Your Faith-Sharing Responsibility

Hi everybody, welcome back to Ignite. I want to talk to you in the subject of you are responsible for nine people. Yeah, your response for leading nine people to the Lord. That's the break point. You always want to have a target and say, okay, how am I doing? Well, nobody else has lead people to the Lord. So I guess I don't have to. That's that's not the right parameter. If we want to get America saved, we need to understand that only 10% of us are saved. Those are hard numbers. So 90% of our population are unsaved. About 70% say they're Christian. Okay, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about those who have named God as their Lord and their Savior. And there's different statistics around. It's certainly over 80%. It could be easily argued that's 90%. So I think to be conservative, we just need to say 90% of our populations lost 10% of us are saved. So it's the responsibility of the 10% of us, you follow me? To get the to get the tension of the 90% and of that 90% 80% of those, this is such a staggering number. 80% of the unchurged know the world's out of control. I've mentioned this so many times, but it bears repeating. They know the world's out of control. They would like to believe there's a God who can make sense of the chaos and bring peace. They would like to believe that. They're actually looking for somebody to tell them. Get that. They're actually looking for somebody. Well, they're not interested. No, no, even the scounders. I can't find anybody. It's not interested. I've been sharing my faith for 50 years on a daily basis. I've never found it easier. Everybody wants to know. Everybody has an opinion. It's there's never been an easier time to share your faith. And it goes on to say that over 80% of the unchurged already have a crisp in their life that they trust right now. I mean, we could, we could ignite them every revival in 30 days if we wanted to. I mean, that's a bottom line thing. Just recognize. We're not talking about then searchable dream and reachable goal, whatever. No, no, this is right. This is without spending a dime. We could do this. The problem is not the loss. They're lost. The problem is us. It's literally the, the fields are white for harvest. And the laborers are few. There's very few of us doing it. That's the whole point of our ministry. Ignite our goal is to ignite Christians to ignite America's revival one person at a time. Okay, that's, that's, that's our goal. So everybody around you, it brings it all the way down to a very personal level. If not you, who? You know, how many unsaved family members do you have? Do you even think about it? I talked a lot of people. They don't even think about it. How many unsaved friends do you have? I guarantee you that number is more than nine. And then does it count the hundreds or thousands of people that you pass to pass by in a given week or month? Better loss. They're just, they're, they're lost. You can't reach everybody, but it's kind of like if you get a radar out and you're, and you're just chumming, you know, you just chum. You just, you just make a difference. I was, on the harbor Newport Beach about a year ago. And I was watching this little boat. And he's probably six or eight feet long, right? A little engine on the back and you picture it. And the guy in the boat is, first of all, those little engines are really ahead here when they go by with the little engine. You know, and he's leaning forward trying to get the ball of the boat down so he go a little faster. He's going five on hour. He's going down the harbor. You got the picture. What I noticed was that after he passed by, every boat in the harbor, they're, they're, they're moored on the side of the docks. They're moored out in the middle with the moorings you don't and the dock right in front of me, every boat and even the dock was moving. And I thought, wow, that's, that's a, a picture of how we should be living our lives, right? They would should be impacting everybody. Even we don't talk to them. You know, we can bring the whole spirit into the room without even talking. We can. We can do that. You've, you've certainly been to a place where you could feel the spirit of the Lord there. And other times there's, there's no spirit. You could bring the spirit of the Lord with you. When you walk into a place, you can make a difference just by, in addition to what you're saying and your countenance and your words, just by the fact that the Holy Spirit is speaking through you. I mean, we're, we're in four-time ministry and understand that clearly is so important. I think one of the greatest illustrations of this point of caring is the story of Pendulette. The pen and teller show in Las Vegas. I've also told this story a bit of time, but it's so poignant. And that pen is an atheist. I spoke an atheist. Very talented, brilliant guy. Fabulous entertainer. I came up to him after one of his performances and talked to him about the Lord and gave him a Bible. And his comment on that was you know, I'm not against proximalization. It might surprise you, but I'm not. He's, I know there's no God. But, but if you, if you really think that I'm on my way to hell, how much would you have to hate me to not tell me? Now I can ask the question, how much do you have to hate those or not? You should not tell them. I know you don't hate them, but you're certainly not loving them as yourself. You're not as concerned for their salvation as you are your own. This is serious, folks. I was with the new Christian the other day. She has great influence. And I was talking about leading people into Jesus and she said, you don't have to be trained. Just love on them. And I love God to speak to you. The Holy Spirit will speak to you. Look at 12. It says, the Holy Spirit will give you the words to say, well, that's real. I need to spend more time with you. And I said, okay, I will. But understand this. Most Christians haven't led one person to the Lord. And when we get to heaven, our rewards are going to be based on how many people are in heaven because of your influence. I could ask you that. How many people if you were to die today, how many people would be in heaven because of your influence? Everything else in life doesn't matter. It's just hey and stubble. Guess what? It's not going to matter how many bottles of car wax I sold when I get to heaven. I don't think I've got talking about bottles of car wax or even the elections we caught up in or even if we're American or whatever it doesn't. The only thing matters is what do we do when we're here? We have time enough to figure who God is to serve Him and then to love our neighbors as ourself. That's what life's about. Life's about redemption. That's what it is. And we have this opportunity. We have this. God's given to understand that out of the millions of years and billions of people. God's given us the opportunity to live in these last days. Get ready for this last great I believe there's a revival coming that's going to be unprecedented. I really believe that's going to happen. Don't you want to be a part of that? It's only going to come if those of us who know the Lord get busy right now. It's got to start. It's got to start with us. So if you do that, you understand that I talk about your full time ministry and if you want a goal, a minimize goal, you should at least because most people are not going to. That means probably 90% of Americans need to be reached by maybe 5% of us. I don't know what the Mercedes are, but they're quite high. I will tell you this. You know, if you... I promise you this. If you lead nine people to the Lord, that'll be just the beginning. Because once you do that, once you lead the first person, I had a Christian soul told me a while back and she was trafficked and and drugs and it had such a horrible life. And now she says, there is no high in drug addiction that matches the high of leading somebody to Jesus. Get on board with us, will you? It's not worrying about their scalp, but just love on people. That's all you have to do. Just love on them and when you love on them, you'll be amazed how quickly they will open up and they'll share you hurts and concerns, otherwise they won't even tell their best friend. You can't feel that. You can't script it. You can't be prepared for it. You have no idea where those conversations are going to go. But when you do that and you hear that God will give you, it's supernatural. It is an almost amazing experience when you have God. Just give it. He'll bring up scriptures. You haven't thought of for years. You'll bring up life experience. He will speak through you truth. And you see the impact of that person. You realize God's using your right that very moment. You have intimacy with God. There's nothing to bring that kind of intimacy with God. You get to two or three, you're going to do nine. You're going to do a whole lot more of that. It's all about it. I'm just shouting for the house. Understand that's a commit your life to it. Move everybody. I mean everybody. From the moment you get up in the morning, the time you go to bed starts with your wife, your husband, your kids, before you go out the door, that everybody you're with, make sure you operate it on the phone. In a minute you can operate on the phone closer to Jesus. I just might love you. They get people hating and yelling at them all day long inpatient. And just by saying, you know, I'm so glad I got you. You and so, you're such a blessing to be. God bless you. Have a great day. God bless you. Now we're saying, wow, that was a nice person. Obviously a nice person. And they're obviously a Christian. You probably just interrupted their whole picture of what a Christian is. I mean, you can do that so quickly. It's a process. And just allow God. Never be frustrated. I used to get frustrated when I didn't get him saved right then. I get him saved in the second conversation. Whatever has nothing to do with your timing. It's God's time. I have people I've been sharing with for 20 years. They're not in the area, but they're coming. You get the picture. It's a team sport. And your goal, your responsibility is to move everybody every day. Everybody I mean everybody every day closer to Jesus. See you next time.