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The greatest “evangelism” of all time was what happened at Pentecost.
It was not emotionalism, and what brought the deep conviction of truth
on people’s hearts was not the miracle of the apostles’ speaking
foreign languages--a “sign and wonder” indeed, but not the real thing
that did it: the apostles proclaimed what had happened when the Son of
God died on His cross.
They didn’t “mince words,” or say it daintily; “YOU murdered the
Prince of life, the Son of God!” They laid the guilt of the ages upon
the souls of those Jews and Gentiles. There was no political making
friends and influencing people, no attempt to make the message
palatable, to “win” the top leaders by psychology. It was the most
direct super-confrontation that has ever been between lowly people and
religious society leadership (read it in Acts 2:23, 36; 4:10; 5:30,
etc.).
Ordinary people like the apostles could never have galvanized
themselves to tell it like they did had it not been for the 10 days of
repentance they spent beforehand. They had knelt very low in
self-humiliation; what fools they had been! The Holy Spirit had 11 men
in whom self had been “crucified with Christ.” This made it possible
for the Son of God to be exalted in them.
Why was it the prototype of all genuine “evangelism”? What Jesus had
said a short time earlier happened: “On the last and most important
day of the festival [Feast of Tabernacles] Jesus stood up and said in
a loud voice, ‘Whoever is thirsty should come to Me and drink. As the
scripture says [S.S. 4:15] “Whoever believes in Me, streams of
life-giving water will pour out from his heart.” Jesus said this about
the [Holy] Spirit” (John 7:37-39). That was the “former rain.”
The “latter rain” (which is still future) will be a re-play.
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