Islands #1
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We have a world that seems to be falling apart all around us.
When Empires fall it’s islands of sanity that are the hope for humanity.
When our gut is telling us something is about to collapse what are we anointed to do?
We can get overwhelmed when all we focus on all the big things we can not change.
When our worlds around us are changing or failing, what do we do!?
Islands are the answer.
Anxiety:
All anxiety comes from trying to control what you can not control.
Prove this wrong.
What is the best way to deal with anxiety?
Look to what you do have authority and power over.
The empire of this country is in danger of collapsing.
What do we do then?
We look to what we have authority and power to do.
What did Jesus do when Rome was about fall.
What did Jesus do when the Hebraic system was divided and about to collapse?
The Pharisees were dedicated to the law.
The Zealots were preparing for war with Rome.
The Sadducees were partnering with Rome to benefit themselves.
The Essenes are the ones who hid the scrolls and why we have our bible today.
Jesus did not fix or lead any of the existing groups of his time.
Jesus did something that had never been seen before.
John 17:9 (NKJV)
9 “I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.
This is Jesus sticking within the boundaries of His authority and that was at the time His disciples.
Island are people who are His.
John 17:22 (NASB95)
22 “The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one;
Jesus created an island of disciples that changed world.
Jesus only led the people that His Father sent to Him.
Jesus created an island of people that He was given the authority to lead.
Isaiah 42:10 (NASB95)
10 Sing to the Lord a new song, Sing His praise from the end of the earth! You who go down to the sea, and all that is in it. You islands, and those who dwell on them.
God seems to see us as islands of people.
Unplanned Islands
God’s plan.
Sometime you crash land on an island.
Paul was sent to an island by way of shipwreck and bring the kingdom of God to the island people.
John was on an island of prisoners and during his time there wrote the book of revelations, and brought the kingdom of God to that island.
Our Islands:
Family, Health, Writing, Men
Building islands takes work.
The Learning Center.
A group of people becomes safe for new people.
What do you bring and offer to the island?
How do we find out what island?
Your words were big hints to the islands you are called to.
The word to our church is a huge hint to what we are called to.
“Often where there is a counterfeit there is something authentic.”
James Dahl
Mint or not?
“Hungry Remnant”
Activations:
Jesus, would You show me one island You want me to focus on?
What are You building with this island?
Other Resources:
1 The Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice; Let the many islands be glad.
11 Then it will happen on that day that the Lord Will again recover the second time with His hand The remnant of His people, who will remain, From Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, And from the islands of the sea.
6 “So the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, ‘Behold, such is our hope, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and we, how shall we escape?’ ”
15 Therefore glorify the Lord in the east, The name of the Lord, the God of Israel, In the coastlands of the sea.
10 Sing to the Lord a new song, Sing His praise from the end of the earth! You who go down to the sea, and all that is in it. You islands, and those who dwell on them.
12 Let them give glory to the Lord And declare His praise in the coastlands.
4 “He will not be disheartened or crushed Until He has established justice in the earth; And the coastlands will wait expectantly for His law.”
1 Listen to Me, O islands, And pay attention, you peoples from afar. The Lord called Me from the womb; From the body of My mother He named Me.
Isaiah 51:5 (NASB95)
5 “My righteousness is near, My salvation has gone forth, And My arms will judge the peoples; The coastlands will wait for Me, And for My arm they will wait expectantly.
19 “I will set a sign among them and will send survivors from them to the nations: Tarshish, Put, Lud, Meshech, Tubal and Javan, to the distant coastlands that have neither heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they will declare My glory among the nations.
5 From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.
2 Each will be like a refuge from the wind And a shelter from the storm, Like streams of water in a dry country, Like the shade of a huge rock in a parched land.