 Apostle Paul writes to Romans and he says this in chapter 10 verses 14 and 15, how then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed and how shall they believe in him who they have not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher and how shall they be preached unless they are sent as it is written. How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things. God has put on a mandate on his church on you and I to bring the gospel to the world. The narrative or the idea that the world will come to us if the light shines brighter, if we are better Christians, if we get our act together, if we act a certain way that the world will see how great we are, how holy we are, how worthy we are that that will make him question us and say wow what a beautiful family you got, what a good life and put together family you got, what a great career you got, what a great person you are, what's the secret. Now that does happen and Bible says that our lives is a written letter to this world and some that the only the only example of Christ they will see that all has its place and we must live out a Christian life but Apostle Paul makes us to understand in this place that people cannot believe Jesus unless they hear the gospel and they can't hear the gospel unless somebody opens their mouth and begins to speak. Jesus calls us to be a great witnesses. He says that you will be witnesses in Samaria, Judea and all around the world. A witness doesn't have to have a perfect life, a witness doesn't have to have everything put together, a witness doesn't have to have everything in order in order to share what they've seen and what they've heard. The witness simply shares the experience and each and one of you in this place you have heard the good news. That good news has converted and changed your life. It's still working within you, the gospel still working in you and perfecting you and it's moving you forward. You're not where you used to be. You're not where you you want to be yet but you're not where you used to be. The gospel of Jesus Christ has changed you. Some of you it drastically changed you. Like we've heard a testimony today. The gospel of Jesus transformed her life completely. She could have been dead by now but today she's standing boldly in front of declaring that Jesus Christ has saved her life. But it took a preacher to preach a gospel in order for her to hear it, to receive it and to be saved. I want to challenge you church today that as a Christian it is our responsibility and it is our duty to share the gospel. The world doesn't know the truth. You know the truth. The world is confused. The world is in the darkness. The world is it's like a blind man leading a blind trying to find their way. The world is trying to see maybe maybe Krishna has some answers. Maybe Buddha has some answers. Maybe Islam has some answers. Maybe New Age. Maybe self-taught books have some answers. They don't know the truth. You know the truth. The truth has been revealed to you and it's up to you to share that truth so that they can believe. Apostle Paul says in Romans chapter 1 verses 13 and 14. If you can open it and read it or there'll be a scripture on the back. I want you to know, he's writing to Romans, dear brothers and sisters that I planned many times to visit you but I was prevented until now. I want to work among you and see spiritual fruit just as I have seen among other Gentiles for I have great sense of obligation to the people in both civilized world and the rest of the world to they educated and uneducated alike. So I am eager to come to you in Rome to preach the good news. That was an old T translation I believe. New King James Version he says this. I am a debtor both to Greeks and barbarians both wise and unwise. So as much as it is in me I am ready to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome also. Apostle Paul uses here a very interesting word. Apostle Paul says I am in debt to the gospel. I feel indebted to go to you Romans and preach the gospel. In the other translation the word obligated he uses word obligated. Apostle Paul saying I am obligated to go to Rome. Question arises. Apostle Paul who persuaded you or who gave you that obligation? You are saved right? You received Jesus Christ. Your eternity is secured. You are blessed. You know Jesus. You know the Scripture. Good for you Apostle Paul. Why would you take on such a heavy burden? Such a commitment to say that I am in debt. I am obligated to share the gospel with you Romans. I think the reason why Apostle Paul said that is because Apostle Paul understood one thing. The great commission of Jesus was not an option but it was a command. See when you treat the great commission of Jesus as an option as in by the way as you live your Christian life mention it to somebody but only if you like it if you feel comfortable and if you don't feel like you're gonna get rejected or God forbid you're gonna get mocked as a Christian or even thrown into the lens of the into the den of lions. Apostle Paul understood the mandate that was on his life. He understood that somebody took a risk to share the gospel with him. Somebody risked his life because understand Apostle Paul he used to be so he was the one that persecuted Christians. Somebody literally risked their life to share the gospel with Apostle Paul being sold back then so that he could hear the truth and he could be saved and he got saved so he's Apostle Paul now learning his newfound faith Christian faith learning that that Jesus is died for him and learning that somebody has risked his life so that his soul he's eternal soul could be secured. He says I am in debt to God to the people that share the gospel with me and to those that don't know the gospel. I am obligated to go out of my way to share the good news of the gospel with somebody. I can't I can't just sit on a bench I can't just sit at church and raise my hand and worship God and forget about a family member that doesn't know Christ and forget about my co-worker that doesn't know Jesus and struggling in addiction and drugs and pain and he's suffering trying to find the truth. I can't just forget about my schoolmates, my school, the people that are cutting themselves, people that are depressed, people that they don't know way out, people that that are lost and confused, they're struggling with suicidal tendencies and suicidal thoughts. I am in debt to them. I owe them to release the word of the good news from my mouth because unless I speak to them they can't hear it. If they can't hear it they can't believe it. Church you are sitting here today in this seat because somebody shared the gospel with you. It could have been your mom and your dad they brought to church but they felt obligated to raise you in a way of righteousness and to introduce to you the gospel. It could have been maybe your friend, your cousin invited you, your grandma prayed you out, your co-workers invited you. Whatever the case is you are here today because somebody took on a mandate and felt obligated, felt called to bring you into the kingdom of God, to share the word of God with you, to share the good news with you, to love on you, to care for you, to bring you to church, to bring you to the home group just to be there with you wherever you're at. I want to tell you today that the gospel rides on your shoulders now. The advancement of the kingdom of God, the advancement of the kingdom of the gospel right now sits on your shoulder and it's your job, it's your responsibility, it's your mandate, it is God's commandment for you to give it to others. You are in debt, it's like you know this corona virus is going around whatever your thoughts about it, it's your opinion but imagine is you stumbled upon vaccine and people all around you are dying. Let's say your grandma who's of age and has a lot of underlying conditions and she got it and you know there's chance, there's not a good chance that will survive and you come across a vaccine that will save her life. You're obligated, you are mandated to give it to that person to save their life. Even if she was not your relative, even if you had no emotional connection and if you had no no emotional attachment, if you have a vaccine for a problem then you owe it to them, owe it to the recipient to share it and that's why I think Apostle Paul, he chose his words carefully by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. He says I have a cure, I have a gospel, I have healing for the sick, I have a restoration of marriage for the broken, I have healing for the family that's fallen apart, I have an answer to the person who is struggling with suicidal tendencies. I have grace that God has given me to release to those who are in prisons. He says you will be a crime to me to not release it. The way it's released is through our mouth by sharing the gospel. See back to the commandment of Jesus to preach the gospel and make disciples. We're on the series of hitting a homerun and it's about winning souls and making disciples and we're trying to draw this point and this is just another side to what we've been talking about it. See when we all know Ten Commandments, right? Who knows Ten Commandments or at least most of them? Okay, four people, wow. Maybe we should go to the basics but I trust you, you know the Ten Commandments. See when we think of Ten Commandments we understand that there are commandments there must do and I believe most of us here even though understand we live under the, we don't live under the law, we live under the grace, the grace covers us, but I think most of us here we could say with with straightforward phase that I try to do and follow the Ten Commandments right? Love God with all your heart, do not have idols, honor your mother and father, don't be envious of your neighbors, don't covet, don't lie, don't she, don't bear false witness. Most of us here would say that you know to the best of my abilities I am following that. Why? Because it's a commandment. But when it comes to the commission, the great commission of Jesus, oftentimes the reason why we take it so lightly is because there is no word, there's not, no such a thing saying that Jesus said I commend you to preach the gospel. And therefore because there's no that word command in front of it, oftentimes we feel like it's a option to us as Christians. But it is a command church. We have to see it as a command. We have to see it as a command because first of all Jesus said it, second of all is because we hold the cure for the dying world. Most of you here you came to Jesus because you were a low point in your life and somebody brought hope to you, somebody brought cure to you, somebody brought freedom to you, somebody brought deliverance to you, somebody brought healing to you and you said you know what I want to follow that Jesus. I want to follow that man. He died for me, I'm gonna give my life to him. Today church, the mandate is on you. Apostle Paul, I believe in Romans as well, he writes and he says that as Christians we are part of an army. We're soldiers in God's army. And he says that, so I haven't been to army or anything of that sort but having a lot of friends and understanding what they're telling me is that you volunteer there but then you sign an oath. You make an oath to protect the country, protect the flag, protect the citizens, protect the Constitution. You volunteerly give yourself and you make an oath. You take an obligation, you're not required to, it's volunteer, but you take an obligation and whether you're in active duty or in reserves you are ready to do it and serve every time, anytime the country calls upon you. Amen? Right? Okay. So is we are in a spiritual army. Now we're not, Jesus is not gonna kick us out of the heaven because you didn't share the gospel. But Jesus is calling you, he's calling me and he's saying I want you to volunteer and take an oath, take an obligation to preach the gospel. Now that doesn't mean that preaching the gospel is gonna be in the same form that I'm doing it right now with the mic on the stage. It might be for some but for most of us it would be in our school, it would be with our workplace, it would be in our college, it would be at your work site, it would be with your company, your business. You if you are intentional, if you like Paul take it as an obligation as being indebted to the gospel, decide that I am gonna be intentional about sharing my faith, you will find opportunities. Come on. And the thing is, I know that is in the army, if you desert it, if you break your oath, there's consequences for it. I think same in the spiritual realm, when we desert our post as Christians, when we desert our calling as Christians, there are consequences. Now the consequences might not be to you but the consequences will be that devil will take another soul. Devil will drive somebody else to kill themselves. The consequences is that that family will be lost, that marriage will be destroyed and children will be affected by that. The consequences are there. So Jesus is calling us. Now this is not a guilt trip message, this is not this is to motivate us, to volunteer ourselves, to this great mandate, to take on that commission of Jesus and make that this is the great commission our mission. Go into the world and make disciples. You know today just few examples that I can bring to you but all of you here are sitting example, you know Bryson came to the church long, long time ago. Bryson, Bryson still he is an intern director right now but he came when he was a very young teenager. Somebody invited, somebody invited his sister and his sister invited him to come to church. Bryson he grew up in a Christian family but he was lost, he didn't know what he believed in. He says that he wasn't saved, his words and he came here and God touched him, the message was spoken and he received Jesus Christ and then he began to develop as a young man growing in God and bringing others to Christ and just being developed and today he is a already four years as an intern director. We had many people that come through the internship program through a school of ministry, teenagers in the summer right now what we have and God has used them to impact hundreds of people, literally impact their life for eternity and these people they will go back to the churches that go back into the respective communities and that impact that's made on their life will be lasting effect, those people will bring other people to Jesus, some of them will go into ministry, some of them will bring millions to Jesus and his impact because his sister brought him to church now he's bringing an impact in others. You've seen Alexander here on the stage you know you've been blessed by her, by her vocals, you've been blessed by the anointing of God that's on her life, she's been leading us into worship for many many years all of us enjoy it but there was a point that was somebody that took a step in Pasco High School and came to her and shared the gospel and invited her to church and when she came to church for the first time her life she just she said I felt like some little positive good vibes electricity was going through my body I don't know what it was and that and that when's the service I believe we still when's the services she gave her love to Jesus and today the war literally benefiting from her gifting from her talent from the anointing that God has in her life through albums through CDs through YouTube you and I every Sunday service every week are benefiting from it because somebody went out and shared the gospel with her invited her to church there's many Bryson's many Alexander's maybe you and I's that need to hear the gospel and their lives forever will be changed you and I need to pick up the baton and run this race because it was given to us let's not drop the ball church Jesus has done everything on his side the world is ready the question is are you ready are you willing to do it are you ready to go so here's four practical steps that I want you to remember and apply for this next three months as we are preparing to do three by three in next three months to see three people saved first thing I believe that we must do is pray for the opportunity to show the gospel in Romans chapter 1 verses 9 10 same story with Apostle Paul trying to get to Romans he says this for God is my witness who I am served with my spirit in the gospel of his son Jesus that without ceasing I make petitions of you always in my prayers making a request if by some means now at least I may find a way in the will of God to come to you he's talking about coming to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with them Apostle Paul says look I've been hindered I tried to come but I was not able to come he says so he didn't just just because the opportunity was not presenting to share the gospel he said well okay you know I tried in work he says I am praying for you always I am praying for you always because Apostle Paul understands this one thing that winning souls and making disciples is not a strategic thing it's a spiritual thing you don't just go out and say I'm gonna save somebody today no you can make a connection with somebody today God can save them through your connection and through you sharing the gospel like like like as I shared last week I believe he said we make connection God does the conversion but you have to understand that it starts with prayer anything that doesn't start with prayer it is doomed to fail if we're to answer this mandate and a call of God to reach out to the dying world it has to start with prayer so practically what what I want you to do is I want you to ask God and I want you to believe and and be receptive God the three people which three people do you want me to reach out this within this next three months for some it might be more some I'm a bit less but at least you get something done begin to ask God Lord which three people it might be your like I said it's your family could be your family member could be a co-worker could be somebody from school but God who do I need to reach out right now and then the names that will pop up write them down write them down reach out to them maybe I haven't talked to them in a while reach out to them make a connection that's my second point put an effort to make a contact I want you to notice what Apostle Paul says this to God be my witness that you know it's a first Roman chapter 13 he says I want you to know dear brothers and sisters that I have planned many times to visit you plan to make a connection plan to make a visit pray and get in touch with somebody reach out to somebody touch somebody be there pray and then put an effort to make a contact number three share the gospel share the gospel oftentimes what we can do is often times what happens is we make connections we are friends and we're like well I'm just gonna be friends I don't know I don't feel comfortable pushing my religion on them we're just gonna be friends if they ask me what if I go to church I'll tell them but I'm not gonna you know I'm not gonna just kind of push my religion on them Bible says they're ready to receive it and they can't believe it unless you share it you have to open your mouth to share it you have to talk to them there's many different ways to share it I'm not saying go around bashing people with ten commandments there's you know use wisdom you ask Holy Spirit to guide you in the process minister to them pray for them but you have to open your mouth and share the good news otherwise people won't get saved to be intentional don't just have relationship for the sake of relationship remember your number one mandate is to preach the gospel and everything else in your life business career friendships relationships everything else revolves around that very issue saving souls and making disciples and the last thing is expect miracles Baba says Apostle Paul says a little further he's like I'm not ashamed of the gospel because it is a power Jesus said when you go and preach the gospel these signs will follow you if you want to see more of God in your life if you want to see miracles in your life share the gospel share the good news and right there right on a spot be bold pray for them pray for the need pray against the depression pray against that migrant headache pray I pray pray against poverty in the life pray against the spirit that's tormenting them pray for peace of God to fill their heart pray for the sickness that they're battling with and watch God support his word by his spirit with miracle signs and wonders you want to live extraordinary life share the gospel and expect miracles share the gospel pray for people expect miracles so I want you as we're gonna go into worship right now and we're gonna we're gonna connect with God we're gonna go to the throne of grace I want you to ask God if you haven't done so God which three people that you want me to reach out who do you want me to bring hope and healing who do you want me to bring a gospel of the truth and message of of good news who do you want me to reach out to and you see that God will give you people you'd be surprised and they say no that's exactly what I needed you called in the right moment you texted in the right moment wow if it wouldn't be for you I don't know what I would be church it's time for us to answer the call we are indebted to the gospel