ENLARGEMENT THROUGH GOSPEL CONVERSATION

And in every way that Lord, there are weaknesses in

our lives, You will turn these weaknesses to strength for us.

In the name of Jesus Father, we are grateful. Thank you,

Holy Spirit. In Jesus' mighty name. We pray you're welcome

to church. In Jesus' name. This morning, I like to

discuss a matter that is to a great extent, very uncommon,

something that in most times you don't hear it discussed,

but there is need for us to talk about it,

and talking about it we help us as Christians to

be able to live our lives in a way that

is pleasant to God. And what I want to talk

about this money is all so related to our theme

for the year twenty twenty five, and particularly this discussion

was initiated by the Youth Fellowship of the Church. But

after considering the discussion, I felt the need that we

should bring it to the whole house and not just

at the youth fellowship level, because it is something that

is very important and I would like that every one

of us pay very important attention. Why is it so

difficult today as Christians? I don't know how many of

us can see what is written on the screen here,

can we all see it. I know those I decide

my difficulties in seeing it. But I believe that someone

God is going to touch the heart of someone very soon,

and we expand our media center by the grace of

God in Jesus' name. But I just want to speak

on what I call enlargement through Gospel conversations. Enlargement through

gospel conversations. I know the topic is does it sound

familiar to anybody's confusing? Abby? Lock? Nice? Is it confusing?

Is cleared? Okay? I want everybody to follow me. I'll

just mention a few things and then challenge us and

we go Enlargement through Gospel conversations. The youth had invited

me to handle evangelism a teaching on evangelism, so I

saw the need that we should bring it to the

whole house and talk about it. But let me begin

from this. Why is it that it is difficult for

many of us to engage in gospel conversations. Part of

the reason why this may be is that there is

fear of rejection. A lot of us worry that people

will mock us, people ignore us, people will reject us.

Sometimes fear of damaging the relationships that we have with

our friends and neighborhoods and people we tagous to be

too religious. So because of that, we don't talk about

the gospel. For some of us, it is lack of confidence.

We feel we don't know enough about the Bible or

how to answer tough questions. Sometimes we are not sure

about how to start gospel conversations, how to start evangelism,

how to talk about Jesus. Sometimes there's fear of persecution,

especially in Anigeria today. In fact, we know that in

some places evangelism can lead to hostility, discrimination or even

legal consequences. You can be charged to court for evangelizing

Christ in some places. About misunderstanding of evangelism, some of

us have this understanding that evangelism is only for pastors

and specially trained missionaries. Others think their lifestyle alone is

enough without weber proclamation. Yes, it is good that your lifeties.

You know, we say something, but beyond that we can

do some more. Sometimes some of us feel we are

spiritually not prepared. Sometimes we are too busy. We're too busy.

So many of us we are consumed with work, with school,

with personal matters, and we don't even prioritize evangelism, and

we don't even bother about whether it is urgent or not.

Some believe it is not their gift. Some are afraid

of difficult questions. Then some of us we enjoy the

comfort of Christian circles. We spend most of our time

with fellow believers and don't interact much with unbelievers, so

we are comfortable. Sometimes it's because of lack of trading strategy.

Maybe there's no training given to anybody. So because there's

no training and we can go out, sometimes some of

us feel that others should do it now, after all,

we have evangelism and Mission Committee, right, they should go

and do it. Some it is doubt about the effectiveness

of evangelism. If I go out and evangelize, what will

they bring? And so many other reasons, so many others

like that. You know, a lot of people are afraid

of engaging in evangelism, But are their benefits for evangelism

When you evangelize. Part of the benefits is the fact

that you're being God's commands as given to us. In

the Book of Matthew twenty eight nineteen and twenty, Jesus

commanded believers to evangelize in that place go and make

disciples of all nations. So sharing the gospel is an

act of faithfulness to God's mission. Another benefit is that

we bring people to salvation. When you evangelize, there is

spiritual growth and boldness all right. When you evangelize, there

is closure worked with God. When you evangelize, there is

kingdom expansion. When you evangelize, you overcome fear and insecurity.

The reason why you cannot do it, and beyond that

is eternal reworld for few mens of God's purpose. What

will happen if we don't evangelize. If you don't evangelize,

you are disobedient to the message of the Cross. You

are ignoring evangelism. It means you are disregarding the great commission.

When we don't evangelize, souls are lost. And you know what,

According to EE Chapter three, eighteen and nineteen, you are

responsible for that soul that you have not spoken to

about your lifestyle. If you don't evangelize, the church will

continue to be empty. When you don't evangelize, it will

make church to remain stagnant, and church will continue to

decline Without new believers, Church becomes spiritually weak and inactive.

If we don't evangelize, there is spiritual weakness, and we

are going to lose our heavenly rewords. If we don't evangelize,

we're going to miss a lot of miracles, and we

are going to be fairly to expand the Kingdom of God,

and we risk becoming lookwarm. Where you evangelize, evangelism keeps

believers spiritually active and passionate. Let me speak from our

text for the year twenty twenty five. Is that chapter

fifty four, Verse two, Verses two and three. He says,

enlarge the place of your tent, stretch out your tent

curtaons wide, do not hold back, lengthen your cords, strengthen

your stakes. For you will spread out to the right

and to the left. Your descendants will dispossessed nations and

settle in their desolate places. So let's look at that

verse two again. He says, enlarge the place of your tent.

Stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back, lengthy

your cards, strengthen your stakes. If you look at this

that text, we want to use it to understand enlargement

in evangelism. What does enlargement in evangelism actually means? Number one.

In that text, the Bible says, enlarge the place of

your tents. What does that mean? It means that we

should expand our rich. You know, we're saying that we're

enlargement spiritual, emotional, relational, and physical. Enlargement is all encompassing.

And I've said that that enlargements, as far as this

text is concerned, is a command. And that is the

same way the reason why we want to apply it

in the area of evangelism. So when the Bible says

enlarge the place of your tents, it means expand your rich.

You are sitting down for too long. It is time

for you to breakfast. So evangelisine means stepping out beyond

familiar secus. And that's what at chapter one, verse eight say.

You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you,

and you will be my witnesses. Right how we're first

in Jerusalem, right in Judea, in Samaria, and then to

the uttermost part of the world. So let's read our

community into it, so we'll be its witnesses. Where in

Tasha right where next in Guagua, eh in Abuja Abbi,

and in Nigeria and to the entire part of the

world we're going to be is represents. So what are

the ways that we can expand regarding this verse? Personal evangelism,

sharing one on one, community outreach, helping others, and then

we have mission work. Number two, the Bible says, stretch

your tent courtons wide. Stretch your tent cottons wide. What

does that mean making room for new believers when you

up with your tent cotton Eh, What you're saying is

that there is room for more people to come in

this room, for more people to come in. So the

church must be ready to receive new comforts. Are we ready?

She lovebouptist church? Is she look aboutist church? Ready for

new converts? Are we ready for new converts? Discipleship sustained

spiritual growth. And that's the instruction that Jesus actually gave

in Matthew twenty twenty, Go and make disciples of all nations.

So if you're not discipled, it is not about coming

to statadings on boogle. The discipleship is beyond that. It

goes beyond that. Number three, the Bible says, do not

hold back. What that means is that you need boldness

in evangelisine because when you are afraid you are holding back,

But the Bible says, do not hold back, don't be afraid.

What that means is boldness in evangelisine. Yeah, in that's evangelisine.

We must boldly share our ef faith like Paul, even

in challenges, especially at a time like this in our nation, Nigeria.

Nigeria needs Christ whether we like it or not. And

if Christ is not there, there's going to be crisis.

And that's why we have all of this crisis. We

have responsibility. How can you overcome fier in evangelism? You

pray for courage, you prepare with scriptures and share personal testimonies.

We're going to look at some practical things that we

need to do, but we're just looking at that text

number four. The Bible says, lengthen your cards. So you

have some cable or some cards that you have used

to tie your tents. But now the Bible saying lengthen them,

remove them from where they are, stretch them. What that

means is that using diverse evangelism methods. All right. The

reason why many of us don't do ever jealousine is

because you know, the only one that we know is

the one that will carry our Bible like this, eh,

and then we say, everybody, let's come together. There is evangelasine,

if I say there's evangelism today like this. Now, once

we step out of this place, you know, now that

you're in church, there's no way you can escape. But

once I say, oh, everybody, let's go out, follow me. Eh.

That's why you see, some people will remove their phone

from their pocket. They will receive some messages from the devil.

Say somebody is calling me, somebody is calling me, I

need to be somewhere or gently, and then they will leave.

They're going to see the person that is calling them,

whether the person is calling them or not. But I

know is the devil that will just be calling when

you're going out for evangelism. And then some people will

say you see, you see, and they will find more

easy and they'll just escape. Yeah. But we have different people,

I mean different ways of evangelizing because different people respond

to different approaches. There's one on one witnessing. There is

opening air evangelism, there is social media evangelism, and there

is acts of kindness leading to gospel conversation. And the

other one I'm not putting here is prayer evangelism. Prayer, evangelism,

and I think the easiest one. This week, each time

I was going out, I was asking God. I said, God,

please get me ready. Get me ready as I want

to go out. Now, help me to see opportunity for

me to tell somebody about Christ type people that are

sleeping by your side. This message is not boring. It's

one of the most important messages of the Kingdom of God.

If you're sleeping, wake up so that I don't behave

like people in the Act of Apostles that people thought

they were drinking. That's why they weare, you know, talking

anyhow in the morning. It is too early. This is

just this is just a few minutes after ten. It

is too early to sleep. If today were to be

working this, you won't sleep. You will display your market

and you will go to work. So let's listen to

the world of God. Number five that will see in

that text, the Bible says strengthy your stakes, and what

does that mean is to lay a firm foundation, which

is what we're doing today. This is part of what

we're doing today. Evangelism without discipleship leads to weak converts,

and that's exactly what happens in the church. Because most

times in the church a lot of people are converts.

But Jesus did not say we should go and make converts.

Jesus out ever, says we should go and make disciples.

It is disciples that we must make. If you have

convert in the church. That's why if you are saying

we are going on evan journisis it's only a convert

that will disappear. Disciples will not. Disciples will not. So

think it where are you? Are you a disciple or

you're a convert? The church must teach new believers the

basic faith, help them to develop prayer life, connect them

with maturementors. That's exactly what we do in discipleship. That's

all that That's everything that we do in discipleship. That's

all we do in discipleship. So what are the requirements

for gospel conversations? Let's know for it. Number one, understand

the gospel message. This is where the major problem is.

Many of us don't understand the gospel message. Now, if

you don't understand the gospel message, it is difficult for

you to go for that evangelism. What exactly is the

gospel message about? You are talking about God's love as

we see in John three sixteen you are saying sin

and its consequence, and that's what we see Romance three

twenty three. For all, I've seen everyone, all right, And

then Romans six twenty three, the Bible says the wages

of sin is what is dead. So we are talking

about sin and the result of sin. Okay, God has

love for everyone. Everyone has seen, and the result of

sin is dead. Then Jesus is the only way to

receive it an life because in six twenty three we

say the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ.

So Jesus Christ is the only way because in John

fourteen six he says, I am the Way, the true

and the life. No one comes to the Father except

by me. But again we understand, the salvation that we

have in Jesus Christ is by grace. Is it is

by grace through faith. It is not by work, all right,

not by what you have done. But Jesus has actually

finished everything for us. And that's what efficients Chapter two

eight and I it is by faith. It is by grace.

You have been saved through faith, and not of yourself.

It is not by what you have done, all right?

And then what do you need to do the final

thing you need to do that person. You need to

get the person to confess and make commitments. That's what romance.

If you confess with your mouth and believe in your

heart that Jesus is Lord. That's all about gospel message

that God loves the world. But humanity singed and they

are doomed to die. But there is a way that

is found in Jesus Christ. And that way is only

by salvation by grace through faith in Christ Jesus. But

how do you obtain it? By confessing with your mouth

and believing in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord.

Types of evangelism quickly they have mentioned this, so personal evangelism,

lifestyle evangelism, crusade and open air evangelism, and friendship evangelism.

So all of these ones, which one of them are

we doing? I didn't add the one of prayer? There?

Which one of them are we doing? Who is doing

any one of these ones? On one? Evangelism? Who's involved

in it? Lifestyle evangelism, individuals? Hello, church is anybody is

anybody's heart? I sense in my spirit that some heart

as shaky by what I'm saying. You're feeling guilty one

and then you are freed. You're afraid, Let me give

you an ex share and experience that happened just last night.

We went out last night and then we met a

group of brothers. They were yours celebrating. They were celebrating,

and you know in this are community, when people are celebrating,

you know how they celebrate. And by way the way

they were celebrating that yesterday the place we went to,

I stepped out of the place after we visited the person,

and then I was about going. Earlier on in the week,

I've been praying, Lord, give me an opportunity for somehow

I sense the only spirit you just say, go back

and you just pray. So I went and I greeted

all of them. After I greeted all of them and

I told them they'll spray. In my prayer, I thank

God for all of them. In my prayer, I said, God,

with direct their future, and I say, Lord, by your messy,

by that death of Christ on the cross of cavalry

that is in my prayer, open your eyes, open your heart,

let them see Christ as a lord of their lives.

Those were content of my prayer and I left it.

Who does not like prayer. And by the way, they

even ask that I should come and pray for them,

and I saw that as an opportunity in that prayer

to say something to God about your souls. There is

friendship evangelism. Friendship evangelism can be very useful, but sometimes

once you have become so used to the person, you

find it difficult. And that's the problem that many of

us are facing. It becomes difficult for you to talk

to the person about Christ. So how do we start

gospel conversation? So one of the biggest challenges in evangelism

is starting the conversation. All right, how do we start

the conversation? We can use everyday situation. Now, it is

important that we are sensitive. All right. Now, let me

say this from outset. One of the reasons again why

we are afraid in the place of envy jealousy, it's

because what if the person does not say yes, how

do I tell the person to accept Jesus Christ. You

don't need to be afraid. We should give opportunity for

that person to make commitments. You understand. But if for

any reason, If for any reason, I was in a

cab one day coming from from area one to life

cam coming from Area one to Life Cam. So we

follow the Express. As soon as we climb the Express.

As soon as we climb the Express, the taxi driver.

The taxi driver started, you know, talking to everybody inside

the vehicle, and I was just praying in my heart.

I said, Lord, thank you, Please, Lord, let some soul

get this understanding and let their lives be touched in

the name of Jesus. The driver himself, it was the

one preaching. I said, Lord, thank you. Until we got

we almost go to Life came and I've said it

that for those of us are in that kind of business,

there's a way you can even do it. Just plug Bible,

the Book of John and Book of Romance. That's the

only thing you should have in your in your car.

Just plug it. Just instead of lending olulu look, just

leave eh. Let the Bible be reading. Eh. I'm not

saying there's nothing, there's anything wrong with mblene. It's good

because it gives us information about what is happening around us.

But excuse me, God can bless your life with souls

in the Kingdom of God. Just give that thing volume

and let the Bible be reading. You don't need to

see anything one day, somebody is going to approach you.

Bro that thing I was reading that that was coming

from Dad. You'll read you where did you get it?

It sounds like something that's when your only spirit begins

to walk in the life. You don't need to say anything.

Are you afraid? It is your car? Nobody is going

to say, why are you playing that thing? Just give

it a little volume, you understand. But where we get

it wrong is that, oh, everybody started discussing. They're discussing,

and that we kill the entire thing. But as soon

as the car moves turn on that thing, everybody will

calm down. Nobody will say anything inside the car. Till

you get to the place where you are. You don't

need to say anything. You just be playing in your

heart and be saying, Holy Spirit, have your will, Only Spirit,

have your will. Look at it. I've met somebody and

you say, ah, it is your day. I know this

is a little tough. It's a little tough, but this

can happen even where you have colleagues in the office.

How are you doing? What's up? I've been praying for

people around me. Is there anything I can pray for

you about? Excuse me, It doesn't like prayer. Is there

anything I can pray about for you? You know what

you are going to put in the content of that prayer, Say,

why not please pray for me. I need job, Please

pray for me. I need this, Please pray for me.

And then you pray for the person and that is

all and you go. You're not carrying bible? Now? Are

you carrying bible? No, you're not carrying bible because carrying

Bible alone wants to see you. They will tell you

they are busy. Please don't disturb me about current events.

These are hard at difficult times. Do you think about

spiritual things, about show showing care and kindness, help someone

in need. Then use the opportunity to share the gospel.

Somebody has asked you for food, and you give the

person food. Do you remember the conversation of Jesus without

Samritian woman? How did Jesus start? How did Jesus start? Eh?

Give me water cow worlds rua bannie rua eh if

And I go to carasana now and I'm just working

and ah and I sit down somewhere with maker no

and I say, eh, mama, bunny co signing, go and

say it's signing all right, then I sit down and

I will just take the con and as i'm I

can begin my conversation. How is your family, madam? How's

this one? How's the business? And all of these ones?

I know where I am going, and by the power

of your this spirit, your spirit to be guiding me

on what to say so that we're not missing. And

before you know it, I don't need to say you know,

are you ready to receive Jesus Christ as your Lord

saved you? No, I don't need to say that. All

I'm going to say is that you see this con

that you have given to me. Eh, it is the thing.

Don't cool my body way away, madam? But you know

say and now so all of us we don't tire

of life. But you get percy. Wait if you give peers,

one thing will be saying. If he gives you and

now sow your life, go there at peace? She go there? Listen,

Are you know that person? Jesus God bless you, madam,

Thank you very much, and then you work her? Did

you you stop that person? All of these things would

have happened in how many minutes, eh, maybe less than

five minutes. And I'll carry my canot drink and drop

the the gong and go. It is done right, It

is done asking thought provoking questions. This is another way

we can do it. A question like do you believe

in life after death? You see questions like this. Maybe

one other time we can spend more time on this.

The point is, once you ask some bo do you

believe in afterlife? Let them talk? You're not you want

to talk? You are not you want to talk doing

your talk. Everything that you are going to be asking

is going to be questioned from just listening attentively. And

if you are listening, you ask the only spirit to

teach you from one question to another, from question to

another question, from question to At the end of the day,

do you do you know that kind of conversation. That's

the way lawyers do. Eh, that's how lawyers do. And

even please, they want to interrogate you from everything you

have said. They will ask you a questions from everything

you have said. They will ask you questions from everything

you have said. Again, in your response, you're asking you

a question. At the end of the day, your eyes

will be clear that you have actually committed your friends.

Then there is need for solution. So what's not your solution,

which is what you you are ready to present. So life,

what do you think is the purpose of life? Many

people may not be able to answer that question. What

do you think is the purpose of life? Can I

ask somebody in the house this money? What do you

think is the purpose of your life? Until you know

the purpose of your life, there is no direction for

that life. You are just going to live like every

other person. Another one is if you die today, are

you sure you will go to eaven? So many things

are there? Does the person you won't believe in even?

But you have put together your own belief The person

may answer you and tell you I don't believe there's ever.

Then the question will be why don't you think there's even?

The person will give you the reason, and from that

reason you begin to That is conversation. You just talk.

It's as if you're just having ordinary conversation. But I

can tell you that your only spirit is walking behind

the scene. We must change our tactics. Sharing your testimony,

all right? This is another one that is very interesting.

How many of us can share our testimony? How many

of us can share our testimony? What are you saying

in your testimony? You have to keep it short, make

it clear, and make it relatable. Your life before Christ,

how you met Christ, How has your life changed? Simple?

That's everything you're just going to say in your testimony.

And once you're done with that, you don't using There's

what we call romance road. Romance road. I want them

to do a teaching on this sometime lasted. Maybe I

can bring a full teaching on this one. It's a

way that we can. You see all this some I

mean Romance three twenty three, six twenty three, Romance five eight,

Romance eight nineteen. Everything is just there. That's all that

you need. Step by step. This one tells you all

I've seen. This one tells you sin this to death,

but there is offer in God. Then this one says

Christ die for us. And this one say you can

confess and believe in Christ, and then you finish. That's

all about the gospel. That's all about the gospel. Offering

a response opportunity. That's another. Would you like to know

Jesus personality if somebody wants to this just the waist.

This is just the ways, all right. The other part

is follow up and discipleship. And discipleship. God Christ has

commanded every one of us to disciple others. But today

part of what we're doing is to leave discipleship for

some people. No, you have to disciple. You have to

disciple is each one of us. We have that responsibility

to disciple others. So encourage church involvement. Since daily devotion

and mentorship, that's what we see in that and follow up?

So what are they practical steps to evangelistic enlargement? All right?

Personal commitment? Are you committed to this assignment? God has

committed as giving us a command, you have to be

committed to it, whether on a personal basis or in church.

Very soon the church will be organizing some some outreach

program and I want to believe that everyone of us

will show up, right, I want to believe that everyone

of us will show up. Don't worry. Come and see

it now, and you don't even need to see anything.

You just stay. If we say twol of you should

go out and you just stay, let's be with the

person that can talk. You just stay and be praying

for that person. You understand, that's what you can do.

You just be praying for that person. Eh. There are

so many opportunities for us listen, if we don't do this.

If you don't do this, we're only endangering our own lives.

You see, those people that don't know Jesus, they will

become a ton in the flo for you, and they

will bid you, want to destroy you. Why not show

them Christ? Let Christ reign in their hearts. When Christ

is raining in their hearts, you know what will happen.

We are going to be on the same side. Is

that also all of us will be on the same side.

Nobody will come and attack us at night. The solution

to the problem of our community is in the hand

of each of us as we are here. In one

of our discipleship programs, there's what we call five and

five plans, and follow the Master five and five plans.

The five and five plans are five people. You're going

to write the names of five people that you can

speak to. You write the names of five other people

that you can pray for. You cannot you cannot speak

with them. Maybe that's your guy in the office and

you feel that you cannot approach the person with the

gospel message. What are you going to do? Deperson on

the list of prayer and continue to pray for that person.

Imagine each one of us That was the reason why

in our Sunday school, I said we should pray for

one Muslim. Imagine all of those souls that you have

prayed for this morning tomorrow again you commit their lives

into the ends of God, and every day of this

week you keep praying for God. You are not You

won't going physically to go and talk to them. No,

but the only spirit is preparing because you are continually

seeking the face of God concerning then it may not

even appone in the year twenty twenty five, but God

will continue to guide their lives because of your prayer,

so that one day this person will surrender to Jesus Christ.

We have responsibilities and there are so many ways that

we can do that. So let me briefly talk about

this and then we wrap it up here using modern

tools social media and digital evangelism, radio and podcasts, acts

of kindness. Let me just talk about social media tools.

Then I will close many of us what we do

with our WhatsApp. There's something I don't like. Don't bog

my life with a devotional every day. I don't like it.

I don't like it because I may not read it.

The only thing I like is send me short prayer

point and I'll say amen and then we go. That's

why I send prayer short prayer points sometimes. All right,

but there is there is the status y H on

our worsapp. Just put on that status Jesus lost. You

can you share your testimony in four lines, your salvation

testimony in four lines and put it on that your

status and leave it there. Thousands of people may see

that status on that day and you will know where

the only spirit is beginning to do something in the

life of that person. How about our Facebook? Yes, Facebook

is a social media platform, but you said nobody is

going to what did you learn from Sunday's School? Can

you share the same thing that you have learned in

Sunday School on that platform and keep it there. Just

recent me, there were so many things that I used

to put on my Facebook wall back in the days,

and recently I've not been doing it. And you know

what Facebook we do. Facebook is now reminding me that

you did this, and I said, ah, wow, this is powerful.

So I will share it again. And it seems as

if the thing is even ministering to me, so I

will share it again. Is anybody coming to attack me?

Am I going to see anybody face to face to

say that that person. You may not be able to

see the person at all, but that means we go round.

Please church. There are so many. It is a lot

easier for us today. It is a lot easier for

us today. It is a lot easier for us today

to do evangelism. The ones we can do. The church

is planning. There was one I wanted to do and

I'm still trusting God that will be able to do it.

Last year we planned it, but it didn't work. I

wanted to get a massive projector and put it here

in front of the church and put and beam a

big film in the evening when people will be working.

You know they will stay abby, they wait and watch,

and at the end of it, while they are doing that,

the prayer team will be inside the church and the

praying and be praying. Because there's something about evangelism. Prayer

is very important. The prayer team will be inside the

church and be praying. Why myself, the mm chairman, the

wm U president, the youth president, we are going to

be the face of the church. We are going to

be there while others are watching. All the key officers,

they can be dead the rest, be praying inside the church.

People are watching, people are watching day. When they are done,

we will gain the power and bring out the message

of that movie they're watching. And we ask them the

opportunity is there they can enjoy the peace the only

Jesus can chieve. And we give them a call. We

give them opportunity, and we have some of us that

are going to stand by as counselors. We are going

to hand them some materials. Can write down your name,

write down your phone number, and will continue to pray

for them. We can give them calls about their decision.

And the Kingdom of God is enlarging. Twenty twenty five

is our year of enlargement. We must enlarge in our

area of evangelism. That God help us in the name

of Jesus Christ. Can I give room for one or

two questions? Praise the Lord.

So you start by telling us that there are some

places that if you go evangelizing, you might.

Be sue to court for evangelizing. Is he here in

Nigeria or abroad?

So much?

Not so much of it in Nigeria, but in some

kind of way it does happen, But you're not sue too.

Curt In Nigeria. It may not be in the open

all right, but somehow something close to it is happening.

Even in Nigeria. There are some places in Nigeria that

you cannot confidently approach. Even here in Abuja, there's some

places you cannot just enter with the ghospel message unless yeah,

you're probably saying, this world is not my own. I

am just passing. And then you'll be passing by as

you're telling them about Jesus and you're just passing by,

and then they will send they will send the cops out.

I'll go and carry it and bury it.

HM.

But you're not key yourself because of this. There are

other ways you can do it. I know. I can

enter a place I was. I was going to pick

the children at Sabury when they way attending school day.

As I got inside the k somehow I just felt

the leading of the spirit that the woman sitting by

my side that should pray for her. And she received

a call and from the conversation there's somebody that was

sick in the hospital and that was just the business

of my prayer point that God will open our eyes

and touting the life of that person. Also healed the person.

Of course I didn't get any any feedback whether the

person was healed or anything happened to that person, But

that's not my own I just felt that leading and

I did, and I pray for the person, and when

I got to my place, I went my will. The

person went away. I'm sure that God will complete what

he had started. That's just my own part. There are

so many things about this this kingdom. Eh, go and

make disciples. You you just go and make disciples. Finish.

Whether the disciples come or not, it is not your

problem because the work of conversion is not your own

to do. There are places that you cannot just confidently enter.

But mister patrick in that's your business, even if they

will start. The biggest in man, we enter that your

car and you put on that Bible that's yours. Only

it doesn't have the right to stop you. Do you

know that it doesn't have the right. You will just listen.

You will be forced to listen. And that deputs it

alone between where you have taken him and where you

have dropped him. Leave it in the hand of the

Holy Spirit. It will do the rest. And don't be

surprised that the person may just mark your face, and

one day it will see you again and ask you

that thing that you were playing inside your car? Can

you tell me more about it? Church? This is another

easiest way that you can do it. Okay, So everybody

wake up now, wake up, wake up, wake up. Let

me tell you the simplest way that you can do it.

Are you ready for it? And I wake up? Now?

See it's the simplest way you can do it. If

you cannot pray, it's for you to tell the person

go church together. Just invite the person to come to church. Eh.

Let the person just come to church. Finish you just

pray Holy Spirit lead the pastor to speak to this

my friend. That's all you need to do. The person

will sit by your side and God will meet that person.

Is it easy? Is it easy? Is it easy? Now? Eh?

Use your WhatsApp, use your Facebook, eh, pray for the person,

invite them to church. Which one of these folks is

not easy for you? Eh? Hello, mister bannerbers? Which one

of them is difficult? Okay? So let me see everybody now,

only a few of us. I don't have your number,

so I'm going to be waiting for I'm going to

look be checking my waterapp status this week. So I'm

going to be seeing what every member of Shilo Baptistia

should be doing. That's the easiest one. Missus came up.

Do I have your number? Okay? I think I have it?

Do you have water? You don't have water? You don't

go and get one? Because of gospel? Going start your

WATERP and load it with data. And so I'm going

to be watching uncle silay man. Are you on WATERP? Yeah?

Not the WSPP. I'm not sure I have it.

Now.

I want us to make commitment today, mommy, So you're

on waterppably a why ah? We're in twenty four centially

if you're not WhatsApp? Why eh? No, you have to

please get our water, sir, thank you very much. So

he said he's going to get your water. So let's

w I be rolling on your phone so I want

to be checking it. So this week I'm going to

be checking it. My Munaji, I don't have your phone number.

Are you on water? You're on water? Okay? So you

give me your phone number so that we know whether

you have you have sent message to somebody, so it's

on your status. I'm going to know my brother there.

I don't have your number, eh, my brother, Yes, I

know I don't have your numbers, so maybe you give

me your numbers so that this week tell somebody about Jesus.

Is it difficult on your water, bro? Is it difficult?

It's not difficult. Now just tell somebody about Jesus. Jesus

saves simple. I just put it like that. Even guys,

we'll we said before before they say waiting, they is

wrong with this, my brother, Now they'll go call you.

Just say when you put on top of this day

Jesus say you just tell them that thing. Just yan

smallna like that. Just give them and the thing. Don't

pass this thing where they want to ask you. This thing, boy,

if you come our church on Sunday, you don't, you

don't do and leave it. God will handle the rest. Amen. Amen, yes,

come this way.

God have to knew everybody. I want to say, my

own friend understanding. It's not a question that I want

to ask because this thing goeschool. You have to move

anything that you want to do. Your movement, you're speaking

anything that you want to do. Jose react like Jesus

and everybody will see example in you. I can remember

when I travel to Ugu, I want to come back

to Abuja. I enter Peace Transport. So under the motto

is food, the motto want to move and one woman

come with nine one boy that is looking for somebody

to handover to Abuja. When the woman can he look

the face of everybody. He checked round around. You're not

seeing my first examble Jesus. Yes, in not hannother day

picking for me, he said, Bros, I beg take the child.

I will give you the phone number when you reach

Peace Transport. For Jabe called my sister. She's living in Marabah.

She will come up on let's a child. And that

is the way I did it.

Yes.

Another one is that from my area, thea in Gaga.

See let me tell you. If you want to do

gods pool anywhere in the world, you can enter and

not to happen. I say it, yes, don't fear. When

I see a house of people GUARDI wait, those bamba

they are smooky, smooky and I say Alama legu. They

say yes, Lama lecuo. I said, are you must I

say yes. The Quran say you to you to smooth.

He said no.

I said, okay, you are going to the most and

you are prayed to God for God to answer your prayer.

Can you see that you are against the Quran? You

couldn't say that. You should know smook and you are smook.

Your prayer in the most well receive bye by God.

We have only one God in the war. You say,

it's true, He put this cigar for in Marty's from today.

I will never smoke you today. That is the gospel

and the way you are see the way you are

approaching people.

All right, thank you very much. I appreciate your sharing.

That's very good. But I will stand against those news.

It is not right the way you have done it.

All right, somebody handing over a child to you from

that place. You must be very sensitive. Please, it is wrong.

It is wrong. Let's not say because I want to

be like Jesus. Yes, be like Jesus. Eh, but don't

do something that we land you in prison for the

rest of your life, because that action. The Bible says

we should be as wise as serpent and as gentle

as you were gentle. But the other side, it is

not complete. The subject of the other example you gave.

Don't let me discuss city. But let me tell you

the simple thing is there is only one God, but

we don't save the same God. All right, Okay, So

if you're presenting the gospel, present the gospel. Gospel is

not what you are presented. Gospel is not in Quran.

Gospel is in the Bible. So present the gospel as

the Bible has said it. I know that the method

you use is for you to gain their attention. It's

for you to gain their favor. But when it comes

to the message of the Cross, is not for you

to gain anybody's favor. Go and speak the world of life.

If you know you can speak it. They are going

to be antagonistic. Withdraw, pray for them. If I ask you,

can I pray for you? Say don't pray for me.

Withdraw and say Father, please, and then you walk away.

Let us use this thing that God has put inside.

The Lord will help us in Jesus name. Chairman. Okay,

so Chairman, my wife, then the secretary, and then we.

Amen something you just said, no, share the purpose of life.

So sometimes I do sit down and take about it.

The word purpose of life. I've had it before. This

purpose of life, what is remade? The purpose of life?

Is it about just eat food and be left food?

Then maybe well you after the left food, you went

to bed, or just after that you carry about and

come to church.

Is that all about life? What is evil? What is

purpose of life? It's safe, That's what I want to know.

Thank you very much. In the simplest when we talk

about the purpose of life, is the reason why you

are in existence? And the reason why you are in

existence is so that your life may glorify God. That

is very simple? Is that?

Not?

That is very simple? But under that it's a world

loaded with understanding of what purpose. If there is no purpose,

you can't have a vision for your life. If there

is no vision, there is no direction. And that is

why some people, we decide, when they don't understand the

purpose of their lives, the get frustrated one day and

they pie themselves because they have no understanding of the

purpose of their lives. I think because of that, let's

reserve a teaching for that purpose. Okay, so that we

can do more about it. My wife, where are you? Okay? Secretary?

Come praise the Lord.

Thank you for the teachers are probably possibly maybe you

will still break it down for us in the sessions

so that we understand this.

Of these sessions better. Amen.

My question is concerning this social media evangelism. There are

sometimes that if you go on social media, you see

people use some phrase in the Bible just to capture

the pictures or just to make sure to describe the pictures.

Like you see a lady dressing somehow half naked and

snap that picture and post it and they say Jesus

is Lord, and how can we now can we say

those things looking at the image and they're looking at

the inscriptions, those those kinds of things portray a message

of salvation as that person is trying to complicate because

it's making a lot of people. All those words they

don't really have any meaning other than joge someone trying

to speak again, how can we be able to balance

that as Christians?

Thank you very much. You see, the social media space

is a free world. Anybody can do whatever they feel

like doing. But the responsibility is on us as Christian

to do what is right. The fact that somebody has

done it wrongly. There are so many things that so

many people are doing wrongly. When I said, because some

people are doing certain things wrongly, and we don't do

the right thing anymore, No, you do the right thing,

You do the right thing, and it is not. You know,

one thing you do is ask God only spirits. There's

a message for the world today, and that's why I've

always been encouraged. You us, let us read the Bible,

let us have a devotion from that place. God is

going to speak to us. And whatever God has spoken

to you, that has touched you, throw it out there

and let it bless in life. You don't know where

it's going to get to. Forget about what other people

it is because you and I are not doing it.

If we start doing what is right, they will stop

doing what is wrong. You don't need to capture it

under anything. No, the message of Christ is the message

of Christ. If you put it under any kind of guys,

it is no longer the message of Christ. You can

tell me Jesus lost you and then you put a

new woman day. No. No, And that's exactly what the

devil wants to do. And that's why we must arise

and do what is better. May the Lord help us

in Jesus name. Where's my wife? Okay? All right, so

I think we will come to a close again. As

we close now, we are going to pray one prayer

point and the prayer point, I want you to pray

just in one minute. Okay, let's make it too. Prayer

points one prayer point. The first one is say Lord,

give me the college this week. Give me the college

this week. Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. You can

pray for somebody. Say Lord, give me the courage to

take this step on gospel conversation this week. That is one.

The second prayer point is there is somebody in your

family lineage who is yet to connect with Jesus. Can

you remember that person. You're going to pray for that

person just one minute to them, praise the Lord.

I'm sorry for I have to say to some of

our children outside when we we we are shout to

win them. They are out there and ready to win us.

One they were just coming from example, and a lady

stats beside me, so pretty, very very young, and you

will say that this is full of life. Although and

before she will open her back and she will take

a drink, and did the order from that drink shows

that it's not normal. Drink is like alcoholic. And at

a point the oldest way was telling me that she

preached to her. I'm like, oh God, give me grace

and before two or three lines, she looked at me said,

I don't know that's she are Christian and from Cooba

to Area one, almost approaching Area one, am a beggar.

She said, thank you, because I was almost winning you

to my side or knowing to me that she's a lesbian,

a woman, marrying woman, woman dating woman, woman loving woman,

which is totally wrong. But by the time she narrated

our story, you say that she's from a Christian whom

the mother and father and leaders in the church. So

when God is giving us the promptness to share our testimony,

to preach to death, please don't don't let us fold

our hands. Just ignore that we my not.

They are not mindful, even to the point of meru

that save us.

What are in our house?

Even the bikeman that we are going to pay so

far we are going to give out our kindness. We

are going to stretch our hands to them. We should

do that given the driver. If you're going to pay

their salary or give them something out of your own

and reward or out of.

Your own sweats, let us also preach the gospelt to them,

the Lord Us and Jesus name.

Thank you can we just spray. Can you ask the

Lord to give you that grace this week? Lord, help

me to take this step this week, Holy Spirit, help me.

Who is that person that is in your family that

is yet to surrender to Christ. Can you just talk

to the Lord about that person and say, Lord, please

reach to this person. Let the power of the Holy

Spirit engage the heart of this person. In Jesus' mighty name,

we pray