What are the components of our witness? First of all, warning every man. You may just think that the apostle means that he warns against catastrophe.
Now today, you have got the same problem. You have not got idolatry in the West but what you have got is different religions and people thinking, well as long as you worship something, you are alright. It could be New Age, anything you like. Oh no, there is one true and living God who is personal, who made you, who is holy and just, who is the judge of all the earth, and one Saviour. And we have to put these things into people’s minds. You cannot be woolly headed and vague and nominal in your understanding and in your belief.
We do not approach lost people as though we are grovelling to their great minds, and must persuade them of the reasonableness of our faith. We are not coming from an inferior position. We have this great secret of redemption and we teach it unashamedly. We teach for now and for the future. Every sermon that we preach, every witness that we mount, it may be the lighting of a fuse that will take some time to burn before there is a kind of explosion in a heart and in a soul. You see this time and time again.