Making Jesus Famous Volume 3

Reading this passage of scripture should truly give us joy and relief in the fact that our evangelism is not motivated by numbers. Many children of God fall away from evangelism because they don't get to see the direct results of their efforts. Many of us get caught on fire after our conversion and we start to tell everyone we know about the Gospel and our Savior Jesus Christ. After a while of rejection we start to get deterred and feel that evangelism must not be our gift. We were all called to evangelize, some may have the gift to do so in front of thousands but we are all called to make disciples of all nations. In our society, we live around all nations each day. The world sees success based off of numbers, while God judges success based on the heart. If we continue to sow the seeds of Christ in love for the world to know Him whether they make the decision or not, God will see your efforts as successful. All will not be saved in this life and we all know this to be true, either wise the gate would not be narrow. Our job is not to be their saviors, our job is to sow and water so that God in His timing may grant the increase. It will be a joy in heaven to see the people that came to Christ based off of your decision not to stop evangelizing. Those who we may not think will ever come will be the very ones standing next to us in the white robes!!! 1 Corinthians 9:22 "To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some", Paul's heart. FAINT NOT!!! Be Encouraged!!! Have a wonderful life of making Jesus famous on purpose!!!!!

Acts 17

In Athens

16 While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. 17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with both Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there. 18 A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others remarked, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection. 19 Then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the Arapahos, where they said to him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? 20 You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we would like to know what they mean.” 21 (All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)

22 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Arapahos and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. 23 For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.

24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. 25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. 26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. 27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. 28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’[b] As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’[c]

29 “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill. 30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. 31 For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”

32 When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this subject.” 33 At that, Paul left the Council. 34 Some of the people became followers of Paul and believed. Among them was Dionysus, a member of the Arapahos, also a woman named Damaris, and a number of others.