 Hey, good morning everyone Good morning to our online students as well. Thank you so much for joining us for this course So this semester Years, I'll be teaching objects So the first one is lifestyle evangelism, which we're going to do now and The second one is identity that is our identity in Christ Right. Let me just add those who are joining here All right, so Those who are online the notes are available on the classroom Google classrooms on the stream So feel free to download those notes and even as we go through the entire course you can you know just reference that and Join along with us So even before we begin this course, I just want to put out a few things one is if You have any questions in between the course right feel free to ask your questions You can just raise your hands ask questions Those who are online if you have any questions You can also just feel free to post your questions and we'll answer them during the session so lifestyle evangelism is the course that we're going to start off with today and This course is one hour a week, right? So we will try to cover a lot of material here and Identity will be two hours a week. Okay. All right, so Everyone have your books with you, right? Okay, so We're gonna learn about lifestyle evangelism though. Let me give you an overview of this course right now when the Lord Jesus He Directed and what is the last thing he told his disciples? He said to his disciples Go and make disciples He didn't say go and start the church right, he didn't say go and Start the five-fold ministry or he didn't say go become a prophet or apostle. He didn't say all of that He said go make disciples Now in this course, we will learn about how you and I Are called to evangelize right now many of us are from different Settings right some of us are from cities some of us are from towns some of them are from, you know from villages So we have different kinds of evangelism evangelistic strategies Right. So what works in the city may not work in the town? What works in the town may not work in the city, right? And so today this this entire session we're gonna talk about how wherever we are Right, whether we are in the workplace whether we are Students whether we are in in in business whether we are in ministry wherever we are We are called to live a lifestyle of evangelism Right What is the meaning of lifestyle? Or online students you can feel free to share your thoughts as well. What's the meaning of lifestyle? Lifestyle is something that We do every day So for example today, you know, we got up. We had our prayer time. We read the word hopefully Then we got ready We know, okay, seven o'clock or eight o'clock is breakfast when there's prayer time and so it's a lifestyle now evangelism or reaching out to people must also become a lifestyle so in this course we will learn about how Sharing the gospel is a natural thing for you and I as believers right Now even even as we go ahead, we will also look at what are the hindrances that stop us from sharing the gospel and why sometimes we We know we are fearful in sharing the gospel. What is the power of the gospel? How we can share the gospel So we learn all of that right Right, so Daniel says lifestyle is the way one person lives. Yes Right, so let's go to chapter one Chapter one. We're talking about sharing Jesus the necessity and the urgency Right Why is it necessary to share about Jesus? Right, why should we share about Jesus? See I've become a believer now. I'm happy. I'm a believer Right, I'm going to heaven. So enough Why should I share about Jesus? If they believe, let them believe. If they don't believe that's okay. I'm a believer. I'll go to heaven But Jesus's mindset was not that way He said go and make disciples Right, so let's read this portion. Matthew chapter 28 was 18 to 20 Matthew 28 18 to 20 The mic is there. You can feel free to read Matthew chapter 8 28 was 18 to 20 28 Matthew 28 18 through 20 18 to 20 18 to 20 And Jesus came and spoke to them saying all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son of Son and of Holy Spirit teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you and And lo I am with you always even to the end of the age I'm in This is the last thing that Jesus is telling his disciples go therefore and make disciples So you and I are called to witness to people Right. It is not that, you know, I have to wait to become a pastor have to wait to become an evangelist I have to wait to become an apostle or I should become or I am a worship leader. I'm not called to share the gospel No, Jesus is saying we are all called to witness to one another. They're all different We each one of us have different gifts We have different callings. We have different areas of service that we are in right now for example Some of us may be evangelists Right for them to share the gospel. It's very easy. Have you have you met evangelists? right If you if you've met evangelists Wherever they are, they'll share the gospel Whether they are in the train whether they're in the shop. It is very natural for them Now the worship leaders have a different gift. They're good in music. They're good in singing Then you've got people who are good in teaching Then you've got pastors Or then you've got people who are in business who are working Now Jesus is saying we are all called to witness all of us So we don't have the excuse of saying, hey, I'm only a worship leader Or I am only going to sing songs. I'll write songs and All of us are called to witness the gospel whether we are in the city in the town Wherever we are, we are called to witness the gospel right We all in in this chapter. Let's look at the necessity of sharing the gospel Why is it necessary to share the gospel? The gospel is there. Somebody shared the gospel with each one of us. We've become a believer We've understood but why is it necessary? Let's look at a few points here first point Every person needs a savior The Bible teaches us that every one of us all of us are sinners Right All of us are sinners. So all of us Have fallen short of the glory of God our sins have separated us from Christ Because of sin we are separated from Christ and We are brought into bondage In between Satan and hell, right? So what's happened? When we look at the Old Testament when God made Adam and Eve, he made them perfect Adam sinned. What happened? We fell into bondage So the enemy brought bondage into our life. He brought death The things of evil started Cain killed Abel Murder started All kinds of evil started. Why? Because Satan has been given authority right We cannot save ourselves by our own ability Right now remember this No matter where we are We may be you know, there may be people who are very rich There may be people who are very influential full of wisdom great people great political leaders Whoever they are They will not be able to save themselves Yes or no Right They can't save themselves Nobody can say, you know, hey, I'm the richest man in the world. So I'll pay you Whatever I have I'll pay you. Give me five more years to live You think death will come knocking? Say Can I come and you know come into your life? No death will come Satan does not care whether we're rich poor Good-looking not good-looking whether we have wisdom. We don't know he doesn't care Because his work is to kill to steal and to destroy Right. So we cannot save ourselves from our own good works We need a savior and that's where John 3 16 came into Came into light Right. What is John 3 16? All of us must know this Come on. Any one of us can read it. John 3 16 You have to open your Bible Come on God so loved the world God so loved the world. He gave his only begotten son Whoever believes in him shall not perish Right. Now the the the key word in that entire verse is whoever or whosoever believes in him There is no the Lord Jesus hasn't put Any limitations there. He's not saying only If you're a you know, you believe in me only if you believe in the law Only if you believe in Abraham and Moses and Isaac and Jacob Then You know, if you believe in me you'll have everlasting life. No Say anyone Whoever it is whatever background whatever age whatever You know faith they were and it does not matter Right. Whoever believes in him So God sent his son to This earth to die for us And he bore all our sins on the cross Right salvation is a free gift That is given to each one of us Right. It's a complete free gift. It sets us free from sickness Sets us free from sin Now each one of us here How many of you were paid money to become a believer? How many of you were forced to become a believer? How many of you were forced to join the bible college? Because it is a free gift Salvation is a free gift. It's it's free Right. Now if it's somebody's birthday Right and somebody gives you a gift When you take out your okay, how much is this gift? Will you want to give some money? You wouldn't want to do that. I mean it's a gift. It's just given to you You you have nothing in return for that The Lord Jesus when he died on the cross He he did it as a gift for you and me So every believer every person in this world Means a savior every person There's a saying, you know in every person's heart There is a god-shaped vacuum Right, which means one one empty place in our heart Which only god can fill Nobody else can fill it No father. No mother. No friend. No brother. No sister. Nobody. No money. No No, no fame. Nothing can fill that empty space. Only god can fill it And it's there in every one of us Right, I'll share this example This is an example. I I read Many many years back How many of you heard of Pete Sampras the tennis player? There was a there's a tennis player his name is Pete Sampras. He was a Wimbledon champion Right, uh, have you heard of tennis? What's if you've heard of tennis? Yeah Yes or no guys You heard of tennis Right, it's a it's a sport, right? So Pete Sampras was a wonderful tennis player and This is in the early 90s At a young age when he was five or six years old. He wanted to be a tennis player So he would go when he was five six years old He would go with his father And early in the morning they would get up now. Is it easy to get up early in the morning as a child? So you get up he'll go practice He had one goal in his mind One day I want to win and be the best tennis player That's all his goal was So all his life he sacrificed all his friends will go for partying. He'll say no, I have to go for practice All his friends are enjoying and going for vacations and holidays. We'll say no, I want I have to go back to practice So finally when he was about in his 20s early 20s he Got into the you know the best of the best And in his early 20s 24 25 he won The Wimbledon which is the highest form of You know winning in tennis It's like winning the world cup right So he won the Wimbledon The dream that he had when he was six years old he achieved it But you know he writes in his documentary he writes that he came back home He kept the trophy in his showcase He looked at the trophy And he said i'm still feeling empty I still feel No joy I still feel lonely Why the whole his life he was praying for that trophy or me he wanted But when he got it he's saying i'm still empty So every person in this world needs a saviour We must understand it So when we are sharing the gospel never feel that oh this person everything is all right He has big money. He has big car. You know, he has good health. He may not need Jesus. You know, he needs Jesus Okay, so always remember that every person needs Jesus What about the president the prime minister? Yes What about all these rich businessman and these influential people? Yes They need Jesus Okay, second point There is only one saviour and he is jesus christ Let's read act chapter 4 and verse 12. It's in your notes. So you can just read it from your notes Act chapter 4 and verse 12 Nor is there salvation in any other for there is no other name under heaven given among man by which we must be saved There is salvation in no other name Let's read first Timothy chapter 2 verse 5 and 6 For there is one god and one mediator Between god and man and the man jesus christ Who gave himself a ransom for all to the testified in due time? So there is one mediator between god and man the man jesus christ So there is no other mediator Right, there is only one saviour One person who died on the cross and his name is jesus Now let me ask you this question if you knew right example, you know the in early 2020 the Coronavirus was spread all across our nation If you knew there was a cure for that Would you not tell your friends? You will I'm sure all of you said, you know to your friends. Hey, you drink ginger water You know drink warm water stay indoors always wear your mask sanitize your hands You would have told your friends Why because you care for them Now imagine you knew that you know you know that a person a friend of yours has not accepted jesus And you know that if he does not accept jesus, what will happen? There's eternal hell And imagine I don't tell them Will it make sense? Oh because the corona virus only we were taking so much of Trouble. Hey, you know do this do this. We had a list Did you take the vaccine? but We know this here. We know that when when The Lord when people accept the Lord Jesus They're taken away from a place of hell They're taken away from a place of sin into God's presence Amen, right, so There is only one savior People are hurting People are searching Many many of them are searching for God. They're not able to find because they're searching in the wrong place They're searching They're searching in the wrong place Let me look around. There's all kinds of people There are people who are rich a fluent influential They are looking out for meaning For purpose in life. They're looking out for direction fulfillment Many of them, you know, who were influential, they don't like their lifestyle. They are They don't like it Hey, money can only satisfy to a certain point Money cannot buy relationships I know many people who are very wealthy But they don't have friends They live a lonely life right The spiritual searching that happens Uh for an encounter of truth You know, if you look, you look at, uh, you know, some of those posters, you see Sadhu Sundar sing there Right What was he doing? He was searching He was searching for a God if you read his story He was searching Who is this true God? If you are truly God you reveal yourself God revealed himself Sadhu Sundar sing and and we know what a great work he did So people are searching Now you may say, you know, my friends are fine. They are not searching. They are happy in their what they are doing That they can show outwardly Right remember we can we can show something but our heart is somewhere else Right people can show that everything is fine in their life But inside God knows what is happening Right, let's read Proverbs chapter 14 and verse 12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death There's a way that seems right to us We feel that this is the right way Right, we may feel okay. What I'm doing is right But if the Bible says here Its end is death. So you and I need to lovingly Bring people correct people and bring them to Christ Now here I want to say this As a church when I say church not abc as a body of Christ Some of the mistakes we have made is we have forced our You know our thoughts on people If forced them Right or we have done ministry the wrong way Right, we have said, you know, if you don't believe in Jesus, you'll go to hell Now we know that Right, but there's a way to tell the other person There's a way to minister to people We should you know speak to them lovingly imagine somebody says You know comes and tells me, you know what if you don't believe in Jesus You'll go to hell you'll burn in hell Just because of their tone, I'll say it's better to go there Right than to listen to you So there's a way to speak There's a way to talk There's a way to minister to people we do it. We correct But we do it lovingly and even as we go on this course, we will learn How to minister to people right what what are the attitudes that we must have John chapter 10 and verse 10 the thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy But I have come that they may have life And that they may have it more abundantly The thief what is the job of this of the enemy? He's come to kill steal and That's all his job is So sometimes as believers we feel oh, why is this problem here? Why is this happening to me? Why is this You know all these seasons this difficulty coming to you see satan is doing his job He's come to kill steal and destroy but what does Jesus say? What does he follow up? But I have come to give you life Right, so there will be people around us Who are living in sin? Who are living a very ungodly life. They don't even maybe they they have a christian name, but they don't have a christian life You and I must remember that the devil comes to kill to steal and to destroy But the law jeep Give us eternal life right God has Commissioned us to share the gospel to of jesus christ Now here's the thing You know, let me share this example Many years ago. I was working in the corporate sector right And I wanted to I became a believer, but I wanted to share the gospel with people. I wanted to do ministry So I would pray I said god And will I don't like this office Come to office and then from morning to evening. I'm here. I like my job. It's a good job, but I want to do ministry lord So for many for a long time. I was grumbling complaining And will I join ministry One day the lord spoke to me. He said you're worried about ministry start where you are Where are you office? How many people around you more than 2000 people? Because it was a big office building thousands of people come and work there in those companies Said okay, god How do I share? I was just like all of us. I was fearful. I didn't know how to share I didn't know what to say all I knew is Jesus touched me Jesus changed my life. How do I share this to people? I began to read the scriptures and I understood that all I need to do is speak The word of god Right, and we'll talk about that later. How the word is so powerful to touch people's life So I came to this was in in the book of luke where Luke chapter 24 36 through 49 Let's read that luke 20 24 36 to 49 and I'll explain what happened in the corporate sector as well Now as they said these things Jesus himself stood in the midst of them and said to them peace to you But they were terrified and frightened and suppose they had seen a spirit and he said to them Why are you troubled and why do doubts arise in your heart? Behold my hands and my feet that it is I myself handle me and See for a spirit does not have flash and bones as you see I have When he had said this he showed them his hand and his feet But while they still did not believe for joy and marvel he said to them Have you any food here? So they gave him a piece of a Broilfish and some honeycomb and he took it and ate in their presence Then he said to them these are the words which I spoke To you while I was still with you that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of moses and prophets and The psalm concerning me and he opened their understanding that they might Compared the scriptures Did you read till 49 verse 49? Yes, I'm Then he said to them thus it is written and thus it is it was necessary for the christ To suffer and to rise from the dead The from the dead the third day and that repentance and remission of sins Should be preached in his name to all nations beginning at Jerusalem And you were witness of these things behold I send the promise of my father upon you But tarry in the city of jerusalem until you are and endured with power from on high Okay Now The first time I read this I I understood so much from this passage See number one There is no other person who died and resurrected from the dead. Is there anybody else? Anybody Who has died and resurrected himself from the dead? Right the Lord Jesus when he resurrected now he was not a ghost He was not some spirit walking at all He was flesh and blood Meaning he was he was he was he ate Right. He ate food. He they could What did Jesus say to the disciples? He said he said to thomas come and touch me Touch and see because uh, I'm not spirit flesh and blood. I am flesh and you can touch and see right now When we think of this That the Lord Jesus he died He resurrected from the dead And he defeated the devil and he's telling I have commissioned you to go So for example For example You are here Now you want to do ministry Okay And you go you get a letter from the prime minister or the president of india You get a letter And the letter says So and so person can preach the gospel anywhere. Nobody should touch him. Nobody should say anything to him You got a letter Right now how confident you will be Will you be confident? What will you do first? You'll go to the worst areas Where there is More persecution you'll stand there you'll preach Anyone say hey, what are you doing? You can't do this first thing you'll do is we'll take out the letter See the president has given me a letter saying I can preach anywhere in india or anywhere in this world I can preach anywhere. Nobody can stop me. So all day. Okay, since you got the letter you go ahead Right now Jesus the son of god the messiah he's saying You I have commissioned you. I'm telling you I'm writing and I'm telling you I've commissioned you go and use my name And preach the gospel and make disciples. He goes on there and he says Behold I am with you until the end of time. I am with you Now the president will give a letter, but he's not with you But there's weightage in that letter Jesus is giving the letter And she's also saying he's giving the authority and he's also saying I'm there with you When you preach when you teach I'm there. I'm standing with you So when you look in the book of acts when you read all through the book of acts, you see a powerful ministry That was established the church You see the church established in the book of acts when the great apostle paul started his ministry You see a powerful ministry, right? How? How is it because jesus says I am with you? So that really inspired me I said, okay god Now I'm in this workplace. How do I start evangelizing? So I got a simple idea Before we start our work We reach office probably about half an hour before so I said, okay. I'll carry my guitar I spoke to one of one or two christian friends there and I said, hey, why don't we have 10 minutes of worship? 10 minutes of the word 10 minutes we'll share one word Five minutes prayer. We'll close it off 25 minutes Then we can go get into our offices start the work So one one two of them said, okay in that two one person came So this is the early morning if we have to log in at eight o'clock 7 30 is the prayer Right. So we're there in the now. This is in the corporate setting, right? This is not church This is outside, right? Everyone are watching. There's a lawn area, right? So if you have to go to the office as a big open space lawn, you have to walk and you have to go So it was very embarrassing Right people are watching. What are this? What does this guy come with a guitar for? But then that day I remember the first day we took the guitar we started playing one song My friend was there We sang one two songs Then we just opened the word spent 10 minutes in the word Pray it and we closed I went back home and I said god This is one person came I sent so many invitations to people one person came I remember god saying you do I will I will help you And so I just kept doing it every day prayer I became five people became 10 people Then I began to share with people, you know people started to share that, you know, they they received healing They receive, you know, miracles in their life. So these are inviting other people In five six months, we were 70 people 80 people In in more than after a year we were 120 130 people now. This is where These are all corporate guys, right office people We all come 120 people sitting in the lawn Right and then slowly after the next year, we were 200 people. We were not allowed to sit So we said, okay, we'll take a room Take a hall. We took a hall We started having our prayers there so we moved it from every day to Saturday to three hours and During that whole time, you know, who were the most regular people People who are managers people who are senior managers head of operations The top guys they would come and sit And I would be surprised and say, so you have come here Yeah, I've come because My family is breaking. My children don't listen to me They've got so many problems But when we look at them in office, they're all suited and you know, they're all walking around You know, you feel that there's no problem, but they would come and sit Pray for me I feel I feel I feel depressed feel I want to commit suicide My wife does not love me. I don't know what I'm doing in life And to me, I thought to myself These people are high up in the ladder They are so, you know, people, they're so respected But they've come because I realized that every person needs a savior Nobody can be on their own Right that gave me such an encouragement. It doesn't matter who you are You can come to Jesus just the way we are Humbling ourselves and he'll change our lives, right This same commission that Jesus has given us he says in That we are witnesses, you know, the Greek word for witness means martyr. How many of you know, what is a martyr? A martyr is somebody who is willing to give his life for christ Who is the first martyr Of the church Come on Who's the first martyr? No Jesus no, but who like for the cause of Stephen Stephen apostles Stephen Apostle Stephen was the first martyr. Okay. Yeah anybody else Who's the first matter who has killed for the sake of Jesus First person who has killed John the Baptist sireen says John the Baptist. Okay Okay, okay So if you look through the scriptures, you see that James Right James who was the disciple of Jesus was killed By king Herod first. So he was the first Martyr for Christ, right? He was killed by the sword James the disciple then came Stephen and Again, John the Baptist as well. So A martyr is somebody who is willing to give his life for the Lord and it says here Right, we are called to be witnesses. That means we are called to be martyrs for christ Very hard, no Is it easy? Say no, we all love our life. We don't want to But that's the call that's the call that god has given us The good news is not good news until it reaches a person The Lord Jesus had good news imagine. He said he didn't tell anybody about the good news Did Jesus anyway shy shy away from who is Did he say oh no, don't tell anybody right now Everywhere he went he said I am I am the one you're talking about Before Abraham was I am Are you the Messiah? Yes, I am They took him to stone him They couldn't do anything But imagine the disciples when he shared with them. He chose simple People with simple jobs and made them great leaders The good news is not good news until it reaches people Right, imagine a prisoner in life sentence. Oh, this is a good one Imagine this picture this You're in a court And the judge is sitting there on his On his seat and he says okay, this fellow is a murderer Life imprisonment. He can never come out of prison. So he's murdered somebody Now as the judge is going to take that Thing and and make his decision. He's going to say okay life sentence All of a sudden one man comes and says okay Stop This fellow is a murderer But what I will do is You set him free I will take his place Judges saying why But you didn't do anything wrong Why do you have to suffer in jail? It is that person he killed somebody else There this other man says no, I love him so much. So I want to do this Right The judge says okay somebody has to take the judgment Right, somebody has to pay the price Whether it is you or you. I don't know but somebody has to pay the price Now you're saying you'll take the place of this murderer It's up to you. So the murderer will go free. It says okay. It's okay And so this person comes and takes the place of the murderer and He takes the punishment The murderer just walks home He's free And that is what jesus did for each one of us And imagine this we are sharing this to somebody Right Maybe somebody who does not believe when we're sharing this it will touch their heart It will minister to them Somebody else paying the price for my son Where I had to be on the cross Somebody else took it for me I had to take that judgment of god somebody else took it for me right you know People cannot believe in jesus christ unless we tell People cannot believe Right, let me give you this example many many years ago I had a good friend and he's still my friend okay, and He was from a different faith. He was from the muslim faith and What happened was we we were very good friends. We would always talk But one of the most important discussions we would have is about Christianity So I he will bring up. He was a ardent believer right in In his faith. He's a wonderful guy. Very good boy. Very good friends So we would always talk about this. He would say this. Yeah, I would say that. No, this is what it is He would say he had good arguments. He would say, you know, how can it be? But throughout all of this right he always said jesus was very good. He's a prophet. He's a man of god But he's not god. He's a good man. He's a prophet He's not god and later on this in this Course we'll also learn how to share the gospel with a hindu how to share the gospel with a muslim But just sharing this After many many months six seven months You know one day I was saying god, how do I how you minister to him? I know you can use this boy and I remember this You know in in their scriptures. It says that the god came moses was there god came in the bush And ministered to moses Right, they believe in the Torah the first five books of the bible of the of the scriptures, right? So god came into the bush and spoke to moses I thought to myself, hey So he asked me this question. How can god become man? impossible I remember telling him In the scriptures it says god Came and spoke to moses in the bush. Your scriptures say that I said if god can come and speak as Come in the bush and speak as a fire Can't god come into this world as a human being is it so difficult? He thought about it He thought about it. He had no answer. He took weeks And thankfully a couple of months later after ministering he became a believer He became a full-time minister Reaching the gospel What if I was just friends with him And not willing to share with him he would have been doing what he is doing Right, so all of us people get opportunities But it is our responsibility to take that opportunity, right? What is the urgency? You know, some people say that jesus is a good man Some people say that jesus did not die on the cross Some people say that jesus did not die physically He was on the cross. He didn't die. So when they brought him down from the cross, he came, got back his life And he went back home Then some people say jesus was not even a human being He was something else So there are different understandings What does the bible say? He died And he resurrected And he's alive and he's coming again Right What is the urgency of all of this? Why do we need to share the gospel? First of all, do we want to share the gospel? Are we interested in sharing the gospel? Right We must be right. So what is the urgency one? There is no second chance Right, let's read this First second Corinthians 4 3 to 4 Second Corinthians 4 3 it's in your notes But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing Those minds the god of this age has blinded would do would do not believe Lest the light of the gospel of the glory of christ who is the image of god should shine on them Or even if the gospel it is is veiled it is veiled to those who are perishing Remember, there's no second chance In the bible, we read about the rich man and Lazarus What does the rich man say? Oh only if I can get a drop of water right and Or Just send your Send your prophets to talk to my brothers so that they don't have to suffer like this No second chance The bible says when we are absent in the body We are present with the lord very simple There is no middle place If we as believers if we are absent in the body, we are present with the lord. We are in heaven Now what about unbelievers if they are absent in the body They are present in a place of torment And that is the truth. There's no second chance. We can't say give me one more chance I want to go and I'll believe in Jesus. We can't do that So now is the time right There's no second chance Secondly time is running out 2020 odd years ago Jesus said what did he say? I am coming What does he say? I'm coming soon Behold I am coming soon 2020 more than 2020 years ago I'm coming soon Now imagine how close we are when we look at what is around us When we look at the things that are happening around us Right Time is going time is passing God's clock is ticking we're growing closer to the end of time Now it's not to make us scared But we should be encouraged that hey God is God is going to use us Even as each one of us are here we've come here to study to do ministry Right, we must understand that God is going to use each one of us to minister to people You all will go to places those online as well. You will go to places where we may not be able to go Many of you from Rajasthan and different country different states. We may not even be able to go there But you have the opportunity To reach out right Heaven is real Hell is real Life is short And there will come a time You know that each one of us will stand So very important Don't be ashamed of the gospel Right, Romans 1 16 says for I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ For it is the power of God to salvation For everyone who believes First for the Jews first and also for the Greeks Don't be ashamed of the gospel You know when you look at the cross The Lord Jesus When he died on the cross It was not have you seen you seen you seen passion of the Christ, no all of you have seen passion of the Christ Passion of the Christ is nothing Because if you look at a Roman persecution if you had seen Jesus literally you would have been able to see his organs It is a gruesome death You would have seen his heart. You would have seen his bones his spinal cords everything Not a drop of blood was left in him The price was fully paid. He died naked on the cross for you and me Imagine how much we must do for him We must never be ashamed of the gospel Now don't be ashamed means don't wear one chain with the cross and say i'm not ashamed that anybody can do Don't put one tattoo and say i'm a Christian that doesn't matter The enemy is not afraid of that chain with the cross Not at all you show the enemy cross good But he's afraid when you know the power of the cross Amen Right. So wearing a cross is no big deal Anybody can do that It's become a show now But the point is believing in that cross Right. Don't be ashamed. Lastly Take it on yourself to witness about this glorious wonderful saviour Take it And you know all you need to god is not waiting for you to get a bts certificate Get a cth dth. He doesn't want certificates He wants you To be willing to go and minister. That's all he wants Right first Corinthians 9 16 says for I preach the gospel I have nothing to boast For necessity is laid upon me woe to me if I do not preach the gospel Right. So Today we have covered this chapter the urgency and necessity of the gospel And We'll pick up from next week. Let's just close in prayer If you have questions, maybe next week we can Answer those questions. Let's close in prayer Father, we want to thank you for this time. Thank you for enabling us to study a God and I pray that each one of us Will grow and you will empower us to be witnesses for your kingdom lord We thank you for this time We bless all our students here and online Those who are going to be listening through the e-learning portal I pray your blessing over each one of us Use us lord to be witnesses of your kingdom in Jesus name. We pray amen Amen. God bless you. God bless you all online students. I'll see you next week Thank you pastor. Thank you. Thank you