“Don’t Forget to Win Souls!” James 5:19-20

Society For The Prevention Of People Going To Hell S.F.T.P.O.P.G.T.H. Society For The Prevention Of People Going To Hell

How easy it is for a local church to forget her fundamental reason to exist. We get involved with… but in the course of having all these events we must remind each other the purpose behind them!

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It’s like when your wife sends you to the store for milk and then she thinks of several other things she could use… While you’re going out the door she says, “And don’t forget the milk!”

I There is a Great TRAGEDY A. The Tragedy of Being Lost

Point of the text is that a person who has gotten away from the truth is in a lost state…

“Spiritual Death” = separation from God

“As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins.” Ephesians 2:1 “As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins.”

“But the widow lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.” 1 Timothy 5:6 “But the widow lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.”

It is more than possible to be the picture of health (physically speaking) but be very dead spiritually speaking…

I There is a Great TRAGEDY A. The Tragedy of Being Lost B. The Tragedy of Not Seeing the Worth of a Soul

Matthew 18:3 “…Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.”

John 3:5 “Jesus answered (Nicodemus), ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.’”

II There is a Great TASK A. Something is Missing in Peoples’ Lives

Main problem people facing – they’re missing one vital piece to the puzzle. They are missing peace/release from guilt…

Romans 5:1 “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

II There is a Great TASK A. Something is Missing in Peoples’ Lives B. We Are Sent to a Confused World

Must we convince everyone that our “religion” is right and their “religion” is wrong?

Such must become the burden of our hearts – to love the lost enough to confront them with the Gospel of grace…

III There is a Great RESULT A. We Can be Part of Saving People

Romans 6:13b “…but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.”

III There is a Great RESULT A. We Can be Part of Saving People B. Sins Will be Covered

Jonathan Edwards Max Juke descendent Max Juke and his wife did not believe in Christian training… Jonathan Edwards and his wife did believe in Christian training…

River Park Church of Christ building South Bend, Indiana There was a family at my home church who didn’t encourage their kids to get involved…

How do You Win a Million People to Christ? Youngest blood brother calculated that if those 19 Christians would simply win one person to Christ every five years (they were Christians) and those they won would in turn win a person to Christ every five years…

Conclusion and Summary: 1. We haven’t made reaching the lost the expected norm… 2. We can use some broadened expectations… 3. We all have been called to participate… God cares more than anything else about lost people…