See, nobody gets saved.
The only person who got saved without a man giving him the gospel was the people that
Jesus Christ wanted the Lord personally while he was on this earth because he was a man.
He was God in the flesh.
He was God as a human being.
But I'm going to tell you something.
People get saved because they hear it from your mouth or from my mouth or from somebody's
mouth.
That's how they're going to be saved.
There's not some kind of a virgin birth that's going to take place where somebody just gets
saved.
Just God just gets them saved, right?
Is God going to come and knock on these doors and win them to Christ?
Do you really think that God is going to knock on any door in Phoenix this week and get somebody
saved?
No.
But he'll use us to do it.
And Jesus said this.
He said, without me, you can do nothing.
You remember that in John 15?
But you know what?
Without us, he can do nothing when it comes to getting people saved.
And no, that's not blasphemy.
That's the truth.
That's what the Bible teaches.
We need him in order to get people saved.
You can't get people saved without God's word.
Without the Holy Spirit.
Hey, God's word is the seed that's going to generate them into new life.
There must be the seed.
But there also has to be the human instrument.
How else are they here without a preacher?
So it takes both.
God has given to us the ministry of reconciliation.
Look at 2 Corinthians, chapter number 5, verse 14.
You say, Pastor Anderson, why is this a little bit different than what I've been taught?
Because you've been taught by some lazy jerk who doesn't go out and win souls to Christ.
That's why.
Did you hear me?
Somebody who teaches you that God's going to do it all.
He's sitting in his office somewhere.
He's got his head in some commentary somewhere.
He's sitting around, letting the whole world go to hell.
And then he gets up on Sunday morning and says, oh yeah, God does all the work.
Give God all the credit.
And say, don't say you win souls.
Don't say you win people to Christ.
Don't say you got anybody saved.
It's all God.
Yeah, let's sit around and do nothing because it's all God.
Wrong.
God has given to us the ministry of reconciliation.
God gave to every man ministers by whom they might believe.
And if you're going to disobey God's command to go into the whole world and preach the
gospel to every creature, if you're going to disobey God's command to speak boldly the
word of God, people will go to hell because you didn't give them the gospel.
That's spoken from somebody who goes out soul winning.
That went out soul winning last week.
That's going to be out soul winning this week.
That's given the gospel throughout the week.
Hey, that's coming from somebody who's doing the work, not somebody who's too lazy to do
the work.
So they come up with a doctrine that's a lie to justify laziness and worldliness.
See, they don't want to sanctify themselves because they don't want to get people saved
because they don't love anybody.
You say, how do you know they don't love anybody?
We'll look down at your Bible.
Second Corinthians chapter five, verse 14, for the love of Christ constraineth us.
Because we thus judge that if one died for all, then we're all dead.
Now let's look at what Jesus died for everybody, right?
I mean, you see it right there in front of you.
Jesus died for everybody and that he died for all that they which live should not henceforth
live unto themselves.
He said, don't live for yourself.
Jesus died for everybody in this world and you're living for yourself.
No, you need to sanctify yourself for their sake.
You need to preach the word of God for their sake.
He said, therefore, henceforth, we know no man after the flesh.
Look at verse 16, yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth
we know him no more.
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature.
Old things have passed away, build all things that become new and all things are of God
who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ and have given to us the ministry of
reconciliation.
He gave it to us.
To wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself.
Read these words very carefully.
Not imputing their trespasses unto them and have committed unto us the word of reconciliation,
right?
This is the sole winning agent right here in the Bible.
You can't win somebody Christ without this book, by the way.
He'd come up by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
He'd committed us the word of reconciliation.
Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ as though, listen to this, as though God did
beseech you by us.
We pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
What's that saying?
Instead of God showing up at your door, right, instead of Jesus Christ showing up at your
door, Stephen Anderson's going to show up at your door.
It says, it's as if God was beseeching you by us.
Why?
Because we're speaking God's words.