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Follow Me
Good morning.
If you’ve got a Bible, and I hope you do, let me invite you to open with me to John 17.
How do you make disciples of all nations?
What does that look like in our lives here in Lake Charles.
What does it look like when we put disciple-making at the center of the local church and at the center of our lives?
What does that look like tangibly on a day-by-day basis?
It’s deeper than just what we do at church or what ministry you’re involved in.
This is what our lives look like on a daily basis.
So, we’re walking through different components of disciple-making.
Last week, we walked through the first one, which a little review.
Let’s do a little quiz here, to see if you were here not just physically last week but maybe even spiritually!
The first component of disciple-making is to?
Share the Word!
So we’re here to Share the Word.
That’s one component of disciple-making.
The First Component of Disciple-Making: Share the Word
Just out of curiosity, how many of you had someone lead you to faith in Christ?
Anybody have someone lead you to faith in Christ?
Okay, that’s a lot of us, if not most of us who are believers.
The question we need to ask ourselves is, “How are people outside this building going to come to know faith in Christ then, if not through us, through us sharing the Word with them?”
What I want us to do this morning is to dive into a second component of disciple-making, which is not only to Share the Word, but to Show the Word.
The Second Component of Disciple-Making: Show the Word
Now, on a tangent here, let me say that these are not necessarily chronological steps that you take—you do number one, then number two, number three, and number four, now you’re making disciples—that’s not the picture here.
The picture is, these are all facets that we see in Jesus’ life as He poured His life into His disciples.
He set the example for us to do the same thing in other people’s lives.
So, sharing the Word and showing the Word and the others that we’re going to see over the next two weeks are all going to come together.
How do we show the Word to the people God has given to us?
I want us to look at John 17 and see what it meant for Jesus to show the Word.
Remember the Word is at the center of disciple-making, the Word made flesh, Christ making His life known through us as we show the Word.
Look at John 17:6.
This is Jesus praying for His disciples and He says,
Now—disciple-making.
We talked last week about how Jesus has given us the people; He has invested people into our lives.
We are surrounded by people in our spheres of influence.
We have the opportunity to impact for the glory of Christ.
He’s given us the words; He’s given us the authority to share the Word with them.
Now I want you to see how part of sharing the Word with them involves showing the Word to them.
I want us to think about people that God has entrusted in our lives, to show the Word to, and what that means.
First of all, I think it means...
We display His character to them
I want you to see how this unfolds in this prayer that Jesus is praying.
From the very beginning in verse 6, you go back up there and it says, “I have revealed you to those whom you gave me.”
Jesus was God up close and personal to these guys.
If you want to see a picture of the goodness, the grace, the mercy of God, you see it in the face of Jesus.
He didn’t reveal it in some glowing, one moment, “Here’s my splendor.”
What he did was over a process of three years with these guys He continually, on a day-by-day basis, revealed God and His character up close and personal to them.
Now here’s the problem.
You get down to verse 11 of John 17, and Jesus says, “I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you.”
So, if God, up close and personal, is about to check out of the world, then how is the world going to see God up close and personal anymore?
That’s where you and I come in.
I want you to see two truths unfold.
First of all, as disciples of Jesus Christ...
We are all His representatives
This is not just for the super-Christians.
For every single one of us, we have—catch this—the responsibility from God to show His character to the world.
This is not a responsibility of the church as an institution has, this is a responsibility of the church as individuals all across this room has.
We are God, up close and personal, so to speak—His goodness, His mercy, His grace, seen in us in the world.
That is the responsibility that God has entrusted to us, and it’s a huge responsibility.
How are the people in your home, or in your workplace, or in your schools, how do people in your neighborhood, in this community, how are they going to see the character of God? How are they going to see His unending love?
His perfect patience in the middle of suffering and trial?
How are they going to see His overwhelming compassion for those that nobody else cares about?
How are they going to see His patience and His kindness and His goodness in the face of evil?
How are they going to see His courage in the face of trial?
How are they going to see those things if not in you and me?
God has given us people in our lives, just like He gave these disciples to Jesus and said, “You reveal my character to them.”
Second truth...
We have all His resources
Don’t miss this.
Everything that Jesus revealed to His disciples, the Father had given to Him.
Look in verse 10, Jesus said, “All I have is yours, and all you have is mine” (John 17:10).
So the Father had given everything to Him.
Then look down at verse 11, as He prays in the middle of that verse, “Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name”—your character—same phrase we saw up in verse 6—“the name that you gave me” (John 17:11).
“You gave me your character; you gave me your person.”
Verse 12, “While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name that you gave me” (John 17:12).
Everything that Jesus had, the Father had given to Him.
Now at this point we’re thinking, “Well that was Jesus, He’s a little different than us.
You know, He was God, and we are not.
So how does that apply to us?
How can you say that we have all these resources?”
Here’s the good news.
Everything that Jesus had from the Father, He promised to give to you and to me.
Look at this.
It continues throughout the rest of this chapter.
Look at what Jesus says in verse 14, He’s talking about His disciples and he says, “I have given them your word” (John 17:14).
“Same word you gave me, I gave them your word.”
Look over in verse 22, Jesus says, “I have given them the glory that you gave me” (John 17:22).
We have the glory of Christ given to us.
Verse 23, “I in them and you in me” (John 17:23).
Don’t miss it here, the Father is in Jesus and Jesus is in us.
That means all the Father has is in us.
Look down in verse 26, the very end, it says, “I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in”—who?
“… in them and that I myself may be in them” (John 17:26).
Jesus’ whole ministry, this whole process of disciple-making was Him imparting His life, Him giving away what the Father had given to Him into the lives of these guys.
God has promised to bless His Word.
And He has promised to bless us as we share His Word.
We may not realize it, but...
The world longs to see a demonstration of Christ that accompanies our explanation of Christ
I am convinced that our culture is desperate to see a glimpse of the character of God.
They’ve had their fill of churchgoers who espouse all their conservative views on this or that issue.
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