Title The Evangelist's Wish and Prayer
Content Title: The Evangelist's Wish and Prayer
Text: Romans 9: 1-5
In his letter to the Roman Church, the apostle Paul emphasized that there is no distinction between Gentiles like Romans and Greeks, and Jews who pride themselves on being a chosen people, for a person to be saved through faith in Jesus. It is that God does not take people by their outward appearance, but looks at the faith that loves and trusts God in the center.
Paul's argument provoked fierce opposition from his fellow Jews. It made me very uncomfortable to say that the Gentiles who are uncircumcised and do not know the law and the Jews who have served God since their forefathers are in the same line, and that anyone can be saved through faith in Jesus Christ.
It will start from While praying, I would like to share the grace of the apostle Paul by pondering the text in which he confessed his wish for the evangelism of his people in prayer.
First, we confess that our desire and zeal to save our people is not a lie.
Paul is trying to prove that his desire to save his people is true by emphasizing that "I tell the truth in Jesus, I do not lie" and "I bear witness with my conscience in my spirit." If he evangelizes once or twice and refuses to end with it, it shows that his wish to save him is not sincere.
Second, I confess that the wish of evangelizing the people always makes me feel pain in my heart.
Third, I confess that the wish of evangelism for my fellow countrymen is to pray for self-sacrifice.
Even if I myself be cursed and cut off from Jesus for the sake of my brothers and sisters, I wish for my people to be saved even if they were to perish.
We can see a similar picture with Moses, who sacrificed himself as a leader in the wilderness training by getting the Israelites out of Egypt. Upon hearing the reports of those who returned from spying on the land of Canaan, the people were furious and protested against unbelief to kill Moses and Aaron and return to Egypt. God said to Moses, who fell down and begged for forgiveness of the people's sins, "Rise and move, and I will destroy them all, and out of you I will make a great people." Moses risked his life and offered an intercessory prayer to God to prevent the destruction of the people. When the Apostle Paul collected alms and went to Jerusalem, where there was a famine, many people tried to warn him of the danger of life. As a witness of the Gospel, the history of Christianity is the history of mission. So is the history of our church. The history of each of us that will be recognized when we stand before God should also be a beautiful footprint of sacrifice and dedication.