The 4 Keys to Evangelism

If we desire to be effective evangelists then we must understand 4 things:

1. God is holy (Isaiah 6:1-5; 1 Peter 1:15).
2. Man is not (Romans 1:18-32; 2 Timothy 3:1-5).
3. Man has a problem (Isaiah 59:2-8; Romans 3:10-18).
4. God has the solution (Romans 3:21-26; 5:6-11; Ephesians 2:4-10; Titus 3:4-7).

Isaiah, a spiritual giant of the Old Testament, also needed to learn these four keys to evangelism before God would send him as a prophet to the nation of Israel. See what is written:

In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above Him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory!" And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!" Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth and said: "Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for." And I heard the voice of the LORD saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?" Then I said, "Here I am! Send me." And He said, "Go, and say to this people..."

Isaiah 6:1-9

 Isaiah now understood:

1. Who God is (Isaiah 6:3).
2. Who we are (Isaiah 6:5).
3. What God did (Isaiah 6:7).
4. What God is doing (Isaiah 6:8-9; Matthew 28:17-20).

God is holy, righteous, just, and pure and we have defiled ourselves from before Him. Each of us has turned to our own way because of the evil that is right here in our own hearts and lives (Isaiah 53:6). "But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ..." (Ephesians 2:4-5). He has pursued us and saved us by removing our sins and giving us abundant life which He is offering to all of mankind. The problem, however, is that there are still billions of people in this world who have never heard the gospel of Christ and the freedom it brings. God has commissioned us to go out and tell the world of who He is and what He did on our behalf.