Dr. David Jeremiah: END TIMES - BE THE GOOD NEWS | David Jeremiah Sermons [25:28-30:37]

There we go. The incorporation of the gospel into your life that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. Now Jesus could have said that they may hear your good words but he didn't say that in that passage. He said that they may see your good works. In other words ladies and gentlemen we need to be people of God. We need to be people that somebody would say there's something different about you because of your relationship with Jesus Christ. If your whole goal in life is just to morph into the culture you're a secret service Christian. You're never going to make an impact. God doesn't use people like that. How are they ever going to know? You have to be a person that exhibits Christ in your life. In 1 Peter 3 and 1 Peter told the wives of unsaved husbands to live such a humble and happy life. Now watch this. That if any of your husbands do not believe the word they may be one over without words by your behavior. Here's what Peter said. Somebody must have asked Peter that day. Hey Peter I've got a husband who doesn't believe in Jesus. What do I do about that? I'm surprised that Peter's answer, aren't you? He didn't tell him go home and preach the gospel. I mean over the years that I've been a pastor you wouldn't believe some of the stories I've heard about women who so want their husbands to become Christians and what they do. Some of them tell me I go home every Sunday pastor and I preach your message to them. And I just think oh my word it's bad enough coming from me alone going through another person. Here's what Peter said. Peter so let me tell you ladies how you have the best chance of winning your husband if he's not a Christian. Live your lives in such a way before him that they will want Jesus even if you never say a word to him about it. Be a Christian, be kind, be loving, be a faithful woman. That's how you win your husband. What I'm saying to you ladies is this I know this to be true the best way to win your husband is not by the words that you speak but by the life that you live. Ask God to help you. One of the secrets that I've discovered in our marriage and I've mentioned this to you before is the secret of learning how to serve one another. Find out how to serve one another. I remember the day that dawn I mean I wondered how can I have been so stupid for so long she shouldn't have to ask me to carry the trash out. She shouldn't have to ask me to do the things that you would normally do so I look for the things I can do and it really disappoints me when she does something I should have done before I could do it. That's the way it should work now I'm no paragonna virtue I'm still a work in progress but I'm telling you the servant principle in a marriage is an overwhelming concept. If you don't get it you will miss out on much of the blessing God has for you in your marriage. So by showing you preach the gospel then by sharing at some point in our life words are necessary and there is no gospel without words hear me carefully. You can live a good life but if people don't understand why you're living a good life they got no hope of finding the answer. God has revealed in the scriptures that he loves us that we're broken and that he died for our sins and at some point we may have to communicate these truths. And it doesn't mean you have to have a degree in theology that's the thing that kills me about all of this. Someone once told me if you want to have people never come to church announced that you're going to preach on witnessing and there will be very few people who show up you know why because we all feel guilty because we don't do it. We know we're supposed to share our faith but we don't do it and there's all kinds of reasons I don't feel qualified I've never had any training etc etc etc. But Jesus just said to us where to be witnesses. So you're standing on the corner one day getting right across the street a car comes this way another car comes that they teabong nobody's hurt but the cars are all messed up and you're a witness you saw it. So they come and they take down all your information and you have to go to court and in the court you have to stand up and witness what you saw. This is what I saw I'm a witness here's what I want you to know man or woman to be a witness is simply to tell people what Jesus has done for you. If Jesus hasn't done anything for you worthy of witness you need to go back and examine your faith. You need to ask God for every opportunity he could ever give you to tell somebody else what Jesus has done for you. You don't have to know ABC you don't have to know the Romans road you don't have to know the four spiritual laws. I'm not saying you shouldn't you'll meet them someday maybe but to be a witness isn't to be a theologian to be a witness isn't to be a lay preacher to be a witness is simply to tell people what you know has happened in your life. Let me give you a good little outline here it is what I was before what I am now you know what made the difference.