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Greatest Work in the World, April 1
Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Mark 16:15
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“Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature,” is
Christ’s command to His followers. Not that all are called to be ministers
or missionaries in the ordinary sense of the term; but all may be workers
with Him in giving the “glad tidings” to their fellow men. To all, great or
small, learned or ignorant, old or young, the command is given.
Upon every one who knows the truth for this time rests the responsibility
of making it known to others. The servants of Christ are in a large measure
responsible for the well-being and the salvation of the world. They are to
be co-laborers with God in the work of winning souls to Christ.
The theme that attracts the heart of the sinner is Christ, and Him cru-
cified. On the cross of Calvary, Jesus stands revealed to the world in
unparalleled love. Present Him thus to the hungering multitudes, and the
light of His love will win men from darkness to light, from transgression
to obedience and true holiness. Beholding Jesus upon the cross of Calvary
arouses the conscience to the heinous character of sin as nothing else can
do.
Will not our church members keep their eyes fixed on a crucified and
risen Saviour, in whom their hopes of eternal life are centered? This is our
message, our argument, our doctrine, our warning to the impenitent, our
encouragement for the sorrowing, the hope for every believer. If we can
awaken an interest in men’s minds that will cause them to fix their eyes on
Christ, we may step aside, and ask them only to continue to fix their eyes
upon the Lamb of God.... He whose eyes are fixed on Jesus will leave all.
He will die to selfishness. He will believe in all the Word of God, which is
so gloriously and wonderfully exalted in Christ.
It is the privilege of every Christian, not only to look for, but to hasten
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Were all who profess His name bearing
fruit to His glory, how quickly the whole world would be sown with the
seed of the gospel. Quickly the last harvest would be ripened, and Christ
would come to gather the precious grain.
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