1 Corinthians 14 verse 19 reads,
yet in the church, I had rather speak five words with my understanding
that by my voice I might teach others also than ten thousand words
and an unknown tongue.
Now, Paul here is saying that he would rather speak a few words
if they could only understand.
And the first point I want to give the first tip is that our goal
should be to speak clearly because it's our ultimate goal, right?
To make sure that they understand us.
And we want them to understand us.
And the best way to do that is make sure that we're clear.
We want to use we want to use clear vocabulary.
We don't want to use fancy words that, you know, most people don't use.
We want to use scriptures that are easy to understand, not just extremely
complicated scriptures that you have to just sit there
and spend a couple of minutes explaining, you know.
Obviously, there's an exception to that role.
If you're talking about a certain topic or something,
maybe you might have to use a verse that's a little more complicated.
But as a general rule of thumb, what do you want to use?
Simple verses that are easy to be understood and simple vocabulary
as well as explanations as well.
But the second point I want to talk about, I want to read the scripture, though.
It says, first John five, first John five, 10 through 11,
and says, He that believeth on the Son of God had the witness in himself.
He that believeth not God hath made him a liar
because he believed not the record that God gave of his son.
And this is a record that God hath given to us eternal life.
And this life is in his son.
Now, the second tip I want to give to kind of help your sorting presentation,
make it well rounded is you need to ask questions.
Now, the way the reason why I'm connecting it to first John five is because
you can tell if someone is is is saved or you can tell if it's our ultimate goal
that for them to understand the things of the gospel, like eternal security
and believe in Jesus Christ.
And if we ask questions about that, we can find out,
you know, if they're understanding us. Right.
That's the first point of the tip is we want to make sure they understand us.
So to help us understand if there are I'm sorry, my voice keeps racking up.
It's been a while, guys. OK, so bear with me.
The the first thing that we want to do is make sure they understand.
But the second thing that we can do to help us understand
if they're understanding us is to ask questions.
And it's particularly about Jesus Christ, about our security,
because first John five tells us that if they believe those things
and, you know, they have the record inside of them.
But a couple of a couple of example questions that I can give you
that we all use, but they're simple, right?
We want to be simple is about our security, right?
Just ask them, hey, you know, let's say you got saved today,
but you never served God afterwards.
You know, would you go to heaven?
That's a very basic question, but it's very clear.
It's very easy to understand and it could show their heart.
It could show whether or not they're understanding.
It could show whether or not they're they're, you know,
going to get it because of the fact that first five
tells us that our security is a gift.
Another question, very, very simple, but it gets the point across.
It helps you understand if they're getting what you're saying.
And that is at the very end of your presentation, ask them, hey, you know,
what do you personally believe that you have to do to go to heaven?
That'll tell you right there if they have been listening,
if they've been getting what you've been saying, very simple.
But these simple questions can really help you as a soul
winner, make sure that the person you're talking to is understanding you.
And that's our main goal.
We want them to understand the gospel.
Lastly, we want to give examples.
John four, verses 13 to 14, says Jesus answered and said unto her,
whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again.
But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst.
But the water that I shall give him shall be in him
a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
Now, here Jesus is illustrating eternal security with drinking water
and illustrating like eternal security is like drinking water.
That'll quench all thirst forever as a perfect example for eternal security.
But my point in showing this verse is, you know, Jesus was illustrating
salvation, you know, with with things we can understand from day to day.
So we want to make sure we have illustrations in our
so many presentations already mentioned the gift illustration.
But you could use the fall of sun illustration.
You could use different illustrations in the Bible.
But it helps people understand when you get these illustrations.
So that's why I put that in there as well.
So number one, we need to make sure that we're clear.
We want to use clear vocabulary.
We want to use scriptures that are not so complicated and hard to understand.
And secondly, we want to ask questions
so that we can see whether or not the person is understanding us,
see whether or not they're getting it.
And of course, at the end, make sure that they believe the whole thing.
And thirdly, we want to give to give examples,
because Jesus even gave examples when he was preaching
when he was given the gospel.
He gave the illustration of the water for our security.
But I hope those I know maybe you guys who've been here a while.
You guys already know the stuff, but maybe for those who are kind of newer,
put all those things together.
You know, make sure you're clear.
Make sure you ask questions.
Make sure you use illustrations and use simple verses.
And you could be a more effective and thorough soul winner by doing so.
But all right.
Let's just have a quick word of prayer and then that will pair going up.
Lord, I do thank you for this time that we had for me to give the tip.
I pray that you would
anyone who might need it, I pray you would help them to use it
and it'd be effective for them.
And I pray that you would fill us with your spirit as we go out and knock doors.
Lord, do thank you for the opportunity we have to go out again and knock doors again.
I pray you would just bring us those that want to hear the gospel
and help us to use the right words and the right verses and to be clear, Lord.
And I pray all these things in Christ's name. Amen.