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Putting together stuff that comes in boxes with instructions.
Ikea
Its not easy
Christmas
putting together presents
When I was in seminary I worked for a church doing maintenance.
How god himself is sending us out to make disciples.
most of the work was changing light bulbs, fixing leaks, painting and so on.
this however, is not the first commission found int he bible.
But once in a while I would have come carpentry work to do which I really enjoyed.
I used to work construction so when carpentry work would come up I would enjoy the project.
The shed came in a box...
God sends us on mission
I knew I knew how to build a shed… but at the projection progressed I really questioned if the people who wrote the direction knew how to build a shed.
We have seen this each week of this series.
Eventually I was humbled
God is a God with a mission, and he has brought us into his mission to see all things brought into subjection.
I found out that the person who wrote the instructions did indeed know what he was talking about.
We saw the mission of God first introduced in Genesis one when God told Adam and Even to be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth, subdue it and take dominion.
We so often have this same sort of resistance to God’s instruction.
We have seen the nature of God’s mission is one that is gradual
We live in a world where the wisdom of God, his plans and instructions are viewed as irrelevant.
This is not only the case with the intellectually understanding
like the waters that flow from Ezekiel’s temple it starts small and gradually grows until it cover the whole earth and the whole earth is made new.
But we also struggle with God’s plan for his mission.
We have seen that God’s mission is to see EVERYTHING brought into subjection to Christ.
And this is not only us, but we see Israel often struggle with God’s mission.
everything we do is either being faithful or unfaithful to the mission God has given us.
Last week Pastor Zach showed us how the mission of God will go to the all the nations of the world.
If we were to keep reading we see that Moses sends 12 men, the heads of the people of Israel into Canaan to spy out the land which God promised to give them.
The Promise Land
For 40 days 12 spies of Israel snuck around the land of Canaan looking to discover what sort of land it was
What sort of land it was
if the people who dwell in it are strong or week
Moses wanted the spies to see if the people dwelling in the land are strong or weak,
whether they are few or many,
and whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad,
and whether the cities that they dwell in are camps or strongholds
and whether the land is rich or poor,
and whether there are trees in it or not.
Moses also told them to bring back some fruit from the land so they could see it.
Could you image the excitement of the people.
The Promised
This is the land God promised to give to their father Abraham some 400 years earlier.
(Gen 17:8)
God promised this same land to Moses and all his people even when they were enslaved in Egypt.
This land was their destination.
It was the promised land
It was to be a land of blessing to the people.
nine times the bible calls this Canaan, ‘a land flowing with milk and honey’
It was a new Eden, it had abundant water, wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey.
abundant water, wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey
This is the place where the temple would be built and God would dwell with his people.
This was to be the new headquarters where the people of God would worship God and continue the mission God gave to Adam and Eve.
So after 40 days of spying out the land the 12 men came back to give their report.
All the spies agreed that the land is everything they had hoped for.
it was indeed a land flowing with milk and honey.
The showed everyone the grapes they had picked
However, there was a problem
Numbers 13
The Anakim people were known as mighty warriors who were giants, they had Nephilim blood in their vains.
And not only that, but the descendants of Anak are there.
The most popular descendant of Anak was Goliath of Gath, whom David took down when the rest of Israel was too afraid to fight him.
So the spies saw the giants in Canaan walking around and in comparison they felt like grasshoppers.
There is no way we could battle these giants and win, they thought.
And not only that, but the whole land is full.
Jumbers 13 29
There is no room for Israel to settle in the land without a conflict.
And they feared that any conflict would result in their demise.
They were so scared of conflict that they failed to believe God at his word, that he would give them the land.
because of their faithlessness and cowardice they doubted God’s instruction and failed to follow God’s mission.
But here is the thing, the mission of God demands conflict.
The Mission of God Demands Conflict.
All throughout the bible the mission of God advances through conflict.
Even the promise given to Adam and Eve involved conflict.
The serpent would bruise the heel of the messiah, yet the messiah would crush the head of the serpent.
(this is conflict)
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The Israelites knew this, they had just seen YHWH go to war with the gods of Egypt.
David and Goliath
God told Israel that they would have victory over the philistines, however the size of Goliath got them all doubting God.
For them to advance the mission God gave them they would have to come into conflict with a monster.
Jesus
Jesus’ ministry was one of constant conflict
before he even began his ministry he had to go to war with Satan in the wilderness
As soon as he begins his ministry he is in conflict with the local religious leaders
He then gets the attention of the
John the Baptist
Beheaded for his views on marriage
The apostles
each one of the martyred (except John)
When we proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ we are calling everyone everywhere to repent, to change, to bow the knee, the submit to King Jesus.
And guess what, that does not happen without a conflict.
For this is Spiritual Warfare.
When we go into the world
Why are we afraid to share the gospel?
Why do we often tremble to stand up for what is right and speak against evil?
Because to do such a thing puts us on the front lines and conflict will occur.
Far to often we are so afraid of conflict that we just lay down when the pressure gets uncomfortable.
We even create theologies that create escapes from the conflict…
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