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Bumper Video — Jesus reading from the scroll

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Bumper Video — Jesus reading from the scroll

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

What is a missionary?

— People going all around the world sharing the Good News?

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— People going all around the world sharing the Good News?

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What is missions and where does it happen?

Here’s what we need to grasp in a powerful way: Missions is not just somewhere else!

But here’s what we need to grasp in a powerful way: Missions is not just somewhere else!

Who are missionaries?

Every believer that follows Christ as Lord!

The mission field is everywhere we go, close or far; in our house or at the football game; at a funeral or at a birthday party; American Falls or Wales.

In , Jesus asked His Disciples, “Who do people say I am?” Then He put them in His cross hairs and asked, “Who do you say I am?” Peter spoke up!

In , Jesus had been busy all day long — throughout Capernaum preaching, praying for people, healing the sick, casting out demons.

He needed time alone to pray…so before dawn the next morning He went out to a solitary place to pray.

The people showed up looking for Jesus.

The disciples found Jesus and told Him.

tIf Christ is in us and has transformed us — who will people see reflected in our lives?

Jesus

In , Jesus had been busy all day long — throughout Capernaum preaching, praying for people, healing the sick, casting out demons.

He was drained…He needed time alone to pray…so before dawn the next morning He went out to a solitary place to pray.

The people showed up looking for Jesus.

The disciples found Jesus and told Him that people wanted to see Him.

In , Jesus asked His Disciples, “Who do people say I am?” Then He put them in His cross hairs and asked, “Who do you say I am?” Peter spoke up!

In , Jesus had been busy all day long — throughout Capernaum preaching, praying for people, healing the sick, casting out demons.

He was drained…He needed time along to pray…so before dawn the next morning He went out to a solitary place to prayer.

The people showed up looking for Jesus.

The disciples found Him.

Prayer

Prayer

Notice this: Jesus didn’t go back to the crowd from the day before.

He said, “Men, we need to make a bigger impact…let’s move on to more places that I haven’t preached yet.”

Peter was right --- Jesus was indeed the Messiah.

But what did that mean?

He came as the first Missionary — He came bringing the message of God’s love, freedom, healing and restoration, and He invited people to follow Him…to be His disciples.

If we think of Jesus as the first Missionary, it’s an easy thing to realize that missions sets people free spiritually — sets people free physically — free to be genuine disciples Jesus.

When you really know who Jesus is, you learn who you are meant to be

Missions frees people spiritually

Where Jesus is there is freedom

Where Jesus is there is freedom

When a person is set free in Jesus...

Hell is overthrown in their life

Sin is overthrown

Brokenness is overthrown

Jesus said it perfectly when He stood up in the synagogue in Nazareth, opened the scroll to the prophet Isaiah and began to read - “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me...”

Transitional: Jesus set people free spiritually — His will for His followers is that we lead people to that same freedom, in Jesus

Missions frees people physically

By the time we get to , Jesus had already been preaching around Galilee - “Repent and believe the good news ().”

Mark 1:29-39

He preached the good news, healed the sick, cast out demons — in other words Jesus came as a missionary…a bringer of freedom and hope

Jesus took on flesh and became the bridge between the spiritual and the physical.

The Good News brings spiritual and physical results

Humans live in a physical world that is tainted by sin and suffering — it makes sense that Jesus would have compassion on blind, hurting and wounded people (physical and spiritual)

Humans live in a physical world that is tainted by sin and suffering — it makes sense that He would have compassion on the spiritually blind, hurting and wounded people.

Tangible results come from the Good News of Jesus

New followers of Christ soon realize that they have a new way of living

Their wholes lives do a 180 — it effects them both physically and spiritually

As the Body of Christ, one of the privileges He has called us to is to bring His Good news to the poor, hungry and hurting.

Illustration: Pastor Izzy preached 3 messages at the Boise rescue mission yesterday…they fed the people spiritually and physically.

As ambassadors of Christ…we bring a message that sets people free physically and spiritually

We don’t have the ability, in ourselves, to speak a word and heal someone

But we can still bring healing — because we bring introduce people to Jesus

We serve them in His name...

Transitional: Spiritual and physical freedom... a new way of living and trusting — But that is just the beginning

Missions free people to become Disciples of Jesus

Disciples of Jesus define freedom differently

He says “you are not your own....you are bought with a price!”

Paul referred to himself as being “in chains for Christ!”

In after Jesus healed Peter’s mother-in-law, she got up and began to serve them

Did she wait on them because she was a woman and it was her job?

She served out of love and gratitude to her healer and Savior Jesus.

Disciples of Jesus are set free to serve Jesus

Application

What is a Disciple?

One that sits at the feet of the Master…learning from Him

One that internalizes what they have learned…and seeks out others to share the Master’s message

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Illustration — #noplaceleft strategy

A way to understand our calling — Oikos teams

Oikos: Household ---- Sphere of influence

Oikos: Household ---- Sphere of influence

Oikos mapping: basically a prayer map

Jesus commanded His Disciples…and those who would follow Him because of the message they brought:

How can we fulfill this commission — “co” “mission” with Jesus and one another?

Why? Who?

What to say?

When to do it?

Why?

It is who we are (2 Cor 5:17-21)

If anyone is in Christ, he or she is a new creation (STICK FIGURE)

We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors (GLOBE)

This is our identity — You can’t separate “new” and “ambassadors” — You cannot be Christ’s ambassadors without a new life in Him — and you cannot be a “new” follower of Christ without receiving the call to be His ambassadors

Who?

Those within our sphere of influence (Oikos)

Jesus prayed for those His disciples would reach — He prayed for the future generations of His followers…including you and me

CIRCLE WITH “ME” IN THE CENTER AND THE PEOPLE WITHIN MY SPHERE OF INFLUENCE…AND THEIR SPHERES OF INFLUENCE

Jesus’ prayer is a prayer that leads us to make it a goal to have “no place left” that hasn’t heard the Good News of Jesus.