Claim Your Calling
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Sermon Recap
Sermon Recap
Identified Church is not a building it’s who we are | Called out ones | We come to church to get Equipped for God’s Purpose | God is not looking for extraordinary ability, availability| We have been given keys, Authority to advance | Not in our strength |
We identified that we are the saints that require equipping, God’s people | Modern Day Temples | Place of Prayer | visible | Spirit in us | Improvements = Legs |
Transition
Today’s Sermon - Claim your Calling
Today’s Sermon - Claim your Calling
Felt God say I am not done | We have adressed the church to stop playing Defence | Now Personal | Personal Calling | What does it mean to step out of the boat in faith and obedience to follow his calling |
Treva Story of stepping out
Transition to Key Scripture
Key Scripture 1 Peter 2:9-10
Key Scripture 1 Peter 2:9-10
English Standard Version Chapter 2
9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
What peter is saying in 1 Peter 1 and 2 . (What on this rock I will build my church, really means)
Chosen = Eklektos - Picked out - Object of Choice .
God wants to save, we need to respond. | We have been adopted into his family, plucked from darkness. because of that…Called to 3 things
Called to Salvation, to be set a part and to service.
Called to Salvation, to be set a part and to service.
Transition - Let’s talk about the first one, called to Salvation;
John 15:16
John 15:16
English Standard Version Chapter 15
16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
God Called, you responded | Get to live in light not through works by grace through faith | New Identity - Claim it | Claim your calling. (Identity)
You have been set free - The veil has been lifted and there is a calling on your life.
My Salvation, Wool over my eyes, night and day
I am here because of calling.
Because of this Salvation, you have been set a part | Old testimant temples where holy, we are to be holy |
Transition: Let’s talk about being set apart| Our call, to be set a part.
To be set apart
To be set apart
Study every religion = Ladder | God climbed down | We aren’t good enough, we could never do it | Holiness is gift - You can’t obtain it on your own | tried with Law | not destination
Baptism of Jesus Christ what did God say
Does not mean not to work on character but when we do we are not working on holiness to be perfected, but your holiness to be reflected | People need to know.
Can you turn the other cheek in terrible situations? what if we, ourselves are struggling?
Circumstances does not pollute who you are in Christ | Boat and Water | It’s easy to love God when easy | Not what he does, who he is |
Pastor Chen China
- Labour Camp, crowded cells, circulation of cesspool, scoopign out, completely alone
Whatever you are in, God gives perserverence | Look to him. Maybe your circumstances are preparing you, for your calling | God turns everything to good |
Called to Salvation | Set Apart | Service. Not perfection, but reflection of what we have, what we are.
Called to Reflect, not absorb
Called to Reflect, not absorb
We pray in hard situations | Then we stop | We Absorb, instead of Reflect | God gets us through hard times - We remember the blessing, forget blesser.
Don’t forget the source | The Giver |
Christmas is a great time for love to flow out of us | All year round | Be a reflection | We Can love because we have been loved.
Transition: - Ok we have been called to salvation, We have been called to be Set apart and we have been called to SERVICE.
Called to Service
Called to Service
Important to understand we are not our own |
Paul to the Church of Corinth.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
English Standard Version Chapter 6
19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
We have been bought *Buying a toy analogy* | Transaction, the blood for our body | Bought out of the life of darkness.
So what to do?
Why did Jesus go to the Cross | Garden of Gethsemane | Jesus did it out of obedience and love | We should obey and love. | Not Law, Reaction.
Called for his purpose
As followers of Christ you have been called by god, set apart, gifted, enabled and empowered to fulfil a unique calling - You are CALLED by God.
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,
Once you realise what’s being done in you, Service not an option.
My Story of wanting to be a pastor = Calling.
I want to bring the word to everyone. Care | Community | Love | Feel the love of Christ as a reaction for what Christ has done for me.
What God has done for you | Where you are now | What to do now?
You have been called to make a difference - Claim it
2 Things about calling
2 Things about calling
1. Calling Costs - Ananis to Paul |
But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel. For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.”
You are chosen instrument where you are.
2. Calling Sustains - - Yoke Easy, burden light | What does Paul say to the Thesselanions who are being hammered
To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
HIS POWER BY FAITH
In Psalm 55:22
English Standard Version Psalm 55
22 Cast your burden on the LORD,
and he will sustain you;
he will never permit
the righteous to be moved.
Calling Sustains because you have stepped aside | Not your strength | Made Room | Doing God’s Work for God’s Glory
Who is this for? | If you are in Holding Pattern Maybe its time | OK GOD, I’ll serve | Tough year | Work, Life, Community is only your resource - GOD IS SOURCE | Get it right way | Firm Foundation |
fear not, for I am with you;
be not dismayed, for I am your God;
I will strengthen you, I will help you,
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Conclusion - Key Scripture
Conclusion - Key Scripture
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
World Changing | Called to Salvation - Remember who you are in Christ | Called to be set a part! Holy is not the destination, it’s your origin | Called to Service - Lives are not our own | Called for His Purpose to enter these kingdoms of darkness and advance God’s Kingdom, only in his strength.
Are you ready to claim your calling?
Don’t need a new years resolution, you need to drop to your knees, before we are made to for our Lord and savior Jesus Christ - Not for any other movement or matter because it’s all under Jesus
You just need to make room, and your calling will find you.
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Let’s take communion together, and let’s remember the price that has been paid - hours of torture and blood shed, before being crucified for our sins as an act of obedience to his Father and love for us. Let’s remember that God sent his perfect Son, with the purpose to die for our sins.
Let’s make a commitment to make room for God to work through us. and if you don’t know the Lord...