Amazing Rescue

Scripture:
"Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire." (Rev.20:14-15)

Yesterday after I left work, I had stayed a little later to catch up on some odds and ends, I drove right over to my church. when I got there we did not have a regular pray meeting and Bible study, we had a "Harvest Festival". It was great, this small, spanish speaking church had converted its 10 car "parking lot" into an area of fun and fellowship. There were bails of hay and pumpkins all over the place, fun games to play with prizes which you did not have to pay for, homemade dessert and beverages, and an evangelistic movie inside the small chapel type church. It was so exciting. This small fellowship of faithful believers drew the attention of the entire, multi-cultural neighborhood for blocks around. And passers-by knew what was going on because they rented a large, electric sign inviting people to come, in both English and Spanish. It was so exciting. Hallelujah.

Well it seems like the Lord wants me to think more about evangelism because yesterday I also got an email from a missionary friend. As I believe I have told you in the past, I am on his prayer team, and today, I would like to share with you what he wrote to me.

"I many times refer to evangelism as a RESCUE OPERATION. Modern evangelism methods would say that we are rescued from an unhappy life, a bad marriage, drugs, alcohol or an empty life. "Try Jesus," they say, "you've tried everything else."Yet, when one runs to Christ, he is actually saved from the WRATH OF GOD and certain judgment.But now God commands all people everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. (Acts 17:30)

"When I evangelize, I call people to repent and turn to Christ, knowing that Jesus is the only one that can forgive our sin and save us from the wrath of God. The sinner may have many issues in his life, but his GREATEST need is to turn from his sin and flee to Christ so that he will be saved on judgement day.In the following video, I am sure the man on the edge of Niagara Falls had many needs. He was cold, he was scared and perhaps he was hungry. His greatest need, however, was to be rescued from a sure death.

"The following video is one of the best illustrations of evangelism that I have seen. You can find the link on Jacob's blog which is at http://openairpreaching.blogs.com/

Jacob Bock
Spain

Requests:
That the Lord remind us of the severity of the danger that awaits those who do not know Jesus as their Lord and that we continually seek opportunities to share the gospel of our Lord and Savior.

Prayer:
Dear Lord, You are coming soon and we know that those who do not know you will find themselves in hell for all eternity. You do not wish that any should perish, so I pray that you will move in us to respond to every opportunity to you give us so the more will come to know how wonderful is your gift of salvation. Amen.