Soul Winning Of Today Is Phony

Psalms 49:7 “None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:”

There is a place and time for everything in life. Beloved let me tell you as the Lord did in Psalms 49:1 “Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:” There is such a thing as soul winning in bible but it is nothing like what the religious world has made it. We can in no way cause the lost to choose Christ and win their souls as the religionist think! I saw a young man yesterday with a T-shirt that had in big letters that read “CHOOSE” and then Joshua 24:15 “And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve;” Beloved this verse has nothing to do with choosing Christ as your Saviour but rather choosing to serve Jehovah God rather than other gods. Anyone who refers to this scripture as a salvation scripture is disrespecting the word of God. The reason these religionist go to this verse in the Old Testament is because there is not one in the New Testament they can use and the reason there is not one is because we do not choose Christ for salvation. Notice our text scripture “None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him” We are only flesh and salvation is the work of God, it takes great power to convert a sinner just as it did with Paul and as it did with you and I. We cannot “by any means redeem his brother” because we are not God. It takes the glorious power of God to change a person’s “will” to stop serving Satan and start serving God. We make no choices for salvation however we do everyday make choices to serve God just as Joshua chose to do in Joshua 24:15.

The Lord tells us man is blinded by Satan 2 Cor. 4:4a “In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not,” and we cannot ask a blind man to choose to see. The lost are blinded by Satan and we do not have the power on to defeat Satan and therefore only God can make one blinded by Satan see. The Lord said in Psalms 49:7 we cannot by any means redeem them and this includes all of the begging, trickery, or scare tactics man might invent. When the Lord said “by any means” I am certain He included what we see in today’s religionist churches. Pastors of these churches wonder why it is that so many do not act like Christians, why it is so hard to get them to attend services, or why some “just does not take” well it is because these Pastors are falsely making them think they are saved when they are not.

Soul winning is simply the planting and watering of the seed (the gospel) we cannot ask the sinner on his own to make the seed grow because it is “God that giveth the seed the increase” 1 Corinthians 3:7 “So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.”

Beloved since we cannot by any means cause a sinner to repent then why not trust God to do His work His own way. Pastors need to stop falsely attempting to do God’s work and simply focus on the preaching of the word and God will do what we cannot and cause the lost sinner who is happy serving Satan change his will and server Christ. Serving Satan is something the lost enjoys doing and they will never leave what they do unless the Holy Spirit visits them and changes their hearts and gives them the power to choose to serve Christ and this will never happen until God changes their will to trust Jesus Christ as their Saviour.