Matthew Stuckey here and I'm bringing you another soul winning tip and in the
last video we talked about having a plan as you go out soul winning and that
basically gives you your general steps that you're going to go through and the
verses that you're planning to use and kind of right after that associated is
you know practicing your plan which we'll talk about in the next video and
memorizing the Bible verses that you're planning to use and this is one thing
that new soul winners kind of make a mistake with because they're trying to
figure out how to explain all the verses and memorize the explanation but what
they really should do along with that is memorize the Bible verses. The reason why
is that when you memorize the Bible verses you're really going to deeply
understand them like you didn't before and it's actually going to be very easy
to understand how to explain the verses because it's just going to make perfect
sense to you. It's kind of like in math class if you have a problem and you know
you don't fully understand that what you're trying to do is just memorize
kind of the steps to solve that problem and that could be very difficult because
it's very easy to get a step out of order or do something slightly backwards
such as subtract five instead of add five or multiply by two instead of
divide by two or whatever and you know it can make you arrive at the wrong
conclusion and things get just very disorganized but if if you actually
understand it it's going to be pretty simple and so with Bible verses as well
especially the soul winning verses that you're planning to use preach in the
gospel these are verses you want to memorize. I'll give you just a perfect
example in John 3 verse 36 of how deep the Bible is. It says he that believeth
on the Sun hath everlasting life and so the first half of that verse talks about
he that believeth on the Sun someone who puts their trust on Jesus Christ half
everlasting life. You say what's so significant about that? Well the Bible
says hath everlasting life which is an old-fashioned word to say has everlasting
life so he that believeth on the Sun has everlasting life and what that indicates
is you receive everlasting life the moment you believe and not at the end of
your life. Now here's the thing if you don't memorize that verse then you know
what maybe you won't notice that but I remember memorizing that verse a long
time ago and I was like wow that's that's powerful because this is
something people are often confused with when it comes to the gospel they don't
understand that you receive everlasting life the moment you believe they hear
just believe and they're thinking sometimes okay as long as I just believe
my whole life then when I die then I'll receive that everlasting life. No the
Bible says actually the moment you believe you receive everlasting life and
that's just a small example but quite honestly all the Bible verses that
you're going to use for soul winning if you memorize them it's going to be like
wow that makes sense I understand that verse and then it is going to be so much
easier to know how to explain those verses so one thing you want to do is
memorize the verses and point number one why it's going to build your
understanding of those verses. Not only is it going to build your understanding
of those verses it's also going to build your confidence and see going back to
the example of math let's say you have a math test and you know you're trying to
memorize just kind of the order how to solve all these different types of
problems but you don't really understand it you're just trying to make sure you
don't mess up the order you know what you're not going to be all that
confident you're going to be kind of scared that you get the steps out of
order but see when you memorize the verses you actually have confidence now
here's the thing the Bible says one of the big things associated with preaching
the gospel is having boldness now of course boldness is something that comes
with praying for God to give you boldness and living a holy life and
those are going to be in future videos but part of it is doing the necessary
preparation of preaching the gospel which the Bible talks about and so part
of that is memorizing the verses and when you have those verses memorized
you're confident so if somebody says something out soul-winning and you know
they're trying to disagree with you or they're not sure about something you can
quote the verse and you know what there's your answer and you know the
power is in the Word of God and so by memorizing the Bible verses you know
it's actually going to give you a lot of confidence to go out preaching the
gospel one reason why people don't preach the gospel is they're kind of
nervous about it they're scared they just don't know if they'll explain it
correctly memorizing the verse is going to help with that so point number one
memorizing the verses builds your understanding point number two
memorizing the verse builds your confidence point number three memorizing
the verses is going to help keep the power in the Word of God see the Bible
says the word for the Word of God is quick and powerful which means alive and
powerful for the Word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any
two-edged sword piercing even did the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and
of the joints of the marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of
the heart and what that verse indicates is that the Word of God is alive and
powerful and it has a way to get on the inside like nothing else
ok now here's the thing one thing I've seen with people that are kind of new
it's so winning and this is understandable because whenever you're
new you know you're learning but one thing I've seen is people sometimes
misquote verses or they paraphrase verses and you know what if you do that
you could be losing some of the power in the Word of God if you forget a certain
phrase or kind of misquote it it's going to kind of lose its power and you know
when people get saved out soul winning it's not because the soul winner has
such wise words it's really because the Word of God has power and it's really
just simple explanations of the power that's already built inside of those
verses because the Word of God is quick and powerful it's alive and powerful and
so when you when you memorize the verses it's going to help you quote those
verses correctly it's going to help you explain those verses correctly and then
there's going to be power kept in those verses now I do believe when we're
preaching the gospel especially if you're new you should be trying to show
the verses but you know the truth is when people are new sometimes they're so
nervous that they misquote those verses even though they're they're trying to
read from them or you know they're just their thoughts are kind of all over the
place and so by memorizing the verses it's going to help avoid that problem so
the three points here on the importance of memorizing the verses is it will
build your understanding it will build your confidence and it will keep the
power in the Word of God so it's great if you have the zeal and desire to start
going soul winning and you're kind of new one thing you want to do is start
memorizing those those soul winning verses and I gave you kind of some some
lists in the last video of having a plan and so whichever plan you want to use
those three different things I gave you those three resources use a lot of
similar verses but just start memorizing those verses and you know
what you will not regret it so anyways thank you and God bless