Month: July 2022

“And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me” (Psalm 50: 15).

Here is a promise for all time, never dated, and never too late to be claimed. It is a “tried and proved” promise. It calls for THE SIMPEST POSSIBLE OUTCRY: ” … call upon me … ” When all is lost we can still cry, and the one to cry to is the Lord. That cry is the simplest possible thing which could be demanded. No time limit is put on this cry. It does not say cry early on the Lord. No, the promise is as wide as possible in its invitation. There are no limits to the grace and goodness of God. Just call on the Lord, not on the church, not on the minister of the church, but upon the Lord of the church. Go to the top where the real power is. The Lord never breaks His Word. You can depend on no one else but Him.

THE GREATEST POSSIBLE OUTCOME: ” … I will deliver thee … ” How great will the outcome be! God will deliver thee. The way of deliverance, the method of deliverance, the time of deliverance, or the manner of deliverance are not even mentioned. Those are matters of God’s sovereign love.

But the greatest possible outcome is guaranteed, deliverance is absolutely sure. Back of the promise is the “I will” of the Almighty God who ” … fainteth not, neither is weary … ” (Isaiah 40:28). Heaven and earth will pass away, but this word of His will never pass away. Call and depend upon it, the answer will be yours.

THE HAPPIEST POSSIBLE OUTLET: ” … and thou shalt glorify me.” What an outlet of praise, behavior, and witness will be the result. There will be happy acknowledgement that it is the Lord’s doing. God will be given all the glory. There will be happy contentment. The winter will be over at last, and the times of our delivering God will overflow our hearts. There will be happy impartment. Telling others will be our happy employment. Praise the Lord!

The bugles of God sound the advance! Faith knows nothing of retreat! The Lord of hosts is with us. The devil is a defeated foe. The bitter cry of the unsaved millions, “Come over … and help us” (Acts16:9), is only less powerful than the thrilling command of the Lord Jesus Christ, ” … Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16: 15). Unreached tribes, unevangelized areas, closed lands – we face them boldly in the power of the Spirit, and with faith, prayer, love, and sacrifice. Lift up the banner of the cross! On…on…for the Lord hath delivered them into our hands!

LOOK ON THE FIELDS!

Millions benighted in superstition-ridden Confucianism and demon-haunted Taoism; millions steeped in the groveling idolatry of Hinduism; millions crowding the sorrowful temples of Buddha; millions in the ugly grip of sensual, degrading, fanatical Mohammedanism.

Millions debased themselves in the shrines of Shintoism; millions groping in the fear-haunted darkness of animism and fetishism; millions shadowed beneath the sinister cloak of false, apostate Rome; millions of Jews rejecting Him, Who is the glory of God’s people Israel; and millions without number, nurtured, trained, lost and perishing in the cold, insubstantial, futile atmosphere of dialectical materialism, political delusion, and Christ-crucifying secularism – a mighty host marching to the grave without Christ!

IS IT NOTHING TO YOU?

A gigantic task! True, but we have a mighty God, a mighty Gospel, a mighty power! Mighty and Almighty! ” … greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world” (1 John4:4). The Lamb of God is still on the throne!

We do not believe in the so-called “Christianizing” of mankind. We deny the inevitability of progress. We have no faith in social reform to meet the heart-need, nor in humanism to elevate character, nor in education to usher in a new world order. We abominate futile, discredited, apostate modernism. For one thing and one thing only do we stand: world evangelization. Ours the high calling to tell out the good news of salvation through the blood o God’s Son, Jesus, wherever the foot of man has trod!

“The best tonic I know,” wrote that veteran warrior, C. T. Studd, “is to remember we are in for the final great fight, the evangelization of the unevangelized. It is God’s will, and He will not fail! The best cure for discouragement and qualms is another daring plunge of faith!”

Our God honours faith, answers prayer, and works wonders!

Onward with God for evangelization! He will not fail!

Each believer is bound by his own voluntary profession as well as by the command of the ascended Lord – to act with as much earnestness and energy in giving forth the Gospel as if none but himself were summoned to the service, as if none but himself were chargeable with the world’s continued darkness. The evangelization of the world must be the one great object to which life, labour, and means are consecrated!

If we are to witness yet greater triumphs of the cross, there must be a deeper yieldedness to Christ, a daily walk with Him, a constant seeking His will, a definite expression of Calvary love and holiness, in obedience, self-denial, and prayer, and a real launching out in faith in the power and wisdom of God-for the accomplishment of His will. So shall we be strong and do exploits.

A leader like Moses, who refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, but was willing to go with God.

Army generals like Joshua, who knew God and could pray and shout things to pass rather than blow them to pieces with atomic energy.

A food administrator like Joseph who knew God and had the answer to famine.

Preachers like Peter, who would not be afraid to look people in the eye, and say, “Repent or perish,” and denounce their personal as well as national sins.

Mothers like Hannah, who would pray for a child that she might give him to God, rather than women who are delinquent mothers of delinquent children.

Children like Samuel, who would talk to God in the night hours.

Physicians like Luke, who could care for physical needs and introduce their patients to Jesus Christ who is a specialist in spiritual trouble.

A God like Israel’s instead of the dollar god, the entertainment god, sports god and the auto god.

A Saviour like Jesus, who could and would save from the “guttermost to the uttermost.”

About a Godly Attitude Towards Unbelief

1.TRY THEM

“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world” (1 John 4:1).

2.MARK THEM

“Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them” (Romans 16:17).

3. REBUKE THEM

“This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith” (Titus 1:13).

4. HAVE NO FELLOWSHIP

“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them” (Ephesians 5:11).

5. WITHDRAW THYSELF

“Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us” (2 Thessalonians 3:6).

6. RECEIVE THEM NOT

“If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds” (2 John 1: 10-11 ).

To our day, false teachings are fostered by misplaced hospitality.

7. HAVE NO COMPANY WITH THEM

“And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed” (2 Thessalonians 3:14).

8. REJECT THEM

“A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject” (Titus 3: 10).

9. BE YE SEPARATE

“Wherefore come out from among them, and be y separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and will receive you” (2 Corinthians 6:17).