Sunday AM

This morning I preached on the texts Matthew 22:42 "What think ye of Christ" and Matthew 27:42 "What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ?"
The answer is to receive or reject, accept or deny, be 'for' or 'against'.

I was unsure why the Lord had laid these texts and this message upon my heart to preach today as I had been preaching a series of messages on "The Will of God" for the last 3 weeks. Well, God's will for the lost is salvation, He is "not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance". As I stood at the pulpit and scanned the congregation I saw not one person that was a visitor that might be lost. In my mind I thought, "Well Lord, is this message for one of the congregation who is lost? Maybe. But then I glanced to my right and saw a man who has visited several times in the past couple of years, a lost Jewish man. I had spent time with him in the past about salvation but he had never received that truth, at least not to my knowledge. There he was, sitting in the congregation. So I preached the message and gave the invitation. He raised his hand for prayer. I was praying fervently that he would step forward, but, alas, he did not move. I pleaded for those who were lost to come and allow someone to help answer their questions and answer the questions, "What think ye of Christ" and "What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ?" No movement.
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Well the service ended and I was hoping to get another chance to speak with this dear soul. (I was standing in the lobby when one of the men in our church told me that that visitor came into the service after I had already started preaching. That is why I didn't see him right away.) Please pray for this dear one to fall under holy Spirit conviction of sin, righteousness and the judgment of God so he would repent of his sin and trust the Lord Jesus Christ as his Messiah and Saviour and God!