Tell Us About This Jesus

1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins

2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience-

3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,

5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ-by grace you have been saved-

6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. - Ephesians 2:1-9

This is a story straight from missionaries in the field.

We are in a hostile country for sharing the gospel of Jesus. 

We have seen people beaten, killed and taken away to where no one knows.

It is a reality, the gospel has a cost in this dark place.

Surrounded by men we didn't know, we are taken with no explanation to a strange place.

Door shuts tightly, darkened room, light comes on and we are surrounded by a group of male strangers.

We look at each other to say goodbye because surely we are about to meet Jesus face to face.

We silently pray, and then this man says "tell us about this Jesus".

We smile. 

They say"tell us about this Jesus".

They say "we want to know the reason for the peace the men who were beheaded on the video had, they showed such calm as they went to their death".

We smile again, knowing God alone has prepared the heart of these men for the gospel story!

Amazing truth, Lord we praise You!!!

5 Thus says God, the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it: 

6 "I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations, 

7 to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.  - Isaiah 42:5-7

18 And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age." - Matthew 28:18-20