
Author
Faustino de Jesús Zamora Vargas
Summary: The article talks about the importance of sharing the Gospel with people who do not know Christ, as there are many religious people who do not have a personal relationship with Jesus. The author's brother asks people if they know Jesus, and if they have a personal relationship with Him. The article emphasizes that religion without Christ is like opium, and that true salvation comes through a personal relationship with Jesus. The article ends with a prayer of gratitude and a renewed strength to share the Gospel.
-I bring good news. Do you know the Jesus of the Bible? Do you have a personal relationship with Him? - My brother F.B. knows when to ask questions. For professing Christians the answers may be simple; For the religious unbeliever who does not know Christ, obviously not. In the world there are many more religious who believe in anything but the only true God and his son Jesus. That is why it will always be worth plunging into the religious darkness of the world trying to plant the seed of the Gospel. Even though Christ was rejected, the seed may have fallen on good ground and the Spirit of God has the power to unleash souls defeated by the worldwide epidemic of spiritual death.
Scales falling from the eyes to see the light for the first time; tears of joy and gratitude to God. Christ making himself visible in the preaching of the Good News. Declaration of spiritual warfare against the hosts of darkness. Irritation from the devil for invading his territory. And the Lord, irresistible, making the impious and the religious without Christ recognize their condition of nakedness and perdition.
-Believes in God?
-Yes I believe.
-In the God of the Bible?
- And who is that?
- Christ?
"Oh yeah, I've heard of him!" It is that "I believe in Jesus Christ, but in my own way."
My brother F.B. scratches his head and understands the challenge. Just by looking at each other for a moment, we know that we must fight our way through the crowd to bring the paralyzed man to the feet of Jesus, even if it takes a hole in the ceiling to do so. Despite the scribes of these times. Despite the crowd that stops at the gates of salvation, but does not take the final step. A crowd that would like to test Jesus "in their own way", but prefer to continue passing through life as a sheep that has no shepherd. Now I see an evangelical meaning to that expression of which he once said that "religion was the opium of the peoples." Without Christ at the center of salvation, religion explodes with emotions, but it remains only at the level of the cerebral cortex and produces the effects of opium.
Almost everyone thinks he is just, faultless, without the need for soul healing. A good part says they know Christ and that is why they declare themselves a Christian. My brother F.B. He knows it and repeats the same questions over and over again: - But ... do you have a personal relationship with Jesus? -. -Do you walk with Him? -
Clear answers are required. It is the decisive moment. We see the Holy Spirit descend when people keep silent about the answer they cannot give and begin their graceful task of convicting the sinner of sin.
-Would you like to start a personal relationship with Christ today? - F.B. tenderly.
"Ah, now I understand that it is about Christ and not about me!" Do I need to do something to establish that relationship? - -No, Christ already did everything on the cross, He paid what you could not pay with your own life! You only need to accept His friendship through faith! - affirms the evangelist F.B. delicately and safely. F.B. and I know the silence that the Spirit produces when it begins to work in the heart that is about to surrender by the power of the gospel and overwhelming grace.
Revelation 3.20 sounds like God's sweet whisper in the ear of the repentant sinner. The atmosphere is filled with many "amen", tears and groans and joy of the heart. My brother F.B. he smiles and invites me to go outside. Prayer of gratitude unavoidable. We feel the embrace of heaven that neither he nor I deserve and the renewed strength to knock on the next door and speak to the people of the Lord. It's about Jesus; of its history, of its inclination to give life to the one who was dead, joy to the hopeless, light to the one who dwells in darkness.
God bless you!