Lure them back to me... - Sand

Let’s start with - are you called?

Matt 4:19 & Mark 1:17 ESV 19 And he said to them (Brothers, Simon & Andrew), “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”

Luke 5:10b ESV And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.

Mark 15:40-41 ESV (Witnesses to Jesus dying on the cross)

40 There were also women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome. 41 When he was in Galilee, they followed him and ministered to him, and there were also many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.

Luke 8:3 AMPC 3 And Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod’s household manager; and Susanna; and many others, who ministered to and provided for Him and them out of their property and personal belongings.

How do you represent Jesus?

Ephesians 5:8 ESV 8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

Ephesians 5:1-2 ESV 5 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

1 John 4:8 ESV 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Matthew 12:34 NKJV 34 Brood(offspring AMPC) of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks

Matthew 13:15 ESV For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’

What does it look like to actively serve Jesus?

Mark 16:15-18 ESV 15 And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim (preach NKJV) the gospel to the whole creation.16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;18 they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.

MARK 11:23 ESV 23 Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.

Planting the seed…

Mark 4:14 ESV 14 The sower sows the Word.

John 10:10 NKJV 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

Colossians 3:8 NKJV 8 But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.

Repentance

2 Corinthians 7:10 ESV 10 For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.

Why does Jesus want everyone saved?

Because He want them to go to Heaven

Romans 6:22-23 AMPC 22 But now since you have been set free from sin and have become the slaves of God, you have your present reward in holiness and its end is eternal life. 23 For the wages which sin pays is death, but the [bountiful] free gift of God is eternal life through (in union with) Jesus Christ our Lord.

Reaping the harvest..

John 4:36 ESV 36 Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together

What does the harvest look like?

Luke 10:2 ESV 2 And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.

1 John 4:15 ESV 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

Acts 8:37 AMPC 37 And Philip said, If you believe with all your heart [if you have a conviction, full of joyful trust, that Jesus is the Messiah and accept Him a