If one is prayed up-asking God to lead us with the place and give us
utterance-Then we are where we are suppose to be ,saying what we are
suppose to say. I only hope that those you wait yrs to tell don't suddenly
drop dead before you get the desire to warn them-as their blood will be on
you hands (Eze.3:18-20). But I do appreciate the suppose for Street
Preachers Sis.-for us this is rear and few between-Thank you.
Dean, If I can trust you to be led by the Spirit, I guess you�ll have to do the same for me. J
If someone drops dead before they get to the place where they are receptive to receive Christ, it ain�t my fault. One must be walking in the Spirit to know when to speak and when to just walk the walk. Sometimes souls are won (or witnessed) without a word by our godly behavior. (I Peter 3:1) If your life isn�t enough to be a witness, your words will fall flat anyway. In some ways it is easier to witness to total strangers than to folks who are watching you every day. Jesus had the same problem. Izzy
Dean writes:
We will agree that one must not only talk the talk but also walk the walk-if not then hypocrisy lies at the door. We can also agree that the spirit can bid one to hold their tongues as to the appropriate time too speak-but where we disagree on is the length of time in which to wittiness, and the words that must be spoken.
On the first we contend that the sooner a person is warned of fires of hell, and the gift of God the better-We also contend that time to tell will not be of any real length as we do not know when God will require the soul of the sinner-or ours- for accountability of this life.Thus there should be an urgency present- too speak. The scripture that we use to suppose this belief is:
2 Cor. 6:2
...behold,now is the accepted time,behold,now is the day of salvation.
In other words: Now we are in the Gospel dispensation-Now is the time God has determined from the foundation of the world in which some poor sinner might be saved. Today is that day. At what time in this day we still agree with your accretion that the Spirit of God will give one the utterance.
On the second we deny that to simply live a Christian life in the presence of the sinner is enough for salvation. And reject the preposition that one can come to Salvation "without a word" being spoken. To be good to the ungodly isn't enough for salvation comes by hearing the word of God-which words are Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
Romans 10:14,17,
..and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?
v.17 So then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the words of God.
As concerning 1 Peter 3:
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husband; that, if any obey not the word,they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
We agree that those who don't obey the word can be won to Christ by the conversation of the wife-unto respect. Thus the wife that has that word and obeys the word to which the husband takes note of how the word has bettered his wife-who even though she sufferers-as Christ suffered- The wife still lives in Godliness and by her "conversation" the husband is won to Christ. This we contend. The word is present. The husband has heard the word to the first refusal to obey that word. The wife speaks the word AND lives the word to which God sees/hears the respect giving by the wife and helps the husband.
May God bless you ,my sister in Christ.
