2019-10-20 Colossians 4:2-6 Missions Sunday
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5 Act wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the time.
6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer each person.
2 Devote yourselves to prayer; stay alert in it with thanksgiving.
3 At the same time, pray also for us that God may open a door to us for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains,
4 so that I may make it known as I should.
5 Act wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the time.
6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer each person.
II. Every single person here is a missionary to the Miss-Lou/
I. We have a responsibility to our overseas workers.
I. We have a responsibility to our overseas workers.
Col 4:2-
2 Devote yourselves to prayer; stay alert in it with thanksgiving.
3 At the same time, pray also for us that God may open a door to us for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains,
4 so that I may make it known as I should.
A. God’s heart is for all nations, including Muslim nations, to know and worship Him.
A. God’s heart is for all nations, including Muslim nations, to know and worship Him.
2 Devote yourselves to prayer; stay alert in it with thanksgiving.
3 At the same time, pray also for us that God may open a door to us for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains,
4 so that I may make it known as I should.
Illus:
20 My aim is to preach the gospel where Christ has not been named, so that I will not build on someone else’s foundation,
21 but, as it is written, Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.
Romans 15:20-21
B. Do not take lightly the call to pray and support our overseas workers.
B. Do not take lightly the call to pray and support our overseas workers.
2 Devote yourselves to prayer; stay alert in it with thanksgiving.
3 At the same time, pray also for us that God may open a door to us for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains,
4 so that I may make it known as I should.
Illus:
-36-38
36 When he saw the crowds, he felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and dejected, like sheep without a shepherd.
37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few.
38 Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.”
2 As they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
3 Then after they had fasted, prayed, and laid hands on them, they sent them off.
Mt 9:36-38
2 As they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
3 Then after they had fasted, prayed, and laid hands on them, they sent them off.
II. We have a responsibility at home.
II. We have a responsibility at home.
Col 4:
5 Act wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the time.
6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer each person.
A. “Why do we focus overseas when there is such a need here?”
A. “Why do we focus overseas when there is such a need here?”
5 Act wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the time.
6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer each person.
Illus:
13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty? It’s no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.
14 “You are the light of the world. A city situated on a hill cannot be hidden.
15 No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket, but rather on a lampstand, and it gives light for all who are in the house.
16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
Mt 5:13-116
B. Do you live on mission where God has called you?
B. Do you live on mission where God has called you?
5 Act wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the time.
6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer each person.
Illus:
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!
18 Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.
19 That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed the message of reconciliation to us.
20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf: “Be reconciled to God.”
III. Whether here or in the Arabian Peninsula, the mission of God should drive who we are.
III. Whether here or in the Arabian Peninsula, the mission of God should drive who we are.
2 Devote yourselves to prayer; stay alert in it with thanksgiving.
3 At the same time, pray also for us that God may open a door to us for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains,
4 so that I may make it known as I should.
5 Act wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the time.
6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer each person.
A. God may call you to go, or to stay. Will you embrace His mission?
A. God may call you to go, or to stay. Will you embrace His mission?
Illus:
14 For the love of Christ compels us, since we have reached this conclusion: If one died for all, then all died.
15 And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.