This last week I witnessed again the power
of the gospel as revealed in Romans 1:16, on many people in Peru, "For
I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto
salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the
Greek." I personally conducted many Bible studies with people who knew
very little about the Bible. As we directed both men and women, young and
old in reading God's word for themselves, many for the first time, almost
all of them understood what they needed to do in order to receive forgiveness
of sins during just one study. Several were baptized, from ages 14 to 87
and the Lord added them to His church and kingdom (Acts 2:47).
One man as he read the scriptures said, "If this is true, then the
priests and cardinals have been lying to us. I encouraged the man to read
the verse again and he accepted Matthew 16:13-20, for what it truly reveals
about Jesus building His church on the confession that Peter made that
"Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God" and not upon Peter personally.
Many of those who were baptized were in some cases within a few hours bringing
others to us to study God's word. We studied in the streets, from house
to house and in public meetings with God truly bringing the increase.
Sadly, Satan has also been very busy in Peru. For every person we baptized,
there were four or five who wanted to be but were not willing at that time
to stop living in sin. Pray for those people, because the fields
are truly white unto harvest and may we also redouble our evforts to reach
the people of Webster county with the gospel which is the power of God
unto salvation.