Now... I know that those of you that can hear me will not be offended by this post, because if you can hear me, then you have seen this phenomenon in your own life, when you have tried to "force" this truth down an unwilling person's throat!

As a matter of fact; I have found it to be quite alarming as to whom the Lord will ALLOW to hear this Gospel!

Not many learned men, or those educated, or mighty rulers, or famous people among us, have been chosen to understand the covenant of God's glorious plan for creation.

Nope... He chose the riff-raff, and the unlearned, and the junkies, and the derelicts in this world... He chose the base things of this world, to confound the Mighty!

God did this, so that when He had finished delivering mankind, no person could boast about how his own virtue, will, intelligence, or strength had helped, or assisted God in any way!

God turned all men over to the disobedience of the reprobate mind, in order that He might show Himself to be the one and only omnipotent, mighty God [ruling the entire universe], and that He might then have mercy upon all people!

But alas... most of the time...

The people that I THOUGHT would hear the truth, usually ended up rejecting it. Whereas, those that COULD HEAR IT were usually a "spur of the moment" type encounter - and they were usually very plain, and ordinary type souls!

I have found it very strange, but God seems to select the mediocre people of this world, to appoint them over the MOST GLORIOUS spiritual events!

You know what else?

Neither my DESIRE to tell a person this Gospel, or their DESIRE to hear it means SQUAT!

Many times I would be really fired up about telling someone these truths [thinking about what a great person they were in my own imagination], only to have them sit there with a blank look on their face [when I told them about God].

On the other hand, there were many times, when I would be working at some person's house, or at the store... exhausted, and not feeling well, and the Lord would almost have to FORCE me to talk about the Word with them! To my amazement; these would be the people that would hear this thing! If God wants me to talk to somebody; I can guarantee you that it WILL happen, and neither hell, or high water is going to stop it [much less my lazy, evil, decrepit flesh]!

And another thing you can rest assured about: If God is ready for a person to hear this truth, THAN NOTHING IS GOING TO STOP IT! NOTHING!

God does this intentionally, so that men will not be puffed up, and subsequently think that their "proselytizing" was what drew a certain person to the Lord!

99 times out of a 100, the persons you THINK will hear you WON'T hear you!

I have found that educated, intellectual people tend to be the LEAST likely to hear the truth... I know it sounds crazy, and it appears that I am profiling people, but I'm sorry... it just is that way!

Believe me, folks... if you want to be here [hear], then I WANT you here... but if you DON'T want to be here, then I DON'T want you to be here!

I'm not from the age of Pentecost, guys... don't give a hoot about large numbers of people!

I also don't need to worry about rounding up all the people, in order to feed them.

You see; when the famine is upon us [and it is at the door now], there won't be any need to go and seek out the people, because they will do exactly what their ancestors [Jacob's sons] did [during the famine of Joseph's time] - THEY WILL GO INTO EGYPT, SEARCH FOR THEIR BROTHER, AND ASK FOR BREAD, AND DELIVERANCE!

11He who tills HIS land shall be satisfied with bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits is lacking in sense and is without understanding.

Edited 3 times by Bill Lancaster May 11 08 7:03 AM.