THE EVANGELIST (1)

THE EVANGELIST (1)

An evangelist receives his gift from an ascended Christ to gather out souls from the world for the assembly, His body. He therefore rejoices when a poor sinner has been extricated from the grip of Pharaoh, all that terrible power and thraldom broken, and the soul delivered from the power of Satan unto God. I do not think we are sufficiently sensible of the greatness and magnitude of conversion. What a sight to see a soul drawn out of all the power of Satan and the net of Egypt! There was not a green thing in all the land of Egypt; there was darkness that might be felt, and there was not a house in which there was not one dead. An evangelist, conscious of that which God had done in delivering a soul from the house of bondage, must have deep exercise of heart before God; but when he knows the mystery of the Head and the body, when he knows the pleasure of the Head, because of knowing his own place in that wonderful mystery, with what feelings of unspeakable delight must he survey the new-born babe, when he reflects on the glorious manhood that awaits him - a member of the body of Christ, to the apprehension of which another may have the privilege to lead him. The women of Israel gloried in a man-child because he might be the Messiah, but how much more may the evangelist glory in sure certainty that his offspring in the gospel is part of “the Christ”.