in Scripture is there by accident. The nation of Israel considered Scripture to be the Word of God, and this faith remains for those who are called according to God’s purpose. God is omnipotent. Nothing is too difficult for Him. If He chose to use people to write His Perfect Word, he can do that despite the imperfections of the writers.

You think that Christian faith makes sense from a human perspective? If does not, and this was intended by God, so that it will be obvious that God is the cause of faith in a believer, and not something achieved through human effort.

1 Cor 1:19-21 “For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.”

Notice the “it is written”? So I say too… IT IS WRITTEN!

How does one “prove” God to be the author of Scripture? One just knows. At first you wonder why you know that, and then later, you hit upon the reason in the Bible. Since the Holy Spirit dwells in the believer, and since the Holy Spirit is the Author of Scripture, it should be obvious why the believer believes that Scripture was written by God.

2 Cor 5:5 “Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.”

Satanic strategy is to cause one to doubt that the Word of God is true. Some attempts at doing this is to introduce thoughts such as “it is true if it meets certain requirements, and otherwise there must be an error in translation, maybe it is just a legend, maybe the writer, being human, wrote an imperfect book, etc. These are all Satanic thoughts. Keep away from them. The Word of God is perfect, and so read it and believe it, if you can. Only God can help you with the latter.

The first utterance of Satan in Scripture: Gan 3:1b “Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” (Satan tries to cause doubt)

The first utterance of Jesus Christ at the start of His Ministry: Matthew 4:4b “But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” (Jesus uses the Word to counter Satan).”

Here is video celebrating the Word of God. Enjoy!

This One Should Keep Us All Thinking…

Some food for thought. Enjoy!

God bless,

George

Overcoming fear

When we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour, we are born again, and have a desire to obey God. This can put Christians in fearful situations. For example, you may have to share your faith at work, where you may be ridiculed, looked down on, and even lose your job because of your faith. We are told by God that we should expect persecution. There are many places in the world, especially in countries that are mostly Muslim, where being a Christian means death! It is written:

John 15:19-21 “If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept My saying, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for My name’s sake, because they know not Him that sent Me.”

We are to trust and obey God nevertheless. Let us look at Psalm 23:

“The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.  He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters.  He restoreth my soul: He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.  Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.”

It sounds pleasant, but the Psalm is really talking about trusting God in fearful situations, and by doing so, we are able to overcome fear.

My niece took a video of my son negotiating the confidence course during our church’s weekend retreat. This was held at the Word of Life Camp, in Laguna, Philippines. I had tried the confidence course earlier, and after some others had tried it, I asked my son, Kenzo, if he would like to try it too, and he said yes. As he was negotiating the course he had a crisis, and it is in times like this that the LORD pours out His blessing on us, His children, and gives us the courage to overcome our fear. Have a look:

I hope you were as inspired as I was! For me, the rope was a metaphor for our faith. If we hang on to our faith in Jesus Christ, and His promise to provide for our needs, we will overcome fear. It is written:

Rom 8:28 “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.”

The most important thing we should have faith in is in what Jesus Christ did for us: He paid for our sins on the cross, so that those that would believe in Him would have eternal life. It is written:

John 3:14-18 “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. “

God bless,
George