{"id":1795,"date":"2013-12-15T19:54:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T01:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:20:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:20:44","slug":"witnessing-that-wins-souls-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1795","title":{"rendered":"Witnessing that Wins Souls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>T-3600, Matthew 28:19-20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I: The Church&#8217;s Witness:<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. The lost are not coming to church.<br \/>\n2. Lost never came in great numbers.<br \/>\n3. The Church&#8217;s appeal too often is made to the natural man.<br \/>\n4. All other institutions are making their appeal to the natural man.<br \/>\n5. To appeal to the natural man alone is to bring shame to the cause of Christ.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: A Demand for Spiritual Things Must be Created.<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. The natural man demands the things that are natural.<br \/>\n2. The natural man cannot understand spiritual things nor does he have a desire for such.<br \/>\n3. God must create the demand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: How A Spiritual Demand is Created:<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. This is a miracle against nature.<br \/>\n2. Christans are the channel through which this demand is created.<br \/>\n3. Only the Holy Spirit can convict and make man conscious of his need.<br \/>\n4. Prayer prepared the Christian as a channel through which God blesses men.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IV: Through Witnessing:<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. The Holy Spirit convicts through the Word which requires witnessing.<br \/>\n2. Witnessing is to be to all but all will not accept it.<br \/>\n3. Soul winning can be done only with those whom the Holy Spirit is able to convict of sin (no force by man).<\/p>\n<p><strong>V: Two Kinds of Conviction: Conscience &amp; Holy Spirit.<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. Conscience consists of a broken law.<br \/>\n2. Holy Spirit consists of a rejected Christ.<br \/>\n3. Conscience speaks of morality, the Holy Spirit of spirituality.<br \/>\n4. Conscience seeks to produce good works in us, the Holy Spirit is faith.<br \/>\n5. Conscience urges repentance toward a past life, the Holy Spirit toward God.<br \/>\n6. Conscience toward a higher ideal of living, Holy Spirit conversion to Christ.<br \/>\n7. Without the Holy Spirit conviction, one may become a Church member &amp; fail to become a Christian!<\/p>\n<p><strong>VI: Without the Holy Spirit, Conviction One May become A Church Member &amp; Fail to become A Christian!<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Witnessing to the good music, program, and building.<br \/>\n<strong> To the preacher the good people or fellowship.<\/strong><br \/>\n2. Witnessing to a lost world about a Saviour that came to seek and to save that which was lost.<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 25, 1962: Perris Valley B.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T-3600, Matthew 28:19-20 I: The Church&#8217;s Witness: 1. The lost are not coming to church. 2. Lost never came in great numbers. 3. The Church&#8217;s appeal too often is made to the natural man. 4. All other institutions are making their appeal to the natural man. 5. To appeal to the natural man alone is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1796,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}