How Beautiful are the Feet
Romans 10:15, “And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!”
The Bible says that the feet of those who preach the
Gospel of Jesus Christ are beautiful. This speaks of the Soul Winner.
Proverb 11:30, "The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that
winneth souls is wise."
It is interesting that God calls the feet "beautiful." God could have called
the lips beautiful, but he said, "the feet." Why the feet? It's because it
is with one's feet that they carry the Gospel of Jesus to lost sinners. The
most eloquent speaker in all the world is useless if he has lazy feet. The
most charming person, who may possess a great wealth of Bible knowledge, is
useless if he or she is unwilling to take the message of Christ crucified to
lost sinners. The praise goes to the Soul Winner who brings the Good News of
Jesus Christ to lost sinners.
Jesus confronted the Samaritan woman in John 4:7-26 with the Gospel. God
told Philip to confront the Ethiopian Eunuch with the Gospel in Acts 8:29.
In Mark 16:15, Jesus said, "GO ye into all the world, and
preach the gospel to every creature." Sadly, very few believers today are
Soul Winners.
Although there is a call to leadership within a church, there is no call to
be a Soul Winner. Every believer is commanded to preach the Gospel. Proverb
11:30 says they who win souls are wise. The believer who fails to share the
Gospel with others is foolish. Hell is real, life is short, and people need
to be born-again to escape the wrath of God (2nd Thessalonians 1:8-9).
The very notion that Jesus only intended for His Apostles to preach the
Gospel, or called pastors today, is unbiblical. The Bible never says that
only ministers are to preach the Gospel. The Gospel is truth and Ephesians
4:25 says, "speak every man truth with his neighbour." People need to hear
about the Lord and how to be saved.
Hell is a literal place that burns with fire. Revelation 21:8 speaks about
the "second death" and the "lake which burns with fire and brimstone." Why
would God only want Christian leaders to preach the Gospel, when even a
child can share the Good News of Christ crucified with lost sinners? It is
my heart's desire for you to become a Soul Winner, that others may be saved,
and that you may "lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither
moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor
steal" (Matthew 6:20).
The greatest treasures of all in Heaven, will be the souls of those who were
saved through our soulwinning efforts. Certainly, we cannot save anybody,
for salvation is of the Lord; but God uses the yielded Christian as a
vehicle by which the Gospel is preached unto the lost (1st Corinthians
3:6-8). This is why God calls the Soul Winner's feet, "beautiful."
Every Christian is commanded by God to preach the Gospel. How do you preach
the Gospel? By simply telling someone how you got saved. It's that simple.
We are SINNERS and Jesus is the SAVIOR. Salvation happens when a person
acknowledges their guilt of sin, and comes to God on that basis; believing
on Jesus, the Christ, the Son of God, to forgive their sins.
Salvation is as simple as walking through a door. Jesus said in John 10:9,
"I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go
in and out, and find pasture."
Also, consider Luke 8:11-15, the Parable of the Seeds...
"And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience" (Luke 8:14-15).
Jesus said that he who has "an honest and good heart"
obeys the Scriptures and brings forth much fruit. This again speaks of the
Soul Winner. A believer who loves Jesus Christ, and understands that eternal
punishment awaits all Christ-rejecting sinners, will have a burden for lost
souls. There is not enough teaching of eternal punishment from today's
church pulpits. Consequently, few believers have a burden for lost souls
anymore, and so few believers go soulwinning. The Bible plainly teaches that
the seeds which fell upon good ground became Soul Winners.
You don't need to attend religious seminary (most of which are cemeteries)
in order to be a Soul Winner. You just need to know how you got saved
yourself. Most people errantly think they have to DO something to merit
Heaven; but the Bible says it's all DONE, by Jesus at Calvary. Salvation is
ceasing from our own self-righteous works, and resting in the redemptive
work of Jesus Christ.
Most professed Christians today have ugly feet, because they have no burden
for lost souls, and fail to take the Gospel to those who desperately need
it. I challenge you, whoever you may be, to have beautiful feet.
