Canada, as it stands today, is in serious trouble. Apostate religion has grown in great numbers across North America over the last decades, and as people identifying as Christians have, in so many cases, bowed down to the culture and traded the love of truth and the love of Christ for the temporary satisfaction of living life to the fullest now, Canada has become a nation of people who call evil good. (2 Tim 3: 1-5) (2 Tim 4: 1-5) God is abandoning Canada to her lusts. The time is now for sinners to flee to God for mercy!

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul? For what will a man give in exchange for his soul? Mark 8: 35-37

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell. Matthew 5: 28-30

Christ is her only hope, and the citizens of our country are in grave danger as the wrath of the Lamb is getting closer and closer to being justly unleashed upon her in the final judgment. (Rev. 6: 15-17) Canada desperately needs missionaries who will preach to the lost, for the glory of God, and tell them the truth of God’s law and the saving grace found in the gospel of Jesus Christ alone. Canada needs to see the transforming power of Christ over sin and hear of the power of God to save sinners!

And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. Mark 16: 15

Relationship Evangelism cannot substitute the message of the cross and rarely gets to the heart of the sinner because most often, with such an approach, they won’t hear about the law of God which would expose their sin to them and drive them to the cross of Christ. Instead, when human relationships are elevated to the status of number one importance, often times in an effort to preserve the human relationship and in disobedience to Christ, the so called evangelist never tells the truth about God or why Christ had to die such a death to save them. It is not truly loving the Lord or the other person and in the final analysis, such an approach leaves the lost sinner dead in his sins as his idea about Jesus is a whole different one than who Jesus Himself proclaimed He is.

“If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple. Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.” Luke 14: 26-27

The weakness of our human relationships built upon our human values is due to the fact that we are desperately wicked at heart and cannot save one another with mere kindness and human love. (Jer. 17: 9) When we are human first in our evangelism efforts, which Christ never commanded us to be, we will crucify righteousness to preserve our relationships; we will avoid anything that could put the relationship at risk. In short, we become idolaters and make our god submit to our relationships. In such a scenario the evangelist would never preach the truth of Christ; sin, repentance, God’s wrath, God’s holiness, the cross, etc., for fear that they would do harm to the relationship they’ve worked so hard to develop. Relationship evangelism makes the evangelist, not Jesus, the key person to the lost sinner, and in so doing attempts to steal the glory from God in favour of producing converts, and it never compels sinners to forsake their lives, repent, and turn to God for mercy.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.”
Matthew 23: 15

The Cross of Jesus Christ makes no sense without the law, and the Holy Spirit won’t work to convict the proud sinner who feels justified in himself. Such a person is lost and sees his sin as nothing more than a small and justifiable human matter instead of a grave evil against our Holy God. The preaching of the cross produces godly sorrow that leads to repentance. (2 Corin. 7: 8-10) How often does a person see their sin and repent because someone buys them a coffee or is super kind to them at the grocery store?

For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” Romans 10: 13-15

Self-Righteousness just won’t cut it with God. The self-righteous sinner who depends on their moral life, sitting in a church pew, who is trusting that God loves them because they are good and are, if anything, victims of circumstances beyond their control, is in grave danger and needs to hear the truth and grace of Christ. The person who doesn’t see their sin as evil which they have done to God faces a terrifying end should they never hear, get real, repent, and forsake themselves, the world, and their sin for Christ. To love God with all of ourselves is to engage in the battle against sin, and being born again puts us on the way of Christ so we can do just that!

Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’ Matthew 7: 22-23

And He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’ I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.” Luke 18: 9-14

Psalm 51