WAITING UPON THE LORD!



“And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.” -II TIMOTHY 2:24-26 [KJV]


I am content to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to any and all who come and listen. I do not feel the need to pressure them into some kind of profession or decision, I am glad they come to listen because “faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God” [ROMANS 10:17]. I can teach them what God says in His word but they must be “taught of God.” When they are taught of God, when they have learned of the Father, they will acknowledge the truth of God in Christ and believe on Him.

Until then, they are bound captives of the devil and I am unable to free them. But there is One who can! When the Spirit of God comes in power to them they will be liberated by the truth He reveals to and in them. They will be born from above spiritually. Man cannot “induce labor” in the new birth. We must wait upon the Lord and pray that He will work in our midst.

Everything in His salvation depends on HIM! Salvation is of the LORD! When the sovereign Spirit like the wind blows in our midst, spiritually dead dry bones raise to life in our midst and dead sinners are raised to life and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Without striving, without debate, without pressure and without the gimmicks of modern day religion God’s elect are brought to Christ, they must be.

Why? Because God has purposed it and He will do it. Because Christ has died for them, satisfying God’s justice for them in the matter of their sin and the Spirit cannot fail... GOD WILL GET ALL THE GLORY IN THE SAVING OF HIS PEOPLE. If He sends the gospel to a place, He most likely has some people there. So we preach and pray and wait upon the Lord. But we do not wait in vain! “And therefore will the LORD wait, that He may be gracious unto you, and therefore will He be exalted, that He may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for Him” [ISAIAH 30:18].


-Gospel report by preacher Gary Shepard

Sovereign Grace Baptist church of Jacksonville, North Carolina USA

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