Have you ever looked through a newspaper, searching for a good deal on an item? Maybe you wanted to get something for the house, but you weren’t exactly certain what quite yet, so you looked at an ad for a local department store to see if they had something you liked. Upon finding that item, you then could go and pick it up from the store. But until you saw the item you just purchased, you didn’t really know what you were going to get.
Retail stores use this as an effective money maker. As a person stands in line and waits to purchase their things, they often have nothing to do but wait until it is their turn. So what do the stores do? They fill up shelves on each side of the customer with all sorts of different things, trying to get their customers to “impulse buy,” which is buying something without planning to do so, as a result of a sudden whim.
But you see, the store had to put those items there by the checkout to make you aware of those things. The store had to print up those ads in a newspaper so that their customers could see what was on sale, otherwise no one would ever know.
Similarly, how can people know about Jesus unless someone tells them about what He did for them on the cross? How can they believe in Jesus and accept Him as their Savior if no one talks to them about Him?
Romans 10:13-15 “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!”
This is the duty of a preacher. A preacher spreads the knowledge of Christ’s love to others, and teaches them the word of God. They are spiritual farmers, planting seeds of faith into the hearts of those who have not heard about Jesus, as well as tending their current flock. Not every seed of faith will take root, grow, and mature, as it says in Matthew 13, but it is the duty of that preacher to continue on planting those new seeds into hearts.
The world needs to hear about Jesus. Although they may not know it yet, they need Christ’s saving grace. They need to come to Him so that they too can live forever with Jesus in His kingdom. But it is not going to get done by itself. A store will not sell anything if they don’t let the public know they are there.
Christian men everywhere need to grab their Bibles and start spreading the Word. They need to let others know that there is something that everyone needs, that there is Someone that they need. They need Jesus. The laborers are few, so do as much as you can in the name of Christ!
Luke 10:2 “Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.”
In Christ,
Andrew
Teufer Lake King James Bible Church 