hMotives for Our Mission

The Motives for Our Mission

Text: Matthew 28:19-20

Intro: The Muslim Evangelism Plan

I. A Passion for God

A.  Passion for God is for His glory

1.  The glory of God - Ps. 57:5; 108:6; Isa. 60:19; Ezek. 8:4; 9:3; Hab. 3:3

2.  The glory of Jesus – John 2:11; 8:54; 11:40; 12:41; Acts 7:55

3.  The glory in the doxologies – Rom. 16:27; Eph. 3:20-21; 1 Peter 4:11; 2 Peter 3:18; Jude 1:25

4.  The glory we share through Christ – 1 Thess. 2:19; 2 Thess. 2:14; 2 Tim. 2:10

B.  Passion for God must be supreme in the life of the believer

C.  Passion for God is the highest motivation for soul-winning – John 4:23-24

D.  Passion for God precedes witness – Ps. 9:2; 104:34

E.  Passion for God produces joy – Psalm 37:4

II. A Compassion for the Lost

A.  The Condition

The imputation of sin - Romans 5:12, 18-19

B.  The Consequences

1.  Lost - blind - unable to please God – Luke 15

2.  Godlessness and wickedness - Rom. 1:18-20

3.  Wrath of God - Rom. 1:18

Immediate - Rom. 1:18, 24-32

Eternal - 1 Thess. 1:10; Rev. 19:15; 20:11-15

C.  The Cure

1.  The Provision

The divine initiative – Gen 3:15

The divine provision - 2 Cor. 5:21

2.  The Passion

a.  Jesus - Mt 9:36; 18:12-13; Jn 4:4

b.  Paul - Rom 9:1-3; I Cor 9:16; 2 Cor 5:14

c.  The Saints

John Knox “Give me Scotland or I die.”

John Wesley “The world is my perish.”

Henry Martin “Here let me burn out for God.”

George Whitefield “Ye must be born again.”

David Brainerd  “I cared not how I lived nor what hardships I went through if I only might gain souls for Christ.”

Jim Elliot  “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot loose.”