The Power of the Gospel is Real
But would you feel as confident if you knew those hardened sinners in your audience were actually two-thousand antagonistic, gang members who:
ā¢ All have killed in cold-blooded murder, with their own hands, at least one person (and then went on to eat the dead body);
ā¢ All are presently, actively involved in some form of deep, black, Satanic witchcraft;
ā¢ All have both a heavy drinking and drug addiction history; and
ā¢ All are addicted to living in some form of sexual perversion; either incest, pedophilia, adultery, or fornication.
Also added to the audience will be several hundred unwed mothers, plus countless divorced and unfaithful women, as well as some legions of hardened children who live in those broken homes.
Next time you think anyone is too far gone, too hopelessly lost, too far into sin, remember the power of Godās Gospel that takes spiritually dead sinners and changes their hearts into His holy temple.
That power is most beautifully displayed in John 8:11-47, please turn there with me. In a few moments, weāll read those words together, but before we do, back to the gang I was describing.
If you would even agree to such a meeting and teaching time, we still need to ponder, what message do we give to people when we are:
Reaching Our Hopelessly
Enslaved World