Secret Place 6

Today will be our last installment of our series on “The Secret Place”.  What I want to focus on today is “The Secret Place Of Sharing The Gospel”.  Look at Luke 11:33, “No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.”

The phrase “secret place” in our text today can be translated a hidden place, i.e. cellar (“crypt”).  The word “crypt” jumped out at me.  I guess because it is where we put dead people.  Yet, when we suppress the Truth by not sharing the Gospel with others we are putting that truth in a “crypt” so to speak.  We put the Light out.

As we are living in such dark days we should find it easy to share the Gospel with others.  There is coming a day when it will be illegal to share your faith so you and I had better get busy sharing now.

When they come to take you to the stocks or to jail for sharing your faith are you prepared?  We need to be so full of Christ that when they come we can be like the Apostle Paul and just see it as another step in the ministry.  We cannot cower down in fear.  We must take the Light of the Gospel and go to the ends of the earth.

Don’t stand before God having put the Gospel in a “crypt” and not shared it with those around you.  We will give account one day and I think we will all be sorry that we could have done me for the cause of Christ.  I know that I could do more.  God help each and every one of us to do more.  Maybe it would be do something.

So, how are you doing?

Ringer

My wife and I enjoyed spending Sunday evening through Wednesday evening at the annual Seedline International conference.  She was sick and could not go on the last night.  It was sad.

In this conference was a Missionary to Australia and I enjoyed listening to him.  “Good’ay Mate” was all he needed to say to me.  This guy has lived in Australia most of his life except for the time he spent in the United States going to Bible college.

He said that he spent most of his life as a “Ringer”.  I thought maybe he grew up ringing the Church bell.  This is a ministry that some take on and excel in.  A “Ringer” in Australia is a cowboy here in America.  I hate to say it; but, I immediately thought about a “dead ringer”.  We say that if someone looks like someone else.  I am guessing that the phrase come from somewhere else.

How fitting that this Ringer becomes a Missionary.  He is already used to dealing with hard-headed animals.  He should be well prepared for ministry.  His mandate comes from Matthew 28:19-20, “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:  Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.”  How about you?  Where does your mandate come from?

So, how are you doing?