You Never Mentioned Him To Me
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
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If we never want to hear these words we have to recognize and understand what it takes to teach the lost souls of those around us.
What does it take to teach the lost…
It Takes Our Time
It Takes Our Time
Making Time For Lost Souls
Making Time For Lost Souls
Teaching the lost is not something that can be done without the use of our time.
It often will require us sitting with friends, family, or others for several hours over several different days.
The apostles rightly said that teaching the lost takes a lot of time to accomplish.
2 And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables.
Didn’t Jesus demonstrate to the apostles just the opposite when he washed their feet?
Yes, and the apostles were not opposed to serving tables, but only admitting that they were expected by God to “get the message out” and the time it takes to do so cannot be “filled” with serving tables.
To teach the lost we must take time to “go to where others are” and teach them.
Peter left home to go to Cornelius’ home.
22 And they said, “Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who is well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and to hear what you have to say.” 23 So he invited them in to be his guests. The next day he rose and went away with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.
Philip was told to “go and find a man studying in a chariot.”
26 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place. 27 And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship 28 and was returning, seated in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah. 29 And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot.”
Jesus has made it clear that we must make time to teach the lost souls around us.
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
15 And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.”
Summary
Summary
Teaching the lost the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ is going to take time out of our busy schedules.
It is going to use up the time we have allotted for other things in our day and cause us to reschedule.
However, if we never want to hear the words, “You never mentioned him to me” we must be willing to make time to tell others of the saving message of our Savoir, Jesus the Christ.
To make certain we never hear those dreadful words from our hymn this morning, we must understand that…
It Takes Effort
It Takes Effort
We Must Know God’s Word
We Must Know God’s Word
To be able to present God’s word and help those in this dark and dying world learn the gospel message we must make certain we are in the word in order to know God’s word.
One of the biggest reason people “don’t teach the lost” is because they feel like they don’t know God’s word well enough.
The reality is there is only one way to fix this, and that is to make the effort to get into God’s word to know it.
We not only need to be avid readers of God’s word but we must take the time and make the effort to actually study God’s most precious word.
15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
We must study to know why “studying God’s word” is so important to one’s salvation so as to be able to explain that to the lost needing salvation.
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
We must study to know why belief, faith, and faithfulness is so important in God’s plan of salvation and why the lost should sacrifices everything for it.
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
We must study to know why dedicating our lives to Christ by turning from sin and living for Christ is so important in God’s plan of salvation and why they should “desire this in their lives.”
30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent
33 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
We must study to know why confessing Jesus as “the Christ” and “my Christ” before men is so vital to someone’s salvation so we can explain such to the lost.
9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. 33 But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.
We must study to help the lost understand the importance of being immersed in that watery grave.
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
It takes a great deal of effort on our part to make certain we never hear the words “you never mentioned him to me.”
But we must not just put in that effort to know God’s word, we also must…
Put Ourselves Out There
Put Ourselves Out There
It takes a lot of effort for people to “put themselves out there” in teaching the lost God’s word.
It is not the most “comfortable” thing to do, go to someone, seek to study with them, and then show them what they are missing spiritually from God’s word.
Most people assume they are spiritually fine; rare is the person who is seeking because they know differently.
It takes a lot of intestinal fortitude to put ourselves out there.
However, we must not forget that when we put ourselves out there God is with us.
10 fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.”
Summary
Summary
It takes a lot of physical and emotional effort to teach the lost.
It takes a lot of effort to help those in spiritual need.
To become comfortable teaching the lost then, and never hearing those frightful words from our hymn this morning, we need to make sure we understand, teaching the lost…
It Takes Longsuffering
It Takes Longsuffering
We Must Suffer To Help Save
We Must Suffer To Help Save
Teaching the lost means telling people they are “not saved” and in “danger of hell.”
Neither one of those are something people typically want to hear or are happy at finding out.
Because of this when we teach the lost persecution will happen.
Prison is a possibility.
1 And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, 2 greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. 3 And they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening. 4 But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.
Physical harm is a possibility.
25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea
Becoming someone’s enemy is a possibly.
16 Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?
Teaching the lost also takes longsuffering because…
We Must Be Willing To Accept Defeat
We Must Be Willing To Accept Defeat
The harsh reality is that most of the people we try and teach the gospel to will reject it.
Jesus himself could not reach very many in the grand scheme of things while here on earth.
27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness.
13 “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
We must be willing to except that not everyone we love, care for, and want to obey the gospel and be faithful children of God will do so.
That doesn’t mean we give up teaching those that have rejected it.
The Jews often rejected Paul’s teaching of the gospel to the point where he would stop teaching them for a time.
46 And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.”
However, we find he still loved them dearly and would go back to them over and over.
1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. 2 And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures
Summary
Summary
It takes a lot on longsuffering to teach the lost so as to never hear the words “You never mentioned him to me.”
Conclusion
Conclusion
You Never Mentioned Him To Me
May it never be said of any of us…
You never mentioned him to me, you helped me not the light to see; you met me day by day and knew I was astray, you never mentioned him to me.
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
