Not Too Hard

 

We recently listened to a panel discussion on the greatest needs in world evangelization. One of the men (I cannot remember his name) purposely added to the scripture to make a point. “Does the Bible say, ‘Go into all the world and preach the Gospel except to the Muss-slims?’ ”  [Note, we will not write their name correctly so as not to be searchable with that word.  We may refer to turban-covered ones as cousins, being that they are descended from Abraham.]
 He was trying to point out how we, ourselves included, often see their world as “too hard” to reach. This challenged our thinking. Is not salvation a work of the Holy Spirit?

 One of our favorite preachers, Paul Washer, shared that when he preaches in places that are hostile to the Gospel, he goes in with the frame of mind that he is going to rescue his brothers and sisters. That is what some are according to Ephesians 1:3-6,
 "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself,
according to the good pleasure of His will,
6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. "

Let us not see the evangelism of anyone “too hard” as the work of salvation belongs to God alone. “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26