HOW TO PRAY FOR UNBELIEVERS (4 OF 5)
by Bob Ingle
Scripture: Isaiah 53:12
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How To Pray for Unbelievers (4 of 5)
Series: Teach Us to Pray
Bob Ingle
Isaiah 53:12
Let me take a moment to warn you...I'm about to get excited and fired up, ok? If you are in one of those mellow, lackadaisical moods where you just want a powder-puff sermon where you get entertained, laugh a little bit and feel good about how much God loves you cause you're so sweet and cuddly, well you're probably going to hate this sermon. Because this sermon isn't that kind of sermon. Today you're getting Billy Graham, not Joel Osteen, ok? So there's the warning.
Today I want to talk to you about how to pray for an unbeliever so that they might be saved. You see, our church and most churches have a huge problem. The problem is that most Christian's act like self-absorbed club members rather than life saving firemen. Listen folks, this isn't a clubhouse. This is a rescue station. Ok? Many of us sang for years that old hymn, ''Rescue the perishing, care for the dying, Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save.'' Have we forgotten that? Many of us love to sing it, but are we committed to doing it? We need to have the attitude of the Scottish pastor John Knox who said, ''Give me Scotland or I die.'' Or the spirit of revivalist George Whitfield who prayed, ''O Lord, give me souls our take my soul.''
Let me ask you this morning, are you acting more like a club member or a rescuer? Do you give a little money every week, and then expect to get your wants and wishes to be met? Or are you generously giving, and passionately serving, and earnestly praying, because your true desire is for others to know Christ and we get to take as many people to heaven with you as possible? I'm telling you 100 years from today nothing else will matter. It won't matter where you went to high school. It won't matter what job you had. It won't matter if you sat on a chair or in a pew during worship. It won't matter how much money you made. The only thing that will matter is where you will be forever a ...
Series: Teach Us to Pray
Bob Ingle
Isaiah 53:12
Let me take a moment to warn you...I'm about to get excited and fired up, ok? If you are in one of those mellow, lackadaisical moods where you just want a powder-puff sermon where you get entertained, laugh a little bit and feel good about how much God loves you cause you're so sweet and cuddly, well you're probably going to hate this sermon. Because this sermon isn't that kind of sermon. Today you're getting Billy Graham, not Joel Osteen, ok? So there's the warning.
Today I want to talk to you about how to pray for an unbeliever so that they might be saved. You see, our church and most churches have a huge problem. The problem is that most Christian's act like self-absorbed club members rather than life saving firemen. Listen folks, this isn't a clubhouse. This is a rescue station. Ok? Many of us sang for years that old hymn, ''Rescue the perishing, care for the dying, Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save.'' Have we forgotten that? Many of us love to sing it, but are we committed to doing it? We need to have the attitude of the Scottish pastor John Knox who said, ''Give me Scotland or I die.'' Or the spirit of revivalist George Whitfield who prayed, ''O Lord, give me souls our take my soul.''
Let me ask you this morning, are you acting more like a club member or a rescuer? Do you give a little money every week, and then expect to get your wants and wishes to be met? Or are you generously giving, and passionately serving, and earnestly praying, because your true desire is for others to know Christ and we get to take as many people to heaven with you as possible? I'm telling you 100 years from today nothing else will matter. It won't matter where you went to high school. It won't matter what job you had. It won't matter if you sat on a chair or in a pew during worship. It won't matter how much money you made. The only thing that will matter is where you will be forever a ...
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