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\\ My 5th purpose is to share the Good News.
You were made for a mission.
In John 17, verse 18, Jesus said this – let's read it aloud together –
*"/In the same way that you gave Me a mission in the world, I give them a mission in the world/."
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Last week we talked about the ministry that God has for each believer.
It is unique to each person based on his S.H.A.P.E.
– spiritual gifts, heart, abilities, passion and experiences.
And it is something that is to be exercised toward other believers.
Our mission is something different than our ministry.
It is common to every believer and is directed toward unbelievers.
The scripture that we read refers to its context being “in the world” rather than being in the church.
In John 20:21, Jesus said,
*"/As the/ /Father has sent me, I am sending you/."
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We are being “sent” as Jesus was sent.
And for what purpose?
What is the objective of the mission?
He tells us in Acts 20,
*"/the most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work the Lord Jesus gave me/ /to tell people the good news/ /about God's grace/.”
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*/The fifth purpose is to share the Good News./*
I think that it was John Fisher who defined this mission as “one hungry beggar telling other hungry beggars where to find food.”
It’s the idea of */passing it on/* to other people.
The often misunderstood, biblical term for this is the word "*/evangelism/*.”
Most of us, Christian and non-Christian have this negative picture in our minds when we hear this term.
I remember reading one time a statement that went something like: “If there really is a God in heaven He wouldn’t choose to communicate himself through a guy with bad hair on cable television.”
My dear brother says: “Beggars can’t be choosers but they can be TV evangelists.”
All this is not the essence of evangelism.
The word itself means simply, */the good news/*.
And if it really is good news, the most natural thing in the world should be to communicate it rather than to keep it to oneself.
Look with me at the scripture from Acts 1:8.
*"/You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth/."
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The disciples were in Jerusalem when they received this direction.
Jesus was telling them to begin right where they were and then to reach out from there.
Ø *Jerusalem* = the people closest to you
Ø *Judea & Samaria* = people near but different
Ø *“ends of the earth”* = everybody else
He simply asks us to be witnesses.
He doesn’t ask you to acquire more knowledge or to become a student of error in order to be able to properly defend the truth.
*/A witness is somebody who just tells what they have seen./*
They tell other people about their personal, first-hand experience with the gospel.
This is something that no one can take away from you.
Y*/ou are the expert on your life/*.
Nobody can be a better witness of what God has done in your life than you, because you are the authority on your life, not some pastor, not some priest, not anybody else.
And so you can speak with confidence of your experience with Christ.
I remember the blind man healed by Jesus and then interrogated by the Pharisees who wanted to discredit Christ.
John 9:24-34 (NIV) \\ \\
24 A second time they summoned the man who had been blind.
“Give glory to God,b” they said.
“We know this man is a sinner.”
25 He replied, “Whether he is a sinner or not, I don’t know.
One thing I do know.
I was blind but now I see!” 26 Then they asked him, “What did he do to you?
How did he open your eyes?” 27 He answered, “I have told you already and you did not listen.
Why do you want to hear it again?
Do you want to become his disciples, too?” 28 Then they hurled insults at him and said, “You are this fellow’s disciple!
We are disciples of Moses! 29 We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this fellow, we don’t even know where he comes from.”
30 The man answered, “Now that is remarkable!
You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.
31 We know that God does not listen to sinners.
He listens to the godly man who does his will.
32 Nobody has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind.
33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
34 To this they replied, “You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!”
And they threw him out.
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The most skeptical person in this world can never deny you your experience and a witness speaks of his personal, first-hand experience with God.
I hope that you have an experience to speak of today.
Why is it important to God that we give witness to our faith?
It is because God is building his family, the Bride and he wants no one to be excluded.
It’s not Mission Impossible that we are involved in but Mission Inevitable.
This was His plan from the beginning of time.
Look at the next verse.
*"/This was God's plan for all of history which He carried out through Christ Jesus, our Lord/."
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When Christ returned to heaven, he left us with this mission.
It is in our hands.
There is a legend that recounts the return of Jesus to glory after His time on earth.
Even in heaven He bore the marks of His earthly pilgrimage with its cruel cross and shameful death.
The angel Gabriel approached Him and said, "Master, you must have suffered terribly for men down there.”
He replied that he did.
Gabriel continued: "And do they know and appreciate how much you loved them and what you did for them?”
Jesus replied, "Oh, no!
Not yet.
Right now only a handful of people in Palestine know.”
But Gabriel was perplexed.
He asked, "Then what have you done to let everyone know about your love for them?”
Jesus said, "I've asked Peter, James, John, and a few more friends to tell others about me.
Those who are told will tell others, in turn, about me.
And my story will be spread to the farthest reaches of the globe.
Ultimately, all of mankind will have heard about my life and what I have done."
Gabriel frowned and looked rather skeptical.
He well knew what poor stuff men were made of.
He said, "Yes, but what if Peter and James and John grow weary?
What if the people who come after them forget?
What if way down in the twentieth-century people just don't tell others about you? Haven't you made any other plans?”
And Jesus answered, "I haven't made any other plans.
I'm counting on them."
Twenty centuries later, He still has no other plan.
He's counting on you and me.
High on God's "To Do" list is the evangelization of the world.
His early disciples adopted His priorities and devoted themselves to reaching the world.
Christ counted on them, and they delivered.
Have we done as well?
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