The Good News is Spreading

Col 1:3 We always pray for you, and we give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 4 For we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all of God's people, 5 which come from your confident hope of what God has reserved for you in heaven. You have had this expectation ever since you first heard the truth of the Good News. 6 This same Good News that came to you is going out all over the world. It is bearing fruit everywhere by changing lives, just as it changed your lives from the day you first heard and understood the truth about God's wonderful grace. 7 You learned about the Good News from Epaphras, our beloved co-worker. He is Christ's faithful servant, and he is helping us on your behalf. 8 He has told us about the love for others that the Holy Spirit has given you.

In verse 6 Paul encourages his readers that the good news of the Gospel is spreading over the whole earth.  Think about this, on the day of Pentecost, in one place 3,000 souls were saved. Wouldn't it be exciting to be in a service like that?

Daniel 2:34 As you watched, a rock was cut from a mountain, but not by human hands. It struck the feet of iron and clay, smashing them to bits. 35 The whole statue was crushed into small pieces of iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold. Then the wind blew them away without a trace, like chaff on a threshing floor. But the rock that knocked the statue down became a great mountain that covered the whole earth.
Daniels interpretation of this is:
44 "During the reigns of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed or conquered. It will crush all these kingdoms into nothingness, and it will stand forever. 45 That is the meaning of the rock cut from the mountain, though not by human hands, that crushed to pieces the statue of iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold. The great God was showing the king what will happen in the future. The dream is true, and its meaning is certain."

If there were only 1,000,000 believers on earth and only 10 percent of them share their faith with someone today and each leads one person to Christ that's 100,000 souls saved. There are many more believers than that. It is often reported among Christians that a great awakening is taking place in China where it is illegal to proclaim the Gospel.  Let that encourage you. God is still at work in big ways in our world right now. In the end we win. Let's live like the battle truly is the Lord's and be part of that 10 percent who share their faith, and I pray that God will lead you to those ready for harvesting for His kingdom.

Love in Christ,
Steve Sherwood Sr