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We're going to get into our class which is been dealing with the four principles of personal evangelism.

And just as a reminder before each of these classes.

Just want to keep telling you that, you know, we have four rules.

I had it one who got the four rules of engagement for when we are trying to do personal evangelism.

And the first one is to respect people and their beliefs.

Everybody has believes they have reasons for those beliefs and perhaps it is tradition or just, the way they were brought up.

And there's all kinds of reasons for why people believe what they believe those beliefs are sincere, but if we're honest with ourselves, and if they're honest with themselves are, our beliefs, can be wrong or right?

And so we want to respect people without concern.

The second one is highly, highly important.

We keep harping on this and will continue to do it as we go through this class.

And that's And as we're doing personal evangelism, what is the the tool that we use the Bible?

The Bible and the Bible is also going to be the Arbiter between you and whomever you're having personal evangelism discussions with.

So there's any disagreement between you and someone else what should settle that disagree with?

All right, and then that way it's not based on opinions.

It doesn't become personal because it's not what you said is what the Bible says, write.

And for all of us, we have to find ways to do that.

All right, we have to find ways to move ourselves out of the way and put the Bible in the way.

All right, we don't want them jumping over us.

We want them jumping over the Bible.

All right, we don't want them running into we want them running into the Bible.

All right.

So always Black people's beliefs and then always use the Bible and then the third one that you see up there is what we're going to need patience.

Because some of us don't have it readily to begin with.

So we're going to have to call on the fruit of the spirit fruit of the spirit, right?

And I don't want to be patient because depending on you know, whom you're dealing with people might have their beliefs for a very, very, very long time and those beliefs are ingrained in them.

All right, and so it's going to take time for that to happen.

Plus.

We also need to understand something else.

God works in time.

Anybody remember how long Noah preached by was building the ark? 120 years.

Do you have that kind of patience?

K & M L people that do Free Church too because we also have people say, well, what do I do?

When this person doesn't respond the way that I want?

What do I do when I'm teaching them the gospel and and they're not responding at at at at Preach for a hundred and twenty years.

Did he save anybody?

His family, right?

But did he convert anybody outside of family?

Nobody, right?

So we have to recognize that where our responsibilities lie, responsibilities lie in proclaiming the gospel and in teaching the gospel living, the God, love our neighbor, love showing the seed, right?

But the increase that responsibility belongs to belongs to God and the individual person that is receiving, its is it's incumbent upon them to accept and believe what it is that you're preaching, and what it is that you are teaching, but that's going to take some patience and I always like to add a fourth one.

I'm going to try to write it in here and that is, don't what?

Don't be discouraged.

Just I'm just going to write don't give up.

Okay, so don't give up as long as there's breath.

There's Hope and now because he's always involved in the Bible studies and the like and you know, what is he wants?

People to obey and we need that so much that type of heart that type of determination, but that your determination your ability to speak your scholarly approach to the scriptures.

None of those things have a bearing on the person that you're teaching that's based on their heart.

All right, then and there are accepting as though, you always have a response for mankind and if you, if you are in the midst of personal evangelism, and somebody doesn't want to hear it, your responsibility moves from preaching at In the gospel to loving that individual.

Okay, and then perhaps God will open up another door of opportunity and more times than that.

Door of opportunity will not be you anymore.

All right, but you might have done the watering.

And someone else maybe even said the same things you said, but they wind up.

Oh bad, I would not going to disqualify them for that.

Right?

If I told you to say that you didn't believe me.

You can't do that when you can, because you're the one that we are, responsibility is sowing the seed.

And that's where our responsibility ends.

We have two B's Ellis where that?

Where, that is concerned.

Okay.

All right, so we started off by saying that the first step and I are both.

I'm sorry you had your hand up.

I won't go there, but it wasn't somebody.

Tell me that necessarily the Bible, every somebody when I seen them.

Not just for me to show love, turn off today.

I'll just go there for you.

We should not start with that.

We don't start with that.

We do becomes Alice.

I got to admit.

I've done that.

The people I will say that was happening before.

I Michael Shanks muscle in the show.

Brother on wood.

Absolutely.

That's enough to start them on the road.

Absolutely, absolutely.

Don't need to do.

All right.

So I want to first step is to pray sets the stage.

All right?

And effectual prayer of a righteous man, availeth much.

So if you want to have fruit from the see that you are showing that you had better start off with your first, leave adjective my princess, the stage, right with anybody that you're teaching, that this is not going to be a debate session, right?

Is not going to be an argument session.

This is going to be a humble Gathering of mines and the word of God that we pray with lead us towards our conversion.

Right?

But someone will see the light that someone would accept the word and ultimately, that someone will be baptized and added to the Lord's church, right?

That's the goal, all that stuff.

We're getting God involved with the first step and that first step is rare.

Okay, and so that's number one.

Number two was, what if I remember?

Proclamation after prayer, we're going to brooklane.

And when we Proclaim, what are we?

Proclaiming the gospel.

Okay, we're not going to start the discussion off talking about the Republican platform not going to start off by discussing the the liberal agenda.

All right, we're not going to begin our discussion talking about the mask mandate right right?

Not going to start our discussion off talking about race relations.

Can you ought to be a Christian?

Because that's the only way, you know, if not, we're not going to start with those and we're not going to even in with that.

Okay, so we want to be very narrow in our approach to personal evangelism.