The Power of Appointment
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In the OT, it is to appoint is to give an order, to command, to instruct, order or send.
In the NT, it means to put in charge, to commission, to designate
God Appointed Time
God Appointed Time
14 Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.”
Life is filled with
++Challenges
++Discouragement
++Disillusion
Can God help me?
Can God help me?
7 “Even the stork in the heavens Knows her appointed times; And the turtledove, the swift, and the swallow Observe the time of their coming. But My people do not know the judgment of the Lord.
19 And he said, “Look, I am making known to you what shall happen in the latter time of the indignation; for at the appointed time the end shall be.
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.
God Appointed Places
God Appointed Places
2 Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
God appointed a place
++For His Sacrifice
9 And there he went into a cave, and spent the night in that place; and behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and He said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
11 Then He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake;
13 So it was, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him, and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
God appointed a place
For His Sacrifice
++For his Success
Why is it easier to take the secondary place?
Why is it easier to take the secondary place?
When God is calling us higher we settle for what we can manage.
God Appointed People
God Appointed People
14 Then He appointed twelve, that they might be with Him and that He might send them out to preach,
15 and to have power to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons:
The word for appointed used here is a creative term meaning “Do or Make”
The word for appointed used here is a creative term meaning “Do or Make”
Appointed for Relationship
++To be with Him
++To be sent by Him
++To preach
Appointed for Empowerment
++To Have Power
++To Heal Sickness
++To Cast out Demons
11 And He said to them, “To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to those who are outside, all things come in parables,
Appointed for Enlightenment
++To know what has been hidden
++To understand the Kingdom of God
When God appoints them
++He is doing a creative work
++He is forming them
7 And of the angels He says: “Who makes His angels spirits And His ministers a flame of fire.”
Relationship does not just sends us, _it is to make us_
Relationship does not just sends us, _it is to make us_
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
6 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,
7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
The Appointment of the Seventy
The Appointment of the Seventy
1 After these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two by two before His face into every city and place where He Himself was about to go.
This anonymous group
++No title
++No position
They were to go
++To Every City
++To Every Place
++Because Jesus was coming to the city
They were commissioned to
++An activity
++A mission
It was something that everyone could do
It was something that everyone could do
2 Then He said to them, “The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.
We are commissioned to recognize the task
We are commissioned to recognize the task
The Harvest
++Is too big for us
++Will require divine help
We are called to Pray
++He is the Lord of the Harvest
6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.
7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building.
We are called to Pray
He is the Lord of the Harvest
++He sends out laborers
++God gives the increase
46 So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart,
47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.
The Power of Peace
The Power of Peace
5 But whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’
His Peace
++Is Left with us
27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
His Peace
Is Left with us
++Is Given to us
This is His Promise
++Peace is our Partner
++Peace is our Possession
++Peace Overcomes our Fear
Jesus is Coming
Jesus is Coming
9 And heal the sick there, and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’
17 Then the seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.”
19 Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
God gives us His Authority
God gives us His Authority
Power to trample
++On serpents and scorpions
++Over all the Power of the Enemy
S&S Spiritual enemies that God has given his followers power over
12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
We have the victory in Jesus
We have the victory in Jesus
A Better Reason to Rejoice
A Better Reason to Rejoice
20 Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.”
21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight.
God’s Call is not limited
++God has a place for everyone
++God uses ordinary people
++God can use me
++I belong to God
20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.