Jesus the Soulwinner

Key Passage: John 4:36-38
Date: June 7, 2024

We lack to blame the harvest. But Jesus said the harvest truly is plentiful. The laborers.

Let’s keep going here, if you would, please. Verse number 36. And he that reapeth, receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto life eternal, that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. I’m glad God keeps the records of all that. He knows. And herein is that saying true: One soweth and another reapeth. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labor; other men labored, and ye entered into their labors.

Just a brief explanation of that. There were the prophets before. Of course, Jesus, He is the one that provided salvation for all mankind. And those that have sown in those individual people’s lives, and God says, hey, look, a lot of people have been working for a long time. I just need someone to come along and reap a harvest. And they’re saying Jesus the soul winner.

For a little while, let’s just focus on that. Would you ask the Lord to maybe give us a vision of reaching people, helping people, seeing people get saved? In the end, that’s what really matters. Would you pray about that as I pray about that?

Lord, we come to You, Father. I prayed an awful lot this week and tried to seek Your leadership. I believe this is what You have for today. And Lord, would You accomplish what You’d want to? I have no idea what all You’d like to accomplish, but I pray that every one of those things will be accomplished today. Lord, use me. Do what I cannot do. You speak to hearts as I speak to their ears. And we’ll praise You, brag on You for what You do. In Jesus’ name we ask. Amen.

Not always, but typically Jewish people when they’re down south of Palestine, the Holy Land, the Bible Land—how do you want to say it?—and they’re going to go up north to Galilee, usually, not always, but many, many times they would go around that middle territory because it was Samaria. It’s where the Samaritans lived. There was, unfortunately, prejudice going on. We won’t get into all that. So many times we’d kind of bypass it, go around, because the Jewish people, many of them said, “No, we don’t want to talk to the Samaritans.” They have not followed what God wanted them to do and marry inside of Israel, and they’ve married outside of Israel. So we’re just kind of trying to avoid them.

But I want you to notice Jesus did not do that. Did you notice that verse we read in the beginning of the chapter? Look in verse number four. Verse number four. And He must needs go through Samaria. Now the Bible is pointing that out for a reason. By the way, Jesus wasn’t prejudiced, amen?

Jesus, praise the Lord, for God so loved the world. I remember singing that song, your little boy, little girl, in Sunday school: “Jesus loves the little children of the world. Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight.” Amen? Not prejudiced. We all got a soul. We all need a Savior. That’s what Jesus was.

But I want you to notice, He made a point to go through Samaria. Now, why was that? Well, He knew. He knew there was going to be this lady there that needed to get saved. It was unusual for the Jewish people to go through there, but it was also unusual for them to talk with a Samaritan person.

Did you notice the surprise? We didn’t read it, but the apostles, they came back and saw Jesus speaking with this lady, and they were surprised. Look in verse number 27, if you will, here. Verse number 27. And upon this came His disciples and marveled that He talked with the woman. Yet no man said, “Well, see what,” He said, “Oh, I talked about this with her.” It was unusual. Jewish people typically did not do that.

But Jesus did that. Not only was she a Samaritan, but can I say this, we find out if you read all those verses—this lady had been married five times and was now living with a man.

And I’m saying all that, Jesus made a point to reach out, to step out of the norm, to go out of His world. He left the norm. He left the typical. Why? Because He wanted to reach out to this lady. Jesus Himself was someone that would leave His comfort zone and step out to someone in need with the gospel. And Jesus was a personal soul winner. You know, the Bible talks about Jesus and said He came to seek and to save that which is lost. Well, He provided salvation when He died on the cross and He rose again, but not only did He provide it, but He came to seek and to save that which is lost. He sought after sinners when He was here on earth.

The gospel, it always has this matter of going out of your comfort zone and reaching out to someone else. It’s very interesting. If you just look at the word gospel—I’ve got to confess, I’m not a good speller, so I’ll let you spell gospel, you know—but at least I know the first two letters of gospel, amen. Help me out, what does it start with? Go.

What we often call the Great Commission, Matthew 28:19-20, is the most typical one that is used. You know how that starts? It’s God in flesh. They’re telling the apostles and the church, you’re really well, part of the church and all that. But you know how it starts off? It says, “Go ye therefore, teach all nations.” But it starts off with “Go.”

If you look over in the book of Mark, when it gives what we call the Great Commission, Mark 16:15, He says, “Go ye therefore, and preach the gospel to every creature.” And there’s that “Go.” Even Acts 1:8, we often say there are five times the Great Commission is given. One of those is Acts 1:8. And it says, “And ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you.” Now watch this, “And ye shall be witnesses unto Me, both in Jerusalem”—that was a little area or city there—“and all Judea and Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth.” Did you notice how He just kind of, it’s just part of it? You go.

We like—I like it—if I could sit and wait for everybody to come to me. Anybody like that right there? Man, it’s easier to drink sweet tea if you’re just sitting there, right? But the gospel, you notice it’s always got the “Go.” Even the Old Testament, Psalm 126:6, “He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.” The “Go.” He that goeth forth.

We come up with so many different ways for us just to stay and get the gospel out. And I’m not saying I’m against souls, but part of this thing is just going.

It’s interesting that over there, Matthew 28:19-20, I started off with that. When you go, “Go ye therefore, teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” Amen. The end of the world. It starts off there, but even, it’s always to go. Old preacher used to preach, he used to say, “Go to low.” God, He says, “I’ll be with you in a special way when you go.” But going. Now you got that? You got the concept just to go.

Jesus was going out of His norm to reach out for this lady. Let me just think for a moment. Is there somebody you ought to reach out to?

Is there somebody it would be maybe a touch uncomfortable, but you’d reach out of your comfort zone, go out of the normal? It wasn’t normal for a Jewish person to go right to Samaria. It wasn’t normal for a Jewish person to talk with a Samaritan. It wasn’t normal, if you will, for Jesus, a Teacher, a Prophet, God in flesh, to speak to a lady with that kind of reputation.

But He left the norm, He left the comforts of His world, and He reached out. Is there somebody maybe a neighbor that you could leave your comfort zone and reach out to? Maybe somebody at the gas pump over there, and you know where we’re complaining, “Man, the gas prices are going up.” Come on now, I heard you. You’ve been talking about that, yeah.

And a certain person changing regulations and closing down pipelines are trying to involve the prices are going up. You all know where I’m going. Come on now. Now I’m getting on your level all of a sudden, maybe. And while you’re complaining with them, hey, just maybe step out of your comfort zone, say, “Hey, let me invite you to church.”

By the way, inside there they give you some Bible verse that had to go to heaven. Now that’s just a little thing, but it’s reaching out of the norm. We get stuck in our comfort zone in our world. Maybe it’s coming up the 4th of July when you’ll be around someone you haven’t seen in a year or two, and you don’t know if Uncle Joe is saved or not. And you say, “Uncle Joe, he don’t want to hear that from me.” You may be right. We don’t know until you reach out of your world and reach into his world.

And Jesus, He would step out. I was preparing for the message and I thought about someone reached out of the world and put a tract rack up in a hospital in Plant City, Florida. And my mom ended up with that tract, got saved, and my dad and the rest of our family, all from someone putting the tract rack out. We didn’t even know who the person was. But they, in their own way, reached out of their world. You can’t bypass that. Jesus did not bypass that.

I thought about my wife years ago. We lived in Jacksonville, Florida, and two ladies lived over beside us. So we didn’t know them very well at all. I don’t know if we knew them at all. And we weren’t there but just a brief time. And she was burdened about reaching out and going over there, witnessing to them. So she did. Both those ladies got saved. And here’s the amazing thing: they said, “We’re so glad you talked to us because tomorrow we’re moving.” God knew that. That’s why God burdened my wife’s heart. And praise the Lord, she responded.

But reaching out of your comfort zone, Jesus went out of His comfort zone, and even the apostles are like, “Whoa, what are you doing?” Jesus is like, “Tell you what I’m doing. I’m reaching out to someone in love.” That’s a must if we’re going to make a difference in our day and time.

I heard a good preacher; he mentioned on the radio, he said this thing of getting a lot of people into church and getting them saved. I think that’s becoming a thing of the past because the lost people, they’re not going to go to church a lot in our day and time. We’ve got to go reach them where they’re at. Go. That’s part of the gospel. Jesus Christ reached out of His own comfort zone, if you will, the typical or the norm, and He reached out to this lady in love.

Now let me say this: Jesus was reaching out with something specific. I want you to see it. Look at verse number seven. We didn’t read it earlier, but I want you to see it. What happens here, John 4? Look in verse number 7. And Jesus is talking with this lady. Verse number 7: “There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.” And His disciples were going away into the city to buy meat.

And then saith the woman of Samaria unto Him, “How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria?” For the Jews have no dealing with the Samaritans. We would have to talk about that already.

Now, want you to notice this. Jesus answered and said unto her, “If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.”

Now let me ask you, who brought up living water first? The woman or Jesus? Help me out, come on now, y’all awake. Who brought up living water first, the woman of the well or Jesus? Jesus did, yeah. Remember when Nicodemus came to Jesus that night time, chapter earlier here? And Nicodemus was just bragging away on Jesus, “Oh, we know You’re a rabbi coming from God. Nobody can do these works You’ve done except God be with Him.” And he just bragged away on Jesus. You know what? Jesus just kind of cut to the chase. He said, “Hey, you can’t enter the kingdom of God unless you’re born again, except a man be born again.” Brought up salvation that time, Nicodemus or Jesus? Jesus.

I’m saying Jesus did more than just reach out. I’m for doing that in a lot of different ways, reach out and love to people, but Jesus would get to the point about salvation.

I’ve already mentioned a bit, friend, when it’s all said and done, while the rubber meets the road, salvation’s key. I go feed my neighbor and bring a meal to them every day for about four years. I’d be awfully kind of me or of my wife. Amen, it’ll be better if she cooks it than me, I promise you that. We don’t want a dead neighbor. Amen, I want a living neighbor.

But if I brought them food four years, every day of the year, you know, 365 days a year, but I never gave them the gospel and they died and went to hell, what really good have I done for them? Jesus got to the important stuff.

I wonder—we don’t have all, I don’t know we have all—but I wonder exactly how Jesus drew that thief on the cross to Him. At the beginning, they both railed on Him. At the end, one of them turned to Jesus and said, “Hey, Lord, remember me.” Jesus said, “Today shalt thou be with Me in paradise.” One of the last things Jesus did was when it’s over, Lord.

How many were here years ago when we had the feeding of the 5,000? How many were here with us when we had the feeding of the 5,000 years ago? About half of us, so we were here with us then. And we ended up—it’s the Bargain Hunt now, you know where the Bargain Hunt is here in Smyrna—in that building. Food Line was leasing at the time; they let us use it for a month, I believe it was, just for free. And we got that building, and our goal was we were ready to feed 5,000 people. We ended up with 1,200 and something came through. I can’t remember. A lot of people got saved, so a blessing is awesome.

One of the exciting things about it, we had people—we had one family or one husband and wife, they had gotten saved here, moved to Michigan. They drove down from Michigan just to be able to help us out. And they were at it. We had some relatives coming with us; they wanted to be a part of feeding the 5,000. One of my relatives that came and helped—I think we did it Friday and Saturday, one of those days, maybe Thursday and Friday, Saturday—but one of those days they came, they said, “You know, our church does something like this back in our home state.” And they said this, but I said, “I like it better how your church does it.” They said, “See, our church, I think it was over Thanksgiving, we go and feed poor and hungry, and that’s wonderful. I’m for that. But he said, you know, if we get a chance and maybe something comes out and talks to us, we’ll give them the gospel, but we really don’t”—we’re not just—“Hey,” they said, “I like the way your church did it.” Not my church, the Lord’s church. They said, “Man, you fed them. Then as soon as they got done eating, they felt a little obligated, and they kind of, the flow of traffic, they went to another room right there, and the gospel was given out.” They said, “Man, I like it. Your church has a purpose in it all, not just to feed them physically, but to feed them spiritually, getting saved.”

Now, to say this: if we’re not careful, we’ll get wrapped up in doing good things, but not the best thing. Jesus, He just got to the point where the rubber meets the road. He just said, “Hey, listen, you want living water?” “Hey, listen, Nicodemus, thank you for all the compliments, but are you going to heaven or not?” He was a soul winner. Jesus, 2,000 years ago, was a soul winner. The soul winning has been going on for years.

Very interesting. My wife went to a yard sale yesterday. And how many ladies were at yard sales yesterday? I know I’ve heard of a couple. They had to leave, I think. But the title of this book, Personal Soul Winning, Williams Evans, he was trained by R. A. Torrey. It says the book, dedicated to R. A. Torrey, copyright 1910. 1910, personal soul winning. It’s not a new thing. It’s not something that somebody just dreamed up; it’s been around since the beginning. Jesus was about this thing of winning souls. He loved someone enough to get to the important part.

Two men, they had traveled to work together. They lived in the suburbs. They had traveled on a train to work every day for 20 years. One man was saved; the other man was not saved. The man that was not saved, his wife was a Christian. She went to church. She was saved, and she would pray for her husband to get saved. And he became very sick, and she had her pastor come in and witness to the man, the lost man, been riding the train for 20 years, on his deathbed, and the pastor began to witness to him, telling him how to go to heaven. This is what the man said. He said, “Hey, listen, preacher. He said, ‘I traveled for 20 years to work with so-and-so. He’s a good man. He’s a Christian. He goes to church, and he never told me one time about that. So there must not be anything to it,’ or actually, ‘He had told me.’” And the man wouldn’t get saved.

Now, what if I traveled with someone for 20 years? Would I have witnessed to them or not? Jesus loved people enough to get down to the nitty-gritty, if you will, and He just said, “Hey, let’s talk about living water.” She kept going back to the physical water in the well, and Jesus kept going back to the spiritual living water.

You’ll often have that witnessing to people. But Jesus was a soul winner. He would reach out of the norm and love people and reach out to them with the gospel.

How many know John Rice? You heard of John Rice? How many of you heard of John Rice? Yeah. Actually, there’s a street down in Murfreesboro named after him. Sam’s Club is right there off Franklin Road. John Rice, he started The Sword of the Lord, and God used him greatly in his day and time. But his dad, Will Rice. John Rice tells the story about his dad when his dad got saved. He was in Gainesville, Texas. John Rice said my dad was about 30 years old. He wasn’t saved.

But there was a revival going on that day and time. Remember back in—some of you might know a little bit more about this—but back in the day, there wasn’t TV and, you know, Internet and cell phones, and so there’s a revival. People just, they want to have something to do. You know what I said? So Will Rice, John Rice’s dad, said, “I was going to the revival.” He went to the revival, and the preacher preached, and at the end, the invitation was given. John Rice said my dad would say this: Old cowboy friend of his came up to him, put his arm around him. He said, “Will, I’m praying for you. I’m concerned about your soul.” God said, “Man, I want to take you and introduce you to my Savior.”

Will Rice, John Rice’s dad—John Rice said my dad kind of set up haughtily, as well he’d always tell the story, just erect. He said, “I’m a grown man, and I know what I want to do, and I can do it without anybody telling me to do it. I came to enjoy a sermon, but I’m going to be disturbed and embarrassed by people coming to me publicly and urging me to become a Christian when I’m not ready. I’m not going to come back anymore.”

His friend went away, and I’m going to leave me alone. Will Rice kept coming to the revival a few nights later. And that man said, well, the Holy Spirit just would not let him go. He kept—“You need to talk to him again.” He thought, “No, no, Lord, You heard what he said, and You must be wise about this and have the leadership of the Lord to do these things.” And this fellow urged, and so that man went back to Will Rice. He said this, “Will, I didn’t intend to come back, but something inside of me just compels me. Burdened about you. I cannot get any peace. I’m so concerned for you to be saved.”

John Rice said my dad got so mad. My dad said, “Hey, I told you to leave me alone. If you didn’t, I wouldn’t come to church anymore as long as I lived. I’ll never darken the door of this church anymore as long as I live. And you said, ‘Maybe it’ll be some pleasure for you to remember that you’re the one that’s driven me from the house of God.’”

In fact, Will Rice—John Rice said my dad grabbed his big Stetson hat, and he just walked out. Invitation stood him mad. When he was living with his brother and his sister-in-law at the time, he said, “I went home, and I didn’t want to hear”—they went to the revival too—“I didn’t want them coming in. I don’t want to talk about revival and people getting saved.” He said, “I went to bed early, made sure I got in bed before they got home.”

Will Rice said, “Man, I went there, I got in my bed, and I got in bed, but I couldn’t sleep.” He said, “Hour after hour, I tossed and turned.” He said, “Man, I just tried everything in the world.” He said, “I poured a cup and I smoked a little bit.” I thought maybe that put me at ease. He was a smoker at the time. So I went back to bed and couldn’t sleep. All night long, just tossed and turned. I couldn’t sleep. And somewhere in the wee hours of the morning, bit by bit, he began to remember his sin. What a sinner he was.

A little while later on, he kind of came to the conclusion, “What a fool I am. The best friend I have in all the world came to me because he loved me, I wanted to see me saved and keep me out of hell. And I, like an ill-bred wretch, insulted him and drove him away. Now nobody else is going to come talk to me, and it will serve me right to die and go to hell.”

About 4 a.m., Will Rice, John Rice’s dad, had enough. He climbed down off that bed, got on his knees. I asked the Lord to forgive him his sins, forgive him being so mean to that man he needed to save. Asked Jesus Christ to be a Savior. Friend, why? Because that man cared enough to get down to the bottom rung of the ladder. Are you saved?

Friend, Satan will do his best to scare us away from talking to someone about the most important thing in all the world: salvation. Jesus, He just went there. He just talked about it. He just got to the bottom line. “Hey, you want living water?” “Hey, listen, Nicodemus, thank you for all the compliments, but are you going to heaven or not?” He was a soul winner. Jesus, 2,000 years ago, was a soul winner.

I think at the very beginning when Adam and Eve sinned, remember that? They took the fig leaves and they sewed them together. And God came walking in the cool of the day—it was the word of the Lord, and I believe it was Jesus Christ—and He came, and He said, “Look, those fig leaves, those things you’ve made to cover up your shame, it won’t do.” And remember He made skins? Now, in order to make a skin, you’ve got to kill an animal. You know, I understand that. Maybe the first blood that was shed, and He made skins. And I believe from the very beginning, God—I believe that was a lamb—God said, “Hey, listen, one day the Lamb of God will shed His blood, and that blood is the thing that will cover your sin.” From the very beginning, the gospel has been given out. 2,000 years ago, Jesus was a soul winner. The soul winning has been going on for years.

What Jesus said, He said, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Yeah. Now, first of all, we talked about Jesus leaving His comfort zone and reaching out. Then we talked about He reached out with the gospel; He was a soul winner. Y’all with me out there? Now, let’s just look at one more fault, and we’re done for the day. We’ll go eat somewhere. I mean, somebody’s got steak somewhere, we’re going to go to their house with whoever’s house that is.

Look at this. I want you to see the ripple effect of witnessing. I want you to just see it. Look in verse number 28 of John 4. Look in verse number 28, if you would please. John chapter four. “The woman then left her water pot.” She had just gotten saved. “And went her way into the city and saith unto the men, Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did. Is not this the Christ?”

Actually, she was not 100% correct in what she said. Jesus hadn’t told her everything she had ever done. Some people say, “Well, to be a soldier, you got an old whole Bible, friend.” Nobody knows the whole Bible besides Jesus Christ. She’s a young Christian; didn’t get it all right, but she’s bringing people to Jesus.

Verse number 30. “Then they went out of the city and came unto Him.” She’s bringing people to Jesus. Twelve Baptist preachers there are those apostles, and it doesn’t record them bringing them by to Jesus. But this lady, the young convert, just got saved, she’s bringing people to Jesus. Now the ripple effect. A wonderful thing. Oh, let’s go down. Look in verse number 39.

“And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on Him for the saying of the woman, which testified, ‘He told me all that ever I did.’” So when the Samaritans were coming to Him, they besought Him that He would tarry with them. And He abode there two days, and many more believed because of His own word. And said unto the woman, “Now we believe, not because of thy saying, for we have heard Him ourselves and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”

Now, did you just notice a ripple effect? This lady got saved because of Jesus’ witness. Not only did she get saved, but she went in town and brought a bunch of people out to see Jesus. Some of them got saved because of her word. And there’s crowds gathering up there. You know, you get a crowd; it’s easier to get more people on board. But the chip always calls it the critical mass. You get a critical mass there, and more people jump on board. Critical mass, there are more people jumped on board. And then some of them said, “We’re getting saved because of what she said; we’re getting saved because we heard Him ourselves.” The ripple effect.

You see, if all I am working for and concentrating is down here on earth, it’s not going to ripple very long. But if I’m working for eternity, people getting saved, eternal life, you never thirst again, then there’s an eternal ripple with that that goes on forever and ever and ever and ever—eternal things.

It’s amazing when you get involved and you just step out and you just get involved in this thing trying to—more than you’re reaching out, but you get to the heart of the matter. “Hey, I want to talk to you about going to heaven.” I know that’s a stretch, you said, preach, that’s hard to do, but you can do it by the power of God and the wisdom of God. And I’m not talking about forcing it down somebody’s throat, but I’m just talking about in love you talk to someone. Not just—sometimes we say, “Well, I got a witness to sin.” How did you get a witness in? “Well, somebody sneezes, I said, ‘God bless you.’”

I’m not against that, friend, but I’m talking about you talking about their soul, going to heaven. I know this is not the most popular preaching in the world, but this is—this is important. When you go, whether it be out door to door, family, or you know wherever you do it at, your neighbors, but you get to the heart of the matter and you talk to them in love. We’ll talk to you about your soul. Are you going to heaven? Jesus did that. When you get involved in that, the ripple of that, you throw that rock in the water and the river, it lasts for eternity. You never know what God will do with that when I get involved in this core, this most important thing, just about their salvation.

We have been watching; we have been overdosing on Little House on the Prairie. And we can find it on the computer. My wife does that. And one way, it’s free, but you got to watch some commercials. Oh, my goodness, those commercials, you know. And you see the same commercial over and over again. You know, we’re like, we’re tired of that. We’re never going to buy that item in our lives because we’re sick of your commercial, you know. Anybody, you ever been like that? Yeah.

And there’s this one commercial, I cannot remember all of it. I think it’s about movies or something. But there’s a line of this basketball player; he’s supposed to be a great basketball player in some movie. I don’t know what the movie is. But he says this; he says, “I don’t want to be forgotten.” And I’m so sick of that commercial. I know what that line is coming. I said, “Dude, you’re going to be forgotten about it. Who cares? You can put that leather ball, some air into a metal, you know, loop there. Who cares?” That’s not going to matter in eternity. If all I do is live for down here, it’s going to be forgotten eventually. I don’t care who you are. But those that get involved in eternal things—

This eternal living water, the ripple goes on forever and ever, never, never, and ever, and ever. It’s an awesome thing to be a part of. You just never know when you throw in that old rock of the gospel and you go out and you just get down to the heart of the matter. You never know what God will do with it.

I thought about—we used to live in La Verne, double-wide trailer. And there was a boy who lived down the street from us, and we would bring him to church with us. And that boy got saved at church. And we tried to get his parents to come. I don’t think we ever did at that time. In fact, their son would play baseball with our son, and we’d go to the ballpark. Remember the ballpark in La Verne? Used to be on—right where the La Verne Senior Citizen place is, that ball field used to be. You were saying, “Yeah, you remember back of the day.” And that ball field right there, and our sons would play ball. And I’d go try to talk to them about getting saved. They’re very kind, good people as far as we look down here. They never wanted to talk to me about it. And so I wouldn’t push it on them, but they knew. Their son would come to church, and their son got saved. I believe their son was a testimony to them.

We moved away. It’s been years, years since we’ve lived there, and I hadn’t seen him in years, and got a call here at the church. This was maybe 10 years ago. And a man was there. He said, “You remember a boy—we’ll call his name John—you used to live down the street.” He said, “That was my son.” And he said, “I’ll be honest with you. He said, ‘My life is messed up.’” I cannot remember—I think addictions were involved. And his wife had left him. Kids were grown and gone. And he said, “I’ll be honest with you. He said, ‘I’m about to end my life. Sick of it all. But you came to my mind. And he used to try to talk to me about the Lord years ago. And I thought I’d call you one time before I ended up.’” Myself and another man from church went over to his place. That man just needed a Savior. He was at the point of his life; he knew he needed a Savior. They bowed their head and asked Jesus Christ to be a Savior. I asked him doing pretty good.

A friend, that was years and years ago. We threw a rock. Ten years or so later, that ripple came along. You just never know. You just never know. Hey, people need the Lord. He said, “Lift up your eyes, look on the fields; they are white already to harvest.” Have you looked? People need the Lord. Jesus, the soul winner.

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# Jesus the Soulwinner

Jesus the Soulwinner