Changing our world part 3

Then I heard the Lord asking, "Whom should I send as a messenger to this people? Who will go for us?" I said, "Here I am. Send me."

INTRODUCTION

We have been in this mini series for the last two weeks and this is our third one on Changing our world.

The final message in this series is called Here am I send me.

What makes this phrase so world-changing is that to be sent means just that to be sent.

Just like the sweetest text to your spouse means nothing if it don’t sent. God’s words to this world will do nothing if they are not sent.

I can type out the nicest text message to Connie. You know I can type it delete 15 times trying to find the perfect words or the best emoji.

I can proof read it 100 times to make sure it is the best message she will get all day. but if I don’t hit sent there was never really a message.

A message means nothing until you send it because the power is only in the words that are sent.

So for us to change our word, we must hit the sent button on the message God has for our world.

That message is one of His perfect love and great and awesome grace!!

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

I want to look at this verse for a few second:

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

I want to look at these verses for a few second:

For God so loved the world.

1. The Love of God

What is the love of God?

Let me tell you about the love of God.

1 John to describe and answer the question: what is the love of God? According to the Bible it is a divine resource that human beings need but are not born with.

Let me repeat it again. What is God's love? It is a divine resource that human beings need, but they are not born with it.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

The Bible tells us that "love is of God," (). Love is of God. The Greek is more powerful. The preposition "out of" is dealing with the source. So it would read: for love out of God.

The Bible tells us that "love is of God," (). Love is of God. The Greek is more powerful. The preposition "out of" is dealing with the source

The source of the love that we desperately need is out of the heart of God. It does not come from anywhere else. It is not found anywhere else.

The love that we really need, the only kind of love that truly satisfies and brings meaning and purpose and hope and strength and courage to our hearts, comes from God and God alone. It is a divine resource. It is out of God.

God is not merely love. When it says, "God is love" though, don't weaken that by saying that "it is merely love." God is not a force, although He is very forceful.

God is not simply an influence in the world giving us vibes and fuzzies warm feelings towards each other.

God is more than that. God is a real person, as real as you are.

But the truth is that His whole character, His nature, His attributes and all that He is "baptized or bathed with love."

He never operates without love. He is love. Everything that love is or should be, that is what God is. It is a divine resource.

We all want it and we search for it. We try to get it in several ways; yet we are not born with it, according to the Bible. Love comes from the heart of God Himself.

And we all need it desperately.

Also I learn in this passage about the love of God that it is not only a divine resource, but

2. It is a needed relationship which believers must have with each other.

There is not one thing that should characterize us better, as believers in Jesus Christ, than our love for one another.

Please look again at verse 7.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

The passage begins, "Beloved " which is saying You are loved of God. Look at it "Beloved, let us love one another."

Now look at verse 11

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

"Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also"-the Greek is a particular verb there for "obligation and duty" and it is in the present tense.

I read down in verse 11, "Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought"-the Greek is a particular verb there for "obligation and duty" and it is in what we call the present tense. There is a continual obligation that we have because of God's love for us: to love one another.

There is a continual obligation that we have because of God's love for us: to love one another.

The Bible says we continue to have this obligation to love one another. That is not a creative suggestion for any of us.

That is a command from God Almighty. We are to love one another.

We are commanded by God; so to not obey is clear disobedience.

If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

So the bible is saying that you are a liar if you say that you love God but don’t love your brothers and sister in Christ.

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

Now look at this also:

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

We must love one another.

Now let me get us back to the beginning:

What is the love of God? It is a divine response to human depravity and need. Look at again, in the light of this. What beautiful words of encouragement. "

a In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

The love of God was manifest." You may say, "Show me the love of God." Okay.

In this, the love of God was manifest." You may say, "Show me the love of God." Okay.

It is a divine response to human depravity and need. Jesus came to be a propitiation for our sins.

Now what is propitiation? It could also be translated mercy seat. It is a Greek word that would translate that item of the furniture in the temple and tabernacle, which originally appeared in Hebrew.

It is a Greek word that is used for that to describe an actual place and a setting. It is the holy of holies in the temple, the tabernacle.

it is the mercy of God.

God’s mercy is God doesn’t give us what we do deserve, instead God gives us God’s grace.

God’s grace is God does give us what we don’t deserve.

According to the Bible, propitiation is not only for our sins-we who are believers-but also for the whole world.

If you ask me, did Jesus Christ die for the whole world? Yes, if you mean propitiation.

I like what Saint Augustine said “ If Christ could not saved the whole world why was He called the Savior of the World.

Was His death sufficient to satisfy all the righteous wrath of God against sin? Yes.

The Bible teaches that all the wrath of God was put on Jesus Christ when He died for our sins. That is propitiation.

Does that mean that the unbeliever who winds up in hell has already had his sins propitiated? The answer is yes.

That is why it is such a tragedy to reject the love of God.

"In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for sins" (). How interesting!

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

For God so loved the world

But the question is this we know these things but are we pushing the send button.

God wrote these things on your hearts, God is the sender of His message. God wants to hit send!! Will you be ready?

You see, God want to use you to send the message.

God is always wanting to send His message to right people, in the right place at the right time.

God is just looking for people to send it through.

Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

Will you be one that would be sent by God?

We can see from Isaiah’s encounter with God that there were 3 characteristics of Isaiah that positioned him to be sent.

1.Humility

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

2.Honesty

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

To confess means to be honest with God about yourself!

He will not cleanse what you don’t tell Him to clean.

3.Availability

God literally asks the question, Who will go?

we don’t need to stop read the word and doing our devotion and spend time in the altar.

You never know what God is going to ask you in His presence!!

You can not say here am I unless you are here!!