BE DRAWN TO JESUS!
Many desire to encourage, entice, persuade, etc, people to come to Jesus. One
example was years ago some missionaries were very successful getting large crowds
to their services every week and they would help the people by giving each family a
large bag of rice after the service. One week no one showed up and they asked the
local helper “why?” He responded “No rice”, because the boat that brought rice
every week had not arrived. Yes, people were coming for the rice not God. Some use
sales techniques and other methods including bribing people with food, forgetting that
Jesus tells us “YOU CANNOT COME TO ME, UNLESS THE FATHER MAKES
YOU WANT TO COME” [Jn 6:65 CE].
Another example of trying to persuade people to come to Jesus is that over 500 years
before Jesus walked on earth, Greek philosophers had begun deciding "the word" or
"logos" in the Greek, was so important, they even gave divine attributes to "the
word" and related it to the Greek god Hermes. Early Christians like Jesus beloved
disciple, John, reflected knowledge of the Greek emphasis on "the Word" [Jn 1:1-
14] in his introduction or prologue to his Gospel, which was an attempt to appeal to
people following Greek philosophical religious thinking. There is no indication that
God or Jesus ever said anything similar concerning "the word". Some people
eventually called the bible "the word" and inadvertently are being deceived by Satan
to embrace Greek religious beliefs about "the word".
A distinct difference Jesus presented, which no other man has ever factually claimed,
is that everything Jesus said is what God told Him to "SAY" and everything He did is
what God told Him to "DO" [Jn 12:49; 14:31]. Jesus, our human role model, never
used people's false religions to reach them. Jesus is very clear that no one comes to
Him unless God "DRAWS"[Jn 6:44] that person to Jesus. If you desire to lead a
person to Jesus, the first step is to pray for God to draw them or make them want
come to Jesus and then ask God what He would like you to do to help. Jesus knows,
calling Jesus ‘the word’ is a lie! Do you believe Jesus?
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