I BELIEVE IN IT WITH ALL OF MY HEART. May I share with you what we saw God do when I was a pastor. TO GOD BE THE GLORY. I know it better than anyone that God did it. Studies have been made among Baptist especially and found that just above 60 % really go on with the Lord. I have carefully and thoroughly gone over our ministry and 95 % of those who were saved in our church went on with the Lord, some bearing only 30 fold, some 60 fold and some 100 fold. Next lesson I want to tell you why we had such a nigh rate. Any church can see a much higher rate.
The Holy Spirit follows up every new believer.
The Bible says so. "Being confident of this very thing that He, (the Holy Spirit) which has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ" Phil 1:6. This was Jerry Falwell's ( my boss for 18 years at Liberty University) life verse and he was the epitome of it.
Believing the Holy Spirit will and really depending on Him to do it makes the biggest difference. As a pastor, I expected people to go on with the Lord and they did. We saw 95% go on with the Lord. Some produced 30 fold, some 60 and some 100 fold. I can not stress this enough. "He did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief" Matt 13:58. It was not that we had a better program or worked harder at it than others. I learned this from Dr. Chafer, founder of Dallas Theological Seminary and Jerry Falwell, we MUST Consciously walk in the Spirit and let Him work through us to see anything spiritual accomplished.
The woman at the well in John 4.
She had been married five times and now living with a man she had not married. I will guarantee you most would not have expected much from her. DON'T YOU EVER DO THAT. She brought a whole city to Christ. The Holy Spirit did a pretty good job didn't He. He always does if we will be filled and walk in the Spirit.
The Ethiopian Eunuch in Acts 8.
{Phillip led him to Christ and "the Spirit of the Lord caught away Phillip that the eunuch saw him no more and he went on his way rejoicing" Acts 8:39. Astounding. History tells us he opened the door of Africa to the gospel. God really does make the difference in following up believers if you really operate in the Spirit.
A demonstration of the Holy Spirit and power 2 Cor 2:4 Where oh where do you see a demonstration of the Holy Spirit and power today. I am not talking about running up and down the aisles
or climbing the pews but such a sense of the presence of Almighty God that people are weeping for joy and in conviction of their sins of not loving the Lord Jesus enough and not preaching the gospel to EVERY person they have the slightest chance. Remember I did a series of the work of the Holy Spirit to and through believers and we found over 60 specific works of the Holy Spirit through us. How much are you seeing the Holy Spirit do through YOU? You must let Him have full control . Don't miss the rest on follow up all this week.
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