Be Bold

I got out of class today and was super hungry. I went to the nearest cafe and got a sandwich and went to eat it on a bench nearby. Again, I found myself in a spot that I'm usually not in very often. I was tired, hungry and just wanted to finish my food and get on the bus home. This guy came up to me and asked if I was in his class. I asked what class (it was calculus) and I laughed and said no. He was a fairly awkward guy and kept talking to me. In my head I'm thinking okay thats great but I was just enjoying the sunshine and don't really want to talk to you. Then I remembered the scripture "Whatever you did unto the least of these you did unto me." Matthew 25:40 He asked if he could sit down, I said sure and he asked what I was majoring in. I thought okay how can I turn this conversation back to Jesus. So I asked him "How are you doing with Jesus?" He chuckled a little bit and then started quoting a few scriptures like John 3:16. I asked him if he was a Christian or if he grew up in the Church. He said he used to be a Christian and grew up in the Church. I then asked him how he fell away from the Lord. This was his answer*** He said "Because I loved darkness rather than light because my deeds were evil." (John 3:19) I proceeded to tell him what the Bible said about that, preached to him and told him that he could not serve two masters. He then said he loved God, he was studying philosophy and started naming all these man made hollow philosophies. I rebuked him and told him those were lies and that he needed to Repent and get right with Jesus. He said he was "surprised at my fanaticism for God." He asked me a few times if I was serious and I said yes. He then said they he had spoken with a Christian guy who was the leader of one of the Christian clubs on campus and said that he was shocked because I sounded more "fanatic" than him. He must have told me about 5 times that I was a fanatic and that I was bold. I showed him more scripture and told him that if you are not a slave to righteousness you are a slave to sin, in the same way you can only serve Jesus or the devil. I told him to choose today who he  would serve, and he left making it pretty clear he wanted to choose the devil. Heartbreaking. Last Days! What was shocking was his first comment though, that he "loved darkness rather than light because his deeds were evil." The bible tells us that that will happen and it has. This guy was fully conscious of his sin and did not have any fear of God before his eyes. Even though this guy was fully rebelling against God I praise God that I got to talk to him because he heard the un-compromised Gospel of Jesus Christ! And he just proved the word more true by admitting that he loved darkness, when God says that is what men will do. How are you doing with Jesus? Are you walking in the light or darkness?

John 3:16-21 "For God so loved the word that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him in not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believe in the name of God's one and only Son. This is the verdict; Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has  been done through God."

1 John 1:5-7 "God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin." (NIV)

1 John 3:8 " Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the work of the devil. (ESV)

1 John 3:9 "No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning because he has been born of God. This is how we know who the children of God are and who the Children of the devil are." (NIV)