The Gospel Presented at Lynnwood Transit Center (with Challenges)

The Lynnwood Transit Center presented challenges this morning, as you'll see from the following video clips.

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God's Presence at the Lynnwood Transit Center

Yesterday morning, Thomas and I ventured to the Lynnwood Transit Center, to share the message of the Gospel with commuters as they waited for their buses.

We had a great time and I was able to capture a few video snippets and a couple of pictures.

The Gospel went out, although there was some resistance.  One man groused, "keep it in church". The message of the Gospel can be offensive, although it isn't our aim to offend.

Lastly, here's a picture of a lady sitting on the bench reading a tract

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Thoughts for Today: (From Pocket Testament League)

Day 561: Aware of the Law -- Do You Know What it Says?

Romans 3:19-20

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

Yesterday my older daughter Krissy and her husband Ariel brought a new dog they are considering adopting over to our house to get our opinion. "Biscuit" is a very cute French Bulldog who is around 2 years old, loving, yet completely untrained. He doesn't know how to walk on a leash or any other basic commands including sit, stay, down, etc. Perhaps worst of all he is not potty trained. The former housekeeper said this of Biscuit: "He is a very bad doggy. He makes lot's of work for me -- he goes potty everywhere."

At this point most of you are probably thinking: "Send him back," but then you don't know my daughter -- she loves animals -- especially those in need. She asked me to see if I could get him to obey some commands. I put him on a leash and within a very short time I realized he couldn't hear -- he was deaf. I started giving him visual commands. Within minutes he was walking obediently under the leash and sitting upon request. It wasn't that Biscuit was a "bad doggy", he just didn't understand the rules -- once he knew what was expected of him, he was more than happy to comply.

If only mankind was as compliant to God's law. In our passage today Paul explains, the Law was given "so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God." In other words, if we (like Biscuit) were unaware of the Law, then how could we be considered Law breakers? However, we have been given the Law and choose to break it regardless. Therefore we have no excuse and are held responsible for our transgressions by God.

All the more, this tells me, we ought to use the Law in evangelism, otherwise how will people know they need to be saved.   The world tells people, either they are a good person, or they have the power within themselves to change.   The law is a mirror to show us the exceeding sinfulness of sin, and our utter helplessness to change ourselves.

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Great Encouragement

This morning, the Lord provided opportunity once again, for us to lift up our voices like a trumpet.   But as wonderful as that was, there was some resistance to the Gospel being proclaimed.   Resistance came not in the form of heckling, but in the form of people telling us that we shouldn't be doing what we're doing, and complaining while we were preaching.   But again, we also had encouraging thumbs ups from several people.

We had a very touching, even heart rending moment as we witnessed to Adrian and Kia, who told us they were being hindered from being with their children because of their addiction.   They both had a Christian upbringing, and were very open to our sharing compassionately with them.  They accepted prayer from us, and broke down crying as we prayed for them.   Please keep them in your prayers.

Here is some video of Thomas, on the box:

Here is the message I presented...
Hi Folks, I’m usually the kind of guy that flies under the radar.  It isn’t my goal in life to be noticed.   But I have something to say that is so important, I'm willing to stand up here and look like a fool.  I would so appreciate your patience and attention for a brief moment.  Now what I have to say starts off with a some bad news, so this might be a little uncomfortable, but track with me because it only gets better.  The sad fact is that we’re all going to die someday.  It is a proven statistic, that 10 out of 10 people die. The Bible says, it is appointed unto man, once to die and then comes the judgement. The Bible also says, God has appointed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness;  that's the standard, 'righteousness' means he's going judge the heart.   We can see how we’re doing compared to that standard, by looking at ourselves in the mirror of God’s law the Ten Commandments.  If you would, for a moment, listen to your conscience.   Think of your conscience like the smoke detector in your house.  You want it to ring out if there is smoke or fire.   So here goes...   Have you lied?   Have you stolen?   Have you used God’s name in vain?  Have you always honored your parents?   Have you always put God first in your life?   Have you ever hated?  Did the fire alarm go off in your mind? It should have.  This should greatly concern you, it's so serious and it leaves us ALL in big trouble on judgement day.   We want to avoid hell, so trust in the Savior.   The Good News is that Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins, and rose from the dead on the third day.   He commands everyone to repent and trust in Him as savior. That’s the Good News, Jesus took the punishment we deserved. If you will repent and trust Him today God will give you the gift of eternal life.


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