Johan spoke to a Jewish fisherman 40 years ago and introduced him to the Messiah

Johan Schep, who contributes regularly to Day Share, is passionate about reaching out Jewish people and introducing them to Yeshua, the Messiah. I received a message from him where he was rejoicing in a testimony which he had discovered in You Tube because he had spoken to this fisherman more than forty years ago and he had read Isaiah 53 to him (just as Philip did for the Ethiopian official as described in Acts 8).

Here is the message I received from my brother in the Lord in the Netherlands.

  Dear Robert

                           A warm greeting to you.

By God's Grace I have met that fisherman in the Sinaï more that  forty years ago and introduced him to Yeshua as the fulfilment of Isaiah 53. The seed fell in good ground and hear the result. Blessings from Johan.

Here is how Johan introduces his emails

Our deepest awareness of ourselves is that we are both deeply loved by

the Lord Jesus Christ and we have done nothing to earn it or deserve it!

And he sends a picture of a dove

Johan and Linda Schep's symbol.

 Here is the video he is referring to.

Paul a Jew, who had encountered the risen Jesus on the road to Damascus and he realised that Jesus is the Messiah, the Christ, says this about his own people ,  "Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they might be saved." [Romans 10:1] Johan has this same desire. So has Tom Rice from the Society for Distributing Hebrew Scriptures has the same passion. What about us?

 I remember a chorus which we used to sing at the Bible Class at Bethany Hall, Stevenston.

Lead me to some soul today

So teach me, Lord just what to say,

Friends of mine are lost in sin

And cannot find their way

Few there are who seem to care

And few there are who pray

Melt my heart and touch my life

Give me one soul today.

Here it is on video

There is another hymn which came to mind as I was preparing this blog

1

“Must I go, and empty-handed,”

Thus my dear Redeemer meet?

Not one day of service give Him,

Lay no trophy at His feet?

“Must I go, and empty-handed?”

  Must I meet my Saviour so?

Not one soul with which to greet Him:

    Must I empty-handed go?

2

Not at death I shrink nor falter,

For my Saviour saves me now;

But to meet Him empty-handed,

Thought of that now clouds my brow.

3

O the years in sinning wasted;

Could I but recall them now,

I would give them to my Saviour,

To His will I’d gladly bow.

4

O ye saints, arouse, be earnest,

Up and work while yet ’tis day;

Ere the night of death o’ertake thee,

Strive for souls while still you may.

I appreciate that some faithful missionaries found it hard to see souls won for Christ and they never saw the results of their labour (at least in this life) and the last hymn does not consider that we might be sowing and another will reap the harvest. We might only be a link in the chain.