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SOUL WINNER
The book of Romans is the most profound statement of Christian doctrine ever composed.
Yet, when you read the book you know there is a very practical purpose all the way through the study.
You will notice in verse 18 he says that his purpose is to make the Gentiles obedient by word and deed.
Turn back to the first chapter of Romans and I want you to see that at the very outset of the letter Paul states that clear and very practical down to earth purpose.
In
he says, His purpose is to bring people to Christ for obedience to the faith among all nations for his name.
Turn to the last chapter of book of
He gives us what his purpose is.
“But now is made manifest by the Scriptures of the prophets according to the commandment of the everlasting God made known to all nations for the obedience of faith.”
In those words, Paul is saying, “my purpose in writing you this letter, my purpose in desiring to come to see you is that people might be obedient to the faith.
That people might receive Jesus Christ as their Lord and their Savior.
Paul was many things -— a writer —- a theologian —— a missionary statesman - Christian apologist, but above all of it Paul was a soul winner.
When Paul came to visit a city, he did not come there to embellish their culture, nor did he come there to enhance their philosophy, he came there to win people to faith in Jesus.
Paul was not primarily a philosopher; he was a preacher.
He was not only on his travels to be a sightseer; he was there to be a soul winner.
He was mocked in Athens.
He was mobbed in Jerusalem.
He was martyred in Rome because he had a real, regular and redemptive burden to see people come to know Jesus as their Savior.
I have come to believe after many years of studying the Bible that the bottom-line of it all is to get people to Jesus Christ.
I believe that’s the heart of the Bible.
I believe that’s the meaning of the Christian life.
I believe that’s the purpose of our existence as God’s children until we get to heaven and that is to win as many people as we possibly can to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
So, Paul, in these rather interesting verses is paint for us a portrait of a soul winner.
Here’s what my purpose is this morning.
There are many of you who have been soul winners and are winning people to Christ.
I want to encourage you and to help you to renew your commitment to lead people to the Lord.
If you have never led anybody to Jesus, then my purpose today is to give you a burning desire to see people come to know our Lord.
You really find the purpose of life when you come to know what it is to lead people to faith in Jesus.
W.A. Criswell in Dallas, Texas.
He will be celebrating, in a few weeks, his Anniversary as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas.
He followed a man named George Truett who served for 42 years as pastor.
So, that means that for 92 years that church has had two pastors.
George W. Truett was a great soul winner.
He tells the story about what created the desire in his heart to be a soul winner.
He said there was a little mother in his church who had a wayward boy who desperately needed Jesus.
Very often she would ask her pastor, Dr. Truett, to pray for him.
Very often with tears she would express her desire that this boy come to know the Lord.
Well, on a Sunday night service, kind of like this, before the service she came up to her pastor and said, “0, Dr. Truett, my boy is going to come tonight.
Preach, Dr. Truett Let’s see if he won’t come to Jesus tonight.
The service was conducted, the message was preached, the invitation hymn was given and down the aisle of that church came that boy giving his hand to the preacher and his heart to the Lord Jesus.
Dr. Truett said when the service was over that little mother came down and her joy was just more than she could express.
He said she grabbed that boy and hugged and kissed him and rejoiced in his salvation.
Then he said she turned to him and looked at him for a moment and got down on her knees and she kissed his feet.
She said, “Dr.
Truett, I want to kiss the feet of the man who led my boy to Jesus.”
Dr. Truett said that night he decided that he had rather be a soul winner than to be crowned the king of England.
The most important thing you could ever do today is to lead a soul to Jesus Christ.
More important than being the president of our nation.
More important than being the mayor our city.
More important than anything you could ever do would be to be used of God to win people to faith in Jesus Christ.
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The DEFINITION of A Soul winner.
Really in verse 14 you have a definition of a soul winner.
Notice Paul talks about them rather than about himself.
Notice his courtesy and tact.
He says, “I am persuaded of you...“
He talks about things he believes are characteristic of them.
He mentions three things in this verse which really define what it means to be a soul winner.
He says you are full of goodness; you are filled with knowledge and you are able to admonish one another.
I believe in those three statements you have defined what it means to be a soul winner.
“You are full of goodness.”
I believe I could say that about this congregation here that we have good people in our church.
It was said of Barnabas in the Bible that he was full of goodness and the Holy Spirit.
If folks can say you are a good person then they have said something very wonderful about you.
Yet, when I read that statement in my own mind, I’m aware that there seems to be a little bit of a contradiction here.
Now he says, “you are full of goodness.”
Jesus said this. “There is none good but God.” Yet here he says you are full of goodness.
What’s he talking about?
When Paul says about them “you are full of goodness” he doesn’t mean some innate goodness.
He doesn’t mean some goodness in and of themselves.
He really means an imparted goodness.
That’s what it means when you are saved.
It means that God imparts his righteousness to you.
God puts His own goodness in you.
And gives you the capacity to be a good person.
That’s why in the book of we are told about the fruit of the spirit.
It names those nine graces of the spirit.
One of them is goodness.
God can make us good.
God can make us the kind of person we ought to be.
So, the first thing that is necessary in order to be a soul winner is to be saved.
You have to know Christ as your Savior.
You have to have His goodness in your life.
That’s the first definition of a soul winner.
If you’ve been saved, now you have the capacity to be a soul winner.
If you’ve met Jesus Christ as your Savior now you can tell somebody else about Him.
The book of Acts is the great soul-winning book in the Bible.
Over and over again in the book of Acts you see the word, witness.
A witness is someone who can tell others what he himself knows to be true.
I heard about a church one time and a person came forward in the service and got up to give their testimony.
The pastor said would you share with the congregation your experience.
The person said, “the other night I went to bed and I couldn’t sleep, and I heard a bug scratch under my pillow and I just thought it was time for me to join the church.”
The pastor said, “Excuse me sir, if all you’ve done is just heard a bug scratch under your pillow, I’m not sure that’s enough for you to join the church.”
An old deacon spoke up and said, “Aw, let him in preacher, some of our members haven’t even heard a bug scratch.”
But if you have been saved you have an experience with God that you can tell somebody else about.
Do you think all the 1000 members of our congregation have really been saved?
I wish it were true.
I wish I could say that all of them are saved.
But I’m not sure that’s true.
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