 Hello David Digger Hernandez here and welcome to Spirit Church. Today I'm going to be talking to you about becoming a soul winner. I'm going to give you four things that have to happen before your heart can be set ablaze for souls. And I really do believe that God wants to put the spirit of evangelism in his people for such a time as this. Stephen Moctezuma is with me as usual. He's going to be leading you in the song, created me a clean heart. Go ahead and worship with Stephen. Come back and hear this lesson. Oh God and renew a right spirit within me. Oh create, created me a clean heart. Right spirit within me. You sin cast me and cast me not away from thy presence, oh Lord. Take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation. Every new right spirit within me. You sin cast me and cast me not away from thy presence, oh Lord. Take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation. Every new right spirit within me. Well I prayed that you enjoyed that worship and I really do believe that as you asked the Lord to create in you a clean heart that he's doing just that. We serve a merciful God and we should be thankful for that knowing that according to 1 John chapter 1 verse 9 that we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us. So it's always good to come before the Lord and be open and honest. I love the way that King David put it when he said search me oh God and remove anything that is something that you don't like and I really do appreciate that heart and I pray that you adapt it to that heart as you sing that song. So speaking of your heart I'm going to be talking to you about having a heart for the lost or a burden for the lost or someone who is a soul winner. Now I'm aware that when this topic is covered in various circles that often it's covered in a way that is meant to inspire guilt into the listener. So in other words you know if you're not approaching every single person that you ever talk to in the grocery store at the gas station that you're just not a real Christian and I really don't believe that that's necessarily what God has called us to. Now there are times where the Holy Spirit will work on your heart or draw you to witness to certain individuals and that's a part of the everyday Christian life. I really do believe that evangelism is a lifestyle but more importantly I do believe that evangelism one of the most effective forms of evangelism is relational evangelism and this is evangelism that has to do with our friendships our family and those types of connections that are familiar with us from the day-to-day basis. So you at your work you win the lost you in your in your family you win the lost and wherever you go at school you win the lost so kind of on your regular route you're winning the lost. Now this doesn't mean that I don't believe in evangelizing strangers or things like that although I don't necessarily want to guilt anybody into doing those things I do want you to be spirit led in everything that you do. I will say that it's important that we hear the Holy Spirit on the daily basis that he will guide us to evangelize as he's led us to do but when I talk about this I think that the issue is not necessarily trying to do behavior modification in other words a lot of messages that have to do with evangelism or acquiring a heart for the lost focus on telling you what to do you know three or four souls a day if you don't win three or four souls a day then you're not doing your job and I think that that goal oriented evangelism although it's good in in its outlook though it's good in the intention that's behind it I don't think it necessarily produces the fruit that the Scripture tells us we should see rather I think that we should develop a heart that is so in love with Jesus that we want him to receive the reward of his suffering in other words everything that he died to receive on the cross we should be we should be passionate about making sure he receives that and so when it comes to evangelism I think that if we can develop a heart for the lost that is the cure to the lack of evangelism that we may see here in the modern age especially in the american church I think that church invitation is not necessarily evangelism or sin confrontation is not necessarily evangelism though that's part of evangelism we do need to preach the gospel full and and and uncompromise you know to preach heaven without hell grace without repentance forgiveness without repentance that's borderline heresy so I do believe in preaching the gospel and preaching against sin as jesus told his disciples to do but again what I want to get at today here is the heart the heart of the issue so rather than assign you with goals rather than assign you with with phrases that may inspire guilt and there are some things in this message that certainly will inspire conviction because they're of the word of god their truth and many times when we hear truth from the word of god we receive such conviction but again my goal is to talk to you about the heart the heart of evangelism the heart that is burdened for souls you can acquire this heart evangelism will flow from you naturally as a lifestyle and it won't be something you feel you have to check off your list or you feel guilty or that every person you ever don't preach the gospel to your you know their blood is on your hands it's not what I believe in that's not certainly what the bible doesn't teach that so first of all here are four things that we can do that I believe will inspire the heart for the souls the heart for the loss so first one is number one we need to hear their cry and we find the inspiration for this first point in Exodus chapter three and this is where Moses finds his calling so to speak from God to go and deliver the people of Israel so this is what Exodus chapter three says beginning in verse number one one day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro the priest of Midian he led the flock far into the wilderness and came to Sinai the mountain of God there the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the middle of a bush Moses stared at it in amazement or Moses stared in amazement though the bush was engulfed in flames it didn't burn up this is amazing Moses said to himself why isn't that bush burning up I must go see it when the Lord saw Moses coming to take a closer look God called to him from the middle of the bush Moses Moses here I am Moses replied do not come any closer the Lord warned take off your sandals for you are standing on holy ground I am the God of your father the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob when Moses heard this he covered his face because he was afraid to look at God then the Lord told him I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt I have heard their cries of distress because of their harsh slave drivers yes I am aware of their suffering so I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile and spacious land it is a land flowing with milk and honey the land where the Canaanites Hittites Amorites Parasites Hittites and Jebusites now live now we know or most of us know the rest of the story we're quite familiar with this text this is where Moses receives the call of God this is where God comes down and sort of disrupts everything that is going on in Moses life now we know Moses fled from Egypt that was where he was originally from and Egypt in the scripture to us is a picture of sin the children of Israel is a picture of the modern day man and Egypt is a picture of the modern day sin of that man so sin is slavery in fact the scripture says that those who are living in sin are slaves to that sin now I've talked to people and they say well I'm just perfectly happy doing what I'm doing and I'm living my life and I'm enjoying it and they say I'm not in any bondage I'm free to do as I wish and one of the things I often challenge the people who are living in sin to do I tell them this I say okay if you really don't believe that sin is a bondage just try to stop just try to leave that lifestyle for a week for a month do it for three days and once they actually tried to escape that lifestyle they find out in fact that they are living in a bondage it's the same as an alcoholic who won't admit that he is an alcoholic because he's afraid of what you'll have to confront to overcome such an addiction so sin is a prison sin is not being free to do as you wish sin is to live in depravity in darkness is to be chained to do what is the baser of your nature sin is bondage sin is darkness sin is sickness and so Moses is confronted by God and God says this he says I've come down now think about this God says I've come down to set the people free I've come down and who did he go to God said I've come down and then he goes to Moses you see whenever God is going to act in the earth because he has given dominion to man God has to move through a vessel if he is going to move in the earth now I'm not saying that it is impossible for God to do anything on the earth without the permission of man without the participation of man but I am saying that God for the most part though there are some exceptions will choose to use a vessel a human vessel to respond to the needs of mankind often the atheist will look up and ask well if God exists why is there so much evil in the world well one could easily reverse it on the atheist and ask the question if God doesn't exist why is there so much good the point is that God leaves man the responsibility of caring for this world because he gave us dominion since the beginning that's how it's worked so God has sent men to do the things that need to be done God has sent men to accomplish goodness in the earth the problem is not that God doesn't respond it's that men don't obey and so here God comes down he says I'm coming down and then he comes to Moses but I'm choosing you so I said I've seen the oppression of my people so God has watched and he's seen the Israelites living in the oppression the slavery of Egypt which is a picture of us to sin and he says I'm going to send someone we know that Moses was a likeness of Christ but in another sense Moses is a likeness of those whom God has called and so God tells Moses look I've come down I've seen the oppression and I've heard their cries now Moses would have never heard the cries of the Israelites had God not taken a moment with him you see if we're going to hear the cry we have to get into the deep places of prayer where we can hear the voice of God we think or many think I should say that when they begin to pray that it's going to be all blessings and just a clear path all the way to where God has called me no the call of God is an adventure it's a journey and there are challenges that come our way and that's part of what makes the life of the believer the most exciting life that you could possibly live here in the earth today but the issue is not necessarily that that the cries aren't there it's that we're not hearing the cry even Christians can become so comfortable in what God has blessed them in that we fail to hear the cries the lost we can't you hear it I mean when I think of all that's going on in the world it's very obvious that the world is crying think of all of the damage that false religion and false religion included in that category are the so-called Christians who carry out acts of violence and hate throughout the world false religion is tearing men apart giving God a bad name think of all the shootings that have become so commonplace now that that it's it's we're almost numb to the idea of mass shootings now obviously we know that when these shootings happen this isn't because of a financial issue this isn't a political issue it's not a moral issue it's a spiritual issue I mean some people cry out take the guns other people cry out put in regulation but you could do all that and evil will always find a way to accomplish its will doesn't matter the issue is the spirit they say well you know we we need to do more of this or more of that and that's fine if man wants to do it but let me tell you something so long as sin abounds tragedy is going to a valid you think of everything going on in the world all the starvation all of the tragedy all of the calamity all of the darkness the world is crying every time I see across my television screen a news alert or something happening in our world that's tragic my heart breaks I mean I'll tell you one of the ones that affected me more than probably any other shooting was the sandy hook shooting I mean I'm telling you I mean for three days after that and again this isn't to say that I felt the exact burden that with with the victims felt because nobody could know what they're possibly going through I mean we watch these things we we we ache for a few minutes and then we go on our way I remember it was three days after I heard about that that I could I couldn't write I couldn't read I couldn't focus I had trouble eating because I was I was just thinking about how horrible it must have been for those poor children and everything in me just was broken for them I mean I even wanted to write something in response to but I was so emotional I said look I can't even write anything right now and and I mean just imagine what it's like to be in the families that experience that tragedy firsthand I mean this this should be enough to tell us that the world needs Jesus and every time I look at one of these tragedies every time I see financial collapse political calamity you know we're talking about weather tragedy where I mean typhoons hurricanes tornadoes earthquakes and such everything in me just says the world needs Jesus the world needs Jesus the world needs Jesus and I hope that as you look at this world and you look at these tragedies that are happening number one you have to hear the cry experts in pundits will analyze and assess and they'll say we need this we need that or we need to implement this law we need implement that idea we need to put these regulations down or we need to put this program in place that's fine but no political program will ever replace the power of the Holy Spirit no no self-help system no self-help system can ever be as effective as the life-changing transformative power that is the gospel of Jesus Christ so Moses he goes and he finally comes to realize that there is a people that is crying I mean he had come from that place he had come from Egypt and he had been away from Egypt for so long that he had forgotten he had forgotten the cries he had forgotten the oppression let me ask you something can you hear the cry can you hear the cries of this dying world who needs Jesus and if so what are you doing to respond number one we need to hear the cries number two to acquire this heart for the loss to become a soul winner we need a number two share their pain now I know the preachers of the new gospel that says that it's all supposed to be happiness and blessings and positive thinking I'm all for that we'll particularly disagree with this point it doesn't matter this is what the scripture says Romans chapter 9 verse 1 through 6 says this with Christ as my witness I speak with utter truthfulness now this is Paul the Apostle writing his letter to the Romans concerning the Jews who were not repenting with Christ as my witness I speak with utter truthfulness my conscience and the Holy Spirit confirm it my heart is filled with bitter sorrow and unending grief for my people my Jewish brothers and sisters now listen to what he says here now we're going to read something listen to what he says this is just so powerful and if anybody else said this beside Paul the Apostle I might not believe them I would think oh you're just being too spiritual but listen to what he says here this is so powerful a second part of verse 2 I would be willing to be forever cursed cut off from Christ if that would save them think about what he's saying he's saying Paul the Apostle is saying I would trade my salvation if that meant they would know Jesus now that's a heart for loss he is sharing in the pain he is empathizing he is caring for a people who are lost now obviously Paul the Apostle understands that no sacrifice that he could ever give would equal the sacrifice that Christ gave and he understands that the sacrifice that Christ did for us the what Christ sacrifice is enough it's sufficient to pay for the sins of all mankind past present and future what he's saying is hypothetically speaking if it were possible if my salvation giving that then coming to Christ I would do it do you know where people who don't accept Christ who are cut off from Christ go they go to hell I know it's not popular to preach it but there still is a hell that is very real and Paul the Apostle is basically saying I'm willing to go to hell if it means that this people come to know Christ that's beautiful now to some that may be sick and twisted and demented but let me tell you something he wants to share in their pain in fact Jeremiah I believe the prophet and he often is referred to as the weeping prophet Jeremiah chapter 13 and it's somewhere in chapter 13 I believe it's verse 16 no it's verse 17 Jeremiah chapter 13 verse 17 says and if you still refuse to listen I will weep alone because of your pride my eyes will overflow with tears because the Lord's flock will be led away into exile Jeremiah is saying that if you don't listen to the word of God I'm not going to be angry I'm not going to call you a sinner I'm not going to be hateful I'm not going to be rude I'm not going to be mean spirited Jeremiah says if you don't accept Christ I'm going to go alone by myself and I'm just going to weep when is the last time you wept over souls do do we care enough to be inconvenienced do we care enough to act sometimes we do in this walk with Christ have to take on burdens and sorrows it is not all going to be blessing joy and positive thinking sometimes we have to allow our hearts to be broken our spirits to be crushed to be used by God God uses the broken God uses the shattered God uses those who are very weak when you hear the cry and you share in the pain it does something in your heart it breaks you you know the anointing came from olive oil but you couldn't get that oil until the olive was crushed the anointing comes from brokenness let me tell you something some of the most anointed men and women of God I've heard that speak to the loss that speak as an evangelist that speak as one who is trying to win sinners to Jesus they are the ones who are most broken over the dying world in which we live and it inspires me and I pray it inspires you and I'm not saying we need to be walking around you know putting ashes on our forehead whipping our backs I'm simply saying that somewhere in our heart somewhere in our Christianity there has to be this sharing in the pain in the sorrow that allows the heart to break and and allows the soul to be broken over the lost and dying world can you hear the cry do you share in the pain because it's a reality number one hear their cry number two share their pain number three know their fate I was talking to because I was actually interviewing on my show oh man this was several seasons ago one of the one I think was in the second or third season of Encounter TV and I had this guest on and when I brought him on he I mean everybody just was uh was up in arms about him and he's a very controversial figure now not everyone I have on the program I've learned over the years that that uh I have to say I don't endorse everything they do but for the most part if I have him on the program it means they have something I believe they can add to the body of Christ so like for instance I've said this many times uh some people criticize Jolosteen and and hearing some of my messages you may even think that I'm totally against guys like not at all I think that in Christianity there needs to be a balance and I believe all of us together create that balance we need the Jolosteens who are gifted the Bible says if a man's gift is encouragement let him encourage no that's Jolosteen and pastors get on his case for it for no reason I think it's jealousy but that's that's a little bit of a rabbit trail so Jolosteen God's gifted him as an encourager me God God's gifted me to bring these types of messages and and hey that's what I'm gonna do so Jolosteen is an only to do one thing and then there's this other gentleman that I had on my program his name is Jed Smock very controversial I love him though very controversial why because he's extreme you have guys on two extremes but God has anointed both of them God uses both of them we need both of them we need the Jolosteens and we need the hell hell hell fire preaching brimstone guys that get on the streets we need those now again I'm not necessarily endorsing every aspect um that come with both those ministries but maturity connects maturity looks for points of unity rather than points of uh division so as Jed Smock goes and and I'm sure he wouldn't mind me saying this he's an intellectual man so he understands where I'm coming from but you know with with Jed Smock some of his his his his delivery a little controversial I love Jed Smock I've had him on the program I think he's an anointed servant of God I've even texted him the same thing but some people were very upset when I had him on but I still had him on and I was asking him about his delivery style you know he gets up there keep in mind he's not preaching to families and he's on college campuses where you got the frat parties and the sleeping around and the booze and the drugs and the the hippie theology and all of that and he's the guy that goes in and he preaches and I was speaking of King Herod King Herod said of John the Baptist or the Bible says of King Herod in regards to John the Baptist that Herod was deeply troubled every time that he heard John the Baptist speak get he loved to hear him speak nonetheless and I think Jed Smock is the same way he would go into these college campuses and he would just preach repentance why I'm you know against sin which is biblical to do and he would preach on those things and some Christians the immature ones oh brother you gotta be all love and you know they didn't know that that was his gift as part of the body and so Jed Smock was telling me a story I just wanted to give you a background on who he is very controversial and and he's giving me a background and and so he's he's preaching at a college campus and he's preaching about hell he's talking about he's just reading scripture on hell that's all he's doing people are getting so upset with him and and the Christians get up and this one Christian gets up you know he's real bold is a young guy he's got you know his theology figured out he stands up and he goes let me tell you something brothers and sisters and I'm paraphrasing here he says what this man preaches is not the gospel we we we we preach love and and acceptance and and and joy and Jesus loves you even if you are a sinner and you know he shouldn't be telling you about hell and the gospel isn't necessarily all about you repenting it just gets up and starts doing this defense for you know what I call hippie Christian theology and so he gets up there and he starts talking about how Jed Smock's way off and we love you and we you know on and on and on and so finally after this this guy is done giving his little speech this atheist stands up and he asked he begins to just kind of ask him some questions so he he asked the the Christian who just got up and was kind of trying to sidetrack from what Jed Smock was doing the atheist asked him and again I'm paraphrasing he says um do you believe in hell and the Christian said yes of course I believe in hell absolutely and the atheist said do you believe that if we sin we're going to go to hell well yes of course but but Jesus is love Jesus is grace and we understand that and the atheist said something that just was it was it was amazing he said so let me get this straight he said this man is telling me the truth and you're over here trying to stop him he says now if I was you and I believed that what someone was doing was taking them to a really horrible place then I would be out here every day trying to warn them to not go to that horrible place he says so that leads me to only two conclusions either you don't care that I'm going to hell or you don't really believe it that was coming from the atheist and it's true I'm not saying as I always say and you know I'm all for balance I'm not saying that we need to be rude and mean spirited but we cannot forget that there is a heaven and a hell there is sin and repentance there is salvation and judgment the bible teaches both both and when we know their fate when we truly believe let me tell you something worldly evangelism is a rescue mission when you know the fate of so many souls and you really I mean and you really believe this okay you either you believe the bible or you don't if we really believe that people who live in sin are going to hell we need to start preaching the gospel again there's no need to be mean there's no need to be rude but in love and in power we must present the gospel the good news of salvation that Jesus saves from sin and from hell we need to know their fate so number one hear their cry number two share their pain number three know their fate and I want to read this to you it's a little excerpt just a little something that I wrote a while ago and it's just my description of hell I had a horrible dream and I'm not saying I actually went there there's very few people I believe who actually had a biblical vision of hell bill we we spring one of them that but but I do believe that this this at least inspired something in me and if hell is anything like what I dreamt even in principle I I needed to write this and warn people so this is a little something I wrote it says hell no amount of regret can appease it for every moment that passes a moment is added to the extent of one's stay deep frustration hopeless turmoil and constant confusion are forever in the soul hope is destroyed after all there is no mercy passed this point the instant your eyes catch a glimpse your pride and stubbornness are broken but it's too late the moment you sense the evil you desire the opportunity to repent but god is not mocked the reality is confirmed everything you knew in your heart to be true is now visibly apparent you escaped the thought on earth hoping the thought would never manifest its own reality every moment of sinful pleasure every comment of mockery every laugh at god they turn to be regrettable sorrowful even to know that safety was within reach is it tormenting thought why such foolishness why such carelessness it could have all been prevented that is a most tormenting thought no time exists hell is the constant state of highest anguish it is darkness that will never again see light pain that will never know comfort and loneliness that will never again find companionship it is the justice of god can you grasp the vastness of the universe that is temporary hell is a universe void of all things good pride is the door to hell in stubbornness is the step that takes you through what sort of pride would walk into hellfire what pleasure is worth the soul mock laugh scoff and push it from your mind it remains a reality life is a thin fragile glass upon which we walk once it is broken it cannot be repaired only fools go to hell when salvation is so near frustration that causes physical tension fear that causes your heart to race anger that brings depression and pain that causes a scream these are the reactions of a halish existence they are the eternal marks of a tormented rejected soul matthew 25 45 to 46 mark 9 43 1st Thessalonians 2 Thessalonians 1 9 Ezekiel 3 18 all tell us of the torment in fact Ezekiel 3 18 says this this is God speaking to the prophet when I say unto the wicked thou shalt surely die and thou give us him not warning nor speak us to warn the wicked from his wicked way to save his life the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity and his blood will I require at thine hand when we don't preach the gospel God holds us responsible for the souls that should have been saved as a result of having heard the gospel number one hear their cry number two share their pain number three know their fate finally number four this is the hopeful end this we gotta know their salvation remember when you came to christ remember the joy that you felt the lifting of the burden the light that came breaking into the darkness that bound you do you remember feeling clean do you remember feeling the joy of being freed of past sinful mistakes your mind cleared of guilt and condemnation what if you can cause that by actions of obedience to happen for someone else when you know their salvation I mean yes you hear their cry yes you share their pain yes you know their fate but when you do those three things and know their salvation what god wants to do for them how much god loves them everything within you will set your heart ablaze to become an on fire soul winner preaching the uncompromised gospel of Jesus christ marching through the gates of hell smashing the locks of the captives and setting the slaves of sin free this is the call that god has given to you you have the privilege and the responsibility to carry the light of truth to a dying world this is the joy this is the balance and we cannot forget the fullness that the gospel tells us to we cannot forget the fullness of the message but this is the most important part see people who preach hell and with no love cause people to become sorrowful and depressed and if they accept their christianity they live it in a religious spirit in and an oppression people who preach salvation without repentance they produce also false converts where people are walking in this this sort of this hobby of christianity never allowing it to transform their heart and they just march toward hell more confidently but when you preach as the scripture tells us to preach repentance from sin and salvation through what Jesus has done you join those together the truth that is revealed to that sinner causes him to turn toward god in heartfelt sincere repentance and he experiences the transformative work the miracle of salvation in his life and it produces true conversion we know their salvation because we ourselves have experienced it and we want others to experience the same we can preach the truth in love and that's what god has called us to do so i'm going to read matthew chapter nine and this is something i observed here um actually um i took a look at it and i was reading this i observed this in a book called connectivity by pastor larry neville he's the president of praise chapel christian fellowship uh the fellowship with which i'm connected and he drew our attention to something that was it was very interesting in the scripture here so mark chapter nine verse 35 let me see here this is what jesus said and he's talking about the need for workers he said the scripture says jesus traveled through all the towns and villages of that area teaching in the synagogues and announcing the good news about the kingdom and he healed every kind of disease and illness um verse 36 when he saw the crowds he had compassion on them because they were confused and helpless like sheep without a shepherd he said to his disciples the harvest is great but the workers are few so pray to the lord who is in charge of the harvest ask him to send more workers into the field now what's amazing is immediately following that teaching of jesus is matthew i'm not going to read it but matthew chapter 10 talks about jesus sending out the 12 apostles and and pastor larry had pointed out the connection here he said the interesting thing is that when jesus the very ones that jesus told the pray for workers themselves became the workers in the next chapter the point is that as you pray for the loss as you pray for god to send workers he begins to stir you and causes you to become that worker when you pray for god to meet a need god develops you to become the answer for that need think about that this is this is a powerful truth when you pray for god to meet a need he causes you through those prayers he changes your heart he changes your character he he subjects the flesh as you're praying those prayers for a certain need those prayers for that need cause you to be be developed into the solution to meet that very need when you pray it changes you into god's answer that's that's powerful revelation right there and i want you to be sure of that that as you pray for god to meet a need in this lost and dying world that he's going to develop in your heart the passion the burden for the lost the more you pray for the lost the more you become one who will win the lost so prayer for the lost causes a burden for the lost and finally the last portion of scripture i want to read and then we're going to have to bring this to a close is romans chapter 10 romans chapter 10 and this is a very famous scripture because we all know it it's romans chapter 10 verse 9 and i've read this several times especially you are partners with those who get our partner letter you know this is kind of a theme scripture as to how i raise support because i talked to you about the need of sending someone uh to to go and preach the gospel so romans chapter 10 verse 9 says this if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that god has raised him from the dead you will be saved for it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with god and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved as the scriptures tell us anyone who trusts in him will never be disgraced jew and gentile are the same in this respect they have the same lord who gives generously to all who call upon him for everyone who calls upon or everyone who calls on the name of the lord will be saved but how can they call on him to save them unless they believe him and how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him and how can they hear about him unless someone tells them and how will anyone go and tell them without being sent that is why the scripture says how beautiful are the feet of messengers who bring the good news know their salvation so as i said at the beginning it's good to set goals for yourself it's good to be aware of evangelism as you go out through your daily life but such standards um i believe personally and i'm not going to be dogmatic about this i'm not saying it's ungodly to do but i think such standards like that are what create religious systemized approaches to which should otherwise be something that things that come natural out of what we've acquired by revelation of the Holy Spirit so instead of giving you goals instead of telling you that you know everyone who passed by and don't preach the gospel to is going to hell that day which to some degree could be true because nobody's promised tomorrow and again we still have to be very sensitive to the voice of the Holy Spirit my point is that if we can develop the heart of evangelism this will flow naturally and it won't be something we feel forced to do it'll be something that comes out of us naturally won't be like filling a quota and if we miss you know if we don't lead eight people in the center's prayer in one day then we're not obeying God and i don't want you to live under that type of um that type of oppression that comes from rule setting as so to speak i'm not necessarily against those things but i think this is a better way to approach evangelism is to develop a heart for the loss to become a soul winner in your spirit so number one hear their cry number two share their pain empathize number three know their fate number four know their salvation remember praying for the lost causes you to develop a burden for the lost i'm going to pray now that the Holy Spirit himself would set your heart on fire for lost soul you know ultimately we do win souls for jesus people ask me why do you do what you do and i say very simple it's because jesus wants me to it's all for him yes i care about the loss but first and foremost i care about jesus my primary goal in winning the lost is is basically this jesus wants souls one to him why because he died on the cross to receive so my whole life is about getting the master what he's asked me he wants souls i'm gonna win souls for him he's given us this command that he sits on a stone he says this is what i desire jesus desires souls and so i say okay master if that's what you want your servant will live his whole life working to acquire that what you want secondly i have a heart for the loss i don't want to see anyone go to hell hundred fifty thousand people or over a hundred fifty thousand people die every day and that's an old statistic it might be more now many of those who died a day are dying without christ we need to move and we have to do it quickly number one for jesus secondly for souls so let's pray let's believe god for your healing yes but let's just pray i'm gonna pray that the holy spirit would touch you and in this touch you ask him here's the thing you can ask jesus and this is gonna be a special prayer because you're gonna ask the lord for whatever it is you want and i'm gonna agree with whatever that prayer is as long as it's biblical of course so let's believe god okay so father in the name of jesus the lord i pray for that one watching right now who's listening to this message and who so desires to be used by you as a soul winner and so father i pray that by your holy spirit you would set their heart ablaze for the loss and lord that thing which they are asking you we join our faith together we touch and agree and we say it is done in the name of jesus there's a young man watching me you're 14 years old you've been watching these videos now for a couple days and you know you're called by god to do something let me tell you something i want to confirm that god has indeed called you to preach the gospel and you see god has shown you and you thought it was just your own thoughts god has shown you you preaching before thousands praying for the sick and seeing miracles and prophesy yes god's gonna give you both gifts i'm telling you that is a confirmation today god has called you that is it for the lesson in the ministry portion here here are the new members of spirit church welcome all of you including we look we got someone from the united kingdom here that is awesome and and of course from the united states and and i think we're looking here we got new zealand on there so i'm very excited about the different people who are joining so welcome to spirit church we love you now if you're blessed by this ministry so first to those of you who consider yourself spirit church members your spirit family you do your tithes and offering right now thank you for that there are almost a hundred members worldwide of spirit church we love you we're praying for you many will tell you that are from spirit church i personally correspond with the members i'm doing that for as long as i possibly can of course once we get to the thousands and we will get to the thousands it's going to be impossible for me to do that and we'll have to acquire um i'll have to put the spirit church correspondence into the office but for now i'm personally in touch with every member of spirit church who so desires to be in touch personally uh so consider joining spirit church today by going to the website and as usual if you're someone who watches and counter tv remember it's not just spirit church we have three ministries going actually there's 11 if you go on the ministry website you can see those look under um learn about dhm i believe you click on ministries and you'll see uh the 11 ministries that we're now doing um you'll be very surprised to see everything that your gift is going to support but in the meantime um maybe you're someone who watches us on television that's encounter tv as our global evangelism or a worldwide television uh then then there's international events and then there's global discipleship so we're doing both global evangelism and global edification it's a double-edged sword this ministry we're evangelizing the lost and edifying the believer and if you're someone who believes that the gospel needs to be preached you believe that jesus is the only way to heaven and there's no exceptions to that and you want to see the gospel preached as it's always been intended by the word of god to be preached as the early church preached it uncompromised bold and unashamed with miracle signs and wondering backed by the power of the holy spirit in love and truth and you want to see that go all around the world then this is the ministry i believe you can support it and i know god's going to bless you for it and you look around the world you say lord i want to win souls lord i want to make a difference lord i want to do something let me tell you something this is making a difference and this is your chance to join in the efforts from hundreds we have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of supporters from all over the world almost a thousand now ministry supporters who on a monthly basis donate and say we're going to stand with you david and we're going to give and we're going to join in and you want to do that you want to join that effort when we stand together we can do so much more and you're saying i want to be a part of that worldly bedroom i want to make that change now this is how you make that change you're not powerless to make a difference you can do it today we need both monthly gifts five ten twenty thirty dollars a month and one time gifts some can do uh ten twenty thirty dollars one time ten twenty thirty dollars monthly some of you could even do a hundred dollars a month and some of you could do a one-time gift a five hundred or a thousand i'm telling you it helps us all of it goes toward the preaching of the gospel well that is it again for this edition of spirit church until next time remember nothing is impossible with god