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Good morning brothers and sisters in Christ. Let us pray. Father we thank you
again for the privilege of being able to congregate and worship you and learn
about you in freedom without being persecuted as many are throughout the world
on this day. Father we know that where two or more are gathered in your name,
that your presence will be felt. There are more than two here today Father and
we acknowledge your presence and your power and the power of your holy spirit.
Father we are about to receive a message delivered by one of your angels.
Please help us to put away our fears and put this message to work and step
boldly out into the streets and care about the eternal destiny of our brothers
and sisters who do not yet know Jesus. Through us, they can know Jesus and be
saved also. And we ask this in Jesus name. Amen.
Jesus
took a woman named Mary Katherine Baxter out of body, in spirit, to hell 30
different times to be able to accurately tell us all about a real literal hell
that exists today. She tells of these encounters in her book Divine Revelation
of Hell. It’s an impressively
frightful book. Pastor Enock has a copy of that book on my Bible lesson CD in
the Heaven and Hell books folder. Jesus also took her to heaven ten different
times to show her what heaven was like so she could report back to us that there
is also a real literal heaven that is just as the Bible describes it. She writes
about heaven in her book Divine Revelation of Heaven, also on the same CD pastor
enock has. I will tell you more
about what she had to say in an upcoming sermon on heaven. But for now,
understand that there is a special room in heaven where the angels record every
person that you bring to Jesus by your own personal witness and testimony.
In fact, if I remember correctly from her book, you even get gemstones
added to the walls of your own personal mansion whenever you bring someone to
the good news of the Bible and they are saved.
Mark
Twain once said, “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the
things that you didn’t do than by the things you did do. So throw off the
bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds on your sails,
and explore, dream and discover.” He
was talking about being passionate about something so you can live life with a
greater significance.
Apostle
Paul had a passion in his life. It was largely concern for the eternal destiny
of others. In 2 Corinthians 5:9-10
he names three things that fueled his passion. First he recognized that he was
accountable to Christ for his service and he wanted to give a good accounting at
the judgment seat of Christ. Secondly, Paul was driven by Christ’s love and a
desire that others would know the love that he had experienced. Finally he
understood that a lost and dying world needs Jesus as savior.
Paul’s passion for people was fueled by his love of Christ, and ours
should be too. Although speaking
about Jesus with strangers is not within our comfort zone for most of us,
let’s apply Mark Twains words of challenge and “sail away from the safe
harbor”. Let’s learn how to
share our love of Christ with someone else whom we don’t know.
Soon,
the real Messiah, Jesus, will come again. For those who are ready to meet Him,
all will be better. He has prepared a place for us to be with Him forever! But
many are not ready and we, like Paul, need to kindle our passion for the eternal
destiny of others. I am going to
show you an easy foolproof way to do this and gain some gemstones for your
mansion in the sky.
In
March my wife and I are going to attend a healing school which is aimed at
better preparing us to heal the sick in Jesus’ name. Charles and Francis Hunter, not a young couple by the
way, who run this school, do many things besides heal the sick. One of their
passions is saving people by bringing strangers to Jesus.
The
method I am about to share with you was shown to them by an angel of God.
They were in a restaurant in a small town in Missouri having lunch at a
luncheon with a group of people after a meeting.
A gentleman came in and sat down at their table to eat with them.
Inquiries after he had left revealed no one from the group knew who he was or
where he had come from and they never saw him again.
Before he left he made an interesting statement. He said, “Francis, I
know how much you’ve always loved winning people to Jesus and I want to tell
you a new way and I want to share it with you.”
He
said, As soon as the waitress gets to the table I will say to her, “There are
two kinds of pretty waitresses in this restaurant; those who are saved and those
who are about to be. Which are you?”
Francis
was fascinated because the question doesn’t leave you an out. The person is
either saved or the only other answer they can give you is, they are about to
be.
This particular waitress started crying and said, “I guess I’m the last
one”.
God’s Holy Spirit hit her right there and He had her completely prepared and
hungry.
The
man took her hand and said,” Repeat after me”.
He didn’t say pray with me or anything else, it was specifically,
“repeat after me.”
Father forgive me my sins.
Jesus, come into my heart.
Make me the kind of person you want me to be.
Thank you Jesus, for saving me today.
Then
the angel asked her,” Where is Jesus right now”.
If the answer is “in my heart”
say “Thank you Jesus”, and you are done.
If the answer is anything else, have them repeat the four sentences until the
answer IS “in my heart”.
That’s
it, that’s all there is to it. The
whole thing consists of only 6 sentences.
And you have to memorize the exact wordage in those sentences or it won’t
work. Follow the angels directions exactly.
Depending
on the situation you have to make up who it is you are addressing. If it is the
cashier at the checkout counter, you would say,”
There are two kinds of pretty cashiers in this store; those who are saved and
those who are about to be. Which are you?”
That’s two sentences of the six. If she says she’s the first one,
simply say, Thank you Jesus and you are done.
But if they hesitate or hem and haw or say they are about to be, or they
belong to the second group, then lead them into the other four sentences. Ask
them to repeat after you.
Father forgive me my sins.
Jesus, come into my heart.
Make me the kind of person you want me to be.
Thank you Jesus, for saving me today.
Then
ask them,” Where is Jesus right now”.
If the answer is “in my heart”
say “Thank you Jesus”, and you are done.
If the answer is anything else, have them repeat the four sentences until the
answer IS “in my heart”.
That’s
it, that’s all there is to it. It
is no more complicated than that.
You HAVE to memorize the four sentences. It does not work if you change the
words. These are the exact words the angel told her to say and these are the
exact words you have to use.
In
church the other day we were encouraging everybody to go out and say, ”There
are two kinds of people…” and one lady realized that her mother was not
saved and was in the hospital in serious condition.
She immediately left church and went to the hospital and said to her
mother,” Mother , there are two kinds of patients in this hospital, those who
are saved, and those who are about to be. Which are you? Believe it or not the
mother said,” I think it’s about time and I’m about to be.” Then the
daughter led her to repeat the four sentences after her. Do you have any idea what this did to the woman when
her own mother repeated the sinner’s prayer?
Remember,
you cannot lose because if the person is already saved then it is exciting for
them to hear about Jesus. It’s a reinforcement. If they are not saved then you
have the opportunity of bringing them right into the kingdom of God and maybe
getting another gemstone added to the wall of your mansion. It is a delight to
Jesus because that was His sole purpose in coming to earth.
He gave us that assignment and responsibility. When we do it, we are
mightily blessed – and so is Jesus.
I
want to challenge you to use your imagination in whatever situation you find
yourself in. It now costs me more money to go shopping because instead of
wheeling the groceries out to the car myself, I now let the grocery cart guys do
it and when we get to the car and we’ve unloaded the groceries, besides giving
them a tip, I nail them with the ,”Did you know there are two kinds of grocery
attendants….?” More than half
say the prayer and others who are saved want to know more about me, what church
I attend, my beliefs and that gives me a chance to share the parachute message
with them and hand them a parachute tract to take with them and read.
People
all over the world are hungry for the bread of life and thirsty for the living
water of Jesus. Every person you meet is an opportunity. I want to encourage
you, not only for the sake of those people out there who are crying for somebody
to feed them, but it’s for your own sake because when you see what you are
able to accomplish with four short sentences, you will be flying on cloud nine.
It’s so easy and it produces so much fruit if we will just get out there and
do it. There’s that fruit thing
again. How does Jesus know you are a good tree? Because you produce good fruit.
The
devil is the one who tells you to keep your mouth shut. The devil is the one who
says to you, “It won’t work”. The devil is the one who puts his hand over
your mouth and says ,”Don’t say that name, Jesus” but Jesus is saying, “Get out there and do it and do it
now.”
A
telephone call can be an interesting opportunity. A friend of ours answered the
phone and the person on the other end did not recognize his voice and said,
”I’m sorry I must have dialed a wrong number”. But she said, no, you got
the right number even if you dialed the wrong number. There are two kinds of people who dial wrong numbers, those
who are saved and those who are about to be; which are you? The man said ,”I
guess I’m about to be because nobody ever asked me that question before.”
He prayed the prayer asking Jesus to come into his heart and was so
grateful and thanked her over and over and over for asking him the “two
kinds” question. He said no one had ever asked him if he knew Jesus before
today. How many of your friends
would say that?
In
one case a waitress was asked the two kinds question and she haughtily replied,
“ I don’t discuss religion on the job”. The questioner replied,” I
don’t discuss religion either; ‘I’m discussing your eternal destiny and
whether you want to spend eternity in heaven or hell.”
The waitress said heaven. The questioner then said, “ then repeat this
after me right now’.
Father
forgive me my sins.
Jesus, come into my heart.
Make me the kind of person you want me to be.
Thank you Jesus, for saving me today.
The
waitress did so and got saved right on the spot.
One
time while walking down the street a lady came out of a bar. She had a waitress
uniform on. She was confronted with, ”There are two kinds of people who work
in a dining room who also have to work in a bar, those who are saved and those
who are about to be. Which are
you?? Her answer was
interesting. She said, “I am a Moslem”.
Then the statement was made, “ There are two kinds of Moslems, those
who want to go to heaven and those who want to go to hell; which are you”?
She stated she wanted to go to heaven. Then
repeat after me.
Father forgive me my sins.
Jesus, come into my heart.
Make me the kind of person you want me to be.
Thank you Jesus, for saving me today.
When
asked where Jesus was, she said He was in her heart.
EVERY individual is an opportunity.
You
can take advantage of anything anyone says. Don’t ever underestimate the power
of the holy spirit to pick up the people who really need saving and put them
where they need to be put; in front of you. There are opportunities to do the
“two kinds thing” wherever you
go; emergency rooms, gas stations, check out lines, lines of any kind your are
waiting in. People are hungry for
the good news of God if we will only open our mouths and talk to them. I
challenge you to take advantage of every opportunity, and every person who comes
before you. Jesus said, “Go out
into the world and preach the gospel to every creature.”
Besides
grocery store helpers who take your basket out to the car for you, virtually
every stoplight is an opportunity here as the window washers and street vendors
swarm upon your car to get a couple pesos for washing your windows in between
lights or a chance to sell you something. You
see, when you give them their two pesos they feel obligated to hear you out; and
most end up saying they are the second case and do say the prayer which brings
Jesus into their heart.
The
angel who brought this quick unevasive method to the Hunters must be gloating in
Heaven, witnessing the hundreds and thousands of road kill stolen from satan and
brought to Jesus using his quick simple method.
Remember.
Every person you meet is an opportunity. Take advantage of that opportunity.
Don’t let satan freeze your tongue and con you out of a save. Don’t change
the wording the angel gave. Say
“repeat after me.” If you say
the word pray you may scare the sinner. After they pray, always ask them,
”Where is Jesus right now?” If
the answer is anything other than “In my heart”, have them repeat the four
sentences
Father
forgive me my sins.
Jesus, come into my heart.
Make me the kind of person you want me to be.
Thank you Jesus, for saving me today.
Until
they respond that Jesus is in their heart.
God
bless you brothers and sisters, go out and get your share, have a happy Sabbath
.
That is the end of today’s message.