January 8th, gain what you cannot lose.

Jesus looked at them and said, with man it is impossible, but not with God.

For all things are possible with God, Mark 1027.

Here are two great incentives from Jesus to become a world Christian

and to dedicate yourself to the cause of frontier missions as a goer or a sender.

One, every impossibility with men is possible with God.

Mark 1027, the conversion of hardened sinners will be the work of God

and we'll accord with his sovereign plan. We need not fear or fret over our weaknesses.

The battle is the Lord's and He will give the victory.

Two, Christ promises to work for us and to be for us so much

that when our missionary life is over we will not be able to say we've sacrificed

anything. Mark 1029 and 30. When we follow his missionary prescription

we discover that even the painful side effects work to improve our condition,

our spiritual health, our joy improves a hundredfold.

And when we die, we do not die. We gain eternal life.

I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ.

I appeal to you to renounce all that you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest

longings. I appeal to you to count all things as rubbish

for the surpassing value of standing in the service of the king of kings.

I appeal to you to take off your store-bought rags and put on the garments of God's ambassadors.

I promise you persecutions and privations, but remember the joy, blessed are those who are

persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven, Matthew 510.

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