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Mark 1:17; John 4:1-25; [Deuteronomy 18:18]; John 4:26-36; [I Corinthians 3:6]; John 4:37-43; Romans 10:1-17; Mark 16:15; [I Timothy 2:4]

Just as Jesus received holy spirit at the river Jordan, we received holy spirit when we are born again. Just as the Father gave Jesus Christ the words to speak, so it is for us as ambassadors in Christ’s stead. The message we have the joy and privilege to deliver is not our own, but the Father’s.

Jesus encouraged his disciples by telling them that regardless of the situation, they would have the right words to speak because the words would be given to them. When he invited them to become fishers of men in Mark 1:17, he was telling them he would teach them how to bring in souls for God with the same efficacy as that with which they carried out their fishing business.

In the gospel of John, we see the record of Jesus with the Samaritan woman. Her question to him regarded where the right place was to worship. His answer was there would come a time when it would no longer be a matter of where to worship, but that worship would be a spiritual reality. He was talking to her about eternal life. This is a wonderful example of sharing the gospel. God gave him the precise words needed to reach her heart to the end she desired what he was offering.

The Samaritan woman was so excited by what Jesus had to say that she dropped her water pot, which was a valuable possession in those days because one could not exist without water. She then ran to the city to tell the men that she had met the long-awaited Messiah. She was clearly a woman of renown in the city because the men came to see for themselves. When they heard what Jesus had to say, many believed that indeed he was the Christ, the Savior of the world.

This is the way Christian living should be. We are to speak to people the words of life so they get excited and believe. We can then help them until they also have an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ. We should have zeal regarding the Word of God, but also need the right knowledge.

The salvation message is very simple. God made it easy because none of us could have managed it if there was even one work to do. A person merely needs to confess with his or her mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in their heart that God raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9). We are to go about the Father’s business of preaching the world of deliverance. How can people hear without a preacher? And how can we preach, except we be sent? God will give us the right words to speak as we go into the world and preach the gospel to every creature.