Apostle Paul echoed it to the Romans from our text, that, having been won to victory, his greatest desire, his goal and his passion was for Israel to be saved – that the people who were in the dark should come to the light of God. Kindly note beloved in Christ that the matter of Winning others to Christ is the heartbeat of Jesus Christ, and there is no time that this is very important than now. The principal reason why God created human beings when the world was created was to be fruitful. The first command He gave man after creation in Genesis 1:26,28 was to be fruitful; it therefore behoves us as Christians, if indeed we are serious with our life hereafter, to hold the matter of fruitfulness very seriously because when He returns, He would surely ask us questions about how many people we have won to victory, and need be added that the time of His coming is tinkling.
With the prophesied end of the world happenstances that are now staring us in the face globally, it is evident that the much talked about last day is here (2 Timothy 3:1-5). Winning others to the knowledge of Christ is a task that all children of God must take on board, and very seriously too. All believers in Christ Jesus have an obligation to deliver others from the grips of the devil and hell; we are obligated to enlarge the kingdom of victorious people, we werecalled to influence others to the kingdom of God and to be actively involved in the ministry of fruitfulness and discipleship.
All through the ministry of Jesus Christ, what was in His plate and on His lips were the urgent matter of winning others to victory (John 15:8,16). Beloved in Christ, kindly note this, and very deliberately too, that your Christian faith confers and imposes responsibilities on you – Christianity is not about the glamour of your title, it is rather about the responsibilities of your title. God is not looking at your church position, He is looking for the fruits from your position in the church. The essence of your existence as a child of God is to bear fruit; anything out of winning others to victory is a sheer waste of divine investment. In Matthew 28:19-20, Jesus said you should go out and make disciples of all nations. This is suffice to say that you were called to the commission of winning others to victory of the Cross.
In John 22, after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, Bro. Peter decided to return to his fishing business and six of the disciples of Jesus Christ went with him – they abandoned their heavenly commission of winning others to Victory for the service of tables. Jesus met them there and asked Brother Peter thrice: Simon son of Jonah, do you love me more than food? That is, do you love me more than the pleasures of this temporal life and do you love me more than your work? On the three occasions, Peter answered Him and said Yes, I do. Jesus told him that if indeed he loved Him, he should feed His sheep.
Dear beloved in Christ, you have a charge to be Christ’s ambassadors. God desires that you must be an example of Him wherever you are located and at your places of posting (2 Corinthians 5:20). Your faith must be established through your walk, your talk and your conduct. Your Christianity must not be by the hordes of stickers of I AM BORN AGAIN on your cars or the bigness of your Bible or your loud tongue-speaking, it must be through your character and your desire to expand His kingdom; you are called to illuminate the path of others in darkness to His marvellous light ( Matthew 5:14-15). You have a duty to shine the light of God and extinguish darkness. As the salt of the earth, you are also called to the ministry of healing and reconciliation, you are to bring sweetness, purification, healing and not disintegration and destruction among the elects of God (Matthew 5:13).
Please be informed dear brothers and sisters, thatyou were called majorly to bear fruits. You were not called out to yourself but God called you out for the world. You were called to better the world and not essentially to better your own lots (1 Peter 2:9-10). Beloved, let me remind you that when your time is up here, you shall stand before the judgment throne of God to give account of all that you did in the body (2 Corinthians 5:10), you shall give report of every idle word (Matt. 12:36) and you shall give statement for all the souls that were committed to you and all the people you encountered beginning from the neighbours who were placed around you for a purpose, to your housemaid to your driver, to your children, your family members and your colleagues at work. I pray that you will not miss heaven at the end in the name of Jesus Christ.
Prayer: Father, help me in this Christian journey to redirect my thoughts and steps towards winning souls to your kingdom in the name of Jesus