Good works
Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
What's the reason you were saved? The Bible tells us why in Ephesians 2:10. We were saved for good works. Some confuse good works with being morally upright. It's good to have both.
Part of the good works includes preaching the gospel. We are not alive to take up space. We have work to do as we await the coming of our Lord.
The day you get bornagain, Jesus becomes your saviour and Lord. We cannot say Jesus is Lord unless we obey His word fully. It is said that the last words of a dying man are the most important. Jesus's last words were about the great commission. The great commission unfortunately is a great suggestion to some Christians. They try as much to bypass that charge by giving all sorts of excuses. They say they are not called to preach and yet the charge to preach was to all.
William Booth said, 'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. "Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face — whose mercy you have professed to obey — and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world.
I wonder if you had been part of the 500 people who saw Jesus ascend to heaven and also heard His last command, would you still not be all out to share about His salvation?"
Child of God, if we are really hearing God clearly, reading His word, and our eyes are every watching the human suffering and the end of it thereof, we would put aside all reasons and preach.
Further scriptures
Acts 1:7-9 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
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