Our Deeds Exposed
OUR DEEDS EXPOSED
Let us now consider some of the matters found in the first section. In this section, Paul firstly exposed us in our doings. I do not have the words to express how dirty, evil, dark, and ugly are the things exposed by Paul in the opening chapters of this book. It is not the persons that are ex posed in these chapters, but their doings. We should observe this principle in preaching the gospel. Do not quickly expose what people are. You need to first expose what they do—their deeds, behavior, and activities. For instance, as you preach the gospel, you may ask a person what he was doing last night at ten o'clock. We have done this many times. Once, while preaching the gospel in the presence of the Holy Spirit, I pointed to a certain young student and said, "Do you know what you did? You stole chalk from school and brought it home." When I pointed my finger at him and said those words, he said within himself, "That doesn't mean anything." Immediately I responded, "Are you saying that this doesn't mean anything?" That frightened him. Then I said, "You brought the chalk home and drew circles on the floor." That was exactly what he had done. After the message, he was the first