The title of this message is “Preacher and Christian, Do You Have a Burden for Lost Souls?”

Below is the link to this message.

https://youtu.be/mO2WgafPl3c

It is amazing how the Lord has used this message. A pastor and his wife in India watched this message and rededicated their lives to soul-winning. He told me they will try to win every soul in their State to the Lord. A pastor friend of mine shared this message with pastors in the Philippines. Pastors were getting right with their Lord.

The text verse for this message is Romans 9:1-3.

Every person on the face of the earth is one heartbeat and one breath away from being in heaven or hell. That is the true reality of this life. It does not matter what you believe. This is a fact. Most Christians live their lives for themselves. They are so caught up in the here and now that they lose sight of true reality. At the Great White Throne judgment, when your relatives and friends are condemned to the lake of fire forever and ever, you will be screaming at the top of your lungs, and their blood will be pouring down from your hands. We are the watchmen. I can’t imagine seeing my son being condemned to the lake of fire forever and ever.

Ezekiel 33:8 “When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.”

Romans 9: 1 “I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, 2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. 3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh.”

Verse 1: The Apostle Paul is about to say something really big. This statement is so big, he emphasizes just how sincere he is that what he is saying is the truth.

Verse 2: The burden of lost souls in Paul’s life was so big, it caused him health problems. (Most preachers and Christians do not have this heavy of a burden for lost souls.) He had the heaviest burden; notice that it was great. This statement, “great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart,” means sadness, grief, and anxiety. Notice the word continual from the time he awakes out of his sleep to the time he goes to sleep. All day long, he thought about the lost and them being cast into the lake of fire.

Verse 3: How heavy was Paul’s burden for lost souls? It is revealed in this verse. He loved the Jews so much that he was willing to take their place in the lake of fire. The burden that he had for the lost was the heaviest of burdens. Moses is the only other person in all of the Bible that said the same thing as the Apostle Paul for his people. HOW HEAVY IS YOUR BURDEN FOR YOUR LOST RELATIVES? I ask all of the preachers and Christians that have a burden for lost souls, is your heaviness growing to the point where you are starting to have health problems?

Point 1: What will keep a born-again Christian from having a burden for lost souls?

1. 2 Timothy 4:10 “For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.”

In this verse, we find that Demas loved this present world more than Jesus. So he did not have a burden for lost souls. Paul said that Demas had forsaken me. But he really had forsaken his calling in his life. Do you love this present world more than Jesus?

1. Revelation 3:16 “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.”

In this verse, Jesus was saying to the church, you make me sick. Are you a lukewarm Christian? Or a lukewarm church? For so many years in my life, I was good at being a lukewarm Christian. Being a lukewarm Christian will get in the way of what the Lord has called you to do. He wants every one of us to have a burden for lost souls.

1. “1 Corinthians 3:3 “For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk as men?”

The Apostle Paul was asking, are you a carnal Christian? Carnal means fleshly, worldly. We are to walk as Christ walked. We are to be like Christ and not walk after the flesh or the world. I was good at being a carnal Christian also. If you love this present world, you will become a carnal Christian. How can a carnal Christian have a burden for lost souls? When I was walking like the world, I did not lead one person to Christ. The easiest thing to do is focus on this world when we should be focused on leading souls to Christ. Are you a carnal Christian?

The Apostle Paul talked so much about being a carnal Christian.

Point 2: What would it take to get us motivated to have a burden for lost souls?

1. Listen to a message on the description of hell. “Hell: Part: III The Description of Hell” (Link to this message is below.)

https://youtu.be/CYezqtJcEJE

Not too many want to listen to a message on hell. After you listen to this message, you will have a burden for lost souls. If you watch this message and have a burden for lost souls, your burden will be greater than it has ever been in your life.

1. Read in the Bible what Christ did on the cross for you.
2. Your love for Christ. How deep is your love for Jesus? The deeper your love is for Jesus will determine how great of a burden you have for lost souls.
3. Psalms 126: 5 “They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. 6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.”

If you want to have a tremendous burden for the lost, start crying for your lost relatives. The more you cry for them, the deeper your burden will go. How deep is your burden for the lost?

In verse 5 above, sow means work. Sow with the love of Christ. If you do this, you will reap in joy.

Verse 6: We have to go weeping and bearing precious seed. The Word of God is the seed. God’s Word is precious. You have to plant the Word of God. “Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.” If you do this, there will be a harvest time.

1. How many tears have you shed for your lost family?
2. How many tears have you shed for others who are lost?
3. How many souls are going to be in heaven because of your burden for the lost?

The rapture of the church is so soon. Then the tribulation period will start soon after and will last 7 years.

The death rate for 2021:

1. 12 million
2. 164,711 each day
3. 6,863 each hour
4. 38 each minute
5. And 1.91 each second

It has taken me two hours to write this article, which means around 13,726 souls went into eternity. They either went to hell or heaven; that is the reality, the true fact of life. It does not matter whether you believe it or not, this will not change the truth.

For so many years of my life, I did not go all out for the Lord; the burden I had was not that great of a burden. Now I have a tremendous burden for the lost; it is so heavy that I feel like my heart will break. With this great burden for the lost, the Lord has called me to be an Online Missionary to the world, and he has called me to start a worldwide prayer movement – praying, fasting, and repenting for a nation for a set date, asking all true prayer warriors from around the world to join us. Are you going to die or be raptured up into heaven without ever having a burden for the lost souls?

Urgent prayer request for North Korea and Ukraine:

Asking all prayer warriors from around the world to join us for a day of prayer, fasting, and repentance.

For North Korea and on behalf of over 25,972,283 precious souls on June 27, 2022.

Ukraine and on behalf of over 43,192,122 precious souls (going down every day because of war).

Please join in the harvest for lost souls. We are praying for the lost and for the protection of Christians. Please share the post.

I believe we are moving the heart of God.

My Facebook page: Prayer Warriors 4 Him Online Ministries

Email bkwatts64@yahoo.com

Keith Watts

Online Missionary to the world

Hebrews 3: 7-15

“Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: ‘Today, if you will hear His voice, 8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness, 9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years. 10 Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways.’ 11 So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’ 12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; 13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called ‘Today,’ lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, 15 while it is said: ‘Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.'”

Last week, Jesus was our Ambassador from God; He told us of the new world that God has for us. The new world is not new to God, but it will be new to us. Jesus also faithfully told us the truth about both Heaven and Hell. His descriptions of Hell were quite graphic and real scary, to be honest, and designed to help us not want to be there. Sadly, there are many in this world who still choose Hell over Heaven every day. This is the dark side of free will. Today we will be called to be open to the leadership of the Holy Spirit based on the faithful leadership of Jesus.

• Rebellion, verses 7-10

God hates rebellion, and even more so when He has clearly demonstrated His hands-on involvement in our lives. There are times when things happen in our lives, and we can ask questions as to the source of the solutions, but when God has explicitly extended Himself as He did with Jesus to us and the whole world, we are without excuse when we rebel. The writer of Hebrews uses the nation of Israel in the wilderness and their open and, at times, scornful rebellion against God. They took that hatred out on Moses, but they really were acting against God. There are two times in particular, once in Exodus 17: 1-7.

“Then all the congregation of the children of Israel set out on their journey from the Wilderness of Sin, according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink. Therefore the people contended with Moses, and said, ‘Give us water, that we may drink.’ So, Moses said to them, ‘Why do you contend with me? Why do you tempt the Lord?’ And the people thirsted there for water, and the people complained against Moses, and said, ‘Why is it you have brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?’ So Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, ‘What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me!’

“And the Lord said to Moses, ‘Go on before the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel. Also, take in your hand your rod with which you struck the river, and go. Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.’ And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. So he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contention of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, ‘Is the Lord among us or not?'”

These folks accused Moses, but really God, of bringing them out to the wilderness to kill them. God had revealed Himself in a mighty way to deliver them from Egypt. He had decimated the Egyptian kingdom, killed off their armies, and destroyed their livelihoods, all the while preserving the Israelite people. And they had the audacity to accuse God of wanting them dead. This was the height of rebellion; this was matched in intensity only at the entrance to the Promised Land. Start reading in Numbers 13:30 and on. Once again, they accused God of wanting them destroyed; they implied God had hoodwinked them into the Promised Land to be killed.

When we hear the Gospel and see the accounts of Jesus being real even from non-religious sources and know that there is no doubt that Jesus changed the whole world with His words, His teaching and His death, burial and resurrection, and then accuse God of not loving us, or worse, not even existing, is rebellion. But as children of God, we can be just as rebellious when we, having put our faith in Jesus to save us, now think that He is against us and trying to do us in. We, like the Jews, can accuse God of horrible things; I have, and I am sure you have as well.

• No Rest verses 11-12

Jesus came to bring us rest. No, not to put us to sleep but to bring us rest from the struggles and worries of life. Jesus promised us this in Matthew 11: 29-30.

“Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

Life in Jesus is rested upon His power, His ability to see tomorrow, His promises, and His great faithfulness. He has proven that He is on our side. Romans 8 reminds us that NOTHING can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus. While we will go through some struggles and some harsh times, even disease and some persecution, we can, or rather we should never, accuse Jesus of hating us or not being there for us. In fact, we are told in Hebrew 4: 14-16 that He is there to help us. He went through all He did so that He can be a source of hope, a source of help in our troubled times.

When we rebelliously defy God as His children, we find that God takes away the rest we have in Him; life is uncertain, and the loving presence of Heavenly Dad is not felt. We find that our prayers don’t seem to be heard, and life can become one continuous circle of failure.

Yes, this is about God’s people. You will not go to Hell if you are a child of God, but life on earth can feel that way until you get to heaven.

God bless you,

Dr. Sean Gooding
Pastor of Mississauga Missionary Baptist Church

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