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FOR SOUL WINNERS
April 6
READ: 1 Kings 20-22; 2 Kings 1-2 MEMORIZE: Isaiah 61:10
I had been called at the last minute to speak at a conference. I spent the night
preparing and was exhausted when the taxi arrived to take me to the airport.
The cabbie, on discovering the purpose of my trip, asked my age; he thought
I was too young for the task. I then asked him his age. “Fifty,” he replied.
Flippantly I said, “So does life begin at 50” “It hasn’t begun for me yet,” he
responded. “Does your Bible have the answer” My tiredness vanished as I
shared with him the way of salvation. As I read scriptures to him, he suddenly
pulled the car to the shoulder, put his head on the wheel, and began to
pray. “Lord, You knew I needed this. I’m ready for all you want to do for me.
Thank You, Jesus, for what you did to save a pathetic case like me.” Back on
the road, his joy was evident as I shared with him the blessings of being in
Christ. I wasn’t ready, but the Spirit was, and so was this poor soul. What
grace that the Lord uses weak vessels. It’s all He has to work with! —J.B.N.
June 26
June 3
READ: Psalms 100-102 MEMORIZE: Luke 23:4
Baha’i: founded in 1863 in Tehran, Iran as a breakaway from Islam. There
are now 5-7 million adherents. They believe that the deity has revealed himself
progressively through world religions, the last of these being Bahá’u’lláh,
who united all religions—thus practicing any of these leads to the same end.
Of course this is self-defeating. You cannot believe that all ways lead to God
and at the same time believe what Jesus said: “I am the way, the truth, and the
life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” ( Jn 14:6). They believe the
purpose of life is to develop spiritually. Heaven and hell are merely states of
being. They deny the doctrine of the Trinity, as well as Christ’s deity, virgin
birth, vicarious death, bodily resurrection and second coming. For these reasons,
they are not able to say with certainty: “The Son of God…loved me, and
gave himself for me” (Gal 2:20). Yet in His mercy, the Lord is still “able to save
them” (Heb 7:25) if they come to God through Christ alone.
READ: Psalms 25-27 MEMORIZE: Mark 8:31
Christian apologist Josh McDowell explains that the change in his life
when he trusted Christ convinced his father that there was hope for him as
well. McDowell writes: “After I trusted Christ, my life was changed in six to
eighteen months. But my father’s life was changed right before my eyes. It
was as if someone reached down and switched on a light inside him. He
touched alcohol only once after that. He got the drink as far as his lips, and
that was it—after forty years of drinking! He didn’t need it anymore. Fourteen
months later, he died from complications of his alcoholism. But in that
fourteen-month period, over a hundred people in the area around my tiny
hometown committed their lives to Christ because of the change they saw in
the town drunk, my dad.” McDowell concludes: “You can laugh at Christianity.
You can mock and ridicule it. But it works…because Jesus Christ is in
the business of changing lives. —Why I Am a Christian, p 288
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description of the Baha’i faith that’s
clipped off by June 3, its hanging out
the other side of June 3. Of course, it
would be easier just to look it up on the
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Baha’i: founded in 1863 in Tehran, Iran as a breakaway from Islam. There
are now 5-7 million adherents. They believe that the deity has revealed himself
progressively through world religions, the last of these being Bahá’u’lláh,
who united all religions—thus practicing any of these leads to the same end.
Of course this is self-defeating. You cannot believe that all ways lead to God
and at the same time believe what Jesus said: “I am the way, the truth, and the
life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” ( Jn 14:6). They believe the
purpose of life is to develop spiritually. Heaven and hell are merely states of
being. They deny the doctrine of the Trinity, as well as Christ’s deity, virgin
birth, vicarious death, bodily resurrection and second coming. For these reasons,
they are not able to say with certainty: “The Son of God…loved me, and
gave himself for me” (Gal 2:20). Yet in His mercy, the Lord is still “able to save
them” (Heb 7:25) if they come to God through Christ alone.
June 30
June 26
READ: Psalms 100-102 MEMORIZE: Luke 23:4
READ: Psalms 114-116 MEMORIZE: John 1:11-12
“God has spoken once, twice…” (Ps 62:11). Scottish physician W.P. Mackay
remembered seeing his mother in agonizing prayer over his salvation. But it
did not move him, and he grew increasingly godless. Years later, he treated a
badly injured laborer. The man asked that his landlady be called, and to
bring him “the Book.” Mackay was deeply impressed with the “happy expression
constantly on his face.” After his death, a nurse asked, “What shall
we do with this” holding up the man’s Bible. Mackay wrote: “I took the
Bible and—could I trust my eyes It was my own Bible! The Bible which my
mother had given me when I left my parents’ home, and which later, when
short of money, I sold for a small amount. My name was still in it, written in
my mother’s hand.” He concluded, “The regained possession of my Bible
was the cause of my conversion.” Later he wrote: “We praise Thee, O God, for
Thy Spirit of light, Who has shown us our Savior and scattered our night.”