This is the 155th mailing of the Bezeugen Tract Club.
“Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.” Matthew 7:6
Recently Craig and I had the opportunity to meet at the West End Transit Station in Dallas to do some witnessing. For at least ten years now this has been our favorite “fishing hole”. Since I moved to Denison, it’s a little harder on my schedule to get there for weekday lunchtime witnessing. But this day it worked out. I like to hand out tracts and say “did you get one of these?” Most people will take one. I’m basically waiting for some fish to bite and say “what is it?”
It didn’t take long and I was in a conversation with two young men. It’s an interesting contrast between Jessie, sitting to my left, who bragged about his name was like Jessie James—a bad guy, and Eli who when I said, that’s a good Biblical name responded, yes, it’s actually Elijah! Okay, so Jessie claimed he would never die. He actually believed through science and medicine, body parts could be transplanted into him to keep his body alive forever. I’m not going to try and guess if he was on drugs, but he didn’t seem to be. Eli on the other hand said he thought about death, had been raised in the church, was open to the things of God, but wasn’t really sure about his eternal destination. I reminded them both that God has set eternity in our hearts.
Eli listened intently and asked a number of relevant and sincere questions seeking legitimate answers that I was able to answer to his satisfaction. Jessie on the other hand would share more radical ideas of things he believed with no basis at all. I finally asked him “what is more important the truth or your opinion?” He claimed his opinion is truth. At this point I wished I had had a copy of the booklet we wrote (read or listen online), but since he really didn’t even want to keep the tract, I doubt he would have taken a copy of the booklet. At this point, I turned the conversation to the Ten Commandments and took them through three of them. I was able to quickly show them where they would spend eternity unless they repent and believe the Gospel.
So, why do we use the Ten Commandments in sharing the Gospel. As I mentioned last month, I am in a sermon series on the book of Exodus. There are two sermons in the series on the Ten Commandments where Skip Heitzig gives four uses of the Ten Commandments
1. A compass. Basically a way to plot your path through life.
2. A Thermometer—check your temperature to see how you are doing relative to Jesus command to obey Him.
3. Mirror—reveals sin in our lives.
4. Road sign—to point to Jesus
You can listen to the sermon or read the transcript online.
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