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Farm Tool Quiz – each has a purpose – each critical for the task
Some of these things look terrible.
Yet each had a purpose.
Useful in the farmyard.
And essential if you want to do the task.
So it is in the church.
Each person designed and built as a custom tool to accomplish just what the Lord desired.
Needing a Vision for Personal Ministry because
I. God shapes individuals: Making them with purpose
A. Created who I am v 13a, 16
(ESV) Psalms 139 13 For you formed my inward parts; … 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
1. Formed.
Created me
2. Personality / essence / soul
3.
Not the sinful part or sinful tendencies
4. Inmost being, ‘kidneys’, the seat of emotion and moral character, the mind and heart
5. From conception – unformed substance
B. Created my physical being v 13b, 15
(ESV) Psalms 139 13 … you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
… 15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
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a) Wove/ knitted – weave/embroidered (color and pattern) (veins/arteries color – or complicated person)
b) Frame, the bony structure,
c) From the inner depths of the womb – outside human sight Shaped from conception
C. Created a masterpiece v 13-14
(ESV) Psalms 139 13 For you formed (sculpted) myinward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
… intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
… 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
1.
A marvelous creation – handmade by an infinite artisan
D. Created with purpose v 16-18
(ESV) Psalms 139 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them
(ESV) Psalms 139 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
I awake, and I am still with you.
1. Creator of a plan for you
a. From the moment of conception – when no form had begun
b.
Before physical development – He already had laid out His plans for me (ordained)
2. God thinks about me
a. Invested much time, effort and thinking about me
b.
Thoughts of our lover are precious
c.
Each day continues to think about me – not just during creation
Needing a Vision for Personal Ministry because
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God shapes individuals: Intimately knowing them
A. Examinedthoroughly v 1
(ESV) Psalms 139 1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
1.
You emphatic – It is you who search me
2. Searched
a. Scrutinize
b.
Diligent and often difficult probing (Doctor pokes you in the belly ‘does it hurt’ of course it does – investigating legal case (Law and Order – follow the twists and turns)
3. Known
a. Knowledge gained by the senses – experiential (not just academic) (Dad 8th grade – always amazed me about life – I had more academic knowledge but he knew so much more)
b.
Penetrating and intimately acquainted
B. Understooddeeply v 2-4
(ESV) Psalms 139 2 You know when I sit downand when I rise up; you discern my thoughtsfrom afar.
3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
1. Understands
2. Inner thoughts and outward activity
a.
Even when He seems far away
3. Everyday life and lifestyle
a. Watches as I do everything that I do
4. Perceives our motives and purposes of his actions
a. Discerns why I do what I do
5. Knows unexpressed thoughts
C. Protected intimately v 5
(ESV) Psalms 139 5 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.
1. Enclosed – protected and guarded as money
a. Used of besieging a city – encircle and build mounds – relentless attack of a stronghold
b.
Safe and secure
2. Precede me – follow me – protect me
3. Hand overtop – protection/blessing
D. Beyond comprehension v 6
(ESV) Psalms 139 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.
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The Lord is intimately knowledgeable of me - Wow
d) “wonderful” is in the emphatic position, at the beginning of the sentence.
e) unusual, beyond human capabilities.
As such, it awakens astonishment – Proves God cares
f) I can’t understand how this can be
Needing a Vision for Personal Ministry because
III.
God shapes individuals: Involved by His personal presence
A. Never beyond His reach v 7
(ESV) Psalms 139 7 Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from your presence?
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I can never move beyond the reach of God’s personal concern.
(lived far away but never more than 18-20 hours drive – almost there)
Jer 23. 23 “Am I a God who is a near,” declares the Lord,
“And not a God far off?
24 “Can a man a hide himself in hiding places
So I do not see him?” declares the Lord.
“ b Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the Lord.
2. Couldn’t escape Him if you try
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