 Good morning, everyone. Welcome to this new class, Lifestyle Evangelism. Before we go ahead, let me just introduce myself. My name is Paul and I'm in APC Mangalore. I'll be going through the subject, Lifestyle Evangelism. Throughout the subject, this subject is more of a practical subject, but it's also important to learn theory. So we will do theory, but since we are online, we'll also do a few practical sessions where we'll see how to share the Gospel with people around us. So let's start with an introduction. Now, we have the notes also available. The PDF has been uploaded, so you can go ahead and download it. And even as we carry along in this class, you can just track along as we continue with classes. So Lifestyle Evangelism. Evangelism is something that all of us are called to do. All of us, the Lord Jesus himself said, go and make disciples. In Matthew chapter 28, he said go and make disciples. So the whole commission was to evangelize. So this study will help us first to learn about how to evangelize, learn about giving the right defense for the Gospel. And two, we will also study on how to carry out evangelism in the right way. Because right now when we look around, there are people evangelizing in the wrong way. So we want to learn the right way. We want to learn the way that Christ taught us through the scriptures. So we'll get into the first topic. It is on page four. If you're following along, it's about sharing Jesus. Let's look at the necessity and urgency of sharing Jesus. Now, I'll keep teaching in between. If you have any questions, you can always put it on the chat or you can unmute and ask questions and we can answer them as well. So as I said, Matthew 28, Jesus has resurrected and he meets his disciples and he tells them very important. He tells them 28, 18 to 20. He said, go and make disciples out of people. So we are all called to witness about Jesus Christ. None of us can say, okay, I'm a pastor. So I don't let leave that job to the evangelist or none of us can say I'm a teacher. Let me just give me a classroom. I'll teach. I'm good at that. None of us can say I'm a worship leader. So I can just lead worship, give me a guitar or a keyboard. And no, we are all called to evangelize. We're all called to be a witness of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Now, here's the thing. We all have different areas of gifts, different areas of service. We all have different abilities and capabilities, but we all are to witness to Jesus Christ in whatever capacity that we can. So this is the truth that we should be established in. We cannot say, okay, I'm working in the IT company. So I will leave the job of evangelization to the pastors and the prophets and all of that. All of us, all of us, we may be students in colleges, we may be homemakers, we are called to evangelize. So that is set in place. So we know that we are called to evangelize. Let's look at the necessity. So why should we witness? We saw that in Matthew 28, Jesus himself told the disciples go and witness, but let's look at a few points as to why we should witness about Jesus Christ. First one, every person needs a savior and every person, whether they are rich, whether they are poor, whether they have good knowledge, whether they have no education, every person needs a savior. There's this book where it writes that every human being in this world has a God-shaped vacuum in their heart, which means what? You can have all the money in the world, all the riches of the world. You can have everything that our hearts desire, but there is a God-shaped vacuum in each of our hearts that only God can fill. The Bible teaches us that we are sinners. Let's read Romans chapter 3 and verse 23. Can one of us please read that? Romans 3 and 23. For all have sinned and falls out of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by his grace through the redemption which is in Jesus Christ, whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation of his blood through faith. Yeah, thank you John. So we are all sinners. We are all sinners of whether they're born in a palace or whether they're born anywhere else, we are all sinners. And so we need a savior. When we look at the things that's happening in this world, people are looking for different means of comfort. I remember just speaking to a good friend of mine a couple of months back and he was saying, I've taken up yoga. I said, okay. I said, why? Because I want peace of mind. So there's so much, right? He knows about Jesus. He knows, but it's that emptiness inside which needs to be filled up. So everyone, all of us are sinners. So we need a savior to our sins separate us from God, right? Firstly, we need a savior. Our sins separate us from God. Three, Satan brings bondage into our lives. So that is why we need a savior, right? And when there is bondage, there is eternal separation from God. And God showed his love for us that he sent his son Jesus to die on the cross and he bore all our sins. Now, this may sound, you know, oh, Pastor, I already know this. This is the basics of Christianity. But here's the thing, you know, as we keep going on, we'll read about the two minute gospel in the four minute gospel. And the Bible says that the gospel is the power of God unto salvation. It's a simple gospel. There's no big things that you need to discuss. You don't need to know from Genesis to the revelations to share the gospel. It's a power of God. It's just a simple gospel which you and I can share. Finally, salvation is a complete gift that God is giving us. And that gift helps us to be free from sickness and diseases and Satan and all the things of the enemy. So every person needs a savior. Sometimes we feel it's happened to me, right? Once I became a believer, I always wanted to share the gospel with people. But I would see these rich people, you know, they've got everything in life. I wonder, okay, he's got everything. So just let's look at, let's go to the slums and do some street ministry or something. But then after some time, I realized that it's not so. Money does not fulfill, you know, the desires of our heart. No. So I'm reminded of this example. I read a book. I'm sure most of us may know Pete Sampras. He was a great tennis player, Wimbledon champion, seven-time Wimbledon champion. Now, as a young boy, all he wanted to do was win the Wimbledon, right? That's all his goal was. As a young boy, he didn't want anything else in life, right? His mother used to tell him, he wouldn't go for, you know, mother used to say that he wouldn't go for birthday parties. He wouldn't go anywhere. He would just get up in the morning, go for his practice, come back, eat healthy, no junk food. He dedicated his whole life towards tennis. Finally, he got into the Wimbledon. He won his first Wimbledon trophy and he writes, he writes, he goes back home, he puts it on his shelf that day or the next day and he looks at that trophy and he felt so empty that he wanted to commit suicide. All his life for that one, you know, Wimbledon championship. He looks at it after he wanted it and he said, I felt empty and he wanted to commit suicide. So every person in this world needs a savior. Let's go to point two. There's only one savior, right? And that is Jesus Christ, our Lord. Acts chapter four and verse 12. Can one of us please read that? Acts chapter four and verse 12. Salvation is found in no one else for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved. Thank you, Japhina. Let's also read first Timothy chapter two, verse five and six. For there is one God and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus who gave himself a ransom for all to be desperate in real time. Amen. For there is one mediator between God and man, the man Jesus Christ, right? So firstly we established the fact that every person needs a savior. Two, there's only one savior that is Jesus Christ, right? Now picture it this way. Imagine that somebody is dying of a deadly disease or a deadly sickness and you know that there's one person who can, you know, save, you know, for example, a friend of yours is in the hospital suffering from a deadly disease. But you know that there's one person who can save him. Wouldn't you go and, you know, tell that person, hey, you know what? There's a way for you out of this. There's a way for you to get healed. I'm sure all of us would do that, right? Even at, as 2020 started with COVID and the pandemic and all across, we saw that lies were just being lost and it was such a miserable time. But on the other side, we also saw some wonderful, wonderful testimonies of God's healing power, right, where people called upon the name of the Lord and Jesus himself brought restoration. And so while people are empty, while people are searching and while they are looking out for hope, you and I can bring this gospel of Jesus Christ to them, right? Now later on, we look at, you know, it's not like when we, you know, share the gospel, everyone are going to say, oh, what a wonderful news. Let me accept this. No, there's going to be persecution. There's going to be people who will, you know, turn away from the gospel and all of that. But this is the truth, right, where, you know, we can share this, that there is only one Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, right? Proverbs chapter 14 and verse 12, let's read that. There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death. Yeah, thank you, brother. So here we see that when we look around us, there are the rich, there are the wealthy, there are the successful, but all of them are searching for purpose, for meaning and for direction. And this spiritual search can only be attained, you know, can be achieved through our Lord Jesus Christ, right? So we all have a testimony, right? I'm sure all of us have some kind of a testimony. None of us can say, oh no, I don't have a testimony, we all have a testimony. So we all can share, you know, what the Lord Jesus did for each one of us. Let's go to point three. Again, point three is God has commissioned us to share the gospel of Jesus Christ. Now, it is not that, you know, Jesus died on the cross and he rose up to heaven and he said, okay, if you want to, you can, you know, share the gospel. No, the Lord Jesus has commissioned us. So he's given us the authority. He's given us the power and he's saying, go, I have given you the authority, go and make disciples, right? Go and make disciples. I'm giving you the authority, right? It's like this. Imagine, you know, you're in your workplace and the CEO of your company says, you know what, I want you to go and start a new branch in this other city. Will you have any hesitations? You won't, right? You won't feel, okay, should I do this? What will they think? No. Say, hey, the CEO has told me, go and start this branch. Yeah, so I'm gonna go. You'll go with full authority. And if people come to stop, you'll say, no, I've got permissions. The CEO has given me the authority. So here's the authority and so I'm doing what he has told me to do. The same day Jesus has commissioned and given you and me the authority, right? Now, when he's given you and me the authority, it does not, you know, it does not mean that, you know, we don't prepare ourselves. You know, we have to prepare ourselves. And so he's given us the authority. He says, okay, go make disciples and we have to prepare ourselves for it, right? So Jesus also mentions many places in the scriptures. He says, it's not going to be easy. You've got to carry your cross. There's going to be difficulties. But through it all, my grace will be with you, right? So after the resurrection, when we read Matthew chapter 20, sorry Luke chapter 24, we won't read that whole passage. But in this passage, he looked 24, he resurrected from the dead and then the Lord Jesus goes, he meets his disciples and he tells them what is going to happen. And here's something interesting he does. He tells his disciples, look, I'm alive, first thing. Secondly, you remember the Old Testament, all that you read about the Old Testament, you see how I have fulfilled it, that the Messiah is going to be born, he will die, he will rise again and he will be the king of all kings. You see how I have, you know, fulfilled all those prophecies? So he shares all this with his disciples. Now, if we look at the Old Testament and see the messianic scriptures being fulfilled, it is to the point, to the date, you know, God is a perfect God. He's on time. He's never too late. I'm reminded of this in, he says, you know, what you, Bethlehem of Ephrathar, out of you, the seed will come. Written thousands of years before, thousands, thousands of years before. Now, when we look at it, it's so wonderful that those prophecies are fulfilled to the point. Isaiah writes about the cross, right? He writes the whole encounter, you know, by his stripes we are healed. He was bruised for our inequities. The chastisement was upon him, right? So, Jesus, he tells his disciples, look, I died, I rose again, look, I fulfilled all the Old Testament prophecies and now that you believe, go and make disciples. Have you ever wondered, you know, I always remember, you know, I always think of this, Peter and all the disciples, let's take Peter for example, he was so afraid. He said, okay, he was not doing at the cross when Jesus was dying and he said, okay, you know, he denied Jesus and he went away. He didn't want to do the ministry. But after the Lord Jesus, the anointing of the Holy Spirit, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the same Peter, right, who was fearful, who was afraid, who said, okay, I don't want to, you know, do this, the same Peter was standing in Jerusalem, preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ, right? What happened? What happened? The reality sunken, the anointing, the empowerment of the Holy Spirit came upon him and so if you and I are to be people who will evangelize, reach out to the gospel, we cannot do it on our own flesh. We can but if we do it in our own flesh, we may not see the fruit that we want to see, right? He told his disciples, you are to be a witness and he did something, he empowered them by the Holy Spirit, right? The same commission has been passed to you and me. We need to be empowered by the Holy Spirit, right? It could be just sharing the gospel with your friend, say, hey, I know this my friend for 10 years but may not have got an opportunity to share the gospel with him, yet you still need to be empowered by the Holy Spirit, right? Let's read Matthew 28, 18 to 20. It's the same verse that I mentioned but I think we should read that so we'll get a clearer understanding. And Jesus came and spoke to them saying, all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Go there to admit disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that have commanded you and lo, I am with you always even to the end of the age. Amen. Amen. Thank you brother. So here we see that God is giving that commission, right? The Lord Jesus is giving that commission. Now here's an important thing. He says go and be witnesses, you know. The original Greek for witness is martyr, right? The original Greek for the word witness is martyr. So basically Jesus is saying, be ready to be a martyr for Jesus Christ, right? Now, don't be afraid, right? What I'm only saying is God has given us that power at anointing of the Holy Spirit to be willing to even be a martyr for the gospel of Jesus Christ, right? So you and I should know how to tell the truth to people. So as we go along each week, we will look at different ways to share the gospel, right? Different ways to share the gospel. Remember this, good news is not good news until it reaches somebody, right? Good news is not good news until it reaches the people who need to hear it, right? People will not know the truth until somebody tells them the truth, right? There's been plenty of examples where as a ministry and as a team, we have shared the gospel with many places. I can give you maybe one example here in the city of Mangalore where we were going out, we used to go on the streets and evangelize, you know, giving out tracks and there was this one person who came up to me and he said, I don't want you to share the gospel with anyone. So I said, why not? He said, no, because it's not the truth. You people are making money, you know, whatever reasons that he had, but I was going, I was almost walking away, but the Holy Spirit reminded me one thing. He said, I have commissioned you, right? I've commissioned you. So I said, no, I'm going to share the gospel and if you want to hear it, it'll be great if you can give me five minutes and he said, okay, tell me about your foreign Jesus or something he said and I was like, okay, I prayed. I said, God, please help me. And I began to share the gospel with him. Nothing, you know, very supernatural, nothing. I just said, see, we all are born sinners and sin has its consequences, but here's what Jesus did. Jesus came, God the Father, God came as a human being into this world as a man and he lived a perfect life, right? And he died on the cross for our sins. He resurrected again and one day we will be with him. As I was saying these things, I was thinking to myself, I don't think this guy is going to, you know, listen to me. I don't think he's even going to, you know, somewhere in my heart, but I said, no, the power of God is in the scripture. And as I finished, to my surprise, he was crying on the street. He was crying. He said, he said, I've never heard a message like this before. I just thought, you know, Jesus was somebody like who lived in some place. He never knew the truth about Jesus. So the point I'm trying to bring is people will not know the truth unless we tell them. People have a wrong understanding about who Jesus is, right? And so it's important that we share the truth. So now this person is in the church actively serving and his whole family is come to Christ now. So it was just a simple message, a simple message of who Jesus was and who Jesus is and what he can do in our lives, right? And as we go on from classes, we will also learn the different ways of sharing the Gospels. We will also do a few role plays later on. So that can help us as well. So let's read Romans 10, 8 to 15, a big chapter. Let's read that Romans 10, 8 to 15. Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God. You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature, but by the Spirit. If the Spirit of God lives in you and if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. And is it Romans chapter 10, 8 to 15 or Romans chapter 8? Sorry, it's Romans chapter 10 verse 8 to 15. Okay, sorry. Romans 10, 8 to 15. But what does it say? The word is near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart. That is the word of faith we are proclaiming. That if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. But if it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. As the scripture says, anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame, for there is no difference between Jew and Gentile. The same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him. For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. How then can they call on the one that they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent as it is written? How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news? Amen. Thank you. So let me just pick up two points from this entire portion of scripture. One is in verse nine where it says, if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart, you will be saved. Confess with your mouth, believe in your heart, you will be saved. Now the second point, whoever believes in him will not be put to shame, meaning whoever believes in him, God will receive and the Lord will save them. Now these two points are very important. One, confess with your mouth, Jesus Christ is Lord and whoever, the word is whoever, so anybody in this world, it doesn't matter who, if they confess with their mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and believe in their heart, they can be saved. So the reason we are doing this is to help us to put a good foundation. It's like if you're building a five-story building, you've got to go deep down. The foundation has to go really down. So even as you and I learn about evangelization, our roots or our foundations need to be strong. Because there will be people who will question us, there will be people who will question the authority of the scriptures and we cannot be tossed about. We need to be strong in the word. We can say, okay, this is what the word says and so this is what I'm going to believe and that's one. And two, we should understand our authority, what is our authority that we are standing on, standing on the authority of Jesus Christ. Today in this world, we see a lot of news around, very skeptical news. Some of it is fake news, some of them are real news, a lot of them are exaggerations. Now here's the thing. This news that you are sharing is not a news that comes on TV, but this news is the news that has been sent from God the Father. It is powerful. It is able to change people's lives. A lot of people have said, Jesus is a good man. I don't think Gnostic say that Jesus probably didn't die on the cross or there are many writers who wrote that Jesus was not on the cross. He sent his avatar on the cross. And I've encountered all these people who are skeptical about the truth. But here's the thing. This should not deter us from bringing the gospel of Jesus Christ. It should never. I'll just share this testimony of this. I'm sharing these testimonies so that all of us can be encouraged. Now I'm not sharing. There are times when I have also tried my best to share but hasn't gone through. But there are times when God has really ministered to people. And so this is one time, this young boy, probably about 22, 23 years old, he is an atheist and he said, I don't believe in God. I don't want God. How can God be true? How can it be that God through a woman and then suddenly when baby comes that baby is Jesus. And he started being very practical. He said, how can it be? 30 years old. He started some ministry. 33 years old he died. And now that he's dead and now you're praying and his blood will cleanse you. Where is his blood? Very practical kind of thing. And these are genuine things that people will question, that people will ask. And so I began to share the gospel. I began to tell him about what the message of what Jesus did in our lives. He was just not interested. But one day I was praying and I was praying for him and I said, God, I think I should just move on, maybe share with somebody else. But the Holy Spirit reminded me saying, he's still coming to you. That means there's some emptiness in him. He still wants to hear from you. I said, yeah, he's still coming. If he was not interested, he wouldn't have come. So he used to come every week and began to share. I told him, see, this is what Jesus did. It took over more than six months. And after six months, he said, I think I should accept Jesus as my personal savior, six months of sharing the gospel and trying to teach him and trying to make him understand. And there are times when in two, three days, people have accepted Jesus. There are times people have accepted on the spot. So there will be many things that may happen. People may accept, people may not accept. But that does not stop us from bringing the gospel to people. Why? Because the gospel is the power of, it's not the power of men. It's not the power of the government. It's not the power of our nation. It is not the power of ourselves. It is the power of God unto salvation. So you picture it. All of you, just as you're sitting there, picture it. God has commissioned you with this word and he's saying it is a power of God. He's given the other power. And he's saying go and make disciples. Now along the way, right? We need to be wise. We need to prepare ourselves. We need to have a good spiritual life. We need to do all the spiritual responsibilities that we have to do. But remember the gospel is the power of God. It's a power of God. You don't have to give a big supernatural experience. That is good. It's good. But you can only just give two minutes of a message of the gospel and people's lives can be touched. Right? Yes. I think Radhana has raised her hand. Go ahead. You're on mute. You're on mute, Radhana. Sorry. You were on mute. Can you repeat that, please? Okay. By mistake. All right. It's fine. Okay. Any questions? Anything that you want to share? We can just move on. Okay. Let's move on. Now we all have understood this, right? We've understood that the gospel is a power of God. We have to. God has commissioned us. Don't wait to become a pastor. Don't wait to become a prophet. Right? You can start. You can start today. You can start after this call, right? Because God has given us the authority. He has commissioned us, right? Of course, there'll be inhibitions. We will learn about all that fear, doubt, all that we will learn about. But this is the foundation, right? This is the foundation that we stand on. And the foundation is the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is really powerful. Amen? So let's look at the urgency. Why the sense of urgency, right? Why is it that, why can't we wait? You can't wait till I'm, let me wait till I'm 35. Then I will start my ministry. Or let me wait till, you know, my children grow up and then I can go and, you know, minister and evangelize and do all that. No. Why this urgency? Why is it that we are saying, hey, we all have to go into it immediately. Now, let's look at a few points. First one, there is no second chance, right? There's no second chance. Maybe some of us may meet some people and then you may not meet them again, right? I remember this one time, I was traveling from Bangalore to Mangalore in a train and I had some work here. So in the train, it was a night journey. So it's 7 p.m. to early morning, about 6 a.m. we reach here. And so I just had dinner, everything ready to just get some rest, to go to sleep. Immediately, the Holy Spirit, you know, put something in my heart to go and share the gospel with this man. And when I saw this man, I knew he's not a believer. So just by looking, we could know that he's not a believer. So I said, God, it's late. Let's sleep. Let's look after this tomorrow. So we went to sleep. Didn't get sleep, obviously. Woke up at about one o'clock. This man is still sitting and looking out of the window. He's not sleeping. Then I knew he's waiting for me. So I got off and I began to sit and talk to him. And after speaking to him for about half an hour, you know, it was broken Hindi that I could speak as broken, broken Hindi. And I don't know what he understood. But he was saying, you know, pray for me, pray for me. He was coming to Mangalore to look out for a job. He had gone through many difficulties. He lost his wife through cancer. And he was just lost. His eyes showed everything. And I shared the gospel with him. And I remember the Lord just minister to him so powerfully. He slept. We prayed. He said the salvation prayer. And we went back to sleep. Morning, he woke up and he said, I will never forget this journey for the rest of my life. Why? Because if I hadn't met you, I don't know what would have happened. Now there is joy, there is peace in my heart. Even though I lost my wife, even though I'm going through these challenges, financial difficulties, there's peace in my heart. And now he's part of our church in Mangalore as well. So he's going back to his state. He's gone back to his state actually. He's not here anymore. But here's the thing. No second chances. Second Corinthians chapter four verse three and four. Could one of us read it, please? Second Corinthians chapter four verse three and four. But even if a gospel is wailed, it is wailed to those who are perishing, whose minds the God of this age has blinded, who do not believe, less light of the gospel of the glory of Christ to his image of God should shine on them. Amen. Thank you, Divya. So when someone dies, they're crossing over to eternity, either with or without God. There's no middle place, right? There's no place where you, you know, after we die, there's no place where, okay, you stay here for some time. Let me just go check with the Father if you're able to come or no, no, no, no. It's either with or without God and there's no second chance. And so that's the urgency. There are people around us that are perishing and so there's an urgency. Now I'm not saying, quit your job, be careful. Remember, right? I'm not saying quit your job, go out on the streets and the whole day. No, no, there will come opportunities away, right? There will come opportunities. There will come times when God will very clearly give you opportunities, right? And we have to step out of our comfort zone. We'll look at that later on, how to overcome inhibitions. You have to step out. You know, sharing the gospel is an uncomfortable thing for some of us, right? People may not accept it. People may, oh, what will they think? Or, you know, why, what if they say, you know, I'm busy. I had all these inhibitions. What if they say, you know, I don't have time. Can you, can you tell me tomorrow? So all these things are there that comes up in our mind. But remember, there is an urgency, right? There's no second chance. Second point, time is running out. Matthew chapter 24 and verse 14. Could we read that, please? Matthew 24 and verse 14. Gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. Yes, thank you. So God's clock is ticking, right? Now I'm not making everyone scared saying what is this eschatology we're studying in times now. It's true. It's a fact that we all have to, you know, digest. It's true that we're coming towards the end of time. And even more so now with what is, when we look around what China is doing, China is already, China and Russia have joined forces, which is, you know, okay, I don't want to go into eschatology, but they've joined in forces to wage war against Israel. So these are signs of coming time, end times, right? So gospel, when we share the gospel, we need to mention things like heaven is real, hell is real. Some people say there's no hell. No, no, no, hell is real, right? It was an interesting thing. Jesus, there was this one time somebody came up to me and said, why are you preaching about hell, right? And they said you should only preach about the good things that Jesus did. Yes, we love to preach about all that, but there is a place, there is a time to also preach about, you know, things about eternity. Why? The Lord Jesus most of his preaching was about, you know, hell and things that are going to happen after life. So remember that time is running out. Let me give you this example. This is a wonderful example that I read many years back. David Brainhart was a young man in the early 1950s, sorry 1700s, David Brainhart, a young man, a very brilliant man, right? And so he grew up as, you know, a believer. But he did not really, he was not too deep in God's Word and all of that. He was just, okay, I'm a Christian. And one day he went to the church with his mother and the preachers preaching, but he's dreaming and he's sleeping off. And this happened for many years, but one, one certain time he was forced by his parents, you have to come to church. So he goes and his mother says, I'm going to ask you what the preachers preached and you better tell me. And after that Sunday, as the, he began to listen to the message and the preacher was preaching about the gospel and what happens when we accept the Lord Jesus Christ. And there was a fire burning inside him where that moment, that day he, he accepted the Lord Jesus Christ. He told his mother, I'm going to go and preach the gospel to the people around. He went on to preach more than 30,000 sermons. He went into the cold places. He went to the tribal Americans and he was 27 years old. He contracted tuberculosis. Every time he would cough, blood would come out of his mouth. And he did a wonderful, wonderful ministry. He passed away at the age of 27 or 28 of tuberculosis, but his mark in history still remains. I can go ahead and read it. David Brainard, the life of David Brainard. This book, a young man named John Wesley read this book, The Life of David Brainard. And John Wesley went on to do a greater ministry than David Brainard himself. So what am I, why am I giving this example? He felt that time is running out. People need to be saved. And so the same way, we are to, you know, be passionate about souls. Maybe some of us, we may not have that yet, but we can pray and ask God, God, give me the passion to win souls for your kingdom. Do not be ashamed of the gospel. Right? Romans 116, and we will close with this. Sorry, I've taken extra time. Romans 116. But I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvage him for everyone who believes, for the Jews first and also for the Greeks. Amen. Thank you, brother. I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. Now Paul is writing this to a Roman church, a church that is always, you know, believed in idol worship. They looked at the sun, the stars, they believed they were all gods. They looked at the rivers and they believed that God flows through it and all kinds of things. And Paul is writing to the Romans, and I'm sure the Romans would have felt, what is this message about Jesus who came, he died? It doesn't make sense. But I'm sure Paul is writing, you know, in his heart he would have felt, I am not ashamed of the gospel. You may think it's foolish. You may think it is something that doesn't make sense, but here's the thing. It is the power of God unto salvation. So you and I can witness this glorious, powerful Savior in our lives. Right? He's done it in our lives. We can go ahead and share it with the people around us. Amen. Amen. So we will pick up from next week. There's lots to learn, how to share, what are the inhibitions, how do we overcome our fears, you know, so lots to learn, so you can look forward to that. Right? Let's pray before we close. Father, we want to thank you for this time. We thank you, God, for your word, that is a life that is powerful, that is active, that is sharper than a two-edged sword, Lord. Lord, like what we read, you have commissioned us to share the gospel, to be a witness to the people around us. We just declare your power, your authority, your anointing upon each one of us, Lord. And as Paul writes to the Romans, he says, for I'm not ashamed of the gospel. Let this be our message as well, O God, that we will not be ashamed of the gospel, but we will declare allowed what you have done for us, Lord. Help us to be the witness that you have called us to be, even as we go through the session each week, Lord. I pray your grace, your anointing upon each of us, especially on the students, Lord, that you will empower them to do what you have called them to do, God. We thank you and praise you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much for joining. Let's catch up next week. Have a great week ahead. God bless you all.