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Introduction
God had given us a powerful tool to win the world to Himself.
He has commissioned us to go into the world and make disciples of the nations.
We have leashed this tool, this weapon of spiritual warfare and confined it to Sundays and use it mostly among believers.
The tool I am speaking of is the gospel.
The death, burial and resurrection of Jesus; and the promise it holds for all who believe the promise of God through it.
The Example of Christ
Turn with me to Matthew 16
I want us to first look at the example of Christ.
Jesus was constantly going.
He was on the move doing the work of His Father.
You will never reach anyone sitting and waiting.
From the very beginning God has been a missionary God.
He has been going to lost men willing to bring them into a relationship with Himself.
Look with me at Genesis 11.
Why would God send men flying all over the earth in this great dispersion?
Why not allow us to come together, if together nothing is impossible for us?
He created us this way, right?
Two reasons stand out to me from my study of scripture.
First is man’s pride.
Nothing would be impossible for us.
We see that even today as diverse as our world is, we have little need.
Even when someone goes to bed hungry, if just a little effort to find food or shelter is exerted, then we can find both food and shelter.
There are groups who stand ready, in almost all nations, to help the needy.
Men have stood on the moon and returned safely to earth.
There is a planned international space mission for Mars within the next few years!
Travel across the world can be done in a matter of hours in what would have at one time been called magical and mysterious iron birds.
The poorest economy on earth, North Korea has the ability to split the atom; to build and detonate a nuclear bomb.
We have these incredible boxes of magic that connect us to friends and family thousands of miles apart.
Even in the remotest regions you can find cellular service, the internet and facebook.
Nothing that enters our hearts or minds is impossible to us.
Man is quickly approaching the place where God is no longer necessary.
Soon our pride in all we can do will replace our need for God.
Over 100 years ago German philosopher and writer Friedrick Nietzsche said “God is dead.
We have killed him, God is dead, what shall we do now?”
Our need for God as the answer to life’s issues has been replaced by science, technology and knowledge.
But secondly, God separated us because He knew, we would never find Him if we remained together.
Look with me at Acts 17.
Epicureans believed that life’s answers came through pleasure.
Feed every desire you have, take whatever you can and have all that you want and you will be happy, satisfied and live a fulfill life.
Stoics believed that life’s answers came through self-denial, no pleasure complete austerity.
God’s creation is in need of God, and so, God divided the nations.
He did it so that we all could have the opportunity to find Him even though he is not far from any one of us.
Today, you may be seeking something and you don’t know what it is, May I suggest to you that the something is a He and the He is God and you can find God through Jesus Christ.
It is by the power of the testimony of Jesus, His sinless life, His substitutionary death, His physical resurrection that we are saved.
It is the way all men are brought to God and reconciled to Him.
Jesus took our punishment by accepting the wrath of God on our behalf.
He paid a debt He didn’t owe to bring His creation back into relationship with The Heavenly Father.
The Mission of Christ
Lets return to Matthew 16 and look for a moment at the Mission of Christ.
It is the mission of Jesus to build His church!
Peter and the disciples, the Apostles had heard the testimony of Jesus.
They had seen and handled the Word of Life as John would say.
Because He was the living Word of God, the Holy Spirit revealed to Peter and the rest of the Apostles who Jesus truly is.
That revelation, that unveiling of His true nature brought Peter and the rest of the Apostles to the point of this confession.
And it is the confession of who Jesus truly is that is the foundation of the church.
Paul said in 1 Corinthians 2 that he would preach nothing but Christ and Him crucified.
Paul preached the confession of who Jesus is and what His death and resurrection meant to the world.
It is when we declare who Jesus is to the world that Jesus builds His church.
It is not our obligation to build His church, that is His.
Our obligation is to declare who Jesus is to any who will listen.
And Jesus says, “whosoever will may come.”
Conclusion
Our obligation is to declare Jesus, who He is and what He has done for humanity.
When we do, the power of God is unleashed, it is unchained and the miracle of new birth takes place.
May God give us the courage and the will today to declare who Jesus is to a lost and dying world.
When we do, if we do, we will see the awesome power of the living God changes lives for eternity!
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