Satan's
Counter-Attack Against International Evangelism
continued
3. How We Can Achieve the Objective
Now
that we've seen how this attack against American Christianity
is being driven home, with the ultimate aim of Satan being
to drive the true Christian church in America underground,
and you've also been given a concept of the time-frame we're
dealing with. Next question: How can we as concerned Christians
possibly fulfill the Great Commission Jesus gave us to accomplish-how can we do it within that short time-frame?
That
is the ultimate question for the whole Christian church.
Can you possibly imagine a muzzled Christian church in America,
where the simple preaching of the gospel out of the Bible
is banned by our state and federal governments?
What will happen to international evangelistic organizations
like the JESUS Film Project, Samaritan's Purse, and Gospel
for Asia? Due to lack of funding they will all go out of business.
Funding for these major front-line evangelistic organizations
will dry up and their efforts to preach the gospel to the
entire world will dry up as well. A genuine "famine of the
Word" will begin to sweep the world. So if we are to get
the job of Matthew 28:18-20 finished, as Jesus prophecies
we will in Matthew 24:14, we need to take all of this into
account and form a strategy for bringing massive funding into
these three major evangelistic organizations within this five
year time-frame.
In the mission statement of this Website I outline a way to
accomplish this. I call it the $5 a week plan. By simply
taking $5 a week and sending it to one of those three major
international evangelistic organizations, rotating that donation
from one to the next every week, massive funding can be brought to bear and supplied to God's
front-line troops in the international evangelistic Army of God. God does say we are in his army, and these guys are
the front-line troops, facing dangers you wouldn't dream of
facing. On the fourth week of this $5 a week plan you could
split your donation between Mission Aviation Fellowship and
one of the two Messianic Jewish evangelistic organizations,
Jews
for Jesus or MESSIAH FOR ISRAEL Ministries. What
follows is the mission statement where I outline this $5 a
week plan. This plan should not really hamper your weekly
church donations or major efforts to give what Dr. Dobson
has proposed in the letter above. Please consider taking on
the responsibility of supplying Jesus' front-line troops while
there is time to do so.
What
follows is the Mission Statement of this Website.
MISSION STATEMENT:
[To read the first point in this mission
statement, click on the Mission Statement link on the Homepage.
It has been deleted from this text in the interest of shortening
this article and keeping it to the point.]
2. The second major purpose of this site is to educate
Christians about Jesus' primary mission which he gave to the
church and all believers in Matthew 28:18-20 and Acts 1:6-9. What is that mission? Read it for yourself. Matthew
28:18-20 states, "Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee,
to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they
saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus
came to them and said, 'All authority in heaven and on earth
has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of
all nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and
of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey
everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you
always, to the very end of the age.'" Acts 1:6-9 states,
"So when they met together, they asked him, 'Lord, are
you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?' He said to them: 'It is not for you
to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on [upon]
you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem,
and in all Judea and Samaria,
and to the ends of the earth." Jesus prophecied in Matthew
24:14 that we as Christians would ultimately accomplish this
goal set before us by him over 1900 years ago. Matthew 24:14
states, "And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached
in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then
the end will come." [Verses 15-25 shows what "end" Jesus
is talking about, the "end of the age", this evil age of man
under Satan's evil influence.] In one word, what is
the mission Jesus gives all Christians, his body of believers,
to accomplish?--Evangelism, personal, local church, national and international. This site provides vital educational tools to help the
believer know how he or she can evangelize on a personal level,
as well as how to help support local church evangelism, and
evangelism at the national and international levels as well.
(See "What is Evangelism?" section.)
Now I'm going to get a little bit personal. The gospel is freely given to us
(if you have to pay for it, something's wrong). Salvation
through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ is also a free
gift to all believers. Jesus paid a very high price for this
salvation we enjoy, he paid with his very life. The only thing Jesus asked us to do in return for all this is
that we "Go into all the world, and preach the gospel to everyone--and
for those that believe and are baptized, we are instructed
to teach and disciple them into the body of Christ" (paraphrase
of Matthew 28:19-20 and Mark 16:15-16). "But how in the world
can I help do that?", you may be asking yourself. Some of
us may have an opportunity to evangelize to a friend or acquaintance
now and then, "but taking the gospel to the ends of the world,
there's no way I can do that", you're probably thinking.
"I know Jesus paid a horrible price for my "free" salvation,
but there's no way I can take the gospel to the world." Well,
not alone you can't, that's for sure. But I have a pretty
good idea on how a lot of people, each providing a steady
but small, almost insignificant amount of money on
a weekly basis can move mountains in causing the gospel of
salvation to be preached worldwide. I call it the $5.00 a
week plan. To learn more, keep reading.
A whole host of quality Christian evangelical
and teaching ministries have sprung up around the world, and
a lot of them are non-denominational or inter-denominational.
They all serve to spread the gospel and help nourish and disciple
Christians around the world. Below are listed the three most
effective and far reaching major non-denominational international
evangelistic organizations. If every believer using this
site for spiritual nourishment, stirred by the only major
request Jesus asked in return for his "free gift" of salvation,
were to give $5.00 a week on a rotational basis to each organization
listed below (so each received $5.00 a month), each organization
would receive hundreds of thousands of dollars a month, maybe
even millions of dollars a month. On the fourth week
try sending $2.50 to Mission Aviation Fellowship (and then
send the other $2.50 to the Jews for Jesus organization at http://www.jewsforjesus.org
or to another good Messianic evangelistic ministry, Albert
Israeli's MESSIAH FOR ISRAEL MINISTRIES, at: http://messiahforisrael.com
. So that other $2.50 (along with $2.50 to Mission Aviation Fellowship) could go to one of the two major Messianic
Jewish evangelistic organizations I just mentioned above for
the fourth week in this $5 a week plan.) Then repeat the
whole $5.00 a week giving plan when the next month rolls around,
and so on.
These amounts may seem insignificant but when the
hundred of users of this site all do the same thing, it adds
up to thousands of dollars a month. This is a major way we
can be "united" in our giving to cause the gospel to make
a huge impact on this evil world. And when "this gospel of
the kingdom" makes a huge impact on this evil world--it will
hasten Jesus Christ's 2nd coming (cf. Matthew 24:14-15).
Doesn't that thought excite you? It does me. So how about
it? Are you up to $5.00 a week? The three major international
evangelistic organizations that are most effectively blanketing
the world with the gospel are listed below:
1.
EVANGELISM: Campus Crusade for Christ International's JESUS Film Project (http://www.jesusfilm.org/easygift).
To learn more about this major international evangelistic
tool, click on http://www.UNITYINCHRIST.COM/whyjesus.htm
. Many Christian churches and denominations now support this
worthy organization, and many Christian churches are being
planted around the world as a direct result of their efforts
coupled to the Lord's massive calling of people through the
JESUS film. Their address is THE JESUS FILM PROJECT, PO BOX 628222, ORLANDO,
FLORIDA 32862-9841. To learn more from them click on the above hypertexts.
2.
CHRISTIAN VERSION OF C.A.R.E.: Samaritan's Purse. Online: http://www.samaritanspurse.org
."To learn more about this incredible work of Christian
caring and evangelism log onto their site, email them and
ask if they could send you Franklin Graham's autobiography,
which will thoroughly describe this work of God and how it
got started. They will send it free of charge." To
preview that book, log onto http://www.UNITYINCHRIST.COM/evangelism/samaritan_purse.htm
3.
Gospel For Asia: Online: http://www.gfa.org
. To read excerpts from K.P. Yohannan's book about Gospel
For Asia, log onto http://www.UNITYINCHRIST.COM/evangelism/worldmission.htm
This book will be sent to you free of charge by contacting
Gospel for Asia and asking for a copy.
Mission Aviation Fellowship, P.O. Box 3202
Redlands, CA 92373-0998.
For a description of this group that assists and supplies
evangelists in remote parts of the world, click on "What
is Evangelism?" and then on "Mission
Aviation Fellowship". They are a small group that has
a far-reaching effect on evangelism.
This is an abbreviated description of some of the three
major international non-denominational evangelistic organizations
and one organization that lends support to all of them, Mission
Aviation Fellowship.
Buy
War Bonds!!!
On
American soil during World War II support for the entire
United States war effort being made by our combined
armed forces overseas was phenomenally large. The Air Force,
Navy, Army and Marines were all loved and supported equally,
even though friendly rivalry in support and feelings of loyalty
existed. Adolph Hitler in Germany
and Tojo in Japan
were the leaders of two very evil empires that wanted to dominate
and crush the free world. These evil empires would ended up
killing multiple millions of people before they were defeated.
The Bible shows us in many places that the physical creation
and physical events often mirror similar spiritual realities.
For example, Satan has an invisible evil empire which rules
over this physical world and its governments. The apostle
Paul says to us in Ephesians 6:12 "For we wrestle not against
flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against
wicked spirits in high places." Paul goes on to instruct
us in Ephesians 6:13-21 how we Christians are to put on "the
whole armour of God." If war were only on the physical plane,
then the apostle Paul would never have penned those instructions
for us. Jesus himself in his revelation to John on the Isle
of Patmos said this whole world (which would include its governments and
many of its religious organizations) is deceived by Satan.
Jesus in Revelation 12:9 states, "And the great dragon was
cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which
deceiveth the whole world." In Matthew 28:18-20 Jesus basically
gave his church--the body of Christ--their and our marching
orders--to take and preach the gospel of salvation to the
entire world--and to baptize and then disciple those who favorably
respond, nurturing and strengthening them in the Word. In
that effort, we often find we are in direct opposition to
Satan, his evil forces, and his invisible evil empire. In
Matthew 24:14 Jesus directly prophecied that "this gospel
of the kingdom" would go to the entire
world, and then the end would come. That end is described
in verses 15-31 of Matthew 24, the end of Satan's evil age
which invisibly rules over mankind. In promoting the gospel
of salvation, which is the gospel of the kingdom, we are waging
spiritual warfare directly against Satan's evil empire. When
we are finished with that job, Jesus says he'll come and remove
Satan and his evil empire from the world scene (cf. Revelation
19:11-21; 20:1-3).
I've
listed three major international evangelistic organizations
that are spreading "this gospel of the kingdom, the gospel
of salvation," around the world--huge spiritual harvests are
being made, hundreds of thousands of new believers are being
born-again into the heavenly kingdom of God as I write. These
evangelistic organizations are a direct spiritual equivalent
to the Air, Naval, Army and Marine forces we had in WWII.
They are moving on targets, taking ground successfully in
the active war the body of Christ is waging in promoting the
gospel worldwide in these end-times.
Now
I wish to make another analogy to help you understand--something
that's in your vital interest. Jesus said that when
we give in this war effort, he will give back to us--both
now in this age, but especially in the age to come, pressed
down and overflowing. He told us to invest in our eternal
future, where moth and rust
doth not corrupt. Many of us in the United States
are concerned about retirement, and are investing for it,
401K plans and what have you. Is there a spiritual equivalent
here as well? The Bible is full of them. Lets look back
to World War II in our analogy again. We wanted our boys
to win. We wanted Hitler and Tojo defeated along with their
evil empires, and for world peace and prosperity to reign
supreme. How much more should we want Jesus to reign supreme,
bringing world peace and prosperity to this sin-sick, evil
and hurting world? Back in World War II we Americans had
a way to put our money where out mouths and sentiments were,
in support of our boys and girls in the armed forces. How?--by
buying War Bonds, U.S. Saving's bonds the United States government
was selling to help finance the war effort, to help pay for
the troops and equipment of a fully mobilized nation at war.
Our front-line troops needed food, medical equipment, ships,
submarines, aircraft carriers and ships of all kinds, aircraft
of all types, tanks and vehicles of all types, artillery,
ammunition by the millions of tons. Even Hollywood mobilized
their efforts to encourage everyone to buy War Bonds, which
would mature sometime after the War, as well as pay dividends.
Jesus has shown us in his Word that when we invest in his
War effort; we are investing in legitimate Christian
evangelism and we are buying spiritual War Bonds that will
pay huge benefits with eternal rewards beyond measure, based
upon what has been contributed. Jesus says, "to him who gives
little, he will receive little, to him that gives much, he
or she will receive much." How much is much to a guy who
owns the Universe? Good question!! This website lists some
valuable spiritual "War Bonds" that will pay huge dividends
in the eternal Kingdom of God, for the bearers of those War
Bonds. While no one on this earth may notice when you contribute
to one of these aforementioned evangelistic organizations,
Jesus notices, and he will repay for the investment. And
if you've studied the Word, you will notice that Jesus equates
what you give with your means to give. Many of you that are
reading this may not have that much to spare in our budgets--I
certainly don't. It's not so much the amount that counts
but your willingness to give freely that which you can-so
the Lord can bless and multiply that amount for his greater
purposes to thwart Satan's attack which is an effort to gain
a foothold and push the Body of Christ and the Church underground.
The $5.00 a week plan I mentioned will add up to a huge eternal
benefit over time, as well as help supply Jesus Christ's front-line
battle troops who are marching across third world countries,
spreading the gospel and harvesting souls, bringing thousands
of new Christian brothers and sisters into the body of Christ--precious
people we'll spend eternal life with. Can you put a price
on this war effort? Will Jesus look at our efforts and be
able to compare them with the patriotic efforts of Americans
during World War II, and be proud of us? Or will he be somewhat
ashamed? Our nation in the US is no less wealthy than it
was for our parents and grandparents during World War II.
There should be no excuse! So Buy War Bonds!!! Invest in your future! Invest in
the spiritual war effort of Jesus Christ! Don't forget, your
future will go on forever.
Presented here on this site are some
ways to bless those less fortunate than we Americans are with
the precious saving gospel of Jesus Christ. Be one of those
Christians who use this Christian website to its full potential,
as a genuine pump-priming instrument for promoting the gospel
of Jesus Christ powerfully worldwide--without even having
to leave your front door.
AND DON'T FORGET, WITH WHAT DR. DOBSON TOLD
US IN HIS LETTER ABOVE, WE MAY NOT HAVE MUCH TIME TO GET THE
JOB JESUS HAS GIVEN US TO DO ACCOMPLISHED BEFORE A REAL FAMINE
OF THE WORD OF GOD SWEEPS THE EARTH. GIVE THAT SOME SERIOUS
THOUGHT. THE TIMES, THEY ARE A CHANGIN'.
And if this site is steadily nourishing your walk with
Jesus, and you'd like to contribute a little into the priming-bucket
on a steady basis or as a one-time gift, your money will be
used to help pay for some of the operational costs of running
and maintaining the site. (Should you mail anything to this
site, please do not mail cash. Make checks out to UNITYINCHRIST.
This site is a not-for-profit organization.)
Peter F. Benson,
editor, UNITYINCHRIST.COM, P.O. Box 875
Fitchburg, MA 01420
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