Colossians 4:5
Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunity.
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Jesus, who is our Lord and the perfect example of what our behavior should be, was eating with His disciples and with sinners and tax-gatherers, the ‘outsiders’, on one occasion And when the scribes and Pharisees saw that, they questioned why He would do such a terrible thing (at least in their eyes). Jesus responded saying that He did not come to call the righteous, but sinners! {Mar.2:15-17} Which by the way was just what you and I were when He found us!

My wife Alice and I have spent quite a bit of time in many other countries over the years. We actually lived in quite a few of them as I was in those places to share the love of Jesus and teach the Word. We never had citizenship in any of them; as it is written, our citizenship is in heaven. {Php.3:20} We did have wonderful fellowship with the believers in every one of those places and I always was able to share the love of God, His word, and His wisdom with saints and sinners alike.

That certainly is not being bound together with the unsaved in fellowship or partnership as Paul warns against {2Cor.6:14}—it is evangelism and manifesting the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Jesus in every place. For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing! {2Cor.2:14-15}

All of us, you and I, the children of God, need to reach out to the lost with the love of God simply because God loves them and desires that none should perish, just as Peter wrote! {2Pt.3:9} After all, how will they be saved if they do not call upon the Lord, and how shall they call on Jesus if they have not believed, and how will they believe if they do not hear, and how will they hear if no one tells them, and who is going to tell them unless they are sent. {Rom.10:13-15 whew!}

Perhaps just like the prophet Isaiah hearing the Lord say, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us” you too will say, "Here am I. Send me!" {Is.6:8} Consider yourself sent! And always remember, 'Faith comes by hearing the Word’ {Rom.10:17}—speak the Word! It is not about having a title on a business card, it is about being faithful to proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness and into His marvelous light! {1Pt.2:9} Do not forget that Jesus said to all His disciples that we are the light of the world and we are to let our light shine before men in such a way that they may see our good works, and glorify our Father who is in heaven in that wonderful Sermon on the Mount. {Mat.5:14,16}

Jesus, the Son of Man, came into the world to seek and to save that which was lost {Lk.19:10} and now He has appointed and anointed us as the ambassadors of the Kingdom, equipped and called to a ministry of reconciliation. {2Cor.5:18-19} That does not mean that you have to have a television program or travel the world or have a fancy title. What is required is that you and I speak the truth in love {Eph.4:15} at the grocery store, the place where you work, or, not to put too fine a point on it—wherever you happen to be; just be led by the Holy Spirit.

“And let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we shall reap if we do not grow weary. So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith.” (Galatians 6:9-10)

THE WORD OF GOD AND THE LOVE OF GOD