 Okay, good morning everyone. Welcome to the second session of Lifestyle Evangelism. So what we did last week was we looked at the urgency and the need for sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We looked at why is it important to share Jesus to people around us, right? So today we will move on to chapter 2. We'll talk about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, meaning now first chapter we talked about the importance. So now we're going to talk about what are we sharing, right? We emphasize that we have to share the Gospel to people around us, but what is it that we are sharing? So we will pick up from chapter 2 if you're following on the notes. If you have questions in between, feel free to stop me, ask a question or you can also post it on the chat and we will be able to answer those questions. Alright, so the second chapter, the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Now we are to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ that is what Jesus did through His death, His burial, His resurrection, right? So basically that is the Gospel, I'm sure most of us know it, most of us are believers for probably many years now. But we are to preach what Jesus did on the cross through His death, burial and resurrection. So when we do that, we are calling people to repentance, to receive forgiveness of sins and to have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, right? So that is the Gospel, right? Let's read 1 Corinthians chapter 15 verse 1 to 3. Could one of us please read that? 1 Corinthians chapter 15 verses 1 to 3. 1 Corinthians chapter 15 verses 1. Now brothers, I want to remind you of the Gospel I preached to you which you received and on which you have taken your stand. Yeah, till verse 3. 1 to 3. Your stand. By this Gospel you are saved. If you hold firmly to the word I preached to you, otherwise you have believed in vain. For what I received, I passed on to you as your first importance that Christ died for ever since according to the Scriptures. Amen. Thank you. So we see here that Paul is writing to the Corinthians and he's saying the message we preached is the death, the burial, the resurrection. That is the message. That's the Gospel message that we shared. And after that he says, if we read on, he says through this message we called people into repentance and forgiveness of sins to have faith in Jesus Christ. So let's look at the message of the cross, right? Firstly, the Gospel is the message of the cross. Now there are plenty of messages in this world, right? Some of them have motivational speeches. Some of them have powerful speeches all around we see. But the most powerful message that has ever been preached is the message of the cross of Jesus Christ. It is the most powerful message that anybody can ever preach. Now here's the thing, God has chosen this foolish method of preaching the Gospel to save people. So here's the thing, it may look if you get an opportunity to share the Gospel. And I've gone through so many situations where I felt, isn't there some other way to reach out to this person? But here's the thing, God has chosen this simple yet it may sound foolish, but the message is shared. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is shared through preaching and communicating to people. That's how it's shared, right? Yes, there are other ways we can also share the Gospel. We have worship, we have our own testimonies that we can share and then bring in the Gospel. But I want each of you to remember this, right? That the message of the cross is the most powerful message that you and I can talk about. It's the most powerful message. And God is calling us to preach this message or to share this same message to the people around us. Let's read 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 17 to 24. 1 Corinthians chapter 1, 17 to 24. 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 17 to 24. For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the Gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect. For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through wisdom did not know God, it cleansed God through the foolishness of the message preached and saved those who believe. For Jews request a sign. For Jews request a sign and Greeks seek after wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified to the Jews, a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Divya. So we see here, Paul is saying, he ends that whole passage. The message of the cross is both the power of God and the wisdom of God. The message of the cross is both the power of God and the wisdom of God. Now, you should go ahead and go to YouTube sometime and see this from a person named Brother A.A. Allen. I think there should be a couple of videos where he's a powerful preacher and he got used to him as a healing evangelist in the early 1950s. And here's what he does. All he does is he preaches the message of the cross. That's all he does. He says, this is what the cross is. This is what we can achieve when we believe in the cross. This is what Jesus did on the cross. He crushed the enemy and then he would call people to repentance. And in his ministry, there are plenty of healings and deliverance. Many people's lives have been touched. Here's the thing. All he did was shared the gospel of the cross, the message of the cross, which is the power of God. Two, the gospel is the wisdom of God. Now, Paul is writing to the Corinthians where the Corinthians are people who are intellectuals. And they wanted intellectual ways of understanding God. But here's the thing. Paul is saying, it is foolishness to you who are perishing. But to those who are saved, it is the wisdom of God. How can I be wisdom? Jesus died 20 or 2000 odd years back. And his blood that he died on the cross is cleansing us from our sins right now, 2018 or 20 years later. Does it make sense? If you think of it, it doesn't make sense. A lot of young people have come up to me at church and they ask me, Pastor, you know what? Jesus died so many years back in Jerusalem. And now his blood is cleansing us from our sins. It doesn't make sense. Yes, it doesn't make sense. But here's the thing. It is the wisdom of God unto salvation. The blood of Jesus cleanses us from all unrighteousness. Right? Let's look at the second point here. The power of the gospel. Romans chapter one and verse 16. Could one of us read that please? I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes first for the Jew. Then for the Gentiles. Amen. Thank you, Rosalind. Right. So we see here, Paul is using the word salvation. Now the Greek word for salvation is sozo. The word sozo is found in the New Testament more than about 110 times. Now this is not just a word. This is a power packed word filled with power filled with authority. So we're going to look at what this word really means. Right? So it's not like sozo is salvation. No, it's got many attributes attached to it. Right? First one. It includes spiritual salvation. That is what forgiveness of sins. It includes healing from sicknesses, healing from deliverance. Every work of the enemy, we are rescued from it and total wellness. That's what sozo is. And so when Paul is writing in the New Testament, he's saying the word salvation. What he's saying is not just, you know, salvation, meaning, okay, you believe in Jesus. No, after believing in Jesus, okay, we are saved. We will not be going to hell. No, it includes forgiveness of sins, healing of sicknesses, deliverance from the work of the enemy, preservation from danger and total wholeness. Right? Deliverance from the work of the enemy. So imagine you and I have accepted the Lord Jesus. We have salvation. You and I have deliverance from every work of the enemy. You know, as believers, yes, the enemy comes, he attacks us, he attacks our mind. But remember this, you and I have sozo inside us. That means what? Deliverance from every work of the enemy. Let me just share this. You know, as the sessions go on, I'll just share a few examples of what happened. Here are some instances in my personal life. And so I remember this. So probably about 23 or 24 years old. I'd gone to another place to minister in North India. It was in Rajasthan. And that was that we kind of pray. We had a small meeting and we were praying and we preached the word. And after preaching the word, people lined up for prayer. And during this time, all of a sudden this, this man, right? He began to manifest, right? He was manifesting and the demons were, you know, manifesting inside him and all of that. And it really made me scared, right? As a young boy, I mean, I know the gospel, but I've never seen anything like this before. You know, I just shook, maybe really scared, but I remember that day, that moment, the Holy Spirit telling me, I have given you the authority, right? You have power to deliver and you are delivered from the enemy and you have power to deliver this person from the enemy. Now I didn't go to any Bible college. I didn't study anything, right? All I knew is, okay, a few chapters in the New Testament, a few things from the Old Testament. I said, okay, if God has given me this authority that I am delivered from the works of the devil, God has also given me the authority to, you know, deliver this person out of this demonic activity. And so all I did was said, began to pray. I said, Lord Jesus, buy your stripes, this person is here. Just a regular prayer. There was no screaming, no shouting, just a simple prayer. And maybe about 15 odd minutes later, you know, he was delivered from these demons, right? That's all I did, right? There was no screaming, no shouting. I did not do anything, no anointing, oil, nothing. Just the message of the cross and the demon's fleet, right? Now, here's the thing, you and I need to know that authority that we have, amen? We need to know that. So so it means to be saved, to be healed, to be delivered, to be victorious, to be rescued, to be preserved. All these things in one word. So so means to be saved out of the devil's power and restored into the wholeness of God's order. And being in well-being with the power of God's spirit. So basically we're saying we are out of the power of the devil into the power of light, into God's light. If you can get a hand of this book called The Tone Vail by Gulshan Estes, it's a powerful book. It talks about how, you know, God just, the Lord supernaturally, she came from a Muslim background, a rich family. But how the Lord Jesus supernaturally just restored her, she was paralyzed as a little child itself. And God restored her completely wholeness in her body. And she accepted the gospel of Jesus Christ and God used her powerfully in different parts of, especially Pakistan and then in England. So the name of the book is The Tone Vail by Gulshan Estes. Then sozo means salvation, which means what? Healing also, right? Sozo means healing. Now when we see the Lord Jesus, he ministered and he healed everyone, right? And later on we also see the disciples did powerful miracles and wonders among the people. Now remember this, if you and I have received salvation, that is sozo, we are healed. And since we are healed, we can also go ahead and, you know, bring healing upon others, right? I remember this one time, I was in Andhra Pradesh and plenty, many years ago, we had gone into this little village to, you know, pray and to do, you know, just some few meetings, just three days, continuous meetings and during the meeting there were only about maybe 50 odd people. And after the first day, first session, I was very excited, you know, okay, three days, you're going to just share the word and all of that. After the first day, the first session, a blind man comes up to me, a young man, right? He comes up to me in his early 30s, comes up to me and he says, I like your message, but I want to see. And he's been blind from birth. He said, this is what he said, he said, I like your message, but I want to see. I've been blind from birth. Now I looked at him, he didn't even have eyeballs, right? It was just, and I prayed, nothing happened. And that evening we went back home and I did not get sleep. I was like, God, if you said that healing is ours and we are healed, then we are called to also bring healing upon others. So I began to pray that night, just began to ask God to bring healing on this person. The second day came, he came back and he said, I like your message, but I want to see, I'm blind. Nothing happened the second day as well. But on the third day, after a couple of sessions in the afternoon, I just felt the Holy Spirit saying, go ahead and pray for him, I'm going to do some miracle. And so I remember praying for this young man, early 30s, blind from birth, no eyeballs. I prayed, I said, God, you have said that we have salvation, we have healing in your name. So he just prayed a simple prayer, again, no screaming, no shouting, a simple prayer. And after the prayer, he had brand new eyes, brand new eyes. Not only was he surprised, I was even more surprised because I was wondering how did this happen? And I realized that over the years, the word of God, the gospel, the message of the cross is all that we need. And out of the message of the cross, the gospel of Jesus Christ flows all these gifts, abilities, talents and all the things that God has given us. Amen. One of the things that I learned at a very young age was not to go after these miracles and signs, wonders and all. It looks nice, right? It looks very nice. But here's the thing, you go after Jesus. You say, God, I'm coming after you. I want you to minister to me. I want the power of the cross to be made real in my life. And the more we do that, out of that relationship will flow the other things, miracles, signs, wonders, prophecies, word of knowledge, all of that will flow. Amen. So you and I have sozo in us. Sozo means deliverance from demonic powers. Sozo means preservation from danger. God preserves us from the works of the enemy. He does. Sozo is for everyone, right? So for example, you are sharing, you know, just trying to share the gospel with a friend. Remember that what you're sharing is not, you know, something that you've read in your school. No, no, it is the power of God unto salvation. The problem is nowadays, you know, when we look around, we see we have many other ways of sharing the gospel, right? Which is good. God gives us the wisdom to use different ways, right? For youth, you have a different way for elderly couples, for young couples, you have another way. Then for children, you have another way of sharing the gospel, which is all good. So we use all these different ways of sharing the gospel. But the message needs to be the cross. We cannot do away with the cross and say, okay, I shared the gospel. No. So always remember that sozo is for everyone. It could be the most insignificant person or he could be, you know, the greatest person in your nation. It's for everyone, right? Sozo is received by grace through faith, right? Now salvation is received by grace through faith. You know, at church, there was this young boy who once came, he was invited by another friend, he came up. After the Sunday service, he came up to me and he said, where is Jesus? Show me Jesus and I will believe in Jesus. Young boy, early 20s. I said, I know that Jesus is in my heart. Okay, show me your heart. You know, all these kind of things and there's the thing. He kept coming every week to church and I kept sharing with him. I didn't share my testimony, I didn't share big scriptures, this is what Moses did and all of those things. No, all I shared was, I kept saying, this is what the cross can do for you. This is what Jesus did, right? There is sin, you and I cannot deny it, but Jesus took care of that sin. That's all I shared and this is what Jesus did for us. You know, a simple message. Sometimes, you know, I myself, when I, when I preach this and I feel, oh, this is not enough. I need a PPT. I need some music, background music or I need some, you know, some instrument. No, no, we don't need anything. We just need the message of the cross to bring changes in people's life. So I was sharing with this young boy day after day, same message. One day he comes up to me and he says, there's something in this message and I don't know what it is and I knew he's going to become a believer. I knew that God is changing his heart and I just kept sharing the same thing. I didn't go into, you know, acts, Romans, nothing. Revelation, Old Testament, no, I just shared the message. About three months later, he accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal saviour. Now, why? Because it was the message of the cross that was shared. Now, you and I may have had opportunities before and we will get opportunities ahead. Go ahead and share the gospel, right? Because it's not about Paul is writing to the Corinthians. He's saying it's not eloquence of words, right? Of course, words are important. The way we put it across is important, but it's not the eloquence of the words. It's the message of the cross that is powerful, right? Let me give you this example. I was once in Gujarat and we were doing a conference, fastest conference there and this is way before early 20s. And after doing that conference, this old lady came up to me and said, you know, Pastor, can you come and share on Sunday in my church? And I said, okay, we are free on Sunday. So I said, okay, we can. She said, okay, it's deep in the jungles of Gujarat. So what I'll do is I'll get a vehicle and then we can go on Sunday morning. So the vehicle came and we went deep into the jungles about 45 minutes deep into like the forests of Gujarat. And we went there and what shocked me was there were about 600 people sitting there. I looked at this woman and I said, this is your church. She said, yes, this is my church. And I said, and she said, you know, I remember speaking to her, she had mentioned that she doesn't know how to read, she doesn't know how to write. So I said, you don't know how to read and write, but you got about 600 people in your church. She said, yes, all I do week after week is share the message of the cross. The same message, you know, I shared about what Jesus did. Of course, after that, we encouraged her to begin to read other scriptures and but what am I trying to bring? The point I'm trying to bring is that the cross, the message of the cross is enough for you and me. It is enough. There's nothing more that Jesus needs to do. There's nothing more that we have to do to bring salvation into people's lives. We just have to invite people and let them experience the power of God. Right. So let's look at how we are to present the gospel. Right. Now, there are a few key elements that we should remember and that we will cover in this topic. Right. We have to make improvisations when we speak. Now, when we are preaching in a church, it's a different setting. When we're preaching in maybe a college, it's a different setting. Maybe when we're preaching or sharing the gospel to your friend or somebody who's a non-believer, it's different. Right. So we need to gauge the setting that we are in. But no matter what the setting is, we are to present the full gospel. The full gospel. We are to present that no matter what the setting is. You know, we get a lot of opportunities to go into colleges. Right. We go into a lot of colleges here in the city of Mangalore as well, nursing colleges, engineering colleges, and IT colleges here. And one of the things that we do is we get about 1,500 students sitting in the auditorium. Now, it could be nerve wracking because there's a mixed crowd. You've got some believers. You've got maybe 80% of them are non-believers and they don't believe in Jesus. But there you are. And sometimes, you know, they're not listening. Sometimes they are, you know, very disturbed and they don't like listening to all things about God. There are atheists and all kinds of people. Initially, it could be nerve wracking. Right. But here's the thing. One of the things that we always tell ourselves is it's not the eloquence of speech. It is not how I've prepared the sermon. Yes. All that is important. But it is about presenting the gospel of Jesus Christ in its fullness. And the more we do that, the more we know that the power of God is going to touch people's lives. Right. So let's look at a few aspects that we have to remember while presenting the gospel. First one is the existence of God and its nature. Now, as you go on to the next semester, you'll have a subject called eschatology, which is end times. And then you'll also have a subject called apologetics, which is giving a defense for the gospel. Right. Now, in apologetics, you will learn more in detail how to give a defense. Right. To a Muslim or to her Hindu or to an atheist. But here we're just going to do an overview of things that we should remember while presenting the gospel. The existence of God and the aspects of his nature. A lot of people don't believe that God exists. Right. So important. We need to present the gospel and say here, you know, God exists. Now, people will say that's what you believe or people may not agree with you. That's okay. Right. It's okay. You go ahead and share what, why you feel that God exists, present the gospel to them, show them through the word of God. To talk to them about the problem of sin and its consequences. Everyone in this world sin. Right. So you present them. See, that's sin. We are sinful in nature. Right. I remember talking to this man, he was married and he had a little boy and he said to me, he used to tell me, you know what, how can they be a God when you see all these things happening? Common question. And I told him, it's the sinful nature of man. Said, what is that? I don't believe in all of that. So I told him, you have a three year old boy. He said, yes. Why did you teach him to lie? He said, I didn't teach him to lie. I said, no, then he lies. No, I didn't teach him. So how did he learn to lie? How does a three year old child learn to lie? He just knows it. It's by nature. Right. Okay. All of you are looking like we have never lied. No. Right. It's by nature. So I remember presenting the gospel to him and just that one sentence of, you know, nobody thought your child to lie. And it opened up a whole new thing for him and we began to share the gospel with him. Thirdly, everyone needs a savior. We looked at that in chapter one as well. Jesus is the only savior. Right. He's our savior. He's our deliverer. He's our healer. So when you look at what Jesus did in the scriptures, you present the message of the cross to them. Right. Then you look at, you can present to them God's promises and his invitation. Right. His invitation to repent and to believe. And when we respond, what happens to us? You know, we are a new person and we can minister through the gifts of the spirit. things that we must do now remember that you know as we you know some of us may say I have never shared the gospel to somebody to anybody not even my friends or some of us may say I'm an introvert or some of us again say you know I don't know how to speak you know we may have a lot of these inhibitions I would say but as we go on we we'll also look at overcoming inhibitions here's the thing we are to overcome every inhibition that comes our way right because if the enemy is stopping us from sharing the gospel or presenting the gospel we need to overcome that we need to tell the enemy hey God has called me right the enemy may come and say what are you you know I've had that experience enemy you are nobody you know you you can't preach the gospel or you can't share the message you haven't gone to bible college or you haven't done this you haven't done that that's the work of the enemy but what is our work our work is to present the message of the cross the gospel of Jesus Christ to be spread across this land right so we're going to look at a few aspects right uh how to share the gospel in five minutes then you got a two-minute testimony on sharing the gospel and the work of the Holy Spirit towards those who are unsaved right now the gospel in five minutes there's something called as the four spiritual laws now as I'm sharing this now remember that you know you may get an opportunity to share the gospel with somebody don't don't go back to your lifestyle evangelism book and say okay God what are the four spiritual laws let me share no right you can do it in your own way in your own style right we've all got our own style but these are just some guidelines right that we can use as we're presenting the gospel right so four spiritual laws first one every man is a sinner right now let's read Romans chapter 3 verse 10 Romans chapter 3 in verse 10 what shall we conclude are we as it is written there is no one righteous not even one yeah thank you Rosalind yeah so it says there there is no one righteous not even one one so a person may be born in a palace for the richest person in the world a person may be born in a village in a hut right there is no one righteous not even one so first law every man is a sinner right remember we shared last week that you know whether they're rich or the poor every person right needs a savior right every person needs a savior so two sin has its consequences now when we sin sin has its consequences let's read Romans chapter 6 verse 23 for all have sinned for the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord yeah though thank you Rosalind the wages of sin is death the gift of God is eternal life so every man is a sinner two the wages of sin is death three God's love and what Jesus did on the cross is a provision for us to come back to God right let's read Romans chapter 5 in verse 8 but God demonstrates his own love for us in this while we were still sinners Christ died for us amen amen thank you Rosalind God demonstrates his love for us that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us right fourth point when you believe you will be saved right now let me give you this example right there was this this happened in the early 60s there was this prison in the west called Angola prison and here were kept the most devious criminals the most dangerous criminals were all locked up in this Angola prison it was way away from the city and only people on death row were taken to this prison Angola prison even the police officers many of them were killed by the inmates and it was the most terrible place to be in right and so none of these police chiefs wanted to work in that place right so what happened was there was this man in his early 40s he was a believer he was a he was a police officer and he believed in the Lord Jesus he believed in the power of God and all of that and he took up this responsibility of Angola prison so his friends and his family said why do you want to do this why your life is in danger if you go there there are a bunch of criminals and you know they they are just so dangerous people that he said no don't worry the gospel the message the power of God is with me and he went to that place and he began you know looking after the entire prison and what happened he first thing he did was he kept bibles in the locker rooms and he made Bible scriptures and he would stick it up everywhere so people would read it and the inmates would go and tear it off they would tear the Bibles in front of them you know the people and in front of the police and they tear it up purposely and throw it all over the place but this man was not discouraged because he knew that you know there is a way and only God could change them he knew that only God could change their life so he went on and he kept new Bibles again and out of boredom you know most of the inmates are in their room for about 20 hours in solitary confinement no light nothing 20 to 22 hours there so they had nothing to do so there was this chief leader in the group and I'm just cutting the story short he had nothing to do he saw the Bible they said okay what do I do let me just read it he opened his book the Bible and the first verse he got was Romans 5.8 he read that and his eyes began to water and he kept reading that over and over and over again and miraculously after a couple of days he accepted the Lord Jesus Christ and through him he began to share the gospel to everyone in the prison and a couple of years maybe two years or later and Gola prison had about 5000 people in their church services in the prison 5000 people sitting in church services and Gola prison became the most safest prison in the world why because of the gospel of Jesus Christ right and this and he goes on to write that you know this person the chief was going to they were going to execute him right so they were the the main police officer he went this chief who's going to be executed went and hugged the police officer and said I'm going to see you in heaven thank you for sharing the gospel with me thank you for letting me know that I'm not with the enemy but Christ Jesus made a provision for me and now when I die I'm going to this execution chamber not as a sinner but as a righteous man when I die I'll see you I'll I'll meet you up in heaven that was the assurance that this man you know had and in the Angola prison they did there were two paintings which is really famous in the prison one side of the painting was the cross of Jesus Christ on the wall on the other side was the spirit of God taking up Elijah into heaven and one of the police officers asked what is this painting said if I die I know I'll be with the Lord Jesus through the cross if I don't die the Lord Jesus can take me up it was just a way of sharing their faith to the people around so here's the thing sin separates us but God made a provision through Christ Jesus and he brought us back with the price paid through the cross that's the four spiritual laws every man is a sinner sin has its consequences God's love brought us back and when we believe we will be saved the second way of sharing the gospel is from the book of Genesis to the point of Jesus Christ so you talk about creation why God created us what is the purpose that God created us okay we God created us to have a relationship with him but what happened Adam sinned and since Adam sinned you know it had its consequences what happened sin came in because sin came we were separated from God then man tries to attempt to reach God through the Old Testament we study Old Testament all these sacrifices of course God has commanded them but it's also man's attempt to reach God finally the through the cross of Christ God reaches out to man and then you get and get the fifth point the invitation to believe in a couple of years back in Mangalore we had a we had a meeting it was a youth conference or a youth concert so what we usually do is we have a youth concert we invite people from all over the city why don't you come for this youth concert we have a good band and then we have some gospel songs and after the gospel songs we bring in the message the gospel of Jesus Christ just a simple five five to ten minute message then we invite people to believe and this happened in 2018 or 19 I guess 2019 and we had invited a few people we invited many of them a few people came about 150 odd people this was a big auditorium right and the band finished their songs and then you know I just came in and I began to share the message of the cross just a simple message right very prayerfully I prepared it I said God these guys may be intellectuals these guys are all you know going studying to be doctors and engineers and all of it God this may not make sense to them but I'm trusting in your word which says that the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing but it's the power of God unto salvation so the next after the band played I just came in and I just began to share I said this is what has happened I exactly I shared on this the five points of Genesis to Christ and then we did an open altar call maybe about two people came but after the meeting you know we got to speak to a few of them and and then next week a young man came into church and he said to me he came and he said I attended your concert and I was so upset that I wanted to come and take the mic away from you thank God he didn't do that but he was so upset he said I'm so upset with you know nobody you know comes up and speaks about Jesus and about God like that we have freedom of religion all of that he started but I wanted I got so upset I I wanted to storm out of that place but I just couldn't so I just sat there and I thought the next day I will call you and I'll give you a piece of my mind but he couldn't do that but over the last two three days that message was ringing in his ear day in and day out so two days that message was just going on you know man I'm a sinner I'm away from God I need Christ and so for two days he could not concentrate on his classes so he was waiting for Sunday he somehow found our you know location and he came to church and he said to me two days I haven't eaten well I haven't slept well why because this message that you spoke about kept ringing in my ear and I said can I share it to you more in detail he said no I don't want to listen to it I said all right you're free to come back anytime you want he went out of the church he came back after five minutes he said okay tell me what you want to tell me and I began sharing with him I said this is what it is it's the truth simple I didn't share my testimony nothing right then and there he fell on his knees crying and he said I accept this message I don't understand it but I accept this grace and faith in Jesus Christ that is the message that we are sharing right now quickly let's look at a two-minute testimony now what if you have two minutes with your friend you're at the bus stop you have two minutes you can talk about how you had your salvation experience right your life before you met Christ and after you have you know how you received Christ and what changes happened in your life right these are just just two minutes you can share about it or then you can talk about divine interventions like we were in need maybe if a job you say hey you know what I prayed like this I was looking out for a job I prayed to the Lord Jesus and you know a couple of days later I got this opportunity job opportunity and now I'm working and and so it stirs up the other person as well you can also talk about what the Lord did for you in your life right and finally you can talk about what the Lord Jesus can do to that person who is struggling or going through difficulty and bring and talk about salvation as well so so yes we don't have to separate these four spiritual laws and a two-minute testimony all of that you can always combine it you can do the four split you know share the message combine your testimony within it but the point is to share the full message of Jesus Christ right and as we go on from next class onwards we will also look at how to share the gospel right power and love right it's not that just because we know Jesus we have the power of God in us we become authoritative and say hey if you don't listen the Satan will come and sit on you on cause trouble now there's a way to minister the gospel right and so that we will look at the next class all right anybody have any questions any thoughts you want to share before we close everyone okay is it okay is the class are you able to track along yeah the class is okay thank you very much pastor god bless you so much we appreciate God bless god bless let's just close in prayer uh right father we want to thank you for this wonderful opportunity lord what a joy it is to be in your kingdom what a joy it is to have received salvation the sozo of God in our lives and Lord we thank you that you have commissioned each one of us to go forth and declare the sozo into people's lives to declare the power of God Lord as we go through this course and study on how we go about doing it we ask God that your Holy Spirit will empower us your Holy Spirit will grant us the wisdom that we need and Lord that we may walk in the ways of God we thank you God that you have called each one of us to be a light in darkness of God we we pray God for the students each one of them we pray Lord that as they continue this week that your Holy Spirit will empower them and teach them and they will learn from your word that everything they learn Lord will be rooted into their hearts and their spirit Lord we thank you we give you all the glory honor and praise in Jesus name we pray amen amen God bless you all have a wonderful week uh see you next week God bless thank you