I used to know a guy who was
excited about Jesus.
I don't know where he came from in
regard to his former life, but when he
trusted Jesus, his life was so transformed and
he was so excited about it he couldn't
wait to tell people about what Christ had
done for him and if you hung around
him long enough you'd get excited about Jesus
too because his love for Christ was contagious.
I never saw a man witness to more
people one-on-one than this particular friend
of mine.
He was always telling people about Jesus.
Maybe your experience of salvation isn't anything to
talk about.
Maybe you getting saved wasn't any big deal.
Maybe you feel that Jesus didn't do anything
really special for you and therefore you don't
need to talk about it with anybody else
because even though you're saved you're not much
excited about it or really that much excited
about Jesus.
At least that's the you come across to
folks when they find out that you are
a Christian or maybe they don't know that
you are a Christian because you've managed to
hide it so well.
Let me tell you something friend.
If you're a saved individual and you are
a silent witness for Christ and the gospel,
I feel sorry for you.
You may have your excuses now on why
you don't regularly witness for Christ by sharing
your faith and spreading the gospel message but
when you die and stand before Christ at
the judgment seat you have no excuses then
because they won't cut the mustard on that
day.
I spent an afternoon with my friend years
ago and every person he came in contact
with that day heard about Jesus and how
Jesus transformed his life whether it was a
store clerk or a fellow businessman or a
person on the street or someone standing in
line at the shopping mall.
They heard my friend's testimony and whether they
received or rejected the message they could not
deny the fact that they were confronted with
a man who was excited about something and
he wanted to share it.
Maybe you're just not excited about Jesus anymore.
You can be honest friend.
I'll never forget the story that Duncan Campbell
told.
At the time he was a pastor and
he had been a pastor for the last
18 uneventful years and one morning he was
up in his study preparing a message on
the Holy Spirit which he was delivered to
a minister's conference in a week's time and
as he was preparing his sermon he heard
his teenage daughter happily singing a hymn downstairs
so he put down his pen and he
walked downstairs to greet her he said Lassie
what on earth are you singing about so
merrily at six o'clock in the morning
and she threw her arms around his neck
and said oh daddy I've just spent a
glorious hour with Jesus in my quiet time
and I'm so happy daddy I'm singing about
him isn't Jesus wonderful daddy and Duncan Campbell
said to himself as he slowly walked back
up the stairs here I am preparing a
message on the Holy Spirit for my brethren
and I can honestly say that right now
Jesus isn't wonderful to me and that day
Duncan Campbell locked himself up in his room
and he threw himself down on the floor
and for the next five hours he prayed
and wrestled with God so desperately that his
wife wanted to call a doctor because it
seemed he'd gone mad finally he got a
breakthrough with God and he rededicated himself to
Christ and the gospel and in the next
few months he resigned the security of his
settled pastorate and became a missionary to go
spread the gospel because he was so excited
about someone and something he had to go
tell others about it or die the apostle
Paul said woe to me if I do
not preach the gospel friend when others look
at you do they see someone who's excited
about Jesus and that you are going to
burst open if you don't tell somebody about
it let me ask you friend and please
be honest is Jesus wonderful to you