God is a holy and righteous and just God. Yes the Bible says God is love but the
Bible also says holy is the Lord and so God's holiness will not allow him to let
sin and wickedness into heaven and yet his love is crying out to man saying
that he wants man to be saved and he created man in his own image and for his
own fellowship and so in order to satisfy both of these requirements he
had to go through that pain and suffering and humiliation and torture of
hell he had to pay the punishment for man that he might extend his grace to
man and still satisfy his justice and that's why salvation is available to all
because he died for all the Bible says but hold on a second now let's apply
this to us what are you willing to do to get somebody saved think about that if
Jesus Christ who was a hundred percent God and a hundred percent man because he
was God in the flesh if Jesus Christ were willing to be mocked and made fun
of will you be mocked and made fun of in order to get someone safe or are you
too cool you know you're too you're too worried about your image or how people
are going to perceive you let me tell you something those who preach God's
Word those who live for God will never be loved and accepted by the world he
said all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution but let
me ask you something have you gone through more persecution than what Jesus
went through on the cross you know if Jesus can be spat at and made fun of and
hated by his whole nation are you willing to endure some of that shame or
approach maybe on the job maybe among your friends or maybe among your family
what are you willing to go through to get somebody safe what are you willing
to do that people might be safe the world is lost by and large people are
dying and going to hell and if somebody would preach in the gospel they'd be
saved but we're not willing to pay the price many times to get people say you
know if Jesus Christ could go through the fires of hell for three days and
three nights can we go soul winning when it's hot outside I mean think about you
know and look it's not easy to go so many when it's not outside but you know
what thank God that somebody's willing to go out of the heat and not just say
you know what we're just gonna skip so many for the next four months because
it's like an inferno outside what are you willing to go through to get somebody
do you really care and love people because if you really love people and
care you go out and do what it takes you go through the pain you know I've got
the other people to say well I'm not gonna go so money because I'm a you know
I don't I don't like it when people are rude to me you know but yet a Jesus
Christ could endure such contradiction of sinners against himself as it says in
Hebrews chapter 12 are we willing to endure the criticism are we willing to
be criticized and and and reproached for Christ are we willing to go through
physical pain of being out in the heat of working hard of knocking the doors of
putting in the toilet and the work look if it were easy everybody be doing it I
mean if it were easy than everybody be doing it why do you think 99% of
Christianity is content to just sit there in their watered-down church and
just let everybody else go to hell and they don't care I'll tell you why
because it's hard because it's work the Bible says wherefore we labor that
whether absent or present we may be accepted of him and it says knowing
therefore the terror of the Lord we persuade them I mean we know that
heaven's real we know that heaven is that hell is real and we know that in
many cases people are hanging in the balance between heaven and hell and if
we don't go to home nobody's gonna tell what are you willing to endure to get
somebody safe what are you willing to endure to preach the gospel to every
creature what are you willing to endure to some day pastor at church what are
you willing to do or to preach what are you willing to endure to be a light
shining in the darkness of a crooked and perverse nation among these shining
lights as lights in the world Jesus Christ we hang on the cross said what
father forgive them for they know not what they do he even loved those who
were nailing him to the cross we ought to be like Jesus Christ who didn't come
to be ministered to he said I came not to be ministered to I didn't come for
you to serve me he said I came not to be ministered unto but to minister and to
give my life a ransom for many time come to be served Jesus Christ himself God in
the flesh stripped himself and wrapped himself in a towel and washed his own
disciples feet because he said I didn't come to be served I came to give my life
a ransom for many I came to suffer I came for you I came to fulfill God's
plan of salvation that's why I'm here why are you here you know why are you in
church tonight why do you even come to church why are you why do you even why
do you even care I mean aren't isn't there something else to be doing tonight
you know why be here if it's not to say you know what I want to hear God's Word
preached so as brother stuff he said faith cometh by hearing and hearing by
the Word of God I want to get stirred up on my faith to be increased I want to be
edified equipped and sent out to go do something for God you go preach the
gospel every creature and we ought to be here for the same reason that Jesus
Christ was on this earth when he said the Son of Man has come to seek and to
save that which was long that's my mission in life and that ought to be
your mission to if his mission was to seek and to say that was not not wait
for them to show up at church
not to sit around wait for them to come to us but to seek out and to say that
which was lost and to suffer and to go through hardship and to endure hardness
as the Bible says a good soldier of Jesus Christ I was talking to brother
Raji Mena's he just he's in the Air Force he just got back from from being
deployed and he's he's in his final year with the Air Force and he was talking
about how they made him like put on some crazy gear like it's all kinds of gear
to on some really hot day and he had to stand out on some field or something all
day and he literally just was hoping that he wasn't gonna die because it was
just so hot and he was just bogged down with all this gear and it was really
stunning he was starting to worry just am I going to die you know because it
was just so extreme what they were making him do and he came home and you know what he said
to his wife when he came home that day after they made him just endure this
torture you know I had some kind of training or something you know what he
said when he got home he just said you know what I'm never gonna complain about
soul winning again that's what he said I mean he's just like man he's like if I'm willing to do this
for my job I should be willing to do it for God you know I mean what really
matters the most to you in life