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CompelThem to

Comeby

FrancesHunter

Charles and Francis Hunter were gifted writers

who have gone on to be with Jesus,

the One they loved so much.

Joan Hunter is their daughter

and she can be reachedat http://oanhunter.org

!ublished originally by

HUNTER BOOKS

http://joanhunter.org/

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Compel Them to ComeBy Frances Hunter

As we race toward the last of the last days,

every year seems to be more exciting than the last

one! There is an increase of all that God is doing

because one day very soon it will be the last day.

ever have we exerienced greater assion for lost

souls than we feel today. "verywhere we go,everyone we tal# with exresses the same heart$

cry that we have heard in ourselves % G& '",

G& '", G& '" into all the world and reach the

gosel to every creature before it is too late. (hile

we all anticiate being gloriously lifted u in the

air to meet )esus, we must reali*e that, from thatday on, there will be no further oortunity to go

out after those eole who are lost and dying.

+n the fourteenth chater of u#e, )esus told a

arable about a very generous man who lanned a

huge ban-uet and invited everybody he #new. +nour years of exerience with large events, + dont

believe the mans ban-uet was a last$minute idea.

He would have lanned for it and sent out

invitations months in advance so that everyone on

the guest list would have amle time to arrange

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their schedules. He robably even sent out

reminders because he was really excited and

loo#ing forward to all of his guests eating and

fellowshiing with him. As the time neared, allthe floors were olished, the decorations were

erfected, and lavish rearations were comleted

to the last detail.

Where Are The Guests?Finally, it was the day of the ban-uet. The host aced

the floor anxiously as a few eole began to arrive. He

chec#ed with all the chefs to ma#e sure the meal

was being reared erfectly. He had lenty of

aeti*ers available and music laying gaily to

encourage his friends to relax and begin tofellowshi as they arrived. Time began to ass, and

the host reali*ed that the ban-uet hall was not

filling u as he had anticiated. &nly a few of the

eole on the long invitation list were resent. 0an

you imagine him loo#ing out over the tables and

what disaointment he must have felt as he saw

emty seats all over the lace1

Time was tic#ing away, and the host reali*ed

that shortly all of the wonderful array of foods

would be done to erfection, and there were too

many eole missing. He immediately sent his2



servant out to ersonally visit all the eole he had

invited and tell them to hurry u because

everything was all ready for the ban-uet!

The servant went out and began #noc#ing ondoors. But the Bible says that even though the

guests were to be treated royally with this

wonderful feast and would exerience an

unforgettable evening with this great man, they all

had excuses for not coming.et me as# you, if the governor of your state, or

the owner of your favorite sorts team, or some

well$#nown celebrity sent you an invitation to

come to an evening of delicious food and live

entertainment, all exenses aid, would you be

there1 + would! But loo# at some of the lameexcuses the eole had3

"ut they all with one accord began to ma#e

e$cuses. %he first said to him, &' have bought a

piece of ground, and ' must go and see if ' as# you

to have me e$cused.(

)nd another said, &* have bought five yo#e of

o$en, and ' am going to test them. ' as# you to

have me e$cused.(

+till another said, &' have married a wife, and

therefore ' cannot come.(

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+o that servant came and reported these things

to his master-u#e 52356$758.

The benevolent host was aalled. He had

butchered his finest stoc# and hired the best chefsto reare a feast that would be remembered for

years to come. The tables were set and the meal

was going to have to be served soon or it would be

ruined. All those eole who had been invited had

shown no regard for his invitation. He could hardly believe his #indness was being refused by so

many. He became furious.

%hen the master of the house, being angry, said

to his servant, &o out uic#ly into the streets and

lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and

the maimed and the lame and the blind( 9u#e523758.

The servant gathered u other servants to hel

him, and they went all through the streets bringing

in every oor erson and homeless erson and

handicaed erson they could find and sat them

down at the ban-uet tables.

)nd the servant said, &0aster, it is done as you

commanded, and still there is room.(

%hen the master said to the servant, &o out

into the highways and hedges, and compel them to

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come in, that my house may be filled. For ' say to

you that none of those men who were invited shall

taste my supper( 9u#e 52377$728.

The word compel has such an interestingdefinition. +t comes from a Gree# word that means

;to constrain, whether b y threat, entreaty, force or

ersuasion.< =o those servants went out and

literally grabbed eole by the hand and coaxed,

threatened and forced them to come with them tothe masters ban-uet. =ome of those eole

robably didnt want to go anywhere, but when

they ended u seated in the masters ban-uet hall

and began to feast on the sumtuous foods and

arta#e in the festivities, + believe they were really

glad to be there!

How Many Are Dying this Very

Minute Without Jesus?

>ecently, someone showed us on the

+nternet something that really got ourattention. +t was a web site that clic#s off the

number of eole who are dying right while

you are watching the comuter screen. 5?@

eole die every single minute :,/? eole

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die every hour and in one days time,

54/,??? eole leave this life, either with or

without )esus 0hrist as their ord and=avior.

The oulation has never been greater

than it is today and never has there been a

more urgent need for the Body of 0hrist to

comel the lost to receive )esus in theirheart! How many of those who are dying

will arrive at the gate of heaven to hear

)esus say, ;+ never #new you deart from

Ce< 9Catthew @37/81

During the 0hristmas holidays, 0harlesand + were in the Bush +ntercontinental

Airort in Houston, which at that time

seemed to be the busiest airort in the world.

And the eole in that airort were Eust

racing and racing, and they were all runningto catch other lanes and running to go some

lace or another. They were racing, racing,

racing. All you could see in their faces was,

;+ve got to get there, +ve got to get there,

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+ve got to get there.< (e were watching

them as we were Eust sitting there, and we

were saying,; + wonder if they #now wheretheyre going1 + wonder how many of them

really #now where they are going1 How

many of them are going to end u in

heaven1 How many are going to end u in

hell1Is There Really a Hell?

'ears ago we were in Tulsa, &#lahoma when

ester =umrall shared a vision that God gave him

when he was nineteen years old. +t was a vision he

had never forgotten and one which has remained inour hearts. He was sitting next to the ulit in a

tiny country church and suddenly he was no longer

aware of anything going on around him. +n an oen

vision God showed him all the eole of the world

of every color and dressed in every nativecostume. God lifted him u until he was loo#ing

down uon humanity and as he loo#ed down uon

the uncountable multitude, he saw the eole %

thousands and thousands abreast % running,

running, running, running as fast as they could.



Then all of a sudden they got right to the brin# of a

great big cliff. And Dr. =umrall said when they got

there, God too# him over so he could loo# down

and see the exressions on their faces. (hat hesaw left an indelible imression on his mind,

which caused him to send the rest of his life

reaching the gosel. He saw loo#s of absolute

horror on the multitude of faces as they saw below

them the fires of hell. They screamed in anguishand tried to sto, but they couldnt because of the

thousands behind them that Eust ushed them over

into the abyss of hell itself. For the next sixty$five

years, ester =umrall tried to #ee as many eole

as he could from going into the horrors of hell.

=o many times eole thin#, ;&h well, + cantgo over to +ndia, + cant go over to Africa, + cant

go to laces li#e that.< o, not everyone is called

to go onto foreign soil, but you can go to the

erson next door and comel them to come, even if

you have to drag them by the hair of their head. +

want you to urose in your heart right now to

comel the lost to come into the ingdom of God.

As# God right now to give you a greater burden

for souls, for the unsaved, than you have ever had

in your entire life. romise Him that with His hel

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you are going to be a doer of His word and not Eust

a hearer.

The 0hristian world has been flooded with

more boo#s and 0Ds and DDs than ever beforein history. And it is wonderful that 0hristians have

so many teaching tools available to them to hel

them grow u in 0hrist. But God is saying, not Eust

through 0harles and Frances, but through

ministries everywhere, that the time of sitting andabsorbing is over. +ts time to go out and begin to

do the wor#s of God. +n u#e 52372, the master

said to his servant, &1one of those men who were

invited shall taste my supper.( All those eole

had been invited, but they did not come and then

it was too late. They would never again be as#ed toanother ban-uet. There is only going to be one

marriage suer in heaven. (hoever does not

accet the invitation will never get another

invitation, once the ban-uet has begun.

All + have to do when + thin# of somebody who

is not saved, is thin# of ester =umrall running

over there to the edge of that abyss and seeing all

those screaming eole literally being ushed into

the gates of hell. There are others who have had

dreams and visions and life exeriences of seeing

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hell. =ome eole today do not believe there is a

hell. They wonder how God could send anybody to

such a horrible lace. But )esus taught on hell. He

exlained that God didnt ma#e hell for eole Hemade hell an everlasting fire for the devil and his

angels 9Catthew 743258. God never intended for

man to go there. He sent )esus away from His

throne and the beauty and Eoy of heaven to die a

ainful death and bear the sins of the world, so thatnot a single erson would ever have to go into that

terrible lace with the devil. Then He commanded

believers, each and every one of us, to G& '", G&

'", G& '"!

Witnessing Is So Simple'ears ago, when + first became a 0hristian, +

taught on witnessing. From the day + got saved, +

went out and + thought, ;The world is lost, theyre

all dying, theyre all going to hell. Theres nobody

but me. +ve got to save them all!<

Thats what a fanatic + was when + got saved. +

loo#ed at them all and + thought, ;&h! +ve got to

go! +ve got to run! Theres nobody but me tal#ing

about )esus.<

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There were others out there, of course, but + had

not ersonally heard anyone really telling eole

that they were lost and they needed to accet )esus.

+ had gone to church most of my life. + never heardanyone in church tell me + was lost and needed to

get saved. =o, on the day + got saved, God

convinced me that the whole world was on their

way to hell and + had to get them saved. &ne day +

got saved, and the next day + was out therewinning the lost to )esus.

obody ever told me how to win eole to

)esus. + never had a course on witnessing. + Eust did

it. + went out and told what )esus had done for me.

+ said, ;)esus delivered me from cigarettes! He

delivered me from alcohol! He forgave all my sins!He bubbles out of my heart in fantastic Eoy and

indescribable love for everybody!<

obody can argue with your testimony. (hen

you get u there and you say, ;God forgave all my

sins. + am sotless. + am a brand new creation!<

obody can argue with you.

God gave me eace in my heart that + never had

before. + had followed the things of the world

around. + loo#ed for worldly excitement in wild

arties and all that #ind of stuff, and nothing ever

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gave me eace. othing ever gave me hainess,

but )esus gave me Eoy in my heart. Thats why +

have to share Him with every erson + meet.

"veryone is loo#ing for cleansing from sin."veryone is loo#ing for eace and searching for

real hainess. 'ou dont have to have a wee#$

long seminar to tell someone what )esus did for

you, because they already #now they need what

)esus has given to you!+f somebody has got to sit down and tell you

how to witness, then there is something missing in

your heart. =omething is wrong on the inside of

you. Beloved, that may ste on your toes, but +

hoe it does. Do you #now why1 Because each and

every one of us ought to be out there saying, ;Doyou #now what )esus did for me1 (ould you let

me tell you how )esus gave me eace1 0an + share

how )esus too# away all of my guilt1 Did you

#now there are two #inds of eole % those who

are saved and those who are about to be... which

one are you1<

&ne morning, many years ago, 0harles and +

loo#ed out of our window and + said, ;&h, ord, +

ray for all those that are out there manicuring

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their grass. + ray for all of those that are out there

cutting all those little twigs off of their trees.

+ ray for all those who are in bed this morning

getting over a hangover. Glory to God, + Eust rayfor them.< Do you #now what God said to me1 He

said, ;Go out and comel them to come. Go out

and comel them to come.<

That afternoon, 0harles and + visited our

neighbor, right next door. He was bald$headed ashe could be, but we made u our minds that we

were going to grab hold of his hair anyway and

ull him into the #ingdom of God! (hat an

incredible Eoy it was to hear him as# )esus into his

heart!

Dont Ta!e Anything "or Grante#

This 0hristmas was one of the most secial

ones of our entire life. ast year, our first

grandson, whom + had not seen in over thirtyyears, contacted me and we were reunited. This

year, 0harles and + flew to hoenix to send

0hristmas with him, his wife and their children, as

well as all our other family members. Cy

grandsons wife is one of nine sisters who all live

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near each other. They all gather together every

month with all their souses and children. They are

the most loving family + have ever met in my

entire life. But one of the first things + did after wearrived in hoenix and had begun to visit with

them was to as# them, ;Did you #now there are

two #inds of grandsons and granddaughters$in$law

and great$grandchildren1 Those who are saved and

those who are about to be % which are you1< +had shared the miracles of God for about an hour

and they were fascinated with them.

They all resonded in unison, I(ere about to

be!< And each and every one of them received

)esus in their heart. HalleluEah! Dont Eust comel

the stranger to come % be sure you comel yourloved ones to come into the #ingdom of God.

Dont ta#e anything for granted!

'ou might say, ;+ cant be a witness because +

might turn them off.<

+ve got news for you % theyre turned off

already! Dont worry, dont worry, dont worry!

Theyre turned off! 'ou can only hel them to get

turned on.

;(ell, they might thin# +m a fanatic.< They

thin# youre a fanatic already! =o dont worry

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about that. Theyre emty, and youre full. They

#now something is missing. They might thin# you

are cra*y, but when they see that Eoy of the ord

bubbling out, bubbling over and running all overthe lace, theres Eust something about it they are

going to want. And they will begin to say, ;0ome

on, give me some of that living water. + want

whatever it is that ma#es you bubble over all the

time.<

Things of the World Can Rob

People of Eternal Life

ets loo# bac# at u#e 52375. The servant

went out to those on the guest list, and they cameu with every excuse not to come to the ban-uet.

The first man said, ;+ve bought a new iece of

ground and +ve got to ta#e care of it.<

(orldly ossessions, even good ones, can

literally ull you away from the things of God if

you will let them. God wants you to have every blessing in the world, but He doesnt want the

blessing to ;have you.< A lot of eole dont #now

how to handle their blessings. The minute they

begin to achieve success in their business or get a

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raise and can afford some nice luxuries, they dont

have time for God.

=omeone who has as#ed God for increase for

many years and then gets really blessed will oftenforget where the blessings came from. They say,

;&h, +ve wor#ed so hard, and + really deserve this

and that. + give my emloyer his moneys worth. +

dont cheat anyone. +m a good erson. + dont

mistreat my family. + dont need to go to church. +ta#e my #ids hunting and fishing and + buy my

family everything they need.< Hell is going to be

full of men who said things li#e that. Hell is going

to be full of sweet old ladies, too, who never got

born again. They always had wor# to do and their

;god< was in staying busy, busy, busy. They neverhad time to as# )esus into their heart and deend

on Him to set their riorities. Things of this world

consumed these eole so that they never aid

attention to the invitation from the Caster.

Obsession with SuccessCompetes With Salvation

Then the next man said, ;+ve Eust bought five teams of

oxen. =o +ve got to go out and wor# with them and

train them.<56



This is an examle of someones Eob becoming

the god of their life. They become so involved in

becoming a success that they Eust dont have time

to resond to an invitation which might ta#e a tiny ortion out of their daily lanner or goal boo#.

They dont have time for that Full Gosel

Businessmens meeting that a friend invited them

to. They cant fit church into their schedule. They

have better things to do than listen to the reacher ouring his heart and soul into a television

crusade. Then, its too late $ and there are no more

invitations.

+ remember, years ago, when + owned a rinting

comany before + got saved, my excuse to the

astor who came in every wee# and ersonallyinvited me to come to church was, ;'ou now, +

have wor#ed so hard all wee# long. =unday

morning is the only morning + have to slee.<

Then, to show how religious + was, + said, ;+m

sure God doesnt mind if + slee on =unday

morning.<

+ was so determined to be a success that + had

no time for the things of God. But one of the things

+ have discovered is, it is so easy to become a

success when you do it with God instead of

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without Him. God can ma#e you a success faster

than you will ever ma#e a success of yourself, if

you learn to deend on Him.

God has a way of sea#ing to your emloyerthat you can never do. 'ou can wor# really hard

and you can say all the right little things that you

want to, but when you have fellowshi with God,

you can say, ;God, would you mind sea#ing to

him1 'ou #now, God, +ve been tithing and tithingand tithing now, God, + need a raise because +

want to give some more into your #ingdom.< God

will ass u all those other eole that are in your

firm and He will sea# to your boss about giving

you a raise, and your boss will never even #now

what haened to him. HalleluEah!

Who Do ou Place !irst

in our Life"

Then, in u#e 5237? was another oor excuse.

The last man said, ;+ have Eust gotten married and,since we are newlyweds, + cant come.<

(e can let family get in the way of our coming

to God and our rogress with God. 'ou might

thin#, ;ow, Frances, you dont sound very much

li#e a family erson.< 'es, + am. + love my7?



children, and even before them, + love my

husband. But God comes first in my life. And +

raise God that He comes first in 0harles life. +

raise God that He is first in the life of mychildren. That is the roer order of our affection

% God, souse, and children. (hen things are in

roer order, your life is oen to the blessings of

God.

=o many times we can use our family as anexcuse. But + have a secial word for you... ;'ou

are resonsible.< The devil will tell you, ;'oure

going to turn your husband off if you ut God

first.< Dont worry about that. +f hes not utting

God first, hes turned off already. (hen you get to

heaven, you are resonsible for yourself. 'ou willanswer to God and not your husband when you get

to heaven. =o God has to come before your family.

+ remember when + first got saved and + started

on this mad, wild love affair with God. + stood u

in a church and + said, ;+ love God more than +

love my daughter.< Cy daughter was thirteen at

the time. And the whole church went,

;??????hhhhhh< in a loud moan of shoc#, as if

they were all thin#ing, ;+snt she terrible1< o, +

was not terrible, because when the =irit of God

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came into me and + reali*ed + loved Him more than

anything else that could ossibly exist in the

universe, He gave me a suernatural love for my

daughter that was far greater than any + could everhave had in the natural.

The blessing of utting God first, even before

your family, is that they all benefit when He gives

you suernatural love for them and suernatural

Eoy and atience and faith and gentleness. 'ourfamily reas the benefit of you utting God first,

and as a result they learn to ut God first also. Cy

daughter loves God Eust li#e her mother does. =he

now has an anointed healing ministry and God is

using her to bless eole because she uts Him

first.(hen you ut God first and you let your family

see the Eoy of the ord in you, they are going to

want the same thing. 'ou let them see you trusting

God in every situation, and they are going to learn

to trust God. 'ou dont want them to ut their

reliance on you as their arent % you want them to

ut their total reliance and total deendence on

God. Then they will teach their families to do the

same. (hen you teach your family to ut God

totally first, you leave them a legacy that no

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amount of money can buy and no inheritance can

e-ual.

The #aster Wants $is %an&uet$all !illed

+n u#e 5237/, the master of the ban-uet % who is

)esus % was furious that all the eole who were

invited ignored his invitation, even after they were

reminded. He said, &o out uic#ly into the streets

and lanes of the city, end bring in here the poor

and the maimed and the lame and the blind.(

For years, + thought that )esus was saying to go

and bring in oor eole, not the rich because they

didnt need it. The rich need )esus Eust as badly asthe oor do. =ometimes + thin# they need Him

more, because they get satisfied with success and

they get self$sufficient. + was satisfied with success

before + got saved. But + was really among the

oor because + was so oor in sirit. + didnt #now

what the love of God could do in the life of a erson. + didnt #now the Eoy that )esus could give

to a erson.

The oor which )esus calls for are those who

dont #now )esus. They can be oor while living in

the finest mansion. These are those who are oor7/



on the inside because there is a total unfulfillment

in their life that they will not even reali*e until

they come to saving #nowledge of the ord )esus

0hrist.The master said, ;Bring in the maimed.< Cany

times when + thin# of the maimed, + thin# of those

who have been wounded. )esus was really giving

some good advice here. He said to go to the eole

who are in need, and those are the eole who willlisten to you. =ometimes those eole who are so

affluent and who have everything, in the material

sense, will #ee shoving you off. But the word of

God never returns void. 'ou Eust #ee on utting

the word of God into their hearing, and one of

these days it is going to get ast their ears intotheir sirits, and theyre going to suddenly say,

;&h, + remember that lady twenty years ago who

witnessed to me about the love of God.<

There are many ways of being maimed. +t is not

always a flesh wound. There can be an accident or

a hysical tragedy. But there can be a divorce that

is imminent. There can be a situation that has torn

someones soul aart The easiest erson to reach

with the gosel is someone who is hurting. 'ou

can say to them, ;)esus has got the answer to

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everything thats wrong with you.< 'ou can say,

;+f youre hurting, you come on with me. 0ome

with me. + can ta#e you to =omeone who will heal

your hurt<;Bring in the lame.< Do you #now that the

lamest erson you will ever see will be strong

when they wal# in a covenant relationshi with

God. +n their wea#ness, Gods strength is made

erfect. God ta#es the load. There is a young manwho aeared on >obert =chullers rogram

recently, who has no arms and no legs. He was

born without limbs. 'et, the sirit of God on him

Eust ma#es him glow. He radiates with Gods love.

His life has hysical restrictions we can only

imagine yet, he has a worldwide ministry, sharingGods love with multitudes. His covenant with

God has made him stronger than many eole who

have arms, legs, and lenty of other hysical

strengths to go with them throughout life.

enneth 0oeland did a marvelous illustration

on being in covenant with God at a Believers

0onvention. He exlained that, in olden times,

sometimes two arties would cut their wrists and

let the blood flow together to show they were one

in covenant relationshi. =ometimes, to show that

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the two were wal#ing as one, they would cut a vein

in the leg of one erson and a vein in the leg of the

second erson, and then they would tie the legs

together to show that the two could wal# as one.=o it is, when we are in covenant with God and we

wal# as one with God. As + listened to this

illustration, + thought, ;The most criled eole

in the world are those who do not #now the Eoy of

wal#ing with God.< To be truly lame is to notunderstand that all of the strength of God belongs

to us, and all the blessings of Abraham belong to

you and to me.

;Bring in the blind,< the master said. There are

none so blind as those who see and yet do not see.

There are none so blind as those who ass by asirit$filled church and never see that they are

emty on the inside when they could go into that

little church and be filled. There are those who see

the word of God and who do not see the ower of

the truth that is within it and do not see the

relevance for today. Those are the eole who are

blind. Go out and bring those eole in. 0omel

them to come with you.

Bring those eole in who are hurting. Go into

your neighborhood and ta#e a loo# around and say,

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;(hos that erson1 (hat does that erson really

need most1< begin to ray for those eole until

you have courage to go out and get them.

=ometimes it ta#es a little courage to go out thereand comel them to come.

Then the master of the ban-uet in-uired of his

servant, and the servant said, ;+ve done as you

as#ed. + brought in all those oor and lame and

maimed and blind eole, but there is still roomfor more.<

$ou Must Get Serious an# %&eythe Master

Do you #now that heaven has been reared for

billions of eole, and it is not very crowded yet1

There is still room for more. )ust as the earthly

host had made rearations for a huge ban-uet

with guests from all over the land, God has made

rearations for every single erson who has lived

or ever will live. There is room for every one ofthem. Cany have not made it, and many of those

:,/? eole who die every sixty minutes will not

go into the heaven that God has reared for them.

Heaven has lots more room. Go out and get the

eole and comel them to come.

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Then the master said to the servant, ;Go out

into the highways.< That is your busy laces. Go

into the shoing mall where you see lots of

eole. Go into laces where there are meetings.Go into cafeterias. Tal# to eole.

0harles and + were in (yatts 0afeteria Eust

throwing the word of God all over the lace. (e

draw eole into conversations about how good

God is. +f someone has a headache, we ray forthem on the sot. +f they have a bac#ache, we grow

their legs out. +t doesnt matter where they are %

in a restaurant or an airort. (hen you ray for

someone and they get healed, do you thin# they

will say ;o< when you lead them to as# )esus

into their life1 (e have never had a erson refuse)esus after He has healed them.

Dont share doom and gloom with the eole.

=hare the good news! =hare what exciting things

)esus has done for you. =ometimes eole thin#

they dont have a testimony. "verybody has got a

testimony. +f )esus 0hrist lives in your heart,

youve got a testimony because youve got the

divine =on of God living big inside of you. 'ou

have a right and a calling to be enthusiastic and

offer the eole that excitement and Eoy!

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Then the master said, ;Go into the hedges.<

'ou are going to have to root out some of those

eole that never seem to go into ublic laces. Go

to that lady whos afraid to go outside of her houseand tal# to her. Go after that erson who is

uncomfortable in crowds or fearful of eole in

their heart and comel them to come. +f you invite

them to church, tell them its not Eust to be in a

church building but to receive what God has forthem and to hear what He has to say to them. Drag

them by the hair of their head. ic# them u in

your car. Dont let them get away from what God

has for them.

+f someone says, ;o<, what have you lost1

'ou havent lost a thing by as#ing. A lot of eolehave told us ;o< over the years. + thin#

sometimes eole hear 0harles and me tell about

so many exciting conversions that they thin#,

;(ow, everybody that they tal# to accets )esus.<

o, they dont. (e have had lots of eole tell us

;o<. Do you thin# that discourages me one bit1

ot in the least. + have done what God said to do,

and + can say, ;Their blood is not on my hands.<

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'od $olds ou (ccountable for

Obe)ing $im

ets loo# at "*e#iel /35:$5. 1ow it came to

pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the

-ord came to me, saying, +on of man, ' have made

you a watchman for the house of 'srael, therefore

hear a word from 0y mouth, and give them

warning from 0e. 2hen ' say to the wic#ed, 34ou shall surely die,5 and you give him no warning,

nor spea# to warn the wic#ed from his wic#ed way,

to save his life, that same wic#ed man shall die in

his iniuity6 but his blood ' will reuire at your

hand.(

That is a stern word from God. ow loo# at

what He says next3

&4et, if you warn the wic#ed, and he does not

turn from his wic#edness, nor from his wic#ed

way, he shall die in his iniuity6 but you have

delivered your soul.(+n other words, the blood of the one who dies in

his sin is not on your hands. 'ou have delivered

your soul because you shared )esus with them.

'ou have nothing to lose. They have everything to

lose, and you may be the one God uses to save

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them. &r you may be the one God uses to lant a

seed that they will remember one day which will

still lead them to salvation. They have everything

to gain if you will Eust share the love of God.

*t+s so Eas) to Sa), -'od Loves

ou./

(itnessing is Eust exressing the love of God,

even if you simly say, ;Do you #now that God

loves you in a ersonal way1< obody ever told

me that God loved me as an individual. + #new that

God loved the whole world % ; For od so loved

the world that He gave His only begotten son that

whosoever believes in Him should not perish buthave everlasting life( 9)ohn /35:8. + #new that He

loved the world in general, but nobody ever said,

;For God so loved Frances...< obody ever too#

the Bible and made it ersonal and said, ;Frances,

God loves you. 'ou are really secial and God

loves you.<The most tremendous thing in the world is to

#now that God loves you. =o many times + hear

eole say, ;obody loves me. obody loves me.

obody loves me.< 'es, someone does! God loves

you! "ven when the rest of the world gets to the/5



oint that you might thin# they dont love you, oh,

how God loves you. Cany eole dont share the

love of God because they are so afraid that they

will offend somebody. The love of God will neveroffend anybody % and what have you got to lose1

(hen you do get someone saved, you will be

hoo#ed for life. There is nothing in this world that

will set your sirit soaring li#e ersonally leading

someone to )esus!

So ou Love Them Enough to

Warn Them"

There is a true story about a fire in as egas

which started in a large, modern hotel. The firealarms went off in the middle of the night, and

eole ran through the long hallways, #noc#ing on

the doors, warning the hotel guests to get out

before the hotel burned.

=ome of the eole behind those doors

answered, ;(hat1 &h, dont bother me. Theyvegot good fire e-uiment in this city. This building

isnt going to burn. Anyway, +m tired and + had a

little too much to drin# last night. +ts too much

effort to get u.<

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=ome of those eole that didnt come out

when they were warned died that night in that

hotel fire. They could easily have been saved, but

they didnt heed the warning.0harles and + once stayed in a motel which had

the fire alarm go off four times in one night. After

the second alarm, you might start to thin#, ;(ell,

there is something wrong with that e-uiment< (e

did thin# that, but we still got right out of bed andmade sure there was no smo#e and no fire. (hen

an alarm is going off, you dont lie there in bed

and wait to smell smo#e. +t could -uic#ly be too

late.

+ want you to thin# about the unsaved eole

that you #now % your neighbor, the erson wholives ustairs, the erson at the office. 'our flesh

will come u with all #inds of excuses. But you

Eust need to share the love of God. )ust tell

somebody, ;God loves you.< That is witnessing.

Tell somebody what )esus has done in your life.

'our testimony might not be real exciting, but it

could be exactly what that erson needs to hear.

Any testimony where )esus comes into your heart,

ta#es away your sins, fills you with eace and faith

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and hoe is exciting, so you have a lot you can say

to bless eole.

+f youre afraid to tal#, thin# about that as

egas fire. (hat if there had been members ofyour family in that hotel1 (hat if some of your

friends or wor# lace associates were in there and

it was burning1 (ould you have stood downstairs

and debated and thought, ;(ell, + cant go and tell

them that the building is burning, because theymight be offended if + wo#e them u in the middle

of the night1< o. 'ou would have run u there

and ounded on those doors with all your might.

'ou would have awa#ened them and comelled

them to come out before they got burnt u. 'et we

#now there is an eternal fire reared for the deviland his angels, which God never intended for his

finest creation to go. (ill we stand by, afraid to

oen our mouth, or will we ma#e certain that

erson is saved1

Ever) Soul #atters to 'od

There is a whole world out there, the maEority

of which is on their way down that ath which God

showed to ester =umrall, moving, moving,/2



moving towards the gates of hell from which they

will never escae. =ome of you may thin#, ;How

can + ma#e a difference when there are so many

that are lost1 + can never reach the whole world.<There is a little story which touched my heart

because it is so real and so true. A little boy was

wal#ing along the beach after a big storm. After

the strong waves had receded, thousands of starfish

were lying there, strewn out all across the sand,struggling with all their might because they were

out of the water and they were going to die. This

little boy was wal#ing along and he would bend

over and ic# u a starfish and then wal# into the

water and toss the starfish out where it would live.

Then he would come bac# to the dry sand, benddown and ic# u another starfish, wal# to the

waters edge and toss that one out into the dee

where it would live. A man aroached the little

boy and said, ;=on, you cant begin to save all

those thousands of starfish, so why bother at all1

(hat does it matter1<

The boy ga*ed at the man in wonder. He held

u the tiny starfish in his hand and said to the man,

;+t matters to this one!<

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Compel Them (nd The) Will

Than0 ou in Eternit)

)esus said, ;0omel them to come. Go out and

find them and ma#e them come in. Jse force if

you have to!<

)esus told this arable as His ersonal

instructions to us. +t is not a little ;iffy< suggestion.

lt is the heartbeat of )esus. He is the Caster, thegenerous host in the story, and we are the servants.

+n the arable, the servant went out immediately

and did exactly what he was told to do.

(hen + first became a 0hristian, + went out and

ic#ed u three carloads of sinners every =unday

morning. + hon#ed, went inside to hel them,

whatever it too#. + didnt accet any excuses. +

comelled them to come because, from the

moment + was saved, something within me did not

want anybody, not one erson, to go to hell.

)esus has a massive amount of eole on hisinvitation list, and it brea#s His heart to see chairs

He #nows will be unfilled if we dont go out and

comel them to come in. He is counting on us to

go out and get them. i#e the faithful servant He

wants our resonse to be, ;'es, =ir. + will do as

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'ou say. The ban-uet is nearly ready and +m

going to hel 'ou fill u all those emty chairs!<

Father, right now, ' lift up every person who is

reading the words on this page. %han# 4ou for the power of your word. %han# 4ou for the power of

the Holy +pirit. Father, than# you that the Holy

+pirit gives us boldness to obey Jesus and go out

and share the love of od with every person that

we meet. rant to us a greater desire to win thelost than we have ever had in our entire life, in

Jesus5 name. )men.

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