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You Cannot Do the Job of the Holy Spirit

Evangelism is not a solo by God or a solo by you.  We are co-laborers.  It is not that evangelism is even a 50/50 deal. Evangelism is 100 percent both: 100 percent God and 100 percent us. Jesus was 100 percent God and 100 percent human. That is the way God works through His church. He fills 100 percent human beings with His 100 percent divine Holy Spirit. That is the way God’s work and witness in the world goes forward.

Evangelism is a team effort between God and me.  He opens the door, I walk through.  He provides the conviction, I provide the explanation.  He provides the light, I provide my life.  He provides the power, I the prayer.

The job of the Holy Spirit is to draw the sinner, and convince him of sin, righteousness and judgment. Our job as Christians is to faithfully plant the seed of God's Word in the sinner. It is our job to go. Just as we are to lay hands on the sick and leave the recovering part up to God.

Evangelism is like felling a tree.  The Holy Spirit sends this one and that one along to chop away at them so that they reach the point at which only one more chop will fell the tree.  The final guy gets credit for chopping down the tree, but what he really did was give just the last chop necessary.  And furthermore, he’s not even the chopper.  He’s only the ax!  The Holy Spirit is the One who’s doing the chopping.  He’s just an instrument in the hands of the Holy Spirit.

Even in a Billy Graham Crusade, when thousands get saved, statistically they have heard the gospel 5 or 6 times before the crusade.