SOLID WORK IN EVANGELISATION

SOLID WORK IN EVANGELISATION

I thank you for your kind wish that I should be present at the meetings at ———— next week. I do trust the Lord will keep you all much on my heart before Him during the meetings. I desire much love to each of you, many long known and esteemed for the Lord’s sake. May each derive much blessing from conferring one with another before Him. The Lord grant that you may be taught of Him to do solid work. There are three things: “Open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God” (Acts 26: 18). I believe that in conversion it is a great thing to have a good beginning; a good beginning is always marked with deep repentance. If repentance does not mark the beginning, there is not depth in the conversion. Saul of Tarsus was three days without sight, neither did he eat nor drink. You must keep together “Repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ” (Acts 20: 21). The sense of relief is always in proportion to the sense of danger and judgment. Man is not only a sinner but he is under the judgment of God — Death,

“the wages of sin”. “He was delivered for our offences”, that was often typified, but no victim ever rose until “Jesus our Lord” was “raised for our justification” (Romans 4: 24, 25). I suppose justification is the finish of the evangelist. I believe if the convert can see by faith that all that oppressed him, all that was against him in relation to God, has been cleared away by Christ (as clearly as Jonathan saw that Goliath was gone), that he would not only be at peace with God, but that the Lord Jesus Christ would be the object and delight of his heart, as was David to Jonathan, and as the Lord to the woman in Luke 7. I must not add more, excuse me for saying so much; but I am sure once the soul is personally attached to the Lord His coming again is its paramount hope, and when this is the case, to find Him in the assembly, and to do His pleasure here, become, as I might say, a necessary consequence. The Lord bless each of you much.