Christian Maturity Part 8
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Christian Maturity Part 8
Christian Maturity Part 8
Where am I in terms of evangelism?
Where am I in terms of evangelism?
The marching orders for all followers of Christ is to be a witness to the world.
The marching orders for all followers of Christ is to be a witness to the world.
Read Matthew 28:19-20
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
What is the Great Commission?
What is the Great Commission?
To Go
To Go
The Harvest will not come to you
You must Go to the harvest
To teach nations
To teach nations
The task is bigger than we think
It is not just individual witness
It is not even just community outreach
It's about transforming nations
Baptize
Baptize
To immerse into
To die unto
Baptism is the sign of a decision
A decision is the first step to transformation
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
A daunting task
A daunting task
Going into all the world is a daunting task. How do I go? What do I teach? How do I teach nations? Is Baptism a service, a right of passage, or something else?
To big to do alone
To big to do alone
Jesus will help us
Jesus will help us
Much of these questions are address in the last verse. It is a verse of guaranteeing that Jesus Christ would be with us in the challenge that is far to great for us alone.
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Jesus is capable of helping us
Jesus is capable of helping us
These questions are address in the verse before when Jesus prefaces the great commission by stating that "all power in Heaven and earth is given to me."
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Christ with you is enough for ever task he has commanded.
Christ with you is enough for ever task he has commanded.
God has been working on you for a long time.
God worked on you when he formed you in your mothers womb
God worked on you when he saved you from sudden destruction.
God worked on you when he came through for you just when you needed him.
Many people will live there lives oblivious to the fact that with each passing moment a God is working on them.
Many people will live there lives oblivious to the fact that with each passing moment a God is working on them.
They say it is only by chance these things are happening.
They place there confidence in human effort, mostly there own.
God's people cannot rely on the world system alone for their provision.
They must rely upon God.
Deuteronomy 8 Moses don't say when you have eaten ad are full that by my power have I gotten this and forget that it was the Lord that gives your the power to obtain wealth.
He didn't give you wealth
He gave to the power to obtain wealth.
Deuteronomy 8:18-19
Deuteronomy 8:18-19
But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day. And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
The power of God is the game changer
But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Read Jude 20-23
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And of some have compassion, making a difference: and others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Here Jude makes a contrast between those that come to bring division and the beloved of God.
You are the beloved.
You are the beloved.
There three distinguishing activities of the beloved
There three distinguishing activities of the beloved
Building, Praying, Looking
Building, Praying, Looking
Building up yourself
Building up yourself
Believers are not stagnant
They are working out their salvation
Reverence & Fear
Building on faith
Building on faith
Faith is power to unlock Gods favor
Faith is significant (most Holy)
Hebrews 11:6 says without faith it is impossible to please him.
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
This text speaks of the importance of Faith
We will never enter the rest of God apart from Faith.
The writer expresses that
The same Gospel was preached to all
It was a blessing to those that trusted God
It did not profit without faith.
Faith is not a natural life force
Paul calls it the gift from God.
It doesn't come form emotion, or feeling
It comes from the word of God
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
The force of faith is
Hearing the word of the Lord
There is no substitute for the word of the Lord
So if we want to be a people of faith we must be sensitive to the word of the Lord.
The word of the Lord
Protection
Provision
Power
The word contains all the faith you need.
