How to Begin to Witness to a Lost Soul?
When one begins to witness to a person who has never been saved and does not understand, even that he needs to be saved, there is a place to begin which will set the conversation upon a good path.
In many years of talking to lost people, I have come to know that before they can be saved they must first know they are lost, and why they are lost.
Without their knowing why they are lost, they will not understand they need to be saved, or, the rest of the story, and may even end up on a “religious road to ruin”!
The reason why, is because, if a person thinks that by just stopping to sin will save him, or that reform will somehow get him approved to God…. then he is thinking wrong, and that wrong thinking will only cause him to work religious works.
This sort of thinking, is stinking thinking! Men cannot be saved by works or religion, or anything else they may try to do to be acceptable to God, and saved and safe.
Please know this:
The reason why a person is lost is not because he commits sin, but it is because he Is a Sinner!
If you don’t understand this, then a person thinking they can be saved by stopping individual sins, will lead them only to working to be saved. This is the beginning of religion — and Religion will not save anyone!
The fact is, all have sinned in Adam. When Adam sinned in the beginning [and eve], The Bible says all became sinners like Adam.
It was Adam who made them sinners. All men inherited the sin nature of Adam.. This means that men sin, because it is their nature to sin, and even as Adam was rejected, so all men are rejected being sinners like Adam.
In order for a man to understand, he must know that the problem goes much further then just a sin!
A sinner sins because it is his nature to sin (after the likeness of his sinful father… Adam).
One must do more then stop sinning to be saved, one must have a change of nature (a heart change).
That old sinful heart must come out, and a new heart given that man, else he has not dealt with the real problem.
Men need a heart operation to be changed, then, after the heart operation, the results will be a new nature, and of course, that new nature or new man, will be The Righteousness of Jesus Christ.
This righteousness, must be Jesus’ nature in you.
So really, what The LORD is saying here is: unless a person is born ‘Again’ and given The Spirit of Life, the old life will go on in sin.
The nature must change!
Now let me give you the verse to begin your witness with:
“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned,” Romans 3:12.
This simply says that, by one man, sin entered into the world. That one man was of course Adam. He is responsible for making men sinners. His sin, became all men’s sin.
Next, we understand that because of Adam’s sin, death passed upon all men! The very serious thing then is, men are dead because of Adams sin, which has been given to them in their nature.
Then the final statement: all became sinners!
If and when, any man or woman finally understands that they are lost, and lost because they are like Adam… then they will be open to understand The Gospel Message… which is:
Christ died for our sin. He was buried in the grave because of sin that put him there.
Sin caused Jesus to die, and that sin was “our sins” (all sinners sin). Then when they see Jesus arise from the dead (which proves that sin was put to death and remains in the ground or else Jesus would have not risen) then since sin was left in the grave.
Men walk free from that sin. They then can see Jesus died to save men, He did not just set an example for men to live by…
Jesus became Salvation itself, because he died for sin. What Adam did, is reversed in The Cross!
The good news is, a sinner can be totally changed and he will become a son of God.
He no longer will be a ‘sinner’, but he will become a Saint, (one forgiven and saved and is a son of God).
The Gospel is good news then, to the sinner, because he understands Jesus Christ died to take away that ‘Sin nature in Adam’, and He did it to save men.
This will cause any many to plainly understand that in order to be truly saved and forgiven… they must have Jesus Christ, Who died for them, to save them.
When men understand why they are lost, then they will Pray and Repent of the right reason……
They will ask God to forgive them for not trusting Jesus sooner, and they will turn to Jesus as their only Savior, asking Him to come into them and save them.
“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth The LORD Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that god hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
For the scripture saith, whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same LORD over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon The Name of The LORD, shall be saved.” Romans 10:9-13.
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I have posted this teaching, because of the teacher: The Holy Spirit, Who teaches men to come to Jesus to be saved.
You who desire to help men be saved, please try this approach and see it work very well.
~ Desert Prophet Ken Dewey
The light will shine in His glory… In the desert.
Evangelist/ Prophet/ Pastor Ken Dewey is the founder of “OUT OF THE DESERT MINISTRIES“ in Belen, New Mexico, USA.
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Yes, so very true. They must know that they are a sinner.
Awesomeness