Vision for Mission: Nurturing an Apostolic Heart

Ses s i on 3: The Rea l i t y of Satan i c B l i ndnes s and the Cer ta i nt y of Di v i ne Judgment 33

2 Cor. 4.3-4 – And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

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The heart and soul of the apostolic warfare against the enemy was in the affirmation and proclamation of the truth as it was in Jesus. The central feature of demonic resistance in mission is the blindness caused to the Gospel. Only prevailing prayer and biblical truth can pry the grasp of the enemy from the minds of those who do not believe.

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II. An Apostolic Heart Is Fully Assured of the Certainty of the Coming Divine Judgment upon the Doomed.

A. God has appointed a day for the judgment of the entire world, Acts 17.22-34.

1. They did not argue sceptics into the Kingdom by reason’s power, but testified to the reality of God’s person, his judgment, and the upcoming transformation of the world.

2. They did not seek to “make friends and influence people”; rather, the apostles testified solemnly of God’s upcoming judgment on all the world’s inhabitants.

B. They proclaimed God’s wrath as being revealed from heaven against ungodliness and unrighteousness, Rom. 1.18-32.

1. All stand before God as convicted sinners. Why?

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