Matthew Stuckey here and I'm getting another soul winning tip and in this
video I want to talk to you about the importance of finding out what is inside
the heart of the people that we talked to. In the previous video I talked about
that when we preach the gospel it is a conversation and not a lecture.
Of course we control the conversation but we do actually give them a chance to
interact as well.
The reason why is because we're trying to find out what is inside the heart of
the person. Realize that when somebody prays at the end just because they said
the words, you know, Jesus saved me,
that doesn't mean that they actually got saved. What it really comes down to is
what they actually believe inside their heart and so we want to give a chance to
find out what is inside their heart. The Bible says out of the abundance of the
heart the mouth speaketh but if we don't actually give them a chance to interact
with us we can't necessarily know what's inside their heart. You know we could
easily be wrong about that and so we're going to need to ask questions as we're
preaching the gospel and that's point number one is just simply ask questions
and give them a chance to speak.
But what I mainly want to focus on is point number two. When we ask these
questions we do not want to ask leading questions. And what I mean by that is we
don't want to ask questions in a way where it basically forces them to give
the right answer but it doesn't necessarily tell you for sure what was
inside of their heart. And this is something that you often see with new
soul owners because they're really focused on getting somebody to the end
of the conversation which of course is a good thing but sometimes they can
lighten the questions or you know basically ask leading questions in order
to get people through the questions and get to the end even though the person
might not actually believe along the way they might actually be confused or have
the wrong answer but they're sort of forced to give the right answer because
of the leading question. So I want to give you a couple examples of what I'm
talking about. So let's say you're going through the gospel and you go to Acts
chapter 16. You already explained that Jesus died, was buried, and rose again. Now
you're explaining that salvation is by belief and you you know show them Acts
chapter 16 and then you ask them so what does the Bible say that you have to do
to be saved? So you're going to pause and wait for their answer and you know
presumably they're going to say well you know belief assuming that they say
believe then what you're going to do is say well does it say that you have to be
a good person? They're going to be like no. Does it say you have to be baptized?
They're going to say no. And you can go through a series of questions but as you
can see you know when I'm asking those questions I'm not forcing them to give
the right answer. I just simply asked them what does it say that you have to
do to be saved? But you know sometimes people can ask questions like this when
they're preaching the gospel. So you know here it says that all you have to do to
be saved is believe right? Now I'm not saying that's a bad question but the
problem is if you didn't actually have them answer for themselves then it's
possible that they just said the right answer because they were basically led
into the right answer. I mean if you say to somebody the Bible says it's just by
faith right? Well they're going to say well yeah but that doesn't necessarily
mean that that's what they're actually thinking inside their heart. You want to
ask them questions so you can actually find out by what they respond and how
they respond if they're actually believing it or not. Of course it's not
two plus three equals five you know when we're trying to find out what is inside
their heart but what we can do is ask them questions and let their mouth speak
to give an indication of what is inside their heart. Or for example you could ask
them a question like this during the gospel. How long is eternal life? And then
they're going to say forever. Could you ever lose it? Is there anything you could
do where God would take away that eternal life and send you to hell? And so
you're asking questions to find out what they actually believe. However if you
were to ask a question like this it's eternal so that means that you could
never lose it right? Well you're basically giving them the right answer
and they're going to answer correctly because you basically told them what the
right answer was. Once again that doesn't necessarily indicate what's inside their
heart. And so for example you could say well what if you have eternal life but
one day you were to commit suicide? Will you go to heaven or hell? Now that
question is just you know very open to them to give the answer and I'm not
leading them into the right answer. I'm saying well you know you have eternal
life but what if you commit suicide one day? Now many people think that suicide
is a straight ticket to hell so by asking that question I'm not giving them
an indication that the answer is well you're still going to go to heaven. I'm
finding out what they actually believe. But if you were to say something like
this, suicide will not send you to hell because you have eternal life. What do
you think? Well I'm not saying it's a bad question but I'm saying you just gave
them the answer and then you ask them right afterwards. It's better to ask them
a question without giving the leading answer and here's the thing if they
answer correctly it's an indication they got it. If they answer incorrectly then
you're going to explain why suicide does not send you to hell and give them
verses and then you're going to ask them at the end you know what do you think
about that? And so of course you might have to resort to that where basically
you give the answer but the goal is to actually ask the question ahead of time
without giving the answer to see what they believe and if they don't believe
correctly then you're going to show them why that will not cause you to lose your
salvation and then to the best of your ability you're going to ask them a
question again just to find out what's in their heart without forcing them to
say the right answer. And so those are just a couple examples but a person gets
saved by what they believe and so the words are an indication of what they
believe. However we have to actually find out what is inside their heart and the
way to do that is to actually have a conversation with them ask questions and
don't ask leading questions because you want to find out what they actually
believe and if all you do is ask leading questions and kind of force them to say
the right things you know you're probably going to get them to pray at
the end but the problem is they might not actually believe it and so if they
don't actually believe it and they're just merely saying the words at the end
then they're not actually getting saved. So this soul winning tip is just simply
find out what is inside their heart. Anyways thank you and God bless.