Now that you are RESTed...
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Now What
09-15-2019
Welcome
Intro
Now that you have rested
Now that you have went away or found sometime to go away and refresh your soul and be filled up with Jesus
Now that you have eased the load and been running to Jesus and not carrying the things of this world
Now that you have stay in your life to help support you through this life
Now that you are trusting God in all areas of your life
What now
Now that you are well rested what are we to do and I am so glad that you have asked that
See now that you and I are prepared you might be asking yourself what you are prepared for
19 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
You are prepared we are filled up and ready to go
But go where and do what
This verse is it
This is our purpose, everything should be revolving around these verses
This is our goal and purpose as a church and should be as individuals
But we are to Go and Make
We are to go outside the 4 walls of the church, we are to go to our friends, family members, co workers and complete strangers
When we go with them because church remember we have prepared ourselves by going away to be filled with the Spirit
We are to go and tell them about Jesus
You and I are called to go and tell people about Jesus
15 but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;
You and I should always be ready to share why we are different
And since you and I are rested, since we have been refreshed and filled up and running to Jesus
Then church we are prepared to be sharing and giving a reason to our family member, to our friends, to our teachers, and to our co workers, and even to a complete stranger why we have hope
Time and time we see in scripture people coming to know Jesus coming to salvation through Jesus based off the way people live right
Wrong
Because if that were true we wouldn’t be told to be ready to give a defense
Be ready to say something about Jesus
26 “When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me, 27 and you will testify also, because you have been with Me from the beginning.
When we say something
We are testifying about what we have experienced
The Holy Spirit will testify to us about Jesus and we are to testify because we have been with Jesus
Church do you understand that because you and I are walking with Jesus
Because you and I are children of God we can tell people about what we know of God
We should be telling people about what we know about God
Would you know that no one calls me when they have a plumbing problem
because I don’t know about plumbing
So I don’t tell people about plumbing problems
But people do call me about legal cop questions or pastor questions because that is what I know
Church the one thing you and I have in common is those of you who have accepted the free gift and have Jesus in your heart
can tell people about Jesus because you and I know Jesus
We can be the people who are the Jesus people in others lives, we can be those people who are telling people about what they know which is Jesus
19 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
We are also told to teach them or make disciples
The only way they will get to the point of being a disciple is if we share with them our experiences with Jesus
And church remember you have been rested
So you will have some experiences to share about Jesus
If you don’t have any experiences to share about Jesus them maybe you don’t know Jesus
We are to teach what we know about Jesus
Because we are rested we should be at this point church be ready to go out and share what we know about Jesus
We are to share about Jesus and what He did
Some of the things we do know
16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
What we do know is that since the fall God has been pursuing us
God sent His son Jesus to earth because of His love for us
God is a good father so much that He would sacrifice His own son to save you and I
We know that because of the sin in the garden we are born with sin nature’s
This means you and I not born sinners but we are born with our default setting is to sin
And because of that sin God chose to send His son to pay for our debt of sin
God loves us that much
That is what we are to tell people that God loves them enough to pay their debt
23 John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there; and people were coming and were being baptized—
We know that out debt of sin requires death
We see this from the beginning of scripture in the garden
Because of that sin in the garden something had to die to cover that sin
Something or someone has to die to cover your and my sin
And if you and I will recall , Jesus covers that sin with His death because of His loves for us!
That is what we are to be telling people all because church we are rested
And because Jesus Loves us
Just in case you have forgotten and the fact that Jesus loves you and I
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
This is what we are to be telling people
Jesus loves you and I enough that while we were yet sinners
While we were against Him
While we were still His enemies
He still chose to die and cover our debt of sin all because He loves us!
Do you realize church that because Jesus loves
This is the sort of this that you and I are to be sharing with the people we come into contact with
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Sin leads to death, and Jesus gives us life
And because of Jesus’s love for us remember that He died for our sins
Again that is what we are to be telling people
We are to be telling people that sin leads to death but Jesus gives us life through a free gift
How exciting it is to get gifts, but to get the gift you simply have to accept it
How cool is that
What sort of love that
When we take that gift of Jesus’s death on the cross
We do
9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
To accept that gift we are to confess that Jesus is Lord of all
That is saying that we will not serve anyone or anything else
Meaning we will no longer serve ourselves
We will confess Jesus and denounce our sin that He died for and paid
When we confess Jesus we are turning from our sin
We are making a conscious decision say we no longer what to sin and we want to start to live a free life in Jesus
And we are to believe that God raised Him from the dead
We are to believe that God is who He says He is
We are to believe that He is lord of all and the savior of the universe
Church this morning we are to be sharing these things with the people throughout our life
This is what a defense looks like for the Hope we have
We are to not just live a life after Jesus in front of people but we are to share with people about Jesus
Remember we are to go, meaning we are to move get up and go out
We are also to tell people about what we know, we are to teach people what we know about Jesus
No one is asking you to know everything but simply share what you do know.
This morning as we move into a time of invitation
I want to invite you to the altar is you are here today and do not have a personal relationship with Jesus
There will be people down front who can open up the Word of God and show you this morning just like we did this morning how you can accept that free gift of Jesus’s death of the cross gives you and I
Or maybe you are here and simply need some encouragement to do what God has called you to do which is to go out and tell people
Maybe you need to spend sometime in prayer at the alar
the altar is open