Soul Winning

Date: 03 May 2008
Speaker: Pastor Tan Ye Peng
Venue: City Harvest Church

Luke 19:10
for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Matthew 28:19-20
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

Soul winning is your primary purpose.

1) Spiritually Fruitful (being able to have spiritual birth)

Genesis 1:26-28
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

As we can see, we are created in His image. God loves to create and give life, we should be like Him.

Dust > Man (Adam)
Man (Adam) > Woman (Eve)
Woman (Mary) > God (Jesus)
Man + Woman > Man + Woman
Man + God > Eternal Life

John 15:1
“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.

John 15:6
If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

God hates unfruitfulness.

2) Spiritual Adoption (praying in the Spirit)

John 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Gestation > Pray until something happens > Born Again

Soul winning is a co-mission. Winning the lost with a group and the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 16:18-19
And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

Matthew 18:16-20
But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.’ And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector. “Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. “Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”

Body of Christ > Groups of 2 and 3 > Offices, schools, homes, army camps, communities

Matthew 9:37-38
Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.”

Send (in greek, Ekballo) means to eject, to expel.
Send (in greek, Apostello) means sending out of the disciple.

3) Spiritual Empowerment (working with the Holy Spirit)

Genesis 1:2
The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

"Hovering"; The Holy Spirit was present.

Popcorn Effect: When salvation comes, it will come not just singularly, but in great numbers.

1 Corinthians 12:3
Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 2:10-11
But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

Prayer gives you access to the mind of God.

Matthew 27:50-51
And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit.
Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split,

2 Corinthians 3:14-16
But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ. But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

Hebrews 6:19
This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil,