The Supreme Task* (I)



*DAILY DEW 12TH/MAY/2021*

*The Supreme Task* (I)

_Key Bible Text:_
*"Mortal man, he said, I am making you a lookout for the nation of Israel. You will pass on to them the warnings I give you. If I announce that someone evil is going to die but you do not warn him to change his ways so that he can save his life, he will die, still a sinner, but I will hold you responsible for his death."* (Ezekiel 3:17-18 (GNB))

_Bible Insight:_
Turn with me, if you will, to Ezekiel 3, verse 17 to 19. I am going to change some of the words in this passage in order to bring it up to date. Note carefully the changes. I want to make it applicable to the mission field. Now let us read, beginning at verse 17:

“Christian worker, I have made thee a watchman: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give warning from me. When I say unto the heathen, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning,nor speakest to warn the heathen from his heathenish way, to save his life, the same heathen shall die in his iniquity; BUT his blood will I require at thine hand. Yet if thou warn the heathen, and he turn not from his heathenism, nor from his heathenish way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. His blood will I require at thine hand.”

Down through the years my life has been tremendously motivated by great missionary mottoes. May I give you one now that perhaps has meant more to me than any other. It is this, “The supreme task of the Church is the evangelization of the world.” I believe that with all my heart. The most important work of the Church of Jesus Christ is world evangelization.  

MEDITATION:
*“The supreme task of the Church is the evangelization of the world”*

(Culled From Oswald James Smiths' The Challenge of Missions)

*#David_Joshua_Egbochuo*
*#Wednesday_wisdomforliving*
*#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus*
*#Wonders_of_Grace*
*#Hello_May* ❤ 

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