Knowing Jesus

Yesterday, the Lord blessed Sherry and I with the opportunity to ask three different people if they knew Jesus. Thankfully, they said that they did. How refreshing it is to talk about Jesus with strangers and find an immediate common bond of friendship in Him.

The Bible speaks of an election won by grace. Whose grace? The Lord’s grace. His grace comes to us in the Gospel. It is the power of God unto salvation. [1]

No matter who wins the American presidential election on Tuesday, our mission remains the same… the proclamation of Jesus.

In the attached picture, three of my children stopped to tell a man sitting under bridge about Jesus (Mercy was in a stroller - Sherry took the picture). I monitored and prayed. They gave the witness. The point of the illustration is that the message of the Gospel is not complicated. It’s not a campaign that costs hundreds of millions of dollars, but it yields an eternal kingdom. An unshakable kingdom. A kingdom of joy unspeakable and full of glory.

“We believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved.” [2]

“…Some said, ‘What does this babbler want to say?’ Others said, ‘He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods,’ because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.” [3]

“…Showing from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.” [4]

“Then Paul dwelt two whole years in his own rented house, and received all who came to him, preaching the kingdom of God and teaching the things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence, no one forbidding him.” [5]

[1] Romans 1:16; 11:5
[2] Acts 15:11
[3] Acts 17:18
[4] Acts 18:28
[5] Acts 28:30-31