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Obedience = Preparation + Promise + Performance Romans: 4:21
Shared at: Sweetwater Bible Church
Bring: Hammer, nails, level etc, Bible for illustration, Fish and loaves, kleenex, flip chart (Obedience = Preparation + Promise + Performance) (2nd page Bold points below)
Scripture Reading Psalm 16
Pray
As you know Bro and Sis Walker are sick.
He asked me Tuesday to fill in for him.
I am not a gifted preacher or public speaker.
My gifts are in serving and encouraging.
I strive and believe God has gifted me to be like Barnabas.
I am good at making others look good.
Being there to give them what they need when they need it.
For example: When working construction
I know when the contractor needs a saw, hammer, nails or whatever.
The reason I know is because I have done these jobs and I know what is needed to do the job.
This is true in our service to God.
The better we know God, the longer we have served God the better we are able to help others.
That is why in Titus 2:2-12 Paul says for the older men to teach the younger, the older woman to teach the younger.
This is the whole concept of discipleship.
A more mature believer helping a less mature believer move toward maturity
Bro.
Howard Tannahill
Or as my brother Paul says turning hearts toward God.
Taking that next step.
I got a little sidetracked for a moment,
so when Pastor Walker asked me to speak I hesitated
because I know it takes me a long time to prepare a message
but because he is a friend,
has done so much for me
and we love coming here,
I said yes.
And then cried out to God to give me what I and you needed for this Sunday.
I trust what God has given me will speak to your heart today as it has mine.
You are getting today what I am hearing from God, particularly in my devotional time with Him.
Let’s read Romans 4:20 -21
He did not waver in unbelief at God’s promise but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, because he was fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.
I have titled this message
Obedience = Preparation + Promise + Performance
The context of this passage is Abraham offering Isaac.
You know the story well so someone give me the highlights of the story…
[Have on flip chart]
God promised Abraham Land, Seed and blessing
For this to happen Abraham needed an heir
He had no heir so Abraham and Sarah divised a plan
and Ishmael was born but not accepted by God as the promised heir.
Sarah laughs
Did you know that Abraham laughed as well Gen 17:17 -18 Abraham fell facedown.
Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a hundred-year-old man?
Can Sarah, a ninety-year-old woman, give birth?”
18 So Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael were acceptable to You!” 1
Finally Abraham believed God
and it was credited to him as righteousness
At 100 years old, when they are both beyond child bearing years, they have a son – Isaac!
Like Abraham it has taken me a long time to learn this lesson:
Believe in God’s promise and don’t devise Ishmael’s.
Simply Obey.
Remember last week Dr David Hopewell mentioned Ishmael.
Okay Lord I am hearing you loud and clear!!!
1.
This leads to my first point.
We need to be Obedient to God’s call.
In my life I have many times know what God was asking
but devise my own way to get there rather than waiting on God.
Yes my Ishmaels
When we were first building our house
I needed some supplies but didn’t have the money.
I determined I would not buy them unless somehow God supplied.
On the way there my daughter called and I told her what I was doing.
I got to the store, picked up the supplies and waited a bit by the checkout
butGod had not supplied.
I gave in and used my credit card
Later my daughter asked me how it went and I had to tell her I failed the test.
Looking back I should have put the supplies back.
I don’t know if God would have supplied in that step of obedience
or at a later time but I know it was what I should have done.
2. My second point is that God prepares us for what He calls us to do.
God started preparing me way back as a child.
My dad and mom invested in me.
Training me how to do what they knew how to do.
I work alongside Dad on projects around the homestead.
I went with him to pick up children for church,
I learned from mom what a good teacher was as she taught Sunday school, junior church, VBS etc.
God was training me as I was bullied in school
God trained me as I serve as summer staff at camp
College, seminary, marriage
and 30 years of camping ministry were
all in preparation for what God has for us now.
We are never too old to keep serving God in some way.
God has called Lucinda and I to travel to camps that serve people of color.
To use our gifts of service and encouragement to be a blessing and to multiply our impact.
We don’t have the resources to do this
but God has called us,
we MUST be obedient and go!
He will provide!!!
At Cedine we were used by God to touch thousands of kids' lives
and turn their hearts at least one step closer toward God.
Now we will be investing in leaders of camps that each will be touching thousands of lives.
Many of these lives will touch others lives that touch other lives.
We never know the impact we will have.
Scott
Jacques
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