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PORTRAIT OF A MISSIONARY.
We are moving along in our study of the book of Romans and god willing in just a little while now we will complete our study of this wonderful, wonderful book in the Bible.
— some very personal words from the Apostle Paul this morning and I believe they have a message for every one of us.
These very personal words from the heart of the Apostle Paul let us know that he was not only a real soul winner, but he was also a great missionary.
Of course, there is a sense in which both are the same.
Every person who knows Jesus, as Savior ought to be a soul winner.
Every person who knows Christ, as their Savior ought to be a missionary seeking to take the Gospel to others.
Wherever you are you ought to be winning souls to Jesus and wherever you are - that is your mission field — that’s where God has placed you to carry the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
There is a wider sense that a missionary is different.
A missionary, in the wider sense, is someone who has been called of God and sent out by a local congregation of believers into another place.
Believe a missionary is absolutely essential in order to fulfill the great commission of Jesus.
Jesus said, “Go ye therefore into all the world and make disciples.”
It’s impossible for me to go to all the world, literally.
It is impossible for this church to go to all the world, literally.
But we can obey the commandment of Christ as we pray and as we give and as we send others to tell this world about the Lord Jesus.
Some congregations make the mistake of being local in concern only.
Other congregations make the mistake of being global only.
If a church is only local in its concern, then it’s selfish.
If a church is only global in its concern, then it is inconsistent.
But what God wants us to do is to have a heart for our local place of service and have a heart for the world that the whole world might come to know Jesus as their Savior.
The key to be a missionary is being a witness for Jesus wherever you happen to be.
Early in my ministry in a church where I served there was a young lady who said that God had called her to be a missionary.
A lovely young lady, a wonderful young lady in many ways.
Yet I never saw her being a witness for Jesus right in our church community.
My heart was burdened and concerned about it as I observed her, and I was saddened to see later on that she abandoned her plans to be a missionary.
If you are not going to be a missionary for Jesus right where you are, then chances are you will never be a missionary anywhere else.
The Apostle Paul was not made a missionary because he got on a boat and you and I will not be made missionaries because we get on a jet.
If you want to be a missionary for Jesus, the thing to do is be a missionary right where you are.
In the verses which Paul gives to us today I want to share with you and speak some very practical words about the portrait of a missionary.
Our church supports several thousands of missionaries who go through the Southern Baptist Convention.
We also support missionaries who come right out of our own congregation.
On the image mags you will see pictures of these different missionary families.
Some of them you will not recognize, others you will.
So, I want my message today to be a tribute to those who are missionaries and a challenge from the Lord for all of us to be missionaries for Jesus right here in Jacinto City.
I call your attention to the
1: A Missionary Bears Fruit.
It is the desire of every missionary, and should be of every Christian, that we be fruitful in our witnessing.
That we win people to Christ, that we have some fruit to show of our witnessing endeavors.
There are some who have served on mission fields for many years and the results have been very meager.
One of the greatest missionaries of all time was a man named Adeniran Judson.
He went as a missionary to the country of Burma.
He served faithfully for five years before he had his first single convert.
So, some people are on difficult fields yet I believe God promises that those who are faithful to witness for Jesus can see people come to know Christ as their Savior.
My life verse is
“He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.”
I believe we can claim from God fruitfulness in winning people to Jesus.
Paul was fruitful in his missionary endeavors.
Look at what he says in .
Notice the little phrase “to make the Gentiles obedient.”
There is the statement right there which lets us know that he bore fruit.
That is the statement of his fruitfulness.
This man Paul had some results and some converts that were genuine and lasting.
How do we know his converts were genuine?
He says they became obedient to the faith.
They became obedient to the Lord.
It’s not enough for a person to raise a hand and say I’ve accepted Jesus.
It’s not enough for a person to walk down an aisle and say I’m accepting Jesus.
It’s not enough for a person to just sign a card and say I’ve accepted Jesus.
Salvation puts a Spirit in the heart of an individual which causes that individual to want to be obedient to the commands of Jesus.
We do not believe that public confession saves you.
It’s an indication you are saved.
We do not believe that baptism saves you.
But it is an indication that you are saved.
The job is not done until a person who has professed faith in Christ is baptized, brought into the fellowship of a local church and taught to obey the commandments of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Paul said, “My results were fruitful.
The Gentiles were obedient.”
They were lasting results.
Paul could go back where He had been and find people who were still going on in the Lord.
They were growing in their Christian faith.
They were maturing in the Lord.
That’s the kind of results we want right there.
We are not so interested in just people signing a card.
We are not so interested in people just walking down an aisle.
We are interested in people being genuinely converted, genuinely knowing Jesus as their Lord and as their Savior.
So, he states here his fruitfulness as a missionary.
He also shows us the source of fruitfulness as a missionary.
He says in verse 18 “that I will not speak of those things that Christ has not wrought by me.”
Paul came to understand what all of us have to understand.
We witness in the power of the Holy Spirit, but we are aware of the fact that the results have to come from Jesus Christ.
There is no bragging on Paul’s part.
There is no parading of statistics.
There is no listing of all the converts.
Paul realized that anything that really happened that was ultimately fruitful in his life, Jesus Christ did it.
Here’s a word I would like to give to all of our missionaries.
A word I’d like to give to all of our members.
Let’s be very careful that we never take any of the credit ourselves.
Let’s always be mindful that if the results are there, they are there because of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It is Jesus who works in us.
It is Jesus who does His mighty work in and through our lives.
So, he tells us here the source of his fruitfulness.
Notice he also tell us his secret of his fruitfulness.
Notice three little statements Paul makes beginning in verse 18.
He says, “by word and deed, through mighty signs and wonders, and by the power of the Spirit of God.”
Those three little phrases right there tell us the secret of bearing fruit in winning people to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
By word and deed.
That little phrase occurs several times in Scripture, or something similar.
We are told in
that Moses was a man mighty in word and deeds.
It is even said of the Lord Jesus in
where the disciples said about Jesus Christ that he was mighty in deed and word.
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